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i ’ 0 1y“, . . 1",. 'ltmwâ€" . .. . ,‘ v’ it" re.» (‘1: r’." . . J . . , ‘vfi‘Wfi’r‘vovv‘w/V‘v ovw‘r “OH. WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE G’IE‘ US,:TAE {SEE OORSELS AS ITHERS SEE’US.” ‘â€" VOL III- NO 52 i BALL Tl] Yllllllll ml THEIR OPPORTUNITY. SAFETY. DE- FENSE AND DESTINY. 'â€" l Rev. Dr. Talmagc Says a Good Ilonne Is a Mighty Defcnu'. and a» Are Illdils‘l'iflu~ Habits, ltu: lic lnsist.‘ 'l‘hat Kellgiou Is flu- strongest of All. Washington, Nov. ”ISLâ€"A resounding call goes out in this sermon of Dr. Talmage. If heeded, it would be revo- lutionary for good. His subject is " Young Men Challenged to Nobility " and the text II. Kings, vi, 17, “And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man." One morning in Dothan a young theo- i . for help. The father, watching the bat- ile froma windmill, and seeing his son was not wounded, and could gain the day if he would, sent word: “No. I will not come. Let the boy win his spurs, for if God will, I desire that this day be his with all its honors.” Young man, fight your own battle all through and you shall have the victory. Oh. it i-sa. battle worth fighting! Two mon- archs of old fought a duel, Charles V., and Francis, and the stakes were king- doms, Milan and Burgundy. You fight lililh sun and the. stake is heaven or 1‘ . _ Do not get the. fatal idea. that you are 'a genius and that. therefore, there is no need of close application. It is here where multitudes fail. The curse of this age is the geniusesâ€"men with enor< mous Self conceit and egotism and nothing else. I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain and plodding and useful rather than high flying and good for nothing but. to pick out the eyes of various places and giving their exper- ience. and they told their audience. that they had long been intimate with me. and had become drunkards by dining at my table, where I always had li- quors of all sorts. Indignant to the last degree. I went down to Patrick Campbell. chief of Brooklyn police, saying that I was going to start that night for Ohio to have these villains arrested, and I wanted him to tell me how to make the arrest. He smiled and said: "Do not waste your time by chasing these men. Go home and do your work. and they can do you no harm." I took his counsel and all was well. _Long ago I made up my mind that if one Will put his trust in God and be faithful to duty he need not fear any evil. Have God on yoursidc young man. and all the combined forces of earth and hell can do you no dam- age. And this leads me to say that the ,mightiest defense for ayoung man 10{-Yical student was scared by finding 103mm E t l' a ‘ty himself and Elisha, the re bet. u n ,. ”“5“ _ ' :“ mammary ‘ “39'9" is the possession of roll ious )rinci le. u hom he. waited. suri'chniled hypoa- {Thtp-(Zu'tll‘ork ls extraordinary failure. He“ may have manners 51:“ wlould But I ‘3'" L? no hope for that person “.ho toshame the gracefulness and courtesy whole army of enemies. But venerable ilk‘gms 115e ”30.13?“ P0 11"“ by his ‘V‘lsv i of a Lord Chesterfield. [Foreign langu- Elis‘na was not scared at all, because i for}??- probability 15 that he has not [ages may drop from his tongue. He. he saw the mountains full of defense lilsyhistu‘r‘lgabHQOt :flfe fit” hhxiilafi‘othignlmay be able to discuss literature and for him in chariots made of fire. drawn to do and [affix-2ft}? (fed coemm‘mdefilla'ws and foreign customs. .I-Ie may _ ~ ‘ , - ' ’. ‘ . .“icld a pen of unequaled polish and by horses of fireâ€"a supernatural ap-hlm *0 ho a farmer and horlu‘hllurlSt-(power. His quickness and tact may .- tide was to dress the garden and keep‘ 'u;l1'{ - - . . Dearance that could not be seen “1th 1m and had he and his wife obeyed the l llhe 1 y him for the highest salary of prayed that the young minister might i they would not have been saunteringfson' with as fine looks as those which see them also, and the prayer was an- : lledi‘tm-frtiiier, {gigshmddstlifggk‘intilhimaiitri‘d l huntg Absalom, still he is not safe from swer d. ’ ed the e es; . K“ t‘ . 85 _ ' ‘ i001] amination. The more elegant . e and the Lord open . , {h ”1“” posterityâ€"a proof Po-‘m‘e for all E manner and the more faScinaiing his 0f the young 1119-11- ““1 he also 53-“ e lagfi to come that those. who do not . dress. the more peril. Satan does not fiery procession. looking somewhat. I .attend their business are sure to getlcare. for the allegiance of a cowardly . _ a - a . .. . . . _ countin -house. He ma' be as the natuial eye. So the old mlnlaICI‘VdIVlne injunction and been at “"Prktsharp as H03”! and as strongyas Sam-3 his: suppose like the Adirondacks or thel into mischief. . _ I do not know that the prodigal. in. land illiterate being. He cannot bring 1 him into efficient service. .,. ‘ . ' . -. \ .I . ‘ , .‘illeLl..inies in autumnal resplendcnce .Scripture. wou.-d ever have been .re- 'tostorm that castle of character which Many young men. standing among the most tremendous realities. have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. May God grant that my sermon may “Pen wide. your eyes to your safety. your opportunity and your destiny! ! A mighty defense for a young man is . a good home. Some of my hearers, look back with tender satisfaction to, their early home. It may have been: rude and rustic. hidden among the; hills ' and architect or upholsterer never , I . planned or adorned it. But all the fresco or princely walls never looked so enticing to you as those rough hewn 5 rafters. You can think of no park or} arbor of trees planted on fashionablei country seat so attractive as the plain} brook that ran in front of the old farm 3 house and sang under the weeping wil- . lows. No barred gateway adorned with statue of bronze and swung open byy obsequious porter in full dress hashalf l the glory of the old swing gate. Many . of you have a second dwelling placeâ€"I your adopted homeâ€"that also is sacred forever. Therc you built the first fam- . ily altar. There your children were; born. All those trees you planted! That roof is solemn because once in it.1l over the hot pillow. flapped the wing! of death. Under that roof you expecti when your work is done to lie down; and die. You try with many words tol tell the excellency of the place. but, you fail. There is only one word in, the language that can describe your' meaning. It is home. : Now, I declare it, that young man is“ comparatively safe who goes out into the world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solici:; tude. watching. planning and praying‘ will be to him a shield and ashelter. I never knew a man faithful both to his early and adopted home who at the same time was given over to any gross form of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from outside association rather than from the more quiet and unpresuming pleasâ€" 1‘ ures of which i have. spoken may be suspected to be on the broad road to ruin. Absalom despised his father's house, and you know his history of sin and his death of shame. if you seem, unneCessariiy isolated from your kin- dred and former associates, is there not some room that you can call your own: . Into ii. gather books and pictures and. a harp. Have a portrait. over the man- tel. Make ungodly mirth: stand back, from the threshold. Consecrate some; spot. with the knee of prayer. By the, memory of other days. a father’scoun- l sel. and a mother’s love, and a. Sister’s ‘ confidence, call it home. . l Another defense for a young man is, industrious habits. Many young menl in starting upon life in this age expect to malae their way through the world by the use of their wits ra‘.her than the . toil of their hands. A boy now goes to the city and fails twice before he is as ‘ old as his father was when he first saw the spires of the great town. Sit- . ring in some office, rented at $1,000 at lyear, he is waiting for the bank to deâ€" clare its dividend, or goes into the mar- ket expecting before night to be made rich by tm rushing up of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved on some other track. Perhaps he borrow- ed from his employer’s money drawer and forgets to put it_ back. or for merely the purpose of improving his penmanship makes a copy plate of a merchant's signature. Never mind. All is right in trade. In some dark night there may come in his dreamsa viSion of the penitentiary, but it soon vanish- es. In a short time he will be ready to : retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and herds cultivate the do- mestic virtues. Then those young men who were one his schoolmates and knew no better than to engage in hon- qst work will come With their ox teams to draw ham logs and with their hard hands to help heave up his castle. This is no fancy picture. It is everyday life, I should not wonder if there were some rotten beams in that beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire Sickness should saute through the young man, or if God should pour into his cup of life a. draft that would thrill him with unbearable agon ;_ if his . children mould become to a hung curse; mkmzhishomea pestand adis- . .I should notwonder if he goes a. a miserable. grave and bleiond it into the of teeth; a way of the My hfins}; . My young friends, to is no wa to genuine success exce thro htoii either of. the head or d. ' t the bottle of Crecy in 1316 the; Prince ‘of Wales. finding himself heavily pressed bythaenomy sent word to his father . living. . tack the man who is busy with the pen . ity. O imade natural and moral . soul demands this institution; ‘ day onward." ‘or the chisel. the entire. st :ucture before l taking. the plane 2and the clouds of a. wrathful down heavily over the canvas, ready to} claimed had he not given up. his idle habits and gone to feeding swine for a The devil does not so often at- and the hook and. the trowel and. the. saw and the hammer. He is afraid of those weapons. But woe to the man whom this roaring lion meets With his hands in his pockets. . Bless God that you have abrain t0 ' think and hands to work and feet to Walk With. for in your constant activ- young man, is one of your Strongest defenses. Put your trust in 90d and do your best. It right when the horses ran away with the load of wood and he sat on it. \\ hen 23,515“ if he was frightened, he. said: . J 30’ Iprayed toGod, and hung on lee ; a beaver." ' Respect for the Sabbath will beato" the 5'0ung man another preservative against evil. . fed and fatigue oflife arecreative day When the soul is especially to be tablished at the beginning. God hhas aws $0 a '- :monious that the body as well as the) Our bod- ies areseven-day clocks that must be wound upasoften as that or they will run down. Failure must come sooner or later to the man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has called lt.' the Lord's day, and he who devotes it to the world is guilty of robbeTY- GOd wul not let the sin go uzipunished eithâ€" point; of character that you have never 1 er in this world or the world to come. This is the. statement of a man who has broken this divine enactment: I was engaged in manufacturing 0“ the Lehigh River. In the Sabbath Iused to rest; but never regarded God in .lt- One beautifui Sabbath when the 110158 was all! hushed. and the day “'35 all that loveliness could make it. Sat down on my piazza and went to work inventing a new shuttle. I neither stopâ€" ped to eat. nor drink till the sun went down. By that time I had the invention completed. The next morning I exhib- ited it and boasted of my day’s work. and was applauded. The shuttle was tried and worked well, but that Sab- bath day's work cost me. $30,000. “5° branched out and enlarged. and'tuo curse of heaven was upon me from that .A noble ideal and confident expecta- tion of approximating to it are an in- falliblc defense. The artist completes in. his mind the great thought that he Wlb‘hes to transfer to the canvas or the The architect vlans out the workmen to begin,_ and, though there. may for a long while seem to be nothing but blunder-mg and rudeness, .he has in his mind every Corinthian . wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital. The poet arranges the entire. plot before he begins to chime the first i canto of tingl'ng rhythms. And yet. strange to say, there are men who at- tempt to build their characth without knowini whether in the end It shad be a rude I‘artar’s tent oraSt. Mark’s of Venice-men who begin to write, the intricate poem of their lives Without knowing whether it shall beaHomers “Odyssey" or a rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine men lout of a thousand are I‘ll/mg “"thout .‘understand that turning point untili any great life plot. Booted and spur- red and plumed. and urging their swiit coarser in the hottest haste, Iask: ”Hello, man ! Whither away 2’: His re- Sponse is, "Nowhere." Rush into the busy shop or store of manyaone and out of the man’s hand or laying down the yardstick, say "What. man, is all this aboutâ€"so much stir and sweat f" The reply will stumble .and break down between teeth and lips. Every dAy's duty ought only to be the filling up of the main plan of eXistence. Let men be consistent. If they prefer mis- deeds to correct courses of_action. then let them draw out the design of knav- cry and cruelty and plunder. Let _ev- ery day’s falsehood and wrongdomg be added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds red stripe the picture. break out in of rods tempest. Let the waters be ch ed and froth tangled and green with immeasurable depths. Then take a. torch of burning pitch and scorch into the frame the right name for itâ€"the soul’s suicide. f one entering upon sinful directions would pnly in his mind or .on paper» draw out in awful reality this dreadful future. he would recoil from it and say. Am I a Dante. that by my own life I should write another 'Infernof’” But if you are resolved to live a life such as (red and good men will approve. do not let it be a vague dream. an indefinite de- termination, but in your mindpr u n paper sketch it in all its minutiae. 'ou cannot know the changes to which you may be a'subject. butjou may know what always will be right and always will be wrong. let gentleness and charity and veracity and {loath stand to the heart of the sketc . Many ears ‘0 word. came to me that twoyim as as temperance lep- , speaking in Ohio in turerahad That child had . God has thrust into the! fed.i ‘It is no newfangled notion _of a wild brained reformer. but an institution es- . .3 orders ‘ God hang ' has in it the most spoils and treasuresj :It was not some crazy craft creeping along the coast with a valucless cargo {thialt the pirate attacked, but the ship. . u ‘tween great ports, carrying its millions ,of specxe. The more your natural and lacquired accomplishments. the ‘more gneed of the religion of Jesus. That idoes not cut in upon or back up any lsmoothness of disposition or behavior. It gives symmetry. l the soul which ought to be arrested and propels that which ought to be pro- pelled. 1t fills up the gulleys. It cle- vates the transforms To beauty it gives more beauty, to tact more tact. :tp enthusiasm of nature. more enthu- Siasm. When the Holy Spirit "\im- presses the image of God on the heart. He does not spoil the canvas. If in all the multitudes of young men upon whom religion has acted you could find one nature that had been the _ (tiamaged. I would yield this propos:- ion. You may now have enough strength of character to repel the various temp- tations to gross wickedness which as- 5311 “you, but I do not know in what strait you may be. thrust at some future time. Nothing short of the. grace of the cross may then be able to ,deliver you from the lions. not meeker than Moses. nor holler than ‘David. nor more. patient than Job. and ‘you ought not to consider yourself in- lvul'nerable. You may have some weak {discovered and in some hour when you are unsuspecting the Philistines Will be lupcn thee, Samson. Thrust nobln ,your good habits. or your early train- :5ns. or your pride. of characterâ€"noth- img short of the arm of Almighty God .ivill be. sufficient to uphold you. _You llopk forward in the world sometimes ,ivith a chilling despondency. Cheer 111p. I will tell how you may make a ifortune. lGod and His righteousness and all :other things shall be added unto you-H LI know you do not wnt to be mean in this matter. 'Give God the fresh- ness of your life. You will not have ‘lhe heart to drink down the brimming. 'cup of life and then pour the. dr9g§ O“ God's altar. To a Saviour so infinitely , ggenerous you have not the heart to act 'hke that. That is not brave. That is not, honorable. . YUUI‘ greatest want in all the world is :3 new heart. In God's name, I tell you Ilhat. And the Blessed Spirit presses of this holy hour. Put the cup of life leternal to your thirsty lips. Tlirusl it 'not back. Mercy offers itâ€"bleeding lmercy. long suffering mercy. all other friendships, be ungrateful for all other kindness, prove recreant to all other bargains, but to despise God's that. i I would like to see some of You this thour press out of the ranks of the iworld and lay your conquered spirit at the feet of Jesus. lwandering vagabond staggering 0"“ :the earth; it is a. winged messenger of the. skies whispering mercy to thy soul: Info is smooth now. but. after awhile. it may be rough, wild and pre- cipitate. There comes a crisis in the .h-islory of every man. \Ve seldom it is far past. The road of life is fork- i9dyand Ircad on two signbcards: “This is the way to happiness," and. “This is the way to ruin." How apt we to_ pass the. fork of the road without thinking whether it comes out at the 'Many years ago I stood on the an- niversary platform with a minister of Christ who made this rcmarkablcstate- ment: "Thirty years ago two {a play was to be acted in which the cause of religion was to be placed in a ridiculous and hypocritical light. came to the steps. The consciences of both smote them. One started to go and yet had not courage to enter, and finally departed. But the other young lman entered the pit of the theatre. of these two young men. The man rwho entered was caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank deeper and other youn man was saved, and he now stands fore you to bless God that for 20 years he has been permitted to preach the ospel." "Rejmce. young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow Without any tearsâ€"Johnson. When lions and tigers bring forth young in captiVity the greatest care has to be exercised to keep thlem for sev- eral daysan this dark and undisturbed as o the mothers will almost in- variably destroy tlhbu‘ cubs. But he. loves. winge‘d. and flagged, plying be-; It arrests thatin 1 least . You are E "Seek first the. kingdom of‘ That is not manly.I ~thro , ' ‘. » ' ' irc marble before he takm up the crayon , ugh the solemnities and priViltg s. Reji‘ct ' love. for your immortal soulâ€"do not do: This hour is no. are . door of bliss or the gates of darkness. ‘ young men started out in the evening to at-‘ l tend the Park theatre. New York, where : They l home, but returned again to the doom, It was the turning point in the history , deeper in infamy. He was lost. That, OMEMEE. ONT. THURSDAY. DEC. 10, 1896 ii? "iii 1'. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALB-{111E WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States, and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading » CANADA. '1 Port Arthur harbor is frozen over.‘ Bellovillc had 16 births, 1 marriage} and 14 deaths during November. ‘(t A grain elevator. to cost $500,000,;is‘i to be erected at Kingston. cg». ' The. Montreal Cotton Company has, declared a quarterly dividend ofiflper cent. ~ ’ _I)r. R. J. \Voods. late of Toronto. (lied on Tuesday at Vancouver, ll.C., of pneumonia. John Mills, a keeper in the Kingston Penitentiary hiisfallcn heir to up cs- tate of $140,000 in Scotland. Montreal’s finances are in a rather ‘bad way and the Councrl is considerâ€"‘ uig plans to relieve the pressure. l Mr. John hicKcown‘ County Crown Allotmey of Lincoln, (lll‘lf at the Hotel '.l)icti hospital, Kingston, yesterday- The Ottawa Free Press advocates the abolition of the. Act. ‘exeiiipliiig . l servants from the process of giirriishee. 3 The medical staff of'ihe Ottawa Genâ€" .eral Ilospiial has resigned in a body, llt't'llbll‘ng the. directors of not keeping l “Hill. The young stricken wuli ‘ died “Q 'l'ucsday night. new cases. Galician girl who was smallpox in Winnipeg There are been discharged as there .is no work for ihcm. l The chwaiin making contracts to Power Company are supply electric ‘ii'nce of 130 llIllt'S. The threatened split of the High Court of Quebec Independent Order of- li‘ores'iers into French and English rseems to have. been averted. l A young man named 'l'ophan was ac- cidentally killed a few days ago in the Lake Dauphin country by his two bro- , thers. who mistook him for a wolf and shot him. Mr. A. D. Flint. assistant post- ‘mastcr at llollaiid, Mam. slim. himself ,Lh'i‘ough the IlL‘lHl while handling a loaded revolver in his office, dying in a few minutes. i Miss Pennoclt. telegraph operaiorat liiingdon- N.\\'.T., had her legs crush- ,ed under a train. One was amputat- ed. and the young lady is in a very critical condition. The Dominion to the Hawaiian republic. to see if the . , Canadian fish will thrive in the waters 'of that vicinity. . At St. John the Pullman Car Com- pany won a suit. brought against it. for injuries alleged to have been sus- ltained by a passenger owing to the {coldness of a car. l Al Rat Portage a Pagan lndianwilm shot his foster lather. tliiiiiking him a wentligo or evil spirit. was found guilty of irizi-uslauighier. Judge Rose sentenc- {evd 'him to six Inoiifilis' hard labor. 1 Mr. Shaugliiic~sy. vice-president. of l the Canadian Pacific railway, detiiesihc ltrutli of the report. that. his line was 'endeavoring to lease the Buffalo and lLake Iluron Brzinohi from the. Grand 1 Trunk i‘aivliway. ‘ . Mr. James Crawford, an elderly lingâ€" l.i.~‘hmaii Who Went to Maiiilou. Man. from the United States I‘t‘.‘f'llll_\', was ' frozen to (lt‘ilill (”1 Monday night, while l\\‘:l:‘l{lll§: to his son's fill‘lu, four miles l 5 from Maiiitou. . i It is stated that the Federal“ Gov- :crnment has decided to fi '.low the. ex- ' ample of the Grand Trunk railway. and j.liciiccforth purchase :ill the goods rc- iquiretl for the. liil‘ei‘t‘uI-oniiil railway in l the towns aziizng the. line. 1 l Arrangements have now been perfect- ! ed by which cattle and sheep from the l )oiiiiiiion of Canada, for export from 1Boston. may be. entered and examined at. the. frontier pm‘l“ of Si. A‘Jliiin’siiiid ' lslund Pond, Vermont. | l , GREA'I‘ Blil’l‘AlN . l 3A Christmas gift. from the Engiish pecpllc to U. S. Ambassador Bayard is being iiiimtcd in London. . It. is rumored that. the Queen may i visit. lrclaiid next year, during the. cult-.- bration of her long reign. l Chas. Cushman. the. only brother of lClizirictte Cuhhman, tlic great Ameri- can actress, died in England. D-r. Jameson was removed from llol- loway Jail in an ambulance andiakcn to a private sanilai'ium in one. of the lsuburbs of London. The exporters and manufacturers in Ltl’lltlU'n my that their trade. with Canadian firms who import. dry goods from the Old Country is not. nearly up ! to that 'of former years. Ambassador Bayard slated his belief that before. his departure from England sonic. permanent. arrangement of artiâ€" lralion will be. arrange-.1 between lang< iland and the. United States. The. London Daily Mail says that the [tiles at l’lllenilizeini castle. in honor of the. visit of the. Prince and Princess of l l i i\\'alcs to the. Duke and Ducliizss of {Marlborough cost twenty thousand pounds. A colld \VILVé) of extreme severity is prevailing throughout l-lngland. and ‘sc'veral'. deaths of tramp-s and others from exposure to the. Wtfflihcl‘ are re.- ported. Skating is freely indulged in. A London despatcxhu siys that the Can- ]adian Gazette asserts that (inquiries made in the highest. quarters failed to disclose any intention on the. part of the Duke and Duchess of York to vigil. Canada next year. The Manchester Guardian says Lord Salisbury will make very strong repre- sentations to the Spanish GOVernincnt with reference to this distention in Cuba of Richard and John Iteaity, residents of British Columbia. Nothing is known in London officialI circles of the rumoured intention of knighting Mr. Laurier on New Year's day; but there is a desire that he should visit England'and become. acquainted with the British Ministers and officials. At a meeti. of the British Empire League on Fri y the Duke of Devon-‘ shire said that he believed the. Imperial Federation sentiment: was growing. but tlirit_tihe idea of free trade. within 1he Empire. had not yet. met with a hearty response. UNITED STATES. The. Missouri National Bank, Kansas Cit y, has collapsed. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is lll‘d-I‘ld- den from the effect." of a fall. The. Salvation Army in St. Louis inâ€" tends giVing a Christmas dinner to three thousand persons. the. United States have both the old , associations. President. Cleveland has purchased a house in lltilh street, New York, in addition to a home in Princetown, NJ. L So far the Southern Pacific has had .no itrouble. from snow, but Northern Pacific trains hare. been delayed spine- reorganized 1 The. window glass manufacturers of THE FARM. l i - «.NW. G ROW IN G \VOOL. The sheep to a greater extent than any other of our domestic animals is a double producer. Its two products are in no way incompatible. The best. wool is grown at the same time we are. proâ€" I dudng mutton. But so much stress is being put upon the latter that the. wool l product is largely dismissed 'from thought. The nature of wool and the conditions of its growth should be understood. A, fleece of wool is far more easily damag- ed in the process of making than is the carcass, yet as a rule flockmakcrs give 1 no more thought to the growth and {3‘0‘ tection of the fleece than they do 'tu . should be. overlooked. civil. whiit. 'hlloods are. doing grcai damage in '\\_ii-iconsi-n,- and causing intense hard- ship in the people livmgr in the river Valleys. " ‘11“ growth of hair upon cattle. It isl considered a purely incidental product.l Even at present prides it deserves bet- ‘ _ . for consida . ‘ - ' - x'e Luther (zreenman, his ivife and four hav (1”?th than [1115' _ And ‘ (gm'ldrcn are. reported to have been 8 I¥° ()th that we may capect bet;- burned to death-in the. destruction of m" [”1008 another year for our wool. ' their home. by fire, all Perry, N. Y. With great depression in the price Of C The. Unilled St‘liitiis 8; llayti Telegraph l wool the world over and the consequent oiiipaiiy iave ill( a cable direct. from dccl' - - _ 1 New York to Ikiyti, which is now open ,.,, an m the number Of sheep, the sup 1“.) must soon drop below the demand. for business to all South: American points. , If farmers and flockmasters wish to The. comparative statement of the. re- come in for their share of the benefits States during the. month of Novembcrwd ,0 meet it with a superior product no I. A number of the employees of the: C. P. R. repair shops in Montreal have , )ower iii lVanllprg‘JI‘Zlnsllllllcd a (list- . Fisheries Department: has promised a supply of salmon eggs, shows a (luflt'll of more than seven mil- lion dollars. . Telegraph advices from the com- mercial agencies of Messrs. Bradstreet, .and him in New York are of the kindl usual at this dull season. The recent.‘ .spurt of orders has been filled. and trade generally is quiet, while there! is an under-current of activity ConSl‘-; quent on the usual Christmas require-l, jments. T'lie. failures are. small fork i November by comparison \\’llll: those forl “the month of October. \\'hat is; knotwn as the iron and steel combine; thus been broken up. and lower prices are expected to prevail. The geriei'al' volume of trade is only moderate, and :no spevial activity is expected in any; part of the. country this year. StormyI . weather has to a certain extent infer-t :fcreal with the. distribution of goods ‘1 j The dry goods trade. is dull for this m 19.111311, but shrink in diameter, thus ;tiiue of year. imhilklflg ahweak point. The old adage . .. . . 21 'll a c ain is no stronger than its G133“ FAL- Jiveakesi link applies to wool. These Spain is fitting out. a flying squa- (iron. There are now thirteen thousand men I iceipts and expenditures of the Uiiitcd ' of a rising market they must be prepar- I All present. our home market. is gradu- l ally slipping away from us, not so much 5 _.____.¢ CIIAS. W. RICHARDS Pnbllsicrct Proprietor adds to Ashes absorb moisture, which their weight, and in buying them this The fact that ashes have caustic qualities and indicate potash when placed to the tongue is no indication that they have not been leached by rains, as aportion of the potash always remains. One of the. substances which largely predominates in ashes is lime. and ashes will give saiisfactory results sometimes due to the lime, which is often credited to pot- ash through mistake,but it does not pay to use ashes for the lime contained, as the. lime can be more cheaply obtained from other sources. It is well enough to fatten stock in the dark because this in cold weather means also warmth. But growing an- imals, especially if they are young. need light and plenty of air. They should." we a warm place to sleep in, and this may be made. dark, provided there. is a yard attached open to the south. and where they may enjoy the sunlight. The south side of a. build- ing,wvhen the sun shines, is not un- comfortable for any animal that has fur, even on a. cold day. __.â€"â€".â€"â€" CANADA’S LUMBER RESOURCES. .â€" A Special commissioner of The mm- Trades Journal Seeking Information- lle Predicts an Active Demand. “There is likely to be a very active demand for lumber next year in the English market." This encouraging statement is made by Mr. Edwin Haynes, Director of The Timber Trades llecaus) l . .. . . . . . . L "ll“ “’001 0" Chm?“ “001 can lJournal, London, England. Thus you!“- be found, but because wool in llélwr condition can be found. ml, which is the greatest authority on timber and lumber in Europe, has sent We think it safe ‘0 533' ”131 under ' out Mr. Haynes to write up a series of our system of smaller flocks and regul- l ar feeding we can grow better wool, that is, wool with a 51 rotigcr and more eVen fiber, than can be done in what. We consider more favored countries. The flocks there are far more at mercy 01' the seasons. The fibers of “001 record 1110. fluctuations in food and water supply as certainly as does the. thermometer the variations in tempera- ture. The fibers increase in diameter as Ihe conditions for existence improve. As these fail lllO fibers continue to grow 4"lircak5" in the fibers. as they are. call- .cd, are a Source of great loss and an- noyance to manufacturers. In the case of breeding ewes it. seems alm0si. ini- A. I y . . l - . . 0n strike in llaniliurg. ‘DOSSlllle to prevent breaks in ocuasional l Princess _Elizaleth of Lippc is dead. She was Sixty-three years of age. i The Porte denies the reports of re- fleeces, as any severe shock to the sys- tem may cause them. Severe fright from an attack by dogs has been known ‘cent massacres at Diarbekir and Khar- ,L0 1'05““! in llFOken fleeces. put. 1 Cuban rebels attacked the town of Guaiiabacoa. near flaviina, on Tuesday ‘and burned a part. of the town. Arrests of_ persons suspected of being concerned in plots against the Govern- ment continue in Constantinople. A cyclone. accompanied by heavy floods. hasswcpi the _ Indies, causmg great. loss of life. l Sir '1‘). J. Morison. the newly appoint- ‘ ed British Aml'zassador to succeed the lMarquis of Dufferin. has arrived in : Pa ms. The Paris police have seized Gare. du Nord . , . ‘ manifesto by Prince \ricior Napoleon. ’l‘lic Hamburg employers have refus- al: the. striking dot-k laborers to arbitration. All the harbor laborers at. Hamburg Committee, kind a general strike mi'iicnl. Gen. Porfirio lliiiz. who was first elected ‘to the PreSidcncy of Mexico In 1870. has just lit-en inaugurated for lll(‘ fifth lune. Lord Roscmeail, Governor of Czipe thlcny. who has been suffering from dri'psy. will undergo an operation in ‘a low days. The Minister of French Government is opposed to ill:- pi‘rpcsril [0 include $40,000,000 in 1h:- navzil estimates for new iiicn-ofâ€"war. The Government has decided to re- ‘ncw the charter of the. Bank of France. for 3.; years. The selic‘m coni- Marine iii l he bank. (iatulrlishes that ihifiwiifc (If ll_Iltll)l- iual gambler is ('llllili‘tl it. a divorce. 'and lo the management of her Cilil-‘ l dreii's property. A mass meeting of the Farmers" Union was heild in Lyons. France, at. which the dealers in salt meals ri-solv- ed in favor of the exclusion of Ann-râ€" icaii pork produce in View of the fall in the price of swine. Signor Ct!:'iflbl. the Italian Consul. and the. captains of the warships \‘ol~ turno and SLaffeLta, with six other offiers, are. I‘i‘l‘llf‘l.(‘.il to have been mur- dered by Simialcs a1 fiingziiloxo. accord- ing: to reports from Zanzibar. on Gen. “'eyler‘s failure to subdue. the i Cuban insurgents, says the gloomy out.- ~look in the inland iiiaiios ii. lIIll‘USlilL.l0 to exclude the possibility of some kind of [Initial States iiiicri‘cntimi. Lorii Cromer. the British Agent at Cairo, has officially informed the. Egyp- ‘ iiaiti Governmcnt. that if they decide to . repay to the Cai~se the money :iilransed to meet the. expenses of the Angloâ€" l Egyptian expedition, Gri‘at Britain will refund the amount. _...,___...â€"_ BRIDAL S U l-‘lslltS’l‘l'l‘ [ON S. If the wedding ring is lost the. couple will separate. If an apple be thrown upon the roof of the bride-groom’s house it is a sign the bride will be happy. The bride must not look in the glass after performing her toilet unless one hand is unglovcd- If a. bride tears her wedding dress. it is not good. ’ It is unlucky for a bride to put her bare feet on any bare floor on her wedding night. To (mangle. the name and not the let- ter is to c ange for worse and not for bet ter.‘ bride open If the an umbrella in the house bad hick will surely follow. It is unlucky for two brides to meet in a. church. . ~ The bride. should not permit the best man to wear pverything black at the ceremony as it is a. very bad omen. eastern West. .large packages of a. ed to submit their difference with the: throughout Europe is said to be, im-2 mittee opposed all schemes ior a State. A divorce jiidgiiieni. given in Paris‘ The, London "l'i2iics. aficr rainiiii-niing. l But, barring accidents, reasonable care will secure .3 uniformly strong-fibered fleece.‘ '10 Just this season of the year many ‘brcaks" are attributable. They ircsult from allowing the flocks to de- pend too long upon the pasture fields for support and in some cases to expos- rum to severe storms. A single \veek's neglect. may damage the fleece beyond repair. Lost weight in fat and flesh can be regained, but a weak point in the fleece cannot, be repaired. longer the splice in a rope or strap, the safer it. is: so the longer the grass and grain feeding overlap each other the better. If the flecks can be brought up to winter quarters strong and ac- customed to eating grain. there need be no fluctuation in their physical condi- tion in record in the wool fibers. . it may be asked here if high feed- ?ing is compatible with the production iof fine wool. Certainly the fact. that the highly fed breeds at England pro- duce coarse wool and the great migrat- ory flocks of Spain that gathered their sustenance rom the native growths of grasses developed the finest. fleeces in the world, were no accidents. Just how far the conditions of their existence de- termined the character of their fleeces is far the conditions of their existence is hard to say,biit without doubt they were :i very large facior. Constani attention to selection might counterbalance the tendency to produce a coarse fiber under high feeding, but certainly as English methods of feed- ing are adopted in this country the tendency will lie toward the production of a coarse-fibcred fleece. Just; now that. is not to be deplored. \Yith the exception of a Very limited deiiianthc fineness of fiber is little considered. It. ‘is uniformity of fibers lbIOllLT-lloul the flPi'ttl', uniform strength throughout the. li-ngt ll of the fiber, and freedom from foreign matter, that make a fleece val- I uablc. FARM NOTES. 7 - O - 1 When prices are low it may be due ,to causes which will soon pass away. iAt. this season many farmers sell in i. order to realize cisa to meet. obligation and to avoid storage (luring 1h:- win- "lL‘l‘, lli‘llCP, Ill" biili}; of crop is now mov- giiig rind pi"‘cs will bi- bciter later on. Iris ill". mat". is Will not. then be so lili- iei‘aily Sllplilli‘il. ‘ 1 How much an acre will produce o'c- punds upon climate, fertility of soil and '. other Circiims‘aziccs. In Switzerland an {acre kccps five. cows. \\'I‘.l(‘h are on the ;S()lllli£_ sysicrii. in Japan a fiveâ€"acre 1 [arm is L")llh‘(lt'l‘~,‘li a large one; In this l('(lUIilI'_\' in the growmg of “truck" as :much as $301) has been made in a year‘ from an acre. where. the lzlll'l was near ’4t large iiiarltet. When fruit or ve-geiablcs are sent. to a commission merchant and are not. in l perfect condition iicis compelled to sell as soon as possible In avoid deteriora- llOll in value, but when the fruit ar- rives in good condition he can hold for better prices. The. proper shipping of vpcr:sii:tb.¢- lariii produce to market is liioi thoroughly understood if the man- ner ill which much of the produce rciiciies the market is an indication. Cease old methods on the farm that have provcn unprofitable. Don't con- tinue in the footsteps of your father unless it pays. Conditions change. year- ly in important particulars, both in market demand and methods of produc- tions, and you must. keep pace. with them. This can best be accomplished by keeping in touch With _the world through the columns of reliable publica- tions of frequent issue, and theexercxse of trained Judgment aided by thought- ful reading. It is difficult to procure wood ashes that have their full strength of potash. the.‘ The I illustrated articles on the Canadian' ,lumbcr industry. The reason for do- ; ing this. is that a very strong colonial ,fccling is growing and in fact already . exists in England in favor of trade with i the colonies, and it was considered that this was an opportune time for further ! enlightenment in regard to one of Can- lada's most important industries. Mr. EIIaynes has been visiting the lower iProvinces and Ontario. He is already very favorably impressed with the counâ€" I try and says that. our timber resources j are greater than he imagined. He finds : that the manufacture of square timber ifor the Quebec mm. ket. this year will l he at least 5,000,000 cubic feet, as against l4,000,000 last year. but he says as the "coves" in Quebec are unprecedentedly bare, more so than for years that in View of the active demand the increase will be easily absorbed. ! Speaking of the business generaltly, Mr. Haynes says. that it was a matter of great surprise to him that the manu- facturers of lumber. in Canada do not ciultivate closer business relations with the actual buyers in England. If the wood-converting manufacturers here {would take the trouble to study more closely the English market they would ffind that there were many lines of goods they could manufacture that would find a ready sale there. As_an instance he mentioned the. extenswe ltrade already done in miscellaneous y goods by the Rathburn Company of Des- oronto. _ Mr. Haynes also mentions the fact that the streets in London were being paved to a large extent with \Vest Australian hard woods. and he thinks . it would be well if the Canadian lum- ‘bermen would investigate this matter. as he believes there are several kinds of hard wood in this country that would answer the purpose admirably. Mr. ? Haynes is agreeably surprised with ,thc climate of this country and will l endeavor in his journat to undeoeive its readers in the. matter. He thinks it ‘a shamothat the country should be so ,much misrepresented. Before leaving the country Mr. Haynes will make a. short trip to the western States. A FIGHT IN THE TRANSVAAL. Each Thought. the other lad Been Kind. But Soon Found Their Mistake. The stories of fighting between Boers and English in South Africa have a strong resemblance to those of Indian fighting in the old days in New Eng- land. Bullets are exchanged between excellent marksmen concealed behind stones and bushes, and each bullet has. under such circumstances, an immense value. . The Cape Mercury says that Mr. Sampson, one of the Johannesburg “re- formers," still in prison at Pretoria, is the hero of a famous combat with old Botha. a Boer fighter of renown. In the Boer war of 1881 Sampson and Botha found themselves behind stones on a level plain, shooting at each Oih- icr. Sampson presently made sure that I he. had hit Boiha and raised his head a. little, when a bullet plowed his neck. “My man'is dead," exclaimed Botha, and exposed himself. At the same in- stant a bullet. from Sampson's rifle struck him. 'This time I’ve got him!" shouted Sampson, and raised himself up. but a. bullet. grazed his side and he. dropped. Botha now had no doubt that he. had ended his antagonist, and jumped up on his feet. only to be again laid low. Though the men were now past fighz- ing. with two bad wounds apiece. both recovered, and when Sampson settled in the Transvaal they became, gi'i‘at friends, and often chaffed cach orhcr about this encounter. IMMENSE TENEMENT HOUSE. Most of the large towns in France con» lain workmeu's model dwellings. or tenctiicnt houses. which have been digâ€" nified with the picturesque appella- tion of lmrracks. but none of these have attained to the colossal proportions of the “Freihaus,” situate.“ VYielden. a suburb of Vienna. .This building has 13 courtyards. and accommodates 2,112 persons belonging to ‘all classes of society. One 'tman is specially ap- pointed to deliver letters to the in- mates. whose correspondents have to be careful to put on the cover not merely the Christian name and the surname of the addressee. .but the number of the. yard. the staircase and the flat. if they_want the letter to reach its destination.