The Stanstead journal, 11 janvier 1900, jeudi 11 janvier 1900

[" PQ _ x VOL.LV\u2014No.2.mat * \u2018The Stanstead Jo 4 urnal.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1900.WHOLE No.2812, \u2014\u2014\u2014 TOWN TOPICS.Col.H.S.Haskell is in Boston.See Terrill\u2019s Ducks and Turkeys.Dr.C.A.Moulton is laid up with an attack of rheumatism.Mr.F.Percy Pocock and famlly have moved to Beebe Plain.Mrs.M.A.Darling of West Newton, Mass., is visiting friends in this vieini- ty.Gen.F.G, Butterfield, Miss Char- Jottte Butterfield and Miss Esther Butterfield are in Boston.Mr.W.M.Pike has bought the Mark Hall lot near Derby Line the purchase price being 8200.Mr.L.A.Libby of Hartford, Conn.was in town last week, called here by the death of his mother, the late Mrs.Wm.G.Libby.Messrs.Morrill and Bates are still buying potatoes for shipment from Derby Line, the current price being 40 cents a bushel.The annual visit for the benefit of the Cassville Methodist Church, will be held at Mr.Martindale\u2019s, Thursday evening, Jan.18th.Col.John G.Foster, U.8.Consul- General at Halifax, N.S., left tor that place Monday night after a month's stay at his home at Derby Line.Mr.O.Wendell Hill has secured a situation in the National Bank of Derby Line, succeeding Mr.J.C.Baxter, who has gone to Sherbrooke.Mr.John McMullen and wife from Boston have lately been vigiting rela- tlves in this vicinity.They arrived here Saturday evening and returned on Wednesday.Of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who will give a concert at Stanstead, January 23rd, the Detroit Free Press says: \u201cThey have no competitors and they can have no successors.\u201d Very encouraging reports are received from Mrs.A.T.Foster, who is now in a hospital at Boston.An operation was entirely successful and she is recovering as rapidly as could be expected.There will be an oyster supper at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Irwin Tic- hurst on Tuesday evening, Jan.16th, for the benefit of the Congregational Church, Fitch Bay.Good programme in preparation.You are cordially invited.At a recent meeting of Golden Rule Lodge the following officers were installed: Bro.J.A.Bradford, W.M.; Bro.W.E.Hammond, S.W.; Bro.H.T.Ball, J.W.; Rev.Bro.H.E.Benton, Chaplain; W.Bro.R.C.Parsons, \"Treasurer; Bro.C.I.Moulton, Secretary; W.Bro.F.T.Caswell, 8S.D.; Bro.J.C.Holland, J.D.; Bro.R.N.Wilcox, I.G.At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank of Derby\" Line, held on Tuesday, Messrs.Austin T.Foster, H.D.Holmes, Z.M.Man- sur, Benjamin Hinman and D.W.Davis were re-elected directors for the ensuing year.At a subsequent meeting of the directors the following officers were re-elected: Austin T.Foster, president; H.D.Holmes, vice-presi- dent; D.W.Davis, caghier.At a regular meeting of Court International, No.323, I.O.F., held on the 28th ult., the following officers were installed by C.W.Thomas, C.D.H.C.R.: J.E.St.Pierre, C.R.; L.H.Hopkins, V.C.R.; C.W.Thomas, P.C.R.; R.W.Saunders, Orator; J.W.Crawford, 8.W.; John Kelley, jr., J.W.; George Rathbone, 8.B.; Frank Scott, J.B.; C.C.Wells, F.8.; G.W.Dorman, Treasurer; Henry Suddard, R.8.\u201cThe advantages of an up-town telegraph office are-being advocated now, and to secure the establishment of such, Mr.E.Audinwood offers to furnish, without charge, office room in his new building for the Western Union telegraph as well as for a public station of the Bell telephone.As the building is directly on the line and the Rock Island and Derby Line express offices are already located there, the suggested arrangement would centralize express, telegraph and telephone in a very convenient manner for people on both sides of the line.Last Saturday evening Charles Pom- roy, son of Selah Pomroy, drove to Boynton to attend the singing school at that place.When he returned from the school house where the class had assembled he discovered that his team had disappeared from the shed where he had\u2019 left, it.Although diligent search was made no trace of the missing team was discovered until Monday night when the horse was found near Joseph Peasley\u2019s in Stanstead.Not a strap was left on the.horse, and it in believed the tefim was stolen, the horse being liberutéd- after the other property had been secreted.TOWN TOPICS.Fine Ducks and Turkeys at Terrill\u2019s.Miss H.A.Tinker is visiting relatives in Massachusetts.Mr.T.8.Haskell has returned to the military academy at Poughkepsie, Theodore Villeneuve, an old resident of Rock Island, died Tuesday night.Mrs.J.A.Woodman, from Ontario, has been called to Rock Island by the serious illness of her sister, Mrs.Hugh Kay.: Mr, G.À.Giard of St.Hyacinthe, traveling ealesman for the Globe Suspender Oo., was in town the first of the week.MN.Susan E.Blodgett, who bas been staying with relations in Somer- ville, Mass., since the early fall, returned home last Saturday.Mr.W.L.Rowell, the JOURNAL'S traveling agent, is now on the road.We hope our friends and patrons will receive him with open arms and open pocketbooks.The officers of the Y.P.8.C.E.recently elected for the ensuing year are: President, Mrs.F.T.Caswell; vice-president, Miss Mabel Awde;! secretary- treasurer, Miss Mamie Lunt.| The New York World says: \u201cThe Fisk Jubilee Singers alone preserve to us the real folk songs of America.Concert at Town- Hall, Stanstead, Tuesday, January 23rd.Since the operation performed by, Dr.Whittaker of Newport, assisted by Dr.Gilfillan of Beebe Plain, over a | week ago, there has been a steady | yet slow improvement in the condition of Mr.William A.Lynn, who is now on a fair way to recovery.i At the recent annual meeting of the | Congregational Ladies\u2019 Aid Society : the following officers were elected for | the ensuing year: President, Mrs.| David H, Pike; vice-presidents, Mrs.| A.B.Sweeney and Mra.F.T.Caswell; ; secretary-treasurer, Mrs.W.P.Bax-! ter.The advertisement of the Golden Placer and Quartz Mining Co.of; Knowlton, P.Q., and Golden, B.C.,, appears on another page.This com- | pany hag acquired a quartz mine of, unusual promise and a placer lease | covering an area of eighty acres near: the junction of Canyon Creek with! the Columbia River.The company | is now being incorporated with al capital of $1,500,000 divided into 1,-.500,000 shares of the par value of 81) each.Of the quartz mine Mr.L.H.! Estell of Golden, B.C., writes: \u201c\u2018\u2018The | result of one assay of surface rock, assayed for gold only, gave value of | $15.50 per ton.\u201d To secure money for further development immediately, a limited number of shares are offered at 10 cents per share.Among the provisional directors of the company are the Hun.Justice Lynch, Dr.T.M.Prime, E.Fleury, N.P., and other well-known Knowlton business men.Several topics were discussed and numerous resolutions passed at a meeting of the Citizens League held at Rock Island Monday evening.One of the resolutions provides for the holding of a public meeting in the Town Hall, Stanstead, next Tuesday evening, for the purpose of explaining the objects and aims of the League.The meeting will be addressed by some of the leading members.A resolution setting forth that in the opinion of the League the objects of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are worthy of support and recommending that the League lend its assistance to the former society, was introduced and unanimously | adopted.Another resolution ¢alling upon the constable at Stanstead Plain to enforce the by-law requiring the use of bells upon sleighs, was adopted.Thé enforcement of law against selling intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath, was referred to the executive, and a resolution favoring the curfew law was also passed.The complaint made against Derby Line executive by the sheriff at that place, was disposed of, the members agreeing that it was not the duty of the League to do police work, but to secure the enforcement of law through the regular channels.In the opinion of the League no sheriff or constable had a right to liberate a prisoner under arrest without first bringing said prisoner before the proper magistrate or justice and the executive were instructed to take action against any sheriff for future violation of this principle.A resolution was adopted calling for the publication of the con- gtitution in the Stanstead JOURNAL.The same will be found in another column.Those who.are in sympathy with \u2018the movement may become members by signing the constitution at Caswell & O'Rourke\u2019s store.TOWN TOPICS.Go to Terrill\u2019s for Ducks and Turkeys.Messrs.C.C.Owen of Stanstead and W.J.Jay of Barnston were accepted to represent C.Squadron, 5th Dragoons, in the second contingent to South Africa.On Tuesday Charles Lunderville, Louis Beaudette and William Webb made a slaughtering record at Sunny- side Farm.They killed and dressed 20 hogs, averaging 200 pounds each, in 7 hours and 30 minutes.At a regular meeting of Frontier Lodge, No: 56, A.O.U.W., held on Tuesday evening, the following officers were installed by A.S.Rainback, D.D.G.M.: O.F.Caswell, M.W.; J.E.St.Pierre, P.M, W.; G.S.Heath, Foreman; F.E.Maheux, Overseer; P.W.Baldwin, Guide; Géorge Taylor, O.W.; Charles E.Neveu, I.W.; A.H.Tiffin, Recorder; T.J.Smith, Financier; Alex.Pepin, Receiver; E.J.St.Pierre, Grand Lodge Representative.At a meeting of Tomifobia Lodge, No.18, 1.0.0.F., Friday evening, the following elective officers were installed by our D.D.G.M., W.B.Bullock, with the help of five brothers of the lodge: N.G., J.W.Abbey; R.S., J.G.Cowens; V.G., F.C.White; 1F.S., E.L., Scott; Treasurer, W.B.Bullock.The following officers were then appointed by N.G.,J.W, Abbey: Past Grand, Bro.H.E.Arlington; Warden, Bro, John Batchelder; Conductor, John Brock; Chaplain, Bro.G.Ellery Read; O.G., C.E.Monroe; I.G., J.E.Greenleaf; R.S.N.G., L.H.Hopkins; L.S., Robt.Brookes; R.S.S., F.S.Aldrich; L.S.S., Alfred Brock.V.G., F.C.White then appointed his supporters, viz: R.8.V.G., Bro.llenry Conner; L.8.V.G., Steven Bryant.GEORGEVILLE.Court Memphremagog No.902 Independent Order of Foresters have elected the following officers: John Richardson, C.R.; Wm.E.Talbot, C.D.; George E.Hand, V.C.; John Camber Jr., 8.W.; E.J.Williamson, J.W.; W.Carter, S.B.; Joseph Jennings, J.B.; William Partington, F.ec.; Warren Achilles, R.Sec.; Ira Thayer, Treas.; Norris Heath, Chap.; W.M.Keyes, M.D.; Phys.Mr.and Mrs.A.P.Murray and children of Montreal, were the guests of Mrs.Routledge at Belmont last week, Mr.and Mrs.M.L.Williams of Montreal, and Mr.Perchard and Mrs.Hall of Magog, were the guests of Mr.\u2018Wm.McGowan on Saturday.Mr.M.L.Williams of Montreal, has bought the R.Stanley Bagg property here and will thoroughly repair and accupy it the ensuing season.Mr.Williams was making measurements on Saturday for a pier that he is intending to have built for his steam yachts.It will be located on his lake front.There is from four to seven inches of ice on the lake here, but itis badly reefed and there is no crossing with teams yet.The thaw of Sunday made the sleighing very poor, and some wagons are running.The ground is frozen quite hard.Mr.Alexander Clark has moved into the Dolloff house.Mr.Wm, Murray intends to repair the mill house, vacated by Mr.Clark and will occupy it himself.McCONNELL.Mr.and Mrs.Melvin Worthen of Manchester, N.H., have returned after an absence of three years, to spend a couple of weeks with Mr.Worthen\u2019s parents here.Mr.and Mrs.C.W.Vaughan of Ayers Flat, were the guests of Mr.and Mrs.Thos.Parnell of Glen Brook Farm ou Friday of last week.The whooping cough has been going around among the children, but the victims are improving.At Turner- town the school children have nearly all had it.The lake has frozen so thal teams have been crossing some.News is about as scarce as snow this winter.T.Parnell was at Massawippi last Monday.\u2019 EAST HATLEY.\u201cThe \u2018Ladies Aid\u201d will hold their long projected social in the Foresters Hall on Friday evening, Jan.19th.Those who have not promised their \u201cdollar\u201d (more or less) will have an opportunity of giving it just the same.The ladies hope to see a house full of friends and neighbors and promise a pleasant social evening.Admission free.Mr, Rowell, the Journal Agent, was calling upon friends here to-day.BEEBE PLAIN.Municipal election passed off very quietly here.Two of the retiring councillors were returned without opposition, Henry Bigelow and George Hodge.John Blair was elected in place of Josiah Feltus without a contest.Mr.Boright, the genial agent for the Magog News, apent a couple of days in our village the first of the week making collections and soliciting new subscribers for the above paper.He reports success.Percy Pocoek has returned to our village after an absence of several vears.He has moved into a part of his father\u2019s house on Main St.We heartily welcome Percy and his family back here.Charlie Whitcher returned to his school at Goddard Seminary on Jan.3rd, not to Westbrooke, Me., ns reported last week.We were misinformed.Francis Pocock left last week for an extended trip through Ontario for the Lay Whip Co.; Mr, J.1.Parker from Coventry, Vt., was in the village last week and attended the Hall-Elder wedding.Mrs.Ed, Browning of Lennoxvill was in the place for a day or two t week.She attended the wedding of her cousin, Miss Mattie Agnes Eldor, and made her parents, Mr.and Mrs.David Elder, a short visit.It is reported that the Granite Co.will build a large store and several tenement houses on the vacant lot belonging to the Fregeau place, which they recently purchased from C.IT.Kathan.Henry Tomkins left last week for the North-west in the inferest of the Lay Whip Co.He expects to be gone several weeks.Misses Alma and Inez Yetter\u2018have returned from their visit to Newport aed Miss Inez is attending school, Mr.Wright's son, who was thought to be recovering from rheumatic fever, has had a relapse and heen very seriously sick the past week.Homer Owen, who has been in the employ of D.L.House for the past year, bas finished bis work and gone to the home of his father near Smith\u2019s Mills.Rev.Mr.Finch and family returned on Thursday last from a ten days\u2019 visit to friends in Cookshire.John Lougee returned on Saturday last from Magog where he has been for several weeks visiting his daughter, Mrs.John Taylor.Mr.McIntosh, a member of the new Granite Co., has purchased from Mr.C.H.Kathan the place known as the Fregeau place on Main St, and will occupy it soon, so report says.We welcome Mr.McIntosh to our village.J.G.Elder left on Tuesday for a three weoks\u2019 trip through the province of Quebec.Dr.Gaines of Newport was in the place on Monday called here professionally.The village school reopened on Monday with the Misses Gustin as teachers, which is a guarantee df a first-class school.Mary Heath of Heathton returned on Sunday and will attend our school.She is staying at C.A.Searles\u2019.Miss Minnie Feltus, from the lake shore, is attending school here.She stays at Rev.Mr.Finch's.Will Haselton and family have been in Waterloo for several days visiting Mrs.Haselton\u2019s parents.Mr.and Mrs.Harry Hall left on Monday morning for their home in Bakersfield, Vt.Josiah Feltus still remains quite sick.There has been no particular change in his condition the past week.(From another correspondent.) Time brings improvement.Perhaps there is no more convenient post office arrangements than at Beebe Plain just now.Mr.George House is Canadian Post Master, and Miss Ethel House has been appointed As- sistan Post Mistress for the United States side, so the two offices are moved into the stone store which is situated on the line.The building is commodious and convenient and we can do business now at either office at one entrance.Miss Ethel House makes an excellent P.O.Clerk, reliable, accommodating, strict and quick in tHe dispatch of business.There improvements ought to be much appreciated by all patrons on both sides of the line.Nex Sunday in connection with the preaching service in the Methodist Chureh, a Roll-Call and Covenarit Service will be conducted by the pastor, Mr.Finch, who hopes to get some re- sponge to the call of the names of every member of the church and he aleo invites all adherents and-whoso- ever will to join in this service of Christian Fellowship.er BEEBE PLAIN, Dr.Whitcher, owing to his largely increasing business, has been obliged to add two fresh horses to his number, He now drives a bay pair that are said to be hot ones.Mrs.C.B.Buell left on Thursday morning for Stratford, Vt., where she expects to stay the remainder of the winter with her sou, S.B.Buell.Mrs.Thomas Davis was called to Charleston the last of the week on account of the serious illnoss of her son, who resides there.Mrs.Wellington Bodwell still remains very low and is graduahy failing.John Blair has been in Boston for the past few days.Me went with Stewart Haskell of Derby Line.À social will be given at the Beebe Plain Hotel Hall by the Society of All Saints\u2019 Church on Friday evening, Jan.19.A programme and supper will be provided.Admission 26 conts.A good time is expected.MASSAWIPPI.The Hatley Municipal clections, Monday, resulted in tho return of Mr.George Kezar, who has given univer sal satisfaction for over twenty years, which is a record that all can not boast of.Mr.John Bowen was newly elected in the place of Avery Ives, Esq., who has werved faithfully also many years, and is now retiring, we presume, on account of advanced age.Mr.Ives has been Mayor this past year and sevora) terms here-to-fore, and will be much missed at the council board.It will need n man of eduen- tion to \u201cproperly fill his shoes.\u201d One as scholarly, gentlemanly and wise.The choice rests with a few.We have not yet reached that point when our Mayor can be elected by popular vote.Miss Eunice Edson has returned from a two weeks stay at Newport.Winfred St.Dizier returned Monday to the Bugbee College, Stanstead, ac companied by Charley Taylor, who goes as & new student, J.D.Moore, Esq., of Magog visited relatives here on Tuesday.Mrs.Wm.Stevenson does not gain as all could wish.Miss G.Robinson has been ill at P.Hitehcock\u2019s.Mrs.W.Munroe of Stanstead June- tion arrived at her father\u2019s to-day.Rev.Mr.Smiley will preach here Sunday afternoon next at 2 o\u2019clock.The I.O.(i.T.of this place will hold (a \u201csocial\u201d on Wednesday evening, Jan.17th, at their Lodge room.All members of surrounding lodges are invited to come and enjoy an evening together.Non members welcome.NORTH HATLEY.Last Friday while Mr.Abraham Howe was fastening a log on a carriage at Reed\u2019s saw mill, the mallet flew out of his hand and struck the saw which was running at a good speed.The mallet flew back and hit Mr.Howe on the chin and forehead with force enough to knock him senseless for a while.We are glad to hear that the wounds are healing and he is doing well.Mr.and Mrs.Dudley, of Randolph, Vt., father and mother of Mr.Burt Dudiey, the sick man, are here on a a brief visit.Mr.Ashley Jackson is building an addition to hig grist mill a creamery.The schools commenced Monday morning.; At the municipal election on Monday, Messrs.J.H.Campbell and B.LeBaron were re-elected by acclamation, and Mr.E.A.Tyler was put in the place of Mr.J.W.Call by acclamation.Mr.W.W.Smith, of Sutton June- tion will speak on Temperance next Sunday evening in the Universalist Church.There will be & franchise meeting next Tuesday evening, January 16, in the Universalist Church.Mr.Putney, County President of the W.C.T.U.will be one of the speakers.Mr.Coleman, of Metheun, Mass., one of the corporators of the Electric Co., is in town.BROWN'S HILL.Mr.and Mrs.J.Gove visited at Mr.Wilder Brown\u2019s on Saturday.Mr.Homer Dustin is working for Mr.Fred Brown.Mr.Bert Drew spent a few days last week visiting at his brother's, Mr.Homer Drew\u2019s, Mr.and Mrs.A.H.Flanders visited at Mr.Alfred Curtis\u2019s ou Saturday.Miss Myrtie Leavitt began her school on Monday after spending a two weeks\u2019 vacation at home.Mrs.W.Flanders of West Derby visited at Mr.Moses Merrill's a few days last week.Mr.Bond Little and daughter, Miss e Little, spent Saturday and Sunday at Mr.Alfred Curtis's.GRANITEVILLE.Mrs.Fred Paul of Enfield, N.H,, ie visiting her sister, Mra.Harry Arlington, for a few weeks.Through the Kindness of Mr.Tom Wools and Roy Reed, who furnished a four horse team, about twenty of the young people of this vicinity, enjoyed a sleigh ride on Friday afternoon after which they returned to Mr.and Mrs.E.M.Beerwort\u2019s and partook of a bountiful supper.Mr.James Maltman left hero on Wednesday of last week for Mount Johnson, P.Q.Mr.and Mrs.Daniel Campbell visited nt Mr.J.O.Lenry\u2019s on Thursday evening of inst week.Miss Jennie Hurlbut returned to her home in Sutton, P.Q., on Friday last having spent & very plensant week visiting relatives in thie vicinity.News has beon received that Mr.James Brodie, who sailed for Scotland on Dec.30, reached Liverpool January Oth.The ereek has made quite an open- air skating rink and the young people have enjoyed skating to their hearts\u2019 content through the Christmas boli- days, Mr.Melvin Tilton, who has been Inid up for some time, iy slowly improving.A Ladies Aid meeting will be held to-day at Mrs.John Moir's to elect new officers nnd plan work for the.coming year, Quite a number of men are still at work on the quarries here.Mr, and Mrs.Dwight Salls of Manchester, N.H., visited at Mr.D.W.Muir's on Monday.Mis.John Moir visited her sister, Mrs.E.P.Davis of Lineboro on Tuesday.SOUTH BARNSTON, Elder H.D.Selby has accepted the pastorate of the A.C.church here and commenced his labors last Sunday.J he several teachers have returned to their work after the two wooks hol- idnys.Miss Blanche Kezar gave a very pleasant party to about thirty of her friends lust Thursday ovening a fine supper was served and the evening pleasantly spent in games and music.Mr.George Herrick of Coaticook {spent n few days with Mrs, O.W.Heath lust woek.We are sorry to learn of the desth of the little son of Mather Hastings which took place last week.Mr.and Mrs.M.L.DD.Hastings attended the funeral in Charleston last Thursday.Miss Flora Aldrich visited friends in Newport last week.| Miss Lula Gould is in Montreal attending the Normal achool.Mrs.B.F.Kezar will entertain the Ladies Aid next week Saturday, the 20th.Mr.Bert Searles and wife of Boston have moved into their house here for the winter.MACK'S MLLS.A good deal of whooping cough and other sickness around here at present.Again we have a little sleighing.Leslie Comstock is gaining slowly.We hear that Mrs.David Cyr of Tic- hurst Corner nad a shock Jast Saturday.Fred Tichurst of 8mith\u2019s Milla lost his best horse on Monday morning.Its death was caused by its getting loose and eating too much meal.Much sympathy is felt for Fred as he depended on hig team for his family support.There was & large crowd out on Monday, it being the day for the election of councillors.As there was no opposition the retiring councillors were put back by acclamation.Fred Young is not much better.He is attended by Dr.Tompkine.VALE PERKINS.Fine weather for cutting wood, logs, and bushes, there is go little snow.Some sleighs are seen but wagons run best.Capt.Tom Norton was through here last week buying logs for Prouty & Miller of Newport, and vaneer stock for the vaneer mill at Newport.He reports a large amount of lumber being put on the lake.leis also buying wood to be delivered on the shore of the lake.At election of Councillors at Man- sonville on the 8th inst., Mr.Norman MacKay and Mr.Lyman Knowlton were re-elected.Mrs.J.M.Alex ie away for a few days.L.C.Welcome has gone to Ne sport to work in the ice business.The housewife says \u2018the way those mice destroy things about the house is an(gn)awful shame.\u201d / Dark gray card board, for mounting Perry Pictures, ete, at the JOURNAL office.- i \u201cÂge cent CIR PAL QUE hE , .ni 2 Sy vor ANGLO-FRENCH D SPUTES.Although, at a crisis like the present in South Africa, probably the last thing that would oceur to a British statesman is to cringe to a foreign power, to whose representatives he and his colleagues had dot long before been fearlessly candid, there is at the same time no occasion for assuming a tone of resentment or provocation, During the last few monthe the relations between Great Britain and France have not been those of good neighbors.After the Dreyfus trial it looked as if the populations of the two | countries were to come to blows, and some Englishmen pushed their hostility to a deplorable length-making war even on the exposition.Science became for a time a happy and seemingly successful mediator.The regrettable shooting of a french trawler proved a pretext with the Anglophobe press for renewing the controversy.The Queen graciously intervened, expressed her sorrow at the fatality, and made a handsome present from her private purse to the family of the deceased.Hor kindliness did not spure Her Majesty the ribaldry of the most shameless of the Chauvinist prpers of Paris and elsewhere.Here again sufficient distinction was not made between the real offenders and the self- respecting French press to which such an outrage against any woman would have been impossible-not to gpeak of a venerable Queen and Empress who enjoys the respect of the whole world.While the incident was still embittering the public mind of both communities, the authorities of the British Museum carried out a plan already decided on, of bestowing a valuable collection of phamphlets and historical documents on one of the departments of the French Government.But the gift had hardly been acknowledged when the needs of a slain soldier's family forced on the attention of the patriotic public the re- membranch of a tragedy by which several British officers and men, while occupying as they believed, British soil, were shot down by French troops.This very month, the still unindemni- fled widows and children of the slain keep the mournful anniversary of their loss.For it was in December, 1893, that the misunderstanding occurred.For six years the dispute between the two Governments has been going on\u2014the British maintaining that the men fired upon were in British territory, the French giving no definite reply, and all this time, the families of the slain men have been left without provision.The extreme necessity of one of the widows induced Mr.Arnold White to write to the Foreign Office, and see if he could procure in advance of the settlement some degree of relief.Lasl summer, it seems, that officer preferred a claim to the French Republic in behalf of the bereaved families.On October 23, Mr.Balfour stated in the House of Commons that the French had accepted the principle of arbitration, and admitted that an indemnity was due if it could be proved that the men who met their deaths were on British soil when they fell.Early last month Mr.Arnold White wrote to the Foreign Office, representing the condition of the desolate families, and received a letter from Mr.Brodrick which he published in the Times.Therein the Under Secretary said that \u2018the question of the relief of the sufferers lay altogether with the Treasury.\u201d on, seeing his letter in print, Mr.Brodrick wrote in explanation that on proof being furnished that the men were killed on British soil -\u2014 proof which the Foreign Office could easily procure\u2014an indemnity would be offered.Meanwhile the Treasury had to advance any relief granted.one naturally asks, why is the proof delayed, and the indemnity withheld s0 long while the families of the offi cers and men (as many thiuk wantonly) slain six years ago, are really in want.Irritating questions like these tend to aggravate the antipathies felt by one nation towards the other.But it is the part of wisdom to soothe rather than to excite such international animosities.PROGRESS IN LUZON.The military operations which have broken up the insurgent forces in the island of Luzon north of Manila have been followed by the organization of government.General Young has been appointed military governor of the northwestern provinces, with his headquarters at Vigan; and Colonel Hood has been appointed military governor of the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and Nuevo Vizcaya.Both are establishing civil municipal governments, which will be largely in the hands of the natives.The ports in northern Luzon are to be opened at once to trade.One result of the military operations has been the release of 3000 or 4000 Spanish prisoners, and 15 or 20 Americans who had been in the hands of the insurgents.For Over Fifty Years.Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup has heen used for over fifty years by millions of mothers fur their children while teething, with perfect successs.It soothes the child, suitens the gums, atiays all pain, cures wind coltes, and js she pest remedy for diarrhea, It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately.Sold by stæin every part of the word, twenty- ts a buttio, Be sure and ask for \u2018Mrs, \u2018a Suothing syrup,\u201d and take no other Later But, | THE LAST OF THE POSTBOYS.One of the pleasentest and mcst familiar figures of old English life, the [ postboy, has passed away beyond re- (eall.Whatever his age he was always a boy, and on fine occasions his white jbeaver hat, yellow jacket, white breeches and top boots made him the most dashing figure on the scene.The Rev.8.Baring-Gould describes old | George Spurle, one of the last of his i race, who might have stepped out ofa {novel of a century ngo.i Like every other postboy, old George loved his horses.There was |one gray mare of which he was spec- (dally fond.One night she got her hal- \u2018ter twisted about her neck and was found strangled.George Spurle sat down and cried.The landlord en- \u2018deavored to comfort him.| \u201cGeorge,\u201d said he, \u201cdon\u2019t take on so.After all, it was only a horse.,Now if you had lost a wife\u2014\u201d i \u201cAh, master,\u201d replied the postboy, \u201cwives! One has but to huld up the finger and they'd come flying to you {from all sides\u2014more than you could accommodate; but a hose, and such a ; mare as this-\u2014booh!\u201d and he burst in- | to tears.| The secret of his affection for the (horse came out long after.Some of jus asked him if he had ever been robbed on the road.(\u201cPIJ just tell y\u2019, gentlemen.There | was some bullion to be sent up to Lon- \u2018don from Falmouth.I knowed nothing about it, and drove up with a , closed carriage to pick up a gentleman Jat Tavistock.I badn\u2019i got half-way across the moors, when 1 was stopped by a man on horseback, with his face blackened.He levelled a pistol at my head, so I pulled up.\u201cIn a rough voice he asked me who Iwas in the chaise.\u2018No one,\u2019 said I.\u2018But there\u2019s something,\u2019 said he.\u2018The cushions,\u2019 suid 1.\u2018Get down,\u2019 said he, \u2018and hold my hoss, you rascal, while I search the chaise.\u2019 \u2018I'm at your service,\u2019 said I, and I took his horse by the bridle, and as I passed my hand along I felt that there were saddlebags.\u201cWell.that highwayman opened] the door and went in te overhaul ; things, and meantime I undid the] traces of my hoesses with one hand and held the highwayman\u2019s hoss with the other.\u201cpresently he put his head out and raid: \u2018There\u2019s nothing within; I must search behind.\u201d \u2018You've pleniy of time,\u2019 said I, and so saying, I leaped into his saddle and shouted, \u2018Gee up and along, Beauty and Jolly Boy!\u2019 and | spurred his hess, and away 1 galloped with the stage-hosses a-gallop nr after me, and we never stayed till we got to Chudleigh.\u201d \u201cAud the saddle-bags?\u201d \u2018There was a lot 0} money in them, | but there's my luck.That fellow had robbed a serg: -maker, and he went and claimed it all and gave me a guinea and the highwayman\u2019s hoss; and that same hoss, gentlemen, is the old gray mare as folks ha\u2019 laughed at me for croing over.Now, it was a coo- rious sarcumstance that there highwayman went scot-free and the y oor innocent gray was hanged.\u201d George Spurle lived to old age.He fell ill suddenly, and died before anyone in town suspected his danger.But he had had no doubt in his own mind that the sickness would end fatally, and he had asked one day to see the landlady of the inn.\u201cBeg pardon, ma'am,\u201d he said from \u201chis bed, touching his forelock.\u201cVery \u2018sorry 1 han't shaved for two days, and you should see me thus.But please, _mæ'am, if it\u2019 no offense, he you want- \u2018in that there yellow jacket any more?:It seems to me postboys is gone out \u201caltogether.\u201d \u201cNo, George, I certainly don\u2019t want it.\u201d | \u201cNor these?You'll understand me, 'ma\u2019am, if I don\u2019t mention em?\u201d | «No, George.\u201d | \u2018Nor that there old white heaver?[I did my best, but it's a bit rubbed.\u201d { #I certainly-don\u2019t need it.\u2019 | \u201cThank y\u2019, ma\u2019am.Then I make so i bold, might I be buried in \u2018em as the last of the old posthoys?\u201d\u2019 The Advantage f Position.The late Charles Hoddon Spurgeon was not one of those geniuses who suddenly become a revelation to their friends.As a ceild he was exceedingly intelligent, and his subsequent development was continuous, His schoolmaster looked to him whenever a question had long gone unanswered.One winter's day, however, when the weather was hitter cold, a change seemed to come over the boy.His answers went wine of the mark.Soon he dropped to the bottom of the class and stayed there.The teacher was puzzled; his prize pupil seemed to have lost every spark of intelligence.But as he thought, he noticed that Spurgeon, at the foot of the class, sat right in front of the stove, It took but a moment to rearrange the pupils.The head boy was given a warm seat, and Spurgeon was placed next the window.Then the questions began again.The change was complete.From that moment Spurgeon did not hesitate for the right answer.Five minutes later he was ouce more at the head of the class, sitting in front of I pleasant, about one GOLDEN WEDDING BELLS.On the evening of January 1st inst., an event as infrequent as interesting took place at the house of Mr.Chas.Humphrey viz., the celebration of the fliftieth anniversary of that gentle: man\u2019s marriage to Miss Sallie Shorey, and of which a number of your readers may be pleased to read.Mr.Charles Walker Humphrey was born one of the ten sons of Mr.Samuel Humphrey of Barnston in 1829, and his wife is one of the ten children of Mr.Samuel E.Shorey of Hatley, born \u2018nthe same year.During the half century of wedded life which they have been spared to spend together, nine children have been given them.Cora, who married C.H.Jones of Barton Landing and Alice died in early life.Those still living, Clara, who married S.H.Hill; Sarah, wife of Norman Horne; Vertie, wife of Fritz Daniels; Edna, wife of Parker Ellis; Lillie, wife of Hamilton Corey; Fred Chas.who married Maggie Orcutt, and Jessie who became Mrs.Benjamin Morrill, all being within short distances of the old home, determined to unite to celebrate the golden wedding of their parents, and invited the relatives of the family as well as a large circle of friends to attend on the appropriate day, the first of the New Year.Although the weather proved un- bundred and twenty-five assembled.This being a large gathering for a dwelling house, it was necessary that the proceedings should be conducted in a systematic manner, which indeed they were, to the comfort of (he entire company.Before the tea was served a very happy function took place, when after singing \u201cHome Sweet Home,\u201d an address was read by Mr.Humphrey\u2019s brother, S.B.Humphrey, followed by a presentation of gifts, bringing back, as must many features of the evening, the original happy event of half a century ago, when was solemnly said \u201cTill death us do part.\u201d The presents consisted of a fur cloak and dress from the children; a hanging, lamp from the family of Mr.Frank Humphrey, Dixville; gold howl sugar spoon from a nephew and neice, Mr.and Mrs.W.R.Webster, Sherbrooke; dessert spoons from Mr.and Mrs.M.comfort, their loving children and grandchildren of whom twelve are living, declare they have been repaid most amply.To Mr.and Mrs.C.W.Humphrey, on the occasion of their Golden Wedding, January 1st, 1900.\u2018Pix fifty years this New Year's day Since Cupid had n word to say, And brought a xeal from Heaven above With wedding ring to bind the love, So you could share the world together And live and love and bless cach other.Thus far along the path of ite You both have travelled free from strife, For more than eighteen thousand days The joys of life In varicns ways.OF ehildren, friends, and neighbors kind.Have only served to closer find, | The hearts that God indeed had joined, (I\"was no green job, tho\u2019 done by Grgen.) The wife has done hor duty well And few indeed can her excell, With judgement clear and will to do She's been on faithtul wife to you, And knit your mittens, darned your hose And kept in ordor al} your clothes.She's set the table.poured the tea, And used the sugar just as frev, Fur wall she knew her husband's taste, To him the sugar was no waste, And in return, within his sphere, ! He was so kind and so sincere, | \u2018To do his duty and be good, To keep his wife in oven-wond, And split it t wand have it dry And well prepared to please her eve.For wives, yon know, must have their way, And husbands.too, must all obey He never fancied trailing dresses And never purchased gimps and Jac: s, Bat left to wife herself to dress.And thus r ve her own distr Thy chil len.too, have been a he heart and Hight to the #ifts to father, mothe very best of any other, Eight danehters fair, one stalwart son : tn law, vight sons and daughters one\u2019 Grand-ehi.dren too in smiles and earls, Numbering eighteon boys and girls.A few have passed on before, Not Jost\u2014stil] loving and beloved They wait upon the heavenly shore.Past Record of Life Saving.PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND.| Is Now and Will Ever Be the Great Home Medicine.The Fast record of Paine\u2019s Celery Compound will live long in the hearts of ten of thousands of our Canadian men and women.They can never forget the fact thai D.Kilburn, Coaticook; dessert spoons from Mrs.Hill and Miss Locke, Heath- ton; purse of money from Heathton and South Barnston friends; heavy; gold chain and a rarely beautiful opal| ring from nephews, S.O.and C.L.| Shorey, Montreal; kid mittens from | Mr.and Mrs.S.B.Humphrey; five dollar gold-piece from Mrs.H.Shorey | and Mrs.Stevenson, Montreal; en- | closed in a pretty box handsomely; decorated with pyvograph work by, Mrs.Stevenson\u2019s daughter; silver pre- | serve dishes from: Mrs.E.H.Morrill; | silver soup label, from Albert Chadsey ; ! There were gifts also from Mr.\u2018 S.Shorey, Boston, aud Mrs.E.W.House, Heathton, besides many others of a most useful nature, such as fancy dishes, plates, towels, doylies, etc.from friends and neighbors.Then followed a substantial tea prepared by the children, which as well as all that was to take place had been kept as a surprise to Mr.and Mrs.Humphrey, who had not heen enlightened as to the gratifying celebration in their honor until the morning on which it took place.During the later evening an interesting programme was gone through, Mr.Ben.Morrill very felicitously filling the position of chairman.The chief item of this were the reading of a poem by E.W.Morrill, for the occasion and which is given below, the reading of a letter of earnest congratulations and good wishes for Mr.and Mrs.Humphrey from the Bev.James Green of West- mount, Montreal, who periormed their marriage ceremony in the days of blooming youth, like themselves gives evidence of having been but lightly touched by time, letters also from Mrs.Humphrey\u2019s brother, 8.W.Shorey, from her sisters, Mrs, Jas.Wiman, Harrison, Maine; Mrs.F.E.Camp, Lyndonville, Vt ; Mrs.Eunice Shorey, Newport, Vt.; also from John Humphrey of Newport, and from numerous nephews and neices.Short speeches of congratulations and good wishes were made by sons-in-law, neighbors and old friends.These brought to a close the celebration, Which was heartily and very fittingly entered into.Mr.and Mrs.Humphrey expressed extreme pleasure and gratification because of the loving and kind manifestations of all present, looking indeed, as if, whilst time and cares had doubtless brought some of their unfailing signs, they had nevertheless few regrets, but on the other hand much to cause them to rejoice and give thanks to Him \u201cwho giveth all.\u201d It is interesting to add that Mrs, Humprey, before her marriage taught school in what is now the\u2019 dining room of the house in which she has spent the greater part of her fifty years of wedded life, the house having come Into her hushand\u2019s possession after that happy event.It is also of interest that all her children prior to their.marriage chose their mother\u2019s profession and became teachers.To fit them for this Mr.and Mrs.Humphrey were always ready to make sacri- the stove.fice, for which now in the end, their which had been composed by his wife |.it was Paine\u2019s'Celery Compound that brought back strength, health and new, vigorous life after failures with the many common advertised remedies, as well as with physicians and hospital treatment.Amongst the most notable and marvellous records of cures effected by Paine\u2019s Celery Compound in the year just closed are the cases of thousands who had been given up by physicians as hopeless.These hopeless cases were men and women suffering from kidney and liver diseases, stomach troubles, rheumatism, nervous prostration and long standing dyspepsia\u2014all on the brink of the durk grave.At the eleventh hour, when hope had fled, and deep, black despondency reigned supreme, Paine\u2019s Celery Compound was recommended by some good friend as a last resort.It did not require weeks or months for Paine\u2019s Celery Compound to show its powers and virtues.A few hours or days sufficed to convince every sufferer that he or she had in truth found a medicine that could cope with disease and death.This past record of life saving is maintained and fortified by thousands of the strongest testimonials written by men and women now enjoying the full blessings of good health.This glorious past record of Paine\u2019s Celery Compound as a disease banish- er has given the wondrous medicine a place in the majority of the homes of Canada, where it is known as \u201cThe home physican,\u201d \u201cThe home protector against disease.\u2019 Are you a sufferer from any of the troubles mentioned above?Are you weak and nervous?Are you sleepless, despondent or morose?Have you periodical headache, poor appetite or faulty digestion?If so, try what Paine\u2019s Celery Compound can do for you.A bottle or two will give you satisfaction and delight.DEATH OF MR.MOODY.Mr.Dwight L.Moody, the famous evangelist, died at his home in East Northfield, Massachusetts, December 22nd, after a short illness at the age of 62.Mr.Moody was a country boy who went early to the city to find work.While employed in a Chicago shoe store, he became interested in religious work among the men and boys of the street.He started a mission Sunday School, and at the age of 23 left business to devote himself wholly to religious activities.He became one of the most earnest and persuasive preachers of his time, and conducted great evangelistic meetings in this country and abroad.He was also a successful builder of institutions, among them the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, the Chicago Bible Institute for the \u2018training of lay workers, summer conferences for Bible study, and the North- fleld Seminary for girls and the Mount Hermon School for boys, where hundreds of young people have been educated at a cost of but 8100 a year for hoard and tuition.GEN, WHITE'S DIFFICULTIES.The situation in which Sir George White found himself was chis.He had at his disposal to defend Lady- smith a force of 9,000 men, thirty-six field guns, and a naval contingent with two heavy position guns.Of foodstuffs and small-arm ammunition he possessed a supply which would not, under ordinary circumstances, become exhausted in three months, But the artillery were not so well placed.The supply of shells worked out to a little over three hundred rounds per gun for the field batteries, and even, with the naval guns, it was evident that expenditure would have to be made with a sparing hand.Ladysmith does not lend itself readily to defence.Roughly, the town lies in the bend of a horseshoe.But the hills which make this formation are disconnected, and the ranges and spurs straggle over a large area.Not only are they uneven, but their continuations stretch away in every direction, and form positions which in the majority of cases actually command: the town.With the force at his disposal it was, of course, absolutely impossible to hold every hill, and, even contracting his front so as to hold the majority of strategical points, Sir George White found his 9,000 men, of which only 5,006 odd were infantry, holding a line of posts extending over eleven miles.Against this the enemy have brought at least 20,000 men, this being the very lowest figure at which the estimate can be placed, their being every reason to believe the combined force under Joubert, now occupying Natal, to be between 25,000 and 30,000 men.But this is not all.The experience of the last three weeks has shown the enemy to be not only numerically superior, but also possessed of arms which outrange anything that we can bring against them.Ifit had notbeen for the timely arrival of the naval guns, it is impossible to conjecture what the consequences would have been.Take, for instance, the most important arm\u2014the artillery.We have thirty-six guns of the best-man- ned artillery in the world, but at the very outside, however well served our guns may be, they have not an effective range above 5,000 yards.Again the Boers have brought into the fleld guns fitted with the latest telescopic sights and having a range of 7,000 to 8,000 yards.However devotedly our gunners may manæeuvre their weapons, they cannot dislodge an enemy in action against them whom they cannot see.This of the field artillery; and while I write a six- inch position gun is shelling the town and defences from about 8,00 yards.If the naval guns had not arrived; if the Boers had cut the communications three days earlier, we should have been powerless to reply.As itis, we have been forced to take most of their bombardment sitting.With regard to the infantry arm the discrepancy is not so great.But the Mauser rifle with which the Boers are armed is the better weapon, and has a greater range.With a good pair of glasses and a Mauser it is possible to make tolerable practice at 3,000 yards.No British infantry is trained to these ranges.Our men knew nothing of glasses; yet the farmer-soldier, our enemy, would not think of taking the field unless one man in four possessed powerful binoculars.Thus, at first sight, the task set Sir George White and his little force seemed stupendous.But there are saving contingencies, the first being the dislike which the Boer has ever shown to take the offensive.He will defend a position stoutly, but until he is absolutely certain of the success of a forward move he is loath to undertake it.This was proved in the engagement on Monday (Oct.30), snd at Rietfontein, when opportunities were given to the enemy to follow up a retiring force.It has been proved in the half-dozen outpost affairs which have taken place throughout the campaign.Moreover, the South African Republic has been served badly by its agents, for if their ammunition had been us serviceable as their guns, our casualties would have been three times as heavy as they have been.Their shrapnel is poor.On Monday, when the 42nd Feld Battery moved up to within 3,000 yards of the enemy\u2019s position, well-fused shrapnel burst in front of the battery time after time.It these missiles had been taken from our own arsenals, it would have been impossible for the men to have faced them and worked their guns.As it was, though they lost severely, they were able to make the enemy\u2019s position untenable.Since the bombardment shells have heen picked up filled with extraneous matter, proving the duplicity of the contractors who supplied the war material.\u2014Ladysmith (Nov.1.) Correspondence London \u2018Times.\u2019 1 want to let the people who enffer from rheumatism and sciatica know | that Chamberlain\u2019s Pain Balm relieved me after a number of other medicines and a doctor had failed.It is the best liniment I have ever known of\u2014J.A.DonGEN, Alpharetta, Ga.Thousands have been cured of rheumatism by thisremedy.One application relieves the pain.For sale by All first-class dealers, \u2018\u2019 Fall and Winter Time Table, On aud utter Sunday, October 8th, 1509, trains will run us follows: LEAVING SHERBROOKE, EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke 7.80 Arrive Dudswell Jet., 88 \u201cSt Francis Luv \u201c« Levis.1,0 ** Quebec (Ferry) 1 Pullman Palace Car Springfield to Quebec b: this train, connecting at Sherbrooke with Fuil- man Punlace Car from Boston, nso through coach Boston to Queboe.This train runs daily sundays excepted.ACCOMODATION\u2014 Leuve Sherbrooke 9,00 p.m.Arrive Dudswell Jet, 10.15 5: m Levis, T.1ba.m.\u201cQuebec (Ferry) 7.80 a.m., This train runs daily, Sundays excepted.Saturday night\u2019s train runs through to destica- tion on Sunday morning.FREIGHT\u2014 ; Leave Sherbrooke, Arrive Dudswell Jet., A Tring Jot.08.15 a.m, 12.00 M.6.00 p.m.l'his train runs daily Sundays excepted.TRAINS ARRIVING AT SHERBROOKE.EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Quebec (Ferry) 2.80 p.m, ne evis 2,50 p.m, Arrive Dudswel] Jet, 7.20 p.m.\u201c Sherbrooke, 8.80 p.m.Pullman Palace Car Quebec to Sprinsfield b this train, connecting at Sherbrooke with Pullman Palace car for Boston ; also through coach nebee to Boston, This train runs daily.Sundays excepted.ACCOMODATION \u2014~ Leave Quebec (Ferry 6.80 p.\u201c Que >) 7.00 Ly 9.00 BE58 a Arrive Sherbrooke, .The Accommodation train leaving Levis on Saturday night will only run as far as Tring Junction.FREIGHT\u2014 Leave Tring Jet., Arrive Sherbrooke, 7.00 a.m.8.00 p.m.This train runs daily, Sundays excepted.Connection is made at Dudswell Junction by the Express train from Sherbrooke in the morning with the Maine Central R.R.for Cookzhire, Sawyerville, ete.7 For Time Tables, Tickets and all Information apply to any of the Company*s agents, FRANK GRUNDY, General Manager.J.H.WALSH, Gen\u2019) Pass'r Agent.\u2019 OUR SASH & DOOR SHOP is now completed, and equipped with the most modern machinery our old Dominion could produce.We Want your Orders for Doors, Windows, Blinds, Mouldings.Frames, Turning, Brackets, Eave Spouts, Sheathing, Flooring, Dimension Lumber, Matched Boards, Shingle, Lath, &e.All work entrusted to our care will receive our best attention.CANADA FOR CANADIANS.J.H.MERRILL, Smith\u2019s Mills, Que.Undertaking.I have on hand a full line of UNDERTA.SUPPLIES.Robes of ail descriptions.KING Natural flower designs got up at short notice; will also engrave name plates.Please give me a call and I will try and gi satisfaction in price and goods.y give E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q.& Derby Line, Vt Bell Telephone call No.38.H.S.HUNTER UNDERTAKER and Undertakers\u2019 Supplies Hearse furnished at moderate rates, Stanstead Plain, P.Q.A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and Frames, Al kinds of Hard and Soft Wood Shcathinga and House Furnishin re 5 Kill or Afr dried Lumber.manufactured from Hard-wood Floor Boardsand Mate! manufactured from kiln-dried Tune Cetting All orders promptly attonded to.Weare bound not to he undersold.BAMUEL E.ABBOTT .i agent for that Township.of BTANSTEAD fs our New Sleighs.I have received from the leading Canadian Manufacturers a nice line of New Sleighs in three Patterns.0ld Comfort, Piano Box, Dandy Driving Sleigh.Also a nice line of Driving and Work Harnesses, Call and S60 thom.H.T.BALL. = 0STON & MAINE RAILROAD.- Stanstead & Derby Line Branch.Commencing Monday, October 2nd, Trains leave Rock Isiand and Derby Line as follows: 5.80 a.m.for Montreal (C0.P.& G.T.) Quebec (G.T.& Q.U,) and Sherbrooke.8.17 & B for Boston and New York, Montreal 12.04 p.m.for South.1.44 p.m, for Sherbrooke, Island Pond (G.T.) and Montreal (G.T, & C.P.) 8475 Por for Montreal (G.T.) Quebec (G.T.and 10.04 p.m.for Boston and New York, Trains arrive at Rock Island and Derby Line: From South\u20145,58 a.mn.and 2.06 and 7.06 p.m.Prom North\u20146.86 a.m, and 12.26 and 10.22 p.m.Outward trains leave Stanstead Plain 4 min: utes earlier than R.I.and D.L.time.Inward trains arrive at Stanstead Plain 4 minutes later than Rock Island and Derby Line time.Here You Have it Prices Cut Down.Best imperial Pickles, large bottles 25cts.Ordinary size 20cts.Beautiful Blue & Green Gage Plums 3 cans, 25c.Canned goods of every description at lowest possible prices.Ganong's Celebrated Candies, Fancy Note Paper, Toilet Soaps, Patent Medicines, Choice Teas, Green and Black, Fletcher's and Hamilton's Sodas and Shelf Hardware at Bottom Prices.Chase & Sanborn\u2019s Coffee.Paints, Oils, and Varnishes.White Wine, Malt, and Cider Vinegar.All kinds of Nuts.Grain, Flour and Feed at lowest figures.We wil have a stock of Boots and Shoes in a few days.Everything will be first class and we will not be undersold by anyone.J.C.DOWNS & CO., Stanstead, Que.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK.Established in 1869.CAPITAL - - .- $1,500 000 RESERVED FUND, - § 835 000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: R.W.HENEKER, President.Hon.M.H.COCHRANE, Vice-President.ISRAEL Wow, T.J.Tuck, @.Stevens, J.N.GaLER, N.W, Tuomas, C¢.H KATHAN, H.B.BROWN, Q.C.HEAD OFFICE, SHERBROOKE, P.Q.Wu.FARWELL, General Manager.8.Evatrus, Local Manager.$, F, Monrzy, Inspector of Branches.BRANCHES: \u2018Waterloo, W.I.Briggs, Mgr.; Stanstead, 8.Stevens, Mgr.Cowansville, J.Mackinnon, Mgr.; Unaticook, B.Austin, Mgr.; Richmond, W.L.Balt, Mgr.: Granby, W.H.Robinson, Mgr.: Bedford.E.W, Morgan Mgr; Huntingdon.E N.Robinson, Mgr.Magog, E.P.Oliver, Mer.: st BR reinthe, J.Laframhoise, Mgr.| Grand Forks, B.C., JJ.Maclaughlin, Mgr.Agents in Montreal, Bank of Montreal.London, Eng,, Notional Bank of ticotiand.Boston, National Exchange Bank.New York, National Park Bank.| Collections made at all accessible points.Drafts issued for any required amounts, ood at all points in Canada, United States and Europe.Exchange bought and sold.SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT at each office.Interest allowed from date of deposit and compounded annually, without uirtug the attention ol the deporitor.to fice hours from 10 to 3, Saturdays from 10 Bacteriological and Pathological LABORATORY, 63 Commercial St., Sherbrooke, Que.Examinations of Water, Milk, Blood, Urine, Spulum, Pus, Tumors, Diph- theritic Membrane, ete.For Diagnostic or Scientific purposes.C.J.EDGAR, M.D., Director.Specimens sent by mail or express wit be examined and reported upon at once.b4tf 80 YEARS\u2019 EXPERIENCE TraDE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &e.sketch and des lon may Aone Re aur opinion free whether an anton {a probably atentahle.Communica.Don En dote op peur nto 8 atom sfr SE Munn & Co.Teceive Pate n thro special no tee, Fithout charge, in the cientifie American, A handsomely {llustrated weekly.Tamest Cire 1 rms, $3 à culation of any scientifio qurnail, nussdealers.NU four months, $1.Bold by N Ÿ - tBrondway, NN & Coe rere: New [of eather Belting.AN widths constantly on hand at manufac turers\u2019 prices.LACE LEATHER, cut and by the side.J.P.GOIDHUE, Rock Island, P.Q.« 5 he .\" | \u201c PACE PS ANGORA GOATS, What an Expert Says About Thelr Culture.One of the most profitable branches of animal industry in the United States is the raising of Angora goats, as they are thriving especially on lund which has hitherto been considered as utterly worthless.There are very few states In the Union which have not millions of acres of brushy mountain land of next to no value located from an altitude of 400 or 500 feei above the sea level to 6,000 or 8,000 feet, depending much upon the latitude of the land, which would offer a perfect paradise to the Angora goat and would If stocked with these animals be a source of ever lucrensing protits to their owners, and the amount of money which would be required would be 80 low compared to the profits which cond be realized by an intel ligent caretaker that the cost usually should not be In the way of anybody who wishes to engage in the enterprise.The farmer whose farm partis con sists of scrub mountain land would have the advantage, and to him Augora gonts would Le entirely supernumera- ry.offering the greatest chances for large profits.All he has to do is to fence à pleæ of land into two pastures, turn lis goats on them alternately.sotwetitmies In one, sometimes iu the other: drive them out at daybreak and bring them back at sundown, If possible.he should connect the pastures with ls barn, where be should construct an open shed or hovel.Any thing thar will turn rain would be sufficient.Upon arrival at thelr roosting place feed them some Ilttle grain, and they soon will not have to be driven in any more, hut be there in time for the sweet morsel, The owner of Angora goats should | procure m1 kidding time two or three | suckling pups of some strong breed of dog.but if possible with a strain of collie in them, and raise these pups on a kid'ess doc (a common one Would be preferabler until they ape large enough to follow the goats.Such dogs will become so attached to the breed of heir foster mother that they will fight for them until death anything in the shape of four or two legged curs that would venture near their charge and be the most reliable of shepherds.Two or three dogs thus brought up with gonts could be trusted with the management of a flock of sheep of as much as two or three thousand and with very little extra instruction would herd them as well and with as much sense of duty as any hired shepherd and be by far cheaper.1 am often asked questions in regard to the cost of goats and whether common goats or Angoras would pay best for a start.Common goats are not high in price, but the item of freight is considerable.Fhis cost may be ascertained from the nearest railroad agent.Grade An- zoras, aceording to thelr quality.would i vost from 91.50 up to $5 or more.It is only natural that for goats vielding | very heavy fleeces very large prices should have to be paid, and of course also to the above prices the freight would have to be added, When asking advice as to the class of goats with which à party new in the business should begin with, much, If not everything, would depend on the following points: First.\u2014 How-envar he is t0 à local mar ket for the surplus of bis goats.Second.\u2014Iow many geres of land he has at his disposal and how many goats he could keep thereon.varying all the way from five or six acres for each goat up to live or six goats on each acre, and cannot be determined unless by personal inspection.Third.\u2014 Whether he has to depend at tbe very beginning upon a cash income from them, when the highest grade of gouts is doubtless the best, or whether be can wait for a few years Lefore Le vealizes.The latter of course is in the advantage and if he has plenty of means to start with probably could make the most mouey by grading up the ordinary common gots or a1 least the very lowest grade of Augoras, for these latter breed faster, aud If he has cnough money to put up a canning estublisument be could reap large profits from the enterprise.Still, the lower the grade of the Angoras the lower the quality of their meat nnd the harder is it to dispose of i, both at retail and wholesale, Fourih.\u2014How much capital Le has to Invest and whether such can be invested, no matter tn which state of the Union, or whether be is compelled to do so in an already fixed locality.This is usually a principal and very vital question.If a party bas only a few bundred dollars and absolutely depends upon the goat industry for a living from the very beginning and has wo land of his own, I will not say exactly that he letter stay entirely out of the gont business, but I! can promise him pretty tough scratching for the frst two or three years, and he must have a remarkably good coustitution and firm energy to stand the racket.IFifth.\u2014 Last.but not least, must depend upon the health.age, character and former habits of the party.for a man who Las been living on a solary of say $1.200 to $2,500 à year and perhaps has quite a family to support and ia himself on tbe downwari grade of life must not expect to be able to live Jo the same way as before with a capi- ta) investment of $500 or $1.000 or even £3.000, for he certainly will not be able to do it.But the Angora goat industry must today be considered & very safe and at the same time very profitable invest ment, provided the persouality of the new begloner ls suited to it and if his means are adequate to his 0Wn personal demands of those of his-fämily.The | his own.in which actually the largest land ls steadily Increasing In value, He \u2018 and bis stock is constantly improving.Thus bis income as well as his property will steadlly increase.Let us suppose, however, & party bas $3,000 and can get a five years\u2019 lease où 6,000 acres at 3 cents per acre, with privilege to buy at $1.50, one-third cash, the rest in four or, five equal yearly payments, He would have to buy two good double tents and some bouse- bold furniture at a cost of nbout $150; three mares, one wagon and harness, $350; two cows.chickens and plgs, $30; plowshares.ete.$20; vent of land, $180: provisions, $100; 450 goats, $4 each, $1.500: four bucks, $200.There would; be tert for Lim still $100 cash on band for emergeuey expenses.At the ordinary rate of increase and allowing a fair price for mobair and culHng out gradually the worst animals his income would be for the tirst year about $170 after deducting the rent, for the svcond | about $60G.for the third $000 after deducting both the reut and about, 250 for new bucks.The fourth year woul} leave about $LBOU after deduet ing rent and $250 for new bucks: the Afth year.$2800; the sixth year, $4500.From the seventh year the Income would be over $3.000 and gradually to- crease up to $6,000 or $7,000, according to the care given to the management of the goats, Of course the deductions made of the total Income include only the rent and the most necessary additions to the number of bucks, and whatever a party will have to deduct fort renewals.expenses and help he can best judge tor himself.Yet he should after the second year have enough for a comfortable lving, and out of the revenue of the fourth year enough should be laid by for the fifth to make a first payment on the land without being compelled to be stinted in the fifth year's expenses, and from the sixth and seventh year the Income should enable the breeder to venture ST.000 or $L.000 cach year for the es- tablishmoent of a thoroughbred flock of profits would be, These figures are rather conservative, yet they show that there is money in Angorn gonts\u2014plenty of money \u2014if only they are Landied in the right way.G.A.HoeRLE, Ridgewuai, N.J.stamina In Horses.The ideal horse that would be full of stamina.ax we call it, would lave deep lungs.The depth counts a good deal more than width for easy and long breathing, In fact.1 am a nonbeliever in the greater part of these fashionable broad chested horses.but low.being able to go their 12 miles in one hour and live after it, especially weighing 1.200 to 1.400 pounds: second, the horse must have spirit: third, he must have lots of ambition: foufth, his bones must be smaller.but more solid than à draft horse, so ns to give great strength with light weigh: (0th, be should be inclined to be tall for the weight: sixth, he should be muscled in bard bands and appear Knotted when the borse is in motion: seventh, the barrel should be round and clean, so às not to show gutty at all, nnd the two ends of the horse should look a little large and deep for the hody; eighth, the horse that will have those qualities pre-eminent Will afways bave a blgh rump, the root of the tail showing very prominent from the quarter down.Sowe things E say will be questioned.but come along and discuss Jorse breeding.\u2014Farmers' Tribune.Wrong Kind of Shetinnd Pony.Here Is a portrait of a prize winning Shetland.which, while à very smart pony.is an excellent example of what a Shetland should not be.This pony is a high acting.spirited fellow, with docked tail and pulled mane, made to resemble a miniature cob, says The National Stockman, It is all right for a man to make his pony luto such an animal if he can and wants to, but it is not and sbeuld not be classed as a | fia Ÿ hh ; #0 BPIRITED SHETLAND POXY.true type of Shetland pony.The Shetland is bred in this country for the use of children.He is not bred to act high or to gallop or to trot at a good rate of speed.He must be gentle, perfectly so, permitting all sorts of liberties from the youngsters who are to use him.They must have in bim a perfectly safe, trusty companion and playmate.We mention this because we have seen these \u201cfancy\u201d ponles win from à lot of shaggy maned, honest, sober, low gaited fellows who were typical representatives of the breed.Competent judges will consider such things in making the awards, \u2014 Wintering Stock.The most important point in winter ing farm stock is to see fo it that at the beginning the stock is thrifty and not so old that it will be more apt to depreciate than to increase in price by keeping through.Stock young enough not\u2019 to bave made its full growth pass best to keep of all.It 18 far better to kill or sell in fall the stock that has passed Its best than to try to winter it, If it Is kept over, the food it eats will be wasted.If the cost of food fed to stock that gain nothing from it was spent In better feeding of young and thrifty stock, it would make stock keeping In winter always profitable Instead of being, as now.therause of greater loss than gain.\u2014 American Cuitivator.la journey seven times «.1f Man Were a Fleas, Snyder, the calculating barber, had not opened his lips for fully four min utes, and it was plain to be seen that he had something on bis mind.Flnally he swallowed twice, breathed hard for a moment aud gave vent to his feelings in this manner: \u201cI've been thinking what 1 could do if 1 were only a flea.| read in n scientific paper the other day that if a man were built on the same lines as a flea he could jump from Philadelphia to Pittsburg In one leap.1 mean.of course, If he had all the power of a flea Increased Ip proportion to his size.Think bow quickly le could cireum- navigate the globe.It might be possible to get around the world In an hour.The distance from Philadelphia to Pittsburg Is 354 miles, and the equatorial circumference of the earth Is 24,- 902 miles.\u201cA simple calculation in mental arithmetic will show you that this would be a fraction over 70 leaps.It surely wouldn't take a minute for each jump, Judged from the liveliness of the tien.Think of coming In here, with three or four customers ahead of you.and.ln.stead of sitting down and walting, Just taking a few jumps around the world to kill time.There you are.sir.Witch hazel oF bay rum?\u2014Philadelphia Ree ord.One Point of Resemblance.\u201cThe elder Sothern was a good story teller, and he particularly liked to dwell on lis experiences at the outset of his stage life, when he was a minor member of the John McCullough company.\u201d said the old time theater goer.\u201cMcCullough was playing In \u2018Fexas, and in one town where he was billed to play \u2018Ingomar\u2019througb some accident on the railroad.the necessary costumes were delayed.\u201cThe manager was equal to The siru- ation, bowever.lle went to every butcher's shop In town and hired all the sheep aud cow hides lie could to dress up his supers.\u201cWhen MeCullongh eaine on the stage that night.he fell back appalled by the stench of the hastily Insprovised clothing worn by the barbarians \u201cWhat do you think of them?Soth- ern luglinely asked McCullough, pointing to ihe supers as the curtain rolled down.\u201cThey neither net like.look like por talk like barbarians, eartly growled the traged.an.\u2018but, by the gods, they smell like them.\u201d \u201d\u2019\u2014Konsas City Inde pendent.We Didn't Choke, Toward Mecea the thoughts and as pirations of all pious Moslems ave turned.and at least once in lis lifetime the good Mohammedan lg expect ed to make a pilgrimage to that city.Que of the duties of the pilgrim In mediately after his arrival is to make round a holy portico outside the mosque, \u201cWe went at ns great pace,\u201d says an Englishman, who, disguised as a Mo.bammedan, paid a visit to Mecea nt the risk of his life, \u201cand the day wag growing hot.When tbe procession was over, we came back to the mosque and were each given a bow! of limpid water.} was so thirsty that 1 drank mine at a draft and asked for more, whieh 1 noticed produced a very good impression, for.as 1 afterward learned, this was the saered water of Temzen, whieh an infidel eanpot drink without being choked.\u201cThis was supposed to he the water which was supplied to Hagar when she was perishing in the desert.\u201d \u2014 Christian Endeavor World, He Rode Down.Algernon Dougherty of the United States diplomatie service bas qualities of his own to account for his success as well as being the sou of the famous \u201cSilver Tongued\" Dougherty of I'hila- delphia.Oue of the rules of the arls- tocratie IParislan conclerge is that while one way ride up in the elevator one must not ride down.lt was Mr.Dougherty who broke down this rule in a bonse In the Rue de Maturin.He started down, and the concierge stopped the elevator.\u201cIt Ig forbidden.\u201d \u201cBy whom?\" \u201cThe proprietor forbids it,\u201d said the concierge.Mr.Dongherty drew himself up and said, \u2018\u201cFell your proprietor that I forbid him to forbid me anything! and rode on down.And now even the timid maiden ladies op the sixth floor play with that elevator as though it were a tame cat.\u20148an Francisco Argonaut.The Gallery Anwnwered Martha, Of the Dublin gallery boys a famous baritone, in his reminiscences, tells some good stories\u2014one of \u201cFaust,\u201d ip which he played Valentine, After the duel Martha, who rushed in at the head of the crowd, raised Valentine\u2019s head and held Lim in ber arms during the first part of :he scene and eried out in evident alarm: \u201cOh, what shall 1 do?\u201d There was a deathlike stillness In the house, which was interrupted by a volce from the gallery calling oyt: \u201cUnbutton his weskit!\u201d His Company.Mark Twain, meeting Charles Guthrie, a prominent British lawyer, In Vi enna.asked him if he smoked.*Sometimes.when 1 am in bad company,\u201d ; was the reply.After a pause came a secoud question: \u201cYou're a lawyer.aren't you, Mr.Guthrie?\u201d \u201c1 am, Mr.Clemens.\u201d \u201cAh, then, Mr.Guthrie, you must be a very heavy smoker!\u201d When a woman calls her husband up by telephone without hls knowing who she Is, she is always surprised to see how politely he addresses ber at first.\u2014Somerville Journal.Ope good thonght generously recelv- ed always attracts another PLANT FOOD EXPERIENCE.vnlon In Strength=8table Manure For Warp and Fertiliser For Flullag, That \u201cjudicious use of high grade fertilizers pays, with the exception of | such ruinously Jdry seasons as this last, when It would make little difference what plang food was used,\u201d is the opinion of an American Agriculturist writer, wha says: In my opintou, the best results are secured by combining both stable ur nure and fertilizers.My ideal way where cireunistances Will permit is to plow in a light dressing of manure fur the warp and harrow or rake in a top dressing of gowd concentrated fertilizer for the fllling.Given a favorable season amd circumstances, crops thus enriched should be made to pay if they ean be profitable under any conditions, I think this statement applies to all market garden crops and perhaps to the coarser field crops as well, The cost of getting the large quanti ty of manure used by market gardeners from city stables, even when loeat- ed pear cities, is very great, and the labor of overhnuling borse manure sud preventing its burning or thre fanglog and then applying to the land wheu properly rotted ts decidedly expensive, How mueb Cortilizer should be used per acre of course depends upon the condition and fertility of the land, If I were to use without manure on the average far nd, J owould apply at least 1,000 pounds per nacre for corn and 1,500 for potatoes and n ton or even more (or most vegetables, Less would answer for benns, peas, toma- tous, parsnips and possibly some other market garden erops, but for cabbage.beets, onions aml other heavy feeders a ton Is Hitle enough, especially when to be followed by celery.lettuce, spin ach or other fall crops, When supplemented by the manure dressing, halt the amount will do.1 am basing my estimate on high grade fertilizers.In dry seasons when rain is so long delayed and first crops badly Injured or ruined by the drought the second crop receives the full hbenefs of the spring application of fertilizers.We had this fully demonstrated now evop of celery after a first crop of beets and peas on a piece of dey, gravelly soll.where we have seldom attempted to vnise celery We libeenlly tap dressed with a high grade special fertilizer after plowing in a light dressing of manure.The bests and peas were lo.fured by the dry weather, but The eel ary was as fing as any on the farm.nnd we feel sure we are indebted to the fertilizer for the good crop.I have raised good early cenblitges on Light soil, setting early and applying a handful of eghbage fertilizer when set; also again when hoelng, The appliea- tion of fertilizers on the surface of the soil.harrowed or raked jn, gloves the evop n° quick.healthy start and frequently brings It to maturity ahead of the usual summer drought.Nifragen Needs Intelligent Une, The results of wheat tests in Vir gina, constlered hy the station from all standpoints, \u201cstrongly emphasize the danger aicnding the unintelligent or lavish use of nitrogen.This constituent ix far the most ceatly of any.and the grentest care is necessary i its use.Whenever possible the ni trogen required by wheat, and these tests clearly show thaï on our soils at least it is needed, should be glven by plowing in green crops, especially clover and oflier leguminous plants.Green or even dried vegetable mntters supply it more cheaply than it ean be bonght in nitrogenous manures.The best results of recent agricultural sci chee Seach us that the farmer should get his nitrogen through the ald of such crops and supply his mineral elements, phosphorie acid and potash, by applications of standard phosphatio and potassic manures.Among the best of these are muriate of potash, kajult and nctd phosphates of high grade, \u201cThe soll on whlch our tests were carrled on is fairly representative of large areas in the southwestern and valley sections of Virginin and the caleareous districts of other states, and thelr results therefore admit of wide application.\u201cThey teach that the farmer should in these regions depend, as far ns his whent is concerned, chiefly upon acid phosphate\u2014dissolved hone black, ground bone, phosphatic slag, ete, may be substituted for it\u2014to whieh he may add, with reasonable hope of some slightly increased profit, potash, \u201cFor his nitrogen he should depend upon turning under vegetable matter or, if convineed by intelligent observation or careful tests that his soll imme dintely needs nitrogen, he should ap ply dried blood, tankage or nitrate of soda, ceonomically and cautiously.\u201d Price of Hemp Donbled, \u201cIt Is estimated that since the blockade of Philippine ports went Into ef- feet American farmers, who consume an immense amount of twine for binding grain, have pald an increase of from $15.006,000 to $20,000,000 for that article, while shiphuilding concerns bave nlso paid many millions of dollars more for cordage than before, as a result of the scarcity of hemp.ested, which is imported from Mexico, cannot be satisfactorily substituted for hemp, it Is said.particularly when the cordage is to be used for maritime purposes, one reason belng that sisal will not stand salt water.Hemp is now 14 cents a pound, as against 6 cents before the blockade went Into effect.\u201d says the New York Herald Weed Out the Uselenn Croppers, The man who produces a variety of vegetables to sell In the cities and towns needs to keep n close nccount with each crop raised.By this method alone enn he know what erops are running him into debt.If he keeps a strict account.be will find that be has some useless croppers.These useless croppers merely take the fertility from the Iand, eat up the labor of the farmer and give nothing ln return.GRRPEN CONCERNING ALFALFA, , Soils Thot Sult-lreparing the Land, Time to Sow.Professor Thomas Shaw, the well «known authoriy on forage crops, treats the subject of alfalfa very thoroughly in Orange Judd Farmer, where, among many practical tems, occur the following: The soit best sulted to alfalfa will be measuribly dependent on the moisture that enn be furnished to it in the form of rain through surface irrigation or from a subierranenn souree, Loose, sandy loan soils rich fn certain elements of plant food, particularly time, phosphorie aeld and potash, are usual- ty regard as the most sultable tor ul falta.\u2018These soils should be deep in charneter amd should le on sandy ov gravelly subsolls that Is to say, sub- solls which cousist of thie gravel Intermixed with sand.Such soils are eminently adapted for growing alfalfa when water is plentitully supplied from (he clouds, from berignting diteb- es or from the water (able in the subsoil.This water table ust not be too pear the surface, or the root growth will be hindered, to the great Injury of the plants, nor ust FL be tou far from the surface.aor It will fail to reach the plants tn sutlielent quantity.When water cannot he supplied from ditehes or from 1 subterranean source and when the summer clhoate is dey In character, will grow best in soils that are under laid with mth, porous clay rubrolls, which the roots ean easily peuetrate, I grown nnder those conditions, if the subsoil were sand or genvel, the plants would got obtain sutiieient moisture.The Lest solls probably in the United States for growing alfalfa when ame piy suppiled with water are (he vol cute ash soils, alluvial In character, that are found in the valleys west and southwest of the Missourt river.The sandy sols ol the states south nil southenst of the Ohlo are not usually rier enough to produce maximum crops without belug fertilized, Fhe soËls of the upper Mississippt bas.n, with exceptions somewhat numerous, do not seem to have the proper food élemuents.In other localities, particularly In stttes noth nd east of the Ohio, nee stretehes of hardpan sabaod which farbuds the growth or allan, in all sos where Vie wir Late COUTES Nes TUE sad ce ait N tie in te your adala canot be successfobDy grow, Leon adfalfa is te be oid down for a terin of vents, 11 is huportant that the land on winch it is sown shall fast le well slogan 3 wher by sununer tallow ing It or.what would Ine better, by Erowiing soe crap on it that 8 given clean cultivation, 11 is also important | that (ee grovid shadl be plowed deeply fn prepa ng it For the alfalfa or, what weukt he hotter pechaps, in preparing it for the cutrivnted crop that is to pre- code the aifrufn.Subsoiling tue land will usually be found a good Hrvestment, But this should never be done by running the vrilinary plow twlee in the same fur row, except in sols that nre ns vich in available plant food in the under Cure row shee as in the upper one, Other- wine the plants from the new sown alfalfa muy notThe able to get food enough to produce à vigorous growth whet they are young.But when aifal- fa is sown along with other plants to provide pitsture it is not so necessary to have the lund in such a perfect con- ditlon of preparation, owing to the Hm- ited poriud during whieh It will be grown, The time for sowing alfalfa varles much with the loeatity.It should not be sown In the winter or in the sun- mer, In the northern half of the republic it is usually sown in the early spring, as soon ay the ground has become warm and the danger from severe frosts is past.In tie southern halt thereof it is gown In the autoon and also In the spring.When sown In the autumn, sufficient time should be given to the young plants to make enough growth to enable then to pass the winter safely, with its frequent periods of trying temperatures, From the Ohlo Station, In view of the great dithieulty In securing à good stand of heels in IST and 1898 by the late planting that late seed distribution made necessary.il has been suggested to try planting the beets much earlier, It is hoped in this manner to get the beets started before the dashing rains and hot sun of May and June, It seems to be advisable fo try planting late In March and in April, Just as soon as the ground cin be well worked after fall or winter plowing and subsolling.With ghe sugar beet It Is advised to follows the custom of onion growers and nlm to secure gerni- nation before the crustin, of the soll by the rain and sun whicl - #0 linbie later.[tls unt believed that frost dun.ger is greater with due care than the danger just stated for Inte planting.The Ohiv experiment station Is Dow rendy to receive applications for sugar beet seed intended for planting in 1900.It Is the purpose to send out the beet geed In March, 1900.The amonnt seat any person will be Hmited to 12 pounds, Address \u201cExperiment Station, \\Voos- ter, 0.\u201d To Tan Coon and Cat Skins.Soak the skin thoroughly and spread alum and salt thickly on flesh side and voll up and lay away for a week and then clean off and rub dry with corn bran or wheat bran; then dress with carbolized vaseline.If you want the hair off, sonk In lime water until It slips; rub and treat as before, says Farm and Ranch.it will be foumi that adfalfa, wap SEM = Es «gt, Bt No Ca i ae I TENE a on rs, ne \u2014 TE The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que.ae your (advance payment) lt paid in six months, AY the end of tho year, ADVERTISING RATES, Transiont advertising 10 eonts a line for the first insertion and 3 cents a line for each sub- Noad- | In considering the causes of the large suquent insertion.12 lines to theinen.rortisment received for less than 50 couts.FROM THE CAPITAL.orrawa, January 6,\u2014The temporary lull in Federal politics, has given the opportunity to pay a little more attention than usual to Municipal matters, and the local affairs of the town and township have been upper: most for the past two weeks.So much interest is generally taken in Federal politics that Provincial and Municipal matters are liable to be overlooked, and yet the average citizen they are of at least as much importance and often affect him the more closely of the two.Once a year, for about two weeks before election day attention is given to a more or less superficial consideration of local affairs, but the ward politician and the municipal wire puller, who are working full time twelve months in the year have an advantage which a couple ot weeks spasmodic discussion cannot offset.In spite of this there are indications of a steady progress in the development of our Municipal in- | Nipissing, 150 millions.Total 875 millions, | These figures while not final will undoubtedly be borne out by the facts lat the close of the season.When ; compared with the cut for the pre- 31.0y | Vious year, they show an enormous 1.95 | increase, as the cut in 1898 was only 1.50 | 570,000,000 feet.The year 1596 con- !stituted a record, the output then be- , ling 940,000,000, but the average is far | below the figures estimated for 1808.|increase, undoubtedly the principal * \u2018element is the high price of lumber, [with the prospect of good sales of i Canadian sawn lumber in the United States, i | The ribbon for the general service medals has arrived from England and \u2018ag soon as medals and clasps have been properly attached the distribu- Ition will be commenced.The first issue will probably he to Ontario | veterans, soon after the 15th inst.Those who served in the Fenian Raids \u2018and Red River Campaign and now reside within the headquarters district, will receive their medals direct from the claims board.Elsewhere \u2018they will be distributed from district headquarters.There are still many \u2018claims to be dealt with which were i put in subsequent to the date fixed for receiving them.These will be dealt (With after the distribution of the ;medals now awarded have been de- tlivered.The claims board found that only two per cent of the claims had to 1 be rejected.GENERAL SERVICE MEDALS.stitutions and the votes this year in.several places show the increasing interest the people are takihg.disposition to reduce the number of representatives and thereby secure better men is growing, and the discarding of the old ward system and electing representatives from the municipality at large is also being regarded with increasing favor.Our parliamentarians largely learn the business of government in the Municipal Council Chamber and it is therefore the more desirable that they learn it thoroughly and well.Better men and better methods should be the outcome of the present forward movement.THE CONTINGENT.The work of preparing the second contingent goes bravely on, and the arrangements are now in a forward condition.The enthusiasm of those who seek admission within the charmed circle of the chosen 1200 grows as the ranks close up, and .the work of discriminating which confronts the recruiting officers is more embarassing than ever.The news from the front telling of the first brush with the enemy when a hundred of the Toronto boys in Col.Pitcher\u2019s column routed a detachment of Boers numar- ically much stronger and captured prisoners and stores, has raised the excitement to fever heat, and if every fellow was taken that wants to go there would not be enough left to form a home guard to entertain the Fenian raiders who are mustering at Omaha! TRADE WITH AUSTRALASIA.This week\u2019s Australian mail brought to the trade and commerce department an interesting report from J.8.Larke, Canadian Commissioner.He gives the trade figures for the year for South Australia and Tasmania and states that while some Canadian products reach those colonies the development of trade with Canada is not as rapid as it might be if representatives of Canadian houses were to extend their business connections! directly into Australia.The wool crop in New South Wales promises to\u2018 be short this year as from five to eight million sheep less will be shorn.The | wheat harvest promises well and it is | estimated that for the whole of Australia there will be 13,000,000 bushels to | export.Mr.Larke mentions the gratifying fact that where Canadian houses have been assiduous in working up trade they have heen successful, one Canadian factory for instance, having secured an order for 125,000 chairs.\u2018The Commissioner sees no reason why Canada should not monopolize the chair trade with Australia.He says, \u201cthat energy and lots of it counts in Australia,\u201d and mentiong the gratifying fact that the representative of a Toronto neckwear factory did such good business on his first visit that he quickly found it to his advantage to make a second call for orders.The Commissioner suggests that where it would not pay a single house to send a representative to Australia, a number of firms might unite to send out a traveller.In this way there would be an economy of expense, ONTARIO\u2019'S LUMBER SUPPLY, A Correspondent in the Toronto Globe sends an interesting estimate of the probable output of Jumber this season from Northern Ontario.He quotes from carefully collected returns to show that a total of nearly 900 million feet of lumber will be cut, distributed as follows: \u2014Parry Sound and Muskoka, 200 millions; - Upper Ottawa and Tributaries, 160 millions; - Thunder Bay and Rat Portage, 76 millions; North Shore \u2018and Lake WHEN DOES IT BEGIN?The ; Concerning the mooted question, When does the new century begin?\"MM.Camille Flammarion, the eminent astronomer, than whom no one is better qualided to speak with authority in matteas of Chronology, says: \u201cThis seemingly difficult problem is «really very easy of solution.A dozen consists of twelve units.The number 12 is a part of the dozen.One hundred consists of one hundred units, and the number 100 is a partthereof.Now, it is clear that there never was a yenr 0in the Christian chronology.The first year was No.1, the tenth year was No.10, and the hundredth year of the first century was the year 100.\u201cWhat has led many persons astray as probably been the change in the first two figures of the year, as we see in the case of 1799-1800 or 1899-1800.A similar change, however, is made when 9 becomes 10, or when 99 becomes 100.If anyone gives me one hundred cents I have a dollar, but the hundredth cent is just as necessary to my first dollar as the ninetieth.My hundred and first cent is the beginning of my second dollar.The hundredth is, in fact, a necersary portion of the dollar.\u201cIn like manner the hundredth year belongs to the century which isdying.Exactiy, therefore, at midnight of December 31, 1900, will the hourglass of the nineteenth century run out and at the next moment the twentieth century will start on its career.\u201d The Rooster Saved the Day.Every schoolboy knows the tradition, famous in Roman history, of the geese which saved the Capitol by \u2018quacking an alarm when the Gauls approached in the night.Modern history furnishes an interesting parallel.One of the famous victories of England on the sea was the battle off Cape St.Vincent, Portugal, in 1797, when a British fleet nearly destroyed a Spanish fleet of almost double its numbers.For a long time, the trouble was doubtful, and one of the British ships, the Mariborough, was so severely crippled that her captain was thinking of surrender to save further waste of life.The ship\u2019s mast had gone by the board, the chief officer was mortally wounded, and so many of his subordinates were disabled that the discipline of the crew began to give way.They grew sullen under the terrible fire which they could not return with effect.Suddenly a shot struck the coop in which a few fowls had been confined.One cock alone was still alive and, finding himself at liberty, he flapped his wings mightily and fluttering upward, perched on the stump of the mainmast and surveyed the kcene of carnage about him.Then, raising hig head defiantly, he began a long, strident crow.The crew answered with three cheers, and even the wounded smiled.With renewed spirits the men worked the few remaining guns, and soon a favoring turn of battle drove away the last thought of surrender.It has been demonstrated repeatedly in every state in the Union and in many foreign countries that Chamberlain\u2019s Cough Remedy is a certain preventive and cure for croup.It has become the universal remedy for that disease.M.V.Fisher of Liberty, w, Va., only repeats what has been said around the globe when he writes: \u2018I have used Chamberlain\u2019s Cough Remedy in my family forseveral years and always with perfect success.We bolieved that it is not only the best cough remedy, but that it is a sure cure for croup.It has saved the lives of out children a number of times.\u201d ' WASHINGTON LETTER.(From our own correspondent.) Washington, January 5, 1900.\u2014Pop- ular feeling in regard to the Boer war is rapidly veering around in this country.Despite misleading statements to the contrary continually published in Canada and Greut Britain, public sentiment here heretofore has always been on the side of the Boers, both because they constituted a so-called republic and because of the disproportionate size of the combatants.But this feeling has been somewhat like that of a man who sees his brother engaged in a fight of which he does not approve.He would not be sorry if the brother got pretty well punched to teach him not to be so hasty the next time, but he would also feel much disposed to take off his coat and go in, if there seemed to be any danger of the brother getting the worst of it.During our war with Spain, Canada seemed to feel about the same way.It considered that we were altogether too cocky and wanted us punished, but not defeated.As long as England is merely fighting the Boers, she will meet with lots of opposition in this country, but as soon as any European power attempts to chip in, the world will be astonished by the depth of pro-English sentiment that will develop in this country.Blood is a good deal thicker than\u201d water, and most Americans realize that the preservation of their own race ascendency depends on the ului- mate victory of England.The close relationship between this country and England was shown in the recent New Year\u2019s reception at the White House, when the entire British embassy was present.The Right Honorable Lord Pauncefote of Preston, G.C.B., G.M.G., dean of the diplomatic corps, was accompanied by Lady Pauncefote and their four daughters; Mr.Gerzld A.Lowther, first secretary; Captain Charles L.Ottley, R.N., and Mrs.Ottley; Lieutenant Colonel A.H.Lee, R.A., military attache, and Mrs.Lee, his American bride; Mr.C.N, E.Eliot, C.B., second secretary; Mr.W.G.Max Muller, setond secretary; Mr.Robert Bromley and Mr.Arthur E.O.Humphreys Owen, honorary attaches.The good feeling between the two countries was also emphasized by the pleasure that was expressed at the fact that Mr.Eliot, of the embassy, had recently been made a knight of the order of the fighting saints, St.Michael and St.George.Mr.Eliot's management of the Samoan difficulty, when he represented England as commissioner to those islands last winter, was such as to win for him the warmest official commendation of the United States government, and to make him popular throughout the country.A good many Canadians turn up at Washington from time to time.The latest arrival is Mr.Edward McKenzie of Montreal, who was somewhat amused when asked what Canada thought of the alleged Fenian invasien of that country.\u201cIt is all newspaper talk,\u201d he said, \u201cand Canadians are losing no sleep on account of it.We know from what source it emanates, and are well satisfied with the knowledge that the flery warriors who are going to devour Canada blood raw are wind-jammers of the eighteen-caret variety, and that their talk of gore is guff.A few hot-headed individuals, who have deluded themselves into thinking that they have a grievance against England, no doubt realize that this would be a fine time to add to the complications of Great Britain by the invasion of the Dominion, and hence the incentive of the raid.But they will take it out in talk.Another interesting visitor to the Capital during the past week, was Mr.P.Labry, of Manchester, England, who talked entertainingly of the Boer war.\u201cThe end of the war will un-' doubtedly see England supreme all the way from the Cape to the Zambezi,\u201d he said.\u201cThe Boers had every advantage in men, munitions and position at the outset, and they have won a few battles.But Britain\u2019s sea power will enable her to win in the end.Although the navy may not fire a single shot during the war, victory will be due to it, not only because it will make possible the trausport of unlimited troops and: munitions, but because it will prevent any European nation from taking part, no matter how much they may wish to do so.\u201d U.8.Consul Almar F.Dickson has reported to the State Department here that a company has been formed at Gaspe Basin, Quebec, to carry on tho oil boring business there.The consul does not expect much from the venture, as he says that 33 wells have been sunk in the last ten years, and that in only one has oil been found, and in that one it has been exhausted.He concludes: \u201cI have conversed with several oil experts during the last five years, and they inform me that the sand and grave) here are not suited to oil, and that the dip of the rock ia altogether wrong.This, they say, should be about 50 feet to the mile, and it is about 1000 feet to the mile in most places where wells have been put down in this-vicinity.\u201d Representative Shackleford of Missouri has introduced into Congress a bill placing on the free list all wood \u201cHuron, 800 millions; Poterboro and This remedy is for sale by all first class dealers.manufacture of printing paper, and all printing paper suitable for or adapted to the printing of newspapers, periodicals or books.Wood pulp is extensively manufactured in Canada.Information as to the riches of Cape Nome, in Alaska, continues to come in.The latest arrival from that part of the world is K.M.Jackson, who says that the.spot is just asrichin gold as it has been represented, and by next summer there will be 25,000 people at work there.He thinks that the resources of the locality have hardly been scratched over, and that there are untold millions yet to be taken from Mother Earth.AT MAFEKING.Baden-Powell Makes an Unsuccessiul Sortie\\ A London despatch says:\u2014The War Office has received through General Forester-Walker, at Cape Town the foliowing despatch from Colonel Baden- Powell, dated Mafeking, December 26: \u2014 \u201cWe attacked one-of the enemy\u2019s works this morning, endeavoring to push back the cordon northward.Our force consisted of three guns, two squadrons of protectorate regiment, one of the Beckualand Rifics, an armored train, ete.The enemy had strengthened their works during the night and doubled the garrison since yesterday\u2019s reconaissace.\u201cNevertheless, our attack was carried out and pressed home with the greatest possible gallantry and steadiness under a very hot fire.But all effort to gain the interior by escalade failed, the fort being practically impregnable.\u2018Our attack only withdrew after six of our officers had been hit and a large number of men wounded.Nothing could have exceeded the courage and dash displayed.\u201cThe general situation remains unchanged, and the health and spirits of the garrison are very satisfactory.\u201cI regret to report the following casualties: Killed\u2014Capt.R.J.Vernon, Capt.H.C.Sanford, Lieut.H.C.Paton.Eighteen non-commissioned officers and troopers.\u201cWounded\u2014Capt.Charles Fitzelar- ence, 23 non-commissioned officers and troopers.\u201cPrisoners\u2014Three troopers.\u201d General Forestier-Walker points out that, while the despatch gives all the names, it fails to show that six officers were hit.TWENTIETH CENTURY'S DAWN.\u201cThe first people to live in the twentieth century will be the friendly Islanders, for the date-line, as it may be called, lies in the Pacific Ocean just to the east of their group,\u2019\u201d\u2019 writes John Ritchie, Jr., in the January Ladies\u2019 Home Journal, of \u201cWhere the Next Century will Really begin.\u201d At that time, although it will be already Tuesday to them, all the rest of the world will be enjoying some phase of Monday, the last day of the nineteenth century (December 31, 1900).At Melbourne the people will be going to bed, for it will be nearly ten o\u2019- clock; at Manila it will be two hours earlier in the evening; at Calcutta the English residents will be sitting at their Monday afternoon dinner, for it will be about six o'clock; and in London, \u2018Big Ben,\u2019 in the tower of the House of Commons, will be striking the hour of noon.In Boston, New York and Washington half the people will be eating breakfast en Monday morning, while Chicago will be barely conscious of the dawn.At the same moment San Francisco will be in the deepest sleep of what is popularly called Sunday night, though really the early, dark hours of Monday morning, and half the Pacific will be wrapped in the darkness of the same morning hours, which become earlier to the west, until at Midway or Brooks Island it will be but a few minutes past midnight of Sunday night.Publisher Journal : .\u2018What would be the cost of publishing itemized statement of receipts and expenditurus of Stanstead Township in your advertising columns?A good many rate-payers are anxious to know., A RATEPAYER.The cost would depend upon space occupied, probably between $3 and 85.PUB.JOURNAL.CANNOT TELL YOU ALL.In a limited newspaper space, we cannot tell you all that you should know about our ample and varied stock of drugs, medicines and toilet preparations and requisites, and our improved facilities for acurate dispensing.OUR MOTTO : \u2018Purest, Drugs, Best Goods and Lowest Prices.\u201d Have you used Paine\u2019s Celery Compound?If not, we advise you to give it a trial if you are nervous, weak, rundown or ailing in any way.Paine\u2019s Celery Compound is the most reliable and efficacious medicine of the day.It makessick people well.J.T.Flint, Druggist, Rock Island, pulp suitable for or adapted to the WiLL EXPLORE \u201cUNKNOWN CANADA.\u201d An Ottawa despatch says: \u2014Mr.J.Tyrell, who has accepted a commission from the Government to explore \u2018unknown Canada,\u201d has left for Toronto, to-spend a few days before starting on his long journey.Mr.Tyrell will penetrate a country wherein the foot of the white man has never trod, and expects to be away nearly a year.He will cross Great Slave Luke, and proceed easterly towards Hudson Bay through a district, the value of which is not yet known to the world.Tho especial object of the trip is to report on the nature of the country, and to assertain if it has any value in minerals or otherwise.That it has fish is known from the Esquimaux, but it is generally understood that it has no timber lands.Having a Great Run on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug store, informs us that he is having a great run on Chamberlain\u2019s Cough Remedy.He sells five bottles of that medicine to one of any other kind, and it gives great satisfaction.In these days of la grippe there is nothing like Chamberlain\u2019s Cough \u2018Remedy to stop the cough, heal up the sore throat and Jungs and give relief in a very short time.Tho sales are growing, and all who try it are pleased with its prompt action.\u2014South Chicago Daily Calumet.For sale by all first-class dealers.BORN.BLAKE\u2014In Derby, Jan.8, 1900, a daughter to Mr.and Mrs.Israel M.Blake.STPIE7RE\u2014At Rock Island, Jan.1, 1900, n son to Mr.and Mrs.BE.J.St.Pierre.LOST.At Rock Island, Jan.8th, a white brested black collie dog named Rover.Owner will be at Melloon\u2019s store Saturday and will pay suitable reward for return of said dog.12#1 J.H.PROBERT, Lineboro, Que, BLACKSMITHING.The undersigned has opened a blacksmith shop in the building recently acquired from C.A.Jenkins, near the Knight store site, and is prepared to do all kinds of work in a satis factory manner.Horse shoeing a speciality.C.Z.HATC Give me n call.: 124w4 Smith's Mills.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Liberal - Conservative Association.The Annual General Meeting of this Association will be held in the City Hall, Sherbrooke, Tuesday, January 16th, at 2.30 p, m.Prominent Speakers will be present and will address the gathering.By order.J.E.GENEREUX, A.PERCY LOMAS, Joint-Scoretaries, WANTED.A man and woman to work on the Town Farm, Towushtp of Barnston, for the ensuing var, commencing Fob.21st, 100.Parties wish- ug for the situation will leave their tenders with the undersigned on or before Feb.5th, 1800.The Municipal Council will, on Monday, the fifth day of February, next, consider said tenders, not binding thémselves to accept tho .lowest ar any teuder.By order of the Council, | Barnston, Jau.8th.1800, { EXECUTORS\u2019 NOTICE.311 persons indebted to the Estate of the late Ellen (Abbott) Moore are requested to pay the same to the undersigned within thirty Sage, and any one having n claim to present it, properly attested, within the same time.EULA Sr.DIZIER.jp EUGENE ST.DIZIER, | Executors.Massawippi, Que., Jan.10th, 1000.12w3 H.HOWE, Sec'y-Treas.NOTICE.The annual meeting of the Wayville Butter and Cheese Manufacturing Society will be held at the School House, Wor 8 Mills, on Saturda Jan, 18th.1900, at one v\u2019elock p.m., to elect of- ficors fcx the coming year, a general attendance of Stockholders is requested.vow2 8.W.SARGEANT, Pres.FOR SALE.House and Plot for sale on casy terms situated on the corner of Junction and Main 8t,, Beebe Plain, P.For terms apply to A.B.Stratton, Beebe Plnin or H.A.Stratton 410 W, 40 8t., New York, N.Y.00* \u2018LOST.~ In the Three Villages on the 80th ult., a gold chain bracelet.Finder will be suitably rewarded by returning same to Dr.E.P.' Ball, Rock Island.Flour & Feed Ad.Now is the time, AND WEBSTER'S THE PLACE, to get your Flour and Feed for the Winter.FLOURS.Hungarian Patent, from No.1 Hard Manitcba Wheat, $2.00 per bag.Hungarian Patent from Hard and Ontario Wheat, $1.90 per bag Every lb.guaranteed A No.1.White Middlings, per.hdwt., $1.05, bag included, Shorts, 95c., bag included, Bran, 85c., bag included.A reduction for ton lots.21 lbs.Granulated Sugar, 81.00.Cheapest place in the County to buy Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, &c.À Happy New Year to All, E.R.WEBSTER.Stanstead, Jan.1st, 1900.Annual Mark Down Sale AT SPALDING\u2019S.FLANELETTS AT COST, LADIES\u2019 WINTER UNDERWEAR AT COST, MISSES\u2019 WINTER UNDERWEAR AT COST, CHILDREN\u2019S WINTER UNDERWEAR AT COST, CHILDREN\u2019S CLOAKS & HOODS AT COST, FUR TRIMMINGS AT COST, FLANEL LINED SHOES AT COST.All Clean, New and Desirable Goods.I Will Give You Good Bargains in Other Lines of Goods.AVM.SPALDING.Jan.4, 1900.Too Busy to Write all about our Stock of Christmas Goods.We are Selling Stacks of Everything, Come in and oo See the Goods.Have Some Large Nice Calendars, GOTTEN UP ESPECIALLY FOR US, Come in and Get One.PARKER & KNIGHT.P.Q.12w8 Hatley, Dec.20,\u201999.Sm Ee as a J ME SE sam a \u2019 Business and Professional Cards.\u2018 MISS LI.E.MOORE.: Trained Nurse.Te Graduate of General Hospital.Turanto and late Associate of Johny Hopkin Hospital, Baltimore.- Stanstead, Que.Telephones: Bell 6; Feople's 10.GEO.F.WALDRON, M.D, - Physician and Surgson.Office at Derby Line Hotel.Office Hours: 8 tu 9 A.M.1 tu 3 And 7 to 8 pu.DR.C.L.BROWN, Physician and Surgeon, Ayers Flat.Oflies next to P.O.Residence Chas.Vaughan's, W.A.REYNOLDS, D.D.S,, (Buston Dental College) 180 Tremont St.Boston.Office hours: 9 to 4, DR.L.A.LAPALME., Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Piain P.Q.Office and Residence ut Dr.Canfield\u2019s old place, J.C.GILFILLAN, M.D., Homeophathic Physician and Surgeon, Beebe Plain, Vt.RALPH M.CANFIELD, M.D., L.R.C.P.(London) Ete.413 Shawmut Avenue, Boston.Office hours : 1 to 3 P.M., 7to8P.M.DR.J.E.C.TOMKINS, Stanstead Plain, Que.Office Hours: 8 to 9 A.M., 1 to 2 and 6 to 7 P.M.Bell and People's Telephones.H.C.RUGG, M.D., C.M.Physician and Surgeon.Office opposite residence of Hon, M.F.Hackett, Stanstead Plain, Que, Bell Telephone No.84.T.D.WHITCHER, M.D., Physician and Surgeon.Becbe Plain, P: Q.Three Telephones\u2014Bell, People\u2019s, Channel's.Office at Residence.C.|.MOULTON, L.D.8, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Lee Farm, Rock Island, Que, U.8.P.O.address Derby Line, Vermont.CHAS.H.MANSUR, Advocate, Rock Island, P.Q.Office over Pike Bros\u2019 Store.M.F.HACKETT, \\ Advocate, Solicitor, &c., A Stanstead Plain, Que.Will attend all courts in the District, tions a specialty.Collee- H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.8.P.O.address, Derby Line, Vt.J.N.WHITE, GRADUATEOPTICIAN, Coaticook, Que.Eyes Scientifically Tested for Glasses, Charges Moderate.Difficult Cases our Specialty.The Best Place to Buy Christmas Groceries, Candies, Nuts, and Fruits is at C.C.HUNT'S.À full line of these goods fresh from the markets.3 Ibs.best Mixed Candy in town for 25 cents.4 lbs.ordinary Mixed Candy, 25c.Everything I keep is sold right and guaranteed right.C.C.HUNT.Rock Island, Que.Get your horses Clipped with my New Power Clipper and have their tooth examined au the same time.Service the best; prices right.me Series dr AUDIN WOOD.FOR SALE.Cheap for Cash or Note, or would Exchange for Hay and Oats, one good General Purpose Horse, weighs 1200 1bs., good worker and driver, one Coal Furnace, but little used, perfect heater, one Parlor Sett Black Hair Cloth Furniture in good condition.04tf J.W, ELDER, Beebe Plain, P.Q.DERBY ACADEMY.DERBY, VT.Fits for College.Prepares its pupils suffic- ciently to begin study of the professions.Has excellent Commercial Course ond course in Pedagogy.Location the best.Expensessmall.Special subjects for Winter term students.inter term opens Dec, à, 1800.Send for: Cat- ulogne to G.À.Andrews, Principal.IT IS A FACT watar(}, A, SEARLES srome, Main Street, Beebe Plain, You can get the Best Value for your money.Goods cheerfully shown.Prices down to rock hottom.C.A.SEARLES.NOTICE.All partios indebted to the estate of the late Morris Harvey by note or account are requested to pay the same to the undersigned within 80 days, and all bills due by him to be fyrled, properly attested, within the same time, A.AVERY BRYANT.) go.HARRIET M.DREW, | Fxceutors.Apple Grove, Que., Dee.20, 1809.00#4 Farm for Sale.Consisting of 160 acres situated two miles from Heebe Plain village on the road to Smith's Mills, known as the Edward Worth farm.0044 H.L.BIGELOW, Smith's Mills, P.Q, SHOEMAKING.Here we are, all ready for business.Fine Boot, Shon and Rubber repairing.Low prices, Look fur the Big Boot opposite Union House.J.BRUNETTE.Tay i 5, EAST BOLTON.The annual New Year's.dinner was held at Place\u2019s Hall, and in spite of bad weather was largely attended.The hall was finely decorated, and.after a sumptuous dinner of oystérs and all other good things of this life, the meeting was called to- order and \u2018Mr.Place was chosen as chairman.After a few remarks, Mr.W.H.Dustin, Eddie Place, B.A., Col.Patten, Rev.D.Brill, and Mr.Moore, M.P., gave some very good speeches.M.Gawne of Montreal gave a fine reading and songs.The Eastman orchestra gave some fine selections.Mr.T.Channel], Mr.Holdsworth and others declined speaking.Mrs.John Armstrong (nee Susie Taylor) from Seattle, N.W.T., arrived in time for the entertainment and received a hearty welcome from her many friends here, after an absence of 12 years from this, her native land.Mr.Albert Stone, who recently lost six cows, has requested an inspector to be sent from the government, bu no one has appeared.* A horse belonging to Edgar Du- fresne recently threw itself on a stub in the woods, causing its death in a short time by hemorrhage.Freeman Parker\u2019s horse got loose a few days ago and tried to dispose of a bushel of barley.It died the next day.Mr.James Hunter has been very iil with tonsilitis and his children with sore throats.Blanche Hunter burned her face severely the other day by falling against a stove.Business is at 2 standstill for want of snow.COATICOOK.There was a large gathering at the supper given to the members of the Methodist Sunday School in their church vestry on Thursday evening last.In the afternoon there was a good number out for a drive which all the little folks seemed to enjoy, and coming in from their drive they were in good trim to do full justice to the supper prepared for them.Rev.Dr.Shaw of Montreal preached in the Methodist Church morning and evening Sunday.The Academy opened again on Monday after a two weeks\u2019 vacation.At the town meeting on Monday called for the purpose of choosing candidates for municipal councillors to fill the places of Mr.Akhurst and Mr.Gronbery, whose terms of office have expired.There was considerable discussion as to the past management and present condition of our municipal matters.The true state of affairs, perhaps, would have been more clear to many if the statement of the Secretary-Treasurer had been published last week, and which many felt should have heen made public before this meeting that the electors might know the present state of affairs.The result of the \u2018meeting was that both Mr.E.W.Akhurst and Mr.Gronbery are up for re-election and Mr.P.H.Armitage and Mr.L.Dupuis are also put in nomination, so that in both wards there is to be a contest.It was thought by some that Mr.Ak- hurst, \u2018as he had for many years filled the office,\u2019 would better have stepped out and allowed the election of Mr.Armitage by acclamation.The contest in both wards will be quite lively.ABBOTT'S CORNER, Our butter maker, Mr.Arthur Webb, was away New Year\u2019s week, visiting friends in Freleighsburg.Mr.and Mrs.Stephen Dunton, formerly of Hatley, P.Q., but now of Annandale, Minn., are the proud possessors of a fine boy baby.Congratu- lotions are in order.\u20ac Mus.Leslie Plumley visited at James Jackson\u2019s and Mr.A.Connor's last week.Our teacher, Miss Mabel Sisco, who has been spending the holidays with friends in South Barnston, resumed her school on Monday.Mr.Ezra Lowell of Henderson, Me., is visiting friends here.He has for several years been employed as a guide during the hunting season in the great Maine woods.He reports moose and deer as having been quite numerous last season.He states that nine hunters were accidentally shot during the season in his vicinity.APPLE GROVE.Miss Flora Bryant has gone to Montreal to finish her course at the Mc- Gill Normal School.Mrs.E.D.Christie has returned home from Lowell and Lawrence, Mass., where she has been visiting relatives and friends for two months past.Miss Mildred Osgood of Ursuline Convent, Stanstead, and Miss Minnie White of Griffin were guests at Bay View Farm, Saturday.Our organist, Mrs.Hiram Brevoort, was recently presented with a fine oak rocking chair by the congregation for her faithful services for the past year, Misses Rachel and Ethel Martin have returned to Magog after spending a two weeks\u2019 vacation at home, Mr.Bernard Renihan and Missses Inez and Eunice Renihan visited at Mrs.H.Copp\u2019s, Sunday.Good crossing on the bay from Bay View Farm.WAY'S MILLS.Miss Jessie Gould went to Montreal last Tuesday to take a course in the Normal training school.We wish her success.Mrs.F.L.Brown is very sick.Her is caring for her at present.Mr.G.R.Drew returned to Magog on Saturday.The entertainment in the school house on Thursday evening was very interesting.Much creditis due to Mr.Drew who so ably assisted whit his gramaphone.Miss Lottie Allen is on the sick list.Miss Ethel Holmes, who has been spending the holidays with her brother, Wm.Holmes, returned to her home in Bedford, Que., on Wednesday last.Mr.Ed.Clifford and family have moved into their residence here.Quite a number of people from this section attended the play at East Hat- ley on Friday evening and report a good time.Clinton Chadsey passed quietly away on the morning on the 29th inst, after a lingering illness of consumption.He leaves a father, mother, sister and brother and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.The funeral services were held in the Union Church on the following Sunday.Rev.J.J.Theakston officiated, and was assisted by Rev.E.Bane.A large number gathered to show their sympathy to the bereaved family.A large delegation from Riv- erdale Lodge (of which the deceased was a member) accompanied the remains to the grave where they conducted the burial ceremony of the lodge.CURRIERS.Miss Effie Holland spent the holi- | days at her home in Georgeville.Commenced school January 2nd.Mrs.Maxime Longe has been quite ill, but is better at this writing.Mr.H.Currier and family spent New Year's day at W.H.Embury\u2019s, at Oliver.Mr.and Mrs.Henry Shonyo visited her sister at Granby, during the holidays.Mrs.H.Currier is at Way\u2019s Mills caring for her daughter who is ill.We hear that our neighbor Mr.and Mrs.8.K.Oliver who are spending the winter in Honolulu are well and enjoying themselves, dressed in linen while we are robed in furs.CASSVILLE.John Cassis improving quite rapidly.Master Leon and Miss Natalie, son and daughter of A.L.Langmayd, of Manchester, N.H., are visiting their grandparents at Cassville.The Good Templars of Crystal Lake Lodge are about to purchase a library with some of the surplus money in the treasury.The many friends of Alvin McGaffey will be pleased to hear of his improving health.The Ladies Aid meet this week at Mrs.Wm.Chamberlain\u2019s.We are sorry to hear that Master Herbie Chamberlain had the misfortune to lose the end of his thumb.Miss Mabel Haynes of Rock Island is spending her vacation at Cassville.ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.John J.Griffith of Sherbrooke and L.A.Caron of Montreal have been appointed joint curators to the insolvent estate of Louis Gilbert of D\u2019Israeli.Surgeon-Major Worthington of the artillery, second Canadian contingent to South Africa, was tendered a farewell banquet ot St.George\u2019s Club, Sherbrooke, Tuesday night.Nominations for the forthcoming bye-elections for the federal house will be made on the 18th and elections will be held on the 25th of January.In Sherbrooke Wm.H.Lovell has been appointed returning officer.Two candidates, L.C.Belanger and F.H.Hebert, have been nominated for the mayorality is Sherbrooke.The vacant councillorship in the East Ward will be contested by William Murray and J.H.Codere.Polling will take place next Monday.Two houses, one belonging to Narcisse Matin and the other to Onesime Crotteau, were burned at Brompton Falls, Saturday night, the fire originating in the former.The Cotteau family had retired for the night, and had hardly time to escape with their lives.The \u201cbucket brigade\u201d had hard work to save Tobuis store standing something like thirty feet from the buildings burned.IN AID OF OUR SOLDIERS.The 5th edition of E.B.Biggar\u2019s \u201cBoer War, its Causes, and its Interests,\u201d is now in press.The entire profits of this edition will be devoted to the relief of needy women and children who are dependent on our soldiers now in South Africa.The price of the book will remain as before, 10 cents per copy, but those who wish to contribute an additional mite towards this fund may forward 15 cents or more, as they feel disposed.To those who wish to purchase copies to send to friends, the book will be supplied at the rate of 12 for $1.00.Address: Biggar, Samuel & Co, Publishers, Toronto or Montreal.mother, Mrs.Henry\u2019 Currier of Magog, | \u2014 - mére ae MONEY BY PROVIDING FOR FUTURE NEEDS WHILE THE GREAT CLOSING OUT SALE GOES ON.Our Stock is Still Complete in All Lines.Shelf Hardware, Agateware and Tinware, Small Farm Tools, Sugar Tools, Skates and Hockey Sticks, Nails, Glass, Wire Netting, Lead and Iron Pipe, Clothes Wringers and many other Household Requisites, All at Cost Prices, and Must be Sold this Month.THE ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE COMPANY.men, of experienced lendership, of ships, of money or good British grit?Is sho appealing to the world for sympathy, and is she oringing beforo the derisive gibes and sneers of her evil wishers?(San Jose, California, \u2018Mercury,\u2019 These questions need no answer.Dec.19.) Whoever will read the morning\u2019s news National jealousies, the memory of may see for himself after what fashion old humiliations, the mean instinct of {yhe is meeting the troubles which are race hatred, the vulgar dislike of the, thick about her.Look at yesterday's weak for the strong\u2014these and a mul- despatch, for example: \u201cWe are iso- titude of other motives are back of {ated in the world, says the London the acclaim which fills the world on, \u201cTimes,\u201d and the Empire is menaced; the basis of England\u2019s reverses in the | we have miscalculated the strength of South African war.The Latin and! our foe; but we have resolved to make Celtic countries make no secret of | {hat miscaleulation good.From the their pleasure in England's suffering! war Office comes notiflention that and humiliation, and even Germany, heavy reinforcements will at once whose wisdom, humanity, and attach- take ship for South Africa.A later ment to the Teutonic or English civi-! notifiention from the War Office de- lization ought to suggest soberer clnres that Lord Roberts and Lord views, is plainly in sympathy with Kitchener, England\u2019s two great gon- those who are rejoicing at the news |erals, have been assigned to duty in from Magersfontein and Mafeking.South Africa.From Australia, from All along the line there are sugges- : Canada, and from the English in the tions, but thinly disguising the malice United States, come offers of personal of evil hopes, that Britain has seen\u2019 gervice In Afrien or elsewhere.her best days; that her power is mori- ! Let us ask, do these various kinds bund and that her empire is on the of information suggest national de- eve of falling to pieces.Even in this, erepitude?Do they not, on the other country, where good-will to Britain i hand, exhibit the vitality of a nation ought to be universal, and where, it.which, though beset with difficulties, would seem, there ought to be suffi- jg rising to meet them with an energy cient intelligence to comprehend the and courage which manifests the iron distinction between a disastrous cam- jn the British blood.When nations paign and the phenomena of national approach their collapse, tho world decline.There are those who can see, does not flrst learn of it through de- nothing in the condition of British af- feat in their aggressive movements, fairs at this time but portents of peril: for moribund nations make no ag- to the empire and of collapse to the!gressive movements.Jt is in the English power.In the San Francisco hreak-down of their internal forces \u2018Bulletin\u2019 of last Saturday there ap- that the symptoms of decny first appears a leading article in which the' pear.Look at old Rome; look at Tur- defeat of General Buller is gravely.key; at Spain and at France.In them pronounced \u2018the most distressful news 'all the omens of disaster have ap- that has ever been received in Lon- peared in national and domestic cor- RECKONING DISASTER.A California Paper's Opinion of Britain's | Power.don\u2019 \u2018No successive victory orserios.ruption, in a general moral and phys- of victories in South Africa,\u201d the Bul- ical decline.Look at England to-day letin goes on to say, \u2018can ever repair | and search for the signs of national these injuries to the British arms and ! decay; they will not be found, for not to the integrity of the British Empire.\u2019 at any time in her career has England And again, \u2018What fate the year 1900 heen sounder in the moral forces of has in store for the British Empire no : her life, in the devotion and virility man knows.The lesson England has of her sons, in her resources for war learned is a bitter one.She is not: and for peace, and in the dauntless- fighting now for territorial acquisi- | ness of her national spirit.\u2019 tion.She is fighting for existence, fighting against dangers whose threatening head is already uplifted.\u2019 | The stupidity of all this is beyond | words.If the world had not inits and C.A, K.Mncepherson, re-elected record of men and nations, a clear; by acclamation.presentment of the processes by which: Stanstead Plain\u2014Jas.H.William- empires come to their collapse, and a |son and John O.St.Pierre, re-elected clear analysis of methods by Which | py acclamation.the conditions of national health may | Rock Island\u2014F.W.D.Melloon and be gauged and measured, then there | ee 10 -elected b 1 - might be some excuse for the \u2018panic- ; ocre Fuller re-elected by acelamu ky\u2019 state of mind in which the \u2018*Bulle- , tin\u2019 finds itself.But with all the aids| North Hatley\u2014J.H.Campbell and which history gives us, this wild P.LeBaron, re-elected by acclamation, alarm\u2014this going off at half-cock\u2014is in place of J.M.Call.absurd to the point of gilliness.Brit- | Township of Hatley-John P.Bowen ain, misjudging the strength of her | was elected in place of Mayor Avery enemy, has suffered a series of milita- | Ives who declined nomination, and ry reverses.She is in grief and hu- |Geo.W.Kezar was re-elected upon miliation; so much is manifest to the division of the house.The third can- world, But is she crushed by the didate was Mr.Charles Rexford of blow?Is she helpless and apathetio | Ayer\u2019s Flat who fell but little short of under it?Is she bankrupt of fighting | election.MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.THE CITIZENS LEAGUE.CONSTITUTION.The nnine of this organization shall be \u201cThe Citizens Longue.\u201d The object of \u201cThe Citizens League\u201d shall be the education of youth in the principles of good citizenship, the promotion of public morals and the enforcement of law in the Three Vil- Ingen by all fair and reasonable means, Any male citizon of legal nge, rosi- dent in the Three Villages and in sym- may become a member upon signing the roll of mombership.The officers shall consist of a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer nelected annually by open vote on nomination, and they shall be rx officio members of the executive.The Executive shall be a joint-com- mittee, to consist, with the officers of the League, of a committee of throe Township of Stanstead\u2014T.B.Rider | members elected by the Lengue by | ballot from Derby Line, to be known as \u201cThe Derby Line Executive\u2019 and a committee of three membors similarly elected from the other side of the line to be known as \u201cThe Rock Island \u2018and Stanstead Txecutive.\u201d Officers \u201celected from either wide of the line to act with their respective executive.Each executive Lo have sole charge of ; matters coming under ita jurisdiction in their respective localities and in matters of concern affecting both | vides of the line to act together for i consultation and be known as \u201cThe | Joint Executive.\u201d ; The duties of officers shall be the \u2018same ns those ordinarily discharged {in similar positions, snvo in the cuse tof the secrelary whose duties may be further defined by resolution of the League, In case of the absence of the chairman at any meeting the chair \"shall be taken by the vice-chairman and in the absence of hoth the Lengue ; may elect from the members present {à chairman pro tem.| Funds for the League shall be secured by subscriptions, the several | amounts of the sume to be paid to the \u2018trensurer, who shall pay out the monies received only on the order of eith- i er executive.| Meetings of the League shall be | held regularly on the second Monday | evening in each month.i Special meetings may be held at ; any time on the call of either executive.Rules of Order shall be such us ordinarily govern legislative assemblies.Any member of the League who, upon due investigation, is found guilty of having violated any of the assertions to which his name fs subscribed in the Roll of Membership, shall not be longer deemed worthy of membership and may in the discretion of the League hy a majority hal- lot vote, be immediately expelled.Amendments to this Constitution may be made at any regular meeting of the League, one month\u2019s notice of the same having been previously given and the said amendments adopted by a two-thirds vote by ballot of the members present, STAND IN FOR A GOOD THING WHEN YOU SEE IT.WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS, ETC., OF \u201cThe Golden Placer and Quartz Mining Co.(LIMITED) / NON - PERSONAL LIABILITY, KNOWLTON, P.Q., and GOLDEN, B.C,, AND SEE _IF IT DOES NOT FILL THE BILL.SHARES NOW 10 cts.\u2014LOOK WORTH 25 cts.Addrese : E.FLEURY, N.P., or THOMAS O\u2019BRIEN, Solicitor, Knowlton, P.Q.Golden, B.C.pathy with the objects of the League, \u2014_\u2014 ñ £5) - stock.but he locks up the ferthity, thus .Jersey agricultural experiment station FEL GARDEN WHY FARMERS FALL DOWN.Safe and Profitable Customers For Grass and Grain, As a matter of fact the farmer does not grow live stock until he ls driven to it.All new agricultural courtries and nearly all farms ave opened up by grain raisers.The grain growing Habit, when it has become fixed, usual- Jy continues until the (armer is by force of circumstances driven to growing stock.As a rule he avoids It us long as he can.When waning fertility is observed.he tries a rotation of grains, and, this proving a rallure, is finally driven to grass aud then forced to grow stock to consume it forced to fence, to build stockyards, to study the habits and appetites of animals, the science and art of breed ing.the food value of grain and grasses\u2014in other words, the science and art of mixing feeds or the bal anced vation, It is either this or the impoverishment of the land and sooner or later a mortgage, a death grip, for that Is what the word mortgage mesns, | and after that migration to a new j country or falliug down from the posi-; tion of vwber to renter and finally to; that of à hired baud.It should be thoroughly impressed | upon the minds of farmers thal there is.under western conditions, no such | thing practicable as maintaining the | fertility of land without live stock.| The only place in the United States today where land is maintaining 1s) available fertility is in the live stock! sections, Counuercial fertilizers are | simply delaying the inevitable io the, states east of us, while north, south and west of the live stock bel | are growing poorer and poorer in prac: ticnt fertilits.The farmer therefore grows live stock because sooner or later he has to.lt ts essential to the maintenance of soil fertility \u2014 that is, available fertility.The good Lord will not allow any farmer to so niterly exhaust land that it cannot be restored by clover and live rendering it unavailable, and hides the key where only the good stock grower can fine it.If, then, the farmer must raise stock or sell his land by piece meat.why wot grow improved stock?There is a type in all kinds of improved stock to which he can sell safely Lis grain or grass on VO days\u2019, six mouths\u2019 or a year's time, with the probability that it will pay lim a better price than the dedler at the nearest station who buys bis grain to sell to other people to feed their stock, The reason, therefore, that the farmer should grow Puproved stock 1s simply because they are built in such a way that they are safe customers for everything that Le has to sell.In growing or feeding any kind of | live stock the farmer is not only improving his land and fitting it to grow larger crops in the future.but he is finding good future customers for the! crops which be may grow, customers, which are solely under his care and; control and which will turn over to! him not merely the price which the | merchant will give, but à large protit \u2018 in addition.He Js conducting both! sides of the bargain, says Henry Wal-| lace of lowa in à recent convention ad- | dress.| Does Lead Oll Paint Injure Trees?| Some 12 or 14 years since, rabbits gnawed apple trees in my nursery rows badly.To induce rapid and sound, healing J had painted with common lead aud oii paint all trees where in- Jured.i satisfaction.The wounds were not only painted over, hut to prevent fur\u2019 ther rabbit depredations the bodies of trees were painted from the ground i two feet up.Two years afterward my son called attention to the superiority of the trees painted over those standing side hy side not painted.They, were more vigorous and showed a bet-; ter growth.Since then I have thus; painted all my young orchard trees for! two purposes\u2014to prevent rabbit injury and to stimulate the tree.Rabbits will uot touch a painted tree, and I am convinced that trees are stimulated in growth and health.Do not understand that | paint the tree body with a heavy coat of paint, as I would woodwork\u2014 only a slight coating.enough barely to cover the bark, IFor many years, when pruning trees, fruft, lawn or street.1 have painted heavily and thoroughly over the wounds of all limbs, large or small, with ordinary cheap lead and of! paint.1 have found nothing to produce such rapid and satisfactory healing where cut?1 can show where oak limbs four inches In diameter thus treated have healed over entirely in eight years.| used to paint tree wounds with gum shellac dissolved In alcoliol.That is too expensive and does vot serve the purpose desired.It cracks and falls off, leaving wounds bare.Do not fear to use oll paint on trees, writes n Nebraska correspondent of The Country Gentleman.i | The result was to my perfect! Irrigation In (he East and South, According to the secretary of agri- colture, there ia no question but that irrigntion can be profitably employed In the cultivation of large areas in the eastern and southern states.A bus- dred thousand acres of sugar land are belng Irrigated In Loufsiana.Irrigation of the ricefields in tie Carolinas Is very extensive, \u2018I'he market gardener could profitably use Irrigating waters.Irrt- gation is belng experimented with in the growing of ten In South Carolina, Professor Æ.B.Voorhees of the New in'collecting data on the area of tand low -{rrigated in that state, the meth- Sas étaployed.the duty of water ob.ined and the beets received, a\u2014is 4 NEE] THE BEST BEES.Good and Bad Points of Some of the Better Knorwn Itnces.Tu the first problem of the would be beginner in bee culture, \u201cWhich ave the best Lees?\u2019 a writer in Country Gentleman responds diplomatically by mentioning some of the charncteristles, good and bad, of the better Lnown races of bees.somewhat abridged: The Brown German,\u2014The most common is the black.or more properly.the brown Gernmn bee.These and the I erosses of the brown German and Hal- | fan or lybrid bees are the bees generally found in neglected beeyards and yp wild in the woods, They are about | like any other neglected sernb stock on the farm, generally unprofitable.I hardly know of ayy one who prefers them, They make very nice white comb Honey-\u2014tbat Is, they cap their His remer:s are here | WEIGHTY EVIDENCE, Dronkenness Condemned by Think- ors gud Statesmen.Driuk 1s the mother of want und the nurse of crime.\u2014Brougham.Drink is a pelson in politics ps well as in soctety.\u2014 Harcourt.It is impossible to relieve poverty until we get rid of the curse of drink.\u2014 Bar} of Shaftesbury.The great plague of drunkenness is a pation! curse, calamity and scandal.{ With a sober population, not wasting | Its earnings, we can obtain the revenue.\u2014W.KE, Gladstone.wages the worse the workmen.They only spend their mouey in the beer shops.They (the beer shops) are the curse of the coantry.\u2014Beaconstield, i Drunkenness Is not only the cause of crime, but (t Is crime, and if any en- | courage drunkenness fur the sake of I the profit derived they ave guilty of a form of moral assassination as crimi- | I have generally found the higher the honey whiter than some vthers.Their j hal as any that has ever Leen practiced | faults are many.\u2018They are very nerv- ! by the braves of any country or of any ous ana irritable.will run exeltedly | age.\u2014Jolhin Ruskin, over the combs, bunch on a corner and | lerhaps the day may come when the drop off: will sting very quickly If not ; morality of the nation will be too strong I smoked hard.They do not defend for the publicans, but till then we must | their hives well against robber bees | suffer the degradation that now dis- and woths, but are very anpeging rob- | credits us.Among the evil fustitutions | Introduced from the island of Cyprus : bers themselves, They are not very persistent workers, The lixlian.\u2014This is without doubt the most popular bee in the United States, aud it certainly has a number of good qualities to recommend it.first, and what counts much with be- | more regdily.Their most serious fault ; is that they do not enter the sections.so readily as we could desire.The queen is very large and beautifui an) cases and degenerations involving cer- | World.: easily found.\u2018The Crrniolan.\u2014The Caruiolans, AI\u2018 pine or Austrian bees, have some good , qualities, but gain in popularity very\u2019 slowly in our country.Their color is against them for one thing.The color | Is somewhat like that of the Lrown! German, except that it is more of an ashen hue, They are larger than the ltaliaus, They are quite gentle and easily handled.They are good work-, ers and cap their honey nice and white.| They are quite a desirable bee.One of their chief faults is their swarming propensity.The queens ire very pro- | lific, and before you ave awmre of it: the hive will be overcrowded, and | swarming starts, apd then there is ho; telling when they are going to stop.| They also often hreed late in the fai any for that reason do not winter well, The Cyprians,\u2014This race of hoes was with considerable noise, but the Amer- icant beekeepers soon had enough Cy- prians, and 1 know of vo one who has them today in all their native purity and ferocity.tried thew to my heart's content, And much as I love bees and | beekeeping 1 would certainly forego its | fascinations before 1 would tackle any | 1 i | more Cyprians.They are as savage and ferocious as hornets.and smoke will not conquer them.Nothing short | of chloroform will subdue them enough ! to allow manipulations, A Apis Dorsata.\u2014Just now there Is nl great furore bout the giant bee of the .east.As yet no one has succeeded in | getting any of them to Amerien alive.; As far as 1 ean learn, they are a big, | Iubberly, overgrown, lazy race of Lecs, | pot good for much of anything.1 The Albinos are a variation of the Italians, with peculiar whitish and pur- plelike markings.Some breeders claim very much for them.With me they were to all intents and purposes \\tal- lans with a lighter color, In a late number of The American Bee Journal the question was put to 30 different apiarian experts.\u201cIf you wanted only honey and did not expect to sell queens or bees, would Son change from blacks to Italians?\" Twenty-three auswered yes, three qualified yes, three qualified wo, one no.This, 1 think, goes a great way toward | answering the question about the best bees.The testimony of so many experts, some of whom bave been in the business nearly half a century, should | certainly carry conviction.= Newn and Noten, , The statistician of the departinent of agriculture estimates the cotton crop of 1800-1000 at 8,000.000 bales, and the final veport for the year ending Aug.81, 1894, in 11,189,205 bales.A new and destructive pest, the cil fly.seriously menaces the olive industry of Italy and has greatly injured the present crop.American Agriculturist reports a considerable element of speculation attending the cabbage market this winter.In producing sections prices moved up $2 to $4 per ton In the space of a month up to the carly balf of December.Cabhage from the short crop Is now gencrally stored and in very many instances held for later winter markets.From enst nnd west are reports of higher price tendency.The fact that scrap iron, copper.etc., have gone up In price should he\u2019n hint to the boys on the farm.Here is the chance for a good clean up of old trash around the place, witli pleasing cash results, \u201c Not only do many progressive farmers cut and shred fodder, but some also grind part of it.* pseudo epileptic, the armless, legless i then, would be that It {x time to quit.\u2014 | Ralf around the square.J that threaten the integrity and safety \u2018of a state the liquor traffic stands pre- ,eminent.If for ten years England, could get vid of drink, she would in; Uthat time become such a paradise as men would hardly recognize.\u2014 John Bright.If I bad an enchanter's wand and could destroy the desire for strong drink in the people of England.we should sce our taxes reduced by mil- Hons sterling.We should see our jails and workbouses empty.We should see more lives saved In 12 months than are consumed lu a century of bitter and savage war.\u2014Chambertain.ginners or persons who are timid ov are not used to handling bees, is the fact that the Italians are the most gentle bees and easiest to handle of all races.They defend thelr Live ener getieally against robber bees aud moths.They are fairly persistent workers and generally cap their honey white, though not so white as some other races.The htlians have been very much improved of late years.| Some are almost golden yellow, very ' beautiful indeed.Some beekcopers say the extra yellow ones are not so vigor ! ous or such good workers, but as far, as | have experimented with them | do not, ns # rule, find such to be the case, The Italians are larger than the brown German and work on red clover ALCOHOLIC HEREDITY.Weak Body Is What the Drunkard Transmits to Bis Children, Professor Sims Woodhead, spraking the other day before the Society For the Study of Ivebriety in England.came to these conclusions: He held most strongly that a direct trausuils- sion of the taste for alcohol vever oe- eurred.Of course be accepted very ; fully the fact that certain nervous dis- tain altered and weakened Inhibitory powers are transmitted from generation to generation.These, however, did pot always assume the same form.the manifestation of the effect often taking on very different characters In different generations.But.whatever character they assumed, the result as regards alcobol was inevitably the same, and until far more evidence was brought forward than had yet Deen presented he should strongly maintain that what was so of- teu spoken of as an inherited taste for alcoho) was ap inherited weakness and lessened self restraint affecting many other things besides drink and that a divect transmission of the taste for alcohol from parents to children In a constitution otherwise healthy did not occur.As with tuberculosis.the disease was not transmitted.but only the weakly and unbalanced condition of the tissues.\u2014 Hospital of London.CRAVING FOR ALCOHOL.Responsible For Makinz Criminals.Tricks of Inehrintes.The alcoholic ernving accounts for many a confirmed criminal.Doubtless the tendency exists ip a minor degree as belonging to all habituals, who make it n secondary part of their life, tectotalers being rarely met with in criminal walks.But there is a large number of hopeless prisoners whose only idea of life is drunkenness at any cost.In such the eraving makes the criminal, and as the drink cannot be obtained without money other means are resorted to, such as hreaking into public houses, robbing bar tills, stealing jugs and hot- tles from children sent out on such errands.dressing up as blind men, wmu- tilated Dhoggars crawling along the pavement and other pleasantries so well known to the expert.Chewing a plece of soap and thus forming a lather to the simulation of epilepsy is a comnton fraud, and the profits all go to the publican.; The alcoholic aspect Is, however, very difficult of concealment, and the experienced observer well knows the cripple and the unfortunate widow who with tive children (nl hired) parades \u201cthe street In lamentation of woes.\u2014Gentleman's Magazine, Time to Quit.Every ouv acknowledges that drinking ls harmful when \u201ccarried to excess\u201d and that so far In the history of the world It has been carried to excess every year.The natural inference, Father Mathew Herald.Drankennexe In Chicago.\u201cOver 82,000 arrests wore wade In Chicago Inst year, and 75 per cent of them were due to drink.\u201d \u2018This statement is made pot by a \u201ctempsrance fanatic.\u201d but by the city prosecutor of Chlcago.\u2014 Exchange, \u2014\u2014\u2014 Temperance Notes, A Good \u2018Templar district lodge has been instituted for Ceylon, where the order Includer naval.miltary.civilian and native members, A temperance restaurant In Paris under the name of \u201cHyglenlc Restan- rant,\u201d hae in less than n year proved a profitable financial ventore.A hoy.was passing a saloon.aad, seeing a drunken man lylug In she gutter In front of HH, he opened the door and sald.\u201cMister, your sign's fell down.\u201d The suloon keeper chased him Sell ie SOI PE CEDRS \u201cBred in the Bone.Gran'pa Maepherson \u2014 How many Joes two nnd two make, Donald?Donall\u2014Six.Gran\u2018pa\u2014 What are ye talking about?Two and two make four.Douald\u2014 Yes, J know, but ! thought you'd \u2018bent me down\u201d a bit.\u2014Punch.Bruln's Embarrassment, Bruin\u2014The deuce! How'd you ever get in that position?We'll have an awful time getting you out.\u2014New York Lducnting the Women, \u201cWhy is it that you always keep your seat while women have to stand?\" one Harlemite said to another on the way home by elevated train.\u201cI do it with malicious intent.\u201d was the reply.\u201c1 am helping to educate wo- med to wait for the next train.\u201d His Finish, Hippo\u2014-Yum.yum! A peculiar plum pudding\u2014plum aud all.\u2014New York Journal.Will Not Surrender.\u201cNo, Bir, we will pot yield.\u201d sald the Filipino leader.\u201cSo long as we bave legs on which to run we will continue in the Held.\u201d Modern Art.Artlat\u2014 What do you think is the most difficult thing about a picture |.lke that?Art Dealer\u2014Selling It!}-Der Fioh.= C.H.KATHAN Wishes to announce that his Fall and Winter Stock of useful goods is complete.Having taken advantage of the rising markets the past Season and bought at the right time, he has been enabled to place on his Counters a Selection of Bargains, never before seen in this Town, all of which he wishes the public to inspect, and if in want of anything, to purchase and go away pleased.It is useless to give a list of these goods, in fact space will not admit of it, but there are a few things which it is quite necessary to enumerate in order to help you select something you may want and cannot remember it when you come to my store.FURNITURE I have a very fine Stock of the Justly Celebrtaed Morris Chairs in all styles of upholstering in Rich Velvets, Corduroys, Velours, &c., in elegant colours and designs.A nice present for the Holidays among these, be sure and see them.Beside these, endless varieties of Chairs, Sofas, Couches, Tables, Chamber Suits, Hall Racks, Mirrors, &e.CROCKERY, An Elegant assortment of Crockery, Fancy Dishes.Worth your while to look at our Crockery Table and see the bargains displayed there; a good Cup and Saucer of fine design for 5c is one of the curiosities you will see.Woolen Goods My Stock was never larger or better Selected, Warm Flannels, arm Hoisery, Warm Gloves, at up-to-date prices.GROCERIES.I make it a point to keep the very Choicest Assortment of Groceries to be found in the Townships.These are kept fresh and clean.No No old goods put out at à low price to draw trade.IN In New Crop Raisins, New Crop Currents.Fresh Fruit of all Kinds for the Holiday Trade.Manufacturers of Breakfast Foods are coming to the front a with new inventions everyday.Our assortment comprises Rolled Qats, Rolled Wheat, \u2019 Pittijohn Food, Crown Flake, f Germ Meal, 3 Vitos, 3 Grape-Nuts, .A Quaker Oats, Postum Coffee, Graino, &c., &c.ze If you want Something delicious try ous Grape-Nuts with Cream or Milk.Remember our Coffee still takes the lead.Call and look us over it will be a pleasure to show you our stock.C.H.KATHAN.A Good Suit Goes a long way toward making a man happy.It is our constant aim and effort to elevate the goodness of our made-to-measure tailoring.No effort is spared, no detail neglected\u2014mno buttons pulling off, no seams ripping.As we grow older we are growing more particular about the importance of it all.You can depend upon anything we make for thoroughness as well as fit.We also have an extensive line of new goods from foreign looms.You will find all the populur cloths here.A splendid lire of those nobby Whip Cords for Overcoats, Blue and Black Beavers and Naps, Blue and Black Serges, Stockenetts, etc.Woolens are going np but our prices are going down.Top notch suits at modest prices.That's our motto.Ready Made Clothing, New lines for Men and Boys.Suits, Ulsters, Overcoats, Pea Jackets.These goods are new, made to our order by the same people who made the suits for the Canadian-Transvaal contingent.They're reliable and the prices are low.Just call and see them.CHAS.O'ROURKE.Geo.F.Terrill\u2019s, Stanstead, Que.Is the Place to Bay your Flour, Feed, Lard, Lime, &c.7 BRANDS OF FLOUR: FEED: FIVE ROSES, CORN MEAL, OGILVIE'S HUNGARIAN, SHORTS, MCKAY'S FOUR SEASONS, BRAN, AND CORN, KENT'S PASTRY FLOUR.OATS Do not fail to give me a call as everything will be sold as cheaply as possible for cash.Respt.Yours, GEO.F.TERRILL. TIVO ie * $00 set Sea Floor.PosatDle Revelations of the Bed of the Ocenn \u2014 Do Sunken Ships Go to the Bottom?00200000000004000000000 Who is there among us that has ever seen à lake, à pond or a river bed: laid dry that has not felt an almost childish Interest and curlesity in the aspect .of a portion of the earth's surface hitherto concealed from our gaze?says P.T.Bellen in the London Spectator.The feeling Is probably universal, arising from the natural desire to penetrate the unknown, and also from a primitive anxiety to know what sort of abode the inhabitants of the water possess, since we almost always cou- sider the water folk to live as do the birds\u2014really on land, with the water for an atmosphere.But, if this curd.osity be so general with regard to the petty depths mentloned above, how greatly is it increased in respect of the recesses of the sea, for there Is truly the great unknown, the undiscoverable country of which, in spite of the constant efforts of deep sea expeditions, we know next to nothing.Here imagination may (and does) run riot, attempting the impossible task of reproducing to our minds the state of things in the lightless, silent deptbs, where life is impossible.Suppose that it were possible for some convulsion of nature to lay bare, let us say, the entire bed of the north Atlantic ocean.With one hound the fancy leaps at the prospect of a rediscovery of-the lost continent, the fabled Atlantis, whose wonders have had so powerful an effect upon the imaginations of mankind.Should we be able to roam through those stupendous halls, elimb those towering temple heights reared by the giants of an elder world or gaze with stupefied wonder upon the majestic ruins of cities to which Babylon and Palmyra, with all their mountainous edifices, were but as a suburban townlet?Who knows?Yet maybe the natural wou- ders apparent in the foundations of such soaring masses as the Azores.the Cape Verde islands or the Canaries, or, greater still, the altitude of such remote and lonely pinnacles as those of St.Paul's rocks would strike us as more marvelous yet.To thread the cool intricacies of the \u201cstill vext Bermoothes\u201d at their basements and seek out the caves where the sea monsters dwell who never saw the fight of day, to wander at will among the winding of that strange maze of reefs that cramp up the outpouring of the beneficent gulf stream and make it issue from its source with that turbulent enorgy that carr it, laden with blessings, to our shores\u2014what a great pilgrimage that would bel lin- agine the vision of that great chain of islands which we call the West Indies soaring up from the vast plain (6,000 feet below, with all the diversity of form and color Lelonging to the lovely homes of the coral insects, that build ceaselessly for themselves, yet all unconsciously rear stable abodes for mankind! It would be an awful country to view, this suddenly exposed fluor of the sea.a barren land of weird outline, of almost unimaginable complexity of contour, but without any beauty such as is bestowed upon the dry earth by the kindly sun, for its beauty depends upon the sea, whose prolific waters are peopled with life so abundantly that even the teeming curth is barren as compared with the ocean.But at its greatest depths all the researches that man has been able to prosecute go to prove that there is little life.The most that goes on there is a steady accumulation of the dead husks of nuce living organisms settling slowly down to form who knows what new granite, marbles, porphyries, against the time when another vace on a veor- ganized carth shall need them.Here there is nothing fanciful, for if we know anything at all of prehistoric times It is that what Is now high land, not to say merely dry land, was once lying cold and dormant at the bottom of the sea being prepared throughout who ean say what unrealizable periods of time for the use and enjoyment of its present lords.Not until we leave the raylegss gloom, the incalculable pressures and universal cold of those tremendous depths do we find the sca floor beginning to abound with life.It may even be doubted whether anything of man's handiwork.such as there is about a ship foundering in midocenan, would ever reach In a recognizable form the bottom of the sea at a depth of more than 3,000 fathoms.There is an Idea, popularly current among seafuvers, that sunlen ships in the deep sea only go down a certain distance, no matter what their build or how ponderous thelr cargo.Having reathed a certain stratum, they then drift about, slowly disintegrating, derellets of the depths, swarming with strange denizens, tbe shadowy fleets of the lost and loved and mourned.In time, of course, as the great solvent gets In its work they disappear, becoming part of their surroundings.dut not for hundreds of years, during which they pass and repass at the will of the undercurrents that everywhere keep the whole body of water in the ocean from becoming stagnant and death dealing to adjacent shores.A welrd fancy truly, but surely not more strange than the silent depths about which it is formulated.Microbes of Flowers.A French naturalist, Domingos -Fretre, finds that on cultivation in suitable media several well known pathogenic bacteria ean be developed from the anthers and stigmas of several species of flowers, Moreover, he found that several spocies of microbes ternted osmogeus reproduce the odors of the flowers In which they occur.» - LEATHER SUBSTITUTES.They Are Said to Have Advantages Over the Real Article, The growing popularity of the leath- ar substitutes that are now being put forward on the market is receiving more serious attention from the leather trade\u2019 than when the first substitute was Introduced about 15 years ago, says the New York Commercial.These substitutes are nearly all known under copyrighted names and are composed of a jelly the ingredients of which are secret.This jelly is applied to linen duck eloth of various widths, wbich when dry is stamped aud embossed in innumerable designs and colors.These leather substitutes are all claimed to be waterproof and nearly fireproof, as they will stand a heat registering up to 550 degrees F.It is these qualities that make them partieu- larly useful and appreciated more than leather, which Is being superseded in many lines by the various substitutes.The furniture trade was among the first to recognize the usefulness of the substitutes, great quantities of which are used in upholstering furniture, particularly sofas.The fact that they are stainless and when scratched leave no mark like leather is considered an advantage, The substitutes are also used in place of wall paper, the designs being easily copied, and also for book coverings In place of leather or sheepskin.Rallroads also use these substitutes, mainly for car curtains and coverings for seats.Brain Weight and Intellect, It is generally assumed that there exists a distant relationship between the size of the brain and intellectual capticity.There are not wanting facts, however, which run counter to this view, says The Humanitarian.One salient example is that of the late French statesman, Gambetta, whose brain welghed only 1,200 grams.On the other hand, the heaviest brain on record Is that of a London newspaper boy, whose braln weighed 2,400 grams, in spite of the fact that he is stated to have been \u201ca bit of an idiot.\u201d A brain weighing 2,340 grams once belonged to a Scandinavian peasant, of whose intellectual stature it may be said that \u201cprevious to the age of 70 he never showed signs of any extraordinary intelligence, and he has never shown any since.\u201d A female Indian dwarf had a brain which weighed no less than 2,200 grams, being 70 grams heavier than the brain of Turgeneft, the celebrated Russian novelist, The average, weight of the human brain has been variously put at from 1,500 to 1.650 grams, and an analysis of the brain weights of G0 intellectual men works out an average of 1,770 grams, which is not much superior to the average.Dvidently quantity of brain substance is of less importance than quality in respect of the possession of intellectual qualities of a high order.Digh Drajner, An improvement in the drain hoard usually to be found at the side of the kitchen sink has been recently made which will be recognized hy every housewife as a very excellent innova- DRAINING DISHES.tion.The board is inclined toward the sink, as usual, with a series of parallel ! grooves extending in the direction of the incline.The walls of these grooves are recessed so as to hold a plate or dish of similar shape in an upright position while it is draining and after It has been through the wash water, Earthquakes.Some years ago Commander Morrison, an officer of the British navy who foreteld from the stars the civil war in this country, formulated the following rules for predicting earthquakes, These conditions are about to be rultilled, and.according to him, we may look for motber earth to become restless: 1.Earthquakes generally follow close on the heels of eclipses.2, At the time of the earthquake many aspects will Le found between the planets in the heavens; also as re- lgards the placés of the pliñêts at the previous eclipse.8.Enrthquakes generally happen when there are several planets on or near the tropics or equator.4.Earthquakes happen more frequently when there are planets, espe- rlally Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter or Mars, L the sign Taurus or Scorpio.The Study of Tropical Discane.Mr.Chamberlain has transmitted to the Royal society 8 memorandum from the governor of the Straits Seftlements inviting fellows and scholars who are engaged in original medical research to the study of the tropical disease boriberi.Jt is stated that this disease caused 730 deaths in the hospitais of the colony in 1896 and 692 in 1897, The government will provide the investi- | gator with\" furnished quarters, rent free, will give him free access to all the hospitals and facilities for studying the cases therein and will defray the cost of his passage to the colony.Nature adds that Dr.Wright, late of Montreal, has an adequate laboratory.so that the opportunities for patho- togical research will be extremely good.i A Dinner.In a Seragiio, We seated ourselves on cushions, and each took possession of the flat piece of scone whick supplied the place of a plate during tbe meal, those articles not being considered à necessary luxury.In the center of the table stood a large bowl full of white soup, from which everybody ate, taking as many spoonfuls as they chose from the common tureen with the long handled wooden ladles provided for each guest.When this was removed, a large piece of meat boiled to tags took its place and was speedily diminished under the violent treatment It received from us all, each one pulling a lump of meat from the joint with the fingers and eating it off with her own flat scone.We then hind a curry of vegetables, foi- lowed.by the Zagazig pudding, fruit and rice, called so from a native of that village having brought the recipe to the harem.Our meal was concluded by coffee, made in a corner of the room over ved- hot charcoal In a copper pot and poured thick Into small glasses fitted in gold filigree cups.The lady who made this rather disagreeable beverage was the same who had removed the center dishes during dinner.She was black as a coal and bore the delightfully de- seriptive name, translated to us, of Lily in the Desert.\u2014Good Words.Our Curious Brain, A wonderful piece of self analysis, worthy of St.Augustine, which occurs In one of John Donne's funeral sermons, gives polgnant expression to what must doubtless have been a common condition of so sensitive a brain, \u201cI throw myself down in my chamber, and 1 call in and invite God and | his angels together.and when they are there I neglect God and his angels for the noise of a fy, for the rattling of a coach.for the whining of a dog: I talk on fn the same posture of prayer, eyes lifted up, knees bowed down, as though I prayed to God, and if God should nsk me when 1 last thought of God {nu that prayer I! cannot tell.Sometimes I find that 1 forgot what | was about, but when ! began to forget it 1 cannot wll.A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knee.a noise in mine car.a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer.\u201d It is this brain, turned inward upon itself and darting out on every side In purely random excursions that was responsible, 1 cannot doubt, for all the | contradietions of a career in which the inner logie is not at first appareut\u2014 Fortnightly.Two Railroad Pnssos.When its limited express trains were put on some years ago.the Lake Shore Railway company decided to charge extra for the privilege of riding un them, and John Newell, who was pres- Ident of the system at that time, gave orders that passes, half rate tickets, ete, should not Le honored on the \u2018\u201cfl- ers.It, was not intended, of course, that the complimentaries issued to high officials of other roads should be void on the fast trains, but through an oversight a yearly pass was sent to D, W.Caldwell, president of the Nickel Plate, which bore on its face the words: \u201cNot good on Lake Shore limited trains.\u201d A few days after Mr.Caldwell's pass had been issued Mr.Newell received an annual pass ou the Nickel [Mate with the following indorsement: \u201cNot good on passenger trains.\u201d Messrs.Newell and Caldwell remained consistent enemies until the former died and was succeeded by the latter as president of the Lake Shore.\u2014Cul- cago Times-Herald.Somewhat Mixed.A gentleman from a neighboring town in Mississippi told the following last night: \u201c1 walked into a small store the other day and found the proprietor Jying on the counter just dozing off into n sleep.He roused himself on my approach, and.jumping to the floor.quoted the familinr line: \u201cA horse! A liorse! for a horse! \u201cWhere did you get that?| asked.\u201cOh, don't you kuow?\u2018That's what Absalom said when hig horse ran under the tree and left him hanging by the hair to a limb, 1 thought everybody knew where that came from \"\u2014 Memphis Scimitar.\u2019 My kinzdom .Great City For Prayer.A visitor to Moscow soon discovers why it is called the Holy City.Every 200 or 300 feet there is a cathedral, church, chapel or shrine.and whichever way you look you see people crossing themselves, Until one has seen Moscow the plety of the place is not ensily understood.The outsider cannot Imagine Moscow conditions.He cannot Imagine church bells ringing all the time and people praying in the publle streets at all hours of day apd night.+ On a Camel, The sensation has been likened to that which would be felt hy mounting : a stool placed on a springless cart driven over n plowed field.1 found it all that and more.Next to walking barefoot in chalus.riding on camel back is, in the eyes of the Moors.the worst degradation they can put upon thelr prisoners.\u2014 Grey's \u201cln Moorish Captivity.\u201d Probably, \u201cTt must have taken lots of nerve for him to laugh and joke with the doctors while they were taking his leg off at the knee.Didn't he seem excited?\u201d \u201cWell.1 thought be talked in rather a disjointed manner.\u201d\u2014Chicago Tribune.fIe Caîlled Himnelf n Metcor.The Rocky Guleh cowboy who broke up a show In that town by shooting nt the actors called himself n meteor because, he said, he was shooting stars.\u2014 Buffalo News.,|SEIZURE OF FLOUR SHIPS Exporters Regard Question Raised as of Great Importance.ITS INTERNATIONAL ASPECT.Advice on the Rights of Neutrals Based on the Lourenco Marques Incident Souglt by Shippers In New Selzure, + Exporters throughout New York elty Interest the recent acts of the British government lu virtually selzing three vessels bound from New York for Lou- renco Marques, In Delagon Bay.l'ortu- guese East Africa.\u2018The cargoes affected by Great Britain's action.consisting entirely of American products bound for a neutral port, are cousider- ed, says the New York Times, as having raised a question of momentous importance to American merchants, especially in view of the worldwide expansion of Amerlcean commerce, The threc vessels whose cargues have been f{oterfered with, the Beatrice, the Mashona and the Marin, the two first named being English nnd the third Dutch, carried among other American products about 20,000 bar rels of flour shipped by the D\u2019ennsyl- vania Export and Milling company.and It is believed, in the absence of more definite information from the | seat of the trouble, that it wax this shipment priuclipaily that caused the English warships to take netlon.There- | fore the advice and opinions of spuelal- ists in international law were belng sought by shippers the other day regarding flour ns a contraband of war.The New York agents of the milling company admitted that thelr entire I'shipment on the three stenmers for Delagon Bay was consigned to mer chants in Johannesburg, although they disclaimed any knowledge of its being intended for use by the Boer govern ment.ling company's agents, said that they were not certain whether their ship: i ment had been selzed or that the vessels lad simply been warned away from Lourenco Marques.In either case, he sald, his company was left in a pecullar predicament owing to the with the shfpment had gone by mail to Johannesburg houses and could not be recovered immediately.transit to Delagoa, fortunately,\u201d said Mr.Toomey, \u201cand under the cireum- stunces it is not likely that we will | have\u201d Ulysses D.Edye of Flint, Edye & Co.who had shipments on the detained vessels, when seen, made light of the whole question.\u201cThe value of our entire sliipment,\u201d he said, \u201cdoes not exceed $3,008.It consisted of ordinary merchandise, mostly canned goods, aml was of not much importance.We are perfectly confident that the British government, whatever disposition it makes of the goods, will pay weil for them, as } don\u2019t think it will pnt needless obsia- eles in the way of American nferchants, The chief tmportanee of thls matter, of course, lies in its relation to international law.International law'is aot established by a union of nations, but rather in precedents established hy one \u201cBafion and acquiesced in Dy others, England may be establishing a precedent in this case, and the attitude of other nations may be watched with interest, for this ease, in its international legal aspect, presents several new and Important features, All we can do is to watch and wait our government's action.\u201d Edward K.Jones of 45 Cedar street, who acted as special counsel for the American government in enses of vessels seized during the Spanish-Amner- ean war.said that in the ease of the eral questions to be considered, \u201cThe first question arising,\u201d \u201cis whether flour Js a contraband of war.For many years England, owing to her supremacy on the seas, has largely assumed the task of deelding as to what Is contraband, The list of articleg constituting contraband of war, however, Is yet far from complete.and precedents are being constautly established.If England proves that she is conducting a campaign of reduction and ultimately contemplates the Investment of Johrunesburg or Pretoria, for Instance.she ean, 1 think, rightly claim that large shipments of four and other food stuffs destined for Transvaal citles are for the aid and comfort of the enemy.\u201cAs war is now officially recognized between.the two countries.England might claim that though the tavest- ment of the Boer capital is remote the enemy might still be Inying in stores for that contingency.If these cennten- tions were all proved, It would make no difference whether the vessels ear- rylng such eargoes were neutral or were bound for neutral ports.The proceedings would be considered as being directed toward the cargoes and not toward the vessels.\u201d fices developed the fact that none of the vessels now en route from New i York to South Africa has any shipments for Delagon Bay.Edward N.Norton of Norton & Son.agents for the three vessels detained on the African York\u2014Vlews of An Expert on the were recently discussing with mueh \u2018 A.J.Toomey, one of she mill- ; fact that the various papers dealing! \u201cWe have no other shipments in Delagon Bay seizures there were soy.he sald, | | Inquiry at the various steamship of- Fr The Polite Policeman, It was crowded on th¢ avenue, and there was a consthnt streaiur of vebl- cles coming and golng.At the crossing of two of \u2018the most congested streety stood a police officer, tall and commanding, irrepronchably dressed and { With an eye that compelled obedience.| Wheu the tide of travel surged thickest, à little old lady came to the curb \"and looked out Into the impassable \"stream of carriages and wagons.Evi dently she wanted to get across.The gallantry of the big policemnn took possession of him.lle approached her and held up his hand.\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, I'll see that you : get across safely.\u201d he sald.| The old lady shook her head nervously and seemed more undecided than ever.The polleeman came nearer, | Tating her ari, he started to lead her across, stopping the steady stream of passersby in wagons and carts.The old tndy hung back, protesting.When the slow way to the other side of the street had been made, the oflleer re- teased her nrm.She looked at him in a dazed way and sald with some sharp- pess: \u201cWhat on earth did you want to drag me across that road for?1 had an errand to do on the other side \u2014 Detroit Free Press, The Artist's Hoodoo, \u201cArtists are a queer lot,\u201d remarked one of them yesterday as he smoked pensively In his Chestnut street studio and gazed dejectedly at a hall tinished sketch, \u201c1 enn\u2019t do any work today Just because ! dreamed of a redheaded girl last night.That lets me out.1 can dream of any other kind of girl and it doesn\u2019t affect my work, but if the vislon of my dreams bas red hair I'm no good the next day.\u201cNo, it's not superstition.1 don't know what It ls.All artista have thele off days from some cause or other, and some of them have antidotes.| have none.1 just give up when the redheaded girl comes across the path of my drenums.\u201cA friend of mine counteracts the of fect of his hoodoo by clothing himself in an outlandish way.1 have seen him working in ns opera hat, the com of Lis dress sult and a palr of pink pyla- mas, and doing good work nt that, Another friend of mine always vats à lot of raw onions when he has à partion- larly sentimental subject to handle, Rut when It comes to me 1 just have 10 give up.\u2019 \u2014Philadelphin Ledger, The Gentle Art of Winking, \u201cWhen you have mastered the gentle art of winking\" said Lord Deacons- field, \u201cyou hold the key to success in : your hands\u201d Livery one's personality is made up of trivial faillngs and trivial talents, Foster the good qualities In your frlenils and subordinntes and wink at those failings so dear to their possessors, Not to xee everything is n° rule which will strengthen friendships mind | help you to get the best results from.your fellow workers.\u201cle is no good,\u201d sald the great Nn- poleon of one of hig ofticers.\u201cHe is continually looking Into the privates stew pot!\u201d \u201c1 want a man who ean keep his eye on the ultimate result amd ignore little failings, never mind how aggravating,\u2019 said Nelson.And General Gordon once remarked that the man who lost his temper because à private's boot lace wis ted loosely on the day of battle did more to lose the day than all the encniy\u2019s guns.\u201cNat it It Wete My Roy.\u201d Some years ago the Iate Horace Mann, the eminent educator, delivered an nddress at the opening of some reformatory Institution for boys, dering which he remarked that if only one boy was saved from ruin it would pay for all the cost and care and laboy of : establishing such an institution ng that.After the exercises had closed, In prl- vate conversation, a gentleman rallied Mr.Mann upon his statement and said to him: \u201cDid you not color that n little when you said that all that expense and labor would be repaid if it unly saved ; one boy?\u201d \u201cNot if It were my boy.\u201d was the solemn aud convincing reply.Binmarek\u2019's Appetite, Among other amusing reminiscences of the late Prince Bismarck appearing lu Herr John Booth's \u201cMemoirs of the Tron Chancellor\u201d 18 one relating to the latter's gargantuan capacity for eating and drinking.Ile told the author that the largest number of oysters he ever ate was 175.He first ordered 25; then, as they were very good, DU more, and, consuming these, determined to ent nothing else and ordered another hundred, to the great nmusement of those present.Blsmarck was theg 26 and had just returned from England.Experience Versus Arithmetle, | Teacher\u2014Johnny may stand up Lo re i cite.Now, Johnny.suppose | borrow ; $50 from your father and agree to pay 85 à week, bow long will It be before he gets his money?Johnny\u2014Just one week.Teacher\u2014Ob, think again: that's not right! Johnny\u2014Yes, it Is, I know my fn- ther.Ie'd have yon up in the courts by that time.\u2014New York World.It Looked Suspicious, \u201cisn't your neighbor Blinkinoff a drinking man?\" \u201c1 wouldn't ltke to give an expert opinion on the subject.I'll admit.however, that 1 saw him the other night trying to drive a spigot into an TEXAS FEVER WV hut Science Han Done to Overcome the Disease, LP NG LOSOREE0 508 Fur a number of years Dr.J.W.| Connawny of the experimental station of the University of Missouri and Dr.M.Francis of the Texas experimental station, in co-operation with the Mis- sourf state hoard of agriculture, have been working on the Texas farm prob- leu, says Director TI, J.Waters of the Missourt university.Already 400 blooded cattle have been Inoculntéd and exposed to Texas fever on the ranges of Texas for an entire year with a loss of lless than 8 per cent.from 50 to 75 per cent of similae entitle that were sent without inoculation to adjoinlug ranches nt the sme thine dled.The cause of the fever Is a miero- parasite witch ts found in the blood of INOCULATING A BTEER.| soutlieun valsed cattle The natural method of communieation of this germ Is by menns of the Texas fever Uck, shaped much lke a black spider, which abounds In the south.The disease ean also be Induced ardfleinlly In susceptl- be cattle Ly hypodermic injection of infected blood taken from southern cattle.When & susceptible animal ls | inoculated with infeeted® blood, the ; germs thus Introduced attack the red | blood corpuscles and destroy them In | large numbers.This weakens the vital {force of the nnimal and produces a lavge amount of brokes down waste tissue, which must be ellminated front the system.Such à condition demande increased action on The part of the tissues pru- ducing the red blood corpuscles and larger cnpaelty for carrying off the waste materinls through the liver, kidneys, spleen and bowels, EF the system of the animal is able to successfully cope with these exigencies, [will thereafter be bamune to the disease and able to resist the action of the fever germ.Ho appears that, so far as experiments have yet shown, the only way of pro- dueling immunity Is through an actual attaek of the disease in as wild a form \u201c08 possible from either infestation with ticks or hy Inoculation with infected blood.It is thought that southern raised eattle become hnmune while calves by repeated slight attacks of the fever, cased by tek Infestation.The Missouri station first made tests with 21 henil of young calves by the : Uele infestation method, extending \u2018over three sensons, Several of the animals that had been well Infested with ticks at the north were sent south and proved to be immune.But on account of the necessity of main- talning quarantined pastures for using these ticks at the north and the trouble of hamid feeding calves from noninunune cows this method will probably vot come (oto general use, Blood inoculation tests were begun at the same time and have thus far prov- eld to be more practient, : The supply animal may he either southern raised or one immunized avti- ficinlly.The blood 18 taken from the Jugular vein of the supply animal and i collected tn oa clean vessel, stirring un- tl the scent Is removed.Fhe blood 18 then transferred to à hypodermic syringe and injected In proper quantities under the skin at the neck or shoulder of the animals desired to be inoculated, All instruments sed In this work nre thoroughly sterilized, and the blood Is used while fresh.The best plan 18 to give a comparatively sronll dose at first and repeat if neces- i Bary.Range Problems.That the carrying capnelty of the common ranges Is rapidiy becoming restricted to an alarming degree bas long !heen evident to practieal observers of | the situation.says The Breeder's Gazette.The ennses for this condition are as evlilent as the results, but un- ! forunately thus far no solution Is \"available.\u2018The common grazing areas ; have been restricted by eneronchments | of frontier settlers.In some Instances \u201cwaters recently avallable for live stock | have been made to do service in Irrigation, while reservations for parks and forest preserves have not heen with.\u2019 out influence to intensity the difficulties of the situation.But more serl- \"ously important than all these I8 the l fact that persistent close grazing has \u2018resulted In diminishing\u2014and in some \"localities completely eradleating\u2014large proportions of the annual grasses dependent upon seeding for their reproduction that formerly covered these const, sald: \u201cWe will receive goods for ash barrel.thinking that It was cider.\u201d | taiges.nnd more acres are now re- delivery at Delagon Bay.but with the express provision that we will not be responsible for thelr delivery.Shippers are naturally unwilling to take this risk, and at present Lourenen Marques js practically eliminated from our list of ports.\u201d Toerbert Barber of Barber & Co.spoke in a similar straln regarding Delacna | Bay shipments, \u2014Cleveland Plain Dealer.There !a none made so great but he i may both need help and service and stand In fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mor tals.Ether was known to the earliest scl- ; entists.| quired for the maintenance of grazing animals than formerly, while fewer acres are avallable.Venetnhle Scraps.The scraps of cabbage, turnip tops, \"ete.that are allowed to rot on the gar- .den or truck patch can be converted into money by gathering them up aud feeding to the stock.+ FIGHT AT GAMETREE.SADEN-POWELL'S FORCE SUFFERS SEVERE REBUFF, Showed Great Gallantry and Courage But Boer Position was Imprégnable.\u2014 Boers Rob the Dead at the End of the Fight.The London Tisnes publishes the following despatch from Mafeking dated December 26: \u2014 \u201cAt dawn to-day Col.Baden-Powell organized an unsuccessful attack upon a strong position of the enemy at Gametree, two miles from Mafeking, from which the Boers have been maintaining a desultory but annoying shell and rifle fire for several weeks.The railway has recently been reconstructed between the town and Gametree, where the Boers had destroyed it, the final repairs being made in preparations for the sortie.\u201cDaring the night the armored train with Maxim and Hotchkiss guns, under Captain Williams and troops, took up positions for attack from two sides Captain Lord Charles Bentinck and a squadron were in reserve upon the left, while the extreme left wing was occupied by artillery, under Major Panzera, and a galloping Maxim of the Cape police, the whole being under Colonel Horo.HE ORDERS THE ATTACK AT DAWN.\u201cEmplacements were thrown up during the night, the orders being to attack at dawn and the artillery fire to desist upon prolonged looting from the armored train, \u201cAt daybreak the guns opened fire and rapidly drew the reply of the enemy, our shells bursting within effective range.Captain Vernon gave the signal to cease firing and to advance, his squadron leading off.Gametree is surrounded with scrub, which contained many sharpshooters, and their accuracy of fire still further confused the men, who had followed Captain Vernon and who saw him and his brother officers killed.Being without commanders they were driven off at one point, but they endeavored to scale the fort at others.They found the position of the Boers, however, almost impregnable.MANY AMONG THE WOUNDED.\u201cWhen we retired under cover of.the armored train, so many men had been wounded that a suspension of hostillities occurred, under the auspices of the Red Cross.The veldt around the Boer position was at once dotted with flags of mercy, and it was seen that our wounded were scattered within but a short radius of the fort.\u2018We had almost completely surrounded it, and had it not been so extraordinarily well protected, we should have been in possession.\u201cI was permitted to assist in dressing the wounded a majority of which appeared to have been caused by explosive bullets.While the wounded were being attended numbers of Boers left their entrenchments and gathered round.I spoke to several tattered and dirty, but physically well men.Many of them were uuder-sized, and all wore beards.They referred me to the field corps, who denied the use of explosive bullets.EXPLOSIVE BULLETS ARE USED.\u201cOn being shown the horrible wounds, he admitted that one time expiosive bullets had been served out but he said he was certain that they had all been previously expended, and that none could have been used on this occasion.He then produced a bandolier filled with dum dums, and he pointed out that, so far as Mafe- king was concerned, these has been recalled.\u201cLater on I called the attention of the Field Cornet to four of his own men who were rifling dead bodies.He expressed his regret to a British officer that, despite his instructions to respect the dead, the younger Biers were unruly, and beyond his control, and he accused the British soldiers of stripping General Kock and leaving him naked and wounded on the field, thus indirectly causing his death.BOERS ROB DBAD ON THE FIELD.The correspondent then describes a scene of angry recrimination between the field cornet and the Boers regarding the existence of orders about robbing the dead and also about the fact themselves, some of the Boers asserting that they only took arms, despite the arrival at that very moment of the bodies of five British, under Boer escort, with the pockets of their uniforms turned inside out.The correspondent says: \u201cWe believe that spies carried the news of our contemplated sortie to the Boers.The field cornet admitted that he was reinforced during the night by 100 mounted men and acknowledged withdrawing his guns.\u201d CARD.© 1, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a twenty-five oent bottle of Dr.Will's English Pills, it, after using three-fourths of contents of bottle, they do not relieve Constipation and Headache, I also watrant that four bottles will permanently cure the most obstinate case of Donstipation.Batistactioti or no pay \u2018when Wills\u2019 English Pills are used.J.1.\u2019 Flint,\u201d Drugglst, Derby Line, Vt., od Rook slabd, B, Q: ag HATLEY TOWNSHIP W.C.T.U.\u2018Written for the meeting of the 20th of Dec., 1899.: A cloud of sorrow hangs over us to-day.Several weeks ago one of our dearly beloved sisters, Mrs.Ellen Abbott (Moore) passed from her earthly labors to be forever with the Lord.A brief sketch of her life may not be out of place here.Mrs.Moore was the daughter of the late James LeBaron of Barnston, and in her early life was married to Mr.Luther Abbott, a rising young man of Hatley.After a time they settled in the so called West Village, (now Massiwippi), where Mr.Abbott entered the mercantile business and by wise economy, honesty and strict attention to business, he accumilated a handsome property.Inthe afternoon of life, Mr.Abbott\u2019s health began to decline when both Mr.and Mrs.Abbott wisely decided to retire from business, and enjoy their beautiful home, leaving the store, and good-will of their many friends and customers to their son-in- law, Mr.St.Dizier, who continues in the same place.After Mr.Abbott\u2019s death, which occurred about ten years ago, our dear sister lived on in the Jonely home, until six years ago when she was united in marriage with John Moore of Magog.Our sister was very fortunate in both marriages.The best and the happiest must die, and although her death brings so much sadness into our union, we are glad that we have such pleasant memories of her sweet life.This sad event carries me back to the time when we organized our first Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union in Hatley, fifteen years ago.Two resolute temperance women had decided that a W.C.T.U.was very much needed in the town, and the first step they took was to callon Mrs.Abbott for help which God had already prepared her for, having with Mr.Abbott entered the temperance ranks many years before.She promised at once to give all the ; aid possible, and as she was considered well qualified, was urged to accept the presidency.This she modestly declined.Mr.Abbott also requested that she should not accept the office, ag he found her delicate health would not permit her to assume the respon- sibily adding however, that he would be glad if she couid help on the good work, while he too would give us all possible encouragement.With so much to encourage us, we succeeded in organizing a union for Hatley with our deceased sister as 1st vice-presi- dent.In two years we decided to enlarge our border so formed four unions out of the original one viz: Ayer\u2019s Flat, North Hatley, East Hatley and Massawippi, the last named, under the wise and loving leadership of Mrs.Abbott which office she held by the unaminous request of the union, until her subsequent marriage, and removal to Magog where she entered the white ribbon ranks and remained a faithful member until the call came, \u201cto come up higher.\u201d À firm believer in the efficacy of prayer, her faith never wavered in the universal love and mercy of God our Greater Leader.Surely the Lord\u2019s Charriot swings low, to gather up His chosen and carry them home.We shall meet, but we shall miss her, there will be one vacant chair.We will never forget her, we will meet her again in the bright beyond, dear sisters.Let us close up our broken ranks by drawing the cords of love closer around the living members of \u2018our unions, Our hearts go out in sympathy to the bereaved ones, especially to our dearly beloved sister, Mrs, St.Dizier, and to her husband who must now finish life\u2019s journey alone, yet not alone, for the pitying Father will surely go with him.May he lean more than ever upon him whose promises are sure.\u2019 BARNSTON.Miss K.E.Cole of the 8.W.College, was in town a few days last week the guest of Mrs.Charles Bnckland.An informal gathering of her former pupils and a few young friends took place with kindly greetings on Saturday evening and was much enjoyed by all.Mr.Orin Martin has purchased a residence at Coaticook, and will soon remove to that place.Miss Alice Thornton, our talented young vocalist, will take part in the literary entertainment to be held at Stanstead College on the 19th inst.Rev.J.N.Murray has been confined to the house for some days by illness, but is now better.Charles J.Cushing and P.Ben Buck- land, were elected councillors by ac- clumation on Monday.Diphtheria has again broken out in our village and the house of Hiram Rix is placarded.Service at Christ Church next Sunday the 14th at 10.30 a.m.Clarence Baldwin has returned from the war.ASSAULT LADYSMITH.The Boers attacked Ladysmith in force Saturday, but were repulsed at every point with heavy loss, greatly exceeding that of the British.The fight lasted seventéen hours.WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.The 15th anniversary of the marriage of Mr.and Mrs.L.E.Taisey, was happily observed on New Year's eve, at their home 102 A st., Lowell, Mass.A handsome Morris chair was presented them, and quite a number of other useful gifts.Although quite a surprise to see friends out in the midst of the terrible storm which was raging, they were able to make the guests all welcome.At ten o'clock, a delicious turkey supper was served, after which the guests adjourned to the parlor and listened to a short entertainment of music.The most pleasing selection being sung and acted by little Cland Taisey.At a late hour the party broke up, all having enjoyed a very good time.OBITUARY.The death of Mrs.Susan Jane Libby, which occurred at the home of her sister, Mrs.Meade Blake, in the Township of Compton, near Hatley, on the 1st inst., removes another old resident of this place.Deceased was a daughter of the late Lemuel and Charlotte Harvey of Hat- ley in which Township she was born December 19th, 1825, and was therefore in her 74th year.She was married December 28th, 1846, to William G.Libby, and for a time lived at Massawippi where her husband was employed as a miller.About 17 years ago Mr.and Mrs.Libby removed to Derby Line, and a few years later to Rock Island, where Mr.Libby died Jan.14th, 1899, Mrs.Libby continued to reside here until last fall when she went to Compton to spend the winter with her sister.She contracted a severe cold, was stricken with pneumonia and died very suddenly.The funeral was held at her sister\u2019s home in Compton on the 2nd and the body wus interred on the Derby Line cemetery on the 3rd inst.The deceased lady lived an exemplary life and universally respected by all who knew her.The Judge\u2019s AMdavit.Some years ago Justice of the Peace Beasley of MMlssour! waa personally interested iu a lawsuit, being a party thereto.It was necessary for him to make an afBdavit, and he deprecated the idea of making it before another justice or a notary and depriving himself of a fee.So he filled out his afli- davit, swore to It before himself, signed it as justice and as witness and awaited developments.He was sure that he would win and thus be able to tax tite costs up to tue other side.When the case came up before Judge Kelley, the aftidavit was offered in evidence and promptly objected to, the reason being given that a justice could not swear himself, \u201cLet me see the affidavit.\u201d said Judge Kelley.It was handed up to the judge, who scanned it carefully for a few moments and then asked: \u201cMr.Beasley, will you kindly tell me how you appeared before yourself when you swore yourself and identified your own signature?\u201d \u201cThat was very easy.your honor,\u201d replied Beasley.\u201c1 borrowed a looking glass and went through the formall- ties before it.\u201d Beasley was somewhat astonished when Judge Kelley sustained the ob- Jection.\u2014Omaha World-Herald.An Awful Mishap.Two passengers on an Atlantie liner, one an American and the other an Englishman, did not exchange the farewel] courtesies when the steamer reached her pler usual between voyagers who have occupied adjoining.statefooms and hobnobhed during an ocean voyage A plausible explanation was vouchsafed by the American.During the voyage the Englishman persisted in fraternizing with tbe American in a most obtrusive and an- noymg manner.Within two days of Boston the Englishman one morning bunted up the American and found him in apparent despondeney.gazlug seaward from the hurricane deck.\u201cConfounded blue this morning.old chap.What's the matter?\u201d And the Britisher slapped bis companion on the back.\u201cMatter enough,\u201d growled the Amer jean.Ship's lost; captain don\u2019t know which way to steer.Forgot to wind the compass last night.\u201d The Englishman listened with mouth agape, then rushed off to tell lis friends of the consequential mishap, Evidently the gullible Britisher was \u201cpushed along\u201d for some time until he found everybody guying him.\u2014 Boston Post.Long Range Kine Shooting, In the current number of The Nine: teenth Century Mr.Bnillie-Grobiman says British rifle shooting suffers Ly the Britons\u2019 preference for long range shooting.He points to the defent af the English team at the recent futer- national rifle match In Mollaud.Out of elght competing teams Britain was fourth In the prone position, fourth In the kneeling position and a bad eighth in shoulder shooting.thus receiving the seventh place in the aggregate.This la due, he thinks, to the British neglect of shoulder shooting and shooting at short ranges.He contends that the British long distance shooting borders perilously near upon \u201cfancy work.\u201d He advoeates the formation of rifle clubs on the analogy of local football and cricket clubs, Safely Stowed Away.| Mamma\u2014Willle, did you cat that Jam?Willie\u2014Why, mamma, 1 beard the rats in the closet, an I jest thought I'd move It out of thofr reach.\u2014Philadel- vbla American, PAPER HANDKERCHIEFS.Valunble Medicinnl Properties Are Claimed For Them.A curlous and In some respects a suggestive Mustration of what may be tered manufacturing ideas is afforded by the recent Introduction into the English market of the paper handkerchief of Japan.The Irish \u2018Foxtile Journal, which devotes a lemlfug asd cle to this welghty subjeet, instances the fact that so long ngo as 1862, the year of the second exhibition, some Chinese visitors to the west, after they had discarded thelr handkerchiefs, ex: yerienced the satisfaction of seelng the occidental \u201cbarbarfans\u201d rush forward to pick them up and carry them away as euros, Dut obviously.and doubtless it is something to be thankful for, we have got a long way beyond that kind of thing now.The enterprising Japanese, among whom, It is perlutps unnecessary to observe, the use of paper handkerchiefs has obtained for ceuturies, are now lnying these articles down in the home market at 2s, Gd.per box of 100, or, say, 3% pence per dozen, and, when it is remembered that the laundry price for washing handkerchiefs Is a halfpenny cach, or sixpence a dozen, it becomes pretty certain that the Japanese manufacturer will in this particular become a strong rival not only to the British laundry woman, but to the British manufacturer also.The Japanese handkerchiefs are described as being the finest articles of the kind known in Japan, and they are stated to be in regular use by the ladies of the mikndo's kingdom.In addition to this, they have an agreeable resinous scent, and valuable antiseptic virtues are also claimed for them.The paper collar has never been able to oust the linen collar Crom the mar- Ket.but we should pot be at all sur prised if the paper handkerchief, as time goes on, More than held its own.The Irish Textile Journal seems to think that.although linen handkerchief wanufacturers may not be affected by the threatened Innovation for a long time to come, if at all, there would seem to be à ditiiculty in finding good and suflicient reasons for opposing it if the notion should obtain the active support of medical men and happened to \u201ccatch on™ with the publie.The latter no doubt is the more Important consideration, after ail.There is a wile gulf between the man who uses & handkerchief and the man who does not; but, given a community that believes In Îts monchoir, there is no reason why paper shouldn't do as well as any other materinl.Treatment of Consumption.Consul Atwell at Roubaix, France, has transmitted to the state department an article by Dr.Mendel, the French tuberculosis expert, on his treatment of consumption by the use of essential oils.This isa subject which aroused considerable interest among physicians in this country.owing to an earlier and more meager report from Consul Atwell.The present report is sent nt the request of the state department.Dr.Mendel says that his treatment is based on the antagonistie effect that certain essential oils were observed to have on the germs of tuberculosis.is formula is as follows: Five grams each of essence of thywe, essence of vuen- lyptus and essence of cinnamon, 100 cubie centimeters of sterilized olive oil, five grams of iodoform and one-fifth of a gran of bromoform.The physi cian uses a jong curved Collin syringe, containing three cubic centimeters of this solution, which is emptied three or four times consecutively into the tracheal duet.A wirror was at trst used to guide the Introduction of the syringo to the throat, but with practice this was discarded.The treatment was given daily to 27 patients in all three stages of the discase.The results were encouraging in all cases but one, this patient, in the third stage, dying, but being relieved of much paln and dis comfort In his last days.A detailed statement of results is given, which Is of interest to physicians.\u2014\u2014 Electricity nn Annesthetie.The rather interesting statement was made to the American Association For the Advancement of Setence by a Yale professor that sinusoidal alternating electric currents of sufficiently high frequency and in which the positive and negative phases were nearly equal possessed the power of produc ing local annesthesis.After the fre quency has reached 5,000 complete al ternations per second the muscular contraction so (amillar with medical batteries and other alternating currents decreases, and at 25,000 alterna- tlons per second a eurrent passing from the elbow to the band completely dcadens that portion of the arm, and ndedles may be passed through the flesh without helug felt.When subjected to currents of such high frequency, the sensory nerves appear iv lose power of transmitting sensations.A special machine is now being built by which It is expected to demonstrate the possibility of using this application of the current In practical surgical work, such as dentistry.Exterminntion of Locuats, The Cape department of agriculture publishes in Its journal an neconnt of successful efforts to exterminate lo.usta by inoculating them with the locust disease fungus, The fungus le prepared and sold for\u2019 12 cents a tube to nll applicants Uving in Cape Colony.In one ense more than 100 locusts were inoculated and then distributed nmong 2 swarm.Next morning and the foi- towing days large numbers of dead locusts were found, aud imicroscopient examiuntion revealed the fact that death was due to the fungus.It is stated that those districts in Cape Col ony where these Inoculation measures are not taken are much more Infested ith locusts than those localities wheres the treatment Is carried out.) , a PIG PORK.Why It In the Best aud Also More : Profitable, Almost everybody likes roast pig.It i2 a much sweeter and tenderer meat thun beef or mutton, and the pig re- wins this superiority of flavor until it is 5 or G6 months old and hag attained a dressed weight of 120 to 180 pounds, says The American Cultivator.1f it is ab early spring pig, it will keep the fine flavor of pig pork until corn becomes plentiful, and it is fed heavily in order to fatten it, even though it tip the scales at more than 250 pounds.The reason appears to be that during the early months of [ts growth the pig gets much wilk, frult and other feed that is easily digestible and thus keeps its digestive organs In good working condition.1t is often supposed Dbe- cause hogs are such ravenous feeders that they have naturally strong digestion.On the contrary, the young pig's digestion fs poor.It is by eating plentifully of succulent and easily digested food while young that the pig's digestive organs are strengthened, so that when the time for corn feeding ! comes.unless the pig is G or 7 months | old, it has not had rime fo fit itself for exclusive corn feeding.This is one reason why the early spring pigs are usually 40 to 50 pounds heavier tn the | fail than those born the latter part of April or May.Fall pigs cannot usually be profitably wintered.They certaiuly cannot tf no succulent and casily digested Pood has been provided for them during the winter.Où n corn diet they will be stunted, and a breeding sow fed whot- | Iy on corn will produce a litter of pigs that were runts when born.Even with the best of care such pigs cannot be made to pay.But if any bave late fall, plgs they may keep them growing.dur.| lug the winter if they will provide a .diet of wheat middlngs with ns many | beets as the pigs will eat up clean and | very little corn.1f other roots than beets are given, it is better to boll | them and while still bot stir In the whent middiings so as to partially cook it.Ou such feed the plgs will grow thriftily even In winter.But this ninkes more labor than leaving the pigs to be kept over winter for breed- ; ers farrowed the previous spring.Noghoune For Twenty, \"1 send you n cut of my hoghouse whiclr 1 built three years ago at a total cost of $150.including two couts of paint,\u201d writes A, I.Kingery in The Wiscousin Farmer.\u201cFive of my nelgh- bors bave since built on the sane plan, This building is 48 by 26.with 1wo rows of pens.Mine will hold 20 sows.ten sows to each floor.1 use swinging partitions which swing up out of The way in the drop of the roof.| have ten windows in 48 feet, which give plenty of light and sun to the row | | floor.1 have a trough for each sow.part of which projects into the feed- Ing alley.1 can feed and slop 20 sows | I have two doors that In 15 minutes, SIMPLE HOGROUSE .| slide up or down in each stall, one that lets the sow out of doors, and the other one leads to the feeding alley.These sliding doors are 24 inches wide ! and 36 inches bib.By luving doors ( to feeding alley you cau use the alley , for slopping little pigs and also give them excercise loug before they enn be turned out to grass.| have holes bore ed in the sliding doors and use a wood- eu pin.can raise the door any height desired and let in the big or the little pig.The floors should be sloped three inches.The feeding alley Is six feet wide.One of my neighbors has a els.tern dug ip his feeding alloy for watering purposes.| have a cornerib eight feet from the feeding alley.) use seven inch cedar posts to put the sills on and set them three feet deep and four feet apart.1 planked up on the Inside of the posts all around to keep out the hogs, ete.Fhis building : Is two feet above the ground.\u201d New Zealand Lambs, Reports from New Zealand indicate an exceptionally prolific season.In Canterbury especially the crop of Inmbs ls said to be extraordinary, not only twins, but triplets also being unusually oumerons, while there nre not à few reports of four lambs to the ewe, and one ewe Is mentioned as having dropped five lnmbs, According to the Lit teltou Times, F, Todbuvter of Woster- field.Cahiterbury.has in one paddock 20 ewes with triplets and one with tive lambs, three of waleh are belug reared by hand.Another breeder has about 150 lambs to the 100 ewes, nine belug triplets and two having produced four | cach.In both these flocks Shropshire TAIYS were used, the ewes being three.quarter bred Lelcesters In the former case amd half breeds In the latter.Reference Is also wade to à wonderful Southdown ewe kept by a butcher as a decoy ln his slaughter yards, She was bought as à lamb 13 years ngo and has , bad twins every year since she was n° yearliug, baving produced 24 lambs.ee Choice Pin, We wever see two persons that look ' exactly alike.\u2018There ls always difference In appen lance or actions or mark- Ings that can be easlly seen.The same ls true with all animals.says a corre spondent of The National Stockman.How often do we sec an advertisement of 60 or 100 choice pigs by a breeder.As soon as 1 see an rdvertisement of this kind my mind ls made up that | the breeder does not know what a choice pig Is.for my experience of over ; 80 years teaches me that strictly frst cltus.cholce pigs.are very scarce and « hard to find, | \u201cskin and the leece moist.WINTERING SHEEP Influence of Needing Upon Lambs and T'uol, 2° POS AIOE DESSERTE There are many ways to winter glicep, varylng with the age of the ani wals and what is expected from them.To merely keep them through the winter in what is called store condition is the way that wavy old farmers adopt, even with breeding ewes, says The American Cultivator.But such management does not pay, for the lambs will show the effect of the poor keeping.and many of them will die.The fleece will also.be deteriorated, for whenever the animal is badly nourished it makes #2 weak place in the wool and lesseus its value.All wool deal ers and manufacturers know that the wool from a flock of wethers is always presumably better than from a rain or a flock of ewes, In the ewes especially there is sure to be some fever during gestation, and this bas a bad effect upon the wool that is being formed during this period.So long as the sheep is free from fever there Is a natural secretion of oll that keeps the Fever dries this up, making the skin dry and the fleece harsh to the touch.Such wool cannot Lie easily combed and carded.More often the injury to wool Is done by overfeeding animals that ave being.fattened.The sheep can digest even poor feed, keeplug {tself vigorous and its fleece healthy so long as it gets sufficient in amount and of the proper nutritive value.It needs plentiful supplies of proteids to make the flecce grow properly.Unless these are given | in some form there is sure to be trouble with the fecce when it comes to the manufacturer.Yet this is a-mat- ter that average wool buyers verv seldom look into.Quite frequently In looking over a fleece there will be found a streak runping through it at about the same distance from the surface that will show hard and dry.while beneath the wool will be moist or rather oily, as good wool ought to be.Sometimes this will stop: further growth.But If the check was only temporary and quickly recovered from there will be fine threads of wool growing through the harsh portion and branching out Into good wool at the surface.But this no less than where the wool growth Is entirely arrested makes a weak place when the cloth is to be woven.There ts not enough discrimination made in Judging the quality of wool as brought to the market by farmers.Most of the buyers are not so good Judges as the farmers themselves, who | ean tell when shearing a sheep many of the conditions under which different parts of the fleece were grown.The manufacturer knows the effect which is produced In the fleece, but he can only guess the cause.By putting together what the farmer knows and what the manufacturer finds In work- fang up rhe fleece a great deal of valuable information may be secured how to keep sheep at all times and how to feed nud manage them so ns to secure the best flecces, We knew many years ago a wealthy woolen manufacturer who wis also a keeper of fine wooled sheep.He told us that it was his experience in working up wool from ant- mals that he had himself kept that convinced him that to make the best woolen clothing the beginning must be made in feeding and caring for the flock.so as to produce suitable wool for the purpose, Mistnken Hog Breeding.W.A.Hart of Portland, Ind., writes In the In:liana Farmer a strong protest against the practice of breeding sows too young, including both boars and sows.He does vot like to breed a sow at 6 to 8 months okl, at which time it should weigh 200 to 250 pounds.If it weighs as much as this at these ages, it is too fat for Lreeding.and it Is not often that a sow olly 6 months old can be brought in heat.He advises waiting until the row is 14 months old, and he says by this time It will weigh 500 pounds and be well developed for breeding.But either boar or sow that 18 fed to make such a weight as this cannot be kept in condition for breed- Ing.le says himself that 200 pounds of thie sow will be surplus fat, which will be worked off the sow on -the young pigs In her first litter, We should much rather expect that ft would kill the sow and her litter when the time for farrowing comes.The chief traulile with breeding sows Is to keep them from becoming too fat while bearing their young.After the litter ir dropped and danger from fever has passed the sow should be fed liberally of milk forming rather than fat making food.All that she ents will then go to the benefit of her young, \u2014\u2014\u2014e Troe Farming Spirit.The true spirit of farming.says Professor Shaw, lies rather In growing products on the farm and in turning them to the best possible aecount than In traflicking In produce.Unfortunately this spirit is all too prevalent in the west.It lg rooted in the desive to Jump into wenlth vather than to grow Into Jt.\u201cI'he man who grows nearly all «orn.who buys cattle, ,8heep or swine, who literally shovels his ¢orn Into them, fenving the greater portion of his cornstaiks In the field, may get rich by se doing if n shrewd dealer, but he fs: not the man who does the most to enrich his country.\u2018I'te farmer who goes out nto a neighborhood and buys a lot vf lambs from different nelghbors to.feed may make good money, but he Joes 80 at the expense of {he dozen men who sold to him.!f every farmer grew his own stock and Atished it in good form, the country.woilld be vnat- ly richer than it Is today, and so élso- would the average farmer he."]