The Stanstead journal, 26 janvier 1899, jeudi 26 janvier 1899

[" i\u2019 WOW Wd ==E = = ow = 1 year or two ago.\u2019 VOL.LIV\u2014No.3.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) TOWN TOPICS.Miss Anna Pepin from New Bedford, Mass., is visiting friends in this place.Cashier Davis was confined to his room with la grippe the first of the week but is out again.There are reported to be ten cases of la gripde among the students at the Ursuline Convent, Stanstead.An historical sketch of the village of Massawippi, written by the late E.H.LeBaron, appears on another page of to-day\u2019s JOURNAL.At Tara Hall, Quebec on the evening of the 18th inst.Hon.M.F.Hackett, Grand President of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association was presented by Quebec Branch 108, with a handsome crayon portrait of himself.Mr.J.B.Goodhne has been confined to his house with la grippe during the past two or three weeks.He got better and ventured out too soon, taking more cold, and has since been worse than ever, He is again improving.A team belonging to H.I.Hastings of West Derby was seized by Customs Officer J.E.Kelley on the 12th inst, and will be sold by auction at Newport to-morrow.It is alleged that the team was used to smuggle glass, sugar and flour.The seventy-fifth birthday of Dr.A.G.Bugbee occasioned the assembly of a number of the friends of Dr.and Mrs, Bugbee at their home on Tuesday evening.Twenty-two persons were present the youngest of whom was forty-four years old while several were well advanced in the seventies.Added together the ages of the twen- ty-two aggregated 1432 years, an average of 65 years for each person.However, the guests enjoyed themselves none the less for their advance in years and the event was a most pleasant one.Stanstead Township is to be complimented upon the neat bridge recently constructed by them at the Burroughs place.It is a steel structure of the most modern type and adds much to the convenience and appearance of the vicinity.Tt presents a very solid appearance and it is hoped that the inconvenience necessitated by the destruction of bridges at this place in the pust has now been overcome.The cost is about 5900 which is very ren- sunable considering the difficulties of construction at this time of the year and also the value of this kind of bridge.Joseph Carrier, one of the celebrated Carrier (or Currier) brothers, wanted for the alleged assault, one night last Summer, of some persons engaged making cedar oil near John Sivright\u2019s on the Derby road, was arrested at Derby Line, Saturday night.He wished to send a valise to Barton, and, at his request, was met by Customs Officer Kelley in the Line bridge early in the evening when arrangements were made for forwarning the valise.To the Customs Officer Carrier said that he intended leaving for the West via Sherbrooke that night, but the valise had aroused the officer's suspicion and he concluded that Carrier intended walking to Barton during the night.Sheriff Audinwood was instructed to be on the lookout.Later on the two officers started out to bring in a man reported to be lying drunk a couple of miles out on the Derby road.Before proceeding far they met one Perry, who brought Carrier to town, returning north with his team.They afterwards overtook Carrier and arrested him.He tried to work off his old bluff again, protesting most emphatically that he was not Carrier.Going on a little farther they came up to the intoxicated individual but he had partially recovered his senses and was allowed to proceed.Carrier was brought back and lodged in the \u201ccooler,\u201d but as the cedar oil party had left the country Carrier was liberated on Monday for lack of evidence to remand him.One of the victims of last summer\u2019s assault was a woman who is alleged to have received a severe pounding.She it was who first swore out a warrant for Carrier's arrest.At that time Carrier was approached in the Derby Line Hotel by Constable Andinwood who said: \u201cIs your name Carrier?\u201d \u201cNo sir, are you looking for the man who pounded that woman the other night quired Carrier, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, continued, \u201cHe just passed along the street and is now in that store over there.Come and I will show him to you.\u201d Once outside Carrier ran for the land of the \u201cmaple leaf\u201d and did not breathe the \u2018air of the free\u201d until last Saturday.Even then his breathing was not altogether easy.He was one of the gang who, attempted to \u201cdo up\u201d P.Caron at the Plain a TOWN TOPICS.Miss H.A.Tinker has been in Boston during the past week.Station agent Beerworth has resumed work after four days\u2019 scuffle With la grippe.Mrs.C.E.Bennett and Miss Katherine H.Bennett will leave this evening for Rockford, Ill., where they will reside permanently.O.E.Libby and -son Ezra have gone to Sherbrooke where they have secured employment with the Jenckes Machine Co.Mr.Libby expects to move his family to Sherbrooke the coming spring.The conductor of the Orleans County Musical Festival, to be held at Newport, Vt., Feb 6-10, is Prof H.R.Palmer, of New York.He is a model in the instructor\u2019s position.He already has a fine reputation with the Association, both as a teacher of youngsing- ers and a leader of older ones.The floor was crowded with dancers and standing room for spectator\u2019s was at premium at the masquerade ball last Friday evening.About three hundred persons were present and nearly one half of that number were in costume, presenting a brilliant spectacle.Supper was served to one hundred and fifty.Municipal campaigns in this place have taught conscientious citizens some sorrowful lessons.A study of the situation leads to the conviction that no independent man without means can be elected to the council.To be elected the poor man must first espouse the cause of those who are willing to put money into a contest.Owing to the illness of the pastor the morning service in the Congregational Church, Rock Island, will be withdrawn next Sunday, Jan.29th.There will be a union service in the evening at 7 o\u2019clock.The Rev, J.E.Starr having kindly arranged to supply the pulpit.The weekly offering will be taBen af the evening service.We were misinformed last week regarding the closing of the Stanstead reading rooms.The club has heen reorganized and the rooms will continue to be kept open.Old members who have numbers of magazines subscribed for by individuals and loaned to the club with the understanding that they were to be returned at the end of the year, are requested to bring them in at once, Another old resident has passed away.Miss Lavina Field died at Stanstead Plain, Tuesday afternoon, at the age of 86 years.The funeral service was held this afternoon, Rev.J.E.Starr officiating.Deceased was a daughter of the late Jonathan Field, one of the pioncers of Stanstead Township.Miss Field possessed a considerable amount of property most of which was left to her nephews and nieces.She had given quite liberally to educational and charitable institutions.Miss Mary O\u2019Mally, a young woman employed by Mrs.J.W.Baxter, had a narrow escape Monday afternoon.While on her way down town from Caswell Avenue she heard a team coming down Butler 1Iill but did not suspect a runaway until she was struck by the pole and knocked down in the road the horses and «leds passing over her.If proved to be a double team owned and driven by Lewis Young, jr., who had been thrown out farther up the road.expected the young woman had been killed but she was only slightly injured.HOCKEY.The hockey match between Stan- stead\u2019s second team and the Massa- wippi Club played at the Stanstead rink Saturday night was a very good game considering the condition of the ice and the fact that Thomas held his |.stick for only the second time this season.The Stanstead boys played a good even game.On the Massawippi side Johnson and Nyless did the star playing.The clubs lined up as follows: Mussawippi Stanstead Johnson Gont G.Terrill Cox (Capt.) Point Pike Hunting ©.Point Tinker Doyle Forward L.Terrill Nyless H.Channell Hurd \u201c Wilson Taylor Thomas Kathan U Jenkins mpire Referee\u2014A.Flanders.When the whistle blew at the end of the last half the score stood 12 to 5 in favor of the home team.Had Thomas been in practice the score would of course have been much larger.Horrible agony is caused by Piles, Burns and Skin Diseases, These are immediately relieved and quickly cured by DeWitt\u2019s Witch Hazel Salve.Beware of worthless imitations.J.T.Flint, Rock Island and Derby Line.Those who wit- | nessed the accident from a distance \u2018 GEORGEVILLE.The many friends of Rev.Dr.Borrows will be pleased to learn that he is the Massachusetts candidate for the vacant position of Librarian of Congress.The idea of appointing Mr.Barrows to this position was suggested to President McKinley by Secretary Long without the knowledge of Mr.Barrows; he is endorsed by all the Massachusetts men in the House and also in the Senate, he has many warm friends among educators, clergy and professional librarians all over the country, and will have a very general support from the men most interested in the National Library.Mr.Barrows is by far the best man mentioned for the place, and if no more formidable candidate appears he will doubtless be appointed to that responsible position by President McKinley., Mr.Herbert Wrightof Newport, Vt., has been visiting at his home here during the past werk, Mr.and Mrs.William Curtis and Mr.Homer Curtis visited Mrs.Curtis\u2019 uncle, R.L.Ayer, on Friday last.They were en route to Sweetsburg to attend the funeral of a relative, Mr.McLaughlin.Mr.and Mrs.Roswell Fisher are the guests of Mr.Wm.McGowan fora few days.Mr.James Melrose and Mrs.Keyes | are on the sick list from la grippe.Mrs.Willard is recovering from a: severe attack of accute bronchitis.| Mr.Charles Willard of Bolton Cen- | tre called on his mother here on Sun- # P.Q.;;THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1899.AYER'S FLAT.% Mrs.Hattie Philips of Lowell, Mass., is visiting her brother, Mr.Ben.Tyler, this week.Dr.C.L.Brown is in Montreal on a few days\u2019 business trip.Mr.Scott Worthen was in Stanstead Monday.Miss Annie Sampson spent Tuesday an .Wednesday in Sherbrooke.! ae local hockey team is practicing ev ty evening for its coming contest With Stanstead.The noxt game will bew:n Stanstead ice when played.If nothing prevents there will be a irateh game between Massawippi and Ayér's Flat Saturday P.M.next.Thee is a game scheduled between Compton and Ayer\u2019s Flat at no remote date, to be played here.The tea: has some work before it, Fish & McNeil pay the highest cash price for pork.There was n very large attendance at the Advent conference lust week.its seating capacity.owing to a disagreement with thel and bass lumber, | GRANITEVILLE.Ir.and Mrs.B.C.Howard of Sherbrooke are visiting her parents, Mr.| and Mre., Stephen Salle.i ~~ Walter Parmerter day.His wife who has been here for accompanied him home.this week on account of a wee girl.i Mr.G.TE.Every is taking a commercial cource at Stanstead Plain: College.Knowlton Landing as Mr.J.T.Tuck has bridged the reef in good shape.| Mrs.E.J.Tuck has sold her place\u2019 to Mr.Wm.McGowan and Mrs.Tuck leaves next week much to the regret of all her neighbors.At the horse trot on the ice last Saturday Mr.W.11.Rediker\u2019s stallion won first place.i BEEBE PLAIN.i Ida McGaffey is home from Boston j assisting in caring for her father, AI- ; y vin MeGaffey, Ie is said to be im- | proving.| Mrs.Sam Norton is quite sick, is attended by Dr.Tomkins.Mrs, Ernest Blake, Stanstead Junc- j tion, is sick with the grippe.Spencer Tichurst from the Tichurst ncighborhood is spending the winter: with his daughter here, Mrs.John Eaton.Mr.and Mrs.Elmer McGaffey from Barnet, Vt., were in the place two or three days the past week, called here: by the very severe illness of their father, Alvin McGaffey.They returned home on Monday.Mrs.Frank McGovern and child of Barre, Vt., are stopping at the home of her parents, Rev.Mr.Hadley\u2019s people, for a few days.She is in poor health, and expects to soon start for, Colorado hoping the change of climate will benefit her, | Bart Elder still continues to improve.He has had no further hemorrhage and is able to sit up an hour a day.We are informed by his physician that his prospects look brighter every day.Nearly all the people on Junction street are down with the grippe.John Elder, proprietor of Hotel Beebe Plain, spent Sunday at home.She FITCH BAY.Mild and pleasant weather for the past week.Quite a number of the people have been busy putting up ice.Itis a fine: quality and 18 inches thick.{ Mr.Riley Magoon died at his residence on the 25th inst.of heart trouble, aged 84 years.Funeral, yesterday afternoon.| Mrs.Emma Moulton of Exeter, N., H,, is in the village, called here by; the death of her father, Mr.Riley ; where they were the guests of Mrs.arrived at his home here on Friday from Boston | some weeks attending to the mother, | where he has been for several months.(seized au short Lime ago, has got it Mr.and Mrs.J.O'Leary start for | gone several weeks.| Mrs.Clarence Haselton is quite sick at this writing.! It is good crossing here now to (fast as his many friends would like to: doing nicely.bave him.Mr.and Mrs.Gco.Moir visited in! Barnston last week.; Mrs.Chas, Smith and Mrs.E, B.Tryon visited at Stanstead recently, Chas.Monroe, Arthur Mandigo of Dakota is visit- ) bis unele end anni, My.and Mer.\u2019rigys Tryon, Dir.Justus Lewis, an old time friend, - made a flying visit to this place on Monday of this week.le spent the day with Mr.E.8, Tryon.They were Boys together and had not seen each other for 26 years.Many changes have taken place since then.His former home was at Smith>s Mills, but al present his home is in llartford, Conn., where he is engaged in busi- | ness.We hope the next time he takes it trip this way he will bring his family and make a longer stay.Justus was it fine boy and his many friends\u2019 would | ¢ glad of a visit from him.| Mrs.Henry Gay of Linchoro is very sick at this writing.i Mr.and Mrs.Albert Bullock of Fitch \u2018 Bay visited at Mr.Geo.Hall's last! week, Our singing school is progressing | finely with between 60 nnd 70 scholars.| Mr.Chas.Skinner of Sherbrooke! was here on Wednesday adjusting telephones.CURRIERS.At each of the three meetings held on | Sunday the church was filled beyond | Sunday.| We understand that Fish & McNeil, | her daughter at present.contractors, hnve stopped buying ash | quite badly one day last weok.Col.8.E.Hill is erecting a fine hen- | ing with {house on his premises, ; Drew, at present.SMITH'S MILLS.Colds seem to be in order just now.If you meet almost anyone and don\u2019t say, I have got a cold, you are not in it.J.P.Lewis of Hartford, Conn., spent Sunday and Monday at the Rui- ter House and calling on friends nt Fitch Bay and Beebo Plain, L.E.Carpenter is home from Boston for a short visit to relatives and friends.Mr.Skinner was here the first of the week putting the People\u2019s tolepeone instruments in first-class order.Once in a whilo you see à swollen nose.A set of boxing gloves are in the place.Ask Jim Ward what he thinks, The dance at Ruiter\u2019s Hall was attended by 25 couples.Another will be held on the 3rd of Feb.MACK'S MILLS.Miss Lillie Rand of Fitch Bay visited Mrs.Homer Drew on Saturday and Mrs.John Tilton is at Potton with Warren Blake got his hand jammod Wesley Flanders of Holland is stay - his sister, Mrs.Homer We hear that Mr.and Mrs.Solon Walker returned to their home in Nebraska, Jan, 14th.Mr.A.Hand of Mansonville was WHOLE No.2762.| BARNSTON.Mrs.E.8.Buckland and Mrs.E.Bryan were in Sherbrooke over Sunday.were visiting friends here lnst week.Dr, Trenholm of Contlcook is being kept quite busy attending to the sick.Mrs.Joseph Hall is on the gain.Mrs.Oliver Peters, who has been very sick, is better, Charles Dizan late of Ayers Flat is making his home at the Corner.Mr.and Mrs.Carlos Cox of Massn- wippi were in town on Saturday.J.R, Noyes cut quite n swell in our streeis on Monday with his new French burlow, and well he may for it is a dandy.Mr.E.8.Buckland\u2019s horse took a notion to strike out for himself on Saturday with a nice new sleigh attached, nnd made things lively at the Corner for n few minutes.The sleigh soon came to grief and is laid up for ropaits.Gard.Sornborger is not at all pleased at being olected councillor.He says he will have none of it.WAY'S MILLS, Byron Drew is sick with pleurisy.We are sorry to hear that Ernest Crook of Fnirfax is no better, The Ladies Aid will meet with Mra.Albert Chadses next Wednesday, Feb.1st.We are glad to seo Mr.Norman through here canvassing for seeds lust i Wheeler out again.week.Mr.Comstock, who had his horso back all right ae they could flud no Miss Ruth and Ben Smith are sick! with the grip at this writing, | Mr.Lorn Manning who had his! | Mr.E.P.Davis is not improving as thumb eut off one day last week, in! Dr.Tomkins thinks he | eut save the thumb, | Our singing school at Griffin taught | by Mr.Farnsworth of Fiteh Bay js | yuite largely attended.; i A young child of J H.Merrill is! quite sick with whooping cough.i Johnnie Tilton bad an order for two Smith's Mills hundred thousand shingles bast Thursday, That speaks a good word for .1 Johnnie's shingles, {place ihirthdey on the 9250, Mitehem Johnson went Lo Kingston this week Tuesday to take a course in the dairy school, We wish him avery BUCCOSR.RA ! It is \u201cBilly\u201d Carter who is smiling: Boston this week.They expect to be proof against it.| Mr.nnd Ms, daughter returned Chamberlain and home from their | Visit Inst Fhürsday after an absence of three weeks, Quite a number of people from this attended the Confe ence at Ayers Flat last wocte, Rev.Edgar Chadsey, wife and child pare visiting friends in this vicinity.BROWN'S HILL.John M.Reed and wife of visited at \u20ac R, Brown'a Mr.jvn Sunday.Mr, Robie Brown celebrated his 91st Hobs hale and Those who have little dogs bewnre | hearty for an old gentleman his age, of the dog thieves, Mrs.R.Hamil- theing able to take his grandehildren tons little dug wan picked up in her to and front school morning and night I door yard last Monday and was traced and found at Marlington, ! Aunt Betey Brown, mother of Fred; and also ta help some about the barn chores, Mr Walter Berwick arrived home Brown of Griflin, diced at his home Lad, oy Wednesday morning bringing with .| Tuesday after a short illuess, and was! buried at Griffin's Corner on Fhurs- day.Mr.end Mrs, Homer Drew nttended him à partner to share lis joys and rorrows.We extend our conpratula- tions.Nise Kate Horan of Magog war the Mr.Willie Wests anniversary at Crçs- guest of Helen Ayer on Saturday and tal Lake on Wednesday evening Jast, Sunday last.CASSVILLE.There have been but few victims of the grippe in this vicinity as yet, and: those are mild cases.Pleased to see Miss Louise Locke in our midrt once more.She spent Saturday and Sunday at Wesley Caëws.Jamie Peasley is attending the mili- i tary school at \"Toronto.Mra.Agnes Bartlett is not improv- Ling in health as fast as we could wish.i The Good Templars Lodge does not i \u201ckee Lo abate much ininterest.There A social under he auspices of the is a good atiendance generally, With E.L.of ¢.E.of the Methodist church two singing schools each week and a was held at the home of Mr.and Mrs, Pible class to attend Sunday evenings, D.C.Manning last Friday evening.\\ the young people are kept quite busy.About sixty availed themselves of the\u2019 The old JACCOONE that were cap: opportunity.Refreshments were] tured by Capt.B.B.Morrill, became served after which a pleasant social i 50 unmanageable that he concluded to time was enjoyed by all.The hour convert their hides into door mats.In = : in hopes that the younger ones will for parting came too soon.prove less refractory.A goodly number of our people are afflicted with bad colds.Mrs.Ed.Patneaude is quite sick at this writing.Our school is closed on account of the illness of the teacher, Miss Daisy Vaughan.We hear that she has the measles.We are glad to say that Miss Florence Porter has so far recovered as to be able to take short drives there pleasant days.Mgr.Ramsay is in the place this ABBOTT'S CORNER.Mrs.A.Presby ane Mrs, C.Call were guests at Mr.H.EF, Woodward\u2019s on Tuesday.Our Lodge organ has been repaired and is now in running order.A basket dance was held at R.Bennett\u2019s hall last Friday night.Mr, Curtis Howe was the guest of Mr.und Mrs.Vance on Monday.The death js announced of Mary Little, widow of the late Joel Shurtliff in his lifetime of Coaticook, Que.Mrs.D.H.Drew left Wednesday morn- | À fine deer was seen taking a quiet ing for California.He goes on the C.stroll near Mr.Currier\u2019's barns on P.R.via Vancouver.Tuesday even- Tuesday.irg about 60 of his friends and neigh-| While Mrs.Jas.Wing with her son hors met at the residence of his moth- \u201cof Bolton was driving through this er, Mrs.H.L.Drew, for a visit.Spent neighborhood on Saturday, her horse à pleasant evening and said goodbye l took fright at a sawing machine, wishing him a pleasant journey.Dell |turned around and threw them out, is a popular young man and we hate | then ran about sixty rods and fell, the ; Week.Magoon.; wee ; ; Shurtliff was the second daughter of L.H.Rand has gone to Montreal on: Mr- À.B.Currier was at Coaticook Abijah Little who came from New business.recently.Hampshire and settled on lot no.15, Ist range of Hatley in the year 1800.He reared a family of ten children, al} of whom are now deceased except Mrs.H.Putney of this district.Mrs.Shuurliff was born in the year 1803.During the earlier years of her marriage she resided in Hatley Iu: later on the family moved to Coaticook where Mr.Shurtliff died and where to lose him from among us.The Literary Society meeting at the | high school room this week was a| success.The programme was a good | one and was well rendered.Next meeting, Tuesday, Jan.31.sleigh on top of the horse so it had to keep quiet until helped out.No harm done except that the sleigh was broken.Mrs.Wing was courageous.She borrowed a team and went on to Cherry River as she intended.Mrs.Shurtliff spent the remainder of her life.Mrs.Shurtliff was a hard working, industrious woman.A good mother, and enjoyed the love and respect of her children, who kindly cheered her declining years.| | Quite a number from this way nt- {tenderd the social dance at \u20ac It, Rui- [ter\u2019s on Friday evening.All report n pleasant time.HEATHTON.Influenza is still prevalent among us.Mra.8.HL.Davis, Mr.John Heath are the latest victims, Mrs.E,W.Horne continues quite ill.Mrs\u201d Edwin Gilbert and Miss O.(ilbert nro also confined to the house.The aged mother of Mr.Orin.Pratt died on Sunday.Mr.Parker Ellis attended the Ad- ; vent Conference nt Ayers Flat as a delegate last week.The next meeting of the Ladies\u2019 Aid Will be nt the residence of Mrs, W.W.Meath on Thursday, February 1st.Mr.and Mrs.H.J.Lincoln of Way's Mills were the guests of Mr, 9.H.Davis on Thursday of last week.VALE PERKINS.Owing tv a \u201cmeasle\u2019 scare here our school did not keep last week.As this was found to he a faive alarm school will be continued as usual this week, Mr.J.Labelle ls away attending dairy school at St.Hycinthe.Mr.Lucius Welcome has the contract and ig putting in the ice for the summer cottages at the Perkins Farm.People in general are making a rush for ice here just now and a fine time it is to get it.Mr.J.M.Alix.who travels for the Standard Overall Co.has heen ohliged to postpone his regular trip on account of lack of snow, EAST HATLEY.Mrs.8.W.Putney will give a social on Friday evening of this week for tne henefit of the Methodist Church.She will be pleased to welcome her many friends and they will be sure of a pleasant evening.Mrs.M.W.LeBaron has been quite ill with la grippe, also Mrs.4.Emery, but both are on the gain.Mrs.Burney is away visiting friends in Lineboro.Mr.and Mrs.J.B.Benoit of Magog | ! | ! | 1 t eo a ET] A BRIEF HISTORY OF MASSA- WIPPI VILLAGE.The following sketch was written by E.H.LeBaron (who has now entered into rest) in the year 1895, and found among the numerous papers stowed away in his \u2018old desk\u201d where he sat so many hours of his life busily engaged with his versatile pen.Your local correspondent knowing that it will be of interest to à great many, takes pleasure in sending it to the JOURNAL for publication.This village is situated about one mile east of Massawippi Lake and the railway station and on the direct line of the ecarringe road leading from Stanstead to Sherbrooke, and commands a pretty view of the lake and also of the picturesque scenery to the west and southwest of it.About the year 1810 n Mr.Plumiey built the first grist mill here, but he soon sold out to Stephon Burbank and left the country.The latter improved the mill and carried it on in connection with farming and the manufacture of potato whiskey for severul years and died.A Mr.Hipwell married his widow and continued the business for several years when he died.The two sons of Mr.Burbank, Alphon- 80 and Moses Burbank, continued upon the farm gelling portions of it from time to time for building lots, and they finally moved to Vermont between the years 1845 and 1850.Appleton Plumley married Lois, a daughter of the late Paul Hitchcock, and built a house where that of the late H.J.Hitchcock now stands.A Mr.Ames commenced blacksmithing here in a small way at an early day, and about 1833 Mr.P.R.Johnson and Ezra Rider started a cabinet shop on the southside of the mill brook, but soon sold out to Simeon Gage who for a few years carried on cloth dressing and mechanical work there.About the same year Lemuel P.Harvey built mills upon the stream about 80 rods west of the main road, where he con- tinved the business until 1842.Paul Hitchcock, Jr, built Che hotel in 18836, and opened it to the public the same year, and commenced the sale of goods about 1845.He has done a thriving business in trade and in farming and owns several buildings in the village, of which his residence is a prominent one.Eli 8.White was the frst to engage in mercantile business in the village, and he was followed by Simon Kezar, Jr., who built the two story house now standing opposite the hotel.Mitchell Taylor built the house now occupied by Lucy Hitchcock, and carried on the tailoring business for several years.In 1841 Knight and Demick opened a store on the south side of the brook, and for a few years had a thriving trade.They were succeeded by Demick & Chase, and afterwards by Haines Chase & James Sweeney.David Moulton opened a harness shop in 18:41.Edward Hiteh- cock, Sumner Hitchcock and Beamond Hitchcock had each located in the village prior to this date.The former had a saw mill and the latter was engaged in the mercantile business, ln the sume year, 1841, J.B.& E.H.Le- Baron bought the blacksmith shop from George Walker who engaged in the tinsmith business.The same year L.P.Harvey commenced the building of a grist mill upon the site of the old Burbank mill, and which he completed and set running the following year, and the next year he built a saw mill upon the opposite side of the brook.In the spring of 1843, E.H.LeBaron married and moved into the village, where since 1841 he has continued to raside, and been engaged in the vari- lous capacities of blacksmith, county councillor, clerk of the commissioners and justices courts, commissioner of affidavits of the superior court, census commissioner, secretary -treasurer of four different corporations, etc., and he has occupied the same house for 52 years, and is now engaged as he has been for the past thirty years, in fire ingurance.About 1843 Dr.Benjamin Damon and his brothers built the tannery in the village, which was subsequently owned and successfully operated by IHosea Edson for several years.Danijel C.Sutton commenced the manufacture and sale of boots and shoes upon an extensive scale here about the year 1852, which business he continued for n few years and then moved went.The first post-office was established here at about 1850, when D.W.Moulton was appointed P.M, and F.H, LeBaron, D.P.M.A union store was opened here in 1852.Luther Abbott successfully conducted it for several years, after which ho bought it out and carried on the business in connection with the post-office, farming and public Lusiness, until within a few years of his death, when he sold out to hig son-in-law, Eugene St.Di- zier, who continues the trade and post-office at present.Mr.Abbott built the pretty residence at the north end of the village, which is now oceu- pied by E.St.Dizier and family.Ho- jratio N, Elliott bought the mill from L.P.Harvey about the year 1850 and {moved into the village and was suc- | cessful in business as miller and far- ,mer.His widow now lives on the homestead at the age of 87 years, with \u2018her son-in-law, Samuel Robinson.{Frederick Elliott commenced the car- ringe and repairing business here ; about 1860, and L.1.Stone was suhse- {quently associated with him in business.The former now carries on the same business at Lennoxville and the latter returned to the state of New York, S.W.Darling moved into the village at about 1843, and engaged in the manufacture of chairs, wool carding and cloth dressing, where he continued to reside until a short time before his death, which occurred at Newport, Vt., in 1802.Otis Chillson ; Was one of the earliest settlers in the | place and was for many years the only | bailiff in the township of Hatley.His ;son, Luther P.Chilson, is a black- \u2018smith, and occupies the house built by | his father nearly 70 years ago.Many other families have at different times lived in the place, beside those now i living here, among whom I may mention James Crosbie, Chester Woodward, Rev.Cyrill Pearl, James Stevenson, (father of Wm.A.Stevenson, now of the firm of Hitcheock & Stevenson), John Carrick, James Hussey, L.W.Hildreth, A.R.Hill, John Frap- pied, O.Witherell and W.Hunting.The Union meeling house was built in 1862, and has had as pastors Revs., Chester Turd, Cyrill Pearl, Zibina Young, Mr.Goodnough, C.P.Mallary, Torsy the, Brick, Boyce, Collins, Millar, Land, and Dean.The [lowing physi- clans and surgeons have resided and practiced in the village.Benj.Da- \u2018mon, Hildreth, Alex.Riddell, Solon Shurtleff, Lathrop Shurtleff, R.F.Rooney, DeMonelpied, Wm.Mines, AM, Gibson and Rugg.An Episcopal and a Presbyterian mission have been \u201cestablished here.The former having \u2018been supplied by Rev.A.J.Balfour, hut for several years past and at present by Rev.Albert Stevens, M.A.; and the latter at present by Rev.Mr.Steele.The present school building and town hall was reconstructed \u201cabout 1390, and has room on the , ground floor for two school depart- (ments, with a hall above.There are 3 PEERS RELIEF IN 1 Every sufferer from catarrh who rea of hope.No matter how severely he m O MINUTES! ds these lines will find in them a message nay be afflicted, no matter how many so- called remedies he may have tried, no matter how many physicians have experimented upon him in vain, no matter how completely he may have despaired of ever ridding himself of his disgusting and distressing malady\u2014he can be cured | Hundreds upon hundreds of cases as bad as his have been fully and permanently cured by DR.AGNEW'S CATARRHAL POWDER, \u2018This wonderful remedy never fails if taken before catarrh has developed into other necessarily fatal diseases, Don't and get a bottle.It will relieve you in to full recovery immediately.{ asthma, hay fever, loss of smell and dea the Rev, James Murdock, of Harrishur, put it off- -F0 at once to your druggist 10 minute t will place you on the road t cures cold in the head, sore throat, tonsilitis, fness.Here is an interesting letter from g.l\u2019a, \u201cWhen 1 know anything is worthy of recommendation, T consider it my duty to let my friendsknow it, Ihave used Dr, and am now completely cured of catarr! In its effect, of five years standing.The first application benefited me within five minutes.I wou new's Catarrhal Powder for the last two months Inds certainly magical d 1 not ba without it in the house if it cost 85 a bottle, as it will cure any slight cold I may have, almost Instantly.\" At all druggists.Dr.Agnew's Cure for the Heart rellev: Liver Pills\u2014zoc, for doses\u2014are the best.zema, tetter and all diseases.Cures p es heart disegse In 30 minutes, Dr.Agnew's Dr.Agnew\u2019s Ointment relieves in a day © îles In 2 to § nights.35c.1 Solid By J.T.F}'nt.at present, 1885, in the place two general stores, a post-office, three blacksmith shops, à repair shop, two grist mills, nsaw and shingle mill, a harness and shoe shop.Tne farmers who settled at an early date near this place were Paul Hitchcock, Sr., Ephraim Hitchcock and his two sons, Ephraim &nd Artemius Hitchcock, Joseph Put- ney, Ellsworth, Joseph Kezar, Sr, Simeon Cole, Chester Webster, Benj.Martin and Jonathan Cox, the last named having died at the age of 97 years.Previous to the building of the railway past this place the village enjoyed a great degree of prosperity, but since then villages have sprung up along the line of the railway which have diverted the course of some of its former business, and the place has remained in \u201cstatute quo\u201d for several years past.Paul Hitchcock and E, II.LeBaron (each 81 years old) are now (in 1895) the only old settlers in the place, Beside those mentioned there are at present actively engaged in business in the village, H.H.LeBaron, Capt.Gilbert Hitchcock, Albert P.Hurd, W.C.Hunting, Wm.Mosher and Rickard.At several places along the shore of the luke are popular resorts for summer tourists, where cottages are annually increasing and where in the warm season numerous tents dot the bays along the shores of the lake.THE BATTLE OF THE SWASH.\"Twas Junuary ninth in the year ninety-nine, Write it firm, write it deep, write it strong, A fnwous battle was fought on the Plan,\u201d For particulars list to my song.Out of the cold in the North and the South Came Hector and Guillaume, both armed cap-a-pir, And they swore by the Powers, and by word uf mouth, A tough election fight we shall see, For they said, \u201cSomething's rotten in Denmark you know! our taxes are raised year by year! The Couneil is rotten, and stealing, and so The end vf that Council is near!\u201d \u201cAre we to be Lossed ali the time by a Tailor, While: a better man y Us for his place?As well be bossed hy a sailor or nuiler, | No! a Banker we'll have, by your grace!\u201d | \u201cA man of some note will this town represent, And there's no discount on what we nre saying!\u201d (And this illustrates how, when mnoney's been spent, Weure npt to forget we've been paying.) | Excuse the digression\u2014the Candidates named, | The Banker and Tuilor sullied forth, | And out of the frosty South came voters, | And out of the more frosty North.| For two whole days an equal strife was wager, | And none couid tell where Vietory would wreh, ! twe whole days the fiercest fighting rages ; | And natght provented from the right of | search.i For And by this senreh strange apparitions came, + And fa never seen befort, A Deturimnir in this instance, to die game, Each thirsting for the other's gore, + * + * * i Oh! the crowd that came to that Kleetion! ! No Selection! Fear, favor or affeetion! Of every easte and color and complexion! ripples, corpses, widows, spinsters, Ragmufiing, la s, min\u2019sters, Huintiy face of painter Rubens, .(How we missed olil Peek-a-Boo-Boobins, Old John, staunch as Martello tower, Wall bred men aad men of ftour,\u2014 They came hy two, by three, by four, And ail the time there was one Moore.\u2014 Poet, writer, patesajour, (How Lwouler whar vow are!) English, Irish, Seoteh and Yankee, Pitting crowd tor Mo dy and Sankey! Herman, Dutch.Zula, French, \u2019 nters fr sh (rom the beneh, sht-Lbüek, Croole-bark, Lanne-buek, Sin- ner, Men without and men with dinner.\u2014 Liniere Shannon had their quota, i te to vat-a\u2014 throughout the town Until at last The Down! Then methonght the air grew denser, : And the evowd grew much immen As they filed iuto the Forum tu de state of poll Much dismayed there sat the Censor i In his robe of State, Dispenser : OF the franchise right of old! i By him sat the elerk with prnoil | In his hand he held the stencil, ; In his heart he held the doubt and prospeet | To untie a Tie! maw the \u2018Get ye hack into the davknoass, | Manor Wreteh \"he cried, Upstarting, i \u201cOne More voter is required To untiv this tender tie! And If not now fonnd fpstenter ; By the Beard of Pam O'Shanter, | | : I that speak to ye will have todo it, I! | Deep inta that darkness peering | For aie moment stood he fenrinse\u2014 When with mien of lord ve lady in there ; stepped i Not one, but many! And that tiv w hen untied?| And the Censor sat relieved and listened i Ter the moaning of the tied, \u2014 ; | D | To the moaning and the grooving the tied, ! Now untied! | | | Toll for the fnir and sweet who Zos/ the day.| Kind angels veil your faves with your wings, | The deadly strife (9 over and the fray, Retire, Oh, vanquished unes! Pull no more | strings! ; i For ye have none to pmill.=the time is past, | Th «moneys gone! Aly will ve get it back?| Avwt while ye think it c'er from first to las , Get ready for next year, your foes to erack.* But never had there was but might he worse, In yor pipes smoke this, o'er buried ashes, | Although yon teel fo mourn, or rive, or curse, The city's richer by ; Seven | Hundred ! Lollars } Taxes.| \u201cGRIPPE\u201d COUGH.| Now that \u201cGrippe\u201d is s0 prevalent, | it behooves every victim to banish its most dangerous symptom\u2014\u201cGrippe* | Cough.\u201cGrippe\u201d cough, when neglected, leads directly to deadly consumption.Safety alone lies in the immediate use of magical Harvard' Bronchial 8yrup, a remedy that in the past has proved of such incalculable | benefit to millions of Canadians and Americans.This efficacious cough | cure acts directly upon the throat and | bronchial tubes.It allays inflamation and imparts health to all the affected organs, Use Harvard Bronchial Syrup at once if you value health and life.i : Piana Solo, AYER'S FLAT.Intended for last week.The event of last week was the concert which was a great success as far as performance was concerned, but owing to the bad state of the roads the financial returns were not as great as was expected.in tone and quality the evening\u2019s entertainment was something above the ordinary and all present expressed their hearty appreciation of the programme as such.The programme rendered was as follows: \u201cGod of Israel * Recitation, Song, Piano Solo, Piano Duet, Revitation, Choir Rev.Mr.Pigeon JR.Wileux A.Contaut Misses Robinson and St.Dizier Miss Gustin Violin Solo, L.Moulton Quartet, Misses Robinson and Peck nnd Mussrs, RH, W.MeNoil and F, W.Vaughan Miss Davis Ruv, Mr, Pigeon Miss Robinson J.R.Wileox Chas.Rexford 1.Moulton A.Contaut Miss Gustin Choir Recitation, Piano Solo, song, Recitation, Vialin Srlo, Pianu Solu, Recitation, \u201cAway to the Woods,\u201d Allowing for colds and husky voices the choir did themselves great credic.Mr.Pigeon\u2019s recitations were received with great applause and laughter and each was heartily encored.His rendering of the Scotch dialect was perfection and no other word will fitly describe the manner in which those selections in ordinary English were rendered.' Mr.J.R.Wilcox wis as usual received with a hurricane of applause which was appreciably heightened when he had given his first song and twice was he returned to charm the ears of those who appreciate a good voice.The piano solos of Mr, A.Contaut, Magog, were beyond praise.His brilliancy of execution combined with delicacy of touch and poetic feeling formed one if not the most pleasant feature of the evening.Each of his solos elicited a prolonged and hearty encore.We congratulate the Misses Robinson and St.Dizier of Massawippi on the elegant execution of their piano duet which was received by the audience in a manner unmistakably expressive of their high and hearty appreciation.The recitations of Miss Gustin of Marlington were highly appreciated and accordingly applauded.Her rendering of \u2018\u201c\u201cVerginius,\u201d\u201d a tale of the Roman Empire, ranks her among the artists of the day.Her next selection although in an entirely different vein, elicited great laughter and applause.The violin solos of Mur.L.Moulton of Coaticook were most praiseworthy and entertaining and were rendered in a manner befitting a professional.In manner no less appreciably do we speak of his accompaniest, Miss Davis of this place.The quartet, \u201cCome Ye Where the Lilies Bloom,\u201d was well rendered and as well received.The piano solos by the Misses Davis and Robinson exhibited great taste and skill and rank among the most entertaining features of the programme.With pleasure we note the recitation of Mr.Chas.Rexford which was an account of a dream depicting as the dreamer saw them the several denominations as they entered heaven, ;à serio-comic selection which awalk- ened in an equal degree the sterner, considerative, and risible susceptibilities of the audience.This received an ineffably cordial encore and Mr.Rexford, though apparently reluctant to do so, ngain appeared on the stage and recited a portion of a \u201clittle silly piece\u201d as he termed it, about his sweetheart in the garret window at which the house fairly cried with laughter.A hearty vote of thanks was extended to all those not resident in the village who had so kindly and efficiently assisted in the evening\u2019s programme and the enjoyment was at a late hour, somewhat reluctantly terminated by God Save the Queen.Much to the regret of all Miss Bonner of Coaticook and Dr.Colquhoun of Waterville who were to assist with songs, were unable to be present, the former through illness, the latter owing to pressing professional duties.As the entertainment was prepared to aid the Sabbath School we deeply re- grot the fact that very few Sabbath School children were in attendance.Miss Eva Roch of Montreal awoke on tho 18th inst., after sleeping continuously for twenty-three days.She is said to be in a very weak condition.Discovered by a Woman.Another great discovery has been made, and that too, by a lady in this country.\u2018\u2018Disease fastened its cluteh- es upon her nnd for seven yenrs she withstood its severe tests, but her vital organs were undermined and death seemed imminent.For three months she coughed incessantly, and could not sleep.She finally discovered a way to recovery: by purchasing of us a bottle of Dr.King\u2019s New Discovery for consumption, and was so much relieved on taking: first dose, that she slept all night; and with two bottles has been absolutely cured.Her name is Mrs.Luther Lutz.\u201d Thus writes W.C.Shelby & Co.of Shelby, N.C.Sold by all druggists at 50 cfs.and 81.Every bottle guaranteed.Deadly Narcotics Drag a Lady to the Depths of Despair.Death Longed for as a Release from Suffering.Paine\u2019s Celery Compound Rescues the Victim and Builds Her Up Physically and Mentally.WELLS & RICHARDSON Co., Gentlemen: \u2014I am happy to tell you that I have completely recovered my health through the use of Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.For some years past my nerves and system were almost wrecked by narcotics used toalleviate pain.The doctors could not help me, and I thought I would forever have to remain a slave to deadly drugs.I often longed for death as a release from my sufierings.After enduring pains and agonies that were terrible, I determined to try Paine\u2019s Celery Compound, without any full hope however, that it would cure me.When I had used a part of the second bottle I thought it was doing me good; I could sleep well and did not faint so often, and I decided to continue the use of the medicine.After the use of fifteen bottles I am completely cured.1 feel so strong and well now, and have such perfect health that I sometimes think it is too good to be true.For the benefit of thousands of poor souls suffering from the effects of deadly narcotics I give my statement as an encouragement to them-\u2014an assurance that Paine\u2019s Celery Compound will enre them.Sincerely and gratefully, MRS.LOUISA WARNER, Montgomery, N.W.T.LIBBY TOWN.Intended for last week.Mr.and Mrs.C.K.Glidden of Compton were the guests of Mr.and Mrs.James Libby on Monday.Mr.Fred Austin of Coaticook has been spending a few days with his friend, George Davis, jr.Mr.S.Griffin is still very low.Mr.James Libby attended the funeral of his brother, W.G.Libby, at Stan- stead on Monday.Mr.and Mrs.Nathan Libby were the guests of their daughter, Mrs.DL.Paul over Sunday.Miss Minnie Davidson is attending the Barnston Model School.Rev.Mr.and Mrs.Whatham and daughter Ruth of Way's Mills visited at Mr.D.L.Paul\u2019s one day last week.The difference between a petition and a subscription list is rather amusingly illustrated by the case of Lieutenant Wark, which attracted so much attention in England.The petitions for the prisoner\u2019s release contained 40,000 signatures; the relief fund for his family amounted to £230.If itis true that money talks, the real value of such signatures to the petition amounted to a little over half a cent.Glorious News Comes from Dr.D.B.Curgile, of Washita, I.T.He writes: \u201cFour bottles of electric bitters have cured Mrs.Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years.Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure is complete and her health is excellent.\u201d This shows what thousands have proved-\u2014 that Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known.Its the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores.Itstim- ulates liver, kidneys, and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength.Only 50 cents, Sold by all druggists.Every hottle guaranteed.) A young man named 0.Bibeau, who had become insane at a Sherbrooke hospital, was removed to Quebec one day last wcek.When approached by Police Gificer Couture Bibeau struck the officer {wice in the face with a knife, but the wounds were not serious, and the unfortunate man was finally persuaded to go.Mr.S.A, Fackler, Editor of the Micanopy (Fla.) Hustler, with his wife and children, suffered terribly from LaGrippe.One Minute Cough Cure was the only remedy that helped them, It neted quickly.Thousands of others use this remedy as a specific for La Grippe, and its exhausting after effects.Never fails.Mr.John A.Parker of Damiscotta, Me., travoling salesman for Proctor & Gamble, soap manufacturers, dropped dead in Pomroy & Robinson\u2019s store, Island Pond, at 9.30 Monday night.Decensed was 29 years old and leaves a wife and a six months\u2019 old child, He had no life insurance.His parents reside in Meriden, Conn.For Over Fifty Years.Mra.Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over itty yours by millions of mothers for their children while teethin , with perfect succes, It soothes the child, softens the ums, allays all pain, cures wind oolles, and fs the best remedy for diarrhœa.It will relieve the T little sufferer immediately.Sold by ruggists in overy part of tho world, twenty- five contsa bottle.\u2018Bo sure and ask for \u2018Mra, Winslow's Soothing Syrup,\u201d und take no other kind.P.A.BISSON NET\u2019S January Cheap Sale.Bargains in every line of goods for 30 days.LADIES\u2019 JACKETS Reduced from 25 to 50 per cent.Our $5.00 Jackets now sold for $2.50 Our 7.50 Jackets now sold for 8,75 Our 10.00 Jackets now sold for 6.00 DRESS GOODS.Amazon Cloths worth 35c.now sold 200, .; per yard, All-wool Serges in all colors worth 2ve! now 10e.A beantiful range of Plaids worth 25e.Le - now lb.Tweed Suitings worth 859, now 89e.Tweed Dress patters worth$T.00 now 34.50 Remnants all lengths at half price, FLANNEL AND FLANNELETTES.A good Gray Flannel worth 20e.now 121, cents.A 28 inch Flannelette light op dark de, UNDERWEAR.Ludies fleuced-line worth 50e.now 250.Gents\u2019 do ce.do 3 Seoteh goods, all-wool, Tie.now j7e.CLOTHING.Men's Heavy Ulsters former price $7.00 now Men's Klondyke Ulsters former price $10.00 now $6.00.The above are heavy Ulsters lined with frye, j warm as a fur coat.A few Boys\" = at big discount.Suits worth $7.00 now #1,00.Men's Suits worth $8.00 now $4.50, $10.00 ones $6.100 boys\u2019 two-picee Suits worth from $3.00 to $4.00 now $1.50, size from Cour to 12 years old, Heavy nil- wool Men's pants 98c,_ and 5.Boy's Pants, your choice fer 50e, à pair.BOOTS AND SHOES.Ladies\u2019 Button Kid Boots at $1.25.La- die Slippers at We, Men's heavy Boots $1.50 and many other bargains too\u201d name - rous to mention here.CROCKERY.A nice lot of Dinner Sets from $5.50 up.Also a good erockery at less than LU price GROCERIES.Everything nice, fresh and desirable, as well ay flour and feed sold at the Jowest price An early inspection will con- vinee yon that we mean to clear out our winter stock if low prices will do it.P.A.BISSONNET.1 have on hand a full line of UNDERTAKING SUPPLIES.Robes of ail descriptions.Natural flower designs got up at short notice; will also engrave name plates, Please give me a call and] will try and give satisfaction in price and goods, E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q.& Derby Line, Vt Bell Telephone call No.58.A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFACTURERS OF Noors, Sash, Blinds and Frames, Window Mouldings, Blanchard Churns and all kinds of House Finish Hard-wood Flnor Bonrds and Matehed Ceiling manufactured from kiln-dricd lumber.All orders promptly attended to.Weare hound not to be undersold.SAMUEL E.ABBOTT .Jo STANSTEADIis our agent for that Townghip.Down At MERRILL\u2019S MILL You Can Gel your Lumber Sawn for $2.00 per M.Shingles, 20.50 do Grain ground tu plense you Be.por bu.Hurse Shocing, The.Dimension Lumber of all kinds, Kitn dried Sheating and matched boards.500 Cords Block Wood, 8 Sets Trav Sleds 11, ranted by the King.\u201c0 2 and 2, inch Runners, war- 20 Stoves at Cost, \u201cRound Onk,\" Box, Cook and Ranges.Yon can save $5.00 by investigating.J.H.MERRILL. oa, A mee On and after Monday, January 2nd, 189, rains will run as follows: TRAINS LEAVE SHERBROOKE.EXPRESS-\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke Arrive Dudswell Jet, \u2018 St.Francis 1.30 p.m.« Levis.1.20 p.m.I Quubec (Ferry) 1.80 \u201c 7.80 a.m.830 a.m, Pullman Palace car from Springfield to Quebec connecting at Sherbrooke with Pull man Palace Car for Boston, und through cosch Boston to Quebec, by this train.This train runs daily Sundays excepted.ACCOMMODATION\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke, Arrive Dudswell Jet, Levis, \u201c Quebec (Ferry) 9.00 p.m.10.15 p.m.15 a.m.7.80 a.m.This train runs daily, Sundays excepted.Saturday night's train runs through to destination on Sunday morning.WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Lenve Sherbrooke 9.15, m.Arrive Dudswell Jet.12.00 «+ Tring Jet.8,00 p.mn.This train runs daily Sundays excepted, TRAINS ARRIVING AT SHERBROOKE.EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Quebee (Ferry) «Me \u201c ovi Lm.» St.Fr is 2.00 pom.Arrive Dudswell Jet, 720 pom, \u201c Sherbrooke, 8.50 p.m.Puliman Palare Car Quebee to Springfield eennecting at Sherbrooke with Pullman Paluce Car to Boston, and through conch Quebec to Boston by this train.This train runs daily, sundays excepted.ACCOMMODATION\u2014 Leave Levis \u201c00 pom.Arrive Tring Jet 11.00 p.m.Leave Tring Je 3.50 a.m.Arrive Sherbrooke 9.00 ani.This train leaves Levis daily, Sundays excepted.Saturday night's train only runs as far as Tring Jet., continuing on to Sherbrooke on Monday morning.WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Leave Tring Jet, Arrive Sherbrooke, This train runs daily, Sunday Connections made at Dadswell Jet.with the Maîne Central R.R.so that passengers lea ving Sherbrooke in the morning ean make cunner- tion for Cookshire, Sawyerville, Etc.For tickets and further information apply to ny of the Company's Agents.ANK GRUNDY, J.H.WALSH, General Manager.(+en'] Pass'r Agent, H.S.HUNTER UNDERTAKER and Undertakers\u2019 Supplies Hearse furnished at moderate rates.Stanstead Plain, P.Q.50 YEARS\" EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS \u2019 COPYRIGHTS &C.Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an {uvention is probably patentable.Communications atrictiy confidential.Handbook on Patents sent free.Oldest agency for securing patenta.Patents taken through Munn & Co.receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American, A handsomely Ullnstrated weekly.Largest cir culation of any scientific Jonrnal, Terms, $3 a year; four months, $L Bold by all newsdealers.MUNN & Co,2sisrozcva.New York \u2018Branch Office, 625 F 8t., Washington, D.C.1 Leather All widths constantly on hand at manufacturers\u2019 prices.LACE LEATHER, cuf and by the side.J.B.GOODHUE, Rock Island, P.Q.Belting.IT IS A FACT antatf, À, SEARLES\u2019 szomz.| Main Street, Beebe Plain, You enn get the Best Vidue for your money.Goods cheerfully shown, Prices down to rock bottom.C.A.SEARLES.Miss Tinker has just received a fine line of Handkerchiefs, Ribbons, Cut Goods.Embroidered Picture Frames, and in fact all of the up-to-date novelties for CHRISTMAS.She also ins an assortment of Trimmed and Untrimmoed Hats, and kindly invites your ingpeetion.Derby Line Vit.Nov.17.1808.Carriage Shop.1 have leased premises over the nld Rock Island machine shop and am prepared to do all kinds of Carriage and Sleigh Repairing, Cabinet Work, Etc.First-class labor-saving machinery and extensive experience enable me to do\u2019 the best work at the lowest possible price.Saw Filing a Specialty.4841,1 H.C.BISHOP.JERSEY RECORD.Milk and Butter Accomplishments of Coutn Itien.pI, | DÉFIER) James E.Dodge, herdsman of the | Hood farm at Lowell, Mass., writes as | fullows to Hoard's Dairyman: I inclose | two years\u2019 record of Costa Rica.She | bas a weekly test of 21 pounds 61g | ounces butter.Hope it is pot too Jong.| Am feeding this berd for large, econom- | ical, yearly yields, as I believe this to.be the true measure of a cow's value, Costu Rica was born Jun.20, 1885, and for making this record freshened Oct.19, 1896, and again Oct.17, 1897, : after being dry one month.In the two years, less one month whon dry, she gave 19,194 pounds 6 ounces COSTA RICA, milk average Babcock test G.C6 per cent fat, which ig an average milk yield of : 27 pounds 11 ounces, with an average\u2019 butter yield of 1 pound 15 ounces per.day, and this, on an average grain ration of 1215 pounds per day, with 30 pounds silage and what hay sbe would eat in winter and pasture in summer, and this by a cow vearly 14 years old at the end of test.In repcrting the test\u2014if one may call it euch\u2014of Costa Rica it may be of 1n- terest to dairvmen to give her breeding.She is bv Uprizht 6147, siro of 12 tested cows ont of 15 registered daughters, whose dam was Modita, test 16 pounds 8 punces, with 6 danghters in the J4 pound lit, zud herself a daughter of Laura Lee, dam of 4 in 14 pound list.Cesta Rien is dum of Chirp, test 19 pounds 1 ounce, and Merry Maiden, the winver of grand sweepstakes award World '» fair dairy tests, Chicago, 1893, A Checre Lesson.A leading grocer in an eastern city gives the following experience and draws a lesson from it for the benefit of New York cheesemnkers.It would: seem that this lesson is equally pertinent to every chuesemaker in the country.! The grocer advertised: 'Old cheese, a\u2019 year old today.Jtisrich and mellow i and of delicious flavor, but not strong.\u201d Ho had the goods, plenty of them, and they were just as advertised.All day and fito in the evening the people gathered; around that cheese counter, waiting to! be served, like the crowd at the Friday | bargain table in a department store.| Cheese melted away about us fast as} the attendant could cut and put it up.| Very few asked the price.The quality | was there, and they were willing to pay | for it.It was high enough to cover | what was paid the producer à year ago, | storage, interest on the investment and 6 fair retailer\u2019s profit.There was prob- | ably more cheese sold at that counter | on Saturday than there will be of tho | average run of grocery cheese in a, month.There is an object lesson in this, incident that the cheese producers ofi central New York would do well to study.They are making cheese for export, competing with countries that can ; produce good cheese nt lower cost than bere and selling to a combination of operators in the poorest chicese market on earth.There is a trade right bere at home that will take all the good cheese offered at twice what the maker gets for the article produced, It is a fact that: here in the cheese center of the United States it is diflicuft for the critical con- ; sumer to find a satisfuctory pivee of\u201d cheese.The grocer referred to filled à long felt want, asd be was rewarded with a big trade.Complicated Separators, There are n great many dairymen and farmers wbo are corstautly adding + p- arators to their conveniences.and.although each manufasturer sends a Le ok of instructions, many purchasers fall down and decliro tho wachines are more worl and tronble to care fur tban tho gain of having them.If they would thoroughly learn how to manipulate them, there wonld be nothing bof praise said of any of them.The machines all run at high speed and need watching and caring for, the sme or more so than any other machive used about the farm, Lut when properly washed, scalded and | put together properly there is no need.of difficulties in ogerating them.There are makes that are very complicated and | have more parts than arc essential tu any the wor k.but a machine of this kind| must be babied just so much more.Never discard the separators, tor just sol soon will thers be woney lost in the, dairy.\u2014 Live Stock.Slow Ripening Cheese.their ¢! eese come carly into murket in- | duces them to make a soft, porous cbec se | into which air easily enters and which | consequently ripens early.But chere | thus wade cannot ba kept for a lug time without baving its quality much deteriorated.If a larger proportion of cheese was prossed thorouguly so as to bave a firmer texture, it would keep un- 1i] times when ther is little good cheese in market and bigher pricee could be sbtained for it.But the firm cheese bas 30 much less moisture than the porous sheese that the price does not pay the maker, \u2014 Boston Cultivator.Winter Dalrying.Winter dairying is no business for a lazy man or one who will neglect it for any reagon.» : mer i sometimes falls under n 3 pur cent content of butter fal, it is not her fault.h \u201cby skimmilk or separated milk.Gener- AERATING MILK.What Various Authorities Say on the Subject.Hoard\u2019s Dairyman says that there is bardly a place in which milk is used that it will not pay to cool and aezate it at the same time.Such milk brought to the creamery or cheeso factory, if all the patrous would practice it, would show at once iu the increased quality of the product aud the price.The diffi: culty is that there are so many patrons who don\u2019t believe in any improvement if it is going to cost something to set it at work, Yet wherever there is a factory or creamery that has prevailed ou its patrons to practice aeration and cool- jog that institution stands bigh in the | price received for ite product.Cornell experiment station in bulletin No.89 published a table showing result of tests wade to ascertnin the keeping qualities of milk aerated by the , champion milk cooler und aerator in , compurison with milk aerated by a machine for stirring and airing the milk cand in comparison with mitk neither couled ner aeratzd, The result showed that the milk acrated and cooled by A PAIR OF GLOVES.\u201cWell, well, it does seem kind of fanny that this sbould happen again.I have come bone the last five years cp this 5:30 train: still nothing of this sind hag ever occurred before until the Inst week.It's queer, bat I'l] advertise tbis one, Maybe thoy are mates,\u201d He drew the other from his pocket and compared them.\u2018They are a pair as sire as | am Granville Baker.Same color, size and all.\u201d He folded them and replaced them in bis pocket, took che evening paper and settled down to rend.Mr.Baker was a bachelor and resided in W\u2014\u2014, un suburb of Boston.Ho was a bunker in tho latter city, liked and different occasions be had found on the train a glove, which, after investigation, proved to be a pair.to ho determined to find the owner.In a few days, in the Jost and found © column, appoured: \u201cFound\u2014On tbo 5:40 trainto W\u2014\u2014.la pair of gloves; owner can bave by stirring kept sweet no longer than tho unaerated milk.bug thar the milk aerated by the champion milk cooler kept sweet in some instances 14 hours longer.Summing up the results of these ests, Professor Wing said that owing to the special conditions of cleanliness and cure in the Cornell dairy the resale in favor of such aeration was not nearly so great ns would bu obtained nuder ordinary farm conditions.The New York farmers\u2019 iostitnte bulletin gives the following excellent | advice on this subject: So da not be misled by a few cranks who will tell you that the aeration of milk is of no! value to the dairyman, who will tell | you that aurated milk will uot romaiu : sweet one whit longer than any other milk.Le not misled by these, we say, but try for yourself.Get a good com- biped cooler and aerator and use it every day in the year, winter and sum- alike, In buying a cooler and actitor don\u2019t make the mistake of getting ono that airs the milk witiont cooling it.Don\u2019t make the mistaleu of getting one that cools the milk before it airs it, as aeration to drive out animal and food udors must be dono while the milk is hor from the cow and hefore any reduction in tho temperature bas been made, Strugple to Keep Milk Pore.It is an um uding struggle, says Tho Breeder's Gazette, to keep the milk pure from tho cow to the consumer.The honest beast does ber work.If hor milk She was bred that way snd fod that | way.But the handler and manipulator of her milk is limited ju his rougery | only by his wits\u2019 ends and the law.Ho! its fat.He colors and thickens tho cream to give it the appearance of | greater .thickness and richness.He; mixes neutral vil with butter nnd produces a counterfeit article.Ho takes rancid \u201caxle grease\u2019 butter or oleo oil and turns out \u2018\u201cfilled'\u2019 cheeso.Ho uses | boracic acid or borax, which are sub-: stances deleterioug to the stomach, and thus keeps milk ans cream \u201cwoot.He adulterates, deteriorates nnd wenk- ens milk, cream, butter and cheese, and he thereby robs.Among the latest aide to this deception and trickery is a substance called albuminoid, composed of boracie acid nnd gelatin, which is used: to thicken and preserve cream.The producer who is suspicious that bis milkman or marketman is perpetrating any | of these frauds on bim ehould take samples of the suspected products and forward them to his state experiment station or bis city health deyartment for examination Public exposure of such swindles will have a wholesome effect, even if there is no law to be invoked in punisbmen?Skimmilk Cnlven.Professor Curtiss of Iowa is preparing a paper for publication showing the results of experiments in calf raising.ally speaking, the results have heen bighly satisfactory.When Secretary Wilson of the department vf agriculture was director nf the Iowa experiment station, some experiments Were POI ducted of this character.Shorthorn calves were taken as subjects and Immediately upon being dropped were vee moved from the cows and fed upon swarm, senarated milk, fresh from the milking.They were kopt npon this diet the usual time during which a calf is\u2019 allowed to suck and gradually changed to a grain and grass diet.When 2 years! old, they averaged 1,400 pounds each, and the cows bearing them had meantime made over #60 pounds of butter ench pur aunvm.Record was kept of | tbe cost of thy feed.found an excellent complement to the skimmilk,the latter being rich in nitrogenous properties while the corn is rich in carbobydrates, the two thus forming a cheap and well balanced ration.The Cifference in cost lay in the fact that | the fat or nil in the corn was worth mlling on GoW.Duker; 318 street, city.\u2019 The fist morning a light haired dow.sel arrived and asked in fultering tones if Mr.Buker was in.lo smiled ax he te d her she was tatking with that gen- tloman, but after questions were an: ewereil the gloves snl remained wn bids ! pussession and the young lady left the vilico utterly diseppointed.The ad, remained ia tho paper over a week, vot the rightful owner had um put in an appearance, so ho ade up his mind to bave 3t removed, It wus nearly time for closing av Granville Baker at at his desk and took \u201cthe gloves aut of the drawer.i souvenir,\" for, \u201c somehow brought to bis mind | waters the milk or robs it partially of | y © train.Carmmeal was | | about 1 cent per pound, whereas that sin the cream wag worth 20 cents u The auxirty of cheesemakers to have! pound.Better Batter For Export.Some years ago we expressed oor belief thut when exporters got courage to buy tbe bighest grades of American butter and ship it to England we should bave a larger trade thère and a hetter reputation tban we could get while they sent only third rate, imitation aud ladie packed butter, which could be bought cheap at such times as the market was overstocked with low grade goods.Per haps the efforte of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson have bad much influence in this matter, but some of the shippers bave helped him, and ovr exports are increasing, while it is now reported tbat American butter sells at higher prices in London than the best Danish or any other grade.\u2014 Boston Cultivator.\u201c] guess 1'11 take them home ns a as ho folded them, it bygonv memories, *] weuder where she is nowf\" he mused.\u2018\u2018Strange that 1 never mect her.Let woe see, it is nearly ten vears sineo wo parted.How foolish 1 was to Le- tiove such false stoires, but it's past and gone now, amd 1 am tho loser.\u201d He returned the gloves ta his pocket, closed his desk and prepared to leave when à woman stepped to the door, \u201cIs this Mr.Baker?\u201d she usked.\u201cYes, madman, but we're closed now, \u2018* he replied kindly, txing to seco ber face through the thick voil which conreuled it.{didn't como to deposit, tot in search of my gloves.\u201d ; \u201cAb, did you tosu x pair: Cran yeu describe then?\u201d CCertainly.sir.They were light i gray, with pear] buttons.\u201d He drew them from Lis pocket and anded them to her.\u2018Are they yours?ho asked slowly, Sho gazed into bis face with a pitying glance nod murmured, * Yes, thank \" Wos it imagination or whom did that look remind him of?IIe watched her as she left tbe office Then a fooling of remorse came over bim ns ho sented himself in bis chair and bowed his bead.Why shrmld the past como Eo vividly back again?Why should those gloves make him feel uncomfortable, | and whers had bo suen that look, and wby didu\u2019t he detain her à moment\u201d But he paused and drew out his watch.\u201cOnly eight minutes to catch wy Hu took bis hat, but had gone only a few feet when bu stopped.\u2018* Who was that I saw at tho door?How 1 tremble! Iam tired and nervous.It is gone now.\" As he took the train and sturted to peruse the paper bis mind was too disturbed, #0 bu laid it down nnd gazed at Oppositu him sat the ! the passengers face hu had seen at tho door.It dazed Lim as before.Wheres had ho reentry Carefully be studied every outline and noted every chango of expression, until ho wus fully convinced.and took tbe seat beside her.\u201cBog pardon, but are you not Miss Wilmot?\u201d She did not blush, but sighed as sho aid her band upon his arm and gazed | eurnestly into hig face.\u201cNo, I am not Miss Wilmot new, but Lamm sul) Grace.You judged me wrong years ago, but I know you have fous out differently.\u201d She ceased speaking, for sho saw the words had caused hon pain.To a few minutes sho began: You remember how you sent me that letter of stinging vebuke?dl never auswerel it, because you aceused nus of 80 much.| want west with wy father, and after he died I married for a home, Lut my busiand was killed four years ago in Colorado, su unw I have come east, hoping, perhaps, to right a cruel wrong.\u201d As she finished his beart was too full for utterance, 80 be pressed her hand.She wa» a widow, alone in the world Ho wus u bachelor, nearing his fortieth year, but the old flame of love was rekindled and ns the train puffed our of W-\u2014-\u2014 it left behiud it two happy bearts that bad been separated for so many years, It is needless to ray what taok place, but now Mrs.Baker often smiles ag she thinks of how ber gloves intentionally restored to her a lost happiness.\u2014 Boston Post.Caught In a Dottle.ln some parts of England narrow necked bottles, filled with sugar and water, are snepended from the fruit trees in order to catch the various members of the insect tribe, which delight in spoiling all the fruit befors it has a chunce of getting ripe.The contents of one of these bottles, which bad heen on a plum tree for about a month, were carefully separated and counted.Here ig à list of the captures: There were 57 Lluebottles, 5 ladybirds, 20 moths, 12° butterflies, 43 waeps, 1 eaterpillar, 33 harvest insects, 4 bees, 64 earwigs, 450 ordinary flies (roughly Eepeaking), 1 chrysalis, 13 horgoflies, 27 beetles sud 5 spiders, besides innumerable small flies, ants and other microscopic insects.\u2014 London Standard.| respected by all who knew bim.On two T\u2014\u2014 | cane He buttoned bis cont up! | tightly and bastenud to the depot.Then he rose How Aeronaut Percival Spencer Crossed the Euglish Channel, Percival Spencer, aeronaut, and H.Luwrence Swinburne, the dispatches | say, have crossed the Euglisb ohanngl \"in a steering balloon.The trip began at the Crystal palace, in London, at 11:88 a.m.and closed at | St.Romain de Colbosc, 14 miles east of Havro, at 8:45 p.m, the same day.This feat ia sometbing never before | accomplished in a steering balloon, says {the New York World, It is a duvelop- ment of the theories held by Andree in \"his voyage for tho north pole.Mr.Spencer has devoted years to ascents in balloons nod long been con.| eidering means of atcering bis arcents, The trouble ie this: À balloon is nat ke à snxilboat when theru fs à broeze.| SAILING A BALLOON.One sterrs a boat by \u2018 mouns of » ruddur, à balloon by tho sail, be- causy thers is tho frie- ; tion of the water against the hull and i tha opposing force of the wind on the sail, , Thee lines are called the lines of furce and resistance.But (hero is no resistance in the caso of the balloon, ; When a balloon rails through tho uir, it is Jiko n Ing fMoatiog with the current, Mudéors had been tried cn hal- loony, and they hadn't worked.The rouson LINE CF FORCE AWD DIRECTION OF TRE WT.\\ -\u2014\u2014 ! 74 sde + Ga Wir a C6 A ~ Ca.THM gp gy A ~ pi ¥ « [pasion BALLOON IN (i pa THE WIND | | | was that the minute yon stick anything in tho form of a sail or a rudder on one | side of a balloon it sping round like a top.It doesn't change its direction.If you put np wn sail on both sides, you stop going around ae if you were on a bal} bearing office ohair.Jt poomes difficult to bit upon anything which would make the balloon chango its couran.Andreo elnimad bo could do it.Ile never cine back to say whether ho had done it or not, but Percival Spencer! haw proved the value of Andres\u2019s theory.| Andree suid, \u201cIf 1 contd only get n | rudder to the balloon,\u201d Finally he let i | | the anchor rope drag an a rudder and by ; keeping that in one position while he turned his balloon jib\"* nt an anglo to the wind he could direct his course.: Mr.Spencer tried it, nas shown in the | accompatying cut.A balloon is about like an overturned firh net.There ie the hoop which Lolds the meshes and the meshes which hold the gas bag, The car or basket hangs from the hoop.Two pulleys were made fast to the bop above the car.Then below the cur two \u201csheet\u201d ropes attached to the rudder rope passed through these pulleys and fastened on cleats at the sids of tho basket, On the opposite sida of the ballonn from the radder Tope a rail 13 feet pquare, stretched on bamboo rods, was fastened to the mexhed of the balloon and the hoop.The rudder rope was 509 feet long.Mr.Spencer's first arcent was nt Crystal palace, in London.He flonted with the wind until he came to tho outskirts of the city and then Jet out his drag rope.Funnediately thero was s breeze.There had been none before, That showed that they were going glower then the surrounding air.They Jowered the balloun until 250 feet of rope trailed on the ground, Curfoun Trannference of Hent, A correspondent of Nature, who is associated with the observatory at Ton louse, calls attention to n very Fingular phenomenon, the scientific explanation of which he sees.Take à bar of iron in the band Ly one end and pinnge the otber end in the fire, heating it strongly, but not go much that the hand can- pot retain its bold, Then plunge tue heated end in a pail of cold water.Im .mediately tbe end held by the bund Le- comes au hot that it is impossible to re tain it in the fingers.This phenomenon.gaid'Ly tbe correspondent to be famsiliar to workmen iv iron, is ascribed by then.to some repellent action which they suppore the sudden cold to exert opon the heat contained in the iron, which it Cy mistress nein.\"nnswered, C1 had to hang up 24 of ny duekn, They | thus driven to the opposite extremity SHE GOT HIM BACK.How the Dog's Mistreas Retained Hew Pet Spaniel, When Mrs, Marie Nevine Blaine was married to Dr.W.T.Bull, ber pet spaniel, Lion, was banished.After the couple had been married a year Mrs, Bull peranaded her husband to let Lion retarn for a week, promising to keep bini in the stable.Threo days of Lion's visit bad passed when ns Dr.Bull was taking oft bis overcunt in his office thore came a rap at the inner door.16 wae so faint that at first ho did not notice it.Thon when it wan repeated he said, \u2018Come in.\u201d No onu catue, hut the rapping went on.Ho opened the door, and there stood Lion, io had been knocking the doer with a little wooden box ho held in his mouth, addressed to Dr.Bull.The doctor took the box, and Lion, too polite to intrude, turned and walked ina dignified man.nor buck up stuirs.The doctor opened tho box and read tho tiny note contain: ed thervin, smiled and throw it in the seraptmsicet, The nest day Lion knocked and left another note.The third time ho camo there was a reply for him.Thu ductor said, Lion, wait,\u2019 Ho took tho box, abstracted the note, put ano of his awn in its place, nnd handing the box book to the dog gave him a pat and sent him upstairs, Hero is acopy of Lion's notes | and the reply they flnally clicited: Dean Doctor Lam enjoying iy visit to my mastreas very mele Iwas very kind of you fe invite me bere, nnd 1 have teed ta belive the best 1 know how, TCwill be liavd to Joan I wirh you would Tike moe bios, Lion curricd hack a little bit.The letter which to bis n,istrers reud: Lreg= You nee such aor pectable, wii 'hred tutos that your vist is excouted tadetiottely.worn ; \u2014 Boston Journal.MOIST WEATHER.A Dexeciption of n Spell of Tiamldity on the Wabash, 1\" Talking about rainy wenther, said the wusterner.\u201c1 remember once out in Indianapolis meeting a farmer who Ctonk the moet choerlul view of donp ness of auybody [ever saw, Fasked him if they had hud muaeh vain down on tho Wutstsh that spring, GOAN CR, Bt haw hea ditto damp,\u2019 ho \u201cTho day before Toft homo hil pot sa water soaked that they couldn't swim any longer.1 planted my corn ju two feet of water, and 1 don't expeet seer 30 bushels to the avro, My whent is locking pretty well, but the sturgeen and catfish have damaged it considorably, Thera was about 16 minutes\u2019 sunshine one day, and I thought I would plant my potatoes, so I Junded them on a seow and anchorod the roow in threo feet of water, when it began to rain again.ovo] wanted to go dawn on tho bottom lands next the Wabnrh to seo if the graës was growing for my hny erop, but my wife said that ns wo didn't havonny diving bell she'd rather I wouldn't, I shoutd feed kind of discouraged with ali tho rain, but I've pent ny vdd hours of leisure time\u2014nand the evon ones, too, on necount of staying in out of tho wet \u2014huilding ve an ark, If it will only rain another week or two until 1 get her ready to sul, I'm going to tuke my family ont to Missouri by water for n trip to visit our folks that moved off out there because they didn't know enough to stay in a placo whoro thoy were comfortable.\u2019 \u2014 Boston Trau- script.Hin Concern.A commercial traveler on his trip called upon n well known chemist, Ho was nervous as bo put his hand in his pouket und handed out enrd.} reprosent thab concern,\u201d raid the young man.\u201cYou ware fortunate,\u2019 chemist, The commercial traveler wag enconr- ager and said: oI think so, sir, aud the chemist who trades with ns is even moro so.My firm hus the finest lino of comctics in the replied the : country.\u201d \u201c1 shouldn't have thought it,\" slowly responded the man of medicines.\u201cler complexion looks natural.\u201d And he banded back the photograph which the young mun had given him Ly mistake.Io took it and left without waiting to make any farewell remarks, \u2014 London Sketeh, worship of the Tiger, The carcass of the tiger way carried to the adjacent village, where a hen was dernpitated in front of it by the Conds ny an offering to the tiger god, while ull the women assembled and did heisanes to the monster, bringing also their children, and placing each a small cain on the tiger's body or in front of ste jaws: for these primitive people Took on the tiger as their god, and small marvel sesiog what a wondroos creature be is, with matchless symmotry of form and mighty strength, beforo which man reems an insignificant puppet, \u2014\u201c\u2018Tropice and Snows by Burton.Why She Wan Sad.It vas in a little ont of tho way place in the country, nud as the recent arrival passed some asked who she was.\u201cShe la a society woman who has been wishing for the Jast ten years that she could get away from the trials and anxieties and bores and seperficiality of society,\u2019 wus the answer.\u201cBut why is she so sad?\u2019 \u2018Becarro at last she bas got away from them.\u2019 \u2014Chbicago Post.The aceds of the Philippine bean from the coakt near Manila an closely rerem- ble tbe quartz pebbles, among which they fall, in sbape, size and colar, Ine- ter, hardiness and stratification as to be almost iudistinguishable.The first gold coin called a sovereign was coined in the reign of Henry VIIL The present sovereign, as COrrent at 40 shillings, was first issued in 1617. ew ee + ; _ - 4, LE\u201d \u201c x J As [ in ib sett The Stanstead Journal.| OTTAWA LETTER.| ment, BO energetically predicted by To Rent.FOR SALE.LARGE ARRIVAL OF A St.Johnsbury Threshing end Sawing Machine, Railroad Power, in good order.It Will be sold because the owner can no longer use it, having lost his sight.The machine does Ottawa, Jun 21.By far the most some newspupars, and apparently and \u2018important contribution in many | earnestly desired, as the result of the mir.A Tenement with Barn all in © ine, PUBLIBHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Apply tuo MRS.8.À.BLODUETT, good re erby THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que, \u2018One year (advance payment) If paid in six months, At the end of the year, ADVERTISING RATES.\"months to the vital question of transportation, was a speech delivered by | 8ir William Van Horne the other day | stow i Quebec.As the press despatches 1.25 | briefly sum up his opinion, Liv dent of the C anadian Pacific Rai I declares that the tide of trrific tow sweeping reductions in postal rates, will not be a matter of very serious moment after all, if the unbroken experience of the past is to be any guide the Presi- | for the future.Similiar reductions in Iway | Great Britain, the United States, and ards | the Dominion, have in the past result- CANADA, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, District of 5t.Francis.In the Magistrate's Court! for the County excellent work.ntin will do well to cull gud examine i Smith's Mills, December 80th, 1808, Ready-Made Those wanting à thresher E.NM.SPEAR.50 of Stanstead at Stanstead Plain No.2708.CHARLES W.VAUGHAN, nf the Township of Clothing Hatley.in the County of Stunstead aforesaid, j late in the AT Transiont advertistr 10 cents n Tine for the | Montreal and Quebec is greater than ed in an immediate loss ofrevenue but Blucksmith, ve Plaintiff,| It being late \u2018Brat inserting aud 3 cents a die for each sub: ; the out-let for it, and that the Cana- j within two or three years at most, the WILLIAM E.SARGENT, of the same place, Season | have C H A M P EA U x \u2018sequent insertion.l2linestotheinen.Noud-, dian ocean service is not, nor has it {balance has been recovered, and the| |, Vacation, Dofendunt- Marked Down my .S vertismeout received for less than 50 cents, been for years adequate for the Cana- [revenue once more been equal to the Bufure A.N.Thompson, (L(.C.\u2014 es \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014e 15 : i On motion of Plaintiffs Attorney, Defendant ;dian trade alone.It is therefore use- cost.is hereby ordered to appear within one month, The new arrangement for the gov- : less if not absurd to go on spending ma Stanstead Plain, P.( unary 18m.THIS WEEK.ernment of the Soudan will enable Great Britain to prevent the Khedive from appointing a bad man to or removing a good man from the govern- or-generalship.It also makes the Eovernor-general the practical ruler of the country.The Egyptian flag is to fly with the British from the armed posts, but it will be British administration that the people will be under.\u2018This time Englishmen have conquered the Soudan for keeps.The troubles in Samoa illustrate the impossibility of satisfactory govern- \u2018ment by three masters.If the consuls would leave the Samoans alone, they would settle their difficulties according to the customs of their forefathers, and the strongest man would come to the top.Otherwise the only way is for the three powers to divide \u2018the island between them and each rule over its own territory.This seems to \u2018be the only practicable solution, and \u2018the sooner it is agreed upon Lhe better for the Samoans.Fortunately the tons of the German press and officials makes it evident that there is no dan- .; Large Farming on a Small Quantity of money upon internal com munications, y , Upon railways, canals and rivers.To use his own simile, \u201cThe country has Land.| Seeing a sketch of Mr.Blair's farm- kept building up its traffic hopper un- Ing, \u201c Le it od be well to (tilit has become unwieldy, but has | pans of Mr.Wm.Abbott's Farming.donc nothing to the spout.\u201d The re.{Number of acres, seventeen and one sult is, the traflic is overflowing and half, Forty fons of hay, three hun- we do not know what to do.Sir Wil- dred and.iwenty-three bushels coarse liam\u2019s idea of a remedy is to create a Sram, two hundred and fifty bushels \u2018fast Atlantic passenger service super- potatoes, tw 0 hundred bushels turnips, for to anything now afloat; this will | Forty bushels (Dples.ects.and shard bring in its train a fast and improved Ot ten bushels of beets, : 8 (freight ser be solved, | i HOW WE LOSE TRADE.| | Some of the statisticts quoted by Sir paie are decidedly startling, for vice and the problem will |\u201d F i few Canadians have realized what a! 4 , lremendous amount of business is be- | ling lost by the Canadian ports, because of the better facilities offered to ship | {from American ports.He declared \u2018 i that on Manitoba grain exported via | | Buffalo as compared with the St.Law- | | rence route, the proportion in 1893, | was two to one jeral of the Soudan.ushels of parsnips.I think this is a correct estimate.If anything it is underrated.| ANsoN H, HEATH.Cassville, Que.Jan.21st, 1899, SOUDAN PROTECTORATE.A London despatch says: A decree has been signed appointing General | Lord Kitchener to be Governor-Gen- By slow stages, 80 as not to arouse the violent antag- ; jonism of the Powers but in pursuance ; in 1894, three to one; ! f ; |in 1595 eight to one; in 189 three to (of a definite plan, Great Britain is jone; and in 1897, five to one.The tightening her grip on North Africa.The Egyptian convention so far as the CHA».H.MANSUR, Att'y for PI'ff.Sherbrooke the Eastern Townships.foreign news with speci from all parts of the world up to the time of going to press.news for the Distriet of St.Francis.vance, 1 year 82; 6 mo months 50e; 1 month 20c.daily average circulation for months of 2652.Clerk of said Court, Hwa Daily Record.Only DAILY PAPER published in Contains all the latest local and al despatches Only paper publishing full court TRIMMED HATS are marked low, also Un- I have a large line of Ladies\u2019 Handkerchiefs, Stock Collurs and Neek Ribbons for the Up-to- date Tic.Will you kindly eall and get prices and then you will purchase.HATS Prices at Rock Bottom.in Stock.Frieze Ulsters at $4.98, Beaver Coats at £5.00, All-wool Suits at $4.50, worth £6.00 worth £8.00 trimmed Hats at cos worth 85.50 A full Assortment of Black Suits SOLD CHEAP.All Winter Goods such ag Cloakings, Dress Goods, Heavy Underwear for Men and women at 25 per cent.less than usual price.H.A.TINKER, Derby Line, A bargain in Lumbermen\u2019s Rubbers 2 1 : Jun.26, 1808 this weelc.Subscription price strictly in ad- nths $1; 3 Advertisers have received sworn past six LS.CHANNELL & C0, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, Corporation of the County of Stanstead Ido hereby give Public Notice that the lands hervinafter mentioned will be sold at Puilie ; A PR (rates too, were a} \u2018mally hi ! : .Publishers Auction at the County Building, Ayer's Flat, Township of Hatley, on Wednesday, the first day ger of international complications.Lo ere abnormally high, and {Soudan is concerned, accomplishes all \u2019 of March next (180) at ton of the clock in the forenoon, for assessments and charges due to thi Germany is not inclined to engage | 4s an illustration, he quoted the rates | that those who prodded the Marquis SHERBROOKE, - QUE.| Municipalities for municipal, school and other taxes hereinatter mentioned, upon the several :8ingle-handed in a struggle with Great Britain and the United States.in force from May to October of 1897 | on the two staple lines of cheese and ! butter.These were as follows.of Salisbury to declare a protectorate over it have desired.Great Britain lots hereinafter described unless the same be paid with costs two days before the same.ISL : no longer governs through the Khed- MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BARFORD.NOTES FROM THE LEGISLATURE.From Montreal Cheese.Butter.ive.She becomes a co-equal ruler Last Month LE 1e AO er al 21s, 9d.26s.9d.; .i ae } À bill F 1 introduced by Mr From Boston 134, 3d.13s.3d.and ignores the mixed tribunals, That » Names, | Lot.| Range.Acres.Part of Lot.| Taxes, | Amt.£ ol! has been intro uce hy Av., ; means that the Governor-General is R ed u cti on ee NT A Chicoyne to prevent the giving of bo- WHAT SIR WILLLAM WOULD Do.responsible only to Downing street Simenn Cavaetts ; | | | + Municipal | 82m + R ; .# eon Cavuette w 2 I 14 = nuses to certain corporations who go Declaring that for oversixteen Years iand Parliament.The comment of La S i aot \\ 1 3 25 W.ptN.W.L; i School 5 2 hawking their factories from town to he had been agitating for an improved Liberte, of Paris, that \u201cGreat Britain ale.Alfred Eradron ! | 4 5 | 10 | B.4 } Municipal ; town looking for a honus.in answer to an inquiry the other dey the Premier and Treasurer said | \u2018the temporary loan of $700,000 obtained from the Bank of Montreal in 1897 had not yet been paid.He also service, that the present one was almost intolerable and that it was altogether inadequate for the country, and a disgrace to Canada, Sir William announced that if he had anything to do with the Atlantic steamship service does not annex the Soudan\u2014she palms.it like a slight of hand professor,\u201d ig a specimen of the spirit in which France already incensed at Great Britain, regards (ireat Britain\u2019s progress towards absolute sovereignty in Egypt.As I have only one month more I offer my stock at cost.Estate of John Leelere Harrivt Hartley.MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HATLEY.| Cad, Lot.| | __ | | | ssl 75 MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF STANSTEAD.« is ; yowifeoë à 1102 Mnpl&Seht.6 co stated that the loan of $1,500,000, au- |he would consider it a ferry service For administrative purposes the Dishes 85,75 per Sett.1 pik Puboix \u20ac \u2018thorized last session, had not been |and not an ocean service; upon which | Soudan will be divided into four first- Axes 45¢ William J.Ketcham & | 504 do B45 \u2018contrasted he would have ns fine boat thera | Lo .Singleton R.Ketcham } contrasted.ive i Poals as there class and three second class districts.Gallon Apples 206.Sewell D.Brown 62 503 Dr.De-Grosbois (Shefford) has in- \u2018troduced a bill to fix the jurisdiction of the Commissioners Court at £40.He has also introduced a bili to abolish county councils.Dr.Cotton (Missisquoi) has introduced a bill to allow municipal councils to change a part of the statute labor tax to a money tax and to appoint a general inspector for each municipality.Replying to a question in the house âre crossing the ocean, running at from 22 to 24 knots an hour.This, from the Presideht of the Company which has in n Very short time captured à big proportion of the Pacific : trade from San Francisco is an utter- jance worthy of more than a passing consideration.LOOKS LIKE POETIC JUSTICE.There would appear to be a certain amount of poetic justice in the expe- \u2018rience of the Klondike Mining, Trad- The first-class districts will be Omdurman, extending to Abu Haras on the Blue Nile and to Abu Hasa on the White Nile, Senaar, Kassala, and Fashoda and Assouan, Wady Halfa, and Suakim, will comprise the second and last districts.Major-General Hunter has been appointed Governor of Omdurman, Lieut.-Col.Lewis, Governor of Sennaar, and Lieut.-Col; Juekson, Governor of Fashoda.NOTICE, No.1 Machine* Oil, cross cut, 50c.gal, Children's Moccasins 50c, I cannot give you prices of half my goods; come in and get prices yourself as they must be sold.| do Stanstead Plain, P.Q., 5th January, 1599, A.N.THOMPSON, Secretary-Treasurer of the County of Stanstead.All accounts due me must he Assembly the other day.Hon.Mr.in aid Trancenmats i Two thousand Doukhabors reached settled at once as all unset- From ~~ Jing and Transportation Cor ora- ay av ea .a Duffy declared that the government ation of which Sir Charles ap ee John on Monday and were sent to tled accounts will be left with had repudiated the promises of sub- i the North-west over the C sidies * railways made by the former government.TOWNSHIP WON.Decision of the Superior Court in the Georgerille License Case Reversed.Another chapter in the Georgeville per is President, which has just held (its first annual meeting in old Lon- Idon.The experiences of the first year \u2018have been anything but encouraging, but the blame for their troubles was: \u201claid principally upon the failure I their attempt to work up jover the Stickeen River Lake route, where, owing to the ab- .P.R.À Ridiculous and False Claim.As a rule, modern newspaper adver- of tisers endeavor to make their state- a business \u2018ments clear and truthful; they know and Teslin that an intelligent public-\u2014especially the women portion\u2014quickly condemn A.W.PARKER.H.M.Hovey for collection.Greeting ! Having purehased the Lusiness of the Inte A, FISH & MCNEIL.Owing to the failure of contractors.RB.Sweeney and added an extensive variety of new goods, 1am prepared to fill orders for all kinds of Saddlers\u2019 Hardware, Harness Trimmings, Whips, Robes, Plankets, Horse, Furnishings, Buffalo Trimmings and Linings, vte, Buffaloes trimmed aud lined, AN kinds of Harness Repaiving promptly, thoroughly and cheaply done.See iy new Piano Box Sleighs The latist and best, well made, will not ti license case hes been completed.The \u2018Court of Appeals, Montreal, has ren- \u2018dered judgment in the case of N.A.Beach vs.the Township of Stanstead, reversing the judgment of the Supe- \u2018rior Court of the District of St.Francis, and dismissing the action for damages taken by the said N.A.Beach against the Township.The legal turnmg of the tables in this celebrated case will no doubt cause general rejoicing not only \u2018sence of a railway, or good wagon untruths and deception, road, an exceptional season upset all! Some advertisers, intending to soar [the Company\u2019s calculations and im- I high, suddenly fall from the sublime | Mensc loss was the result.Of course | to the ridiculous in their statements.\u2018the weather is held responsible but it Such errors are promptly detected by is noticeble that the English financial the class of people the advertisers , papers are somewhat skeptical in ae- | would influence.Imagine an advertiser of dyes for cepting the worthy Baronets explanation.The Bullionist remarks that, : home dyeing, after giving a long list \u201cVerhosity is the chief characteristic | of the virtues possessed by his pro- duets, remarking, \u201cThey cleanse and (of the report,\u201d and that \u201cnone of the grandiloquent promises of the pros- : dye at the same time.\u201d This state- to keep agreement we shall not buy Ash or Baswood Logs longer.Look well, light, strong, P over, and you can earry a few parcels without snerifleing your personal comfort.Price very low.With the season's compliments.HENRY T.BALL, Peaple\u2019s Telephone, Rock Island, Respectfully, :among the temperance people but also among the members of the council -of 1895 who rejected Mr.Beach's application for a bar license in connection with Hotel Elephantis, George- \u2018ville.It will be remembered that Mr.Beach took an action against the \u201cRownship to compel the council to confirm \u2018his certificate, the council having enacted no prohibitory by-law a8 was then required by the statutes.The action was, however, refused by Hon.Justise Pagnuelo at Sherbrooke, but his judgment was afterwards reversed by the Court of Appeal, the council being ordered to «confirm the certificate which was \u2018done.But nine months had been consumed by the legal proceedings ; during which Mr.Beach had no license.Mr.Beach next sued the municipality for $2,500 damages for loss of profits, etc, during the time the license was withheld, although he admitted having sold liquor during that time.His claim was contested by the corporation but the Superior Court upheld it giving him judgment for - 8470 and costs.The council appealed - and the decision of the lower court was reversed by Hon.Justice Hall who maintained that the council acted within ita rights and was not at fault in refusing to confirm the cer- \u201c1 tifleate.: exert the The smallest things ma; eatest influence.De itt\u2019s Little Karly Risers are unegnalled for over- \u2018Coming constipation and liver troubles._Bmall ill, bast ill, safe pill, J.T.\u2018Flint, Roc Island and Derby Line.pectus hav surprising that the Directors sho have considered it necessary to indulge in long-winded explanations of this disappointing result,\u201d concluding with the remark \u201cthe Company's operations have evidently been conducted very carelessly and unprefitably up up to the present.\u201d The Financial Times concludes a brief notice with the remark, \u201cThe bulk of the loss has arisen in connection with the Stickeen River -expedition, which turned out disastrously, but we doubt whether the shareholders will regard this as a valid excuse for the flaseo which the company has proved.\u201d FROM JEST TO EARNEST.The suggestion which one or two humorous papers made, in a vein of sarcasm, when the attainment of Imperial Penny Postage was first announced, viz:\u2014-that the Post-Master General's portrait should appear on the new stamp, has been duplicated in all seriousness in London, Eng.The Pall Mall Gazette on Christmas Eve, remarked in the course of an appreciative article, \u201cWe ought to have an Imperial Penny Postage Stamp with Mr.Henniker Heaton\u2019s portrait onit.Canada has arisen to the occasion hy issuing a special two cent stamp with a map of the world on it on which the British possessions are printed inred.Wehaveseen acopy of this neat little label which does credit to the Dominion Postmaster General's public spiritedness.\u201d THE PREDICTED DEFICIT, The deficit in the Post-Office depart- ing been realized, it is not \u201cment made to tens of t} ould ; telligent w } 1 | 10usands of in- omen is so contrary to truth and common sense, that the advertiser is, without loss of time condemned as a simpleton or deceiver.Diamond Dyes, the standard home dyes of the world, dare not make any such claim.In their valuable book on Home Dyeing (sent free to all who send for it) they especially mention that \u2018all goods should be cleansed De- fore they arc dyed.\u201d A Solon, however, arises in the land and formulates a new doctrine by asserting that -\u2014\u2014\u2014 Dyes \u2018cleanse and dye at the same [time.\u201d Soon we will hear of some new starch manufacturer making a claim that his starch will cleanse and stiffen at the same time! No wonder that many of our women show temper and euffer disappointment when they make use of dyes that pretend to tnke out dirt and recolor at the same operation, No wonder that deceived women complain of muddy and dismal colors after using adulterated dyestuffs, Let it be distinctly understood that the inventive genius of man has not yet devised a dye that will take out grease spots, stains and dirt, and at the same time give a decent color.The Diamond Dyes\u2014the world\u2019s popular home dyes\u2014give the fullest and richest colors on all materials when the goods are clean.They are the only warranted dyes on the market and always do what is claimed for them.Do not allow the false claims of any manufacturer of common dyes to lead you into trouble and financial J.C.Downs& Co.CLEARING UP TIME.GROCERIES CANNED GOODS.TOILET ARTICLES.SCHOOL BOOKS, RUBBER GOODS.PAINTS, SHELF HARDWARE, HIDES WANTED.loss.STANSTEAD.After the holidays there are lots nf things P.8.\u2014Car Yellow Corn just in.FISH & McNEIL.Price from car 47e.bu.to clear out and that is what ly been doing.Now we are inl attention to we have Inte- devoting spee- and offer the finest selected stork in this section at bottom prices.Wo are giving 4 Ibs.Raisins for 23 Layer Raisins loc.1h, Regular price 12146, Over 100 eases of Canned Goods\u2014all now and sold at the lowest prices.You have seen our quotations, Large stock of Fane fumes; also Paine's ( all kinds of Pate y Toilet Sanpa, Por.\u201cclery Compound and nt Medicines, Stationery, Inks, and all Se Box Papers, Mourning The highest grade prices.hool Supplies; Note Puner, ote.goods ut the lowest Big stock of Rubhe: children, Rubbe prices, rs for men, women and r Boots, ete, at special Qila, and Varnishes\u2014the standard make, Get our prices when you need any of these goods, Now Stock, new prices, The stock of glassware at half its FLOUR AND FEED.One ear of each just received, and fs » pli fast.The prices se fe PEE welling balance of our value, ighest ensh prices paid for t Hi Bosh Skins, and Shop Polts.Becf Hides, J.C.DOWNS & Go.Something OF INTEREST TO HOUSEKEEPERS IS Our Great Stock Reducing Sale of Enameled Ware.ENAMELED WARE is nearly as Che a-days and with the twenty per cent.reduction w ing it will move these goods.ap as Good Tinware now- e are now giv- Take advantage of this offer at once it won't last long.The ROCK ISLAND H ARDWARE CO. RE Le CT AM PENSE ati, Business and Proféssiohal Cards.DR.C.L.BROWN, Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Flat.Dffice next to P.O0.Residence Chas.Vaughan\u2019s.W.A.REYNOLDS, D.D.S., \u2018Boston Dental College} 180 Tremont St., Boston.Office hours: 8 to 4, pR.L.À.LAPALME, Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Plain P.Q.Office and Residence at Dr.Canfleld\u2019s old place.J.C.GILFILLAN, MP; .hathic Physician and Surgeon, Homeop Beebe Plain, Vt.ALPH M.CANFIELD, M.a L.R.C.P.(London) Ete.413 Shawmut Avenue, Boston.Office hours : 1 to 3P.M., Tto8P.M.DR.J.E.C.TOMKINS, (McGill) Physician and Surgeon, i\" pui A ite Christ Church, Stanstes nin.ofiec oppose retephone No.60.H.C.RUGG, M.D, C.M,, Physician and Surgeon.of Hon.M.F.Hackett, Office appasite Tee Ben Telephone No.84.Stanstead Plain, Que.\u2014_\u2014 T.D.WHITCHER, M.D, Physician and Surgeon.Becbe Plain, P.Q.Three Telophones\u2014Bell, Peopte's, Channell\u2019s.Office at Residence.C.!.MOULTON, L.D.S., Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.con : ¢ of Montreal Veterinary College.Great Lie Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.5, P.O.address Derby Line, Vermont.CHAS.H.MANSUR, Advocate, Rock Island, P.Q.Office over Pike Broy' Store.A.E.HARVEY, B.C.L,, Advocate, Barrister and Solicitor, 185 St.Janes Street, Montreal, Bell Telephone 1808, F'n Townships business carefully looked after.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &ec., Stanstead Plain, Que.| Will attend all courts in the District.Collee- tions à specialty.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island, Que.U.S.P.O.address, Derby Line, Vt.CHAS.M.THOMAS, Notary Public, Commissioner Superior Court.Office at the Court House, Stanstcad Plain.L.H.RAND, Undertaker, Fitch Bay, Que.A complete assortment of Fine Funeral Furnishings always kept in stock.C.C.BEEBE, Licensed Auctioneer, Beebe Plain, P,Q.Telephone at Miller & House's Office.AFRICAN RAILWAY.A London despatch says:-\u2014Cecil Rhodes\u2019 great scheme for a railway through Africa from Cape to Cairo is meeting with financial encouragement.The line from Buluwayo, the terminus of the present Cape system, to Khartoum, will be more than 3000 miles long, and is estimated to cost 347,000,000.Mr.Rhodes has been assured of #10,000,000 for the section from Buluwayo to Lake Tanganyika, | and the remainder can be secured | when the surveys from Tanganyika to Khartoum are made.It is said Germany will give consent for right of way through tne strip of German territory north of the Lake.At Khartoum connection is to be made with the Egyptian line, which the Sirdar has already built up the Nile as far as Atbara.Another transcontinental railway scheme has been revived in India to give a ronte across Asia from! north to south.This would make Bombay and Calenita the outlets for Russian commerce in Asia and enable travelers from London to reach India in ten days.AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.I notice in a late issue of your paper that some one stated that he had taken the JOURNAL over 30 years.I can surely come far nhead as I have been taking the JOURNAL continously for over 50 years.But I expect will not take the paper 50 years more as I Will be 85 years old the 25th of this month.My.health is pretty good for one of thatage.I have been in California twice inside the last four years, but have returned to DeLand, my old home.Our corn crop is fair but a little chaffy and is worth 30 cents.People here have been afflicted with the \u201cgrip.\u201d N.CURRIER, DeLand, Piatt Co., IIL Judge Lemieux, sittingin the Superior Court at Sherbrooke, has rendered an important decision in the Mathieu liquor cases from Windsor Mills.Twenty nine fines of 850 each or 87 months in jail were imposed on Mathieu, who is a druggist, for illict selling.Judge Lemieux has quashed the convictions on the ground that the court below only had power to fine for one offence.The judgment will be taken to appeal.The Appetite of a Goat Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose stomach and liver are out of order.Al such should know that Dr.King\u2019s New Life Pills, the wonderful stomach and liver remedy, gives a splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regular bodily habit that insures perfect health and great energy, On- y 25 cents at any drug store.County Historical Society will be held at Knowlton on the 28th inst.been elected an honorary member of the Eastern Townships Press Association.Melbourne, was burned early last Friday morning.The family had a narrow escape.White of Sherbrooke, died suddenly Tuesday morning.She had been ill some time but was thought to be improving.of the Homeopathic Hospital, Montreal, the name of Dr.T.D.Whitcher of Beebe Plain was added to the Board of Governors.chased The Mountaineer a weekly paper published at Gorham, N, H.disturbers.ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.The annual meeting of the Brome A.H.Moore, M.P., of Magog, has The house of engineer George Pye, Miss Belle White daughter of Judge At the last meeting of the Directors Rufus P.Weston formerly of the Chronicle office, Cookshire, has pur- Mrs.Antoine Chauette of Lennox- ville fell dead from her chair while | sitting in her kitchen on the 17th inst.| She had been unwell some time and death is attributed to heart disease.Thomas Evans, Trenholmville, was struck by a Grand Trunk train and killed while driving across the track one day last week.The horse escaped unhurt.Mr.Evans leaves a wife and several children.In the Magistrates Court at Sherbrooke Tuesady afternoon, Albert St.Dennis was found guilty of shooting at | Wm, Webb at Asbestos.Prisoner was remanded for sentence The shooting followed a demand for money made by St.Denis, who had masked himself and entered Webb's house, Mrs.Pierre Trudeau of Waterloo received a letter from her husband the other day, dated at Dawson City the 24th November.He left for the Klondike last spring with A.H, Hills party.| A few weeks before he wrote he had begun working a bench claim onshares and his profits were averaging fifty dollars a day.Ernest Hall, Trenholmville, met with a serious accident while hauling wood one day last week, when the breaking of the king bolt caused his team to run away.Mr.Hall was GIGANTIC TELESCOPE.DON'T NEED WHISKY.Gloss to 8ring the Moon Within Three London Temperance Hospital Finds or Four Miles.If R.M.Hunter of Philadeiphia is able to carry out his ideas successfully, says The Youth's Companion, be will conetruct a telescope of such enormons power that the greatest now in existence Will be à mere spyglass in comparison.His plan is to make a reflector 70 feet Aa diameter by combining a large num- no longer an experiment.ber of small mirrcrs in euch a manuver ; \u2018merely to discourage the nse of alcohol that the light from them will be concentrated ab a common focus, Supposing this to be done, the light gathering HUNTER'S TELESCOPE.power of the now telescope would be about 500 tives greater than that of any instrument now in existence.If it were as perfect in construction as smaller telescopes are, it might givo a magnifying power of 60,000 or 70,000 diameters, which would bring the moon within an apparent distance of only three or four miles.With this telescope the astronomer would have to place himself high on a platform supporting the eyepiece, while the giant mirror was situated on n movable track below.Vegetable Ivory Buttons, carried où.emplosed\u2014an \u2018\u2018ivory\u201d nut\u2014is the | palm, mainly procured through Hamburg importers, Before being manufactured into buttons the nuts are shelled by means of a rotating sheet iron drum, provided on the interior with sharp ods of cutting the nuts.Iu one the kernel ia cut into balves, ont of which the being termed the Saxon method and preferred for small sizes.The Berlin method congists in cutting tho kornel thrown from the load, became entangled in some way, and was dragged i a considerable distance.When found | he was unconscious and his injuries were considered fatal.: Miss Alice Walter Bates, of New: York, the pianist of the Musical Festi- | val at Newport, Vt., Feb.6-10, has | been the accompanist for the Florida ! Chautauqua for three years, and has given unbounded satisfaction, both in chorus work and as a sympathetic accompanist for soloists.She has played many times with Dr.Palmer as conductor, aud is a worthy successor of Martha Dana Shepard.Mrs.L.C.Belanger, wife of the well known Sherbrooke Advocate, died Tuesday morning.She was at one time a very popular member of Sherbrooke society but she had been a victim of heart disease since the sudden death of her mother about ten years ago.Deceased wats born in England and came to Canada with her parents in 1852.She was a daughter of the ate Mr.Unsworth, who was for atime on the Editorial staff of the Sherbrooke Gazette, and a neice of the late L.Hatton the eminent English composer.NORTH HATLEY.Mur.Chas.Ramsdell has disposed of his interest in the meat business to the , new pork packing company, and the\u2019 work is carried on just as it was before, in charge of Mr.Lynn Jackson; the meat wagon running on the same.days and over the same route.The schools, having been discontin- | ued by order of the board of health were opened on Tuesday, and it is believed now that there is no further\u2019 cause of alarm from scarlatina which has been thoroughly wiped out.Subject of the Y.P.C.U.next Sun- ; day\u2014\u201cDo I Need Our Union?Does the Union Need Me?\u201d Leader, Mrs.Smiley.The Magazine social has been postponed until next Tuesday evening.; News came that Mrs.Charlotte Abbott, mother of Mrs.W.E.LeBaron, of this place, died yesterday in Hereford, at the residence of one of her\u2019 daughters.He Fooled the Surgeons.All doctors told Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson, O., after suffering 18 months from rectal fistula, he would | die unless a costly operation was per- | formed; but he cured himself with | five boxes of Bucklen\u2019s Arnica Salve, ! the surest pile cure on earth, and the best salve in the world.25 cents a box.Sold by all druggists.| King Oscar, in his message to the Sweedish Parliament, announces that his country desires peace, and will use its surplus to strengthen its navy.The Czar\u2019s ideas have yet a good deal of headway to make before they begin .to turn the powers from the idea that : the best way of ensuring peace is to: have a long sword handy to use on into awall blocks, and buttons of a Inrge #12e are wade from thom by means of a shaping machine.The process of dyeing requires great skill on the part of the workmen, who are carefully trained for the purpose and must possess somo chemical knowledge, but almost overy factory bas its special combinations of colors, which are kept carefully secret.\u2014New York Sun.Enterle Fever In India.Attention is again being directed at tho war office to tho extraordinary mor- \u201ctality from enteric fever, or typhoid, among young oflicers in recent years.Tho number ef eases in connection with the Sudan expedition has forced the enbject nn the notico of the authorities, but tho cause in Bgypt was obviously the impure water of the Nile, which it was not always practicable to hail and filter according to medical regulations.But the case of India is even mors serious, for ther tho water supplied to messes and garrisons is most carefully looked to, and yet tho high death rate from this couso is becoming a permanent factor.It Js Lelieved indued that the mortality from the disease js increasing, and it is therefore all the more desirable that full statistics on tho gub- ject should be collected and publisher, while at the same time stricter precautionary measures should at onco be en- i forced.Cholera uged to be the terror of India as far as the army was concerned, but now its place is usurped by enteric fever.\u2014 London Cor.Manchester Guardian.Cure For Alcohollam.Dr.Rybukow, a prominent Russian pbysician, states that he has discovered a positive and effective cure for the drink babit.His method consists of a series of hypnotic treatments, Men addicted to liquor are easy subjects and can be brougbt uuder mesmeric influence in a very short time.The firet effect of the cure is the refreshment nf the shattered constitution, and this \u201cgradually brings about abhorrence for intoxicants of any kind.Dr.Rybakow says that to obtain complrte results the bypnotic sittings should continue at regular intervals for at least one year.The best time to act upon the inebriate\u2019s nerves is when he is about to \u201csober up.'\u2019 The doctor asserts that he hag effected a positive cure in 200 cases.Improving Eiffel Tower, While the structural lines of the Eiffel tower are not to Le changed, the nuthorities of tbe Paris exposition for 1900 are makiug many other alterations in the tall observatory.The elevators now in use are to be replaced with much larger ones, and the speed of tho cars is to be increased, Allthe little shops and stores are being removed from the first landing.The npper platform will be made six feet wider, and the entire tower is being adorned with a coat of grayish blue paint.The gas lamps, which have been in use to illuminate the tow er ever since it was built, are to be .e- placed within u few weeks by 10,000 electric lamps.Hudson Bay Disappearing.Sball we have a lost bay, as well as No Use For It, The Loudon Temperance hospital is It hos now ruonded out a quarter of a century of existence.In 1573 it was established in a bourse on Gower street, and now oecu- pies a fine pilo of buildinas in the most densely populated purtion of Hempstead road.It was not designed as a *'total abstinence\u2019 institution.It was designed in the treatment of disease.Rule 15 of the institution reads: \u2018As tho especial object of this hospital is to discourage in the treatment of | BORN | POVOUK\u2014At Rock Island, Jan.17, 190, n | daughter to Mrs.l\u2019erete Péecek.LENNEY\u2014At Bivhe Plain, Jan: 16, 1590, n son | \"to Mrs.Walter Lennvy.| HRATH\u2014At Gvorgeville.Jan Uth, | daughter to Mr, and Mrs.K.J.Heath.BEAN \u2014In Moedford' Mass.Joa, 12, 1800, à son to Mr.and Mrs.Melvin Bean.| | EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.AM persons having claims against the Estate of the late Syvanus Griffin in hin lifetime of ! Libbytown, Que, are requested to file the same + with the undersigned within J days from care of this notice and all persons indebted to said : Estate are requested to mnke payment within id deluy.rated delay A.E.CHADSEY, awh 1360, » Way's Mills, Jan, 2, 1500, disease the employment of alcohol and \u2018 to furnish trustworthy evidence of the results of its disuse, it shall he ineum- bent on the prescribing medical officer, | in any case where alcohol in any form is ordered for a patient, to enter inn book kept for that purpose the full par- ticulurs of the prescription, including tho time, quantity and reasons of its administration.The effect of the dose alenshal] subrequently be noted.A ree- ord of all such cases in ench year shall be included in the following avnunl ro- port.\u2018 While this institution has now nearly 20,000 patients per year under its sharge, it has been found necessary to administer alcohol only 20 times in the Quarter of à century of its existence.lt is being oflicially recognized as a publie institution Formorly it was granted a support of but $730 per year in pub- .lo moneys, but now it receives an an- One of the most peculiar of Cierman industries and employing multitudes of .operatives is located in the town of | Whose conquest of the Sudan with an | Gera, where tho manufacture of the Army without a canteen might bave i well known vegetable ivory buttons js! been and should have been a valuablo #9 The curious materis] thus ' example to our government in its war | three edged irons.There are two meth.ing appetite which has brought her and a lost island (Atlantis), in fact as well as myth?At any rate, the repurt is on | good authmi\u2018s that the land around Hudson bay is rising at a rate tbat will | Children\u2019s Jackets 81,ladies\u2019 jackets make tbe bay a thing of the past in a 83.50 at Caswell & O\u2019Rouke\u2019s.few centuries, \u2014 Popular Science., nuity from this source of $3,475.The :romaiuder of the support comes from \u201cprivate coutributions.One ward was i built by the Middlesex Good Templars at a cost uf $10,000, NO RUM IN THE SUDAN, Lord Kltehensr Opposes Ita Introduces thon, hd Hype Backs fim Up.It now appears that Lord Kitchener, | ! | with Spain, is about to set for ns anoth- fruit of a species of South American \u2018 er good example in his administration | of the conquered territory.Speaking nt i Edinburgh just before leaving tho British Isles to roturn to his post in Egypt, ho said, as quoted by The Alliance News, of Manchester: \u201c1 think al) agree that oùr first task \u201cWill be to civilize the inbabitants of those vast districts in the valley of the raw buttons are bored by machines, this ' Nile which it bane fallen to our lot to be responsible for administering, Wo bavo dono u great deal already, and wo are still working bard to open up those countries to easy access.By this means wo hope to introduce and facilitate trade, which, in rome of its aspocts, is a very largo civilizing element.At tho amo time wo wish to provent, as for as we can, tho introduction with trade of those pernicious adjuncts, the liquor traffic and dishonest dealing with natives, which too frequently in now coun- trics accompany it.\u201d On the heels of that comes the report by cable that a Cairo paper positively asserts that the Egyptian government, which is dominated by Euglish influence, will issu a deerco forbidding the liquor traflic in the Sudan, nin) Remedy, According to the New York Vmce thire was recently in juil in Brunswick, N.J., a wonan arrested while drunk, She appears now nothing but a besotted hag, but was only a short time ago the dutiful wife of a respectable wan and the mother of three benutifui children.Her father, whois said to Le living in a village in New York state, is a highly respected minister of tho Methodist Episcopal church, Her children aro in an asylums, and ber husband isa wanderer west, Tho cause of ber ruin was beer, prescribed for her by the family physician as a tonic.At first she refused to taka it, having always heen a teetotuler, but, persnuded to obcy the physician, she goon acquired à taste fur the drink that speedily developed into the overmaster- feer na K bors to this sad condition, The Temperttuce Star.The strects were rife with Joyous life, Fur the Christiuas time was near, But into our sud, run ruined home There crept no sign of cheer.As | sat alone in the darkness, And looked through the coming years, My heart was full of sorrow, And my eyes were filled with tears.Then 1 thought of those who kept their flocks On the plains of Galilee\u2014 How their hearty sent up that longing ery For the Chrikt that was to be.And I thought how the glory of Gal came down Till the night shone like the day: Of the wise men\u2019s journey by night, and the star That guided them all the way.And my heart sent up its longing ery To the God who answered them, \u201cLord, into the dark night of my life Send some star of Bethichem!\u2019 1 heard a step far down the walk, A firm and ringing tread\u2014 It reminded mie of ny John's glad step The duy that we were wed.The moon slipped tn and apread her robe On the bare and cheerless floor Lill it looked like the streets in the (\"ity of I Light\u2014 And\u2014John stond at the door.There was a new light in bis eyes, 8o tender and so proud, And a ribbon shone on his ragged cont Like a star upon a clond\u2014 A little silken, crimson star That lighted all the gloom And changed to a palace grand and fair The dingy little room.We did not speak a single word, But we knelt by the children's bed.\u201cGod help me to keep it always bright''\u2014 Was all the prayer he said.The moon crept through the narrow pane And fell like = blessing down.It touched wee Mary's flaxen hair Till it shone like a silver crown; ft kissed the baby where he lay In his narrow eradle bed.nk God for the star that rose tonight''\u2014 Was nll that my full heart said.\u2014H.C.Thompson in New York Voice.New | who wus | in the : Your Horse\u2019s Teeth Muy need attention now, Advice free.Services reasonable, E.AUDINWOOD, Rook Istand, IP.Q., and Derby Line, Veo NOTICE.Having #eld my business, 1 expect all debtors to enll nnd sete within thivty days, ne after \"that dante settlements cannot be\u2019 made with me, \" JOTIN BALLS, Rock Island, Dec.Oth, 1808, Residence over Drug Store, oa i CURLEY MAPLE | WANTED handsome broad curl, well and fdeeply marked, in straight grain stock, not | under Hinches in dinmetey, Anyone having {such in the tog please ju for.| JE.HAV{DHON Carpenter snd Builder, | Georgeviile, Que.Bad pe LT ec EE re EE | YOUR HORSE should go wrong by 1 = interfering, stumble going down bil, | n little slow in hin gait, shoes come | off stinding in the buen, muke up your mind there is something wrong, he ! nad Better he seen at ones, Bring him dow to Merrill's Mis and wo will plate the ense before the King who cwill investigate to seo that justice 1x done to Natl on four bright new shoes and ask you to call apnin, all for Tac.J.H, MERRILL, Merrill's Milly FARM for SALE.{ Mr.Alfred Tves awling to itl henlth, offers fire iSale his Form at Kast Hatley Village with imtucdiate possession if necessary.Farm eon Hains abot TH neree of high dry land, in a high stait of enltivation, welt fenced and never failing runblng water to house and barns, A heantiful, Lovely dry Sugar Orchard of 2000 trees and some 1400 Tin Bnekets und other Sugar Tools will be sold with thé place if de: sired, This is one of the pleasantest and best clocated farm in the Township snd bos taken I mnny first prizes at the County Agricultural Fairs, For terms, ete, apply at once to the praprictor, | | ALFRED IVES.Jan.1h, 18m.iintley, Que, Bacteriological and Pathological LABORATORY, i 63 Commorcial St, | Sherbrooke, Que.I Examinations of Water, Milk, Blood, Urine, Spulum, Pus, Tumors, Diph- | theritic Membrane, ete.For Diagnostic or Scientific pur- | poses.\"C.J.EDGAR, M.D., Director.| Specimens sent by mail or exprens will be examined and reported upon at once, Af \u2018Boston & Maine Railroad.Stanstead and Derby Line Branch.Commencing Monday.Oectelier 8, 1x0.Trains leave Rock Island and Derby Line | ! as follows: 539 #.m.for Montreal (CP.& (3.T.) Quebeo GT & GQ.Co anid Sherbrooke.For Boa | ton and New York, for Montreal (CP, via | Newporti.| 12,01 p.m.for South.; Litp.n for Sherbrooke, Baland Pond (GT) and Montren) (C0 and GF.) £8.52 pan.for Montreal (GT) Quote (GT, and | QC.and Sherbrooke, | 110.00 pan.for Boston and New York.Trains arrive at Rock Island and Derby Line: From South\u2014818 a.m.and 2.06, and 7.11 pom.| 1 i i From North\u20146.18 n.mn., and 12.26 and 10.22 pm.Outward trainu leave Stanstead Plain { min utes earlier than R.[and D.I, time.Inward Ftraing arrive at Stanstead Plain § minutes later {than Rock Island and Lerby Line time.\"EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK.Established in 1850.| ! | CAPITAL - #1,508) 000 | RESERVED FUND, $3 000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: | RB.W.HENEXER, President, Hox.M.H.Cocnnasg, Viee-Prestdent.| Itnakn Woon, T.LN.Garner, N.W.Tuomas, C.KATHAN, H, B.Bnown, Q.0, HEAD) OFFICE, SHERBROOKE, P Q.WM.FARWELL, General Mannger.8.EnGELL, Local Manager.8.F.Morey, Inspector of Branches, | BRANCHES: i Waterloo, W.I.Briggs, Mgr.: Stanstead.$.Stevens, Mgr.: Cowansville, J.Mnekinnon, Mgr.: Conticook, B.Austin, Mgr.: Richmgnd, W.L.Ball, Mgr.; Granb}, W.H.Roldnson, Mer.: Bedford, E.W.Morgan, Mer.: Huntingdon, B.N.Robinson, Mgr.Magog, BE.P.Oliver, Myr.; St.Hycinthe, J.Laframboise, Mgr: Agents in Montreal, Bank of Montrest, London, Eng.National Bank of Scotland, Boston.National Exchange Bank.New York, National Park Bank.Collections made: at all accessible prints, Drafts issued for any required amounts, good at all points in Canada, Thited States and urope.Exchange bought and sold.SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT at each office.Interest allowed from date of deposit and compounded annually, without requiring the: attention ol the depoatto tol J Trek, (Ste or.fico hours trom 10 to 3, Saturdays from 10 P.A.BISSON NET'S January Cheap Sale.Burgnins in every tine of goods for BR digs, LADIES\u2019 JACKETS Reduced from 25 te 50 per cent.Our 15,00 cts now sold for 42,50 our T4 duekots how sold for 17S Our 10,00 Jackets now veld for 4.00 DRESS GOODS.Amazon Cloths worth fe.now sold Ne.per vord, All wool Serges in all colors worth 80e.now lik, A beautiful range of Pluids worth Ye.now like, Twoel Suitkngs worth 050, tow Mo.Tweed Dre-x pattors worth 37.00 now $4.5 Remnnntx allivugths nt half price, FLANNEL AND FLANNELETTES.A good Cleny Flannel worth dip, now py, cents.AN teh Flannglelto™ fight or dark de.UNDERWEAR.Tale foeeod line worth Me.now 23, Genta\u2019 do 9 Tbo.te ax.Heotyh geode allwonl, Tae.now fe, |CLOTHING.Mvn's Henvy Clators former price 21,00 now FL.Men's Klonily ke Uli era form Cr price $1.00 now 86.00,\" The above pre Leavy Ulsters lined with frye, just us SATA en fur cont.A few Boys (Tutors AU big discount.Men's Bults worth #7,00 Bow LUO.Men's Suits worth $6.00 now $4.30, $1000 Ones 38,26, 100 hoyw! two-piece Suit worth from 85.00 to $4.00 now $1.50, shze from four to 12 yenen old, Heavy all- wool Men's pants 1Ne.and $1.25, oy'H Pants, your ehoies fer he, n pair.BOOTS AND SHOES.Ladies\" Button Kid Boots nt #1.25.Ln- es\u2019 Slippers nt 2e.en's heavy Boots $1.50 nnd many other bargning tos\u201d name - ous to mention here, CROCKERY.Antec lot of Din Alon good ero GROCERIES.© 7 Bets from 86.50 up.ry ot less than 1, price thing nee, fresh and destenble, aw # lower and feed Rob nt the lowest y An vaely inspection will con vineo yon tht we mean le clenr out our winter stock (0 tow prices witl do it.P.A.BISSONNET.Undertaking.¢ Thaveon band afuil Hacof ENDERTAKING SUPPLIES.oben of ail descriptions.Natural lower designg got up at short notices Will also cngraye nine plates.Plenge give me no enll and 1 wil fry nnd give antiafuction in price nnd goods, E.AUDINWOOD, | Rock Island, P.Q.& Derby Line, Vt Ball Telephone enll No.8, A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFACTUREUS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and Frames, Window Mouldings, Blanchard Churns and all kinds of House Finish Hard-wond Floor Boards and Matehed Coiling manufactured trom kiln-dried lumber.All orders promptly nttended to, Weare bound not to Ls undersold., HAMUEL FE.ABBOTT 30 BTANATEAD is our agent for that Township.i } Down At MERRILL\u2019S MILL Yon Can Get your Lumber Sawn for £2.00 per M.Shingles, 20.09 do Grain ground to plense you 4, per bu.Taie, Horse Shocing, Dimension Lumber of all kinds.dried Bheating and Kiln mntehed boards, #4} Cords Bloek Wood, 8 Sets Traverse Hleds PZ, 2and 28, inch Runners, warranted by the King.20 Stoves at Cost.\u201cRound Oak,\" Box, Cook and Ranges.You can save $5.00 by investigating.J.H.MERRILL.\u2019 ; Ai = SEE a OITA ns WHY BREED SCRUB HOGS?An Expert Conslders It a Privilege to Ralse Swine, The feed and treatment of FOWH, writes A.N.Springer in Land and A Living, have much to do with the extent of their profitable period.At no time should they have nn all corn ration, but it should be supplemented by milk, bran, slop, grass, ete.Corn is the worst feed to give a sow\u2014that is, for n main article of food\u2014but often it is the only thing they get.A sow fed through the winter on corn alone, or with mayhap a bucket of slop uccarionally, is not in fit condition for farrowing bealthily.Her system is apt to be feverish and the unnatural craving will very likely lead to her devouring her pigs.The pigs, too, are very apt to be a sorry looking lot, and if they live will never give the MODEL POLAND-CHINA owner much pleasure, pride or profit.The remedy is to feed plenty of nitrogenous fonds.A rye patch maices exol- lent green pasture for bogs in winter, Lacking this and other grass or root crops, then feed plenty of bran and shorts in slop.À liberal variety is tho key to enccess.Shotes, too, up to within à month er two of selling time should have a good variety of feed, Tho lust two months the corn should predominate.But it will always pay to give a little variety by way of condiment, The best time to sell bogs is when they are fat, regardless of prices.Some are even now selling helf fatted stuff, Ask them why and they say.\u201cThe corn is worth more than the bogs.\u201d To sell a half fatted hog is not business unless there is uw weightier reason than that of prico to Le conriderwld, Good shelter for all hogs at this timo of year js an imperative necessity, A bunch of bogs sleeping in the farm corner and squealing as only a cold pig can squeal does not make pleasant music to one who likes to feel that his stock is warm and well fed.Especially are dry, warm quarters degirable for a sow and pigs.À cold pig isa dissatisfied pig, and a dissatisfied pig will not eat as it sbould, A thoroughbred or a good grade of hogs should always be kept.Tbe thoroughbreds are the most profitable, and they are so low that it looks like a piece of foolishness ta do without them.If you are skeptical, get a thoroughbred male and cross on your \u2018\u2018elm peclers\u201d and ree if you do not have tbe best bunch of pigs yon ever owned, À little better than scrub care must be awarded them.Our motto should be **the best,\" for indeed the Leet ie none too good for one who lives up to his privileges as n swine breeder.Mind, I say \u201clives up to his privileges,\u201d for it is a privilege to raise hogs as fine as the finest and as good as the best! There are four great breeds of swine, with some others of lesser fame, but perbaps just ns good in their sphere.Tbe Poland-Chinus by mere force of numbers, if for no other reason, come first, with perhaps the Berkshires bold- ing second place.The third in the list of henor is the far famed Chester White, And last, but not least (at least in size), are the Durce-Jerseve.With such a list of notables to choose from, why breed scrubs?Sheep In the South.A writer in The Americen Sheep: Breeder says southern farmers aro gpend- | ing millions of dollars for furtilizers every year, A bulletin publivhed by the United States agricultural department recently shows that a large proportion of theso fertilizers gives no profit and in many cases the money is not recov: EARLY LAMBS.Thelr Care and Feeding, the St.Louis Republic, provision should should have warm, dry quarters, nnd are to be strong aud vigorous, If the best profit is obtained from early Jumbs, they imust muke a rapid growth, so us to be of good size and weight in good season, und they must make n good growth from the start.The ewes that are expected to Jumb should be separated from the rest of the flock aud put in a small pen by themselves.It tho ewes have been fod Iargely on corn, it will be best to lessen the amount of corn and feed a Jittle bran and oilmeal, \u2018This will tend to loosen the bowels and lessen the tendency to fever.See that the lambs suck, Sometimes tho teats get covered with dirt or the wool around the udder gets matted together so that the amb cannot suck.A Jittlo attention in good season will save the lambs.With dry, comfortable quur ters, proper feed sud cars, there should be very little loss of Jumbs, oven in winter.After the lamb sucks well thore is little danger.When a day or two old, they my be turned in with the rest of the ewes and lambs, eed the ewes lightly for a day or two and gradually increase after the milk comes well, It chould be remembered that tho lambs must depend for their support and growth upon the dam's milk, If the ewe is to furnish à sufficient supply of milk to maintain a thrifty growth of the lambs, she must be well fod, and her ration must bs a good milk produe- ing ove.Some corn or cormneal muy be given, but it ehould not be made an ex- olusive ration.Ship stuff and bran with a littlo oil- meal can always be fed to advantage.Oue of the chonpest and best feeds for sheep during the winter is unthrashed outs run through a cutting box, slightly dampened and liberally sprinkled with bran.To wake up a variety feed good clover hay, with bran and cornmeal.Bran is one of the best materials that can be fed with otber materials for the production of milk.It can nearly always be made a part of theeveryday ration of this cluss of animals, Feed Jiberally, giving all that they will eat up clean, Water every day and keep a supply of salt where they can help themselves.When 6 weeks old, the lambs can bo taught to eat by placing n little wbent bran and cornmeal in a trough where they can readily got to it, Increase the quantity as they get accustomed to eating.The ITog\u2019s Ups and Downs.The hog trade just now furnishes another illustration of tbe tendency of American farmers to increase production beyond the line of profit after a period of remunerative prices.It has not been many years since hoge were so low as to be unprofitable.Then we saw hundreds of wncking pigs competing with poultry and game in our city markets, and tbonsands of brood sows in the slaughter pens.There was such a rush to \u201c*stund from under\u2019\u2019 the profitless swine business that prices went even below their legitimate lovel, In a few years this was followed by a violent reaction.The tide turned, and everybody wanted hogs.Brood sows were good property, sucking pigs were too dear to figure in the market, and those who had been most anxioue to get out only a few years before were paying good prices to \u2018got aboard\" again, Now there is another reaction or low tide in the swine industry.Brood sows are being marketed by thousands, Tens of thousands of pigs are sent to market because hogs are Jow and corn is comparatively high.* Hogw don't pay\u2019\u2019 is the seutiizent again, What will bo the result?What hasalways occurred in such affairs is very likely to bappen again, Tha reaction will como sooner or later, The ebb and flow of tho tide of price And production are inevitable.But thero iy a lesson herein for the sagncious mab who can Jnok ahead to tho next turning of the tide.\u2014 National Stock- | man.The soufh For Cntile.Pracllenl Saxuestion In Rexnurd to When early lambs are expected, says be made for them in advance.The ewes be well fed, so ag-to keep in thrifty condition.This is™bcessury if the lambs DANGER OF TIPPLING MODERATE DRINKERS SLOWLY BUT SURELY POISONED.Men Drink For Yenrs Without Ap- pærent Injury, Then Suddenly Col- lapse\u2014The Mind Often Gives Way Without Warning, Recently a man wrote to The Banner of Gold, stating that he reached the age of 60 years und for a porigd of at least 40 years had been in the habit of taking from five to ten drinks of hisky each day without neglecting hip business or noticing any ill effects oy his health from his indulgence and\u2019 aeking Dr.Kueley if he thought it wab advisable to stop a hubit apparently hirmless.Dr.Keeley replied as follows: .Most certainly he should stop drinking.He is poisoning himself just ag certainly ag though he were taking any other poison, such ns lead, into bis system.Theso cases show a great resisting power, but tho resistance will finally be overcome, and if tbo man lives and continues to use alcohol be will eventually sither fill an acknowledged drunkard\u2019s grave or die from the offects of alcohol, although the physician may kindly write the certificate of heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, Bright's disense of the kidney, ste.I have known men wha wero moderate, temperate drinkers for as long a period as 50 years who finally became the most inveterate of drunkards.No.man who uses alcobolio linuors, I care vot how moderately, is safe from the encroachment of the demon or can de termine until the last minute of life whotber or not it ie going to prove stronger than his resisting power.Many 50 termed moderate drinkers will pass along through life without being regarded by their families or tbo community or employers as using spirits to excess, And they are not using them to excess in the common acceptation of the term, yet without n moment's warning or any symptoms that could be determined Leforeband a positive breakdown may occur, The individual's mental perceptions and taeultios may be suddenly pervertad and great confusion or accident result, as in this case related in a recont journal: An engineer, old, tried aod capable, in commercial language, but who used spirits regularly in small quantities every day, failed to soe a danger signal and to slow up bis train nt à dangerous point.As à result\u2014an ucci- dent, ten lives lost, many wounded, tho engineer killed.He was called n tem.porate man, no one bad seen him under the influence of spirits, and yet unaccountably be had run by a danger signal at high speed into a train ahead, which he ordinarily would have seen in time to provent an accident.He was an in- ebrinte, and bis mind failed him at an unexpected moment.A captain of au ocean steamer with helm in hand ran into a ship and sank in midocean without making an effort to save himself or his passengers.He secomed to become ap imbecile at once and lost al) reason and judgment, He was a moderato drinker, and for years had been considered capable, wise and efficient.No one over suspected he had drunk to his injury.In tbe civil war à general ordered a charge which was fatally repulsed, and followed this with an imbecile order to retreat, which by accident only was saved from becoming a disastrous rout.He was replaced, and this act explained as being due to other cause than the renl canse.He was a moderate drinker, never intoxicated, though using spirits daily.He was a man of experience and ability, but died n few years after, an acknowledged inebriate.The mental changes may be much slower und not observable, as in cases where it was not until after a long period of transactions under the deranged couditicn that the true condition of the mind of the inebriate was made manifest: as, for instance, a lawyer nf more than averuge ability who drank for 20 years in so called moderation was found at his death to bave been a dofnuiter und receiver of stolen goods.Another case of a farmer who died at 50 after 30 years of coustant drinking in moderation without exciting tho least suspicion of mental change vas found to have had concealed delusions and to have been a monomabiae fur years I think this statement cannot be sue- ered, but is a total lose.But there never Texas has demonstrated the value of cessfully vontroverted\u2014viz, no moder- wretchul swindle!\u201d \u2014Comice Cuts, 1 TI He\u2014I want to get some blank cartridges.brains out?\u2014Judy.Precautionary, Dusty Doolittle\u2014I see by der pape dat dere's some dangerous countorfeit §100 bills in cirkerlation in dis neigh- borbood.I notice folks seem to watch us closely.Wayside Ways\u2014Let \u2018em watch.Dey won't get any chanst to work any of dat stuff off on us.\u2014 New York Journal.Not nr Swindie.\u201cWhat's this?Put a penny in tho Elot and see the face balonging to your future wife?Oh, I'll have a pennyworth! J piso io THe suet lif arp SEE THE i i FACE \u201c|| BELONGI | vg {OUR FUTURE WIFE \u201cWhy, it\u2019s a looking glass! The Shu\u2014Are you going to blow your was un instance yet known of any loss | the cattle industry for the south and or indeed of the absence « f a good profit, Bow the other southern states aro fol- i ate drinker is perfoctly sound in both mind and body, aud all moderate drink: to any southern farmer in the keeping! of a flack of sheep on his idle lands turned out as old friends to wash and | become gutlied and wasted while lying idle, bare and burning under the son.Idle land is always wasting, just as the idle tine of a man is a wasto'and a Joss.It is guining nothing by the exposure | to the sun and weatuer, and what little of it is covered with weedy grawth gets no benefit.The common practice, ton, of burning the sedge grass on it is stil) more destructive, for it consumes the little vegetable matter that may have been collected in the previous year, aud leaves the bare, scorched ground poorer than it was when cultivation wan abandoned some years before.Range Feeding, The tendency of ranchmen to feed their own Iminkts and wethers at hom) on the produce of irrigated farms shed: a new light on the feeding situation.So strong, indeed, is the present tendency in this direction that within two or three years tbe bulk of the male lamb crop will be fed where raised, and eastern feeders will he compelled to look elsewhere for the millions of Janibe they are accustomed to feed annually east of tho Missouri river, As there is no elsewhere from which to obtain these Jambs in.large supply, there is but one solution of this most serious problem, and that is for the feeders apd their farmer neighbors to raise the lambs tbemeelves, \u2014 Amer'can Sheep Breeder, ak ers are liablo ut any timo to develop conditions of mental aberration that will be a source of dauger either to lowing up the cattle industry wiih the i introductinn of tho improved breeds, ! The whela soutb, with its parpetual | ; ; grass and warm climate, is an ideal | themselves Gr others, There is no safety cattle country, and as the improved | 10 the use of alcoholie liquors in any breeds are introduced prosperity and | Inanner, shapu or form.Success Will follow, Louisiana is going TTT into the cattle raising business on a ; A large scale, They claim there is no One might hastily conclude that the profit in growing cotton ot 4 and 5 decrease of intoxication is duo to tho in- cents per pound.Tho sugar industry is | troduction of beers, but the observation at present their mainstay, but with of experienced men goes to prove that cattle raiting and feeding the state will | there is fur more intemperance from enjoy wealth and happiness.And why | Leer theso days than from the stronger not?The climate of Louisiana is mild, i Irinks.Especially is this {io case among winters are seldom rigorous, grass is women.\u2014Rev, À.P.Doyle, in Catholic plentiful, and the soil all that could be | World.dosired for the Krowing of an abundance of millet, alfalfa, timothy and other ! forage crops.\u2014 Western Live Stuck | Journal.Fnther Doyle an Beer, After the Harvest.When the erimnson's on the ak, and the su mac's flery red; i When the sun his parting kisses gives to sin mm en mer\u2019s glories dead: Sheep Dip, When the Jar, complaining blades of the erst : resplendent green The use of limo and sulphur AE 8.Beem to breathe n requiem to the summer's sheep dip will cure scab, but it is very vanished sheen; injurious to shoep, often killing a great many, especially if they are dipped too | soon after shearing, and to use these in- | And the monarchs of the wood, gaunt, bure, &rcdients asa dip when the woo) is mn Kinuly A display.in tor the I Jong is almost equal to throwing tho Then my hart bt gind again, for the harvest homo is o'er, clip away.And my patient toil's reward is a full and goodly store.When the smuggling sytirrels lide treasure mines of nuts away, What Angorna Are Doinz, President C.P.Bailey nf the Calj- Thus the putumn of a lite, blest in noble .deeds\u2019 employ, fornin Angora Goat Breeders\u2019 associa.Rich reward of wonlth infolds, Christly benu- tion hus sold $8,000 worth of mohair ty, peace and joy, and 88,000 worth of breeding Angoras | And the frost that's on the locks hath its within the past year.He enya there is | floods of mem'ries dear jot ving and reapin H 11 lite\u2019 no danger of an oversupply of mohair Bolen ony.PIRE worthy woll lites for many years to come golden year.time, so gimme back my shirt dat yon got on before I sonk yer.\" \u2014New York Nlee For Mian Prim.\u201c*Tlello, Jerry! Where \u2018ave you loft your best girl?\u2018* \u2018Era ghe js, matey.That's \u2018er.I'm just a-goin to coteh \u2018old of \u2018or.\u201d\u2014 Ally Sloper.A Hold Up.\u201cMugsy, I got de drop op yer dis A \u2014Banner of Gold.Journal, \u2014 NEW YEAR BARGAIN Where true economy begains is sometimes hard to tell.Its pretty f to say, however, that darning old underwear is false economy just now ate have a big stock of Standard Quality Underwear to convert into cash With.the next few days and to move the same I am offerin Special Bargain, Every man who bought these goods at the prices originally marked got he money\u2019s worth\u2014a bargain in fact\u2014and has no reason for complaint if the advancing season causes a sacrifice.le A FEW CONVINCERS.Men\u2019s Ribbed Wool Shirts and Drawers, 38c.former price 50e, Men\u2019s Plain Wool Shirts and Drawers, 35c.former price Sue, Men\u2019e Felt Mittens 8c.former price 121,6, I am also offering Standard Web Goeds at bargain prices.Flannelettes, ; 4e.former price 6c.Twenty pieces American prints 4c.formerly Be, Look at my Crash Toweling, 5c.yd.Ladies\u2019 Linen Collars sic.ench, Ladies\u2019 Jackets.The big thaw has caused a cut in other line worth all {he money ever asked and more too.These garments are the very latest style bought this winter and are made in the most thorough manner from extra beaver cloth.They are not to be compared with the chea shoddy ones offered at lower prices.Considering the quality these are the lowest prices you have seen.Ladies\u2019 $5.00 Jackets now $4.00.Ladies\u2019 6.50 Jackets now 5.00.Ladies\u2019 10.00 Jackets now 8.00.It\u2019s the quality that attracts and the price that sells.Man If you need new clothes don\u2019t let this opportunity slip by you.Just to start you in the new year well and set you to talking about me.| have collected a variety of new Canadian Tweeds and Suitings, some pieces costing as high as $1.25 a yard, piled them up and marked the lot at 50¢.yard.You take your choice.It\u2019s the greatest cloth bargain ever offered.Don\u2019t take my word for it.See the goods.Grab! They were slow sale at $1.50 but they go quick enough with the dollar knocked off.C.H.KATHAN.Everything! ; You know we keep everything.We have all kinds of House Furnishings, Carpets, all grades, Curtains, Curtain Poles, Furniture of all kinds.Very large assortment of ready-to-wear Clothing.\u201cJob\u201d line of Overcoats just to hand.We will give 15 per cent.off balance of Ladies\u2019 Cloth Coats and Mantles and Pattern Dress Goods, for balance of November.This month for Spot Cash and Spot Cash Only.4 gals.Portland W.W, 0il 70c.Lantern Globes 4c.10 * Rolled Oats 23c.A real nice Lantern 35c.Good fast colored Print 4e, Cambric Dress Lining 4c.12 lbs.Soda 25c.We have a real nice line of Ladies\u2019 Blouses for Winter Wear, want a nice article in the way of a Fur Garment we have it.only the good kinds.If vou We want to sell With every cash purchase from 5c.to 825 we will give you tickets, and when you have £25 worth of these tickets you will be entitled to choice of % different articles in quadruple Plated Ware.The articles are composed of Biscuit Jars, Butter Knives, Castors, Fruit Stands, Cake Baskets, &c., &c.Some of the ware is on view in one of our windows.The tickets are given only for spot cash purchases.On a few articles we will issue no tickets.WANTED\u201412 or 15 Fat Hogs weekly for which cash will be paid.PARKER & KNIGHT, HATLEY.GRANITE and MARBLE.We are at all times prepared to offer best in the market in the line of Monuments, Headstones, Makers, Posts, Coping, Etc.Our line of designs are the latest and we can also propose special ideas presented by our customers.We make a Specially of doing work s0 that our potrons may recommend us to others.We quote the lowest prices consistant with the finest qnali- ties.We erect work anywhere.If in need of work in our line drop a card to D.W.MOIR, SON & CO.BLANK BOOKS.WE carry in stock regularly the most complete line of Account Books this side of Montreal.Special Books to order.Give us a chance to quote prices.the buying public the Works at Graniteville, We furnish everything in the way of Stationery.JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Rnck Island, P.Q.Mai \"Kit darin gucce mitte 4 and Mary tone mere! ment the t ars | Fre nv ju tons fail, © comn last 1 ed at ened | the W Mrs lived on th and b but ! were Geo the T some man house peculi bouse get ir nigh arc aly ke he: from foor.farm disap) Wit the T tree to lire was a tite, ler h stoule that hile direct Te ts c soma 5, of à dar tad alter Île fhe w td Int mtifie at on Parks half \u20ac dash An that, dlsord taken, for mu Wits had tad Po a his and w Parks broug dd were Ixkin ws men author from Ing is WALL hil, Par] dr th o wl None Mouse talked ut à Bean The do ne Woune dep : The Place Hene IF Mp ber 2 jeils ang si ary of big Escape Par Fealy Har for 1; howe lads tary Teceiy Quay Uhiteg Patlic dozen Valze Nor trade Suck tera Whig Alam fainte Len, INFUL DEED.Jged Woman Becomes Victim of Burglar.eee pally Pounded and Slashed With Butcher Knife.Maine Town Wrought Up Over the Terrible Crime.\u2018Kittery, Me., Jan.24.\u2014One of the mast daring robberies, and an undoubtedly successful attempt at murder, were ccra- mitted here yesterday afternoon between 4 and 4:30 v'elock, the victim being Mrs, Mary Tarlton, an aged widow, living tone in a small 21 story house on Com- mervial street, a few steps from Government strest, the main thoroughfare of the town, through which the electric tars pass, Fred Parks, 23 years old, who was seen t jump from the window of Mrs.Tarl- wn's lonely house, is locked up in the fil, charged with the crime.The entire community is wild with excitement, and last night, after Parks had been arrest- of at his home, he was openly threatened with lynching as he was led through the wrathful crowd to the jail, Mrs.Tarlton, who is,88 years of age, lived alone in her little house, which is on the river bank, not far from the ferry, and has always lived a quiet life, with but few callers, although her friends were many.George A.Williams was walking along the road yesterday afternoon, when some one told him there was a drunken man in the vicinity of Mrs, Carlton's house, who appeared to be acting rather peculiarly.Willlams hastened to the bouse and tried the door, but could not get in, so he ran across to one of the wighbors for assistance.He had warcely reached the house, which was aly « few hundred yards away, when de heard a crash, and saw Parks leaping fom one of the windows of the first for.Before Williams could give the darm, Parks had ran off up the street, dsappearing into the woods.With neighbors Williams ran back to tie Tarleton house, and, after two or tree ineffectual attempts, managed bohreak in the door of the kitchen.It His à grewsome spectacle that met their tize, for on the foor lay the woman, br head bruised and hattered, her foulders slashed with the butcher knife flat was near her, covered with blood, wile blood was also scattered in every érection.It took some minutes for Williams and tis companions to ascertain that the wman was alive, and when they did % one of their number hastened for iderter, while the others bathed her tad and shoulders.The physician, aller u careful examination, gave but igle hope for Mrs, Tarlton's recovery.Be w ried to a neighboring house, wd every effort was made to revive her.In the meantime the police had been miified, and à searching party was it once organized for the pursuit of Paks, the party starting out within hii an hour after Williams saw him dish off into the woods.An examination of the house showed tat, while everything was in fearful disorder, very littie of value had been ken, although a most thorough search fr money had been made.Within three hours after the police hd been notified of the affair, they ted Parks under arrest.He was found # bis father's house at Spruce Creek, ad was readily given up by the family.Paks was at once handcuffed and brought up to the jail, but a great crowd bd collected, and all sorts of threats Yere made, while his captors were un- king the jail door.Once inside, he ws locked in a cell, while two policemen were stationed as guards.The s do not expect any trouble izens, although popular feel- lgisat# white heat.He will be taken tre today, and lodged in the county il, Parks was apparently somewhat un- dr the influence of liquor, and a bottle # whiskey was found in his pocket.None of the articles from the Tariton Mise were found in his clothing.He ked hut Jittle regarding the affair, Ut did not deny that he committed the Gsault, The physicians attending Mrs, Tarlton & not eXpeei her to survive, as her ¥unds, espectally about the head, are ep and of a most ghastly nature.The room where the encounter took Pace gave every evidence of heing the Sène of à fierce struggle, and apparent- I Mrs, Pariton did not succumb until her head had been pounded almost into tilly, and her shoulders and arms cut and slashed as if by a butcher.Nearly SY part of the room showed Spots blond, and even the celing did not \u201cape being spattered.Parks, who is 23 years of age, has al- \"iy served time for other offenses.Twelve Short.Harrisburg, Jan, 24.\u2014The fifth ballot or United States senator yesterday towed no change.Senator Quay still is With 12 vutes short of the neces- IY number to elect, A.B.Widener \"eeived twa votes yesterday from antl- ai members, The Democrats are still te on Jenks and the anti-Quay Re- leans are divided between half a bu candidates, with Congressman ze) of Pittsburg the favorite.Frightened to Death, truc hampton, Mass, Jan.24 \u2014Ger- tue Walsh, 17, employed in the Non- ein Silk mill, died of heart failure yes- nd morning, resulting from fright.Bla dressing to go to work she upset tinier and set fire to her room.She wy, nd never recovered conucious- She was not burned.PLEA, NOT GUILTY.Court Martial of Eagan Begun Promptly on Time.STATEMENT BY EAGAN\u2019S COUNSEL, Court Takes Recess to Pay Respucts to the President\u2014It Is Alde Photographed.Mrjor ills Is First Witness\u2014General MeCook Also Heard\u2014Languige Quoted Admitted to I3e Correct.\u2018Washington, Jan, 25.\u2014The board of army officers designated by the secretary of war to sit as a court martial in the case of Brigadier General Charles P.Ilagan, commissary general of subsist ence, charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and with conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in connection with his testimony before the war investigating committee, met in the parlor of the EBbitt house at 10 o'clock this morning and almost immediately proceeded to the business in hand.The court consisted of Major General Wesley Merritt, U.8.A.; Major General James F.Wade, U.8.V.; Major Generul M, C.Butler, U.8.V.; Major General 8S.B.M.Young, U.8.V.; Brigadier General Royal T.Frank, U.S.V.; Brigadier General George M.Randall, U.8.V.; Grigadier General Jacob Kline, U.8.V.; Brigadier General Comba, U.8, V.; Col- vnel Peter C.Hains, corps of engineers; Colonel George L.Gillespie, corps of engineers; Colonel Charles KR.Suter, corps of engineers: Colonel Francis lL.Guen- ther, Fourth artillery; Lieutenant Colonel George B.Davis, deputy judge advocate generul, judge advocate of the court.The members of the court, who appeared in full dress uniform, were seated about a long table placed lengthwise $f the room.General Merritt, the presi- dént of the court, occupying the seat at the head., At just 10 o'clock Colonel Davis called the roll of the court, all of the members responding to their names.As he concluded General Eagan appeared with his counsel, Mr.A, 8.Worthington, formerly United States district attorney tor the District of Columbia, and took seats near the judge advocate at the foot uf the table.General Eagan also wore the dress uniform of his rank.Almost immediately Colonel Davis arose and introduced General Eagan and his counsel, and then proceeded to read the order convening the court.The judge advocate when this was concluded, turned to General Eagan and inquired whether he objected tu any of the members of the court as designated by the order.General Eagan replied, I do not.\u201d The members of the court then arose and took the usual oath, which was administered by Colonel Davis.The charges and specifications were then read.During these preliminary proceedings General Kagan exhibited no signs of nervousness, but the expression of his face and his manner clearly indicated that he realized that the trial invoived consequences to him of the gravest character.While he stood listening to the charges and specifications his face seamed somewhat paler than usual.Al the conclusion of the reading on being requested tu plead to the specification to the first charge, he said: © not denying, however, that the specifteations set forth correctly a part of the linguage used.\u201d | To the specification to the second charge he pleaded \u201cNot guilty: not denying, bowever, that the specification sets forth correctly a part of the lan- Buage used.\u201d The judge advocate then arose and suid that the case in hand was a peculiar one, but presented ne unusual dithcultios, The accused had seen fit to add to his pica of not guilty sume words tending to qualify it, but he did not think the plea relieved the court from the necessity of proving the facts alleged, Judge Worthington responded briefly and expluined why the qualifying words had been used upon his recommendation.The specifications did the accused a great injustice in that it selected particular expressions without giving the context, and in one or more instances the specifications quoted beginning in ile middle of the sentence.Continuing, Mr.Werthington said that he desired to state briefly to the sourt the substance of General Eazan'e: defense.Whatever the court may think of the propriety of the language used by Geniral Kagan before the war investi- galing committee, there was no doubt in his (Worthington's) mind that he wus fully protected in using that language by the laws of the land.In nu court, civil or military.he said.could the accused be held accountable for his language even if it could be shown that the speakyr was actuated by malice.In addition to this, the president of the United States had instructed the war investi- galing commission to announce pub- Hely that witnesses before that tribunal would be given immunity for whatever they might testify to.This was a solemn promise given by the president of the United States, and counsel had no doubt that the court would find that General Eagan could not under these cireumstances be held to answer to a military court martial fer his language.General Miles, he said.Yad appeared hefore the committee 1 bout three weeks before General Fagan had made his statement, and on that occasion had made most serious and sweeping charges against many of his subordinates, and particularly against General Fagan and the commissary de- parment of the army.He had charged General Fagan with being incompetent ang neglectful of his duties, and had inferentia:ly charged him, Genera) Eagan, with issuing poi- goned meat to the soldiers of the army and had averred that many had died in consequence.He had also implled that General Eagan was acting corruptly in the matter.Immediately upon reading the testimony given by General Miles, General Fagan went to the secretäry of war and asked leave to bring charges against him.General Alger replied that under the president's order of immunity 3eneral Miles could not be held respor- sible for his language before the com, mission, The newspapers then took it up and goaded General Eagan almost to desperation.He had come :o believe that the press and the country at large had accepted the accusations made by General Miles as true, and the condition of his mind In consequence grew worse and worse until he was in a state bordering on distraction.\u2018The language which General Eagan used under these circumstances was the natural outburst of an honest mun suffering under an un- Just accusation, In closing Judge Worthington sa!d that General Eagan could not be held accountable for his language before any tribunal in thgs country, civil or military, and particularly under the president's order of immunity.AL 10.50 o'clock word came from the White House that the president would receive the members of the court between 11 and 12 o'clock.Thereupon General Merritt announced that the court would tuke a recess for the purpose of paying their respects to the president of the United States.On reassembling at 11.30 o'clock a few minutes was given a photographer in which to take a picture of the court, and then Major 8.C.Mis was called tu testify on behalf of the government.He said he was the recorder of the war investigating commission and was present and heard General Eagan's testimony before the commission.The manner of General Kagan in giving his testimony, he said, was that of a man laboring under great excitement, but trying to control his excitement.Witness had charge of the typewritten testimony given by General lagan, and had delivered the same to General Dodge ut his hotel, Subsequently the witness had returned the paper to Genera! Eagan with a letter from the commission declining to receive it in its present condition.He recalled some of the words used by General Kagan in his testimony which agreed substantially with the phraseology used in the specifications.The witness was shown a copy of the specifications and identified the language there quoted us having been used by General Eagan, Judge Worthington interrupted to & \u2018hat General Sagan did not deny the language quoted, and had not the original statement been destroyed after the ob- jectionahle words had been expunged lie would willingly produce it here.Major General McCook, retired, a member of the war investigating commission, was the next witness, He was present and heard a part of General a- gan's testimony before the commission, \u201cThe impression I had,\u201d he said, \u201cwas that General Eagan must be laboring under great nervous excitement,\u201d He recalled some of the language used and it agreed substantially with the testimony as published.He was shown \u2018a copy of the specifications and identified some of the language as having beer used by General Eagan, At 2 o'clock the court adjourned untii 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.SOUVLANIR HALE DOLLACS, Lafayette Memorial Commission Desires the Government to Coin Them, Chicago, Jan.25\u2014The Lafayette memorial vommission Will ask congress to have its monument appropriation in the form of 100,000 souvenir half douar pieces, The members of the commission say that the comyaratively small number to be minted and the international importance of the occasion will give these coins a value, which with the money on hand and to come from other sources, will give the commission $150,000, the sun fixed upon as necessary Lo seetura à suitable monument.The treasurer of the commission, Comptroller Dawes, has already on hand neur- Iv $50,000 from the subscriptions of the school children, and- more is expretod from this source, Last week another project was started from which good results ave antici pated, Tt wis in the shape of cireu lettops addressed to all (he postmis of the county, in which they wore avkeal to use their intiuence to arrange entertainments in their cites or neighbors hoods, the net receipts to go to the memorial fund.As there are over 730m Postmazsters, it is thought $30,000 will be secured in this way, 1f these plans sue- ceed, it Wil be necessary to ask the government for tot more than $60,000.The souvenir coins Would vost the government about $25,000 and the cost of minting.The commission intends to make the coins as artistic ag possible.They will probably contain a mine iature of the Lafayette statue on one side and on the other a symholical inscription.Some of the commissioners are confident they will average $1 each.The dedication of the monument is expected to be one of the most impressive events of the exposition, The ceremony will take place on Ju 1909, \u201cAmerican Day\u201d at the exposition.Thirty thousand French soldiers will participate in the preliminary parade and the dedicatory éxercires, American soldiers and marines will be present aiso, it is Said, as well as all the American am- h, adors in Europe, During Lhe exercises there will be enfuried from the apex of the monument the largest Ameri can flag ever made.MEXICO SHAKE, Recent Ear Vgike the Most Severe Knnwn In the Country's History, Chicago, Jan.25.\u2014A special to The Record trom the City of Mexico says: In point nf duration the carthquake last evening was the severest ever known in the history of Mexico.The movement Legan in the City of Mexivu at exantly nine minutes past 3 o'clock.The oscil- lutions were from northeast to southwest and lasted one minitte and 56 seconds.Three nunutes later à conspanion khock, which lusted five seconds, also tseillating northwest and southeast, Che movement made a perfect ergss, The earthquake was universally felt over the entire republic, and it had a general movement from the Pacific to the Atlantic.It reached Colima at seven minutes past 5 o'clock.osciilating from east to west.It lasted one minute and i seconds, Jt reached Vera Cruz 18 minutes pazt 5, and the vibrations were from south to north, lasting 16 seconds.Many houses were eracked in this city.Some were entirely ruined.Fully adoz- len walls were crushed and broken in the national palace.A two-foot iren pipe carrying water from Chapultepac to the city was broken in seven places.Intense cold and other phenomena followed, JUSTICE WILLIAMS DEAD, Philadelphia, Jan.26.\u2014Justice Henry W.Willlams of the supreme court of Pennsylvania died suddenly this morn- Ing in his room at the Continental hotel.Heart diseaze was the cause of his death.PATTI IS MARRIED.World's Noted Singer Is Now Baroness Cederstrom, CEREMONY PERFORMED AT BRECON Roman Catholic Was Decorated\u2014Forimer Lord Mayor of Lon- Church Spec'atiy don Guve the Bride Away \u2014Weo-ldiog Breakfast S.gved ou Train That Touk Happy Fair so Londen, London, Jan.25\u2014Adelina Patti, the singer, wus Brecon, Wales, to Baron Cederstrom, director of the health gymnastic tnsti- tute here.Madame Patti took a train from Craig- ÿ-Nos, here residence, te Lirecon, which was pretty decorated for the occasion, The bund uf the South Wales Borderers met fhe party at the station and with the fire brigade and police, headed Ly \u2014 ADELINA PATTI.the town banner and the mace hearers, escorted the wedding party, in five landaus, to the Roman Catholic church, which had been specially decorated, Sir George Faudel Phillips, fermer lord mayor of London, gave Patti awuy.The Bervice was very short.Baron and Baroness Cedersirom emerged from the church at 11 o'clock, entered a carriage, the procession was reformed, and the bride and groom proceeded to the railroad station and started for London.They received an ovation.The wedding breakfast was served on beard the train, which was composed of the speclal corridor cars buitt for the Prince of Wales, Mme.Patti was married in a traveling dress of dove-volered satin, embroidered with steel, with a hadlee of pale gray and a bonnet trimmed with mauve orchids, Hor traveling cape, which matehed her dress, was ornamented with a design of true lover's knots, The procession tn the chureh and returning to the station passed under several triumphal arches bearing inserip- tions iu honor of the bride, The strects Were thronged with people, and the chureh s vrowded with invited guests, The iding party will reach Lomdon Lite this afternoon.The bride and groom will start tomorrow for the south of TFranceswhere they will spend the hotiey- moon.(Y MOTOR President Ackorman Says Mocens Di ev.tres Are of No sigquafitance.New York, Jan.\u2014B., Le Ackerman, president of the Kerley Motor company, has issue] a statement on behind! of his board of dircetors,reaflivining thelr faith in the dead inventor and utterly denying that the recent alleged discoveries in Nesley\"s workshop aré of any signifie- ance.The recently published statements in this connection contained the finding of a steel sphere and metallic tubes that apparently had heen concealed in juxti- position to Féeley's motor, From thes the deduction was drawn that Kee power consiste simply in conipre air secretly conveyed through these tubes, and that Keeley, instead of being the discoverer of a new foree, had ree sorted to a subterfuge to deceive, Further, electric Wires were found and sere suid to indicate that Keeley had also ree sorted to electricity to make his theory of vibrations seem practicable, Mr.Ackerman states that the sphere and metalic tubes were simply pieces of machinery connected with an altogether different device abandoned by Keeley in 1 that the existence of these tubes ete, TH KI ! married this morning at TRUTH ABOUT ALCOHOL.ilighest Scientific Authorities Pronounce It I'olaon.The civilize nations of the earth are putting cause und effect together on the alcobol question as never befors.In France, Switzerland and Belgium the iuoreasing use of alcohol is recognized ng the cause of à physioul decline in stature that is filling those natious with alarm for their future.Close investiga: tion is proving to the kaiser thot tho per cent of the endurance of thu total nbstaiver und economists are onlling attention to the bad effects that increne- ing drivk habits are baviug upon German iudustrios.The young czar of Rue- sin.nlurmed at the inronds which he sees alcohol making upon his army and people, iu striving to stam the tide.Thoughtful Englishmen are saying that Britain's greatest enemy is alcohol.In our own country its effects upon our soldiers in home camps nud on the field bave been mudo sadly evident to the American poopla.The troth againet al cobol is out.Everything that its advocates can guy in ite favor is controverted by the strongest scientific authoritivs of the world, who pronounce it a poison\u2014 the genius of degeneracy.Nothing cun | hide this truth from the pooplu and! their children whose heritage it is.The per capita consamption cf alcohol has begun to decline in this conntry, nltbough ita consumption is increasing in other nations.The New York Medie- al Record puts this declive during tho Inst tem years ut 30 per cent.Prior to that time there was na continual in- erenso.During those years somo of our probibitory laws have been repealed, | others have been weakened.loss vather than more temperance platform work bas been dono and moro than 4,000,000 people have como to us from foreign Junds, bringing with them the alcoholic habits of the old world, In the face of ull theso unfavorable conditions why has the por capita consumption of aleohol in this country de- cronsed during this timo while previously it increased?Our English friends aro doing as mucb church, socioty and Bund of Hopo work ns we, and perhaps more, yet England's drink bill fur 1897 ran up to $16,500,000 more than that of th precoding year.The ouly new feature introduced into ! tomperanco work in this country during tho past ten years so generally us to touch all sections, and tho only method of himportance in which our temperance work differs from that of England, is that of temperance education in tho publio schools.It ie this which is got- ting tho truth tothe people so generally ay already to bear fruit.Jt is this which is laying the foundation for tho intel ligent sobriety of the future American, Wo would not for a moment question the valu of other temperance efforts which have helped to securo these results, but the figures show that such eflorts withont temperance education wWero inadequate to praduce this duclino.\u2014Mrs, Mary H.Hunt.BRUTALITY OF RUM.Medien] Authority on Debaxing Influence, The brutality of muny of the acts! which ocenpy tho time of aur coroners | amd our Law courts is becoming serious, | lé is quite à special featurs of the tune, | We are spending ten or «lovén millions Mizhest tn | | | | | ! | | {ordinary penalties of law.it yeur over popular education, yet every day's newspaper reports some deod which is stoply brutal in its Courseness und ils canselessness.It does not rep, resent anything deeply malicious in the criminal, but in its vulgarity and Lru- tality itis exceptional and disereditalle, Opimun is divided as to the exact explanation of such a state of things at tho end of u century unprecedented for : its Ftrides in knowledge, in science and ; in civilization, Jt defies Jaw and tho Politicians, Lmoralists and sociologists aro apparently | i i ( helpless to control it, I * #* The in-| variable eloment in all such brutal acts ; is alcohol, \u2014 London Laneaot, Rum Naot aT nie, A tonic is defined as a remedy which improves \u201cappetite, digestion, assimilation nnd secretion, strengthens the cir- culutory apparatus, improves the cam- position of the blood, invigorates the muscular system and promotes the nutri.| tion of nerve centers and fibers.\u201d Wa have found that the presence of aleohol Û ; ; oi were fully known Lo the directors | Tétards digestion, oud of the causes of | of the company and to scientists uot retarded digestion mentioned by Yeo | financially interested in Keeley: that the recently published wate ments revenle | gastric nothing to those who had investi money in Keeley's ideas; two, \u2018\u201ccongestion and anæmin of the ! inucous membrano (both of | which interfere with the free secretion | | that compressed air j of the gastric juice) and certain morbid had or has no part in the Keeley motor, ! states of the nervong system,\u2019 are given and that to compress air to pressure that would he serviceable, powerful and complicated machinery would have been required, \u2018none of which,\u201d says Mr.Ackerman, \u2018ever existed at any time in Kocley's place.\u201d i | ! F | digestion, | blond, weaksns assimilation a cougestion, then prominence.Alcohol always causes first an snimia of the mucous membrane and hence will impair and cireu- The clectric wires found were, he main- ; lation, ag well ne the muecular system tains, simply the remnants of a burglar | and the nutrition of the nerve centers, alarm.A CIRCULAR MIST Washington, Jan.25\u2014A su~1 on the first of the year by the post- office deparfinent, stated that Liepes $400 a year would be allowed a minil « or- riev in the free rural delivery districts NDERSTOOD, few free rural delivery carriers, Letters have been received at the department from carriers in the regular service thanking them for the increuse of Balary.ONLY Lost THE RUDDER.circular, ig- New York.Jan.25.\u2014The Norwich line | steamer Rhode Island, the rocks at Hell Gate last evening, wag floated early this morning and taken to ! a nearby dock.She lost her rudder, | but it is believed that she suffered nn amination.THE WEATHER FORECAST.Fair and cooler; northwesterly gales.which went on! ' cohol will be iucladud under the bend of narcotics and anmsthetics, for, on account of its paralyzing influence, all another serious damage.The steamer wili \u2018 $borities admit its narcotic effect, and be placed in dry dock for a thorough ex- {indeed Dr.Bartholow, in his work on that bead, and no one will for a mo- | ment deny that aloobol is a decided Washington, Jan.25.\u2014New England\u2014 nix may.Dre Pin Darcos in I Therefore, the position that slecobal can ever bua tonic is untenable.\u2014Kxchavge, ! | ; i It poisons or vitiates the | | | F 4 + Whisky Deprenuen, ! The apparent exhilaration sud stimu- y lation produced by alcohol are undonbt- | tdly due to its first action\u2014that of an ; .irritant\u2014and last for a short time only, | Carriers who use horses have misunder- tnd are quickly followed by depression stood the circular and think it applies due to its paralyzing juflaeuce.A sting to yhem, when it only pertains to a very ulant \u201cinvigorates the functions of th.lungs and heart\u2019 and \u2018promotes secre- ition and nutrition.\u2019 \u201cthat alcohol impairs lang and heart ac- (tion, and by vitisting the blood inter- !teres With nutrition, and bence is not a \u2018ttimulant in the true senso, But we have seen Aleohol am a Narcotic, We can safely say, however, that al- \u2018Therapeutics,\u2019\u201d treats of alcohol under ; 60mo of the Christinn YOUTHS\u2019 DEPARTMENT.The First Christmas Celebration In America-Treated Like Pet Mon- Xeys\u2014Tadpole and Frog.On 8aturgay, Dec.29, 1489, Obristo- : pher Columbus raceived a visit from a large number of the nativeé of Cuba.These pooplo were sent ns the mossen- gers of the gruvd chiof Guacanagari, who lived in a large town of native ui , 10.built houres.beer driukiug soldier bar only about 80 | rand Riviero.The town ja now called Thess messengers brought gifts nnd an invitation to the white men of bonven to enter their village.The gifts were a broad belt, made of beads and bones, and a wooden mask with eyes, nose and tongue of gold.The lack of a good wind prevented the ship sailing to the village, but Co- Jumbus sent many men in small boats to return to the village with tbe natives, The glowing accounts of their reception, of the kindnoss of the natives and of their wealth onnsed Columbus to have the ship thoronghly cleaned on Monday, rendy to sail on Tuesday, Christmns duy, 1402, to celobrato with becoming splondor tho first Christmas day in America and show the natives rites and cere.monics.Thera was also to be mado na large distribution of gifts by Qolumbus.Tho wonther wna like April in the north, I'he birds sang ull day, and some were heard at night.The kind disposition of the natives, the tropienl vordure and tho balmy skies all sesmed nuspi- clous of à wonderful first Christians celebration, On Christmas ove, 1492, the brave Admiral Christopher Columbus, wonu- riod with the extra cares of tho day and the loss of all rest for two days and n night, left his ship in the care of the steersman and went to eleep.The per- feot cnlm of the ren nnd the knowledge of the friendship of the natives gave him his first roal freedom from caro for months.But, like Ulysses of old, Columbus bad à rude awakesing.Tho steersman who was left in charge was also weary and went to sleep, lenving the belm in charge of an apprentice, who was only a lad.This was in dircet disobodiouge of Columbus\" ordurs.In a short timo the wholo crew was asloop, leaving tho ship Santn Maria, with her precious freight of livos, wholly in tho charge of a young boy.Tho treacherous undercurrents which run swiftly along the const carried tho vensol quietly bot with torrifio forco upon a sand bank.Tho bronkers ronred, but the hocdless boy did not know thoir warning, When the rudder struck, ho called for nid, but then it was too late, Columbus wua the first to waken, He ordered tho master and his crew to oar- ry an anchor out astorn, The men and their master sprang into the boat and rowod for the Nina, a mile and a halt away.The commander of the Nina mado (bo men return, but it waa too late.Christmas morning raw the Santa Marin n wreck npon à sand bar.The purfect calm of the sen permitted tho renioval of the men With no loss of life.The grand ehief, Cuuennagari, came with his poople and assisted in the ro- moval of alfarticles from the chip and bad them placed near bis own house.À guard kept them safe.Not tho moat trifling thing way stolen, \u2018The chief and natives expressed their sympathy by signs and does and showed the Span- farde their hamanity and love, Thus the first Christmas day was epent in a far different manner from whut Columbus intended, but still in union with the kindly natives of Colin, \u2014Mury Catherine Judd in Schosl du - cator.Troonted Like Pot Monkeys.The \u2018\u2018Threo Lite Spanish Princesses\u201d of several centurion ago, of whom Isabel M.MeDoogall writes in St, Nicholas, scem to bave had n rather tirerome time of it, even if the great Velasquez did pint their portraits.| There were almost no fairy tales or story books.Spanish princesses did not read neh in those duys, Thers were no guch things ns jolly games, or even informal walks, or spending the day nt other girls\u2019 howees.Morin Thorces\u2019s prinepinl exercise wan in those very dancer and reverential bendings, Her principal entertalnment was in the un couth antics of court fonls and dwarfs, Fools, or jesters, used to bo kept at ay- ery court to make jokes, and the Spanish court kept more of them than any other, perhaps because it was the gravest.Dwarfy, idiots snd deformed persons were also brought there in large numbers.Many of them, according to their portraits, wers hideous, and many looked ill tempered and unhappy, which is hardly to be wondered at in human beings treated like pet monkeys, It gsecms to us nowadays à strange taste that surrounded children of high rank with such unfortunate creatures, No Wonder She Cried.\u201cWhy, Clara,\u201d said a mother to her little daughter, who was crying, **what are you crying about?\u2019 \u201c$ \u2019C-canse,\u2019\u2019 sobbed the little miss, Le started to m-make dolly a b-bounet aud it c-comed out bh-bloomers, The Tadpole and the Frex.A frog upon a river bank Once rested from the hunt; The recds stood round him tali and lank, The river flowed in front, But scarceiy had his eyelid drooped When, at the river brink, A tadpole rose.The froggle stooped And sald, \u201cYou called, | think?\u201d \u201cJ rome.\u201d the tadpole shyly sald, \u201cTo ask if it ia true That when a little time hax sped A tadpole grows like you?It fills my heart with grief and fear Each morning In the hog To think that I, a tadpole here, Bhould grow to be a frog.\u201d The frog's eyes opened very wide, He stared and could not speak.He felt the pain of wounder pride And showed it on his cheek, Then panted out with proper scorn, As any frog would do, \u2018*To think \u201chat ! was ever born A tadpale just like you!\" A ae TE One y if pe At'KNELT ON THE LAKE HURON'S DECK - ==SSIAN PILGRIMS, THR Theusand at Halifax.on Their Way to Weslern Canada.And Offered Thanks For Their Safe Journey.Halifax.Jan.21.\u2014Since the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock few more interesting eapeditions arrived on the American continent than that brought by the stenmer Lake Huron to this port yesterday.The Lake Huron brought over 2000 men, women and children of the Quaker tribe of the Doukhohortsi from the shores of the Black sea.These 2000 are the advance guard of the colony of 10,000 Which is to settle in the Canadian Northwest, Like the Pilgrim Pathers.these poor Russian Quakers come to the American continent to seek civil and religious liberty.They have heen persecuted for years, because thelr principles will not allow them to comply with certain government regulations, and finally they decided to leave their native land and settle in the new world.\" It was a wonderfully impressive sight when the steamer entered the harbor yesterday, and the poor immigrants, gladdened by the sight of whut was to them a promised land, fell on their knees on the deck, and men, women and children joined in a hymn of thanksgiving.Shortly afterwards Russian Prince Hilkoff came on board, and again the immigrants broke into a hymn of praise, When the ship came to an anchor the Roukhobers gazed with interest at their surroundings.They were mainly undemonstrative and stolid in appearance.They se:med comfortable and showed pleasure at their safe arrival.The immigrants wear skin garments and caps.Mr.Elkinton of Phlladelphia and other Quakers who received them wore the broad-brimmed hats peculiar to their sect, The latter wept with emotion, and as their boat approached the side of the big steamer they called to the people leaning over the rail, \u201cWelcome Douk- honors.At the head of the gungway the scene was affecting.The Immigrants recognized Prince Hilkoff and crowded around him, all eager to hear him speak and to kigs him.The striking feature was the psalm chanting and the solemn service, The former commenced hy the passengers themselves as the ship slowly came to anchor, The singing wis strong in Volume and remarkably plaintive, It was interrupted by the prince's advent on board and gave place to divine sarvice conducted by Bl- Kkinton, who with streaming eyes and face raised to the blue sky and out- etretched arms seemed deeply moved, This service consisted of prayer and supplication.Everybody uncovered, notwithstanding the chilly atmosphere.The singing of the hymn was then resumed.The burden of the chant as translated from Russian by Prince Hilkoff was, \u201cGodils With Us; He Has Brought Us Through.\u201d The Lake Huron left Batoun on Dec.22, and since leaving Gibraltar the steamer met some very rough weather, On account of the great crowd on hoard, there was considerable suffering.and it 18 doubtless because of this fact that no less than 10 Infants died on the voyage.Outside of this, however, the passengers are remarkably free from contagion.There is one case of measles on board, but It has been isolated.The Canadian government has expended great efforts in making every pro- Vision to ensure their comfort, and in arranging to expeditiously transport them to their homes in Manitoba, and the Canadian northwest.The Doukhobortsl will be forwarded fn six train loads to Winnipeg, Brandon and Portage la Prairie, where unsettled land has been allotted to them.At these places the Canadian government has already laid in large quantities of supplies, for, although the government had nothing to do with the roming of the immigrants to Canada, they are anxious to give them a proper reception In the country which they have chosen to adopt.As the Doukhobortet are vegetarinns, large quantities of vegetubles have bean provided at the various stations where they wlll settle.The arrangements for the sea migration of the Doukhobartst were made Ly the Society of Friends in England.They engaged the Elder Dempster linc steamers to carry them to St.John, and the Canadian Pacific rafiway to transport them westward to Manitoba and the northwest territories, A committee, consisting of Prince Hil- koff of Russia and three Winnipeg government officials, have charge of this people in Canada.Grip Relaxes ite Hold on London\u2014Pres- ident Iglesais Honored by the Qneen\u2014 Czar's Scheme\u2014Financial Sensation.London, Jan.22.\u2014Judging from the official returns, London might, just now, be successfully boomed as a winter health resort.Influenza has relaxed its grip here and the total number of deaths last week was only 1568, being over i00 daily below tne average rate uf mortality, and being 10 per 10m below the normal rate of the past decade.As a result the unueriakers are bitterly complaining of the sglackness of trade.It i8 announced that Queen Victoria will hold the itisc drav.ing room of the season on Feb.z4, tn person.The ceremony will be very ful, at.ended.The queen paid President Kafael Igle- Slas of Creta Mica a delicate attention on his recent visit to her at Osborne house, Isle of Wight, speaking to him partly in Spanish.President Iglesias lunched with the directors of the bank of England.He \u201c- fntends tu stay here nearly a month.Vanity Fair this week publigtes an interesting article on the change which Has taken place in society of late years, Owing to the Introduction of what [s \u2018known as the money element.It says: The great people of today do not entertain as formerly.They don't care to compete with the millionaire brewer, the Jew financier or the American, whose cunicerts or parties often cost £5000 and even more.A quarter of a century ago all the great houses were regularly thrown open each geason.Now It is the exception when big houses entertain, Another unfortunate phase has made its appearance in a certain set, J.e., for a soclety aspirant to get a great lady to ask the guests to her party and thus give her a start.Of course a very handsome douceur is given the lady for doing so, The Infanta Eulalia, aunt of the king of Spaln, is visiting England.She was the guest of the Prince and Princess of Wales ut Sandringham this week.Kven warm supporters of the czar's peace appeal! are astounded at the un- feasibillty of several items which, according to the circular of the Russian minister of foveign affairs, Count Mura- vieff, published this week, will be submitted to the congress, and they predict a fiasco for that part of the program which includes proposals to veto the use of any new weapon or explosives, to place 4 restriction upon the use of existing high explosives and to pul a veto upon submarine boats and rams.All thege yroposalz are regarded as simply impracticalle, The idea vf the exclusion ui the use of submarine boats is scouted in France, where the alleged success of the Gustave \u201cede has caused a great elation and has conjured up visions of terrible havoc among the British ironclads in case of war, and the French papers call for the creation of a swarm of submarine boats, One paper, The Matin, of Paris, started a subscription ta huilil à second Gustave Zede, and the scheme has been enthuslastically taken up.Tie sum of 126,708 frances had been subscribed when this dispatch was sent.The British naval authoritivs, hows ever, do nat seem to bo seriously alarmed by the French invention, which, they claim, has not yet solved the difficulty af direc & à course under water.They say that, an the contrary, in order to fire torpedoes successfully submarine boats need tu rise to the surface.It iz persist- entiy ailegod, moreaver, that in spite of the glowing reports sent to the French press, the French naval aulhorities are not yet satisfied, and that experiments lasting several more snonths, to test various mediiientions, will have to be made before they are justified in building a number of these boats, A great sensation has been caused in financial circles by a gross blunder In the announcement of the dividend of the Southeastern railroad, which, on Monday, was given as 64.On Thursday, it was anncunced that owing to a mistake of the accountants, the dividend should have been 6%.Mnay holders, however, on the first announcement, disappointed at the poor dividend, sold their stock at 108.Thon a strange undercurrent of buying set tn, which was explained by a Jump in the stock to 112%, when the correction of the dividend was published.People are now asking who were the mysterious buyers who were aware of the blunder and who made nearly 5 per cent on the transaction.There are ugly rumors afloat, and the matter is regarded as scandalous.As an outcome of strong representations on the suhject, the Stock Exchange committee hag decided to fully investigate the matter.The directors of the company are acquitted of blame, but every joblLer will be required to produce his books and dis- cloge the names of clients who purchased Southeasterns between the two announcements, The question of overcrowding street cars has become quite \u2018as acute here as in American cities.Rieaches of the police regulations, however, had such proportions that the authorities have decided upon heroic measures.They have organized a systematic overhaul of all the main routes, with the result that the curious spectacle was presented this week of street cars loaded with city men being held up and raided, one after another, by bodies of police, who also took the names and addresses of the passen- gery standing, with the view of taking proceedings against the company, The leading organ of the army, The Broad Arrow, published an article this week which has given a shock to people here, who have lifted up their hands in plous horror a® the French military short comings, as revealed by the Dreyfus affair.The Broad Arrow drew an analogy between the system of the confidential reports of the Fritish army and the French secret dossiers, ad says the British system is a \"\u201cgrievous hiat on the military administration, whieh results in confidential reports being in many cases a more travesty of justice,\u201d Ths Broad Arrow explains that commanding officers are enipowered to make reports which reflect on junior officers and influence the war office in its sclec- tions, for promotion, without the suffer- ors being Inforinud of the reasous, and says: \u201cThe efleets of prejudiced reports are often most disastrous to the nfficers\u2019 prospects.\u201d La Chose Jugee is regarded az a fetish.A particular case In point aus been thus far smothered: hut we are .nformed that the facts will sooner or later be published in the press, which will not rave a doubt that flagrant in- Justice has actually been committed, The secret archives of the war department could tell tales of careers blasted an ab- colutely unreliable evidence, contradictory proof of which hag been in the hands of the authorities, who, in order toavold a scandal, resisted all endeavors upon the part of the victim for a fair ir.- vestigation, Advices from Copenhagen say that the Duke of Abruzzi.a nephew of the King of Italy.Is shortly expected there, to per- gonaliy superintend the preparations for his North Dole expedition.He will gail during the gummer for Spi(zbergen, will pass the winter In Franz Josef Land, and hopea to reach the North Pole, by dog «leds, i August, 1960.The expadi- tion will cost about £/0,000, most of which has been subscribed by King Humbert.It ie a soher truth tbat people whn live only to amuse themselves work barder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread, \u2014 Mannab More.In the sixteenth centory fencere held the sword iu their right hand avd a dagger in the left to ward off blows.An Expert, \u201cDo you carve?\u2019 \u201c1 should eay I did)\" \u2018And what are your specialties?\u2019 \u201c\u2018Savgage and omelets.\" \u2014Claveland -2lain Dealer, t :GOMEZSTILLGROWLING Bees No Necessity Fur Presence of American Troops In Cuba.Pleads With B8paniards to Unite With Him.\u2014\u2014y Old Enem'es Evidently inclined to View the Maiter Favorably.Remedios, Cuba, Jan.24.\u2014Cenecral Maximo Gomez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban army, has withdrawn to this part of the island.As previously cabled, he was not invited to be present at the evacuation ceremonies ut Hevana on Jun, 1, and he is now here nursing his feelings of alleged Injury, sustnined at the hands of the United States.He has been receiving the adulations of the Cuban populace of the various towns through which he has passed, General Gomez arrived here last week, and the town was decorated with several triumphant arches.At Caibarien, which the general entered lust Sunday, there was a repetition of the same ovation, and a breakfast was tendered the general by the Cuban clement of the seaport.After this meal the general met a number of prominent Spaniards of I Cuivurien, and addressed them in tis wise: \u2018\u201cThe war is over, and now heging the Work of reconstruction and the estab- Hshment of (he Cuban republic.Past passions are our only enemies to this end, therefore lot us obliterate these passions and hatreds.We met war with strife; let us accept peace with concord.1 have come to this town more as the friend of every man in it than as the leader of the Cuban army.Here there are neither Cubans nor paniards, Frenchmen nor Russians.We are all inhabitants of the island of Cuba, Union, peace and tact should be our guides.We have united today to ex- chs > 1deas, to ka0W each other and to fire ¢ our mutual interests.Truth follows pence; honor should not hide away.Therefure, 1 tell you that union alone will bring about the termination of the present unnecessary occupation of our island by the American army.The inhabitants of this island do not need the presence of the American troops inorder to fulfil their duties.Let us unite and devote ou.efforts to that object, hish in favor with us all\u2014the rapid and splendid growth of the Cu- Lan republic,\u201d These guarded and significant words of the general were answered by the Spaniards present in such manner as plainly showed thelr full acceptance of their import.Two days later these Spaniards entertained General Gomez, his staff and many Cuban officers at an elaborate banquet, where the idea of this few, united party of Cuban independence was developed with much enthu- slasm, Captain Landis of the First TInited States cavalry, collector of the port of Caibarien, and Mr.Anderson, his deputy collector, were present, and Loth were treated with marked courtesy hy General Gosnez.General Gomez remains at the head of the Cuban army.He considers this to be his post until the army is paid off.The amount needed.according to the Cubans, !s $40,000, which would give nearly $100 in gold to each soldier.Just what security can be offered for this loan is not clear.The fact that every seaport of the island has Its Amer- fcan custons collector Is significant that this source of revenue is not in Cuban Lands.The United States is to be asked to advance the large amount needed to pay these men.The Americans insist upon knowing how this money is to be spent, but this is regarded by the Cubans as unnecessary curiosity on the part of the Americans.General Gomez will soon proceed to Santa Clara, This elty is the capital of the province and was such a hotbed of Spuunish sympathies during the war that the Cubans today, in their hour of victory.ignore the town's old naine, and have rechristened it Villa Clara, Tere General Gomez will proceed upon the same course as adopted in Ilemiedios and Caibarvien, namely.the uniting of Spanish and Cuban interests for the hn- medinte estublishment of the Cuban republic and the furtherance and growth of the new united party of Cuban independence, This iden is already abroad in the province of Santa Clara, and newly established Cuban newspapers are taking it up and giving it a guarded prominence, TEU nn # Nerve, London, Jan, 24.\u2014The Filipino junta here Las received dispatches saying that if Agoucilio, one of Aguinaldo's envoys at Washington, is not received by the United States government within a few days, Aguinaiio will recall him to Manila and suspend relations with the United States, \u201cthis removing an important medium fer arriving at a peaceful uns derstanding.\u201d The junta\u2019s advices also assert that \u201clarge numliers of the American troops ure fraternizing with the natives, and that many o! them are engaged to Fill.pina girls.\u201d Grienome Kerpankes Havana, Jan.24.\u2014General Lee hag ordered the men of his corps, at the request of the chief surgeon, not to keep human skulls and bonea in thelr tents, The soldiers have been taking skulls and crossbones from the piles near Quemados and Colon cemeteries.The Cuban custom hag been to rent a grave for a year or ga from the managers of the cemetery and then dig up the bones and pile them cut- aide.Linbillties of M400,000.Atlanta, Jan.24.\u2014Malcoim Johnston has flied a petition asking for a receiver for the Atlanta National Building Loan Agsoctation.Judge Lumpkin granted a temporary restraining order, It la charged by Mr, Johnston that the association has been badly managed and is Nopeleasly insolvent.The officers of the company deny that it Is insolvent, and clalm that it has assets worth $600,000.The Habilities are estimated at $400,000.Our exports of domestic merchandise in 1808 will amount to over $1,200, 000,000.The United Kingdom will export domestic merchandise valued at Jess than $1,140,000,000.Our foreign trade in the past three years has grown by leape and bounds, while England's bas been at a standstill, and the United States treasury and English board of trade returnd at the end of December will show that the place England has #0 long beld as the greatest exporter of domestic products has been taken by the United States.Eight years ago, when Englavd shipped to foreign countries her products to the value of $1,280, 758,643 (the world\u2019s bigb water mark), while our domestic exports amounted to but $845,999,608, it did Mot secmm possible that before the end of the decade America would outstrip Eng- lund and take her place ns the greatest exporter of homemade products.Our advance, cousidering that in the middle of the decade we passed through cne of the most disastrous panies in our history, has bern wonderful, November's export trade broke the record.\u2018The treasury department bureau of statistics\u2019 preliminary figures for the month show that our exports of do.mostio merchandise amounted to SI2T,- 483,467, oxconding tbe record of Des cowber last by $4,330,884.Including the few exports of foreign products our exports lust month amounted in all to $129,783,518, The December, 1897, record was 125,058,081, while the ros ord prior to that was $117,185, 596, made in December, 1896.The Novem ber exports show an incrense of over $13,000,000 over those in last November, while the increase uver the Nu- vember exports of three years ago is over $42,000,000, Sir C.T.Ritchie, president of the English board of trade, in a speech before the Croydon chamber of connuerce the other day, culling attention to the critical state of the foreign trade of the kingdom, stated that while in the period of 1801-7 the exports from Frauce had increased 114 per cent, those from Germany, Hollund and Belgium 13%; per vent, and those from the United States 18 per cent, the United Kingdom's exports bad fallen off 5 per cent.Up to the end of October the English exports for the year bad fallen off £2,600,000 (513,000,000), while tha imports had increased £14,000,000 (%70,000,000).He attributed the wonderful ivereaso of our export trade to the development of our natural resources and said that our tariff was in n large part responsible for the decline of England's export trade.\u2018The United Kingdom'é éXorts of her own products last Year amounted to $1,138,041,015, while our exports wers vnlued at $1,079,884,294.The British lead of $170,000,000 in 1896 was cut down to $60,000,000.We are not only going to overcome this $60,000,000 this year, but we will lead the United Kingdom by from $60,000,000 to $90,- 000,000.The British total will probably be a little less than last year, while ours will be between $1,200,000, - 000 and §1,225,000,000.Our domestic exports for the 11 months of the year were $1,008,089,136, and a December total as low as the lowest December record in years would bring the year's domestic exports tens of millions of dollars above England's.Our excess of exports this year will teach remarkable figures.November sot uly broke the export record, but made # new record for a month's excess of exports.While the exports wers nearly $180,000,000, the imports were only $52,109,560, the exact excess of sxports being $77,673,952.If the De- sember excess is up to tbe average, the year's \u2018\u2018balance of trade\u2019 will come slose to being $600,000, 000 in our favor, Last year we thought $360,000,000 a great record.The wonderful progress of our export trade iu this decade is ap- pareut from a glance at this table: Excess over imports.$34,104,822 : 70,500,645 448,420,660 H2,204 *G0),000, 000 \u201cEstimnted.Exports of foreign merchandiso are neluded in tbe table.They nre insig- aificant in the United States, seldom enounting to $20,000,080 ina year.Por the 11 mouths of the year the total ixports from the United States wore © 11,117,681,189, an increase of over k2-44,000 000 over the corresponding pa- riod last year.With the new record for merchandise >xports iu 1598 will come a new record \u2018or gold imports, and a remarkable rec.rd for excess of gold imports over ex- sorts.The record of 1850 is already swept away.For the 11 months of the fear the gold iinports were $149, 396, 370, tnd the exports $14,975,316, an excess if imports of $134,421,054.The silver yxcess of exports for the 11 months was 322,048,108.In previons years when Sur export trude has risen to abnormal igures Europe has paid ite debt largely hrough the increase of its sales of mer- \u2018\"bandise to tbe United States.Now we ire increasing onr exports to unheard of limeusions and at the same time cat- ling down onr imports, This year our Imports will Le over $100,000,000 less \u2018han Inst year.\u2014New York Sun.ON THE OPEN TRAIL.This paltry earth and the low hung Like à littie tent around fr.Teo cramped 1 find to feel at home, Too cramped I always found ft, sky, Since 1 was ever a vazahond, A vagrant-foot and rover, Oh.give me the width of the skies to roam When my earthly days are over! Let me out where worlds the milestones are.Where the unresting stars walk my way\u2014 Out, out, where à man has elbow room To travel his old time highway! And when the journey is done God grant \u2018That one lone inn 1 find me Where | may enter and grect but her And close the door behind me! NEW YEAR BARGAINS, Where true economy begains is sometimes hard to tell.It\u2019s Pretty safe to say, however, that darning old underwear is false economy just now.] have a big stock of Standard Quality Underwear to convert into cash within the next few days and to move the same I am offerin Special Bargains Every man who bought these goods at the prices originally marked got his money\u2019s worth\u2014a bargain in fact\u2014and has no reason for complaint if the advancing season causge a sacrifice, A FEW CONVINCERS.Men\u2019s Ribbed Wool Shirts and Drawers, 28c.former price 50c.Men\u2019s Plain Wool Shirts and Drawers, 35c.former price 50c.Men\u2019s Felt Mittens 8c.former price 121,¢.a I am also offering Standard Web Goods at bargain prices.Flannelettes, ; ; 4c.former price Ge.Twenty pieces American prints 4c.formerly Ge.Look at my Crash Toweling, 5c.yd.Ladies\u2019 Linen Collars 5c.each, Ladies\u2019 Jackets.The big thaw has caused a cut in other line worth all the money: ever asked and more too.These garments are the very latest style, bought this winter and are made in the most thorough manner from extra beaver cloth.They are not to be compared with the cheap shoddy ones offered at lower prices.Considering the quality these.are the lowest prices you have seen.Ladies\u2019 $5.00 Jackets now $4.00.Ladies\u2019 6.50 Jackets now 5.00.Ladies\u2019 10.00 Jackets now 8.00.It\u2019s the quality that attracts and the price that sells.Man If yout need new clothes don\u2019t let this opportunity slip by you.Just to start you in the new year well and set you to talking about me.I have collected a variety of mew Canadian Tweeds and Suitings, some pieces costing as high as $1.25 a yard, piled them up and marked the lot at 50c.yard.You take your choice.\u201d It\u2019s the greatest cloth bargain ever offered.Don\u2019t take my word for it.See the goods.Grab! They were slow sale at $1.50 but they go quick enough with the dollar knocked off.C.H.KATHAN.Everything! You know we keep everything.We have all kinds of House Furnishings, Carpets, all grades, Curtains, Curtain Poles, Furniture of all kinds.Very large assortment of ready-to-wear Clothing.\u2018Job line of Overcoats just to hand.We will give 15 per cent.off balance of Ladies\u2019 Cloth Coats and Mantles: and Pattern Dress Goods, for balance of November.This month \u2018or Spot Cash and Spot Cash Only.4 gals.Portland W.W.Oil 70e.* 12 Ibs.Soda 25c.Lantern Globes 4c.10 \u201c Rolled Oats 23c.- A real nice Lantern 35c.Good fast colored Print 4c.Cambrie Dress Lining 4c.We have a real nice line of Ladies\u2019 Blouses for Winter Wear, If you want a nice article in the way of a Fur Garment we have it.We want to sell only the good kinds.With every cash purchase from 5e.to 825 we will give you tickets, and when you have $25 worth of these tickets you will be entitled to choice of 20 different articles in quadruple Plated Ware.The articles are composed of Biscuit Jars, Butter Knives, Castors, Fruit Stands, Cake Baskets, &ec., &ec.Some of the ware is on view in one of our windows.The tickets are given only for spot cash purchaser.On a few articles we will issue no tickets.WANTED\u201412 or 15 Fat Hogs weekly for which cash will be paid.PARKER & KNIGHT, HATLEY.GRANITE and MARBLE.We are at all times prepared to offer the buying public the best in the market in the line of Monuments, Headstones, Makers, Posts, Coping, Etc.Our line of designs are the latest and we can also propose special ideag presented by our customers.We make a Specialty of doing work so that our patrons may recommend ug to others.We quote the lowest prices consistant with the finest gnali- ties.We erect work anywhere.If in need of work in our line drop a card to D.W.MOIR, SON & CO.BLANK BOOKS.WE carry in stock regularly the most complete line of Account Books this side of Montreal.Special Books to order.Give us a chance to quote prices.Works at Graniteville, We furnish everything in the way of Stationery.JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Rack Island, P.Q."]