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Watchman (1888), 19 Apr 1894, p. 6

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k“ FWD-Ii 5. If there is any man you want her to marry, kick him out of your house, order the servants never to admit him. distribute mantraps and spring guns and bull dogs all round your grounds, Jock her up in her room, and vow if she gmarries him you won’t leave .her a - penny. You will not have to wait long goiter that for the elopement. ‘ 6. If she has no voice, encourage her to sing whenever you give a party. It .gill attract attention to her, and gum your guests an excuse for compliment- ing her. Never mind the neighbors. The Chicago Tribune figures up that the seven thousand saloons of that, city took in $12,000,000 during the fair, $8,000,000 of which was profit. It now demands that these saloons should support their patrons who are out of work. Even if prohibition does not prohi- bit in Kansas, the penitentiary popula- tion has fallen ofi 60 per cent. since 1880. \Iaine has no breweries or distiller- ies, but it has thirty lmn and building associations in active operation. So many accidents have been traced to drunken employes on the Trans- Andes line in Chili that the directors have decided to discharge any one who shall be caught under the influence of liquor. Ninety-one millions of foreign capital are said to be invested in American breweries. Says the Chris- tian at \Vork: “The breweries control the saloons, the saloons in our large cities control the government. This is a deadly foreign invasion that can- not be too quickly repelled.” In Belfast, Ireland, the average mortality of children of sober parents is eighty per cent., whilst the average for those of drinking parents is seventy per cent. A new Minnesota statute punishes the drunkard by a fine of from $10 to 95.40 for the first ofl'ence, from $40 to $60 for the second, and ninety days in the workhouse for the third. \Vhenever you see a. drunken man it ought to remind you that every boy in the world is in danger. I. You can’t do it. ‘2. Give her her own way ; it will save her the trouble of taking it. Every drunkard used to boast that he could drink or let it alone. A thirst has otten been started with a. teaspoon, that barrels could not quench. 3. Pay for her dresses, if you can af- ford to. Her dressmaker will sue you if you don't. 4. If she takes a. fancy to any man you do not want her to marry, tell her you have set. your heart on her marry- ing him, and swear she shall never marry anyone else. You can then give her a free hand, and wouldn’t have him if he was the only man left. '7. If you are a poor man, teach your daughtorhow ‘0 dance and play the piano. She can learn cooking and dress making and those things after she is married. Tint-st is the Most. Effective “339°" ‘0 ['50 Against Them. Those mo had begun to fear that the rabbit pest might become in California as dire a Beuurge as in Queensland mlllbe reassured by the accounts of the pm- gress that is being made with rabbit de- struction in that country. It is well known that there the great armies of bunnies have come to number lnllllODS and tens of millions. They moved over the settlements in such masses as to devastate the farms, deplete the fields and lay waste whole districts. The grass on the plains was eaten up and the pasturage destroyed; the track of the devastating hosts was left as barren as a desert, no sprig of grass or blade of herbage being left. The cat- tle were driven away into other pro- vinces or starved on the naked plains, and the flocks died unless they were promply removed from the pathway of the devouring plague. The history of various methods by which the despair- ing colonists sought to rid themselves of this dire visitation is still fresh in memory, and within seven yearsâ€" 1883 to 1889â€"85,000,000 was spent in pushing the crusade. One hundred million acres of territory were overrun by the animals. and although the raid- ers killed 2,528,000 rabbits each year and received a bounty from the govern- ment for each of the scalps, the rabbits tremained in full force. g But the great drouth of 1888 proved in zone respect a blessing in disguise, as it Ewan virtually the.turning point in the isolation of this vexed. problem. The lakes 3 nd watercourses were fenced in by wire screens, and the animals died by millions from thirst. Shutting out the water from rabbits has been found the most successful Weapon in all the air- serial of destruction. Wire fenca were the final resort of the colonists, who now regard the rabbit problem as solved. Fences are being coutrnotod for this purpose all over the country. and one. shortly to be completed, will be 000 miles long. When the main fences are run subdivisions will be made, the rab- bu, will be surrounded, and their exter- mination reducm to a system well with- m the anility of the colonists to carry out,--Clgicago Tribune. 1 l How to Manage a Daughter. I HI: RABBIT. P'EST. Home Carrots will grow well on clay loam soils. They luxuriate in deep muck soils, and they will also do well in sandy soils, more especially if these can be enriched sufficiently to secure vigorous growth. Good returns can also be obtained from clays, even those which are stiff in texture, but the labor of growing them on clays is considerably more than that required to produce them on sandy soils. The very best soils for carrots, all things considered, are those sandy in texture, and yet possessed of a fair amount of fertility. Although better returns can be got from soils that are deep. good crops can be got from those that are shallow by making some variation in the 'arieties chosen. The preparation of the ground for carrots will depend largely upon the character of the soil. It is a great matter to have the ground as free from weeds as possible before the crop is sown, and because of this the preparation of the ground should commence as soon as possible after the grain crop from the previous harvest has been reaped. Shallow plowing at the first, and an occasional harrowing, will do much to take the weed seed out of the soil while causmg them to germinate. Then the ground should be plowed deeply and harrowed occasionally to promote the sprouting of weed seeds until the time of frost. The manure may be, applied either before the first or second plowing, as may be deemed advisable. In the spring the ground does not need to be. plowed at all, simply stirred with a harrow or cultivator as soon as it is sufficiently dry to admit of this. The Carrot Crop. The carrot crop is one of no little importance to the farmers of Ontario, and indeed to the farmers of all other parts of the Dominion of Canada. It is one of the surest crops that can be grown, provided that the ground is properly prepared and the crop sown sufficiently early to give it a fair chance. It will grow on a wider range of soils than any other root crop grown. It is also adapted for feeding all kinds of stock. It keeps better than other kinds of field roots, and it may be made to yield as large returns as any of these, if grown in a certain way. The chief objection to be urged against the carrot crop is the consider- able amount of labor required in grow- ing it, and also in harvesting it. T he seed should be sown quite early in the season, in fact, it cannot be sown too early, provided that the ground has become dry enough to work easily. it usually proves the best practice to make raised drills for the reception of the seed. These, of course, are most easily made by the use of the double mould board plow and marker. They may be made from about 24 to 26 inches apart, to admit of free and easy cultivation, but if suitable cultivators are at hand, the drills need not be so far apart. Good crops of carrots have been grown when the drills were not more than twenty inches apart. About two pounds of seed per acre may be used. l l l l If the ‘ seed is really first class, and if we may be assured of this, it would be better to use even a less quantity of seed, providing the carrots are not to be thinned in the line of the row. The seed germinates so slowly that it may be well to use a small quantity of tur- nip seed, which may be mixed with the carrot seed before it is sown. The 1 turnips come up much more quickly lthan the carrots. and they serve the { purpose of marking the line of the row ' where the seed has been sown, so that the edges of the drill may be stirred with a hoe as soon as the weeds appear. This is a matter of much importance, because, if the weeds get a good start, it will cause much work to remove them. The turnips can, of course, be taken out when this may be deemed advisable. Sometimes carrots are thinned t0 the width of six or eight inches in the line of the row. 3ut this is not an absolute necessity, for good crops can be got when the plants are-as near to ach other in the line of the row as three inches. Indeed, it is a practice with some not to thin them at all, and the plan has some things to com- mend it, more especially when the seed has not been Very thickly sown. The carrots will grow so as to form a solid column of roots from end to end of the drill, and, in consequence, a very large yield is obtained. ‘The chief objection is found in the fact that, of necessity, some of the roots‘are small in size. ~This‘v'gives some labor when ‘ the tops are being removed, and when ‘ the roots are being handled, but when the crop is taken up sufficiently early to admit of feeding the tops and small er roots also to the live stock before the freezing time comes on, it is not then necessary to go to the trouble of removing the tops from the smaller roots. ‘Many varieties grown have proved highly useful, but the two kinds which now-appear to take the lead are, first, Early: Short Improved, and. second, White Vosges. Either of these AGRICULTURAL. varieties will give large returns where the crop is properly cared for. On shallow soils varieties should be chosen which grow short and thick. Byo 0't'owâ€" ing these sorts closely, even on tasuch soils, a. fairly good crop can be secur- ed. Carrots are particularly excellent as a food for milch cows, as they do not taint the milk, even if fed ever so free- ly. They are also a firstâ€"class food for horses, but it is quite possible to feed them to an excess. They furnish excellent food for sheep and lambs. Owing to the sureness of the cr0p, t0 the large yields which can be obtained, and to the general use to which it can be put as a. food for stOck, it is import- ant that this crop should receive much attention at the hands of the farmers everywhere, where there is a possibility of obtaining sufficient help to keep the crop free from weeds, and to handle it at harvest.â€"-â€"â€"Canadian Live Stock Journal. The Medical Aspects of the Case Present- ed to Those About to Marry. The custom which obtains so generally of taking a fatiguing journey as a part of the nuptials is regarded by high authority as one of the barbarisms of civilization. Let us illustrate the in- jurious physical tendencies by a typical case. During extremely cold weather there occurs a wedding, which, from the standing of the parties, attracts seme attention. The happy couple, we are told, are off for their wedding trip to a still more frigid section of country. Though conscious of danger and dis- comfort, to some extent, which is greatly increased by their inexperience in traveling, hey cheerlully :is- suine the risk and responsibility. as to all married couples a bridal tour seems to be considered as absolutely essential to give the martial union an importance without which it would, in their opinion, be uuromantic and but a partial marriage. The tour causes fatigue, exposure and excitement, mak- ing regularity of life impossible; in fact, the act involves the reVerse of all that the rules of health and physiology require. Again, it constantly happens in the case of both sexes that a slight indispOsition, which passed unnoticed in the hurry of preparation, is aggravated to a. serious and sum fatal extent by the excitement, exposure and neglect on a wedding tour. No man, for instance, would think of postponing his marriage on account of a slight Cold. If he stay- ed at home afterward and took care of himself it would pass away like other slight colds, but often on the bridal tour the malady develops into a chronic disease. A prominent phy- sician recently said to a writer for The Troy Times : Many eaSes of brides and bridegrooins in my prot’essronsl experience came under my observation dying of typhoid {eVer just after a \\ adding trip, which had caused the early symptoms to be misunderstood and neglected. A few weeks since a healthy and vigorous young man, just returned fronra bridal tour, died of ty- phoid fever in Troy. his sickness being superinduced presumably by the fatigue and exposure incident to the journey. It will thus be seen that the medical as- pect of a bridal tour is sufliciently im- portant and the risk incurred sufliciently great to Cause the wedded pair, if they wish to be actuated by impulses of rea- son and prudence rather than by the dictates of custom, to pause before they undergo the trials of a. wedding journey. At Knoxville, Tennessee, they have a novel way of crossing the broad river that bears the name of the State. Tue city horse cars take you out to the sta- tion, ond in a few minutes youmay find yourself suspended between two thin- looking cables that stretch away to the. tall blufls on the opposite side. You glide smoothly along, getting higher and higher. until the earth and river seem to be dropping away from beneath you, and the sensation is odd and strange as you look down from the side of the car, which is capable of seating sixteen passengers (and often carries more). You can imagine how a bird must feel; and if the trip is made for the first time you heave a sigh of relief when you feel the earth beneath your feet again. It seems hardly possible that those two parallel cables, only 13 inches in diame- ter, could be strong enough to hold the weight they are required to, yet each is supposed to be able to support sixty tons. The span between the river banks is over 1060 feet, and on the southern side, where the tall blulIs are, you are 350 feet above the waterâ€"â€" no small distance to drop and this idea probably crosses your mind quite often 1 on the lirst two or three trips. The pro- pelling force is on the Knoxville side; it consists of two twentv-horse-power en- ginesthat operate the hauling cable at- tached to the car. The trip upward takes about three minutes and a hall‘, and the descent takes only half a min- ute, the propelling force in this case be- ig‘r yavrty. You literally Coast down through space, and if the first trip was exciting, this one proves doubly so. As there is nothing close to gauge your speed by, it seems like a dangerous pace; the station grows nearer and nearer; the earth seems to be Coming up this time to meet you. It is not strange to say that there is very little talking on this downward trip by those who take it for the very first time. The car is provided with automatic brakes, which arrest its motion if the propelling cable breaks or slips the drum. The cables that support the car are firmly anchor- ed on either side, and provision is made for taking up the slack.â€"Harper's Young People. Heâ€"You can‘t wen-y well have a. head- ache five days ahead, so just say we have an engagement. Sheâ€"But. that will be plain fibbing. Heâ€"lu’s no more fibbing than to say that we accept With pleasure, and no more likely to be found out. for I should hate awfully to go, as I am sure that. I couldn’t conceal my feelinn.â€"Barpex‘| Megaziqg, DANGER IN THE BRIDAL TOURS. Sliding Through the Air. Hazardous Either Way, The W3y.to Learn to Act is by Acting, Says Lillian Russell. The young girl, if she has strength to carry herself safely in any self-support- ing walk of life, need never hesitate to take up the stage as a. profession. The cant of stage perils is every whit as fool- ish as the cant of the stage as a. moral agent. HOW sh ll we go about it? There is no literature of the art of act. ing. There are biographies and auto- biographies by the score. They may throw a little light on the secret of stage success, but it is a confused and unsatis- factory wny of getting an education in the art of acting. After all one learns to act hy acting. ‘ Idu 110' mink any one can give any valid :mm-s to an aspirant for stage succ«-- ‘ The way to succeed is to sucâ€" ceed. ; ‘1 no individual case can be set up fut .. modei ‘I A I I as well quarrel with the painter for de- siring the best materials. Some one says that beauty is geniusâ€"on the stage. There is a half truth in the remark. At all events beauty is the most etficieut aid talent can have. ‘Peoplu of sarious intellects, who al- ways want to know why they are amused, are much given to bemoaning the fact that beauty is such an important part of asuccessffil artist’s equipment. But it is the artist herself who is the canvas on which she paints._ an might. “It doesn’t seem to be an easy life," this typical young girl remarks, rather gloomily. Indeed it is not. But then it is a life full of color and the excitement which is ineVitable from all creative or interpretative art. ”And the rewards, Miss Russell?” And when the young girl asks this question I think it ail overâ€" tlie hard work, the interest. the triumph, the seclusion and 1 might al- most say the exclusion of the artist’s life. Yes, the rewards are great, but one pays a great price. The artist whose medium is her voice, her beauty, in a word herself, is forced to lead a life of exclusion. She ex- cludes the flippanciee of society, the “juie de vivre,” everything which might tend to impair the charm of her art meiliiiiii. Therein-e no anchoritee nowadays? Mydezir and typical young girl, you \\ lll find an ancnorite hidden under the splendid stage of gaiety of every great- ;ii'tist. She cannot afford to indulge in the dissipzitions of seeiety. She cannot adortl to Hitter away her Cliiirin in lit- ile pleasures. In almost all cases her llnluc life is that of a recluse, llt‘l‘ life on the stage. a triumph it may be, but an .iriliious triumph. If I mistake not, Sir James Crichton Browne, in the course of a recent ad- dress, remarked upon the curious elasri- city of our brain as regards sleep. He cited the case of people who rarely slept veil or much, and who, newei'tlieless, are able to carry on intellectual work with ease and ability. I suppose there is a "habit" of brain in the matter of sleep as in other respects. and while, ordinarily, we demand a fair quantum of absolute rest. some of us contrive, as a habit, to get along with a minimum of somiiolent repose. This subject was lately recalled to mind when I happened to be dining alone with a well-known surgeon in busy practice. My friend is a mam who, like myself, journeys over the length and breadth of the land. He has just 1‘ turned from a. long and tedious journey. tired and fag- ged. He sat down to dinner, Between the courses he fell sound asleep, let us say, for three minutesâ€"not more, certainly. After ouch nap he woke up. etc his quantum. and went ofl again into slumber. Isaid nothing. but wntched him closely. I observed that after each awakening he grew brighter, the tired look disappeared. and by the time that dinner was at an end Richard was himself again. I joked him on his instalments of sleep. His reply was characteristic. “Don’tyou know,” said he, “that it isn’ t a long sleep w i;ich is needed to :8- flash an active brain. Nerve tissue is repaired easily with very little sleep if you also take food.” Ami the renown? Yes, that is un- doubtmiiy great. But the reward is for Hu- New and the hard work and disap- pmmmonts are for we xnauy.â€"-Pniladel- puia Press. Of my own experience the remark holds good. and it reveals a very curious and in some respects anomalous condi- tion of the brain and its ways.â€"London News. ‘1' Fancy bringing the furnishing styles of Queen Anne across the channel into this land ofheavy draperies and sculp- tured cornices, of Louis curved table legs and Boucher cherubs enl‘ramed in gilt ascanthus scrolls ! It is surely an importation that will remain exotic, and should. for that matter, not being in harmony with the natural taste of the people. Yet it is said that among a few in Paris Queen Anne furniture is all the rage : that in some elegant houses they have removed the graceful bed hang- ings that make the chief beauty of the French bedroom.suppressed the window draperies and the hangings of silk or cretoune that covered the walls, and in their place have put a. prim, undraped brass or lacquered wood bed. straight- legged tables, thin muslin window screens and English paper, with hiero- glyphic flowers in regular repeats ; and that they affect the mixed and debased tints we know absurdly under the desig- nation of “esthetic.” A genuine Sign m a Market street res- taurant, Philadelphia, “8.: o’clock din: nor here from 5.80 to 7.30."â€"â€"Life. Ye shades of Louis XIV., if ye still haunt Flanco, what, must be your cha- grin 1 To while away Mnese long months some distractions urn necessary, and for these also their eyr» have been can: across the channel. 'l‘my have seen the Euglishwognan brilliant in active sports, Parisian women of fashion now stay. after the English manner, in the country the greater part of the year, coming up to town only after Easter to make a short season. ‘ o'). Planty of Looway {51' the Uupunilhad. WOMEN AND THE STAGE. About. Sleep. has decided to retire from the grocery busm 0n the first of May next, and in order to cl out his stock of finely selected gl‘Ocories will sell at cost. Householders Should} advantage of this ace 9,; testimony. Of Vere; and as my oppone: a. ver bad case, In) upon .rynnI-nol" tha \ VI‘” r" 7 nc GROGERIES mush; GRAND How appropriate the names "Radiant Home!" â€"“ Happy Thought ! ” Away in the Lead All sizesâ€"With and Without ovensâ€"for Halls a Parlors, specially built to meet the requirements Small or large houses. Perfect Self Feeders. GIY Iuel savers. HE CITY LIVERY, E. Fee,'Pro- prietor. First-class horses for hire at moderate rates. Outfits for pleasure parties a specialty. Handsome single and pouble sleiarhs. Lindsay, Jan. 9th. 1893.~â€"1y. Spring will soon be here again. You will Want your house cleaning done. Don’t forget A. Moore is still in the business. If you want to get. your Paint- ing, Papering and Kalsomining done up in good style, and on the shortest notice, just, give him a call. Prices right. Resi- dence at Russell and Cambridge-Ms. On Sunday morning. March 4th, at the corner of Victoria-ave. and Wellington- st., 3 bufi‘alo robe. Owner can have same by calling at the police station, proving property and paying for this advertise- mans. RADIANT HUME HAPPY THOUGHT ON THE WARPATH AGAIN ThlS sale is rendered imperative in order to make more 2. for l:ny rapidly increeiSIng wine and liquor business. whi; been dunking wine Wlll be conducted m the same premises, and to which was heated, , AS that} after the I‘II'St of May, I will devote my entire d1! word *8” “POn m1 - . on overcame me. I 1 time and attentlon. ms in the face. and kn HOW COSY 10-8. OUND. AIDA} ADAM DORANfié MONDAY, APRIL 16TH. E35 Ban/gum Sal/2' ARTHUR MOORE, On a. cold autumn or Winter nigh: sit around the glowing fire of OR Painter. COAL FEEDER STOVES MAY COME STOVES MAY GO ‘ BUT THEY GO ON FORE 29 KENT STREET. LIND‘ Whereas there has for some time j adverused for sale, the V. .l-;1.,1,1e :- Property. containino 10;) m n a more less, comprising south half at 1116‘“ half of Lot h in the 8:!) Gun. and the north half of the su nth f1” ”minis I found J PhYSician. who 5g. Lot 6. in the 8th 00“.. of Jinn}? he did it because the south-west part of Lot 7. m 1"" Was determined; an« Con., Emily. I hereby forbid my E ‘ this professional set or persons buying or rentivr': the he. lands. ‘ ' â€"14. NOTICE. AT LOWEST CURRENT HAT“ INTEREST PAYABLE YEA“ Terms to suit borrower. MCINTYRE STEW‘ Barristers, etc. Lil Kent Street, Lin POWERS vs. DICWAN. HONEY T0 LOAN. ' ED ER ght to do was very p F of life which my 1 .. taught me d1d not 1 [It Home! t. I ought to have; the Lead nd made such offer or NEIL POWERS it commenced. Adams jve me for the chargin 1im. He laid it up a allied Openly about he ”nuâ€"v-7 This was on the {1 A month afterwards ‘ {where the gentlemen .ate in the evening 4 at, and a third person tflrk about the old trial, ’0be person laughed, a: I was stronger :hal This considerat: on ma] uenced him. His in away, and went out inn As soon as the coo'i b' y brow, and eased the in 'y from my brain, I hat I had done: but :00 matter. I might Adams and 21556 I: the wrong I bad 0' not the courage for n ams in the face, and kn against the wall. Itv thing for me to strike at company, but I wa :ited to reflect. I up as would strike back, b d done a. great thing :5 flushed and made an 7. The reply was add: ad I answered it. The laughed at the hit. I : Lms said something m before. and I repm deli )emtely told me I bllowing (13.? a. friend ma alled upon me, and pre: from Laban Adams and found it to I was requeSLed to for the blow I had st: gentleman I would dc Hing I might, designate place, and select the one gentleman may hd o another;and if :19 n1 have simply turned fq‘ ito do further wroni l‘Ong already done. ‘ courage to do that. Ii Ifeared that my fril but me the finger of $4 5 mwardce of my heaj er it. is over the be: Wilkins. And with .ld I do? ould be brave DSforc accepted the challen; "1 responded. “Le try day, at sunset; l “k, directly beneath hedge. I will 5» to make further arm ’ much together; _flvantage to either [is ’ea pons!” came to me Everything and Adams of former ‘laint was ‘ which the were

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