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Watchman (1888), 28 Jul 1892, p. 6

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I wonder if the day will ever come when this beautiful country, Ireland, will attract the British tourist. To a tourist with an eye for the picturesque Ireland can give his money’s worth. S 0 country in Europe can show within a n equal space so many scenic beauties a5 present themselves during a trip, say from Dublin, through Wicklow, by Cork, and down to Queenstown and along the southwestero coast. Glen. garitf, at the head of Bantry Bay, is one of the lovliest spots in the world Dublin Bay, with its background of mountains, its gleaming sea, its woodv shores, dotted with villages and country residences, reminding one of a. summer day in Italy. The route from Dublin to Belfast is not so beautiful as that from Dublin through W'icklow, but it is exceedingly pretty all the same; sufficiently attractive to lead the atten- tion captive from ,one’s batch of news- papers. Dark green woods, bright green meadows, stream, hill and sea are the constant changing elements in most of the kaleidoscopic railway route of 110 miles between the two cities. Nearly the whole way toDundalk skirts the seashore. bkerries, with its wide expanse of sea, is a very pretty spot. So is Balbriggan and the country about Laytown ; but Drcoheda is without doubt the place which, both on account of its beauty and historical associations, will most interest the traveller. “Boyne Regetta,” printed in large letters on a large poster, were the first words which caught one’s eve as the train stopped at Drogheda Station. Down belowâ€" along way below the railway bridge~ lay historic Drogheda, with its gray streets piled up on the steep wooded slopes of the Boyne. Towns, quays, rivers,were as if the day were a Sabbath of the Cromwellian saints. A Belfast man would have said that the place was pretty to look at, but bad for business. They are hard grit, those1 Belfast folk. They fortify themselves with the reflection that their capital of Ulster can buy up most towns in Ire- land. Drogheda town, quays and the A Beautiful ard PrOSperous Country‘ A few practical hints in relation to “colds” are offered by the Healthy Home. The sufl‘erer should rest in the first place. He should remain at home two or three days, and a little longer if possible. Give the muscular and nervous system complete rest. The simple home remidies, such as hot lemonade, hot teas and other drinks, will be sufficient in most cases. All persbns should protect their bodies carefully. Do not be brave in any form of carelessness. A “cold” may come from a wet foot, an exposed chest, a bared head ora sudden cooling of any portion of tlie body’s surface. Keep out of sudden draught. Do not follow the anti overcoat philosophers. Sleep in a well ventilated room. Do not bundle your neck. A Sponge bath keeps the pores open, and, within‘ limits, is always a good thing. Eat wholesome food, keep good hours, remembering always that one of the best thing to break up a cold is plenty of sleep. Eat moderately Do not eat at all for a few meals unless appetite comes. The old recom- mendation “stuff a cold” is folly. See that the bowels, the skin and the kid- neys properely perform their functions. The worst cold that ever aflicted the writer, one that caused the gravest alarm, was cured by sawing wood. The exercise could only be continued for half an hour at first, but it produc- ed perspiration, improved the digestion, and resulted in throwing off the cold in less than two weeks. But we give this rather as a suggestlon, with the reason far it, than as a prescription. near the preacher’s desk, and then addressed his audience. He prefaced his remarks by saying that for twenty- five years he had been a professional gambler, and only saw the error of his ways after he had served a term of imprisonment, to which he was unjust- ly sentenced for engaging in a “bunco” game. Then he dealt some faro hands and showed how the hands could be manipulated at will out of the dealer’s box. Next he produced a. pack of innocent-looking cards, and gave out poker hands to members of the con- gregation, explaining that the back of each card told the professmnal gambler what it was. Illustrations with the roulette wheel followed, and the skill- ful reformed gambler showed how he could twiri the wheel so as to place the ball in a red or black pocket, as he chose. “Professional gambiing,” he said, “is not even a game of chance. 1 It is nothing less than systemctic robbery.” An extraozdinary scene in 21 Hartford church last Sunday was an exhibition with cards, roulette, and faro parapher- nalia. by a reformed gambler, as a. warning to the young. After a hymn had been sung by the congregation the convert was introduced. He displayed his old tools of trade on a stand Playing Cams in Church. Treatment Of Colds. U LSTER. When any plant is considered to be of easy culture it is said of it, “As easy to grow as a Geranium.” Take good strong cuttings. and cut them across just under a leaf. Roots form most readily on moder- ately firm wood. Each cutting should be inserted by itself in a. 3-inch pot, using fine sandy soil. \Vhen roots are formed the plants should be re~ported into 5-inch pots, using half good loam, half leaf-mould and decayed manure. Some sand ought. also to be added to it. They grow and There are 578,474 occupiers of land in England and Scotland, and 32,918,000 acres under crops, bare fallow and grass. This gives an average of nearly 57 acres per holding. One of the simplest plans to let pure air into the fowl-house is to have a hole in the floor, about six inches wide and several feet long, covered over with wire netting. Milk rapidly, do not hurt the cow, milk clean, milk with both hands until done; when finishing, reach well up on the udder and get the last drop, and then stop. A Scotch gardener being asked by his employer, an English squire, how he liked the English, repliedâ€"“ Wee], sir, being frae hame an’ amang the English, I find na great faut in them; but I maun mak’ this remark, that for ministers or garden- ers, or anything needin’ head wark, ye maun come to us in the north.” The best way to salt horses is to have a little compartment in one corner of the feed box, in which keep a. lump of rock salt. The compensation for American farm labomers has nearly doubled durinrr the past 50 yu1.xs Of the 44,938,365 sheep in the United States it is estinmtcd that: 30,000,000 are west of the Mizsissippi River. The geography of the Belfast region is one thing ;its ethnology another. From the heights which surround Bal- fast Lough the Belfast man may on a clearish day gaze straight across the sea into the home oi the strenuous, hard- headed, yet curious sentimental, matter ofâ€" fact, yet curious romantic obstinate, indomitable people from whom he is ‘sprung. This energetic town of Belfast is, as it were, placed on the bottom of a plate the rim of which is composed of the Holywood Hills, Castlereagh Hills, the Divis range and the Cave Hill. Its streets of workmen’s houses are, with- out a doubt, far superior to any localities of the same class in Great Britain. Bel- fast has been and is advancing by leaps and bounds, while every other town is stationary or decaying. In respect of its rapid growth Belfast more closly re- sembles an American than a. British town. Ten years ago the Royal-ave of Belfast, a stately, prosperous street which together with Donegal Place forms the principal business quarter of the town, was nothing but a collection of mean little shops and houses that were all hovels. Walking through ‘ Belfast streets, when the factory hands are coming out or going in, one might imagine himself in a great manufact- uring town of England or Scotland. No longer does Belfast depend upon the linen trade alone for her prosperity. Ship-building is already one of her greatest industries. The town is extending in all directions. Nor in this wonderfully rapid extension are sanitary and architectural considera- tions disregarded ; on the contrary. the newer streets are Wide and well built. Belfast alone posses five parks, one or two of which as pretty as any in Scot- land or England. Beyond Drogheda the sea view recedes until nothing of it is left but the sky line that flashes on it at inter- vals over the treetops, or between gaps in the landscape, like the edge of a sword. At Dundalk the sea-view expands again, and the distant ships look like fixed spots on the horizon. Soon the train dashes into a hilly coun- try, which reminds one of a hundred localities in Southern and Western Ireland. There are the low walls or "dykes” of grav stone enclosing tiny patches of sloga gy bog, the diminutive huts like dog kennels, the heaps of peat the outcrop of gray lock, the scattered boulders, which are such familiar objects in Clare and Galway and Kerry and Limerick and Mayo. But the character of the soil and the cultiva- tion change before Bessbrookis reached. Then beyond Portadown comes a change really startling in its magnitude and suddenness. Factory chimneys, tall, built of red brick, stand out lagainst the fresh green of the country. In the meadows appear streaks and heaps of what appears to be snow. The meadows are the bleaching fields, and ‘ those great buildings are the linen factories. We have rushed all at once into a new country altogether unlike the Celtic and Catholic Ireland we have left behind, and among the strenu- ous, restless, hard-headed, pragmatic, “door,” pushing, matter-ofâ€"fact, precise peopleâ€"totally unlike the carless, happy-go lucky, untidy, genial, humor- ous' race of the South. Here we are almost before we know it in the roar and smoke of Belfast. placid Boyne, with her steamers and sailing ships laying one behind the other, in Indian file, are: or seem to be, as dead commercially as the Shannon at Limerick. FARM AND GARDEN THE WATCHMAN. LINDSAY, THURSDAY. JULY 28 1892. A Few Blue Laws. In 1634 the Massachusetts General Court. forbade the purchase of “ any apparel, either woollen, silke 0r lynncn, with any lace on in: silver, gold, silke or thread." \Villimn \Veeden, in writing of New Eng- land laws. tells the folluwiwr - ;-.. . wf the Krus, tvhough slave dealers usually spared the Krus because they were too use- ful in the service of white men along Lhe coast t:: be diminished in number by trans- porting them as slaves to foreign lands.â€" N. Y. Sun. Some Europeans doing business in West Africa say that it would be impossible to carry on trade without the help of the Km men. Many of the Krus are now in the service of the Congo State. They are helping to build the railroad from Ma- tadi L0 Stanley Pool and are as handy with the shovel as John Chinaman himself. The Kru man will not consent to separa- tion from his tribe for more than a year at a time. He carries with him apiece of cord with which to mark the monthly payments received from his employer. On each pay day he ties a knot in the cord, and after he has made the twelfth knot he starts for home. He is frugal and economical, and is not apt to take service away from home more than two or three times. \Vhen he returns with the money he has accumulat- ed he takes a wife and settles down. T193 lirn man is one of the most useful of the native Africans. Doubtless a. small propor- tion of our negro citizens are descendants for me.” “Yes.” “Well, butyZu dam??? On one occasion, when Robin Allison, the beadle of Kilwinning, had carried some goods for a. traveller visiting his customers, he was delighted with a dram over and above his pay. “ Dod, that’s rale gude 0’ ye, noo, said Robin; " but; maybe I’ll be able to dae ye a gude turn yet. Ye ken I’m the parish sexton. Daeâ€"dae ye like yer heid heich 2” A Rich Old Fraud.-â€"Old Bullion- “What’s the matter now '3” Young \Vife (pouting)â€"-“You have not kept your word. You said before marriage you’d do anything in the world to please me.” “ ‘70:: ” “VI\I1 unit: "(‘1‘ wun.-1.'l -J- JIA ‘l' “ Yesfl" “You said you woul‘d glaalywcfie for me.” “ Yes.” “ Well, but you don’t.” A grammatical footmanâ€"“The fcotman at Mrs. Freshrox’s made a queer an- nouncement while I was calling there yesterday.” “What did he say 2” “Mrs. Fairchild and her daughters came, and the footman called out, ‘Mrs. Fairchild and the Misses Fairchildren." The Krus have the interesting peculiar- ity than they prohibit all forms of domes- tic slavery among them. The Kru infant is marked at. his birth on the forehead with blue tattooing, which is the symbol of his own liberty and of the opposition of his people to any form of servitude. A Scotch field preacher is reported to have spoken thus to some boys he beheld smoking. ”A’ twig ye ahint the stanes there Iaddiesâ€"smockin’: but ye may smock. an’ ye may smock. an’ ve may smock. but ye’ll smock faur sairer whaur ye’re gaun tae." If any one visits the piers in this harbor where vessels from Liberia can be found while in port, he will generally see a num- ber of native African sailors, lino specimens of physical manhood, who appear very in- telligent, active, and industrious. They belong to the well-known Kru tribe, which lives along the coast of Liberia. The men are in great demand to load and unload vessels along the African coast. They are oftontaken hundreds of miles, as far as Cameroons, to act as ’longshorcmcn. Independent is he who has no wants which he connot gratify without the least risk {of being overtaken by debt or tempted to dishonour; a man ten times richer, but with twenty times more wants is in reality, twice as poor. An indignant parent, in rebuking his refractory son, exclaiming, “ Remember who you’re talking to. sir! I'm your father!" To which the youth replied. “Oh, come now. I hope you ain’t agoin to blame me for that.” There is a hairdresser in a surburban district who has hit upon a new idea. He tells his customers such horrible stories that makes their hair stand on end. It is so much easier for him to cut it. he says. “ How is that little mining scheme of yours gettlng along? Any money in it T’ “ Any money in it; 1 Well, I should say so ! All of mine, of my wife’s. and about three thousand that I got from my friends." His Ancient Pedigree. â€"‘ I am a Hill, sir! the oldest family in England. ” “I nex etheard of the Hill family being among those of ancientlineage." “What. ' never heard of the proverb ‘As old as the Hills?” ’ Many a woman is unhappy because she has not married the man that she IOVes. But often she would be infinitely un- happier if she married him. “ So, young man you have gone and en- gaged yourself to my daughter, eh? What are your prospect», sir 'l” “ Perfectly u) heavenly ; When the accepted lover says “ mine 7) . own, he feels a good deal ncher than many other mine owners. We never know how cold the wind bIOWS until our own window panes are out. After all, we are not so very much better than our neighbours. flower fresh if they are placed where they get plenty of light and air. to hang their heads during" the day ‘the treatment during the night revives them. Flowers keep longest; in a temperature of from 40 deg. to 50 deg. above zero. If you set a. vase of flowers in a current of air they will lose their freshness in a very little time. They will also wilt quickly in a hot room. Always keep well sprinkled with cold water during the day, and set them in the coolest part of the rooms and away from the open windOWs. In the night put them into the cellar and turn an air-tight vessel over them, after first covering them with a thin cloth well moistened, Often when they have begun Native Africans in Our Harbor. WIT AND WISDOM. by MAIL :W'ill receive prompt attention. Agent for the Hamilton Mineral Works. flIVE HEM A CALL. REINHART LAGER The Leading Liquor Merchant 19 Kent st., opposite Hurley Brady’s. Agent for the celebrated J.8HANNON â€"â€"ANDTHEâ€"â€" PORCELAIN FILLING SYSTEM successfully practised by Mr. Gross. An upper or under set of good teeth for $10. Pure GAS and V ITALIZED AIR for painless extraction. Free when artificial teeth are required. Over 30 years exper- ience. Rooms Over Kennedy’s store. op- posite Dominion Bank, Kent Street. and Newest Brands The Ghoicest, CROWN and BRIDGE WORK, All branches of Dentistry, including the beautiful and durable HE WEST HALF of lot 10 in the 7th Con. of Eldon, County of Victoria, “containing 100 acres more or less. Apply to DALLAS WRIGHT, owner, on the 1 premises, or by letter to Argyle P. 0. lEldon, June 11, 1892. The subscriber is prepared to dress all kinds of Mill-Picks, and to do all other jabbing in connection with Blacksmithing June 1, 1892' DENTIST WINES, Buggies, Waggons and setting tyres a. specialty. Repairs to Blacksmith,s Bel lows and Plates. All work warranted. Portable or stationary forges supplied. Office of The “ SUN LaFE” (over Holtorf’s Store.) â€"â€"â€"DEALER INâ€"â€"-â€" FOUNTAIN PENS. RUBBER STAMPS. PA‘ WILL H. POLLARD. “.1 w. _H' GROSS! Snug little fortuneshnvubeen madeat work for m. by Anna Page. Auslin, 'I‘vxus, and JIIU. 2mm, 'l'nludo, Ohio. 5'01: cut. Others are duiugns wail. Why . nut you? Some vurn nwr $500.00 a. month You cm: do “w “ark and live ‘17“ home, whervwr _\«-u aw. Even be- . ‘ ’53» (zinmrrx are t-nsih running: from £5 to " $10adny.All ages. “’ "how you how ~ud "ml you. Can work' m spun». timo or :11 the lime. Big: mom-y for work- on. Failure unknuwn among them. N BW and wonderful. Particulars free. 1!. llu‘lcn .1' (Younox 880 Port..land Maine DRESSING MILL-PICKS. For Sale or to Rent WHISKZES, :55 A ND ORDERS TENT MEDICINES. ETC. ETG. The Best fielected, Wm. HERLIHEY. REPAIRING FOB 'AGEN T FOR» P01? TERS TO William St. Lindsay LINDSAY ! The Government Reports for years past show that the :ETNA LIFE has paid to living policy holders IN CANADA a lar ger sum in settlement of MATURED EN DOWMENTS than that paid by Cana- dian and British Companies combined. No better evidence is required of the value and popularity of the .‘ETNA EN- DOWMENT Policies. ASSETS, - - - $37,397 238 SURPLUS, (by Canadian Standard) 7,858,507 INCOME, - - - - 6,243,780 nmsn AT 01mm, - 3,000,000 POLICIES IN mace - I24,907,2I7 NEW POLICIES, |890 - 23,370,242 Cash W CASH paid at the Storehouse Lindsay, Sept. 18th. 1890 â€"36-tf. THE ETNA Wheat, Peas, Barley, Oats, Red and Alsike Glover and Potatoes McDonnell Cowdry TO FARM ERSI Accident Insurance. The London Guarantee and Accident In surance Company of London, England Capital $1,250,000. Liberal policyâ€"Bonus every five years, $5 per annum secures 35 weekly compensation and 81000 in the event of death by acc1dent. JOHN D. MACMURCHY Gen eral Agent, Lindsay Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats. Orders delivered to any part of the tow A Sideboard for $450. a Bureau for $4, a Bedstead for $2 Mattrass and Springs for $5. Common Chairs, Hall Fm: do, very low. We are making a special drive in Mattrasses V \ Search the Happy Homes of the 0011 ty It’s a well recognized fact that daily surroundings have m moulding of character. If the home be neatly furniShCh‘ the chances are that the good man will come home“ early 0’ nights and that the children will grow up refined and gentle. nowadays compared with the outlay that Would have necessary a few years ago. Well-made Furniture was me cheaper 1n price than it is to dayâ€"with us at least A Handsome Parlor Suite for 3; A Bed-room Suite for $11. Are now prepared to buy at the new G. T. R. Storehouse, Lindsay. P. TULLY, ANDERSON, N UGEN T ife Assurance Company. JOHN D. MAGMURCHY General Agent. Furniture Dealers and Manufacturers, near the Max] Dividends paid Every year ENDOWNMENTS YOUR HOMES CAN BE FURNISHED CHEAPY -â€"sth door east 01 the maxket. You will find Me Furniture WE WI]: Orders filled as received stock are all prize bin-(15,3557 HOUDANS WHITE LEW” PLYMOUTH ROGK5 T10-TBE Through Tickets and Baggage from Agents or on board. RETURNINGâ€" Leaves Charii 11.15 P.M., except Tuesday at 9.4 and Saturday a: 4.25 PM. Com Rochester with early trains for a'; on New York Central and all 61'. lines. CALLS at Brighton and C1 Wednesday and Friday at 41*: Rochester, and Wednesday Mar: Saturday Evening from Rochesza. THE NORTH KING is onei largest, swiftest and most poweri mers on the lakes. Lighted by Em and modern throughout. HIGH-CASS POUL GIVE YOU Lake entario Steambna: J- Park Lot “A,”cansistirnvg-c:f§ a half acres. There is a. dwelling well and good orchard on the A For particulars apply on premisa‘ HENRY MATHEWS, Downeyrfj DAILY - FOR - ROCK HE SOLTH WEST COP\ Park Inf “A " nunmch'nm: THOROUGfl-BRED POUL F. C. TAYLOR, any; so; C. H. NICHOLSUS. Parties Wanting FOR SALE PLYMOUTH ROC AYLUH, [Jim so mam man} :1 Agent, Lindséi.t . ethe poor (fies V-â€"i~ t0 them now : an 51 me had bcttCI n‘T at 0““1 : N 054“ .M' 71935 ago, an {nflemuu x woman conceived t'n ng into a “jingle” 211121221 ”filial? “Old sayingsf: } pf her work, and we thin it], as that it is quite 11 AS poor as a church m As thin as a mi}, As fat as a porpoise, As rough as a gale, As brave as a lion. AS spry as a cat, As bright as a sixpenc As weak as a rat. As proud as a peacoc As sly as a fox, As mad as a March mr , As strong as an ox, As fair as a lilly, ‘ As empty as air, As rich as Crmsus, % As cross as a bear, As pure as an angel, As neat as a pin, As smart as a steel» :ral As ugly as sin. As dead as a docr nail, As white as a sheet. As flat as a pancake, ‘ As red as a beet. 1 As wand 38 an appic, , As black as yor-r hat, ‘ ‘ As brown as a ‘.- ‘rv. As blind .«s a by. ' ' As mean as a Ri>rll AB fr” :18 a tick. _I owe it all to yuul” 11 t 0' her close yet. we brought me throng my darlin". Elinor Marcelbnit as sh Ci) t of the pair “a“ and misery of 1: â€"-111 Dearly well again. 3- Very narra“ csca1c #3 long, hard 511:1"- ' {0 Pen; but with Elinuz Ta ”him. he I d conquer mute it ms for 111111 1 such good hands in Ions houschdd . Were or rather a “ Style, he “as 11111.35 1 d. and when he sun {’03 had taken [11:11 111 t of everything 9 1 Ether, and his sister f0 t Bend for :111x'o11e." from the first. "T 9. "1881f up to de1irum linol‘lnu‘wdp him throng H: you Elinor ? The pal eagerly and turned to sthough the bandaged q Dugh their covering, 11151 hands adjusted the ham 9nderly. 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