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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-04-13, Page 2FARM. Barone( FROM ONTARIO COQNTE. Wortioulture and gemology in this county are more and more Deming to the front. The. aollitiea here are bettor for fruit than for grain production. The currant Is beginning to take the lead among small fruit. The Windsor cherry has no equal, either for home use or for market. Montmorenoy Ordinaire is a finekiad for market. Cherries demand good culture as well as other finite. Peaches should be well thinned early in the season to make nice salable fruit. IDarly Rivera is a good early peach. At. tention is called to a Texas production, Nine's Surprise, which is earlier than Rivera, and an entire freestone. Steven's Rareripe can be recommended as late peach. Salway gives a big crop, having a tendency to overbear. The Kieffer is simply wonderful (Mr. Willard has again sold his crop at a big price, and states that the commission merchants telegraphed him to ship a carload). The apple crop has brought more money to the county than any other crop. Buyers begin to discriminate, and will not pay a first-class price for infer- ior fruit any more. It pays to pack the ap- ples so that you will be proud to have your name on the outside of barrel. Spray with Paris green. Give food to trees and good sultivation. Sutton's Beauty apple, and McIntosh Red deserve special mention among the new varieties. McIntosh is the handsomest of all, and of fine quality. Yellow Trans- parent is becoming popular. W RANCHMAN'S COMMISSARYDEPARTMENT. A ranohman'a life is certainly a very pleasant one, albeit generally varied with plenty of hardship and anxiety. Although occasionally he passes days of severe toil— for example, if he goes on the round up he works as hard as any of his men --yet he no longer has to undergo the monotonous drudgery attendant upon the tasks of the cowboy or of the apprentice in the busi- ness. His fare is simple ; but, if he choose, it is good enough. Many ranches are pro- vided with nothing at all but salt pork, loaned goods, and bread ; indeed, it is a endows fact that in travelling through this cow country it is often impossible to get any milk or butter; but this is only because the owners or managers are too lazy to take enough trouble to insure their own comfort. We ourselves always keep up two or three sows, choosing such as are naturally tame, and so we invariably have plenty of milk and, when there is time for churning, a good deal of butter. We also keep hens, which, in spite of the damaging inroads of hawks, bob cats and foxes, supply us with eggs, and in time of need, when our rifles have failed to keep ns in game, with stewed, roast, or fried chicken also. From our garden we get potatoes, and mnleas drought, frost or graeshoppers inter- fere (which they do about every second year) other -vegetables as well. For fresh meat we depend chiefly upon our prowess as lsunters.--Thedore Roosevelt in the Century. BROKIyr LHGGED HORSES. Some years ago, writes a correspondent of The Cultivator, a two-year-old colt, with others in an outlying 'mature, was found with a foreleg broken above the knee and ordt'sache ha_nging limp and useless. It was early Jane, hot weather coming on. The animal, though fairly gentle, had never been accus- tomed to stall or harness. I knew it was 'useless - to attempt putting it in a sling or adjusting a splint or a bandage if left in �tture. There was a small lot available, wI—@hexcellent grazing, water and shade. In this the colt was placed, simply watched, given a little extra nourishment in form of oats, and left to its fate. The Ieg hung in snob a way that the bone was in a natural position, and the muscles were used to keep the foot clear of the ground. The animal moved about on three legs for a month, took care of the one injured, and I do not think it attempted to Iie down during this time. Then it began to put its foot to the ground and gradually to use the leg. By this time pasturage failed. In the fall it had a substantially sound leg again, and was a useful animal for years. When trot- ing it showed a slight lameness, probably due to a little shortening of the injured leg, but in field work and all ordinary farm par- eses it proved a thoroughly serviceable arse. Y • SPAvmTLD ARABIANS. 'United States Senator Palmer determined to have on his farm at Detroit, at least five full-blooded Arabian mares, and sent an agent to Arabia to purchase the animals at any coat. The agent has telegraphed his 'inability to secure the horses. Upon his arrival at Damaecua he learned that a firman had been issued by the Sultan prohibiting the further exportation of horses because .of the probability of war, in which event they would be needed. This did not daunt Senator Palmer's agent, neither did the historical belief that no Arabian horses aro ever disposed of except as gifts to royal.per- sonages and for purposes of war. He push- ed on and had little trouble in persuading the Sultan to revoke his firman in the interests of a United States Senator. He was elated by his success in this direction, but he has nevertheless signally failed in his effort to get the horses. The rules against selling did not prevent his success, how- ever ; he failed from a far different cause, it being none other than the fact that every horse shown him was spavined, ringboned, wind-broken, blind or eficted with some ether disease to which horses, even the pink.oyed, soft -skinned Arabian species, are subject. SWITZERLAND'S MILCH COWS. Switzerland has 660,000 milch oows, all of native breed, and divided into two sharply defined races, the brown and the spotted, Ike former color varies from deep fawn to 'souse gray, the latter shade being held hi the most esteem. The brown race is short -horned and considered as the origi- nal type. It corresponds to the remains kind on the sites of:the Roman cities of the third century of our area. The skulls of this Pace, fui thormona are identical with chose found in the Swiss lake dwellings. The Hotted rade, peenliar to Berne and Jribonrg, is believed to be of Scandinavian origin. Prom the milking point of view *ere is not very much differenoe in either rase. The average daily yield is about twenty pounds. Difeks usually bogie to lay in February, �euntil that ttni they may be kept at but exposes. Cooked turnips, with a small I; , amount of oorn.meal, make good food for them. After they begin to lay they should have a proportion of animal food, The great flow of milk of oows is artificial,. In a state of nature the Dow gives only the nooessery quantity, and gives it only the neoessary time to sustain the calf, Tho greater and longer yield of milk is the re, butt of better feeding, batter treatment and longer manipulation of the teats. Hence to increase the Yield of milk, feed and milk well. Remember that planta to do the work they ought to do require " standing -room." They must have a mellow, porous soil or their feet will be cramped. It pays to take the time to prepare soil properly. Old Jethro Tull found to his coat that tillage alone would not keep up the fertility of hie fields, but he found what thousands since bis time have proved, that tillage and man- ure work well together. Don't depend upon surface tillage too much, Pulverize the soil to begin with. Grass lands, as a rule, are neglected by our small farmers. But little attention is paid to draining in fall and winter, and no mulching or attempted improvements. As soon as the warm weather approaches, sheep and cows are turned in to feed on the young blades, and if the cows give milk, and the lambs grow fairly well for the butoher, that ends the matter. If more caro were given to seeding down and getting a good stand of grass, no better means could be devised to insure improved methods of farming. With well seeded fields there need be leas plowing, and that might be properly limited to the area that can be thoroughly manured and cultivated, A really good grass or clover crop will pay better average profits than those requiring much more labor. "Does your cow cringe and curl," asks The New England Farmer, " and appear nervous and fidgety when you sit down to mirk her ?" Well, not much, she doesn't. She isn't that kind of a cow. She isn't one of your shy, timid, bashful cows. She just fixes her eyes on vacancy with a glare that will raise a blister on an oak knot, sticks her tail straight up in the air, stiff as a poker, planta three feet firmly on the ground and then feels around with the other for the milkpail, milkstool, milkmaid ; finds them ; fires them up somewhere into the blue em• pyrean, and remarking, " Ha, ha .'" amid the shouting, jumps over a six rail fence and tramples down an acre of young gaeden. Don't talk about cringing and curling to a cow that has to be milked with a pipe, line and a pumping station. Big Windfalls. Naval men, especially in the last century, have often grown rich on the proceeds of a tingle successful expedition, or even on those of a single captured hostile ship. In 1743, during Commodore Anson's cruise, for ex- ample, the Centurion, on June 20, took the Spanish galleon Nostra Signo'-a de Cabadan- go, which had on board bullion and cargo to the sine of £400,000 ; and, before the Com- modore returned to England, his squadron captured other vessels which were worth £600,000. Anson'a share of this sum was, I believe, over £'0,000. Again, on July 30, 1745, the Prince Frederick, Captain James Talbot, brought home prizes which, with their cargoes, were worth over £1,000,000. The treasure and plate alone filled forty-five waggons, and the oaptain'nshare onthe;pinns der was abont £120,000. In the same year another English vessel took a Spanish ship with £400,000 on board, and a third, the Surprise, captured a French East Indianian worth £150,000. Other captures in 1745 were the Charmante ('200,000), the Heron (£140,000), the Notre Dame de la Delivrance (600,000) and the Conception. The latter's cargo—I take the details from a contempor. ary account—consisted of a large quantity of cocoa, sixtyeight chests of silver, gold and silver coin to the amount of over £200,- 000, much plate, a two -wheeled chaise, the wheels and axle trees, etc., of which were of silver set with diamonds and other pre- cious stones, and a quantity of gold in bars. " When the ship was put up for sale, the French captain, upon the promise of a're- ward from Captain Frankland, the captor, discovered to him 30,000 pistoles, which were concealed in a place where no one would have ever dreamed of finding any- thing." This ship was one of the richest prizes ever taken ; but its value was exceed- ed by that of the Ilermoine, a Spanish treasure -ship, which was taken in 1762 by Captain Pownhall, of the Favourite. The three ]ieutenants"of the vessel received as their shares £(3,000 apiece, and the captain obtained £65,000, while £64,000 went to the flag offiaera on the Mediterranean station, where the capture was made. The admiral was at the time miles away from the scene of action, and had very little to do with the capture. The German Crown Prince. It is devoutly to be hoped that the Crown Prince of Germany is not the unfeeling wretch and the firebrand he is pictured by the newspaper correspondents. Otherwise hie accession to power, which there is reason to fear must come all to soon, can scarcely fail to be the signal for a general European conflagration. It is not unlikely that the portrait presented of him is greatly over- drawn. If he is as represented, braeque in manner and democratic in feeling, he is just the character liable to be misunderstood in the Court circles 'ia which ho moves. There is at least a palpable contradiction be- tween the representation of him as a man of harsh and war.loving disposition, and that which shows him as an idol of the common people. The professional soldier may, in. deed, admire such it character. But the toil- ing masses of Germany, as elsewhere, cannot be lovers of war, or of those who would in- volve them needlessly in its hardships and horrors. European wars are generally waged by despots or dynasties. All the interests of the people are opposed to war, and it can scarcely be credited that their sympathies would be with the man who would lead them into it, unless in defence of the national honour. It ie on the common penp'o that the enormous burdens of modern warfare fall moat heavily. They have to pay the taxes. Theirs it is to make the forced marches, to occupy the trenches, to shed the blood, while the favoured few carry oft the honors and reap the rewards of victory. It is incredible that the people should long for the enthronement of a fighting monarch, or that if Prince William is really their friend and favorite, he can be impatient to lead the national army to the battlefield. Bishop Sullivan, of Algoma, is expected to leave for England in May, to endeavor to oomlate the endearment of his diooese for whipah 00,000 fs still needed, Sam Jones Says Some New Things In a New Lecture. "My subject," ho said, "is ' Get there,' with the ' Eti,' left out, as you know I am constitutionally averse to slang of any sort— (laughter)—and for that reason 11eft t,ff the In a sontonee beginning with the charact- eristic word, " Really," Sam Jones paid a high compliment to the social and religious Life of Toronto, and then said. " It seems as if Toronto is already getting there, and is sitting there waiting for E:i to come sip." The lecturer said he didn't intend to show his hearers how to get there aeverally, finan- cially or politioally—making these remarks by the way :— Riches are like a walkiugatiok ; one will help you along but fifty on your back will break you down." " If 1 should get you there politically you would be covered with more mud than you could wash oft iu all your life." How to get tbore in the boat aenae, he said, involved three things :-1. Some one who wants to go elsewhere. 2. A route or way. 3. Destination. "I don't stick very close to my subject," he said, "but I always stick to my crowd, and there's a good deal in that." BUILDING A FIRST-CLASS NAN. " Really, it's a very hard matter to build a regular first•cless man. We have got plenty of material, but the patterns are so scarce. If I had a hundred ordinary men to make one first class man out of I would be very economioal with my dirt. (Laugh- ter.) You have got enough pieces in Toron- to to; make a thousand men, but they won't fit one another. The lecturer expressed a great dislike to the sentiment of the hymn, " Oh, to be no- thing," and wanted to know how " nothing" could wear a crown or play a harp. Then he disliked to hear a man singingp" 1 am no- thing but a worm of the dust." "Suppose you went away from home, and your wife sent you a letter directed ' My Dear Old Worm of the Dust,' wouldn't there be war in Egypt ? Or, suppose 3 ou address- ed her, ' My Dear Worme,s of the Dust.' (Great Laughter). You're no worm." '' I believe in depravity, but 1 would never stop to discuss whether it is total or partial. I would just say, ' You have got enough meanness to damn you, and you had better look out,' and if a fellow wants any more than that, he's greener than I am." " We're not putrefaction and decay, but the good in us is out of fix. Here is a good tongue, but it tells lies ; here is a good hand, but it knocked a fellow down yesterday. Sin is simply the perversion of a God-given faculty." "I love to see a man with a high concep- tion of manhood. Instead of singing ' I'm nothing,' let us sing ' I'm the child of a king.' Instead of singing ' I want to be an angel,' let us say ' I want to be a man." Having secured the right kind of a man to "get there," one who is pure, noble, true, genuine to the core—the lecturer proceeded to discuss the " way." "All liars," he said, "are in the false. way, and it looks like that way's powerfully crowded. Everybody here that hasn't told a lie in twelve months stand up." A very few rose, whip the rest laughed at the apparent confirmation of the lecturer's charge. " Five preachers got up," he said ; and then he quoted the, language of a little boy who said that lying was worse than stealing ;—" If you steal something you can take it back : but if you tell a lie you can't take that book." Speaking of the virtue of patience, he said —" It is to life just what an egg is to coffee —it settles the whole business. Mother, if you have a little more patience you will be a precious mother; and if you have patience enough you will be a grandmother.' (Laugh- ter.) PREACHING 01? DEATH. Sam Jones thought the preachers were in- clined to taik too much about death and not enough about life. "There is not a single word in the whole Bible telling a man to get religion because he is going to die ; every appeal is, ' give your heart to God, for you shall live forever.'" He was not inclined, however, to be very severe on the class of sermons which seer, " You had better get religion ; you will die next week." "That's a pretty good string to run your old rascals in with. I don't know what you preachers would do if you couldn't fall back on that. If au angel were to come down nere and say that everybody would live for a hundred years, you wouldn't get ten dollars on your salary this year. (Laughter.) Who's going to church and prayer meeting and pay the preacher, if he's not going to die ? But at the end of about 95 years they would bo hiring another preacher and saying, ' We've got to go to the boneyard in another five years and we've got to get fixed up for it." To a preacher who had asked him how to infuse more life into his church he said :— "Next Sunday just walk out of the pulpit, grab an old bench warmer and throw him out of the window. On Monday morning you will have to pay ten dollars in the Police Court and five dollars for the windo v, but next Sunday morning you will have three thousand people trying to get into the church to see a preacher that has done semcthing. (Laughter.) We hive got to do something or we'll never be respected." HEAD OFF THE DOG. " Here goes a rabbit, running a mile a minute—hustling himself. A man says, Run, rabbit, run ; it's only half a mile to your den.' Rabbit says, 'Mister, you needn't enc enrage me to run ; just head off that dog,'" (Laughter.) "There's too much encouraging the rabbit and too little heading off the dog. (Ap- plause.) You can preach anything you like to a woman who knows her husband is un. faithful to her, but she's in hell every minute she breathes. So with the woman with a drunken husband." "Let's preach against the barrooms and the gambling dens and the shameless house, the dogs that aro chasing our people down to destruction ; let's head the dog a heap, and encourage the rabbit a little." (Ap- plause.) It don't take much grit to encour- age the rabbit, but you've got to look out when you head tho dog off." "The preachers always say to me, ' You head off the dog and I'll encourage the rabbit.' I was here for three weeks and I hardly got to speak to the rabbit at all." People grumbled sometimes abont his style of preaching, the lecturer said, but no- body dould complain that they didn't under. stand him. "1 always put my fodder on the ground, where everything from a goat to a giraffe oan get it." : (Laughter). Enterprise, enthusiasm, courage, kind• i Hess, were some of the qualities which were needed in artier is t6 get there." Speaking of courage, he approved of the course of the Quaker who, having been struckk on one cheek presented the other, then pulled off hie coat and said, " And now, having fut• tilled the Scriptural injunction, I propose to give you the best whipping you ever had in your life." A new definition of the dude was given.. "A little pimple on tho body of eooiety, showing that society's blood is out of con- dition,' Speaking of kindness, the lecturer gave an excellent picture of the self-satisfied air of a lady who has given an old threadbare dross to a poor woman, " Oh, there's another treasure Laid up in .Heaven." " The worst that could happen to you when you get to Heaven would be to make you wear all the old dresses you have given away. You wouldn't go calling mach for the first few years." That which delighted the audience most was the lecturer's illustration of the differ- ence betweena Temperance man and aProhi- bitionist. The Temperance men are pulling the poor old drowning drunkards out of the river ; but the Prohibitions have gone up the river a few miles fighting the crowd that are throwing the people in. " As soon as we Prohibitionists get our work in, you Tem. perance people will be out of a job." " There are more Prohibitionists in Amer. ica today than there were Abolitionists in America ten years before Mr. Lincoln signed the proolamation that made the slaves free, and just as certain as that God was on the side of the Union pause and the emancipation of the slaves He is on the side of Prohibi- tion, and the proclamatio n will be signed that will sound the death knell of the liquor traffic and make all these slaves of drink free." Our New Game Bill. Forest and Stream contains a letter from Ernest E. Thompson, of this city, giving a summary of the amendments embodied in the Phelps Game Preservation Bill recently passed by the Legislature, and referring as follows to the fate of the measure for the better protection of birds : " You will be sorry to learn that our bill for the protection of birds has been thrown out for this year by means of a shameful double shuffle to ex- plain which it will be necessary to detail the Stages of such a bill in our Legislature. First it is prepared by parties interested and given into the charge of a member who in- troduces it, After which it goes into commit- tee, the member in charge selecting his own committee. A number of experts on the subject are then called up for examination before the committee and the bill is remodel- led and perfected, after which it must pass its second and third readings in the House before it becomes law. Now one of the Toronto members, Mr. John Leys, profess- ing an interest in the matter, was allowed to take charge of the bill prepared by the Natural History Society. He then selected a committee to suit himself—violated all his promises of giving us a chance to speak— sent only for our opponents, the representa- tives of the Gun Club, and succeeded in hav- ing the whole thing thrown out." Our contemporary comments as follows on the contents of Mr. Thompson's letter : " Sportsmen, naturalists and all other peo. ple who are interested in the preservation of game and birds, will be sorry to learn of the action of the Ontario Legislature refer- red to in another column. It will be seen that the bill as reported does not forbid the dogging of deer, nor does it provide that the intendinghunter must procure a license. The provision that only five deer may be killed by one or more hunters from one camp will be a dead letter, since it can never be enforced. The section requiring three months' residence in the province before any person shall be at liberty to kill deer, or other game, amounts to a practical barring out of all residents of the United States from shooting privileges in Ontario, and will seem a severe hardship to those clubs whose members reside on this side of the line. Some of these clubs have spent large sums of money in the purchase of extensive tracts of wild and worthless land, and have gone to considerable expense in putting im- provements on such property. A bill such as the one reported would, if it became a law, mean little less than confiscation of the property of these associations. The matter will no doubt receive attention before long from persons interested. There can be no question about the wisdom of absolutely prohibiting the killing of moose until 1895., These grand animals are growing scarce in Octavio ; indeed, by some they are said to be almost extinct. The failure of the bird protective bill is a misfortune, and empha- sizes again the point which we have so often urged, that the people at large need to be educated as to the enormously important part played by our small birds in tho econ- omy of nature. If the people of America cannot be brought to comprehend the value to agriculture of these indefatigable aids to the farmer, the United States and Canada as well will ere long have to pay a heavy penalty for their heedlessness. In no business is technical education of more importance than in the avocations con- nected with the tillage of the soil, and yet the recent cry for trade instruction can scarcely be said to have extended in this direction. Holland, Denmark and Germany furnish extensive facilities of the kind to the sons of farmers, and in each of these coun- tries particular attention is paid to the prac. tical and scientific teaching of all matters a?pertaining to the dairy. The Royal Agri. cultural Society of England has taken the question up and the Departmental Commis- sion on Agricultural and Dairy Schools has just issued its final report, in which is recom- mended State assistance for the teohdioal instruotion of the sons and daughters of farmers. In this country a great deal bas been done in this direction, but a great deal more should be done. The edu. cation of farmers' children should be more thorough and systematic. They are bone to the greatest and moat nee emery industry in the world and their training should be commensurate With its importance. A Chinese dootor in New York prescribed for a suffering fellow•Celestial a decootion of lotus seeds, sweet potato skins, shark's fins, red herring scales, willow leaves, grasshop- per legs, frog's eyes, lizard's tongues, oyster shells and sugar Dane root, and several other Chinese physicians pronounced the pre- scriber a quack, It is understood that the critics would have substituted bat's wings for the frog's eyes. T Champagne, Pleasure and Busl- ness. The men who started penniless and have built up large fortunes, have, for the most part, been men of simple hab. its. They have wasted very little upon themselves, Tbey have been content with plain clothes and moderato person- al expenses, The elder Astor was of that school. He wanted little for personal gratification ; but ho wanted muoh in the way of fortune. He gained this by a li'e of industry, abstomiouanese and econo- my. The fast man rarely gains a for- tune. The talent for spending money rapid- ly on one's self never goes with the talent of acquiring money. The older Vanderbilt was abstemious. His principal indulgence was in fast horses, but he was not consplca• ous at horse races, nor in the betting lista. He was a prodigious worker to the last, as have been nearly all the men who have ac- quired large fortures. Indeed, hard work had become a law of their lives. Girard was a worker and an abstemious man to the last. Johns Hopkins, being a Quaker, could not be otherwise than temperate, industrious and careful in his expenditures. In fact, looking over the list of rich men who have been benefactors, that is, have given consid- erable of their fortunes to public institutions, hardly a fastenan can be found among them. The latter class spend money upon them- selves, and rarely havo any desire to do any great things for the public. The inspiration of champagne has never boon good in this direction. It has never helped men to make fortunes but it has helped a great many to spend them. The poor men who struck out in new countries and acquired great wealth, grasped great enterprises and planned bene- ficent things for the public never had their brains muddled very much with champagne or other indulgences in fast living. Wher- ever the success of mon in the long run de- pended upon physical and mental stamina— upon brawn and brains—they have, for the most, part, drawn the reins pretty close upon all sorts of indulgences. The ex- ceptions only go to make the rule one of general acceptance, The roystering, dis- sipated men do not succeed in the long run. Other men outstrip them in the race for success. There was the elder Garrett, who made the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad one of the best paying railroad properties in the Union. In efficient and successful manage- ment it was cited as the model railroad of the country. Its stook was so good and the road was on such a solid basis, that the city of Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University and several other public institutions invest- ed their funds in the road, because the steady ten per cent, dividends brought a better income than they could get for money in any other investment. As long as the elder Garrett lived the road maintained its status as the best managed road in the country. The Johns Hopkins University was sure of its dividends. All the Widows' and Orphans' funds invested there were sure of dividends. The elder Garrett had no occasion for champagne suppers. His habits were almost as simple and abstem- ious as were those of the Quaker, Johns Hopkins, who had unshaken faith in the permanent value of the property in which he had so large an interest. The elder Gar- rett dying, was succeeded by his son itt the presidency of the road. There was a great difference in the character and habits of the two men. The son had come to a great fortune without any effort on his part. Those who expected that he would fill the place of hie father have been greatly disappointed. The great railway property began to depreciate. The road was extend- ed to Philadelphia. Garrott had a plan of extending it to New York, or rather to the Shore of Staten Island. It was while ho was broaching this plan to Vanderbilt at his home in New York that the latter sud- denly expired. The last dividend was passed, the company has been obliged to sell its telegraph lines, its express and sleeping -car business, and to borrow ten millions or more to bridge over present em- barrassments. There is a striking contrast in the actual condition of the road now and at the time of the elder Garrett's death, Much of this difference can bo traced to the succession of the younger Garrett. The son was not like his father. He was not girded up for a life of self-denial and hard work. He was, in the phrase of the day, a swell young man, very much given to clubs, parties, champagne suppers and to various other indulgences. It became evi- dent that a young man of euch habits was not equal to the management of this great railroad property. He was compelled to step out. Then came the story of Garrett's rushing back from Eur',pe, Sim threats to upset the sale of the telegraph line and to rovolutiohize things generally, and the story of his removal from New York to Baltimore under the care of friends, with an intimation that he was not in his right mind, whatever that might mean. The son did not choose to follow in the footsteps of his father. He struck out new paths. The result is no longer a secret. It is not a solitary instance of this kind of divergence. If there is any moral here it ie that champagne suppers, social excesses, a fast, sensuous life do not go well with business ; and themilliona of the father cannot make up for these defects in his lineal successor. The exactions of busi- ness were never greater than they are to- day. These emergencies cannot bo fairly met with muddled brains, nor with anything less than absolute self -command and a devo- tion which puts all over -indulgence out of sight and out of mind. It is as true to -day as it ever was that the winning men in near- ly all leading pursuits, adhere to the condi- tion of temperate living to insure clear thinking and the largest success.—[San Francisco Bulletin. On some parts of the coast of Sumatra and the neighboring islands the fishermen test the depth of the sea and also the nature of the sea bottom by the noises they hear on applying the ear to one end of an oar of which the other end is plus f;oa In the water. At the depth of 20 feet and lose the sound is a crepitation, similar to that produced when salt is thrown on burning charcoal ; at 50 feet it is like the ticking of a watch, the ticking being more or leas rapid accord- ing to whether the bottont Is entirely of Doral or alternately of coral and mud, or of sand. If the bottom is entirely of sand the sound is clear ; if of mud it resembles the humming of a swarm of bees. On dark nights the fishermen select their fishery grounds ao• carding to these Indications. A contract for the completion within six Weeks of all the bridges on the Red River Valley railway was e'gned on Saturday by the Manitoba Governwent.