Exeter Advocate, 1901-8-8, Page 2GllowiNG MANGELSe
The groneel ehoold be thoroughly
ploughed and harrowed. That upen
Which- potatoes or corn Vi7n,$ raieed
tlee Peevioes year is preferable. If
a darie loam with yellow clay sub:,
eon •so :Much the better. Mark the
ground . with drug as you would for
plaatieg corn in cIrili rows at least
three feet apart. A hand drill le
excellent. for:sowing, which should
be done as early as the season will
pernat, sive a praetical fiermer
, The only fertilizing 1 used is
about 15 wagon loads of wellereteed
znanure which is harrowed in; '440
previous year for poeatoes, Afeer
the seeds are fairly up I go theough
the field with the eomMon Aehar
row, repeatiag this as often as once
a week until large enough to use
the. Cultivator. This I use frequent-
ly, always exercising are that this
Work shall be done Ware 10 o'clock
in the morning, as the dew which
has eorraed durieg the previous night
, coatains renal ammonia and oxygen,
thereby gevnig the little plants the
benefit al these important plant
foods by mixing them with the soil.
All other crops requiring such care
:Should receive: it at this time of day.
:The thinning Out to -three to Six in-
ches .aptiet, ac- 1 -ding to richneses of
sail, should be done when the -plants
are e: to I in. in diameter. After
the •weeds are once pedled out but
httle hoping is necessary as most of
the work can be done with the culti-
vator. •
11 frost is iikelY to come early,
they can be milled down and thrown
in piles, as they Will not not eadere
very mulch 'freezing while growing.
Cut off the top. In handling do not
break the skin or Otherwise bruise
theni any more than ekui. possibly be
avoided, as this injures their keep-
ing qualities. Store.in dark part of
the cellar free from any possibility
of freezing.
The stock to which I feed miring -els
are 'more especially cows giving milk
and young cattle. In both instances
I get most excellent result. To each
cow I give eight quarts of the cut
mangeis three or four times during
the week. About half this anionnt
is sufficient for young cattle. Give
i� the animals, jape after watering.
During the five years in which I have
grown them I have noted a marked
healthfulness in my stock and an in-
crease in the quantity of milk pro-
duced. For young cattle they are
most excellent.
HOGS.
As pork products are commanding
better prices than for several years,
it will be to the interests of farmers
keeping cows, and especially where
there is a supply •of milk the year
around, to pay more attention to
keeping swine.
As now in.ore than formerly, light
weight hogs are more in request than
heavy ones, it becomes possible with
good management to raise and fat-
ten two broods of pigs in one year,
as at six months old they will be
ready for market and at good prices.
This will allow of a good number
of pigs being grown and fattened
with a moderate-sized dairy.
To `make the business most profit-
able, brood sows should be kept on
the farm and the pigs raised for use,
thus saving the cost of buying, be-
sides having such breeds as are best
for the jurpose.
Where a sow proves to be a good
mother, gentle and easily managed,
it will be best to keep her raising
pigs as long as she will do well, as
this is preferable to frequent changes.
She will bring two litters in a
year, and when not nursing the pigs
can be quite cheaply kept.
Where pigs are raised in cold wea-
ther it will be 'necessary to provide
warm, dry, comfortable quarters,
and where these are furnished there
should be no trouble with them.
With an eighteen -cow dairy a sow
should bring enough pigs for the use
of the farm and sometimes More.
The pigs should be weaned at five
weeks old, and then fed on sleimmilk
and buttermilk from the dairy, cone:
mencing very soon with a small
grain feed, increasing it as the pigs
grow older. The idea, is to keee
them healthy and hearty, growing
and fattening at the same time.
Middlings are the best until within a
month or six weeks before disposing
of them, when cornmeal should be
fed with the milk to give them a
good finish.
At six months old the pigs should
weigh two hundred pounds live
weight. The grain. feed will . cost
nearly $2 each, and the balance may
be credited to the milk front the
dairy.
Where it can be done it would be
better to have the brood sows run
out on the ground during VirCIIM wea-
ther. The amount of manure that
can be made from the progeny of
even one sow, with plenty of mater-
ial for the purpose, is an item, wor-
thy of the most careful attention,
and will go Inc toward paying for
the care bestowed on this kind of
stock.
GREEN FEED FOR TIORSES.
It requires no special powers of ob-
servation to note the fact that hors-
es require, nore succulent or green
a,nd less carbonaceous foods during
the summer months than when the
cold weather makes the consumption
of starchy feeds necessary in order
to keep up the heat of the body.
You will aotice for instanee when
laying by your corn that, tele team
will ravenously eat the green leaves
and nip at graes and weeds when op-
portunity oilers. When you put them
in the barn and feed them corn they.
don't seem to relieb it—they eat it,
of course, but their craving is for
succulent feed,
This should teach the lesson. which
some farmers need to know: That
farm horse e should have plenty of
Pasture grass during grass season.
It is an excellent ,schenie to Iot, them
run in the pasture.every night. The
bowels are thereby kept in good con -
(Mien and the gel -weal health of the
euinels is improved..
We 110.1'0 kOONVII rnrinerS to feed
greeu core fodder as an ()veiling and
night feed, and it is a common prace
tie° in some seetions of the country
to feed the horses liberal quantities
of freshly (nit hay in the evening.
A horse should he able to inaie-
tab), strong vigor and good, health if
fed about 'ewe guartS of eeis, live or
six ears of corn and a little mixed
clover and timothy hay three times
a day and given ece,eseto good grass
pasture during. the nights, And, of
course, the good, water question
seould aot be overlooked.
A horse noest bo well fed el he
would do his beet service in harnees.
If be begins to flicker about Mee
o'clock M the forenoon that is evi-
dence of a "menet' ehat suggests
seant moreing feeding, though, of
course, it is a cunning habit of some
intelligent horses to affect. hunger be-
fore they are in the field two hours.
Farm horse are worthy much san-
er treatment than is accorded them
by a master who never has stedied
the relation of feed to energy and
consequent pewer to work. They are
entitled to ranch of the credit the
farmer gets for growing large crops.
Good horses and good crops are
found on the . same farm. At this
time of year they should not have to
beg for green feed; givethem all they
want and treat them generously and
kindly. They are animals just a lit-
tle lower than their masters and
ought to have good things to eat, as
T,Veesitl. as legal belidaYs on, which, to
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LONG COURTSHIPS.
.joine of the rifest Remarkable
Cases on Record.
Last year the Hungarian village
of Keeskemat was the scene of a
marriage 'between a bridegroom of
eighty-two and a bride of seventy-
eight. Although the couple had been
engaged for fifty years extreme pov-
erty had prevented their marriage,
and it was only when the man 41.t,
that his end was near that he re-
solved to leave at least his mune to
the woman he had loved so long.
How unprofitable it is to wait for
dead men's shoes must have been
the experience of a couple who were
not long ago married at Birming-
ham, England. When first betrothed
they determined to wait until the
death of the young manes father —
then in a critical state of health —
should place a sufficient amount of
money at their disposal to enable
them to buy a small business. The
proverbial creaking door, however,
hung long upon its hinges, and it
was not until thirty-nine years ha.d
elapsed that the old man's decease
enabled them .to make an .applica-
tion to a clergyman to put up the
banns.
The abduction of eligible recruits
was often put into requesition to
swell the ranks of Frederick of Prus-
sia's giant Grenadiers. Almost on
the eve of his wedding was Terrence
Flynn, a etalwart Irishman, kid-
napped by craft and constrained...to
join that celebrated regiment Dur-
ing thirty years of virtual bondage
he contrived at intervals to let his
fiancee know that his heart was still
hers, and when at length, on cone
triving to reach his native land, he
found that she, tog, had been faith-
ful, the long -postponed ceremony
was celebrated.
Though a fifteen years' engage-
ment is comparatively short, the cir-
cumstances attendant thereon in the
can of a Cincinnati couple make it
worthy of note. Their long proba-
tion is due, not. to any indecision or
dilatoriness on their part, but to
their having never during the whole
space of fifteen years been out of
prison at the same time.
Though Miss M— was engaged
she was loth, by being wed, to fore-
go the ardent, letters which she re-
ceived from her lover, who too was
unwilling to stein the tide of his
fiancee's amorous epistles.. So their
engagement continued, while the cor-
respondence, if it in time lost its
passionate fervor, grew ever More
essential to their happiness. Years
passed; they ceased to be lovers,
and Would doubtless ha-ve died un-
wed, had not the lady in her declin-
ing years experienced a reverse . of
fortune, which determined her 'be-
trothed to fulfil the promise he had
made nearly half a century before.
Sixty-three years ago John Mor-
gan, a young man of twenty-two,
who kept a drug -store in New York,
became engaged to a girl of seven-
teen. The couple were ambitious
and sanguine, and, as John's busi-
ness promised well, made, a vow to
wait, until he had made $26,000.
Then trade fell off and, though he
tried his hand at many ,things, the
requisite sumseemed as far off as
ever,' until two years since a lucky
speculation placed it at his disposal.
The foliewing week be married his
fiancee, whom he had courted for
over sixty years.
4 -
The Earl of Scafield holds Great
Britain's recorrl as a tree planter
with 60,000,000 trees planted on
40,000 acres in Inverness-shire.
There are many things far more
easily imagined than Lord Salisbury
carrying clay to the brick -makers
for the erection of some ecclesiasti-
cal edifice. Yet, according to news
which, has just, reached London, this
is precisely what has been done by
the Prime Mifileter of Uganda. The
huge red cathedral in the ce.pital of
the Protectorate is to be replaced
by a substantial structure of brick.
Almost everyone appears to have
lent a helping hand. The native
Christians are Supplying the labor,
and the „,leading ladies—including
even some of the Princesses of the
Royal Household—have been cutting
down forest trees for burning the
bricks and carrying the fagots back
upon their heads. Nay, even, more:
the Katikoro, who ie the Prime Min-
ister of the piece, has taken the
lead in digging clay for the bricks
and carrying it to the brick -mak-
ers.
The 'average., yearly 'Product of an
English cow' in milk and butter is
6;11, against LiS from a Dutch Cow.
TREY CURE EAUll OTHER.
MICROBES. ARE WELCOMED 13Y
SOME, AILING PEOPLE.
-est, Cure for Several Disehses is
an Attack ef ,Sorne Other
Disease•
"Set a microbe to catch a mi-
crobe " is likely to become a medi-
cal proverb. The cases which led to
tee discovery are yery iateresting.
COnle thrie ago, at Brixton, Le
don, a lady and her husband weife-
attacked by quinsy at the Sante
tin. When this was at its height
and the patients were almost sholsed
by the swelling in the throat, ehe
husband got a
BAD FIT OF TUE GOUT
In hi $ toe, This tin:fled out a bless-
ing in disguise. For, as if by magi°,
hie quinsy disappeared inunediately.
The wiTe's nuiusY showed ii(s signs
of abatement, but ran the usual
course, thus provieg that the gout,
inuinisiyee. husband's case, cured the
ci
At South Kensington there lived
a lady who suffered so severely from
dyspepsia that she was on the point
of losing her reason. Doctor after
doctor tried his hand, but without
avail. But one day the patient de-
velopecl eczema, on the back of the
neck. For the Rrst time in ten years
she eelt hungry, ate a good dinner,
and felt quite free from the dyspep-
sia. When the eczema disappeared,
however, the indigestion returned.
Later on the eczema came back, and
the indigestion went. Axed the tWO
diseases have continued to keep at
this see -saw up to date.
Cholera is another cure for chron-
ic dyspepsia. A. gentleman lives in
North London who had to give up
his business, SOMA years ago, owing
to the terrible state of his stomach.
He happened to go to Hambur
when cholera
WAS RAGING IN THAT
city, and he was stricken by the di-
sease. He pulled through, and found
when he recovered, that his dyspep-
sia had gone. Since then he has
been in perfect health, and says he
could digest horses' hoofs, or even
boarding-house roast beef.
But much more serious ailments
than 'dyspepsia have been cured by
other diseases, and so successful are
one or two of these strange reme-
dies that they are being used in Ger-
many, at the present moment. The
C4erman doctor has added to his
pharmacopoeia the poisons of typhoid
Lever and erysipelas. Of com-se, he
uses them most carefully, gives the
smallest possible dose, watches how
It acts, and keeps it under strict
control.
' Used with proper care and judg-
ment, typhoid' fever can be made to
cure diabetes. It is supposed that
the typhoid bacillus eats all the so -
gar, and causes' some mysterious
change which prevents the waste of
any more of this substance.
Typhoid fever also cures
AN EXHAUSTING DISEASE'
called leucocythaemia. This arises
from the presence of too many white
corpuscles in the blood. When the
typhoid germs enter the blood these
white corpuscles make instant war
on them, and the casualty _lists are.
so heavy that the patient is rid eel
b o th enemies.
When anyone is afflicted with
rheumatism, nothing better could.
happen to him than to get an at-
tack .of typhoid fever. 'Innumerable
cases are on record where people
crippled by most painful rheumatism
have been perfectly cured by typhoid
It has dried up many festering
sores over which antiseptic dress-
ings had no influence; it has caused
the absorption and disappearance of
tumors, and may yet be turned to
account in the treatment of cancer.
It has also curecl many cases of con-
sumption. But its most successful
cures leave been effected in the lun-
atic asylum. For a long time it
has been known to asylum physicians
that the most violent mania, sub-
sides when when the patient gets some se-
vbodily disease. Cholera, erysip-
elas, aad typhoid fever are especial-
ly effectual. This knowledge is now
being turned to account, a,nd when
all drugs., moral influence, and the
great healer Time have failed, the
patient is given a dose of typhoid
bacilli. In a few days his madness
begins to fade away. And by the
time he is well enough to leave his
bed,. he is perfectly sane once more.
But, though the cure is often per-
manent, it sometimes is effective
only for a feev weeks or days.
Erysipelas holds the next place to
typhoid fever, and it is often used
by doctors as a remedy because of
the ease with which
in perfect order, aecl it has ievor
trellbled 111111 Siam, Typhus 'fever
ale() cures eryelpela$, dropsy, con-
sumption, and St. Vitus' dance.
Now, it MIS been shown that ec-
zema cures dyspepent, erysipelas
cures eczema, and typhus fevein cures
erysipelas. Obviouely, all we know
want is' something that will meke
typhus fever harmlese, end we have
certaia cure for dyspepsia. And to
a great many people this CUM would-
be cheaply bought at the costof the
'Whole cycle of dieeasea
Many deaf people recover their
heering fer a time „on getting a fit
of dizzinees. Aed others, who suffer
severely from dizziaess, are relieved
by anaettack of deafness, A girl in
a London hospital was lately dying
from poverty cif blood, when she got
an attack of scarlatina. This, in-
stead of hurrying her to the grave,
cered her, A blind boy has had his
sight restored by smallpox. A child
on its lest legs with wbooping-
cough Wa$ ewe -0 by an attack of
measlee, A medical man dying, of
consumption was cured by a bad at-
tack of scerlatine,
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Notes of Interest About Some of
the World's Great People.
King Edward can handle a gun,
with the best of field shots, When
in Tuella he went in for that most
excitiag of sports, tiger -shooting,
and it is on reemed that when out
with Sir Jung Bahtedur in Nepal he
brought down six tigers in 000 day.
The Khedive of Egypt is an ener-
getic fireman, and has each of his
palaces supplied with the latest ap-
pliances. Periodical drills of his
domestics are thoroughly carried
out. He occasionally turns them
out on false alarms and. finds they
answer to his satisfaction.,
Princess Maud can not ouly bind
g books and nurse a sick patient
scientifically, but ale.° sail a half -
rater, ride a bicycle, spin as well as
sew, play chess, and speak five
languages, including Russian. She
vies with her mother, Queen Alex-
andra, in being an expert photo-
grapher, and she is the ciheen's fav-
orite daughter.
Sir Henry Colville used to be a
great athlete, and a story is narrate
,ed of a famous wager he once made
that he would walk from the Guard -s'
Club to Charing Cross, carrying a
canoe on his back, take the train for
Dover, paddle across the channel,
catch thd last steamer, and be bacle
in London in time for dinner. Not-
withstanding the apparent difficulties
of the undertaking, Sir Henry won
his bet.
It took Count Tolstoi five years to
gather the historical material for
"War and Peace." The preliminary
writings from which the book sprang
are now in the Rumjanzoff Museum,
Moscow. But they ha.c1 a hard
time getting there. Some years
ago, when Countess Tolstoi was ill,
a. careless servant took the manu-
scripts and threw them into a dis-
used canal in the park near the
house. They were discovered after
several weeks and rescued.
Sarasate, the great Spanish vio-
linist, did not begin to learn the in-
strument until he was twelve, at
whicli age he entered- the Conserva-
toire at Paris. Constant practice
has made leis fingers extraordinarily
supple, and musicians used at one
time to be astonished at the way in
which he could move the last joint
of his little huger, a fact which, no
doubt, accounted in part at least
for some of the extraordinary shill
with which he is able -to anger the
difficult instrument, which he manip-
ulates with such ease.
Diamandi, a native of Pylaros, one
of the Greek Islands, is a remark-
able calculator. After a mere glance
at a blackboard on which thirty
groups of figures are written he can
repeat them in any order, and deal
with them by any arithmetical pro-
cess. It is said that he never makes
an error in calculations involving
millions, and he can extract square
or cube roots with marvellous ra-
pidity and accuracy. Diaraandi
writes poetry and novels in
the intervals of business, and shows
considerable intellectual capacity.
The shrewdest monarch in Europe,
from a business pointeof view, is
said to be the Sultan of Turkey. He
is not much in love with Turkish
banks, but deposits all his super-
fluous cash abroad, special messen-
gers being sent at intervals to pa,y
the money in. He also has a habit
of secreting -money in strange places
fn. the Palate. He does bot depend
on his regal position solely for his
income. He owns one of the main
streets in Constantinople, a sugar
plantation in the West Indies, and
draws a handsome dividend from if
plihnoerousf .steamshiPs Plying 00 the Bos-
phorus.
Calve has made a great
fortune by her singing, and now
owns an extensive estate near her
native town in the South of France.
"I still work very hard," She said
recently. "There is always some-
. ,
thing in my,art that needs improve-
ment, something that I can learn."
It is this constant study that keeps
Madame Calve to the front. It is
her belief that 'there is no perfection
without hard Work, and she has al-
ways .conscientiously refused to eing,
any role in eidlich she has not per-
fected herself. . The fine vineyards
and pastures about the 'beautiful
da.elle she now owns will yield her
eubstantial income long after her
voice has lost its attraction.
There has been a great deal of talk
lately anent model public -houses
that are run by peers, but it is not
generally known that the late Lord
Wantage was the first, to run an es-
tablishment' of this kind at Arding-
ton. He started the model inn long
before the advocacy of the Gothen-
burg system by the I3ishop of Chest-
er, and gave the profits to local
charities. What was more remark-
able was the sale of soup at the
public -house during the winter
months, a boon that Was greatly ap-
preciated by the villagers. It was
rather a strange article of diet for
e, publie hottee tty sell over the count-
er, but on some days more money
was taken for soup than for beer.
IT CAN 13E CONTROLLED.
Erysipelas has cured the worst
form of eczema of thirty years' -
standing. This is a wonderful feat,
for eczema is one of the most in-
tractable of diseases. But erysipelas
works greater wonders. It has been
known to cure cancer, to curd lupus,
and many kinds of skin diseases. It
has permanently cured epilepsy, and
has removed a polypus from a man's
nose.
It would be supposed that nothing.
good could be`said of influenza. But
the wrethed .microbe of 'this disease
SOMetinleS makes, compensation for
the injury he does. In fact; he is a
most powerful curative 'agent at
Limes. A lady who had consulted
the doctors in London for severe
chronic catarrh got a bad attack of
influenza a couple of years back, and
on "the very day of the attack the
entail -1i disappeared. Influenza has
Cured chronic bronchitis, and other
diseases, and may, under proper
control, become a very -useful reme-
Typhus fever is too terrible an
agent to employ voluntarily. But
when it comes of itself it sometimes
does good, An India,n Army officer
records that for many years his liv-
er was so bad that he could scarcely
eat sufficient
TO KEEP HIM ALIVE.
Be had become mere Skirl arid bone,
when, fortunately for himi, de Was
attaeked by typhus fever, On recov-
erieg from this he found, his liver
31.1A8LE BOY TO PREMIER,.
INTERESTING INFORMATION
ABOU'I' BARON WARD.
Romantic Career of An English
Stable Loy—He Lived In
eatieTlieTsi•necgenTtlimes.
Tlio yPliblishcd
Baron nraexi, the Eeglish stable b
who beceme Prime Minister, 11
on
oy
as
brought us says the London' Deily
Express, an interesting communica-
tion from a gentleman in the city,
whose late father, while chamberlain
to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, was
one of Ward's closest friends and al -
'lee, This gentleman has also en-
abled us to supply some further
facts of this strange career.
werd'e success was achieved when
the Italian principalities were the
hotbeds of intrigue—French, Aus-
trian, Papal and piedmontese— and
it was undoubtedly because this
rough Englishman could neither be
bought nor bluffed. that Charles
Louis 'reposed so much confidence in
him But his earliest merle was that
of personal cleanliness and smart-
ness. He had gone to Austria at the
age of 14 to take some horses to
Prince Aloys Lichenstein, and four
years later, in 1827, entered Duke
Charles? service as undergroom,
Thence he was promoted, for the yea -
sons mentioned, to be his Valet,and
then master of the horse, being sent
itloorsEesngland every year to purchase
HOW WARD GOT ON TO THINGS
Duke Charles Louis had been in his
cradle selected King of Etruria, a
braad new kingdom which Napoleon
I. carved out of the old Duchy of
Tuscany. Four years later it was
swallowed up in the French Kingdom
of Italy, and Charles Louis was left
an infant without a throne. When
the peace came in 1814 and Napoleon
was crushed, all the Bourbons came
in for something, and Charles Louis
was made King .of Lucca, a state
which had been formed of the terri-
tories of Napoleon's sisters. Be-
sides this he received a pension from
Spain, and he was given a charge on
the revenues of Tuscany to 'compen-
sate him for his loss of the Kingdom
of Etruria. The Archduchess Marie
Louise of Austria, widow of Napol-
eon I., had been provided for with
the Duchy of Parma, and It was fin:-
ther decided that onher death Char-
les Louie should surrender Lucca to
Tuscany and succeed to Parma. He
married a beautiful princess of Sa-
voy, and when Ward entered his ser-
vice Lucca was the pleasure resort
of nearly all the continental royal-
ties. In its small but. brilliant court
Wards whose English always retain-
ed traces of his rustic origin, ,picked
up the manners of the polished world
with anaazing rapidity. His Italian
was faultless and aristocratic, and
he spoke French and German fluent-
ly.
DIPLOMATIST AND BARON. .
Gradually the extravagance of the
Grand Duke was hurrying him to a
crisis with his Council, and in that
emergency, when discontent ,was
everywhere around, Ward proposed
that the help of the Duke's Austrian
relations phonid be secured.. It was
perilous'embassy in that vortex of
seeret conspiracy and intrigue, but
he agreed to go, and so admirable
was tbe report which he 'drew up (in
German) on the finances of Lucca
that he quite won oyer the Archduke
Ferdinand in Vienna, and setured 10
1818 the monetary and other sup-
port which his spendthrift master
needed. It was for this advice that
he was made Baron Ward,' and he
soon became minister of finance. His
enemies professed to see in his arbi-
trarily lowering the price of corn,
and. his partial repudiation of the,
debt of Lucca, signs of popularity -
hunting, but it is clear that the need
for reform was urgent, and Ward
was not afraid to withstand the mob
when it was necessary.
YORKSHIRE GRIT.
The year of revolution, 1843, gave
Ward an anxious time, but he did
not flinch. The Archduchess died,
Duke Charles Louis succeeded to the
throne of Parma, and Ward with a
staff of clerks went as plenipoten-
tiary to 'Florence to arrange for the
transfer of Lucca to Tuscany. The
Grand .Duke of Tuscany tried to get
him to enter his service. "No," said
the Yorkshireman, "may I die before
I show ingratitude to my dear Duke,
who raised me from nothing, and
gave me titles and honors which I
can only try,to preserve. The lower
the Duke of Parma sinks the closer
will I stick to him." It is hard to
believe a mao who could act and
talk like that was merely, as some
Italian writer e have alleged, an in-
competent jockey who maintained
his power by his knowledge of disre-
putable court secrets.
Baron Ward's weak and nerveless
master was in datiger in Parma, and
sent for him in haste. Riding alone
across the Appenines, he was cap-
tured by a band of Italian revolu-
tionists who wereliving a life of
brigandage in the mountains. "Who
are you?" they asked. "I am
Ward," he replied as coolly as ever.
"Well, you never did us any harm,"
the,y said, "go in peace." He repre-
sented the absolute monarchy; they
Were revolutionists, but they saw in
Thomas Ward areal man.
MAKER OF PRINCES.
When he reached Parttla Ward had
not only to deal with the revolu-
tionary societies, but with the tire-
less intrigues of the great Cavour,
who in the name of.., Italian unity
wee pushing. the scheme of Piedniont.
For a while Cavour triumphed. Ward
fled with his master to Dresden, and
they lived in great poverty. But Ca -
your WriS 101430 by Austria, the
Dechy of Parma was re-establielleil,
and Ward returned Miele as viceroy
Ite hacl been a Stable boy a,t 14; he
wee a viceroy at 40. Duke Charles
Louis wes too weak to rill°, and
with his full consent Ward „drew up
in 1840 the Aee of Abdication and
the proclamation of .1118 sore Duke
Chiu -les 111 Having :welt:Ca 1118
master's son on the throne, be re-
turned to Vienna in triumph as is
envoy, receiving there the Order oi
the Igen Crown and the most 0011-
0101
ecception from the Emperor, lle
had 801110 diplomatic contests with
the famous minister, Prince Sch-
wartzenberg, but Ward successfully
upheld his ineSter's intesest$ and
dignity, and in Vienna he wee a per-
sonage ef great coesideration.
CONTEMNER OF ARISTOCRA.CSY.
His wife was a VienneSe girl of as
humble birth as himself, and le :s
narrated by a writer in Temple Bar
that when lie was made a baron the
proud and inselent Leeches° aristoc-
racy had prepared some delightful
slights for the foreign parvenes. But
Ward outflanked them completely by
never going into their society. Tle
sat with nobles at the council board
and when they rose he went home.
He was in the full tide of his suc-
cess, when in March, 1851, Duke
Charles HI. was stabbed in the
grounds of his palace. The gates 01
the city were closed, but the assas-
sin escaped by the rubbish heap
which had accumulated against ells
old wall, and died afterwards in Am-
erica. The Duke on hisdeathbed ad-
mitted to his assembled servants
that the stab was the just punish-
ment of a private wrong, and there
is not tee slightest ground for the
hints of malignant enemies that Ward
sheardveadnetthpe partindefeat fuifi-Iye
Iiad
well, and no Englishman need be
ashamed of Thomas Ward,
THE WORLD'S GOLD.
Additions That Have Been Made
to It In Recent Years.
, The annual meeting Of' efie Royai
Statistical Society was held on Tues-
day in the rooms, Adelphi Terrace,
London s Lord • Avebuey presiding,
says the London Telegraph. After-
ward a paper- was read by Wynriard
Hooper on "The. Recent Gold Pro-
duction Of the World," in which he
gave a statement of that peoductioe
10 fiVe yearly ,periods since the year
1851, showing he Value of the
oral' won, according to the various
standards of Valuation. After re- .
marking On the , way in which that
valuation had fluctuated,. and on the
effect which Modern improved meth-
ods would be likely to have in. • the
gold heeds where a large amount of
stuff even of inferior' grade, was like-
ly to be available, Ile showed the 'oute
put of gold during the last eveinety
years, classifyieg it according to the
countries of its origin. 'Froth, this.
it appeared that Of the- AV -6 great
gold produciug areas, Only Russia
seemed not progressive. The aethor •
affirmed that, whatevee the world'e! "
stock might have been, there could.
have been no material additions tot ,
it Until, at alt events, wiehin, the
last hve years and probably till with-
in the last five years only, hut that
there Was every probability of a ma-
terial addition being made within
the next five or ten years.
Tel:Mg the peeled of 1870 to '1885e.
Mr. Hooper showed that, assuminge.
the requireneente of :the arts and. "Of,
the coinagetobe, tetya 20,000,006
aiyear, there could not have beenad--
ded, on balance, to the stock of gold
'More .than, pay, £1,000,000 a year,
or £15,000,000 in the fifteen years
comprised in that period': Since
1885 there "had been an bicreaSed
Output, the average rising tie
366,000 a Year during the decade :
1886- to 1895. This feet, ..stand -
Ing .alone, would suggest that
-daring this 'period, there, "was added
to slack ODIC Z63,660,000.. : But
Mr. Hooper argued that,420,000,000
on theother side .of the account for
Wear and tear and the ,domends of
the arts, 'would be toe small .to fig-
ure during a period in which ,the
world was so prosperous„ and ac-,
cordingly he argued that but &,38,,
660,000 could haere. 'been put, by.
:
But things. appeared Very 'different
in regard etO the figures of the last .
five years. Durieg ..the quinquen-
nium endthg with the year 1900, elle.'
average yield in the goldfields was
nOaely £50,500,000.a •year, , and thus -
in ehe period asmuch as £127,00.0,- '
000 mese have been . added to the-.
world's gold stock: Thus, for the•.'•
first time since .ehe year 185e, there
was an appreciable .addition. Me.
Hooper did: net think even. these ad-
ditions to stock liad been sufficient
to bilng,aoottt a fall en the, Veleta of •
gold. Suggestedthat in the ,pee-
iod .1901-10 •the average animal gold
Miepitt. Was likely to be nearer £70,-
000,000 than £6.0-,000,000 a" Year.
He pointed out that changes in pric-
es caused by alterations in the value. ,
of gold meet be necessarily much,
smaller and .must take place much
more slowly ehan,theis.e caused by al-
terations ea market conditions or by
improvements in the methods of pro-
duction and transportation.
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HEARING IS NO PROOF.
A shooting affray was being jude
icially inquired int,o, when a witness
testified that the shot was fired'
from a certain firearm, then in
court, that being the only piece
near the scene.
Did you you see the shooting? inquired
the presiding magistrate.
No, your worship, was the reply; '
but I distinctly- heard it.
Go down, sir, said the magistrate,
what.. you heard , is no evidence.
The witn es s retired, ,but on go Sting
behind the jury bench out of the j.
P.'s sight gave out a loud laugh, "
Bring that inan back! shouted his
wership, and the witness returned
to the stand.
What do you mean, sir, said the
magistrate, by laughing in that
manner within this coure'?
Who says I laughed, your worship?
inquired the 101e2eee4.
do, sir! roared the niagiserate.
Does your worship mean to say
that you saw me laughing? was the
inquiry.
1 did not see you, sir, but I Inesi
dietinctly heard you was the sten:
rejoinder,
Please, your weeship,, replied thf
cNiveinticiees,s, neett tee hoard is evi
There was "Isere laughter In wheal
the Avitaieee and the niagistrate clb!
not join, Somebecly requeSt,ed tle
former 10 otau,d clewns