The Stanstead journal, 22 novembre 1900, jeudi 22 novembre 1900

[" PO if TTA da i?i Id , et ses se tiet rs The VOL.LV\u2014 No.48.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1900.rn WHOLE No.2858.GRANITEVILLE.Miss Lucy Chamberlain, who has been spending a few weeks at Prov- JUST IN tince Island visiting Mr.and Mrs.C.A.| \u2018Rexford, returned to her\u2019 home in Brought us another big job in 5 8) | Georgeville on Saturday last.FLANNELETTES Mr.and Mrs.Mark Stevenson visit- | Good heavy pieces always sold ed at Mrs.Geo.Baldwin\u2019s the first of at 8',¢., now while they last only the week.il yds Dress Goods, Woolen Mrs.Frank Salls spent Sunday with iting, © Cottons, Boys Ieavy her daughter, Mrs.Q.G.Sayball.Hose, etc., IN THIS WEEK.Mrs.Daniel Campbell is seriously ill at this writing.Her aunt, Mrs.B.Bullock, is with her.Mr.A.Boright, agent for the St.Johns News, was through here last week und reports business prosperous.Mr.and Mrs.Dwight Salls aud Mrs.Walter Keniston went to Buuker on Wednesday of last week to attend the funeral of Miss Alma Taylor.An interesting home wedding took Also several nice double width pieces flannel for warm dresses, regular prices 23c., to clear at 13!;c.per yd.BRAND NEW ARRIVALS Men\u2019s & Boys\u2019 Sweaters, nice patterns, fine goods, prices lowest.LOTS OF FURS SOLD More coming every day.You want an Astrachan or Coon Jaclzet or Cape for the SNAPPING COLD WEATHER coming.HUSTLE and get our prices, WE SAVE YOU 20 PER CENT on anything you select in Fur Capes, Col- larettes, Muffs, Coats, Capes Gauntletts, ete.place ou Wednesday evening, Nov.DUE THIS WEEK | 141, 1900, at the residence of the Co bride\u2019s parents, Mr, and Mrs.Geo.L, Car of Yellow Corn, Car of Middiings.Dran per 160 Ibs, 88c., Cornmeal Reynolds, about eighty relatives and per 100 lbs., 99c., 11 lbs.Rolled Oats, 256 , box Fietchers Cream Sodas, 196, \u201c00 0° ghly TECUIIVES 1 Seo them.GEORGEVILLE.Mr.Harold Redpath of Montreal was here last week, Work upon his house is progressing.Mr.Douglas V.Lindsay has returned from a hunting trip to Ontario.| Mr.J.E.Davidson has completed | Lis contract of repairs upon the wharf | and boat house at Fern Hill.He has | also doue a good job at Belmere in | painting the large boat house and repairing the breakwater near it.Mr.C.A.K.Macpherson was at: | New York city last week on bueiness.| Weeks caring for Mw.Skinner who | { He is quite sanguine that Owls Head ; Jlotel will be rebuilt during this winter and next spring so as to be ready for business next summor.Everyone | here hopes that it will be so, The small amount of snow that came last week made fair sleighing, | but the heavy rain of Monday P.M.and night spoiled it, and wheels are! again in use.i Since the snow came there have been half a dozen deer Filled within 2TOLONOEOTONEELICUORTIONONORONIUCHOZIANOUTHONONORONT - CAR OF SLEIGHS.© 3 The largest and best stock of Sleighs ever displayed at Ayer'a Flat, > ë somo choice Robes, a fow good Conts, and all tho Blankets and Whips B a you need.Prices and condition of sale on application.: \u201ca L.A.TRUSSELL, 5 CoronenszoresesorOHONONGBOHONSREHOTSDONONONEHOROHONON BEEBE PLAIN.Mrs.Geo, Wilkinson returned home! A.BE.Fish sells corn meal at vi cents on Thursday of Jast week from Rarton | per ewt.Bran 85 conte por ewt.12 where she bas leon for a couple of tha.rolled oats 25 cents.i Mr.Cinude Gilman, formerly of this place, arrived here from New York AYER'S FLAT.was injured in tho wreck.She reports Mrs, Skinner improving.Tuesday morning.Miss Neilie Bodwell who bas been | A mocting will be held at the par- sick with a fever (or the past three sonage Fiiday evening the 23rd to de- weeks, is reported improving, | cide upon the possibility of forming a Dr.Whittaker of Newport was ÎN Jiterary club, which we hope will be a the place Saturday last on profession ! BUCCORS.al business.bo Fast freight just In at Worthen\u2019s.Mr, Brock.M.P,, of Toronto, presi- | Read ad.dent of (he new granite company | Bran 88 cents, corn meal 98 cents, here, spent a couple of days with his por hundred pounds at Worthen's on- | t \u2018 {sister, Mrs.Hearl, in the place then, Best Tea in the Village, 25cts.per lb.WANTED: Railroad Ties, Rélephone Poles.\u2014(Sugar Maple,) Old Rubbers, Butter Eggs, ete.Cash paid for Hard and Soft Wood Lumber ,in Logs, and Hemlock Bark delivered at any station on B.& M.R.R.in quality this winter.Call or write.A.G.CLOUGH, G.M.REXFORD, Sotf Ayer\u2019s Flat, Que.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.C.E.Nelson and Miss Florence Nelson are in Massachusetts.Complete line o& number one enameled ware.Rock Island Hardware Co.Col.H, 8.Haskell is looking after his business interests in Massachusetts.Anti-Freeze Asbestic Weather Strips of all kinds at Rock Island Hardware Co»s.Mrs.W.L.Ball of Richmond and Mrs.Devlin of Vancouver, B.C., were guests of friends here the first of the week.The Ladies Society of the Universa- list Church meets this afternoon at 2 o\u2019clock at the home of Mrs.Elizabeth E.Baxter.We regret to learn thet Mr.William Jondro is quite seriously indisposed, being unable to attend to his business duties.In consequence of the washout no mail has reached us from the north to-day.This accounts for the absence of some local matter.Friends of the Congregational Church are invited to attend the social and supper at Mr.G.R.Caswell\u2019s Friday evening.Supper at 6 o'clock.Messrs.CG.A.Richards and W.J.Fliteroft, from the organ factory at Waltham, Mass., have heen working on the pipe organ at the Universalist Church during the past week.The vault at the temporary bank building has heen completed and the new plate glass windows were putin to-day.Nothing has yet been done on the interior finish.Mrs.F.G.Butterfield, Miss Esther Butterfield, Miss Charlotte Butterfield and Miss Mansur left for Boston Monday,and will remain in the Bay State throughout the week.Mr.B.F.Kane has been arrested for vagrancy and lodged in jail.An effort is being made to have him placed in an asylum, but some difficulty is being experienced in securing the proper affidavits.Two of the standards supporting the scaffold at the middle bridge were moved down stream about six inches last night, but no particular damage wag done.The water is now subsiding the weather being colder.It is reported that the Customs Collector\u2019s office for the port of Stanstead may be removed to Stanstead Junction or Rock Island.In case the collector\u2019s office should go to the Junction, a branch would likely be opened here.Hon.Charles C.Colby, Mrs.Colby, and Miss Colby will leave for Europe Saturday, going via New York.They will sail on the \u201cKaiser Wilbelm der Grosse\u201d next Tuesday, going first to Bremen and Frankfort and later to England, They will remain in the old country about six months.The newly elected officers of the Young People\u2019s Society of Christian Endeavor are: President, Miss Esther Butterfield; vice-president, Miss Robinson; secretary-treasurer, Miss Lunt; social committee, Mrs.Melloon, Mrs.Caswell, Miss Robinson and Miss But- terfleld; prayer meeting committee, Dr.Ross, Mr.Carpenter and Mrs.Caswell: look out committee, Miss Thompson, Miss Hunt and Ms.Cas- well, | rand thrown across the street.TOWN TOPICS.UPenrl\u201d # \u201cCenw , y | \u201c Peart\u201d and \u201cGlenwood\u201d Ranges.| Mrs, James Abbey of Stanstead, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev.L.M.England of Georgevifie.Rock Island Hardware Co.| Mr.William Spalding returued yes- | friends being present.The contraet- ALSO, 8 parties were Mr.Roy Reed und Miss Grace Reynolds.The bridal par- Ity entered the prettily arranged room | at 6 o'clock to the strains of Mendel- !sshon\u2019s Wedding March played by terday from a business trip to Boston, | The bride.was dressed in saphire bfue Famous Onk and Round Oak ITeat- | velvet with white duchess satin and i Ing Stoves.Co.; Mr.Ira 8.Melloon hos accepted n situation as clerk at F.W.D.Mel- loons.Mrs.Albert Cummings of Mason City, Ia, is the guest of Mr.and Mrs.D.Blake.Mrs.E.8.Mazurette and Miss M.Mazurette have gone to Boston for the winter.It is said that Mr.O.A.Parker has bought out the interest of his late partner, Mr.W.H.Hovey, in the Canadian Whip Co.Mr, Steven C.O'Rourke of Boston is visiting his old home here.He is now a commercial telegraph operator at the North Station, Boston.During last night\u2019s gale five or six of the Bell Telephone Co.\u2019s large poles at Stanstead Plain were blown down, being broken off just above the ground i ter of the groom, acted as bridesmaids, i while Mr.Wellington Reynolds acted | as best man and was assisted by John i Reynoids, both brothers of the bride.; Mr.E.M.Beerwort acted as master of ;ceremony.The service over the hap- | py couple received the warmest cou- | gratulations of their relatives and (friends, Refreshments particularly | recherche were served shortly after- | wards, The floral decorations were simple and tasty.The wedding gifts were numerous and beautiful.Mr.and Mrs.Reed left on the late train going south mid showers of rice and the best wishes of their many friends here.Mr.and Mrs.Reed are both active members of our Church here, j and both members of the chuir, also i the Epworth Eeague.They ave to reside among us.Mr.Charles O\u2019Rourke, who has been seriously ill during the past week, is now a little better.Dr.Armstrong of Montreal was called here last Friday in consultation with Dr.Freligh who is attending Mr.O'Rourke.Special Thanksgiving services at the First Universalist Church next Sunday.Rev.E.E.Marggraf, the Rock Island lardware! aplique trimmings with soft chiffon drapery, Miss Mary Reynolds, sister lof the bride, and Miss Lena Recd, sis- | EAST HATLEY.Mrs.Saunderson, the Provincial W.C.T.U.President, lectured bere on Monday evening.Subject, \u201cThe Rise and Progress of the W.C.T.U.\u201d She touched briefly upon some of the work that has been accomplished in the twenty-seven years of its existence, especially in the department of Scientific Temperance Instruction.She pastor, will preach on \u2018The Significance of Our National Thanksgiving.Service at 10.45 À.M, come.| In connection with the closing of | the fall term of the Derby Line school! the pupils presented the senior teacher, Miss Grace Bean of Coventry, with a nice five o\u2019clock tea set.The prize | for attendance was won by Miss Mil- | dred Cullins.| The new Lefell water wheel, which gave brief, bright glimpses of the All are wel.| great World\u2019s Convention held in Ed- inburg last June and of some of the speakers who were present, speakers who have world-wide reputations for grand and noble work.If she did not succeed in imparting a large amount ot enthusiasm to all the people of the place, it must have been because they were not all present.The evening was very unfavorable, that must have been the cause, although I have heard was smashed by the breaking of ala rumor that temperance is not a pop- .; ; .2 chain while being lowered into posi- | jion at the old Rock Island whip fac- | since the elections.tory last month, has been returned | from the factory, the broken parts | having been replaced.Henry C.Clifford of Way\u2019s Mills is here superin- ular subject with a good many people 3 Why this should be the case Iam sure I do not know, but may have something more Lo say about it later on.The proposnd trip through Stan- tending the installation of the wheel.|stead County by Mrs.Saunderson has Services at the Congregational | Church at the usual hours on Sunday | next.In the morning the pastor will, preach on \u2018For Christ and Our Coun- ! try.\u201d In the evening there willbe a union meeting at 7 o\u2019clock, under the auspices of the W.C.T.U.to be addressed by Mrs.Sanderson, President of the Quebec Branch.Sunday School at the close of the morning service.AN cordially invited.The operetta given by the Univer- salist Sunday School Friday evening was a very successful affair.The parts were all well taken, that of the little fairies being especially attractive.Refreshments were served after the entertainment.The proceeds amounted to about 875.The Uñiver- salist society desire to express their thanks to Mrs.Baxter and all who assisted in the operetta, Edith's Dream.H.A.Badger of Barton Landing is here looking after a team which was let to a young man to drive to Barton village last Monday, It is now thought the team was brought into Canada crossing the line in this vicinity.The young man was about 20 years old, smooth shaven, wore checked suit, brown Derby hat.Horse chestnut, weight about 950 lbs, age 15.Open Concord buggy, bent axle, black paint.Light colored goat robe.heen postponed until the roads are in a more settled condition.Voters and others may be on the lookout fora deluge of temperance literature.Do not scorn to read it.ABBOTT'S CORNER, Some of the readers of this paper will remember Mr.Ivan Miller, formerly of this place but now of New York city.He has recently returned from the Philippine islands where he hag been serving in the United States army.Mr.Miller reports that he had much difficulty in obtaining a situn- tion in New York on account of the prejudice existing among those wanting help against employing soldiers.The Rev.E.Smiley will hold a service here at 7.30 next Sunday evening.Mr.and Mrs.JJ.W.McKay visited friends at Huntingville Saturday.Mr.Thomas Little, while pitching down straw from a loft in his barn on Friday, fell through an opening in the scaffold and dislocated one of his shoulders.Dr.Leavitt was called and reduced the injured member to its normal condition.Mr.and Mrs, John Johnson visited friends at Waterville Tuesday.Second-hand stoves taken in exchange for new.Rock Island Hardware Cow few miles of this placo by several: different prople, the lust being à pair, | including a fine large buck, by Mr.Wayland Dollefl of Oliver Corner.: They were killed near his old home, after a five mile chase.! The Boynton and Magoon fish cus has been put over to the Junuary ; term of court, ; | Elections seem to be the order of, the day just now.; | MACK'S TAILLS.The Methadift Church at Smith's\u2019 Mills was the sevne of à very prety wedding on the th inst, the con- | tracting parties being Miss Mabel Big- © elow of Smiths Mills and Mr.Everett, A.Cobern of West Rumney, N, 11, \"The nuptial knot was tied by Rev.1.(M.Englaud of Georgeville, Miss Bea- i trige Merrill presiding at the organ.| Miss Bernice Merrill neted as brides | maid, while Mr.Briar of Rumney offi- | cinted us best man, The ushers were | Messrs.B.A.Reed and C.R.Jenkins, The church wag beautifully decorated, with flowers and evergreens, The bride was attired in pink silk trimmed | + i .| ny a reception was held at the home! testified to the high esteem in which Boston, ; Mr.Harry Bigelow and wife of Bar- | marriage of Mr.Bigelow\u2019s sister.The musical concert and liberaldin- | ner were postponed on account of | bad roads, | thur Day on Saturday last, the chil-! dren all enjoying it very much.Mr.A.Boright of East Farnham | was in the place last Saturday.| for the past week, is n little better.Miss May Gould, from Waterloo, is | at present visiting her sister, Mrs.J.| A.Tilton.! WAY'S MILLS.| Fred Bishop is again employed in the woolen mills after an absence of | several months.Mr.Wm.Dyson, who has been spending the past few weeks with his brother, A.II.Dyson, left the first of | the week for the Yukon, where he has : been for several years.He has just | returned from England and the Paris! Exposition, where he has spent some | time.| Two sons of Mr.J, Little are visiting him from the west.i Hiram Allen has sold his place to, Mr.Orin Sprague of South Barnston.| Our genial butter-maker, Mr.John! Converse, handled 47,000 pounds of.milk alone last weak.There are 80 | patrons at present.| Remember the oyster supper Satur- | day evening.A fine programme is being prepared.Admission 25 cents.CORLISS MILLS.There is a rumor of a wedding in ihe near future.John Kelsie of Marlington has engaged work with Hosea Corliss for the winter.Mr.H.A.Standish has been visiting | friends at Island Pond, Vt., for the | past two weeks.| Miss Leota Noyes, who was thrown from a carriage and quite badly injured some two weeks ago, is improving.Mr.Pergeau of Brockville, Ont., is the guest of his brother, Rev.Paul Pergeau.We are pleased to say that Mr.HE.Corliss, whose life has been despaired of for several weeks, is on the gain.J.R.Noyes will leave on Monday next for a two weeks\u2019 trip canvassing through Melbourne and vicinity.with white, and carried a beautiful! boquet of flowers.After the ceremo- |Jdenkins's farm in this municipality family here daring last week.of the bride\u2019s sister, Mrs.A.Baldwin, | where refreshments were served, The ; of the week, returning to her aunt\u2019 ment with Mra.Stevens.number of excellent gifts received past week, | Mrs.Stephen Bryant, who has heen quite sick for the past week, has so far recovered as to be able to return to her home at Fiteh Bay.HH, B.Stewart left on Monday with Rich Miller for tho wilds of Moine on a hunting expedition.Amos Colby has moved from the Hany Bigelow place into one of Alex, Aler\u2019s houses in the west part of the muticipality.Et, Browning will give another one of those popular dancingg parties al bis hall, Stanstead Junction, on 1i- day next.A good time is gunranleed.Me.Ferguson, representing Evans & Rong, wholesale drugpista, Montreal, wits i puest at Hotel Beebe Plain for a any or two last week, Eichard has moved from the Lorimer house into one of the LaCross Stewart estate houses south ol the village.Another empty house.Orin Sprajgue, the harness maker, js about moving to Way's Mills.Were- gret very much Mr.Spragues adecis- ion to leave the place.vacant house, Sam.Wheeler hing rented Harry 1 means : and will move on to it at ance, Mr.8.Ho Hetherington, who has been quite ill, is mueh better at this \u201cwritivys.Me, Millette of the rm of Gendron, Denault & Co, Was in town on Mondas last.Ale.AL GL Clough was in Sherbrooke for a few days thin week, Nr, F.J.Robinson, who has been at Choe for afew days, returned to Ontario Tuesday At the Libera) cateuxs held in the county building last Monday, Mr.Movdy Lovell of Coaticook was appointe enndidate, Me.15, W.Parker of Lennoxville was in town Muhing pianos on Monday and Tuesday of this week.nt.MASSAWIPPE Weure getting November weather all vight show, mud and wind, Mr.Soderquist, late from Sweden, \u201cwhile at werk on the B.& M.track, , Rot his foot badly jammed by getting it caught between à loaded box of stone and the roek, Mw, J.Whitcomb who resides with \"her daughter, Mrs.To Rowell, at Compton, visited her son Nelson and © Mies Tallinn Harvey his pone Lo Miss Aird was in Montreal the ist Grapatead having secured employ- here, Mrs.Hearl\u2019s, on Tuesday.+ , » The floral tributes at the funeral of the bride and #room are held.The | Mrs, pr.Cheney were many and versa, Harvey's, over Sunday.happy couple left on the lute train for | beautiful.Mr.W.KE.Monroe photo-) Mr.L.Chilson is yet «quite poorly.graphed them on Tuesday.Harry Jenkins has rented of T1.B.| Street and will move in as soon as the! me repairs which are now under way, arc completed.Geo.Woodward, who has heen stay - A birthday party was given to Ar- {ing with Robert Harris through the summer, left on Wednesday for Mas- | oo A {sachusetts where it is said he has se-° I cured a situation.| Mrs.Charles Gordon, who went to: Leslie Comstock, who has been ili| Lowell, Mass., some time ago, hoping h 110 be benefitied by the change, will, ity is expected, return to her home here this week.She has net received the benefit it was hoped she might, which we regret very much to hear.Frank Hunt of Stanstead has bought | the Orin Sprague House at the North y, W.F1, end of Main Street, and it is said will move in at once.The show at Drowning's Hall, Stan- stead Junction, last week, was not a grand success.The attendance was small and the show was said to be much below the standard.Mr.Boright, traveling agent for the Magog News, was in the place a day or Lwo last week settling with delinquent subscribers and goliciting new ones, He reports fine success, Charlie Denison, the injured engineer ig improving quite well of late.It is thought he will be able to gu to his home very soon.Mr.and Mrs.Brown of Charleston visited relatives in the place on Sun- ay.! day Harry Stratton has rented the Battles House, Stanstead Junction.Mr.Wayley and wife who have been occupying it, will board with him, Mrs.Frank Ritch is reported sick at her home on Junction Street.Mr.Bean of Barton, Vt., was in the village on Saturday calling on friends.Mrs.Gilfillan returned to her home here last week after an absenee of a month spent in visiting relatives and friends in Boston and vieinity.Mr.Sisco, agent for the Miller & House Nursery Co., is in the place for afew days.He reports business for this company first-class.Sales were never better.The Ladies Aid Society will give a social and supper at the Methodist parsonage on Friday evening, Nov.30.| All invited.Supper will begin to be served at 6 o'clock, Try Parker & Hunting, Lennoxville, for Book Binding and repairing.! Mins M.McAuley, now living in | Sherbrooke, was at her aunt's, Mrs, \"lié illness has extended over threo weeks, not years, as printed in lost is- ton were here last week to attend the Stewart his Maloney house on Maing, I \u201c \u201c { HEATHTON.- | Mr.Sylvester Bishop is moving Lo ; Conticook Lhis weelr.Mr, Walter Brown is on the sick list | at this writing.| LIBERAL CONVENTION.i The Liberals of Stanstead County ave chosen Moody B.Lovell, Esq, f Coaticook ay their candidate for the [approaching Provincial election.The \u2018choice was made at a convention held \u201cat Ayers Flat on Monday.The meet- Jing was a large one, all polling places l being represented by two delegates, Cowhard acted as ehair- man.Among the speakers was Mr.W.L.Shurtleff, LL.M., of Coaticook, who made a strong plea for the present administration.Mr, Shurtleff said that he had always been n C'on- servative, but did not think that be- leatuse n man was n Conservative in Dominion politics be should always be a Conservative in Provincial politics.He considered the administration of the Marchand government and the Parent government following in its footsteps, the best administration the Province had ever had.He (Mr, Shurtleff, had come to the convention prepared to give his support to the candidate chosen whoever he might be.Short speeches were made by some of the delegates.In the end Mr.Lovell was the unanimous choice of the convention, the greatest enthu- \u201csiagm prevailing.i STRUGGLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND, A despatch from St.John\u2019s gays: The Newfoundland general election \u2018being over, much speculation is now indulged in regarding the next move.Mr.Bond's unqualified victory makes it eertain that Mr.Reid, the contarct- or, Will be unable to procure Govern- \u201cment sanction for the transfer of his | concessions to u limited linbility com- | pany, unless he consents to abandon \u2018certain properties now included in his ! contract.i Apparently he is disinclined to alter | his ante election attitude, and a prolonged struggle is expected.The floating of an enterprise involving | $25,000,000 is involved, unless Mr.| Bond forces Mr.Reid\u2019s hand by legis- \"lation and compels him to surrender. END OF RUESIAN FIEND.VASSILI EJAZAN, MOZT FARBAR.OUS OF SERF-HOLDERS, 15 DEAD.Murd:r.d His People by Scores to Sce Theis Blood Run, Chicago \u2018Inter-Ocean.\u2019 Vassili Riuzan, of Russia, the monster serf-holder under Czars Paul and Alexander, the man whom his human cattle enlied \u2018Bad Devil is dead, at the age of eighty-two.After Jiving more than thirty-five years in an ob- geure St.Petersburg apartment, he died, despised by former friends and fellow aristocrats, mercifully forgotten by the great mass of the Russian people.But in the district of Riazan, Great Russia, where the ruins of his \u2018Palace of ITell\u2019 are mouldering in the forest known as the \u2018Garden of Horrors, there was great rejoicing among the descendants of the moujiks he had once owned\u201433,000 vf them.Their \u2018mirs\u2019 | village councils) at once gathered to appropriate funds for public merry -making, and the feasting went on for three days and ns many nights, or until everybody was tired.Naturally the survivors of the period of serfdom were the heroes of these joyful occasions.tis hard to believe nowadays that up to March 17, 1863, nearly 24,000,000 of men, women and children in Russia \u2014that is one-third of hier entire population at that time\u2014 were absolute slaves ol the nobility, bound to serve their owners without compensation and subject to their jurisdiction without appeal.The nobles could sell them, one and all, could imprison, malteeat, or torture them, or could send them to Siberian or the scuilold.Their power over white men was infinitely greater than that of the American slave barons over their blacks.They could use the human material like their old boots orjlike vicious dogs-\u2014rcither enstom nor fear of rev- place at a given signal.Then he gave this order: \u2018Burn everything, man and mouse.Those of you who let even a ben escape shall hang this very night?And neither hen nor cattle, neither horses, men, women or children did escape\u2014so ran Vassili\u2019s report to Count Valudil in St.Petersburg.The incendiaries did their word wo purfec- tion, and tire lancers shot or eut down every living creature that tried to vs- cape-\u2014humun beings, horses, dogs, oxen, sheep, goats and poultry\u2014they were wiped out and their dead bodies thrown in the smouldering timbers, ! Three hours after tho \u2018Bad Devil\u2019 had arrived on the spot the village of Di- | venskaya lad ceased Lo exist\u2014-this petty baron had erased it from the! map ofthe empire, The town bearing the sume name to-day is in a different locality.! A cry of horror went through all! serfdom when the facts became kuown, and the authorities who had! defied public vpinion so long thought ! it al lest incumbent upon themselves to interfere.The St.Petersburg Cabinet being aware of Vassil\u2019s old trick, favored by the circumstances that the boundary line divided his house into two districts, despatehed the govern ors oi Riazan and Vladimir at one and the same time to investigate the case and provide adequate punishment.| i OUTWETTING A GOVERNOR'S Mis AGE, It was agreed that the two excellencies should meet at Vassili\u2019s castle / and both started out on their errand.But upon arriving at the last station the Governor of Vladimir found a message waiting with a letter said to contain messages that made bis im- | mediute return to the county seat im- | perative.Without his colleague, the: Governor of Riuzan could do nothing, ' of course, for when he began to ex- | amine Vassili, the baron simply walked ! over tu the other side of the reception room, into Vladimir territory, which was beyond his jurisdiction.The letter that had induced the sce- ond guversior to turn buek was from olution, ner the state dared interfere with this hereditary privilege.| But Vassili Joved despotism better than money, particularly as he had more of the latter commodity than he knew what to do With.And his Just fur tyranny and blood increased as he became more and more used ample the laws of humanity under foot and as he went about cutting human heads like cabbages.Russian histori- | ans assert that the reports of his era: elties and the wholesale murder of serfs practiced on his domains more than anything else ivejired the Czar- liberator to the emancipation act of sotr ; Vassili giving information where the guvernor could find 160,000 roubles in old waiting for hin, = Here is anuthhr story even more! charucterisiie of this last of the feudal barons, the nineteenth century Nero, but betore teiling it, it might be well! Lo explain Väsaill3 popular name of \u2018Bud Levit?ln the estimation of the lussidu peasanit the devil is rather a good fellow than otherwise.He is man\u2019s ciemy, doing his best to drag him down into hell, sure enough, but that\u2019s his trade; he can\u2019t help it, and no one bears him aay grudge on thai they eried.\u2018You have long enough tortured us.\u2019 Others addressed themselves directly to the good devil, praying him to make it warm for the hated Vassili.Still others tugged at the dead ty- ranls moustache, and one fellow tore a big bunch of hair out of his hend, lThen it was ngreed that the late baron must drink his serfs\u2019 health, and a halt dozen hands busied themselves [opening his juws, while wodka was \u2018poured over his face from numerous Husks and bumpers.\u2018Sou of a pig,\u2019 eried a peasant of herculean stature, \u2018drink to the health jof my boy, who rotted in your dun- igeon.Drink, I say, or I will kick you ofi your throne.\u201d With that he upset the bier and wag about to inflict further punishment, when the \u2018corpse\u2019s\u2019 eyes opened.Three or four men witnessed the \u2018miracle\u2019 and their warning cries restrained the rest.The next moment absolute quiet reigned, and Vassil?s voice was heard to murmur: \u20181 will rise and punish those that jusulted me; they shall be like the dust of the rond HIS LAST BARBAROUS ACT.Ax the last words of the sentence died away the serfs saw Vassili actually get up, and they heard his voice, the voice that all knew so well, \u2018Eustachius, thou who meantto kick me; Pachomius and Nuscha, Ivan, Peter and Nicholas, down in the dust with you, desecrators of your lord\u2019s person!\u2019 The revived Vassili named every ong of the crowd who had insulted him by word or deed, and brought them to their knees, \u2018You shall swing before noon,\u2019 he cried.\u2018As for the rest, you shall be knouted, every mother\u2019s son of you.His frightened servants now coming forward, Vassili despatched them in all directions to call the lancers together, and as soon as his body guard rode up the serfs condemned to death were carried to tne garden of horrors aud exceuted, but not by the rope.They were lashed on the wheel and broken.Vassili, repenting of his mildness, had changed his order.BISHOP FOWLER, BUFFALO And What He Considers the Three Greatest Events in Christian History.Bishop Charles 11.Fowler, of Buffalo, presided ata session of the General Missionary committee of the Methodist Church in New York last week, and in speaking of the lately developed opportunities for mission work, March, 18¢3.ÊTRE PALACH OP HELD Vassili lived in the midst of his estates, that comprised a considernble | part of the districts of Riazan and Vladimir.His fortune was so vast he never knew its money value.His castle, styled the \u2018Palace of Hell by the serfs, stood on the boundary line of the districts named, the line of demarcation passing throngh the great reception hall, and being marked there on the parquet.This cireum- stance helped Vassili to escape the Czar\u2019s wrath whenever the St.Peters- burg authorities made an attempt to hold him to account for some specinl- ly atrocious crime.But such attempts were few and far between, Backed by a body guard of 560 lancers, his dominion over the 35,000 serfs belonging to him was as absolute as Robespierre\u2019s sway over Paris in the days of the white terror, but it was more enduring.Below is a record of some of Vassi- 1i\u2019s deeds as told by his ex-slaves sitting round the bonfires lighted on the occasion of his recent death.The serfs of the village of Diven- skaya, belonging to Count Valueg, started a mild revolt in 1839, and his lordship, who was busy enjoying himself in St, Petersburg, asked his friend Vassili, to quell the disturbances.This Vassili refused to do on the plea that he might be compelled to exceed his authority, but, he added, \u2018if you will sell me that village I will punish those slaves suflicient to frighten the rest from ever attempting riot.\u2019 Count Valueff, eager to rid himself of trouble, sold his hundred \u2018souls\u2019 at Divenskaya at an extremely low price and the same night lost the sum Vas- sili had paid him at cards.Vassili being the winner.So Divenskaya did ground while the \u2018pop\u2019 closed the late Vassili's' eyes, folded his hands and lighted a number of tapers.ordered the sexton to remain in the room, saying the death prayers and went home.tered on tiptoe, one after the other, but little by little they became bolder.account, for, on the vtbher hand, he is capable of much unselfish attachment if treated kindly.Sometimes he helps i fellow out of serapes and sets things straight to the satisfaction of all concerned, This being the Russian peasants conception of bis satanic majesty, the name \"Bad Devil\u2019 as applied to Vussili needs no further comment.Now to vur story.In January, 1859, the Vassili\u2019s peasants learned to their utmost satisfaction that their cruel master was dead after a short illness.The bell on the castle tower tolled oul the great news and a black flag waving at half mast corroborated it.As none of the dead man\u2019s sons or other relatives were at fhe Palace of Hell just then, the lancers left, fearing a raid by government troops that had been threatening for some time, and these henchmen out of the way, the serfs flocked to the castle from all the neighboring villages.Their desire to feast their eyes on the impotent tyrant\u2019s lifeless form was quite in the nature of things, however, and neither their hatred nor their curiosity was allowed the upper hand before the \u2018pop\u2019 (priest) had performed the usual religious rites.SCENES AT VASSILI'S BIER.The body lay upon an impromptu bier in the centre of the great hall, and the hundréd or more peasants that had assembled kept in the back- Then he The pop having gone, the serfs en- not cost the \u2018Bad Devil called him, a single copeck.was ten miles distant, soon after sup- as they A few days Jater Vassili returned to Riazan, and, taking part of his bodyguard with him, set out for Divenskaya, which per.ANNIHILATING AN ENTIRE VILLAGE.Remember, there had been no proclamation concerning the change of ownership, no attempt at persuading the serfs to return to ohedience; if they had had a chance to learn that Vassili, the bad devil, was their master, no doubt they would have made instant submission.It was past midnight when the cavalcade, their horses\u2019 hoofs protected \u201cby straw and rags to avoid noise, arrived before Divenskaya where every- \u2018body was asleep.After posting men all around the \u2018village, rifie in hand, he instructed fwenty of his lancers to set fire to the hubbub increased until their conversation droweed the sexton\u2019s litanies.Finally one in the crowd proposed that they go into the cellar and fetch vodka.The suggestion was accepted with enthusiasm, and soon all were drinking to their henrt\u2019s content.The sexton\u2019s faint objections were not True, the dreaded man looked more terrible in death than even he did in life, but dead dogs don\u2019t bite.Content, at first, to gaze upon their departed enemy with mute satisfaction, the peasants, after a while, began to give vent to their feelings and the heeded, and an orgy ensued (hat would have been a disgrace to a low tap house.The serfs holding each other by the hand danced around the bier, singing and bawling forth insults and threats.They dared the corpse to get up and strike them or ride abroad to punish the tillers of the soil.\u2018May your he snid: \u201cThe three greatest events in Christian history are the labors of Si.Paul, the firing on Fort Sumter and the blowing up of the Maine.The latter event, he said, helped to make the great Anglo-Saxon Race one when the men of the North and the men of the \u2018south marched side by side, drinking j out of the samo canteen and wrapped | in the same blankets.| In the Far East the spirit of St.zeorge and the Union Jack moved [forward and anchored side by side ! with the Stars and Stripes so that to- |day we are in an adjustment and relation that not a soldier can move foot.\u2018on the face of the earth without their ; consent.If England must come out vof China, it will be destructive to civilization there for a century to come.\u201d ! He said it is the duty of missionaries i to get into China, no matter at what ! cost.The next speaker was the Rev.A.C.Leonard, who had done much missionary work in China, and who also spoke of the desire that England, and not Russia, should be paramount in China.Other speakers were the Rev.George B.Smyth, who gave a detailed account of the missionary work in China, where he had been for several years, and the Rev.Dr.Oldham.HAPPY ARE THE MAKERS OF Mats, Rugs and Carpets.DIAMOND DYES Give Them Special Fast Colors For Cotton Goods.The dyeing of cotton rags for the making of Mats, Rugs and Carpets was for years a difficult and very unsatisfactory operation owing to the crude and common dyestuffs home dyers were obliged to use.By the introduction of the special Diamond Dye Fast Colors for Cotton, the work of dyeing is now a source of pleasure and profit to every home.The manufacturers of the famed Diamond Dyes prepare special Cotton colors such as Fast Pink, Fast Orange, Fust Purple, Fast Carnet, Fast Navy, Fast Crimson, Fast Seal Brown, Fast Yellow, Fast Scarlet, Fast Cardinal, Fast Turkey Red, Fast Dark Green, Fast Black and other colors that are unfading in washing or when exposed to sun.No other dyes in the world can give such marvellous and pleasing results on Cotton goods.Ask your dealer for the Fast Diamond Dye Cotton colors; brother burn you well, Bad Devil, take no other make.THE TOWNSHIPS ELECTIONS.The result of the viclory in the Bastern Townships constituencies was very discouraging to the Conservatives, and the defent of Mr.Moore in Stunstead wé regard ns à eerious loss.The honorable gentieman made quite a record for himself during his parliamentary term.Wo can call to mind only a few men who so quickly took so prominent à position in the Mouse.A safe, cautious, and highly intelligent man, he proved himself well equipped for the high duty committed to him by his constituents and gave bright promise of becoming one of the first rank debators.Firm in his convictions and moderate in the expression of them, he had become quite popular among his colleagues; a man above reproach with quite a streak of inde- pendance in his judgment of public men and publie affairs.The loss of such a mau is to be deplored.Stan- stead has lost by the change\u2014and we venture to think that the country at large has gained nothing by it.His successor, Mr.Lovell, is unquestionably 2 good man, and eminently deserves the respect in which he is held; as private citizens the two men are equal; but Mr.Lovell is not by any means so well equipped for parliamentary life, and at his age it cannot be expected that he will take anything but a subordinate position.That he is a true and consistent Liberal we know; but like a host of other men on both sides, he will merely strengthen the party by his votes, and the country is not likely to hear anything from him; while from Mr.Moore the House heard often and always with great acceptance.It is much to he regretted that the electors do not discriminate in their judgment of men\u2019s fitness for public life.The intensity of party feeling is responsible, and it seems to us that while we affect to honor merit and admire independence in our public servants when put to the test these claims upon our favor are invariably ignored, with the single object of securing a party victory; and we regret to think that party is becoming stronger with every recurring election; else there is some under current which is destroving their manhood.It is not the poor material of parlinment that goes down in these periodical storms, but invariably the best, which is substituted by that which is valueless, The intellectual calibre of our parlinment is constantly deteriorating.Mr.Fisher holds that it represents the average quality of the constituents; if so there is cause for alarm.Take the Townships as a sample\u2014where are the men in parliament to compare with Galt, Tail, Brooks, Colby, Pope, Dunkin, Baker, Ives, Irvine and the hosts of gladiators who in the old days represented us?Surely the average intelligence of the electorate must have fallen, These were all Conservatives; but then Holton and Sanborne, Hunting- don and Asa Foster,\u2014have they their equals now among the members representing these townships?We submit that on hoth sides there has been a woeful decay of talent.Is it not time for the electors to wake up to the probable-nay certain disastrous consequences of consigning to the mere handful of competent men\u2014 perhaps not more than 40 all told, the destinies of this great and growing country.FIGHTING LIQUOR IN MAINE, A Portland despatch says: \u201cFrom nearly every section of Maine come reports of unusual activity on the part of the anti-liquor element, and particularly through Kennebee, Cumberland and Androscoggin counties is the result of the work in evidence by the civic league, under the direction of Rev.Mr.Borry, of Waterville, and local organizations, the opinion prevails that the very general wave of temperance reform now sweeping over the state is mainly due to the election of a Prohibition sheriff in Cumberland County last September.In Waterville, Augusta, Hallowell, Gar- diner, Skowhegan, Rumford Falls, Waldoboro and many other places in the city and town governments have instructed the police to exert every effort to close the saloons and as a result an almost unprecedented period of drought prevails in these places.Jit the present time the scene of activity is in Androscoggin, County where the civic league is conducting the crusade.\u201d Thomas Girouard and Jean Chan- bord, employed in constructing a bridge over the Baliscan river, near Riviere a Pierre, north of Quebec, were both drowned by tho upsetting of a canoe in which they were crossing the river Friday morning, Used by British Soldiers in Africa.Capt.C.C.Dennison is well known all over Africn as commander of the forces that captured the famous rebel Galishe.Under date of Nov.4, 1897, from Vryburg, Bechuanaland, he writes: \u201cBefore starting on the last campaign I bought =a quantity of Chamberlain\u2019s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I used myself when troubled with bowel complaint, and had given to my men, and in every cage it proved most beneficial.\u201d For sale by all first-class dealers.The Fount of Life IS THE PURE RED BLOOD THAT COURSES THROUGH THE BODY.If the Blood is Impure and Stagnant, Disease Holds Sway.PAINE'S CZLIRY COMPOUND - PURIFIES, ENRICHES AND VITALIZES EVERY DROP OF BLOOD, The majority of intelligent peopls know that rich, pure and highly vitalized blood alone can give health and build up the tissues that have been worn out.New and fresh blood carries all the materials for restoring wasted and worn-out parts of the body, and gives to the brain other materials for making nerve matter.Paine\u2019s Celery Compound cleanses and purifies the blood and furnishes appropriate food for every part of the system.It increases the appetite, perfects digestion, gives nervous energy and increased strength.If your blood is impure, if the skin has spots and eruptions, if you have an unhealthy pallor or yellow appearance, and if the eyes are showing yellowish whites, you should use Paine\u2019s Celory Compound without delay to cleanse the blood and regulate the liver and kidneys of the strain that is brought upon them whenever impure blood pours through their substance.Mr.M.D.Arthur, Chelmsford, Ont., writes as follows: \u201cT was laid up with scars all over my face and neck, the result of blood poisoning.While in that condition, I could not sleep at night, had no appetite, and could not attend to my work, The doctors in my district and their medicines did not benefit me.My aunt advised me to use Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.In two weeks I was so much better that J could go out, and in three weeks I was able to work again.I bless the day I commenced with Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.\u201d CANADIAN APPLES.Irs.À.D.Kyle Talks of Their Success in England.À rather unusual and interesting attraction at bhe chrysantheum show in the Windsor Tall, was an apple (pippin), a Grand Prix winner at the Paris Exposition, Canadian exhibit.This apple is from the season\u2019s crop of 1899, being, therefore, fourteen months old, and had been brought back by Mr, À.D.Kyle, who has just returned from Europe.This apple is interesting as a curiosity, and particularly interesting should it be to horticulturalists and shippers, as it shows the latter to what a state of perfection the Canadian cold storage system has attained; also, the variety of apple that retains its color and flavor through a long period.Mr.Kyle states that Canadian apples are in great favor on the continent, the sales having gone over the 300,000 barrels mark, up to the time that he wagthere in October; and that the Fruit Commissioner, Mr.Allan, had told him that the Americans had not kept a specimen of their apples in good condition later than September.Hut shippers, Mr.Kyle says, must bear in mind that apples must be in good condition when packed, and care taken in the packing, if we are to retain this lead, and the hold that we have secured on the European buyers.Mr.Kyle likewise states that he was informed by a passenger on the Commonwealth, the steamship by which he returned, that in the salvage of the cargo of the Castillinn, wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia last year, were lots of boxes of apples branded \u2018Canadian\u2019 which were in no fit condition for shipment to Europe.\u201cThis kind of thing,\u201d adds Mr.Kyle, \u201cwill undo anything that has been done by this exhibit, unless the shippers have some system of proper inspection and classification.\u201d \u2014_\u2014 It will not be a surprise to any who are at all familiar with the good qualities of Chamberlain\u2019s Cough Remedy, io know that people everywhere take pleasure in relating their experience in the use of that splendid medicine and in telling of the benefit thoy have received from it, of bad colds\u201d it has cured, of threatened attacks of pueu- monia it has averted and of the children it has saved from attacks of croup and whooping cough.Itisa grand, good medicine.For sale by all first-class dealers.\" According to n despateh, it is likely that Sir Wilfrid Laurier will recommend Six Charles Tupper, the retired Conservative leader, for a peerage for bis work in bringing about the confederation of Canada, and for the introduction of free schools.M For Over Fifty Years, Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup has + used for over fifty years be million oan org for their childron while teething, with por fect suen; 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Exchange Bank.New York, National Park Bank.; Collections made at all accessible points.Drafts issued fur any required amounts, good at al] puints in Canada, United Statesand urope.Exchange bought and sold, SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT at bach office.Interest allowed from date of deposit and compounded annually, without requiring the attention ol the depositor: + Joo hours from 10 to 8, Saturdays from 10 01.50 YEARS\" EXPERIENCE Trape MARKS DESIGNS \u2018COPYRIGHTS &C, yon a sketch and description may eh At our opinion free whether an vention {8 probably patentable.Communica strict) ; \u2018conadential.Handbook 07 Prints .Oldest agency for > aot fan taken theo h Munn & Co.reocive tice, without charge, in the \"Scientific Fimerican.A handsomoly ustrated weekly.Targoet dir.culation scientific journal.Terms, $5 a oy months, $1 Said 07 ali nowsdesters.ANN Gere New York 4 milking is to cool the milk.CONDITION OF MILK, Many Ways In Which Milk May Be Spolteqd, To have milk in its best condition care must begib before milking with the cow, her surroundings, her food ni: her drink, says Texas Farm and Ranch.Milk may be spoiled by being neatly taken from a healthy cow and improperly handlell thereafier.A filthy barn or stable wii serve to spoll milk without assistanse, But suppose the Larn and the cow and the milking are all as they should be, the milk may be spoiled by subsequent Landling.The tirst thing that should be done after Where no ice is cold well or spring water may be used.To get rid of the animal odor common to the best milk it should be thoroughly acrated.Where there is no improved implement for this purpose it can be sutliciently done by pouring, it from one vessel to another.Pouring it through a stralner that will separate the body of the milk into numerous small stremus, holding the strajuer as high as convenient, is better than simply pouring fan one vessel to another.\u2018I'liis process shoud be performed only in the purest air on the premises.thoroughly clean vessels.unsterilized eurd so small as to be invisible to the naked eye may be the breeding ground of germs sutlicient to spoil a large can of milk in a few hours, so rapidly do these growths multiply.Every vessel, ean, pan, cup, dipper, strainer, spuon or whatever may come in contact with the milk should not ouly be made scrupulously elean, but should be submitted\u201d for several minutes to lLoiling waier or, what Is better, to steam under pressure.The very common custom of pouring a bit of builing water into a vessel, giving it a shake and turning it out is not sufi- efent.Several minutes\u2019 boiling is required to destroy many injurious germs of milk.Soap should not be used, but sal soda should take its place aml should be freely used at least once a week In combination with bolling water.\u2018There is no organic substance more subject to rapid deterioration than milk.It is a rieh food substance for man, animals and organic germs so infinitely small as to Le detected only with the most powerful microscopes.In the hottest summer weather milk | may be kept sweet for 12 hours without ice or even cold water if proper : precautions ave taken, If the patrons of city wilk dealers would test their milk by this rule.they would then know whether eflicient milk inspection is needed or not.The Seasan'» Lexsons For Dnirymen.E.L.Vincent of New York, writing in The American Agriculturist, says: \u2018The season just ending has many lessons for the thoughtful man.One of them is that general farming is In the long run most reliable.In many parts of the country dry weather has very materially shortened the hay crop.Where ten did not foresee the coming trouble and put in liberal pieces of corn to supplement the shortage ia hay winter stares them in the face with empty mows and an abundance of stock on hand, This stock must either be carried through cold weather on grain or turned off at a loss.sult .is cattle are very low in price.Not once in a lifetime do we see cows selling as cheaply as at the present time In those sections which were most seriously affected by the drought.Good cows coming into milk in the spring are today worth oily from $15 to $20 a head, and many are selling for even less than that, Calves, sheep and lambs go along with cows in price, If we had heen a little more cautlous about getting overstocked with cows, we would be better off.The pendulun has been swinging toward dairying for a few years back, and now we are caught.We must get out the best way we can, But should we not firmly resolve that hereafter we will not run go largely to one branch of farming?Mixed farming is the safest.Again, we should learn from the experience of this year that it is vise to be prepared for any kind of a season that may chance to come.It is said that any fool knows enough to earry an umbrella when it rains.Tt is a wise man who takes one along when the sky Is fair.Who could have foretold last spring that the hay crop would be so nearly a failure in 10007 If we had all known that.we would surely have planted a good piece of corn.Dut we didn't know it, and many of us are sadly lamenting the fact now.Teaching Patrons, In too many instances factory men who complain of poor milk from their patrons assume it is because the patron is determined fot to do as well as he knows, says Toard\u2019s Dairyman.We think peer milk is nearly always from the fact that the patron lacks knowledge of what constitutes good milk and lacks ft in such a way that what he does know has but little effect bn him.Get the desired knowledgo into his mind ence in a thorough way, and it will hold him In most Instances.Ata recent dairy meeting In Listowel.Can- nda, E.Agur, Brownsville, stated that the patron very often did not take care of his milk.because be did pot know how.He gave & personal experience, in wbich he had sbown a patron who had always sent inferior milk.and since that time the milk had always been excellent.In answer to à question as to the best way of teaching patrons, President Mill®\" stated that tho best way was for the maker to go and see the patrons bimself and instruet them, Professor Deen thought that the only way, as the maker could not spare the \u2018time, was to czanloy & waa to go shout and give tie necessary fustruotioas.This, he eald, was to a certain extent being done in castern Outarlo.Clireu- lars and meetings dd not roach the public they wanted £5 get ot Aft er this the next important factor ls, A plece of The re- | DAIRY BOOKKEEPING, Records That Are Important and Easy to Keep, The bookkeeping part of the map- agement of a large dairy is of the greatest Importance, since on the sta- | tistical and other data the whole han- | dling of the herd depends.The follow- tng plan of keeping the records of a large Vermont dairy is given through The Country Geatleman by J.Wilder and shows how carefully all points are \"looked after by those who make dairy- \"ing their whole business.Mr.Wilder says: Cloudland farm has a herd of 157 Jerseys, old and young.Our mais | business is butter making.Our cows are part full blood, registered, and part are grades.We have now 81 cows nnd QU 2-ycar-old heifers to come In be- twçen this date and March L The intention is to keep n herd/of 100 cows, the limit of our stalls.In building up this herd the plan is to bring it to 300 pounds of butter each year and over, weeding out all that do not come up to \u201cthis standard, For this purpose (he proprietor engaged me to come April 1, 1890, and institute a system to keep record of all the anlmals, Our general average Is about 63 cows In milk from the 80 cows.We have six milkers.Milking begins at 5 in the , morning and 5 at night, letting no other work prevent the rule being come plied with, We have six milking sheets covering seven days, recording the weight of each cow's milk morning and uight.This is added up, and the wevk's result is recorded in n speelal bouk arranged for 13 weeks (one quarter).My plan Is to test the cows the last week of the first month In the quarter and the first week in the last month of the quarter.1 add the two tests together nnd divide it by two to get the average for the quarter.This gives the butter fat, whieh is extended into a column for that purpose, \u2018hen ta the last column T add 20 per cent to the Lutter fat to get the pounds of butter each cow produces in the quarter.This gives me the pounds of milk, butter fut and butter for the quarter ne ; cording to the calculations made.I Lave a herd ledger, with two pages for each cow, The left band page shows yame of cow, herd number (f registered, register number), the date of Lirth ¢f cow.dam and sire and date of dropping calf.If the ealf is to be ; raised, its herd number.name, sex and the «ire, if registered, are added: if sold, to whom soll and when; if veal ed, so record it, On the right hand page is recorded the average test, milk yield.butter fat and butter for cach quarter.Adding the four quarters to- ! guther gives the production for the year.From that we estimate the value \u201cof the cow, whether she is profitable | to keep in the dairy.Of course a heifer | with Ler first calf bas much for con- sideration\u2014her sire, age when she j drops Ler calf and the general points i for a good cow\u2014to decide whether to 1 ghve her another year's trial or not.Just here 1 wish to ask if the two trials in a Quarter is à s#fe plan to determine the quality of the cow for keeping or rejecting or can | adapt a ! better system of accounting to obtain | the knowledge desired?1 am green in herd accounting, never having examined how others keep their records, and desire to have the best or as good | as auy one.| 1 have another book in which ! keep i all the dates of service, with name of sirc and when due to drop the calf., This I report to the man in charge of the barn two or three months In ad- vauee, so that he can be on the lookout \"and properly provide for the cow ina box stall, Skimmilk and Buttermilk, The Kansas experiment station has been testing skimmilk and buttermilk in a private dairy of five cows to ascertain how much butter fat there was when the milk was set in fee water, cold water or cold air, us compared with the Joss when a separator wns used and run properly.They found from three to seven tenths of 1 per cent of fat in the skimmilk and 1 1-10 per cent in the buttermilk.The herd of five cows tested showed a loss in this way of 129 pounds of butter in the skimmilk and 31 pounds in the butter milk in a year.This 16 pounds at 20 cents à pound, for which price the dairyman was selling it to private customers, was a loss of $32 8 year or $6.40 per cow, and from a herd of 20 cows which were doing as these did there would Le 8128 per year saved by using a separator.That the milk and cream were as well handled as they weuld be by the average dalryman we can oaly judge by the price at which the butter was being sold.which is above duiry rates, and even the average creamery rates in Kansas this year.Henlthy Coss and Wholesome Food.Good butter, pure butter, so well made that it does not need to be renovated and that bas the aroma and flavor which it can obtain only from healthy cows, fed upon wholesome | food, and which will be destroyed by | uncleanly surroundings, Is the most \u2018palatable of all the fat foods that man | can take, or most of men.and it is also one of the imost digestible.There may be exceptions among the pure i vegetable oils, but there is none among \u2018tbe animal fats that we know.It should Le regarded ag a necessity rather than a luxury, particularly.for chil dren gud invalids, and we think that many of thern would be benefited by & move liberal use of it.Good food is cheaper than the use of medicine, and we think the dose of cod liver oll so often advised by physicians might well be given up and a liberal use of pure cream and good butter be taken In its place to the advantage of the health of the patient in many cases.It Is not ceonowy to limit the use of aay whole- _gomo food product that the stomach can digest at the risk of enfechbled (health.American Cultivator.ROAD PROBLEM SOLVED.How a New York Farming Commy- nity Got Good Roads.The splendid rund conditions existing on the continent of Europe can be duplicated here, says General Roy Stone.The question is one for the people themselves to solve, and It 1s actual- Iy befng solved In the United States today by the voluntary actlon of coutmunitles In various sections of the country.For example, 1 heard that there were sod especially good stone roads being constructed In the state of New York, so 1 went there myself, and to be sure that I should make a thorough test I went in the midst of a January thaw.1 got à pair of horses and a AN OLD TOLL ROAD.1:ht buggy to test other roads around the country, amd 1 found that with n great deal of diffienity T could drive over them.Rat in the seerion where the farmers \u201chad been building the stone roads | ; found that two tons of hay were belng hauled with two ordinary horses on an : common narrow (red wagon.I said Clo the farmers, \u201clow did you met, started in this business of building ronds?\" They said: *We started It ourselves, We thought we could do somethings, as our fields ave full of stone, with stone fences slong the roml, so we serapod : together vhoush money to buy n rock erusher, ail we hired an engine to run | it and made arrangements to bring in the stones and Laut back the cruslu di stone,\u201d | They have actually built in that: township every year for some years\u2019 past (rom three to five miles of this kind of road.and they have donc Unis\u2018 by direct actual taxation on their own property.They lave petitioned the, legislature for the privilege of increas ing their taxation beyond what the laws allow.and the result is that all the farmers In that township are anxiously wilting for the roads to be: extended foto their particular neigh- burhoud.I snid to thems, \u201cDoesn't (his pile up | your taxes?\u201cWhy,\u201d one farmer sald, |! \u201cin this ope week, by the advantage of having these stone roads and get- | ting to market with my hay, when it; sells at a good price, my teatus have | varned 85 every day, while my neigh- Dors' teams on the other roads are: cating thelr heads off, Wo could not afford not to have these roads.We do wot care anything about taxation.\u201d | Que Man's Road Work, ! \u201cThere lives near my howe,\u201d said a resident of Rockland, Me, recently, \u201cnl man named Edwin Melntyre, who | leads a hermit life and has a queer! hobby.Oue of the prettiest and best, kept picees of rond in Malue passes in | front of his lonely retreat.It has been | butit by Mr.Melutyre, who for the last, 25 years has, when not otherwise cu-| gaged, employed his thine picking up rocks and stones near his home and) pounding them into pebbles, which hej has put in the highway.In 25 years Ume he esthnates that he had pounded | 050,000 stones and made then ready: for road use.The town authorities, recognizing the value of the work, have for several years compensated the man; by giving him his road tax, Je claims; that be has already placed on the road i 20 cords of these manufactured stones.| Other towns in Maine envy Rockland.such a faitbful and skillful road build- | er.\u201d | All Pay For Poor RNonds, The actual money Joss to the farmer of the United States by the bad roads! of the country is not less than one; quarter of the total home value of all their products, The total home value of the annual products of the farms of | the United States is about $2,500,000, and the loss by bad ronds is about) $100,000,000, so that the farmers lose\u2014 ; or they would lose if they could stand alt that loss themselves\u2014onc-quarter of the value of all thelr products by the extra cost of getting them to market.They do not pretend to be alle to: stand all that loss themselves.They, stagger under it as well as they can, and bear ail they can of It, and the rest; they saddle upon the consumer and the dealer, The Bad Ronds Tax.The average cost of hauling one ton | a mile throughout the United States) fs 25 cents, In the New England states | it 1s 32 cents, they being more Hilly : and having generally worse roads, The | cost in New Jersey [a from 7 to 10: cents.| The actual cost of moving products\u2019 Is not the only loss by bad roads by any means, Farmers Jose by not being able to get to market when the market | is good, by the waste of products that cannot be marketed at all on account | of bad roads, by not being encouraged to cultivate things that require a\u2019 speedy market and In a great many other ways.\u2014Genéral Roy Stone.Bnd Roads Affect Business, and the commercial bodies In the United States are getting interested in good roads is the fact that the whole business of the country is suffering for the want of them.| SANITARY DRINKING CUP; One reason why the boards of trade 0 40.insures Cleanliness by Constant Flow of Fresh Water, llewbers of Lotu the board of edu- entlou and the board of health are dis cussing a new drinking cup fok use In the Atlanta publie schools.It is represented as being the most sanitary drinking utensil that has yet been tn vented, À picture of the new ¢up la reproduced herewith from the Atlanta Constitution.The cup Is stationary and rests over a basin which entches the overflow, SRR | wy BASTTARY DRINKING FOUNTAMS, The water comes direct from the pipes othe cup and is allowed to run ns long as desired, by a fancet just above the basin.Vi is proposed to allow the water to run into this cup during sehool hours There 15 a constant flow over the sides uf the cup, preventing contamination of any kind, SUeks, wevds or auy- thing clxe not too heavy be thrown from the cup hy the foree of the water, The edges can uever he contaminated by direased mouths because of Le coustaut dow, In duinkinz the mouth is placed to the cap without moving the contrivance, In additlon 10 its other advantages the cup Is believed to he especially: adapted to southern schools because tee cannot be placed in the water whieh the children drink.The water 13 cools ed by menns of à cofl of pipe around which ice is packed, the section being much dike that of a comlensing worm In a still The flow ts controlled, Ustravagance of the Paar, | In lis principles of économies Pro- cor Muaeshall says that perhaps 0U00,000 annually is spent hy the KL OULLOU0,000 hy fe ; Working classes sen ithe rest of -fhe population of England in ways that do little or nothing (o- {award making life nobler or truly hap- plier.The presidential address before | the economic section of the British as- soclation at its recent Bradford mect- ing by Henry Higgins was devoted to\u2019 proving the above statement by polnt- Ing out the many ways in which, large-! Iv through Hgnorance, the working Dedasses absolutely throw money away, | The simple item of food waste alone is almost enough, according to Mr.Mig- eins, to justify the above figures.The women do not know how to my evo-| nomieaHly, and owlng to Che large num-; ber who ire now practically \u201cbrought up\u201d in factories very few of them are\u2019 passible cooks or even gootl househeep- ers.Mouxekceping of even the lane Mer sort is an art.To know what (8 the cheapest food from the point of view of contained nutriment, how ta cook it to the best wlvantage and how not to bnve any waste does not come! to a woman by Intuition.As Mr.Hig-! gins says, if more knowledge and time! were devoted to the teaching of cooking In our sehools the meals of most | families would be more varied, more appetizing and nutritious and muoch more cconomicrl.Mr.Atkinson has| estinm that the waste of food M the; United States from bad cooking alone | fs over $1,000,000, 000 à year.Tn speak- ! ing of expensive habits, such as liquor | drinking and smoking, Mr.Higgins re- | fers to the lutter as the most econom- 1) of recreations.\u201cHow else, for in | stance, could the Harz miner give himself an agreeable sensation à thou- ; sand times a year at so low a cost ns 827 ut nabody,\u201d he eontinnes, \u201cwould wish to see a freeman using bis fobnc-; co as the Jtussian peasants described: to me by Prince Kyapotkin,d who first) chewed it, then dried and smoked It: and finally used the ashes ns suuff.\u201d | Phe time may pet be far distant, Mr.Higgins suggests, when In large tudus- | \u201ctrial towns the entire preparation of! meals will be {n the hauds of special | sts, Just as the originally domestic op-: erations of baking and brewing now are.\u2014New York Times.Production of Nfeket, À new process for the production of! nickel has recently been announced In France, It aims to produce pure nickel from the nickel matte in hut two oper- | etions.The ore is first treated in à; Manches converter to eliminate the tron, and a crude nickel is obtained, which contalns about 3 per cent of sul phur.This crude nickel In turn is treated in an open hearth furnace, aml by the use of special desulphurizing foagents the pure metal fs obtaines, Decline of Ta~uing In Maine.Searcity of hemlock bark Is reported to have caused the almost total extine- tion of the onde prosprrous tanning H- dustry in Maine.\u2018Floëzi there Is a large growth of hemlock in the state, It ls so far from practicable tannery sites that the cost of hauling prohibits Electrical Fiotsewhlp.An electricn) horsewhip gives the an.{mal a shock instead of a cut.A small battery is controlled by a push button.; Sçlousness aud knows SPINAL ANESTHESIA, - Wonderful Resnlts and Promise of.\u201cCorning Rcthod,\u201d Dr.J Leonard Corning, a disfine guished specialist in nervous and mental troubles of New York and a recoge nized authority in his branch of med- leal seteuce, is the discoverer of \u201cthe Corning method of spinal amvsthesia,\u201d a discovery *that is regardes! by med- feal nuthoritics as almost equal to the development of etherization, Triey described, the Corning method Ix the accomplishment of auwsthe- sin, or loss of sensation, in the lower hatt of the body alone, without caus- Ing unconsclousness, [t consists of the infection tuto the splual canal, as the longitudinal cavity in the spine Is eall- ed.of a solutlon of hydrochlorate of cocaine, commonly ealled cocaine.The Injection Is made at about the walst line.and the solution unites with the - fluid surronnding the spinal cord.For this finid-it has n chemient affinity, The paralyzing effect of the cocaine ÎB Imnuedintely made manifest in the sensory fibers that contnunieato with the nerves of the lower hall of the body.As a result all sensation ts lost In those parts, and surgleal operations may be performed without pain to the subject, Curiously enough, the cocaine affects the sensory but not the motor nerves, and even after the Injection is made the patient is capable of locomotion.The Corning metho! possepses ine finite advantages over the method ot complete amvthesia, Patients are spared the sting vapors of chloroform or other and the struggling for breath and the horelble hinaglnings go commen to the old method, The danger of complete collapse from kidney av Venrt disease le done away with, Although the patient vetalng his con- what ls golng on, It is usually deemed best to blind.full him, Several hundred operations have heen performed fn which tte Corntug method haw been used without a stogle fatality, Certain classes of nervous or hysterfeal persons never receive the new treatment, for their fortitude contd not withstand the nervous shock of knowing that the operation is belng performed even without actunl pain., For them complete anwesthesin is ad- visahle.The new method Is of inestimable Benet in eases of abdominal surgery, tn hernie In obsteteles and fn all opera- tlous on the lower Minis.That ff will ever be applied to the upper half of the body 3s considered by cininent medical authorities open to mneh doubt, Co- enine has 0 tanporarily paralyzing ef- feet nnd fs not always trastworthy, and the danger of applying WC to the vit] nerve centers, which are all sito.ated ntigve tie mibddle of the hody and which control the vital processes - res- pivation, lwact netion, braly setlon and 86 on- cannet be overestimated, Co.cine must never be allowed to rench these Important nerve centers.Phe Corning method, although of infinite and ueslenlable benefit to mane Khel, mast he confined to the hands of skititul and experlenced surgeons, In the hands of novices or reckless exper- Imenters 11 is enpable of greal harm even when applied to the lower reglons of the body, TC Is an exceedingly dell atte operation, for all spinal surgery requires Infinite pains and exhaustive knowledge.De.C'orning\u2018s discovery was not acel- dental, but was the result of logical thinking on the subject of coeainiza- tion.He made his discovery In 1885, only nbout rix months after the discovery of eocine self.Only within & few months, however, has big meth cote into general use, owing to ite del \u201cleaey and also to what Dye, Corning calls \u201cnn accident of selence\u201d Be- fides, I, l'orning 1x not 1 gurgeon, and it was for the surgeons to take up his discovery.A German professor recontly attempted to take The credit, but It Is a matter of record that the honor unquestionably belongs to the able New York physician, Fleetrle Furnacen, In a paper rem) before the arly elee- trical congress Mr.Kellar gave a good general classifiention of the electric furnaces enloyed at the present me.There are three classes-\u2014are furnaces, resistance furnnces and fneandescent furuaces, In the first class the heat Is generated Dy h voltaic are, Jo the re- HIstance type the heat Is furnished by thie passage of the current through 1n- perfectly conducting material, and fn the fncendescent Curnnee the material to be acted on Is not inftiaily conduet- fre, and 4 specinl conducting layer In required to start the current, The temperatures obtained In the eleetrie fürnace are sald to be in excess of 3,000 degrees C.And are the highest cet mitaiped artificially\u2014-New York Times.The Progress of a Century.There were only IR towns In the United States in 1700 which had enough population to put them Into the list of citles of the 8,000 classification.There were H58 towns in 1800.There tre likely to be more than 500 in 1900.Philadelphia was the largest of Amer- fean cities at the thoe the first census was taken, 110 yenrs ago, au New York was second, Boston third, Charleston fourth and Baltimore fifth\u2014Chl- tago News.Grent Famines.The worst famines of mei~rn times were the famine jn Ireland in 1846-7, n which 1000000 perished: the Indian Junine-of 1866, which claimed 1,450,000 vietims; the Indian famine «f 1877, In which 500,000 people periehied, nnd the famine In China In 1878, in which 9,500,000 died.An Onton Core, Among the Chileans n betef prevails that the juice of onions is # sure cure for typhold fever if given iu its earlier vtager Pa The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que.Oae your ia dvines payment F1.00 tf pris in six maid 1.25 Atthecontofth Lau AUVLETISING PATES.Travsient a lverti-ing eens a line for the first insertion and Seensal or cach sub sequent inserti ae lines tatheinen, Nond- rertisnent recoivedd for less Tati SU cents.COLUMBUS OUTDONE.Pekin Records Show That the Chinese Discovered America A.D.499.The Chicago Times-Herald publishes the following despateh from Washington: \u201cThe archives of Pekin have given up a secret that may lead to the solution of a mystery that has balked every student of American archaeology since the western hemisphere was first visited by Columbus, \u201cThere has been found in the ancient eastern capital records that prove conclusively that a landing was made on this continent by the Mongolians in the year 499 A.D., centuries before the Genoese Admiral was born, and before the acceptance of the theory that the earth is a globe led the wise men of Europe to seek a new world in the West.\u201cStudents of early American history have found unmistakable evide:ce of Asiatic civilization among the forgotten inhabitants of the coutinent.They have followed these traces through the wonderful works left by the Aztecs and faintly through the predecessors of the race, the Toltees.\u201cThey have found what they believed to be proof that this Asiatic in- Huence came to America from the north, successively through what is now California and Lower California, but beyond this there has been nothing but the vaguest speculation, which has given rise to theories as many and as various as the number and the imaginations of those engaged in the research.\u201cNot long ago it was announced in a despatch from Pekin that some of the officers of the army of the alliey had dag up in the sacred city records of great historic value that had been hidden away for ages by the Celes- tials.\u201cThe direct interest these discoveries have for America is brought in a communication just received at the State Department.These came from Ma Twah Lin, a Chinese, aud tell in such a way that tbe information cannot be doubted of the discovery of America by Chinese missionaries more than fifteen hundred years ago.\u201cOnly meagre details of this great scientific fact have been received hure, and what is in the possession of the department officials is being closely guarded.But enough is known to make sure the fact that the message from China sheds a clearer light on information that heretofore has heen extremely hazy.\u201cIt may bridge over a chasm of countless forgotten years\u2014\u2014years that have had the sages of the world by the ears ever since the ancient works of extinct races were found in old Mexico.The story is that five adventurous missionaries sailed from the eastern coast of China, crossing the Pacific and skirting the Fox Islands, and finally sighting the western coast of the American continent.\u201cThey turned southward and proceeded along within sight of the shore until a landing was made in Mexico, opposile the Peninsula of Yucatan.Here a number of temples were erected in the name of their own God.There is little doubt that these same edifices are described by De Charny in his book as \u2018Buddhist temples.\u2019 This interpretation of the Frenchman, while close to the mark, missed by a margin the real authorship of these evidences of an unknown civilization.\u201cIt may not have been Buddha, but probably it was Confucius, who inspired his zealous disciples.This may also clear up the mystery surrounding the astonishing strides of the Aztecs in architecture and industrial arts.\u201cThe supposition is that the Chinese wbo landed on our continent at that time instilled the natives with their wisdom in craft and the ruder arts to such an extent that there resulted a people of peculiarly high development.Be that as it may, the records found in Pekin will not be contrdict- - ed, and must remain as prima facie : Price 500 and $1.Guaranteed.bottles tree at F, W.D.Melloon\u2019s.| evidence of the courage and thrift of Chinaman.Seventeen Years of Torture.\u201cI had a bad cough for seventeen years,\u201d writes Mrs.Sam\u2019l Hamilton of Lawnville, Tenn.No doctor or med- fcine could cure it until one year ago I .began to use Dr.King\u2019s New Discovery for Consumption, which did me : More good than all other medicines I \u2018ever used, Itis truly a grand cure for gtubborn Coughs, Colds, and Throat and Lung troubles.\u201d Positively cures \u201cGonsumption, Pneumonia, Grip, Bronchitis, Asthma, Hay Fever and Croup.Trial CANADA'S LOYALTY TO BRITAIN.Why Does it Grow Stronger Rather Than Weaker us the Years Go By, A Careful Study in Causes by the Duko of Argyle.i The Empire is no longer a geograph- jieal expression.It lives and moves jand hasbeing.Men doubted, and now ithey doubt no longer.For the first time in all history, a parent state has seen her sons, who, successful builders of new slates, throw themselves of their own free will into her gnarrel, making it their own.They.have watched how in one of the colonies, foreign influence has been working against the welfare of a community liko their own.They have deliberately judged from their own experience it is not guod for that colony or for themselves as constituent parts of the Empire, that the grealoxperiment \u2018of nation building should be marred jor destroyed in South Africa.They thavo known among themselves how false is the theory or sentiment that racial differences should be crystal \u2018lized into effective national govern- iments.Free institutions are the solvents of racial eccentricities, ol seclusion, of partial priveleges and unwholesome ambitions.They have proved, by union among themselves, that new nations can only grow where tolerance and a power of adoption and the reception of new ideas co-exist.They have in some instances come through trials of great severity before they found this truth.The blessings they have derived from their know- i ledge they have determined shall be gained in South Africa.Even if their ministers had for a while held back, doubtful us many cautious statesmen are of entering upon a great experiment, before knowing the mind of their constituents, they could not hesitate except for a moment.The will of their peoples was instantly declared with 2 determination which no popular government could have resisted, leven if they had heen as they were \u2018not, desirious to do so.From New | Zealand, from Australia, from Canada, {camo the message, uttered as with one i voice, \u201cIn the danger menancing |Great Britain\u2019s Empire through the | peril affecting a great colony, we are with the Motherland, and with the loyalists in that eolony.We will aid in removing the evil.We will confirm the action of the parent state, we are at her side and our blood shall seal [with hers the young liberties of the {country we hope to see with ourselves; la free dominion under the Queen.\u201d | Never was there a conflict more grand lin lis immediate result.Whatever the future may give, however blighted | may be the hopes of this hour, the | grandeur of the desire to spread con- [stitutional liberty as forthshown by jour colonies, can never be darkened, The fairest hopes of netions as of men may miscarry, but it will ever be an encouragement to trust in the world\u2019s i progresss that loyalty to freedom, and advancement has been the Empire's | watchword in the closing years of this century.\u201cLoyalty to freedom\u201d \u2014yes.That is the loyalty of Canada.She is the oldest of those peoples who have wroght for order and liberty among themselves, and have won by their own work what they have sought.It is because the British Government have left them free to build their new nation that they have fought for another kindred nation\u2019s birth, This loyalty is allegiance to no government that does not stand as the champion of what they know to be liberty, They have not looked in vain to their old \u201chome\u201d for such championship.They have carried to their new lands the forms of procedure and legislation of law which they had at \u201chome.\u201d They are no fugitives from any rule; they are the apostles of the authority they knew and loved.This can be said of no other emigrants of any land or time.Others have fled from laws they found distasteful or oppressive, and have therefore not carried with them as household gods the institutions they were glad or content to leave behind them.It has beenother- wise with us.New York and New Scotland and New South Wales did not want to have a renovated set of institutions, but desired the old to flourish in the new soils christened by the ancient names.Constitutional liberty was to flourish on lands where a wide area could be attained for desires common to those who stayed and those who went.The faults of the eighteenth century were as dead as Julius Caesar.The colonies had become strong enough to prove that they required no leading strings.They were strong enough to know they could give good value for the naval and military aid this grand old country had been ever ready to accord to them.They saw that she would be hard put to it should the jealousy of foreign powers tempt them to assist an attempt to bring under a strange flag a great part of a sister colony\u2019s territory.They disliked the conceit and racial inclusiveness which made the secessionists of Dutch descent attempt to set up a separate small nationality half way between the Zambesi and the Cape, blocking progress, was a thing that might enlist the sympa- hy of gallant individuals, but could- not warp the judgment of statesmen | in its favour.Such a state would always be trying to make itself as important as its profession of independence prompted it to be, and would inevitubly mar the welfare of the larger area which ehould be under one | government, working for the welfare ! of the whole.The new wine was | bursting the old Duteh bottle, If the | old bottle had the Old Testament in| its favour, as its President declared, the New Testament had hotter toxts for tlre hospitality and generous spirit of the new wine.The great colonists liked the demands for eyual rights put forward for the outlanders.Thoy disliked their avoidance by the Boers.They disliked yet more the Boer doc- laration of war against the British to foster obsolete privilege.They said: \u201cThis is a war that concerns all who practice freedom in government.We fight with England.\u201d And then came the spectacle which stands alone as à world wonder.Volunteers begged to he enrolled, not in scores, but by thousands.Men ocen- pying peaceful and profitable places in civil life, but enrolled in the Canadian and other militia, offered their services to sail 7,000 or 10,000 miles to fight on the velt for the Queen\u2019s authority in Africa.Only a small representation from each enrolled regiment was taken, though in very many cases throughout the Canadian provinces whole companies, and more on each batallion desired to go.A ine body of infantry selected from every province, three excellent batteries of artilery, and a force of cavalry unique not only for efficieny of its men, but also because its equipment was the gift of a patriotic Canadian, Lord Strathcona, was the contingent sent by the British North American Dominion.Had- more been wanted more would ghave gone.And when they arrived at the Cape, eager to take part in the warfare at the front, they were nocessar- ily for a time obliged to guard communications and undergo the drudgery inseparable from all good work, but doubly hard to bear when comrades are reaping the harvest of battle and glory at the front.But the opportunity came before long to show of what metal they were made, and at Panrdeberg the desperate charge which immediately led to the surrender of Cronje\u2019s force, was led by the gallant son of the speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Captain Pelletier.A worthy descendant of an anciont French stock, the bravest among the brave, he and his comrades were ready to lay down their lives for the form of government which they knew at home as the outcome of old to Norman and British ancestors, and enjoyed by their race in the England they colonizad, as well as in Ensland\u2019s Canadian colony.Colonel Otter, a most experienced and gallant officer, commanded the Dominion infantry.Colonel Drury, an old friend of mine of a New Brunswick English descent, was chief of the artillery, one of the batteries of which arm took part in Mahon\u2019s wonderful march to the relief of Mafeking.At the Colonial Exhibition, I remember an old lady saying: \u201cHow proud the Queen must be to think that all these countries belong to her.\u201d \u201cThe old lady was right in thinking that the Queen personally holds the hearts and the allegiance of all.But she was mistaken if she thought that her British Governors could claim ownership.No, the great colonies have received and do received Britain\u2019s full support.They in return are ready to give their aid.But it is on no basis of legal allegiance based on common advantage, the more to be fostered and cherished on account of Jove and historic sentiment, and common use of institutions, that the connection exists.The Colonies belong to Great Britain only as Great Britain belongs to the colonies.It is the interest of the parent state to have these strong young men guard her doors and give no harbour to her enemies.It is the young states\u2019 interest to keep their shores inviclate by the Aid of the British navy, and their treasureries supplied by the confidence of British capilalists.Canada has more people than had England in the days of Elizabeth, She has more than had the United States when they delared independence.More tonnage passes the Canadian main canal at the east of Lake Superior than passes the Suez Canal.Australia is following fast in Canada\u2019s wake in population and prosperity.These are not states from whom allegiance can be exacted, or loyalty demanded save as loyalty comes from pride in commonancestry, in heart-hatred of baser forms of gov- erment, in love of the glorious traditions of our history, in resolve to keep united whose union means freedom and progress, and a common effort toward one splendid ambition, namely, one liberty, one grand civilization one flag, one empire, that shall keep for its members the laws they themselves are ready to maintain, by prof- erence in peace, and in necessity by war.{are unable to till tho soil.PUMDITA RAMABAI'S Rescue Woric in India Assumes Mammoth Proportions.\u2018The following extract from Rama- hai\u2019s lust letter gives some idea of the magnitude of her work and of her present situation, \u201cTheraing have come at last.Thank God for the refreshing showers.But many of the poor people in Clujerat Farmers have died with their cattle.T am still gathering in the girls.There aoe over sixteen hundred in my charge now, so you can imagine how much work it means, But our dear Father is good.He gives us our daiiy bread and necessary strength.1 have lacked for no good thing.\u201d The Record of Christian work has the following from Rev.Mr.MeCo- naughy of India: Hifow interosted you would have been if you could have called with me to-day on Pundita Ramabai at her widows home at Poona, I found her on her cot with fever, which had not left her for four days, but praising God and trusting him fully, Talk of heroes! 1 doubt whether the eleventh of Hebrews contains a finer faith.\u201d Ramabai\u2019s daughter, Manorama, way graduated last June at the À.M.Chesbrough Seminary, North Chili, N.Y, She was at the head of her class, received honors, and was awarded the prize by the Board of Regents of New York University.Prof.and Mrs.Roberts, principals of the seminary, speak with unqualified praise of Manorama\u2019s ability, strength of character, good judgment, and devotion to her chosen work.Her self-poise and yet utter uuconsciousness of self charmed all who met her.It was Manoroma\u2019s earnest desire to enter college, and tho preliminary steps were taken, but, when the child realized what she might be to her mother in herincreas- ing anxieties and cares, she hesitated not a moment in making her choice.She has gone to her mother in sore need, to her sisters in distress, to a work that is almost appalling in its magnitude, with a spirit of consecration rarely beautiful in one not yet out of her teens.What is this work?Nearly two thousand women and girls saved by Ramabai from ruin and death, to be fed, clothed, and sheltered; to be taught how to meet evil and conquer it (alas! they know too well what evil is): to be taught how to eare for their own bodies and souls, that they may know how to care for others; to be placed on a self-respecting, self-sup- porting plane, and become objeet-les- sons to India in what Christianity, education, and honest work can do for its women, especially its \u201cdespised widow.\u201d Tor all this a large and an assured annnal income is needed.God is raising up friends for Rama- bai and Circles are multiplying.Bus her needs grow apace with her work.In about two months the International Circle in these three villages will send its annual remittance to the Ramabai Association.Is it too much to hope that the membership might this year be doubled?A person can become a member by paying one dollar anpually.Again we ask for volunteers.ELLEN C.Ruaa, Pres.Ramabni Circle.Chamberlain\u2019s Pain Balm Cures Others, Why Not You?My wiie has been using Chamberlain\u2019s Pain Balm, with good results for a-lame shoulder that has pained her continually for nine years.We have tried all kinds of medicines and doctors without receiving any benefit from any of them.One day we saw an advertisement of this medicine and thought of trying it, which we did with the best of satisfaction.She has used only one bottle and her shoulder is almost well \u2014Aporpn L.MILLETT Manchester, N.H, For sale by al first-class dealers.The steamer Monk\u2019s Haven went down the St.Lawrence with a cargo of steel this week, bound for Avon- mouth.She will be the first vessel to bring a cargo of steel through the canals from the Upper Lakes and carry it across the Atlantic to England.A fleet of three similar vessels and two barges are expected to pass through before the close of navigation.This iilustrates the advantages of the improvements recently made in the St.Lawrence system of canals.The general elections for Prince Edward Island have been fixed for December 12th, Ha \u201cooled the Surgeons.All doctors told Reniek Hamilton of West Jefferson, O., after suffering 18 months from Rectal Fistula, he would die unless a costly operation was performed; but he cured himself with Bucklen\u2019s Arnica Salve, the best in the world.Surest pile cure on earth.35 conts a box.Sold by F.W.D.Mel- oon., Tho death is announced of Mr.W.G.Lyster, an old and respected resident of Melbourne.Will Work at Night.Countless thousands have found a blesssing to the body in Dr.King\u2019s New Life Pills, which positively cure Constipation, Sick Headache, Dizziness, Jauadice, Malaria, Fever and Ague and all Liver and Stomach trouh- les.Purely vegetable; never gripe or weaken, Only 25 cents at F.W, D ARGYLE.Melloon\u2019s.CORRESPONDERCE.The publishers of the JOURNAL do not hold themselves responsible fur the views or opinions ezprussed by coutributors, To the Editor af the Journal: Duan Sit:\u2014Will you allow me to ask threugh your columns if there is going to be u Conservative candidate in the field in Stanstead County this year?Itis currently reported that there being little chance for the election of any person in opposition to the present Government, there will be no cundidato put in the field, but an election by acclamation will be allowed Mr.Lovell.Of course we admit that with a Government that has carried out its pledges ns Well as the present Government has done, of which Government Mr.Lovell is a supporter, it will be difficult to elect a Conservative candidate this year.The question is whether it would be better to make the best fight we can or let the whole thing go by default.One thing is sure, the independent voters in this section are flocking to the banner of Mr.Lovell, and unless the Conservatives got a hustle on them at once it will be useless Lrying to do anything at all.There is little doubt that in securing Mr.Lovell as a candidate the Government has got the strongest man in the County, and the fact that very little can be said against the Government which he will support is also strongly in his favor.In the past the Conservatives have always got their candidate in the field before the Liberals, but this time matters aro reversed and the Liberal candidate is gaining voters everyday.If we are going to make a fight let us begin at once._ CONSERVATIVE.To the Editor of The Stanstead Journal: I was present at the Convention at Ayer\u2019s Flat on Monday, and, I want to correct an idea that some may have.Mr.Lovell was not desirious of having the nomination.The faet that he got the nomination was a greater surprise to him to all appearance than to any one else.I know that he himself did not want it at all and at first was almost bound to refuse it, and his father, the member for the Federal House, was fully as much opposed to his taking it as he was himself.They hoth took the ground that if another Lovell was put in the field people would say that they wanted everything that was going and would not bo satisfied unless they got it all.It was only after the Lovells had been assured that there was no other man in the County that the Conservatives feared as a candidate as they did Mr.Mood} Lov- cll, and the nomination was unanimously tendered to him that he would consider it at all.But after consideration and strong pressure brought to bear upon him and his father that it was a duty to the party and to good government that he should run, he consented to do so.Fe would not have the interest of his party truly at heart if he had refused the unanimous nomination of sixty-two delegates from thirty-one polls of the thirty- three in Stanstead County.As some persons might he disposed to try and make an election cry out of this matter it is only fair to the Lov- ell\u2019s that the facts I have mentioned should be given to the public.They did not want the nomination, they used every possible means to get out of taking it, but when finally it was put to them as a matter of duly they consented that Mr.M.B.Lovell should be the candidate.Of course it is not material as to the name of the candidate if he represents the best interests of the country and of the County.There are very few independent thinkers in the County to-day who will not say that it is in the interest of the County, of the Country and of the individual voter to support the splendid government which we have been having for three years past.A DELEGATE.DIED.RIX\u2014At Barnston, Nov.19th, 1400, George Rix aged 79 years, BORN.EARLJE-Tn Somerville, Masy., Nov.18th, 1900, a daughter to Me.and Mry, 8, C.Earle.NOTICE.Public Notice is hereby given that the School Managers in the School Municipality of the Township of Barnston will on Monday tie third Day of December, 16000, at seven o lock in the afternoon, at the school house in thir respective distriets sell the furnishing of tho wood required for the year 1901.By order of the Board of School] Commis- stoners of Barnston, HIRAM HOWE, Sve'y-Treas.Barnsaton, Nov.20th, 1900.AUCTION SALE.The: following property will be sold nt public auction at the residence\u2019of BE (4 Peebles, one and one-half miles North of Fitch Bay, Thursday, November 22nd, 100, at 1 o'clock sharp: Sulky, 2 Riding snddles, 8 Horses, 8 Shonts and 88 Mileh Cows.Terms\u2014Approved endorsed notes running one year ut 8 per cont, interest, Sale positive.GC, BÉEBE, Auctioneer, SITUATION WANTED.By man and wife on farm, or would take place on shares.Gond references.bi LEVI WILSON, Tice, Vt.NOTICE.Whereas my wife, Clarisn E.Aldrich, has loft my bed and board without just cause er prov- action, I ford: all persons harboring or trusting her on my necount, aa I shall pay no bills contracted by her after this date.GEO.D.GOODWIN.Smith's Mills, Que,, Oct.20th, 1600, 55w8 LOST.&trayed from Lake View Farm, Goorgeville on Nos.sh u Dark Calf, Finder will he suitably rewarded by informing Truman Bailey.STRAYED.re of the undorsigned, ono large yearling vr.brockle faced, without horns.\u201d Anyone giving information where she muy be found will be suitably rewarded.I.W.MORRILL.From the pus Neuralgia CURED La Grippe CURED Rueumatism CURED Colds & Fever CURED | It not found where mod HEADACHE CURED IN eines are kept send 25c.lente, D Qu whem 8 Dos af 30 MINUTE their Famous Headache Powder Tablets will bu sent you.Elections are Over AND WE ARE GLAD OF IT Kor Nomination and Voting Days have interfered very much with P.A.Bissonnet\u2019s Bargain Day, WEDNESDAY.Now it is all over and Bargains will still be given every Wednesday, when I will sell many goods at less price than they can be bought for to replace.Every Wedaesday I will give bargains on most every line kept in my store from Cotton Cloth to the very best of all wool goods.Bargains in Carpets.Bargains in Flannelettes.Bargains in Underwear.Bargains in Dress Goods.Bargains in Jackets & Capes.Bargains in Ladies\u2019 Costumes.Bargaing in Comforters & Blankets.Bargains in Boots & Shoes.Bargains in Overshoes & Rubbers, Bargains in Men\u2019s Suits.Bargains in Boys\u2019 Suits.Bargains in Men\u2019s Ulsters.Bargains in Men\u2019s Overcoats.Bargains in Boys\u2019 Overcoats, Bargains in Boys\u2019 Reefers, Bargains in Groceries.Bargains in Crockery.Bargains in Hardware.Bargains in Paint.Bargains in Furniture, ete., ete.SPECIAL BARGAINS IN Ladies\u2019 & Gents\u2019 Mackintoshes.IN FACT EVERY WEEK WEDNESDAY IS SET ASIDE FOR BARGAINS In this store, and every bargain not taken up on Wednesday will stand at the same price the following days till sold.The fact is I have a stock of %20,000 which is more than necessary to carry on business, and I wish to reduce it at any cost.So you may look for bargains any day of the week at, P.A.BISSONETT'S, I have just received a'large line of Street & Stable Horse Blankets Price from £1.00 to $5.00.The best value for your money in town.Also a very nico line of Fur Coats & Robes Which will be sold at a bargain.Come early and take your choice.A few sample sleighs now on exhibition.H.T.BALL.in effect Monday, Oct.8th, 1900.LEAVING SHERUROOKE, EXPRESS\u2014Lenve Sherbrooke 7.80 a.m., are rive St, Fanncis Lion, m., arrive Levis 1,20 p.m.arrive Quebec {Forry) 1.25 p.m.Pullman Palace Car Springfield to Quebec connecting at Sherbrooke with Pullman Car from Boston, daily, Sundays excepted.ACCOMMODATION\u2014Lenve Sherbrooke 9.80 p.m.srrive Levis 7.15 a.m., arrive Quebec (Ferry) 7.20 n.m,, daily, Suddnys excepted.FREIGHT\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 0.00 a.m., arrive Tring Jet.6,00 pan , daily.Sundays excepted, ARRIVING AT SHERBROOKI, EXPRESS\u2014Leave Quebec (Ferry) 2.45 p.m., leave Lovis 8.10 p.m., arrive St.Francis 5.80 p.mi, arrive Megantic 8 p.m., arrive Sher- prooke 8,45 p.m.Pullman Palace Car Quebes to Springfield connecting nt Sherbrooke with Puiiman Car for Boston, daily, Sundays excepted, ACCOMMODATION\u2014Lcave Quebec (Ferry) 6.50 p.m., leave Loviy 7.80 p.m.arrive Sher brooke 0.00 a.m., (en Saturday nights this train only runs as far ns Tring Tet., connecting from there to Sherbrooke on Monday mornings.) | FREIGHT~Lenve Tring Junction 7.00 a.m., arrive Sherbrooke 8.00 p.m., daily, Sundays excepted, For Timo tables, Tickets and all information apply to nny of the Company's Agents.FRANK GRUNDY, J.H, WALSH Gen'l Pass\u2019r Agt.General Manager. Business and Professional Cards, J.C.GILFILLAN, M.D.Homeophathic Physician and Surgeon, Beebe Plain, P.Q.Office st Rock Island: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7 to 8 p,m.; Tuesday and Friday, 2 to 3 p.m, DR.R.OSWALD ROSS, Oflee and residence, P.0.Block, Derby Line.DR.C.A.FRELIGH, Oitiee at Derby Line Hotel.Office Hours 8 to U u, m,, 1 to Z and 4 tu 7 p.mm.MISS |.E.MOORE.Trainod Nurse.Graduate of Heneral H wpital, Toronto and Inte Associate of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.Stanstead, Quo, Telephones: Bell 5; People's 10.GEO.F.WALDRON, M.D,, Physician and Surgeon.X-Ray Work and Eleetrical Treatment.Office at Derby Line Hotel, Office Huurs: 8 tu 9 A.M., 1 to Band 7 to 8 P.M, DR.C.L.BROWN, Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Flat.Officenext to P.O.Residence Chas, Vanglan®s.DR.L.À.LAPALME, Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Plain P.©.Office and Residence at Dr.Canfin]d'so)d place, RALPH M.CANFIELD, nm.np, L.R.C, P.(London) Etc.413 Shawimut Avenue, Boston.Office hours : 1 tu 3 P, M, Tto8P, M, DR.J.E.C.TOMKINS, Stanstead Plain, Que.Office Hours: 8 to Ÿ A.M, 1 to Z and 8 to 7 PM.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.81.T.D.WHITCHER, M.D, Physician and Surgeon.Beebe Plain, P.Three Telephones\u2014Bell, People's, Channel's.Office at Residence, C.|.MOULTON, L.D.S,, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Les Farm, Rock Island, Que, U.S.P.O, address Derby Line, Vermont, CHAS.H.MANSUR, Advocate, Roek Island, P.Q.Office over Pike Bros\u2019 Store.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c., Stanstead Plain, Que Will attend all eourts in the D tions a speecindty, riet.Collee- H.M.HO Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.S.P, O.address, Derby Line, Vt.es EYŸ, GRAND TRUNK'S NEW MANAGER.Mr.Geo.B.Recve, Who Retired Last May from General Traffic Management.Mr.George B.Reeve will succeed Mr.Chas.M.Hays as general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway system, the appointment becoming effective January 1, 1901.Mr.Reeve has returned from Southern Califor nia, where he went last spring after retiring as general traffic manager of the railroad.A high official of the company stated that the appointment of Mr.Reeve will, in all probability, leave the heads of all departments undisturbed, but it is also learned from other sources that Mr.Hays on taking charge of the Southern Pacific may take with him several men who were materially instrumental in assisting him to rehabilitate the road.The position, it is stated, was offered to Mr.Reeve a few days after the arrival of President Wilson in New York, but his acceptance was not received until Saturday morning, when it was given out semi-officially by Vice-President Price, being confirmed in the afternoon by the president\u2019s formal announcement.The appointment of Mr.Reeve is probably the greatest surprise of the year in American railroad circles, as well as being the cause for much gratification among his many friends, for it was generally understood that when he retired to private life after a continuous, active and envious career of more than forty years of successful railroading with the Gaand Trunk and its associated lines, he would spend his well-earned rest in the sunny climes of California, where he had established a beautiful country home.President Wilson\u2019s selection, in which, it is intimated by Sir Charles himself, he was largely governed by the recommendation of Mr.Hays, is the highest compliment that has been paid for years to any retired railway man.This is obvious when it is known that no less than a dozen officials from as many of the leading lines on this continent had brought to bear influence, political, commercial and otherwise, to secure the appointment as general manager.George Bell Reeve, the new general manager, was born October 23, 1840, in the county of Surrey, England, and entered the service of the Grand Trunk in 1860 as a clerk in the freight department, from which, after two years, ho was appointed telegraph operator.A year later he was promoted to train despatcher, which exacting position he filled with credit until 1885, when he was made a relieving agent.His promotion was rapid after that.In 1886 he became a station agent, and in 1873 he was selected to the position of assistant general freight agent.In this department his work was recognized as being thorough, and he was promoted in 1581 as traffic manager of the Chicago and Grand Trunk.In 1890 his duties were materially increased by Lis appoiut- ment as traffic manager of the Chicago, Saginaw and Mackinaw.While at Chicago during the great world\u2019s fair his departments handled a large percentage of the eastern business.When Mr.Hays came to Canada as general manages of the Grand Trunk and reorganized the various departments he chose Mr.Reeve as general traflic manager of the entire system, which position he odeupiod until April 30, 1900.On the evening of April 21 the officials of the passenger, freight and operating departments entertained Mr, Reeve at a dinner at which Mr.Hays presided.A massive cabinet of silver was presented to the retiring traffic manager, and when he left Montreal the Grand Trunk placed a special car at his disposal, RECONCENTRADO PLAN.Kitchener to Carry Out That Suggested by Roberts for Pacification of Boers.Despatches from South Africa say that General Kitchener will carry out Lord Robert's reconcentrado plan to pacify the Boers whose guerilla tactics are causing annoyance and loss to the British army in the field.It must not be supposed that Robert\u2019s reconcen- trado plan will be on the lines followed by Weyler in Cuba.Those gathered within the military lines will not he left to starve.It will be a severe military measure, but war is not pleasure, and the Boers by continuing the struggle when not the slightest hope of success remains have brought it upon themselves.The Anglo-Boer war may not have been a great war, but it has been a difficult one and has cost some 5500,000,000 of money and much life.Though the war is over, so far as organized resistance to the British is concerned, the killed in October on the British side numbered 167; there were 71 who died of wounds, 387 died of disease, 91 were missing and 2,875 were sent home as invalids, as aresult of the guerilla tac- tice adopted by the Boers.From the beginning of the war to the end of October, out of a British force of 234,000, 553 officers and 10,145 men had been killed or died of disease; 827 officers and men were missing or prisoners, and 1822 man and 33,077 mon had been sent home as invalids, making a total temporary reduction of the active force of 48,026.The deaths and discharges account for a permanent loss of 12,769.The Boers had altogether perhaps 60,000 men for service, consisting of 45,000 Transvaalers and Free Staters, 10,000 Boers from Cape Colony and Natal and 5000 mercenaries.Their losses arc estimated at about 30,000, of whom some 16,500 are now prisoners.The burghers now bothering the British probably do not number over 20,000, mais, Nobody knows all about it; and nothing, now known, will always cure it.Doctors try Scotts Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, when they think itis caused by im- of food.perfect digestion You can do the same.It may or may not be caused by the failure of stomach and bowels to do their worl, If it is, you will cure it;if not, you will do no harm.The way, to cure a discase is to stop its cause, and help the body get back to its habit of health, When Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil docs that, it cures; when it don't, it don't It never does harm.cure.The genuine has this picture on it, tak no other.Jf you lave not tricd it, sendl for frce sampie, its agrceable taste will surprise you.SCOTT & LOWNF, ' Chemists, Toronto, 50c, aud £1.00; all druggists, BOTHA STILL IN IT.| According to a despatch from Pretoria it is alleged that Commandant | Louis Botha has established a Govern- ; ment at Roosendal, north of Middle- burg, and that with the £150,000 which : he has available, he is paying the\u2019 fighting burghers a crown per day.Commandant Abel Erasmus is said | to be at Oliphants River with 2,000 men, 1,000 wagons and 12,000 cattle.From lleidelburg it is reported that\u2019 the Boers are compelling the burghers who had surrendered to take up arms again under pain of death.| | BOERS BADLY CUT UP, A Bloemfontein despatch says: \u2014! The Boers heavily attacked the rail-, road at Edenburg, Nov.15 (Thursday).| It is reported that the Boers were completely eut up.One report has ie! that 75 of the party were killed or! wounded.ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.The Liberal club of Magog will tender a banquet to Jon.Messrs.Fisher and Duffe at the Purk House to-night.Ephriam W.Abbott of Lennoxville died at his home Friday morning.| Deceased was for many years the\u2018 leading merchant of Lennoxville.He was born in Groton, Vt., 78 years ago but came to Canada when a young man.We are indebted to Mr.T.E.Cooper of Grafton, N.D., for a copy of an illustrated paper giving an account of the unveiling of the monument to the sons of Grafton who lost their lives in the Philippines.This is claimed to be the first monument erected to the fallen dead in the Philippine war.James Murphy, only surviving son of Customs Collector Murphy of Rieh- mond, died ono night last week somewhat suddenly.Deceased had been in delicate health for over a year and lately had an attack of fever but was not confined to bed being about the: house only a few hours before his, death.| Serious washouts ou the Boston & Maine Railway is reported from Mas- sawippi.The roadbed is damaged for several miles along the shore of the Lake Massawippi, all trains being stopped this morning.The rain and wind storm of yesterday afternoon and last night was one of the most severe storms ever witnessed in this section.Mrs.Sarah M.Cheney of Beebe Plain who died Saturday morning, Nov.17th, was born Jan.10th, 1838.For 37 years she had been a resident: of Beebe Plain, where she left a host, of friends.Funeralservices were held in the Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o\u2019clock, Rev.L.E.Marg- graf, the pastor of the first Universa- list Chnreh of Derby Line, officiating.Mr.H.C.Wilson died in Compton last Thursday.Deceased was born at Bradford, Vt., and came to Canada when a boy, locating in Compton in which town he became one of the most prosperous farmers.He was one of the pioneer singing school teachers and his taste for music finally led him into the musical instrument business.In 1875 ho moved to Sherbrooke and established the trade now carried on! by hig two sons under the firm name of H.(.Wilson & Sons.He was a Justice of the Peace and had been a member of the Sherbrooke Board of Trade, Chairman of the Board of School Commissioners, &e.The corporarion of the village of Granby has obtained an important decision in the Supreme Court at Ottawa.Two years ago a man while working in a sewer was killed ina; cave in.The widow brought suit for | %5,000 damages.The action was dismissed by Judge Lynch in the Superior Court at Swcetsburg.This judgment was reversed by the Court of Appeal, which gave $3,000 damages and costs.The latter decision has just been reversed by the Supreme Court, which sustains Judge Lynch\u2019s judgment in the court of first instance.Including costs the amount involved is about $5,000.Messrs.Amyrauld and Duffy appeared tor the corporation.At a meeting of the Fastern Townships Dairymen\u2019s Board of Trade held at Cowansville, November 17th, 32 factories offered 2108 hoxes cheese and 164 boxes butter.J.Gibson bought 1375 boxes cheese at 10, and 28 at 93.H.Hibbard bought 378 boxes cheese at 10,and 73 boxes butter at 20.W.P.Hibbard bought 77 boxes cheese at 10.Total, cheese sold 1858 boxes, and 73 boxes butter.Total cheese hoarded this season, 87517, sold as follows: H.Hibbard 7275, W.P.Hibbard 3106, J.Barrut 7413, J.Gibson 11845, P.F.Ferguson 16944, J.Alexander 3156, R.H.Arthur 1751, G.W.Brock 5170, C.Wilkins 458, T.C.Williamson 298, J.Odell 5289, A.J.Brice 3148.Total sold, 65853.Lowest price 9!;, highest 11'y.Board adjourned to second Saturday May, 1901.Working Ovrtime.Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless little workers\u2014Dr, King\u2019s New Life Pills.Millions are always at work, night and day, curing Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation, Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel troubles.Easy, pleasant, safe, sure.Only 25c at F.W.D.Mel- oon°s.| : Two est time he bad yet dune.j first platform AUTO\u2019S PERILOUS CLIMB.| LlePuMe Made Record Dash Up Steep Incline at Automobile Show, } Joseph MeDuttiv's sensational aerial | fielit in au automobile became more | than ever the other day a feature of | the motor vehicle show in Madison | Square Garden, says the New York § Berald, Spectators througed the roof | of the big building throuxhout the aft- ; ernnon and evening to see the feat per- | formed.To accorumodate Ure crowds | the daring operator was compelled to i riake the ascent up the artieial bib: every few minutes, ! In one of the climbs he broke his previeus record by making the 200 foot run un the grade in an even 40 seconds, hundred persons who watehed | the performance held their breath until the rider had reached the top plat- forui.73 feet above their heads.lt | { \u201cvas late in the afternoon when MeDuf- fe made Unis record trip.He had been up and down the fuclined runway more than 20 times amd wes becoming just a bit wenried of his hazardous task, As he wheeled the automoblle inte position for the start he noticed several gentlemen standing near with watches in their hands, On the spur of the mowent he deeld- ed he would make the run in the quiek- Giving the controller of his machine a sharp turn, he literally shot from the level flooring on to the first plane of the incline, Then, before he hind reached the see- ond plane of a 55 per cent grade.he opened the throttle still wider, and almost before the startled onlookers real- {zed it the vehicle was on the level platform at the foot of the third and steepest plane of the hill, the grade of which is 42 per cent.Over the platform awd up this grade the Httle ear riage dashed as surely and swiftly as If it had been on a level streteh of road.At the top of this grade a second platform, nine feet square, gave the driver a fraction of à second of breath.inz space before making the ascent of the home stretch.Before entering this streteh, however, the operator was required to make a sharp turn at right angies, which he did without slackening hits speed in the least.Ouickly the vetiicle and rider rose up the last grade of 35% per cent that enr- ried then away up the side of Diana's tower.As lie glaneed earclessly to one side MeDuftie saw far below him the roof of the University club and the trees and fountains of Madison SQUATR, with Broadway and the Dewey nreh Deyond, Crowds of persons wittehed this last perilous climb fromthe streets below and mingled their cheers with those of the wore elevated spoetators when the daring motorist landed safely on the topmost platform, His time to that point, as taken by the time keepers below, was 40 seconds, This, however, did not complete the performance.Ilalting scearrely n minute on the level spaee, MeDatlie slowly backed his antomoblle down to the below.Turning there he allowed the machine to run down the other grades of its own volition, | bringing it quickly to a stop at the foot of the artificial hill.FARM FOR SILVER FOXES.a Alaska Man Will Start n New Indos- try In Minnesota, Cyrus Clark, whose home is at du-! nean.Alaska, has organized a company to establish a silver fox farm in Min- | nesotn.In speaking of the enterprise to au reporter of tle Chicago Inter Ocean Mr.Clark said: \u201cSeveral years ago 1 was in the employment of the Alaska Commercial | company, and in the course of a trip north | visited Middleton Island, which ; 15 about 500 miles northwest of Sitka and GU miles from the coast, Here the company has a farm for raising the silver fox, and the farm produces thou- samls of dollars annually, 1 decided then that | would start a similar farm, but that 1 would locate It nearer civilization and the for market.A cold ¢li- maie is necessary for that species of fox to thrive nnd attain its full growth, but I am of the opinlon that it will do | as well In Minnesota as In Alaska.The climate fn the northern part of the state is as cold as where the farm 1s located In Alaska.\u201cI'he first thing to be procured in starting thls cnterprise Is an island in a fair sized hody of water, and there will be no dificulty to find that in Min- Besota.An island Is necessary, for It would be impossible to keep the foxes In an ordinary inclosure.\u201cAs soon ag the company is organized and a farm ls selected I shall return to Alaska for the purpose of procuring 20 pairs of the most choice silver foxes to be found.For the first few years | do uot expect that we shall make anything out of the venture, for we would not take a single animal from the flock during the first four years.They multiply rapidly.as eight young foxes are always born at a time.\u201cOn account of the scarcity of the silver fox the pelts now sell for $125 each.I sce po reason why our company should not make à good profit on its Investment.We shall certainly be able to undersell the Alaska company.\u201d Portraits of Aborigines, Mr.Herbert Vos of New York bas planned to exhibit a series of oil portraits representing ethnological types in the department of ethnology and archeology of the Pan-American exposition.He will paint for this purpose five or six additional portraits to complete his group of aboriginal Amer- lean types.Mr, Vos is a Hollander by birth, but 18 an enthusiastic American citizen.His gpeclalty fn art is a delineation of ethnological types, and far this purpose he selects faces representing in a large degree the appearance of certain races.Ie has taken pairs to find actual persons whose faces should represent a fair average of the people to whom they belong.Ou SLT Elegant Nickel Work and Carving.Removable Duplex Grate.Direct Front Damper.Ash Pan Full Width of Grates, Ventilated and Ty These and other points of su the Best Cooknig Stove in Cana Fire Box Air Tight.Fire Box for wood 2 inches.No.9 Oven 21 x 21, «No.B Oven 18 x 18, Ussod Steel Oven, periority make the Pearl Range da.Sold by ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE 00.Simplicity, Speed and Durability.Combine to make the \u201cEMPIRE\"™ TYPEWRITER the most use office machine in existence.WILLIAMS M'F\u2019G CO., Montreal.NOTICE.My Maekes-mith Shop will Tae dosed Waal dassand saturdays cntil the first of Diessuber CL DEAN.core Heathton, Get, 18811, 1850.MILLINERY.You will find a very good line of Millinery at MRS.N.IVES, Gilmore's Block, Railroad St., Rock Island.Mrs Ives also intends having a first - class Dress- maker for Spring work.Notice to the Public.In order to make room for a nice: new stock of Tin and Agateware to get my Xmuas Goods in early.Estimates Cheerfully Furnished On Roofing Plumbing, Furnace work and Heating of all kinds.The Best Furnace on the Market.J.A.STEELE.| AT FISH'S.Just Received.A fine assortment of American Fleeced Underwear in Gents\u2019 Ladies'd Misses\u2019 and Infants\u2019.A full line of Ladies\u2019 American Flanellete Wrappers, extra value, 10 doz.Men\u2019s All Wool Etoffe Pants, just the thing for coming winter weather from $1.25 pair.Men's and Boys\u2019 Overcoats marked down to £3.00 and 85.00, Men's Suits from $3.00, Other goods in proportion.Try our 25c.Tea, the best value in the County.Flour & Feed a Specialty.We have decided to sell flour cheaper than others who have had to buy since the rise in price.PRICES TELL.\u201cNorthern Star,\u201d the best Bread Flour, 22.50 bag.Bran, 817.75 per ton.Respectfully, A.E.FISH.Bargain Days Every Day Brisk trade evps our stock moving, necord- ingty cor ode are adwnys fresh, That's ane thing that guess the réputation of looping bettei jeonels flan semer otre Wheat Marrow, Pettijohn's Breakfast Food, Malt Breakfast Food, Qualker Rolled Onts.Alt these may he depended upon ns being al- saohitely Frese if bonght at our store.CANNED GOODS, INCLUDING: ! Ox-tail Soup, ! Chicken Soup, Mock Turtle Soup, ; Tomatto Soup, ! Canned Tongue, Ham Soup, Cottage Soup, Potted Beef, Potted Tongue, Deviled Ham, Club House Meat, ; Canned Peaches, Pears, Plums, | Preserved Figs.! Japan Tonus from IKe,up.Blnck ! TEA S 9 Tews, Blue Ribbon ane Gg, iT am going to give you good bargains! {1 Pnekage Are Baking Fowder piven away with oe, article of Agate ware for We, 19 hy.best Granulated Sugar, $1.00.Boots and Shoes, Tumhermen\u2019s Rubbers.Highest enah prices paid for raw furs.~J.C.DOWNS & CO., Stanstead, P.Q.Great Bargains AT Having decided to sell out my stock of Dress Goods I will sell the following at the wonderfully low prices quoted below: Fancy Dress (toods, 38 inches wide, regular price 35c., Lo-day 19c, Fancy Dress Goods, 35 inches wide, regular price 35c., to-day 29c.Fancy Dress Goods, 38 inches wide, regular price 60c., to-day 36c.Shephard Dress Plaids, 40 inches wide, regular price 60c., Lo-day 38c.Dress Tweeds, 54 inches wide, suitable for Golf Skirts or whole Suits, regular price $1.25, to-day 80c, I have also a very nice line of Black Dress Goods that I willsell at the same low prices.Fancy Ginghams, Flan- neliettes and Prints, odds and ends for a trifile to clear out.Try my 25c.Japan Tea and my Graham, fresh ground every week, 10 lbs.for 25c.Come in and examine the goods and be convinced that I mean business.Stanstead Sept.12th, 1500. NEW DWARF TOMATO.A Varjety Elspecinlly Adapted to the Home Garden, Since the introduction of the Dwarf Cliunpion tomato about ten years ago a demawmd bas been created, sys ural New Yorker, for a tomato of similar habit bearing a goud crop of bright scarlet fruit The compact, stocky growth of the Champion is very al- tractive to the amateur, and thousands of plants of this variety are grown every spring for the grocery and other forms of retail plant trade.There is much disappointinent, however, when these pretty plants fruit.as the tomatoes are dull red in color, rather soft and small and none too abundant in number, Considerable netivity lias heen evinced in breeding new sorts from the Dwarf Champion, and a number of scarlet fruit \u201ctree tomatoes\u201d have lates {y been oflered by seedsmen, or are still undergoing tests in the hands of intro.ducers.Mast of them show progress toward the desired type, but fail to combine all the necessary qualities.The Quarter Century, which vriginat- ed in 1866, comes nearer to the ideal dwarf tomato in the opinion of many experts who have repeatedly tested it than any of its competitors, 11 appears ed as a *xpe$0 in the third generation from a cross between the Lorillard, à bright scarlet variety of high quality, largely grown under glass as a forcing tomate.and the Dwarf Champion.Though it lias been repeatedly grown In areas as Large as two or More actes, it comes perfeetly true to habit and color so far.and bids fair to (ll the bill completely for those who want a DWARF TOMATOES, compact growing tomato, bearing good sized, bright scarlet fruits of the best table quality.The cut is reproduced from a phote- graph of one of three main branches of a plant grown under Ute most ordinary culture and fertilization, + larger tomatoes having been about \u2018four inches in diameter, the cluster weighing near- Iy six pounds, of the dwarf or upright form of the garden tomato are that the plants are more resistant and manageable than the long, sprawling Kinds, They can be grown to good size in a small pot or box and suffer much less when set out in dry They con be planted much nearer together, limited grounds.The dense foliage shades the fruit and greatly lessens sunscald, while the favor is better cof beet cautle in the country during the feeding svason.The special advantages ! ; facts of the situation for the past two cor three {the corn belt a good deal more eau- awl unfavorable weather, ; thus getting a larger yield from | ; reconcile preserved by the slower ripening dur- ' Ing extremely hot weather.Mr.T, J.White of New Jersey gets the very first ripe tomatoes from this variety as against all the \u201cextra earlies,\u201d for he is enabled to grow the plants to sufficient size In a four inch , prices., great many pot under glass to set one or two clus- ' ters of tomatoes, which hold on and ripen outside, and be gets the last ones, as they continue to bear until frost.f Innects Tn Stored Grain, Every year after harvest comes the time of trouble with inscets fn stored grain, Concerning these pests, which work in the grain bin and often do great damage before they are discovered, Rural New Yorker advises thus: All grain bins should of course be thoroughly cleaned before the new grain is put in.If the weevils appear.there are two ways of killing them.Raising the temperature to 110 degrees will destroy thein, but that is hardly practicable in most granaries.The most effective remedy is found fn bisulphide of carbon.This is a powerful poison.It is quite inflammable and must not be used near an open fire.When put at the top of the bin, It volatizes, and the gas, being heavier than air.sinks through the whole mass of grain without injuring it.The usual application is about a pound and a half of Lisul- phide to a ton of grain In n tight bin, More should be used when the bins are open.The bisulphide may be put in shallow pans or saucers and thus scattered over the surface of the bin.Then close the top and throw a blanket over to exclude the alr, leaving it alone for 24 houra.Winter Cabbnge, Cabbage Is easily kept all winter by being burted in the ground head downward., Select the most firm heads, eut \u201c \u201cOff tbe root smoothly and pack them in \u2018plies much as apples, turnips or siml- lar things are treated.When removed, \u201cA few leaves may be found spoiled, and it will be necessary to thoroughly \u2018elennse.the whole bead, tearing off âch leaf before boiling the head, as a inall brown worm, easily detected, is iläble to work its way in among the létives, says Meehan's, ; required to keep it to a high state of } productiveness overlooked, weeds, THE ASPARAGUS BED, | Water and Spring Care\u2014Top Dress.Ing, Use of Salt, Ete, | The asparagus bed is quite apt to be | neglected at this senson or the cared >ofore the 1st of September the tops should be cut and the bed or fiela cleared of It Is highly important that alt, thie seed should be taken off, as the greatest enemy the asparagus bas in the Way of weeds is asparagus, amd it is almost impossible to get clear of superttuous plants when once estab- lishesl, When this work is finished, cover the bed to the deptis of three.inches with coarse muantre, wlich will: bot only eurielh the soil, but will keep out the frost, which is highly essential, Like all other siliceous plants, the asparagus is making preparations in winter for its spring work, This it, eunnot du if the soil is frozen.lu cti- mites where freezing and thawing ul- teruate in rapid succession the buds: will Le greatly benefited if covered stiliciently deep with leaves or sen- Weed on top of the manure so that it.Will Le inpossible for the frost to reach the crown of thé plants.The first veork in spring shoukl be to remove ali the covering except the fine manure, which should be carefully forked in so that the crowns will not be injured Ly the tines of the fork.\u2019 Vhife the asparagus is apparently a hardy plant and one almost impossible ! to exterminate there is no plant that resents injury so quickly, as will be, seeu by the difference in the size and number of edible shoots it will send up.Forking the beds should not Le neglected, as the early admission of the sun und rain jute the ground in-, duces the plants to throw up shoots of superior Another step in the\u2019 risht direction is to keep the ground entirely free from weeds the entire Senson, as these take from the plants the strength required for their own.growth, ant the gus needs it all, | according to a writer in New England Hemestead, who adds: Although there is a difference of opinion as to the benetit of salt on asparagus most of the best growers on Lung Island cover their beds with salt as soon as the ground is cleared and the wanure forked in in the spring to a depth ef half an ineh in some eases, Although that much may not Le re-| quired, it certainly does ne harm, but | an application of salt so that the | groud appears as if covered with! snow is ceusidered by many an abso- | lute necessity if the best results are to be expected.Western Feeding Cattle, For several years past after dt became evident that there was a shortage a good deal of money was lost in the corn belt | in feeding steers from the western \u2018 ranges.We know of some men who lust about all the corn they had, Othe: ers, More fortunate, eae out even, and the only advantage they derived from their feeding operations was that they bad the company of the cattle Much of the loss was due to the fact that exorbitant prices were paid for feuding cattle as compared with the value of the cattle when finished.In many instances serious loss was sustained because Inferior cattle ineapable of taking a finish had been purchased.The yeurs have made feeders in tious, amd they ave not now disposed to pay extravagant prices for feeding stock.There is a growing recognition of this, too.on the ranges, and the press of that section is endeavoring to! the range cattlemen to the for acceptance of lower necessity When feeding cattle became scarce two or three years ago, feol happened to be unusually plenty.It induced a men who had previously had little or no experience in feeding to try their luck with a lot of cattle.They pushed into fhe market for cattle, thereby increasing the volume of ingui- ry and enlarging the demand, with the result that experienced feeders were driv en to choose between paying more than\u201c they knew they ought to pay or doing without.Some of them did without, Others decided to chance it And hought and fed, hut made no money.The new men generally lost money, amd, deciding that enough was as good as a feast, they have quit \u201cbulling\u201d the feeding cattle market.Fred- ers of experience wlin know how to make money in the work when the rel- tive prices of feeding fluished cattle will admit of it are now pretty well determined to buy such feeders as they want at a figure that will leave : them a margin or not buy at all \u2014lowa | Homestead, Pratecting Manure, On many farms the manure is thrown out of the small tle up windows into piles that have a \u201cshed\u201d roof above them, as showa fn the diagram.This works well provided a front fence iy used to keep the manure from rolling down under the caves and to protect it from ; rainstorms, says The Farm Jour nal.The roof and the front protection keep out most of the rain.The tail end of the cart can be backed in under the roof when the manure is: \u2018to be luaded.Tree bands for fall eankerworin must be applied early In the tall and kept there until late in the winter and again very carly in the spviug and | sometimes even in January and not re- mored untfl sumuser.; bown side by side at the , come ; sumption, ; monia: ; ts erganie, ; to Carlsbad.fof a Brooklyn neighbor of mine, who, trafic 1s strongly \u2018children before they chan walk.THE SALOON N DEGRADES.Everything About n Barroom Has a Lowering Tendency, | The Larroow is and has always been | the magnet of an evil genius, It at, tracts the high and low It has alway A attracted the rough and low, and when attracted they become lower, From i the days of Nymplie, io his red rooms on the Nile-red with wine, old and news attracting the Imps from the subterranean world, the fallen ones\u2014low In blrth and life\u2014from Mergher's pits of dariness and gloom, the escaped | princes and kings\u2014hizh ericgnals from sdentiny's prison house down to the present tine\u2014in every country, elie and age the barroom has been the greatest magnet, drawing together mor: al lepers and social carrion, Princes in high Life and bummers ln; low life have po dealings on the street, | but that which attracts the poor street beggar to the barroom attracts the prince.Under the influence of this: lecherous charmer they are powerless, | table of Bne-, boon companions.Amid chus they sit, the smoke of the weed, eaths and vul-| gar jests they become loving, and ev-, cry attribute and all the senses bee numbed, paralyzed.poisoned.There is nothing about the barroom.that is not degrading.From the time © you enter you hear and see nothing but | what degrades and what any soul of pride would shrink in horror at having | his children see, And to behold his wife courting such associations would | be evidence that she had lost her honor | and virtue forever.\u2014Lr, RL C.Flower.| | PROPER FIES OF ALCOHOL.| | How It Affeets the Vital Orssans of! the Humnn Body, Alcohol ereates jnordinate thir st] when taken into the stomach.the usa- al consequence being a desire for more aleoliol aud with the same result.It causes dyspepsia of the eatarrhal va-° riety, with a resulting intevference with a sufficient supply of fond; it nets Upon the liver by creating new interstitial tissue, which, contracting, causes the liohmail appearance so often spoken of in autopxies of alcohulies: it causes a fatty degeneration of organs, thus interfering with their functional activity.Another property of aleohol is to! harden tissues, aml we very often find! such to be the ease in the various pares.of the organization.The following dis-! eases nnd conditions have been obser ed in this class of cases: Organie heart.disease, especially fatty degeneration; ; t similar condition of tbe blood vosselss disease of the lungs, including con-| amd a proneuess to paeu- | kidney disease, particularly ; that variety known as Bright's ais | Case, As well as diabetes and the depo- i sition of urinary salts, predisposing to, calenlus: degeneration eof the eye: in-| ahility to sleep (insomnia) and other nervous conditions, funetional as well such as epilepsy.paral f sis, | delirium tremens and insanity: loss or perversion of the moral sense and pas- | sions indueing frequent perpetrations | of all the crimes M the calendar, fn- cluding murder and defranding insur-; ance companies, which is a crime\u2019 against the widow and orphan.j ! + | Wine to Me Is Poison.| The late Baron Ferdinand de Roths- | child was an enthusiastic temperance advocate, and we are now able to quote | some very remarkable words he once used in rerard to the injurious effects of wine drinking.Mr.T.PF.O'Connor, JM.IM.once ask-' ed the late baron, at the end of a fa-! tiguing session, to what place hie vas! going\u2014to Homburg or to Kissingen or; Ï | \u2018To none of those places.\u201d be replied.| \u201cIT never want a cure, heeause I never! drink wine.Wine to me is poison.\u201d | Commenting on this frank confession.Mr.O'Connor says: \u201creflected that here was a man who could have! the choicest wines of the world, everything that money or taste or knowledge could buy, and his conclusion was that to him wine was poison, It was a liv- Ing sermon against wine which produced ain uneffaccable effect upon the mind.\u201d Whisky Makes Liars, In a general summary of the common symptuins following the use of alcohol untruthfulness or a low respect for their word is most prominent, A man who previously touk pride lu the cor roctness of his promises nnd state ments will become indifferent, promise anything, make any statements, wheth- or true or false, A man previously i hanest and trustworthy will he found doing dishonest things, cheating persons, taking advantage in little matters ; and failing to act fairly in the interest of others.Temperance Spurs, It does not pay to give one man.for $15 a quarter.a license to sell liquor and then spond 85,000 on the trial of | another man for buying that Hguor and | conumitting murder under its influence, Within this glass destruction rides, And in its depths does ruin swim; Around its foam perdition glides, And death is dancing on the brim! What a New York brewer said: church people can drive us when they try.and we know lt Our hope is in working after they grow tired and continuing to work 365 days In the year.\u201d Tt is nol every one that has the nerve \u201cThe Laving once been an inebrinte, used to say to any one who Invited him to take a drink, \u201cIf you ask me to do that again, I'll knock you down!\"\u2014Dr.Cuy- ler.The wide renching curse of the Nquor illustrated by the fact.lately brought out, that the milk from cows tod with distillery hops con- talus nearly 6 per cent aleohol and so 18 as Intoxicating as some \u2018beers.Thus we may be making \u2018drunkards of oe Artistie Difficulties.Custonter\u2014 Why do make another plate?failure?l'Lotographer\u2014The pleture was some.you want to , What tou close à likeness, ma'am,~Der | DorfLartier.A Public Character, \u201cYou'll have to be identified, sir.\u201d \u201cWho?Me?me.I'm the champion checker player of Hayseed county.\u2019\u2014New York Jour ; nal.Too Bad, a \u201cDo you find fishing a hard life?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.Yer see if the ole woman don\u2019t happen to have no lodgers, why, there's nothing but work to look for rard to, sir,\u201d =Judy.A Respite For the Cuckoo, The Hunter\u2014Doggone It! I've missed again.Now I'll have to wait another hour.Engratitude, \u201cBad news, Emma! Uncle Toblas has been speculating and has lost bis whole fortune!\u201d \u201cWhat! After we have named our little boy after him: rhe ungrateful wretch!\" \u2014Ilicgende Blatter, Considerable Difference, Wayside Dinns (roadingi\u2014 Here's an article says \u201celectricity is life.\u201d Artle Alrbrake\u2014Docs, ch?Well, I guess de guy dat wrote dat never had bis choice between life or electricity at Sing Sing!\u2014Leslie's Weekly.vas the first a Why.everybody knows : ~ YOUR Special Attention My New Assortment of Fall & Winter Goods continues to arrive weekly and among the collection now shown are the latest designs and the best values lobtainable.LADIES\u2019 Capes Jackets and Costumes, PRICES RANGING FROM $3.00 TO $18.00.AND MISSES\u2019 Tweeds for Skirts, Tweeds for Costumes, Tweeds for Golf Capes.Our line of Tweeds is large and all new goods.Beautifal Assortment of Crepons & Grenadines.Meltons in Grey, Brown, Red and Green, 40 linches wide, 25c.per yd.Fancy Silks in Waist Patern lengths.Also Ready-made Silk Waists, Latest Styles, All-over-laces in Black, Cream and White, 60c.to $3.00 per yd.| have also completed my stock of Dress Trimmings and can now show a full line of ill | Percatines.Satteens, Satinets, Cambrics and Silesias in all shades.I must ask your attention to my stock of Opera | Flannel, Flannelettes and Wrapperettes.They are es- \u2018pecially good this season.New Patterns! Strong Cloth! Popular Prices! Ladies\u2019 and Misses\u2019 Flanneltte Night Gowns, 50c., 75c.and $1.00.Ladies\u2019, Gents\u2019 and Children\u2019s Fleece-lined and ; AIl-Wooi Vests and Drawers.Men\u2019s Half Hose, Fleece-lined and Cashmere.Ladies\u2019 and Children\u2019s Hose, Cashmere, Fleece-lined and Woolen, C.H.KATHAN.FURNITURE.We Have an Immense New Stock of Furniture.Ten Different Varieties of Bedroom Suites.Extension Tables, Chairs of all kinds, Morris Chairs, Parlor Suites, Baby Carriages, &c., &c.If you need Furniture we can save you lots of money.20 per cent off all Muslins and Summer Dress Goods for next 30 days.Large Stock of Flour Bought Before the Rise, Price of Maple Sugar is lower.Will take any quantity at any time in trade.PARKER & KNIGHT.Hatley, July 23rd, 1900.P.5.We forgot to say that we have laid out 20 Men\u2019s Suits ranging in price from $4.50 to $8.50, i your choice while they last $4.00 per Suit, Geo.F.Terrill\u2019s, Stanstead, Que.Is the Place to Buy your Flour, Feed, Lard, Lime, &c.BRANDS OF FLOUR: FIVE ROSES, FEED: 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 cverything will be sold as cheaply as possible for cash.Respectfully yours, GEO.F.TERRILL.ner EP Is d < 300 0 of of S WE \u201c4e \u2018 WHALEBACK BARGES \u201cTRAINS OF NEW BOATS FOR THE MIS- SISSIPPE RIVER.Floating Giants That Draw Only 26 Inches of Water When Carrying 800 Tons of Grain\u2014Maximum of Speed and Strength, A traln going down the Mississippi at the rate of ten miles an hour is the novel sight which will be presented to the admiring gaze of the dwellers along the banks.If the Indians could have -seen this strange craft, they would Lave thought the spirit of evil himself was on board, but we of the nineteenth century are becoming used to such wonders.When Alexander MeDougall -announced that he would run a river train on the Mississippi 730 feet long, with a powerful engine in front and two great cars behind, people were as- tonisbed, but they did not doubt for ap instant his ability to do as he said.McDougall is the man who gave the whalebuck to the great lakes and revo- lutlonized the traffic in that part of the country.He Las therefore all the \u2018experience necessary to carry out his latest plan.Though it looks so much like a railroad train, this wonder of the great river is a fleet of boats.It is indestructible.It cannot strike a rock and sink.It can carry 7,000 tons of freight, and when Joaded to the fullness of its capacity it will draw but 26 inches of water, less than the draft of a steamboat flying light.This new invention Is expected to make St.Louis one of the greatest grain ports in the world.It will increase the growth of the cities along the banks of the river, and its effects Will be widespread as far as the development of the country is concerned.The new whalebacks of the river are great steel hulls.Thelr length is 2063 feet, their heam 40 feet, and their hulls are 14 feet deep.Flying light they draw 16 inches of water, and with every 300 tons added to their cargo they displace an additional inch, making the draft 26 inches when the barge is carrying 3,000 tons of grain.A small fleet of steamboats could not carry so much in the same time.Their distinctive feature is their excessive flatness.They are, in fact, toboggans whieh run on the surface of the water.The great arena of the hulls, 10,600 square feet cach, gives the barges buoyancy.The top of the boats is also perfectly flat, the only break in the monotony being the six hatclies and the little frame houses at the bow and at the stern, the forward containing the steam steering apparatus and the other the quarters for the crew.The hoat which will be the engine of this river train bas been bullt at Caron- delet.There is not another such boat on any river.It Is a whalebuek just like the barges save that It is equipped with powerful propelling machinery aud a pair of twin screws cach eight feet in diameter.The engines are of 1,200 horsepower, and running alone the boat is the speediest craft on the Mississippi, being capable of going down stream at the rate of 20 miles an hour.The pilot of the engine will steer his own beat only.At the stern of the first barge behind there is another pilothouse and a second pilot and so on the third boat.cach pilot steering bis own craft and adding to [ À WHALEBACK DARGE.the unique detail of this new plan of tilizing the Mississippi, Captain McDougall himself Js no theorist, but a hard worker.He spends most of his time among his men clad in overalls or in shirt sleeves, and every Jetail of his new invention has been made under his own eyes.In this way be has insured the maximum of speed and strength.Try the Ends First, Barber\u2014Sball | take a little of the ands of your halr off.sir?Customer\u2014 Yes; ! think you had bet- ler take it off at the ends unless you Mn got it ont of the middle.\u2014Glasgow Fitzes, i SMALL CAPITAL.\u2018What n Michigan Stockman Dia With Limited Resources, After all the talk about the Intest Tuethod of farming and the necessity of keeping up to date there are\u2019 many young farmers who would like to do all this, but they lack the necessary capital to begin with, says a writer in Michigan Farmer.I have been particularly struck with this ln hog raising.When a young man starts in, he hag only a small amount of capital, and has to struggle along the best he can.It is absurd to tell him that be shoud adopt all the latest Improvemients and breeds and eonduet à first class farm for raising hogs.Ile does not have the capital to begin with, and he must do things that be knows are not the pst approved.The way that some of these young farmers struggle along and gradually build up a good business and add to.thelr Incomes and capital would make mighty Interesting reading for the more slothful if it could Le written out, Think of starting out with half a dozen pigs, a few acres and a wortgaged Lome and within ten years the hap- by possessor of 100 acres, 200 head of logs and cattle and a pleasant home with no debt oun it! That is what one young man accomplished in this state, and today he says that be made his success in hogs.Ile realized that he had to economize tn every way possible, and, while reading all that was printed about high grade stock and scientific methods of feeding, he knew that he could not go and imitate it.He did not have the mouey to Luy the stock with or to get the feed.But Le had good health, a few hogs and a chance.So lhe proceeded to raise grass, corn, milk and hogs.From these four products of tlie farm he made a living and saved up something each year except the first.That was the hardest time of ali, because the land was run down and poor and the grass did not grow well.He seeded it over the next year, raised more clover aud timothy than had ever been raised there before, permitted the hogs to feed on it only to a limited extent, fearing lest they would destroy the young grass roots.In two seasons he had converted the poor grass pastures into good grass fields where his logs could feed.After getting the grass field Into fine condition he secured some adjacent land on lease for corn.He plowed and fertilized this until be had increased his debt, and then le raised such a crop of corn that be felt justified in Increasing the number of his hogs, With grass aud corn flourishing he was prepared to add cows to his stock, and with good skimmilk to wean the young pigs he soon found no difliculty in increasing his herd, He did all the work himself aud never thought of hiring a man even in the busiest season until the fourth year of his farming.Then he had so far succeeded and derion- strated to himself that he was on the right track that he hired a man during the rush season.Two years later he married, and ever since he has steadily added year by year to his capital and income.His theory of success is based upon bard and intelligent work applied to the raising of grass, corn, milk and hogs.Sheep Hurdles.No well regulated sheep farm Is complete In all of its appointments without the hurdle, says The Prairie Farmer.This portable fence Is an indispensable factor in the successful and economical handling of the flock on a small farn or where the system of mixed husbandry is practiced.Many opportunities will Le presented during the year where it can be used ndvantageously in dividing pastures or for confining sheep upon certain portions of a field.It will be found a quick method for constructing pens, either large or small, at shearing time or for docking, tagging or dipping.In the winter season {hese burdles are a great conven- fence for inclosing feeding yards.lots for exercise and small plats for subdivisions of the flock.A good one may be thus maue: The panel Is made of four 1 by 3 inch planks, 12 feet long, crossed by three pieces of the sme size and three feet long, one being plue- ed in the middle and the other six inches from the ends.The spaces between the planks, beginning at the bottom, are six, eight and ten inches.The braces which are crossed for the supports are four feet long and 1 by 3 inches In size.The sill is of 1 by © inch stuff, the lower edge being 3 feet 51% inches long and the upper 3 feet 10 inches long, with a noteh at the middle 2 inches deep and 2t2 Inches wide for the ends of the panels to rest in.The braces should extend an inch or more below the sil) to prevent the hurdle from rocking.In use each of these supports serves to hold up as well as to join together the ends of two fence from being blown over a stake chould be driven about every 50 fect, to which the burdle should be wired down, Qaod Blood Needed.That there is now a greater need for good blood and straight breeding In the middle nnd eastern states than In the west will be admitted by every man who is acquainted with the live stock in both sections, says The National Stockman.The average quality of the thin stock which comes to market in # market as Pittsburg.Sales at the latter point of late have included n large number of low priced cattle.They were low priced because they were worth so little, lncked the essential qualities of good stockers.or feeders.They were not and never will be good Leeves.More good blood and a little more feed are the things those who breed cattle in this country must provide, I succeeding panels.To prevent the | the west fs far superior to that in such As a rule they | EARLY.BREEDING.Many Two-year-old Fillies \u201cWith Good Results, The question has already arisen this year and may arise next year many times at what age it Is proper to begin breeding fillies, says The Stock Farm.There are a good many breeders who Dred i matured animals.These will put no mare {nto the harem until she is 4 Years old.\u2018They therefore have no use to which to put a mare younger than + unless sba is used on the track.A few years ago, when brood mares were quite in demand, it became rather fash- lonable to breed fillles at 2 years of age, and Dr, Herr, who was quite a successful Lbreeder In his day and a veterinarian as well, used to advise people who asked his opinion that If they intended a mare for a brood mare to breed her as a 2-year-old.It has been sald that mares when but 3 years old have uo ditfieulty In foaling, but are liable to have at 4.IIowever, If a mare has a foal at 3 she Is usually rather a shy breeder at 4.Our own view of this matter is to follow as nearly as may be tbe indications of nature.In a wild state we believe that fillies are very frequently.probably generally, impregnated ns early as 2 years old.We have known cases where even yearling fillies have acel- dentally got with foal and been delivered as 2-year-olds, though this is unusual.We know one such ease where the mare, when we saw her as a matured mutre, was about 16 hands high and showed no signs of retarded development.Long after her first experl- ment she produced a pacer with a record of 2:15% aud a good campaigner.When fillies are bred as early as 2 years oll, (hey should have the best of care before and after being bred.Particular palos should Le taken that their growth should not be arrested.They should be particularly well treated while suckliug the foal und after Its belng weaned as an extra precaution.We have known a great many 2-year.old fillies bred without any Lad consequences resulting and do not view that practice with any disfavor.Relleving Choked Animals, Many windfall apples are now being fed to horses and cattle, and in spite of all the care that can be glven animals occasionally get choked, says The American Agriculturist.In the cases of liorses our veterinarian, Dr.D.Me- Intosh says to tirst put on a twitch, Open the animal's mouth and put in a balling Iron.An iron saddle stirrup will answer If nothing clse Is at hand.Pass the hand through this and down | Into the throat.Remove the offending obstacle If possible.In some cases n lttle oil will lubricate the gullet, and then hy pressing up on the outside of the throat the animal will occasionally cough out the obstruction, or by pressing down it may be swallowed.If this Is not successful, use a probaug.This Is a spiral wire covered with leather.It Lends with the neck, and by gently pushing the apple or potato may be forced down into the stomach without injury.But much force cannat be used ur the gullet will be ruptured.1f cattle aie choling, nse the same means of relieving them as for horses.If the obstruction cannot be removed by the treatment described above, cut down Upon the gullet with a kuife, making an Incision ann remove the offending object.Clean the wound and bring the edges of the gullet firm: ly together with a silk thread or eat gut.Let the ends hang out of the, wound, then bring the edges of the skin together, put a bandage around the neck and keep it wet with coll wa- ! ter for 24 hours.It will usually heal, i Give the animal soft food until the | union is perfect.If a probang is not at hand.take a piece of rope about three-fourths of an inch In dinmeter, fray out the ends and turn back and tie with a piece of string.This forms a soft knob, Grease well, and this will supply the place of the probang fairly well.If by any means the gullet is ruptured, cut down upon it from the outside, pare off the edges of the wound and bring them together as de- seribed above, Keep down the Inflammation by using cold water bandages ; and give the animal soft food until healing takes place, \u2014_\u2014 Treatment For Dreeding Flock, À.F.White of New York, writing Io The American Agriculturist, says: Clover hay is one of the very best feeds.For a grain ration my favorite feed is oats, Lran and peas, with roots or ensilage for succulent feed.1 prefer roots to anything else and find that I never have too many.If I do not have good luck In raising root crops during the summer, 1 put up ensilage las the very best substitute.Whatever i feed is used give it at regular intervals \"and not too much at a time.Make up a schedule for feeding and then stick \u2018tot Good care and regularity are the se- | crets of success in the stock business.I always have a box of salt for the , sheep to run to and am seldom troubled : j with disease.Tbe time to doctor a.j kheep is before it gets sick.When it {once gives up, It Is in most cases lost, | 1 think it far mare profitable to spend .my time in finding out what caused the sickness in order to keep the remainder \"of the flock bealthy rather than at- ! tempt to doctor gick sheep.I always know when my ewes ought , to begin to lamb and put forth every \u2018 \u201ceffort to have everything ready.Give the young gheep a good start, for early development Is worth everything to the | sheplerd.The lamb must be pushed ; from birth until ready for sale.There : is no stopping place.( | | Judging n Ram by Hin Head.! i Coarseness in a ram's lead is a sign of Jnferiority.\u2018That noted breeder \u2018Bakewell, who mnde the beautiful Leicester, Mosisted on this as a leading | principle.lnsist on Dbrecding nothing but fully |JOSIAH F, SPURR IS IN OHARGE.GREAT EXPLORING TRIP.Geological Survey Prepared to Search the American Desert, Difficulties Which Avwnit Travelers In That tnhospitable Reglon-\u2014-Waug- sn With Broad Tires, Especially | tdapted For Sand Travel, Will Be ued on the Trip\u2014Tour Described, : The geological survey has decided to finish the geological explorations in the Great American desert It began last year, for which purpose Josiah BEd- ward Spurr, geologist of the United States geological survey.together with four employees of the department, is making preparations for the trip, says the Washington correspondent of the Cineinuati Commercial Tribune.This! will include n portion of the Great: American desert In southern Nevada, southeastern Californla, southwestern ; Arizona, including the Yuwa, or Colo | rado, desert; the Majobe desert, the Amazon desert, the Ralston desert, the Death valley region and other places.\u201cSince the days of Professor Wheel- | et's survey.\u201d said Mr, Spurr.speaking : of his experience and researches.In that inhospitable country, \u201cno.white man has ever traveled that laud.Our : outfit on the last trip consisted of a mile team, saddle horses, casks for carrying water.canteens, ete, \u201cWe started from Eureka, Nev, whenee we proceeded eastward, enter Ing Utah, thence northwest on a detour to Eureka, westward across the Gobb's valley desert to Carson City, southeast ward te the reglon of Silver peak and westward across the Ralston desert, recrossing the state of Nevada to Proche, ; southward to Meadow valley, westward again across the state of Nevada, along the edge of the Amargosa desert into Death valley by way ol Furniss creck, southward to Denth valley, across the Majobe desert to San Be nardino, the end of the trip.Our party.in its five months\u2019 exploring tour, traversed a distance of over 2,000 miles.\u201cI'he entire water supply in those regions,\u201d saïd Mr.Spurr, \u2018Is received from springs, whieh can be found at à distance of 50 tu 100 miles npart.The appearance of these American desert lands corresponds with those of Africa, nelther of which supports any vegetation, The routes of travel are usually lnid from one spring to the next.Generally there is a trait between these water supply stations.The buckboard track can be seen in the sand after a lapse of ten years.But there are many places where the track ean- not be followed on account of Hs being covered by the fierce sandstorms which prevail in those lands, At times fho track is lost in tbe very heart of the desert, and then the whole party is obliged to go scouting until It is rediscovered, \u201cVery few people lve In that desolate part of the conntry.and hose who do live there,\u201d said Mr.Spurr, \u201cave generally very small rangers.who make thelr homes In the nelghiborliood of the Inrge springs, from which they derive enough water to raise a little Lay and truckage.The only settied part in the whole eountry 1s the strip from Carson southeastward along the margin of the Sierras, which is water ed by this mountain chain.The greatest population of Nevada Is centered In this belt.We traveled on occasions as many as teu days without seelng a living person, There Is nothing in that country of popular interest in a geolog- leal sense.Mts mountains, however, are rich in mineral wealth of all kinds.\u201cIt would be one of the richest min- eral regions of the country except for ! the fact that wood and water nre al- | most absent, so that the properties ean- not be developed.In spite of this facet, however, thefe are n few thriving min- fog eamps, although not one-twenteth part of what there used to be 30 years ago, \u201cIt Is a singular thing, said Mr.Spurr, \u201cthat this part of Amerlea has steadily gone back for the last 30 years, Iot springs are very common.Very often there 1s no other kind of water to be found.The water Is from the boiling point down.The climate Is a typical desert climate, extremely dry.The days are intensely hot.When the sun sets, the temperature, which may have reached 100 degrecs in tbe shade during the day, drops to such ap extent that frosts at night are not uncominon.We required more bedding In that country than we used In Alaska.We suffered more from sleeping In the cold at night than In the gold diggings on the Yukon.The ouly rainfall practically ig in the shape of oceaslonal cloudbursts, whieh come | rushing down the ravines of the moun- talus in the shape of a roaring mass of water.so that it {sn't safe to camp\u2019 Ip ravines during the summer senson.Iailstorms, snowstorms, blizzards In the early part of October.are very often succeeded by weeks of fine, warm weather.\u201cDeath valley derives its name from a party of 100 emigrants who, years ago, attempted to cross It, hut who per- Ished from thirst and heat after having proceeded as far as the middle of the valley.There Is only one dwelling in Death valley.at Furniss creek.Here the keeper watches over the borax deposits.ITis house Is raised.so that during the hot sgason pipes containing a flow of conl water continuously pour a sheet of it over the tin roof.\u201d One of the absolutely necessary ana indispensable artieles for the trip, and one upon which Mr.Spurr is now engaged superintending the construction of.ts a wagon with broad tires, adapted for sand travel, and all other neces- say personal commodities, as well as official npvorntus.bands, | the pleco.{ i and then, time belng eather short, he \u2014_ ' .pian}.Forrest as a Negro Minstrel, From almost the beginning of Amer) | ean stage history there were negroes of the minstrel variety impersotiated on the stage, though It was not until about 1840 that they were organized lato Sone of the greatest actors of later days had thelr experience as minstrels, amont them Joe Jefferson aud Edwin Forrest.* Forrest was given a negro \u201csong and dance\u201d act to do when ha was very young.and after he had stinlied It up he asked where was the \u201celd negro Indy\u201d thet was to act Lis assistant In The management tried several of the women who were members of the company.but none \u2018of them would consent to blacrken up, and.In fact, they were very indiguant over the proposition, The actor, however, was not easily discouraged.and on the night of the first performance he binck- ened up and went around the corner to an old negro woraan who did his wash.Ing.\u201cHello, Dinal,\u201d he said on enterlug.\u201cTow yo' be er feelln dis bery fine ebenin \u201cHelo, yo'\u201d replied the African lady.Pears to me yo' am er bery fresh nigger.\u201d \u201cI'ze no nigger.\u201d answered Forrest, assumed hls natural volee and told DInah, rel to her surprise.that he was Forrest, the actor, and that he wanted her to go nn the stage with him that night and laugh londly at frequent lu- itervals, whleh was all the female part called for, The two made a great hilt and were kept on for same thne, which goes to show that Forrest might have been a good minstrel had he bhoen of an ambitions nature.\u2014 Saturday Kvening ; Post.| A Curionas Combnt, A traveler In South Africa witnessed ! not long sinee a singular combat.He was musing one worning, with his eyes jon the ground, when he noticed a eat.! erpillar crawling along at a rapid rate, sl'ursuing him was n host of small , blnek anis.| Being quicker In thelr movements, | the ants would eateh up with the eater- pillar, and oue would mount his baek | and bite him.l'ausing, the caterpiliar | Would turn his head and bite sut KIMI lils tormentor.After slaughtering a !dozen or more of his persecutors the \u201centerpillar showed signs of fatigue, | Whe ants made a combined attack.Be | faking himself to a stalk of grass, the : caterpHilar climbed up the tree tail first, | followed by the ants.As one approach.Dod he seized tt in hls Jaws and threw it oft the stalk.The ants, seeing that the caterpillar hail too strong a position fer them to overcome, resorted to strateey, They began sawing through the ss stalk, In a few minutes the stalk fell, and hundreds of ants pounced upon the fallen enterpillar, ITe was Killed nt once, and the victors marched off fn! ; #rent triumph, leaving the foe's badly I upon the fleld.| | His Theory.A navel explanation of the cause of | thunder showers was once given n su | Journer in a little Nova Scotia town by | one of the inhabitants.| \u201cDo von know what makes thunder?\u201d the Nova Seotlan inquired of his guest, \u201cI've got n theory of my own, und 1 eall it a prefty good one\u2019 SE should like to hear 1°\" was the diplomatic reply.\u201cWell\u201d said the host slowly, \u201cmy fden Is this: You know we hear ahout | the alr circulating and clreulating all the time, My notion is that the pure tir from above comes down here In summer and gets foul with all the smoke and dirt and grease, and then the hent drives it up again Into the clouds, and when It gets up there it's pressed on all romuld by the clouds eom- ing together, and it explodes! That's .my theory.Of course,\u201d he added, with becoming modesty, \u201cother folks may have others.\u201d Youth's Companion.\u201cPut lé down thar,\u201d said the old man to the obituary writer, \u201cthat she wuz | 42 an Wkely fer her age\u201d \u201cThat's down,\u201d \u201cThat she wuz never known ter speak a cross word, bein deef an dumlh from childhood.\u201d \u201cAN right\u201d \u201cThat she 1s now at rest on Abraham's hosom~ But hold on! Alnt that whar Lazarus is?\u201d \u201cT think so.\u201d He paused a moment as if tn deep thought.Then he said: \u201cNo matter! Put It down that she's thar, too, fer ef ever Lazarus secs her comin he'll vacate an hunt another restin place.\"Sides that, he's been thar too long anyhow!\"\u2014Atlanta Constitu- | tion.! | f -\u2014 | Her Celeatin) Credentinin.Ï | { The Soft Anrwer.\u201cThere!\u201d said the angry man, shov- Ing a phintegraph, presumably of himself, under the photographer's nose.\u201cIno you know what that makes me look like?\" \u201cBF you mean what it makes you lonk like at the present moment,\u201d answered the photographer, surveying the face of the angry man carefully, \u201cI should say it makes you look ns if you were about to throw a fit.\u201d- Indianapolis Press.No Place ILike Home, An Atchison man took sick Saturday mil decided to stay home till he got rested.He was back at work at noon Monday.I1is wife asked bim within a few bours to take care of the baby.to ehop onions for pickles, to grind the coffee, to dress the children and to milk the ¢ow \u201cwhile he was resting.\u201d \u2014 Archison Globe, The Point of View.Miss Willing\u2014Do you belleve it Is wrong to marry for money?Parson Brown\u2014Of course not.Five dollars 18 my regular fee.\u2014 Chicago News.A GIRL OF SPIRIT.Attorneys Goneval Griggs Ably Ans sisted by Mis Daughter, lu all Washington it would be impossible to tind a brighter, wiore.cheerful household than that of the Judieinl head of our government, \u2018Attorney General Griggs, Uke most Now Jersey- men, ls verg domestic 1n his tastes and likes best to get away from his oillelal Photo by Gilbert, Washington, MISS HELEN GRTUGS.| cares and worries and sceludo hlinsolf fn his own home, His household cou- sists ol elght\u2014blmself, lils wife, who Is his second, bly two sons and his four daughters, Seeretnry Chlrgs' four daughters range from Telen, the oldest, a re- narkabty havdsome gfrl of 24, to Buby 1élizaheth, about 5% years of age.They are fond of soctety, but ave very far from being mere butterflies.Miss Helen teriges 1s n young woman of the most artistic tastes, which have bhoen carefully eultivated, although she Is not a vollege graduate, Some the ago, to the surprise and minusement of her friends, she took np the stndy of ste nography.fn which she specdily became proficient, At the kame tinge she ne- quired a knowledge V0 biursiness, Misy Griggs has turned her accon- plishmenys ta good aceonnt, for she ls ber latheus \u201cright hand ein\u201d She is the invariable companlon of Ley learned purent, who frequently asks ler opision on vexed polnts nud often ue- cepts ber suggestions, BARRIE AND HIS NEW BOOK.Many aud Grent Succernen of (he Brilllant Scotels Author, James Matthew Barrie, the Seoteh author who Las delighted so many thousands of Amerleans with his stories of Scottish life as well as by his drawantlzed novel, \u2018The Little Minister,\u201d dus just issued another book.\u201cTonumy and Grizel\u201d his latest work, has been running for some months in an American magazine and hus Just heen issued In hook form.lt Is the Iit- Photo Ly Elliott & Fry, London, JAMES MATTIIEW BARRIE, erary sensation of the hour.In it the delightful Seotehman continues the nd- ventures of \u201cSentimental Tommy,\u201d and it promises to become as great n favors ite with Americans as the former work.Mr.Barrie is n man of 40 and was horn among the Scottish seenes which he depicts so well.Kirriernuir, In For- farshire, is the original of the well beloved town of Thrums snd the birthplace of the novelist.There and in the anclent town of Dumfries Barrie obtained his education until he went up to Edinburgh, During his university days and even at an earlier period his pen was kept busy, and after his graduation In 1882 he became n journalist, While writing for the press he gained the experiences described so well in \u201cWhen a Man's Single.\u201d The maelstrom of London soon sucked Lim in, as it does almost every author and journalist of note in Britain.Barrie's.first book, \u201cBetter Dead,\u201d which appeared In 1887, attracted little atteution, but \u201cAuld Licht [dys and \u201cWhen a Man's Single\u201d in 1888 gained qulcic recognition.Mis other works, \u201cMy Lady Nicotine.\u201d a most delightful volume, and \u201cThe Little Minister,\u201d too well known to need comment, established his reputation on a firm footing.+ Sr pires ee ROSEBERY ON NAPOLEON Former Premier's New Work Gives Fresh Light to History.EMPEROR'S OAPTIVITY PICTURED.Book Written by Author Because Ie Wished to Lny and Subject of Weary Exile Hnuunt- Him \u2014 British demned\u2014Napoleon's Prediction a Literary Ghost, Con- of ed Treatment Russia, The Now York Ferald's European edition published the following from {ts correspondent: Lord Itosebery\u2019s long expected work, *Napoleon,\u201d was published the other Ray.Concerning this book, the publi- eatlon of which is one of the leading literary events of the year, Mr, Arthur L.Ilumphreys, in the London Daily Telegraph, siuys: Lord Beaconsfield once explained to Lord Rosebery why be wrote the drama \u201cCount Alarcos.\u201d Jt was produced, he said, not in the hope of composing a great tragedy, but of lay- ing the lterary ghost of a story which! haunted him.\u201cSo is it,\u201d says the author of \u201cNapoleon,\u201d \u201cwith thig little book,\u201d It cannot help embodying ao tragedy, but it was written to lay na literary ghost, \u201cLife of Marlborough ns à Toren Or good will to the officers of the \u201cNX.X.\u201d reginient, Unfortunately the Imperial title was written or stamped on the thie page and the present, under or ders of the governor, was declined, In these days the \u201cNX.NX.\u201d reglhmant would perhaps not mind possessing the life of the greatest of English generals glven by the greatest of French, Yot to the very em, to the grave itself, this pettiness was kept up, On the emperor's collin plate Ls followers desired to place the shinple inscription vNapoleon,\u201d with dates and places of his bieth and denth.Sir Hudson refus d'h,s sanction to this unless \u2018\u201cBonaparte\u201d were added, mt the emperor's suit felt themselves unable to agree to the style which their taster had declined to accept, Ho there was no name on the cutiin.It seems ineredible, Lut it is true, Lord Roschery throws responsibility for the offensive ineptitude of the treatment of Bonaparte on the government rather than on Admiral Coek- burn and Str Hudson Lowe, \u201cOf those suverssors of Pitt\u201d heremarks, \u201cLiverpool, Eldon, Bathurst, Castlereazh and Sidmouth were men whose nines can seireely be sald to glow in \u2018They bad cauzht thelr great enemy.Their first wish was to get somebody history.| ; {ous entertatnments than Mævenas and else to shoot him or hang him, fading which they were determined to lock | him up like a plekpocket, All they felt clearly was that he had cost them a rent deal of trouble nd a great deal {of money, so that he must cost them as [little more as possible.They were dormant for years and only quickened | ponest men, acting up to their lights.\u201d Photo by Elliott & Fry, London.LORD ROSEBERY.into activity by the analysis of Gour- gaud\u2019s last journals.\u201d Lord Rosebery gives us a picture of that captivity where the emperor and bis few faithful companions \u201cwere perched like crippled sea birds on a tropical rock\u201d with a succinetness and graphic realization which are the charm of the volume.The weariness and melan- clioly of thant exile are re-enacted.Russia, Austria and France sent comuiissioners to St.Helena to \"assure themselves of Ponaparte's presence.\u201d As a matter of fact, they never, or scarcely ever, saw him.The Russian commissioner declared that \u201cnothing could be more absurd more impolitic, less generous or less delicate than the couduet of {be English to Napoleon,\u201d Lord Rosebery Indorses every word of this condemnation.\u201cIf St.Helena recalls painful memories for the French, much more poignant are those that it excites among our selves.It was a misfortune to England to Le represented by men who forgot the diguity of their own nation and ignored thie quality of their prisoner.A great people must not descend to pettiness.In the treatinent of Na- polcon there was a pettiness all through.\u201d \u201cWe wish,\u201d wrote Lord Liverpool, \u201cthat the king of France would hang or shoot Bonaparte as the best terini- nation of the business.\u201d This was the spirit of men toward one who threw himself on British magnanimity.They feared the extraordinary glamour about the fallen monarch and therefore ordered that be was to be treated not as a former emperor, but \u201cay a general pot in employ.\u201d After the Duke of Sussex and Lord Holland in parliament had protested against this treatment the style was altered to that of a general of distinction.Half of the trouble of the tactless and unfortunate Sir Hudson Lowe, the governor of St.Helena, would have been unknown had he been permitted to address his illustrious prisoner as the Emperor Napoleon, but hardly had he landed on the island when he sent the following invitation to Longwood: \u201cShould the arrangements of General Bonaparte admit it, Sir Hudson and Lady Lowe would feel gratified in the honor of his company to meet the Countess of Loudoun at dinner on Monday next at G o'clock.They request Count Bertrand to make the Invl- tation known to him and forward them his reply.\u201d The faithful Bertrand did make the invitation known to the emperor.who merely remarked: \u201cIt is too silly.Send no reply.\u201d Lady Loudoun was the rountess, wife of Lord Moira, the gov- rnor general of India.\u201cSir Hudson thought it an amiable condescenslon to invite Napoleon to dinner with the countess and addressed him by n title which he well knew the emperor considered an insult to France and to himself.\u201d The Irritation was maintained to the .end.Hobhouse sent his book on \u2018The Hundred Days\u201d to Napoleon.writing fnside It.\u201cImperator| Napolconi.\u201d This .book, though the Inscription, after at.\u201cin strictness only menant \u201cFo General Napoleon,\u201d tlie conscientious Lowe ge * guestrated.Three weeks before.bis \u2018death the sick captive sent Coxe's | | Î | | i | ) | | | F i | i } bery sketches for us the life at Long- wood.is damilelled in a damp house, swept WALSH AND LEGPOLD.Millionaire Tells of Compact Made With King of Belgians MAY ACT AS MONARCH'S ACENT.Royal Engincers Will Report Results of Investigntion to Mining Mliliounire\u2014Mineral Weaïth of che Konzo to Le Developed-Lceopold à Believer In American Enterprise.Thomas I\".Walsh, said to be the largest individual owner of gold and silver piines in the world, stepped from thi Awerican oer St aul the other day anid, Hie Aladdin, rubbed his won- derfut Lamp.When he rubbed it for the first 20 years ago, he was 8 poor Tipperary boy just landed on these shores, with nothing but grit and sand, When he rubbed it the other day and wished Lis wishes with true oriental secrecy, he reflectel] that he was richer than Craesus, had given more sumptu- was in business with the king of the Lelginns, It was a far reach for the Tipperary boy from the pick to the \u201cKing, but his past successes warrant | | | ; The master of many palaces : by eternal winds, containing two small g s et by 12 feet and 10 feet or roots 14 feet by feet ane eet or, porter Mr.Walsh spoke ns follows con- 12 feet high.In one corner is a little camp bed, used at Marengo and Austerlitz.llere and on one in the ad- joiuing room he spends many a sleep: less night, while on an old sofa he passes the long hours of many a tedious day.In these extignous quarters he up- Lolds at times the rigid etiquette of a court, Gourgaud, Bertrand de Montho- lon and Dr.Anton Marchi are kept standing till they are ill with fatigue and lean against the furniture.If Mme.zertrand or Mime.de Montholon enters and the men rise unbidden, they are ; sharply rebuked.Napoleon is served on gold and silver plate and waited on by French servants In liveries of green and gold.A vacant place is kept for the empress, but is given now and then to some favored lady.When he drives out, it Is in a carriage with six horses and an equerry in full usiform at each door.lls rooms are littered with books, Ilis one real pleasure is the arrival of new works to read.lIe took 800 volumes to Waterloo, Including the Bible, Os- sian, Homer, Bossuet and all the 70 volumes of Voltaire.These glimpses of his life in captivity present ug a new Napoleon, ex- thivse around him, suffering their con- tradietions and ill temper In a way we never expect from the selfish, dom- incering, violent commander.We see him playing at cliess not very well cheating at games, though never tak- lug winnings, moralizing agalnst gambling.Reading and conversation were the principal distractions.In spite of all, the weariness aud en- | nui of this mighty spirit are terrible.Ile turns upon the petulant, eaptious, sulky Gourgaud with pathetie truth: \u201cYou speak of sorrow.you and I! What sorrows have I not had! What things to reproach myself with! You at any rate have nothing to regret.Do you suppose that when 1 wake at night 1 have not bad moments when I think ! ow of what 1 was and what T umn In an eloquent passage Lord Rose- bery says: \u201cEurope buckled itself to the unprecedented task of gagging and paralyzing that intelligence and force that were too gigantic for the welfare and security of the world, That is the strange, unique, hideous problem which makes the records of St.Helena 80 profoundly painful and fascinating.\u201cNapoleon often gibed at the English, yut he said: The English character is superior to ours.They are in everything more practical than we are.They emigrate, they marry, they kill themselves with less Indecision than we display in going to the opera.They are also braver than we are.1 think I ean say that In courage they are to us what we are to the Russians, the Russians to the Germans, the Germans to the Italiana.Had 1 had an English army I should bave conquered the universe\u201d \u201cIt was the ambition of this restless spirit to be not merely the lord of Fu- rope, but the emperor of the east, \u2018Egypt once In the possession of the French, farewell India to the British, This wns ono of the grand projects I aimed at.The east only wants a man.Now we shall see what will come to the English from Russia, Russia is the power that marches most surely and with the greatest strides toward universal dominion, for now there is no France, therefore no equilibritn.\u201d Lord Rosebery takes in general a view favorable to Bouaparte\u2014this, be it observed, not because the Liberal Btatesman ls under Any INusion as to the leanings of a wllitary dictator toward a democracy.One of the strongest passages in this absorbing volume goes to show that Bongparte feared the populace and had no \u201csympathy with liberty or Its aspirations.\u201d Morally lie thinks the man Napoleon not so black na he Is painted.He suggests that his civil and military characters require to be treated sepa- vatetly.each Ly eperta.and when all is done he will perhaps remain an enigma of history.possibly because the secret Is so complex, possibly because there is none\u2014\"only the play and decision of dustiny.\u201d the helief that he and hls wonderful lamp will make both him and the Bel- glun king even richer than they are.Mr.Walsh is at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.He fs a modest man, so that, With much Hterars skill Lord Rose.: ÉYEU though he has an Income of more than $1,000,000 a year, lie docs not oc- copy the state apartments.Tle is unpretentious and demoeratie, easily ne- cessible and polite to everybody.In an Interview with a New York Journal re- cerning the report that he had formed a partnership with Xing Leopold: \u2018That story is an exaggeration, and yet there Is a grain of truth in #6 I have net Farmed a partnership with the king.1 have never formed any partnersyips and never will\u201d \u201cHow.then, Is there a grain of truth in the story *\u201d \u201cIn this way: King Leopold ts a very keen business man as well as the most progressive man 1 ever met, Ie has an intense admiration for America and Americans.IIe questioned me closcly about American methods of developing mining properties and said he thought these methods might be profitably employed upon his own properties in the ; Kongo.\u201c \u201cAnd he asked you to associate yourself with him In this property?\u201d \u201cNut exactly.He asked me to give him the benefit of my experience as a practicai miner.Ie did not ask me to become his partner, and if he bad 1 should have declined.\u201d \u201cWhat is It, then, then you are to do?\u201d \u201cWell, the king thinks there are rich mineral deposits In the uplands of the Kongo ahove Leopoldville.Ie he- A tlieves the deposits of copper are partie- hibiting patichee apd forbearance with | ularly rich and that gold and silver will also he found.He wishes to develop this wealth and bas asked me to assist him hy overlooking the job, so to speak, and giving the work the benefit of my practical experience as a miner.His engineers are already prospecting the country, and they will forward samples of the ore to me\u201d \u201cWhat will you do If the samples come up to expectation ¥\u201d \u201cWell, in that case 1 may go out there, not as the king's partner, but as his agent.He js a believer in the superiority of American brains and American machinery and American go ahead- itiveness.In short, ff the mineral wealth of the Kongo Is what he thinks it ix he Would rather have it developed by Americans than anybody else.Ile thinks we turn out better steel, better machinery and better hrains than any nation on the face of the earth.\u201d \u201cBut you will surely want an interest In these mines if they prove to be as rich as the king believes they are?\u201d \u201cNot at all.1 have all the mines 1 ean attend to in Colorado.1 am interested in the king's projects heeause he fs working all, the time for the benefit of Ma fellow men.He Is not only a very rich man, but a very henevalent one as well When he dies, he will turn aver the Kongo, with all its riches], to his countrymen, and he has al ready spent several fortunes, as you know, on this wonderful Kongo country, wlose area is equal to that of the United States\u201d \u201clave auy mines been opened in the Kongo\" \u201cNo; aot as yet, but 1 believe there has been considerable prospecting, The cost of development will he very great.but the scheme [8 not as difficult as was that of opening up the mineral wealth of the Transvaal.The Kongo country is accessible by navigation, while the Transvaal was not.\u201d \u201cIt ts vald that you gave the king rome magnificem entertainments dur- Ing your sojourn in Paris.\u201d \u201c1 entertained the king, ns 1 (did oth- rig, in my capacity ds one of the United States coinmissioners to the exposition.\u201d 1t Is said that King Leopold was so impressed with the magnificence with which Mr.Walsh entertaïned in Paris that he came to the conelusion he must he a man cf many milHons, He made some inquities, learned of Mr.Walsh's rapid rise tn wealth and was soon In possession of a detailed report of hls financial standing.Then he made Walsh's acqaaintance and sought his advice on Investments.Walsh told him he was getting 10 per cent on his capital, and the king remarked that he was glad to gat 3 per cent on his, The king talked to Mr.Walsh ahout the Kongo, and the American nroused the monarch\u2019s enthusiasm by his wonderful knowledge of mining.1t Is sald the king's Inst words to Mr.Walsh were, \u201cTake my money and consider it yours, but get tbe best Interest you can \"\u201d DEWEY GIFTS TAKEN HOME.fRemuved From the National Museum In Washington, Aura] Dewey has removed his fainous collection of gifts, which oceu- pied tLe most prominent place in the Iall of Amerlean Mistory in the National nuseum, to his home in Rhode Island avenue, says the Washington correspondent of the New York World.The collection bas assumed large proportions, representing hundreds of thousands of dollars in money value, amd is almost daily added to by some admirer of the great silior.It was placed in the National mu- its beauty with the publie and complinient to the donors, many of whom were children, After exteuding the privilece of seeing the collection to the public through the National mu-eutn for more than seven months Admiral and Mrs.Dewey wished to sce the collection fittingly placed in their winter home.The Dewey home is resplendent with the costly gifts, Mrs.Dewey having personaily arranged them, vach token belng given an honored place in the house, The loving cups and other large gifts are arranged on the first floor with an adroit care for the hest effect, while the medals, badges, watehes and other smaller tokens are displayed in , handsome cabinets on the second floor, | where they come more directly under the supervision of the family.In the family sitting room on the see- oud flor is also the admiral's collee- tion of flags, penpants, pictures of great naval battles, swords and other things dear to a sailor's heart.Probably the relle that Mrs.Dewey values most is the commodore\u2019s pennant that was flown at the masthead of the Olympia on the eventful dawn of the battle of Manila Bay.Asked jf the removal of the gifts from the National museum debarred the publie from seeing them, Mrs.Dewey said she had not the slightest ob- jeetion to laving à special time at which the public might come freely and enjoy the collection, but Admiral Dewey maintained that the house was given to him to enjoy to the fullest ex.| tent as a home, and to make it a public show place would be to rob it of all privacy.- NEXT YEAR\u2019S COIFFURE.Semipompadour Style Yviil Reign Supreme For 1001, «A woman's chief glory is her hair,\u201d aml its becoming and fashionable arrangement has abways proved an important item of the toilet.In past sea- sous there bas bven à sufficient diversity of style to allow every taste to be satisfied.but now one particular mode alone is to predominate and find favor as the \u201ccorrect thing,\u201d says the London Telegraph.This is achieved by the niliance of the three great hairdressers\u2019 schools, La Societe du Pro- gres, the Academie Internationale and the International society.\u2018Their combined deliberations will now decide tbe coming styles, and individual taste will only be exercised in the variation and modification of that particular mode.The other day the first exhibition of by the Amalgamated Hairdressers\u2019 Schools of London fook place in the St.James hall, the most prominent and interesting feature of which was without doubt the fashion scheme.In this section 3U experts practically demonstrated their skill, It having been decided that the pompadour or, more strictly speaking, the semipompadour style should reign supreme as the most correct fashion for 1901, the proceedings were confined to the illustration of the several conceptions of Uils partieular fden.The abolition of the high and generally Lecoming wethod of dressing will be deplored by many, but it nust be acknowledged that the pompadour is eminently more suited to the average English face.To attain this effect the hair ix softly waved from the fore- Bead, with just a suspicion of a part- ing.One or two tiny curls rest on the face, and the hair is gathered Into coils or curls at the nape of the neek, leaving it full at the sides, where it is kept in place with combs.This fash fon will abolish the enormously high beaddiess favored of late and introduce once more the pretty jeweled combs once so popular, but for its proper execution the dresser demands hair 28 inches long\u2014an almost prohibitive clause for many unless arti- flelal means are employed.A New Amerlenn Beauty Rone, There is a new American Beauty.The other day a bouquet of the new roses was exhblited at the flower show In the Auditorium at Chicago.The new flower is a pink, lighter than the most delicate of what is known as the American Beauty shades, but still deeper than the pink of the ordinary rose, says the New York Times.In fact, it has more of the hardy eoloring of the pink peony and is regarded as the tris umph of the nurseries of the Floral Exchange, aun incorporated company of Philadelphia.It is called the Queen of Edgely.Where the Shoe Pinehes, Lord Durham's declaration that Americans are ruining the British turf is apparently based \u2018on the beHef that the ruin began when the American horses and jockeys commenced to win races, Nothing was heard of the Amer- lenn ruin so long as the Yankee competitors cane howe in the ruek of the procession, but as the complaint is vo- feal when the Amerleans win, the Indication Is that the ruin that woubles the Briton ost is that which falls on the backers of British horses.\u2014Dltta- burg Dispatch.A New Football Record.The football record of 104 points was broken on Hobart field the other after- hoon when the Geneva (N.Y.High 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