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<" j: te %L my p-v. ii' i ' < 8*V' " ,U0eO"EXTEN8IVELY/IN CHINA MAN8 OF TRANSPORT. A8 A my. J.1;'- >.'. Tlfty Years Ago. Frcriutnt T*ol< In t'.e Wlilte House chair, V-.'^tle In t,ovfclt wan Doctor Aycr * *T>ot!i were UuBy for human *eal One to govern ami one to heal. AD*!. "p pre)()int* power of will l>Vn*<.'U'niC9*Jepeu<]B'ou u Uycr-plll, h 'X-v. Tv-Ik took Aycr's Pills I trow >*or 1:U liver, 0 years go. Ayer's Cathartic Pills vrcro ctoaigrnod to supply a ruoaol purgative to people *who I'.J^l Lo long injured, themselves T/Ul: t'riyiag medicines. Being1 C^.-Jrully prepared and their in- t'rauiu'ncs adjusted to the exact necessities of the bowels and SiVt-irj-iliblr popularity was in- Bcantuneotia.;, That this popu- I.:uiy. luut been maintained is \rc\l maxlrpd in i^ modal r-vr.rc'.od thbso pills At the World's Fair 1893, 5ft Ynrirs of Cures. -,-.V'. Canadian. St. Thomas, which is Raid to he tho last Ontario city to cling to the old horse par system, ia Booking to infcro- , duoe an olootrio stroot railway. A wide aroa in Western Ontario was , Bwopt by a severe thontler storm Tttefl - day afternoon- Eloven barns.with the season's crops and containing maoh in- . ery and implemontfl of all kinds, woro destroyed. The Hboratod paBflongors of the steamer Passport have oxproflsod thoir intention of seeking legal redross for damage and irioonvenienco caused to , them by their imprisonment. , '/Mr, OaddyingliOftd, Civil Bngi- , neer, lias received a telegram from. Ottawa to hold himself in readiness to accompany a party of surveyors to open a route into the Yukon Country. From another sonrco it is learned the party will leave on Tuesday, and that ; the route to be inspected is that via Ed- \ monton. A war map of tho Dominion of Can ada is in process of preparation. It Will show all the roads, bridgos.towns, villages, farms, , blacksmiths' shops and storQH. Suoh a map has never been proparod in this country, but should bo kept up as is done elsowhoro, bo. that at headquarters any forco could ho directed with full knowlodgo of con ditions likely to moot thorn in crossing country. The apple crop in Ontario will likely bo a fair one. No such bi# yield is ox- peotod from ,tho orohards in this pro vince as was experioncod last yoar. Thoro has boon a sort of blight in some of tho orchards in tho Niagara diatriot, such as has played huvoo this floaaon among the trees on tho island of Mon treal, whore fruit has fallen oft" the trees in largo quantities. Advioos from theWostorn States apeak of a good average crop. Instructions have boon sent oiit by tho Customs Dopartmont to colloctors of Customs, all oyer fcho country to ; allow some freedom in mooting the Verjuiremonta of. tho how .regulations; ^vhioh govern tho oporation of tho pre ferential fcrtriff. Many parties received .. Bhipmenta or. ordered goods since . Bhippod before tho regulations woro -rt,, fcroporly promulgated. Time will bo S$'; ;:vgivon such to make tho necessary declaration, and in-tho meantime thoro will bo no ohjootion to tho withdrawal of the goods. ! Among othor regulations, which tho ifp.;;Government has made, in - connection $V:'with-.the Klondike Gold fields the fol- j|>"JDwinjr are tho moat important. A I';1 royalty of ton per cent, will be colloofc- $^;ijed by tho Government on all gold %v>talcen from tho diHtrict, every alter m fe- every hato Bocfcion will for tho'present bo ro- ^ Served by the Govornment, Tho view Kfv/'takon is tliat those gold fields are puh- & lie -property and that tho people of tej:V.Oanadu hav<j a right to participate in ^vtny^revonuo which may bo*obtninod ^^;'lrbm them. The*' Oovornnio'ht have a largo, detachment of mounted and customs ofileors to tho dis- !l-/'i- ' vBent Strict.; asy to Take asy to Operate pf-Ar foaturei peculiar to Hood's PflU. Small tn fejil?,' taatelewi, efflolent, thorough. As one man ' B.fif?*6awvwr Khow-you ^haye token* pUl Mil it is aU |K-*ter,'f 2W,C.'tHoo<l&C0.,' ?)?rJe^6nK Iiowatf; Mans; pultoU^withBoo<r#flMria* fhy Eah Ciriy 8laL-iWbvM or COO Ponnda ot UerohMidlM IJo*nd and Re^olKted How Th*y Dlflisr From Oni? tVb*elbitrTow. The wheelbarrow affords one of the ohief means o travel and tranbport in China, especially in tbe' northern part of the empire and throng bout the Great plain. The Chinese form M a deofdod improvement on the types uaed, in weat- firn conntriea, for it la so constructed that the load, which fometimee is very great in biilk and weight, is carriod pver the wheel, and not between it and tbe man who propels it The high coat of timber and the bad roads through- oat the country necessitate the wheel barrows being both ruc|e ant] strong, with axlei and'wheels able to bear tho strains which they experience. . The w hoe lb arrow is generally aonstVooted of oak, at a cost of about 16 nbilliiigs. Its weight 1b 130 pounds; extreme length, 6 feet 6 inches (including pkaf tn); extrems breadth, 8 feet 2, inches, and height; 8 feet 0 inches. The wboel is 8 feet in diameter and has an-iron tire. 1J^ inchoa wide by o quarter inch thick. To aid in uteadylug and propelling the vehicle .the wheelbarrow man wears a strap across his shoulders, which is attached to the shafts on eqch side. Boxes, bales of goods, or whatever the loads may consist of* are secured to tho wheolbarrow by ropes. The charge for carrying an average load is oboot Is, 6U per mile, but' varUs ' aocordiug to tho load and the state of the road to he traveled over. The wheelbarrow has seating accommodation for four poople, two on each side, and the fare for four people ia 3^d, per mile. Passeuger fares are lower than those for merchandise on account of tbe avoid ance of labor in loading and unloading. A cushioned seat is provided for the passenger, who generally sits with one leg resting on the front of the burrow and the other hanging over the sldo in a rope loop, which servos.as a foot rest, Thus a native is. wheeled for miles over tho rough roads of tho country, With severe jolting, accompanied by a pecul iar squeak of tho axle in tbo case of most burrows. Immediately behind tho whool- barrow, between tho shafts, thoro is a long, oblong shaped baskot, in whioh tho wheolbarrow man keeps bin fow be longings. On tho Groat plain wheelbar rows are occasionally soon with a Hail sot, wheu a fair wind proves a grout help to the trundling of the burrow over a lovol wuy. Since the institution of cotton mills at Shanghai. (foreign settlements) the wheelbarrow hus been oxtensivoly uuod as a passenger vehicle, especially for car rying workwomen to und from the mi 11a One man eon wheol six women for a distance of about three miles, morning and oveniug, the chargo being Is. Dd, per month. Tho average earn ings of a wheelbarrow man are about 83^<L per day. About 4,000 licensor ure issued monthly to the somo number of Wheelbarrows plying for hire in tho streets of the foreign settlements at Shanghai, where, boing under tho run- nioipol regulations, they are perhaps tho host in China, The fee for a license, is lij^d. a month, and no wheelbarrow is allowed, according to the regulations, to ourry more than. Q% obosts of tea or %% boxes of kerosono oil or $0% boxes of soap (80 pounds ouch) or 10 boxes of soap .{52 pounds each) or '3 bales of American piece goods. The width of the packages must not exceed four feet thut is, two feet on each aide of the barrow and no wheelbarrow is allowed under any oiroumstanoes to carry more than 000 pounds of dead weight. These regulations are,, however, not strictly adhered to. Somotimos in the strcots of the foreign settlements at Shanghai about 50 wheelbarrows may boHoou traveling ono behind the other, each carrying two barrels of English Portland cement and pushed by one man. Very froquontly, however, a load is carried on one side of the barrow on ly, so that the edge of tho \% inch tire outs into tho mnoaduru roadway like a knifo. . The bales somotimos project thrco foot on each side, the man push ing tho barrow being almost Invisible from the front. The municipal roads are chiefly of macadam, and tho dam- ago they sustuin from this trafflo is vory groat. It has boon found, after re peated oxporlments, that granite broken to pass through a threo-quarter inch ring and rolled in tho usual manner is the only kind of macadam roadway that will stand this severe trafna It is extraordinary to see a Chinaman skill fully balancing and propelling a heavy load on one side of a barrow, and, con sidering that thoro are about 4,000 of these vehicles traveling through, the strootflof tho 'settlements, in addition to a largo truffle of othor kinds, the upsets and accidents are' remarkably few. Iron Ago. . ftlmbork Tho short life of Franz Sohubert probably contained as much artiatio lu- bor as any man haft ovor been able to crowd in tbo sumo uumhorof youra Ho was born in 1707 and died in 1828. His arfchitio caroor extended ovor ubout 20 yours, during which time ho produced more than 1,200 songs, to suy nothing1 of symphonies, pi uu of or to sonatas and concerted musio. Of Oouno. .'._-, Professor (u little distracted) I'm glad to soo you. How'^ your wife?'*/: *. ;"I wgrot it,'professor, hut I'm not murriod. -. "Ah, yes, Then of courso your wife's still singla "^-Fliogoudo Blatter. ^Tbe dress of u fu,lly equipped' diver weighs 160^ pounds and costs about 500. The thick underclothing weighs 83^ pounds, the dress itself 14 pounde, the huge boots; with leaden soles, 82 pounds,, the breast and baas; 80 pounds wvl the helmet 85 pxmn<li ; i It Beiwn* XMShmtlv* jlftw* tfl7s1mrsv an4 tuagaiB Brsd % "Bldyoft ever see man shot for de- Wrtiorir ; .-.-.- " Yes, several of them. The first one was a man of oar brigsds. 'He deserted while we were near Fwderloksburg and joined the Confederate army. A few weeks before we started for Gettysburg a Confederate deserter reached the lines of another brigade sad was placed un- 'der guard,' A soldier of oar brigade passing that way aaw the Confederate and woe surprised to And that he was ths man who had deserted; from his eompsny a few weeks before. Found guilty, hs was sentenced to be shot. The day upon which he was to die we wars on the way to. Pennsylvania to help flght the great deciding battle. The deserter Was placepVin; an ambulance, by his oojfln, that .morning. . At^npoiS, after hardtack, port,snd oonree, the brigade formed three lines of a square, when ths deserter was marched from right to left of tbe lins and seated upon the coffin. Twelve men were marched two or three rods from him. The officer gave tbe command, 'Beady, aim, flrol' Ths criminal fell back;. on hie coffin, pierced by Ave or six bullet*. The bur sal followed immediately, without serv ice, and ths brlgadt palled out, the band playing a quickstep. "After the battle of Gettysburg, and when the Fifth corps'was camped near the Rappahannock river, in September, the whole command -was formed on thres sides of a square, tbe ooatomary formation, and witnessed the shooting of Ave deserters. All of them were of the class known as bounty jumpers. They had deserted savers! times, one of them five times. They were Mew York ers. : A desperate efTort had been mads to save their lives. Several comxqitteee from the great oity had waited upon President liincoln and pleaded for them.. The wives and ohildren of two of them visiiod . the president, bat Mr. Lincoln could not bo moved. He had overlooked the offense in hundreds of instances, but the time had came when the dis cipline of the army demanded the se verest puuishmeut of soldiers found guilty of that orime. '"fiocroiary Stanton, for a yoar befow Mr. Lincoln bad refused to so punisb deserters, had pleaded with him to lot. the law have its way. Mr. Stanton had told the president many a time that hii soft heart was spoiling the army and endangering-thoJifo of the nation( bui Mr, Lincoln paid llttlo head'until 1868. "In some portions of ths army it Waf the custom to hang deserters, bat in most instances they were shot, and in the presence of thoir respective com mands, as described The effect wai magical Desertions were little heard of for the next few months." Chioagc Times-Herald. ~~ Sicilian TCovtt GhjUrmi, 9. The love charms of Sicily are many and curious. Ono, very papular and con si do red very powerful, is to put intc an eggshell a few drops of the blood oi the longing lover. The shell is exposed to the sun for threo days and to the dew for three nights. It is then placed on hot ashes until oalolned, when the whole is reduced to a fine powder and administered soorctly in a cap of coffee or a gloss of wine to the object of affec tion, Another charm is for tho witch to undress at midnight and tie Lor olothee up in a bundle whioh she places on her head. Then, kneeling in the Center of bar room, sho pronounces an incanta tion, at the end of which she shakes her head. If tho bundle falls in front-of hor, it is a good sign; should it fall be hind her the charm will not avail. Yet another is. worked in the following nianner: Pieces of groon, red and white ribbon are purchased in three different shops, tho uumo of tho persons to be charmed being repeated, moutally, each titno., The shopkeeper must ho paid With tho left hand, the ribbon boing received in the right. Whon all tho pieces arc bought, thoy are taken to a witch, who sets out to And the person to bo charmed. On finding him, or hor, the witch mut ters to hciwelf, "With theso ribbons I bind you to such a ono." Then she re turns the ribbons to the purchaser, who ties them beneath his or hor loft knee and wours thorn at ohurch. Alacmil- lan's. " ____________ Or?afc Min' Compliment*. While it is well known that Daniel Wflhstor, in speaking of Geueral Tay lor's oandidaoy for tho ofiloo of presi dent, pronounced it "a nomination not fit to bo made," he never failed to do justioe to tho goneraPs military abili ties and eminent servico in tho Hold. On ono ooousiou ho paid the old sol dier a delinntn und well deserved com pliment. G(Mioral Taylor was complain ing of tho orowds of poople who daily bosioged him soon after his acoossion to tho. presidency. * . "They interfere," he said; "witb my official engugomonts and violate my do mestic retirement, but still. 1 do not Wish to turn my. bank upon myfriends." "You never did upon your enemies, general," Mt. Wobster instantly replied. A compliment of unothor sort, and more surprising, considering itsi source, Was ono given by Mr. Webster, though tho object of it was not present to hear. Some one was speaking of the remark ably beautiful eyes of a handsome wo- mun, and one young enthusiast said, "Thoy remind me, with their long, dark. eyelashes, of artillery in ambus cade." -.-"They.should rather be compared, to heat lightning," said another. "Not bo," put in Mr. Webster, with a perfectly grave: face, "for you must certainly be aware,' my dear-air, that heat lightning never strikes, "^Youth's Companion. -.' '. Usually. "While I like , to see si man who Is not afraid to stand up for his rights,M said. the-Oumminsville flag<% "still, I have noticed that that soft of a man aaufiHy thinks he has a right to any thing he want*." Issav sa4 0hM4 WZsJIasis mmS. ^^v^a.;/'*^'^wMMfcV-'---,'-;--- <;. Dutingiiha imtohisi* oi 1B75 bamja of Indians rsturnlng from a hunt farrOut ing seen as diffnt ttmss andindiffer- Bht places, and always in the cshtsr of; a large herd, a white buffalo. Their had aseoV'thelr' bsst hOrsesln the effort so overtake ittonov purpose, never being ablo to get anywhere near the animal. a first we did not pay.muoh attention to those stories, but still it kept orop- plog up from different bazhJM, and at last in the fall of 187B, I myself had a chance to verify the truth of tho report. I had been sent oh duty north along, the Red Peer river and vttm oamped near a large band of Blaokfeet, who were hunt ing south of that river. The buffaloes had moved north in vast numbers, and the prairie 'was black with tnom. I had'gone out one morning with a party of Blaokfeet to see one of their bunts, and also to try and kill for my- toltj My, horso was a good ono and much faster than any belonging to. the Indian hunters. I had got detached from the party, becoming tired of the slaughter, and must have been at least 30 miles from oatnp, when I made for a small clump 'of timber not far off, intending to build a Are and' roost a portion of some buffalo meat I had on the. saddle with me. . As I approached the wood a bond of, about 100 animals burst out of the broBh and made off to tho south, and, yes, most certainly, in the middle of.thom was a white buffalo. Although they were a quarter of a mile away, thero oould be no mistake about it He was there as Jorge as life and quite white and running like a deer. There was no time to much moro than toko in tho BcOue, but I gathered up the reins and was after him, determined to bag that buffalo or kill ray horso.' Oh, what a race it was, mile after mile! And, although all tho band, with tho ex cop t ion of about a dozen, had split off and gone in different dlroo- tlons, the whito animal, with his body guard of about a dozen kept at about the same distance ahoad. I could catch a glimpso of him now and then, and there was no doubt he was snow white. Get within shot I oould not for many miles. At last they began to tire, and, although my horse tired also, I had good hopes of coming up and getting a shot. Alas, for such a chancel Of a sadden my horso lurched forward on his nose, sending mo ovor bis head on to the prairie and turning a somorsault himself ..missing mo by only a few feet. Ho had put hU foot into a badgor hole and brought my hopes of a white robe to a snddou end. Forest and Stream. WITHOUT A COMPASS. tb Yarlotu Wmy* of Comotly GaldUtt* -OotnWTof a Va*l# Gustav Kobbo contributes an article to St. Nicholas. Mr. Kobbo says: Sailors steer by the Wake of tho ship. When a vossel is running free that Is, with the wind dead astern she most leave a straight wake, or she is not run ning a straight course. When she is ' 'on the windj" hor canvas full, not shivor- ing, when sho is ' As near tut sho will Ho By kooplnv full and by her wake will be at an auglo greater or less, aocordiug to the force of tho wind and the spood of tbo vchhoI. This unglo moasures what we call the ship's "lee way" that whioh shblosos from a true course. With a vessel liovo to in a galo tho leeway becomes very largo and is called tho "drift" Coasting oraffc steer by tho lino of white surf on tho shorn or in think wouthor by its roar as it breaks on the bonch or rooks. They haul in to catch tho sound, then keep off until they loso it, und then haul In again to a control lino and maintain it. An old sen dog once told me that one thick night, coming up along the coast with a hoad wind so that thoy hud to tack in and off short), thoy sailed thoir tacks, orran their "logs," by oandlos run ning off shore long onoagh to burn out two caudles, but burning one for tho inshore leg, so as to avoid standing in too close. The Alaska steamers on the inside route bo two on the main coast and nu merous outlying islands stoor, oven in running through tho mirrowost ohnu- nols, by tho vurying echoes of the pad dles from tho shoros. A given pourse can also be run by soundings, or, rathor, by a lino of soundings. In entering Now York har bor keep in, pay, 15, 20, 40 fathoms, no less, until you get 10 fathoms. If then tho load showfljflno white sand, look out for Sandy Hook lightship. Coarso yol- low sand will land you on Firo island. The Gravitation Theory. In ono of hiu'lectures boforo tho Low ell institute, Boston, recently ^rofossor G. F. Wright combated tho supposition that tho conclusions of modern physical soienoo are.'free from difficulties and clour of all doubt. Instead of such be ing tho case science, he declares, is load ing dooper. and deeper into mysteries and substituting instead of single myg- teries an ovor increasing multitude for saoh one. Ho instanood in illustration tho Newtonian theory of gravitation us involving paradoxes to tins day unex plained, arguing that if bodies act up on each other at a distance without any intervening medium then a thing can act where it ia not, whioh is an absurd ity! while, on the other band, if there Is a material medium filling all space, and a gravity is transmitted' through that by a push rather than by a pall, then the transmission ought to occupy some appreciable time, but this it does not do, and at. any.rate, if its action is not absolutely instantaneous, its veloci ty must bo at least fifty million times greater than that of light Moreover, very effort to represent gravitation is the' result of a push from hohind in volves abeurdities of various kinds. Ia fact, JSTewton's final oonqluflfon was that 1 tho philosophy of v^yiltat|pn"jU,rabB?' lutelymcxmoeivableandiUaotionp>isr ^^^^^^^^ OfflqffrfqottuUsAta TW Is* true statement and It can'tb mads too strong or too enpbatlo. 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