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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-4-19, Page 6RErentr OtiTAlAto ConarrX. gorticeltere and pomelegy ill taste eonety axe more/awl mere coming to the front. The acillties bare are better for trait than ter ram' peodaction, The currant le begioreinn tahe the teed Among email fruit. The Windsor cherry has ne equal, either for home we or for market. Aloatmerenay Ordinaire le a finekindier market. Cherries, demand geed culture, as well as other iraites Peethea shoold he well thinned early * the seeem to make nice selable fruit laxIr Rive re is a good early peeth, At. *Mien m called to a Texas prOdnetion, 11144 $nrprise, which le eaelier thee Rivers* and an eutire freeeteue. SteveRareripe can be recounueeded as latepeach. Solway givee a hig crop, haviug a tendeney o overbear-, Tee Eieffexie wireplY Wonderful 04. Willard hes/ egislir ameunt of cornerteal, make good food for name After they begin to lay they alunild have a proportion ef =mai food, The great flow of milk of eowais artificial. la a atate of nature the cow gives maly the neeensary cturuitity, and &Lam it only the necessary tante to sustain the cedf. The greeter and longer nield el milkiathe re, wit of better feeding, hater treatmeAt and longer manipulation of the teats. Hello° to increase the yield of railke feed audzuBk Remember that plants tee do the work they ought to do require " standiug-room." TIN* must have a mellow, porous gull or their feet will be crAmpe& lt peys to take the time to prepare WI preperly, Olel Jethro Tull found to his cost that tillage alone would not keep up the fertility of hia field!, but he fouud what thousanda since his time have proved, that tillage and man - tint work vrell together. Dint depend upon gold his crnp.at ubig prig; and etatee that eurfaee tillage too mach. Pulverize the soil tite coromissima neerehants telegraphed hire to begia with, t42lthlP a, 414004 Irbo aPPle oroP hau Ora e laud, as a rule, are neglected by larooght more gooey to the comity than any clam Prot), BUYera begin to discriminate, end will not pay a first-class price for infer- ior fruit any more. It pope to pack the ap- ples eo that Too will be proud to have your Jenne on the euteide of barrel. Spray with Pavia green, Give food to trem mei geed indtivatiou. SatteO's Beetety apple, and McInteek Red deserve aped -4 meatieri among the new varietiee, McIntosh ia the handeomest of ill, and of rule quality, Yellow Trans- parent isgpo1uar. COUNMS4T1)14r4.14MIRti A rand/roost% life le certelaly a very plement tete, albeit generAlly varied with plenty ef hardship and =atty. Altheugh vecatlonally be pew daya 14 severe Wil— ler example if lie gem en the round up he wok e as bard 44 any of bits men—yet be no looger hats to oudergo the utenoteneits drudgery attenda4t upon the taehe of the *owing or of the apprentice ia tee hied - main His tut/. fa timple; lint, be nhaufie la geed enoukh, aouy McPhee are pru. sided with uethieg at all but selt park, maned goode, and breed e indeed, it te =dims feet that in travelting throughthis saw couutry it is ofteuimp.ossible to get any milk or butter; but Vele es only became *e camera or roanagere are too lazy to bike *rough trouble to Immo their ovine eonefort, We enerselves alwaye keep up two or three eboosieg each as Are isaeurelly tame, intel 40 we ilevariebly imve peaty of milk said. when there is time for churniug, good deal et butter. We also keep heti; which, in xAte of the dazgagieg hiroside ef bob cafe and fewer *apply us with eggo, area in time of need:where our rifle* have failed to keep utt in genie, with stewed, met, or fried ehickett also. Prom tier garden we get potatoes, and = Um dreught, fro ot or grasshoppers inter fon (which they do *bent every second yea) other vegetables aa well. Far fresh twat we depend chiefly veneer prowees as Ikantera—Thedore Roosevelt in the Centatry- Buox 1.caoge &goo years ogee wtitea %correspondent of Tbe Cutivator a two-yearrold colt, with Others in an eutlying psature, Was found with a foreleg broken above the knee Awl liengieg limp and wicket!, It wins early June, hot weather emniug on. The animal, though fairly gentle, bad never been accus- tomed to stall or hareem I knew it was *velem to attempt putting it in a aling or edjueting a, splint or a bandage if left in pasture. There was a amall lot available, with excellent, graziug, water and ehede. In this the cat was placed, Amply watched, sty= a little extra eourisliment in form of oata, and left to ita fate. T.he leg hung in ouch a way that the bone wee lo a natural poeition, and the emotes were used to keep the foot clear of the ground. The animal moved about on three lege for a month, took care of the ono injured, and I do not think it attempted to He down during this time. Then it began to put ite fooz to the ground and gradualty to use the leg. By thin time paetnrage failed. In the fall it bad a substantially sound log again, and. woe a uteful animal for yeers. When trot. bag it allowed a slight lamenesa, probably due to a little shortening of the injured leg, lent in field work and all ordinary farm pur- our susall farmer; But fag° attention is paid to draining he fon end winter, and no mulclaine or attempted improvements. Aa soon as the warm weather apprcachea, ellen And 40W4 are turned in to feed on the young blades, and if the cowe give milk, and the larbdaa grow fairly well, far the buteher, thet meie the metter, fl mere cara were given to seeding demi images -tang a ge04 Stani ef gra444 AD better means conld be devised to insure improved methsof farming. With ell seeded fielde there raeed be lemplowing, aed Viet Might be prope4y limited to the aree that eau be theroughly rearcured and ultiveted, A really geed gra* or clover p wW pay better Average prefite thou equiring much, mere Libor. 4 your cow cringe and verb" mike ATM -a/eland Former, "and appear riervone and fidgety wheu yen sit down to milk her r Well, not much, elm doean't. She isn't that kind af a OW. She isn't one f your shy, tireid, baehful eoWet She juet fiXes-ber eyea an Tammy with a glare VAV4 wili raise ahliater on an Qat knot, kicks, her tail etraight up la the air, eta aa a potter, plante throe feet firmly on the ground mid theu feels around with the other for the milketool, milkmaid ; finds them; area then up aourewhere into the blue em pyreem and remarking, "lia„, lut V' Amid etre ahouting, jumps over a SIX rail fence and trample/I down an Acre of young ganders. Den'talk about cringieg and curling te ow that has to be milked with a pipe, line and *pumping etatien. Big Thadralis. Naval emu, eipecielly in the butt century, here oftee grown rich on the procetele of a tingle successful expedition, or even an theme of a Ale& opturedheitile ship. In 1743, duriug Commodore Ausetea melee, for ex. ample, the Ceeltirien, ou June 20, took the Sped* galleon Nostra Signora (le CaUrelen, oo, which had en board WW1 and men to the aloe of £400,000 ; and, before the Gunn morlore returned to England, bill equadron captured other vessels which were worth £600,000. Anion% altare of tide sum was, I believe, over 470,000. Again, on July 30, 1745, tho Prince Frederick, Captain Jaanee Whet, brought borne prizes which, with their carpel, were worth over 1,000,000t The treeinire and plate alone filled forrienve waggons, and the captain'a there of the:plea- der was punt zuo,oao. In the eaure year another Englith veseel took a Spanith ship with £400,000 on board, and a third, the Surprin, centered aPreneb East Indio -man worth 4160.000. Other capturea iu 1745 were the Chermente (f.200,000), the Heron (Z140,000), the Arotre.Datne de la Deify/wire (600.000) isna the Conception, The latter's eargo—I take the details from a contempor. ary account—consisted of a largo quantity of cocoa, aixty-eight thesis of eilver, gold and !diver coin to the amount of over 4200,- 000, mach plate, a two.wheeled chat*, the wheels and axle trees, eta., of evhith were of .silver set with diamond e and other pre- cious atones, and a quantity of gold in bars. " When the ship was put up for Bele, the French captain upon the promise of a re. ward from Caitam Frani:land, the captor, discovered to him 3%000 pistoles, which were concealed in a place where no one would here ever dreamed of finding. any. thing " This ship was ono of the rzeheet prszai ever taken ; but its value was exceed - ems it proved a thoroughly serviceable ed by that of the Ifermaine, a Spaniali orse. treasureaship, which -was taken in 1762 by Captain Pownhall, of the Favourite. The three lieutenanteof the vessel received as their shares X. 3,000 apiece, and the captain obtained .E65,000, while X64,000 went to the flag offieers 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. SrATINED 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 purchme the animals at any coat The agent has telegraphed his Inability to secure the horses. Upon his arrival at Damascus he learned that a firman had been issued by the Sultan probibiting the further exports.tion 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 are 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 Erman in the intereets 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 afflicted with some other disease to which horses, even the pink -eyed, soft -skinned Arabian species, are sabjeet. SWITZBBLAND's MIDOII COWS. Switzerland has 660,000 milch cows, all of native breed, and divided into two simply defined races, the brown and the spotted. The former color varies from deep fawn to mouse gray, the latMr shade being held in the most esteem. The brown race is short -horned and Considered as the origi- nal type. It corresponds to the remains found on the sites of:the Roman ities of the third century of our area. The skulls of this ram, fui therraore, are identical with chose found in the Swiss leke dwellings. The apotted race, peculiar to Berne and Fribourg, is believed to be of Scandinavian origin. From the milking point of view there is not very much difference in either race. The average daily yield is about twenty pounds. Ducks unually begin to lay in February, end unta that time they may be kept at but little expense. Cooked turnips, with a small 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 newapaper correspondents. Otherwise his 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- dreven, If he is as represented, brusque in manner and democratic in feeling, he is just the character liable to be misunderstood in the Court circles in which he 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 hire as an idol of the common people. The professional soldier may, in- deed, admire such a chafacter. 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 is on the common peop'e that the enormous burdens of modern warfare fall most heavily. They have to pay the nixes. Theirs it is to make the forced marches'to occupy the Lrenches, to shed the blood, while the favoured few carry oil 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 ie 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 far England in May, to endeavor to complete the endowment of his diocese for which $50,000 is still needed. Sam Jones Says Some New Things in a Now Lecture. "INly suhjeet," be eaid, "is 'Get tleere,' with tae left out as, you know I am conatinetionallyaveree t'9 slang of Any sort—. (isneghter)a-and for that reamon Ilan cif the In a icentence beginning with the charact. edetic word, "Really," Sane Jones paid a high, compliment zo 'tee somal and relegiona life of Toronto, and then, satd, "It &acme as if Toronto is already getting 'there, and sittiug there weiting for Eli to come up." The lecturer ;Aid he (Benet inteml to ehow hie hearers how to get there eeverally, Ocaa. chilly or politically—melting these remarks hy the way "Riches are like a walkiogetick tone will help yeti along but fifty on your back win break you down.' "11 f sheold get yea there politieally you would be vovered with, more nutd theta you could. wash ott in ell your life." Ilow to get there in the beet sense, he said, involved three things seen Some otos who wenn/ to go eleewhere. 2, A route iv way. 3. Destination. "1 don't stick very close to ray eubjecb," be said, "but 1 always 1414 to my crowd, and there's 4 good cleat in that." latar4nItia A Alusr.CIASS tfLea, "Really, it'a a very heed matter to build 4 regular theft -clans man. We have got pleaty ef matecial, but the patterns are so swace. If 1 tied a lauudred ordinary men to make One firae close =Moot of 1 woad be very eponomieal with my dire. (Leugh- ter.) on hew. got eneugh piecee in Tonga ee make a. therarend men, but they Wetet fit one Atmeher, The lecturer expreeeed a gro$ dislike to the Antiment of the hymn, "Oh, to be me. thing," and wanted to knew how "netleing" etnekt Wear a crowii or pley a harp. Thee he disliked to beer a man eurgiuge' I mum/. thing tint a worm of the dust"' "Suppese you went away from home, and your wne sent yen a letter dire/44 'My Dear Old Worm of the Dean' wouldn't there woru Rnyptif Or, suppeee au Address. ed her, nAly Dear Wermess ef the Duet.' (Greet Laughter). You're no worm." .41 believe in depravity, but I would oever Atop to dhows whether 14 IS *tater putted. I would twit my, You leave got enougl. emeement to damn you, and yon bed bett,er look out,' and if A tellow wenn; any more thee that, he's greener then1 " We're net putrefaotiori awl clemy,bu It pod in lari le oat of fix. lfereisagoa , but it Ulla liee I here ia a geed heaul* u‘ockeel fellow down yeaterdey. Amply the preemie% of a thAtiVen Zi e te see a Men with a high ooncep. tion of reenhoed. Instead of magma 'Pm nothileg," let as Aug "I'm the ehild of Wog.' beateAci of waging want zo be an Angel,let us say 1 went to be 4 Denim; ;maitre/1 the eight kiwi of A man to "gee theme° one whom pure, noble, true, genuine to the core—the lecturer proceeded to di/muss the "wiey," "All liana° he aaid, "are in the faise way, and it /oaks like that way'a powerfelly crowded. Everybody here that hasn't told a lieIn twelvemonth/4 (steed up." A very few rose, while the rest laughed at the apparent confirmed:1)u of the leeturern chew. 44 ViVe preachers got up," he eald ; and then he quoted the laupage ot a little hey who sant that leieg was wane than ateeling ;—" If y ou areal SD tnetlxing youcan take it back: but if you tell a lle you can't take that back.° Speaking of the virtue of patience, he said is to life just what an egg is to cedhe mit settles the whole businese. Mother, if you lieve a little mere patience you will be a precious mother; anti if you heve patience euough you will be a grandmother." (Laugh- ter.) tnamattlXe Imamit. Sam Jones thought the preachers were in - dined to talk too much about death and not enough about lite. 1" Time is not a einglo 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, far you shell live forever.'" Ile was not inclined, however, to be very severe on the class of sermons which soy, "You had better get religion; you will die next week." "Teat's a prettygood string to run your old raseale in with. 1 don' know what you preachers would do if you couldn't fall back on. that. If an 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 be 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 window, but next Sunday morning you will have three thotteand people trying to geb into the church to see a preacher that has done semething, (Leughter:) We h we got to do something or we'll never be respected." BEAD OVIr TEE 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 ourage 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 tin. faithful to her, but she's in hell every minute she bre:thee. 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 are chasing our people down to deetruction ;. 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 the dog off." "The preachers alwa,ys Bey to me, Yon head off the dog and I'll encouraee the rabbit.' I was here for three weeks and I hardly got to speak to the rabbit at all." • People grtunbled sometimes about his style of preaching, the lecturer mid, 'but no- body could complain that they didn't under. Amid him. "1 always put my fodder on the ground, where everything from a goat to a giraffe can get ib." (Laughter). • Enterprise, enthusiasm, courage, kind - nese, were some 9f the qualities which were needed in crder to "gee there." Speaking of peerage, he approved of the course of the Quaker who, having bee* struck en one cheek presented the other, then 'pulled off hi coat and said, "And now, ,haviog filled the Soriptural itjnuction, 1 propoee to give yen the beat whipping you ever hail in your life." A new definition of the dude was given, "& little pimple on the body of semety, ehowinp that 00e-testy's blood is out of con- dition. Speaking of kindness, the leeturer gave an excellent *titre of the tielf-eatiefied air Of 4 lady wiao bas given an old threadbare dreee to epoorworean, Oh, therehi another treasure laid up in Heaven!' "The weret that could happen to you when you get to Heaven would be to make you, wear all the old dresses you nave given away. You, wouldn't go calling mach, for the first few years," That which delighted the audience niost was the lecturer's illustration of the differ. ence betweerta Temperaece matt and aProisi, bitioeist. Tee Temperance men are pulling the poor old drowning drunkards out of the river; but the Prohibitions have gone up the river a few railee eghting the crowd that are throwing the people j,"e soon as we Prehibiticorists get our work in, yon Tem, perance people wM be out of a " There are more FrobiVitiovaetainhanov- jea to -day than there were Abolitioniete in America ten years before Mr. Lincoln signed the nroclarnation that made the ala,ves free, and eget as *eertain as that God was on the side of the Union ceuee and the enmecipetiore of tho alavee Ile he on the aide dPrehibi- tion and the proclainatio et Will be eigned that'will aimed the death knell of the lignor tranfie and realm all these Waves of amok free." Our New Game 11111, .Poreal and Streem centeine a letter from Etheat 4, Thenipsoo, 9f thie eity, giving% summary of the amendmeeta embodied in the Phelps °erne Preservation 13111 recently passed by the legit/lab-Ire, and referring as foltows to the fate of the ;treasure for the better protection of birds " Yon will be eorry to learn that our hillier the proteetzon tef birth; hue been thrown ant for this year by Means ef a eller:ireful double 'Amide to ex. plain which it will be neceseary to detail the ages of such a bIU in our Ugielature. 'ir t it in prepared by panties leterest,ed and A lute the charge of t. member who in. narait, efter which it seta int° cotandt- member in tharge seleeting Ms own tee. A xnunber of experte ore the abject are then palled up for exanduatiou before the committee And the bill is rearm/oi- led and perfected, After which it mint pass ite second and third readings in the Rouse before it becomea law. Now one of the Toronto members'Mr, jolui Ley; profane g an interest inthe matter, was allOVIred o 'take chilege of the hill prepared by the Natural History Society, Re then aeleeted a committee to milt himself—violated all hie promisee of giving no a chence to 'Teak— sent only far` our opponents, the represeete. tivee of the Gun Club, and sacceeded in hom- ing the whole thing thrown out." Our contemporary comments as follows on the contents of Mr. Thompeonn letter "Sportamen, la/Aurelius and all other pep' ple who are interested in the preaervatioxi of genre and birds, will be sorry to learn of the action of the Ontario Leglateture refer. red to in another column, It will be seen that the bill as reported doea not forbid the dogging of deer, nor doea it provide thet the 'Mandl% limiter enlist proeure a Reenter. The provimen that only lave deer rutty be killed by ono or more hunters from one camp will be a dead letter, since it can never be entoreed. The section requiring three months' residencein the province before any person shall be at liberty to kill deer, or other game, amounts to a practical barring oub of all residents of the 'United States from shooting privileges in Ontario, and will nem a aware 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 trade of wild and worthless lend, and have gone to considerable expense in putting im- provements on such property. A bill such as tho ODA reported would, if it became a law, mtan 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 Ontario '• indeed, by some -they are said to be almost extinct. The failure of the bird protective bill are 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 nobusiness 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 instrection can scarcely be said to have extended in this direction. Holland, Denmark and Germany furnieh 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 aepertaining to the dairy. The Royal Agri- cultural Society of England hag 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 techdical instruction of the sons and daughters of farmers. In this country a great deal has been done in this direction, but a great deal more should be done. The edu- cation of farmers' children ahould be more thorough and systematic. They are bone to the •greatest and most ne- cessary industry in the world and their training should be commensurate with its importance. A Chinese doctor in New York prescribed for a suffering fellow -Celestial a decoction of lotus seeds, sweet potato skine, shark's fins, red herring Scales, willow leavesa graeshop- per legs, frog's eyes, lizard's tongues, oyster shells and sugar cane root, and several other Chineee physicians pronounced the pre- scriber a quack. It is understood that the critics would have substitud bat's wings for the frog's eye% Champagrte, Pleasure and Bust.- aess. The oleo who started penniless and bave built up large fortune; have, for the most part, been men of eimple hab. Ito. They bave waeted very little upon themselves. They have been content with plain elothea and moderate person. al expenees. The elder Astor WAS of that oohed. Re wanted little for peraonal gratification; but he wanted much in the wityof fortune. Ile Rained thia by a Wit ofindustry, abstendoineese aail econo- my. The fast man. rarely ,gaine a for- tune. The talent for open ding money repia- ly on one's self never saes with the talent 41 acquiring money. The elder Vanderbilt wen abstemious. His principal indulge/lee was in fest horeee, but he was not complex - one at horse race?, nor in the betting lists. Ile was a prodigious worker to the lain, as have been nearly all the men who have age quired large tortures, Indeed, hard -work had become a law of their live, Girerd was a worker and an abstemious Man to the leer, Johns Hoptelee, being a Quaker,. could not be otherwise than temperate, mdustrieue • end careful in his expenditures, in feet, looking over the list of rieh men who have been benefactors, that is, heve given eensiel- erable 9f their fertuctot,opuldie hest totions, 'hardly a, fast:man can be found eatioeg them. The latter clime /mead money upon them- selves, aud rarely have any deaire to do Ivey great things for the publie. The iospiration of champagne bee never been good in thie direetiou, It has never helped men to make fort -nee but it hag helped a great InanY to spend there. The poor men who atruck out in new countriee end acquired great wealth, greeped great enterprises and pie/sued been. deign+ things for the puling never heel their braine eatiodled very much with drainpipe or other inclulgeuces 142 fest living. Wher, ever the seeeese of men in the long run do. peuded ppm' pleyeicial and mental sten:dna— upon brawn and hraine—they have, for the moat part, drawn the relies pretty ohne upon all sorts of indulgences. "..ho ex, eeptione only go to make the ledie one of gtheral acceptenee. The metering, die- eipAted men do not eucceed in the long rue. Other men outstrip there in the race for enceese. There Was the elder Garrett, who made the Reltimore and Obio Rafixeral one of the beat paying reilroeci properties/ in the Claim In ((admit and eucceetful mirage. Arent it Wee cited au the model railread of the eouutry. Its ate& was o0 geed and the reeel was en suck a aolid begs, that the city of Baltimore, the Johns Ifopkine Univereity and several other public irietileatieus invest. ed their ferule in the rosd, because the Amoy:ten per emit, divideads brought a better memo than, they could getfor money in any other ioveatment Act tome as the elder 4arrett lived the road maintained its statue As the beet managed road in the ceuntry. The Johne Hopkine University Was mire of its divided, All the Widoved and Orphanie Riede invested there were sure of divideude. The elder Garrett had no invasion tor champagne tapper))iris habits were almost as simple and abatem. bus au were the* of the Quaker, Johns Ilopkiue, who had unehakert faith in the permauent value of the property in which he had 4D largo an intereet, The elder Gar- rett dying, was sueeeeded by his son In the preeldeney of the road, There was a great difference in the character and babita of the two men. The eon had come to a great fortune without any effort on his part Then who expected that he would fill the place of his father hew been greatly disappointed. The great railway property began to depreciate. The road. was extend. ea to Philadelphia. Garrett 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 thet the 'atter au& deely expired, To hat diVidend Was passed, the company him been obliged to tell its telegraph line; its expreire and sleeping -car business. and te borrow ten millions or more to bridge over present em. barramments. There is a striking contrast in the aotual condition of the road now and at the time of the elder Garrett's death, Much of this difference can be traoed to the suceesaion of' the younger Gsrretb. The son WAS not like hie father. He was not girded up for a life of eeladenial and hard work. Ile wail, in the phraes 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 such hebits was not equal to the management. of this great railroad property. He was compelled to step out. Then came the story of Garretta rushing back from Earepe, his threat a to upset the sale of the telegraph line and to revolutionize 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 chose 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 that champagne suppers, social excesses, a fast, sensuous life do not go well with business ; and the millions 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 be 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 ma 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 plunged in the water. At the depth of 20 feet and leas the sound is a orepitation, similar to that produced when salt is thrown on burning charcoal ;, at 50 feet it is like the ticking of a evatoh, the ticking being more, or less rapid accord- ing to whether the bottom le entirely of coral or alternately of coral and mud, or of sand. If the bottom is entirely of sand the sound is clear; if of mild it resenablesthe humming of a swarm of bees. On dark nights the. fishermen select their fishery grounds ac. cerding to these indications. A contract for the completion within sir weeks of all the bridges on the Red Blear - Velley railway was signed on Saturday byr the Manitoba Government.