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l l '2’- 3-H 4‘. ..,,. . .._ .. , s an», ..._e. «Mg-.5 :. 'nm‘v m . A d...» w z.- ' PURELY‘BANADIAN NEWS. rumflwwnw n-wmu»: v ' ‘ “ ‘ INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered min Various Points from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Barrie has a few vacant houses. Owen Sound is to have a new lighthouse. Severn Bridge has a siege of scarlet fever. Grimshy has repealed its early closing by-law. Barrie has recently had a number of burglaries. ‘ Berlin has voted to establish a new public park. The Conestoga. Methodists are renovat- ing their church. Queen's College re-opened Tuesday with a large attendance. \Vork will be commenced on the Strat- ford postoflice at once. A man was trying Lose” a white donkey in Barrie this week. . Brockville shows an increase of 382 in population this year. I Pickpockets are operating in Ottawa with considerable success. Paris has decided to grant no more exemptions to manuiacmrers. A ship load of lumber is going from Dor- chester Port, N. 13., to Euenos Ayres. A bear weighing 300 pounds was killed Sunday at Bob’s Lake above Westport. The Brockville Carriage Company has already turned out 2,000 light cutters this 883301]. THE PRODUCTION OF WHEAT. MOTHERS IN FICTION. The Fan in Prices Due to the Beauty of tn Real life lothers'loid a Foremost latm Rather “than to the Enterprise Of Sin. We have referred to the 'great over. production of wheat in'recent years as the immediate cause of the tremendous fall in prices ; but it remains to explain how the glut has been produced. That it is due to the bounty of nature rather than to the enterprise of man is clear from the fact that it is mainly attributable to produc- tion in the United States, where the wheat area has decreased during the last ten years, while the population has been aug mented by about 12%; millions. In 1884 there were nearly 39% million acres under wheat in that country, while the average area during the three years ending with 1893 was under 37% milllon acres, and this year it is estimated by the Department of Agriculture at only 33 million acres. But the yield was phenomenal in 1891, extra- ordinary in 1892, and well up to the aver- age in 1893 and 1894. It is certain that the crops of 1891 and the two following years were greatly underestimated by the Department of Agriculture. “’hat has been learned of the distribution of these crops appears to show conclusively that they averaged at least 15,000,000 quarters more than the average annual production of the three proceeding years. This season’s crop, again, according to all com- ! mercial estimates, is quite up to an average in quantity, and much greater than the During the year ending Sept. 30th 462 figures oi the Department of Agriculture prisoners have been confined in Hamilton jail. Sine rafts of lumber have gone down to Quebec from the Upper Ottawa river this summer. One day the citizens of John, N. B. paid in nearly $80,000 for taxes to save the discount. During the past year 615 prisoners have intimate. To this superabundance in America there is to be added a. new one in the Argentine Republic, whence over two million quarters of wheat were exported in 1892, and over four and a half millions in 1893, while this year’s total is expected to‘ reach seven million quarters. Previous to 1890 that been incarcerated in the county jail at country had only in one year exported as Stratford. From two potatoes planted last spring Jas. Salter, of Orillia, has in return 112 full sized spuds. much as a million quarters, and the rapid increase of her surplus, coming on topof the extra reports from the United States, good crops in Europe since 1891, and great A Hamilton woman was fined 315 Inst, crops in India since 1892, has materially week for plucking two flowers in a cemetery in that city. . The Catholics of Brockville will have a. bazaar next week from which they expect to raise 87,000. \V. T. Campbell, formerly cashier of the G.T.R. at Ingersoll, died in the Chatham hospital this week. The architect of Knox church, Mitchell, has a' claim against the contractor for 82,000 on account of errors. Several islands around Port Severn have been sold, and the owners W111 put up sum- mer cottages next spring. The capital stock of the Brunette Saw Mill (30., Victoria, B.C., has been increased from $200,000 to $300,000. John Dunlop, awell known farmer of Hibbert, near Cromarty, was found dead, in bed on Saturday morning last. James Lee, the pickpocket, was let go at London because the jail authorities don’t want a sick man on their hands. Mr. Thos. Flynn, market gardener,of the (lore of London, was successful in growing peanuts on his farm this summer. It is calcplatcd that the cut on the St. John’s Fiver, N.B., this year is about 30,- 000,000 feet less than the average. Brantford has now apopulation of 15,553, an increase of 99 during the past year. There are less than 30 vacant houses in the city. Two Monoton,N.B., young ladies recent- ly raided an apple orchai d. Another drove a tramp out of the house at the point of a revolver. ' ‘ Price Bros.’ saw mill at St. Thomas, Montmagny, Que., destroyed by fire in the month of May, has been' reconstructed and has commenced operations. The wife of Joseph Truskey, who is con- demned to die on December 14 for the mur- der of Wm. Lindsay, frequently Visits her husband in the Sandwich jail. Joseph Hartley, a Winnipeg laborer, three months ago came into possession of a fortune of $50,000. He died in the hos- pital on Thursday from excessive drink- ing. A London woman answered an ad. for a new hat fastener, and received two rubber bands, With instructions to fasten them to the hat and run them round under her ears. helped to bring prices down. In Argentina we have the only instance of a country in which the growth of wheat has greatly extended in recent years. Argentine stat istics are little better than rough guesses but so far as they are to be relied on they show that the wheat area, which was only 490,000 ’acres in 1880, had expanded to 6,000,000 acres in 1893. In spite of the low prices ruling since the crop of the later year came into the market, a great increase in wheat growing is reported for the present year. The explanation of this surprising advance in wheat production given by Argentine authorities and the British representative at Buenos Ayres, is that it is due partly to the high gold premium which has prevailed for several years, and partly to the settle- ment of the country by a large number of Italian immigrants, 'who are content to labor from sunrise to sunset, and even by moonlight, for a bare living. They spend hardly anything, it is said, upon imported merchandise, which the gold premium makes dear, while they sell their wheat at gold prices and pay nearly all their ex- penses in the depreciated paper currency, which is said to go almost as far as ever in payments which they have to make. If this is to be taken as the main explan- ution of Argentine farmers being in a. position to extend their wheat industry when prices are unremunerative to growers in nearly all other countries, their enter- prise is built on a. very insecure foundation. English farmers, at any rate, cannot grow wheat at 203. a. quarter. A thrifty Scotch farmer in Essex a few years ago astonished the readers of an agricultural paper by giving figures to show that he could grow wheat at a. profit to sell at 303. a. quarter ; but he disposed of the straw as well as the grain, and he still holds to 309. as his minimum. It is incredible that the world can long be supplied with wheat at- present prices, unless a series of “lean years” occurs to cause a recovery in value, it will, in all probablity, be brought by a considerable reduction of the wheat area. Gauging a Man’s Character. Here are the directions an experienced married lady gives to young ladies who are anxiuos to get at the characters of men who make serious advances to them :----For a man’s birth look to his linen and finger- The movement to buy the river from 011 nails, and observe the inflections of his Sandwich street west from the Grandl Trunk Railway for a park is meeting with general approval in Windsor. The price is 845,000. Quebec takes the lead in the supply of timber, her output of sawlogs amounting to 5,000,000,000 feet broad measure, and of square timber to three and a quarter mil.- lion cubic feet. Post Office Inspector Hawken has gone to Lake Temiscamingue to establish a post office five miles inland from the lake. half way between Bale des Peres and the Temis- camingue colonization road. At the fall show in Ilderton the W. C. T. U. got complete control of the grounds for a substantial consideration, kept all games of chance out of the groonds, and supplied mealsâ€"“all you can eat"â€"for 15 cents it nothing Wm. meal. A letter passed through'the mail recently in Winnipeg with the following unique address :â€" “The Principal, Chief Post Office, Mackenzie. Manitoba. for Quebec, North America. United States, near Phila- delphia, in California." At the Chatham Police Court Wednesday a-man named George Doyglas was charged W. Dou las, Q. C., prosecuted, and Mr. i B. Don lbs defended theaccused. The first! named uglas was discharged. Mr. J Dearness, school inspector, East Middlesex, has received adiploma oi honor~ ; able mention from the Board of Lady ’ Managers of the Columbia: Exposition for his management of the educational exhibit voice. For his tastes, study the colour of his ties, the pattern and hang of his trousers, his friends, and his ringsâ€"if any. i For his propensities, walk round and look 1 carefully at the back of his head, and re- member, girls, never to marry a man whose neck bulges ever so little over his collar. I If you want a successful man, see that he I has a neat foot_; he will move quicker, get over obstacles faster, than a man who falls Place in the Ali’eetion and Regard of lien. If it is true that the dramatist and the novelist hold the mirror up to nature, how does it. come that we find so few admirable mothers in their works? In history and biography, as in real life, mothers hold “ foremost place in the afi’ection and regard of men. From the days of the Gracchi to the present moment maternal love and filial afi'ection have been esteemed the noblest of all the virtues, and yet how seldom do we see them portrayed in fiction ‘3 The drama- tists as a rule make their mother characters wicked or silly, and the novelists too often hold them up to ridicule. In all of Shake- speare’s thirty-seven plays there is only one really admirable mother, the Countess Rousillon in ” All’s \Vell That End’s \Vell." Tamera in “ Titus Andronicus," the Queen in “ Cymbeline,” Lady Capulet and the Queen of Denmark are dreadful or despic- able creatures, while Queen Constance, Queen Elinor, the Duchess of York, and Volumnia in the historical plays are en~ tirely too robust and far from lovable. But the novelists are the greatest sinners in this respect, the feminine writers of fic- tion being no whit behind the masculine; In Jane Austen’s six novels there is not one estimable mother. They are either weak and foolish, or proud, or vulgar. No reader can esteem, much less love,any one of them, and they are only objects of contempt or of neglect to their own children. Miss Austen admired her own mother highly,but though she put her father and brothers in some of her stories, there seems to have been no place for her mother or any of the good mothers she must have known. Charlotte Bronte is quite as blamahle as Jane Austen. In her three novels there are four or five mothers, and of these Lady Ingram and Mrs. Reed are cruel and unmotherly, and the others are weak or depraved. In two of George Eliot’s novels we find three or four mothers whom we love or respectâ€" Mrs. Garth in “Middlemarch ” and Mrs. Poyser, Mrs. Bede and M rs. Irvine in “ Adam Bede,” but this ends the list. As an offset to them there are Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Deane in “The Mill on the Floss,” Mrs. Transome and Mrs. Holt in “ Felix Holt,” and Mrs. Harleth in “ Daniel Der- onda.” In her btlier novels there are no mothers at all. Thackeray depicted a. most charming and lovable woman and mother in Laura Pendennis. She is a creation be- fore whom we can all go down on our knees as Philip Firmin and Pen himself could. So, too, Pen’s mother is a true woman most ex- quisitely drawn, and one has nothing to say against Lady lastlewood, subsequently Mrs. Colonel Esmond, of Virginia. But over against these stand that old campaign- er, Mrs. MacKeuzie, Mrs. Gashleigh, Mrs. Hobson Newcome and the dreadful 1 mother of Barry Lyndon. There are also Blanche Amory’s mother,good enough in her vulgar way, but not a pleasant person to meet,and the unendurable Mrs. Sedley. \Vhen we turn to the novels of Charles Dickens we find no end of weak, insipid, and ridiculous mothers, and not one that is entirely admirable. Mrs. Copperfield is uimable but weak ; Mrs. Rudge good but. vulgar, and Kit’s mother of the same class. But these do not atone forthe Jellabys, Micawbers, Nicklcbyes,Kenwigs,Skewtons, Merdles, Clcnams, Hecps, Guppys and the rest. We laugh at some and despise others. It is said that he portrayed his own moth- er,or certain of her traits in Mrs. Micawber and Mrs.Nickleby. It is a pity he could not have found one loving and lovable English mother somewhere among his friends or am- ong the creaturesofhis imagination. Bulwer Lvttonhasgiven us one delightful motherin M'rs.Caxton,but that is all. Charles Reade, who particularly prided himself on his knowledge of the female heart and charac- ter, has also portrayed one. Mrs. Little in “Put Yourself in His Place” is a. splendid creation, but he ends with her. Lucy Dodd is whimsical, Gerrard’s mother on- reasonable, and Lady Barrett a. criminal. One might think that Goldsmith, .describ- ing the simple life and pleasures of an Eng- lish parsonage, might have drawn the character of a perfect mother, but he does not. Mrs. Primrose is not an admirable woman in any sense. She is the very em- bodiment of self-conceit and vanity. In Scott’s splendid gallery there are some noble pictures of womenâ€"devoted, loving, faithfulâ€"but not a single mother whom we can admire. Mrs. Ashton 1n “ The Bride of Lammermoor” is bad and cruelly selfish’ and she is the only notable mot-her in the collection. Why there should be this absence of the highest mother character in our best fiction is difficult to say, or why mothers should be such particular objects of ridicule. But the fact is assured. Perhaps some future convocation of mothers will take this “sub- ject up and see to it that the mothers have their just deserts in fictionas well as in history. â€"â€"+â€" ALMOST SUFFOCATED. Over his Own toes and trips up other folks i A Child Pulling Out of Bed Saved the with ’em, too. For his breeding, talk sentiment to him when he is starving, and ask him to carry a band-box down the pub- lic street when you’ve just had a row. To Whole Family From Death. A despatch from London says :â€"Mrs. \V. C. Hiscott, her two children and her father, test his temper, tell him his nose is alittle MT- J01)“ Cloner had a very n‘rmw 93°51"? on one side and yen don't like the way his 1 from asphyxiation at .their home on Cart- hair growsâ€"and â€"-â€"_â€"â€".â€"â€" A Corrected Bill. if that Vim" fetCh him V wright street early on Monday morning. When a neighbor was passing the house his attention was attracked by Mrs. Hiscott’s cries, and running to her assistance he Householderâ€"“Did the master plumber found her in a semisunconscious condition. make the corrections in that bill I returned to him?" overcharge of two dollars. " “Aha! Just as I said." dollars an hour for his time. Three dollars more, please." "Wtâ€"+â€" Anxious. ; Shh-“Oh, Charlie, papa is going to give us 8100.000 when we marry." Heâ€""Is thatao darling? “'ell, suppose i 9 :7 s l lbefore he was restored to consciousness. The strong odor of coal gas in the house ‘ ' ld h' h t the t ouble was and Collectorâ€"“hes, tor. and he found “£500” to "n w ‘ r . he at once summoned his wife. A little 3 vigorous work on their art and some fresh ' b ht M . "Yes sir: but it took him about an hour l 8" won mug u with robbing Chas. Mcheagan of 825. Mr. , to look up the items,â€"-and he charges fiv . iscott and her chil- dren to their normal condition, but they were not so fortunate with Mr. Crone. He hid inhaled more of the poisonous vapor than the others, and nearly an hour elapsed One of the children fortunately fell out of the bed, and this awakened Mrs. Hiscott sudictently to show her what the trouble was. With great difficulty she crawled to the front door in her night dress and her of the Province of Ontario at the World‘s we get married . few monks wane;- wm icries attracted the neighbor as stated Fair. we expected.” above. 1 “fl”... n. .».. EGGS AND POULTRY. A larket tarsus in the l'niied Kingdom at Good Prices. The Dominion Government have issued a report ,on the poultry industry and egg trade which will be found most useful to poultry raisers. and interesting to the general reader. 1 As to the egg trad e. the statistics furnished by Mr. George Johnson, Domin- ion statistician, show that the export is large and increasing. The mostimportaut market, of course, is the home one, but the trade returns of 1893 show that,‘besides supplying her own market, Canada export- ed in that year 6,805,432 dozen of eggs, of a value of 8868.007; live poultry to the value of $61,127, and poultry dressed ‘(r undressed to the value of 820,840. Tte principal customers of Canada, with which the others can not compare, are Great Britain and the United States, the former taking the bulk of the trade. In 1893 Canada exported to the United Kingdom 4,104,632 dozen eggs, valued at $538,944, while to the UniteiiTStates she sent 4,021,- 637 dozen, valued‘WSBIO,594. Up to 1890 the United States was the best customer of Canada, but the McKinley tnrifl‘ of 1891 caused a great falling of}, as the following table will show: Doz. Eggs. Value. 1882 . . . . . . 11,728,518 81,793,167 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,683,061 2,584,279 1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,698,338 2,356,313 1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,029,474 2,095,437 .... 14,465,764 1,893,672 1887. .. .. . . . . . . .. 13,611,914 1,930,844 1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,255,558 2,262,815 1889. . . .. . . . . . . . . 15,370,061 2,345,715 1890.......‘...... 14,917,912 2,065,086 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,095,675 1,177,831 1892.. ... . . . . . . . . 4,021,637 510,594 In 1888 our exports to Great Britain amounted to 2,379 dozen of eggs valued at $262 ; the following year it had dropped to 98 dozens valued at $18. The effect of the McKinley law is seen in the three years 1891, 1892 and 1893. Canada finding that she was losing the United States’ market turned her attention to England and ex- portcd as follows : Poultry and D02. Eggs. Value. Game. 1891. . . . 649,476 S 84,589 $1,002 1892. . . . 3,987,655 592,218 3,349 1893 . . . . 4,104,632 538,944 5,304 Showing that all that is needed is to press trade in that ' direction, for England has demand for all the eggs we can send. The supply is drawn from France, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Gerrrany,Holland, Bel- gium, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, United States and Canada. France headed the list last year with 35,121,740 dozen, Ger- many come next with 27,513,400 dozen, Belgium next with 19,857,680 dozen. The United States sent only 421,250 dozen,the the total import amounting to 111,394,190 dozen valuedat $18,480,276. France supplit d. nearly one-third of the Whole quantity imported and Germany comes next with about a fourth of the value, Belgium following with nearly a fifth. It will be seen from this that there is a. great market for eggs in the United Kingdom at good prices,which should be an incentive to egg dealers in, this country to bestir them- selves to secure a greater share of the trade. The report furnishes full informa- tion,giving particulars of the trade with all countries,the tables showing at it glance the trend of the trafllc. _ - â€".__._._____. Memorized the Bible. There have been several instances of men with such marvelous memories that they knew not only by heart the. New but also the Old Testament, and in one case, at least, the whole Apocrypha as well. An old beggar at Stirling, Scotland, known over sixty years ago as Blind Alick, knew the whole of the Bible by heart, insomuch that if a sentence was read to hiin'he could name book, chapter and verse; or, if the book, chapter and Verse were named he could give the exact words. A man tested him by repeating a verse and purposely making one verbal inaccuracy. Alick hcsi bated, named the place whore the passage was to be found, and at the some time pointed out the verbal error. The same man asked him to repeat the ninetieth verse of the second chapter of the book of Numbers. Alick almost , in- stantly replied : “There is no such verse ; that chapter has only eighty-nine vers- es." A monk who resided at Moscow inLthe fifteenth century could repeat the whole of the New Testament; Daniel McL‘artney was a complete concordance of the New Testament and of most of the Old Testament. Prof. Hoyt (of Hebrew) re- cited a large number of passages from the Scriptures, as asked for, and satisfied his audience that he knew where every passage was. Lord Cartaret knew all the Greek Testament by heart from the first chapter of Matthew to the last chapter of the Apocalypse and could recite it verse by verse as if he had the book actually be fore him. Ambergris. Ambergris, or gray amber, is a secretion found in the intestines of diseased sperm whales. Sometimes, in warm climates, it is found floating on the sea, or thrown up on the coasts. Centuries ago, when first discovered, it was thought to he the solidified foam of the sea, or a fuugoid growth of the sea, similar to the fungi which grow on trees on land. It is only within a comparatively short time that its true character was discovered. It is supposed now to be ractically a biliar calculus; certainly ev ry whale in whic ambergris has been found has been sickgand it is believed that the sickness has been due to the presence of ainbergris. When amber- gris was first introduced into Europe it was used in medicines, in flavoring wines and in making perfumes. Now it is used for the last purpose only, though in the East Indies 1T1 LEVEL BROS THREE KILLED BY A RAILROAD, TRAIN IN BUFFALO. The Tue Children of John N. Sean-herd and Their Aunt. iii:- “‘ood. llurled Into Eternityâ€"The little Girl. who was Driving, «lit! not see the Engine and all Were Killed. A despatch from Buffalo says :â€"While driving across a railroad track on Sunday afternoon the carriage containing the two children of John Scatcherd and Miss Emily S. Wood, their aunt, was struck by afreight engine and the three occupants killed. At 5 o’clock Miss Emily S. “'00d and two daughters of John 1N. Scatcherd went for a drive along the Niagara boule- vard. Miss \Vood was one of the bestoknown society women in Buffalo. Mr. Scatcherd is a millionaire, the best horseman in Buffalo and the Republican state com- mitteeman from the 31st district. The children who went with Miss Wood were aged 11 and years respectively. The eldest girl was driving, and Miss Wood was readingaloud from a newspaper. Seeing the belt line passenger train approaching at the Parkside crossing the girl whipped the horse over ahead of it. A Central freight train going east escaped the notice of the occupants of the carriage. The engine struck the carriage and threw it clean up on the pilot, breaking it to pieces. The two girls were almost instantly killed, and Miss \Vood died soon after being rc- nioved to a nearby house. Mr. and Mrs. Scatcherd are nearly insane from grief. Mrs. Scatcherd is a sister of John Farley, Q.C., of St.Thomas. Her husband is well known in Western Ontario, and has a. brother engaged in the cattle business near . London, Ont. W THE LATEST FAD. A Gigantic Sixth Race or lien is to De- cciid Upon This Country. It is essentially‘an age of fade, and the latest is to the effect that a gigantic sixth race of men is to descend upon this country. These visiting magnates are to be thirty- three feet high, on an av erage. Both men and women Will have three eyes with which to look down upon ordinary mortals. The third eye will be in the centre of the forehead, as there would be hardly room for it anywhere else except in the back of the head, where it would come in handy in detecting the others making game of them. - Besides possessing advantages of towering stature and extraordinary powers of vision, the man of the sixth race will be able to live‘ much cheaper than the average mortal to-day, otherwise there would be danger of his eating us out of house and home. His food will be aesthetic and inexpensive. As for clothes, he will not, according to the views of tneosophists, have to expend a. dollar on them all the year round. \Vhen he wants a dress suit all .he will have to do will be to intimate his wish to the singularly responsible and versatile intellect with which he will he endowed and, presto! coat, vest and trousers will adorn his elongated figure in an instant and fit him to a dot. This may effect the clothing business to some extent,but it can’t be helped. These people will bc,doubtless, interesting, but they are hardly ii desirable class of immigrants. They should not be sprung upon us too hastily. Indeed, we have many peculiar people that we could do without and we don’t care to take in many more, just at present. Why can’t those people appear in China and take part in the present war? They ought to be able to bring things to a conclusion. We don’t want them ;at least just yet.) \Ve have lots of big men of our own. That is, of those who think they are. The War Chest of Europe. In his article on “ The War Chest of Europe,” published in the Nineteenth Cen- tury, Prof. Heinrich Gell‘ckcn says that Germany has a war treasure of'830,000,000 in coined gold lying in the Julius Tower at Spundau, while France, lussiu, England and the other great powers of the world have locked up in their war chests all the gold they can lay their hands on. Prof Hell'- cken has not been able to make an estimate of the total amount of currency thus put out of the reach of the world’s trade, but it is undoubtedly large enough to have a very serious restrictive effect. A still more serious result of the preparation for war in time of peace is the pcrmament war debt rendered necessary by heavy payments for ' army, navy and pensions. The war chest and the war debt taken together constitute the most serious obstacle now in the way of popular advancement. No form of land or commodity monopoly, bad as many of them are, is so oppressive to the earner as the restriction of‘ the medium through which he must cxchan e his pro- ductsâ€"if he do it at allâ€"when t he restric- tion is accompanied by an increasing bur- den of interest which must be paid out of his earnings. This system of op ression is peculiarly modern. It is a resu t of the military imperialism which has taken the lace of European feudalism. Incidental- y it afiords the favorities or the masters of government the most scientific method of robbing the people ever devised. And it is undoubtedly the most oilective. __.-_..__...._.____ Bullet Proof “ Madam,” said Meandering Mike, when, in response to his request for food, the of- fered him pie, ” do ye remember a year ago when ye gave a sufferin’ feller creature a pie 1*" ” I believe so." “ Madam, I’m that man.” “ Was it good." . “Good 2 1t saved my life. There was 0 it is still an article of the pharmacopceia. an unfeelin’ farmer that fired a box of tacks Ambergris, when first taken from the whale is or a deep gray color, soft to the touch, and of {disagreeable smell. When exposed l to the air, it hardens, loses color, and deve- ' lops a.sweet, earthy smell. It is worth about sixty dollars a pound. right for my heart at short range. I had yer pie buttoned up inside my vest, au’ here it iii-full o’ tacks, e7. ye kin see fur yerself. It ain't near worn out, an’ I won’t need another ter take its place for a year yet.” . yams“.-. .- -s...... -..._.... r" i. l l