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- serving and evaporating. Not only- do _ out them, and havs paid fairly remum sonable expect to do so‘, if he to the eyes of the thrifty farmer.‘Art- ists also assert that the line of beau- ty is not a straight line,” but what farmer would not prefer to see afield in which the rows of plants are math- ematically straight than one in which they curved like the course of a snake: All have not the ability to plow a straight furrow invariably, nor has every one the capital to put their buildings in good repair, but almost every one can find time to out down bushes and weeds along the road and perhaps to seed them to grass. A day in a year would clean up a long stretch of road, and the time so spent would soon be saved by checking the dupply of weed seed on the farm, ad- joining. Some of the bushes may be large enough to cut up for summer wood, and some of the weeds may be fed to the hogs 'if out before the seeds are formed, or they may be piled up "aims FOR THE FARMER. CANN IN G FACTORIES. One of the great needs of the far- mer in many sections is the establish- ment of factories for preserving their fruit and vegetables by canning, pre- these furnish a sure and usually stea‘dy market for the surplus crops, but they can take and work up much that would not be suitable to send to market. It is not always the best that is most readily marketable. If the market is distant, fruit and many kinds of vegetables must be gathered before they have reached their best point for eating, and the ripening dur- ing transportation, or while awaiting sale does not bring out the best flav- ( . h and or that comes from ripening in the 1nd letted’ or an the bus as . . " ' . d burned on field th t weeds may be dried an ‘ . it. WI he rays or the sun upon the ground, but the main pomt is to put them where they will not cum- ber the ground any longer, or be an eyesore to passersby. Then there are the grades known as seconds, that are almost too good to throw-away, yet this had better be done than to mix them amon the â€"_â€"; , firsts, and in ,, was“ of plant: may SOILING 31 STEM. I scarcely pay for transportation, "if The soiling system possesses much packed by themselves. Yet at 'a néarby intrinsic merit and deserves to. be far factory they might be workednp to more extensively used than it is, even the profit of both grower and maxim on breeding farms, not to the exclu- factiurer in one form-.01. anothen sion or even limitation of pastures, In some sections of the Northern but in aid of, as a reinforcement and States the canning factories, by com support during the, dry season of'sumâ€" tracting with farmers near them to mcr and fall; but no breeder of fine grow certain crops for them, have cattle, especially no breeder of Jer- f-urnished employment for land and soy cattle, who desires to maintain labor that would have been idle with_ 1 his herd in health and vigor, can reaâ€" at- erat-ive prices for what they wanted, tempts to dispense with pastures, keep and the farmers, knowing they had his cows tied up all the time, or ,a a sure market nearby, have been re_ greater part of the time. No improvâ€" lu'eved from the necessity of going ed breed of cattle ever was bred' or miles. to gen their products, with no reared in a hotâ€"houSe, and the time certainty of realizing fair pay for is far distant when we can dispense their labor. The corn canning fa‘0_ with these great natural factors of tories of Maine and the tomato can- health' Sunlight’ freSh air’ easy ex' neries of MassaChUSetts are notable ercise, good grass. The pasture is desâ€" l'mstanceS, while in the blueberry re_ tined to continue for generations yet sions there are thousands who earn to come, as it has been in all the more money or at least receive more generations gone byâ€"the mainstay, money for gathering tha wild fruit'the foundation of cattle breeding. @1111ng the few weeks it is fit to pick â€"â€"â€"¢â€"â€"- than they see in all the rest of‘the To BEAUTle THE HANDS. year. , To increase the strength, symme- Vhat has been done by these me” try and incidentally the beauty of the ifimo‘iifilifitilfli by {my “.116” band. devote 10 minutes before W“ [4" . ere is but little to bed to muscle bending and danger. of the business being overdone strengthening. Extend both arms all In a few years at least. \Ve well reÂ¥ right angles to the body the back of member when not agrocery storehad the hands turned upwa;-d_ In this canned fruits and vegetables unless position the hand is to be bent up- som mane zeiturtelslometfine engaged a “’0‘ ward, downward and sideways. With the bins. m te‘v ought Skqmul. at fingers first together and then ex- mess o pat “p a few Jars’ tended and without moving the arm, and that-was more frequently in the bend-the hands upward from the wrist form of yarn, preserve or marmalade, as far as possible then back to the where the flavor of the front scarce- OYrigimii position, then downward as 1y was enough to give a taste to the far as pos‘siblfi For the sideways Bugar' Now the Shelves 0f the grocer movement bend alternately toward it“ :0“er W‘th “11 cans, $13158 Jars: the thumb side and the little finger um lers of all sorts and sizes, and Bide. Continue this Swinging of the some Of the Hunts and vegetables in hand upward, downward and sideways these packages are almost as good for some minutes_ ' as when first gathered. The trade even Hand rotation next forllows. now uncreases faster than the supply does. Scarcely a . season but that pnices are marked up before the close or the coming in of new s'upplies, not on one product alone, but on many. The farmers, gardeners, orchardists ing and stretching exercise. even and constant movement the hand ward into the bending position side- l‘HE VERY Ediâ€"TEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and Ali Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. " CANADA. . Typhoid is prevalent at Winnipeg. \Vinnipeg is paying $12,000 for a ore-ma tor y. Since June 15 over 930 Icelandic im- migrants have arrived at \Vinnipeg. Parry Sound ratepayers have voted :1 $20,000 bonus to the James Bay Railway Company. It is reported at Kings-ton that Mac- kenzie 8.: Mann . will purchase the locomotive works there. The Manitoba Government_ is urg- ing the farmers to1 kill the wheat de- stroying grasshopper. Canada has been awarded at the .Paris Exposition the grand prize for cheese, butter and eggs in cold stor- age. The Ottawa-Hull Association ex- pects to complete the relief distri- bution this month. The fund totals i $9:§8,000. During. the last session of the Com- mons it is estimated that forty mail bags containing about 1,000 letters were sent out of Ottawa daily. Settlers from Ohio and Indiana who are dissatisfied with North Dakota are anxious to go to Alberta, N. W. T., if the prospects are favorable. Three Chinamiein were injured by the explosion of giant powder under their cabin at Fort Steele, B. c. David A. Adams is under arrest at Brandon, Man., for the attempted murder of his father, Sheriff Adams, of Births. Trinidad is favorable, though not unanimous. to reciprocity with Can- ada according to Mr. Tripp, the Do- minion Government agent there. I Esquimalt, BC, is impregn-able as was shown by tests made recently. two torpedo boats being made targets for big guns in efforts. to get into the harbour. I I A C(hico'ultimi, Que, lawyer, Mr. Belley, is charged with destroying the register and spoiling the vote on a byâ€"law to spend $225,000 on munici- pal improvements. Lemene Bros, whose circus is now touring Canada, have been fined $1,200 by the Customs Department for bringâ€" ing a ‘quantity of printed matter into Canada without paying duty. The Manitoba August crop bulletin 'shows many thousand acres badly damaged or wholly destroyed by drought, high winds and other causes â€"â€"348.819 acres of wheat, 143,842 acres of oats and 24,414 acres of barley. Superintendent Bedford, of Bran-- don’s Experimental farm, has pre- In‘ pared an exhibit of grains, roots and this the arms are held as for the bend-“$8941S for the various lagricultuiai with Shows in Great Britain. The Ottawa Government announces performs all the previous motionsâ€" 9* Surplus 0? 55193003002 one million that is, fro-m the bending position up- *5 to be apphed m reducm‘g the debt- ithe revenue for July was $3,887,230, .. .H- mm--.“ A”... ,s, v... .~J.l-.»mm.u;m m: :r- -_: ail-st" w 4:)» u-rrzv Ni: xvi-.rr’:~v. __ “MW” . _SlM ii ITEMS, OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Many American soldiers are reported to be dyfing in the Philippines, owing to lack of medicalaid which Gen. Mac- Arthur has for weeks sought to ob- tain. I ,' ' ' ' ' ' Building trades organizations of New York city have amalgamated with the object of doing away with general strikes caused by rival organ- ization and four the adoption of gen- eral arbitration . An omnibus containing 25 people was struck by a train at Benningers Cros- sing, Pa., on Saturday. Eleven of the occupants were killed, and all the others probably. fatally injured. The laying of the first telegraph cable to connect the United States directly with. Germany was begun on Saturday morning from the Com- meircial Cable Company’s station on Coney Island, near New York. Messenger! Charles Lane of the Ad- ams! Express Co. was: found dead in a car at Columbus, Ohio, on Friday night, having been killed in‘a battle with train robbers, who looted the safe. A former employee of the com- pany named R. H. Ferrell was arresttd and confessed the crime. GENERAL. Havana has 52 cases of yellow fever. Over 4000 cab dri.ver.s are on strike at Paris. Ample rains have brightened crop prospects in India. Over 50 suspected anarchists are under arrest in Rome. ' The Newfoundland fishery outlook is the most unfavourable known in recent years. . Motor boats are about to be intro- duced on .t-he Dead Sea to accommoâ€" date the growing tourist traffic. , .An alleged anarchist, with designs on the life of Italy’s new King, has been arrested at Reggion, Italy. Hamburg has a case of plague from South America. Within one year there have been 358,389 marriages and 116,775 divorces in Japan. -' The First West India, coloured regiâ€" ment, continue to terrorize Hamilton, Bermuda. Japan has prohibited for the pres- ent, all emigration of Japanese lab- ourers to Canada and the United States. , [Russia has imposed an increase of 50 per cent, on tobacco and other articles, to meet the expenditure in the Far East. Monza has ceded the plot of ground, ’including the sport where King Humâ€" bert was assassinated to the royal family. A chapel will be erected. King Victor Emmanuel Ill. took the oath of office on Saturday at Rome amid the enthusiastic plaudits of his. subjects. ' The yellow fever which has invaded the west coast of Africa, including the French territory and British Gambia, is of a malignant form. Neighborly interest in His Doingsâ€"Matters of Moment and I'llr'h Gathered from I‘ll- Dally Record. The fire department of Chicago has ninety-eight steam fire engines. About 50 per cent. of the school boy: of the District of Colurhbia use to- bacco in some form. ' The city of Cleveland is the first to create a department whose sole object) is the abatement of the smoke nuisance. Boston has an ordinance restricting the_ height of buildings, which has ran cently been put to the test and susâ€" tained by the courts. Supt. Quigley, of the Indianapolis police force, has given orders to en- force the anti-spitting ordinance by arresting all offenders. The city of Rochester, with an es- timated population of 180,000, pays $1,575 per month for the collection and disposal of its garbage. South'Carolina is now manufactur- ing all the cotton she produces. North Carolina, Georgia and other states are also turning out a large part of their. cotton in finished goods. There are in the Presbyterian church 7,312 ministers, 7,657 churches and nearly a million communicants. The contributions for church work last year amounted to $13,777,717. , The Illinois State University is to have a department of household science. Miss Iszibel Bevier has been called from Lake. Erie College at Painesville, 0., to fill the chair. An albatross with a broken wing fell on the street at Belmond, Iowa.- As the albatross is a sea fowl, Bel- mond citizens are wondering how the bird happened to be so far from salt water. I The efforts made by male students at Syracuse-University to have wo- men students excluded from oratorical contests have failed, as the faculty decided that women have as much' need of oratorical accomplishments as men. The will of Capt Thomas- Wilson, the millionaire vessel-owner, has just been filed at Cleveland. It provides that half of the estate shall be used to establish a home for aged couples, be given to lake sailoms and their wives. - The Knoxville, Tenn, Chamber 01 Commerce appointed a committee to ascertain the real birthplace of Ad- miral Farragut. Two reports were made, the one in favor of Lowe’s Ferry; the other. the minority, in favor of Campbell’s Stations The last- numed place is the one recognized by the admiral's son. The loss of the. saloon mulct tax in Des Moines, occasioned by the long-4 continued closing of the saloons, threatens to cause serious embarrass- ment to the city treasury of Des Moincs. As the City Council, in mak- ing up its schedule of appoirtiommential for the year, figured on the saloon I‘evenue,.it is now confronted with HF..â€" TRICK OF A ST. BERNARD. Dog Which Showed Almost llumxm h;- . telllgcucc. Among some interesting dog stories told recently is one concerning are- markably Sagacious St. Bernard, which lived at a house where the writer of the story once boarded. and that in all cases preference shall and small fruit growers should inter- est themselves in this. The withdraw- al of this surplus from the open marâ€". ket will tend to keep prices more uniâ€" form through the season, and yet en; courage the production of more. It is not necessary to wait for a capitalist to come along seeking for a place and a business to invest his ways, downward, sideways in the op- posite direction and so on. First the fingers ‘are held together and then extended. Finger bending and stretching come next. With arms extended the fin- gers are slowly but vigourously hen-t enough to form a fist and are then The dog used to come into my sit- ting-room, and give me his company at dinner, sitting on the floor beside my chair with his head on alevel with the plates. His master, however, fear- ing that he was being overfed, gave strict injunctions that this practice should no longer be permitted. 0n the first day of the prohibition, the probability of a deficit about equal to the lost saloon tax. The trustees of the Indiana State University have acceded to the unani- mous request of the students and an increase of $578,600 over July last year. ' ~ GREAT BRITAIN. V The London Times praises Canada fou not receiving any more destitute inn igr-ants. . It is proposed to fit English Chan- nel steamers with Marconi’s system of wireless telegraphy. ‘ new athletic field be called Jordan Field. The .name is given in honor of President David Starr Jordan, of faculty of that institution that'the ' again opened forcibly. ' For finger spreading hold thetips of the fingers apart with arms extend- ed as before and perfectly straight. After the spread the extended fingers are brought together again or are tightly clenched, this latter action in- creasing the effect of the exercise. Both the muscles of the hand and money, or for a “promoter ” to offer to erect a building and furnish ma- :h-‘inery at a price about double what it should be. This has been done in the cheese factories and cream-eries, but they have not been as profitable usually to the farmers as those built and managed on the co-operative plan, by which each one in working for his own best interest works for the in- terest of all. “One for all and all for one ” is a. good motto for any people who are united for any purpose. As the creamerles and cheese fac- tories in many cases have found it for their advantage to have the machin- ery and conveniencs for making either product as they see fit, or as the de- mand calls for, so also a factory that could can goods of any of the various sorts, or make jam, preserves or mar- malade, or could evaporate fruits as might seem most desirable, would per- haps be a better investment than one which could do only one of them things. movements, and after due time if there is no noticeable gain in supple-: ness of wrist, contour of arm and: one reason for itâ€"-you are looking for results a little too soon. _+__ MRS. T. \VAS VERY SORRY. Mary. said Mr. Thomas, when nsil- ence fraught with unpleasant meaning had followed his first altercation with his young wife. Yes? said Mary, interrogatively. When a man and his wife have had aâ€"a difference, said Mr. Thomas, with a judicial air. and each considers the other at fault, which of the two do CLEAN THE SIDES OF THE ROADS. you think should make the first ad- vance toward reconciliation? . There may be a picturesque beauty The wiser of the two, said Mrs. in having the roadside covered with Thomas; 1fulld 80, my dear. I‘ll say at once a ’m very sorr'. weeds. and Imam: Of all sorts’ even It occurred to'Mr. Thojmas that it Is artists often profess they see beau- might have been as well for him to ty in tumble-down buildingsand-ruins make the first advance, but he but It is not a beauty that appeals thoughtfully refrained from saying 30. . of the forearm are exercised by these Horace Rumbold as British Ambassa- shapeliness of the hand there is only' The Manchester Ship Canal 00., will charge dues on ships after this year, will no longer bea free portt. Lightning destroyed the famous tmver of St. Botolph’s church, in Lin- oolnshi-re. The congregation was at mass, but no one was injured. V Sir Francis Plunkett succeeds Sir dor at Vienna, and Sir Henry M. Du- rand will succecd Sir Henry D. \Volff at Madrid. . ' UNITED STATES. Buffalo, N.Y., now has apopulation of 352,219, a gain of 96,600 in ten years. Capt. Jerome, aSan Francisco sail- or, said to have saved over 1,000 lives, is dead there. New York has a case of yellow fever, The condition of the Kansas corn er0p is poor, and "half acrop” is the best that can be reasonably expected. The Ontario law prohibiting logs being towed to the United States has caused the closing down of the Eddy Bros. saw mills at Bay City, Mick. The. United States Government will ship 1,000,000 pounds of meat for the American armies in the Orient. Methodist church leaders and socie~ ties in the U.S. are planning for world wide revival to cover. the first six months of the new century. #1.“: v V - “Meade .to change the plates, and as soon as Leland Stanford, Jr., University, who before going to the California insti- tution, was for twelve years profes- sor and president at Indiana Univer- sity. For several years the creek that separates the new field from the main campus has been known as the River Jordon. _+_ A BLESSIN G. Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep. So do our leading so- ciety belles bless the memory of the lalte Dr. T. F. Gouraud, who taught them how to be beautiful. Everyone should do all in his power 'to supple- ment nature in adorning the person; and a fine complexion is not given to all; and just here art aids nature, and all who use Dr. T. F. Gouraud’s Orien- tal Cream, or Magical Beautifier, know its value, and how the skin that is freckled, tanned, mepled or moth patched can be made like the new born babe’s. To those who will use toilet preparations it is recommended by physicians, as the Board of Health has declared it free from all irjurioue properties, and, as it is on sale at all druggists’, and fancy good stores. it is an easy matter to give it a trial, and thus win the approbation of men as well as the envy of ladiesâ€"ll. Y. Evening Express, Jan. 7, 1881. the dog lay and sulked in the kitchen; but on‘the second day, when the land- lady brought in the dishes, he stole in noiselessly'close behind her; and while for the moment she bent over the table, he slipped quickly beneath it and waited. ' No sooner had she retired than he emerged from his hiding-place, sat down in his usual position, and wink- ed in my face with a look which seem- ed to say; " Haven’t I done her f” In due course the good woman came the dog heard her step he slunk once more’under the table; but in an in- stant, ere she had time to open the door, he came out again, as if he had suddenly taken another thought, and threw himself down on the rug before the fire, to all appearance fast asleep. "Ah, Keeper! You there, you ras- 01a?” exclaimed his mistress in indig- nant surprise, as she caught sight of him. ' . The dog opened his eyes, half-raised his body, stretched himself out lazily at full length, gave a great yawn, as if awakened from a good sleep, and then, with a wag of his tail, went forward and tried to lick her hand. 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