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TSR SIGNAL: GODERICH, ONT. THURSDAY. OCTODER 26. 18$8.
PUREST
`, STRONCEST,
MEET,
THE EDITOR'S FRIEND.
■e w:. whites I• £..14 1a Making • live
roper.
F.orn 1. ,as +'" as.
Some supposed friends of • newspaper
have pseenitar 1.1ms r to what kind of items
• paper requires. Once upon a time • gen.
;tempi came into the .uncture of • Texas
piper and said to the editcr
' Look here. you miss a heap of live
tree:.. i'u, os the streets all day. 111 come
up every once in a while and poet you.'
•` t'I right, fetch on your items, but re -
weather we want news'
Next day he came up, beaming all over,
"I ve got • lora Item far you. You know
that uernal I c a• tge I g .rill• of a brother-
in-law of min., who trio in basis's. here
with me •'•
"I believe I remember such a person,"
said the editor •
"Well, I've j `ot news from Nebr•sk•
where he is Lying, eel he ie going to run
for the Legislature. Now, just give h1.v a
blast. Lift him out of his bo, is Doa't
',pare him on my account."
The editor sboxk his head and the news
gatherer retired.
Next day be came up again. "My little
itein was crowded out A: least I didn't
see it in the paper. I brought you some
more news," and be handed in an item about
a oat as fcll,ws :
"A remarkable animal -The family- cat of
on - worthy and d stingnuhed fellow -towns-
man Smith, who keeps the boas grocery
store in Ward N. 13 (bottled beer always
on tap), yesterday became the mother of
five singularly marked kittens. The is not
the first time this unheard-of event hen
t .ken place. We understand Mr. Smfth is
be ng fav•. -ably spoken of as a candidate for
alderman. H., sells more sugar for • dollar
t' sa any gro er in town, and is •
l,u.'rou., whole-soukd fellow."
The odder groans in his spirit as he lights
a cigar with the effort. It is not long be.
1.re he hears that Smith is going around
e iyin4 that the editor is • chump aa1 is not
tndependeut e tough to silt t;e pill c. etc.
Many of the readers will my that this
sketch is over drawn, but thousands of
• limon all over the country will lift uptheir
a ght hand, to testify that they are person.
• lj aceuainted with the guilty party.
DANIEL WEBSTER'S STORY.
■e Tell. Mew a fwewlag old t,M)er wan
Reales by Of. 41,v, la Turtle..
One evening at a convivial party lanai&
Webster and other distingua.hed lawyers
were present. and the eon ersation happen-
s 1 to turn on the legal enterer. "Whet
I wag a young practitioner," said Mr. Web-
ster, "there was but one young man at the
New Han.p•hire bar of whom i was afraid,
and that was old Baruaby. There were but
few then who dared To ester tete ilea with
him. Oa one oo asion ltarnaby was employ
ed 1 defend the title t'• a piece of land, his
oppooent being a little. mean, cunning law-
yer named (truce. Bruce's rase was looked
upon a; good as lost when it was ascertain.
e d that Burnaby was retained &rais et him
The suit came on for trial, and Barnby
found that Bruce h. d worked hard and lett
no stone unturned to gain the victory. The
testimony for the plaintiff was very strews,
and unless it could be impeached the case
of the defendant eal lost. The principal
witness introduce.' by the plaintiff wore a
red coat. In summing up for the defame
old Burnaby oommeseed •
dealers ATTM K Of TII1 wntene',
pulhag his testimony all to pieces, and ap-
pealing to the jury it • man who wore •
re 1 ceat was, n ider any circumstances, to
b • believed. "And who is this red-ooated
wither," exclaimed Rarnaby, "but • de-
sceadant of our common enemy who hoe
striven to take from us our liberty aed
would net hesitate now to th p-ive any poor
man of his land by making any sort of •
red- coated statement."
"During the speech Bruce was walking
up and down the bar greatly excited and
convince -1 that his case was gone, knowing
as ha did the preja.'ice of the jury
wise anything British. While, however.
%irnaby was gesticulating sad leaning for
ward to the jury in his element appeal his
shirt bassoon opened slightly, and Brace
sr_oidentally discovered that Barnaby wore
• rad undershirt. Brutes oouahhaaoa
bet/Abashed up. Putting his heads is
his pookete be walked to the bar
with a ■ie • toe, to the
A'.rneeen i'eT Or HIS 41Jasr
ear all oelookera. Jost •e Ranaby ow.
chided Bruce whispered is the ear of hi.
eGwt, " i've got Air. ; your case is safe I"
and approaching the jury be ooehmwoed his
reply to the elaurhtering argemeit of hi.
adversary. Rruce gave a reguler history at
the anoeetry of hie red -orated witness, prey-
ing his patriotism and devotion to the
emery and his character for troth ate
veracity. "Rut what, geetl.men of the
jary," broke forth Renee ie • lewd .train of
elate•eo►, while his ey.. flashed Are, "eerie
are you to expect of a raw who .ode Mie
to defiled • came based en we foaodstien of
t er jester whatever ; e< • man who
hos to destroy ear tstimeny on the
+ rennin that my wit..+s wears a red oat,
who eve'knen et the jury—whw—when,
gweti.mee of the tory—here Brum made •
aeiwig, and eatchieg Berme, by the berme
r� his uh;rl, tore it en iiipla n�egg hi. red,
game —" wham Mfr. mar. iewlf wears
a rad flees& cwt tinter a the
me?"
•'T%e east was s..sisioal Darb by was
Imre et els ewe esete. and Bram gated
tike aim"
vanes eseemerr ssem, eases. sea
THE CARNATION,
lat«emlos rade la It. Mtderr, Whitey.
assets. Cea..reds. r1. Custom.
The carnation. by reason of its real
merit, has since 1 WO rapidly tercet item
into an important place in the dower
trade of the country. Nearly 4,000 fl^rfsfe
are engaged.ther wholly or in part in
growing this plant for cut dowers, and it
is estimated that last year fully 200,000,-
000, blooms were sold, yielding over .1,-
000,000 to the growers. The first carna-
tion society was formed in England in
1650. The American Carnation society
was formed In Philadelphia in 1891.
During its earliest cultivation the car-
nation
arnation was grown from seed or propa-
gated by layers. Then followed the new-
er system of propagation by cuttings.
The newer varieties are grown from
seed. lte well known habit of "sporting"
from seed has not changed for 400 years
at least, and the uncertainty of this man-
ner of growing makes the business of
raising seedlings very fascinating, u
each opening bud has a charm of its own.
The carnation will succeed in any or-
dinary soil, from light sandy loam to a
firm clay. It prefers a fairly rich loamy
soil—well rotted turf with one-fourth its
balk of old manure, with a bushel of air
slaked lime and a bushel of hard wood
ashes to every two loads of soils
Different varieties require different
soil. As a rule, give the plant the same
soil in which the parent plant was fine
To hare plants for summer flowering
they should be propagated in October or
November, put in fiats or thumbpots
and kept in a cool hone until March 1.
Then they should be repotted in Se inch
Ma and have plenty of sunlight and air.
Put them in cold frames abort April 1
and plant in the garden from April 23 to
May 10. They should be pinched back
only once—about March 1. Treated in
this manner they will commence to flow-
er in June and give a constant supply
until November. The foregoing is the
mode advised by a member of the Mas-
sachusetts Horticultural society in a pa-
per read before said society and from
which the facts here given have been
gleaned.
Winter ttlowerlag leasturtiams.
The varieties best adapted for winter
flowering are such as have been crossed.
Toting plants raised now either from
seed or cuttings will be just right for
planting in the greenhouse. A good
place fur them to climb is on the pillars
as supports, on naked walls or on wires
under the rafter. In such a position in
a small amateur greenhouse they take
up no important room, wide at the
same time they help make the green-
house gay with flowers and always
afford a cutting for the winter bouquet.
Then are many colors now, among
which Prairie Farmer names the Spit-
fire, a bright scarlet; Giant of Rattles,
sulphur and spotted red; King of the
Blacks, a very deep brown; Asa Gray, a
soft sulphur yellow; Lilly Smith, a scar-
let; Cardinale, a dark scarlet; Napoleon
III, a gold color, and Lucifer, a very
bright scarlet
Th. Cherry Orchard.
Professor Budd of the Iowa station
says that a Cherry orchard dose beet
when planted thickly in rows running
north and south and giving a wider space
between the rows to admit the man and
allow free circulation of air. Orchards
where the rows were 24 feet apart and
the trees 10 feet apart in the row have
done better than those planted in the
usual way.- He also thinks root graft-
trig otthe iierry to hetet than budding,
setting them in the ground to the top
bud of the scion, which enables roots to
be thrown out directly from the scion.
The Worth of Fruit Teri..
The reports of tests of new strawber-
ries and other fruits from the various
experiment stations and largo growers
make it appear that what one man
praise; most highly is utterly condemned
by another. The fact is that soil, cli-
mate, treatment, etc., have so much to
do with the matter that none of these
tests, considered singly, is worth tench.
It is the berry that gives best remits
through a course of years under ordinary
practical conditions that we want
Tearoom For whiter Bleu.
Thousands of beautiful tearooms are
in existence, but there are only a few
which come up to the required standard
for forcing purposes. so that the dtrt
question to determine is the varieties
best suited for this purpose.
11118 CP L
The following warfare. have proved
the best with the editor of Gardening:
OaMerine kferenet, pink; lima. Curie
pink; Mme. de W atteville, pink shaded
to white; Mme. Teetnat, pink; Kaimerin
Augusta Victoria. lemon wisest; The
Bride, waits; Mme. Hera, cream white;
Paper Onetime, deep red; Newer, er
oda& and Perk des Jardine, yellow.
The best plant• are pro duued from cat.
taken in February. potted in Maroc
end planted is May. The soil is impale
lett, as roses require a lately heavy, rich ,
cell fro noes .e tub results The whew
amperstnre for motet varieties should he
M degrees at sdiOt, eel degrees in cloudy
weather and 75 dopers on bright dam
PROPAGATING PLANTS.
MsW,trla, rwe.tae. Bep.1a. BM.. b
SUp. owl Cattrew pprroopp
Malay desirable plants are rafteit hat
seated from slips and cuttings.
the Aeries temps "greenwood cutting,'
are mane oommonly employed than those
from the mature wood, as they "strike"
more quickly. '•Slips" are greenwood
cuttings, bat the term is often restricted
to designate those which are aside by
pulling or chpltug off a small aide shoot
All .oft wooded plants and many mar
mental otntnps are increased by gram -
wood cuttings There are two esnernl
clamors of greenwood cuttings — those
made from the soft and still growing
wood, and those made from the neatly
ripened green wood, as in aaalia, indica.
oleander, etc. House plants, as gerani-
ums, colensus. carnations, ruches& and
the like, are grown from the soft young
wood. Sometimes truly hard wood i•
used, as in camellia.
In making cuttings from soft growing
shoots the first thing to learn is the
proper texture or age of the shoot. The
test for beginners is the manner in which
the shoot breaks. If on being bent the
shoot snaps off squarely so as to ham; to-
gether with only • bit of bark, it is in
the right condition for cutting, but if it
bends or simply crushes it is either too
old or too young for good results.
Soft cuttings are usually cut below a
bud or cut to a heel. Cuttings demand
for beat results a moist and uniform at-
mosphere. Cuttings should be shaded
for a week or two. Oleanders usually
root beat when mature shoots are placed
in bottles of water. Amateurs who have
not the Borers' conveniences of propa-
gating benches, etc., use wooden boxes.
flowerpots, or set out in some protected
corner in the garden. Soft cuttings may
be started in a deep plate two-thirds full
of sand and filled to the brim with wa-
ter. Great care must be given to shad-
ing and watering of the cuttings.
DeWitt Orap«.
In regions where the cines are not af-
fected by fungoid diseases, and the grapes
set and ripen perfectly, bagging the clus-
ters of fruit may be unnecessary. but
wherever mildew or rot prevails bagging
is necessary. "What is bagging'?" soma
may ask. It consists in taking common
manilla paper bags and placing one over
each cluster of grapes just about tbe
time they aro out of bloom. The months
of the bags are closed and folded over
and pinned to the branches as yon see in
the illustration, and they are never un-
fastened or opened till the grapes ripen.
Within these bags tbe berries swell and
mature as well as in the open air, retain-
ing their bloom pet ectly. The bags are
$ partial protection from mildew and
rot, and they save the buries from being
battered or littered by storms, burnt by
NIAGARA metres re RAO&
snnscald, picked by birds or injured by
early frosts, and while the small buy
doesn't hesitate to pluck a bunch of
grapes from an open rine be will hesitate
to touch the grapes that are 1n bags.
A firm point in favor of bagging the
grapes is the fact that those who grow
fine grapes for market are the most pains-
taking in bagging them. Well, if these
growers for market cannot afford to
grow grapes without bagging them—bo-
cause the bagged grapes are so mneb
finer than the others --can the amateur,
who grows a few grapes for his own
family alone, afford to ignore the bags?
Thanks are due to Gardening for the
accompanying pying illustration, which is from
Treatment of Myers+ gas.
Hydrangeas that have been forced and
which will be wanted for forcing again
next winter should, according to Garden-
ing, be treated as follows: Cut the old
flower heads off, but don't cut back the
.hoots at all; keep the plants out of doors
and give them lots of water all summer
long, keeping them fresh and plump and
their leaves fat and green. If they are in
pots or tubs, plunge these part way in the
ground to ave watering so mach. Don't
repot them till September er October.
Thla . That Are Told.
It pays to thin grape& Pinch out the
extra bunches any time after blossoming
is finished and fruit is sag.
Meehan says that the wistaria grow,
from root cuttings. Layering, however,
is a very good method where there is
room for it
A landscape arehitect of New Tort
says that the tulip tree stands at the
bead of all •tire treys, not only as an
ornamental, bet as a clean tree—that is,
freedom from insect&
The Rural New Yorker makes a point
that among all evergreen trees on The
Rural grounds nothing is more valued
than the oriental spruce. A feature of
this tree, it states. is not half app/e.
ed—namely, its temente' little scarlet
clines that resemble strawberries la
shape and color.
Narcissuses of all sats nye well in the
ground year after year, multiplying and
strengthening if the ground is tool.
Samese With Fleeter* says that the
red spider will not fknniah in a Tool
whore eh is kept properly moist. Mole
hods lei. sspenial ave.necee The appy
Saw fiat will pat him to rout Y weer
applied freely and frequently. >te mire
to sae thee itgete to all pleb d thepisnt
home- lie mets Ms at
There is always a bet, even
among a store of good things,
and every pipo smoker tt'lw
has tried thv l\lastifT brand
acknowledges it to bo the
sweetest, coolest atnokini to-
bacco made. It does not bite
the tongue, and is positively
free from any foreign mixture.
J. P. P.--1111oWeser'near. 75..
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portrait of the HON. WILFRID Lacaru,
the trusted and bele • 1 leader of the Liter.
al Party of Canada. The portrait is drawn
from the latest sad beet photograph which
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mss. Her the peer of the great leaders
P•pineau, Brown aced Mackenzie, who,
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majority, still live in the memory el a gear
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