LISRKTR 8 FUTIIR ¥,

• “ Wbat good tilings Mrs. Drury does send me,” thought the little school ma’am as she lifted out of h6r'’dinner bucket tlie hard boiled eggs, the crisp spring onions, and the fresli cherry pie, all st. appetizing. But the little school ma’am liad a gladsome lieart f xactly in tune with the gay blackbirds trilling outside, and I suppose she would lâiye Ijeen happy over even a dinner of

^ , She was little older than her pupib. 'elt very like a child among chil

./r- I’he laughing blue eyes were hardly stern enough to suit the dignity of her posi- tion, but country children are the most docile in the world, and these in particular shared the predeliclions of their elders in possessing an unbounded respect for an “ office,” no matter who might occupy it. So they all sat apart from their teacher, and even little Daisy Drury had been instructed by her mot her to eat out of lier own little pail ami not ‘‘ bother the school teacher.”

Just now the little sclioolma’nm looked down the aisle, like a shepherdess number- ing her sheep. There they sat, the whole twenty-three, for it U'ns a fine day, and even little Timothy Somers had been a' le to come. The teacher’ll glance, wandering from little T' on tlic froht seat, who with commend- abyc' zeal was eating straight through his berry pie, from apex to crust, with stopping to take breatli, lingered in the the rear of the room, whore sat the pupils almnstgrown up. The little sclioolma’am wasmost inter- ested in these, for she was tcml of weaving romances and their fresh, young faces gave her ample opportunity. They wo e counting their apple seeds now, these older children, and felling fortunes and enjoying them- selves hugely. Suddenly they saw that “teacher” was looking on and sheepishly they ducked their lieads, giggling spasmodi- cally all the while. But wlien from beneath her drooped eye-lashes ’Lisbeth Perrine saw that the little scoolma’am was laughing too, the heads were raised again and the whole school-house losoumled with the peals of merriment in wliich all joined without re- straint. Just why they were lauching they could never have told, and perhaps no one short of.a philosoplier would have been wise enough to^ay that it was simply because they were young and living near to nature, for i.:erriness of heart is tlic innate inherit- ance of youth untrammelctl by convention-

But there is a dilTerence in the merry laugh of pleasure and the great coarse laugh of ignorance, and so tho little school ma’am thought as she looked from tho picturesque dimples in 'Lisbeth’s checks to the t«o rows of irregular teeth which just now were l>y far the most prominent feature in Jake

- Hardstroh’s face. I'his difTerence worried the little scliool ma’am for she had quite a sense of the eternal fitness of things, and these two friends seemed to her utterly out of keeping with one another.

’Lisbeth had been Miss Jennings choicest “ specimen ” from the very first day of her coiniug to “ VicLoriaschool-houso.” Itinust be confessed that toMissJeunings, removed for the first time from her own studies in the seminary twenty miles away, these pu- pils all seemed rather natural curiosities tlian anything else, most interesting on ac- count of their peculiarities. But ’Lisbeth had such a little flower-face and was alto- gether so winning that the little school- ma’am had been very glad to make a per- sonal friend of her. indeed, she and ’Lis- beth had sometimes become confidential, and one day when Miss Jennings had been speaking of her plans for the years to come, how she was going to Alma, and then she hoped to teach in a college, ’Lisbeth liad remarked,

“ Well,” Miss Jennings, I don’t know. Seems to me it would be a good deal nicer to get married,”

Wh»t a bomb-shell from the demure ’Lisbeth ! But the little school-ma’am was fortified against all such arguments.

“ Why no, ’J.isbeth, tliink how young I am—ibuly Ï8—and then it’s our duty, ’IJs- l>etb, lo learn all we can and bo learre I and accomplished and brilliant and an ornament to society.”

But ’Lisbeth perisled, “ Maybe I’ll sur- prise you, teacher, I Know I’m three months youDgor’n you eveu, but Pa says it's right and seems to mo so too and so—well, Pa he says it’d be nice for me to get married this spring.”

In vain had Miss Jennings reasoned with ’Lisbeth on tiio subject. Argument was use- less and six months ago she had resigned herself to seeing Jake and ’Lisbeth trudge ofT together from the sihool-house every evening for their homes were not far apart. “ Beauty and the beast,” she had said to herself sometimes, with a little shiver. “ Jake and ’ Lisbeth”—this combination cf names! It shocked the harmony-loving little

.school ma’ma. “Now ’Lisbeth is poeti- cal,” she thought. “It sounds like the lisp of leaves on the softest summer evening. And Lisbetli’s lace a dream. But Jake ! It is nothii^çdifut Jake and it rhymes with rake and bake and all other commonplace words. And the worst thiug is the name suits the boy.”

But as Miss Jennings saw how happy Lisbeth looked from day to day, she re- leul»»!! from her lialf-tormed plan of remon- strating with the’“ matcl-making father,” and decided that it is best not'to meddle with other people’s affairs.

Tho last day of June had finally come— the day set apart for the picnic which ended tlie term. The little school-ma’am had l>e- queathed the pot of gerauniums in the win- dow to Jake, telling herself that she would thus try to expiate the hard thoughts she had against him just for for being ugly and uncouth, and now she was running races down tlie hill with the children, as blithe and free as they. The fathers and mothers, and oven the granclpareiiLs of tho children came always to these picnics,and they made red-letter days in tlie lives of the little folks.

There was just a little sorrow about Miss •Tenniug’s heart, however. ’Twas a sorrow for another, which is tlio hardest kind of all to bear. She was thinking of ’Lisbeth. This would be tho child’s last free day, and then she would settle down to the prosaic life of lier fathers, her capabilities would never be developed, and she would in time be just a nonentity like so many before her. The sympathetic little school-ma’am siglied. But at tliis moment ’Lisbeth her- self came up, with ihe laine happy look on her face that she had worn for so many weeks,

“Miss Jennings,” she began, “I hope you won’t be disappointed”—here ’Lis- both’s blushes fought a losing battle with her dimples—“But cousin Jake’s going to bring Mr. Fosdyck along pretty soon”

“Cousin Jake !” repeated the little school na’am inanely propping herself against a great oak tree behind her.

“Yes,” guilelessly went on ’Lisbeth. “ Mr. Fosdyok came out from Toronto yes- terday—you know 1 metliim there at cousin Nan’s—and oh, teacher, it’s going to be nicer even than I thought, for as soon as we’re married wc’rc goiiw to Rome to stay two Vicars, for you know Mr. Fosdyck is an

But f%isbeth never understood why it was tljkt just here tho little school ma’am suddenly smothered her with kisses and

ged her so tightly that she was all out ■ ealh and not able to present Mr. Fos- k in at all a seemly manner.

The ppy

TO THE BITTER END, A IWLK OF TWO LIVES.

<|uiek Work. recent conversion of the English

• Jt Western Railway, throughout into a ”,^ard gauge line, tnay fairly be said to

nark an epocli ; while the skill and speed wuth which the work was acccomplished na*;nrally excited popular admiration. The 7-Cpot gauge associated with tho great fame of Brunei no longer exists in England. The standard of 4 feet 8A inches is henceforth the real broad gauge, as compared with the narrow and even 2 feet roads to be found here and there for special service in the mifjing or other regions. Tho broad gauge was introduced wlien both the roadbed sys- tem and tho rolling stock were far inferior to what they arc now, so that the additional steadiness thereby gained was appreciat- ed. Tlie Great Western Railway, up to thirty-eight years ago, used only the broad gjuige ; but then a minced gauge was intro- duced liy adding a new rail for the rolling

th<y more usual guago on the othei- ^'J^veii a ({uarter of a century ago

^ay had l,4.'i0milesof broad guage: îpntrary movement liecamo irresis- j^n lliis stronghold of the other

so that out of about 2,600 miles • ed when the final change came, about

:4,000 were standard, 420 mixed, and per- haps 170 broad. But in one way and an other a distance, it is said, ot about 200 miles had to be handled ; and an extra force of ^000 men liegau on it, with the passage of,trié last broad-guage special train east- wfttd on a Saturday morning. The work wks substantially over by Sunday night, the time actually occupied being only thirty- one hours. On Monday morning trains ran for public accommodation. There is a reminiscent and almost pathetic tone in the adieus of the engineering journals to this

nee famous system.

iau Government tiled unsuccess- j.ka Grand Duke Constantine’s cy a lever to obtain from Paris an of riOt-.OOO^OOO.

CHAPTKR X.XVIll. ALONH WITH THK SEA-OUT.LS.

There was a dead silence between tlie two men after the recognition. Lord Alceston had stepped back a pace or two, and was leaning against a fragment of rock with a dazed look in his face. Neillson had risen slowly and with difiiculty to his feet, and was standing quite still, breathing liard, and with his eyes fixed upon the wi<Ie ex- panse of sea. It was a strange meeting, not devoid of a certain dramatic interest. But tlie first sentence which passed between tlieni was a common-place one.

“ Y’ou have been ill,” Lord Alceston said slowly.

’J’he man laughed—a strange, hollow, little laugli, which, low though it was, was caught up and echoed back from the cliffs with grim effect.

“Ay, I have been ill,” ho answered, look- Jig down at himself curiously.

His clothes, once black, now stained and soiled with sea water and wet sand, hung about him in loose, empty folds. There were hollows underneath his cheek bones and deep black lines under lii.s restless, un- naturally bright eyes. A continual tremor seemed to have laid hold of his shrunken form, and his breathing came with great difiiculty. His appearance was very much the appearance of a man who has risen from his death bed.

“ Ay, I have been ill,” he repeated, sud- denly turning round and facing the other. “ Why have you come here, Lord Alceston ? Why could you not have let me die in peace ?”

“ I came, not in search of you,” was the answer. “ I came to go through some of .ny father’s papers, and discovered that some one was living in secrecy in my own house. Had I not the rigiit to know who it was? How.came you here?”

“1 came because it was a safe hiding-

“ How was it that Mrs. Smith has shel- tered you ?”

“ She is my mother. Mothers will do a great deal to save their sons from the gal- lows, you know. Besides, she had instruc- lions from the countess.”

l.ord Clanavon shuddered. “ Your mother ?” he repeated. “ Ay ; siie is my mother.” “But her name is Smith.” “ So is mine. The earl always called me

Neillson because it ha<l been the name of his first servant and he couldn’t get out of using it. That was many years ago. The name has become my own.

“ Neillson,” said Lord Alceston, slowly, “ if I had known that it was you who were occupying that secret chamber I might have gone away and left you in peace. I say—I might ; whether I should have done so or not I cannot tell. But now that we have met face to face and alone,” he glanced round with a slight shudder, as thoiigli for the first lime aware of the dreariness of the surroumlings, “ you shall tell me—about that night.”

“May God seal my lips forever if I do !” cried Neillson, passionately. ‘ ‘ Oh, be wise. Lord Clanavon! I have been a faithful servant—faitliful to death,” he added in a lower tone, “for I stand even now upon the threshold of death. I can say no more. You may believe me a murderer if you will. You may take me up and throw me into the seaif you will. I will not resist. I could not if I would. But I will tell you noth- ing. ”

“Whatif I have you arrested as my father’s murderer? Tliere is a warrant out against you.”

“ Then if 1 lived so long I should probably be hanged,” he answered. “I am no scholar, my lord, but I remember two lines of Shakespeare, which struck me once :

y on may as woll ao stand upon the shore. And bid the main Flood bate his usual height.”

Lord Clanavon, you may as well go stand upon that rock and cry out to the waves to coine no further as bid me tell you anything about that night ! ”

There was a force in his shaking voice which spoke of a resolution which no words could shake. Lord Alceston turned round without another worii. “Let us go from this place,” he said, with a shudder. “ How came you to know of that passage ? ”

I rom the ep.rl. I never thought to be obliged to usé it, though—to have to creep about the bowels of the earth like a Imnte

They stooped down and entered the cave. Then both started and a look of horror flashed into Neillson’s white face.

Listen !” he cried. “ Listen !” His voice was well-nigh drowned in the wild roar of rushing water and its heavy splash- ing against the roc’K-hewn sides of the pas- sage. While they stood there a torrent of green sea streaked with white came foam- ing out of the entrance to the secret way, and reached to ihoir feet.

“ My lonl—Lord Bernard !” cried Neill-, son, wringing his hands. “ I am a murder- er now indeed. Fool, idiot., that I was to keep you here.”

“What has happened—What does this mean ? ” he cried.

“ The sea is around us. It floods the secret passage at every tide, and it has done 80 now. We cannot get back.”

“ And here—does the tide reach here ? ” cried Lord Alceston.

Neillson pointed to tho drippiqg roof. “ The cave is submerged,” he answered,

bitterly. Lord Alceston rushed-outside. Alrea d

the long waves were rolling to within a few yards of the cave’s mouth, and the salt spray was dashed in show'ers into his face as he stood there. He looked wildly around, i'lie cliffs on either side stood far out into the sea, and nowhere on their smooth per- pendicular sides, shilling with wet, was there the least chance of ascending even a few feet. While he stood there gazing hope- lessly around, a great wave came bounding out from the mouth of the cave behind and [lowed around him almost to his knees. Dripping with web and breathless, Neillson staggered out lo his side, sobbing and cry- ing.

“ Oh, Lord Bernard ! Lord Bernard,” he cried, “ I have brought you here to die. God forgive me !”

Lord Alceston was pale, and there was asad, wistful look in his blue eyes. But there was no fear in his face. He was something of a philosopher, something of a Christian, and altogethera higli-spirited young Englishman with all the noblesse of his order, and a pro- found contempt of fear in any shape. Death stared him in tho face, but he was equal to it. Had there been hope, had it been a more doubtful manner—ho might have been agitated. As it was, he was quite calm.

“It is nothing to do with you, Neillson,” he said quietly. “It is a hard thing, but I’m not afraid to die. Say your prayers, man, if you know any.”

A dull, lethargic composure seemed to creep over the two men. 'I’liey stood knee- deep in the cruel green sea, which came curling about them, ever creeping upward, and they gazed with dull eyes over the blank sea. After a while I^ord Clanavon roused himself as though with an effort..

“ When the sea comes to my neck, Neill, son,” he said, quietly, “lam going to swim- The village is round the western promon- tory, I suppose ?”

“Yes,’ answered Neillson, in a choking voice, “but you cannot pass the breakers,”

Lord Clanavon looked at the long line of foam strcaKcd, seething waves, and sighed.

“I suppose not,” he said. “But it is hard to die without making an effort, shall try. Listen to me, Neillson. In few hours we shall both be in another world. I <lo not blame you, mind, but you know that it is through you that we are in this position.’'

‘•I know it,” Neillson groaned. Lord Clanavon put his hand on his

shoulder kindly. “ X am not blaming you, Neillson. You fled hero thoughtlessly, I kiio^v. I only mention this because I am going to ask you a favor. ”

“ You want me to tell you ” ’ * Ay, I should die easier if 1 koenr."

“Come outside. Lord Bernard. It will take some few mimitea to tell you all, and if we climb that rock it will give us a little longer.”

Lord Alceston, stronger by far than his companion, and a trained athlete, clambered easily to the summit of a slippery boulder. Then,stooping down, lie dragged Neillson up to his side, and waitetl patiently while he recovered his breath.

There they stood in the dreary twilight, with the tall clifls frowning around them, and the sea-gulls shrieking above their heads, while belo v the cruel, hungry sea was sweeping in, creeping higher and high- er at every moment. Lord Alceston, find- ing his companion was shaking and tremb- ling with tlie cold and agitation, passed his strong arm around him and held him up. Tlien lie held his breath and stooped his head to hear from those white trembling lips tho story of his father’s murder.

CHAPTER XXIX. A DRAMA OF DK.A.TII.

“ Let me give you one more chance, Lord Bernard,” said Neillson, speaking rapidly, butin a low tremulous tone. “Let me swear to you hero, on tlie threshold of death, by every hope I have of another world, that it will be better for you if you let me carry my secret with me untold into the grave which awaits us. You will die a happier man—and so shall I.”

“ You liave passed your word Neillson, and 1 claim it,” was the firm, unhesitating answer. “Speak. I am waiting, the time is short. ”

He comnienced at once. His voice was weak and broken with agitation, but in Lord Alceston’s ears it drowned the wild, on- ' ward rush and backward motion of the angry waves and rang out above the screech of the dragged pebbles and the weird cries of the wheeling sea-gulls. He heaul nothing but that faltering voice, pouring out an ill-told, disconnected story of which he fast gather- ed up the threads. It seemed in those few minutes, which he looked upon as his last on earth, almost as though his intelli- gence and perceptions were quickened and intensified—as though everything which he was told, every fact and incident, stood out in bolder colors, and his mind was gift- ed with added powers of reception and comprehension. And this is the story to which he listened ;

“ I was engaged by Mr. Brudnell to be your father’s confidential servant just be- fore he started for a brief Continental tour. He was then only twenty-one years old, but lie was an orphan, as your lordship knows, and his own master.

We travelled about for some time in a leisurely manner, staying longest in Paris and at a little village up among tlie Swiss mountains. Except for Paris, your father seemed to care very little for cities, and we spent most of our time in out of-tlie-way places. Chance led us to a small water- ing-place on tlie French coasts, within a short distance of Nice. My master liked the place, and we took up our quarters for some time at the hotel.

“It was here, at the casino, that your father met the Count d’Augeville. The count was of good family, and had very pleasant manners. A slight acquaintance, begun in the most casual way, grew into in- timacy. Alas! Alas! Alas!

■‘Soon your father began to visit at the count’s villa. It was a uice place, right away from the town, and finely situated close to the cliffs. The count was a widow- er, with two daughters. To sum him up at once, he was also a scoundrel and a gam-

The daughters were t wins, both lieauti- lul and wonderfully alike. From the mo- ment of his introduction to them a change seemed to come over my master. During all the time I had been with him 1 had carcely seen him sp eakto a woman, except when he harl been obliged. Now he seemed completely bewitched. He was always here, either riding or walking on the cliffs

or driving into the town with one of them. Cecile and Marie were their names.

They wire botli in love with him, I am sure. Which he preferred 1 could not tell at that time. When he sent bouquets and presents he gen- rally sent to both of tliem, and he was

with one as often as the other. Of course here was a good deal of gossip alxjut them

in the town, but Miss Cecile’s name was generally mentioned. Miss Marie had an- other admirer, to whom she was generally supposed to l>e engaged, and whom she after- ward married.

While this was going on in the daytime iny master was losing large sums of money

being cheated out of them, in fact, every night by Count d’ Augeville. Once I re- member he had to go to England to raise the money fora debt owing to him. Then I ventured to remonstrate with him, and very nearly got dismissed.

" It was one night when we were at the Villa d’ Augeville. The count and my master had been playing cards all the even- ing, and were sitting at a little round table close to the window, whicii was open. Tlioy had finished, when my mas- ter saw me strolling about the gar- den and called me in.

“ ‘Neillson, he said, ‘I wish you to listen to what I am going to say to the Count d’Augeville.’

'The count looked up, startled. My master went on quite calmly.

“ ‘You hold me your debtor for to-night’s nlay tothe amount of twelve thousand francs, I believe ?’

‘That is the amount,’ the count said. ‘And you have won during the last

month about one hundred and twenty thou- sand francs from me?’

The count frowned. ‘I don’t remember the amount,’ he said, haughtily. ‘Gentle- men don’t talk aboutsuch things afterward.

"‘The hundred and twenty thousand francs I have paid,” my muster continued. This twelve thousand I shall not pay.’

“And why the devil not!’ cried the count, springing up.

“ ‘ Because the odds are scarcely fair. In return for the lesson which you have just given me, Count d’Augoville, permit me to give you one. Gentlemen do not play poker : with marked cards.’

As ho spoke he snatched at the pack wliich was lying betweem them on the table and passed them to me.

Examine those cards, Neillson,’ho said coolly. ‘You observe where each one is marked at the right-hand corner?’

■ I saw it at once, and told him so. Then he passed them on to the two other gentle- men, who had advanced from the other end of the room. They both looked at them and shrugged their shoulders. The fact that they were marked cards was uiideui-

‘‘Tho count had been sitting quite still, pale and dazed. Even now ho did not speak a word, and my master went on :

Under these circumstances, Count d’Augeville, I shall not remain under your oof. i have to inform you that your

daughter Cecile was married to me last week at the Protestant church at Nice. I am

“ My master stood up.iiuielly. “ ‘ 1 shall not figlit you,’ lie said, ‘be-

cause, in tlio first place, you are my wife’s father; and in the next, you are a common thief, unworthy to cross swords with an I'lnglish nob e nan.’

“ How he iii<I it I don’t know, butsome- how Count d’Augeville luirled a wine-glass which hit my master on the forelicad. I saw tlie blood streaming down his foroliead, hut he scarcely seemed to notice it.

“‘You rascal !’ screamed the count. ‘I am noble, too, and you shall fi?ht mo !’

“My master hesitated for a moment; then he touched his forehead lightly.

“ ‘After this,’ he said, ‘ I rescind my words. I am at yourscrvice when and where you please. '

“‘Now; this moment !'cried the count. The moon is full, and it is as light as day.

M. <rAnnande will be your second. Victor, you will 8tan<l by me in this?’ he said to the other man, whose name I have forgot-

My master lifto<l tlie curtain and look- ed outside. It was, us the count had said, RS light as day.

“ ‘As you will,’ he said, carelessly. ‘M. d’Armande, will you honor me ?'

“ M. Victor and Count d’Augeville wliia- pored togetlier for a moment or two ; then tlie latter came to my master and M. d’ Armande.

“ Monsieur the Count,’ he said, ‘has no duelling pistols at hand, hut several rapiers. Has Lord Alceston any objection to fight with tliese weapons ? ’

“ ‘ Not the slightest,’ my master answer- ed. I saw a savage gleam of joy flash into Count d’Augeville’s face. No doubt ho thought that because my master was an Englisliman he could not fence. But I knew batter, and was glad of the choice. I knew ' that my master was the most brilliant swordsman I had ever seen. One never knows what may happen with pistols; but with swords I felt sure that my master must

They opened the windows and trooped down the broad, white stepson to the lawn. My master was the last to go, and as he was quitting the room Mile. Marie laid hold of his arm and whispered something imploring- ly in his ear. He shook her off and turned away without a word. I shall never forget her face. If a look could have slain him he would have been a dead man.

“ It v/as a strange scene on that little plot of grass—I don’t Hiink I ever saw a stranger one. The whole garden was heavy with the scent of flowers and creepers, mingled with the aromatic perfume from tlio plantation of pine trees which bordered the grounds and sloped downward to the sea. Every- thing was as light and clear as day, only there was the deep midnight stillness and the starlit sky. The figures on the lawn, with their drawn swords flashing coldly in tlie moonlight, seemed like a party of devils breaking into Paradise. The count’s face w’as drawn and distorted with rage, and the other two seemed agitated too. Only my master stood there quite calm, with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, leaning upon his sword, and with an odd smile upon his Hp.s. I went to him and asked if ho liad any- thing lo say to me. Ho only lauglied.

“ ‘If we fence till daylight,’ he said, ‘the count will never touch me. I never felt in better form.’

“ I have seen one or two duels, bull never

HOW FEELS.

The AnKul^h Which the Head ^'iifTers After l>enii>Uation.

Tlio double execution by decapitation whicli took place Satunlay, April 2.'1, at Goerlilz, (torniany, of the two murderers, Knoll niul I Icydrich, caused serious discus- sion of the anachronism of inflicting death by belieading. This brings to mind that one experience was left to bo added to the glories of hypnotism. It ha<l never been tiioiight to transmit a suggestion to an in- dividual about to be beheaded and then ac- curately observe the sensations felt at the moment of torture.

d’hn celebrated Belgian painter, Wiertz, whoso works are collected in the Museo Wiertz, Bruxelles, must lie considered a pre- cursor of such a test.

Wiertzwas not an adopt in occult sciences His investigation w<as impelled by generos- ity of sentiment rather than through vain , curiosity. What occupieil his mind was tlie Icgitiiimte question of the death penalty, and lie was ceaselesoly liaunteil by the de- sire to penet rate into tlie mysteries of death througli tho torture of the guillotine.

Is it true that the anguish endures but a second? What docs the culprit think? VVhat does he feel at the fatal moment wlien tlie deadly knife falls heavily upon his neck ?

All such questions Iiarassod the mind of the artist. Wiertz was a close acquaintance of M. M--, tlie pliysician in attendance at the jirison in Bruxelles, and was likewise an intimate friend f Dr. D—, a scientist, who had for more than thirty years de- voted himself to the study of hypnotism. The latter had often hypnotized the painter, who had already proved to be a wonderfully susceptible subject.

Wiertz, favoretl with the permission of M. M—, the prison official, and the consent of Dr. I)—, determined upon tlie following experiment: He would place himself under the guillotine, where the severed head of the condemned rolls into the basket, and there be allowed to bo put to sleep tlirough hypnotism and ordered to penetrate the mental and bodily sensations of those exe- cuted. Preparatory to this lest, a few days before a decapitation occurred, lie submit- ted to be put to sleep by Dr. D—, who in- fluenced him to identify himself with iliffer- ent people in order to read their thoughts —to penetrate tlieir vary souls and con- sciences-so as to experience all the senti- menis which agitated them. Wiertz proved a most fitting person for so delicate a mis-

About 10 minutes previous to the arrival of the condemned the day of the execution Wiertz, accompanied by his friend, Dr. D —, and two witnesses, proceeded to the guillotine, and there placing themselves close to tho fatal basket, beneath the scaf- fo'd, but unsuspected by the public, Wiertz w’as livpnotized by the doctor. While in this condition, Dr. D—obliged him to identify himself with the victim, to follow minutely all Ins thoughts and to feel and express aloud the sensations aflectiiig the criminal just at that moment when the knife entered his neck. He ordei’cd him finally, just as tlic head fell into the basket to make an effort to enter tliat brain and analyze tlie last thoughts tliere impressed.

The three friends who accompanied the painter stood there in breatliless silence

saw another one like that, l’he count went anxiously awaiting developments. The at my master like a fury, but lie never seeni- j tread of feet overhead warns them that the ed to get anywhere near him. My lord ■ comlenmed is being Icil by the exculioner stood hie ground quite carelessly, smiling j to the death-dealing machine, all the time, as though he were a fencing-1 The culprit ascends the scaffold ; another master, indulging a pupil with a little loose ! instant and the gtiillotine will have accoin- play and parrying every thrust with ridicu- lous ease. The count tried him every way —in carte, in tierce, in cercle, in octavo, in seconde, but it was all the same. My lord was always his superior, and if ho had chosen he could have run the count through time after time with the simplest repass ; but lie never once attempted it.

“ They had been engaged nearly half an hour before the end came, ard very unex-, , ^ pected it was to all of us. The count was ; thunderiiolt has fallen ! Oh, horror ! The

plished its bloody work The doctor wat. lies Wiertz and notices

that he is extremely perturbed. He .suppli- cates piteously to lie awakened. The an- guish opjiressing him is intolerable. But—it is too late—the knife has fallen.

“ What do you feel ? What do you sec ?’ questions tlie doctor.

The painter, struggling with convulsions answers, moaning : ' ' ’

<lualilieatlun for Ihe Franchise. The Humanitanmi is a new monthly dated

from New York, and under thé editorial eliHi'ge of Mrs. Vjfloiia Woodhall Martin. Theaim of tho now journal is,the oditorsays, “ to discuss all subjects appertaining to the well-being of humanity. ” We take from the first issue of the Humanitarian tho follow- ing remarkable article on “Qualifications for tlic Krancliise:”—“ When does a man ac- quire the capacity of judging for whom to vote? Why does the ago of twenty-one (pialify for voting ? In no other department would tho. fact that a man is legally of ago alone decide capacity. If I call in a physi- cian to see a sick person, it is because I think him qualified to cure, not because liis ago is a guarantee. The law insists that he snail have a diploma showing capacity, which gives him the right to practice. This diploma is a guarantee that he knows some- thing about his jirofession. A man exer- cises the franchise without any guarantee, except that he has arrived at the age when the law allows him to vote, though he may have no capacity to judge who should he put into office. What liberty have we in tho majority vote of the unoihicateil, tlio unfit or defective individuals ? Instead of send- ing an ignorant man to pass laws, instead of expensive elections and appeals to party interest, a law should be discussed by experts on the subject, every side of the question given full publicity, and then a vote taken on the merits of the measure pro- posed, which would lake it out of the hands of professional politiciani ami put it into the hands of scientific authorities, working for the benefit of humanity. An action or measure i.s either good or bad ; if bad, an act of the legislature will not make it good ; if it is good it is so because of its own intrinsic merits, not }>ecause of the number of votes given it. The discovery of electric light benefits the German as well as the Ameri- can. So with a law ; if it is just, it is so independent of the fact that a Republican or a Democrat proposed its being passed. \Vhat is just, right, reasonable, will be so although two persons think differently on tlie subject. What incentive have aliens to elect those who would work for the welfare of their adopted country ? They are not born upon the soil, and time is : required before their interests become iden- .tiffed with the American nation. Tliey vote where self-interest leads. It is this which makes the struggle so terrible between tho educated vote on one side and the ignorant vote on the other. Our best men abstain from having anything to do with politics because tho fear that the terroiists will blacken their character and ruin their rep- utation deters tliem. Are a people free who dare not give vent to their l>63t im- pulses, who dare not raise their voice in favor of right? Those who would inau- gurate laws to benefit humanity are Iiaiassed and terrorized by deniairogues ami place-hunters. Either self-interest must become sub.scrvient to tho interests of humanity or else the people must admit that they are narrowing to a despotism which is as great as that of the democracy. What is freedom ? If I am a slave to drink, morphine or to opium, or to any drug, I am as much a slave as though I obeyed a will other than my own. The greatest legisla- tors will be those who will free u« from per- nicious habits and depraved appetites. It is a paradox to talk of men and women gain- ing power over nature, when a corrupt social condition is making of man and woman more abject slaves than those who were dragged about in chains. The ignor- ant maojrity vote in the name of liberty, is opposed to tho true interests of humanity.

Heredity and Enrlromcnl.

Mr. J. H. Kellogg, in a recent issue of the Cliicago Student, discusses the question of the influence of heredity and environment. He says that if you plant a thistle seed and an orange seed in the same plot of ground and let them grow together in the same

1-^ «1111 uuiivuiaiuuo earth, the same air, the same sunlight, and A lightning ! Thé the same care, is there any question as to

fencing very loosely, and my lord, to vary a little, drew back, and with a powerful flangonet sent the count’s sword a dozen yards into the air. Thej^iount somehow lost his balance and fell forward. My lord being used to the most correct fencing, had brought his sword into line again immedi- ately he had concluded the flangonet and the count fell right upon it before he could draw back.

“ We heard the sword enter his body, and almost at once it came out at his hack dripping with blood. My lord drew it back and leaned over tho count, who fell heavily backward without a single cry.

“ ‘He has only himself to blame for this.’ my lord said,, wiping his sword on the grass, and for the first time turning pale. ‘I w’ould have spared him if I could.”

“I never saw any one die so quickly. He just drew himself up once, clutched at the air with his fingers, and then fell back dead. But the most awful part was to to come. While they were all gathered around him a tall, white figure glided down from the steps and across tlie grass toward them. Lord Bernard, death is close upon us, but even now the memory of that girl’s face makes me Sliudder more than the thought of those hungry waves below. It was awful. She threw herself down on tiie grass hy_ his side and wound her arms around him. But she knew directly that he was dead.

“ They all fell back and stood silent. My lord for the first time appeared to be agitat- ed, and, dropping his sword, covered his face with his hands. Suddenly she turned round upon him, the moonlight flooding down upon her beautiful golden hair and ivory-marble face.

“‘You!’she cried. ‘You! My God, was it you ?’

“ He movedoutof theshadeof thecypress tree under tvhich he had been standing and stretched out liis arms imploringly to her. But she waved him away.

“‘Outof my sight!’ she cried wildly. ‘Away, away! Never come near me again. Never ! Murderous coward, to kill an old

“‘Cecile,’ lie cried, ‘It was his own fault I Ask them if it was not. You are my wife, remember.’

“ She laughed ; an awful laugh it was. “ ‘ May God’s curse rest forever upon me,”

she cried, ‘ if I smile into your face again, much more let you touch my fingers. Dare to come near me and I will kill you. Away! Out of my sight, monster ! Wretch ! If men will not punish you in this world may God do so in the next 1’ Then she fell on her knees again by her father’s side, and my lord went away.”

(TO llF. rONTlN'UED.)

head tliinks. the head sees “ Itsuflers horribly ! It hears, it feels,

it thinks but cannot compreliend what has happened.

It looks for its body. It seems as if

what the result would be ? Although the analogy between plant heredity and envi- ronment does not bold strictly with regard lo human heredity and environment, it is certainly true that an individual receives a very strong bias from his heredity. Strong

the body must come and join it. It expects ! ii'dinations and congenital deformities of

sorry that I have not a copy of the certifi- cate with me, but you will find the entry in the book if you care to go and look for it. I intend my wife to leave this house with me to-night.’

“ Suddenly we heard the sound of trailing draperies behind, and Mile. Marie swept up to the little group, her face white with pas- sion, amt her great eyes gleaming like fire ill the moonlight.”

“ ‘ It is false, mon pere !' she cried, falling on her knees before him. ‘ He is base, per- fidious, a traitor. Cecile is not married to him. If she leaves this house with him to- night she will go to her ruiu. You will not let her go, father, wicked man that he is. Ho put these cards on the table himself. I saw him do it.’

“ His daughter’s words seemed to give the count fresh courage. He sprang to his feet, shaking with anger.

“‘You are a liar, Alceston!’ he cried, passionately. ‘ You shall give me satisfac- tion lor this, and at once.’

The IVliUky ISiiKiucss.

A correspondent sends in the following statement ot tho whisky business in its prin- cipal results, tho last named not being the least in importance: “ A bushel of corn makes four gallons of whisky, wliich sell for Sl‘2 at retail. Outof this tho government gets §2, the railroads 81, the manufacturer 8.S, the vender the fanner 40 cents, and tlie drinker gets the delirium tremens. ” This is a general way of stating the ease, and tlie showing is open to some modifications. It is understood that the Takemine process yields eigliLeen quarts to the bushel instead of sixteen. Fifty cents per quart for whisky is a small price at retail. The farmer hardly averages 40 cents per bushel for the kind of corn used in making whisky. And not every one who drinks tho product

, sees snakes in consequence. Still the state- ment is a suggestive one. It bears out a remark long since made to the effect that those who cater to the vices of their fellows make mueli more profit out of the operation than those who deal in the prime neces- sities of existence. The vender of whisky sells the stuff for nearly twice as much as it costs him, while the man who sells bread has to be content with a small percentage of gain on the transaction, ami they do say the dealer in sugar j»ets no profit at all. In spite of this many a man prefers paying out double prices for whisky to be consumed by himself to buying at nearly cost pi'ice bread for his family. Truly this is a curious world and the worst of it is that such exposures as the above do not seem to materially mend the matter.

the final blow. It awaits death, but death will not come !”

While Wiertz was giving utterance to these shocking sentences tho other witnesses, who liad noticed the head falling through the bag lo the bottom of the basket, crown downward ami bleeding neck iipwanl, ob- served that it wa.s looking at them with monlli widely distended and teeth tightly clinched. Tlie arteries still pulsated palp- ably where the knife had severed them, and the warm blood spurted out, spattering the eyes, the face, the hair.

The painter continued his woful lanienta-

“ Ah ! what hand is this strangling mo Î An enormous, rricrciless hand. Oh ! this pressure crushes me. Nothing but a large, red cloud do I sec. Sliall I ever liberate my- self from thi.s accursed hand ? Let loose, you monster ! X’ainly do I struggle with both my hands. What is this I feel ? An open wound ami mj' blood flowing. I’m nothing but a head rent from the body !”

It was only after long suffering that must have seemed endless in its endurance that ’ the decapitated head,realized its separation from the body.

Wiertz had again subsided into somno- lence, and Dr. I)—contimied his iiiterroga-

“ What do you see now' Where are you?” The painter answered : “ I fly into open space like a wheel through a fire. But - am I dead ? Is all over with me? Oh ! if they would only join mv body with my head again ! Oli I men have mercy ; restore my body to me and I shall live again. I still think. I still see. 1 yet remember every- thing. There arc my judges clad in dark robes. They utter my sentence ! Oh ! niy poor bereaved wife ! My wretched, unfor- tunate child ! You love me no longer. You abandon me. If you only would unite me

character thus conferred remain, to a cer- tain extent through life, just as do inherit- ed physical infirmities. Nevertheless, wo must recognize the fact that many individ- uals, inheriting badly deformed brains, do, under favorable conditions, develop very different cliaracteristios from what they would under unfavorable conditions ; but a person with good heredity and one with bad heredity cannot possibly develop equally under tlie same environment and conditions. The question of heredity also involves that of individual responsibility. Look over the inmates of any State prison and you will come to the conclusion that they are a race by themselves. Most of them have small heads and deformed skulls, the bide of the skull unequal, and but few of them are in sound physical health. The great majority of convicts show in their faces evidences of degeneracy and a low type of character. In fact, the type is so ilistinctly marked that we have what is known as the “ criminal class.” We cannot determine how much human beings are re sponsible for what they do. If a man steals, it may be because he has acquisitiveness largely developed, while his conscientious- ness is small ; for a man whose moral organs are small and who has Urge acquisitiveness is almost certain to be a thief. Is he, then, any more responsible for not walking along in the straight line of honesty than another man who has inherited some deformity of his limbs is responsible for not walking as symmetrically as a man with ecjual legs ? We must admit that such persons are re- sponsible to a certain degree for their acts, but just the degree no one but God really knows. Our civil laws, however, make no difference in their judgment of such, and of those who, with good moral development, allow themselves to descend in the scale until they lose all sense of propriety, and abamloumc it you only wouia mine ^rty and become thieves,

with my body I should be vlth you ivgMn. | subject of heredity and its prin- ce !-i ou arc insensible to my entreaties I and iufiuences should be rightly lîut I love you still, my poor darlmgs. Let ^-.j^rstood by every parent. Children have me but embrace you once again. Gome, my little child. No! You shudder with fear. Oh ! unfortunate, you are stained witli my blood. Wlien will tliis ghastly racking end ? Inid ? Is not the criminal doomed to etern- al pLimshment ?”

While the sleeping artist described these

a divine right to be well-born.

8yiui»atliy for Hr. Blalue.

All America, Canada included, will sym- pathize witli ex-Sccretary Blaine in the

^ great affliction wliich has fallen upon him frightful sensations the bystanders noted in the death last week of his son, Emmons, that the orbs in the severed head were | This sudden bereavement, following closely immensely dilated and expressed a look of indescribable agony and intense pleading. The bewailing continued :

‘ No, no, such torture cannot last forever !

the loss of his eldest son, Walker, and his daughter, Mrs. Coppinger, will be a ter- rible blow. Emmons Blaine was a young man of much promise. He had excellent

G )d is’ merciful ! Now all belonging to ' natural abilities, and his business training earth fades from my sight. I see afar in the Bad been thorough. Since the death of remote distance astar glisteiiingand scintil-1 Walker Blaiue, the second son had been lating. Oh, how restful it must be there ! i more than ever the center of his father’s How relieved I feel. My oiilire being la j hopes ami pride, and ills brilliant prospects soothed by tho gentle balm of peace and 1 of a useful and succoiaful career were colmnejs. What a tranquil slumber I shall I doubtless doubly gratifying to the states- liave Oh what ecstasy I man whose domestic life liad been so lieavi-

Those w4-e the last words uttered by the ‘'V jj-.® hypnotic subject. Although still in this ' ““f o lus youngest boy. Cireumstanees sleep, he failed to answer any further ques- | of Hmmons Blatne peculiarly a- 1 ... a .L- ■ ; ; .a. 1 trying to his father, inasmuch as the ex- tioning. Dr. i)—at this point exaniinea the -r ® . i t i .a i- .i \r- 1 3 • at 1 la. 1 • a f citement and labors attending the Minnea- icjul in tlie basket.touclimg Its forehead,Its, , . .11, no 1 1 ■ T)0 is rnnvpiit.inn. wnp.n t.lie votinf' man temples, its teeth ; all was icy. ihe head *

The German Emperor belittles himself by exliibiting abnormal jealousy of liis greatest subject. Tho demonstrations of popular interest which are attending Prince Bismarck’s journey to Vienna are resented from the throne as a personal affront. A cliorns of denunciation has followed from tlie Imperialist press, and the Emperor has indicated his displeasure in unmistakable terms. The sovereign’s graudfatiier was so great a ruler tliat, he could liouor both Bis- marck ami MoUke without compromising his own dignity. He invariably contended that lus chief title to distiiicLiou was his ability to discover the two men who could render Germany the most valuable service. Kis grandson evidently considers that a sovereign cannot remain great if tho states- manship and pre-eminent qualities ot any 'inbject are recognized tiy the nation. That ,8 an exhibition of envy which tends to dis- credit sovereignty.

convention, when tlie young man worked early and late from filial loyalty and aflection, are believed to have had much to do with his untimely end. Henceforth all political striving and ambition will prob- ably be repugnant, in a new sense, to the bereaved statesman for whose sake millions of Americans will feel the loss of Emmons Blaiue as a personal sorrow.

Danger in Vacant Houses. So long as the house is unoccupied there

is no danger, but when new occupants take possession of it they will do well to take tho precaution to have it thoroughly aired for nine days previous, have the cellar cleaned, the <lrain pipes examined, tho closets and attics cleaned and disinfected, and a general over! auling eflected. More or less refuse is always left by tlie last oc- cupants of a house, and us these undergo putrefaction while the windows and doors are tightly closed, the whole house becomes infected. This explains why fevers and other germ diseases so often arise after the occupation of a new house.—[Good Health.

Some Hueer Thieves. As thieves the Bheels still niaintaiii their

old prestige as the most adroit professionals in that branch of industry in India, a land abounding in many types of roguery. End- less tales arc told of their skill in stealing, and in escaping pursuit by trick.s which would put the most knowing thieves in Eu- rope to the blush. They have been known to steal the blanket from under a sleeping man, who had been put on his guard that this would be attempted. The feat was simply accomplished by the thief tickling the face of the sleeper and as in voluntarily he turned himself under this slight titillation, tho blanket was gently pulled bit by bit from under him. Naked and oiled all over they move about noiselessly, and if grasped will eel-like slip out of the cap- tor’s grasp ; if not, he will probab- ly speedily feel drawn across his wrist the sharp razor-like knife, whieh is always hung suspended round tho thief’s neck by means of a string. They have '’a trick of dropping poison on the leaves of the plantain bushes among which the cattle that tlicy arc not able to capture are grazing. In tb morning the cattle being found dead thi carcasses are thrown away by the Hin- doo owner. This quite suits the thieves’ designs and calculations, for they immedi- ately return, flay the dead animals and sell tlio skins, which was M’hat they were desir- ous of obtaining. The Bheels, on being pursued, have been known to escajie among the burnt stumps—which, owing the preva- lence of forest fires, cover considerable tracts of country in certain parts of India— and allow the pursuing parties to pass them within a few yards by tlie expedient of throwing their black sinewy limbs into such attitudes that they would be mistaken for the scorched stumps among which they were hiding. An amusing (and possibly even true) story in reference to this trick of theirs is often re- laled. An English officer with a troop of cavalry was on one occasion pursuing a party of thieving Bheels. The sohliers al- most overtook the savages, w’hen suddenly they lost sight of them Wlund a rock, and though a strict search was made until dusk they failed to find them. The day had been hot and the sun exhausting. The officer, imagining that in an open piece of country like this the Bheels could not es- cape very far, ordered a halt near a clump of blackened stumps. Exhausted he threw himself on the ground, hung his helmet on a scorched branch, and leaned his back against a stump. To his astonishment the stumps seemed to become alive before his eyes, loud chuckles came from them ; in about a second or two he found himself thrown to the ground by the stump on which he was leaning, and ins helmet seized by the very branch on which he had hung it. At tho same time the other stumps be- came as sudilenly metamorphosed into men, and before he or his men could recover from their astonishment they had disappeared, carrying off the officer’s helmet as the re- ward for their exertions I What he had taken for a clump of blackened stumps was the party of Bheel thieves, who had skill- fully, after their usual manœuvres, thrown themselves into the attitudes winch had imposed upon their pursuers in so ludicrou a manner.

AGRICULTUIt.

The OloTer.

Some sing of tlie lily, and daisy, and rose, And tho pansies and pinks that the sumt,«s.

time throws In tho green grassy lap of tho inedder tha

Blinkin’up at tho f kies through tho sunshiny

But what is the lily and all of the rest <)t tho flowers to a man wiili a heart in hU

breast .That has dipped brimmin’full of tho honey and

Of tho e^eet clover blossoms his babyhood knqWf

I never set eye.s on a clOver-ficld now. Or fool round the stable, or climb in tly ^ But my cbildhood comes back Justus cieu

as plain As the smell of tho clover Tm sniffin’again ; .And I wander away in a barefoole<l dream, Wherj I tangle my toes in the blossoms that

With^the dew of the dawn of the morning of

Ere it wept o’er the graves that T’m weepin' above.

And so I love clovor—it seems like a part Of the sacred^'*'sorrows and j<'ys of my heart And wherevtt^ÆlOoonis, oh, tliere let me bow, .And thank tbj^oqd Godas I'm thankin’ him

•And to bftri still, for the strength, when

To go out in the clo\er.and tell it good-by, And lovingly nest le my face in its bloom. While rny soul slips away on a lircath of per-

fume. —[James Whitcomb Ui!cy.

Awful nisasters in (lie I lilted 8fn(os.

If the remaining six months of tliis year shall duplicate or even approximate to the record of disasters which have occurred in the first six the year lSf)2 will lie set <lown as the most fatal lo life in the United States that ever has been known. Fires, floods, ex- plosions, mine casualties, cyclones, wind- storms, lightning—all the elemental forces indeed seem to have combined with human agencies to ilcstroy life, and to present an aggregate of great disasters in comparison with which ordinarily terrible events seem to lose their significance or attract personal attention only. Since Jan. 1 there Lave been four destructive wind-storms, killing nearly 200 persons—viz. : April 1, Missouri and Kansas, 75; May IG, Texas, 15; May 27, Wellington, Kas,, 53 ; June 16, South- ern Minnesota, 50. In the same period there have been four great floods—viz. : April Il.Tombigbee River, 250; Alay 18, Sioux City, la., 35 ; May 20, Lower Missis- sippi, .30 ; Juno 5, fire and flood, Oil Creek, Pa., 196. There also have been four min- ing disasters—viz. : Jan. 7, McAllestor, I. T., 65 ; April 20, Minersville, Pa., 12 ; May 10, Roslyn, Wash.,44 ; May 14, Butte, Mont., ' 1. Tliree fires have been unusually disas- trous to life—viz. : Jan. 21, Indianapolis Surgical Institute, 19 ; Feb. 7, Hotel Royal, New York,.30; ADril*28,theater, Philadelphie, '2. Besides these there were on Mardi ‘21

.□ explosion at Jordan, Mich., by which 10 lives were lost ; June 13, the explosion at the Mare Island Navy-Yard which killed

and June 15, the fall of the bridge over Licking River by which S2 lives were sacri- ficed. These arc the principal disasters of the year thus far and they involve an ag- gregate of 960 lives. Adding to this total the sum of losses by minor accidents we have the following sad and unusual lecord : By fire, 876 ; by drowning, 1,364 ; by ex- plosions, 313 ; by falling structures of vari- ous kinds, 267 ; by mine disasters, 308 ; by wind-storms, 340 ; and by lightning, 1*20; grand total, 3,588. The total loss of life by these causes dui ing the whole of last year— and 1891 was one of the most destructive years cn record—was 5,762. So it is evi- deut that U'92 will far surpass its predeces- sor It is a sad and appalling record this of great disasters following so closely upon each other’s heels. It recalls the days of the Civil War when one took up the morn iug paper ouly to read the list of killed auci wouuded in the previous day's battle, and with the same result then as now—viz.: that the great battles so overshadowed the smaller ones tliat little attention was paid to the latter. So now the great cataclysms so far eclipse the smaller ones that the lat- ter, though they would he considered as shocking and exceptional in any ordinary time, are now hardly an hour’s wonder.

Some of June 8 Gifts.

?.. P. K. IN “ OCR ORANUF. HOMES.”

With June come the products from seed sown in the open field. All vegetable products sell for some price, but it is the bright, thinking gardeners producing fancy early stock who get the top prices. “ How do you produce such large, fine lettuce so early in the season ?” was asked one of the favored ones. His answer was “ By knowing liow.” “ That wasn’t produced,” said he, “ from seed bought in open market. I have ’-cen selecting my seed lor many years. I ■lave striven for an ideal and have bred up ti it, the same as one breeds for an ideal

.,-ow. You would not think of going into Brighton market expecting to buy your ideal cow would you? 1 have fed this lettuce with abundant food of the right sort. I liave not fertilized without knowledge. To grow large leaved lettuce requires abund* aiieo of nitrogen ; as nitrogen does not abound until the soil attains a natural warmth about 50 ® , special fertilizers like sulpliate of ammonia must be used. Later in the season, however, I wouM not think of using sulphate of ammonia ; it would then, witli the nitrogen generated from the fermentation of natural vegetable matter yearly put in the laml in the shape of stable manure, make an unbalanced food, bringing on blight and mildew.”

Many intelligent market gardeners covet a dry season, as they are enabled to get bet- ter prices for what vegetables they do pro- duce. Their soils have been liberally supplied with stable manure and are full of vege- table matter whicli acts as a sponge, holding the moisture coming from both above and below, rather than allowing it to es ape into the air. This furnishes moisture enough to keep plants alive, ready for more active growth when tlie drouth is broken ; ard they can then place upon the market a better class of produce than those wlio have been less liberal.

Many fall crops are planted during June and July and should droutli prevail it makes germination of seed difficult, as well as pre- vents transplanted plants from “catching

The horse and hand roller arc of material service. The rolling of loose soil by finning tends to increase the less of water from the surface by evaporation. This brings water to the surface from as great depths as four or five feet, causing tho surface to be wetter than it otlierwise would be.

When drouth occurs at seeding time roll- ing increases the amount cf water in the vicinity of the germinating seed ; ami it rolling is immediately followed by a light harrow so as todevelop asurface niulcli over seed bed, all the ailvantages of firming the ground will be realized, at the same lime preventing surface evaporation. Tiie efficacy of firming of seed after sowing dining hot dry weather has been illustrated by grass seed germinating more rapidly in spots where the cart wheel has run over the bed after seeding.

After sowing vegetable seed during Juno and July for fall crops let two men with a hand roller walk between the rows which are fully marked by the small roller or seed sower. The result is perfect germination of seed, even though tho seed may be of questioned vitality. In transplanting cab- bage, cauliflower and celery during dry time the land should first be ploughed and rolled. Light cultivation between the rows will break the contactof the capillary tubes with the surface.

Tho farmer’s great enemies during June and July are insects. A little later the fungus pests come in fora large share of at- tention. The squash vine borer is one of the most perplexing insects to deal with. The moth that lays the eggs which produce the borers appear about June 20th and stays about one mo'^th. The eggs are deposited on the vine near tlie ground and in about 10 days hatch and bore into the vine ; hidden away they bore through the heart, destroy- ing the alimentary canal which furnishes the growing vine with food and moisture.

One remedy is to go over the patch, rub the finger over the vine tliree or four inches from the ground, thus crushing the eggs ; this should be done at least once a week during the moths existence. Weak, half starved plants arc a more easy prey to all insects. Our market gardeners who prac- tice the intensive style of farming are not severely troubled with insects. By com- pletely feeding the plant they disturb tho soil so often it offers an insecure lodgment for insects. It is thought that late fall plowing, which is almost universally prac- ticed by market gardeners, destrojs many of the insects. Another remedy for the squash borer is to put about the stem of vine some substance, the fumes of which are distasteful to the moth, such as corn cobs soaked in coal tar.

TUe Tea Eulcriirlsc in t'ej IOIK

The enormous and rapid extenaion of tea cultivation in Ceylon ami many parts of India was, we know, the result of two special motive causes, the one being the dis- satisfaction felt with the quality of the tea imported into this country from China and the other the failure of the cott'ee enterprise owing to the ravages of what was too fami- liarly known as the leaf disease, (Hemelia vastatrix.) The quondam coffee planters faced their troubles with a patient persever- ance which merited a better reward. For not only did they fight with hopes,delusive- ly renewed every year by the apparently returning vigor of the plantations, (whose leaf crop was never more glossy and abun- dant than just befors a fresh attack of the fatal disease,) • for the preservation tf their coffee trees, but they successively tried the planting of cinchona, cocoa, van- illa, and other products, which one by one failed them in the very hour of anticipated success.

Then they sought to retrieve their fort- unes, already sorely shattered, by the plant- ing of tea, a shrub or tree known to be indig- enous in many parts of India, and little exacting in its demands upon the soil on which it grows. It foimetl, tlierefore, a ready aud eonveuient eubstitute for the dis- carded coffee trees and money being a very essential consideration tomeu whose resour ces had been exhausted by their protracted struggles, tea plantations, especially in Cey- lon were first lormed on the same ground, that had been previously occupied by coff ee. The product thus originally adopte«l as a last resource or makeshift has formed iu that island its staple industry, so that while in 1873 the exports of tea growers in Ceylon amounted to no more than 23 pounds, they were expected in 1890 to exceed -18,000,000 pounds. My readers will be better able to grasp this astonishing fact when they re- member that it lakes from three to four years to obtain any produce at all from the tea plant. In the third year, tiiat is to say, there is a small return, but [iracticaliy tho planter has to wait till the fourth ye.ti,r for the fruition oi his labors. Thus it happened that the first tentative attempt at growing tea having proved unexpectedly successful, the rush into more extended cultivation was immediate emd süuuUsnsous.

Crop Prospects in Manitoba.

The Manitoba Government has justissued its crop bulletin, which shows tho acreage in Manitoba, exclusive of the North-West, to be as follows: Wheat, 875,990; oats, 332,974; barley, 97,644; peas, 2188; potatoes, 10,003 ; roots, 17,498. The acre- age of wheat has slightly fallen off this year. This may be accounted for by tho wiu’^f setting in early and the farmers neglecting their ploughing to attend to their threshing. Seeding was general over the province about the 19th of April, butin some places* was not begun until May 1. Correspondents re- port the plant as being healthy and vigorous, and all speak encouragingly of the prospect of a good crop. Barley shows an increase of nearly eight thousand acres, oats of thirty thousand acres,peas ofseven liuiidred, rye of four hundred, and corn of eighteen iiundred. The farmers of Manitoba are be- ginning to appreciate the value of flax, and this year two thousand acres are under crop. The area planted of roots this year is nearly double. The pastures and meadows are re- ported by three hundred and fifty corres- pondents, whose reports make up this bulletin, to be excellent and could not be better. The condition of stock is reported to be first-class, especially horses, which are reported to be in excellent condition tor the work of the summer. I-ast season’s .lay and oat crop being exceptionally good, may account to a large extent for the unusually good condition of the stock. No disease is reported among cattle.

When sending in their reports corre- spondents are asked to give the average rental of farm lands in their respective dis- tricts. The rental paid varies from a few cents for unimproved lands to $4 per acre for cultivated lands iu the more thickly settled districts. In some of the^ localities much of tbo-land is Avorked on shares, and in such cases the owner receives from one- fourth to one half the crop. The correspond- ents report that there was a sufficient supply of labor for putting in the crop, but the de- mand for harvest hands will be as great as ever. A statement compiled from their re- ports ’n this regard, shows that the numlier required for the harvest this fall will be be- tween seven and eight thousand. The rate of wages on the average is §22 per month aud board. In adilition to the above a de- mand exists for boys of from twelve years and older for light farm work and lierding at from $70 to $150 per year with lx>ard. The demand for female hejp is greater than ever before, although the wages {>aid are higher than they have ever lieen. Reports show that the dairying inicrcsts of the country suffers much from the want of help. Without a single exception the reports are favorable and encouraging, and state that under ordinary favorable conditions, Mani- toba will this season have an enormous an 1 excellent crop. Throughout the North- West Territories the acreage in many parti has lieen more than doubled,, aud with equa ’ - ly good prospects, but no statistics have bee i gathered outside of Manitoba.

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ALnXANDRIA. JULY 8. 1802.

ON Wednesday of last week a number of Conservative members in the House waited upon Premier Abbott ami domaiulcd an increase of sessional indoninity. Many reasons were advanced to backtlmir claim, among the number being the great expen- se incurred in looking after the revision of the voters list. We have often advocat- ed the repeal of this objectionable act, and the above is one of the many goed reasons why it should bo abolished. Bat it does Boem amuaing to see men in whose interests

-•ue act was passed, mivking it a pretext for demanding an increase of indemnity.

I Its repeal would injure nobody but those who dipend upon list—stufling for their

1 B-iats in Parliament, abolish the act and i these men will have to look else where for : a further excuse.

The Conservative press are endeavoring to make mu6h out of the so called victory of Mr. Bryson in Pontiac, but they do not say that hundreds of the electors cast their

ballot for Bryson on account of the many promises made during the campaign. The county is heavily weighted down with a rvilway debt, and when nominated, Bryson went to Ottawa, interviewed the Govern-

; ment, and went home, declaring that he bad received satisfactory assurances that the county would be relieved of the obnoxi- ous debt. The election is over, and to-day the promises by which it was won are being repudiated. Those who allowed them- selves to be humbugged in that way are not deserving of any sympathy,and we can look on complacently while they apply them- selves to earning what will go to pay the interest upon the railway debt.

SIR John Thompson, in his reply to the crushing speech of Sir Richard Cartwright, referred to the election of P. Purcell for the county of Glengarry, as having cost ac- cording to evidence ^30,000. If Sir John’s

statements are on a par with the ^^mve, they are not to bo reliod on, as there ' evidence at the election trial refer-

red tc, that Mr. Purcell had apent that ; sum of money to secure his return. One

man gave evidence that ho licard Mr. Purcell say on the cars, that U had cost him that sum, but Mr, Purcoll sworo ho never said so, and all tiie ovidenco givon at

that trial did not establish tho paying out of any amount corruptly. It was shown that in his business ae a money loaner

ere was considorablo money loaned on tes and mortgages, and subsequent nts, namely, the collection of le notes, prove conclusively that they

legitimate loans. A few days ago tho of Review in Montreal gave judge- against one Lalonde (who had set up

lea that the loan was for election oses) holding that tho law only referred ormpt bargains, and there was no

cvidoDco of such in this case.

A.V irONOJi TO CANADA.

For tho first t-irne a native and an in- ’■’ habitant of a colony has been asked to

Accept a seat in the British Parliament. The recipient of this notable and unique distinction is, we are proud to say, Edward Blake.

That the choice is tho wisest that could have been made from tho ranks of our prominent men is our bumble conviction. Yet it is proper iu apologetic deference to tho knights of St. Michaol, and St. George and to tho senators to explain why ap- plication was not made to one of those dowocs of chivalry instead of taking plain Mr. Blake.

There can be little doubt, in fact “no potsibld doubt; whatever,” that either Sir Hector K.. C. M. G. or Sir Adolphe K. C. M. G. or either of the two Sir Johns K’a. C’s. M. G. or any other K. C. M. G., by his title, by his knightly trappings and by tlie^reful- gonce of his most distingui.shed order,would have been in some respects a more impos- ing figure than Mr. Blake need over expect to cut in South Longford, and when it is ro*^pMered that in the keeping of certain

‘.ambers oi that most distiuguishod order lieT the secret of the mystic spell referred to in vulgar talk and in telegrams as tho “Jafluence,” a spoil to charm ths stiïïost constituency, it must be concluded the Irish nationalists had the gravest reasons for tho choice actually made.

Those reasons were largely founded on , personal acquaintanceship. At the Edin- I burgh banquet to Lord Roseberry when the I I lading lightsof liberalism were together and » at other gatherings in Britain an inefface-

able impression was made by the master- il voice, the tall and robust frame, tho

tliectual face, and the substance of his ..i^èechos also suggestive of large mental grasp. Mr.‘ Blake’s traits are well know’n tf'^j^hia countrymen. In England they

lîl^r notice and appreciation 4B9- thoir world-wide issues are at

se and consequently the qualities that to make a statesman arc more sought

; or'. Even previous tothose occasions as far back as 1876, Mr. Blake had effected a

• lodgrnont in tho minds of British public mem' He was then Minister of Justice in the MiicKenzie administration. Various, important and delicate matters relating chiefly to Imperial restrictions upon our legislation were tho subjects of correspoii- donce between Lord Dtifferin and the

I colonial secretary Lord Carnavon. In one of those matters, tin alteration of tho

: Governor-general’s instructions and com- mission, Lom(-arnaveu informed his cxcol-

, Icncy that Mr. Blako’s state-paper was the ablest document that liad ever reached liis

•^artment and he expressed the wish to i*.kve a personal interview—which (

•'place a few weeks later by Mr. Biake g i

to London. Thus it h.appcns that .ns

journey las: w.-ck acror.s iho .Yilantic > not the first undertaken •‘by rf-qusst.”

Then followed la.-i bold ulixiaencc iii Barliament iu support of tlie Home Rule re :ohitions. Eiom that day the Cauadian orator's name and f.vuic VH-.'-arru* kn-»vn to

been aiKaming. The camp is split on the eve of the day of destiny when the demoj ei'rtrrvoi tlie United Kingdom is to pass! judgment on iho p.dicies of Gladstone and | Salisbury. Edward Blake has boon called f.'ir in this dark and critical hour. Ireland did not forget the man wlio had set forth hsr position and rights witli a force of language unrivalled by any of her leaders. It was his duty, as we are sure .*4 was hi* pleasure’ to r«6i>ond to the call.

DOMINION PARLIAMENT. ■ (l'\nin Oiir OKU Correxj’ondent.)

. , OTTAWA, July 0. The members of the HOUBC of Commons

rushod through business with great rapidi- ty during the past week. Tlicy arc an.xi- onn to see tho session come to a close, and there is hardly a doubt but prorogation will take place next week.

Mr, Mills made a bitter attack on the Department of Indian Affairs on Saturday, ' claiming that it should be investigated. He accordingly notified Mr. Dewdney that next session he would ask consideration of of tlic Government’s land policy. Ho showed that the Indian Lands management fund Imd been overdrawn by ?76,000, ' the Quebec fund hy and the Ontario

fund by §29,000. All the regular estimates have been

passed, and the snpplcmcntaries were this week rushed through ^Yilh railway speed. On the item of §10,000 for the proposed monument to Sir .Tolm A. Macdonald, lion. Sir. Laurier said that while he favor- ed honoring Ihe memory of public men by erecting monuments provided it was adopt-

ed as a general pclicy. If this was to be a precedent they had recently lost a states- man (McKenzie) who, in his estimation occupied as high a rank as tho late Sir John. If the Finance Minister wanted to bo patriotic Iris liberality should be extend- ed to botli sides of politics.

ClIKAP UAII.WAY FARUS.

The advocates of cheaper railway fares for the people and the champions of tlio railways—induced thereto, in many,though perhaps not all, c.-.scs by the fact that they have free railway passes in their pockets— had a tourney Monday afternoon upon Mr. W. F. Maclean’s motion in favor of a rate of two cents per mile. Only tw o members supported the proposition, while Messrs. Wood (Brockville), Edgar, Corby, Cock- burn and Tisdale. All spoke against it upon various grounds. The proposal was rejected, on division, by 128 to 20.

ONE OP SIR ADOM’IIK’S COWS.

A lively discussion arose upon tho sub- sidy of §1800 per mile to the Temiscouata railway. Mr. Edgar pointed out—despite ministerial contradictions of their own figures—that the railway statistics showed that this company had, iu all, received §049,000 from tho Dominion, §452,000 from the Quebec Government, §30,000 from New Brunswick and §25,000 from municipal bonuses, or a total of §1,172,200 for 81 miles, or §14,471 per mile. In addition they had issued bends to the amount of §1,.574,040, bringing tho cost of each mile up to §29,051 per mile, and had issued stock to the value of §9,504 per mile.' In 1885, when the subsidy was first proposed, Sir Hector Iiangovin stated that it was an easy road to build, and Hon. Mr. Costigan had announced that the New Brunswick r.Ailway had offered to construct tho road for §9000. Mr, Edgar recalled the fact that on the 6th April last he had made certain

charges from his place iu the House affect- ing the Temiscouata road. Those charges had not been investigated yet, and ho pro- tested against one single cent more of public money being voted to this railway before those charges were iavostigated*

Hon. Mr. Costigan defended the sub- sidies to tho Temiscouata railway, which he declared bad been of considerable value to the country, and contended that this particular subsidy bad nothing whatever to do with tho main Hue of tho railway whi(di was concerned in Mr. Edgar’s charges.

AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT.

Just before the House rose Mr. Laurier proposed an amendment to provide that within four days after the opening of each session the Minister of Railways shall lay before Parliament copies of all agreements entered into with railway companies and a statement of all payments made ; that within a month o-fter payment the officers of e.acli road shall send a statement on oath to the .Vuditor-Gcueral that the snl- sidios had been legitimately applied ; as well as a provision that any subfcidiztd railway contractor or official who subscribe to^election funds shall be liable to a fine or imprisonment, or both. Tho matter wiis left over till Wednesday morning.

INFORMATION WANTED

To the JùUtcr of (Ic GLENGARRY NEWS.

SIR—Ts it a fact that the Government of tho United States has paid agents in Canada to promote emigration to the States?

Lochicl 5th July 92 ENQUIRER.

[No, it is not a fact. There is no neces- sity for the States to have an emigration agent in Canada, the policy of the Cana- dian Government is the most effective agent the United States co.n possibly have to secure emigrants from Canada. — ED.

COUNTY XEWS. (From Oi/r Oirn Correxpundentg.)

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DUNVEGAN.

Dan Campbell is putting a new roof on his south barn.

Malcolm NIcRae,ofthemill,and Duncan, his son, left here last week for Wisconsin.

Mr. Clover and Mr. Havely arrived home from the railroad, where they had been working for a few weeks.

Alex. D. Urquhart is busy digging a cellar. Wo also hear that he is going to build a new house this summer.

The potato bugs are getting very numer- ous tliis week. It is very hard for the farmers here to get their potatoes hoed, the ground being so wet.

The sacrament of tho Lord’s supper was observed here last sabbath. Mr. McLeod was assisted by Rev. Mr. McLennan, of Dalhousie Mills, and Mr. McLennan, of Kirk Hill. A largo number attended.

GLEN SANDFIELD.

J. Fraser, of AVilliamstown, is visiting friends in town.

Kcnnetli McRae took in the excursion to Malone on NIonday.

Dtliijs Christy McKinnon, of Fassifern. is the guest of D. R. McMillan.

Some of oiu’ boys wear far-away looks now. Wonder what is the cause ?

J. F. Dewar, of Vanklock Hill, was visit- in,;; at bis pui'c-ntal homo last weolc

Nliss Jiertravd hasclosfd up her residence and moved lo West Hawkesbury.

Mr. Duncan McDonald arrived boiim from Montreal (i.'and Seminary last w

Messrs. l>»n McMillan and John I’’. JIc- D n ild celebrated Dominion D.vy in North L.incivster. Thtw report a good time.

Miss NIcGregor, our efficient scl'-ool teacher, left for her homo at Martintown on Friday. Her abscuco will bo mucli re- gretted.

GREENFIELD.

Mr. Hugh Chisholm is preparing to build a new frame house.

Mr. D. J. McDonald lost a very valuable bull on Tuesday, the 5th.

Mr. D. A. MuLoan has a largo contract of building a barn for Mr. D. Kippen.

' Our teacher, Miss McCriminon, left last Saturday for her home at Vanklcok Hill.

Mr. McBao, merchant, and Mr. M. Stewart, arc going to start sawing^ and finish off for the season.

Mr. D. Smitli, of Gile, Wis., arrived here on Tluirsday, the Both ult. He will spend the summer with his friodds in the 4th Kenyon.

Mr. D. Williams intends giving a grand ball on tho 14tli of this montli. First class music and refreshments and a good time generally. Welcome to ye all.

d’ho i>arty given on Friday night at Mr. Allan McDonald’s July 1st, was a success. They all aoemod to enjoy themselves to their lieart’s content.

Mr. Johnson, of Cornw.vll, is taking a livrgc drove of cattle from ho're this week. lie has already taken several droves this sea- son. Mr. Jylmson is the right man in the right place.

ST. ELMO.

Miss Russ, of Lancaster, is viuiting her exster, Mrs. D. C. McDougall.

Among our visitors last week were Mr. K. Ross, Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ken- nedy, Apple Hill.

AVc welcome liome Miss M. IVIuuro from her school to spend lier vacation among us, alr>o Miss Munro and Miss Sinclair, who are attending ths National Business College.

The roads arc ia a wretched condition all around us. Vvo hope the road com- missioners will abandon the old idea of instructing the palhmastcrs to shovel muck and mud on to the middle of tho road to a depth of a feet or two, but tell them to throw this stuff on the other side and make a road bed cf small stonesand gravol. which can bo got at a I'easfunvble distance from where it is needed. Wc suggest this as the statute labor has not boc-n dene in this locality yet.

Dominion D.ay was a general holiday among us. Uomo took advantage of the cheap fares and wçnt to Montreal, others would not have missed the pleasure they had at the picnic by going, although there would be no fare at all. To give a description of the sports of tlie day the jieoplo present and the enjoyable events is beyond my power, the young people began to make their appearance about 9 o’clock thon tho older ones kept coming until there was a largo crowd ; but the ladies were equal to the occasion, and at mid-day had a table spread in the manse grove, wliich astonished even those who had boon ac- customed to attend tlic grand old sorvices 40 years ago. Supper also was served in due ti.no, of which several hundreds par- took.

RIVER BEAUDETTE.

J. Somerville was not in Montreal this

A Clmlmers, jr., has begun b’usinessagain as drover and butcher.

Henry Baker was in town on Saturday ovoning on liis way liome.

W. Gunn went to Montreal on Monday morning. He returned in the evening.

W..Esdon delivered a fmo fat cow to drover Larue on Thursday last.

W. Dunn, who came home on June 30th returned to Montreal on Monday morning.

The games in Cornwall on Dominion Day were attended by some of tbo local sports.

C. J. Maephorson spent last Sunday with his mother and sister here. Ho returned to Moûkreal on Monday.

Misses Mary a.nd Kate Margar, who reside in Montreal, visited homo on Sunday last, returning Monday evening.

Miss Ella Sutherland and Mrs. H. Sutherland liave come up from Montreal to spend a few weeks witli Mrs. S. Gunn.

After spending a few days at home, D Maephorson returned on Monday, to Mon treal, whence he intends going to Clarence- ville, P.Q., for some weeks.

The time of the western bound evening trains has been changed lately and neither of them stops here. This is a decided dis- advantage to our p-eoplc, which, we liope, however, will be of short dui'ation, as our council arc trying to liave the matter laid before the proper authorities and remedied,

A black and wliite wild cat of vast pro- portions has been seen prowling about Mr, Kerr’s farm. \V. Dunn, our local sl.ot, being in Montreal, we arc at a loss liow to dispose of l*im. Come up Billy, and bring your “greener.”

It is said Mr. E. R. Bc.kor, president of the Bcaudette v.x-igh scales Co , will be in town eliortly, when the establishment of branches at St. Tnnimo, St. Philipiio and St. Telcsphore will bo considered.

On June 29th a meeting was h:ld in tho R.B.House,to des-euss the organization of a lacrosse club here. At 8.30 tho meeting was opened by Mr. J. Somerville, wl;o made a strong si>eoch in favor of forming a club. Other speakers of varying cloqneîuo followed in tho same strain. A standing vote was called, when it was unanimously decided to organize wliat will in future be known throughout tho lacrosse world as the Beaudette Lacrosse Club. It' wr.s moved by Dr. Morgon, and seconded by Jos. Sauve, that Mr. Somerville be elected pre.sidont. Carried. Moved by Mr. Somer- ville and seconded by D. McManus that R. R. McGregor be elected secretary treasurer. Carried. J. Sauve wacelected vice-president and A. Gunn 2nd vice. Ths sticks have been furnished by F. LcHy, of Cornwi 1’. and are of A. 1 quality. Th-c members thus far number 21, and thoi-j arc some applications to come yet. A few meetings for prnctiso Imvs been lieîd, on the Driving Park, at which the boys made a very creditable showing, and ho))0 to b** in shape for challenging some of the ncigliboring teams shortly.

niKTifS. SAUVi\.-.\t .-Mexaiidria, oil the Itli il:^L, the

wife of J. 11. buuve, of a dau:^htjr. AI A RiUni).

JEN.tULT—BKIjAIU.--At l.ocliiel, on the 3rd iust., l>y the Ucv. l-'aîîu r Fo.x, Xap. .Jon.ault, of Ciloii HobevtKüii, to Miss üooiKiiia IhOuir, daugh- ter of Mr. Joseph lie-lair, of CUou SandneW.

mr.i). RPI'NCKIA.—At iluxvilio, on Jiim- 20, Lizzie

Spcncor, wife of Alex, I. Sinillio. merebaht, aged SB years and 8 months.

TLA CHER AVAN TER. AI'KMALK Toochor bokliug a Hooond orThlrd

Class Certificate for School Koction No. 15, Kenyon. Apply to D,. D, KIPl’EN

2S-4 Sec.-Troas., cAeeuI'icld Jpnt.

McKAY & KEIR Hardware Merchants

MfiRTiNTOW?!, 0ÜT. .-\gonts for the cclebraliKl “Pei’foctiou” Hot

Air Furnaces.

Will tender for the heating of any building offered.

21-12 PRICES RIGHT.

LANSDOWNE HOUSE STANLEY ISLAND.

rpHE F L

HE most beautiful Hurnincr resort on tho St Lawrence. First-class fi.shiay, btmtiiig i.-atli-

I'rof. Sheets, of Cornwall. 1ms been euga^cd for tho season to furnish music. Dancing in tho Favillion every evening.

J. IL DUQUETTE, 2-2 ITop., Suuimerstown.

NOTICE. "lyE. the undcrsignccl Kxeontcrs of the Estate D of the late V. FUllCELli, Esq., hereby

notifyall parties ui«>n whoseproj>ertvim>rt''n' e.s aro held Viy the E.slate, that they will bo prose- cuted with the utmost rigor .U the law if found cutting down timlmr upon such jircmibcs.

ALEX. I,ECLAIR, ANGUS McDON.VLD,

7'ly I'ixts-utovK.

E. R. Howes, L.D.S., T-.D.S., SiuT^con Dentist

OFFICF.-Mli ST„ YAMLEEK IlILI. At tho Ilawk.islnn V Honse, iiawkoi--' '

the FIRST T(U-:SUA\ of enJi f remaining three davH. ,

aKANT) 1ÎALL ÎN KENNEDY’S NEW HALL ^ (iUEENIUELD STATION on

TIIURSDAV KVHi, JULY 11 Admission,?! per couple. 23-1 Î). A. WILLIAMS, Manager,

.FRANK RUSSELL FASHIONABLE TAILOR

MURTINTOWN, OfIT.

UENEEAL SEUVAXT nrANTF.D in family of t%vo and two children. '* Nurse k<-pt. No washing. Highest wages

to suitable person. MRS. H, MOONEY

23-tf Alexandria.

CALL ON

G. BEFFSEY Harrison Block, Main Street,

Alexandria For Artistic. Pnioling,

Paper Hanging, oo Glazing, Gilding, oo

Graining, oo Sign Writing oo

and general House Painting.

Carpet laving and 23 13 Wind).-/ fc'liadea put up.

P. A. MoBAE of Laggan

Carries the most extensive stock of

Dry Goods, Groccrios, Hardware, Ri's, Caps,

Eoois asd Shoes, (Sc., ic.,

Ever seen in that place, wln-Ji he 13 prepared to disposs of at prices siutabie

the times. ib., 1.3

i FEW choice puro Inii)crted Y’orlcehiro PiRs A from Imported Prize Wiuuer.s; al.so a nuin- utT of high grade York^ibirea.

With regard to the Superiority of tho Yorkshire Hog, see .lmi« mmiher of TTie T.ive Htoc*. Journal coutaining the remarks of Mesare. Davis & Co., I'ork Packers, Toronto; also cuiiianiing tho Editor’s remarks advising the best dais of hogs to keep.

For further particulai’s address. A. O. Mcllcai),

33-3 Lancaslur.

A Monster

SOCIETE ST. JEAH BAPTISTE

Cette société s’est assemblé luudi soir et le comité d’oi-ganisation de la fête du 24 juin a présenté son rapport, §30.75 on été collectes et dépenses aux fins de la fete. Un vote de remercimems fut adopte et en- voyé ù Mur. McDonell. le remerciant dn sa geiieiufeuv eu doniiaiu la messe do ce jour

Lcovjhcieib suivant Ont ete elus pour

iFrom Stormont, Dun- das and Glengarry to the Ottawa Experi- mental Farm via Grand Trunk and Canada At- tantic Sailv/ays V7Ü1 take place on

SATliRDAY^JULY 23. Watch this space next week for Time Table and Bates of . Fare, which will be thelowést ever offered. !

PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED.

îS“ Outside Gutting a Specialty .sJ 21-13

D. BEUTAHACH Taillear an t-Sluaigh,

An t-aoii Tailloar gni-Dmhachal, Brcat- unnacli a’m B.iile Chnuic-

Vanklock. Tha gach ei(l-':ud!i air a ithcanadh diougalta

agus doudh-fnr.tjagarrach.

Hi-sginson’s Block Vankleek Hill.

GBEAT BABGAÎN MONTH

—AT TUB—

FARIMERS’ EXCHANGE

D. LT»

GREENFIELD.

Fire Insurance. NOUTIf mUTLSH AM) .MEiiCANTILK

AbHCt?, i-0-2,1)63,716.

CO.-d.^fEKOIAL UNION

C.aitital Kub?cnbcd, i?12,.').00,(i0!>. Tho uudcrKiguoLl has been appointed agent for

the abovo well kiuswii companioB, and rohjicet- fully solicits the parrouage oi Uie public gener- ally.

A. GLENNIE. 19-3tn Lancaster, Onf. CENTRAL

MEAT MARKET

ALEXANDRIA

CHARLEBOIS A REINHARDT

Have always on îiaud a fresh supply of

liKEF, POKK, LA.'Vîlî. FOWL,

FISH. HAUS.VtaOS,

.Vlso a full line of

FKBSH FKUITS AM)

> K<ij;TAHLi:.S.

MAXViLLE CARDING

MILLS. Castom Carding and Cloth

Dressing

- Custom Work promptly atteud-xl to. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Ghas. McNanghtoii 1.08:11 ilAXVILLE, PROPRIETOR.

H. A. ysINTYRE MAXVILLE

Loads the Van aa Manufacturer and

y Dealer in

Harness, &c., See.

Repairing a specialty.

^ LIUB ■

Q street. We are offering ICxtra Value in our celcbraied make of

Black French Henrietta. This line has given universal satisfaction to our cust.imeis. Here are our prices :

UNION—42 1046 in. wide, 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c ALL WOOL—46 in. wide, 45c,50c,600,700,80c,goc,Çi.oc.

IN BI.UE AND JET BLACK.

McINTYRE & CAMPBELL ; Gornv/al.l, Ont.

Clear the Track And Let M!e Go

Lor I’m off to I 5Q GENERAL

STORE

Wlicrc I can buy APPLE HILL

27 lbs. Bright Sugar, §i 23 lbs. Granulated Sugar, Coal Oil, 17c a gallon

5 bars Dingman’s Electric Soap, 25c And other Goods in like proportion.

Raisins, §i a box 20 yds. Cotton, $i

Flour,StrongBakers,$2.25

FARMERS, ATTENTION. Puro-bred Slirop.'îhiro KHUKP and .Wllb'UIUKH

rOK bALK at

J.L,WILSON’S STOCK FARM, Alexandria.

X7A.TÏÏ For Sale !

AND QUEBEC SPRUCE

FLOORING, SHEATHING

And id jubt tlic thing for

lining up Silos. 21-2

MACP^IERSON & SCHELL

DID YOU HEAR Anything Drop ?

Tho drop in prices iff

Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, ôc., &c.

At the Dominion Store Vvon't hurt you—it is for yoi«r benciU.

If you want to make a fortunate strike come and buy.

DONALD McNAüGHTON ' iMm Lancaster, Ont.

Call Early

And examine our extensive Stock of

Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes

Groceries, Crockery, &c., &c.

Hemembor our Goeda aro always tho very best values, hut ive arc continually securing

Special Bargains for the benefit of our customers.

In many linos wo cannot bo be.tt.

ViQ believe in nmall prices and quick

The highest c.ash market price paid for Oats, I’eaa anil Buckwheat.

Macdonald, Macintosli à IcCrimKon, LAW Orriok'S :—Canada Life Cham]x:r8

TORONTO,

EBWAKD IL TlFFiHY, ' BARRISTER,

NOTARY, ETC, Office : Ovor Post Office, AJexaudri*-.

:R. SAÆZTBÏ, BATIRISTER

SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, CON VEYANCER, Ae.

OFFICÎS Snetsinj^cr'K îlîock, Cornwall, Oafcvri

MONEY TO LEND.

S.AVE MONEY ON YOUR

Dry Goods,Eoots and Shoes, Groceries, Teas, Hats, Gents’ Funiishhigs, Wall Paper, Paints and Oils

BY DEALING WITH

Wm. MeSWEN MAXVILLE, ONT.

HARNESS ! L.M.B0UGIS,VankleekHill

ifaimfactnrcr of

Light and Heavy, Double and Single Llaracea, Collars, Ac.

Repairing promptly attended to. Prices moderato. Call and see me.

L. M. BOUGIE.

SAY ! DO YOU WANT A SUIT OF CLOTHES

MADE UP IN FIRST-CLASS STYLE ?

J. E. BL.ASCIi.iRD, V.AMLEEK HILL la tho man who cun do it.

It wm pay yon to call and o«e tü Work, 2»ocX ftud Piitx^a.

All Work Guaranteed Firat-Clfiaa.

15-lyr J. E. BLANCHARD.

Supplies and Machinery.

All .supplies and machi.nery required for the manirfp.cture of Chee.se or Butter i:s sup- plied by the undersigned.

E’vcn.-tbing offered is of the latest improved design.

WE CAN GUri’LY YOU WITH

BOILERS, ESGIKES CORD MILLS, REHHETT

CHEESE COTTON EAMMGE CREAM SEPARATORS (.if’Sïî;)

BUTTER TUBS and CHEESE BOXES.

Correspcmdonce Solicited,

D. MËPMËI Lancaster, Ont.

BAT.ES BROS. Blauufucturcrs and Dealer» in

Scolcli, Sv/8disi! and .American Granites And All Kii.dii of

Mai’We Moii’ameals and ilsadstones

OIIEAPFK THAN THE CHEAPEST.

Terma Easy. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Work 8‘jt up free of extra sharge.

BATES BROS., 6 L'ORIGNAL, ONT.

MEECHANT TiJLOR.

-,Wif'hing to maire my Mercloint 1’ailoring ]h.isiueas in AiexMidria asucocRs, I would reiqwict/ully Bolioii a lilwrul «haro of tho pntrouugo of rlie public. I will ond-’aavour to give perfect satisfaction and keep alwiiya up ilie tiiuo.s as regard.-) stylos, prices, otc.

INSPECTION INVITED. RespcctfuJjv you:-(',

O. DAY. TIII.OIUNO EKT.UiT.isininxT on Catherin»

Street adjoining Post Office, Alexandria.

LIVERY -ALKX.VNDRI.-Y'

BUS LIXE.

l’année coutam HI ell I

t I H to f uiital. trcaoi .; M. Depvat Ali'i-cd CluAj

C is. tré utcur; J

0. Vc pr

é(é

J. Fil

Alfred G

1 I ;

1-

1 1-

nier laiidi tie chaque mr .idiens-fraiUj'.uB d'Alux

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t 1 'S I

BOLSTER & CO. Druggists, Lancaster, Ont.

A full Line of Drugs and Chemicals always on Iiand. Patent Medicines, Books and Stationery,

Fanc)’ To)'s, &c., all way down below cost. ALSO

ORANGES, LEMONS, BANANAS, PINE APPLES at lowest possible rates.

il.ivitig boiifdit the above gou(.b> recouily at very low prices, we now offer them

at C'XiraurdinaJ'v Juw prices fur CAbll ONLY.

130L3TEB & CO.

TENDESS WANTED. fpH!? mutor«^frnO'.t ig iniitrnctBcl to cnll for -f Tenders I'cr tlie .supply or Ü1UJ to Two Mil- lions BANSWOOD HAXDLUH, bizo to he 52 inches long ftiul IJ cliamotuv, for shipment to Duglaud. iiianipl'j van bo scon at my offico.

GHOUG1: HHA /.NDILN, 6 tf Biniprtoii'a Block, .\l6iaiKlria.

is JOHNSOYHOUSE GLEN ROBERTSON

Ti tlie n'.C'St coniiViodioub a*;d centrally aituatc*! Hotel in tlm village. Largeroor.iy, well v-,nitilated and eouifcrtabio.

3i>i;viitl aUeiiiioa given to farmers and ' *li ' r u Tvmvu:/TN; ! Tho nrulrrEivuctl rrupcci/iiliv tlHM’arrea- Juu teams. a. B. JOHNSON ^ tb.ém that

Pr.*>i>vi-!tor. Well Equipped and SlylLsIi Ei^s can

aiv/ays be Scciired, At his .‘ttibl '^. A c.or’-kn-tabio bm moots all

trains at th.i (Jrocn Vniluy Sti-rioii, )o«v- iiig Aîo.vriiùrùv at o'vloeJ. a.m.,

C.-'i’cful aiti-iition jjivcii (o . ri-rv mJer. Tho wants of Coi.!:i!ci-GUii Tra\«.llt.i-s Lilly met.

Arch. McMillan,

IF YOlfVAXT

FIRST GÜISS IIHRiESS, Robes or Blankets,

UErAlE LAG, ETC., ETC. GO TO

JOHN D. McMASTER, Opposite Post Office,

Main Street, Ale.xandrta.

EORTH BHlTiSH AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO. _ FiUixnuuoji tt Loxnox. '•

CAPITAL ^4,600,000. ;H A shivro of your Fire Iii-savanco is

, solicitt-A fi'i-thi.s ic-iiuhlo ami i” wottltliy cnnipany, ivuowiu il j

You Know. If you do.u’i knew that tho

Glengany Store Is the place bo buy

BOOTS and SHOES

GROCERIES

SCHOOL BOOKS

GIFT BOOKS

WALL PAPER, Ac.

Aa we are seliing at

ROCK BOTTOM PRICES And Don't You Forget It

H. A. MILLER.

-THE-

mmm

M. MUNKO, SOLICITOR, '

Conveyancer^ Notary Public^ &c ALKXANDPVIA" ONT.

Money to Loan at Low Rates of intorcat. MorD»agi-<? piirchast-d.

M.LCLEKM.SH, LIDDELL & CL1ÎS BARRISTERS,

SOLICITORS, NOT.IRIHS, ETC.,

Cornwall, Ontario. ]). K. MACLLMCAK. Q.C.

J. W. LinDDLL, C. n. CLINK

LElTtll, PRIKGLE â K.ARKE3S BARRISTERS,

Solicitorsin tlic Supreme Court NOT.'VRIHS PUBLIC, &C.

CornK-all, Out. JAMLH I.niTCIt, Q. C., R. A. -rUIROI.B,

J. o. n.vKKxrss.

John A. Chisholm, Barrister,Solicitor,Conveyancer,

J;TC..

CORNWALL, ONT.VRIO.

OVVICK Kirkpatrick’s Block, Entrance on First St.

$20 000 to Loan.-;

I). D. Mt’MILLAN, filEXflNDRiA,

Can supply you witli anythi'.g required |n

the line of

Carriages, BngyDs,

] Vaggons, Carts,

Cullers, Sleighs, FJc., Rr;p-\ii:i\a .-NND P-UNTIMO

Will reCi-'ivG prompt and careful attention.

CALL AND LEAliN PRICES.

R. J. icDoagal k Son,, EANCASTEI?, ONT.,

Dealers in

FloiP, roi'K, Ground Feed, Pressed Anti Ail Kind,, of

, GROCERIES.

NITIÎSEKY STOCK.

MfiNPO. 00 JI (LIMITED)

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Sash Blinds Doors Mouldings Turning Scroll Sawing Dressed and undressed

Lumber, &c.

Planing and HaicLing done at lowest rates

All kinds of Household Furniture (wholo- .*>alc). Special Furniture and Cabinet Work made to order in Oak,Walnut, Maho-

Havin.g lately acquired a large quantity of tho latest improved machinery, we arc in a posiiinn of turning out work cheaper tliau any other linn in thirs p.art of the Province.

Orders respectfully solicited.

JUJIN CALD.CR

10 Manager-

for it& piY)ii;’!t and liberal

Geo. B. Macdonald, [Bandjieldl

Agent, Alcxandriu.

-^4ArK OF CANADA-

CAnl-A... Fai,l-up, - - - His-r, 22...UUU

HEAD OFFICE, QUEBEC- ANDHKV. THO.Ml’SiYN.rr.'sidont.

KOR. K.J.

.VI.UX.VNUIG t iîKANUD- A GUNUU.VL HAXRIN«i Hc.'iNKMi TKAXSAI’I I b.

a.i.l Uii; iniiiCl'al oiti.'s iu t!if, I'UIUAI btutes, Great Hritui'!. France, Jionmcla, &c-

.»^AVlN<;s DANK i>Kr.VÎÎ'i'MI-NT-

DORO.SUS 0/ .-<l.(niaml njiwar-is received.

mtrciii! l'apt-r uud Fi.inims Kab.-s NfUt-- J. li.

T to nokîfy kha p.»opto of 01®rg»«T7 th»t I I h»To 9«3fiur»<l tl:c Fola right for ctmnty *0 sell tüf stock OÎ ti.e well known niu-f.orvD-.Hn, IÎ. 0. Urolnwn, of Toronto. AK M* iuduv<i£m'4it buolnei)?!, and kncwicfi Umt tbo lock I Uaiidio la .‘irat claa.y, t will givo free wiiii every • order amoimtirig to .*1 or iipwn,i-àv, a book which ox- ptaiMH in a thorough mumuir how to moKa Uiu r:iinii:g of fiuit trees, itc.. ic., » KUCCfcsu.

rioiuo roaervo your orders until I call. 3-tf NKIJ., LICSLJE. Mftxvil e.

JIAK DFACTTHIKK OF

Carriages, Buggies, Bemocrals, Waggens Sielglis, Cutters, &c.

Roj-«r*.iri3)g of .all kimls promptly attended •• All ’.vork giiHrantei.'d.

KE.NYON STREET, ALEXANDRIA

P.' raiOHEON & G0;~ Watchmaker and Jeweller.

CAia.Ith} AN KXTRNoIVM STOCK OV

IVa/clies, Clocks and Jciecllery, Spectacles and Bye Glasses,

Cleaning and Repairing done Cheaply anti ia a thorough manner.

P. McOUTCHEON A CO.. Ri-uin St., A*k‘xandiia.

N»'Xt lo Siujpgoii'.s Store.

M oney To Loan.

A large amount of private funds to loan at lowest rates uf interest, and 011 ttiir.a t« suit bûiTi/werK.

Mortgages Eougiit, Farms for Sale. GEORGE HEAKKDEN,

Ileal Krtatc, Convc-yaucer luid ïusurancoAÿo OFFK’K :

Simpson’s Block, Alc.'iamlria, Outnrio.

J.F. McGREGOR& Co CRAIN MERCHANTS

STATION, ALHXANDlilA

1).\\S the Hi;^hest ( nsli \nhu.)for all kinds of I farm produce. Wo are at promeut giving for

oatK. 2.;c;'' '^1 V. IK at, t<0v'U.'c; barlev -JOifi-l-tc: buck- wlieiit. -la.-' ITc ; pork. .?.ô.()0(i';î5.50 ; beef. 4C?5e; green Imies, : poas. OOcc'OO: and deal* largely lu cheese during tho sumiue months

Wii ! WIN'D ! Tills is the Staaon for Storms. Call and insr'

^ TORNADOES AND CYCLONE^ You tan insure at the rate 0/ por'^IVv

for throc-e years with

Angus McDonald A(jEN T, A LE XA Ni> IH A,

’I’lir Arfeiiuy busim;s.-i against Wind Sforius in l-bisti-vn <U;tario.

ST. LAWRENCE HOTEL. ALEXANDRIA, ONT.

('ll..ice J.jiiuor>, ripHri;. A-.-., Iihvuyu on hand, (;<^>dTnrd and Staniing. Particular aticulion yivuii to the public génois

ally. in-i A. D. :JtUON.41.D,rvop.

lilrbiral. P. A. MCDONALD, M. D:

^ AI.KXANmtlA, ONT.

«OB OraiKÎ Union Ulock. Night calls, w Keoyou St., two <1OOI-H west of Main. 20

A. L. MCDOXAJ.D, ISU D. ALEXANinilA, ONT.

Ovnoa :—LcTac’a Jiloek, Main St. Night «alls at Grand Union Hotel. 90

D. D. MCDONALD, M.D. AIJUCAXDItIA, ONT.

«■ K«ayott 9tr«et. oppo«M« DMMM A. MeDonald'B.

%)jz ©Itngarrn

ALEXANDRIA, JlII^Y 8, 18y2.

LOCAL BRIEFS. —The council mot on Tue iday.

—Dr. Cattanach, of DalLouaio Mills,was In town on Tuesday.

—Miss Tiffany, of Hawkosbury, is the guest of Mrs. E. H. Tiffany.

—Mr. John R. McL?.nrin, of Vanklcek Hill, paid us a visit on Tuesday.

—Mr. Alax Lalonda, tinsniith, is adorr- ing his rcaidonco v, ilh a nice verandah.

—Mr. George Bandficld Macdonald, of 8t. Raphaels, was in io'.vn yesterday.

—Miss Sugarman loft on Tuesday for ■Winchester, to bo absent several weeks.

—Mr. A. Cinq-Mars, morcliant, of Glon Robertson, was in town the early part of ibe week.

—Mrs. Camevou, of Galveston, Texas, is Tisiting her sister, Mrs. Angus Cattanach, of this pin cc.

—Mr. Donald Mclnnes. toller in the Hochelaga Bank, Vauklcok liill, was in town on Friday.

—Mr.A.B. McDonald,of tho Commercial lïotol, lost a Valuable horse cn Tuesday through lockjaw.

—Borne parlies unknown broke into C. Buffrey’s paint shop on 1 ricay evouing and destroyed come $16 w'crthof paints.

—Mr. A. Wilson, our worthy Public School teacher, paid a thort visit to Hast- ings, Ont., on Friday, returning on Tuos-

—The lacrosse club are in receipt cf a challenge from the Willionistov/n Juniors. They will likely accon.modato the aspirants to fame and glory.

Wo are glad to welcome homo Mrs. nud Miss Conway, who rfiiich'jd Alexandria on Tuesday, after a pleasant tN?o mouths trip ou'tbo continent.

—A very large pilgrimage in charge of the Bov. Canon McCarthy, of Ottawa, pasood over the C.A.R. on Tuesday to visit Sto. Anno de Beaupré, P. Q.

—We regret to learn of the death of tho late Donald Campbell, 37-6 Lancaster, whiob occui red on Monday. Tho funeral on Wednesday was largely attended.

—Several of tho resident sisters of the Order of the Holy Cross here left on Wed- nesday to spend the vacation at the mother house, situate at St. Laurent, P.Q.

—Messrs. Maepbersou & Schell placed in position in their cheese box factoiy last w'cek a double set of machinery, which obviates the necessity of night gangs.

— Mr. Nap. Jeneau, of Glen Robertson, was married at LocLiel cn Sunday by the lk;v. Father Fex, to Miss Georgina Bolair, daughter of Mr. dos. Bdair, of Cleu Band- field. /

—Alexaiidi ia baseball club have in- vested iu nobby suits. They expect to don thorn for the first time in their match with Ilawkosbury, which will tako place next

—Kvorybody agroos to say that Pilon Hros. is tho cboapost firm in town to buy from. For oxan-plo they retail pure Paris Grc«n at 10c per lb., which is the lowest price on the market.

—Messrs. Munro & McIi:tosh received Ibis week from Quebec orders for cutters, delivery 1st Nov. next from two firms, one taking 45 and the other 18. They are a a pushing firm and add creditto Glengarry-

—Dr. E. Blncsshaw snl wife, of Webana, 111., wore the guests of Mrs. H. Miller the early part of the week. They left on Thursday morning for Montreal, accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. Miller.

—Too late for last issue wc learned of the death of Mis. Brnillie, wife of Mr. Alex. I. Pmillie, merchant, of Maxville. The many friends of tho bereaved family resident here lender their dcc^xst sym-

—Mr. Arthur i\Iena.Td, of Bte. Justine, w’as in town vcsteiday. He will have In's jhotcgriipliiî g tent f li ibe Privaig Park g:rov.ndH at llie races at Noitli I.aimastcr cn the 11th inst., and ory one wiriur.g geed photcb would do well to give him a call.

—A resident of the 5th Con. Kenyon, on Monday evening, on Main Street, indulged in some reckless driving. His amusement cost him dear, for on being brought before Reeve McDouulu ho was mulcted to the tune of $5 and costs.

—A very sad fatality occurred on the St. Lawrence rivor op^wsitc St. Lamberts near Montreal, on Saturday afternoon. A canoe, manned by 17 members of the Grand Trunk Boating Club, was upset by tho current, and six of the party were drowned.

—.Vn accidint which resulted fatally occurred on Tuesday opposite 17-7th Lan- caster. It appears that several little children wex-e out lx:rrying, and while cross- ing the River Beandctte on a plank, a little daughter of Mr. Allan Kennedy fell into the river, and was drowned. The bereaved family have our deepest sympathy.

—Mr. Napoleon Bray one of our leading carriag(! manufacturers, has engaged a first- class horse sheer from Montreal to take charge of that branch of his business. Mr. Bray will also pay six:cial attention to the repairing of Mowing Mucliines, Rakes, Reivpers etc., and our farmers should be governed accordingly. 23-2

—Messi s. J. O. II. Mooney are at pre- sent engaged in placing in position in their alxeady extensive milling establishment a complete sot (11 in number) of Grey’s Im- proved Vibrating Feeder. Tliis iiiovation entails considerable outlay, but the firm do not stop at tiilicB when the interests of their customers, arc at stako.

T—Some 30 of our citizens took advantage of the cheap rates to Malone, N. Y. on Monday, and succeeded in putting in a delightful day. On arrival at that charm- ing town, tho excursionists were greeted with the strains of “God Save the Queen” one vied with tho other to make the Cam adians thorouglily ati home, and the pleasant time spent there by the Alexandria party

will JJOt §9Ca forgottjc.

I —Band concert to-morrow evening.

—Mr. Godfrey Leclair, of North Lan- castci', was in town on Saturday.

—Horse races at North Lancaster on Monday next. Dont miss them.

—IVIr. D. I>anis, of L’Orignal, attended Divisioj) Court here on Thursday.

- Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dopratto, of Mat- tawa, arc the guests of Î^Ir. Navier Depratto.

—I^Iiss Macarrow, of Kingston, is the guest of Mrs. John A. Macdonell (Green- field.)

—Mrs. J. R. McDonald, of 8t. Raphaels, left on Tuesday, via. C.A.Ky., fortheWost- oru States.

—The basoball club givo a ball In Ihe rink this evoning. Musio by ttie bemd and McCormick Bros.

—Mr. F. McDonald, of Kingston, is pay- ing a visit to his brother, Mr. A. B. Mc- Donald, of tho Commercial Hotel.

—A number of our sports visited Ottawa on Dominion Day, and took in tho Corn- wall-Capital laorosBu match.

—Division court was held here yesterday, judge R. A. Pringlo, of Cornwall, on the bench. The dccket was somewhat smaller than usual, and the cases of lit tleimport.anco*

—Mr. P.ory McDonoll (grocer) spent Sunday in Ottawa, the guest of Mr. Donald McMaster, the genial proprietor of the Royal Exchange Hotel of that city.

—The Harry Liiidloy combination closed a very successful engagement hero on Saturday evening. It is undoubtedly the best company tliat has ever struck Alex- andria. Mr. Horbert Wiley, who leads tho orchestra, is a capital violinist.

—As can bo seen in .another column, the farmers of Glengarry, on tho. 23rd inst., will be given an excellent opportiniiLy of inspecting tho Ottawa Experimental Farm, as a cho-ap excursion is to be run to Ott.awa on that date.

—On Sunday morning, in tlie Cathedral, Mr. Dan R. McDonald, s.ui of II. li. Mc- Donald, Esq., will be olovated to the priest- hood. Rev. J, M. McGucken, rector of tho Ottawa University, will deliver a sermon appropriate to the occassion.

—On WeduoFclay afternoon a promising youth 12 years of age, son of E. Johnson, of Williamstowu, one of the loading citizuis of that village, while ci'ossing the river in a boat, upset, and before assistance could bo rendered life was extinct.

—Tho road opposite the C. A. Ry. froij'ht sled is in such a bad coixdition that the local carters are unable to d;ivc up to the platform with, their loads. The rosuU is that most cf the freight is now scxifc by the C.P.R. The raih»\/ aulhoriti-jsshould have tlic road attended to at once.

—Tiic Travelling Dairy is meeting with great success wherever it is held in the county. They will be at the follow'ing j)laces next week:—Glen Robertson, hlon- day, July Util ; Dalkeith, Tuesday, 12th; Laggan, Wednesday, 13 ; Dunvegaii, Thurs- day, 14 ; Maxville, Friday, 1-5.

—The second eleven of the Ottawa Cricket Club were in town on Saturday and met the local team. The game was void of any brilliant play, whidi was largely duo to tho state of the crease. Bmith and Lomax for Alexandria showed up well. The game resulted iu a won for Ottawa by 18 runs.

—Wc regret to learn that Mr. John Caldcr, who for the past six months 1 as filled the pK)Bt of manager in the Alexandria Mfg. Co., is about severing his connection with tliiU institution. Mr. .Calder has a host of friends iu town w'ho will receive the news of his approadung dupartuvo with regret. His successor, Mr. Alardicc, of London, Out., is expected hero to-morrow.

—Now advts. appearing in this issue : Grand Ball, Kennedy's Hall, Oreentiold ; F. A. McRae, general merchant, Laggan ; Servant wanted, Mrs. H. Mooney ; C. Bofir«y, articlio painter, Alexandria ; Yorkuhire pigo for sale, A.G. McBean.Lan- castsT ; Alexandria Roller Mills, J. O. A H. Mooney ; Bill of Faro, J. 0. Simpson, Alexandria; Monster Farmers’ E.toursiou; Teacher Wanted.

S. S. KO. 9 KENYCK.

Honor roll for S. S. No. 9 Kcj’.yon. FOUHTU ci.iss—1, Cath McDonald; 2,

Cath B. Kennedy; 3, Josephine Larue. TuniD cn.vss—1, Joseph R Kennedy; 2,

Eliza A McDongald ; 3, Mary R McDonald ; 4, Joseph M Larue and Maggie McDonald, oqual; 5, John R McDonald; 6, John C McDonald and Peter Glacken, equal.

SKCO.ND CLASS—1, Mary M Kennedy and Mary T MacDougald, equal ; 2, Mury E McDonald; 3, Bella McDonald; 4, A J McDonald.

S S No. 2 KENYON.

Honor roll for school section No. 2, Kenyon, for last half year ;—

Fooiiu CLASS—1, Pennio McCtiinmon ; 2, Nova McLeod.

Tiiir.n CL.\ss—1, Annie Gray ; 2, Sara Morrison ; 3, John K. MoiTison : 4, Colin Campbell ; 5, Duncan Campbell ; C, Sarah Bowker.

SLCO.'CD CI-AKS (sr.)—1, Rory McLeod ; 2, Norman Bcthnne ; 3, Stewart Campbell.

SneoND ci..\ss(jr.)—1, Christy Bethune; 2, D. D. McLeod ; 3, Donald B-.tbune ; 4, Dan Campbell ; 5, Mary Morrison ; G, Charles Morrison ; 7, Duncan J. Campbell.

PAHT SECOND—1, Hector Bethune ; 2, Freddie McCrimmon ; 3, John K. Morrison.

S S NO 7 LANOASTta

Honor roll for June.

Fcuj'.ru CLASS—1, xVnnic S McDoncIl; 2, Archie J McDonoll and Casvio McGillis; 3, Mary Ann McGillis vftiid Florence Beau- cha»rp; 4, Jennie McKay and James McRae: 5, Ozi.xs Rozuu and John F Mc- Kay ; 6, Annie J McDonald.

Tuii.i) CLASS—1, Joseph Rozou ; 2, Alex McDonoll and Archie ^IcKinnon ; 3, Nellie Morrison; 4, Mary McGillis; 5, Mary C McGillis ; C, Albert Ranger.

SzcoM) CLASS—1, Katie McGillis and A Rozon ; 2, John J McDonell and J Valade ; 3, Joseph McDonell; 4, Angus McGillis; 5, Pomell Banger ; C, Flora McKay and Han- nah Beauchamp; 7, Mary McRae and Pomell Rozon ; 8, R Rozon F Rozou and Mary J Johnson.

SKNIOK FIRST—1, Bella J McDonald; 2,

Henry Rozon 3, Osc.^-^ Ranger; 4, Duncan McRae; 5, Joseph Grinsoll ; 6, Rory Mc- T)oncll ; 7, Dolor Rozon.

JoNioK FIRST—1, Delima Valado ; 2, Maggie Johnson ; 3, Dannie Cameron ; 4 , Vergina, Garoau ; 5, Wilfred Rozon ; C, Willie Gordon.

S.S. NO. 1 KENYON-

Tlio follow’ing is a report of the closing examination held in S. S. No. 1 Kenyon:—

Focr.TU CL/.SS (ju*) Total number of marks obtainable, 907--'l, Angus I) McMaster, 715 ■; 2, James Çumpbell, 560; 3, Chrjsty

Giant, 505; 4, Paul McMaster, 518; 5, Mary Ann McMillan, 459; 0, Emma McMillan, 378.

Fouirm CLASH (Jr) Number of marks obtainable. 800—1, John Duncan Grant, 573; 2, Mary Ann JtcMa.ster, 508; 3, Anna Bella M'clMillun and Marjory McMillan, eqnal, 558 ; 4, Jolin D McMaster, 546; 5, Flossie McMaster, 644 ; 6, Christy M Mc- Master, 510; 7, Susie McMillan, 498; 8, J Neil McMillan, 497 ; 9, Sarah Ann Grant, 442.

THIRD CLASS Number of marks obtainable, 722—1, William McMaster, 467 ; 2, Angus McMillan, 417 ; 3, Catherine II McCuaig, 438; 4, Donald Alex McCuaig, 413; 6, Mary MoMastor, 889 ; 6, Aloxandor McMil- \%ii, 300,

BRCOKD CLASS Number of marks obtain- able, 558—1, Annie Beasio McMillan, 441; 2, Maggie McDonell, 436; 3, DuncanM Mc- Crimmon, 427; 4, Christy M Urquhart, 425; 5, Alexander McCuaig and Annie McDonell, equal, 387 ; 6, Ewen Alex Mc- Millan, 380 ; 7, Farquhar McCrimmon, 369 ; 8, Alexander Campbell, 358 ; 9, Allan McLennan, 231.

Number of pupils enrolled, 70 ; average attendance, for Juno, 64.59.

ALEXANDRIA PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Honor Roll for Juno. FOURTH cr.ASS (sr.)—Maggie Rrodie,

Jennie B. McIntosh and Edith M'vGiiHvray, equal; George McKinnon, Ibvn A I/othian, Gertie Robson, Maggie Finch, Duncan McMillan, D. McMillan, Ernest Ostrom.

FOURTH CLASS (jr.)—Mand Hall. HUiel Ostrom, Mary Aim Bands, Fcrmin Bauve.

TJ:’.;;D C:-V3S—-James IF,’ans, Willie McFarlanc.

SucoxD CTAss (sr.)—Muggic McIntosh, John üicNuil, Donald A. McTntosh, Mary Cole, Teresa McCdliivray, Emma Bauve, Guy Miller, Gracie McGilUviay.

SECO.SD CI.ASS (jr.)—Donald McMillan, Isaac Surge-son, Lulu McN.nl, Mary Mc- Millan, Bertha Sugarman, X-.i\ier Isabelle.

P.vr.T s::cosi)—Jackie Scholl, John Mc- Millan, Stanley Ostrem, Laura Sauve, Minnie McIntosh.

PART FIRST («)—Catherine A. McNeil, Mary Sauve, Rosa Larivierc, Gracie Munre, Lily McFavlane, (5) Christena Morrison, Harry Smith, Alice Smith, Harry Harris.

Tl.o following pupils were present every day during t'nc half year : Edith McGilli- vray, Ernest Ostrom, Maggio McIntosh, Isaac Suvgeson, Benny Colo, Stanley Ostrom.

No. of hoyfi entered on regifitor 30, girls 32. No. of pupils who alteudul less than 20 days cV.iring h.alf year 4 ; between 21 and 50 days (inclu-sivo) 12 ; betwoen 51 and 100 days (inclusive) 17 ; between iOl and the whole half vear, 29.

COUNTY îs'EWS.

(IVü.vi Oiir Own Corrcitponre

BALTIC’S CORNERS. A party w'as given in A. J. Ctt'-nphell’s

Hall on Wednesday last, ami it was a success.

Some of our young men now must look out and have their harness fixed, for the roads are bad.

Our factory is in full blest again, and is uud.ir the management o^ Mr. McKenzie, of Williamstown, as cheese iimker.

DALKEITH. Mr. W. J. Donovan is on a trip to Maui-

We aro pleased to see Miss Flora Mc- Cuaig in our midst again.

Crops look remarkably well iu this neighborhood, despite the rocent rain falls.

Our road work has been completed under tl'.c management of Mr. Kenneth McLen- nan, pathmaoter.

Mr. Ranald Campbell and his sister were visiting friends in St. Elmo and Douiiniou- villo tho fore part of this week.

NORTH LANCASTER. Council meets on Saturday. Mr. L. D. Sparling is rtjoovoring from

the severe fall ho received while practising. A number from here took advantago of

the cheap rate on tho C.A.R. to Malone on the 4th.

Owing to tbs condition of tho track, the races advertised for the 1st wore postponed until the 11th inst.

Miss Mary Louise Brunet was united in the holy bonds of matrimony on Monday last to Mr. Riche, of Cassclman.

Miss C. Quesnel, who has been the guest of Mr. M. Laframboise for the past week, returned to her home ia St. Anicet on Monday last.

McCORMICK. Misses Mary Ann and Bella McDonald

visited at J. J. Komredy’s, McCrimmon, last week.

Ranald D. Chisholm gave the boys a hop on Monday night, in return for tho service they rendered him in building his iiow'

Mr. N. N. McDonald’s d.i:ic'2 proved to bo a success. Quito ;k number attended and dancing was kept up until the “woe sma’ hourfi” of the moinii.g.

Our school closed Thursday tho .SOthiilt., and Miss Gormley returned home to Morris- burg to spend her vacation. She will be greatly missed here by all v.dio had the pleasure of her acquaintance.

RICEVILLE.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Franklin and son, of Chesterville, are visitiiig friouds iu thifi

The crops around here arc nearly all destroyed with the continual rain and a very severe bail storm recently.

Mr. Norman McLeod, of Dunvogan, has closed his sawmill for this season. V/e will miss-him from among us very much.

Quite a number of our folks of this place attended a picnic at ?.lr. Roddin’s place near Plantagenet, on the Nation River, owing to the heavy rain the grounds were in a bad condition, therefore not much of a time was reported.

BREADALBANE. A number of oar young people attended

the picnic given at Vankleok Hill on July 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Petor McNaughton, from

Dominionville, are visiting friends in this vicinity.

Miss McKercher has gone home to Tayside to spend the holidays. She will e considerably misHed in this place, but

we will be expecting her back after the holidays.

The funeral of the late Mrs.C. McLaren, which took place on Wednesday, 29th ult., was attended by a very large number of sympathetic friends. Mr. AnderHon, who is now residing at Vankleok Hill, preached the sermon.

LAGGAN.

(Arrived too late for last week.)

Another wedding on the tapis. , Mrs. Cardwell, of Ottawa, is on a visit at

hev: father’s, Mr. Alex. McLennan. M.”. P. 0. Sherman was homo on a visit

last Sunday. Mr. ^»ngus D, McMaster expects to leave

for the west before long. He wjll be greatly rajsççç] herv.

The finest assort- ment of Dress Goods in Alexandria is to

be seen at JOHN SIMPSON’S.

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ilFFUTT BROS. ON THE JUMP !

That is just tho way it is at MOFFATT BROS., but there is always room at their busy Store for tho active citizen.

Come and see the Great Bargains offered. You can surely catch them if yon come iu time. There is no dealer in tho County that

ROUND UP BARGAINS

like yours respectfully.

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rapHongers leaving Aloxr.ndria 9.4 a. in. ar- rive Huntingdon 11.43 a.m. Ucturning, leave Hiujtingdon 5.42 p.in., ai-vlyo (UexaiidrieH.r<3 p.m.

iluriilg soaeon of navigation. June LU to Oct. Iftt, paesengerB holding rail ticketd t<» Slontroal will have tho option of taking daily utoamor run- all tho rapids, arriving at Montreal 2.30 p.ni. For hut.'icr information apply to any agent of the Company.

r.. J. CllAMUFm.IM, C. J. SniTH, (,lcn. Manager, Ottawa. Gen. l'ata..Vgint.

ALEXANDRIA MARKET.

Wheat Oats Barley

Boans Buckwheat . Flour Oatmeal ... Provondor.. Potatoes .. . Lard Butter

Eggs Pork Beef Mutton Hny Shorts

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203 403 G03 .

1 25.3 433 47

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Mr. Alex. McMillan, blacksmith, had the misfortune to loose a valuable breeding mare last week.

Mr. Arohlo A. McMillan and Donald E. McMaster were on a trip to Borwiok last Friday and report a big time.

DUNVEGAN.

Mr. Nixon is having his hotd painted at present by Mr. Kinscl, of Maxville. Ho intends to apply for a patent for his now clock stand.

Messrs McKinnon and St. Enne, masons, are about through with tho stone W’ork on' John Me Nanghton’s cellar. Anybody wanting anylhing done in the line of mason work would do well to call on thorn, as they archustloro.

The Dunvegau Baseball club want to St. Elino on Dominion Day and played a game with the Moose Crook basoball club. The score in the end stood five to six in favor of Dunvogan.

Communion was observed here last Sun- day, Rev. Mr. McLccd being assisted by tho Revs. M. BIoLonnan, of Kirk Hill ; A. R. broliennan, cf Dalliousie Mills, and N. McKay, of St. Elmo.

STS. ANNS DE PRESCOTT.

A wedding is on the tapis this week. Miss Vachon is re-engagod as tcaclior for

the village school. M»-. Vaillancourfc, horse buyer, from

Montreal, was hero last week. A wedding and a ball took place in this

vicinity a few days ago, but no particulars are known,

Tlio statute lalior of this town is going on this week, under the management of Mr. Win. Ilay.

Messrs. Cumpeavi, Foubert and Touche*, patrons of tho villag-e cheese factory, were taking each a load cf cheese to Dalkeith station on Dominion Day. This was the fifth sale of the season.

Our tailor, Mr. Pcllotior, Invs established a line of his tailoring business in Glon Robertson, every Thursday of tlio week, shall be devoted to that place. His room will bo at D. Lefebre’s, ag-jnt.

COTTON BEAVE.R.

Mr. D. N. McCuaig is liaving his house bricked.

Mr. and Mrs. D. N. McLeod visited Mc- Crimmon’s Corners last week.

Mrs. D. K. McLeod, of Laggan, is visit- ing at her father’s D. N. McLeod’s.

Miss Hattie McCrimmon came homo from Montreal whore she r.pcnt the winter.

A number of our young folks attended the party east of Laggan last Wednesday

Miss Sarah and Annie Fraser, from tlio Ridge, visited at Duncan N. McGuaig’slust Saturday.

Mrs. Allan McCrimmon, of McCrimmon, visited at F. McCrimmon last week. He rei>orts a good time in the Beaver.

LOCHGARRY. School closed bore last Thursday. Joe Sylvester, of Momical, is vis.iti.ie

L. Grants. Miss Christena Grant rcliirucd hoiiii-

from Montreal last wc;ek. The rccciit rainfall has dune nui n

Go to Moffatt Bros, for your Groceries Go to Moffatt Bros, for your Dry Goods Go to Moffatt Ifros. for your Hardware Go to Moffatt Bros, for your Boots and Shoes

A choice lot of II.-\.MS jmst arrived and marked very low.

A few bundles of Choice CODFISH just in at 5c per lb.

Another lot of those boantifnl RAISINS will be in soon at 81 per box.

BARB WHITE, 5c.

BLAIN TWISTED WIRE, 5c.

Best Oil Cake and Cotton Seed MEAL always on hand.

Pure Ground LINSEED, 34 per 100 ILe.

Choice CANNED APPLES. 18c per gallon tin.

, Cal! and see us and we will use you right.

MOFFATT BROS., Maxville, Ont.

A. I. SMILLIE. J. W. SMILLIE.

Another 200 pairs ot Men’s Fine SHOES just arriring and will be sold at $1.25 per pair ; every pair is worth $1.50 to I-75 of any man’s money. Call and get a pair before they are all gone.

I.adies’, Misses’, Boys’ and Children’s SHOES and »SLH’PERS in endless varieties at the

^ limim BUSINESS HOUSE OP GLENGARRY.

SyvviLLIE BROS.’ South side Main Street, Maxville, Ont.

Money Talks And so will you if you como and price our goods.

WE HAVJ-1 ON HAND A FULL LINE OF

Groceries and Gamied Goods AT LOWEST PRICES.

Our Paints and Oils Good Japan Tea '"rive ^unas ^ 01.00.

J. BOYLE CORNER STORE, STATION, ALEXANDRIA.

P.S.—GRINDSTONES always on hand.

to the crops in this section. Margaret A. HcDuuald, teacher, left

for home on Saturday. The “Loch” was two inches higher last

Friday than in tho spring. Misses M. J. and M. A. McDonald, 1st

Kenyon, returned from Montreal last

J. A. McDonald, 14tli Indian Lands, and R. J. McDonald, spent a few days in Ogdensburg this week.

. Mr. Wightman, of Bainsvilie, and Miss Kate IMcLonnan, of Williamstown, called on fricjuls here Saturday on their way to Dominionville.

Miss Mcljcan, Doniiniuiiville, visited ■frien'dâ hero twu weeks ago. Wc yym pathize with tliio lady on account of tho severe illness uf licr brother jn Los Angelos, Cal.

Our atlielotcs had ;i. disaj.pointment last Friday. They went up to ^viueheslcr to attend the g<uiu;s. but on account of Uie wet condur-ia ui tlio ei-iuinds tne L'annui

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Services first three months free. The great continental staff of eminent German and American physicians who have so long enjoyed such unparalleled success in Montreal and New York, having cured thousands of cases of male and female weakness, catarrh, catarrhal deafness, etc., where others have failed, have opened a permanent office in Ottawa at No. 56 x Albert Street. All inaalids who visit these eminent doctors before August 1st will re- ceive services first three months free. All forms of chronic diseases aro treated, but no incurable cases accepted. The doctors will examine you Ihoi'oughly, free of charge, and if incurable will frankly, kindly tell you so, also caution.you against spending money for useless treatment.

Remember it costs nothing whatever to consult these eminent gentlemen and there- fore the most humble in circumstances can avail tlicmselves of their vast experience. Catarrh and catarrhal deafness is iwsitivo- Iv cured bv their German treatment.

I he (Jttiiwa office IS iTermanont but free services eiul Aunust 1st. Go at unco if vou WISH to consult tiiem. as their offices will be crowded aunnu the latter days of

1 free servi:.-.<c 1 he iiresideiit and first cou- I HuuiiiL’ )m'.’Hciivns are now m charge. I (;iiiei! hoursH.ni. to 8 p.m. Kuiulays; I lO to 23-4

Do You Wear

Most Ladies do, in fact we might say that almost every Lady who is a Lady indulges in that luxury. You want to' get the coolest and most comfortable j uat now while it is so’ hot. We carry a splendid aasortmant of LADIES' LOSP WALKING SHOES.

See our Show Window for - Samples.

Cahill Bros.

Than the cannon’s roar, stronger than the mighty torrents' of a raging storm

WE PROCLAIM IT! Our General Store Leads Them All

In Dry Goods, Groceries, Western Flour, Boots and Shoes, Furnishing Goods, Ready-

made Clothing, &c.

No bluff, bravado or brag turns the stream of patronage in this our third year, as’ leaders iu tho above lines makes this establishment tho headquarters for three-quarters of the buyers of Alexandria and surrounding country. .» ^

Our stock is larger and more complete than ever before.

One visit to our store will convince you with your own cyoe that we offer unapQ proacbablo attractions.

P. H. HUOT

ALEXANDRIA

F^OLLEF^ JVIlLhS

No. 1 PROVENDER

at $16 per ^ ton.

Samples mailed upon < application.

J. O. & U. MOONEY.

Oar Bill of Fare For Picnics, Camping and

Outings. Lunch Tongue, Corned Beef, Camp Pie, Lunch

Pates’ Bloater, Ham,Snipe, Grouse, and Anchovy, Pastes for Saudwitches, Boneless Chicken, Bone- less Turkey, Salmon, Sardines, Finnan Haddie, Baked Beaus, Chipped Beef, Canned Soups, Jams and Jellies, Corn, Tomatoes, Peas, Pickles of all Kinds, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, etc. etc., all except the fruit put up in small and large cans oonvoniont for carrying, and ilon’t forgot at the same time to provide yourselves with some of our beautiful Flannelette and Noglegc Shirts, Bolts, Hats, Caps, Bathing Suits, etc.

“Take a bite of a Banan—ya.”

J. O. SIMPSON.

MACPHEHSON & SCliL. Lumbermen, Contractors, Builders, Machii

Shops, Box Shook Manufacturers, and Box Machinery Builders.

We carry a stock of Timber, Scantling, Joists and Boar in the Rough.

We have on hand Flooring in Maple, Birch, P and Tamarac.

Inside finish in Hardwood and Pine. Doors, Sash, Mou ings. Base, Wainscot, Ceilings, &c. ^

Lath and Shingles.

Wood Turning, Scroll Sawing. Custom planing, &x., &c.

We will tender on any contract offered.

>\VEEK’SNEWS.

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Winnipeg U infested with tramps and va- grants.

Bishop Anscn, of Qu’Appelle, has *-esign- ed and will remove to Eni^Iand.

Tlic High Court of Canadian Foresters will meet in Ottawa next yeai.

Dakotans who reached Winnipeg on Tues- day purchased 5,000 acres of O.P.R. lands. |

English buyers are shipping a large num- ber of hor.ses from the Peterboro’ district.

.Cuy Simpson, teller of the Bank of Com- merce in Montreal, was drowned on Satur- day night.

English brokers have entrusted an agent in Winnipeg withll,000,000 for investment in mortgages.

William Stephenson, a printer, commit- ted suicide on Monday night in Toronto by cutting his throat with a razor.

There are at present 357 Courts of ih Canadian Order of Foresters in the Domin ion, with a membership of 15,000.

A telephone company in’opposition to the Bell company has Iwen organized at Mont- real with a capital of $500,000.

A farm hand named Alexander Scott was killed on tlie London and Port Stanley rail- way track near Glanworth the other night.

Two boys were drowned while bathing in Toronto Bay on Friday night—.'Mbert Beales, aged fifteen, and Christopher Madden, aged fourteen.

The C. P. R. Company have announced the location of their terminus in the Souris district and a rush of settlers has begun.

Thomas Spellman of Vienna, aged 73, will spend the remainder of his life in peniten- tiary, having been fountl guilty of arson.

During a hailstorm at Gilboa, Schoharie county, X. V., on Tuesday, hail stones are reported to have fallen which wore nine inches in circumference.

Henry E. Abbey has signed a contract with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry and their entire company to make a tour in the United States in 1S113.

Thi-fy workmen were drowned by the coba; .1,- of a bri<lge they w'ere crvnstructiug over ihe Licking River, near Covington, Ky., t'.ic other day.

Joo Wallace, who murdered Henry Cote, ped.iler, was lianged in Marion county,

Xenn., the other day. Ten tliousand per- sons saw him die.

By the falling of a porch in the rear of 414 State street, Chicago, Friday evening, four women were injured, tlu'cc of them so seri ously that they may die.

Mrs. Deacon, the cause of the tragedy at Cannes, France,is said to be living in retire' ment at the home of lier brother, Charles Baldwin, near San Jose, California.

Lightning struck two kegs of powder at Somerset, Ky., and .50persons were injured by the explosion which followed. Many, it is thought, will die.

A construction train ran into a drove of cattle on the Chicago, Burlington & (Quincy Railroad near Galesburg, Ills. Four men were killed and ‘2.5 injured.

There was a tornado in the vicinity of Mankato, Minn., on Wednesday evening, which killed between forty and fifty persons and caused an immense destruction of prop-

Tliree white men, attempting to play Whitecap.s, entered a negro's cabin at Edgefielil, S. C., the other morning. The negro riiblled one of the intruders with bullets.

Through a switchman’s carcles.sness the Twelfth street bridge in St. Louis was <hi.m-

A fierce rainstorm between G and 8 ^^ged the otherday to the extent of $50,000, o’clock on Sunday evening did damage in Toronto liy flooding, estimated roughly to amount to$100,000.

The Dominion Government has decided that electric railways are classified as tram- ways, and that the rails for such are duti-

Weslcy Reid while driving across the M. C. R. track at Woodslee, Ont., tlie other day, was struck by an express train and in- stantly killed.

The old whaler Progress, which was built in 184.3, has passed through Montreal on its way to Chicago to be exhibited at the World’s Fair.

Mr. George Duhamel, who was Commis- sioner of Crown Lands in tlie Mercier Cabinet, is lying dangerously ill in his resi- dence in Montreal.

A bell boy named Robert McWilliams, agecl 17, was caught between the elevator and flooring at the Russell house, Ottawa, the other morning and killed.

The first Methodist church in Canada was erected at Adolphustown 100 years ago, and the Methodist of the Bay of Quinte dis- trict will celebrate the centenary.

Lieutenant-Governor Angers of Quebec, Sir Leonard Tilley and Lady Tilley are among recentcontribntors to the Macdonald memorial fund of Kingston.

A barge load of coal from Newcastle, Eng., has arrived at Ottawa. It is said this coal can bs put on the market in Can- ada cheaper tlian all rail American coal.

The number of fatalities throughout the eastern townships in the recent cyclone is now placed at three, one child 12 years of age and two of G and 12 months respective- >y-

Mr. C. S. Hyman, ex-M. P. for London, Ont., is in Carlton county, New Brunswick. He has bought a large tannery at Benton and is fitting it up so as to greatly increase its capacity.

Rev. Fevther Brady’s horse ran away at Woodstock the other day, threw Miss Han- lon and Miss McDonald out o: the buggy, and dragged the latter nearly a block, in- juring her probably fatally.

Dr. Kelley, of the Montreal Higli school broken out in Mesopotamia, the country be- has been appointed Canadian representative tween the Euphral.es and Tigris rivers.

two trains colliding and knocking down a couple of pillars.

The wife of Rev. Thomas B. McClain, Methodist minister at Madison, Ind., has been left a fortune of $2,000,000 by an old lover whom she refused to marry, and who died a bachelor.

It is now reported that Chauncey M. Depew w'ill be made United States Minister to England, and that Robert T. Lincoln will be recalled and made Secietary of the State.

W. K. Kane, a Lehigh Valley operator at Pot t Junction, N.J., was found dead the otlier day in the woods back of his house at ^Vestportal, with four bullet holes in his liead. It is believed lie was murdered.

At Carson, Nov., a pair of infants have been presented to Harrison Breed Love, who is 70 years old,' by his wife, aged G.3. They arc believed to be the oldest couple on record who have been favored in this way.

A powerful search light will be placed on the top of Mount Washington. It will be the highest and strongest in the world and will be seen from portions of Maine, Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire Vermont, New York and Canada.

I.V OKNEttAL.

The Czar lias been appointed an honorary admiral in the German navy.

King Humbert of Italy has taken several journalists with him to Germany.

Heavy hail storms liavc caused great damage to vineyards in France.

Ih’ince Bismarck was awarded a monster reception at Vienna last week, on the oc- casion of the marriage of his son, Count Herbert.

The King and Queen of Italy arrived at Berlin last week, ond were accorded a very warm welcome.

The harvest prospects in Russia are much worse than they were in the early summer of 1801.

'The yield of wheat in France will be vast- ly superior to the crop of 1891, but barley

I and oats have sull’ered .severely. A plague, supposed to be cholera, has

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on the committee who are to prepare for the World’s .Sunday School Convention at St. Louis in J une, 1893.

A scheme has been initiated to establish a School of Practical Science at Kingston.

Johann Most, the German Socialist, has abjured Socialism ami has become a captain in the Salvaiion Army.

The rumors tliat Emin Paslia was dead W'ere lint. uc. He has arrived at Bukaba,

A .leputation from that oitj. will wait upon ' Zanzibar, and is enjoying good liealth. the Ontario Government with the object of I v u i • u e

** j.i King Behanzin of Dahomev refuses to reo- ohtaimnj{ a grant towards the enterprise. I • ^ i- i 4. ^ f 1 • 1 • . . , ^ - 3 1 . ; ogmse a rrencli protectorate over lii.s king-

British exports to Canada declined eight dom and has pla'jed liimself in the hands of per cent, during the month of May, and ' Germany. five percent, during the past five months, I r-. , 4 ..i i ,nv • 4. t r’ 1 r* t • Gen. Ancram, aide-de-camp to the J'jarl The imports from Canada to Great Britain t ^ r-vr ^ o *1, 1 incressid three percent, during May, and (.overner of New f,onth Wales, thirty per oJt. during thjpast fi,e ^ iconths. "

r»,, T, t n j- I • u 1 • a. Emperor William and Emperor Francis T ie Lrench-Ganadian bishops and priests ’ u -n • • • ^ ,L i 1 .. * ' Joseph will give prizes in a match between who left Montreal about a month ago on a A J • n ‘ • az » -n

• A AU XT Ai . I A ”1 j Austrian and Pi ussian officers, w'ho will mptothe North-West have returned and of express themselves well pleased with the 4C0 miles. Each olliecr will be allowed only North-West as a home for immigrants, and will repommend it to the people of Quebec as preferable to the United States,

On Monday morning a lad about 10 years of age was found on the Toronto Island breakwater,gagged and bound hand and foot with strong cords. He had nothing on but a new night shirt, a pair of woman's hose, and a pair of slippers. He told an extra- ordinary story of being kept in confinement for years, then fastened down in a coffin

' shaped box and chloroformed,and that when he recovered consciousness he found himself gagged and bound.

GREAT BRITAIN*.

one horse on whicli to maketlie journey. Tlic relations netween France and Great

Britain arc rather strained at present, and Lord Duftcrin has some delicate diplomatic work before him regarding tlie possessions of the two countries in (/entrai and East Africa.

It is likely that a conference will shortly take place between the Czar and Empsror Francis Joseph, and ihe feeling prevails in Berlin tliat the result of the interview of the two monarchs will be a weakening of the entente between Russia and France.

Negotiations have been opened between England, ]<'rance, Belgium, and Germany

A Rii^>lan Flixir

Hawtlioriic is familiar Every reader

rciKim ,»r iiM- Ii(ii-4-nes.

A-\t a time when Motlmdisls, Baptists,

« ill, tlmt weird, pathetic “twice-told” toic l■rcebytc.■ians,Anglic,Hls,vml other doiiomic- ■ Dr. Heidegger'a Experiment.” That curi- I

OU8 old study, ‘ ’ ■ festooned with col.webs I go'eriiame it is opportune for tlie cen- and besprinkled will» anticpie dust, skeleton in the closet, its wonderful mirror. Its blackletter quartos and parchment-cov- ered duodecimos, »ts portrait of a young •ady in tlic faded magnificence of half a century ago, and tlie book of magic, which when once a cliambcrmaid had lifted it “ merely to brush away the dust, the skele- ton liad rattled in its closet the picture of the young lady had stepped upon the floor, and several gliostly faces had peeped forth from the mirror ; wdiile tlie brazen head of Hippocrates frowned, and said , ‘ Forbear!’ ” In such a study and with such a wonderful man as Dr. Heidegger all tilings are pos- sible, and the rcailcr finds himself following the Doctor’s experiment on Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. (Jascoigne, and the Widow Wycherly, with the vase of water from the fa- mous Fountain of Youth that Ponce Dc Leon did not find, with an interest that de- spite incredulity approaches the pathetic in view of tlic history of medicine ami elix- irs of youth. It was reserved for our scien- tific, skeptical fin de siècle time to witness the strong hold upon the imagination this old idea of perpetual youth still has. Dr. Brown-Sequard's famous elixir of life <lid not lack believers in its efficacy, Kociiiuc had its day as a cure for the dread disease consumption, and now the wonderful vital- iiie, the Russian elixir of youth, has follow- ed in the long list of exploded wonders and panaceas from (\isease and age. The story of vitaline reads much as if it wore a leaf out of the history of the Middle Ages iu' stead of from a country only a short hour’s distance from the seats of old world civil ization in tliis age of progress and enlight' enment.

As the story goes a civil engineer named Gatchkowsky went to 'J’urkcstan to work on the Transcaspian Railroad, and in the course of his travels on the liorder of Thibet he came upon a liitherto unknown country “where fragments of forgotten people dwelt,” a people who never fell ill and never grew old. From them the Russian engineer learned the secret of the elixir, which, injected into their veins, kept them always young and imper- vious to disease. Heturniiig to Russia Gatch- kowsky began to manufacture this elixir, and asitsingredientswerecostly,and its prepara- tion exceedingly diflicult, of course those who wished to try its virtues were compelled to pay handsomely. Notwithstanding the high price of this elixirof youth, Gatchkow sky soon found his office thronged with pa tients, and “Grand Dukes and Mini.sters of State, generals of the army, millionaires, bankers, diplomats, cabmen, cooks, peasants and beggars” came to beseech the fortunate Gatchkowsky for an injection of youth into their veins. The Czar himself is said to liavo become a believer in its efficacy, but soon the wonderful “vitaline” failed to tlo all that was claimed for it. One of the patients. General Gresscr, died, and another, (-lenei-al Haranoft', was reported as dying and tlie erstwhile popularity of “ vitaline ” sudden- ly dropped. i latchkowsky was arrested and to save himself from the serious consequenc- es of his hoax <lcclurcd that his story about the immortal Asiatics was a pure invention and by chemical analysis the wonderful “ vitaline ” was found to bo notliing more than borax and glycerine. I'ffixir of life, Koohine, vitaline,and possibly others miglit be added to the list of exploded short rem- edies’to health and longlife. Yet as long as disease and death remain in the world so long will there be remedies and specifics of the kind named, ami the Dr. Heideggers will go on experimenting with those who are in search of panaceas for the inevitable and draughts from the Fountain of Youth. Truth has a deeper pathosoften than fiction, and the imaeination still refuses to be chained to necessity.

Earl Spencer intends selling the famous for the purpo.se of defining their respective Althrop library next y

Hon. C. H. Tapper is likely to remain in England at least three months.

Rioting broke out in Tralee, Ireland, the other nigiit on the conclusion of a federa-

. tion meeting. The Unionist Council of North Lambert

has adopted Henry M. Stanley as a candi- date for Parliament.

The London Trades Council has decided to run a labor candidate against Mr. Glad- stone in Midlothian.

Lady Elizabeth Louise Monck, wife of Lord Monck, formerly Governor-tieneral of Canada, died in London, Eng., the other

i-—Lord Hannen and Sir John Thompson ha^ been appointed representatives of Great Britain in the Bering Sea arbitra-

it is stated that Lord Charles Beresford now commodore of the British cruiser Un’ daunted, will again enter political life.

_ The Brit'sh Fouie of Commons has an- '^riaed the (government to purchase the

trunk lines throughout the coun- , try for £1,000,000.

The marriage of Princess Marie of Edin- bnrgh to Prince Ferdinand, the heir ap-

. parent to the throne of Roumania, has been . fixed to take place in October next. • Referring to the invitation extended to / Mr. Edward Blake to enter Imperial Par-

liament, the Pall Mall Gazette suggests that other leading colonists be invited to staml

,IoT seats in coming elections. ' It is reported that during Prince Ferdi-

'‘^îand’s stay in London he asked the Prince Wales for the hand of Princess Maud in

marriage, and that the Prince of Wales promised to give his consent as soon as ’"idlnand is recognized as the Prince of

UKITKD STATES.

ASidnev Dillon of New York, left j^^orth between $5,(X)0,009 and $G,-

Four Italians have been lynched for mur- dering a section foreman near Seattle, Wash.

Six men were drowned at Napoleonville, La., the other day by the sinking of a small ferry-boat.

Crops in the Deep Creek Valley, near Ash- land, Pa., were much damaged by a terrific storm oil Tuesday night.

IVinco Michael was sentenced on Satur- day at Ann Arbor to five years’ impris- onment—the full penalty of the law.

In a fight between union men ami “scabs” at St. I/Oiiig on Wednesday night, a negro striker was killeil. No arrests.

George Fi.slier of Ashley, l^a., killed his 'lid John Washington the other day.

man had been unfaithful.

A D^syth, Mo., on Thursday, John Net- T.leton and Richard Meyers fought a duel with butcher knives. Both were killed.

Judge Bright Morgan of Hernandez, Miss., wa.s shot dead at Memphis, Temi., on .Saturday, by Henry Foster, a lawyer.

Tlie wheat harvsst is in full blast in south- ern Kansas. The yield is said to be larger than last year’s, and the quality excellent.

Lucifer Durand, Prince Michael’s succes- sor, was pounced upon by three men in De- troit on Sunday nigiit and shorn of his long

The Order of Railway Telegraphers of the 'United States baa decided to bold their

splieres of missionary inUiience in Africa : with a view to preventing collisions between the missions.

A woman of St. Pelten, Lower Austria, accused oi levying blackmail upon sixteen inhabitants of the town on the charge of having immoral relations with her daugh- ter, aged thirteen, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

France is reported to have taken umbrage at the very cordial reception given to Prince F'erdinand of Bulgaria during his recent visit to London, the honours shown him having been almost royal in their character, while the Prince’s claims to royalty have not yet been recognized liy the great pow-

The German Government is watching with the keenest interest the development of the approaching elections in England. Its sympathies are altogether with the Con- servatives, as it knows the advent of Mr. Gladstone to power would be directly against tlic interests of the Dreibiind.

Tlie cholera epidemic, whicii is destroy- ing life at the rate of a hundred a day in the Meshed district of Persia, is advancing towards Europe.

The recent horrible murder of Frau Man- zel in Berlin by Wagenschutz, a lad of eighteen, presents a peculiar psychological study. 'J’he murder was a shocking one, the woman having been slashed and pounded with fiendish ferocity, yet the munlerer is a mild-mannered youth with a great fond- ness for pets.

Ki lUsb rolltles. Sir William Gordon Cuminiiig of baccarat

scandal fame announces himself as a Lib- eral Unionist candidate for Parliamentary honors in the lillgin districts. This will hardly meet the views of those distinguish- ed Liberal Unioni.sts, the Duke of Devon- shire, the Duke of Argyll, and others of the honest, sturdy old Whig set. Sir William’s chances are not good, for the Fllgin district is reliably J/iberal. Its present represen- tative, Alexau<ler Asher, has been elected three times there without opposition. He is the son of a local “Aiild Licht ” Minister and was Mr. Gladstone’s Solicitor-General for Scotland. He should have little trouble in beating the baccarat player. Another picturesque Unionist candidate is Henry iVJ Stanley, the exjilorer. He first offered himself for the Pembroke boroughs in Wales, but the Conservatives there had another candidate in view. Col. Howard Vincent, the fair trader, suggested that he sliouhl fight Benmnl Coleridge the son of Lord Justice Coleridge, in a Shcflield dis- trict, wliere ho would liave had u severe tussle. Later news, however, is to the ed'ect that the Unionists have chosen the great explorer as their candidate for the Metropolitan constituency of North Lam- beth, now represented by (General Fraser, a Conservative. Mr. Fldward Blake, at one time leader of our own Liberals, has been offered a seat for one ol the Limerick divi- sions in Ireland, and Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, an ex-Premier of Victoria, and the latest contributor to Carlylean literature, has been nominated for an Ulster Home Rule constituency. .Maj. Edwards, a crack line officer, who is a Socialist of the William Morris type, is opposing Mr. W’yndham, Mr. Balfour’s Secretary, in Dover, while John Burns is the Liberal nominee for one of the London districts. Mr. Corrie Grant, a literary barrister, is giving buttle to Mr. Chamberlain in Birmingham, while Prof. Oscar Browning, an O.xford don, is contest

I ing blast Worcestershire with Mr. Cham- berlain’s son—Austen. These are but

Tlie Reati(icsor\'a(iire.

To those wlio dwell in the city the months carry little of that special .significance vouchsafed to those who tread the fields or seek the hidden beauties of the forests shade. The culmination of the beautiful in nature is found, if found at all, on a perfect day in summer, and the appreciation of the beautiful in flower and field, in distant hill and glowing sky is more widespread to-day than ever in the history of the people. This appreciation has broadened with oiir scien- tific knowledge since it has become clear that where ignorance is once the inolhcr of admiration, knowledge is a thou.saml times its (|uiokencr. There are a few, however, who do nob believe this. Their view is voiced by tlie following words :—“Mr. Rua- kin burns to white heat in dealing with the scientific botanists who cover the flowers of (iod’s world witli a contemptible Latin jar- gon and cull tliab an explanation of the flora of the earth. Fortunately or unfortunately he finds no more comprehensive satisfaction in the treati.ses of the mineralogists on dia- monds and crystals. My own experience, Covering a period of over tliirty years of constantand loving intercourse with nature, teaches mo that I always get more enjoy- ment, ami a better understanding of the flowers, the mountains, the dawn, and sun- set and the stars the less I encumber my- self with or try to apply to these living, burning, ever-changing divinities the dry and sapless nomenclature of so-called scien- tific literature. There is no true science or poetry but that which feels, touelics and pictures the soul and meaning of things.”

No doubt this writer is sincere, hut he will hardly claim lie basa monopoly in en joying the beauties of nature ; and if his mind is so constituted that botany, geology, and astronomy throw no new light on the glories of tlio universe, that is his misfor- tune. The true students of nature, ami their name is legion, find the beauties become in- creased a thousand fold as knowledge with its telescopes and microscopes illumines and extends the field of observation. To rend one flower is to destroy its single beauty in order that the great glory of its hundreds of brethren may be ma<le more manifest, and that the wonder of plant life may be made tiie possession of all. It is doubtless true that liie ignorant man, tiie unscientific man, may enjoy in a way the beauties of nature ; but when lie would draw a narrow circle and say that within lliat circle of the sciences no enjoyment of nature is possible, he not only is guilty of indirection, but he is a blind leader of the blind. Many brainy scientist, many a botanist has the keenest love of nature, and is never more transported than during this glorious monlli of roses. Tliey can echo Mrs Browning’s verse as well as Ruskin and his ilk :—

“ For if I wait,” said she, “Till time for roses be—

For the moss rose and the musk rose, Mai<len blush and royal-dusk rose—

What glory then for me In such glorious company ?

Ro.scs plenty, roses plenty, And one nightingale for twenty ?” No, no. It is not the little knowleilge,

but the scientific and comprehensive thai gives the deepest joy in nature and all its phenomena.

sus report, showing the state of reliuion in the country, to come to hand. Taking tlie figures as a whole, it is found that through- out the entire Dominion the Protestants have increased since 1881 by 319,296, while the Roman Catholics liavegrown by 198,583, The greatest advance among the Protest- ants has been made by the Metliodists, and next to them stand the I’resbyteriuns, with the Church of Fhigland closely following. But these three great churches retain their relative positions. That is to say, the proportion of their membership to tlie entire population is not loss than it wa.s ten years ago. The strength of the various bodies, liowever, has varied in the different provinces. Thus, while tlie Presbyterians and the Church of ICngland have gained vastly iu Ontanoand the West, they have lost in the blast. The Roman (’atliolics have incteaseil by 12,.351 in the MaritimejProvinccs, and the Metho<lists by 4,.385 ; but the Anglicans have lost 054 and the Presbyterians 0,548. No doubt the ex- planation of the changes in the relative strength in the various provinces is that the Presbyterians and the Anglicans are moving west, while the Roman Catholics and the Methodists arc stationary.

'The most significant feature of the cen- sus calculation is that to be derived from the figures for Quebec. In this province in the year 1831 tliero were MO,417 Pro- testants and 41*2,714 Roman Catholics. One-fourth of the po}>ulation was then I’rotestant. In 1851 the figures stood tlius : Protestant, 143,407 : Roman Catliolics, 748,854. One-sixth of the population 'was then ]'*rotc8tan(. In 1881 there were 180,-309 Protestants and 1,170,- 718 Roman Catholics. 'Then one-seventh of the population was Protestant. In 1891 the Protestants munljcr 190,966 and the Roman (Jutliolics 1,291,969. Now only one-eight of the people is Protestant. In the eastern part of the provinces the Protestants are really disappearing. 'Pake (^nebeo county as an example. 'J’lierewerc 1,035 Anglicans there in 1881, but there are only 674 in the comity now. In Mio city of (^Hiebec the falling otf is more marked. ’J’hore, in 1861, llicrc were 41,477 Roman Catholics and 0,632 Protestants. Now while the Roman Catho- lics have increased to 58,554, or by 17,000, the Protestants have decreased to 4,536, or by 5,100, The Cliurch of England has lost 3,*210 members in the thirt y years, the Pri s- bylcrians 191, and the Methodists 595. Thus the city is gradually becoming exclusively French and < 'atholic. In the Eastern Town- ships, settled just a hundred years ago as a Protestant district, the same process is observable. Missistjiioi had 7,455 Catho- lics in 1861 and 11,153 Protestants. Now the figures are reversed—there are 10,146 Catholics and 8,403 Protestants. The same story is told of Brome. The 2,540 Catho- lics of 1861 liave grown to 4,988 in 1891, while the 10,192 Protestants have decreased to 9,721. It would take too many figures to go overall the counties included in the tov/nships ; but summarizing for eight counties, it appears that the 50,687 Catho- lics of 1801 have grown to 105,149 in 1891, while the 61,390 J’rotesiants have increas- ed only to 61,829, which means that they have lost.

Anxious for :i ('oiirl*iHnr(la(.

A despatch from Ottawa says :—There is a great deal of excitement in military circles here over the latest development of the trouble in the Ottawa Ficl<l lottery, which begun several weeks ago with certain charges of irregularity in payment of men who turned out to lire a salute at the open- ing of tlie present session of Parliament. The F'ield Battery is at present in camp at the Exhibition grounds with the Governor- General’s Foot (iuards and J’rincess Louise Dragoon Guards. Not iona; before midnight last night Cupt. Bliss, of the battery, against whom many things have been said of late, drove out to the camp in uniform, and went to the tent of Major Stewart, commanding officer of the battery, who i.s, by the way, contractor tor the new drill hall in Toronto, Unbuckling his sword, Capt, Bliss tendered it to Major Stewart. The latter consulted Lieut.-Colonel Irwin, Dominion Inspector of Artillery, who saiil that as Capt, Bliss ha<l been relieved from duty by Major-General Herbert, he had no power either to place him under arrestor to send him on duty with his corps. The action taken by Captain Bliss was with a view to forcing the affair to a definite con- clusion one way or the otlier. Capt. l^liss having applied for a court-martial iu vain, expected that his presence iu camp last night would have resulted in Ins arrest ami that a court martial would have emsued. It has not had that result, liowever, and the matter stands in the .same position as it was before.

Treasures Most People Miss.

The oft-quoted wail of Thomas Carlyle in his old age because no one had pointed out the constellations to him in his childhood had in it great justice. In these days of kindergartens and improved methods of in- struction generally, doubtless more children have their attention directed to the interest- ing things in the world about tliem than was the case when the present generation of adults was young, and yet it is probably the case that very few arc taught to observe in a way that will afford them pleasure all their lives. Most parents arc themselves so ignorant of the simplest *principles of natural history and natural science that it is hard to sec how they can much enlight- en the minds of llicir children, unless they take special pains to road up for the pur- pose. If they think of the matter at all they probably expect the youngsters to pick up at school that fund of general informa- tion which differentiates the “ practical” person from the one who knows little out- side of his own lino of work. But, as the ordinary school teacher is apt to stick close- ly to his task of teaching only the things fourni in his textbook, the development of the childish mind is generally a matter of chance. One boy may by mere accidenthavo his interest aroused in some subject aside from his ordinary lessons with the result of becoming well informed not only upon it but also upon numerous kindred branches of learning, while another, who is equally fitted by nature for serious study, may from a lack of the original iiieiteinent go through life without enjoying tlie satis- faction which a well stored mind gives its possessor. The universal interest iu median- icdl science leads most boys with any natur- al taste for such matters to acquire inform- ation u])on them. When a future votersees a wheel going around he is (piite likely to step and ascertain the cause of its motion. But the same curiosity is not aroused by the growth of a plant, the llight of a bird, or the movements of an insect. If, liowever, some older person would take the trouble to point out the wonderful provisions of nature that lie behind those common phenomena, the cliihlish mind would in most cases find them ({Uite as entrancing as the steam engine. As it is, most boys grow up with a fair under- standing of such recondite matters as the power which drives a railway train, but densely ignorant of the simplest principles of agriculture and natural history. For some mysterious reason the interest of girls is directed away from mechanics with such cure that tliey never learn which handrail to grasp in getting on and off a street-car, in spite of the boasted practical sense of theirsex.

If the kindergartens succeed in teaching young and old that the common things of life are as full of beauty and wonder as those about which people go to great expense and trouble to inform themselves, they willcon- trilmte mucli to the pleasure of existence, to say nothing of that elevation of mind and softening of manner,-) which a contemplation of the ways of nature ought to produce.

Amiter Itillif Norfti ^Vc-sl.

The annual report of llic Department of Iiiterior is a most valuable ami inleresting work, and conlain.s information regarding the rc.sources and prospects of the great territorie^wliich will doubtle.ss be a revela- tion even to tho.se living in the disiricts re- ferred to. A4,mong the new matter in tliis blue book is Mr. (Jtlo J. Klotz’s investiga- tion of the shore of CeJo^g^ke, a small body of water about 49«iHH|Ki|Iowii the Saskatchewan from Prince On the shores of this remote lake a Æposite of amber was discovered some years ago, and Mr. Klotz was instructed by the .Nlinistcr of the interior to investigate and make a re- port on the subject. He lias done so and appears to take a very cautious view of the commercial value of the deposit, 'J’lie amljcr of commerce has been obtained frotr the southeastern shores of the Baltic .Sea for two thousand years. The amber varies in size from grain.s the size of a pea to pieces as large as han<L. The value of tlie amber depends largely on the size of the pieces, for example a pound consisting of four pieces is valued at $1.5, while the same weiglit consisting of 16U pieces is worth but 90 cents, while refii.se amber is made int,o varnish slock. Mr. Klotz reports with regard to the amber field on Cedar Lake that the material i.s so small that it could only be converted into varnish stock. He concliules that there is undonlitecily somewhere beds wliere larger pieces are deposited from which these Cedar Lake depo.sita are more driftings. It be- comes a question, therefor", whether it would pay to work these driftiug.s. The only way this could be maile commercially profitable, in Mr. Klotz’s opinion, is by giving one company the monopoly of work- ing tlio deposit under a royalty. In the same blue l)ook there is a considerable amount ot information in regard to tlie gold deposits in the East K.ootenay mining district, part of which wa.s traversed last year by W. S. Drewry, an officer of the de- partment. Mr. Drewry says that the actual mineral wealth is au unknown factor, but sufficient has been ascertained to make a great development probable iu the next few years. At the present time but one mine is being actively operatcil. The difficulties are great and capital is wanted. The im- provement in the means of treating ore with a small percentage of gold will do a great deal for the district, for this is the cliaracter of the quartz tliroughout the mountains. Mining engineers and experts afiirm that the surface prospects of the Spillamacheen country are extremely good and that if the promise hoM forth is realized it will become one of the richest quartz- mining areas known.

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c<oitaiii in a condensed form all the ! elements nccc.*sary to give new life and rich-

TIH* T<‘rril>D* Sllircrllllïs of I.suar ness to the blood and rest'irc shattered >V. rillir<*h From Paraly.sis. i nerves. They are an unfailing specific for

(such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial A. , ....... . 1 paralysis, 8t. Vitus’dance, sciatica, neuial- lallo, AheunmUs nervous headache, the

la grippe, palpitation of j the heart, pale and sallow complexions, and j the tired feeling resulting from nervous pros- tration ; all diseases depending upon vitiat- ed humors in the blood, suoli as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females,such as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks, in the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, over-work or excess of whatever nature.

These pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Biockvillc, Ont., and Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold

Only >o .Siifrer <Jrcat .Vjtniiy — M'iMioiil .*«lcop and a Victim of .Ncrvaiin l*i'os(i-ulion -An Account of Ills Mlracii- l<»iis 4'iit’c as InvoliKated by a **'nmcH*<

Hamillon Times, June lOtli, 1892.

“ 111 the spring of 1887, while working on a buiiirling in Liverpool,” saiil Mr. (Jhurcli, “a îKiaffüld on which I was standing collaps- ed and 1 fell to the pavement a rlistance of forty feet. Bruised and bleeding I was picked up an 1 conveyed to tlie Northern Hospital, and not one of the doctors who attended mo lield out any hope of my ulti- mate recovery. The hase of my spine seem- c.l to l,u sin.vshoilintoiipulp, and Uiecirofts in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen

of the medical men were directed altogether i or bundred, ami tlie public arc cautioned . 1 . ..-K : . 1. - , M, 1 r ft ’ ‘

I'nn Consumption be <'iirc«I.

Can consumption he prevented? is a ques- tion wliich some physicians nuswor emphat- ically in the affirmative. 'I'ho careful and thorough enquiry of a Dr. Flick concerning the cases of tuberculosis in one ward of Phil- adelpliia during the last twer.ty-five years has led to the organization in that city of a

.Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Dr. Flick has made charts or maps of this particular ward in Philadelphia. These charts show in some houses ten or twelve cases, while in the adjoining dwellings the disease lias not been found. Dr. Flick is well acqiiainteil with the medical history of the ward, and his cliarts support the con- clusion derived from Ids own observation and experience, that a great many cases of consumption in that district have been caus- ed by infection thr< ugii the agency of hous- es and rooms in widch consumptives have l)een ill ami have died. The houses in which there have been many fatal cases during the last tventy-five years arc those in which there has been a succession of tenants fol- lowing a family in which one or more per- sons succumbed to the disease, Thorous/h disinfection might have made tliehousc harm- less, but without such disinfection it was a trap for succeeding tenants. Fully one half of the cases of consumption in the ward are believed to lie due to liv- ing in infected house.s. A family unsus- pectingly moves into one of the houses whi'oli on the map are marked with black dots 'This house has just been vacated by a family in which death from consumption h:is occurred. The weakest member of the iu- coining family succumbs to the disease, the infection spreads to new victims, and death reaps a greater harvest. The new society will do the greater part of its work among the poor. It will leach them how consump- tion is communicated by infection and how this infection can be avoided. It will cause all cases of consumption to be reported to the Board of Healtli and to be registered. We presume it will urge the health officers to provide for tho disinfection of houses and rooms in wliich consumptive persons have died, if this precaution is not taken by the occupants themselves.

Loss or Lire at Sen.

Much is written on the question of lives lost at sea, and though we do not wish to clieck the zeal of men who have done noble service in safeguarding our sailors from the practices resorted to in the past by rapa- cious ship owners, we think the great im- provement of recent years is too often ig- nored, and the tendency to over-legislate very great.

In ten years tho number of lives lost has decreased by nearly one-half, and when it is noted that the British fleet has in that period increased from 8i to 9.68 million tons this result is even more favorable. Our sailing ships are being improved in design, so as the better to withstand great storms and tho adoption of steel minimizes the dangof of standing. The small old wooden vessels are disappearing at the rate of about 1,000 a year. These facts indicate a cause wliy tho proportion of lives lost to the total tonnage entering and clearing our porials has decieascd fiom 4.17 per 100,000 tons in 1881 to 2 06 in 1890. This represents a decrease according to tonnage of one-lialf. In tlie case of steamers tlie increase in traffic is equal to 43.6 per cent.-, and yet there is a decrease iu tlie number of lives lost of 28 per cent. In otlr.‘r words, the lives lost were equal to 0.57 per 100,000 tons of steamers frequenting our ports in 1881, and ill 1890 0.41 per 100,000 tons. In 1882 the raii.') was 1,45 and iu 1886 0.16 per 1(H),000 tons. 'J'hcse were the highest and lowest in tlio decade, and indicate the possibilities of great liiictuaiions due so extraordinary dis- asters. The tendency, however, is toward a substantial <lccrcase. In ten years the deaths among masters and seamen from all causes decreased fiom 23.2 per 1,000 em- ployed to 13.1 per 1,000.

In the Times of t'barle.s I.

On apparently sufficient data, the ])opu- latioii of I.ondon in the reign of Charles I. has been estimated at 131,tOO, an increase of about 100,000 in 300 years, or at the rate of 3.33 per annum. It is probable that immigration would account for the whole of this increase ; so that the birth-rate dur- ing these three centuries would not exceed the rate of death and emigration. This slow increment of population would suffice to cover what was formerly the garden grounds within the walls, the new outer wards, ami the sites of the old monasteries. The archi- tectural distinction of the place w’as almost lost when the religious houses and tlieir lofty churclics were ilestroyed. 'The ma- sons missed their noblest kind of work, but still in private houses of all kinds they, under foreign influence, W’orked out the Eli.zabethaii and the Jacobean stj'les.

J lieso promptly passed away, and then tlie pseudo-classic architectural designs of Inigo Jones were welcomed. A great col- Icnn.vdc was added, in grotesque imperti- nence, to the western elevation of St. Paul’s, and a contrivance for securing grateful shade in southern climates was adopted here, with emphasis of gloom, where light is chiefly needed. Jones’s designs are much belauded as superior art ; yet liis small Water (»ate is but acostly toy, theextrava- gant details C|uite overwhelming the design. At Covout Garden Church the light wooden pediment and corn ice look absurd above such ma.ssive columns, and, though the Banqueting House at Wliitehall is hand- some, this is principally due to the abun- dance of material, the details being coarse and commonplace. Walls five feet thick, with little window opening and all faced with massive-looking Portland stone, must be effective when contrasted with most modern building work.

next aiirual convention iu Toronto next of the interesting “affairs” of the ap- \{^y, proadiing conflict.

One of theexploiffi of Sullivan, a profes- sional “strong man ” in Ltmdt>n, is to lift with a rope held in his teeth a young ele- phant weighing over 1,800 jiounds. An- other is to attach a chain to a fifty-six-pound weight, and, with tlie end of the chain in his mouth, whirl rapidly around until the chain assumes an almost horizontal line. This fe' 'kes thespcctatorson the grouml H lest a Jink ‘iie clmiji should r slioii'.il tx their hold.

June Souff. O sing of a scudding sky in June !—

He who can sing it. sweet- - Wlicn the yachts of (Jed arc all abroad,

'i'en million in tho Ileett Nor inigliticst hand in all tho land

(Jan stay one snowy sheet !

'i'hc oriole and tho bobolink Fling clialicngc to tlio (jiiuil ;

Tlic clover nods to tint milkweed pods, And (lie daisies dot I ho swale :

Tho soul of the rose on light- wing goes And sweetens all tlie gale.

Ah ! fair is tlic grccnworld underneath ! Hut O for the blue above !

1”o leave the grass and lightly pas.s, • As the pinion of a dove, 'I’o the snowy boat that seems to float

To the haven of my love!

Then hey fora scudding sky in June. When the world is fresh aivf. sweet;

When the yachtsof God are uH abruail 'iVii million in the fleet;

Nor miKhtiesi hand in all the land, Can furl one flying sheet?

The KloLs III ( hliia.

An opposite view of the anti-Christian riots in Cliina, which liave aroused so much righteous indignation throughout the Chris- tian world, is presented in tho letter of an ed- ucated Chinese patriot to a Slianghai Eng- lish newspaper. The Chinaman defends ami commends Chou Han, the leader of the riot- ers, his anti-Christian friends, whom lie classes with tho victims of the Inquisition. He urges tiiat the Chinese national faith has as much right to defend itself and to re- sent arrogant invasion as had the Piotest- ants of the middle ages. The same plea of “ disturbing the peace ” was urged, he says, by the Jewish elders before Pontius Pilate against the (Miristians, and by the Impiisi- tors against the heretics. 'J’lie forcing of a foreign religion on the natives by means of threats from foreign powers and by the menace of foreign g'mboats, aided by imperi- al edicts, for that is the (Jhineseview of the situation, he urges is opposed to all princi- ples ol religion and intovimtional law and can never succeed. 'The writcrexpressessurprise that the Rev. Griffith Jolm, a prominent missionary, who, lie says, is paid to ad- vocate love and charity, should spend all this time crying at the top of his voice for vengeance and slaughter against tho peo- ple, who, even at tho very worst, are but misled, without evil intent, ami who only defend their religion, dear to them as that of tho Christians who died in Roman arena.s. He says that the Christian religion isgrossly misrepresented by the missionaries, tiirough their presuming to adtlress the people wliile having only a ridiculously imperfect knowl- edge of the Chinese language, and that the fact is mainly answerable for many miscon- ceptions by the Chinese.

Canada’s national game is making great- er pro^'ress in the United States than any other held game except baseball. Says the New-Vork Ti'/ms : “Lacros.se has many advantages over other outdoor sports. Jn the first place it is very inexpensive. A 'slick' and a running suit are ail that is necessary for the jilayer. 'j’liere i.-! no other game which eivi^ so ^o<l an all- around development nf Hie muscles. Arms, legs, back, and in fact all parLs*'of the body are *'xercised. A lacros.se man learns to bo cool and collected, to take in situations at a glance, and to act with rapidity ami pre cision «luring most exciting imum.-nts. Jt is fa.soinating to players uml spectator.s alike from the moment the referee calls ‘play’ until the umpire calls ‘goal.’ luistly, it is u vame for gentlemen,”

towards relieving the terrible agony I snf leretl rather than towards curing my injur- ies. I had the censtitution of an ox thongli,’' and the speaker threw out his cliest ami squared a pair of shouldov.s that would have done credit to a prince amonu athletes, “ ami a.s I seemed to have a tremendous grip oil life the doctors took heart and after remaining in that hospital forty weeks I was dischargeil as being as far recovered as I would ever be, [«'or twenty-six weeks I liad to lie in one position, and any attenipt to place me on my l)ack made ino scream with pain. Through eighteen months after my discharge I was unable to do a stroke of work, and could with difficulty make my way about the hou.se, and tlieii only with th*5 aid of crutches. 'L'wico during that time I underwent operations at the hand of eminent surgeons, who were amazed at the fact of my being alive at all after they had been informed of the extent of my injuries. (Jn tlie last occasion my back was cut open and it was discovered that the bones wliich had been shattered by niy full had, by pro- cc.ss of time, comi>l(;tely overlapped each otlier, forming a knuckle that you sec here,” and Mr. Church showed the reporter a curi- ous lump near the ba-se of his spine. “All efforts to straighlen those bones continued unavailing, ami finally tho doctors told me that in the course of a few months paralysis would aet in ami my troubles wouhl be in- crc»,sed tenfold. 'I'iieir predictions proved only too true and liofore long I was in almost as bad a condition as ever. No tongue can tell the pain I suffered as the disease progressed, and eventually I decided to come to America. So in 1890 I closed up my aflairs in J'higland and on arriving in Halifa.v, so done uj) was I with the journey across tlie ocean, tliat I had to take to my bed and was kept a close prisoner for several weeks. Having a lirollior living at Moor- field, near Guelph, I with difficulty accom- pliriicd the journey there and tried to do some work. My utmost exertions could ac- complish Init little, however, and as the result of my trouble, nervous prostration, in its worst form assailed me. I remember once being overtaken by a thunderstorm while about a mile away from the house, and while I was making niy way there I fell no less than eight times, completely pros- trated by particularly vivid flashes of light- ning or heavy jars of thunder. About a year ami a lialf ago I came to this city and secured work at the Hamilton I’orge Works, but before long had to quit, because I couhl not attend to my duties. I used to think that if I could only get a little sleep once in a while I would feel better, but even that boon was denied me. Night after night I tossed from side to side, and every time my back pressed the bed the pain that shot through every limb was almost unbearable. The doctors prescribed chloral and bromide of potash, and for weeks 1 never thought of going to bed at nigiit wiJiout having first taken powerful doses of cither of these drugs. 'Towards the last these «loses failed to have the desir- ed eilect and I increased the size of them until I was finally taking thirty grains of potash and ten grains of chloral every night, enough to kill a liorse. I became so weak that 1 could hardly get around, and my lower limbs shock like those of a palsied old man. \Vheii everything seemingly had failed me and I was about to give up what seemed a vain battle for life and health my wife here read an account in one of the newspapers of John Marshall’s wondertjij cure by means of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and although I had lost all faith in any medicine 1 resolved to try once more and acconlingly procured a box of these little Pink Pills from Mr. Hai risen, the druggist, and commenced to use them according to the directions. 'This was in October of last year. 1 had not taken them a w«îck till I began to feci an improvement in my general health. In a month I slept every night like a baby. 'The pains left my back entirely, and by the beginning of the new year I couhl lie on my back for iiours ami never feel tlie slightest pain therefrom. Prior to taking tho pills I suffered terribly witli fits, many of them so severe that three or four men were required to hold me. 'Tlie pills knocked those all out, tliough, and all the time I used them I did not have even the suspicion of a fit, an«l as for my weight, well, you will hardly believe it, but honest- ly, in that time I gained forty pounds. Well, to make a long story short, 1 went to work again a few months ago, this time in tlie Hamilton Nail Works, where I wert as shipper, ami I liave worked there stea«lily since tho first day I went in. Last fall I was too weak to walk a mile, now I work from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m., and my work is no cliild’s play cither, I can assure you. I handle about 500 kegs of nails every day and each keg weighs one hundred pounds and has to l>e lilted a distance of from five to six feet. All my renewed strengtli I ascribe to the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink ITlls which I consitlcr liave worked won- <lers in my own case. For anyone troubled with nervousness, sleeplessness or loss of strength in any way, in my opinion there is nothing in existence like tho^e pills for restoring people who are thus afflicted. Yielding to tlio advice of friends, who claime«l tiiat my renewed health was not duo to the Pink Tills, I quit using them for about a month, but tlie recurrence of those Lerrilfic fits warned me of my folly and I commenced using the pills again, and I will certainly never be without them iu tlie

“Not it I know it, anyliow, reraar ed Mrs. (Jluircli. “I know only too well the good they have done you, and you would not have been anytliing like the man you are to-day if it liad not been for those pills, and no one on earth knows better than I how greatly you have been helped, and not only you but others in the family who were thought to bo going into a decline before they were restored ny taking those pills.”

Some of the parliculars of the marvel- lous rescue of Mr. Church from a life of suffering having reacheil tlie public, a reporter of the 'l'imes thought it worth his while to investigate the matter for the benefit of other sufferers, and it was in response to his enquiries that the above remarkable story was narrated by Mr. Church. 'Taken in connection with the reports of other equally remarkable, cures—the particulars of which have been publislmd from time to time— it offers un- (|ue?t i(,,.e<l proof that Dr. Williams Pink Tills for Pale People stand at the head of liuulcrn medical discoveries.

The neighbours generally were very out- s()oken iu their astonishment at Mr. Church’s miraculous cure, all who knew anything of his case having given him up months ago us rapidly approaching the portals of tho great unknown. He looks far from that now though. His eye is as clear, his cheek as ruddy, and his step as clastic as a youtli in his teens. He was for seven years a member of the Life Guards, and for some time conducted a gymnasium in Liverpool. He expects to get back to his beloved athletic exercises tliis season, and is much elated at the success of liis treatment.

'The i eportor then called upon Messr.s. | Harrison Bros., James street nortli, from whom Mr. Church had purchased the rem cdy, M-ho further verified his statements. In reply to the inquiry by the reporter, “Do you sell many of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills?” Mr. James Harrison, of the firm replied:—

“Well, yes, rather. A thousand boxes don't last Jong. You see our business is lar^'cly with men, women and girls employ- ed in the big factories and mills in this lo- cality and the recommendations we hear from these people day after day, month after month, would indeed make the manu- facturer of these wonderful little pellets think he was a benefactor of hun\anity. Several cases have come under my own no- tice of women, poor, tired-out, ove- -worked creature.s, being made “like unto new” by the use of these pills and I see U .em passing to and from work daily and- looking as though life was worth livingond well worth ir, too. in all my experience in the drug I'li.siness I never saw anything like these pills,” uud Mr. Harrison a number of cures tliat hail ;:ome utider his observa- tion in addition to that c,f Mr, Church. .

against numerous imitations sold in (-his sliapc) at 50 cents a l)ox, or .six boxes fur S2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Me«Hcine Company from either address. The price at which these pilis arc soiil to make a course of treatment comparatively inex- pensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment.

Oiir ForcsiH. The summer lull in trade is at hand. 'Fhe

dullness in many leailiiigbranchesot business gives an ojiportunity to review their condi- tion. 'i'he lumber industry is among this number. Though it ha.s so far recovered from the demoralization of the last two years as to he again on a lirm basi^», sales have not lieen as large as expected and profits are small. 'I'lie trade in hemlock lumber i.s the most depressed branch of all. Some of tlio large producers are aggravating the situation by increasing their output to counterlialance the sinallne.'is of their mar- gins. 'J’iiis slaughter of the for« sts gives renewed occasion for tho forestry people to write long iirtielcs f)ii the rapid «iisappear- ance of limber and the increased stability of the climate. 'J’licy tell us that within 100 years tlu; N')rth American f«)rest will disappear unlc.ss something is done to re- produce it. 'l'hoir ligure.s are ajiparently correct. Seventy years is the limit set for this worlc (>f destruelion, and, as there are, at least, 60 years beiwtvn the sapling and the sawmill, it looks as if some reineily should lie applied at once. Still, tho lumberman is not alarmed, .\jorcover, lie gives good reasons for his confidence. There are more rafts on the Rhine than there arc on any Can dian river—probably in the proportion two to one. The Black Forest is still great timber region in spite of its ancient occupation by grubbing peasants, ami all its timber has been produced under Govern- ment supervision. A good profit is made on the timber and the forest, at tho same time, increases in value. If I'lurope can cultivate forests, Canada can. The hard woods, especially the nut-bearing sorts, need only to be let alone to reproduce themselves rapidly, and tlie soft woods, excepting lien lock, will do the same in a measure. All that is needed to set us cul- tivating forests on a large scale is a health- ful fright. This condition has not been reached yet, but it will be in time. After that the forests will hold their owm, as they do in Central Europe. Europe «lid not take up forestry till there was need of it. 'I'his country will follow her example. When that time comes there will not only be better timber but fewer ficxids and more fis'n and game.

It is useful to know that a little lemon juice and hot water will remove the scratch- es made by matches on white paint.

Chicago lias two progressive cycling or- ganizations which have taken a very decid- ed stand on the “ treating ” question. Not a man is allowed to “ treat ” while on a run, thus relieving the more generous member of the necessity of quencliing others’ thirsts or appetites.

The Dominion Government has decided to locale a fishery for Manitoba at Selkirk. It will be the third largest liatcliery in the world, having a capacity of 100,000,000 whitefish amt 10,(X)0,000 salmon or spec- kleil trout. The Government has recognized the fact that Manitoba has the largest ex- port of any other portion of Cahada or the United States, and, therefore, a large hatch- ery is an absolute necessity to replete the lakes ami stop the depletion which has al- ready taken place.

Do you SiifTer Tain ?

Does a dull aching of nerve or muscle, or the acuter pangs of neuralgia, toothache, or lumbago make life a misery ? Thousands are compelle'l to suffer day in an«l day out simply because they arc unacquainted with the extraordinary pain subduing power ot Nervilinc—the great nerve pain cure. It is certain to cure nerve pain speedily. Ner- viline cures tootliaclio, rheumatism, neural- gia, lumbago, &c. Nerviline is powerful, penetrating, ami effectual. Sold every- where.

Archbishop Duhamel, who has just re- turned to Ottawa fiom hi-s trip through the North West, says he is so strongly impress- ed by all he saw that he will advise the people in the Diocese of Ottawa who are nov doing w’ell at home that they can do better iu the North-West.

Vaiiire's Sii|>]>ly «r Vila! Power. People of means seek in cliange of climate,

sea voyages, etc., to restore tiie wasting body. But here, within reach of all, flows on forever that world-witle, wontlerful water, Sr. Leon, that has restored annually for the past 50 ycai's countless numbers of despairing sufferers. Keep your houses sup- plied with nature's great restorative, and visit the springs ; opening June 13th. M A. Thomas, Manager.

“Faith,” said Padily, “Oim ahead of the railroad this toime. O’ive bouglit a re- turn ticket and O’im not goiiT back. ”

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soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative and if the father or mother be costive or bilious the most grati- fyimr results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy known and every fam- ily shouhl have a bottle.

It is almost annoying to a man when hauling a large loail to market to suddenly find liis wheels refuse to 'go round’. 'Those who use Rogers’ Peerless Axle Grease save borse flesh, save axle boxes and save time.

The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of to-moiTow.—[Irving.

“WAKM.VO,” ask your DruggNt for €IIF BOA’S. TOUTIIACIIB CUM, take 110 sub- titute.

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WEAK (young and old>, suffering from mental worry, overwork, insomnia, oxcessos, or self-abuse, should take tboso PILLS. Tliey will rostoro lost energies, both physical and montai.

SUFFERING WOMEN afflicted with tho weaknesses peculiar to their BOX, such as suppression of tho periods, bearing down pains, weak back, nlcevatious, etc.,"will find these pills an unfailing euro. ^

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They afford tlni surest and niost jn-o/itub.’o Investment in Canada. Tho first i.'^.sno of st’^ck places invoslors on the gromnl lioor and is nearly all taken up. Tlio >e«-ond i.ssm* wid };o 25 percent. torVOper cent, higher. 'Iheii j(a advancement will he rap il owing to greater development wo: k. Now is the o|iporlunity Don’t let itslip. Itisnoc often investors liavo stich a chance as this, ('all at office, Board of 'I’ratle Building, 'I'oronto.

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