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Westem JOMMERCE HEAD OFFICE, - TORONTO, ONT. Capital (Paid Up) - Rest ~ - ESTABLISHED 1867. BUSINESS WITH FARMERS In addition to handling Commercial Paper, this Bank makes a special business of Loans to Farmers, and the discount ing of Farmers' Sales Notes at reasonable rates of interest, Careful and prompt attention is also given ta the collecting of Notes, etc. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Special Attention is Directed to tire Following Advaninges offered by our Savings Bank: Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received and interest allowed at current rates. Interest is added to the deposit Twice in each year, at the end of May and November. The Depositor is subject to no delay whatever in the withdrawal of the whole or any portion of the deposit. No Charge is made on withdrawing or depositing money. Port Perry Branch G. M. GIBBS, Manager. $8,000,000 2,000,000 R. D. ARCHER, M.D.C.M. Victoria University ; M.B. Toronto University, Member 01 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont.; Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburg; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin- 1 af the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons , Glasgow ; Late Resident Papil of the Rolunda Hospital, Dublin, for Women, Office and Residence, second door west of Davis' Furniture Emporium, Queen: Street. Office hours--9 to 11a. ., and 2 to 5 p.m,, and evenings. I have taken as partner, my brother, Dr . R. Archar, M. D., C. M., Member of Col- ege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont. Port Perry, June 9, 1897. DR. E. L. PROCTER (sec rssoR TQ, "DR, CLEMENS ) M.D GM. of Tiixity College University, fo E Toronto. y towor Certificate, College, Toronto. us and Surgeons, Ont., 1 of stase of New York. Ofice $n Dr. Clemens' old site. Qpposite To ORT FFRRY. IN OTICH. SANGSTER, Physician, Sur couchenr, and Dr. W. A ; st, may on and after vo-day, He found ii their new Sargical and Dental Offices aver the Post Office, where they will be founad as heretofore, prepared to attend to their respective. professions in all their branches. Port Perry' Dec. 8, 1897. DR. 8. J. MELLOW, PHYSI0IAN, SURGEON, &C. Office and Residence, Queen St., Port Perry Office hours--8 to 10 a.m.; 1to3 p.m., and Evenings. Telephone in office and house, open night and day over the lines south, connected with the residence of G. L. Robeon, V.S. Port Perry, Nov. 15, 1894, ao Bank oF ofNaDa. | Port Pe NERAL Banking Business trans- ~ Special attention paid to Drafts issued available at all States and Great rry Agency. rates. Interest calenlated an each depositor semi-annually. H G HUTCHESON, ANAGER, credited to Port Perry, June 26, 18907. STERLING (British Capital) on good Mortgage security. Apply to DAVID J. ADAMS Banker and Broker, Port Perry, Ont. | | April 22, 1897. MONEY TO LOAN. rPHE Subscriber is prepared to LEND ANY AMOUNT on Farm Seeurity AT 65 PER CENT. #a@ Also on Village Property. 4F MORTGAGES BOUGHT. EA HUBERT L. EBBELS, Banister, Office next $0 Ontario Bank. Port Perry, May 10, 1885 J. A. MURRAY, a ra {Rooms over Allison's Drug Store] PORT PERRY. All. branclies of Dentistry, inelsding QFown and Bridge Work successfully practiced. Artifical Teeth on Gold, Silver, Aluminum or Rubber Plates. Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement Painless extraction when required: 4a Prices to suit the times® ort Perry, Feb. 1897. vA SE fice over the Post Office, Office Hours--9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 6 p,m. p-------- Deposits receivad at the hi hest current ; To lend at 4, 4 and 6 per » t Also open Saturday evenings. 4a Gold Fillings, Bridge and Crown Work a Specialty, Vitalised Air. Dr F. D. McGrattan | (DENTIST) L,D.S. of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, | also D.D.8. of Toronto University. Office over McCaw's Jewelry Store. Office hours--8 a.m. t08.30 p.m, vort Perry, June 29, 1898. 3) Look at your tongue. Is it coated ? Then you have a bad taste in your mouth every 'morning. Your appetite is poor, and food dis- tresses you. You. have frequent he constipated. a There's an old and re- liable cure: £100,000 + Don't take a cathartic dose and then stop. Bet- ter take a laxative dose each night, just enough to cause one good free move- ment the day following. You feel better the very next day. Your q appetite returns, your 4 dyspepsia is cured, your headaches pass away, f 4 your tongue clears up, B ] your liver acts well, and your bowels no longer 4 give you trouble. Price, 25 cents. All druggists, "1 have taken Ayer's Pills for 35 years, and I consider them the best ma One pill does me more good than half a box of any other kind I have ever tried." Mrs N, E. TALBOT, March 80, 1809, Arrington, Kans, HOPES FULFILLED. After the rain, then the sunshine again; After the night the dawn, And a sweet release and abiding peace All Under the beaut In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose. He only knows of the sweetness that flows From nature's purest rills Who, weary, mounts to the life giving founts Far up among the hills. But ovec and over this lesson stern The fickle and careless old world must learn: Under the beauty and bloom of the rose, In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose. After the fear and the sad, bitter tear, Cometh the hope fulfilled; After the climb, then the prospect sublime, As the Good Father willed. But over and over this lesson stern The fickle and careless old world must learn: Under the beauty and bloom of the rose, In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose. --Los Angeles Herald. LADY 0 LIGHTFINGERS. By M. Quad. Copyright, 1901, by C. B. Lewis. The start of the whole matter was the lodging of a complaint at Scotland Yard by a well known jeweler doing JOS. BAIRD | ICENSED AUCTIONEER for County of Ontario. Sale Register at the Opservir Office Patronage solicited. Manchester, Jan, 19, 1899. x the AUOTIONEER. a HE d takes this opportunity WMH. HARRIS, BA, LLB. F. PATERSON, K. C,, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Pars Se Buildin Ba 5 i) Toronto: itd 'Cusaren, Ang. 26, 1896. and Eldon of returning thanks for the very liberal patrcunge he has received as Auctioneer in the past. The increased experience and extensive practice which I have had will be turned to advantage of patrons, and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on pir i being ly, Dratected, Ne 'spared to make it profitable their sales in my hi THOS. SWAIN. | WM. GORDON, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator &c. | Fi 'the Townships of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, ara, Rama, Mariposa. Partiesentrusting their Sales to me may ely ¢ on the utmsot attention being given to js Ee ry Sone on Foi | bik WM. GORDON, Y Sunderland, PROF. 8. J. COHN RACTICAL OPTICIAN and Ear Specialist, 176 Wilton A! visit Port ry or gy All orders en 'and oronto, arrantod to 'e,10r0 ! "in six month. -- action. re W My D, ve pur grin John | : fA 3 on the Strand. He had miss- ed two diamond rings from a tray he bad been exhibiting to several lady cus- tomers, but unfortunately for him the gems had been. gone an hour perhaps before he knew that deft fingers had purloined them under his very eyes. He could recall the names of four or five ladies, and he headed the list with the name of a marquis' wife, but the inspector on duty might well smile and torn away at that. Had the jeweler not been in such a perturbed. state 'of mind he would never have included that name. Indeed, before he left the place he apologized, partly to If, for having given any names at all, as it was utterly absurd to suspect any of , ated 1 | | | | | the names, but when pressed to do 0 the list. The others were almost as above mn, and the 100 ed at the complainant 13 & way to make him feel like a culprit. This time I 'was put on the case, but I shall be hon est enough to say that It was a mer matter of form. It was more than official's bead was worth even to hi that ope of the three ladies menti might have carried the ornament aw in a moment of absentmindedness. it was about five days after this rd case was rep This tected almos warquig' wife had lel had greatly admired the ornaments and had partly decided to purchase them at # later date. Not for one instant, not | on his life, did the jeweler suspect the lady of title of even taking the jewel away io a fit of 'abstraction, but some- how he felt it his duty to report the ed case. The Inspector didn't bluff this third tradesman' quite as heavily as he bad the first and second, and he looked = than grave'and thoughtful when 1 was giv- npeligl en the case and be related particulars. wish. 1 was told to go my own way about it, to but if | made a blunder Scotland Yard they would see me no more as a detective. the That wasn't at all encouraging, you fora | see, but I bad to go ahead and make a the Much to my surprise, after offes thinking the matter ovér 1 came to the ten wife asked intor The idea almost tock my breath away "We start. conclusion that the marquis' might possibly be gulity of shoplifting. at the first go off, but when I came to recall the many rumors about the mar quis being a gambler, hard up, a man [T OUR MISTAKES." THURSDAY, AUG. 8, 1901. - ser wn we THE RAILROAD BOSS. | will do. Sev: id planted with 1 boney for each per acre, and as wice and remalus in Claim His Attention and Try Hie A SAMPLE DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF A ROAD, d and One its head. 4 Execut| = ) often the total x4 ive Ability--The Half Hour od, have & ees a us dan- 8a ci ones #0 ly perform this wanta them all 0 Inside. The keeper also constantly empty the hat the bees shall always to fill it--London Stand- Tired Man, as a man who complalo- intly because it required so r him to make a living. He t he would rather be buried for a living, and so bis re started out to gratify bis "stranger, seeing them about a living man, inquired why ydolng so. On being told that plained of having to work ing and preferred to be buried, 's heart was moved, and he to give the complaining man of corn. ' "Is it shelled?' discontented soul, and when it was not he remarked, Jet the burial proceed." Too Much For Him, He looked me straight in of miserish habits at home, and s0| the forth. there looked to be something in| it from a detective's standpoint. The lady was well known to me by sight. She was past 45, much faded, and her face always carried a fretful, worried look. 1 simply waited until ghe appeared on the street in her car | {pn the riage. as If bound on a shopping tour, and then followed her. It was a week after the third ease was reported that ghe came out. and she went directly tc a Bond street jeweler's. 1 followed her into the store, where she wai v ere, sir, you've flatly con- d your former statement. --How so? You sald before that he bent on you, and now you'll please yw he could look you straight with a bent gaze. 3 faints. JIE TS PE COFFEE GRAINS. Ametlcans are the greatest coffée topers | in the world. | known and received with great servile | ity, and when a tray of jewelry was One-half of coffee the world's production of comes to the United States. Ev week more than $1,000,000 is placed before her I felt sure that the ar ofthe United States in payment next half hour would clear her of all suspicion or complicate the case still | further. Her manner was that of lofty | condescension. She slowly and lan. | guidly inspected the jewels, and now | and then the proprietor of the store, wh tin in pers % when I revealed my identity to the Jeweler and asked him to be sure that } there was nothing missing from the tray. He was at first inclined to ad={! minister a snub, but when he found | and the finest ring of the lot conspicuously absent be almost feil over in a faint There was no room to doubt that the | lady bad "lifted" it, but that only made in For a trades=% 2 Constantinople in 1554 and into the case worse in a way. man and a detective to charge a lady of quality with shoplifting was as bad as treason against the crown. A mefd word would bring financial ruin upon the jeweler, and he was ready to stand the loss ten times over rather tham * 8 kit I'wice more within the next fort- night I followed the lady Into jewelry: establishments and morally convicted her of shoplifting. This made six cases in all, and, no matter how the victims felt, we of the Yard were quite deter- x | mined that something ought to be done. I had been on the staff for ten years, and my work had given good satisfac: tion, but I was selected as a sacrifice.' 1 mean by that that I was ordered to secure an interview with the lady, in= form her of my discoveries and take | the consequences, I must take all the | burden on myself and clear the Yi There could be but one ending, and before making my ¢all my resignation was written out, and 1 bad arranged to go with a private dgency. On morning T appeared at the residence the marquis and boldly asked for my. lady on important business. I was kept waiting until she was satisfied that I was neither a process server nor a creditor and was then admitted the presence of a very slipshod lookin woman who showed me scant col when she sald: "Well, sir, you are here, and now || what Is it?" vil "It's about the jewelry, my lady," I Black's, "The finger rings { gunburst from Brown's, the earrings | jg from Green's. You carried them away and forgot to return them." BE My lady's face went White as SOW, and she gasped for breath, and I ex- | pected to see her faint away. By a tremendous effort she pulled herself to- gether, and as the color came back to her cheeks she hissed at me: "You dog, you! The EE gee that you get your just Leave the house at once ¢ of coff Last year Germany and France togeth- only consumed half as much coffee as el the United States. The coffee grain is the seed of a pulpy fruit hich resembles a cherry and is very t latable. : and LR 'With the General Manager. After being for a few hours with a railroad president one has a better con- ception of the magnitude of the Chinese treatise on all things, The president al has just i the private ear, often ered a luxury, he appears in his office fresher for work than the suburbanite who has just come in on the commuter's train. While the president is looking ,over his personal mail word spreads | about the big building that "the old man | is back. Gradually the private secre- taries of the different chiefs drop into the outer office to learn from the presi- dent's private secretary what business is most likely to come up first and what chance there is for action on some pet measure. The bell rings, and for a few minutes the private secretary is closeted with the president. Daily telegraphic re- ports huve kept the president informed ' of events on the Nae, but in a surpris- ingly brief time he learns of smaller hap- i of left by pr callers and of the general behavior of his child, the railroad. Then the president sends for his chief assistant, the general mapager, and learns officially some of the things the private secretary has told him as gossip and | many others of greater moment, but per haps of less real interest. The half hour with the general manager may mean de- cisions involving the expenditure of hun | dreds of thousands of dollars. It may | mean happiness or anxiety to hundreds of | homes. For example, it may be decided to move the company's shops from Dan to Beersheba. This means a move for employees, a breaking of home ties and perhaps disappointment to engaged lov- ers. Again, it may be decided to extend | the Utopia branch, which means a for- | tune to investors in land beyond Utopia and ruin to some in the old terminus. The president may tell the general man- ager that the demand for a dividend om | the preferred stock is becoming more | clamorous and that they must get along | another year without the 5,000 new box | | cars that are badly needed and the build- ing of which would affect many idle men. The president very likely calls the atten- tion of the general manager to the au- ditor's estimate of last week's earnings | just a little more. | The president reminds the general man- ager that the contract for hauling Chicago dressed beef is conditional upon a second | morning delivery at the seaboard two hours earlier than that previously given by & rival line, He also observes that the oval nd. g bility ness, that the delay to the hotel men's foffee plant is indigenous to Asia | 'Africa, but the greater part of the product mow comes from the st of our coffee comes from South Central American countries. The mes trom Porto Rico, Java and the ppines, with a little from Hawail. use of coffee as a beverage began thern Arabia in the latter half of eenth century. It was introduced in 1615. PU -- Kept His Umbrella. e fomposer Panseron, while driving ward in his cab during a terrific met the aged composer Cheru- plodding along on foot, protected he storm only by a shabby old um- full of holes. Panseron took com- n on the old gentleman and begged o make use of the cab, saying that mself would walk home. Cheru- accepted and took the other's place cab. Then Panseron naturally d the old gentleman for the loan of brella. Dh, no, my dear boy!" said Cheru- 47¢ is & well known fact that a never again sets eyes on an ums ja that be has lent." And he drove p Panseron's cab. : J Animal Mimiory. ervers of nature are frequently k with the singular resemblances of to leaves, dried sticks, and so and these likenesses are supposed ve grown out of the necessity of pro- y "tl e gm ption against or concealment from ene- An interesting example of this d of resemblance was recently brought tion of the Hi logical so- ty in London by Dr. Chapman, who ibited a spider found inhabiting some near Canpes, on which were also ned the cases of a species of moth. hen at rest, the spider exhibited almost the same form and color 8s the "cases surrounding it : A ---------------------- © Realism. he manuscript of my '01d Oak editor." t wn. 1 thought g jokes at my expense and ido't know his " specialdby a freight wreck last week will burt the winter travel to California and that the new dining car must be made to | pay expenses. He asks why the ton mile cost of moving freight has not decreased in proportion to the recent outlay for big engines. | He ventures the opinion that the su- | perintendent of the Slowburg division must have been asleep while the city council of Ringville passed an ordinance requiring the company to erect ten more electric lights at street crossings. He ex- presses polite astonishment at the failure of the passenger department to book the headquarters train for the next Grand | Army encampment. He makes no at- | tempt at concealing his disgust over a | competitor securing ten trainloads of agricultural machinery for the western | prairies. He then takes up the question { of a Jarger.terminal charge for switching cars to connecting lines and suggests to | the general manager that the revenue | would be increased by more favorable | terms in the next contract with other | roads. | The patient and loyal general manager, | who bas taken all this in the Pickwickian | | sense in which it was intended, now has bis turn. From the bundle of papers un- der his arm he draws a condensed esti- | mate of an elaborate plan for reducing the cost of transportation on a certain division by running around a bluff and locating freight yards near a busy river instead of climbing into the town. The trained eye of the president catches the salient points, and he tells the general manager whether or not funds are likely | to be available, whether or not it is poli- | tic to antagonize municipal or other in- | terests. The general manager diplomatically shows the president that the New Or leans cotton traffic is suffering because of the presilent's order to consider all Minneota flour as rush freight. He asks authority to increase the pay of a super- intendent who has a better offer from another road. From the bundle of con- densed reports he shows a saving of 100 tous of coal the previous week by rea- son of better fuel furnished from the new mines, He tells of a pew gasolene en- gine at Pumptown which will cut in two the monthly bills for water supply for locomotives. He reports a conference with the mayor of a big city about the smoke nuisance near the freight yards. pened then? . a storm, and you could see ¢ my 'Old Oak Tree' strewn street. am to the "--Chicage An Outrage. y Du Are you aware, Mrs. t your dog has just bitten lie? 4 one--What, your Willie, just got over scarlet fe- Mrs. Jones, if anything n to Fido I'd never forgive Will pe uthoe jam Kinglake, a & nd "History of the War In was no admirer of the dal 'in early days. Ouce, look [r, Villiers, then father of the remarked, with his medita- cleve: *imaa, & very sleves He sug that, it would be well for the passenger department to stop promis- ing dollar excursionjsts a two hour sched- | ule for g hard th hour run, He urges conciliatory mensures toward the city council of Bucktown, which will repeal the speed ordinance as soon as the old morning dation train is d, and "No. 6" (the St. Louis express) can then get through the town on time. In the most nonchalant manner he asks to be excused, that he 'may catch a train Jeaving in five minutes, as he has an ap- pointment for the next morning some 600 miles away. Before the general manager has finished the private secretary is entertaining two or three reporters of afternoon papers. The president sees them, comes out, shakes hands and tells them rates are to be stiffer than ever, that the stockholders are tired of hunting snipe for the fun of holding empty bags. He then jocosely asks them for news about his road, as he | has been in New York helping his wife to do her shopping. BR ama Versatile Woman. "It's a poor rule that won't work both Many a woman has succeeded in fool of a man, and some few ways. making a n | women in making a man of a + Tonis Rar. i ¢ Sarcastie. Art Dealer--Yes, iat wae yaisted by and asks why expenses cannot be reduced | ay of | thelr jaws, while th the more direct method , truders with her s | The jaws of the w . the bee a tongue, but in reality it is more than this, for the whole arrange. ' ment consists of two slender filaments called maxillee, the under lip and the actual tongue. If a drop of honey lies near the surface of a flower, the slen- der, active tongue, darting out from the case formed by the maxillsm, licks It up with the same ease that a dog licks a plate. Should the tube of the flower be elongated the bee has at | command another length of tongue, | which is shot out from within and ghuts up like a telescope when no | longer wanted, | To appreciate fully this delicate organ you should watch the bee sepa- | rate ft into its component parts and clean it out. The lengthening process of the proboscis, as the tongue and its allied parts are sometimes called, is accomplished by a series of springs and hinges. In addition to this telescoping power, the tongue is a hairy member, the hairs arranged In rings, the longest | ones toward the center. They assist in | lifting in the nectar and in pumping it into the mouth. Thence it goes to the honey sack. PITH AND POINT. | Very tew people want to know the truth unless it fits their prejudice. Every one who doesn't like you 18 looking for a chance to laugh at you. A great deal of nerve is sometimes necessary to keep from being cranky. You know a whole lot if you know | enough to know you don't know any- t thing. | When a boy Is not invited to a party, he hangs around the outside to see how things are going. | When a dressmaker makes a quilt | out of silk scraps, the women begin to , look at her with suspicion. Every one ig some kind of a sinner. The employee too honest to take a post- 'age stamp will steal his eniployer's time. i » you want them fo do a ell the why. Don't tell them they must do it or take a beating, or that they must do it because you say 80. ------ An Undesirable Boarder, Some time ago the keeper of a board- | ing house retired from business after having acquired a comfortable com- petency in the course of about 20 years. During that period her house became well known in the city and among the women in her own business. She nev- er realized how well known it was un- til she set out to find a place to live in herself. She applied first at the house kept by a woman nearly as well known as her- self only to learn that there was no room for her. It was not until she had been through the same experience sev- | eral times that she came to understand that she was not wanted in the estab- lishments of her former rivals. Her | reputation for keeping 8 fine house was | too much for the other women, who did not want to submit to the scrutiny | of a former boarding house keeper Who | had made a reputation and a fortune in | the business, | She learned, after going to a hotel [ where her record could not be used | against her, that she was not the only | woman who had found it difficult to | get into a boarding house after having kept one of ber own. When they are well known, it is practically impossible for such women to find quarters, for | whatever her reasons may be the land- 1ady does not like to shelter her kind. unselfish. "So you proposed to Miss Chillers?" "Yes," answered Willie Washington. "You must have known she would reject you." "Of course. But it is an old saying that women can't keep a secret, and I was afraid she would get to comparing notes. 1 had proposed to all the other girls, and I didn't want her to feel slighted." : THE RAILROAD SCARE ODD EFFECTS OF THE FIRST SIGHT OF A LOCOMOTIVE. : Some of the People of the South Hid Behind Trees In 1833, When the Iron Horse Went By~The Country's Earliest Railroad. America cannot lay claim to the first locomotive or the first railroad. That great honor lies with England. Yet Yankee genius was not very far behind her, for, when George Stephenson launched his first real locomotive, the | Rocket, on the Liverpool and Manches- ter road in 1829, the first spike had been driven on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- "road, July 4, 1828, by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last of 4 i mmm | we had heard of, and some of £38 seen them, but what monster was this whose screams we heard? Presently it came in sight, flying aloft through' the alr and breathing fire and smoke, dnd our frightened steeds became un manageable, and in fact I think that some of our party were as badly fright- ened as their horses. If any of my. readers are old enough to remember the introduction of locomotives and how they felt at first sight of them, they will perhaps understand our sen: sations that day in the pine woods, "A mile or two farther on we café to a broken wagon by the side of the road, and near it sat a Georgia cracker smoking bis pipe. On being asked what was his trouble he replied. 'Well, stranger, I've oftea hearn tell of nulli- fication, and now I reckon I've saw if for true." hg It is somewhat amusing now to red of the superstitious dread with which the inhabitants looked upon the d- Ing of these first railroads. me thought the smoke of the continual passing trains would cause a pestilence or destroy all the crops along the road. Others were afrald to ride on the cars for fear of having their breath taken away, and the people in the cities ob jected to the railroad beipg built be- cause they feared the smoke from the engines would soil the clothes whieh' were hung out to dry. Many are yet living who looked upon the terrible, screeching iron monster with awe and trepidation. Mr. Nat Me Gee of Ivy, Albemarle, tells a joke upon himself that when he heard the train coming he jumped from his horse got behind a tree, where he viewed ff for fear of being run over. Mr. W. T. Prout, who was taking a wagon load of. produce to Richmond, when he reached Gordonville heard the whistle and ter- rible noise of the approaching tralm, apd he and his companions were BO scared that they sprang out, leaped the fence and ran across the field to a safe distance, leaving the wagon and team, fo its tate, bur whenrihe traf r It was only an engine and one coach. = The first roadbeds were formed, a8 has been stated, by driving piles in the ground, upon the top of which were placed wooden stringers, in which were cut & groove for the wheels to rum. These were called "wooden raflroads" and at a distance appeared like the ele- vated rallroads in the cities of the pres ent day. The honor of this invention was contested between John Hartman of Scottsville, Va., and John Willlams, an engineer of Ohio, but it did not prove a bonanza to either, for the wheels were constantly bouncing out of the groove, and the piles soon after gave place to solid dirt embankments, and strap iron ralls were substituted for the wooden groove. But the grad ing was very imperfect and uneven," which made riding on one of these primitive railroads like going over a corduroy road in a springless wagon, with the cars bouncing over these rough ralls to the jingling music of the windows.- De Carpets Shorten Life? ; Just think what a horrible receptacle of unclean things the carpet is in the rich English or French housel Where there are carpets, people should on ep« tering be given slippers, as in the Neth. erlands, or the foothath, as at a Turk- ish mosque. Mak'ug servants sweep carpets is another proof that. evil is wrought for want of thought. Flou- rens attributed the prevalence of lung and throat diseases in England to care' peted rooms.--Loundon Truth. The Squirrel! Hunter's Weapon, The cream of squirrel hunting is ems joyed by the man who uses a light rifle of small caliber and medium power. The *.22 long" as now turned out by our leading makers 'Is an Stesllent : weapon--in fact, the best in the for the purpose. Though not of nee, with surprising accuracy to the top the tallest 8. Good rifle shots ways alm for the squirrels head both to add to the difficulty of the sport and to avoid spoiling meat. And he it known that a squirrel's head at a range of 40 or 50 yards Is no easy mark. [If a reader doubts this, let him go to the woods for & day. keep all empty shells, and at the end of the day fet him try to make the dead squirrels and the empty shells tally--E. W. Sandys in Outing. ¢ Barly Birds. The green finch is the earliest It pipes as early as half past 1 In morning. The blackcap begins at b