fhfrexamlne you- address label the number on the laid is the one to whuh ijou are paid up thereceipt of your renewal is acknowledged by the change of the number on thelabel keep your subscription paidin advance the year ended last march and if you have not renewal yov oweusa dollar the tribune stouffville sept 27 1ss9 new advertisements bargain days fred spoffora groceries a g browu farm for sale local u c- hamilton tenders wanteda- macpuersou strayed jas vanzant veterinary surgeon j g clarke our fair d stouffer- co beys wanted a fleury sons locals r j daley millinery mrs f wilson o- the returns of the french elections although incomplete indicate that the republicans will have a working ma jority in the next chamber of deputies and boutatiger and the other malcon tents will still bo in thocwld shades of opposition france has had a terrible struggle to find what form of govern ment will satisfy her and the present ouo having lasted about a quarter o a century will probably last the century out meanwhile although protestations of peace come from most european powers preparations for war go brave ly on the adage in peace prepare for war is allied to the sage advice contained in the aphorism in dry weather carry an umbrella in rainy suit yourself tub ranks of modern literature have buou again thinned this time by the death of one of the most eminent and popular of english novelists wilkie collins who died at london on monday morning it is said that he was at tended by only a bosoci friend and a servant his only living relative being and old aunt living in dorsetshire although of a feeble physical nature he had reached the comparativelv ripe age of sixtylive and succumbed to a complication of diseases he has giv en to the world a large number of popular novels some of which have been translated into most european tongues he was at ono time associ ated with chas dickens in the publica tion of household words tub importance of physical culture and training has been very much un der valued by those who are popularly supposed to have a monqpoly of educa tion or at least a monopoly ot the power in directing the course of train ing in our schools of course at ox- ford cambridge yale and harvard j the students have devoted much per haps too mucliof their time to boating and baseball but it was without the school curriculum of slater years gmnaatics have become a part of every wellregulated high school and no doubt some provision will be made for systematic bodily exercise in our pub lic schools oven if it be pnlyas a re- lief from the tedium of school routine itis not to bo supposed or defirod that a walltrained athlete who can run or ow a mile faster than any one else should go down to history on the same pago with iuch intellectual prodigies as coleridge or byroa but let oyery oriejivoa fair share of his attention and timo tothe development of steontr musclosand a hardy frame and the result will be perhaps riot so many puiiy apeeimcus of precocious old heads on young shoulders it is better that a boj or girl should bo able to run lump or throw a ball witk any one of his or her ago rather than be in the fourth book when his coteras are learn ing their a b c many boys are denied the chance f securing adequate hoalthful exercise by tho greed of their parents who compel them to work for a lew paltry dimes vrhan a little recreation would do them good by ad means let the boys play lull or run or jump arid dcvelope their mui- pics washington letter from cur regular correspondent washington sept 23 18s9 bowmanyillo new public school building will iks opened next month a gas explosioii occurred in unices block at the junction last tuesday night considerate damage was done to the floor and doers of a real estate oflics but the workmen and the young man in charge escaped soriotts injury the ebb tide has set in from the sea coast and mountain resorts wash- ingtoniansaro coming homeagaiuand it is but repeating what those already returrcd have said to remark that they are very glad to be back they have comfort instead of more or less discomfort domestic life in place of vagrant hotel living and tho national capital instead of a small life of some summerliving hostelry it is a mat ter of social duty that many residents of washington must spend certain months of the year away from home and it is without much doubta matter of resrret to a large number ot them it is so because washington is so com fortable a place in which to live be cause here is a moderate climate here are perfect streets hero are shaded sidewalks hero are teeming markets here are abundant councettons with all the outingplaces of a day here are the requisites of pleasant living in a modern way to desert what wash ington affords and suffer to an extent beside the sea or under the eye of some mountain hotelkeeper is one of the penalties of being in tfec swim brave people and much enduring are those who are in the swam a month from now most of tke suffering wanderers will have returned to washington a month later they will have rceupcrated and be ready for the season of festivity which comes here with tho opening of congress and the full swing of official life added to the local term of social effort occurring- naturally in a city of two hundred thousand or so people the capital is beginning to be itself again and everybody is gratified over tho fact it should realv be itself all the year round it is almost old enough and big enough again at the close of the aound ten years the census bureau is pinching itself and trying to wake up like the 17year old locust between its periods of tremendous activity it en- j03s a sound sleep of several years but it never actually dies about 1881 it became comatose and since that timo there mis boon only 011c single clerk on deck jto attest actual vitality but last spring the president appointed eobcrt p porter its sunerintendent and signs of abundant life were at once apparanf already two or three hundred clerks have been appointed to prepare for the national census of next juneand within six months mr porter will have appointed 2000 clerks and 4000 enumerators to complete the immense work most of the clerks whose tenure will bo short are already selected and the local enumerators whose office life will last only one month are now bein designated in the thousands of districts all ower the country up to the present time portor and his assistants hare beea sheltered in private offices hut the hot hive is already crowded and in a month the workers will swarm and find new hives in different parte of the citywifcich they will occupy exclusive ly ilany reader thinks that it is mixing metaphors to allude to- these people both as cicadas and as honey lces lie ought to stumble upon the census bureau when it is hibernating and when it isnt it is tho intention of the superintendent to make ihe eleventh cunsus more complete titan any that has preceded it some sub jects not hitthorto covered will bo ex haustively treated and some interests will be represented much more com pactly than in 1880 but the prelimin ary plans are as yet somewhat nebul ous and it would be impossible now to toll of more than tentative purpos es if the govcrment of the united states had to pay for the use of the mails just as an ordinary citizen does when he posts a letter or a package the receipts of the postoffice depart ment would be increased many thous ands of dollars in tho course of a year the washington post oflice atone sends out as much as a million pounds of matter from the executive depart ments and congress in the course of a month and this matter is all minus postage the government depart ments in the city arc also exempt from the payment of the customary registra tion fee of ten cent and 219893 let ters and parcels were sent out gratuit ouslr by the ruoiur o omcc of the washington post office in twelve montlis besides whole libraries or public documents are carried free tor congressmen by their uncle samuel under their franking privilege but while a congressmen can send out a public document to his constituent free of charge it ho wants to write him a letter ho 5s compelled to pay the regular charge just as any other citizen years ago he could send out letters free now he is allowed 125 per annum for stamps and stationery iustead tho british cabinet now numbers seventeen members it will be the ambitiom of some of our statesmen to catch up with the mother country in this matter the next move in this direction will probably be to make tho pension bureau a seperate department with a secretary a force a fund and a policy all its own l bulletin slv ontario oats by c c james m a professor of chemistry agricultural col lege guelph the great importance or value of the oat crop is duo to tho following causes 1 a great variety of soils can fee used for tho production of this crop 2 land ot good fertility properly handled can be made to yield enormous crops 3 the grain is an almost umv ersal food for man and beast being well balanced building up muscle tat and bono and supplying heat force and even a nerve stianilant 4 in addition to the grain the straw is a very valuable article of farm produce the following is the average chemi cal composition of ton samples as determined in our chemical laboratory at tho college water 1290 crude protein 982 eat 524 soluble car bohydrates 5697 crude fibre 1191 ash 310 oats aie a remarkably well balanced food containing a large quantity of tho most valuable constituents viz protein and fat thev approach what may be called a perfect food they however contain a larger proportion of husk or fibre than do other grains such as wheat and barley the quan tity of husk or fibre can bo approxim ately determined by examination and we have thus an easy mode of determin ing the comparative values of two samples of oats as to their food values the more husk in most cases tho less valuable without going farther in to examples i cannot do better than quote here ono sentence from bulletin 9 department of agriculture wash ington d c- 1880 as follows the proportion of husk to kernel and tho compactness of the grain prove to be the allimportant factors and the weight per bushel the best mean of judging of the value of the grain clifford richardson physical characteristics weight pr variety bushel lb egyptian white 39 94 white australian 3824 rennies prize white 3961 acclzd blk tartarian 8680 bavarian 3583 black champion 3315 imp scotch potato 4043 cluster or triumph 3691 welcome 3519 early calder 3778 we will give the following induce ments to cash buyers 10 cts oil every dollar in dry goods ready made clothing crockery and glassware 13 its light sugar for 1 10 lbs granulated sugar for 1 tea at prices never ljefore heard of everything in stock will be reduced to prices to please every body ip a special sale evert thursday please step in and you will see we mean just what we say- iner the leader sttsffivile music pupils wanted- by a young lady who has had several vears successful experience in teach ing the piano special advantages for beginners and a thoroughly classic al course for advanced pupis would also like a few pupils in elementary english for two or three hours daily good testimonials or references for further information pplv to miss aldrich at the residence of rev h w knowles stoutfville out errors of youtli iccw swans specific remedy en n wises hever kn0wh t0 fflllt0 cure weakness andearlydccay of maid nerves and body nervous irosintion ortfnrrlc decay seminal lo won memory wasting smallnessof organs its success has challenfitd the almirv tion of every doctor viio has studied it it strikes at the very rootow till- evil sold only by flwatva biktlfic co i o box 53vtokoxto wmi oknuitte without ouk trade mark prigs by hail 100 six fob 500 a high place in art and literature lias certain ly been taken by the american agriculturist in its octoler number advance sheets of which have been received it proves to the world that a journal need not be deformed voiceless or poorly printed because its theme is agricul ture backed by abundant capital crowded with the la test and spiciest of all that the mos poetic of occupations can furnish illustrated profusely and elegantly printed on finegrain calendered paper and bound like an epic the american agriculturist deserves the position it holds as a peer of the modern magazine the current issue contains among other good things an exhaustive description of the export trade in beef cattle with a series of plates show ing the stock process of shipment and railway and nauticle views to one unacquainted with the great ocean transit system the article is of deepest interest nay fascination and th pictured facts are indelibly engraved upon the memory joseph harris article on sheep needs no encomium we defy competition in until tie first of we will give 10 lbs best green 50c tea for 450 10 lbs best mixed 50c tea for 450 10 lbs that celebrated japan 35c tea for 300 10 lbs extra 25c green for 230 tea us catarrh catarrhal deafness iiav fever new home treatment sufferers are not generally aware that these diseases are contagious or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrane of the nose and eustachian tubes microscopic research however has proved tt to be a fact and the result is that a simple re medy has been formulated whereby catarrh catarrha deafness and hay fever are perman ently cured in from one to three simple applica tions made at home by the patient once in two weeks n bfor catarrhal discharges pecu liar to females white this remedy is a specific a pamphlet explaining this new treatment is sent on receipt of ten cents by a ii dixon v son 303 west king slreet toronto canada scientific american sufferers from catarrhal troubles should read the above carefully we guarantee to give good value in teas as you can buy avhy not patronise those who buy your produce instead of goingaavay from home tby us a g brown telephone stoke boit read this hut cam at- h a o- average 37s9 the average weight per bushel of the united states oats see bulletin quoted above was 372 lbs in studying tho samples of ontario oats i was much impressed with the great variety in each sample at regards tho size shape and plumpness of the grains what wore apparently choice samples contained a largo proportion of inferior kernels it occurred to me that there is a possibility of great im provement by in some way culling some sample of seed grain it may at present he impossible for the farmer to select and inspect minutely every in dividual grain he sows but i believe that tlvs farmer who can find tho time and means or devise a method of select ing his grain individually as he does his animals will have taken one step or the pvc etc etc in this his last one very important step in advance j roiunuce jlrde leon has surpassed him i lt and i1uy youk tobaccos and cigars in town stationery canned goods oysters fruit etc pipes and pipe mounts and tub best brands of toys facy goods and pocke t knives in endless variety the complete noyel in lippincott magazine for november is called creole and puritan and is by t c d lton author of cross purposes the uock of his less careful neighbor trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle sleeplessness is due to nervous ex citement the delicately constituted tho financier the business man and those whose occupation necessitates great mental strain or worry all suffer less or more fiom it sleep is the great restorer of a worried brain and to get sleep cleanse the stomach from all impurities with a few doses of pnr- molces vegetable pills gelatine coated containing no mercury and we guar antee to give satisfaction or tho money will be refunded self and bus painld a charming graphic picture of west point life upon both its practical and social side s b wistcr contributes an nrtical upon the corrcspon denco of john lothop motlty many rntorsting incidents in the life of thi gicat american are told and ouc gathers a very clear idea of character with the wits the new humorous department con tains some pxcsicnl things by robert j bunlclle john annoy knox and other witty wielders of the pen the depart ment is illustrated ly such wellknown artwts as hovafth zimmerman brundago wonhod others beavcrtoi had a yacht race on mon- dav last sbrcmomber the place hamiltons first door east of station executors notice in the matter of the estate of john pockler late of the village of stouffvillo in the county of york who died on or about the 5th day of october 1888 all persons having claims against the said- john fockler are hereby notified that they are to send on or before tho firstclay ofdecemljer ad 1889 to nicholas j armstrong one of the executors of the deceased tlmir christian names and surnames address and description the full particulars of their claims a statement of their nceorts and the nature of tho security held by them after or in default thereof they will be excluded from any benefit coming from said estate the executors alter said date will proceed to distribute said estate and no persons whose names arc not sent in will have any share in the said distribu tion dated this 30th day ot august 1ss0 nicholas ji armsrong exccutois henry dickson mdress stouffville p 0 ont jk ij322