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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1882-09-01, Page 3'aalmaaluiliaamirI RL IWN SIGNVAL, DAt, 'T. 1, 1882, IM MO \w!1•Y Ysaar remake esavesr cies a Titan of are r..a — tree !rare in Teem The other day a girl shout 13 years old was publicly sold in the courtyard of a mosque situated in he heart of Galata, and through which hundreds a persons harty passed. It has since transpired t t two female children are missing 1 m their homes, having probably been • kidnapped by dealers in human flesh. A short while bank i.&, wretched girl escaped frutu the harem in which she was confined, and carried her scarified) and bleeding shoulders to the nearest polios -station, whew it was proven that she had been stolen by • Circassian dur- ing the refugee panic and traded away for a few pounds to an exceptionally brutal mistreat', and the authorities of Salonica quite recently rescued four young negresses from a calque, just ou the point of landing them. These un- happy beings, who were lying in the bottom of the boat, declared they had belonged to a party of ten ; that after a year's captivity M the port of the Nile had been bought by the dealers on board a coasting steamer, and crammed, half naked, into a small, stifling cabin, in which they had to ee packed so close to- gether that they were alnnete piled on top of each other. After enduring the errors of that passage they were smug- gled at night into the barque as des- cribed, but they could give no informs tion relative to their six companions, who are doubtless now in hopelese bond- age. An English lady 01 sty acquaintance as taken by a black driver to a palace at Stamboul, into which she walked without the slightest difficulty, cabby, with his smattering of French, acting as interpreter through a grating in the door. When she entered the salesroom. at large barely -furnished and very light apartment, the mistress of the establish- ment conducted her to a divan, and slaves fetched sweets and coffee. Nd astonishment was betrayed at the intru- sion of a Gisour woman on such a scene. A number of white girls, of ages vary- ing from 12 to 18, were then led up to her, one after the other, each in her turn standing motionless before the sofa till signed to yield her position to her next fellow. They are described as for the moat part clumsy and heavy, with cowed, sullen faces and muddy, yellow complexions. "Their dress consisted of a gauze cap and a loose frock, with short sleeves, and reaching to the ankles, and fastened down with strings. Declaring that her huabanti desired to present sn odalisk to a pasha, the visitor asked to see some prettier ntaideus, but was told there was none on hand, though a selection would very shortly ar- rive, when she certai.11y could be suited. Two Turkish women were during this time selectins slaves. No sort of consideration wan paid to the feelings of the poor girls. Under „examination they untied their 'tingle garment, ac- cording to the requirements of the purchaser. or threw it off entirely if so wished. Their teeth were looked at and, hair let down, their persons punched and pulled about. The buyers, wanting sound, useful articles, tested their strength and searched for blemishes in the same, unconcerned manner as is done at a horse fair. As for the Irirls, their attitude was invariably that of ab- solute, uncnupleining su'pmissi tri. They stool with downcast eyes and drooping limbs, simply ening what they were ordered, and never losing for a moment their look of stupid, Imprimis indiffer- ence. Farni asci $amen. Isupply of plant -fund to such crops as feel near the surface, and must grow rapidly for only a few weeks. Iu this way the clover seep will help the succeed i tg wheat co-op, end has giver: rise to the stying that "clover seed is the best 'sau- ore a farmer can um." 11 the whole crop is turned over, ea a green manure, a much lamer amount of plant food is put into the soil This is one of the quickest, cheapest and beat methods of increasing the fertility of a piece of lend. /,asllaaS mad 114tes. J. P. Roberts, Profeasor of Agricul- ture at Connell University, has made* practical test of the silo s7rtem of store ing fodder, and from his oondenaed ar- ticle in the Scientific American for Sep- tember we here give some of his conclu- sions I believe the greatest utility of silos will he found to consist in the means they furnish In preserving forage plants, in a green and palatable state, which may be easily Rruwn in abundance in May and June ; but if not then secured, ;.hey would become dried up and nearly worthless, or, if dried and housed. the animals appear to have but little relish for Them in the hut, dry days of Auguet. The reasons for building silo. with small conipartunenti are manifold : a small compartment may be finished and sealed up in a single day, thereby nut seriously interfering with the regular work. Each forage plant may be taken when in its best condition. One cot npartmeut may be filled early with rye and clover, which is showing a tendency to spoil by lodeing, or is full of weeds that it is de- sirable to eradicate ; a second with oats and a second cutting of the former clover field, or a weedy, belated piece of timothy. A piece of fodder corn and aftermath would till a third compartment later in the season. • If the compartments are small they may be uncovered entirely and fed from the top, and if not all consumed they can be filled up with new material ; or, if one or more compartments are entirely emptied;'they may be refilled in Septem- ber, thus securing a two -fold benefit from theist. From my experience, I judge that a compartment not entirely emptied in the spring, if disturbed only ou the top, would sustain little less till June if re -sealed, or it might be left open, and daily a little of that exposed to sir fed to the horsee_as cut feed. Our horses thus fed last winter relished it very much. There are many problems in regard to ensilage that are still unsolved ; but, should everything be found favorable to the new method, there are still men who would have no more use fur a silo than for a trotting horse. There are amen having so little energy and skill that, should you give them the best herd of ,Shorthorns, they would have little bet- ter than scrubs in ten years. Under certain conditions, the new method, I believe, can be adopted with profitable results, but he who rushee thoughtlessly into it will tint' I fear, that ensilage is too "Frenchy," unleaa mixed with a liberal allowance of brains. Tie Clever Poo'. Dr. Byron D. Halstead presents in the Anteriatn Agriettltttriat for Septem- ber the following important facts in re- gard to the agricultural value of the clo- ver plan' : The clover plant is a close and deep feeler, sending its fine roots far down into the soil, filling the sub -soil with a net -work of rootlet,. it ex doses a large leaf surface, and is thus able to concen- trate weak solutinns of plant food, and prepare them for tine formation of veget- able substance. The clover plant grows throughout the whole season, and is thus able to take up the nitrates as they form. These compounds of nitrogen are pro- duced in large quantities in hot summer months, and. being very soluble, would be washed out by the rains, were it not that the clover plant absorbs it. This is one great advantage which clover has over all the common grain, that finish their growth and are harvested before the time for the most rapid nittflQatios arrives. Tt is a well-known feet that clover prepares land for the prodwctiea • of large crops, sad this is explained le larre part try the iota. season of its growth, and its deep and close feeding. I*ad the storing up of compounds el nitrogen. Tose Glover plant is largely below green& so that removing the tops takes away only a part of the vegetable seattst that has befit accumu- lated. The tossers of clover are large and numeross : when they are tarred oyer to plosing, Mid deesy,),Utq yield a goat TILE ■1'11.t\ *ACE. aotn, Thins• .ltwwt the tact and 1': r,rot. In view ings nhich have lived in China time immemorial, scientista say that every ounce of *soil must have passed through the bodies of human beings of that empire not only once hut hundreds of times. China is a densely populated country. and its records aro very, very ancient. If all born were still alive they would cover the country completely and extend miles into the air. It is a sug- gestive idea that the soil of every popul- ous country must represent the remains of myriads of animated beings Oho once lived and loved. THE DEAD Or 4 NINA. of the myriads if human be - titan /*type is thick with uwramtes. Dig in any fart of the temutry and the pre- served corpses of the ancient Egyptians are brought to light. Mitered at white thetauoe from the Nile the soil is render- ed utipruductive and therefore cannot support population because of theca arti- ficially preserved dead bodies. It is af- ter all a wise provision of nature which decrees that the body ahall a moulder away after death. The preservation of the body is umtatural and if universally dune, would in time make the world un- inhabitable except by dried qurpses. The creunatiunista have a new lesson taught by the burial of the Egyptian dead, but after all would it not be better to piece the betties at once in the earth, so that the compuneut parts would As- similate uatunally with the soil 10 which it belongs. _ Cemeteries and graveyards violate the intentions of nature as touch as did the burial customs of the Egypt- ians. ANT1(lU1TY Or THE AMERICAN MAN. How long has man been on this plan- et Y is a question often asked, but the answer is always unsatisfactory. The remains of implements and articles used by uutn have been found in strata hun- dreds of thousands of years ago. Ages must have paved since the savage man tirst emerged from a semi -brute condi- tion. Mr. Wiggens, of Waverley, New Jersey, found of the top of the Alle- ghany Muuutainsin Perry County, Penn- sylvania, a piece of metaphoric limestone upon which was clearly visible the print of the right foot of a human being Tho impression is about au inch deep and shows the five toes and the perfectly formed font of a man. This piece of stone has been sent to the Smithsonian in:titn- tio1. The ruck is of great antiquity and unuat have antedated the oldest memor- ials of Egypt. It certainly is the earli- est trace of man iu America:. IS THE CO'!DITTON OF THr. POOH, IM• PROVING 1 Mr. Mulhall nays it ie. He has been looking over the list of the income tax- payers, ae weld as other legal and trade documents, and he has reached the con- cluaion that while the number of very rich have increased, the number of well to-do have also increased, while the very poor have been cut down. His fig- ures are exhaustive, and a summary of theist cannot be given here, but he de-' dares that the working clt sses have de - Hindu° may nuw appear, there can be ao doubt that he thea surpassed w civil government and glory. We are apt to disparage the pest, because tee only see present. amlast Illesee stwet.a. Culenel M. C Weld's noteworthy views on the abuse of shoeing horses, have at- tracted deserved atteuton abroad as well as at home and) tilled out uric striking atatetneut, of favurab'e English exper- ience, the points of which we quote from the Mark Lan. Express; - '.About three years ago, I was led to give the nun -shoeing system it fair trial, cutumeuciug with a puny constantly dri- ven, and extending the experiment to the young farm horses, all of which had, however, unfortunately been shod be- fore the trial began, and ant now able to endorse the observations of Colonel M. C. Weld in almost every particular, ex- cept as regards travelling on paved sur- facea, as in Southampton, whew there is a tramway, it is found that the pony prefers the paved stoneway to the mac- adamized part on either side. The time that elapses before the 'dead hero' of the hoof grew out was six months, and it was fully eighteen before the insensil ble frog had lost its callousness and grown soft, like India rubber. The pony does not work on the farm but gees out near- ly every dab, the greatest number of Miles run in any one week being eighty. and in any one day thirty-two. Before the'shues were removed it was somewhat of a 'daisy cutter,' had been down once or twice, and stumbled much going down hill ; since discarding shoes it has never stumbled once, and I have driven it full trot down a hill covered with snow cine tee. The farm horses are young and strong, at.d have been bred on the farm, and, though mostly em- ployed in the fiehia, are frequently en- gaged ill hauline corn, timber, bricks or manure, for home or hire purposes. No roads than those around Winchester can bo more trying, repaired i'j as they are with flints, which have been broken just enough to make them cut like razors, and are a cruelty to horats shod or un- shod. I find no difference in the capabil- ity if drawing full loads. There is no statnping in the stable er when standing out ; asphalt or icy pavements there is no slipping ; the feet d•, net ball up over snow. The creatdrawback is that against which all who try any new groove have to contend. namely, the unyielding pre- judice of all classes, more especially -those who have to look after the hems, who, creased from 74.6 per cent. of the whole ratl.er than aid in any chance, will population to .67 per cent. In Scotland throw every obstacle in the way, but to the working class has diminished from my brother. farmers I say .eutphatically, 89 to 87 per cent., and in Ireland from the Ulan who cuts the frog of or shoes 95 to 82 per cent. Since 1840 the aver- his:young horses is c'aumnittiug a great age wealth per family has increased front error. With a little care you may work .110 $220 to $330—that is, it has nearly theta un roads ur fields, ',reliably heal - doubled. Norty years ago Scotland- tlaier, acid yourseli be in pocket by the rwarmed with beggar, and the average change, and with an occasional rasp the wealth per inhabitant ,was $400 ; it i e appearance of your hurs.s will be far now $1,386. while beggary oras greatly bet.er than the torn, jagged, heavily - abated. Even in Ireland there has teen ironed and nailed feet, of cue -half the an improvement. Three-fourths of its I wretched animals it is painful to see population were bare-footed forty years l about the country." ago, and the average wealth w -as $190 __ __ ----- per inhabitant ; now shoes are' went and I 71a.for and Use a at the average wealth $ 4110. In , France • — wealth has multiplied three -fold in forty A gentleman in this city owns a fire lame dog panted Major Major's hatred years. Since 1840 the large estates have of a cat appears t., be deep-seated, and diminished by 10 per cent. No leas than . he will kill all that come in his way to 1,536 large estates have been cut up in ; vent his spite on his enemies. His teas- and everything, from the finest fabric to the TREE-PLANTING. JUST I(ECEI.VED. ♦T D.FER Q USON'S A 11*IXM IND AJSORTMZNT OF FRESH ROCERIES, surrai3E "'It THE SEAHt)N Spacial Beaks 111 Tags at Very Low Prices. 2bc. per Tt, acid upwards. If you want a really fine Tea try my fie. Young Hyson it is a splendid article and worth moire money. I have also just opened oat a corn plete assortment of Corckery Glassware, Including Stone and China Tea Sets, Childrena' Toy Tea Setts, Ladies and Gents Fancy Tea Cups and Saucers, suitable for Christmas and New Year's Gifts. Lamps & amp Goods in Groat Varie t y AND AT VERY LOW PRICES. Call and *be Convinced Flarmers Attesitioril Barbed Fence Wire contracted furan nay quantity cat ter} lowest prices I SELL EITHER 2EOR 4 BARBED FENCE WIRE. \\-ire and barb galvanized_a T,enx tw,ttc t which canna* st aleoff. • Use Barbed ;Wire for Fences. NO SNOWA GIFTS NO :WEEDS IC !. WASTE:, LANDS. G Ha PARSONS, CHEAP EIARDWARE, OODERICH. The Great Cleansing Fluid. McCOLL BROS & CO - TORONTO_ MANUFACTURER S MRS. 'WARNOCK Has great pleasure in announcing to her many friends and patrons in Uoderich and vicinity, that she has secured the sole right and privilege to manufacture and sell DR. LUCYAN'S CLEANSING & RENOVATING FLUID, For removing grease and soil from anything 425,000 peasant holdings. It is very ter '• wife hada cat that she determined certain that in Western Europe the ap_ I he should not harm, and Bile tuck great I pains to impress the big brute with this parent wealth of the lower classes Las in- idea. She would take puss in ber arms, creased, but the its purchase power is carry her up to' the dog. and while strok- not w, great as it was. ing or petting Iter would talk to her en- emy reprovingly. The intelligent dog seamed to understand every word she said, but for all that Ile would keep his eyes fastened on puss with a lunging and hungry look, as thouvh anxicus to bring the pressure of his ponderous jaws to bear upon her spinal column. But his mistress conquered and made him under - stamp he must live un friendly terms with puss. 31 re than once he had leen seal watching the rat with a 1.ok of evil iuteit, but out of respect to his nnistruas he conquered his nature. and would throw himself up en the •ground with R sigh expressive of hie deep disgust at his situation The cat was disposed to be un friendly terns with her enemy, but Major would net tolerate the slightest familiarity. Whenever puss approached hill he would get up and go away with a melancholy look, which seemed to say : "I an dying to kill you. and it's dog gone hard luck that I can't do it." Thus matters went onfor some months and puss began to incur the displeasure of her mistress by sneaking up stairs every opportunity and making trouble by curling herself up and taking naps ou the sit nt v counterpane, and doing other equaled. The Hindoo of seven thousand I such untidy acts as w..uld rouse the i -e years ago was finely cultivated, not all of a neat housekeeper. One morning idolatr',ns, atxt they worshipped one I the lady told her heal -And that tho emit t troublesome that she E. THE 4:REAT.,$ of, ANCIENT INA. 1n our abounding prosperity we are led to believe that the past has nothing to compare with it. But historians be- lieve that the 'people w•h:o lived under the sway of the Roman Empire about the time Christ was lora, and for a century afterward, were in more conuf„rtable cir- cumetances than those who came before or after them. The civilized world watt rich in veld and silver, wars were unfre- quent and comfort abounded. But then: Meetly were other epochs in the world's story of a still more ancient date, when vaat masses of ht Ilan beings were in very comfortable circumstances. At the re - 93,0(10 acres of land have been plant- cent meeting of the Concord School of Philosophy, Dr. H. K. Jones evoke of ed with trees in Kansas under a now the former glory' of Hindustan. We are law elating to arboriculture. This s apt ,to forget, he said, that there were dune to supply wood to the future gen- once in that country empire, wealth and eration, and. if passable to increase the civil government that has not since been moisture of the atnlwphere. This ex- ample ought to be followed very exten_ eively, for, since the country was settled the waste of woodlands has been enor- mous. Immense section of the earth's surface are banes to -day, becaua of the removal of the aawiest forests, and the droughts and fresitels of this countrym are in a great part doe tothe sae eaves. leery fanner and land -owner should re Bard it aa s duty he owes to:hia cesatry and posterity to pleat more trees than M Buts down. Then every municipality and every Mists, and the ttattaa, ehlosld combine to encourage tree -growing, and to *heck the rockiest cutting down of wood. reWIRE rws n, TRO Daar M M A000rdiag to atp'sr°. the soli of coarsest garment worn. No matter if the goods have been saturated with oil. grease or dirt of any kind, it can. for a trifling cost. be made to look as good as new. it cleans all articles without changing the color, that would be destroyed by the use of water. No need to send to Toronto or any where else to have your feathers cleaned and carted when it ran be done for lees than half the coot, In your own town. ('all at MRS. WARNOCK'S Millinery Establishment on Hamilton St. and see for yourself. 182 -V. God. Dr. Jones traced the glory of the "as Kat trig zoo r, Hindal Empire, one cit of which had guessed it would have to he killed. A { Y few nunutes pater a rush ands atrugslutg 675 towers. For years the wealth of noise was heard, and as the lady of the the world poured into her lap, exceed- house hastened to the door to aro what ing computation and belief. They pole had happened, 5lajer walked up to his seemed •standing ares which made use ristre's and laid at her feet the dead 3todv of puss, then Laked up with an air of 6,000 elepnanta of war. These re- , f triuulph, and wagged his tail with im- ports are not at all incredible when we I terse satisfaction. He had heard his consider the absorption of the wealth of I mistress exptrss the wish that puna 1 nes feelings that h watt Rohl, on. The amount of her com- merce, for which Carthage. Greece, and trot enteetalned great projects, was i I, es The arts were also in a hty ane state In the polishing of the dimnsad, an art whish is seaerally soppseed to be of modern growth, they et►srf p.sisiant- Thy were an Knee • and dragged him to jail,for soliciting and tstttetl. essassereial, and nuinutacttrring remising subscriptions to a magazine pee 1. However low auil dehased the and then failing to send the book Chita, Japan and other countries which npnght he ki led, and this,wag s, in eon - went right out and finished the cat. in Boone County, Iowa, Monday night infuriated citisens put a rope around the neck of an old man named Detente, MAN (,t u.ACQJA1"TED .1118 INK O.00SA 'WV OF 714111 CO.i N• RV IEE IT EXAM/11110 TM,aMAITNAt' E -OF LARDINE AND— OIL CYLINDER OIL. Four Medals and three diplomas awarded them lust year at the leading Exhibi- tions. in the Itominion M AN U FACTU RERS And all men running machinery will savo money by using our oils. 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