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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-5-12, Page 7Ten 1, teettirinteTrintnlielet ,n1.11.teet-r-rr A ...Gilts: -C4priCc: OR, THE RESULT OF A FANCY DRESS BALL ,,, . ........ CHAPTER L -To-day, that "gay philosopher," has risen upon the world. with quite a charming air. Its isighe are latelretY and its smiles frequent. It is evi- • dently in a glad and glorious mood, as well, it may be, having just been • highly, decorated by that splendid general, the sun, who marshals •us through moat of our happiest hours, and. who is now shining with. all his might. upon the long, old-fashioned windows of Diana's home. • "'What a day !" says Diana's sis- ter, looking up from the pile of lilac calico lying on her knees. It is the kind of calico, both in color arid tex- ture, that one associates in one's mind with a servant's morning work • -determined in its shade, but pretty • for all that, and striped; little lines of dark -Violet running over •the lighter ground. "Yes -heavenly!" nays Diana, whose • married nami le' Clifford.' She speaks . rather absently, as if finding it diffi- cult to lift her mind from the mak- ing of the little mob -cap at which 'She is so diligently stitching.: The glance she gives upward, as if in answer to Ililary's rapturous sigh, is purely mechanical, though she evi- dently wishes it to be understood that she too aeknowledges the heav- en-sent gloried that are lighting up the trim lawn Outside, and rendering the garden an earthly paradise. But • in a second her eye a fail to her task again. "The idea of youe wearing this 1" says she, giving a contemptuous , twirl to the delightful little cap. "And that" -with an equally con- temptuous pointing • of her forefinger to the lilac mass lying in Hilary's lap -"at the biggest fancy-dress ball we have had here for ages, when at any.moment you raight be mistress of ,818,000 'a year." • "At any moment I Baight not, ol- eo," says her sister with a little laugh. "And even if I were the 111,iStrOSS of it, them would be a mas- ter too. That tanes all the gilt off • the gingerbread. In • the mean time" -smoothing out -the folds of the lilac skirt with a fond band -"I shall wear this. A housemaid's dress is a fancy one -for every one except the bona file housemaid -and as it is inexpensive, and as • pennies -count, I have chosen it. • Providen- • tially, at a ball onthis kind one can be as bizarre, as eccentric, as one likes." • "Still," • says Diana, with a re- gretful sigh, and a swift glance at her lovely, sister, "I had always im- agined you as—" "Oh, I know," with amused impa- tience. "Joan of Arc." "Certainly not," indignantly. "As 'Morning.' You weuld nave looked beaatiful as 'Morning.' " "I shall look divine • as Sarah Jane," saysMiss Burroughs, with calm conviction. She lifts the -cali- co skirt with daintily careful lingers • -it is as yet only tacked together - and regards it with. an admiring eye. "Jim would have liked to give you something better," says Mrs. Clif- • ford, leaning forward, with her el- bows on her knees and - the -cap be- tween •both her hands. Her tone is plaintive. "1.10 says you are too absurd, too proud—" "Jim is the dearest brother-in-law in all the world," says Hilary, un- reserved affection in her voice. "That' is why I am not go- ing to let hirn beggar himself and the chicks for me:- "Wnat•-• nonsense • A mere gown • "Well .0 Is a mere gown, t�o. And I'm sere it will suit me. • .Do you know, '33i," flinging down the , liallefineshed dress and going tq a • long Mirror let" into 'one °nth° walls, "lastnight an awful doubt arose - within my Mind. • I felt that the. dress would suit me so admirably - so altogether-thet, 1 . began to think that perhaps- I was to the manner born -that Nature had meant me to be' a real Sarah Jane." • * - She ,peers at herself in the glass, 411•1111t leaning a little forward, poised, as it were, on her toes, and with her hands islasped behind her hack. The glass gives her back a very exquisite refleetion-softly smiling dark -blue eyes, a mouth a little quizzical, but tender too, and a strong, firm chin, a forehead low, broad, and earnest, nncl such hair I -hair that shines like burniehed. gold, Nat the dead -gold hair we know .01, nor the crispy hair that never seems at rest, but a mix- ture of both these, looking always as if half an hour ago it had come out of a warm, •sweet hath, and was growing brighter and brighter through the sun rays that have dried it. "No, I don't look- like it now," says she, turning away, and letting her slim figure drop once nore into her lounging -chair. ' "But WhOil have the cap and gown on, I know I shall look the thing. • Humiliating thought !"- - "There won't be a girl in the room like you," says Diana affectionately • "Ah ! •that's my saving clause wlifuily misunderatanding her • "Rousemains will be a rare quantity. I expect I shall be unique -I shall perhaps be that astonishing thing at a, fancy ball -the only of my kind in the room. I shall therefore" - solemnly -"create a sensation." "You will do that anyway," says Mrs. Clifford. She looks at her sis- ter a little discontentedly. "I'm sure I don't know what they will all say of me. That I went in silk at- tire myself, and brought you as Cin- derella." "To find a Prince ?" "Your Prince ! why, he's found,' says Diana. "He is almost sure to be at the ball. Did I," slowly "tell.- you ? I met old Miss Kinsella yesterday, and she said Mrs. Dyson - Moore told her she e-xpected -him on the fifteenth by the late train." • "The night of the ball'!" A startl- ed look springs into Hilai.7's eyes. But in a moment she recovers her- self. e'The late train Ten 1 He will be too tired to go anywhere." "He may wish to meet you." "A girl he has never seen?" "A girl he must either marry, Or lose L18,000 a year." "What a detestable will !" cries Hilary, springing to her feet, and beginning to pace up and down the room. "Inhuitous 1 call it. What on earth had I ever done to Aunt Charlotte that she should insist on bringing inc into an ,affair of this kind? Why could she not choose some other niece? Some other nephew and niece, who knew each other ?" "There would have been less wis- dom there. People who knew each other -1 That's generally fatal 1. When strangers meet there are posse. bilities." "Mem are indeed, and very un- pleasant ones. I feel certain," stopping short to regard her sister with an eective eye, "that Prederic• Ker is the very last man in the world I should ever care to marry." "Of course, if you have made up your mind beforehand—" "I haven't made up my mind about anything." "Not to look at him." "You are wrong there. I'm dying to look at him -from a distance 1" "It is such a great deal of money to throw away, says Mrs. Clifford with a sigh. Money with her is not too plentiful. ' "Who says I'm going to throw it away. ?" cries Hilary gayly. "Per- haps I am going to seize it. And perhaps iteie he who will throw it away after all. He may not like me 1 1 -1 -e -may ecject_xne she turns once more to the mirror - as i1. to gain support from it. "Im- mortal gods ! . what an awful, thought 1" ,says she. "I confess," in a stricken tone, "It never occurr- ed to me before." . "Well, it needn't occur now," says Diana, her fair, handsome face light- ing. "And you needn't pretend you think it." "But it's so serious, Di. If I re - 411.111.1.1=11.61.111, ndorsed by the Justice of Peace Chronic Liver and Stomach Trouble Thor- oughly Cured by Using Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills • •-rn every home there is mere or less suderifig as 0, rpSUlt .dpnetipation' and cleeanoements .of the digestive system, 13e0ause Dr. Chase's Kichiey-Liver Pills cure such ailments. more pronqpt- ly and thoroughly than other pre- parations they have come to be con, sidered allnoet indispensable aS a f tunny medicine. Mr. P. Tunnel, shoemaker, West- ern Hill, St. Catharines, Ont, states: "I haVe used Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liv- er Pills regularly for scene time and • eonsitler that they are 'unsurpassed for torpid liver, defective circulation, indigestion, headache and canstina- tion, as these were sty troubles, si* used many Pontedies, but got no 3'0- lid mail .1 trS tried Th'. Chese'gidney- :Liver rills, and a feW boxes of this preparation have entirely cueed me. :r am not in the habit of endorsing any medicine. but Ill t1)18 CaS0 OallnOt skt/Oak tOO bik0i157 in firnisn oi Chase's Pills for what they have done for me." Mr. D. O. Hohnes, Justice of the Peace for Lincoln County, states:- "I ant acquainted with Mr. C. F. Immel and consider him a reliable citizen in every sense of the word, in fact, I have known him from boyhood tip and can say I believe him tO be truthful and honest." • Acting directly on the Liver, Kid- neys and Botvels, these pills increase the vigor and activity of the,se or- gans, thoroughly cleanse the system, purify the biocid of poisonous im- purities and Met the digestive orgalas itt perfeet order. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills 01101)111 a. dose, 25 cents a box, at, all &fibre, or Hchnanson, Bates Com- pany, Toronto. • To protect you nattiest, imitations, the portrait and signature of Dr, Ai W. Chase the famous' receipt book autheiro are on evev$ bon. Luso to marry, my cousin Frederic, or a he refuses to marry Me, 418,000 a year goes to 'The hoMe for lost an- inlals-the doge.' " "Well, it is in your own hands." "Don't let us think of it till after thie dance, anyway," says Hilary. "We hare a little breathing-SPece left us," "Not if he Is there !" • "Oki, he can't be ! • Coming by that late train. I" She lets her hands fall into nor lap again, the needle sticking up in dangerous proximity to one of her pretty Angers, and looks at her sister anxiously, "If he should come to the dance, Di -of course," with eager conviction, "he won't; but if he should, promise me you will not introduce me to him, or get tiny one else to do it." "But it he asks me ?" "How can ho ? lie doesn't know you either." "He could get an introduction. Mrs. Dyson -Moore might---" "Not she. She will be taken UP with herself ana her admirers, Now promise." "Well, I promise. • But is it wise ? Ought von not to meet hm- iat once, and--" • "Marry :hini 1" Sarcastically. "Ne, I think not, I niest have time. And, above all things, want to enjoy this dance." • "Mrs, McIntyre giving another fancy ball the' Week later; you will haVe to meet him there." "Sufficient unto the day," says EFiiisry recklesslye• "And who knows he may not have left loag before that ? I- have made. up. iny. miud not to, meet nim at this first ball,' at all evente," • • Diana looks me her sister with a cortaie, concern. "I wish you would try ;le like him," says she. 611.o Means so much to you," "Exactly as much as I mean to him. Don't look so forlorn,", with an irrepressible laugh. "I'm going to try and like him as herd AS ever I can: Harder cycle, if it will please you. Do you suppose I toe cannot see all the bonbons that are to be got out of ,t18,000 a Year ?" "I believe you are as blind as a bat," says Diana with some indigna- tion. (To be ?Continued. ) 3***:$1 31iVif:Vii031WIWti***Nitli0 A Woman's ;i Love... t$11443%/44)1445.4?4•4344)1;etrAtte;1? CHAPTER XVIII.-•••(Coatinued.) From the distance came the faint echoes of, cheering mid the dying sounds of *music. A little wind made a hush among the leaves, and overhead the cold stars made more beautiful the beauty of the deep. blue, sky. ' Thick dark lay on eaoh hand, and in front stretched to the far wall a broad band Of light in which her shadow cut a dend' black line. The air was tool, and seemed to bring some slight calm to her lever. For a -moment she was caught out of herself, and, as from a height, she looked down on Maddalena, the poor harassed Queen, as on some one she had never • seen before. A tiny branch was blown against her face, and she noted shapely form of a cer- tain green leaf. What sort 61 leaf was It? I -Tow did its edge bsceime so gracefully serrated? What intricate veining ! He* impossibly perfect ! Curious, she thought,, that at such a moment as this when she ought not to' steal a Moment from her lover, . she should be standing here in the night, wondering at the shape of a leaf, at the magic of its venation. A moment from her lover? Ah I -she turned. She had been a moment only in the light; but the glare, where an had been blackness, caught the eye of Asuntd, and in the glare the brilliant whiteness that was Madda- lena. Aginita left her place by the Hector might pass a. thou, sand times for uught she cared.. Yoa- der was her revel, yonder the woman that had taken Hector from her, She rose and meved to him, her foot spurning the crown, not Co), fleiol-WY, but as if she knew not it. Wore there, "We part now 1" "We part now !" Lip to lip, and breast to breast, all passion of love throbbing in the embrace, ail the quivering wonder and trembling despair of love in the close holding of each to each. It is an eternity, that last long crush of life into life -an eternity into which is pent all their days from the clay of birth to the day in the future whea death must smell,* come ;isa eternity of happiness, an eternity pain. . "I love you I" "I love you I" • And then again silence falls. Am In the silence soul meets soul, an all about them spreads the kin dark, and each soul knows its fel- low, and is mixed with it in an in effable ecstasy of despairing ioy, wild abandonment, an intolerabl pain of happiness. - "Good-bye. for over I" "No, Heater, no. G ood-night- wily good -night !" The silence is shivered by a laugh he knows and the crackle of a pistol, tlowindow,ie eeelsaware of Asuntats face at • Maddalena is a dead weight an his lent arm, Whole no longer, "Ahisdair ! ° „A lasd air 1" Asunta is gone, but the faithful foster -brother is here aghast. ""rhe Queen, Air:Adair, the Queen 1" Hector speaks in Gaelic, 104•••••••••••••• • 18°a11°L)::c°tTAthTartQl‘Tis' of Much importance to the farmers, ,We. are usually in the habit of thinking of crop rotation' as of quite recent -date, writes Mr, C. A. Wilson. Crop rotation Is by no means of f teeent or modern origin, for we find I in the writings of Cato, • leucite, and Festus, that it was prac Vced at the time of the Roman civi- 1 Heat!, 1. Their method of rotation was to grow a, grain crop for two a years and then let the ground lie _ falloW for a year. By so doing, they _ reasoned, that the land gained a need - a ed rest, while the truth was, that the e Yeee s rest added no fertilizing el merits to the soil but simply increas ecl the soluble salts in the soil. But our more modern system o crop rotation dates back to the roc ent time„ when in England the farm sirs lived in village cominunities, an was made neceseary by the method of agriculture which then prevailed The naanagement of the farm was not in the hands of the individual, but Was under the control of the village. Each family was allotted a' piece o land for a single season upon which to grow a certain kind of crop. And to avoid all conflict of interests, each of the large, common fields was mark ed MI into three great parts, and each part was rotated with winter wheat or rye, barley or oats, • and fallow, This was the crop rotation that was practised on the more fer- • tile soils of Europe for centuries. So thoroughly did this rotation become established that it actually became an impediment to a more rational system of agriculture. The bullet has passed through Hoc tor's protecting hand and entered her side. Already a. blur of red shows on the silver of her robo. She is cold and lifeless, white as the garment in, which she was creweed, • "Tighearna 1" The great Highlander took her from neetor, now wounded in both arms, and laid her gently on a couch. "Dead !" Hector murmurs M a daze. "Dead 1" comes the echo from Ala,sdair ,otCod, why not I, whynot I?'! Asunta is forgotten -.she 15 noth ing-Maddalena is dead, Maddalena. is dead, love is dead, the World is at an end. There is no room to thilethosdafura jgh,,t else -this fills space. , "Heckle 1" They are standing, one on each side of the, couch where she lies. • "You love me, my brotner ?" '"0 I my mother's son, I love you!" "Your promise is •sacred.." "'What promise ?".- "Do you forget yon summer after- noon in the Forest of RethiemurchuS, when to the brotherhood of milk we added the brotherhood of blood?" • remember, Ileckie, I remember, - but do not ask the now." "I do .ask you now, I do ask you now." ' "Heckle, Heckle 1" "You passed your word 1" "Perhaps -she is not dead. Let. MO go for assistance," "Alasdair, will you go back on our word, will you be foresworn ? Must I spit upon you ?1, "No, no, wy brother, no ! I love you: too well." And with a cry that was madness of devotion and unutterable sorrow, Alasdair gripped his dirk and drove it, • haft -deep, into his brother's heart, letting go only nthen the weight of Hector's body told on his grasp of tbe steel. And as the blood spurted, and that which Was Hector fell across the Queen with her name on its lips, laughter as of a fiend broke' at -the window. In the broad band of light Alas- dair saw a woman flying. A leap like a stag's and he was after her. A second it seemed, and his hand had gripped a neck. The frighted face was Asunta's and in her hand Was is pistol. There was one swift snap, and as a dog shakes a rat, Alasdair shook Asunta, and revenge had recoiled on itself. * * Hector lay on 0. great 'bier in the Cathedral. A pall of silver cloth covered him. And • on it -flamed a single blood -red rose, a rose that looked like a heart against the splen - id white, a rose that was the heart Maddalena-for Maddalena did ot die -would to d od she had I At - he foot- of the bier rested the crown f Palmetto -in homage to him that ad won it. On the altar glimmer- ed innumerable candles, the pale lambent glow of the lamp that burns continually shone down mysteriously the pallor of marble columns gleam- ed,and to and fro went the dim figures of priests in vestments of rich late. The organ pealed. 'And then, through a lane of the men of Palmetto holding torches, a lane miles long, wont Hector Chis- holm Grant to his rest ore the high- est peak ol the Mort°, a rare and ost royal progress. Over against his bed is a rock on hich they have cut Hector G rant, Pahnetto Remembers 1 • (The End.) (c11, tfloiautr "whatyea,srera xegorleLn aczznonutary01181Y! 7) TWENTY-EIVE POHNDS of nitrogen per acre, while 1.4.6 pounds, more were lost. Ilia nitrogen was lost by the oxidation of the llamas by denitrification cheinieally, by wind- storms and through the loss of sole - able nitrates by drainage. In ro- tett= of wheat, plover, wheat and oats an average of 178 pounds of. nitrogen per acre was removed anima ally, yet there Was a gain for four yeare over and. above this ansouot of 2W4a5s poundsdloarfgneiityrobgyent.bTe vneilt.rforgoemn the free nitrogen of the air, In this rotation not only were larger Crops grown, but the nitrogen and humus contents of the soil was increased. It has been said that successful farming is based 'upon the conserva- tion of the organic matter of the soil, and the .fellowing out of a good system of crop rotation is the one o- method svhereby we can conserve this e organic Matter of the poll. It is important that we foster the humus 1 of our soils, because in it we have - the principal source of nitrogen in - the soil- also it influences to a' marlfe d ed extent the available potash and . s phosphoric acid of the soil. Humus, , forming 2naterials, like green manures' and barnyard manure. have the pow- er, when they decompose"in the 5011/ of combining with the onsoluable poi f ash and phosphoric acid of the so{ and. converting- theini into • formt which are readily available by plants It also aids in the relaxation of solublt - nitrates and „ammonia phosphates. But the benefits that are to be de rived from humus in the soil cannel be measured entirely by its chemical effects; but what seems to be tht greatest source of benefit to be do rived from it, is from its physica/ effects upon the soil. A soil that contains a proper proportion of hu. rnus will be more porus, will hold more capilla.ry water, and will aver, age from 2 to 3 degrees more in tem perature throughout It is folly to talk 'drop rotation to a man who is cultivating a virgin soile for is he net growing good crops of hay or wheat on the same field • yeas- after year? It is true. But let us see what he is doing. ,He is tak- ing from the soil, without replacing • anything in return, the capital that nature has taken centuries to place there • FOR HIS BENEFIT. Re does not stop to consider that he is drawing out the money from nature's bank without giving as much as a receipt for it. Lewes and Gilbert grew wheat for fifty years on a- manured and on an unnaartured field and found at the end of that time that the =enured field contain- ed 0,018 lbs. of phosphoric acid and ehe unreanured 2,956 Tbs. of phos- phoric acid, or a difference of 2,062 tbs.At present cemmercial fertilizer prices it would cost $144.34 per acre to replace this element nlone. We have only .to look to the older parts of our country. to -day to see what has been the result or such a system of spoliation. What means this statement that a soil is "worn or run out." It is sim- ply the Less of one or snore essential plant elements from the soil below the amount needed to support plant life successfully. It is surprising to what extent some of the farmers of this state continue to crop a field with the same kind of 'a scrop year after year, when, we have at our very door in the eastern states examples of what has been the result of such a system. There may be bought to- day, by paying the back taxes, "wornout lands in the east that were once as fertile lands as we have in any of our western states. They were abandoned because they ceased to give a profit after. the labor and tax- es were paid. But how are we to redeem. our wornout soils or to maintain the fer- tility of our richer soils? We an- swer, by a proper system of rotation arid by returning as far ,as possible the plant elements that we remove from it. -While agriculture is one of the most thoroughly investigated sciences of our day,- net it is -one. in which the investigations are the least put into general- practice, although many • of the theories resulting- from investiga- tions on crop rotation have been to some extent erroneous, yet when put into practice they have given . cl yonder the real object of her re- venge. • Couching cunningly, she e slipped through the coverts of the t garden like a wild woodland thing, o beatitiful and Murderous. • Maddalena turned and entered the room again. -FIector was standing before her. "The world is a wanderfel thieg," she said; "the world and the night and the stars, and there is magic in them all. 33ut one moment . with you, my beloved, my Hector:, is the world and -the night mid the ata,rs. ani. a small thing, and my love is a small tiling, and together we are. as nothing before you. This day you have made me a Qeeen-there but three of us .in the whole earth-, and look 1- I tell you I am a Woman le prouder of being loved by you than con Of my people, of my throne, of my crown 1 What are they all but yours -yours She lifted the simple gold band from her hair, and holding it in both hands, knelt and laid it at his Met. "Let this be for sign that I • am yours. Say Co me, ltraddalena, my m Wife, come with me PL, and I come. , Say 'Afarldaleint, nay Wife, stay here sad' let inc liaye leave to go. 1! and 111 I stay." "Maddalena i" was all that he cotild saY; and that lit tones brokett 11 and almost inatallble "Maddalena, my wife 1",Itt ' She rose. he "Your wifS, Heater, my beloved, so now and for ever ! My people will et3 surely not ask from Me that teat ter- yo tor- ture -to wed another men. Your wife or no men's. / parmot be St 4 LOVE TRAGEDY, 'rimy were sitting alone ,iss the oonlight, "Angel ina," whispered Ernest, you know I love you. Will you be inc'?""Alas, Ernest, I fear it cannot be." "Ah," gasped Ernesto placing his and on his breast, "broken at last," "What'?" screamed the girl, thi-C2W- g her arms about his neck, and r breath coming in great panting bs, "I did riot mean it, Ernest, Oh, eak; tell me what is broken, is it ur heart?" "No, my darling, only my collar ucl, I felt it slip." 2.ours, 1 shall be no man's !" "Maddalena, how you love me 1". "There is fio Hector. 1 love ott--thitt iSt all. I love you," Not yet had they, toadied Hp to p or breast to -breast. That, by brae Seeret concord, Was kept for he last moinciat, atid,a6a saeratrient et) hely to be used lightly.. • And nOW fell on their ears the hest Stroke of tWelVe, sounding front San Ilernaediao ' * ... 1. To prove to Yon that ZP. P I • es L.,1,211.,sololavegrtocroreta , esid every form of ltchase bleecliegehdprotrittlingpilds, ihe merinfacturere heventuslanteed it, See Ms, knotiiala in eite daily, etess and ask your noija• larg whet they thtnk of it, You can welt mei riftrgiatifigillnr.aftelf h17411 toPiglAt-'43' /1. ., .., I It ▪ Chase's Ointm gni tentinuons ,cropping. They also show.. A PRACTICAL SOLUTION of how to maintain soil fertility. The benefits 'derived from crop rotation were formerly explained by chemists in this ;way, that each plant secreted a substance that was poisonous to itself, but. which another plant could tise in its growth, But 'this has been found by later agricultural scientists to be not true. The modern systems of crop rota- tion are based upon the following- prinThat all lall plants do not draw to an equal extent upon the manurial ingredients Of the soil. 2. That they send their roots to different depths and have a different solvent action upon the constituents they reach. 3, That the soil is maintained in good tiltli,by the additicm of Inetrats; and bacteria which is beneficial to the soil and the plant is encouraged, 4. And that weeds are more easily elintinated and the farm wort dis- tributed more evenly. Experiments carried on at our ex- periment stations have showed that wheat and corn require more potash than oats or barley, and also that clover hay removes a larger anIOUnt of nitrogen from the sOil, but it has also been proven that clover obtains a larger amount of its nitrogen by the aid of bacteria, from the air. Is it, then, advisable to buy our thitrogen la fertilizers at the rate of fourteen cents per pound -When clover will take it fisem the thirty-eight taro of nitrogen that rests OVee each acre of land in ,our Country? 'The Minne- sota experiment station found that by introduclue,‘.a even.; of clover eVery fourth year they could grew as mueli wheat In the remaining three, years as they could geoiV in four yekteS of GR0WIls7Gt SEASON. Now it can plainly be seen thal there are only two ways by which ws can keep up or add to this humus content of the soil, namely, by very heavy manuring, or by using a 'good system of ere') rotation, in which, we turn down at least once in every Eve years some nitrogen crop, such as clover. This is one of the row sons why alfalfa, should never be grown extensively in Michigan. It is not at all suited to crop rotation because of the length of time it takes to establish the crop. , The amount of humus added ti our soil by a crop of clover or a sod is even greater than .we would at first suppose. Storrs, of Connectis wet experiment' station, found that a grass sod three inches high, when plowed tinder, returned to the soil 8,228 pounds o? organic mat ter which contained 90 pounds of nitro- gen, 25 Vounds of pliosphciric acid, and 56 pounds of potash, which at present prices paid for commercial fertilizer would be worth $1.7.40. And since a soil's capacity for hold- ing capillary water is increased by 4.37 pounds for every pound of ad- ded humus, then the capillary water capacity of this acre would be en - creased by- 18 tons. But the chemical and physical bene- fits to the soil that aro derived fronit crop rotation are not the only, important points to be 'considered in its favor. There is no better me- thod for eradicating weeds, and for apportioning the farm labor through- out tbe growing season than a good rotation that includes one hoe crop. I' Just as soon as the Michigun farin-1 ers begin to systematize their work 1 and enrich their soils with, proper ro- tations just so soon will they begth! to grow wheat that will run, morel than 1.7.7 bushels per ,acre, oats 30.51 bushels Per acre, and corn 30.6 busk-; els per acre. 4 - HOW TO SUCCEED. The Way a Young Man. Nay Meet With Success. The sort of thinkling that is neces- sary to anyone who wishes to rise is that which has been aptly describ- ed as thinking ahead. The clerk who makes his start in commercial life and thins only of leaving -off time and amusement may as welt stop hoping for the day when he will be master cm his own account. The young- man who gets ft. business ol Itis own is he who thinks ahead, and in this way: "Let Inc suppose," be says to him self, "that rent stale:Mg in businessr How. should I set about buying, oi pricing, or selling goods?" Startind front that point, he proceeds to plan and to look' about to see what oth4 hers do,. not exactly with a view td copying them, but in order to com. pare, and so to evolve an original method that will attain the object better or more quickly, In his inexperience he naturalb conceives notions that would land him into difficulties, but. Ini discovert this in time, and gains knowledge thereby. In the course of this planning as a Master, he finds that there are can teal details that require to .be ac4 quire& before he can hope to do well as a principal, so he turns his attem Cott to theSe details as carried old by Suboedinetee, and he thinks; about thOSe alSo. He Soon attracts attention, HIS planning has giveit and brigittness. He is selected ti fill this be that position teMporarilyi performed the duties. In time Uteri is a vacancy, and the young fellose, and does it well, because he has, in his Mind, filled that post before, arta who has been thinkiug ahead step id nt0 that vacancyt te th,s Mritoy ettlisi others. .........÷................ ROWS MAT SEW, 'I The little tailorbird not only SeWt but spins, weaving raw co tten int4. thread. for 118 °Wu purposes, Wit j this tb read , it sows wi Lb, - Stan :fstitches a sack of leaves in Whi tir rear its young,