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HIE NEWS IN A NIJ'ISHHL Mrs. May of Ashburnhaem got her foot caught between a plank and a rail at Peterboro' and was killed by aC.P.R. express. Mrs. Shortis has arrived at Montreal from Ireland. She will visit her son at the St. Vinzent de Paul Penitenti- ary. ‘ z 0 ’ Hon. Sidney Fisher, Minister of Ag- rlculture. will visit Great Britain this year and may attend the Paris Exposi- tion. Mr. D’Alton McCarthy. Q. C.. M.P., was thrown from his dogcart Sunday night and received injuries which cause grave apprehension. ’ Mrs. Patrick Canovan. on trial at Woodstock, N. B., on a charge of murdering her sister. Minnie Tucker. has been found not guilty. The celebrated Le Roi mine has pass- ed into the hands of a British syndi- cate. Three million dollars was the consideration. The members of the Canadian Marine Association have given up all hopes of having the canals Opened for Sunday this season. A rumor is current at Stratford that :11 Grand Trunk employees over 50 years of age engaged in the shops are to be discharged. The influx of Americans to Toronto to escape the inconvenience occasioned by the Spanish-American \x ar, promis- es to be large. B. M. S. warship Pelican, which ar- rived at Halifax on Saturday. is to be fitted out for the Newfoundland fish- ery protection service. Clearances in the Winnipeg clearing house during April aggregated $6,240,- 000, cornpared with $4,162,000 for the corresponding m‘onth of 1897. The jury in the Sternaman murder trial first reuorted a disagreement, and afterwards returned a verdict of “not guilty." The prisoner was then set at liberty. CANADA. Guelph’s ralte of taxation is 24 mills The Stikine River is open for navi- nation. Berlin' 5 tax rate has been struak at 17 3-4 mills. Hamilton temperance people are or- ganizing on the assumption that the plebiscite will be taken in September. Last month the (‘.P.R. sold 43,145 acres of land for 8140.275, or four times as much as was sold in April, The navigation season has opened at Montreal with a rush. The receipts of grain were the largest on record. Hamilton citizens have given seven- ty plots of land for use as potato patches. creased its discount to :1) per cent. The London City Council fixed the rate of taxation for 1898 at. 21 1-2 mills on the dollar. A. T. Brydges. a Hamilton Klondik- er, who left about a. year ago, has re- turned, poorer by $600. The W 11th Railway people intend putting a good service on the South 0111 Grand Trunk line between Detroit and Buffalo. There will befour trains dtily each way. Corporal McNair of the Northwest Mounted Police jubilee contingent com- mitted suicide at Wardner. Convict McGuire. of Cobourg serv- ing a life sentence in Kingston peni- tentiary for attempted murder, has counpleted a. large oil painting of Christ's ascension. On Friday the steamer W. R. Lynn brought 232,000 bushels of corn to 0% en Sound harbor. This is thought to be the largest cargo of corn ever floated in fresh water. 'i‘he Northwest elections will be held next October. Western miners are asking for an in- creased duxy on lead imports. The Hamilton Gas Company has in- creased its discount to :1) per cent. Five Spaniards, cigar-makers, have arrived in Hamilton, Out, from New York, and will live there. It is rumored wt Kingstom that Mr. George H. Bertram, M.P., will pur- chase th: locomotive works there. The entire town of Northport, Brit- ish Columbia, was wiped out by fire, but the Le Roi smelter was uninjured. Andrew P. Scott, former cashier of the insolvent Farmers’ Savings Loan Company, has returned to Toronto. Over 5,000 immigrants arrived at Winnipeg last month. Cyrus Seymour, who has served three terms in penitentiary for horse stealing and bigamy. has been arrested at Kingston with a stolen horse and carriage in his possession. :Acmflng Items Abont Ont Own Country. Gm! Britain. the United States. and All Parts at the Globe. Condensed and Auon for Easy Reading. Preparations are being made for the enlemement of the Provincial Parlia- mentary library at. Toronto. to admit the books which have been purchased from Sir Oliver Mowet. An extensive anowslide occurred on the line of the C. P. IL. near Glacier House and broke throng h 2!) feet of enowaheda. Luckily the evening train had passed. There will be no inte‘r- rnption of treftic. Mr. C. Ross, president of the Ottawa Board of Trade has accepted an invita- tion to the meeting of the British Asso- oiation in September next on the occa- eion of the Cabot memorial celebration at Bristol, Eng. [E VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Societv Fireman Clark from the G.T.R. at Burlington. bNITED s'ruw. The price of beer has been advanced at Chicago to 85 a barrel. John Yore, father-in-law of Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator is dead at St. J oseph, Mich. of the C.P.R. _ Waterspouts and tornadoes have re- sulted in loss of life and great destruc- tion of prOperty in Arkansas. John â€"Y. â€"McKane, the former Coney Island political leader, was released from Sing Sing on Saturday. Jacob Gramm, aged '50, of Morton street, New York, on Tuesday murder- ed two of his children, mortally wound- ed a third, and then inflicted fatal wounds on himself. The murdered children were five and one year old. The other one is seven years old. ’ Lewis Wa rner, president of the Coun- ty National Bank, of Northampton. Mass, is wanted for the embezzlement of ten to fifty thousand dollars. The issuance of a warrant was the result of a meeting of the bank examiner and the directors of the institution. The First National Bank of Carth- age, N.Y., has closed its doors. The pre- sident of the bank, Mr. E. H. Myers. has absconded. An investigation of his accounts revealed the fact that he has been defrauding the bank for eight years. The amount of the defalcation is estimated at $110,000. Large quantities of Minneapolis flour are being sent to Montreal for export. Effect of the war. The Ogdensburg and Lake Cham- plain railroad has been sold under mortgage foreclosure, for $2,500,000. Mans Bros. and \Volf Bros.. Cincin- nati, shoe‘ factories, each seven stories. were burned on Friday morning. Loss Mildred Brewster, on trial at Monâ€" tpelier, Vt., for the murder of Anna Wheeler, of. whom she was jealous. has been acquitted on the ground of in- sanity. A fire panic occurred in the Cali- fornia theatre, San Francisco, at which. Madame Melba. was performing. on Saturday night. The fire was in the next building, but the peeplop disre- garding the statement of the manage~ ment, started: a rush for the street. Fortunately no one was severely in- jured. Madame Melba fainted on the stage. $200, 000. At Jericho, in Cedar County, Ma, 3 torp do killed thirteen persons 011t- right and fatally injured five or six more. The contractors engaged on corpor- ation work for the city of New York have decided in selfâ€"defence to sue-- pend Operations owing to the decision of the‘ comptroller that the city has largely exreeded its debt limit, and that no funds will be available for the completion of much work under con- tract. Forty thousand men are thus thrown out of work. GENERAL. Bread riots. continue at Piaen'ga, Italy. 7 Fire at Chicago on Wednesday de- stroyed Armour’s felt works, at aloss of $250,000. The fire caused a panic among the employee. None were killed. One hundred and thirtyâ€"five passes, giving permission for correspondents of neWSpapers to accommny the army. have been issued at Washington. Edward Gruen. who is really Baron Unterrechter, has confessed to the im- migration authorities at New York to having stolen 67,000 florins from his aunt. A great Catholic demonstration is be- ing held in New York in celebration of the silver jubilee of Archbishop Corriga n. ‘ The Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia have received an order from the Russian Government for the construction of two important vessels. one a battleship and the other a pro- tected cruiser. Prince Koung, President of the Chinese Fbreigh Office, is dead at Pekin. Mr. and Mrs. Cain and the Misses Archer, Hatfield and Schenck Ameri- can missionaries, were murdered in Sierra Leone. William Carstairs, the Scotch divine who for fourteen years served William III. as confidential secretary and advis- er-in-chief, has been implicated in the Rye-house Plot, a conspiracy to assas- sinate Charles II._ and place Mon- mouth on the throne. 'He was put to the excruciating torture of the thumb- kins or thumbserews, which he endured heroically, without confessing or im- pl icating -- others. Fourteen escaped prisoners from New Manamacca, New Guinea, are reported to have attacked a neighboring vil- lage. killing and eating 18 men. 'Ihe Transvaal Government wants a loan, and it is said that neither Ger- many nor England will negotiate until more concessions have been granted. ' After Carstairs became the private adviser of William, he was presented with the instrument by which he had been tortured. The king, wishing to see the measure of fortitude necessary to endure the terrible torture without making aconfession of some soft placed his thumbs in the machine and told Carstairs to turn the screw. He turned slowly _and cautiously. A King's llxsu-ric-nco. “1m Ilw Instrument ul' Tux-tare. "It' is unpleasant," said King Wil- liam. “yet it might be endured. You are trifling with me; turn the screw so that I may really feel pain similar to that you felt.” THUMBSCS‘EWS. I find by consulting my record, that the time of commencing to cut clover for hay on my farm in southern Wis- consin for the last twenty years or more, has varied from the 7th to the 25th at June, Many let it stand long- er before cutting because they get a greater weight of hay. But the in- creased quantity is at the sacrifice of quality which no farmer can afford. Be- side this, the quantity will usually be fully made up by the increased am- ount of the second crap when the first one is cut early. Then there is another thing. If one wishes to get a crop of clover seed, in parts of the country where the midge is liable to do damage, the crop of seed will stand a chance of; getting, to a certain exâ€" tent. ahead of the midge when the first cr0p is cut early. Another reason why many do not cut clover early is because they say it is so very difficult to cure. They have tried cutting it early, and could not get it dry enough, without leaving it out a. long time, at1 the risk of having it wet with rain,‘ and as a consequence, hauled it into? the barn or stack with so much mois- ture in it that it was hleated and mow- burned and nearly worthless. I had just such an experience forty years ago! and believed then that clover was “poor . stuff for hay.” But I learned better} than to do that way, and also learned] better than to leave the cloverâ€"if I cut it greenâ€"spread out on the ground for two or three days, scratching it over with the tedder once or twice ev- ery day till the leaves and fine parts were nearly all knocked off and the stems were dry like sticks so they; would not heat. For many years 1' have practiced cutting in the forenoon‘ after the dew was off, or, what is fully as good, cutting it late in the; afternoon, and, if the sun shines bright, let it wilt during the middle of the day, but not have it dry enough to have the leaves crumble off. Then rake and put up in small piles, narrow at the bottom. Clover put. up in this wilted stage, will pack together. if the piles are topped out good, n that they will shed rain good, if rain should come. It is left in these piles two or three days, or longer, according to the weather. Before the hay is haul- ed to the barn it. is usually necessary to open the piles and spread them out some so that the sun and air will take out some of the moisture, but do not think to get it perfectly dry. It may seem quite damp and soggy after this, when it is drawn to the barn, but it has had a time of heating and sweat- ing in the piles and will not heat again in the barn, but will come out in the winter the finest. of hay. Some object to this way of making clover hay be- cause it takes more work than it does to let it lie spreadl out on the ground until it is thoroughly. dry before rak- ing. It may be a. little more work, :but that is compensated for many ltimes over by the great improvement 1 in quality. BEST THEE FOR CLOVER HAY. There is no other hay that is 88 800‘1 for all kinds of stock, especially for growing animals and milch cows, as clover hay, provided the clover is cut at the right time and properly cured. writes C. P. Goodrich. And yet 3' Ereat many farmersâ€"I am not sure but I could truthfully say a. majority â€" fail so completely in one or the other, or both of these particulars, that the result is. a great proportion of the clover hay in the country is of inter- ior quality, and we often hear men say: “I do not think much of clover hay; it is the poorest hay there is.” Accord- ing to my experience, the best time to cut clover is when it is in full bloom. As all of the blossoms do not come out at the same time, I would. if I were sure the weather would Del" mit, and if I could cut; it all in one day, wait till about oneofourth' of the heads had turned brown. But in prac- tice, because 1 cannot cut it all at once. and to guard against any of it. becoming too far advanced, l usual- ly, and always if the weather is good, commence cutting before any of the heads have turned. Clover is a plant 0‘ rapid growth, and matures very ra- pidly, so that, after it has passed the full-blossom stage, every day is work- ing great damage to it by chang- ing the soft and digestible stems in- to hard, woody and indigestible fiber. When any kind of a, plant has its roots exposed, it is sure. to suffer loss of vitality by evaporation. These should be kept covered with damp straw or cloth, and if to be kept several days before setting. placed in a. cool place. writes one who knows. Trees some- times arrive in a shriveled condition. caused by delay in‘ shipment or tran- sportation. These should be immedia- tely placed horizontally in a trench and covered with puddled earth and allowed to remain for several days. If the branches are still shriveled. they are worthless. They should be plump when removed. Remove all bruised and injured roots with a sharp knife or pruning shears. Also cut off all fibrous rootlets, as HOW TO SET FRUIT TREES. trunk and not more than three feet from the ground. The branches should not exceed the roots in length and quantity. Dig a hole large enough to admit the roots in a natural position. In the center of the hole place an small amount of earth. On this set the tree and gently press it into the earth. This insures sufficient soil among the roots to prevent any open space. It is these open spaces which often cause the death of the three. Pack the soil above the roots as fast as it is filled in.leev- ing the upper three inches looee to act as a mulch to preserve moisture. It is best to set the trees I. little deeper than they stood in the nursery This place may be known’ by the dif- ference in color of the bark. It is cus- tomary to set a tree as near ver- ticle as possible, but I have learned that it should be set. so as to lean Slightly toward the direction of the prevailing winds, then as the tree grows, it gradually straightens and at maturity is able to maintain that DO- sition. A tree should never be mulch- ed the first year. as it will cause the IOOtS to grow near the surface. There IS nothing better than frequent and shallow cultivation to conserve mois- ture and promote growth. It is better to grow some cultivated crop among the trees than to allow the ground to become occupied by weeds and grass. but all seeds should not be planted Closer than four feet to the tree. (‘are- ful attention should be given the. new Emwth, cutting back any branches which are growing out of proportion to the others, keepin'z the top as near- ly balanced as possible. .‘Ru‘i off all shoots on the trunk which are not needed for main branches, As to plums, I have never sprayed the Javanese varieties except in a small Way as a test, but have depended on picking off the decaying fruit by hand. They might be Sprayed with hor- deaux or sulphate of copper mixture while dormant,which would kill spores of rot then existing on the bark, but. I have IOIund thy foliage of the Ja- panese varieties uniformly too sensiâ€" tive to admit of spraying with hor- deaux while in leaf. The European varieties, however. seem to like the hordeaux. They should be sprayed at least twice with it,the first time when the new growth is three to five inch- es long and the second when the fruit is half grown. Applied at this time it will not show when fruit is ripe. Chicago has a woman cooper. Her name is Margaret Buggee, and by making barrels she has made a barrel of money. In a few years Mrs. Buggee has ('1 are’l $50.00 l. She not only swer- tends the making of barrels in her shoys, which are in a crowded part of the southwestern end of the city, but is practically experienced in this branch of business. She thinks nothing of pointing out to half a hundred able- bodied men their sins of omission or commission in perfecting a big hogs- head, and when they can’t: seem to graSp what is wrong with their work she picks up the necessary tools and shows them. The following sign is consyicuously posted over the entrance to her cooperage: “This place is for businessâ€"keep out.” Perhaps that is the keynote to her success. I do not fear the rot nearly so much as Ido the black aphis that I have found unmanageable and the cause of the death of more cherry trees than all other causes put together. My treatment for cherries is to Spray with sulphate ot copper 1 lb to 25 gals of water once just before the buds open and once with bordeaux when the cher- ries are one-third or one-half grown. then pick the cherries aiday or two Letore they are fully ripe. It the wea- ther is not persistently bad this will be successful, at least it has been with me for several years. CONTROLLING HOT 0? PLI’M AND CHERRY. There is great complaint. eat-h year about Pherries and plums rotting on the tree. (Fhere is no doubt. good cause for the complaint, as sunetimes nearly all the crop is spoiled by it. writes Prof. Platt. Few people seem to know how to save them. 1 have had great! 088 with cherries rotting, yet Miss Estella Louise Mann, of New York, earns a, good lising by singing into the mvel'belating hollow tubes of a phonograph. Hers is one of the few feminine voices which have ever made a successful record for the phonograph or graphophone. IIer voice is powerful and her enunciation distinct and clear or she. could not have remained in the business. To sing without an audi- ence is not very inspiring, but Miss Menu says she knows in reality that the. world is her audience, so when she takes her stand before her phonograph every morning she simply imagines that she has the world at her feet. and that helps her to expend her best effort. She is a. daughter of E. H. Mann. Assistant Superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. and a graduate of the Cin- cinnati Musical College; Her songs from her “records” can be heard from twenty to forty feet from any good- 55255.1 1’13 QnOET‘Ph- , Miss M. Louise Gillmore, a. clerk in charge of the woman’s delivery depart- ment of the Chicago Post Office. is said to have served the Government for a longer period than my other woman in the history of the United States. She was appointed in October. 1867. by Gen. Frank Sherman. who sweceeded her brother. Col. Robert A. Gillmore. Postmaster. During the thirty yenre of her service in the shine cepacity, ex- cept for 0. period of three month. her tel-In ha been unbroken. 3nd thin ab- WOMEN AT PECULIAR “'ORK. 1898. FLOUR, OATMEAL and F THE SAWMII TH: Flats? Tu In TH: WORLD FRO” THE 1'“ PLANT IN IT. NITIVE PURITY. GRISTING AND UHOPPIN “Monsoon” Tani: put "P b} ‘ a 1nd growers“; ample of the best qua 31“” Of ' ' can. Therefon they use the 3mm (weir-d selection of the Ta and itsb blend ‘1‘.” ,s‘hy put it up them-elves 1nd sell it only in 5:20:13“! .thaubyucurin its P‘m‘y’" mrwub. and: "’- W'MM ALL oooo moons K5" '7‘ . “youtgrocet do. not keep “v “H mm m". A vegetable remedy fat 5‘ rising from Disordered “W98 mach or 130ch5, such as M Bmousncss. Constipation, C0111 Tongue, Bad Breath, Fteling Languor, Distress after H c m UNDER’EWNI m, Mas. CLARA How, Monotou. 33:. «I used Laxa- Liver Pills for He“: and Liver Trouble, and they not my Iiovod me bufi cured me. 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