The Stanstead journal, 20 janvier 1898, jeudi 20 janvier 1898

[" voL, Liil.\u2014No.2.pr tt TOWN TOPICS.Rev.G.Ellery Read is in Montreal this week.Mr, and Mra.A.Begin have returned from their wedding trip.Mr.C.W.Cate, Advocate, of Sherbrooke, was in town on Tuesday.A match for the championship between the Beebe Plain and Stanstead Junior Hockey Clubs will be played at the Stanstead Rink Saturday evening.Mr.Orrock Libby has commenced work on the ell part of his house, which will be completed by the first of May and occupied by Mr.William T.Nourse.The Rev.D.S.Hamilton of Point St.Charles Congregational Church will preach for Rev.G, E.Read next Sunday, Jan 23rd, at the usual hours morning and evening.The ladies of the Universalist Church will give an Oyster Supper in Foster Hall, Thursday evening, January twenty-seventh.Refreshmentsserved ab six o'clock.Admission and supper twenty-five cents.Mr.Geo.C.Lang, who was employed at Parsons\u2019 jewelry store about ten years ago, and who has since successfully conducted stores at Morris- ville and Barre, has gone into the jewelry business at Barton.Mr.F.Percy Pocock has fitted up his new store very tastefully.The marble slab for a counter top is a novelty in this place.He has a very complete stock of groceries, provisions, canned goods, confectionery, ete.Mr.Henry O'Rourke, lately of Montgomery, Vt., is here for a few days.He has retired from the employ of Nelson, Hall & Co., and engaged as traveling salesman for J.G.Read & Co., tobaccos and cigars, Burlington, Vt.Mr.Henry T.Ball has accepted a position with a wholesale grocery firm in St Johnsbury.We understand he will be employed in the store a month prior to casting his lot with the \u201cKnights of the gripsack.\u201d We wish him success.The meeting of the Fortnightly Club will be held Monday evening, 24th January, instead of Tuesday evening as previously announced.An excellent programme is being prepared by the committee and a pleasant as well as instructive evening is anticipated.We regret to learn that F.Dale, a well-known Sherbrooke man, who has for several weeks been under treatment at the Protestant Hospital in that city, was taken violently insane a few days ago.Three or four persons were required to hold him, and an order was given for his removal to the jail pending a medical examination as to his sanity.Messrs.A, N.Thompson and G.P.Butters have undertaken the work of re-arranging the \u2018\u2018\u2019Three Villages\u2019 \u201d public library, which has become badly disarranged by lack of system.The books will be newly covered and numbered.Hereafter a register wiil be kept, for the entrance of books removed from the building.Those having books belonging to the library are respectfully requested to return them at once.Four of our hockey players, Messrs.H.Mazurette, W.Frost, C.Terrill and A.Thomas, drove over to Coaticook ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898.Mr.M.G.Beerworth and Miss E.E.Beerworth of Clarenceville are visiting their brother Mr.H.E.Beerworth B.& M.station agent at Rock Island.\u201cThe immovable property of the Rock Island Whip Co., G.W.Norton, Proprietor, was knocked down under the sheriff\u2019s hammer, for something less than #4,000, last Saturday, to satisfy a mortgage held by L.H.Beals & Sons of Westfield.The property consists of the water power, factory, machinery and two tenement houses.C.H.Kathan, Esq., was the purchaser, but it is understood that he was acting for the New York Seldon, Whip Co., of which Mr.S.R.Seldon is the proprietor.The business has been continued without interruption.Mr, O.À.Parker, who traveled some time for the late firm, is the manager.ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.\u2014Odd Fellows Hall.Mrs.McKinstry will preach next Tuesday evening, Jan.25.Subject, Sufferings Followed by Glory.CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH \u2014 The pulpit will be occupied morning and evening by the Rev.D.8.Hamilton of the Point St.Charles Congregational Church, Montreal.Sunday School as usual after morning service.- MASSAWIPPI.The New Years party at the hall Jan.7th, was a very pleasant affair.There were thirty-five couples in attendance.They came from Barnston, Libbytown, Boynton, East Hatley, Ayer\u2019s Flat and Lennoxville.Mr, Bassett and Mr.Jackson of North Hatley furnished the music, which, it is needless to say, was just \u201cinspiring to the feet,\u2019 and pleasing to the ear.The promoter, Mr.Wm.Hurd, at the close, handed the net proceeds to the skating rink committee, for use in the care of the rink.The small club house is now nearly completed, near the rink.It has been put up by voluntary help by the young men of the place.Mrs.Lucy Hitchcock and Mrs.W.Abbey are now installed at Mrs.Hitchcock\u2019s house, Being each over eighty years of age does not deter them from housekeeping.Mr.Wm.Hurd and Mr.Halsie Colt left on Friday for East Swanton, Vt., driving a \u201cpair\u2019® and expecting to be gone a week, They will visit at Mr.O.Mills while there.Miss Walleigh passed Tuesday of this week with Miss Ada Hitehcock, en route from Coaticook to New Haven, Conn., where she is pursuing the occupation of a nurse.Miss Ann Norton of East Hatley remained a couple of days at Mr.A.Hurd\u2019s last week.Miss Nellie Spafford of Lennoxville lately paid her grandparents here a visit of a few days.\u2018 Mr.Hiram Hitchcock and daughter from Kansas were in the place with his sister, Mrs.Haines, on Saturday.They arrived in December and intend to remain with the different relatives in the townships until spring.It has been about thirty-five years since Mr, Hitchcock left his native place in Compton and he has made only one visit here since, about twenty-two years ago.Ah, the changes in all those years.How pleasant to record the next items: First, the marriage of Mr.Carlos last Saturday to assist the Coaticook | Cox to Miss Helen Baldwin of Barns- team in their contest with the Metro- | politans of Sherbrooke.All the Stan- | stead boys did good work, and won the admiration of the spectators, Their playing doubtless affected the result of the game considerably.| Score 11 to 4 in favor of Coaticook.\u2018The freezing of the supply pipe near the Rock Island passenger station has deprived the patrons of the railway of water.It is quite a misfortune as the lavatory, ete., will have to be locked up until spring.The water quit running on Monday.It is believed that the pipe has frozen in the field east of the station where it was not buried very deep owing to the presence of rock.The land was plowed and leveled last summer which may account for the freezing as no trouble was experienced last winter.À well contested and evenly matched game of hockey was played at Beebe Plain on Saturday between the Beebe Plain Seniors and Stanstead Juniors.It was an exciting game from start to finish and was watched with keen interest throughout.When the whistle blew at the end of the second half the score stood at 5 to 5.In the \u201cplay off\u201d?the Stanstead Juniors won.The contestants were: Stanstead, Jr Beebe Plain, Sr, G.Terrill Goal G.Morny Noyes Point Stratton D.Parsons C.Point P.Dixon » Pike Center A, Bigelow L.Terrill Rover .Tinker R.Flint R.Wing A.Wilkinson H.Channel L.Wing Beno ton, which took place quietly at the residence of Mr.Howe, Burnston, on Thursday of last week in the afternoon; then the quiet \u2018home coming\u2019 and settling down to \u201chome keeping\u201d at the heretofore lonesome fireside, which will now burn all the brighter and more cheery for two than for one.Our congratulations, good and hearty.Second, the numerous friends, especially the W.C.T.U.friends, of Miss Minnie Leavitt will be pleased to learn of her marriage to Mr.E.Mountain of Windsor, Que., which took place at St.Johnsbury, Vt., last wgek.They are now residing at Burlington where Mr.Mountain is pursuing hie studies at a medical college.FITCH BAYA dearth of news in this part of the parish but plenty of storm and cold weather.E.J.Stickney lost 'his dwelling house and the most of the contents by fire early on Wednesday morning last.Insurance in Missisquoi & Rouville.There will be a donation for Rev.D.W.Sornberger at the residence of HA.Dolloft on Thursday evening, Jan.27th.Oysters will be served.A mistake was made last week in regard to the visit and evangelistic services by Rev.Mr.Main.He will, D.V., commence services here on Sunday next, 23rd, and continue during the following week and perhaps longer as may be deemed best.BEEBE PLAIN.G.A.McShane returned from Boston on Thursday last with a flyer.George will make it warm in the two minute class next season.The C.social on Friday evening last at the Methodist Church proved to be a very novel and amusing affair, but was not as well attended as it should have been.Receipts, eleven dollars.The hockey match between the Stanstead\u2019s and Beebe Plain\u2019s on Saturday last resulted in victory for the Stanstegds.Walter Feltus is sick with billious fever.Henry Tomkins, traveling salesman for the Lay Whip Co., left on Friday evening last for a trip through New Brunswick in the interest of the Company.F.Pocock left about the same time for Ontario on business for the same Co.Bush Allbee was taken violently sick one night this week but is able to be about a little again at present.Percy Pocock made his first trip to our village on Monday last soliciting orders.Percy has a great many friends here and no doubt received quite a good many orders.Clough Bros.report business at their Junction store very satisfactory, much better than they anticipated.Kennedy & Co.intend giving up the mercantile business at Stanstead Jet.and devote their whole time to their extensive mining interests.Mrs.Scott lies in a critical condition from apoplexy at Robert Strople\u2019s, North Derby.Herson came over with a physician from Montreal but we understand he gives no hope of her recovery.Mrs.Scott was a former resident of Stanstead Junction and her many friends here are grieved to learn of her illness., GRANITEVILLE.One of the pleasantest gatherings of the season took place last week at the home of Mr.and Mrs.George Hall at Cedarville.The day was spent in social intercourse.It is needless to say anything about the repast as we all know Mrs.Hall is famous in that line.Those present were Mr.and Mrs.J.C, Bullis, Mr.and Mrs.J.O.Bullock, Mr, and Mrs.Fred Hall, Mr.and Mrs.B.Tryon, Mr.and Mrs.E.B.Tryon, Mr.and Mrs.D.W.Moir, Mr.and Mrs.J.N.Moir.All seemed to be pleased that they were there and left wishing them a long and happy life.We are sorry to hear that Mrs.James Scott is very sick.There is very little hopes of her recovery.She is at the home of Mr.Robert Strople.The series of meetings conducted by Rev, P.H.Allin are continuing for the third week with increasing interest.Much good has been the result and we trust much more will be accomplished.Gilbert Scott and wife are expected home this week from Norwich, New York, where they have been stopping with their son Warren nearly two years.We will be glad to have them among us again.Quite a pleasant surprise took place at the home of Mr.and Mrs, Parker Salls on Wednesday evening the 12th.About twenty of their friends came in and took them by surprise it being Mr.Salls\u2019 birthdey.After partaking of refreshments which the company provided, a nice lamp and other presents were given them.The kindest regards of Mr.and Mrs.Salls are due to those who so kindly remembered them on the occasion.BROWN'S HILL.Mr.Briggs Wait\u2019s horse ran away on Thursday of last week, arid threw him out and dragged him some little distance, fortunately it did no harm to either horse or driver.Mr.and Mrs.Osmond Reed of Beebe Plain visited at the home of Charles Brown on Sunday.: Mrs.L.W.Reed is improving slow- y.Mr.and Mrs.Tellis Roy and child spent Sunday at Charlie Libby\u2019s.Quite a number from this way have been attending the Revival meetings at Ayer\u2019s Flat which have been held there for the past two weeks.Rev.Mr.Main is expected to preach in the brick school house on Sunday the 23rd at half past two.All are invited.Mrs A.B.Davis has heen visiting her mother, Mrs.Beerworth, at Pink- ham Hollow, who is very sick with typhoid pneumonia.EAST BOLTON.Cedric Vaughan is now living in a new house erected on the site of the one burned in November.It will bea fine residence when completed.À large party of friends gave Mr.and Mrs.Vaughan a surprise party on Wednesday evening.All report a fine time.Mrs.Vaughan received a purse of money and other gifts.GEORGEVILLE.Mr.Wm.McGowan, customs officer here, obtained a leave of absence and went to the Victoria Hospital at Montreal on Tuesday, where he expects to have his left leg amputated above the knee.This leg has been a source of much trouble to him for the past 18 years, which has increased during the last year.All his friends here wish him a successful operation and better health in consequence.His friend Mr.J.Turner Routledge accompanied him to Montreal.It was Mr.Masterman, wife, and son of Montreal who were here at Mr.Lindsay's New Year's.John F.Tuck bushed the lake across from Knowlton Landing to this place on the 14th.and teams have been crossing since.Mr.Tuck says that in all his experience in bushing the lake he never had so much chopping to do us the ice had never been so thick before where it was bushed.I am informed that those places which have been unfrozen in the lake near Bel- mere and across to Perkins\u2019 wharf were closed over on the morning of the 17th which was quite late for any open water to be seen on Lake Mem- phremagog.Mr.Bickford West was at Manson- ville the first of the week for the purpose of auditing the books of the township of Potton.Mr.Dobson of Stanstead College was the preacher at the Methodist Church last Sunday eve, the pastor, Rev.Mr.Davis, being ill.Three commercial travellers were obliged to remain here last Monday night and through the kindness of Mr.0.Hutchins were well fed and housed.The paint man did not paint the town red.The oil man poured oil on the troubled waters by treating the crowd to peanuts as there was nothing else at hand, while the dry goods man entertained those present with spook stories, some of which were rather dry and in fact the crowd was a dry one.MACK'S MILLS.The Ladies Aid met with Miss L.Kimptou on Wednesday of last week.Miss Jennie Miller has been visiting here for the last week.Burnie Reed is at Brown\u2019s HII for the present caring for his grandmother who is very ill.Mrs.Jervah of Barton Landing visited here and at Smith's Mills last week.We understand Mr.Wm.Comstock has an o.der for over one hundred shawls aL present.Mrs.Plant has returned to her home after spending a few weeks with Mrs.J.Reed.We understand that Tim.Allen who moved onto Mrs.Amasa Ruiter\u2019s place lately, left last week on a short visit.Mrs.George Longeway is visiting | friends at Graniteville and Lineboro at present.Mr.and Mrs.Will, Prim visited his sister, Mrs.Frank Mosher on Sunday.Mr.and Mrs, Willie Mosher visited at Magoon\u2019s Point on Sunday.Miss Eva Davis of Smith's Mills started at the Stanstead College last week.Mr.J.Enzer, Optician, of Montreal made calls here last week.George Longeway spent Sunday at Lineboro.We hear the welcome sound of Mr.Comstock\u2019s saw mill again.Rev.E.A.Davis who has been quite sick, is improving.C.A.Jenkins is on the gain.HEATHTON.In the absence of Rev.Mr.Wright on Sunday, the service at the Meth-' odist Church was taken charge of by two Salvation Army officers, Ensign Tilley and Captain Wilson, est.Evangelical meetings to be conducted by the gentlemen above named, will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.A cordial invitation to attend is extemded to all, and it is to be hoped that much good will follow.Mr.spent a few days in town last week as the guest cf his sister Mrs.J.Corliss.We are glad to learn that Mr.Parker Ellis who has been confined to the house for some time past, is gaining.An entertainment will he given in the Methodist church on the evening of Saturday, the 22nd inst., by Miss Myrtie Aldrich of West Burke, Vt., the blind daughter of Mr.A.L.Ald- rich a former resident of this place.Miss Aldrich is a very accomplished young lady and we bespeak for her a large audience.Mr.and Mrs.Warren Morse of Brown\u2019s Hill, were the guests of Mr.Parker Ellis on Friday and Saturday.95 pants 82.48 at Melloon\u2019s.See ad.ee \u2014 NORTH HATLEY.W.B.LeBaron wife and daughter spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.B.LeBaron.Mayor Edgar and Messrs, A.C.Jackson and J.M.Call attended the Town Council on Monday to look after the interests of the village in the disposition of funds.Miss.Jennie Bean has returned to Stanstead.Our Singing School Master hus received a call to teach one class at the Reed's school house and another at Massawippi.Thirty-seven people took dinner ta the last Ladies Aid with Mrs.Jnok- son, We ave sorry to hear that itis feared that Mr.Millar has a cancer near the eye.He went to Montreal Saturday to have it treated.Mr.Roy of Montreal is stopping here to oversee the building of the electric light dam, We noticed Mr.A.C.LeBaron unloading some thoroughbred plymouth- rock fowls which he procured fiom I.B.Thompson, New York.Mr.Hiram Hitchcock and daughter from Kansas are paying their rola- WHOLE No.2709.APPLE GROVE.The Episcopal Social which was held at the residence of Mr.Alonzo Kimp- ton on Jan.5th, was a decided success and a very enjoyable evening was passed by all.Mr.J.Boynton has sold his farm to his brother, Mr.Charles Boynton.Mr.A.Heath and wife of Heathton visited their daughter, Mru.F.J.Wilkinson, last week.Miss Fanny Feltus is staying at Mr.J.Boynton\u2019s.Miss A.Ashton is visiting in Waterloo.Mr.and Mrs, M.Akin visited Newport last woek.| nt BARNSTON.| À government Inspector -was in | town last week to examino the herd | of Jersey cows belonging to the Rem- ick estate.Twelve out of the fifteen | ware found to be affected with tuber- \\eulosis and were condemned and \"killed.It war a sad sight to see this fine herd of Jerseys driven past to their death.They were taken a mila into the forest and there slaughtered.i GRIFFIN.| Social and supper at the home of tives in this place a visit.Mr.Hitch- | ; cock is a native of Compton, but paid, Mr.J.8.Derriek on Tuesday ovening, his last visit to Cannda twenty-two | Jan 25.Admission 15 cents.Benefit The serv-: ice throughout was one of deep inter- Guy Aldrich of Barton, Vt.years ago.He says he thinks our lake must have \u2018narrowed down\u201d in the interval.Mrs.Arthur Sweeney is stopping with Mrs.H.LeBaron.The winners of the first prize at the third tournament of whist were Mus.R.E.McKay and A.C.Jackson.We are sorry to hear that Mrs.H.G.Bassett is ill, Next Sunday evening the Y.P.C.U.will be conducted by class.The Top- ie, \u201cBible Study.\u201d\u201d Leader, Miss E.B.Wadleigh.A mixed quartette will be one of the features of the meeting.Rev.E.Smiley is spending a few days in Moe\u2019s River.AYER'S FLAT, The Lyman Item of Dec.17th has the following to say of à former Ayer\u2019s Flat boy, Mr.W.N.Rowell, son of W.L.Rowell, Esq., traveling agent for the JOURNAL: \u2014 The auditoriam of 8t.Luke\u2019s M.E.Church was filled with music lovers, Thursday evening, who had gathered to enjoy a grand musicale under the direction of W.N.Rowell, the choir- ist of the church, the concert being for the benefit of the choir.The chorus of 40 voices have been practising for several weeks and the result of the skillful instruction of Mr.Rowell | was seen in the splendid rendition of the choruses of the programme.\u201d The entire programme appears in the Item whose criticism plainly shows the excellence of the concert.CURRIERS.Mr.H.Currier has gone to Conti- cook with wool to-day.He took two Joads last week.Mr.F.F.Porter was in Waterloo last Tuesday and Wednesday.The township council met last Saturday and organized, H.11.Batchelder Mayor.snow- ploughs, so we may expect good roads in the future.Mr.and Mrs.George Currier drove to Barnston Friday afternoon, went to Stanstead on Saturday and returned | home on Sunday.: We were glad to hear from our old time friend, Mr.N.Currier, through the Journal last week, We are hav- jing a mild winter for this country but hardly equal to raising oranges, ! Mr.Ed.Patneaude is getting out i lumber for a large barn, Mrs.D.D.Shonyo is quite ill with a \u2018 severe cold.SOUTH BARNSTON.| Parker Ellis has been very sick with very much improved though not able to be out yet.W.P.Belknap died Tuesday evening at 7 o\u2019clock.The funeral was held in the church here on Thursday at one o'clock P.M.The Ladies Aid met with Miss Isabel Aldrich last Saturday afternoon.The next Aid with Mrs.M.L.D.Hastings on the third Saturday in February.HOLLAND.Geo.W.Tabor and wife of Water- They decided to buy nine, muscular rheumatism, but under the treatment of Dr.Leavitt of Hatley is, of Universalist Society.ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.The Court of Review has decided against the town of Richmond in the witerworks ense.The costs are very heavy.#700 is the amount voted to Richmond county for colonization roads, by the legislnture.Wolfe gets $1,800, and Compton only 4500, During church service n very nico buffalo robe was stolen from R.Mowle\u2019s sleigh in St.Paul\u201d Church shed at Cookshire on the 9th inst.Andrew Hawkins, for over fifty years a resident of Missisquoi County, and for the Inst ten years resident of Bedford died there on Saturday nt the age of 79.Last Thursday evening the Derby Line Customs officials weized another (suit of new clothes which had heen left at the express office by an unknown party.| For political reasons J.N.Thiho- I denn, late postmaster nt Lake Megan- ; tic, has been succeeded by Mr.Bérubé, \u2018with the result that the office has been removed from the business portion of the town, It is announced that Dr, H, W.Me- QGowan of Knowlton, formerly of Beebe Plain, has been appointed Physl- \u2018cian and Surgeon on the Dominion Line steamer Lake Ontario, a respon- l'gible office to which very few Cann- \u2018diane have ever heen called.Wm.Lynch, a pensioner of the English army, living at Cookshire, dropped dead in the street on the evening of the 7th inst.An inquest was held and according to the evidence nd- duced deceared had received his pension allowance a few days prior to his \"death, and in company with another man had been off on a spree although he was apparently sober the afternoon prior to his death.It is reported that n big strike is on at the Asbestos Mines near Danville.All of the pitmen, numbering about 200 have gone out, owing to an order of the managers reducing their wages, Hitherto they have received £1.00 a day.The new order provides that they shall he paid so much for each bucket hoisted.According to their average work, it is said, this new plan would reduce their wages to sixty cents a day.The miners claim that, the 91.00 was little enough, considering the nature and danger of thie work.No hostilities are reported, but if \u2018the intention of the managers to close {the mines is carried out the men threaten to cut down the dericks and serious trouble may follow.5600 other employes depend upon the work of the pitmen.If the mines are closec 700 men will he out of employnfnt.PROHIBITION DEBATE.À Kingston, Ont., despatch says: Rev.Dr.Lucas and Rev.Dr.Grant will debate on probibition in the City Hall on January 27th and 28th.Mayor Livingstone will preside.The admission fee charged will go to the pour.The issue discussed will be: That « , Dominion prohibitory law would in- \\ jure the cause of temperance as well bury, Vt., formerly of this town, are.Le i here visiting relatives and friends.as public and political morality.The Mrs.H.A.Bryant has returned\u2019 speakers will be limited to time and from Gorham, N.H., where she has : Will speak alternetely.There will be been visiting her sister, Mrs.Wm, | No vote taken at the close.Dr.Lucas Burbank, for the past few weeks.i arrives here the 22nd and preaches on There will be a series of meetings at | Sunday the 23rd.the Advent Church commencing next soupe == Tuesday evening.Two evangelista| 25c.gloves 19c., 50e, and 7hc.gloves are expected.39c.at Melloon\u2019s. vy rene La TRY Alb GREAT COW.Price Winninz IMolsteina-Fricsian That Is \u2019 tho Pride of Ojo.At tho fairs this sen-on have been exhibited au Ohio Holsicin-Friesian cow that for milk certuinly takes the blue ribbon over almost anything ever shown, Sho bas made tho astouishing record of 7) pounds 13 ounces of milk in one me 1g 3 Am Fer AB A 2 oon À.day \u2014alæost 10 gallons.Her record fur 1 4 2 A i 1 HOLSTEIN- FRISIAN PRIZE WINNER, À 80 duys 1s 2,211 pounds 15 ounces.The Ÿ milkmeu with 50 such cows as this t could rake on fortune if the Milk trust 1 did net pet sll the woney and skin Lim bare.{ Tho dairy form of this noble cow iy 4 especially cnmspicnous in her great ud- i der aud Ler hind legs sloping backward and enrvins ontward to make room for it.Her hips are sharp, as they should be.aud bey read is small.Home Dairy Plat., The cost of a good farin dairy plant will vary with its size and to a greater builder.Tho outside of the struciure can be made as cheaply or expensively a8 one wishes ably less than $25 would ceil it and put in a suitable floor.For a dairy of 30 to 60 cows the fixtures would cost sume- thing like this: One separator of one of the two or three well known manufac- tarers, $200; one two horsepower upright engine and boiler, $100; churn and butcer worker, $30; plunbing, butter prigt, cremmn pails and other small utensils, #20: total, 9350.For a small dairy tbe séparator can be substituted cat by a smaller size at, say, $125, with | small reductions on the other estimates.| - This will be found very close to tho| always put au extra thickuess of paper truth if the supplies bo purchased from us Ladd the flooring.In height of burid- the responsible dairy supply dealers.| Dairy implements, under careful hau dling, do unt deteriorate rapidly.RE runt the purchase of à special cremn vat, ; then it will be neccssury to add about | $35 to the above.If economy is nov »- | of a big, old fashioned cheese faciory water makes a very good creamy vat, en sn les items ; in making tho trip to the creamery and | the tits consuined at homo in caring for the milk and washing empty cuus.Ou ts o:tler ride we Luse the tie oe: cupied in sparating aud in wishing! the ntonsils once or twico à dax.to-! gether wit tho thao eccupiod in chun.ing wh-n king burter.\u2014jured Va Wagenen in Eural New Yorker.Entrer se Creats at ven Temperature, Mr.C1.Peri bas devised au ar rangement fur ripening aud iain | tulning cream ut an even teanerature : previous to churning.Mr, Peek has ap.| 3 plied for a patent cn the invention, bot! 5 there isnathing t prevent any one fram 5 making the thing bi:uoelf for his own use.It is as follows: \"1 muds a box 10° inches square aud 3 inelies higher thay the cream cans Iu the widdle of the : bottom of this box l eut u «quare hole, 10 inches each way aud nailed on the: underside a piece of sheet iron, so as to be airtight and allow nothing from the : underside to get into the box.1 then | made à false Lottoni tu the box by nail- ; ing on cleats or pieces an inch square and radiating each way from the center | on the inner side of the falso bottom.L' then marked off à square 14 inches in the middle of tho false Lottom and on the outside of this square bored a nam.| ber of inch wud a quartier heles in\u2019 the false borrow to allow the heat from.the underside to diffuse through the : box.This prevents a single hot air cur- Tent passiby up the middle and makes An even temperature in all parts of the box [then cut yu hole 2 inches wide i and 6 (nchbes high in the side of the box, put a picce of glass over the hole and hung a thermometer on tbe inside of the box, first testing the thermometer to see if if was correct 1 then set a small nil stove under the box, where | tound 1 could easily procure the desired temperature, and the rernlt was as fine butter as | ever succeeded in making m summer Lb raise iny cream and ad soon as skimmed put it in cold water to keep it sweet until there is enough for a thurntug, then put it in the ripening box and gpen, stirring the cream tLur- ougbly severul times à day \"* mw Mille Stations and Incubators.Oue of the best known of the Cleveland milk buyers.who toiue three \u2018\u2018\u2019crcamieries\u2018\u2019 in the country, 14 also the proprictor of two or three of the largest of the city restan- 0 Tants und 1s turning the refuse of creau- + eries, eatiig houses, efc., to goord uc- count.All the refure aud the like are sent downy into the country to ovo of the creurucries adjacent to the railroad, where, most admirably situated, he maiutains a poultry ranch, and thousands of chickens and docks are \u2018\u2019inou- bated.\u2018\u2018fed and fattened for bis city restunrants.A duck farm is rather a - novelty in connection with a collecting milk station and creamery, but its suc.Oh of the poultry attests the fact that the If wv root of the house is: available, the cost will Le small.Prob- 1 } ; are using u chest thut ! built last spring \u2018 \"Hooring enough for : Widih und leugth the ruom is to be.degreo with the personal taste of the! | | maintaing | ceus is a matter of record, and the bealth- i the dairy is large enough to war- | of the room\u2014namely, the ice racks.éury, however, a large milk can inside | of cooler, buth sides alike.On these can and the space between filled with | are the fioor of ice chamber.As to the lubor involved in the two | Made of 8 Ly 6 pine cf gend grality.systems, on one side we bave the thee! thus: Gouge ont one side like a trongh, of a an and a horse actually consumed | full width of 2 by 6 and 17, inches a op \"clean about the milk and the cow [Be- fond is to their taste and digestion.\u2026\u2026 \u2018dobn Gould.Ce 5 COLD STORAGE ROOM.Directions For Building a Dairy or Creain- ery Refrigerator, I have built refvigerating rooms for butchers who want ou room cold, vt dry.and they are a perfect success, and in my many creamery snd dairy operations I have found them as good us can be devised, Their several good points aro: First.\u2014The muteria!l is to be found in uny lamber yard.Secoud, \u2014 Apy good carponter cuu Luild them.Thid.\u2014They can be built of any size, from a kitchen chest toa large roo for storing butter or working it in.Fourth.=The packages of butter will not take mold, but keep bright and dry.lilth,.\u2014They ure very ceoncimieal of ice.Sixth.\u2014They ure more readily cleaned than any | havo ever seen.In 1892 1 put & small room in a Scuth Dakotu creumery that would bald GOO pounds of butter.The creamery room was so small that the refrigerator stead only four feet from boiler\u2014a very trying position\u2014Lut for all of that the temperature was at 42 degrees.We that holds 400 pounds of one pound prints und 300 pounds of ice.1 havo often weighed the drip, and when room Wüs up to 96 or 100 degrees tho waste wus bat ono pound per hour This cooler cost just $11 00 er material, about the cost of freig.t tur a vefrigerator from Chicago.I will give as brief n description of manner of making us possible For a | room of any size muke bottom first of | 4 or 6 inch fluorise To start.cut first course=tbhe ; Tuke 2 by 2 inch strips, lay them down 18 inches apart, and on them lay two thicknesses of best odorless building paper, and où these strips nuil the flouring, Tarn the Hour over, so biked strips will La uppermost (the strips are threo inches ghorter ull round than the Roce.ing).Now ut on two more thicknesses of paper und lay on flouring flush with strips.Cut another set of strips three inches shorter than the floor you now bave.Lay on these two ore thicknesses of paper and put on a last course of touring.You now have two perfect dead air spuces, which is a better noncomluctor than any fil}ing and will always be sweet.[nsido of room sides are put on the sume as bottom, except ut the corners, where as a watter of precaution | ing leave wnougl room overhead for 1ce chamber (2 feet 6 inches is about right).Now cones the principal feature Four inches below where the 2 fout 6 inch line is from ceiling of cooler nul securely a 2 by 4 seantling on long way rest 8 by 4's two inches apart.These The ice pans, or drip catchers, are in middle, torn 2 by 6 over and take og corners and plane, so the 2 by 6 will be uw graduel fall from center to cig \u2018These trous run save way asicorucs | Beroye plucsng thenr have Tuner mate a strenge zine or galvanized trough two inches wide, one side strengthenod br a wire turnea in edge, Cther side strarçat | At one end ave an oitiiet pipe soldtred on, long cnotgh ty go througu cooker ane pr ,uet an inch + 120r0, LU desicou un air trup is put en ond.This trongh] runs long way of room below ice rack, | one end nadled two or three itches lower than other to secure quick drainage On opposite side of room from gutter secure a 2 by 4 to lay first course of dep boards, convex side up and three inches apart.These drip boards rest just over drain.Four inches is room enough ih rectly under the 3 inch space und two or three inches lower down place concave 2 by 6's, one end resting on drain and other end a little higher You uow have an open pan, can see ce every six inches, but no water can drop on floor.The drip boards are not fastened, but can Le taken down and washed readily.The rack for ice is not fastened, but can he removed at any time.Make doors on same plan as sides and bottom This room, built as above, will hold the same degree of temperature at all times and is very inexpensive.Outside cals be finished with cornice and panel work it oue so desires.Put on two or three cuats of paint anyway.\u2014Buff Jersey in Hoard\u2019s Duiryiman.Dairy and Creamery.Ropy milk is now believed to bo caused by bacteria that fall into the pail at milking timo.These destructive mn- crobes nre lodged in the buir ane seurf skin of the cow.They sometimes 4.( upon the bunds and clothing of a milker who is not overclean, and thence into the milk.The remedy?It is to be extra fore milking cach time brush the cow's teats and udder with a stiff brush and see that the milker\u2019s clothing and bunds are immaculate.In winter, when wool- oh clothing must be worn in the cow stable and imilkroom, wear over it a blouse and overalls or apron of cotton that may be frequently washed and dis infected.Have tho udders, flanks and uuder part of your cows\u2019 bodies thoroughly well Lrushed before they are milked.It should bu à :e Work of one person to do this, 0 different person trom the milker, to go abead and brueh the cow just be- foro she is milked \u2018This will lessen the danger from bacteria, Cream 24 hours old, when ripened \u2018just right, makes the Lest butter.A temperature of from 60 to 65 degrees is the best for churning An expert says, \u20181 believe there is no food un the market today that, pound for pound, will produce more milk than buckwhest bran with the hulls left out.\" \u201cThero is nu little band .separator on the markot which will take the oream from 20 gullous of milk av hour, - i because it would Le easier tar the foo LOSS BY BAD ROADS.FELT BY EVERY INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES.Improved Highways Would De Profitable Iu Many Ways \u2014- Merehant, Mechanic and Farmer Have au Interest In This Quention- Average Cost Por Mile.The economie importance of good roads bas been demonstrated by stur- tling statistics.It has been shown that the traction force required to move 3,000 pounds av à speed of three miles an hour over & level road of iron, asphalt, loose gravol and soft sand is re- gpectively 8, 17, 820 und 148 pounds.From this statement it may casily Le inferred bow costly bad roads are.Iron ind asphalt aro mentioned for the sake of comparison.Thoy could uot, of course, bo used as tho constructive materials of country ronds.But the differ- ence between puor and good roads is so great that the teun which can only draw one ton en the former will, according to the character of the itprove- ment, haul from three to five tons on the lutter.The improvement of our highways would be variously profitable.Now farmers lose many days in the year waiting for good weather and dry roads.But the support of men and animals is | | | | | us expensive when they are idle as \"when they are engaged in lucrative work.With good roads the farmers peed never lose any time.In wet weather, when they could uot work on the land, they could carry their products to market.No rains would compel them to spend valuable time in iale- ness.Independent of climate, they could deliver their produce whenever it suited their convenience or enabled them to seenro bigher prices.Toul and fair weather would be equally profitable.Tho utilizution of stormy days would prevent losses from idleness and enable farmers to uvail themselves of the high- ost rates wunich the maræet ever offers, Perishable fruits cannot await fuvorablu conditions of weather or of rouds.If! they aro nos sold at maturity, they often become n total loss, Farmers, disheartened b, such losses, are unwilling | to raise crops which.with better meus of transportation, would be very r.Thercfore the occasion | inability of cultivators to market the.r perishable products at tho right tino doprives them of a fruitful source of profit.It takes a much longer time and requires a far greater tructive forco to haul light loads over bud roads than it | would to draw heavy loads over good | rouds.The unnecessary struing to whi bad roads subject teams, harnesses a wagons are very wearing.Rough usage seriously injures the farmer's cquip- ment.Improved highways would prevent avoiduble dopreciation of property | and increase the gains of producers.The expcrieuce of other sections ree.ommends the construction of two roads\u2019 side by side, one of earth and the other of stone or gravel.Each read wou 4, prolong the life of the other.In dry) weather the dirt road Would bu used, | | munerative.of the draft animals, In wer spells tho.uso of the ruck road would prevent the | injuries which travel would then inflict\u2019 upon the dirt road.In the longest rains one geod lishway would always bo available.In fair weather the farmers could take their choice of a stone or lessen the cost und frequency of repairs, It is hardly worth while to Luild a: fow good highways, Systems of roads | should be improved at the same time.| A draft wagon, light enough to be used | on muddy roads, could not avail itself of the full advantage of a rock road.| The wagons used on hard roads weigh | from 2,500 to 3,000 pounds, and thoy carry loads of three or four tous, buch wagons could not be employed on soft roads.They wvould sink into the mud and require us much force to move thew as it would to haut their heaviest freigbt ou à gravel road.Common and improved roads cannot be profitably cotwbined.What is fic for the one is nog suited to tho other, Therefore thy main and tributary highways of any district ; should ull bo reconstructed at once.! It is estimated thut tho average cost of good roads in tho United States would bo | from £1,000 Lo $1,200 à mile.This, of course, implies bigher taxes, but tho increased gains of agriculture will recon- | cile farmers to their share of the burden.The cranomy of time aud labor, the conveyance of heavier loads, the saving of pe.ishul-le fruits, the marlet- ing of products when they will bring | the highest prices and tho profitable\u2019 use of rainy days ure important advantages.To the going derived from thesu sources must be added the enhanced val ues of 1cal © cute, The average appreciation of the lands through which good roads run is estimated ut $0 an nero.Thero is onv instance of an exceptional rise of $83 per acre.in the value of farm - land.As us the people of the United : States particinato in the bencfits of guod tous, they .ould all bear their shato : of the cost of edustruction and muiuts- nance, As there is a community of in | terests there should be an cquality of | burdens, | Merchants and manufacturers are deeply interested in good vouds beenttso | it would frequently happen that with- | out them the supplies with wbicl country customers pay their bills could! not be Lronght to market nor could the! wares which their patrons purchased be | quickly or cheaply transported to the points of consumption.But with good roads producers and consumers could carry on their exchanges irrespective of bad weather.\u2014Professor 8, Waterhouse, Roads to Iinprovo.The avenues that make possible pleasant communication with the mill, factory, market, railroad, ferry, fair ground, school, cburch and neighbor and unite town and country are the ones that need to be always clean and fit for use.MUD AND SAND TAX.° South Carolina Annually Wastes an Enormous Sum.Professor Holmes told the people of South Carolina some wholesome truths at the good roads convention at Colum.| bia, Here are some of them: Bad ronds bave retarded our develnp- ment ulong every line, They bave interfered with our schools and with our | churches and with the pleasures and the comforts of our people in many other ways.Their blighting influence bears heavily ou all, and especially on the farming classes, but what is of more vitul importance is the fict that these bad roads constitute su enormous mud and sand tax of not less than $5 per capitis per annum on every min, woman and child living in the southern states, In South Carclina alone this terrible burden amounts to not less thin $5, 000, - IMPROVED ROAD IN IOWA, {From L.A.W.Bulletin.] 000.No wonder that our people stagger under such a burden, which they do not seem either tn realize or to understand.This means that it costs the people of South Carolina every year $5,000,000 more to do the hauling and the traveling which they now do on the public roads than it would cost to do the sume amount of hauling and traveling if there existed in the state goud macadam roads instead -of the present poor dirt roads.livery tax lovied is supposed to benefit the people who levy it and the money thus paid by the people as the tax soon comes back into circulation and reaches them again, but this $5, - 000,000 mad tax, which is levied regardless of the will of the peuple by the inexorable law of nature and the condition of trade, is u complete loss, as it beucfits no ouc.It is simply an enormous yearly drain upon the energies, resources aud money of our people, which is as sonseless and useless as it is enormous, and is'a total loss.Our people complain that they are already too poor to baild costly macadam roads.The truth is we are too poor to do without them, and so long ns our bad rouds continue we may expect to be poor.Indeed as compared with other states und couutries which have good roads we may expect to become annually poorer.Without good roads every phase of the industrial progress of the south will be greatly retarded and her agricultural interests will relatively go backward.This public road problem is ot tr vital importance to be left longer in the background.We must give it the | recognition which it demands.Wo have been asleep long enough, Wo aro not a wealthy people, vor bave we a densy population, but we inst accept the sit uation un.it is and make the best of it.We must regard roadbuilding as a business.It demands intelligent super.; Vision as much as railroad building ov ; earth read.The use of wide tives would | cotton mannfacturing or any sort os business.We must select for the posi tion of road supervisors the most competent men to be found, regardless of their politics or other considerations, and whenever we can find a better man for the place we should feel duty bound to make the change.In turn tho friends of good rouds must uphold the supervisor iu doing the best possible work.Wo must not make the mistake of wasting tho little money which can be raised by taxation for this purpose, and hence we need constantly the best engineers and the best roadbuilders that can be employed.MICHIGAN ROAD LAW, Counties Havo Full Power to Vote Bonds For Iighways The county roud system in Michigan can be adopted by a majority vote in any county.Five road commissioners are elected, none of whom can in any way bo interested ia any contract that may be cutered inio by tho board.They have full power to lay out county roads; to change tie width, direction or location of existing ones; purchase property; unite with wljacent counties in laying out und muintaining roads and to adopt any round as n county rond, except that in incorporated villages\u2018 the consent of tho village must be obtained.They can grade, drain gravel, macud- amize or improve in any Way according to their judgment; construct and maintain culverts and bridges, but can contract no indebtedness in excess of tho amount at their disposal jn the hands of the county treasurer.A county may by vote boud itself for road purposes, and is Hablo for damages growing out of thoir bad coudition.The system was adopted Ly Chippewa county in 1894, bonds for $100,000 issued, and in the two years following nearly 160 miles of roud wore improved and built to tho satisfuction of tho people.Telford Pavement.The chief advantage of the telford is in the foundation, which consists of stones eight or ten inches loug, laid upon a well rolled bel in regular rows across tho road, the same us belgian blocks are laid, the interstices closely chinked with stone chips and the sur- fuco wade perfectly even, Upon this is placed a layer of three-quarter inch trap rock, covered with a dressing of clay, stone mcreenings and dust.A road so construoted in Delaware county, Pa., with an eight inch foundation, four iuch layer of trap rock and surface dressed, cost (65 cents a square yard.It used to cost from 90 cents to $1.10, = gray AY This is the s 7 way we look now! ANE yclone Has struck usl Nevertheless we have a few goods left that the carpenters have not thrown out or ruined, and for fear they will still persist in their designs, we offer some Great Bargains in Fall : Winter Goods.Come in and make the Clerks hunt them up.NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.You are sure to strike a bargain.Remember the cold snap is sure to come.Be prepared: we are the people who can prepare you.C.H.KATHAN, MAMMOTH STORE, Rock Island.Save Money?READ THE FOLLOWING, TO BE SOLD SOON AS POSSIBLE: $1,000 worth of Boots, Shoes $800 worth of Gentlemen's and Rubber Goods Furnishing Goods All New and the Latest Styles fe : : sy \u2018 Ca consisting of Fine Neckwear in both Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen's.Collars and Cuffs, White Shirts, $800 worth of Clothing ' Inuudricd and unlaundried, White Shirts with fancy bosoms, at any price you want.All manner of In this line you will find some egligee Shirts\u2014laundried and Great Bargains in Suits for unlaundried.Underwear and Children from 3 to 16 years old.Hosiery, Handkerchiefs of every Also in Suits for Young Men from 16 to 19 years old.Do you want to description, Silk Mufflers in every color imaginable.$400 worth of Hats and Caps that have been bought since Oct.1st, 1897.This entire stock is new and bought right, but must be closed out as | am going to make extensive repairs in my store and must have the room.G.W.CLARK, Post Office Block.DERBY LINE, Vt.\u2018What to Buy and Where # to Buy it = G00d ÂXES ror croprers §0 (ents.Cowtie Chains all Prices Butcher Knives, Meat Cutters, Roast Pans, Steamers, etc.New Line Agate Ware.Tinware with the hole knocked out of the bottom.SKATES FOR THE BOYS.We have several kinds of Skates that we soll for a song.Just as good for beginners.Every boy should have a pair.Hockey Skates\u2014Yes we have them.ECONOMY COBBLERS\u2014Just the thing for winter days, you can do your own shoe mending and save money.We have them too.New Line Stoves and Ranges.Dandies too.Last of all buy a \u201cRound Oak Heating Stove\u201d with the Name on the Leg, \u2019 4 + + ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE COMPANY. wl ° ; \u201c | PILES 3105 NIGHTS Piles, whether itching, blind or bleeding, are relleved by ono application of .Dr.Agnew\u2019s Ointment 35 CENTS.And cured in 3 to 5 nights.Dr.M.Barkman, Binghamton, N.Y,, writes: Send mo 12 dozen more of Agnew's Ointment, I prescribo largo quantities of It It is 8 wonder worker in skin discascs and a great cure for pilos,\u201423.Sold by J, T.Flint.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK.Established 1859, Capital.- - $1,600,000 Reserved Fund - 78%,000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS.R.W.HENEKER, President.Hox.M.H.CocHRANE, Vice-President.Isra®y, Woon, T.J.Tuck, G, STEVENS, JOIN (£ Foster, J.N.GALER, THOMAS Hanr, N.W THOMAS.HEAD OFFICE \u2014 SEEEBROOKR, P.Q.WM.FARWFLL, General Manager: 8.Enc Eun, Local Manager, 8.F.Morpy, Inspector of Branches.BRANCHES, Waterloo, W.I, Briggs, Mgr.; Stanstead, 8S, Stevens, Mgr, ; \u2018Cowansville, J.MacKinnon, Mer.: Conticook, B.Austin, Mgr.; Richmond, W.L.Eall, Mer.: Granby, W.H, Robinson, Mgr.Bedford, E W.Morgan, Mgr.: Huntingdon, B.N.Robinson, Mer.: Magog, BE, P.Oliver, Mer.: St.Hyciuthe, J.Lafinumboise, Mgr, AGENTS IN MONTREAL\u2014 Ban of Montreal.London Eng, National Bank of Scotland, Boston National Exchange Fank.New York, National Park Bank, Collections made in all Accessible points, Drafts issued for any required amounts, good at all points in Canada, United States and Europe.Exchange bought and sold.SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT.at each Office.Interest allowed from date of deposit and eomponnded annually, without requiring the attention of the depositor, Office hours from 10 to 3, Saturdays from 10 to 1, Fall and Winter Time Table In effect October 11, 1857.On and after Monday, Qetober uh, 1807, trains will run as follows: TRAINS LEAVE SHERBROOKE, EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke Arrive Dudswell Jet, 0.00 a.m, » Levis, 1,55 p.ur.uebee (Ferry) 200 * ss St.Francis, Ju « Through Vonches Boston to Quebec and also Pullman Palace Cor from Springfetd via Sherbrooke to Quebec on this train: connects ing ut Sherbrooke with Pullman Palace car from Boston.ACCOMMODATION \u2014 8.00 a, M.Leave Sherbrooke, 9,00 p in.Arrive Dudswell Jet, 10.15n.m.hd Levis, 815 \u201c Quebce (Ferry) Bb WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke, Arrive Dudswell Jet, \" Beauce Jet.TRAINS ARRIVE BHERBROOKE.EXPRES5\u2014 9.80 n, M.13,15 a, m.7.15 p, mn, Leave Quebee (Ferry) 1.30 p.m.\u201c Levis (Q.C.R } 2.00 p.m.Arrive St.Francis, 4,20 p.m.8 Megantic 8.80 p.mi.\u201c Dudsweil Tet.6.55 nom.Sherbrooke, Tal pow.Through Coach Quebec to Boston and also Pullman Palace Car from Quehee to Spring.fleld via Sherbrooke on this train, conneering ut Sherbrooke with Pulman Fa ace car for Bos: on, ACCOMMODATION \u2014 Leave Quechee (Ferry) 3.80 p.in.ave @ Levis (Q.C.B.47.0U D, m.Arrive Dudswell Jet.7.15 a, am.* Sherbrooke, Oui a.m.This train runs only as far ns Fenuce Jet, on Saturday nights, continuing on te Sherbrooke the following Monday morning.WAY FREGHT\u2014 Leave Beauce Jet, \u201c« Dudswell Jet, 245 p.m.Arrive Sherbrooke, 4.10 p.m.All trains run daily Sundays excepted.Councetions made at Dudswell Tunetion with the Maine \u2018'extial KR, so that prssengers 1eavine #h-1broot - in the morning make gnick connéeeti.ns for Ca kxhire, Snwyerville, ete, For tickets and f iether information apply to thin Co npany's Agents, FRANK GRUNDY, General Manager, 7,50 a.m.J.H, WALSH, [£3 at I masts Axe ty, 50 YEARS\u2019 EXPERIENCE Traoe MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C.Anyone sending n sketch and description may quionly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable.Communications strictly confidential.Tiandbook on Patents sent free.Oldest ngancy for necuring patents, Patents taken through Munn & Co.receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American, A handsomely tllustented weekly.Largest eir.culation of any soientifi¢ journal, Terms.$3 a Wi four months, $1.Sold by all newsdenlers, (30,368 1Brondway, New York Branch Offiee, 625 F 8t., Washington, D.C.A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUYACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and Frames, Window Mouldings, Blanchard Churns and all kinds of House Finish Hard-wood Floor Boards and Matched Ceiling manufactured from kiln-dried lumber, All orders promptly attended to.We are bound not to be undersold.SAMURI, EF.ABBOTT, of 8PANSTRAD Is our agont for that Township., COLOR MARKINGS.-Ohlo Method of Identifying Blooded Hogs That Change.Hands.The Ohio Poland-China Record oom- pany has adopted a method of identifying hogs beyond doubt by their color markings.In animals that have been bred pure for generations the different spots, stripes and splashes of color can be ensily traced and described, as a white foot, white hairs on rump or spot on shoulder, etc.A chart containing \"such color description in addition to its pedigree given along with a hog when it is sold aud accompanying it through every change of ownership would be u means of fixing its identity positively.Such charts the record company uses in connection with established earmarks.Mr.L.N.Bonbam describes in The Breeder's Gazette the card as follows: Tbe scerctary bas prepared forms of pedigree on the back of which appeur blank outlines of the right and left sides of a pig.These blunk outlines are ulso on the stub of the pedigree kept by the breeder.Ho gives instructions for the breeder to *\u2018take this blank and while looking at the pig before shipping him or scuding bis pedigree for record mark on these outlines with pencil all the points and spots as they appear on right side and then on the left.Before sending the pedigree mark with ink, solid black, ull these spots und points as they appear on the pig,\u201d It is believed that such a description will be more exactly al oo) CHART FOR IDENTIFYING A HOG.expressed than is possible by words, Holders of sules of their produce can do buyers a rervice and themselves great credit not only by uso of ear tags, but also by indicuting the color markings on the outlines to bo found ou the back of the pedigree.This should all be done before the day of sale and the pedigrees filled out from their private records of breeding, so that on the receipt of payment or note for the animal there is nothing to add to the pedigree Lut the purchaser\u2019s namo and address and number of animal.The breeder who will go even further gnd instead of so much bighfaluting and misleading snperla- tives will uso a simple outline \"of form and add to this the color markings, would close the door against many opportunities for fraud and give epecific and reliable information.The idea is applicable not only to identifying pigs offered for record, but for accuracy und fullness of description, We believe it is an effort in thé right dircetion.Its success depends largely on the curefulness of the breeder who I' may use it.He may think it a desira- ! Lle thing and yet not bo skillful enough with pencil or pen to show accurately the size and location of markings.Ho also may not be skillful in use of his pen us a letter writer, but he can find those who ean do such work if he wishes to serve bis customers as well as he ought, The average breeder can give on these outlines a better idea of the nam- ber, location and size of the animal's markings than he can in words.The identification of his produce can be secured und no ghyster can appropriate the brevder\u2019s skill or pedigree for another pig.A Young Shorthorn Cow.For a perfect model of the female Shorthorn wo have scen nothing superior to the young cow in the illustration.Her back is as straight as an arrow, her color a fine red, splashed here and RE RY bi ps A SR [ SN N NS 8% SS N YOUNG SHORTHORN COW, there with white.Any one at a glance would know she was not suited to the dairy.She does not have to be.Her mission is to produce beef, and nobly Ishe fulfills it.She is of one uf vhe | famous American =horihorn families.! \u2014_\u2014 | I Live Stock Points, A breeder mundo the experiment of | feeding some 1k cows and some fat- | teniug steers the saine ration as to Ina- j terials.It couzisted of bran, cornmeal jand oilmeal.ilo wished to find out which it cert the most to produce\u2014a pound of buizer or a pound of beef.He noted exch pound of gain made by tho steers, likewise each pound of butter the sows produced The result was that the butter, 8 cents, Thus it cost a trifle more with the above feed to produce a pound of bec than a pound of butter, which is worth at least four times as much.Still, if everybudy went to making butter instead of beef the price of the butter would soon be lower than that of beef.The price of $60,000 recently paid for the 2-year-old racing colt H:unburg, in Kentucky, does not look as though the trade in thoroughbreds was dead.A pig iy always ready for market at 10 months old, and it ought to bo ready ut 8 months, At the Chicago fat stock show the heaviest 2-year-old steer was on Hereford that weighod 1,830 pounds; the second benviest was an Aberdeen-Angus, 1,756 pounds; the third heaviest, a Shorthorn, 1,680 pounds.The Hereford won also the sweepstakes prize, » vost was for the beef, 3.4 cents; for the ! LAMB FEEDING.Winter Quarters, Lean Meat Ratlons, Shearing, Need of Water, Ito, Food eaten goes to one of two fano- tions, the support of the animal or its growth, The animul must live, and to live must be kept warm, and this will be one first from the food eaten aud all the growth will come later from any surplus of food above these requirements.Very much the largest part of the food of support goes to maintaining warmth.Under ordinary circumstances 70 per cent is thus used, and the conditions may be such that à much larger proportion will be used for this purpose.So far as any hope of profit is cou- cerued this part of the food might just as well be thrown into a stove and burned as to be consumed in the animal\u2019s body as fuel.It follows, of course, that if the lumb to be fed is put into warm quarters less food will bie used us fuel and more of it will be utilized in making growth, We should then muke the folds or barns tor feeding just as warm as the health of the lamb will allow, 1 have tried different temperatures und find that about 50 or 55 degrees IN.is the most desirable.But we will find that no lamb can endure bad uir and be beslthy Their lungs are sensitive, so we must see to it that the fold is well ventilated and the air kept pure aud free from disease gers, If properly ventilated with ghoots from the fold up ont at the roof, this can be secured without making them too cold or having à draft Llow - ing in ou the shiep, Nothing (an be worse than to attempt to ventilate by the windows, a5 it is impossible to do this without having more or less drafts blowing in cn the lanl: and wien this occurs they ure sure to tuke cold, No animal is more averso to having wet (quarters than the sheep, und no lamb or sheep can be wade to do well in a fold luving tie nauure or floor wet, Mor must ic be allowed to become filthy.1t should to mde dry and then kept Lttered with leuves or straw so as to keep clean, aud when su it need not be cleaned out more than two or three times during the winter.We know another thing, All motion is ut the expense of energy, and encrpy comes only from focd caten.1f pow wo keep the lambs very quiet, try will uso less food in this way, and mere cal go to making growth.Nothing cau bo more waustetul aud foolish than to at tempt to feed a lot of lmnis rauaing loose over (be fields or yards, .co only do they waste much food in the Lie Gless exercise, but they sre running over crowding cach other from one gweld night, To do their Less they seould ve sorted according to size und no more than £56 put together in pons in warn quarters, not less thun cight tect in height in the clear, and when so kept may bo sufely loosed in a ven that shall give euch lamb ten square tect of floor space, In oraer that tbe luimnbs may have ample feeding room tho pens may be made only 10 {uct wide and long enough 50 as to give cach Inmib one fout of feeding rack and trough.The common notion that lambs do not require winch water is very fallacious, No animal needs more or will drink oftener when it bas a chance, aud no animal is half so particular as to the cleanliness of the water or trough from which it drinks.Tho drinking trove s should be up just high enough so vr.y can drink easily and should be 1 cut clean enough so the shepherd wouli Le.willing to drink from it.As has been said, we want a large amount of lean meut put upon lumbs, ; We know also that tho foods having au ! excess of the nitrogenous elements tend | to the production of lean meat.We should also know that sheep, lambs os- pecially, are very foud of a variety in their food.We should thercfore feed ; largelv on nitrogenous foods, such us bran, oats, oilimeal and gluteu menl for grain, and no forage is so good for | lambs as good, early cut, well cured, | bright clover hay, and if we have plen- | ty of this we may safely add quite a proportion of corn to the grain ration, In feeding grain it is well to commence with a very sinall amount and if possible begin to feed a little while still on pasture, and tho amount may be gradually increased so long as the grain will show that they are making a good uso | of what they eat, As wo want the meat juicy as well as Iean and as tho lambs must be Leyt hezlthy some sort of succulent fuod should be provided.Nothing is better thun good silage, which can Le safely fed in as large quantities as they will eat.Roots and turnips, rutabagas and ; mangolds are all good for succulence, | and if the Jambs are kept warm there! is no danger of ftecding then too much, succulent food\u2014in fact, I have found that they will do better when fed boch silage uud roots than when fed on eitner alone, i Roeaularity in feeding is of tho utmost | importanee\u2014in fact, it Will not do at : all to feed haphazard, They are so sensitive in this respect that they should be fed each day in the same order as regards pens.Their stomach is as good as (a clock, and unless fod at just such an hour and in the same order each day they will fret and worry off all the gain you could expect.One thing more\u2014I would advise the shearing of the lambs when first put into the folds and for these reasons: It takes all the ticks off with the wool, ; and no lamb can make a satisfactory | gain with no more tbun à balf score of lively ticks; they occupy less space after shorn and can get about wore freely, und then you can keep their folds much | warmer, I hope farmers who are finding their crops growing less will be induced to go into the winter feeding of lambs.I :un sure those who do gu systematically and stick to it will at the end of five years find a goodly sutn to the credit of the lambs, but what is far better they will find that the rich manure made, if judiciously used, will make a good showing in increasing their crops.\u2014J.8.Woodward in National Stockman.HOME OF LIVE PEOPLE NEWKIRK, 0; T.A SUCQESS FROM THE START.A Lively Mart of Trade Where Four Years Ago Was Unbroken Prairie\u2014Enterprise and Energy Ware the Forces Which Wrought the Change.As an oxample of what may be accomplished in town building when the ritizens of a community start out with that purpose aud are of oue mind the city of Newkirk, O.T., is a shining example.Though now but 4 years old it has a population of over 2,000 und as a business center is probably uot surpassed by auy town-of like size in the country.À correspondent of the Kansas City Times recently visited Newkirk aud tolls the following story of success: A pleasing sight greets the eye of the traveler who has beard and read of the famous Cherokee strip and decided to take a look over her rolling prairies und ut her thriving towns Upon entering the territory from the north vin the Sauta Fo route a plain of unbroken level and rolling prairie spreads ont bo- fore the eye until scomingly the heavens and earth meet, and the blue of u clear sky is mingled with the green of the landscape, aided by the golden colors of immense fields of grain.Ten miles over this level plain from the Kansas line the traveler looks out upon Newkirk, the connty seat of Kay county, one of | ull Okla- the thriftiest little cities in hot, Newkirk is situnted on a rolling prairie a little cast of the gocgraphieal center of Kay county, the northwest county of thé territory.The town stands upon a slightly elevated plain, and a magniticont view of the surrounding country is afforded for miles in each direction, To the east and south is the winding Arkunsas river, skirted with a dense growth of timber: to the west is the Bodoe, a beautiful, clear strana With natural drainage in each diree- tion, the town has a commanding clo- vation, Noewlirk was founded on tho 16th day of sepresber, E93, and was laid off after the old southern style, with a public square Being m the heart of o prolific agricultural region and the connuty seat of one of the best counties in the territory, the destiny of Newkirk was {rom the start obscured by no sign of shade or shadow.\u2018The town was rapidly populated by a class of onterpris- ing, pushing westerners.Representative people in all uvocatious in lifo found their way into the new country, were pleased with tbe location of tho town and identified themselves with its future.They choso wisely and have builded wisely, us is attested by the many {ine residences and substantial business houses now standing mona- ments to their enterprise.Many fine stone and brick buildings now lino the principal streets of New- kirk.Thus has the town grown from the start.A more thoroughly cosmopolitan town is not found.The advantage of live people locating in such ao center is plain to be seen.To the intend.ng settler or business man Newkirk presents the very best inducements, It ig uo longer a frontier town, Countrige are not settled now us of yore, when the stur of numigration found its way over the courtry, aud the prairie schootor roll tbe best known Indian trail 1 lurk isa modern litide city, With 1: Corn society and chiurenes and goud scuvols, As a trading center and grain shipping point, Newkirk probally takes the banner over any town of its xize in the entire country.Last year sho shipped about 1,000 cars of wheat, when only a partial crop was raised.This year, when wheat is golden and corn is king in the territory, she will forward upward of 5,000 cars.Kay county embraces an area of country in size 24 by 80 miles and raised the present season 16,000 acres of wheat.About 200 steam; thrashers wore busy in the county in the vicinity of Newkirk during the last harvest season.It is estimated that the total yield will exceed 5,000,000 Lush.| els.Ono agricultural implement firm alone in Newkirk sold $40,000 worth of binders in June.WHY THE TOWN GREW.Activity of the Residents More Potent Than Natural Advantages ! The growth and development \u201c| Pinckneyville, the judicial seat of Perry county, Ills.during the past seven! years are remarkable when it is taken into consideration that its previous existence of 67 years gave it in 1590, ne- cording to the census, a population of 1,208.Since that time its population has been more than doubled and its general business interests proportionate.Iy increased.The numerous uew residences and cottages, including thos under construction, are positive assurances of Pinckneyville's permanent growth and future possibilities.i When a town increases its population as steadily as Pinckneyville has done wn tho past seven years, going from 1.208 in 1890 to 3,000 in 1897, the surround- Ings and favorable advantages should be borne in mind.The conl interests! and fine farm lands aro largely instiu- mental in the city\u2019s advancement and development.The energy and enterprise of the business people also have some bearing in that direction.It is com-| mendable to notice that almost every citizen manifests an unusual interest in i the town's success and its future.Power of the Press, Jubilee Lipton, who bas made $50, 000,000 in the grocery busiriess in 20 years and who has just departed from our shores after a tour of the United States, attributes his success to printers\u2019 ink, employed in the advertising columns of the newspapers.[tis hie opinion that one might as well undertake to run a store in a tunnel us to try to do business without appealing to the public through the press.\u2014Boston Her ald | { i PUBLIC BATHS.Korope Ahead of America In Facllities For Personal Cleanliness, The labor departanent has been probing this problem indirectly with some sturtling resulta It has just completod o special iuvestigntion in all cities of the world where people who cannot afford bathtubs at home may go to publie jnstitntions and bathe thomsalves for nothing or for a few pennies.Dntn col- locted by an agent of the department who has traveled abrond astrido the public bath as his special hobby justify the four that our European cousins can give us somo practical pointers ancat public cleanliness.Public baths, acoessible to the puarer classes and open the year round, aro found completed in only two localities \u2014iu the city of Buffaloand in tho town of Brookline, Mass It should be added, however, that New York, Chicago nnd Boston have appropriated for such public establishments within the past two years.ln n fow cities, as Washington, New York and Boston, for instance, putilic buths are open in sun:mer only.Lut people should be us clean in winter as in sum, Up to date municipal housckeepers are agreed that froe public baths sre a crowning need in 211 tone- ment house and other overerowded city | districts.Authentic statistics from IH flourishing American cities, which represent a cross section of the country at large, tell the disgraceful tale that only five-sixths of their citizens live facilities tor washing themselves other than those afforded by pail and sponge or the flowing streumes plunted by nature.The goneral introduction of the modern publie bath in Europe, where it is now fouud in every progressive city of ANY stLe, IS stid to be due to the Eny- lish, who have always believed in kven- ing clean.Public baths have been the thing in Great Britain since more than uw century ago, when they were first introduced in Liverpool.Tu that city to- diy men and women of all eluses can take n sea water bath in any season of the year.In wintor the wider is puniped out of the sea, warined and collocted in monstrous tanks, where it may bo on- joyed by any cue who has 4 pennies to pay forit Nite public baths and 18 sheltered swimeang pools is the goed record of the mother city of the institution which wo most need.these establishieits havo attachad to them publie hrundrics, .In America pure Water is even cheaper than iu Lueopo, and our philunthro.pists and municipalities can afford to expend their money quite as lavishly for public cleanliness ns enn those of the old world.Tha individual should bo as rigidly bound by sanitary Lows as tho community race, it is true, but we should tako timo to keep clean, WELLS AND SPRINGS.Elements of Disense Often Drinking Water.Present In diet us exmnine into some of the conditions surrounding domestic wells and springs in the hoger towns and vil- lagges, conditions which also prevail sometimes even about rural homes We shall then he how a well, Vike a Nevada siiver mine, may have \u2018\u201craiillions in if srl how \u201cthe old'oasen bucket\u201d may tein (rom the depths elewients of discas © wth tho same dralt that refreshos the thirsty throat.For conventence à well is situ- uted in the buck yard, perhaps u rod away from the house, or it may even bo nearer.Certain other things, also for convenionee's sake, are grouped close About the back door.Here is a cesspool but a short distance, perhaps only a few feet, from the well.There is a vault, a filthy institution.which is an open disgrace to civilization.A little farther away is the garbage heap.In other ad.Jucent localities are the chicken coop, the pigpen and the stable, with their accumulations of decomposing filth.It may be that in a corner a dead animal has been buried to save the trouble of conveying it to a distance.A damp and recking spot near the back door marks the place where the slops have bion d posited since the drain to the eesspool became stopped up with the accamul.ed refuse of halt a dozen years.Every one of the sours of contami- pation mentioned is a contributor tothe well A part of the putrad material floats upon the ground and 15 disqrradl of by evaporation, Lut the greater portion of it soaks nto the growed Te isa comtson crror to suppose that whoever his dive oared into the ground 1, de stroyed \"he fth whieh has drugceur ed fromm the saitace my be out of sight, but 1t is not oût of existence If the soil is fillel with refuc of various kinds, the voll will be contami ted.Every rain wishes the filth a nile deeper down wot at reaches the vil proper or one vd the underground .us of water by which it 1s fold It mv uot be generally known that a well will draw water a distance of 60 feet, \u2014 Are ni.To Encourage Flome Trade, Portland.Or, has formed n Citizens' Protective assocuaion.The city hus been steutlily los11g population and wealth, and the object of the asscoin- tion ig to encourage home trade sud wm- dustries.Two Inky Ways.There was à man who advertised But orfee, u single time, In spot obscure placed he bis nd.And paid for it & dume And just because 1t didn't bring Him customers by score \u201cAll advertising 15 à fuke,\u2019 He kaid, or rather awore.He seemed ta chink one hammer tap Would drive a nail clear mn ; That from a bit of tiny thread A weaver tents could spin.It he this reasoning bright applied To eating, doubtless he Would claim one little bite wonld feed Ton men a century.Bome day, though, he will learn that to Make advertising pay He'll have to add ads.to his ad.And advertise each day.* \u2014New York Sun.Three of | We wre a very busy | better able to eaderstand ! YOUNG EDISON'S SCHEME.Will Utilise Power of the Ocoan Waves to Develop Electricity.» A New York despatch says: Itis stated with much positiveness that Thomas A.Edison, Jr., has evolved 9 plan for the utilization of powerin the productio of light, heat and electricity which, if carried {nto effect, willrevo- lutionize the industrial world Ina more radical manner than have all the inventions of his illustrious father.Young Edison proposes tu harnoes the ocean and compel it to do the bidding of man, There was a report circulated last Thursday that Edison was organizing a syndicate to supply electricity In unlimited quantity, and at such low rates that it would supersede ul other means of power for use in the munu- factures and arts.Ie says, however, that the capital required is so vast that he is not yat ready to organize + company.\u201cMy plan,\u201d said Mg.Edison, \u2018is so simple, nnd, I believe practical, that there will be little trouble in obtaining the necessary capital.\u201c1 would erect an iron pler at sca beyond the breakers, where we could get the natural roll of the ocean waves.Under this pior would be placed floats.Ench flont would be ns Inyge ns posri- | ble, but small enough to rise en tho top of the swells and sink into the | trough between them.The pier is to ;be anchored to the bottom of the ocean and will remain stationary.The floats will be connected with pistons of cylinders, which will pump air into n great compressor.From this the air will pass to engines, which will in turn run electric dynamos.The current will be taken ashore on insulated wires.D'think it will require a capital of about #25,000,600 to put the i plan in actual operation and produce power enogh to supply New York and the surrounding country.- Will Live with a Broken Neck.A Catskill, N.Y., despatch ways: Michnel Decell, uwing to the improved appliances of surgery, fives although his neck is broken.Lust Monday, while working at an\u2018ice house here ho fell eleven fect and broke his neck, Wonder-Working | Diamond Dyes, | Thousands of ladies in Cnnada know well that Diamond Dyes combine îim- i mense variety, merit and great beauty.{These wondor-working dyes tre pre- \"pared in forty-elght of the best standard colors for wool, sille and fenthers, iwith special dye fer ecloring cotton | and al} mixed goods.Minute and full directions go with \u201cench package of the Dinmend Dyes, no ;Lhat the most inexperienced person \"ean do as good woork as the proffes- \u201chlonal dyers, ! Remember that imitators are trying \"to copy the style and package of Din- {mond Dyes.When you huy dyes for home dyeing kee that your dealer gives you the \u201cDiamond\u201d; no other maka will do your work with profit and #et- isfaction.Send to Wells & Richardson Co, Montreal P.Q., for valuable hook of directions and sample card of colors; | post free to any address.| w | Fire in Sherbrooke, | Shortiy before # o\u2019clock Thursday night fire broke out in the millinery store of Mrs.H.Pelletier, at the corn- ber of Bridge street and Bowen avenue, i Bast Serbrooke.It was caused by the bursting of a coal oil lainp.The byi- | gade was quickly on the scene but ow- ! ing to the very inflammable nature of the stock.the fire sprerd rapidly \u2018to the adjoining candy and tobacco store of C, Marechal and did considerable damage there.The upper portion of the building was used as à \u2018dwelling house by a man named Lo- ranger and his three children.The latter were in hed when (he fire oe- curcd and had 10 be hastily removed without waiting to put anything on in \u2018Addition to their night clothes, The loss is practicaily covered by insur- once.For Over Fifty Yeurn.Mrs, Window's Soathing Syringe bis been used for aver {fry years by notions of mother for their children while teclhing, with pertert csUecess, Jt anothes the chil softens Dhe guns, aliny sail pain, cures wind eolle