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OPPOSITE POST OFFICE A ' BARGAIN LOT OF TES LTHEADVANCE IN. THE DOMINION WILL,-C Club Clubbing Rates Printing. 1904 ...-_.._--- .. oovv ya. uuuvuv Ia|l.ULUe ` , " Contluuotie Drift Towards Towns. ' The 'drift towards the towns is continuous. We havg long been aware of it. Here is the evidence from the villages. From north, south,'east and west, with rare exceptions, come % as the complaint that the young men are leaving them. "The testimony on `innumerable farms is that only the `old men and the children remains. f The work done,` too, is generally in- \ terior; all pride in it has been. lost; the farmyard stacks are no longer the boast of rural architecture, but `llovenly structures, as much of . the a work of the elds is .slovenly.- The 1 cornnelds -have been turned into pas- _t.I`:re-land; but it is startling. . when 1 .w. have heard -the milk-carfs rattling 1 ` at therailway stations, to `be told ; in some places no one `can be ij "found to do the milking"- The burdf- of feminine talk in the oities: isffj ~concerne'd with the inferiority ands; "dislocations of household 3 'serv_iceA;. . :gth_ere_ is a. corresponding upset ,in,;ag-;j `Avr_i`iill;ural- f'1i_fe,A : .In'f siview" off-_~. `t_.hist.} 4 i-the laments itliait ".16bor.e ,1'iI;I ,1 a*I.3ih`oe?' " means that? at .on.e,zP01n:t;:'~thj|.= ,vita.l _forces 1 ivlnck 9.1; 's9n1ei:16.!l:..,l- |Ii'/-iilihflesh r=3*9?!@ " . , 1 .r:u.ua cu. 1t=Luu.u\a qn tnc 81101801.?! There are certain general features, and yet generalizations are danger- . ous. There are signs not only of in- evitable change, but of decadence and Jailure on a, large scale; yet there are Indications of new enterprise, and of possibilities as yet i undeveloped. There are not -only immense tracts. that once bare corn reduced to pas- turage; but there are :many thou-` esands of acres where the land. is ab- solutely derelict, and long ranges of eld where thistles and `wild bush ourish, and the fox or rabbit play landlord or tenant till the city sportsman comes down; and yet there ? are farmers who thrive, and `labor-l as here and there `who rise, and `- manv `who lhm nnvnfnrl-al\`lu .-... +1.--I _-,- ouv-_u suns Iusvnw WJLU l`1U, H-nu many `who live comfortably on the` .h_md. though they cannot make `money from it; and there `i, too. abundant wealth in `country places jvhich is not produced there. t\-_4 .. BUR-AL ENGLAND: que they are, but from an industrial [point of view many of the country The `decadence of the English farm- ing country is a. fact well knownaud much deplored. eQuaint and pictures- villuges are dead, and` England : wide-tanner! farms `to-day are unpro- gressivo, writes Mr. W. H. Moss in J Toronto Globe. Striking revelations 0! these industrial conditions are '- given `in Rider `Haggard's Rural England." in a recent magazine re-. view of which there appears some general remarks on the subject: Thorn APR nurtnin nnnnrnl fan!-uvnu EueLANp's WIDE-FAMED FARMS `ro- " DAY ARE UNPROGRESSIVE. Olyungo In the character sud Alplntidnn `at tho Young Farm Labour: llu 113110. the Wall-Kqown loilgq 3 Very Yul- .ablo 0uantIty-'l`ho Putnam Eotutdvl llodol Cottage:-A Both Dianna! Plo- tun. ' I o`-$ . Guarathed for ve yars. It is mad in Qnnadd." Sold on easy monthly paymoxits if desired; W:-it. tor particulars. Catalogue and lino! Records. - Manufactured by T E. BERLINER, 231551-.. Catherine Stu-oot,A Mont:-cal. FOR SALE BY - r J. Ross; Agent, `Barrie. .,. Wei'mlng-+-Nourishlng--8tlmu|atlng ; It talks, sings, reproduces the Piano, V Vio1i.n, Piccolo, Flute, Banjo,` Cornetor Trombone; Full Brass Band or Orchestra; Church Choir or Chime Bells. It will play .a Wa ltz,_:_ Lancers, Quadrille or any other dance. `It will, sing Hynins and Songs" orvrepeat Sermons. `It gives the popular, sentimental and coon songs`, as well` as selections from `Grand and Comic Opera. A child can operate it. B_e1-liner Gram-o-phoixe Records are hard at discsoy and 10 inches in- dlamcteymade of maroon substance--rill last for years. P1-icons of Gran:-V-o-phones ~ _ . complete with 3 Records 6 W. O I si Qt i'icont :;i:ins5iin "the smaliest. L L possible bulk all tl-1estrengthen`ing- A t ~ ' and .stimulating' properti-es7 of the A nest beef and is so palatable, refreshing V and invigorating that thousands are; `getting THE BOVRIL HABIT--because they. like it , --because it is the ideal coldweather. beverage. Watmlng-N0urIshIng-8tlnIu|atlng; - . _. -l 1; b.___ _ _: -_;_ . _; Here s Health ` '1fhe rc` is h_ca.1:h and`st;B gi1i in evry draug'ht`_0f BOVRII J i I L , which, of course, nuts :3 a-_ trilnng -e.~., It-nee `give;-. by Mr. Haggard from the Portman estates:- _ , Penman Iodol Cottages. __ "In addition to their model `cot- tages. for which _they pay very lit- tle--but eighteenpence a. week--the P . ,.,..u __ "`._~.-.-"4-'oe laborers have pension, clothing and" coal clubs, to - which the subscrip- tions, are doubled at the end of the year-,.liberal allowances `in the case of sickness, e allotments `* and ` every other conceivable advantage. , Yet they go, and, what is more, strike `at haytime or other inconvenient sea- sons, and are `generally troublesome. {They won't be kept, said Mr. For- rester, but, male .and female, depart, _mostly to take service in shops. Few except the `doodles remain. Doodle, by the way, is the Dorsetshire equiv- alent for the Norfolk `waster and the Devonshire `smike. Yet if they will not stop on an estate like this, is run absolutely without reference to expense--"-10: ` 000 a year, I understand being spent 5 in wages alone-where will they stop? "`Everythin_g has been tried. Thus, ? when some men asked for land, Mr, `Forrester arranged for them to have 9, eld of twenty-three acres, which was let at twenty-four shillings the acre, ; the landlord building a barn and 3 i providing a hand-power. threshing mac_hine._ Fourteen men hired lots in this-' eld, but in ten years there was only one A. of them left, the bal- ance of the land`having `been rented by a "miller. Again, cottages were` sold to certain of the people upon special arrangements asto price. ,Mr. Forrester said that this was the worst thing that ever happened` to "mm and some i of these. cnt.tao'asI ..~.u-.- . ._....- T uuvuv I-LIIPIJ Iain ` dv;;ee'1'_`.s._o;.i:he boo:-_ of,` ihgt ;_.'e parish within ,theL 1a8t;;.;_:4!Vn: V7 we v \avn Aansynbo The farmers are all gradually sinking in point of property. V The; very rich ones do -not, feel`tha.`t' ruin ; is absolutely approaching. but they 1 are all alarmed; and as to the'poor- our ones. they are gas: falling into V the 'rankaf.ol p o,upe!'.l when I was an 1 Ely, a; gentlenranf who aprieaircd` to ba ` a, great farmer `told me in presence ;ot fty fa.rmer,s,Ta.t the White}; Hart 1: Inn, that he had seen that morning ythree menk, cracking .st.one,s "ion: the / 3-.ro,ud;. as `banners; 01t119~`l1i8`~i8h'l 0*. ` [*0 if. V `and':"'al1 ;m.eng;;-i - 1nioihunn-`Am'g.'4..-ZA;.lv"A.IL '-A 5.` 4.-.. . -W. Q`~. A` Q` -r (C V ureay nunaln or .lre1a,nu.' "By. way of comment on-`this state-1 'men_t I may remark that more often than not the traveler may be quite certain of the contrary , In thecourso of extensive journeyings in England in 1901 I stayed in aj-good many hotels. With -few exoeptions-indeed, , almostualways itthe towns were of any considerable ,size--I found that the food was foreign, and the wait- ers were German: were now being Aondemnea. because their occupiers had reduced,them to such a. conditionAtha.t they were no ' longer {it 'for` folk to `V live in. Too Limited long Vroduction. [ The English farmer does not. moras- over, supply nearly as much as he- `should of the nation's food. " `T An -`AL I.._-..- I .__:_I (-45. V Iv V u.rau\l`-"`!` U: IIIIU JIODUIUII G IUUU. `I do not know, said Sir John Rolleston, the Presidentof the Sur-` veyors Institute, `that any. of us. could take three meals in a day at a. metropolitan resta.ure.nt_,. and be ab- -solutely certain any single article thatwe consumed, either of meat or: drink, -was produced from" the soil Great-. Britain or Ireland.` ll`D-. an... `Al ' VVEyer3-body knows the phrase All _the` world loves ,a lover." but very tew- people kx__1ow tllatlimerson said it "and }At _ l1t lhgisui ay-* All*i7ma 14? `*8Wi _',"% *"isii "f~ii"cZ':- (abseitfy)-Yes; it is a. pleasure to know it- has" passed.- 4' . PleaIIit." ` ` ohesd .`(as he prepares to take his -,lea`ve)-I can assure you. Miss Nicer, this evening, , v Il f.... `$11--.. l_I_;.-__'AI_x co- _, the time has p,a4ssedAvery plezgsantly lagiaristi he roared, crushing the paper. `'0! course I am a plagiarist. Shakespeare was a `plagiarist. Moliere was a plagiarist. We all plagiarize--all except those idiots who are too asinino to prot by the works of their supe- riors. Surely every blockhead out of a `lunatic asylum (except those idiots) must know that since Homer's time all authors have parodled his incidents and paraphrased his sentiments. Mo- liere "took his own where he found it. `The thief of all thieves was the War- wickshire thief, who stole right and left; from everybody; But. then. he `found things lead and left them gold. \ \That s.the sort oi! thief I am.-Youth's` Companion. __~ --van `Jinn-l!\lIJ\I \\Il\Ql _In Never Too Late to Mend "he ex- posed the cruelties practiced in the prisons before the reform was success- tulg in: Hard Cash he attacked the abuses of private lunatic asylums: in .Put Yourself In His Place" l1eopened- on trade unions. He was a modern era- sader. One day he found in a newspa- per certain strictures on this wunner or work, His rage was instant and via- lent. ' e Tlne sort of 3 Thief That Charles Reade Pronounced Himself. The novelists who aspire toward ab- solute originality of plot might think once in awhile oi? the sources from which certain masters drew their in- spiration and of the calmness with -which-"those great workers `picked up whatever would serve` them at their trade, Charles Reade depended on the newspapers as` the living record or life" as it is. One day in the week be `de- voted to his scrapbooks. Passing events seemed to him of vital importance, and the result of his collating appeared i novels whose purpose told. V ` 'I ._ unv-_-_ ll'\-- 1' -4- .L_ ` ,, all,- OIIVII Liv III \.I Yllblvl IJQSFIKI Ella` i2StT6,'i some of` the moss; valuable innthe book coming frm General Booth, A` _systcm - of agricultural '~ba.nks;ip' also explained which seems likely. to be of service where capital is wanting. Mr. Haggard himself advocates as a minor mensuro . the establishment of an agricultural post. It seems, however, likely that `the motor curs willin time effect as great. a. change in rural England as the electric railwayshavc in rural .America: as a preliminary let the nighways be gradually adapted to IJIOII` use. `V'Why such migrations to cities did not largely take place till within the last forty years or so is, I think, in irespcct of farm laborers, that they ; had neither the means not the know- ; ledge in` old times that they have E now." - . . . `ll BUUlUDlU3.. u ' 1 `As to remedial measures, that` ' which imost commends itself as ea means of keeping people on the land is the endeavor to give them a, larg- er interest in it. The multiplication of small holdings is ca. chief way to that end, and Mr. Haggard supplies ineny illustrations which may help in the practical discussion of that question.` There. are other useful sug- 'lI'.fI.l\I| nrnn I\` I-`an iv`:-std` uvniuunl-.14. "into oblivion. T _ But changes at which we must all rejoice `have; brought other changes which are not` so attractive. - The laborers have _become more and more migratory, the younger families in especial`, who enjoy nothing so much as trash scenery and new acquaint- ance. The consequences-are curious and unexpected. For one thing, vil- lage tradition-a vast amount of un- written folklore, -local chrtinicle, local topography, and nomenclature-is ab- solutely sinking, has nearly sunk,- I cannot recall a single instance of a. laborer who still lives on the farm, in which he vlnv livlbuowvn 155 `(V VI nae vwas born, and I can only recall a few who have been ve years on 1 their present farm. . . . . That these people have _removed to the towns of sheer choice during the last forty years it would be absurd to say, except assto that percentage of a young. adventurous and ambitious spirits among them which is found in": all societies- -,l ' l1II I,_, ,AO_ n 1-; ..,,,,..... .. ......- b ......... .........._.,., .....- {ous1y*mo`de'rnized:_ r p _'`I am_._ t_,ol_;1'at the annual hiring lair. Just passed, .the old positions were absolutely, reversed, the. farmers walking about `and. importuning the laborers `t`oVc_omc_ and be hired. in- stead of, as 1'o'rn1erly, the laborers anxiously entatihg the stolid farm- ers to take them `on at any pittance. Their present life is almost without exception one of comfort, if the most ondinary `thrift be observed. I could take you to the cottage of a shep- herd, not many miles `from here, that has brass rods and carpeting to the staircase, and from the open `door of which you hear 9, piano strumming within. Of course, bicycles stand by the doorway, while atnight a large paraln lamp throws out a perfect blaze of A light ' upon the. passerby. : The son of another laborer I know .. i takes dancing `lessons at a quadrille `class in the neighboring town. Dari ntunvnaunn -J- unv`u1'n`A an-A wanna` -51` H FR! f _:sf ;Wi?il18'- } 3 I`9;9`?8.a.r"z Pad .therv-atszebnt. M `any! 3110}-k, are-at 'e.i very` low price. and mutton .- not much better. The beef was selling` at Lynn for live Shillings `the stone of. fourteen pounds, and` the. park at four-and- Ilxpence; the wool (one of the great articles of produce in these counties). selling; for less than half of its form- In` price." , ` F'1fty`yea.rs ago the Dorset peasant was supposed to typify the worst es- tate of the agricultural laborer. Mr. Thomas Hardy, who has long known the county intimately, gives "Mr. `Zn .-.v......l... manta u-vIn3p\I- aims;-urn u'J- nu`... A fi2 gg`;`;If;* ously mode The 30110:: Doubt taunt. A PLAGTKFTlST.' nomodlal ltouu-u. ...---....,vvq` . an - vu nocg which shows it cT-1 : %i0RT`IiERN Anvmcg Ber Dilemma.` mtne1-1 can't decide which of them ' to accept. Prices Kate--Why, that ought to be easy, r Ethel-I know; but, you see, Jack al- ways` gives me roses. and Reggie al- ways` gives" meviolets, and the orist tells me they cost exactly the same . 'We an gllclgvef eough s.t_ envying `tfamoul man while he is yet alive. and` 7-` "m: Iwt Her Af I. I Mr. Nervey-Miss Rox_ley,` I adore you. Will you not;.be my wife? "In: Dacha. I1......'..I.A..lI__\ rIu__ 1.`; , n Mr. 'N'e1:w`.'-e'.y7-.:-`i"'doWl:~:`n:v.Ir"[better. but n6 rI_ch_r. - . .. . Sleep; - . - ` 1 I Up to the fteenth year most young people require ten hours sleep and `till the twentieth year. nine hours. After that age every one nds out how much he or sheprequires, though, as a general rule, at least six to eight hours are nec- essary; Eight, hours sleep will prevent ` more nervous derangements in women ` than any medicine can cure. During growth there must be ample sleep it the brain is to develop to its fullest ex- tent, and the more nervous, excitable or precocious a child 1 the longer sleep it should get if its intellectual progress is not to come to a premature stand- still or its life cut hort at an earlrage. V v... -c u uvu JJC ll-IJ VVILC I Misuviioxfe} (haughtAily)--The idea of your proposing to a girl in my station! You should know better.` . II... 'n1-__A,-# up - . - -- - Hens In Curious Animals. A boy who was required to write an ; essay on hens produced the following: "Hens is curiou animals. They don t_ have no nose nor no teeth not no ears. They swallow their whittles whole and chew it upain their crops inside of `em. The outside of hens is generally put in-< to piilers and into feather dusters. The inside of a hen is sometimes lled with marbles and shirt buttons and sich. A hen" is very much smaller than agood many other animals, but they'll dig up more tomato plants than anything that _o.ln t a hen. n Hens is very useful-to lay eggs for plum puddings. Hens have got wings and can. y when they get frightened. I cut 01! a hen s head with a -hatchet, `and it frightened her to death. Av , - -....v_.--5 u---vs on-Iv uuusv ILAIICHHJII-Jo Examination of the records of 4,500 marriages of deaf persons shows 9 per a cent of the children to be deaf. while ` only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the ot- spring of an equal number" of mar- riages of normal persons are likely to be alicted with deafness. Deaf par- ents whose relatives are not deaf run no greater chances of having deaf chil- dren than persons who can bear, but in the case of normal persons in whose families there are. members who are deaf the danger of deaf childrenis, ac-` i cording to Professor E. A. Fay, who i has studied the question, just as great ` as among deaf people. A uuuon or More at near llutel. Recent estimation places the number ` oi` deaf mutes in the world at more than 1,000,000. This great number of human beings, living a life which a normal person cannot conceive, in des- tined to increase because of the tend- encyot these people -to marry persons laboring under the same disability. mvavnlnnnn J 58.. _..--...1- -A A ran % `-'.l?h-es.tVrange phosphorescent quality ` of some plants and (lowers is not ex- actly the same as that possessed by animal matter, but it is as little under- stood. It seems to be an absorption or light and a subsequent liberation of it. If a nasturtium is plucked during sun- shineand carried into a dark room, the eye, after it has reposed for a few mo- ments, will discoverthe ower by the I light emitted from its leaves. n-11.- _L-___u.'-_ , uguo cu.au.I.cu. Lnuul us ICIIVUS. The phosphorescence of the sea is due to a living animal; which gives out its light under nervous excitement, as when it is stirred by themotion of a passing vessel. _ ' Yet there are many curious instances ` of phosphorescence in dead animals 1 and vegetable matter, the lobster f` among crustaceans, the whiting among a fishes and decayed wood being striking a examples.` ~'.l`heir- emission of light seems to depend. however, not upon putrefaction, for as this progresses their luminosity diminishes, but upon certain unknown atmospheric condi- tions. This phosphorescence of decayed matter has been regarded as somewhat diirerent from the slow combustion of ` phosphorus, but upon examination all the chemical conditions are found to be ` the same. " 1-1-1` (:1. 1.1.1-'el');E;..<.)`1""I.reland ' lives a worm which gives out .a bright green light, a fitting color for the Emerald` Isle. There are many other kinds of; insects which become luminous in the J....I_ v-- 9`-w gonna. go. oanuovna-I uupaiuo The power of emitting luminous rays belongs to several varieties of y and three species of beetle or the genus elater. One of the most brilliant of these is the great lanterny of South" America, which gives enough light .to enable a person to read by the rays from a single insect. Numerous classes of these ies are found in surinam. where they illuminate the darkness in a most remarkable manner. ` ?_. __,,,_ \`* phosphorescence}: one the most surprising" and *lea'st`nnd`erstood. or nature : phenomena. The pale. blu- ish white "light of the glowworm has been found by naturalists to be de-' pendent upon the 'mot_ionot the insect s_ body or legs. From this it would seem that the phosphorescence depends -upon some nervous action, regulated at pleas- ure by the insect, for it has the power of obscuring it entirely. It` the glow- worm be crushed and the race or hands rubbed with it, luminous streaks like those produced by phosphorus will ap- pear. They shine more brightlyin oxy- gen gas and in nitrous acid. TIIL- ..-__-_, _A *PHos;PHoEscENcE. pumasmaoom;eIIiu-s:,.nam. = T Dflll and glokcts of all kinds in stock or made tq_o_rg1er;' [ B`dbVs%,`t`)`ra.p%"e*a;111d, all Funeral Requisites furnished. _ L %1?e1egr:aph or otherwise promptly attended to. ~;Z: .. .. ` ' ' I ER T A KER *~'2.:.: IL . '_b ` _ _ JWALL scum smmuns COLONIAL STOCK FOODS, HAMBLY ea BAKER Itwill` be to the interest of every farmer to use stock ` and poultry foodat this season of the year. We are agents for the ..... .. 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