The Stanstead journal, 10 février 1898, jeudi 10 février 1898

[" Ve w 1e p! rt hs Se Bo\u2019?D (E D 8.60 st of 8 38 r Lt ak VOL.LHI.\u2014No.5 TOWN TOPICS.20 lbs.lunge at Salle\u2019 for 81.If you want to save money read Gil- man & Co.\u2019s ad.Mr.A.B.Nelson is away on a trip to Providence and Boston.\u2019 Mr.J.T.Flint attended the recent Shrine meeting at St.Johnebury.Mrs.Fred Pelo of Derby Line fell yesterday and broke three of her ribs.Mrs.Cheney, an aged lady living at Mrs.D.H.Pike\u2019s, Derby Line, is very ill.Mr.Ernest St.Pierre of Pawtucket, R.1., is visiting relatives at Derby Line.Dr.and Mrs.Sivigny of Newport were the guests of Dr.Lapalme last Sunday.The Derby Centre and Stanstead Hockey Clubs will cross sticks at the Olympic Rink to-night.The Stanstead Junior Hockey Club have an engagement to play against the Magog Club at that place next Saturday.Eleanor Lockhart, youngest daug- ter of D.M.Lockhart, died last night of typhoid fever after an illness of two weeks.The funeral will take place at the residence of her parents, Stanstead Plain, Friday, at 2.30 p.m.Mrs.(Capt.) John Clarke, who has lately been staying at Lawrence, Mass., is about leaving for Daytona, Florida, with her sister, Mrs.Macartney.We understand that Mr.C.H.Raw- son is about to sever his connection with the Rock Island Hardware Co., and leave the place.He will be much missed from the business community.Mr.Robert Storie, for some time local manager of the Bell Telephone Co.at Stanstead, has resigned.We understand that he contemplates accepting the management of an elec- trie light plant at Napanee, Ont.A large number of bidders were present at the Sweeney estate Auction Sale Tuesday, and fairly good prices were realized for the property sold.Two desireable new buildings in the business portion of the village, and a harness shop doing a good business are for sale Miss Lillian Todd of Compton has been appointed Temporary Local Manager of the Bell Telephone Co.at Stanstead, As Miss Todd is an experienced hand and has been in the employ of the Company for some time the many subscribers will find à continuance of an up to date service in the future as in the past.Two of our young men Messrs.J.F.Telford aud T.O.Chapman have formed a partnership under the firm name of the Dominion Cutlery and Speciality Co., and will conduct a wholesale business.Both are bright young men and we wish them success.We understand Mr.Telford will still have the oversight of Mr.Jondro\u2019s factory.A rarely good meeting of the Fortnightly Club was held last Tuesday evening, Sir Walter Scott as poet and novelist was the theme.Miss Gertrude Pike read an excellent selection on the life of the author; Dr.Cowles gave an able and witty paper on \u201c\u2018Scott as a Novelist;\u2019\u2019 Mr, Carpenter showed a poetical appreciation of \u201cScott as a Poet\u201d in his well written article; and Mrs.Frederick Butter- fleld gracefully outlined \u201cThe Lay of the Last Ministrel.\u201d\u201d The musical selections were equally good and consisted of a piano duett by Misses Colby and Mansur, and a quartette by Miss Butterfield, Mrs.Caswell, Mr.Cowles and Mr.Ball.ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.\u2014Qdd Fellows Hall.Mrs.McKinstry preached last Tuesday evening according to appointment.Eid.H.D.Selby of Kingseroft, Que., will preach next Tuesday evening, Feb.15th, as Mrs.McKinstry has to attend a convention in Boston at that time.CASSVILLE.The annual gathering for the benefit of the Cassville Church was at the residence of Mr.Nelson Bartlett Jan.19th.Some seventy-five or eighty were present and un very enjoyable evening passed.Refreshments, music and readings were the order.Proceeds between fifty and sixty dollars.Mrs.Anson Heath had the misfortune to break her wrist not long since.Special services will be held at the Church every evening during this week, Saturday evening excepted.BEEBE PLAIN.The ladies of the Baptist Church will give a sugar social in the Town Hall Tuesday evening, Feb.I5th.Sugar served from 6.80 to 8 o'clock.Admission 15 ots.All that we need to say about the sugar is that it was made by Leonard Lorimer.GEORGEVILLE.The sudden death of Nathan Alexander Beach, only son of Mr.N.A.Beach, which occurred at Beechwoods Farm on Saturday P.M., the 5th inst., cast a gloom over this place and leaves a vacancy which cannot be filled.Mr.Beach had been ill with rheumatism for several weeks and was thought to be gradually recovering, and on the morning of the 5th stated that he had passed the best night since his illness and was in good spirits when he was teken with a terrible pain in the left breast and died in a short time of heart failure.He would have been 30 years old in less than two months.A wife and daughter, also two sisters and his parents survive him.The esteem in which he was held was shown by the large number of people who gathered at Beech- woods Farm on Monday P.M.to attend the last sad rites.Rev.Mr.Wright officiated at the funeral services and the burial was according to the Episcopal form and that of the Independent Order of Foresters of which he was an active member and the first one of its members to pass away since its organization here.The heartfelt sympathy of this whole neighborhood is tendeded to the bereaved widow and daughter and also to the parents and sisters in their great affliction and sorrow.Mr.and Mrs.Charles 8.Copp, Master Clax- ence Copp and Miss Eurema Copp, al- 80 Mr.and Mrs.Philo Ladd and Mr.Forest Rubles, all of Enosburg Falls, Vt., were here to attend the funeral of Mr.Beach, Mr.Warren Achilles of Knowlton Landing is negotiating for the sale of his property, (the Chas.B.Achilles place) in Bolton, to Mr.Chas.E.Davis, jr., of Boston.Mr.Davis, who is a Bolton boy, has passed his vacations at the lake for several summers.During his recent trip to Montreal Mr.John F.Tuck purchased of the Forest estate the property formerly owned by the late Increase Bullock lying on the west shore of the lake opposite this place and containing about 100 acres.Mr.E.J.Heath and his bride were given a reception on the evening of the 3nd inst., at the house of Mr.J.E.Davidson on the occasion of their home coming at which nearly fifty people were present.After partaking of a bountiful supper Mr.and Mrs.Heath were presented with a couple fine rocking chairs as a slight token of the esteem in which they are held by their many friends here and they were wished many years of happy married life.A pleasant evening was passed with music, songs, recitations, and games and at a late hour the company dispersed feeling certain that Mr, and Mrs.Heath will be a valued addition to our numbers.Mr.and Mrs.Harry Brevoort, Ma- goon\u2019s Point, are rejoicing in the advent of a young son in their home.The dwelling known as the Rolles- ton house together with the shed and barn were burned on Tuesday evening at about 7 o\u2019clock.The fire was caused by the explosion of n kerosene lamp.Mrs.G.E.Hand, who was occupying the house for a few weeks to enable her daughter to more easly attend school, had her clothing set on fire but managed to extinguish them, when she san out and gave the alarm.It was found impossible to save the buildings and those present turned their attention to preventing the buildings of Mrs.Guun, which were near by, from taking fire.Owing to the calm that prevailed and the snow upon the roofs there was no great difficulty in preventing the fire from spreading.The household goods were nearly all saved.There was an insurance of 8500 upon the buildings in the Missisquoi and Rouville Mutual.The roof and upper part of the old building formerly used as a steam saw mill, collapsed from the weight of snow a couple of nights since.Mr.Demick and Miss Demick of Stanstead were here to atteud the.reception of Mr.and Mrs.Heath and brought a very nice present.Service at the Methodist Church in the morning next Sunday.Rev.John Davies of Stanstead is expected to supply.Mr.Davis is not yet able to take his work.\u2019 EAST HATLEY.I noticed a remark in last week's Journal which prompts a brief rejoinder.There may be good and true men, who \u2018under fire\u201d of just such unmerited rebuke, would have presented the same calm, dignified, yet withal tender front to their critics as do Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset, but \u2018horrid men\u201d would never have done it.They would have harangued the public out of all patience long ago.se ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1898.WHOLE No.2712.tt tt are WAYS MILLS.I thought I would report the work done by our council last Monday for Your columns, but I soon found that it was a bad day to start in as I wculd have to doubly earn my salary besides taking up the whole paper.There were present che full board consisting of the following gentlemen: (I will name them because I presume that if every ratepayer in town was asked who the councillors were there would not be one half of them that could name them correctly.) T.C.Fletcher, J.A.Parker, C.Dupuis, M.N.Corey, W.Heath, Geo.Hall, and F.H.Mor- rill, The first thing upon the programme was the choice of mayor.The honor fell upon Mr.C.Dupuis who is an able and experienced town officer, When the session opened the hall was filled with people with road complaints.One horse had been ruined and sleighe and harnesses smashed by wholesale, and bills to cover these losses accompanied each complaint.We found that certain road inspectors allowed people to travel in dangerous places without making a move to have a passable road.All this pleased a delegation who were waiting to present a petition asking that all road taxes be collected in cash.They judged from appearances that the time had arrived when the councillors\u2019 elastic patience was about ready to snap and they would grasp at what many think will bridge over a great deal of the road difficulty.This proved true, as when the petition was acted upon it was carried with but very little dissent, Hall, Corey, Heath, and Morrill supporting the petition, while Fletcher and Parker had rather their names would appear in opposition.When I entered the council two years ago I was strongly opposed to money tax for road work thinking that the majority of farmers could work their tax easier than to raise the money to pay some one else to do the work for them, and I am of the same opinion to-day.But during the two years I have learned many a lesson upon road matters, one of which is that in every road division there are certain ones who are not willing to do their share of the work necessary to have good roads.Now if the.roads are kept good the willing ones have overdone their duty while perhaps the other man was toasting his shins while his wife kept a good fire.Another thing I learned was that the ones in many instances who opposed money tax the strongest were the ones that shirked their road work the most.The councillors have adopted this new method for a year as a trial thinking that it cannot make matters worse and hoping it will mend many troubles.The prospects now are that we will soon have a new woolen mill.BARNSTON.It was a busy day with the Council on Monday.Calixte Dupuis was unanimously elected Mayor for the ensuing year.In answer to a numerously signed petition the council adopted the money tax system for the maintaining of roads for one year.Edgar L.Pond and Burton Hill were each paid 213 for damage to sleighs.L.C.Waghburn\u2019s bill of $40 for damage to horse, was laid over.Councillor Parker was appointed superintendent of the town farm.Monday was visitors day at the model school.A large number of visitors were present, among whom were a number from Libbytown and vicinity.The exercises were very interesting.A discussion was held by the pupils on which was the greater poet, Tennyson or Longfellow, and was decided in favof of Tennyson.Mrs.L.H.Pond and her son Dwight of Passumpsic, Vt., are visiting friends here.A horse dropped dead in the street while being driven through our village one day last week.It belonged to Charles Buckland.\u2019 LENNOXVILLE.The Rev.8.H.Williams of East Hatley addressed the Y.P.8, C, E.on Thursday evening.Our street cars are in running order once more which we are more than glad to say.Mrs.W.Brown of Sherbrooke and Miss Jennie Niel were visiting friends here last week.Mr.and Mrs.A.L.Brown are visiting in Montreal.Mrs.John Wood of Sherbrooke, Miss Hopkins of Sherbrooke and Mrs.Geo.Peck of Stanstead were visiting friends at the College House on Monday.À large number attended the oyster supper at Huntingville on Wednesday night, Feb.2, AYER'S FLAT.Mrs.S.E.Hill, who has been under the skillful treatment of Dr.Brown, has so farrecovered, as to be out again.Rev.A.W.Mayne of Danville, preached in the Congregational church last Sunday.The superintendents and second- hands of the Dominion Cotton Mills, Magog, had their annual drive and dinner at Ayer\u2019s Hotel.Sat.Feb, 5th.Don\u2019t fail to take advantage of the | NORTH HATLEY.The box social of the Y.P.C.U.at Mr.Harry Kezar\u2019s last Friday evening Was a grand success.Mr, and Mrs.Frank Jackson of Plainfield, Vt., contributed a great deal to the pleasure of the evening by their solos and duets.There were were also read- \u2018ings, charades, and games.The boxes found a ready sale and the funds of the treasury were greatly enhanced.Mr.John Brant of East Angus, big discount in winter dress goods on: father of Mr, Charles Ramsdell has Wednesdays and Saturdays at Fish & been here for a few days, returning MeNeils.home last Saturday.The business meeting held in the | We greatly miss the geninl counte- church, Saturday evening, resulted in : Dance of our enterprising young mer- the resignation of S.E.Hill as one of Chant, Mr, Jean LeBaron, who has the trustees, and the installation of J.Tyler in his place.Other business pertaining to church affairs was transacted.Mr.Chas.Robinson of Boston, has arrived at Ayer\u2019s Flat.We understand he intends making his home here.Mrs.Fred Richardson of New York was in\u2019town a few days last week.Mr.Leon Clough of Stanstead Jet., spent Sunday in town.Mr.Louis Ayer, who has been suffering from a severe attack of \u2018La grippe\" is now better.Dr.Brown is doing a rushing business these days.Miss Mamie Parker, spent Snnday at her home in Hatley.The singing school is progressing very favorably; last school had the largest attendence of the season.Remember the stores close at 7 o'clock every Friday evening.A number of Congregational ministers met at the home of Rev.C.and Mrs.Moore on Monday, February 7th.There were present beside Mr.Moore Revs.F.J.Day of Sherbrooke, G.H.Clark of Waterville, G.E.Read of Rock Island, R.G.Watt of Fitch Bay, and A.W.Main, Evangelist of Dan- ville, Que.At the meeting in the afternoon.G.E.Read submitted a sermon plan.G.H, Clark read a paper on \u201cSome Musings of a Country Pastor,\u201d and F.J, Day read a paper on \u201cRevelation and the Bible.\u201d A very pleasant and profitable time was passed and the pastors of the different places drawn more closely together.GRANITEVILLE.Our W.C.T.U.met at the home of Mrs.Eleck Allers on Thursday, Feb.3.A good number were present.The meeting was opened with prayer by the president, Mrs.Parker Salls, after whieh vu.pastor, Rev.P, H.Allin, grve us ua very encouraging address which was appreciated by all present.Mrs.Geo.Reynolds arrived home Saturday.There will be a Band of Hope social at the home of Mr.Parker Salls on Friday evening, Peb.11.All are cordially invited.The temperance lecture given by Mrs.McKinstry on Monday evening, | was listened to by a large and appreciative audience.The chair was occupied by Capt.J.C.Bullis.The choir furnished good selections.We hope to hear from Mrs.McKinstry again in the near future.The social at Fred Hall\u2019s on Tuesday last was à grand success socially and financially.There were nearly one hundred present.The programme consisted of music and recitations, and a general good time was enjoyed by all present.Proceeds were twenty dollars, and a special donation of five dollars from Geo.Hall made the net proceeds £25.We have just heard of the death of our esteemed friend, Mr.Joseph Monroe, formerly of this place, which took place at his home in Illinois.BROWN'S HILL.The roads were badiy blockaded by the last snow storm and wind, thus making it very inconvenient for those obliged to travel.Miss Lydia Keet and Miss Helen Ayer have heen spending a few days at Fitch Bay with Mrs.I.B.Merrill, who has been ill but, we are glad to say, is somewhat better at this writing.A little stranger made its appearance at the home of Mr.and Mrs.David Sloan last week.We hope it has come to stay.James and Bertha Longeway of Mack\u2019s Mills visited at D.B.Keet's on Thursday and Friday of last week.Herbert and Albert Merrill have gone to Lawrence, Mass.They have received the sad intelligence that their aunt residing there is not expected to live.Bernie Reed who has been on the sick list is able to be out again.Quite a number from this way attended the party given at Mr.and Mrs.8.Ketcham\u2019s.All report a good time.been confined to the house for several days with an ulcerated tooth.| Subject for the Y.P.C.U.next Sun- idny evening, \u201cCoals of Fire,\u201d with | Mrs.Cella Connor as lender.The \"singing will be under the direction of | Ma.Frank Jackson.! If the weather is propitious some | twenty or thirty unioners are hooked | for the reunion at Moe\u2019s River next | Friday evening.The program will (be furnished by the North Hatley | Union and the supper by the Moe's River Union.; Mr, Archie Jackson and family have ltaken up their residence in their new house.!' Mr.Willard Young of Magog was in | town this week, and left for the States i Tuesday evening.| Mrs.A.P.LeBaron is visiting her daughter in Sherbrooke.The framework of Mr.U.J.Call's new cottage went up like magic on Monday.Master builder, Mr.James | Webster.FITCH BAY.We have had all kinds of weather since I wrote you 38- below to 20° above, snow storms and blizzards, fine ; NOW.It is quite sickly about here at W.L.Sheldon\u2019s four children and himself are under the Dr.\u2019s care.H.P.Remick has been under the Dr.\u2019s care for a week but is better at | this writing.May Rediker is better and out of | danger.Enos Whitney has been very sick with pneumonia but we understand to-day that there is a change for the better.{ The donations \u2018tor Rev.» D.W.| Sornberger were both successful.| Rev.A, W.Main closed his meet- lings here on Sunday night.Mr.Main is an earnest worker and a good \u2018preacher, and we believe.that the | meetings have resulted ingood.Rev.Mr.Lett intends to continue the meet- ; ings for some time in the future.| Two alarms of fire on Monday at {the house of J.H.Merrill\u2019s occupied {by Rev.J.J.Theakston, caused by |the chimney burning out, the Pail | Brigade put a stop to the fire without ia great amount of damage.This community was shocked on Saturday by the report of the death of *N.A.Bench, jr., as just before the \u2018news of his death we heard that he | was improving and doing well.! CURRIERS.| Weare enjoying a calm after the | severe storms.Plenty of snow.A | thaw would be pleasing to all, | Mr.and Mrs.S.K.Oliver, Mr.and Mrs.W.F.Giddings, and Mr.and | Mrs, H.Currier attended the funeral \u2018services of George Oliver, Jan.28.Mr.and Mrs.Juby and family visited at Mr.À.Stone\u2019s Sunday.: The funeral of Chas.Bryant took \u2018place Jan, 26.He died at the home rof Chas Marshall after a short illness.| The daughter of Mr.A.Fountain was badly frozen on Tuesday, while ; walking from Magog to her home on i the lake shore.She is in a critical condition.Mrs.W.Denison died of consump- tionrecently.A young child had its { hands frozen in the house during the i mother\u2019s last illness.The child is not | expected to live, Mr.and Mrs.Alvin Bryant visited | at Mr.C.Manning\u2019s on Thursday.Mr.Ed.Ashton drove to Waterloo Friday and returned Saturday.Mr.and Mrs.A.GG.Dolloff visited at Mr.8.K.Oliver's Sunday.Mr.Dol- loff starts for the Klondike the last of this month.LIBBY TOWN.Mr.and Mrs.(.K.Glidden of Compton spent last Sunday at Mr.James Libby's.Mr.David Davidson returned to Boston last Friday, where he is employed in the Boston Ice Co: Mrs.U.G.Libby is still quite sick and under the care of Dr.Jones.Mrs.Joshua Carpenter is also quite poorly.Mr.John Hurd of Barnston was in town last Suuday and called on his friend, Mr.Griffin., MASSAWIPPI, A return game of hockey between Huntingville and this place came off on Saturday afternoon, Massawippi winning by a score of five to three.The Huntingville team were Hunting, Holthom, Dundin, Holthom, Norcross, Dean and Wilson.Massawippl team, Hunting, Hurd, Hovey, Colt, Cox, Kathan and Taylor.Time keepers, Monroe and Hitchcock.Umpires, Harvey and Dean.Mr.O.Williams of Lennoxville acted as referee to the satisfaction of all.It is now expected that the team here will play the new team at Rock Island and Beebe Plain (combined) on Massawippi ice before long.Mr.Wm, Hurd eut his foot badly one day last week while cutting kindling wood, but it is doing well und he is out every day.Mr.Morrow and Mr.Williams of East Hatley will exchange pulpits on Sunday morning next.The exchange between Mr.Morrow and Mr.MeMann of Meguntic mentioned in last week's Journal has been postponed.The president and several of the Union ladies attended the quarterly meeting of the Co.W.C.T\".U.at East Hatley last Friday.Mr.White of Grifiin is in town canvassing in the apple tree business.MACK'S MILLS.Mr.Albert Dyson of Way's Mills called here on Tuesday.Mr.and Mrs.Elgin Heath were at, Mr.C.Ruiter\u2019s Hotel Wednesday night.Mr.Frank Gothrop has a new horse of the Holstein breed.A.H.Luce of Montreal wus here last week taking orders for rug hooks.It was Mr.Albert Baldwin and wife instead of Geo.that returned home to Smith's Mills, Mrs.Sanford Hitchcock who has been very sick is now some better.We heur that Aubrey Reed has the measles at present.Mrs.Henry Longeway is very sick at this writing, Miss Flora Aldrich spent Saturday at Mr, Frank Mosher\u2019s, and Mr.and Mrs.Mosher and Miss Aldrich spent Sunday at Barnston.Mr.and Mrs.P.N.Esnouf spent Sunday at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Longeway.Mrs.C.Comstock spent Sunday at her brother's, Mr.Nason Peasley.Mrs.Luther Beerworth, who has been very sick for the past few weeks with pneumonia, is no better at this writing.Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Longeway are visiting relatives and friends at West Charleston and Newport for a week.Service on Sunday, 10.30 A.M.Supply from Stanstead College.HEATHTON.Rev.Mr.Lett of Stanstead delivered an address in the Methodist church on the evening of Wednesday, Feb.2, under the auspices of the Ep- worth League.The subject was \u201cWhat to Read and How to Read.\u201d The address was both interesting and instructive and was listened to with much interest.Mr.and Mrs.James Gilbert of Dun- ham, Que., visited friends in this section last week.Mr.E.Gilbert\u2019s mother is spending a few weeks at his home.| i | Mrs.E.Gilbert is at present with her sister in Dunham, Que.Mr.George Keeler has returned home from Rock Island where he has heen engaged for some time past in the meat market of J.D.Salls.Mr.A.K.Heath of Georgeville, Que., was the guest of his mother, Mrs.B.W.Horne, on Sunday last.Mrs.John Thompson is in poor health at present.SOUTH BARNSTON.Elder Samuel Clark will preach here next Sunday at 10.30.It is expected that it will be his last service with us.The church regret that they cannot secure him for another year.He is an able expounder of the word and an exemplary Christian.Joseph Davis, a former resident of this place.called on old friends here last week.The Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs.M.L.D.Hastings, Feb.I9th.All the ladies are requested to make a special effort to attend.APPLE GROVE.Mr.Whiting Ball of Stanstead spent Sunday with his brother, Mr.Ezra Ball.Mr.N.Davis visited at 8.G.Drew's Monday.Co Miss Louisa Cyr visited friends at Magoon\u2019s Point last week.Mr.and Mrs.Anson Davis visited at Bolton last week.Service on Sunday, 2.30 P.M.Sup- ply from Stanstead College.all a a dE _ nostrils in a siokoning flood.\u2026-, Sésisoued vrith bright colored barn A QUERN OF Ti A754 | Senorita Lopez Captures All Hearts In Gay Caracas.SAYS BULLFIGHTING AMUSEN H ER.\u2018 It Certainiy Amuses the Multitnades Who | Watch Her Bold Exploits \u2014 Beautiful | Ï sud Fearless, the Populace Adores Her | Has Slain seventeen Spanish Bulls.Senoritn Laura Lopez has coma neross the water {rein Seville, Spain, to kill the great, fierco bulls of Vonezueln, writes a Caracas correspondent.She ofliclated the other day it (he Circo before à tremendous crowd, and the grace and finish ot her performance pusto shamno the efforts of ber tale rivals.Such an exhibition of wonnn's plach and skill Caracas had nev: er before witnessed.She is tho idol of the bour.I sat near her ac the fete before shoe had donned the gay apparel of the ring.Admirers surrounded her Her eyes were on the bloody scenes being enacted in cagoer silence A look of contempt was on her face.\u2018The tureadors were clumsy.1 watched her fearfully when she did battle with a beast hesldo which the oth- ets wore ux farmyard cows.She laughed | in glev.À wuvo of blood red banderillas, | | and, presto, the sharp instruments wero affixed together in the startled creature's neck.A mad rush at bis torturer.nnd then the animal lay dying on the sawdust carpeted floor Senorita\u2019s sword was nem bis heart.Its owner was tripping to the exit.The undicncoe was thundering applause.We were sented at the left of the hox of tho president and of the stand of tho Nu tional Militiry band, which is situate.just above sud in the rear of the pn dent's Lox.As fast as humanity cou crush itsell into a given space \u2018the all\u2019 of Caracas seesnod beehiving into this pul.ace of pastime.The grand circle, which 1 learned sented 7.000, wax quickly filled.The military band, which had now arrived, saluted the assembled multitude with the national hymn.The arrival of each woman, attired in a rich Parisiaa robe, ns she took her seat in a box was curions mountings Again the trumpet | TELEPHONE FOR WAR sounded, and the aecond bull appesred in, the arena This animal proved tou tue.and at toe demand of the audience was ' PORTAELE APPARATUS FOR USE ON driven from the scens | TSE BATTLEFIELD.The third animal proved more satisfao- ; tory and was killed in 30 minutes from the { time of bis entrance by Troni, who ro! United States Signal Corps Officers Devel- | celved a thundering ovation from thespeo- | op à Double Service Fystem Avallable tators, hats, cance, cigars and even money hoing thrown into the arens, jumped the barriers of the aretia and was returned to the central arena by a side the bull hid made several amusing at tentpts to charge him it was finally Killed to the entire sautistoction of the now thoroughly bloodthirsty crowd.The introduction of Fenorits [aura \" Lopez ns an espada Wus the event of the occasion, All thoro who doubted her ability to kill the large African bull which had been specially imported for this ex-! hibition wore pleasantly disappointed.| She advanced to the conter of the arena.A hush still as death fell over the multitude.All expected that some violent ne- | tion wus to take place, and many feared that her ability to kill was wanting 1 ¢lanced at her just as the crowd com: | menced to call her name, and 1 noticed | her face blanched before the ordeal Neve ertheless she showed no signs of fear as she walked to the conter of the arena and culinly awaited the (irst charge of the bull Armed only with a bright colnred | clouk, sho advanced toward him with a, firin step Ho charged the rag, and she dexterously dodged his onslaught.| This action brought forth a round of applause nnd a call for the banderillus.A | male shiver handed down two beautiful | ones.\u2018They were taken to her by Potoco, | who, bowing to her as he presented them, had just time to get a short distance away | before the bull charged again and received both banderillas well back in the peek.| delivered with great coolness and precisuo from the hands of the woman.Wild with pain and rage the bull tore about the arena, scattering the prendors like pratridges Running to the side.she, received her sword and scarlet mantle and | was ngain on the sggressive \u2018There was 6 short space ar silence us she slowly riosed her sword.the bull charging as she did s6 straight fur the cloth Her aim was true.but her strength lacking Althouch the flesh was pierced.the sword wus wien che l from her humls nnd carried several tecr ty! the bull in the wound she hd aintliered he fore it fell tore ground sod was recov.| ered Wild withodelizby at this >econd net, tho crowd (uiriv ruined hats and canes tn | ! Wy; _\u2014 2 # TWO PORTRAITS OF LAURA LOPEZ.greeted with rounds of applause and approbation by the other spectators, who by this time were thoroughly in the amuse: ment spirit The arrival of the governor and party, who ocespied the box of the president, wns hailed with a salute from the band.Promptly at 4 o'clock, at a signal from the governor, the trumpets of the herald sounded.Two massive doors leading into the srena were thrown open as by magle, and the famous hand of Spanish bulifight- ers made & royal entrance, amid the deafening applause of more than 8,000 admir.ars, which completely drowned the salute of the military band.A moment later the smiling face of a proud anit Laughty senorita of Spain was geen in the audience.The mighty roar of \u201cLaura! Inura! Lopez! Lopez!\u201d shook the edifice to its foundations.There she was, the heroine of the hour, the idol of the populace, in the center of an escort of plicadors ut an good material as comes from sunny Spain.The names of Potoco, Troni and Bomba are famous in all parts of the world where the pastime of bullfighting is practiced.Onco ware the bugle of the herald sounded, and from somewhere a large red bull came trotting into the arena, ornamented with a tricolured rosette.He stood for a moment in the center of the arena, with eyes like balls of fire and with head elevated, quivering in every nerve and fiber.Suddenly, siuid the thunder of applause, the \u201c*toro\u201d sighted the tantalizing object of n bright colored clouk waved invitingly for the challenge, With a roar and lower ing bis head ho charged upon his enemy.The dextcrous picador quickly stepped aside, and ss the now thoroughly enraged animal parsed Le beheld another who was equally wdroit in avolding hls charge The third hau a very narrow escape, and the multitude loudly called for Potoco and | tbe banderlllas, and this gaudily attired | individual at once presented himself before the enraged animal.The bull lost no time in charging his now adversary, only to re evolve the cruel banderilla\u2019s thrust in his mock.With a howl of approval, the spectators, now ut white heat, demanded the blood of the ania), Joudly ealling to Po- toco to draw his sword and deul u death thrust.Grasping thu red mantle of a nearby picador, Pocoto boldly advanced to within 6 few feet of the then stationary bull and slowly shouk the mantle before his eyes.Again charglug him, the bull received the sold steol to the very hilt between his eboulders and fell dead before bis victor, While blood spurted from bis mouth and a?had been a'lung thruay\u201d and did meet tho ect approbation of the au- Ro Wie dites choored others hissed, The band struck up a lively piece, and the ,Apad bull was dragged from the arena hur.eiedly by a pair of mules, garreously ca- | Interest you.A souveniry Take it.\" tes and to the arena in their excitement.Again they faced.and this time, as beforo.ali waited in breathless suspense.Both rushed Tho sword was driven well home, The brute staggered, fell and was immediately given Jts deathblow by a stroke back of the head with a dagger in the hands of a picador.Bouquets, hats and canes covered the arena, Senorita Lopez vanished in tho confusion.The bullfight was over.It was 9 o'clock in the evening when 1 resched the thenter.Directing my atten: tion first to the occupants of the boxes, Imagine my surprise to sce seated in one of them the heroine of the bullfight.There was Laura Lopez, the center of a throng of adinirers.She had doffed the pieturesque masculine costume of velvet, gold and lace of the prima espada which bad won her so much admiration in the arena and was now attired inal magnificent creation, blazing with jowels, her smiling countenance and dancing eyes, no less brilliant than her jewels, attract: ing the audience much moro than tho clover vaudeville performance which had now begun upon the stage.I met her later at the hotel.On the\u2019 wall of her room swung the sword which | earlier in the day she had used so fearloss.| ly and dexterously in the arenas.Turning\u2019 to the siling face of its fair owner, I wu- perplexed to confound the one with the other.A more critical examination of the | sword, und | observed engraved upon the | blade newnr the hilt the name \u2018Laura Lo- | pez.Seville, Spain '' Observing thet 1 wus reading the ingeription, she hastened to remark that this sword had been pre sented to ber at Lhe time she had Killed her first \u2018taro.\u2019 in her native city, So- ville.\u201cThen today was rot your debut in the nrenaï l asked \u201cYes, on American soil,\" sho replied \u201cBut wait, 1 have somethitig that muy in na moment she returned.and seating herself hy ny side she opened an elaborate seraphook, and ne we turned its leaves wo counted the events ehronieled tn the news: paper clipphiras pasted therein There were 17 bullfighting entortuinments in which she had flgured as the hervine upon her native soil \u201cMo you not find bullllghting exhihi.tions an minusing pastiner'\u201d she smilingly inquired, to which I telt myself cou- strained to reply in the aflirmative.Her eyes turned to a gaudtiy calored oh.Joot suspended from a wirror upon the opposite wall \u2018That,\u2019 she exclaimed, **18 a banderilla which did duty In the arena today.See, the blood of the bull is stil] moist upon it Senorita Lopez is barely 80.She la well forn.od and muscular and nocossarily as agile ar a cat.Her face betrays no brutal instincts.All Caracas insiste that she is beautiful, # nl Bull No.4! door.Bomba entered on stilts, and nfter fo For Tolephouning and Telegraphing\u2014Pos- sibilities of the Plap\u2014Some of Its Detalls.As the British Indian government has und out during muny years of border rcuflles, nothing educates the soldier so thoroughly as a little real fighting.Tho \u201cUnited Stutes does not afford the soldier many opportunities for practical education, but the recent operations against the Arizona Indians were tukon advantage of to test tha utility of an important scientific invention that will aid materially the general who directs the operations of an army corps, in a future | battle.By means of this apparatus, which has been perfected by Captain James Allen of the signal corps, under the direction of General A, W.Greely, it will be possible to string a live of wire from point to point of an army\u2019s communications and use the samo wire for both telopboning und telegraphing.General Greely has declared it to be the most potable scientific advance of the year, the importance of which is not confined to military work alone, but may be applied the world over.The present field telephone-telograph apparatus of the signal corps represents the result of more than five years of experiments, General Greely, chief signal officer.secured trom ubroad a Charallois system for telephonic communication in 1892.By this system oral communication was possible through uninsulated bimetallic wire laid on the ground, each end being connected by a Charallois transmitter and receiver.The success of this so called system was attributed by its inventor, Captain Charallois of the French army, to the peculiar properties of the wire used by him.After one trial of the Charallois telephones they were permanently replaced by the Crown magneto telephones, owned by the signal corps, with a resulting sound many times louder than with the Oharallois instruments.Next a study of the bimetallio wire led to the conclusion that it did not possess any special qualities in an electric way, and it was theoretically demonstrated that as good results should follow the use of a single metal wire of the same diameter as the bimetallic, and practical test proved this to be a fact.Pure copper, silicon, bronze and other wires of the size of the bimetallic gave entirely as good results.As the original idea was to use the uninsulated wire only for oral communication, and as, in fact, it was not possible then to otberwise use it, the problem of adapting it to the use of the signal corps as à part of its means of tele- grapbic communication was confronted.Captain Jumes Allen of the signal corps, an expert electrician, was charged with the solution of this problem by General Greely.He replaced the mag- \"neto telephones used as transmitters, substituting a carbon transmitter, with .greatly improved results, These instruments were introduced into a circuit with a battery.induction coil and telegraph key and communication by Morse telegraph code attempted.The buck stroke of the diaphragm being much louder than the sound obtained \u201cwhen the current was sent through the magnet seemed for a time a fatal objection to the use of the instrument as part cf the telegraph system.An ingenious solution of the problem was found by Captain Allen whereby the Morse code is read as eusily through the' receiver us from an ordinary telegraph sounder.Having in mind comparatively successful experiments abroad in the use of a single wire for telegruphing and telephoning, Captain Allen began work on that line and, ingeniously surmounting the maay difficulties met with in his exhaustive experiments, pertectsd the instrument now used by the signal corps.It bas been rigidly tested at distances up to 625 miles and pronounced a success in its various capacities as a \u2018buzz, \u2018\u2019 Morse, telepbonic and phono- plex instrument.The whole outfit ; weighs only 16 pounds, including battery enough to work over any length of line that the corps would probably be called upon to operate.An operator may therefore easily carry in his band a combination telegraph and telaphone office.With it, while one operator is engaged in telegruphing a message in Morse characters, another may, aver the same wire, talk telephonically with another station, the distant operators bearing only their own messages.\u2014New York Herald, \u2019 The City of the Future.We have the solemn assurance of tho Philadelphia Press that the city of the future, and no very distant future, will have no trolley poles or wires and no horses.All movemencs will be on rail by silent air motors or by horseless cur- riages equally silent.All pavements will be asphalt.Unlimited light will be as cheap as unlimited water is today.No coul will be delivered at private houses and no ashes taken from: them.With no horses, no coal and ne ashes, street dust and dirt will bo reduced to a minimum.With no 1ncto:y fires and no kitchen or furnace fires, the air will be as pure in the city us in the country.Trees will bave a chance, and houses will be warmed and 1:ghted ag easily and cheaply as they ary nov supplied with water.: Ghat of a Photographed Objest, M.L.Vidal of Paris found that tbe doubling of à photographed group by another faint image (\u2018\u2018mirage'\u2019) of it wus produced by a pinhole aperture in the front board of the camera.This confirms Dr.Elmer Gates\u2019 remark that disturbing light may find its way through the walle of a camera in high magnification.\u2014Popular Sciences News.FOR EYECTRICAL STUDENTS.A Dynamo Designed to Be Used For Experimental Purposes.A pew design of dynamo for experimental purposes is manufactured by the Institute For Home Study of Engineering of Cleveland for ita students, It isa high grade commercial machine, adapted to experimental work, the idea in furnishing such a machine being that after the student has finished his course he can use it for ordinary and any work.When the student reaches thut part of his ovurse treating of dynamo coustrac- tion, he reccives the machine, with every part finished, and with all the materials for winding\u2014i.e., making the armature complete, putting on and con- STUDENT'S ELECTRICAL MACHINE, necting the fleld coils.This work is a part of the electrical course of tho institute.When completed, the student uses the machine experimentally during the remainder of his course.The armature is of the drwin type, with laminated core.The commutator is long, in order that collector rings for taking off currents uncommuted, in from one to four phases, may be slipped on it, together with the new set of brushes required, When operated as an alternating current machine, it excites its own fields.The range of experimental use is wide.The machines have been found to be so well adapted for instruction purposes that they are now in use in a number of schools and colleges.The teachers of electricity find that the prae- tice of winding and collecting the mu- chine is of great value to the students.\u2014Electrical Review.Dangerous Occupations.The results pf professional study of the dangerous occupations, or those which give rise to more or less serious discase, show that almost every calling bas some ailment peculiar to itself and arising from almost inevitable causes, direct or remote.It is found that bakers, owing to their irregular life, sleeping in the day and working nights and because of the hot air and dust, often become victims to consumption, Blacksmiths, though strong, very often suffer from paralysis of the whole right side from the continuous shock of hammering, and their eyes become weak from the glare of the fire.Bricklayers and plasterers commonly enjoy fine health, Carpenters and cabinet makers are liable to have varicose veins in the legs, and the action of the shoulder in sawing and planivg may produce a discased condition of the large artery that runs from the heurt to the arm.Miners, from working in the dark, acquire weak eyes, and their lungs become quite black, Coopers have uw lump on the knee, which, however, physicians say is really a little bag of fluid put there by nature to protect the koee from the injurious effects of pressing it against the barrel.India rubber workers have bad headaches and mental depression.Painters are liable to be peisoned by the lead they use so much, and a tendency arises to weakness of wuscles, especially the wrist muscles.Gutta Percha Cement.A gutta percha cement for leather is obtained by melting together 100 parts gutta percha, 100 parts asphalt or pitch and 15 parts oil of turpentine.lt is to be used hot.Elastic gutta percha cement.especially for fixing soles to shoes, which does not crack in bending, on account of its great exteusibility, is prepared by dissolving 10 parts gutta percha in 100 parts Lenzine and pouring the solution into 100 parts linseed oil varnish, shaking well.The leather must be roughened before using this cement, in order to insure greater durability.By a casein borax cement a handsome surface gloss is imparted to the leather.The borax is dissolved in boiling water and the Lerax solution poured into freshly prepared casein.The durable thick cement is very serviceable.\u2014 Scientific American.Car Ventilation.Dr.Charles B.Dudley, the wel! known chemist to the Pennsylvanin railroad, recently gave a very iuterest- ing lecture before the Franklin institute on \u2018\u2018The Ventilation of Pussenger Cars on Railroads.'\u2019 After referring to the study which had been given to the question ho said: \u2018Notwithstanding the study'and notwithstanding the amount of effort and the cry that is in the technical papers and sometimes in the daily pupers in regard to the ventilation of passenger cars, I am very sorry to buve to say to you frankly and honestly that it is not possible at the present time to properly ventilate a passenger car on a railway, No system is at present known by which this can be successfully accomplished.\u201d Microbes In Ink.Herr Marpmann has found microbes of various kinds in 77 samples of ink-\u2014 red, blue and nigrosino\u2014supplied to schools, and some of the microbes were deadly enough to kill mice inocnlated with them.He recommends that ink bottles should nnt ba left open to the air in schools, \u2014S8ciontific American.An American Trolley Symposium.On a trollvy line in Birmingham, England, the rails are made in Pittsburg, the cars in Philadelphia, the boilers in Erie, the engines in Milwankee and the electric fittings in Sohenectady.\u2014Amer- ican Machinist.BROWN'S HILL.(Received too late for last week) Surprise parties ssem to be all the rage.À very pleasant surprise took place at the residence of Mr.and Mre.Jerry Redway on the evening of the 24th, when about thirty of their relatives and friends called in and took them by surprise.Supper was served about midnight.The evening was spent in games, music, and recitations.They presented Mr.Redway with some money.He thanked them very kindly and hoped to be able to return the compliment.All must have enjoyed themselves for it was in the morning when they went their home-ward way.Mr.Benjamin Stoliker of Orford visited at D.B.Keet\u2019s on Monday.Charlie Wyman\u2019s little girl Lena is very sick at this writing.She is attended by Dr.Whitcher.Mr.Oliver Cox was in Sherbrooke on businest Monday.Susie Ayer spent Saturday and Sunday with her cousin Una Webster in Ayer\u2019s Flat.SECRET OF LONGEVITY.What is the secret of longevity?Sir James Sawyer has been confiding it to a Birmingham audience.Like so many other secrets, it consists in \u201cpaying attention to a number of small details.\u201d Here is a schedule of them, collected from the reports of Sir James Sawyer\u2019s lectures 1.Eight hours sleep.2.Sleep on your right side.3.Keep your bedroom window open all night.4 Have a mat at your bedroom door.5 Do not have your bedstead against the wall.6.No cold tub in the morning, but a bath at the temperature of the body.7.Exercise before breakfast.8.Eat little meat and see that it is well cooked.9.(For adults.) Drink no milk.10.Eat plenty of fat, to feed the cells which destroy disease germs.11.Avoid intoxicants, which destroy those cells.12.Daily exercise in the open air.13.Allow no pet animals in your living rooms.They are apt to carry about disease germs.15.Live in the country if you can.drinking water, damp and drains.16.Have change of occupation.17.Take frequent and short holidays.18.Limit your ambition; and 19.Keep your temper.Keep all these commandments, and Sir James Sawyer sees no reason why 15.Watch the the three D\u2019s\u2014 #7.00 you should not live to be 100.| I Interesting Notes for the] Ladies.* .! Success in Dyeing Means Pleasure and Profit.\u2018 | Beware of crude and worthless imi- | tations of, Diamond Dyes.See that your dealer gives you the \u201cDiamond\u201d; when you ask for them.! Diamond Dyes have a world wide | reputation; their work is of the highest order, and their success is deserved., There are forty-eight colors in the Diamond Dyes for dyeing wool and | cotton goods; each dye is perfectly | true to color, and as reliable as pure: gold.i Diamond Dyes color anything any i color.They are fast to soap, washing ! and sun, and surpass all others in brilliancy.Diamond Dyes are the strongest ' dye made, hence the cheapest; one package is equal to three of any other make.Never be deceived by the false claims of imitators of Diamond Dyes.If| your merchant asks you tceaccept an- | other make of dyes, be sure he is after large profits, and never thinks of your comfort and success.Book of Directions und sample card sent free to nny address by Wells & Richardson Co., Montreal, P.Q.The weather last week was terrible! on the Atlantic coast.It is estimated : that over one hundred vessels were lost on the Atlantic coast.The number of lives lost was probably more than double the loss of vessels, but | probably will nover be aceurately known.RELIEVES IN 30 MINUTES, A MAGICAL LIFE-SAVER, The inost prouvunced symptoms of heart disease are palpitation or fluttering of the henrt, shortness of breath, weak or irregular puise, smothering spells at night, pains in reglon of heart.The brain ma, » congested, causing headaches, dissi- ness or vertigo, In short, whenever the henrt flutters, aches or palpitates, it Is diseased, and If life is valued treatment must be taken.Dr, Agnew\u2019s Cure for the Heart la the only remedy yet discovered which will always five rellef in 80 minutes, and cure absolutely.\u201428.= \"À Sold byd.T.Fiint.nten earlier than R.1 P.À.BISSONNET'S ANNUAL Cheap Sale.Too many goods.Not enough room.MONEY WANTED.They must be sold and will be sold if cul prices will do it ! ! » Dress Goods = All Dress Goods marked down from 15 to 50 per c.85e Black figured goods marked down to Be Bc Sorges 1n all colors (nll-wool) do au Uc Tweced Dress goods do 30e Flannels.B5¢ All-wool Flannel! marked down 28e Re \" do 1200 ue Home made \u201c do 10¢ Flannelette.8¢, 10e, and 12c Flannelettes now dc, Ce, & 8e Remnants.Remnants of Prints, Ginghams, Shirtings and Dress goods all reduced to half price.Blankets, Quilts, and Comforters.The and $1.00, Blankets now 89c and 67c.Jackets and Capes.Our $0,00 Jackets and Capes reduced to $3.00 oT do do 10.00 du do 475 Fur Jackets and Capes.Our $45.00 Coon Jackets now $83.00 \u2018$40.00 Astrachan Jackots now 27.00 * 415.00 Coon Capes \u201c 9.00 Fur Capes, Ruffs, Muffs and collars all reduced prices, Underwear.Underwear for Ladies and Gents, T5e Undervests sold now for 40e The 50e fleeced-lined vests sold for Me Gent\u2019s Shirts.Both Flannel and white and colored shirts, former prices $1.00 and 75¢ now 496 Clothing.Men's all-wool Ulsters now sold for $4,37L4, which cannot be boguht elsewhero for less than .Mun\u2019ssuits that were $12.00 now 38.00, and tho $7.00 suits now $475.Our best double- breasted all-wool suits former price $10.00, only a few left at $5.75.Boy's Overconts and suits from 4to 14 year old prices from $1,560 to $2.75.Crockery.A few 100 piece sets at $5.75: a lot of odd plates, platters, Cups and saucers at half prico, Glassware and Hardware, Groceries and provisions, Flout, Shorts, Bran, Middlings, Course and Fine Salt, All sold at prices to defy competition.Just come and see what we are doing, we may sell you some goods.P.A.BISSONNET.\u2018Your Horse\u2019s Teeth May need attention now, Advice free, Services reasonable, E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q.and Derby Line, Vt.worn Furnace Heating, eck Air.Here ! What ?If You Want a First-Class Heating Furnace.and one that is guaranteed to do thé süsiness and keep you warm through the long cold winter that is before us, and with a comparatively small amount of fuel.We guarantee to do more heating with our Wood Furnace with a given amount of fuel than any other furnace où Canadian Market.Length of fire box being considered it is the best farmers\u2019 furnace, it has a large feed duor, more spacious fire box, deeper ash pit, which is a preventative against burning out grates.It has six heavy sheet steel radiating drums which come in direct contact with the fire and thereby making a very powerful heater.Qur Coal Furnace The Champion, Comes to us with the very highest testimoni- aly in reference to its working capacity, it has many new and very practical features not contained in other furnaces which it would be in your interest if you are contempinting purchasing a furnace to call and examine fe ore Jou make your purchase or give your order efore you see what we have got.\u201d The Fire Pot to the \u201cChampion\u201d is one of its grandest features, I would be glad to have you call and see those furnaces, and soliciting a share of your patronage, Iam yonrs truly, D.M.LOCKHART, Plumber and Tinsmith.sotf Peoples\u2019, and Bell Telephones.H.S.HUNTER UNDERTAKER and Undertakers\u2019 Supplies Hearse furnished at moderate rates, Stanstead Plain, P.Q.Boston & Maine Railroad.Stanstead and Derby Line Branch.| Trains leave Rock Island and Derby Line as follows: 5.85 a.m, for Montreal i P.& G.T.) 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President.Hon.M.H.COCHRANE, Vice-President.ISRAEL Woon, T.J.Tuck, G, STEVENS, JOHN @&.FosTER, J.N.GALER, THOMAS HART, N.W THOMAS.HEAD OFFICE \u2014 SHERBROOKE, P.Q.WM, FARWFLL, General Manager; S.BbGELL, Loca) Manager.5.F.Money, Inspector of Branches, BRANCHES.Waterloo, W.I, Briggs, Mgr.: Stansted, S.Stevens, Mgr.; Cowansville, J.MacKinnon, Mgr.: Conticook, B.Austin, Mer.: Richmond, W.L.Bal], Mgr.; Granby, W.H.Robinson, Mgr.: Bedford, BE.W.Morgan, Mgr.: Huntingdon, E, N.Robinson, Mgr.; Magog, E.P.Oliver, Mer.: St, Hycinthe, J.Lafinmhoise, Mgr.AGENTS IN MONTRBAL\u2014 Bank of Montreal.London Eng., National Bank of Scotland.Boston National Exchange Bank, 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 Offico.Interest allowed from date of deposit and compounded annually, without requiring the attention of the depositor.Office hours from 10 to 8, Saturdays from 10 tol.Fall and Winter Time Table In effect October 11, 1897.On and after Monday, October 11th, 1807, trains will run as follows: TRAINS LEAVE SHERBROOKE.EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke 8.00 a.m.Arrive Duduswell Jet, 9.00 a.m, Levis, 1.55 p.m.\" uebec (Ferry) 2.00 « \u201c St, Francis, 110 * Through Conches Boston to Quebec and also Pullman Palace Car from Springfield via Sherbruoke to Quebec on this train; conneet- ing at Sherbrooke with Pullman Palace car from Boston.ACCOMMODATION\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke, 8.00 p m.Arrive Dudswe]l Jet, 10,15 &.m.\u201c évis, 8.15 \u2018* '* Quebec (Ferry) 880 * WAY FREIGBT-\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke, 9.30 a.m.Arrive Dudswell Jet., 12.15 a.m, Beauce Jet, 7.15 p.m.TRAINS ARRIVE SHERBROOKE, EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Quebec (Ferry) 1.30 p.m.\u201c Levis (Q.C.R ) 2,00 p.in.Arrive St.Francis, 4.20 p.m.Megantie 8.80 p.m.\u201c ,Dudswell Jet, 6,35 p.m, Sherbrooke, 7,50 p.m.Through Coach Quebec to Boston and also Pullman Palace Car from Quebec to springfield via Sherbrooke on this train, connecting ut Sherbrooke with Pulman Falace car for Bos- n, ACCOMMODATION \u2014 Leave Quebec (Ferry) 8.80 p.m._ Levis (Q.C.R.) 7.00 np.m.Arrive Dudswell Jet., 7.16 nom.\u201c Sherbrooke.8.30 0.mi.This train runs only as far as Beance Jet.on Saturday nights, continuing on to Sherbrooke the following Monday morning.WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Lenve Benuee Jet, 7.50 a.m.* Duadswell Jet.2.45 p.m, Arrive Sherbrooke, 4.10 p.m.All trains run daily Sundays excepted.Connections made at Dudswell Junetion with the Maine Central R.R.so that nassengers leaving Sherbrooke in the morning make quick connections for Cookshire, Sawyerville, ete.For tickets nnd farther information apply to this Compuny's Agents.FRANK GRUNDY, General Manager, J.H.WALSH, (eu Pnsstr Agent, 60 YEARS\u2019 EXPERIENCE Trae MARKS DESIGNS CoPYRIGHTS &cone sanding a sketch and description may qui ou nScertair our opinion free whether an favention is probably patentable.Communications strictly confidential.Handbook on Patents sent free.Oldest agency for securing putents.Patents taken through Munn & Co.receive special notice, without charge, in tho ciendific American, A handsomely Illustrated weekly.Largest circulation of any scientific journal, Terms, $3 a MU four months, $1.Sold by all newsdealers.Co,2616rcacwar.New York Brauch Offiee, 625 F 8t., Washington, D, C, A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFAOTURERS 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.11 orders promptly attended to.Wenre bond not to be undersold.SAMUEI.i.ABBOTT, of STANSTBAD is our agent for that Township.+ J\u201c*Go!l\u2019\u2019 from (ho judges\u2019 stand.GOING IT ALONE, Hoses That Pace and Trot In Races ithe , out & Driver.Worth all the fake and bunko side rows at the fairs the past season have been the two little mares that sped around the track without any driver.One of these was a trotter, the other a pacer.The trotter was exhibited by a trainer of performing horses, and he considered her the best of his show.He called her \u2018\u2018the goldon haired guideless flier,?* The illustration ehows the wonderful little trotting mare going it around the track without a driver.Other trotters are urged to the top of their speed by the lash and voice of the tensely strung vp jockeys.This fine little mare does ber best every moment from start to finish without a word.She knows tho TROTS A RACE WITHOUT A DRIVER.moment the word \u201cGio!\u201d is given.She trots under the wire and stops when tho race is finished, knowing as well as any human dces the right time to stop.She is a phenomenally fast trotter too.The other mare, the \u201c\u2018gnideless pacer, \u2019\u2019 is cf Blackbawy and Ethan Allen blood.She isa little past 6 years old, a light bay with black points, 1514 hands high and weighing 950 pounds.She clips.cround tho track all \u2018+ herself znd Las paced a milo in .:041g, Not many pacers cen Go that when urged with all the force {heir drivers can infurcs In) them, The Cer-:tzy Gentleman ea5s of this phenomenal bit of ho=sc4esh : \u201cIt is not only that she goss alone, but her almost human intelligence and the bhesrtiness with which she enters into the sport contribute to her success in this novel role.She is started at the usual scoring distance and is in perfect acticn when rhe rcceives the werd Then she quickezs ber rpeed, keeps well in to the pole, never leaves tho track whether inclosed or not and paces every mile ag evenly as though handled by a skillful driver.The last quarter is usually the fastest, and no demonstrations from the spectators cause her to falter or mar the smoothness of ber finish.After passing the wire she appears to know that her work is done.Her bright eyes search the track for the groom with blankets, and when returned to tho starter for recognition she evidently appreciates the applause.At Pough- keepsic, on a wet truck and somewhat frightened by umbrellas, ber time was 2:22.Which Is the Best?The breed of beef cattle that will give tho greatest weight at from 2 to 214 years old is the one that pays, What is wanted to be known now is which of the great beef breeds, Shorthorn, Here ford or Aberdeen-Angus, will fill the above requirement.Breeders and feeders should start in with a view to finding this matter out.The experiment stations in the western states could render an admirable service by taking, say, four calves of each breed, animals born and started under fair conditions, and feeding and rearing them to the ago of 214, weighing the food consumed Ly each and keeping tally of the weight of each animal from calfhood to slaughtering time.Then those who wish to breed beef would have some basis to gcide them.\u2019 .Handsome Ciydeadale.Among leading Clydesdale prize winners in recent years is the big fellow whose picture is given herewith.He is now 11 years old, but does not look his age by half.He isa Scotch importation.It is not often even am ug horses LARGE CLYDESDALE.of this heavy breed that an animal the size of the stallion in the picture is seen.He is as large as a Shire.In gbod condition be weighs 2,300 pounds, 800 pounds over © ton, being 17.114 hands in height.Hc isa dark bay with white face and white stockings.About Cement Roofing Paint.A fresh barrel I bought bad such a fine glazo to it that I thought it might do after all mixed with water, and accordingly tried a few square yards.But, after it Lad dried, instead of being bard I could rub it off with my hand.It is curioue that cement mixed with milk will form euch a hard coat while that mixed vith water is no good at all, color when it dries.That mixed with water turns almost white at once, while the milk brand keeps a greasy looking SHEEP.The South Isa Profitable Field For Rals- ing Them.The rearing of early lambs for the great markets of the north is oue of the most safe and profitable parts of the sheep industry.Lambs may be found skipping in the fields nt Christmas without any special care of the owners.The lainbs come early because the winter climate is such as to bring the ewes into breeding condition in good time for these early births.My small flock of ewes were all safely in lamb some time in August, and by New Year's day there were several lambs, The whole cost of feeding the flock kas been since this time last year less than 50 cents for each sheep, and that in such a way as does vot represent 1 cent in money.An old pasture which has heretofore given me five good crops of hay and as many years' feeding for the cows, and the last yenr for the sheep, has fed the flock with the help of less than $10 worth of corn for nearly 80 ewes.Cue bag of salt has been the only real money purchase in the year.And this is on the mountains where some little band feeding is needed sometimes during the winter, while in the lowlands below the mountains there need be no band feeding at all except as it might be judicious while the lambs are growing.There is no necessity for any more shelter for the flock in the low country, from the mountains to the seashore, than there is in England, where the flocks feed on roots grown specially for them, and on the coarse fodder which here costs n mere trifle and may be grown without tho expenditure of a cent in money, a few diys\u2019 labor only being needed to produce the corn required, and roots may be grown with the greatest case for open field feeding in the winter, This stato\u2014North Carnlina\u2014may be said to be the center of the south, It is the southern keystone state und is per- baps \"especially favored iu all things that make it desirable for this industry.But what I am writing applies everywhere below the old Mason and Dixon's line or south of the north line of Virginia.And as to all this grand region down to the southern limit I am merely stating a few of the many favorable points of view which are suggested by one of the letters beforeme.Good stock ewes aro scarcely to be bousht bere, There aro not enough to go around now, and the brisk dem:nds of tho cattle buy- ersare clearing off the stock to be spared 88 fast as they can get common sheep at 2 cents a pound live weight.Better sheep bring § cents a pound, and a tow hundreds of ordinary sheep were taken hence to ship to faroff Dakota to stock the ranges there.The Southdown and the Shropshire have been brought here, and tho cross is an excellent sheep for the markets, while the lambs are just what are required for the best sale.We have none of those deadly parasites here \u2018which torment the sheep elsewhere, except 80 far as they have been brought in by sheep from other and infected localities.In the 12 years I have been here I bave not known of a single sheep dying of any disease except in one instance, in which the sheep were brought into the country and introduced the parasite.This climate is so healthful that sheep may be able to resist those ordinary parasites which might become acclimated, but the pure water and absence of swamps teud wholly to prevent such parasites as the liver fluke aud-the tapeworm.As the transportation to the great lamb purchasing markets is within 24 hours the prices prevailing must be discounted only by the freights, which ure quite as low as in other parts of the Union.The time limit for the lamb market, of course, is the same as elsewhere.As to land, this is cheaper than anywhere else in the United States.It is all the way from $3 or $4 an acre in tbe mountain region to 810 and upward in the Piedmont region below.The breeds I have mentioned are the best, 1 think, but there is no single breed that will not do well in the south under sufficient care and good management, which, it is a truism to say, is indis- pengablo for success with sheep anywhere and everywhere.Dogs need no thought.The best localities I know of are tbe mountains from West Virginia as far as they go south.The Piedmont region on euch side, excepting perbaps east Ten nesseo and the Cumberland mountains (in which the soil is inferior and wuter is scarce as a rule) is quite equal to the best parts of England, France and Germany, all of which I bave personal experience of and can judge anderstand- ingly.better territory in the world than the greater part of the south, if so good, considering climate, soil and water supply.1 have no interest to advise any person.Those who wish may come or go anywhere, and, like the ancient patriarchs, view tbe land.It might be well, however, if those interested should write to the state agricultural colleges for the information they desire regarding whatever locality they think they would most like.\u2014H.Stewart in Country Gentleman, Live Stock Points.Fattening beeves will consume 15 te 20 pounds of grain feed and 6 to 10 pounds of hay or fodder a day.For fattening beeves a grain mixture two-thirds cornmeal, one-sixth bran and one-sixth cottonseed meal by weight is a good ration.Cattlemen in the northwest are learning wisdom by experience and each year putting up more and more hay to feed their herds during the winter.It is to There is a great difference in the be fervently hoped the last bas been heard of the cruel starvation of cattle in blizzard weather.Breeding ewes do not need much brown for some months before it finally grain.Plenty of corn fodder and hay, turns white.Now will some experiment jf the ewes were in good condition at station man tell me why milk maker: the beginning of the cold season, will al.such a difference?Is it because of the most carry them through without other fat that is in the milk or is it the casein, or what is it?feed.The little grain that is given tc them should be corn.Thus it may be said there is no! TIE LIFE OF A ROAD.IT DEFENDS ON CAREFUL CONSTRWC- TION AND REPAIR.+ The Various Layers of Road Metal Should Be Well Compacted With a Heavy Steam Roller \u2014 Ruts aud Holes Are Deadly Enemies\u2014Efticacy of Sprinkling.Permanent, smooth surfaces that can readily be repaired and which will be free from mud, dust and water at all seasons ure the requisites of u good road.Hundreds of miles of macadam are being built annually with these ends in view, but the objects desired are not always obtained, partly on account of imperfect construction and partly on account uf inadequate and improper care.Common faults iz construction are failure to put down the road metal properly and a tendency to depend en- irely too much on \u2018\u2018binding material\u2019 to get n smooth surface, says The L.A.W.Bulletin.The bottom layer of coarse stone is not rolled until it is well packed before the upper layer is put on, and this in turn is not rolled until thoroughly compacted beforv screenings nre applied.Horse rollers are frequently used, but will not do the work efiective- ly.Constant uso of a steam roller of about 15 tous is needed to nccomplish the desircd end.Each layer of stono should Le thoroughly rolled before the pext one is applied, and the surface ehould be made so firm that a picee of loose macadum laid on it would bu crushed by a roller rather than driven iuto the rcadbed.With proper pressure the broken stone will bind by its own angles aud make a solid bed.When this is accomplished, the only \u2018binding ma- torial\u201d required is a little finely broken stone or screenings.In some sections rolling is very inadequately done, and before the stone is compacted quantities of clay are dumped on the surfuce.After a light roller bas been run over that a coat of fine screenings is spread on and smoothed with the borse roller.An oven but in- suflicicntly compacted surfaco is obtuin- ed, pleasant to use for a short time, but with the first ruin the clay works up and au inch or two of mud covers the surface.Licfore long the edges of stones NEEDS IMPROVING, work through the * binding material;\" it becomes wueven and rough in spots; very dusty in dry weather; ruts appear, and people wander what is the matter.This method is Auch in vogue whero trap rock is plenty and is defended on the ground that the rock is so hard that it requires a **binder\u2019\u2019 to hold it together, and it is then asserted that clay and screenings must further be used to ** protect\u2019 the surtoce.The bardness of + 10 materiod and its excellent wearing qualities ure scniitted, but a slovenly method of construction is defendod, aud an effort noce to unite and proerte the surface Ly using earth and stcne dust instead of compacting the stcues v their own angles through tbo use of adequate rolling, and to keep it in its nes- mal state through dry weather by regular and consistent sprinkling.A good road is one on which neither dust nor mud accumulates and which does not wear into ruts.Travel always tends to accumulate mud, Lut the difficulty is augmented by the free use of any soft or fine material to serve for \u201c\u201cbindiug'\u2019 purposes.Ordinary accuniu- lations can rendily be removed by scraping the road immediately after rain, but this is carefully avoided in places where clay is used in the process of construction.The efficacy of proper rolling is ignored, and earth is substituted for it.Remuval if mud isnot permitted when rain allows it to work to the surface, but occasionally in dry weather a little dust is swept off.The only way to preserve mucadam in dry weather and to keep it always in good condition is to give it a moderate amount of inoigture regularly, and this cannot be insured unless municipal authorities undertake the work, It is a poor policy to build expensive roads and leave them 10 the fates afterward, Every town und ety ought to maintain and operate a sufficient number of courts to moisten all its rounds.It is an injurious, absurd and antiquated policy to leave a work of such public importance to private enterprise, which, of covree, will not go beyond immediate persona interests, With the constant removal of mud and dust comes the repair of ruts and holes immediately on their appearance.Every depression should be promptly filled with stone of suitable size, and nny pieces that work out sbould be at once replaced.In short, constant watch- fuluess and care are absolutely essential to the preservation of good roads, and if it is worth while to put into highways the sums that the best roads cust it is surely worth while to take the reasonable care required to maintain them in good shape, Satisfactory maintenance and efficient care demand the division of the roads of any lucality into sections with responsible beads and the constant employment of a limited number of bands to keep them scraped and repaired.In this way roads can be kept always clean and good, big repairs are obviated and expense of maintenance reduced.Steam Versus Horse Rollers.A steam roller will do the same work a8 u seven ton, eight borse road roller at one-quarter the running cost and iu one-half the time.ROAD STATISTICS.Our Highways Could Be Improved Without lucreasing Annual Expense.There are, it is estimated, 300,000 miles of highway roads in the United States\u2014about 20 per cent of the ronds of all the world.Greut Britain bas 120,000 miles of roadways, and theso are same of the best in the world.Germany has 275,000 miles of roads, and some of them are ns poor us the roadways of a great country can be.France, which has taken an enlightened view of the good roads question for many years and bas spent by governmental or local authority more than $1,000,000,000 on highways, bas a road mileage of 830,- 000, more than any other country.Russia, with an enormous area, has only 90,000 wiles of roadways, while Italy, à smailer country, has 55,000.For a considerable time the agitation in the United States for good ronds languished, for the reason perhaps that by the Amerionn system of subdivided local authority \u201c* what's everybody's business is nobody's business, '' and, controser- sies being frequent as to tho linbility of uational, state or municipal authority for wvedful expenditures, very little wins done.The National League For Good Roads was organized in 1892 \u201cto awaken general interest in the improvement of publie ronde, to determine the best methods of building and maintuin- ing them and conduct and foster such publications as may serve these purposes.\u2018 At the beginning of the agitation (bo good roads question did not muke much headwny, and it was not until the popularity of bicycling grew that the derrand for improved ronds became organized, and since then considerable headway has been made.A computation which finds much favor umong the advocates of good rounds is this: There are approximately.though tho number is steadily on the decline, 14, - 000,000 borses in the United Status (there were 15.000.000 by the census of 1880), nnd there are about 2,000,000 mules, principally in the south, tho annual cost of fedder for theso animals being $1,500,000,000.On tine stone roads one horse can haul as much as three horses can haul over the average dirt road of this country.It is estimated that it would be necessary to build about 1,000,000 niiles of macadamized roads in the United States in order to have as good a system of public highways as is found in several European states.At £4,000 n mile this would involve an outlay of #4,000,000,000\u2014a \u201cpretty lurge sum.But if one-half of the draft animals could be dispensed with by the bui ling of such roads there would be an annual saving of $700,000, 000 in the food bill.Consequently if road bonds were issued bearing 8 per oent interest 6,000,000 miles of mace adamized road could be built withont increasing the annual expenses $1,\u2014 New York Sun.CRUDE OIL ON DIRT ROADS.It Is Said to Make Them Hard nnd Bmooth and Free From Dust and Mud, \u201cIn the winter of 1804, near Grand Valley, u small plag was forced out of an oil line and a quantity of oil spurted on the road,\u2019 says the Oil City Derrick, \u201cThe snow was *thoroughly saturated with oil for about one rod in dinmeter.The oil was spread over the road by the fect of horses and the action of sleigh runners for the distance of about four rods.The roads in this valley are clay bottom and very dusty in dry weather and muddy in wet, and it\u2019s no unusual thing to sec dust from 8 to 6 inches deep and mud from 10 to 20 inches in the season, \u2018This bit of road and the crude oil referred to have attracted my attention ever since, for when tho dry weather returned and \u2018dusty roads\u2019 was the buil- ing salutation of every ono you met this particular four rods of road wer: as free from dust as a well kept brick puv- ed street, and after a shower, when the dusty roads were converted into beds of mud, this section of roud was as dry us if no rain had fallen.The writer has explained the phenomenon to many observers who were ignorant of the cause.At prescut and after tho action of three summers an winters there is still to Le seen the unmistakable evidence of the preserving qualities of crude oil, Now, uceepting the foregoing observations as truth, is it 1.0t safe to conclude that a hope for a solution of the greatest pul, lic questions has a nucleus on which te rest a he pe?\u201cIn the employment of crude oil for good rounds no change need be nude in the made of construction now in general use.The roadbed should be properly shaped with machinery, and imnediate- ly atter working and forming and while the earth is loose and best adapted for the absorptin of oil the nil should La applied after the manner of sprinkling streets.The quantity of oil to the rod of roud can only be determined by experiments und actual tests.The writer's opinion, based on observation, is that one barrel of cil to cach three rods of road will sufifce.This, if the writer has not erred in figures, will be oil to the depth of one-third of an inch.Current price of oil and cost of applying will determine expense of treating a mile of road.\u2018 For the Good Roads Cause.The statement is made that good roads work on a new and extensive scale bas been outlined by the League of American Wheelmen for the coming year in that the wheelmen have secured the co-operation of the United States bureau of inquiry, which is a part of the agricultural department, and with this great aid it is proposed to disseminate the gospel of better highways as it was never done before, When it is taken into consideration that 1,000,000 pam- pblets will be distributed as a resnit of the co-operation between the league avd the bureau of inquiry, some iden of the magnitude of the plan may be gatbered.General Roy Stone is at the head of the bureau, and be has long been one of tho most persistent good roads advocates in the country.The Grim Reaper \u2014\u2014 WAS WAITILG TO RECEIVE A BURDENED VICTIK OF KIDNEY DISEASE.Paine sCelery Compound Saves a Life After Fifteen Years of Terrible Agony One of the Greatest Victories Over Disease Ever Recorded, Mr.Kevill Says: \u201cYourCompound Banished All My Aches and Pains.\u201d NO CASE TOO COMPLICATED FOR THE GREAT MEDICINE.WELLS & RICHARDEON Co.DEAR SIRs:-\u2014For the past fifteen years ! havo been troublod with dis- eosed kidneys.I am engaged in tho manufacture of cheese, nnd am obliged to work more or less in a stop ng posture.At times | found it almost impossible to work owing to severe pains across my kidneys.Often, after working in a stopping position for a time, [! would find it difMeult to straighten up at once, and could only do so after reponted efforts, Of late years, while laboring under these severe attacks, | became very nervous, and continually had tired, worn-out feelings.My rest at night seemed to do me no good, and 1 always felt tired out in the morning.I had been taking various medicines and was getting worse all tho time.At last 1 decided to give Paine\u2019s Celery Compound a trial.| procured a bottle and took it according to directions, and found its effects wonderful.Before I had used the first bottle I began to improve; after I had used the secoiid bottle I felt as well ay ever I did in my life.It had banished all aches and pains, my nervousness was all gone, and the tired worn out feeiings were banished.| can go to bed now and sleep well, andrisein tho morning rested aud refreshed.I have recommended Paine\u2019s (\u2018elery Compound to my friends who wero suffering from the same troubles as I had and all have been greatly benefitted.Knowing what it has done for me I ean cheerfully recommend it to any person suffering from kidney dis- Gnse.Yours truly, ¢.F.Kevin, Dunford, Ont.One For the Debating Clab, À group of balf a dozen physicists, all eminent; a sheet of paper, a pencil, With the lattor one of the group draws a pulley, a cord over the pulley, a treo, a bough from which the pulley bangs, To one end of the cord is attached a stone, to the other cord clings a monkey.The stone balances the monkey.If the monkey proceeds to climb up the cord, what will happen?Will the stoun riso or fall?Heated discussion; break up of the party; no result.Can any of your readers help to settle this question?~ Alfred Jingle in lngineer.Many a One.There\u2019s many a merchant who hing been On bankruptey's dark brink Who saved himself in time by keen, Wine uss of printers\u2019 ink! For Over Fifty Years.Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Hyrup bnx Deon used for aver fifty year be / 3 à YY Five mashers, grand in dash and swell, Ogled a fair one to her dread.St.Valentine had marked them well, And straight to each this token sped: \u201cIn this somposite valentino Thy phtiz and more beside pray see, I'il let thee choose the \u2018beaut\u2019 tor thine\u2014 All inashers look alike to me.\u2019 Den Owes.Like Her Face.Miss Catting Very\u2014Yes, May, dear, the valentine Charley sent you was so like you-so like your face, Miss May D'Upp\u2014Like my face?\u201cYes, dear\u2014hand painted, you know.gimp cé == a D .this elevator is a scale so fixed that _ at the same time a tally is kept, and \" recorded, so that at any time the ; kmown if desired.From this elevator A wagon is backed partly under the is loaded, 45 bushels being the com- \"mon load.Then another wagon is : backed in to be loaded, and so the \u201cNO GREAT SHAKES.\u201d Grafton, N.Dak., January 15, 1898.To the Editor of the Stanstead Journal, DEAR Sir: \u2014In your issue of the 7th of October last, your Barnston correspondent wrote, \u2018\u2018Fred Shackett and Jo.Harvey, who are running J.V.Corliss\u2019s threshing machine, threshed for Bert Converse 344 bushels of oats in one day, which we call pretty lively work, though I suppose your North Dakota eorrespondent will think it no great shakes.\u201d That, friend Buckland, is, I think, the mildest language we could use under the circumstances; for had it occurred on our Dakota wheat fields, these gentlemen would have to pull up stakes and look for fields anew farther east, as work of this kind would not answer here; and yet per- into consideration, for if it was the | old fashioned one-horse tread power, | or indeed any of the powers used half | a century ago, I too, should consider it pretty \u201clively work.\u201d Since my communication in the\u2019 Journal about two years ago under | the heading, \u201cHow the Great Steam Threshers are Operated on the Dakota | Wheat Fields,\u201d etc., I have received requests to write more on that sub- ! ject, (not then completed) for the in- \u2018 ; 1 formation of Journal readers.It is rather difficult to show, or convince people who have never seen or used steam power in grain threshing | of the great amount of grsin one of! those twenty -horse steam powers will ! thresh and clean up in a given day\u2019s! work.I shall assume that the great | majority of Journal readers have little practical knowledge of steam power threshing, and hope I may not be charged with exaggeration though it | may seem somewhat doubtful to them.The first steam thresher I ever saw in use was here in the Red River Val- | ley, and then I very much doubted its utility.I thought the old ten-horse power good enough, and that the risk of fire overbalanced any improvement or cheapening of the work.And right here I will state that the first time one of those machines was used on my Oakwood farm four stacks of barley were burned estimated at six hundred bushels.But the proprietor of the machine paid for the barley, so I lost nothing as the straw at that time would have been burned any way.But the loss to the owner of the machine was quite heavy, as he not only paid for the barley, but his separator was entirely consumed by the fire, necessitating the purchase of a new one.To guard against the loss by fire of late years the proprietors, have their entire threshing plant insured, and many farmers have their grain insured against hail storms while growing, and also in shock, stack and granaries.Gradually the old horse-power went out of use and for several years the steam thresher has done all the work, and now one might as well think to abandon the railroad and go back to | the slow Concord coach as to bring ; into use again the horse power thresher.With the old system the farmer furnished all the help (with the exception of the three men who ran the machine) and boarded the men.The steam thresher, like many improvements of the age, has adopted an entirely new mode of doing the work.They take with them a boarding car erected on wheels, large enough to seat twenty men.A professional cook is employed for this branch of the system.By this method the farmer\u2019s wife and daughters are saved the work and annoyance of boarding the men.The different threshing outfits have a uniform price, some seasons a little more and some a little less, just as the crop may be.When wheat averages | 20 or 22 bushels per acre, they can af- | ford to thresh cheaper than when it ; averages only 12 or 14.The past season the charges were as follows: Threshing out of the shock, or \u201cshock- threshing\u2019 as it is termed, 8 cents per bushel for wheat, and out of the stack 5 cents per bushel; barley and oats 6 cents from shock and 3 cents from stack.By this mode all the farmer has to do is to draw the grain away from the machine, board the horses, aud generally furnish potatoes for the little army of men.There is an improved contrivance attached to the great separator, by \"which the grain, as fast as threshed, is elevated about ten feet high.At the upper end of every bushel is correctly weighed and number of bushels threshed may be the wheat is continually being run into eacks or into large wagon boxes built especially for such work, loose.spout-elevator.and in a few minutes Work goes on.It the granaries are \u2018mot more than a mile from where the ork fs being done, five two-horse - teams will haul as fast as the grain is threshed: But ab there are several \u2018quite common and when this method haps the power used should be taken |is used teams can be immediately set | passing through these parts, the farmer usually draws some of his wheat from the machine to the elevator, as the first threshing is quite lable to bring the highest price, this year being the exception.In this case more teams are required, often: seven or eight being necessary.Some going to the station, others to the farm granary, There is much hurry and excitement about the threshing.A team may be {a little behind time to take its place when the one being loaded is ready to start.Then the shrill whistle of the engine gives warning to the belated teamster when he is seen galloping his horse across the fleld something as a man would run to catch a steamboat or railroad train, Shock threshing is getting to be to plowing which is quite a consideration where the farmer has from three to five hundred acres to plow, and all know that early plowing is of great benefit to the land especially where it has been annually in wheat crop for seventeen or twenty years, as in the Red River Valley; without any artificial fertilizing, and it is not disernable that the rich alluvial soil is being exhausted even with the annual cultivation of the wheat crop.The custom of stacking the grain in the field takes about two weeks on a common farm, with two teams and five men, the professional stacker receiving #3 per day, Still it is thought that there is a little saving by this process.But if one has his wheat threshed even at a trifling expense by the shock process, if there is an advance in price the farmer is in a position to avail himself of it.There is what the wheat gamblers call a \u201cbucket shop\u201d in this city.A gentleman is sent here from Chicago at the commencement of wheat selling and during the hours of business of the board of trade of Chicago, the sales are reported to this office every five minutes.If one wishes to sell or buy wheat over this wire he can do so.If one has wheat in his granary and there is an advance he can wire a commission man at Minneapolis or Chicago to sell, te be delivered at a ness, but the sales are generally made on options, the buyer putting up a margin and if wheat goes down he has again to put up a certain per cent., when in course of time the Chfcago gamblers will squeeze him out and he has lost, sometimes several hundred dollars.A good deal of money has been lost even by farmers in these parts in trying their luck in the bucket shop.Last fall several of us farmers had considerable of our wheat hauled into the city elevators to be kept thirty days free of storage.We visited the bucket shop every day as soon as the reports came in, and the day it reached 86, by a concerted understanding we sold at 86 cts., No.1 hard, as all the wheat in this vicinity has graded that this year.That price only lasted two days, then gradually declined to 73 cents, the lowest of the season.Since then it has been on the rise and at this writing, Jan.17, is 79 cents.There is a large machine shop in this city where thresher engines are brought in for repairs in the summer season to be ready for work usually the last week in August.At times there may be seen two, three or more of those outfits starting out into the country to commence work.Tothe Eastern man I think it would be quite a curjosity.The engines now in use are all traction, that is self-propell- ing, and are straw burners.Attached to the engine is the tender, a wagon containing straw, with the water in the boiler to make stesm.Next to the tender is.the large separator, then the boarding car, and usually a similar car for the men to sleep in, all making quite a train, as it goes steaming and puffing away, guided by the engineer something as a pilot guides his steamboat.Having the machine in the wheat field it remains to show HOW THE WORK IS DONE.By the old horse power process the operatives consumed considerable! time in driving stakes, adjusting chains, and the like, to hold the power in place, and getting the horses ready to work.'Thesexpert with the steam thresher will set the entire machinery ready for work in not more than five minutes.The time to twenty-two men at from 32 to 84 per day is quite an item to the proprietor, hence the work is rushed with great rapidity.The machine now set, with steam Up is ready for work.Itisa twenty- horse power.The great drive wheels are six feet high, and the other parte are in proportion.The cylinder is 40 inches long and the sieves 44 x \u20ac0 inches.The driving belt is 8 inches wide and 160 feet long it single, so that the driving wheels on engine and separator stand about seventy feet apart.Four common barrels are used to hold the water, which is supplied to the boiler by a steam pump.Most of the machines in nse here now are self-feeders and so arranged 8a to cut the twine bands at the same time.Machines not supplied with this im- .|into the receiver that draws the engineer, 34; one fireman, $2.50; one a total daily expense less the oil used, of $81.shock.use only one team to haul water, and one to-haul away the straw, or \u201c\u2018bucking\u201d it, as we call it, reducing my daily expenses $32.My daily average run of wheat is about eighteen hundred bushels, and the highest of any given time.This is a legitimate busi- [one day has been twenty-five hundred.two men to do the feeding as one man dould not stand the terrible strain.In shock threshing eight, sometimes ten, two-horse teams are required to draw the sheaves from the field to the machine, two loads being kept by the machine all the time, one on each slde of the great separator; and two men on each load pitching the bundles sheaves under the great knives, which in their rapid revolutions cut the bands, the grain dropping on to the great sieves, and the entire machinery is so perfect that the grain is cleaned ready for market.It is the custom of the proprietor of the machine to hire all his help by the day, including teams, as his capital is usually invested in his threshing plant, costing, delivered here, twenty- five hundred dollars.horse and buggy to drive around with, looking after his busines, getting supplies to the boarding car, and the like, but does no work at the machine, as\u2019 his engineer and expert separator foreman have entire charge of the working force.1 asked Mr, Garrett of this city, a professional thresher, and a gentleman of repute, to give me for publication, the cost per dny to run his entire force, also his average daily threshing of wheat and the highest number of bushels threshed in any given day\u2019s work.He keeps a! creased his trade that he is now one River Valley, his large store, 50 x 140] ft., is on Main St.where he employs seven clerks the year round, and in the great rush in the fall from twelve to fifteen.His yearly sales run from seventy-five to one hundred thousand the last named sum.Other business men might be mentioned who have done equally well, but as Mr, Dechenes has been mayor of the city and proprietor of \u201cThe Canadian Store as it appears in large letters, I think he is entitled to this notice through the Journal to the \u2018\u2018Kanucks\u2019\u2019 of his native province, As the world improves in scientific knowledge so also does the artisan, in | his skill in the construction of laborsaving machinery.Years ago when the farmer took his grain to market it was in sacks, and these had to be lifted up out of the wagon to the receiving hopper to be weighed, often trying the muscle of the small man or | boy.This mode of unloalling is now.of the past, at least in the great Red River Valley of the North, or as some | call it, the Nile Valley of America, as | all our wheat elevators are now furnished with the \u201cdumping scales\u201d 1 80 | (ealled.These scales are placed under ' the floor of the driveway into the elevator.The wagon is driven onto this | He replied as follows: I comply with your request, Mr.! Sooper.The cost per day for running | my entire threshing force and the! average daily threshing is as follows: Eight two-horse teams, one man to each, $32; eight men to pitch bundles, $16; one team and man to draw water, $4; one team bucking straw, $4; one foreman, separator, $4; one cook, 82.50; board for 22 men, $12; making The above is for threshing out of In threshing out of stacks I We never have had an entire day\u2019s work on oats or barley, and I do not know how much we could thresh of that kind of grain.Respectfully, VINCENT L.GARRETT.As there is only a small per cent.of the straw stacked, the manner of getting it away from the separator is as follows: A 4x4 piece of timber about twelve feet long is secured, in which mortises about two feet apart are made.Then large wooden teeth are inserted in the mortises at equal distances from the \u2018bucking pole,\u201d as it is called.At each end of the 4 x 4 timber a clevig is hung so as to turn around the end of the pole.A rope about ten feet long is fastened to each clevis, a horse hitched to each rope, and a boy on each horse.When they ride up, a horse on each side of the big straw pile, as it pours over the end of the separator, the rake like rig : catches the straw, the boys drive out fifteen or twenty rods, turn their horses around and drive back to again catch the straw, and so the work goes on usually from early morning until dark and frequently after if it is necessary to finish a job.It used to be the custom several Years ago, before all the land here was put under cultivation, to burn up all the straw immediately after the machine left the fleld, for at that time the farmer could go out on unimproved land and eut all the prairie hay needed, but of late, as the farmer\u2019s herd may have increased, considerable straw is stacked at the time of threshing; still there are tons and tons of it burned up on every farm as soon as threshing is dene, and if there be no fear that flre will run through the stubble, a match is touched to the several piles, usually at eventide when the heavens seem illuminated as in a blaze of glory.HOW DAKOTA WHEAT I8 8OLD.The common practice, if near a railroad station, is to draw enough to the elevator directly from the machine to pay all threshing bills, as the men employed are from states to the east of us, for harvest and threshing, and are generally denominated tramps or hoboes, of which the chief of police of this city estimated that fifteen hundred of this class of men*were here the past harvest and threshing looking for work.Many of these men are all right but the professional tramp is ever present at such times, and he prefers to beg or steal rather than work.Such was the condition here last fall that the city had to buy an acre of putatves to allow these men to dig to keep them from stealing from farmers living near the city limits.From the time wheat is threshed usually commencing the last week in August, money is very plenty and our merchants do a large and profitable trade.Mr.Joseph Dechenes, a Quebec boy who commenced /n the mercaetile business in a little 12 x 14 store on the bank of the Red River, thirteen miles eaatyof this city in 1880, moved his business here in 1881 when Irond stations on thé three railroads proved \u201cselt-feeding process require the railroad was first built to this and by turning a wheel the wagon | box will stand at about forty-five degrees.The hind end of the box is | (a Stanstead lady, then visiting friends | :in Massachusetts.She wrote that | they were having some snow there | and that the weather was not very | pleasant, and stated, \u201cNo doubt you | have had out there snow storms without number.Am I right?| No, she was notright.Up to this | time, January 17th, we have not had ! more than two inches of snow, no sleighing and very little cold weather, and what we have had was in Decem- | her.Mercury here.so far this month ! from 10 to 20 degrees above zero.| Men can work out door in their shirt | sleeves.Sun rises clear and bright every morning and continues so till it is lost sight of in the far away West.T.E.COOPER.: FROG ON À BIKE, A Wheelman's Race That Startled the People of Haddonfield, N.J.What looked like an antediluvian monster rode throngh the town of Had- fonfield, N.J., the other day and occa- tioned great excitement as it scorched 7s along the highway.The monster was unmistakably a frog, but a giant in size.He was monstrous, terrible, appalling.Finally a wheelman rode up in pur suit, and then another and another.The frog on the bike scared a borse, fright.| ened a cow and almost drew a bullet | from the gun of a huntsman in a field.Dogs chased him and small boys stoued him.The spectators who were in at the finish were then treated to the greatost surprise of all.Instead of throwing the mouster from bis wheel and fastening him with ropes the pursuers gathered : around, laughing and cheering.Then the big frog suddenly opened up down the center, and out from the interior stepped a man, panting and exhausted.The idea originated with Mr.G.L.| Carr of Haddonfield, who offered a bandsome medal for the winner of the race.The distance covered was 11° miles, and the time was 38 minutes.The man who caught the frog said: \u201cThe frog was allowed five minutes\u2019 start, and 17 of us went in pursuit.Lt was the finest sport ever seein 1 this vicinity.Waltzing Ostriches.Que of the oddest sights on the sandy stretches of plain in southern Africa is a party of waltzing ostriches.A recent | writer on the subject thus describes | their queer antics: **When there are a number of them, they will start off in the morning and, after running a few hundred yards, will stop und with raised wings will whirl rapidly round till they are stupefied, or perbaps break n leg The mules pose \\ also before fighting andl to make their | court.They kueel on their ankles, open.| ing their wings and balancing them.| selves alternately forward and backward | or tu oue side or the other.while the | neck is stretched on a level with the back aud the head strikes the sides, now | on the right.uow on the lett, while the feathers are bristling.The bird appears : at this time so absorbed 1 its occupa.| tion as to forget all that 18 going on around him and cau be approached and caught.Tho male alone utters a cory, | which sounds like an effort to spoak with the mouth shut tight.! \u2014\u2014 Oharite's Easy One.| When Charlie's mamma went up J staira after he had been put to bed, sbe found his eyes were closed, and he had all the appearance of being asleep.Then In a drowsy tone and evidently in ear- best be said, \u2018Guess, mamma, whether I've aslevp or awake.\u201d\u2019\u2014Yonth's Gom- buzsion.place, and has so prospered and in- | of the leading merchants of the Red! dollars, one year a few hundreds over | LIQUOR IN TRAINING.pepe ATHLETES.Conch Woodruff Describes Its Effects on Football Players\u2014Use of Wine and Ale | Disastrous\u2014Abstinence Brought Success, | Secret of Samson's Strength Ar G.W.Woodruff, coach of the University of Pennsylvania football team, has the following to eay regerding tbe use of alcobolic stimwuluuis at the training table: .I bave boen maintaining for years that the use of artificial stimulants in training should be discountenanced.At the riek of being considered narrow minded on the subject I will confess that I am opposed on general principles to drinking at any time.I do not mean .\\ that I look with abborrence on a man who drinks, That would be absurd.And yet, by carefully observing my muny friends and acquaintances who do drink I have come to the conclusion that some are harmed by what seems to them u moderate indulgence.A great majority receive no beneficial return for the danger of a similar harm, except'a certain amount of indifferent pleasure, while it is au open question whether the few who claim uctual benefit are really helped at all, I make this confession in order to put aside at once uny claim by those who believe in artificial stimulants that 1 have not taken into nccount my own teudency to Lo prejudiced against liquor in training for other veusons tban mere- Iy its good or bud effect toward athletic victory.This article.however, is not a temperance lecture, but intended to carefully put forward my reasons for believing that nature will take proper care of her own robust, healthy children, provided that they live, eat and exercise ir, à Latural way.I am strongly moved, as the Friends say, to talk upon this subject because of my belief that the lato football season has done much to foster the idea that liquor is often u good thing in tiaining and because I am con- fideut that artiiicial stimulants are in tho long run aad in a majority of cases very bad for the athlete und for athletics.I bave reached this conclusion not by theoretical reasoning alone, but from much observation und one disastrous experience.In 1898 I was prevailed upon to transfer to another the authority with regard to the training table for the Pennsylvania football team.To my re- Bret und chagrin, I discovered, after three or four weeks of the season had passed, that the trainer had begun to permit the use of both ale and wine ay part of the training diet.This had heen going on for such a length of time when I found it out that tbe damage was already done and the players were already suspicious of each other with regard to the keeping of training rules.Thero was great luck of spirit in games, and the majority of the men showed countin- ually all the sigus of being overtrained, in return for which they received from the trainer, as they confidently expected, un increased allowance of ale and wine.I righifully concluded that to interfere at this stage of proceedings would do harm rather than good, und therefore permitted the training to remain in the same hands until the end : Of an exceedingly disastrous season, Thereafter, however, I made known my unchangeable determination to never coach another football team unless at the same time I should have autocratic control of the diet.Many Pennsylvanians thought that 1 was cruel to the teams of 1594 and 1804, because I would not listen to the general outcry that these teams wero overtrained und because I would not allow them liquor in any form in order to overcome this supposed staleness.lt was generally conceded that no teams ever camo through a season in such con- : tinual good condition and showed so much epirit aud endurance in the final games as these.This wus partly due to good fortune in that very few of the ; men received even slight injuries, bug it surely cannot be denied that these teams, together with those of 1896 and 1897 ut Pennsylvania, have proved by four consecutive years of success and good condition that the use of liquor is not necessary for keeping athletes in good condition,\u2019 Some may think that I am old fashioned in my opposition to the uso of liquor and compare me to the man who will read a newspaper by the light of a tallow candle when the incandescent bulb is within reach of his hand, but it ig uot true that those who believe in leaving men's condition to nature are old fushioned.Liquor wus much more generally used many years ago in all the undertakings of life than it is now.Be that as it may 1 am not adverse to being accounted old fashioned provided that the vld way is good, sensible aud effect.ive.At tho risk of seeming irreverent ! will close by drawing attention to the \u2018fact that thovsands of years ago the angel of the Lord, in giving instruction to the prospective mother of Samson, who was destined to become tho grent- est athlete in the bistory of the world, said, \u201cAnd now drink no wine nox strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing.\" Aud when wo further observe the manner in wbich Samson performed bis wonderful feats we find that a very different element from liquor seemed to be the moving cause.This strikes the keynote of athletic |.training aud success.The fundamental rule is to be natural, Of course nobody believes that Sæmson\u2019s strength lay in his hair, Lut ratber in the strength and vigor which came from the proper life of bis ancestors and from bis own natural aud vigorous way of living, combined with that spirit which came mightily upon bim whenover he encountered an antagonist diffoult to vanquish.1 aw thoroughly convinced that spirit and not spirits is what we sbould strive to give to an athlete in order thas he may excel.ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS DAD\u2019 FOR: Led ; T-hâve .York Sleighs algo:some wl Co ph Now Signs received a.car load of New - handsome two-seated Sleighs.-\u2026 Tf you appreciate a good thing 1t will | pay you to call and see them.QUALITY, THE BEST! STYLES, THE LATEST! Snow came so late that the best part of the season for selling Sleighs was CUT OFF, But I am bound to close out my stock and to do so I have KNOCKED THE BOTTOM ALL OUT of prices.Call and I wiil convince you.Now is your time.E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q.& Derby Line, Vt.Bell Telephone call No.58.GRAND paring Sale \u2014AT\u2014 SPALDING\u2019S The entire stock of FANCY WOOL DRESS GOODS, at cost.The entire stock of LADIES'.MISSES AND CHILDREN'S WOOL AND CASHMERE HOSE.The entire stock of LADIES\u2019, GENTS\u2019 AND CHILDREN'S WOOL UNDERWEAR.A fine lot of BEAVER SHAWLS, WOOLEN AND COTTON BED BLANKETS, GENTS\" LINED GLOVES AND MITTENS at very low prices.Ladies' Warm Lined Winter Shoes, MEN'S WOOL BOOTS AND OVERS, MEN'S AND BOYS PONTIACS.Lumbermen's Overs If you want bargains it will pay you to lock the above goods over, and get prices.W.SPALDING.Dec.50th, 1897.\u2019 FLINT'S ompound Syrup of White Pine and Tar PROMPTLY CURES Coughs, Colds, and all Affections of the Throat and Lungs.LARGE BOTTLES 25c.\u2014 AT \u2014 FLINT'S DRUG STORES, Derby Line & Rock Island PROFITS ALL KNOCKED OFF our line Tinware.We must close it out.Some of the prices we are quoting are even below cost.That\u2019s nothing, the goods must go.Chamber Sets and Dishes, also at and below cost to close out the line.Lumbermen\u2019s Footwear Balance of my stock of these goods must be closed out at once.ou can have them at just what they cost.We have determined to confine our business strictly to Groceries and Feed in the future.If you are not satisfled with our prices make your own.Gar Load Flour Car Load Feed just received.The choicest of everything in the way of Groceries and Oanned Goods.Two Buffalo Robes lined and trimmed, in first-class condition, used a little, they are in color and every other A bargain for some one at Rare chance.Speak quick.J.C.DOWNS & CO., way.340.Stanstead Plain."]