The Exeter Advocate, 1896-5-14, Page 3OUR; OTTAWA LETTER
DILATES ON THE RECONSTRUC-
TION OF THE CABINET.
Hon. J. A. Chapleau Declasses--Ne*t Best
Move--I'aoaud en the Reconstruction --A
Surprising Appointmente,'Sir Oliver Mo-
wat—A Row Nipped in the Bud.
The shuffle has been made. Tlie man
who, since the death of. Sir John Thomp,
son, led -the Government of this country,
Is now the ex -Prime Minister. And in
his stead reigns Sir Charles Tupper, bar-
onet .of the United. Kingdom, and Mice a
lieutenant fighting under Sir John Mac-
donald. The need for a change in the
leadership was apparent here in Ottawa.
I do not know hew the change was re-
garded in Ottawa. It is curious that inose
of the politicians were altogether astray
on the reconstruction. Failing the incom-
ing of Hon. J. A. Cbapleau as a Minis-
ter from Quebec, they anticipated that
Sir Charles would retain Sir Adolphe
Caron and Mr. Ouinlet. In place of this,
two new mon were brought in—Sir
Adolphe and Mr. Ouimet were allowed
to. go. These were not the only changes.
Econ. P. Mayne Daly, the Minister of
the Interior, was replaced by Hugh John
Macdonald, the son of the first Premier
of Canada. And in place of Sir Macken-
zie Bowell,
acken-zie_Bowell, the vacant Ontario portfolio
Was filled by Lieut. -Col. Tisdale, of Nor-
folk. Thus the Cabinet now stands as f
lows:—
Sir CHARLES TUPPER, Premier and
Secretary of State.
Mr, FOSTER. Minister of Finance.
Mr COSTIGAN, Minister of Marine
and Fisheries.
• Mr. HAGGART, Minister of Railways
and Canals:
Mr. ANGERS, President of the Conn-
ell.
Mr. IVES, Minister of Trade and
Commerce.
Mr. DICKEY, Minister of Justice.
Dr, MONTAGUE, Minister of Agri-
culture.
Mr. WOOD, Controller of Customs.
Mr. PRIOR, Controller of Inland
Revenue.
Mr. DESJARDINS, Minister of Pub-
lic Works.
Mr. TAILLON, Postmaster -General.
Mr. MACDONALD, Minister of. the
Interior.
Mr, TISDALE, Minister of Militia.
Sir FRANK SMITH.
Senator D. FERGUSON and
Senator J. J. ROSS, without portfolio.
Sir C. H. TUPPER, Solicitor -General,
without seat in the Cabinet.
•
Hon. J. A. Chapleau Declines,
The new Prime Minister, I am assured,
thinks this to bo the strongest Cabinet
that can be brought together. Mr. Lau-
rier, in an interview at Montreal, said
that it was ridiculously weak. Which
simply shows how far extremes will carry
a man whose usual judgment is good,
Neither Tupper nor Laurier is right. The
Cabinet is fairly strong, but it is not so
strong as it would have been had Hon.
J. A. Chaplean consented to enter it. No
man in Quebec possesses the power that
Chapleau wields. He has a personal pull
that is marvellous, He has nothing to do
but to say the word, and men who usu-
ally do not take any part in politics be-
come violently excited. His health and
his inclination were against his entering
Dominion politics. He was seen at New
York by Messrs. Bergeron, Nantel and
Dauseran, They consulted with him as
to the chance which he ought to take.
The decision that the quartette arrived at
was that there was much to be said
against the Lieutenant-Govenor's enter-
ing politics again. Postmaster Dauseran,
of Montreal, for instance, pointed out
that Mr. Chaplean should have a second
term as Governor of Quebec. He is a poor
malt and needs money. Mr. Dauseran's
suggestion seemed to be most opportune.
Next Best Move.
And so, being unable to secure the
Lieutenant -Governor, the new Premier
invoked the aid. of the Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor's chief adviser. Little is known in
Western Canada regarding the Icon. L.
O. Taillon. He is an ultramontane,
Church and State man, to the backbone.
Like Angers he is no lover of the School
of young French Canadian .unbelievers
that one hears so much of in Montreal.
In Desjardins, Taillon and Angers, Sir
Charles has three advisers who are
strong with the hierarchy of Quebec.
Concerning their strengthwith the people
different men give different views. By
Mr. Laurier's friends the caliber of the
gentlemen from Queben is somewhat un-
derestiinated. It is certain that a politi-
e4an of Sir Charles's experience would
not bring into his Cabinet any man of
whose strength he was not convinced.
Pacaudon the Reconstruction.
Speaking of the reconstruction, Pacaud,
Meroier's ox -lieutenant, says in L'Elec-
teur: "It is evident that it has been rep-
resented to Sir Charles Tupper that with
this combination the assistance of the
clergy in the Province of Quebec could' be
obtained. Whatever may bo said and
done, the Episcopate as a body will not
intervene to paralyze the electoral liberty
of the Catholics. Their Graces the Bish-
ops will confine themselves to counselling
lsnd advising, as Mgr. Emard has already
done, but will decree no ostracism. The
choice of Mr. Taillon is a challenge to
the people, and the presence of Dr. Ross
in the Cabinet is a mockery. His impo-
tency is such that he cannotattend to
any serious duties. The appointment of
Mr. Taillon destroys the Quebec Govern-
ment. Hon. Mr. Nantel will probably be
palled on to form a. Ministry."
A Surprising Appointment.
The presence of Sir Charles Hibbert
Tupper as a member of the Government
though not of the Cabinet, must have
ibeen a surprise to many. The new Pre-
mier was acting up to his openly ex-
pressed belief when he gave bis son this
Ave thousand dollar a year post. It was
,during his, January campaign in Cape
Anton that Sir Charles, the elder, said:
"I consider my son„ Sir C. H. Tupper,
to be as a statesman the equal of any
,,.
in Canada to -da Nevertheless,
y
when the ooinposition•of the Cabinet was
announced few of us there were who be-
lieved that. Sir Charles had taken his son
Into the Government. It was thought that
if Sir Hibbert returned at all it would. be
as Minister of Justice for Canada. The
Solicitor Generalship is an unimportant
position and a sinecure. Its only previous
occupant was Judge Curran, a gentleman
of no remarkable brilliance or talent
It is evident that Sir. Hibbert has joined
for campaign. es. Down.
the Cabinet purposes. op p
v is the Tappers area power
In Nove Scot pp
in tbo lead. Dicing the coming campaign
we shall not see much of them in On-
tario. At present Sir Charles, the elder,
is on his way to 'Manitoba, there to con-.,
duct a campaign.: aku'ainst Laurier and
the wicked Joseph Martin.
Sir Oliver :Hewitt.
Sir Charles is not to have a monopoly
of new lieutenants. Mr, Laurier's Ontario
friends have tried for years to induce Sir
Oliver Mowat to give the Federal Liberal
leader his aid in parliament. At last Sir
Oliver bas consented: He announced his
decision on Monday' morning in a letter
nearly a column in length. Whereat
.wicked Conservative newspaper men won-
dered whether the said letter had been
'written on Sunday In the epistle, which
is addresed to Mr. Laurier, Sir Oliver is
most diplomatic. He says:—
"While I am now abundantly equal to
my present duties, and my. medical ad-
viser tells me that if I do not take too
much upon me I may • look forward to
years yet of active life, it seemed to me
that I could not count as nothing the ad-
dition ofia contested elcetion in a new
constituency, and afterward§ annual ses •
Bions of parliament twice aa long as in
Ontario, and with much later hours. To
remove to some extent this objection, it
has been suggested that I • might take a
seat in the Senate instead of the House
of Commons. I perceive the advantages
of this, both as regards myself personally `
and as regards the consideration of fu -
tare constitutinnal changes which would
add to the usefulness of that body, as-
suming that a second Chamber for the
Dominion is to be retained. How a second
Chamber, consisting so largely of the
nominees of ono party, can be just to a
new Government of another party, re-
mains to be seen, and the .necessity of '
early constitutional changes may depend
on this. Besides my correspondence with
yourself and my personal interview with
you, I have during the last few weeks
had many communications with other
representative Liberals, and it has been
Made plain to me that it is the general
opinion of the party to whose favor and
confidence are owing my aa years of the
premiership of Ontario that the crisis is
so grave that every personal sacrifice has
to be made and every incidental risk
run if the country is to be rescued from
the misgovernment which the Dominion
has so long been suffering from. From
the reasons laid before me I•.pereeive that
my long experience and my success in
official life in this province are thought
to be a guarantee that I oonld render
useful service in the new Government
and parliament of the Dominion. I feel
that I have to consider the matter in the
light of these opinions."
A. Row Nipped in the Bud.
Had Sir Oliver consented to run for the
Commons ho would have been doing the
Liberals a service of great importance. It
is clear that he has serious doubts as to
the advisability of jeopardizing his posi-
tion as leader of the Government of On-
tario. The course which he has elected to
follow will not necessitate his resigning
the post of Attorney -General for the
province. If the Liberals attain power,,!
he will be Senator Mowat. And if the
Conservatives go back to the. Treasury
benches, Sir Oliver will retain his old
post. It is said that there is a certain
difficulty existing in the Ontario Cabi-
net. In the case of Sir Oliver's resigna-
tion there would be two active aspirants
for the premiership. Arthur S. Hardy,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, would he
one; Hon. G. W. Ross would be the
other. Mr. Ross has said to many of his
friends that on no condition will he serve
under Mr. Hardy. And Mr. Hardy would
turn green with rage if anybody sug-
gested that he should. occupy a post in-
ferior to that held by Mr. Ross. Sir Oli-
ver's decision to retain the leadership has
nipped in the bud a very pretty row. In
Sir Oliver Mr. Laurier has the first pro-
vincial premier who has come out ac-
tively—though not as a candidate. 'Down
in Nova Scotia Mr. Fielding has not en-
tered the lists, but he has sent to the bat-
tle -field his Attorney -Genera], John W.
Longley. In Manitoba Mr. Greenway has
declined to enter Federal politics.
Both Parties Confident.
Never did the two parties go into a
contest with more confidence. The Gov-
ernment supporters think they have a
certainty of victory. The Liberals are
equally sure. Each says: "If the other
fellows win it will be because of money
inducements. We, poor bpt honest, have
no money." The party organizers are
sleeping only three hours a night and are
eating as they stand up. In every one of
the 215 divisions of Canada the voters'
lists are being eagerly gone over by local
enthusiasts. The voice of the canvasser is
heard in the land, and the .warnings of
the stump -speaker shake the timbers of
many a country school -house. The elec-
tions are only five weeks off.
Quiet at Ottawa.'
Meanwhile, here in Ottawa, the goal
of the ambition of all of these men, there
is little excitement. The politicians are
all over the land. They have deserted the
national capital. But their absence will
not be for long. The Commoners of Can-
ada voted little money wherewith to pay
the country's bills last session. They
must return in July to snake provision
for the granting of supplies. Otherwise
Canada's creditors will have to go lack-
ing.
An Unfought Duel.
Dr. Virchow, the eminent man of
science, has been sharply criticising
Prince Bismarck, who was then chancel-
lor.
At the end of a particularly severe
attack Bismarck felt hiinself personally
affronted and sent seconds to Virchow
with a challenge to fight a duel.
The man of science was found in his
laboratory hard at work at experiments
which had for their objectthe discovery
of a means of destroying trichinas, which
were making groat ravages in Germany.
"Ab," said the doctor, "a challenge
from Prince. Bismarck, eh 1 Well, well!
As I am the challenged party, I suppose
I have the choiee of weapons. Here they
lure l"
He held up two large sausages, which
seemed to bo exactly alike.
"One of these sausages," he said, "is
filled. with trichinae; it is deadly. The
other is perfectly wholesome. Externally
they can't be told apart. Let his excel-
lency do me the honor to choose which-
ever of these he wishes and eat it, and.I
will eat the other!"
Though the proposition was as
reasonable as any duelling proposition
could be, Prince Bismarck's representa-
tives refused it. No duel was fought, and
no opa accused Virchow of cowardice.--
Youth's
owardice.—Youth's Companion,
Mistake of a Blind Boa Constrictor.
A boa constrictor that was nearly
blind was once found to be contentedly
swallowing a blanket for dinner instead
of a rabbit, which was also within reach,
and it was only with great difficulty that
it was forced to disgorge this singular
article of Mod. A snake's tongue is there•
fore not an organ of taste, nor is it, as
many think, it sting; it is mere probably.
a delicate organ of touch. ,;Cliambeee
Journal.
HYPNOTISM BAD
AND DANGEROUS.
ANYONE CAN USE THE STRANGE
INFLUENCE.
Dr. Ernest Hart Attacks A11 Schools That
Practise Hypnosis and Mind Cures.
Dr Ernest Hart, of London, is an icon-
oclast He doesn't believe in "spooks"
nor in any of the fads and "isms" of the
day, and he shows them up in a book
called "Hypnotism, Mesmerism and the
New Witchcraft" (Appleton). Dr. Hart
does not deny .the existence of hypnot-
ism, but he denies some of its offsprings,
It was not long after he entered the
medicalsafe i n
p ss o that Dr. Hart discov-
ered that he could do about the same
things that the professional hypnotists
could do. '
At this stage., of his career he was
house surgeon to a metropolitan hospital,
and had rather a sharp reminder of . the
danger of mecjdling with a subject of this
nature. Two friends were spending the
evening in his rooms at the hospital, and
with them was a lady who professed the
customary incredulity as to his powers
of inducing sleep. She submitted her-
self as a subject, and was soon mesmer-
ized; and so prolonged and complete was
her sluunber that she was with difficulty
aroused; and when she left, her gait was
tottering and she had to be supported on
either side by her friends. This occur-
rence was reported to the hospital author-
ities by an unfriendly official, and he
was severely reprimanded.
This did not prevent his experimenting
in the same manner after leaving the
hospital. Of one of these experiments he
writes:—
"Staying at the well-known country
house in Kent of a distinugished London
PLEASURE.
banker, formerly member for Greenwich,
I had been called upon to set to sleep,
end to arrest a continuous harking cough
from which a young lady who was stay-
ing in the house was suffering, and who,
consequently was a .torment to herself
and friends I thought this a good oppor-
tunity for a control experiment, and I
set her down in front of a lighted candle
which I assured her that I had pre-
viously mesmerized. Presently her cough
ceased and she fell into a profound sleep,
which lasted until 12 o'clock next day."
Of the condition of a person who has
successfully snbmitted to the processes of
hypnotism, Dr. Hart says: "The individ-
ual is reduced more or loss perfectly to
the state of a living automation. The
upper brain is more or less completely
and more or less regularly bloodless, and
its functions aro in abeyance. The will
is abolished, suspended or enfeebled.
Sleep has been induced while the thought
has been in relation to the person carry-
ing on the experiment, and the sugges-
tions made by, or the directions given by
him are carried out without the inter-
vention of the will of the subject and
more or less completely without his
knowledge."
What Dr. Hart hopes to prove in this
book Is that there is no such thing as a
potent mesmeric influence, no surh power
resident in any one person more than
another; that a glass` of water, a tree, a
stick, a penny -post letter, or a limelight
can mesmerize as effectually as can any
individual
The first picture reproduced in the
Sunday World is from a photograph of a
female hysteric seized with an attack in
which her body is arched in a tetanic
spasm, unconscious, and the whole
weight of the body in this violently con-
strained position supported for a length
of time by the head and heels.
Some of the emotional phases and phe-
nomena of hysteria are also illustrated.
One of a hysterical patient, who, in the
course of her attack, is under the influ-
ence of •pleasing impressions; another,
the same patient, under a similar self -
suggested emotion of anger.
Dr. Hart discredits the experiments of
Dr. Luys which he saw in Paris, though
he records them at length in Dr Luy's
own vlords Says the latter:—
"I now present, as a second subject
Esther; who has already appeared before
ANGEL.
you I put her to sleep in the usual way,
and as soon as she is in a state of lethar-
gy I_ place at the side of her nock this
same tube filled with cognac. Wait some
seconds and see what is about to take
place.. At first some grimaces occur, fol-
lowed,by movements of the tongue and
lips, as when one tastes a liquid:; next,
passing like Gabrielle into the stage of
somnambulism,- she utters broken sen-
tences: "I air thirsty—I want a drink—
give me a drink."
"Tho speech is that of a drunken per-
son; the voice is thick and the tongue
sluggish. She says: `I am drunk without
drinking.' She tries' to get up from the
armchair and falls back heavily, doubled
up on herself. I remove the tube and you
then see the same symptoms which you
have before seen take place occur in re-
verse .order—namely, the movements of
tasting and the grimaces. Esther ends by
falling back into lethargy.
"I wait some minutes for the shock
which has gond through her *nervous sys-
tem to disappear, and after having recog-
nized, by means of the return of normal
muscular hyper -excitability in the fore-
arms, that this effect, is exhausted, 1 ap•
ply to the neck the tube previously used,
but now containing water.
"Almost immediately you see strange
phenomena occur, which develop in the
stage of catalepsy without somnambu-
lism. Instantaneously Esther's ;face as-
sumes an expression of terror, her eyes
aro widely open, haggard, and fixed; the
features of the countenance are motion-
less, the,masseters rigid, which makes it
impossible to open the mouth.
'In a few cases I have even seen saliva
flow from. the mouth like froth, at the
same time the muscles et the tongue be-
come rigid, and a generalized tetanic con-
dition develops. If you examine these
symptoms as a whole, are you not led to
see in the general expression of the sub-
ject the experimental syintomatology of
HORROR.
hydrophobia? And the tubo which pro-
vokes all these disturbances only con-
tains 10 grammes of water."
l)r. Lays, who has made a special
study of hypnotism, thinks that it is toe
terrible a weapon to be allowed in the
hands of any one except scientists.
"You can," he says, "not only oblige
this defenseless being (the person hypnot-
ized), incapable of resistance, to make
you a manual gift, but to sign a prom-
ise, a bill of exchange, to write a holo-
graph will in your favor, and to hand it
to you without his ever and
what it
contains or even that it exists. He will
accomplish the most minute legal formal-
ities cahnly and serenely, so that the
most experienced officers of the law
would be deceived Here is Esther She
will write and sign before you a deed. of
gift in my favor good for 1,000 francs"
Dr Hart argues that a good subject for
hypnotic experiments can be hypnotized
by auy one.
"A subject," he says, "accustomed to
be thrown into the hypnotic state cannot
protect himself, and is at the mercy of
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iNiiMMTekiNiagerAM-
for infanta tand Children.
OT g"tl E li . t q DO YO11.2 Know chat Paregoric,
Batensan's Drops, Godfroy's Cordial, many so-called Sorothing Syrups, and
most remedies for children aro composed of opium or morphine ?
Do Son Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poison f .
Do You Known that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics
without labeling them poisons ?
Do Yon Kne.v that you should not permit any medicine to be given your obild
unless yor or your physician know of what itis composed ?
Da Yen &i -pow that Castoria is a rarely vegetable preparation, and'that a list of
its ingredients is published with every bottle ?
TiO Youlino yr that Cactoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher.
What it has been in uss for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than
of all other remedies for children combined f
7130 Yen Knew that the Patent Oface Department of the united States, and of
other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word
" Oastoria" and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense ?
Do You. Enow that one of the reasons for granting this government protectionwas
because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless?
Do Yon Sian"w that 35 average doses of CestorIa are furnished for 35
moats, or one cent a dose?
Do You Kalow that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may
be kept well, and that you may havo unbroken rest,
Wei.&9 these thugs are worth knowing. They are facts.
The fac-simile
signature 2f.
ie o_•. ovary
wrapper.
lhiidren Cry for Pitcher's Casterram
any scoundrel or imposter who chooses to
adopt the various methods of impressing
the imagination which are the stock -in -
trade of all hypnotizers It is a mere idle
fancy; easily disproved, that the hypnot-
izer has in himself any power special to
him.
"All of M. Luy's subjects who passed
under my hands, and indeed every sub-
ject who for many years has come under
my notice, could be hypnotized, as I
have already stated, by rue or by anybody
else whom they thought capable of hyp-
notizing them; or by any object what-
over—a Candle, a bell, a spoon, a coin, or
a tuning fork -to which they were taught
to impute hypnotizing power.
"In the substituted jargon of other ,
schools this is called mesmeric power or :
magnetic power; all empty phrases for
concealing the fact that the condition is
one of .a subjective character, capable of
beingby many induced inds of external
stimulus. M. Luys's porter, his ward. ser-
vant, myself and my friends proved to be
as capable of hypnotizing as Dr. Luys is
himself.
"The dangers which he so vividly de-
scribed are not therefore *to be conjured
AFFECTIO\.
by the simple expedient on which he re-
lies. I may add that the newspapers in
France abound with • sad stories, and
others are current in the hospitals, of
most distressing and grossly immoral re-
sults of this abominable practice of train-
ing responsible beings to resign their re-
sponsibility and become the passive
agents of the will of others."
Dr. Hart puts the hypnotist and the
"faith-curist" in the same category:—
"As to the practical question," he
says, "which has, perhaps, a greater in-
terest for the sociologist and the physi-
cian than any which have suggested'
themselves up to this point. Since the
hypnotist faith -curer of the grotto are in
truth utilizing the same human elements
and employing cognate resources, al-
though masked by a different outward
garb, we may ask ourselves which of
them can claim the greater successes and
which does the least harm?
"So far as I can see the balance is in
favor of the faith -curer of the chapel and
the grotto. The results are at least pro-
portionately as numerous, and they are
more rapid. Numerically, they are, I in-
cline to believe, more faith -cures at
Lourdes than there are 'suggestion cures'
in the Salpetriere or the Charite.
"So far as hypnotism is good for any-
thing as a curative agent, its sphere is,
as we havo seen, limited by Charcot,Fere,
Rabinski, and all the most trustworthy
medical observers in Paris, to the relief
of functional disorders and symptoms in
hysterical patients.
"The Nancy school put their preten-
tious higher; but anyone who will ana-
lyze for himself the Nancy repute cases of
euro, or who will study Babinski's able
analysis of them, will easily satisfy him-
self that such claims are not valid."
Dr. Hart's book is bound to oxeite 0011
troversy, -for his theories have many op-
ponents, and among them men 'who are
not to be downed by any sceptic, no
matter how well he argues nor how much
science he brings to bear on the side of
his theories.
New Challies.
Many of the imported Challies this
year rival in beauty the silks One new
design shows tiny sprays of flowers and,
in addition, a colored border For exam-
ple, over a cream background tiny pink
rosebuds will be scgttered, and then the
phallic will hiave a border of piny.
An artistic challie shows a delioato de-
sign of maiden -hair fern, with ,t green
border, These ohallies cost 40 cents a
yard and cake dainty summer gowns,.
trimmed with narrow ribbon velvet and
Li re.
Avineri:: • n ;can
PUT THAT ON.
The Generous Man Felt Warmer When He
Gave Away His Overcoat.
It was a raw, damp October day. Tho
passengers in the north side cable cars
were shivering and grumbling at the
economy which necessitated the open
cars so plate in the season, says a Chicago
paper. As - a Clark street car emerged
from the tunnel it was boarded by a la-
boring man, who swung himself on and
sat down directly opposite a prosperous
broker who had entered the car down
town. The laborer was thinly clad. His
furrowed face and deep-set eyes told of a
life of care, if not of actual want. The
face was intelligent . and honest, and a
kind heart was reflected in the light eyes.
The man who sat opposite to him had
the air of one whom the world had
treated kindly. Although apparently fifty
years old, time had left little impress on
his features beyond turning to silver the
thick hair which had once been black.
His expression was stern, but integrity
shone in every line of his face. Over his
handsome tweed suit he wore a light
overcoat, closely buttoned across the
chest. Occasionally he glanced over the
paper he was reading at his poorer neigh-
bor, and the glances although short, took
in every detail of the man's appearance.
When the ear reached Schiller street the
broker prepared to get off, at the same
time removing his overcoat, which he
threw over the workingman's knees.
"Put that on," he said peremptorily,
as lie jumped on the pavement.
The poor man was so surprised that a
second or two elapsed before he grasped
the situation.
"For me?" he shouted to his bene-
factor. "Did you give this coat to me?"
"Yes, yes," returned the broker, as he
hurried toward Dearborn avenue.
By this time the car was moving
swiftly northward and the laborer was
standing up, waving his cap and shout-
ing:—
"God bless you, sir, God bless you,"
The Germination of Nuts.
It is a very common notion in the
North that nuts—butternuts, for instance
—will not grow until they are frozen,
and that this freezing is necessary to
open their shells. A moment's thought
ought to recall the fact that many of our
hardest -shelled nuts are native to regions
where freezing is unknown. As for the
Northern nuts, they drop with or before
the foliage of the trees which bear them;
and in the still air of the forest or grove
the snow lies level, while the dead leaves,
with the snow, constitute, even here in
northern Vermont and adjoining Canada,
one of the most perfectly frost -proof cov-
erings, habitually made use of in our
gardens to protect our half-hardy and
tender plants in winter.
Some—indeed, I think many, if not all
our Northern nuts—retain their vitality,
under favorable conditions, for many
years. Having last spring a call for a lot
of young butternut trees, I planted acoli-
siderable quantity of nuts which had
been kept in a shed loft for four or five
years. Every nut vegetated, and they all
made a growth of from 10 to 12 inches
during the ,season. These nuts havo un-
questionably been subjected to a temper-
ature far below zero every winter since
they were gathered, but none of their
shells wore cracked or loosened. I do not
think their viatlity would have been
preserved had this occurred.
So far as my observation and experi-
ence have yet extended, in reference to
the vitality of nuts (and these cover a
considerable, extent of, territory—from.
Canada to Tennessee), they rarely vege-
tate extensively near the trees from whinh
they fall. Perhaps this is chiefly due to
the activity of boys and squirrels in har-
vesting the crop. Where the trees stand
closely there may also be a lack of sun-
force to start germination. If it wore not
for its rough shell the butternut would
have. a ,very extensive sale, for in quality
it is decidedly . superior to the So-called
English stalinut, and it ;will endure a
much colder climate.—Garden and .For -
Beauty is as Beauty Does,
"You thick the Ugly . buck l .0 g never
becomes a swan??"' writes Ruth Ashiiiore
in April Ladies' Home Journal. "Rachel,
who was said to have had the most ex-
pressive face of any woman in the cen-
tury, and to have: been the most grace-
ful, was counted by her family an exces-
sively ugly child. She . adored beauty,
ana she tells in one of her letters that
suddenly one day, after looking at her-
self, she made up her mind that she
would be charming. And ' she said, 'I
studied every hour of my life to be ugly
no longer.' History tells how she suc-
ceeded. Adelina Patti was the Ugly
Duckling, it being thought by her par-
ents that her sister, Carlotta, was the
beauty. Mary Anderson, the ideal, classi-
cal beauty of the last two decades, was
considered in her own home an awk-
ward, ordinary -looking girl, rather quiet,
for she spent most of her time reading
Shakespeare. George Eliot never became
a beauty, but she forced those people who
despised her lack of ` attraction as a child
to recognize the great genius of the
woman. The old mammies down South
always scorned a pretty baby, and, oddly
enough, there is wisdom in this."
Kites That Carry Men.
Five huge kites were used at Christ-
church Park, Ipswich, by Lieut Powell a
short time ago to demonstrate the possi-
bility of raising a man from the ground
for reconnoitering pmgioses in time of
war. A wicker car was attached to the
kites and held the aeronauts. During
the trial it was prevented from taking
ton high a flight by an anchorage rope
held from below and paid out from a
windlass. An ascent of about 50 feet was
successfully made by three parsons separ-
ately. It only required the letting out of
mare rope to have extended this distance.
Candy for the Children.
A delicious and harmless candy for the
children is ice cream candy. This is fla-
vored as it is pulled, and may be cut
into sticks or small pieces if preferred.
Boil three cups of sugar, a quarter of a
teaspoonful of cream of tartar and one-
half cup of water together, but do not
stir the syrup at all while boiling. Boil
until when a little is dropped into cold.
water it is brittle. Turn on to a large,
well buttered platter or a marble slab
that has been oiled, and as it cools fold
the edges towards the center. As soon as
it can be handled pull it until itis white.
Of what use are forms, seeing at times.
they are empty? Of the sante use as bar-
rels, which are at tunes empty, too.
Glory is like a circle in the water•,which
never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by
troad spreading it disperse to naught.
Fine feelings, without vigor or reason,
are in. the situation of the extreme feather
of a peacock's tail—dragging in the
mud.
elr:a nab,. was slog, we gave her Cestnria,
'When she was a Child, f tee cried or Castorza.
When she became Mist, she clung to Castor
69he'a she had Children, she gave them Castosis
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