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E FARM W1] Haliburton being .’3. in the 5th can“ Ft Rep orts for 3 had arrfied. _ FINE LIFE has moment more I was helping '91”; :11: 1?) fcfiT‘Afi a gage-master alight. He IOOde m ;, own a large estate mince, park ind a’ that, [for birth, but honest worth, I" ce 3 man for a that; ““1111 herdingy 0n the muir, betts his wife, and a’ that, mu but a rxscal boor, 31f a man for a.’ that. ning 100 Acres, and in a good 31 a good lecality. than that paid by u' . iCompanies comb' e stood together he sgm c». is required bf at was quite tremulous: LIV IIIJ§A u..._â€" , m for our little 3 sufl'ering from“ gof the knee, P" : it ~Elna W88 “3“ out, at now ‘ er children, and encouraging PM ecovering the 39‘: You are at lips“! or if you wnsh 130‘ IUN'NW'E'] .3“:de 3? Club Feet. etc- Authors Cox:- L necessary blinding 111'. 1' information to “7"). BEAPHbH, 'gsof the .ETNA )know Athe long cut before X ‘ . n?) iETN ; paid Everyyei Mi-‘GMUROHY General Ag” ‘ial Limbs ll deformities nan Body. gym,â€"â€"Weare mh the result ‘e instrumegthl] Hip uomt ( cc and Ankle. DR SA‘ NMENTS ,nce Company. TURERS OFâ€"â€" mformation an W3. showing How ES, favmts, In: - ‘gvâ€"v -7 what so do‘ EST! TONI". York. Standard) 7, 0n the -tf. as one of those peculiar nights : mist shrouds everythmg 7, gh the moon was up, you could 7 y see it, and we uld not know vase. moon, were it not for the icy of the mist, that looked like V cloud. a through train, had been de- \\'e were waiting for her to pass, mtion, when my ear caught the 5 of the telegraph. Mechanically ed, and realized that the con- '35 sending word to us from a up the road. I: to the operator and in a. few 5 had the dispatch. “N tr» II'I,‘ 2|,i 5, 796, "is a man,” said Ruben; Burns, . If a.’ that and a’ that ;” ough the Sung Qe clear and Strong, cks a note for a that, x: wlwd shirk his daily Work, Euim his wage and a.’ that, when he might earn 1113 bread, pt 2; man for a’ that. B rank is but the guinea’s stamp, man’s the gold for a’ that;” hough you’d put the minted mark upper. brass, and a’ that, ' ‘is gross, the cheat. is plain, will not pass for a’ that. hat and a’ that, ul, and heart, and a’ that, -kes the king a gentleman, not his crown and a.’ that ; n with man, if rich or poor, est is he, for a’ that. ands erect in self respect, acts the man for a’ that. hn dine on homely fare, ,true and brave, and a’ that, me Whose garb is “hodden gray,” f0. ,1 and knave, and a’ that, :e and crime that shame our time id fade and fall, and a’ that, Oughmen be as good as king, churls as earls for a’ that. LGGAGE-MASTER’S STORY 3 you brawny, blustering sot, Swaggers, swears, and a’ that, Links because his strong right arm .I fell an ox and a.’ that. . 9‘3 ;.3 noble. man for man, uke and lord and a’ that, It a brute, beyond dispute, not a man for a’ that. :3 to this. dear Brother Burnsâ€" :rurh is old, and 3’ thatâ€"- ANS A MAN FOR A‘ THAT L delayed by mist. Baggage- ick. Give us a. man. run on No. 5 was an important i needed a practised man. There hing to do but go myself. So, the necessary arrangements, I out on the platform to await ‘e stood together he sgid, in a tern three times from the door of , to show her I am all right. 11 do that for me to-nigbt P” e finished speaking he leaned the railing forsupport. I thought siderate it was of him to save Her worry, and I promised to do 'Shed. ;. Perhaps it was the effect of uher, but I felt very much de- iu splrits. ln’t have long to wait, for the he was whlstling at the long 51 walked down the platform. [me the glare of the headlight ,ir was raw as well as damp, and to eat its way through my moment more the signal to start 539d from brakeman to brake- AS the conductor raised his lan- shouted to me. “We don’ t stop nction to night.” ngine took a few deep breaths, €18 began to revolve and the WI}; rolled out. of the station. ided. mother lives on the hill just that cut. When I go by I wave; *gained speed I looked back lstonishment I thought I saw who just before had been in f the car try to signal me, then 5 face w th his hands. The mist dense, however, I might have staken and concluded that I if was one of those long ones lty of room. There were not unks and I started to check by the list. The one lantern I =a very dim light, so most of ras in shadow. :s the trunks there was an emi- 1se which seemed to be almost High to hold a house. so busy with the trunks made ‘ So it seemed only a. short tore we made the first stop. and back the door to see if there { baggage I notlced how wet CHARLES MACKAY. Out of pure, idle curiosity I went over and looked at it closely. It was quite heavy and in charge of an express company, as I could see by the label. As I was examining it, I felt the train slowing up and knew it was the next stop. Though I was pretty sure there would be no bagg .ge, I went to my door as a matter of course. We had hardly stopped before we were off again, and I knew by the speed we began to develop, the engineer was making up lost time. S.tting an my chair and looking about the :ar, I fell to wandering if the iron bar, which ran through the centre of the car above my head, would really be of much service in case of accident to protect me from the flying trunks. It was placed there to cling to in case of a. smash up. For a. moment or two I felt nervous, as I realized there might. be some one in the car with me. Then I thought I might possibly have left it unlatched, though that seemed improbable. From that my eyes wandered to the trunks and especially to one trunk. It was a small one, but nevertheless when I looked that way my eyes would surely fall on that one. Every moment our speed increased. Suddenly we dashed into a. long cut. \Vs'tl: the lantern in my right hand, and gripping the iron bar over the door with my left, I waited till we should leave the cut. As We swung out in the valley, I lifted the lantern and wave] it three times. M y signal was answered. Far up on the mountain came the flash of a. lantern waved in a circle. As I saw it a great dread came over me. Why should the baggage-master’s mother answer by any such a. signal as that l As we did so I seized my lantern, and prepared to give the signal I had pro- mised. We made but one more stop before X Junction, 80 I would have little to do save givmg the signal I had pro- mised. I was shre I had shut it Eocurely, and it could not have been opened from the outside. I turned to go back to my "hair, when to my amazement I saw the front door of my cat: swingingropen. everything was. There was only a letter handed in. As I was about to shut the door, after the train had started, I noticed that the brakeumu had jumped on the forward platform of my car. The doors on both ends of an express car shut with a snap loc::; 80, though easy to open from within, it is impossible to open the. door from the platform. I went fOiward and let him in. As he entered he said: “No tram s on the front .latfor-n . P P to-mght.” I felt there was something wrong. Instinctively I reached for the bell cord. As 1 seized it, it came down on my head. I ran to the end of it. It had been cut, severed as smooth as a knife could do it. And then my mind lighted up, as {f by a white light. I saw all the circum- stances that had occurred in the last few hours. I realized, as plainly as if it had been told me, that beyond this junction we would be in danger. That was the place he would have left the train, had it stopped as usual, after giving the signal I had just given. As the train wds ordered not to stop to-night I had been trapped into some horrible scheme, had given probably the signal for the train’s destruction. The sickness of the baggage-master, his peculiar actions, the open door, the cut bell-cord. Then all at once the sen- tence rang in my ears, “we don’t stop at X Junction tonight.” These thoughts passed through my mind m a moment. Still even a moment added danger. I ran to the front door of the car and tore it Open. The air rushed through In a. perfect torrent. Now every moment we were in danger. I crawled along the coal on the tender. Once I came near losing my balance and being swept off. I was landed into the marshes, where I lay stunned for a few moments. It was more the force of the explosion than anything else, however, for we were going so slowly that none of the cars w ere injured. My first thought Was for the baggage- car. I ran back to it and climbed aboard. A brakeman was standing there with drawn revolver. When he As I crawled and crept along my hand came in contact with a. cord. I knew it was the other end of the bell cord, and pulled it with all my might. In the glow from the furnace I saw the engineer begin working with the engine. I felt the speed slacken. We had almost stopped when there came an explosion that seemed to lift the forward part of the engine off the track. I left him in charge and went far. ward. The trainmen were grouped round the locomotive. There was abig We were going at great speed; the swaying of the cars was frightful. I managed to climb from the car platform to the tender. saw me he said he guessed everything was safe. THE WAIbl-iMAA LmDSAY THURbDAY, MARCH IO. (892 \Vé soon had a. reliex engine. By rare good chance the baggage-master whom I relieved was caught that. very night. He broke down and confessed, but we were only able to get one of the others. Out of curlosity I went one day up on the mountain where I had seen the signal. There was nothing there but an old rock-bound pasture. As I looked over it my . eye fell upon a broken lantern, lying halfhidden under a bush. The lantern without doubt that had signaled our destruction. Sowing clover is not only a good way to get fine hay, but it enriahes the soil at the same time. It. seemed the heavy trunk I had ex amined contained money. The idea was for the baggage-master to signal some one on the hill if‘the trunk Was abroad all right, and he was to signal the man down tne valley, so he could place the cartridges. It was a. very narrow escape. VI picked it up and brought it away as a memento, and it hangs to-day in one cf the rooms of my house. The man who loves country life better than town life. everything else being equal, wxll succeed the best. The likes and dislikes of a cow should be attended to just as the housewife con- sults the pleasure of her family when pre- paring tood. Many men who could easily be well to do prefer to be always head and ears in debt, in order to add more acres to their already too large holdings. Garden ground infested with cut worms will be benefited by ploughing it deeply just; before heavy freezing. The frost will kill worms and mellow the soil if it be of clay. A certain farmer said that the best milker he ever had was a musical fellow. He used to sing, but he hada different tune for each cow. We saw no one, as xs’generally the case in such insxances. The wreckers who would have preyecl upon our man- gled bodies did not: date show their faces. even when they only had a few armed men to deal with. Their courage was not sufficient to hold up a. train. My story was soon told, and in a. few hours the telegraph was being used to headquarters: 7 There are over 400 fertilizer factories in the United States, which produce more than $20,000,000 worth of fertilizers annu- ally. Less than a. half century ago a. fertilizer factory had not been heard of. hole knocked in her made by a dyna- mite cartridge. A little further down the track we founJ another cartridge. Had we been g' iug fast nothmg could have savocd the train from being hurled down the embankment a. total wreck. If not previously done, finish the prun- i11,_; of fruit trees and bushes. and thin out canes of rasps, and shorten them. Clear of all superabundant plants in strawberry plantations. Applications of liquid manure between the rows will greatly add to the strength of the plan ts and their produce of fruit. Why is a bad boy like a postage stamp ’2 â€"-Because he is licked and put in 5 corner. When a. girl turns up her nose it isn’t generally in order that you may kiss her lips more easily. J ohnnyâ€"“My dad is richer’n you: dad.” Freddyâ€" “Mebbe he is, but he’ll never get back the money he lent my dad." He (in the cold blast) â€"“Don’ t you think you had better be wrapped up In my coat?” Sheâ€"“Yes. But hadn’ t you bettar put it on first ?’ “ Does advertising pay '1’ asked a friend of the busy editor. “It. may,” replied the sage, folding a number of bills; but the advertisers don’ t always.’ Returned Touristâ€"“ Is Mr. Goodheart still paying attentions to your daughter?” “ Indeed he isn’t paying her any attention at all.” “Indeed I Did he jilt her ?” “No he married her. ” Scotch wife, reading a. paper :â€"“Dearie me, whit: are things comin’ tae ? A game- keeper’s been allo’ed tae shoot a. vixen up by Lochlomond I” Husband, reserving an explanationâ€"“Ay, ye’ll betLer tak’ care I” Tommy (reading)â€"“Not a drum was heard, not a. funeral note. as his corpse to the ramparts we hurried.” Inspectorâ€"â€" “ Well, what is meant by ‘Not a. funeral note 2’ ” Tommyâ€"“Ifleqse, sir, there was grave.] “ I’ll get even with those next-door neighbours of mine if it takes a thousand years. They have trained that miserable our of theirs to howl every time I sing.” “ Why, that is the strangest thing I ever heard of. You don’t mean to say the dog had to be trained ’9” Sceneâ€"The gate of a Clyde shipbuilding yard with crowd of men standing around it. Tam meets Jack. Tamâ€"“Hullo Jack, what’s adae ?” Jackâ€"“Uh, we’re oot on strike." Tamâ€"~“ Aye, an what are you striking for ?" Jackâ€"“Oh, I dinna ken, but we’re no gaun in till we get it.” The Orange Grand Lodge of the N orth- West Territories has passed resolutions favouring separate schools. Archbishop Cleary left Kingston Wed- nesday for a trip to the south ‘in search of better health than he at present enjoys. A French officer has submitted to the War Minister a. rifle that will project a inyitations 'sent.” [Ihspeétor looks FARM AND GARDEN. WIT AND WISDOM. NEWS ITEMS. It is rumored in London that Mr. Ross, claim settler of the National Marine In- sumnce Co , has been appointed British arbitrator in the dispute between Great Brltain and the United States regarding tne Behring sea difiiculty. A special cable from Berlin says the annual Congress of German Catholics has been summoned to meet at Ma ence on August 28. y Patrick McG-arvey,‘ a farmer was in stanrly killed by a. [mssinu train W ed- ncsday evenng while d'ivinu own a, rail- “ ay crossmg at Olangeville. A petition asking the On .ario Govern- ment to make mineral exulorations for data for the use of capitalists and miners is in circulation for si<rn~1ture in Kinvston. The Cologne Gazette is to be prosecuted on the charge of lese majeste for having pubhshed an article Commenting unfavor- ably up!!! the Emperor's recent Speech at Brandenburg. The Quebec Conservatives are greatly elated over their first successes in the elec- tion contest. The result of Tuesday’s nominations has secured them ten seats, but the Nationalists are not yet defeated. They still have a. fighting chance. Mr. Jean E. Tetu, the Dominion Gov- ernment; immigration agent at Winnipeg, who achieved some notoriety during the enquiry into the Ottawa scandals. died at St. Boniface yesterday after a. lingering illness. Mr. Charles Robertson, principal of the Collegiate Institute at Hamilton, died on Tuesday night after an illness of two umnths’ duration. I see in this world two heaps. human happiness and misery. Now if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add it to the other, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped a half- penny. and if by givinv it another I can wipe away its tears. I feel I nave done somethixw. I should be glad to do greater things, but I will not neglect this. â€"Cecil. The last fifteen bags of mail on board the wrecked Steamer Eider were recovered Wednesday and furWarded to London. It is rumored that Archblshop Ireland will shortly be apptlinted Cardinal perfect, and will represent, America at the Vatican. The City of Muntreal has received a n whifi'xut banner, mined at £35, from the Duke of Cunuaught as a souxeuir fox (he Cadets. “ Upward” is the Christian's true watchword. Upward he must look, and upward must he move. \\ ith “down- ward” he has nothing to do. He has not even a downward attitude toward, or look upon sin; for ideally his attitude is never toward, but away from sin. Is he in sorrow ? Is be suffering from bodily pain from mental agony? Is he in loss of property, or bereft of dear ones? It is said that his griefs must be “lived down.” stream of Vltrul for a distance 3f seventy metres. The Duke of Westminster presided yes- terday at the ceremony of opening a new labour home in Lonlon, established by the Church Army. A special cable says it is alleged that it is from this organization that Gen. Booth borrowed the idea of his Salvation Army. There is no condition in the world so mean and despicable but yields us oppor- tunities of doing good. There is neither old nor young, man nor woman, rich nor poor, high nor low, learned nor unlearned but in those spheres, by a. good husbandry of those talents God has entrusted to there'care that they may be very useful to others, and prove instruments of much good in their generation.â€"- Professor Sharpe. â€"Lelnetrom and Tromholt. By means ofa network of electric currents between two mountains they succeeded in producing sev- eral artificial auroras. Artificial Aur'oras. An interesting series of expeiiments were recently made: by two Swedish astronomers Eloisture-Proof Walls. Coal tar has recently come into extensive use abroad as a. means of rendering masonry impervious to water, especially in positions exposed to direct contact with water. The tar is employed in a. boiling state in one or more layers, or it may be made to flame up before being used. The first is suitable for surfaces exposed to the air, while the sec- ond is appropriate to parts intended to be covered up. This meohod of treating foundations is of special application in all public buildings, especially those designed for the preserva- tion of works of art. It; prevents the dis- agreeable consequences of the exudations of water charged with lime salts from the mortar. Hardening Praster Casts. A new method of hardening the various plaster ornaments so largely used in the arts has been suggested. The process con- sists in saturating the article to be harden- ed with a. solution of silica, and following this by the application of a baryta solution. A better way to secure the same results consists in first placing in the mixture of plaster before the finished article is made the various metallic hydrates, such as those of alumnia and zinc, which are converted into silicates by subsequent treatment of the articles with a. solution of silica. Some process of this character would seem to be useful for hardening decorative tiles, orna- mental picture-frames, and for lithographic stones which require a. hard and smooth surface. a» fig x Little Deeds of Kindness, Looking Upward. Good Works. MCCOLL’S - CYLINDER - OIL Guaranteed to be better and cheaper than Tallow. Try above Oils - - and you will use no others. - - THE ROYAL CANADIAN INSURANCE GO’Y. The latest Blue Book shows that after providing for all liabilities the surplus of the ROYAL CANADIAN for the protection of its policy holders at the close of last year was $509,074, besides stock to the amount of another $100,000 subscribed but not called up. The same Blue Book shows that the surplus of the London Mutual was $67,176 composed entirely of the unassessed portion of premium notes which no policy holde ever expects to be called upon to pay. The following table shows at a glance how the affairs of the London Mutual have been going during the last few years :â€" M00011 Bros. 00., It should be borne in mind that during the last three years the London Mutual col- lected in heavy assessments over $30000 more than usual, and yet at the close of last year, after collecting a full year’s income. they had only $1,403 with which to pay $26,182 of unsettled losses. In regard to security no one should hesitate as to which company to select. Lindsay, July 22, 1891 Fancy Goods, Wools, Embroider- ies, silks and all kinds of Goods in that line. Farmers, Threshers and Mill Men generally should try the celebrate LARDINE MACHINE OIL. It does not Gum or Clog Machines, and wears equal to CastOr Oil. and invites the inspection of the ladies. Many of the new styles are pronounced very handsome, and are really moderate in price. SQUIMT Tms WAY, PLEASE! has Opened an assortment of the LATEST STYLES IN. HATS AND BONNETS, W am: and oz‘ker an‘z'c/es new Sal/Mg at C 05;“ as removed to the store lately occupied by Mrs Gemsjageri east of the Benson House, where he will keep a large stock of 7kg Waz‘ckmam Year. 1885 1886 1887 1889 1890 MILLINERY. ONLY 50 CENTS PER ANNUM STAMPIIN'G- DOJNE TO ORDER DYEING and SCOURING promptly and neatly executed Losses unpaid at FALL AND WINTER ciose of each year. WHICH WILL YOU HAVE ? $6,047 9,878 12. 455 23.014 20,436 26, 182 TRIMMING EFFECTS, ETC, [SS O’BB MISS O’BRIEN Cash available for‘ paying losses at close of each year. HETTG-ER $63,963 50,686 22,701 20,721 13,911 1,403 Thrée Doors East of Benson House. Money Borrowed b- CORNEII 60.000 Agent Royal Canadian Companylg-E A. W. HETTGER. Surplus reckoning {premium notes i at full face 4 $101,816 115,955 value. Toronto. Investments each year. 11. l 97 N one N one