Exeter Times, 1902-8-21, Page 61;4
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)3Y S.C. GEORGE RATHBORNE,
of 'Vector Jackh Tiier 4Captain Tam," °Bunn Satian 'MsPauline a New York," "Wiese Caprieren Eta
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Gradually, hOwevea he grows into a neY toward the plazariaila will soon
hetier frame of *311118. His eyea are be- loom up before him bright with lig-hte
coming more accustomed to tb.e gloom, ad gay with people, a tremendous
end he can see—to a limited extent, it contrast to the avenue which he has
te true, but enough to avoid any fur- need in order to reach et.
her collielons, for whica small fa.vout
he Is correSpondingly thankful.
All goes as merry ae a marriage bell
ttow, and when he roaches a light that
ruts the blechness of the calle, pro-
ceeding from a shop, Jack takes a no-
tion to see what tirrie remains. So,
Needling ever, he looks at his watch, be of the (minion that he Is a Nee -
end finds thee it lacks ten minutes of ond Don Quizoten and the person
light. whom Ile meant to attack a. vengefui
Thie is encouraging—if it does not windmill.
change he will be almost on time. It Is to be hoped this Neill end the
He helms out his handkerchief, and matter, Jack thinks. Surely none of
enpes his face, for such rapid walking these discomated Spantele footpads
has heated his blood. Then he again will dare follow him, but there may
-breaks aivay, and moves raPidlY along. be cellars jest as bad, and quite a
Before twenty •smiths have peewit little space rethains to be traversed ere
'he makes a discovery that aarhly he reaches his Eden.
pleases him. By chance he turns his He keeps himself in readiness for
head to learn what distance he has such an emergency, but breathes a
put between timselt and the area of sigh of relief when, ahead, he sights
light from the shon window, when he the glowing plaza, and realizes that
sees several dark figures stealing af- in all probability his adventures of
ter him. the night are over, for, although such
There .e.re three of them in all, and a remarkable- adept in the use of hie
It does not need their ekulking man- Powers at a boxer, a fencer, and a
nei• to tell the American that they are inarksman, Doetor Jack Evans always
not honest men. These footpads M- feels a reluctance about turning hie
fest all large cities, not so much in our gifts to account •against any fellow
country as abroad, and yet there are human being however vile.
scores of streets in New York, near Presently he debouches from the dark
the rivers, perhaps, where a respect- calla into the plaza. It is little
able man takes his life in. his hands if trouble now to find dozens of carriages
Ise saunters along at night.
Here is a contingency which Jack
does not exactly relish. In the first
place these chaps will not fight like
brave men, and this places him at a
doubte disadvantage. Then again he
must only use the revolver he carries
as a dernier resort, for it is an easy
thing to get mixed up in a serape with
the authorities in a Continental city,
end the burden of sympathy is always
again:A the foreigner, who is looked
on as a crow, to be unie-ersally
plucked by inn -keeper and foetpad
alike, so long as his money Is kept in
the country.
There are two things Jack can do
under thie szreess of circumstances,
/nand, after all. it is but a choice of •
h'etells.--he may start on a run down the
eat, with these fellows after him,
else centinue his rapid week, and
neet the/: attack when it comes.
The fleet of these he is averse to do-
ing under any and all circumstances,
far he looks aeon sucfi rascals as ver-
min; hence, he concludes to go right
along and meet danger as It flies.
At any moment the assault may
some, and he. places his revolver M his
left hand. where it is hidden by the
folds of the coat he carries, and yet
ready for instantaneous use.
Instead of the calle growing lighter,
he now reaches what appears to be
the worst part of it At this hour
the city Is not wrapped in silence by
kny means-, but over this place, per-
. taps the abode of vice. and sin, the CHAPTER VIII.
gloom of a chureherard seems to rest,
as though its inhabitants had tempor- While he sits there waiting, Doctor
laity forsaken it tor more profitable jack revolves a number of things In
fields of labour—the lighted squares, his mind. He goes back to the min -
where cafes glitter and money ute when he first set eyes on Avis
ebounds. Morton, and in a general way remem-
Footsteps sound behind him. Doc- bees the conversation that ensued.
tor Jack realizes that his enemies have Somehow or other he has a queer
crept closer, and are about ready, to feeling, at the prospect of seeing this
spring upon him. The prospect of e. girl again—he • had never sumoosed
stiletto in the back is not a, very al- Jack Evans would ever experience the
luring one to this man of the world, pangs of love, but it is ever so.
who in times past has always fnade it Tremendous difficulties have bees
rn object to keep his face toward. the surmounted in his endeavour to keep
enemy, be it lion, panther, jackal, or the appointment ea time, and the
mad bull In the arena. manner in which he has brushed these
Consevently he believes the time aside show the kind of a man he is.
has come to turn, and, -wheeling half Jack does not dare analyze his f eel -
around in the way he faced the furious ings• toward Miss Morton. teh-lias
mob in the streets of Barcelona at the come upon him with the sudden rush
time his treacherous guide, Francisco of an avalanche. He calls himself a
Marti, betrayed him. fool, but that does not mend matters
The movement must have been in- a particle.
spired by his good angel, for it saves "Just as I always predicted. I said
his life. Just as he turns, something that if I ever did fall in love it would
strikes him a severe blow—it is a knife be like tumbling over a. precipice head
that had been meant for his heart first," he mutters, with something of
through his back. Now it cuts into
his coat—a terrible gash that ruins the
garment, as the blade passes through
many folds, and just draws blood from
his arm.
Thus the little affair in the Calle
San Pablo is commenced. Doctor Tack
Is a fair and square man—he does not
like to have the favours all on one
side. Tit for tat is a, good motto un-
der the circumstances.
Accordingly that terrible right arm
of his, so admired by the observing
Don Carlos, slioots forward with un-
erring impetus. There is heard upon
the night air a hollow thud, like the
stroke of a trip hammer, and the
stricken wreth measuies his length up-
on the cobble stones five feet away.
By this time the other two have
reached the spot. They either do not
realize what has hapened to their
comma:lion, on account of the dark-
ness, or else have determined to
avenge his fall, for they come at the
American at bay with the impetus of
twin cyclones.
Be is reads, to meet all comers, and
so long aO that superb arm fails him
• • hot, can render a. good account of life
Otrivardship.
xt la all over in almost a wink. The
three ruffians have struck a snag when
tit y attack the wayfarer. Had they
known that their ititended victitn woo
the hero of the bull -ring, about whoirx
sal. Madrid Is talkiresS money could
never have hired them to attempt On
• act.
• elvery orie of them has had a bitter
experience with the muscle -knotted
arm of the athlete—the first still lies
• Where he fell, and the other tWe are
groaning as they attempt to crawl -or
Stagger ewer,
As for Doctor Jack, he has he dolt -
The last mem who leaped for him
game near seizing his throat between
his teeth, for be sprang. at Sack in
the manner of a bull -dog, but the other
gave him" such a. shaking, and hurled
him against the wall with such rigan-
tie power that the wretch must still
thope eves upon him be. deal not well
get out a it.
'" Tbere were several Oowarelly
• smelts who thought to riewn ma I
• foolishly took out my wetch to consult
the time,. and X suppose% they eaw it.
However, they failed to 40 me
" Yeti hardly look like a man who
fehas gene through an encounter with
otradn''
" Oh used alittlewater in the
wash -room a Your hotel here. Be-
sides, the clumsy clowne Went flown
like a row of ten pins. It was all
ever in half a minute. See, theta Is
proof ot my first blow—rnst hana will
be a trifle stiff to -morrow, but •I Ines
sume the fellow who was at the other
end will feel worse than that. '
Avis gazes, at hint With Wad -filer OYES
—he looks so qulet and rzeodese, and
yet see= so eapa,ble o takarig care
a himself against all corners. footle a
nued bull to a crowd a deseeeate stt eor*
rowdies. Heavens I what a man to
protect the woman he loves agoinst
the world. 'hais thought dashes into.
her mind without warning -4110 feels
the colour mounting to her face, and
fearful lest the scarlet flan et die -
tress may be revealed to hie eyes, she
lets her gaze drop. By chancs it
rests upon his left hanas—a little cry
bubbles from her lips. •
"Oh ! Doctor Jack, eau are
wounded I"
He starts, and looking in the dit cc -
tion she points, sees a few drope of
blood trickling down the back of his
hand. The sight makes him angry
and he takes out a handlzenhief to
hastily wine the tell -tele stains away.
"I sincerelY beg your naeden, Miss
Morton, for appearing in your Pre-
sence in this condition, nestly, I
did not know that Imitte had tiniebea
me. I had my overcoat on ilia arm.
See this rent—that is where hi passed
through. It must have lust out me a
trifle."
But you are wounded—I ant scene -
thing of a nurse. Let me bind et up
for you,"
He would emphatically refuse, and
opens his mouth to do see but she had
assumed such a pretty air of 3ut1io-11:7
that somehow he feels as though he
were a, slo.ere, without a will of' his
when he does not want them—half an own. For once the stubborn man is
hour back he would bave paid fifty conquered—that little imp IStiPid has
dollars, or pesos, for a. vehicle. done it.
The Hotel Peninsular is riot far Pretesting, yet obeying the mandate,
away, being one of the best caravan.- he draws up the lease sleeve of xis
series in the city of Madrid, and con- coat, and in half a minute bares his
sequently adjoining the throbbing inagnificent erne. it is his left, but a
heart of the CU.Y, as the ever -lively splendid spechnen nevertheless. Jack
Puerto del Sol is called. hastily wines the blood away. There
When Doctor Jack finds himself at is a cut an inch or se lone, whole
the door of this building :beyond all the keen blade touaherl the lles.h in
doubt, safe in body and limb, he again its passage. Avis utters an exelitmee
consults his faithful timepiece, and a tion of sympathy, and isegins to wrap
grim smile of satisfaction • wreathes her little cobweb of a 'kerchief around
his face as he sees that it •still lacits it, while Jack expezeilletes, declaring
two minutes to eight. it to he only a trifle, net worth both -
He has won -against all obstacles. ering about—nevertheless lei stunds
"Just a breathing spell to wash me' the ordeal like a Roman, though the
hands and brush nav hair." he muses. touch 01 her cool fingers sends the
So he finds his way to the wash- blood rioting through his veins, and
room of the hotel—he has seen better, threatens to give lira a disease that
but never mind, many hotels on the
Continent have none, so he feels he
has reason for congratulation.
Here he performs his ablutions, finds is not every poor devil who may re -
the skin on his knuckles a trifle. ceive such tender treatment atrer be -
scratched where it came in contact! ine engaged in a street brawl," nnd
with the cranium of the first land' he draws the coat sten?. aown.
pirate, runs a comb he takes from a Then he remembers what is was
pocket through his curly locks and, brought him here—to what he owes the
moustache, then once more seats him -I pleasure of thie interview.
self in a stuffy little parlour, dinelY "You Tett the seine:eta well. I trast,
lighted, waiting to be shown into the !Doctor Jack ?" queries the girl, :ma. he
presence of the girl who has already is amazed to ese bole easily she apart, and put in 12 to 16
entered into his life, though he has guesses where h. has been—tinet se quarts of seed to the acre, accord -
known her but six hours instead of i
woman for reading such simple things ing to size of kernel. I want a
that many years. "Quito well, theme you." Jeelt stalk, to grow every 4 inohes in the
would not continue the. sithieci, but row. I practice a three or four
Avis has 710 inteetion of lotting him 1 years' rotation of crops, according
to my success in getting a stand m
clover. If the clover misses in the
.corn, next year I sow that field with
oats and peas, cutting just after
Madrid it is said.'' the oats head out and curing • for
Her voice is certainly charming," hay.
Jack ie bound to admit—ender the Fifteen acres corn, 7e acres clover
present circumstances he does so un_ and 7e acres oats and peas cut for
hay, furnish all the good, rich
roughage needed by 20 cows, 15
head of young stock and three
horses for a year, silage fed to Cows
305 Slays. My neighbors argue that
I exhaust the land by raising such
big Crops, but I have figured • to
show that my crops are getting big-
ger every year. I feed grain to cows
all the year round, very little of
course when the grass is at its best.
My neigh.bors also tell 711C that
cows will wear out if given all the
good feed they want to oat, but
mine are getting better every year.
PLOWING EARLY.
My experience leads me to believe
that it is especially desirable to
a woe -begone face, as though for once plow early for winter wheat and to
his iron will proves of little avail "A little—songs of the hunt, the delay the seeding much later than
-against the insidious force of the god camp -fire, or a roving life on the deep usually recomanencled, writes Mr.
Cupid, who has wrestled with him. blue' sea. Sometimes we may have Geo. H. Smith. Early plowing not
Then he looks about the stuffy little a cozy evening together—I am sure only results in a compact seedbed,
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room, taking secret pleasure M the an- you sing." but by beginning tbe work asoon
ticipation of what is before him. Time "I should not dare to try after your ! as harvest is over, it is possible to
passes—the minutes seem hours to
him. 'Why does not the messenger
appear to show tam up? Can Miss
Morton have other callers ?
His mind becomes disturbed. He
springs to hie feet to pace the room,
and thus ease himself of the strange
feeline that makes hien so nervoue,
when he comes face to face with the
object of his thoughts, who enters the
room, stuffy and dimly lighted no
more, Jack thinks, for she brings
raellence with her.
- "You are punctual, Doctor Jack,"
she says, holding out her hand im-
pulsively, which he takes with an
eagerness he does not disguise.
"I began to think I would be un-
able to be so. Visiting at the Itemise
of a friend, I was pressed. to stay,
and did so until believed I had just
time enough to enter my carriage and
cense here. tion bidding the Don
• good -night found that my stupid
driver had gone away, either temhor-
arily or for good; That Estee me hilt
one alternative. I meet walk here,
for I could got no Vehicle, aud would
m
not return to, worry y friends,"
"And You did this 1" she asks, with
Wonder. "Nothitig cottlet hire me to
go through those nareOw greets after
nightfall. / vrottid be In toestarit fear
• of being robbed"—something in his
• face catches her- q,ulek .0r -ea." tell me
did you have. ati- experietice of this
kind'?"
Zeck had not meant to speak of his
little etigagentent—ha .not the Mae
Mallet to Make, bet restimes Madam"-, to. boast Of hie preavese-sbat :teeth
FOR -4 I"
A ERS
SeoLgerlable and Profitable sO
• flints for the Busy Tillers
of the' Soli.
OPERATING A SMALL DAIRY.
Cattapelled some years ago by l'ail-
ing
health to, quit the rueseantile
business, -we—any wife. and -1—rented
4 semen farm With. 20 acres tieder
cultivation, since increased to
&tad 40 acres of brush. pasture, Fetes
D. B. Foster , We ugreed to keep
only one cow. A neighbor wanted
to 1,10 nilflt of up, then another,
and
it couple more, necesoltating an-
other cow. Other custoxaers hept
Coming, With a corresponding in-
crease in thweumber of cows, so
that now wo , have 20, averaging
nearly 7,800 pounds of milk yearly.
Despite the glowing representations
of parties from whom I have bought
cows, I have haver yet found one
who could tell e just how math the
cow had dona in any one year of
her life. I have also found that
Suceeeded in getting one good milk-
er oat of about every four cowsa I
purchased.
• X•hahn no guessing itt my • method.
I weigh the milk from each cow at
milking time and record same. My
miaimum requirement is 6,000
pounds of 4 per cent milk, or its
equivalent, per year. No other
qualifications • will induce the •
to
keep a cow that falls below this
standard. Keeping a record for a
year gives many strange results. It
shows that many a cow that runs
the pail over when fresh falls behind
the -one Who never gave more than
80 pounds per day.
I also found this record service-
able in regulating feed rations,
watching the effect of different feed
stuffs and increasing the production
of each individual cow. Aside from
other results, it interests the hired
help in making each cow produce 'as
much as possible. The yearly record
shows the best cow in the herd and
also the poorest, and site IS
T11-91 ONE WE ARE AFTER.
As to the stable, let the wails -be
airtight, the ceiling not too high
—not over 74.- feet—one wiudow, 30
inches square, to each two .anintals,
with a double sash in the winter.
The Walls also should be whitewash-
ed at least once a year. As to ven-
tilation, • the King system is best,
for which apply to experiment sta-
tion. The cows also should face
each other.
Now as to feeding. the man who
has plenty of fodder need not fear
the drouth, of which we have more
or less every summer. First-class
silage •I Pawn that made from a
leafy corn, fully mature, not dry,
may be incurable darmh the rest of with ears averaging 3 inches long to
his natural lifee • each stalk 8• feet high, preserved in
"A -thousand teanks, Miss Aeas. It silo with absolutely airtight walls,
the corn being kept highest next to
the walls when filling. I plow for
Corn in the fall because it gets the
work out of the way for spring.
During the winter I haul out ma-
nure, 15 loads to the acre, and as
early as possible in the spring disk
the laud.
I plant corn in drills, 8 feet
off so efteily.
" Sitce meeting her I have heard
that the Senorita Gonzales has a
wonderful voice, the most charming in
willingly, not that he believes other-
wise, but he dislikes praising Mer-
cedes in the presence of this girl,
though some men would do just the
opposite, endeavouring to arouse a
spark of Jealousy by going, into rap-
tures over the other.
"She sang for you, then ?" quickly.
"Yes—you must hear her some day
yourself." Be tries to work this in,
Just as though it Is some new oper-
atic star he speaks of instead of a
lady friend.
" You are fond of music, Doctor
Jack," she pursues—strange how
every one calls him thus, seldom men-
tioning his last name. He likes to
hear It fall from her lips.
"Perhaps you sing yourself ?"
hearing such a nightingale as the
senorita. How does your arm feel,
doctor ?"
"Exceedingly comfortable, thank
you. When I get to my hotel I shall
rub on a salve I have that will make
It heal rapidly. Such scratches are
nothing. I have had twenty worse
than that at one •time after a terrible
tussle with a grizzly bear out in the
Rockies."
"Some time you must relate your
adventures to me, as Othello did to
Destlemona, YOU remember," with a
twinkle in her blue eyes.
"Yes, and I have often thought
what an egotistical chap Othello must
have been, telling yarns by the whole-
sale, himself the hero every time, until
poor Desdernona believed him a verit-
Mile god. 'Poor thing, she discovered
her mistake afterward, and that he
was but an °refinery Jealous mortal
in spite of his wonderful heroism."
Avis burst into a clear laugh at
what he says, and Jack believes it is
the cheeriest Sound he hal heard for
many a, day.
"We will defer the adventures, then,
tO some time in the future. Just
now, I believe, YOu have something
else to tell nee."
With that he coines down stiddenly
from hie high horse—the Interest Wet
girl takes in him may, after all, pro-
ceed tram her desire to know what
message he carries, and all this time
hag foolishly deluded himself into the
belief that siie haa begun to care for
Doeter Jack himsele. •
utilize spare time to best advan-
tage. After plowing, sefficient cul-
tivation in the way of harrowing or
disking must be done to keep down
weeds and to prevent the rapid
evaporation of moisture. Where the
soil is naturally very loose, follow
the plow with a roller in order to
compact it, then go over the field
with a harrow, loosening the upper
layer. It, le good 13W:tie() when
plowing is' done during a dry
period, to roll at the end of the
day all the land that has been plow-
ed during that day. lf this is not
done, the Soil may become so thor-
oughly dried out that germination
will be impossible until very late in
the season.. Then too, if the ground
Should happen to be cloddy, break
up these cloda. at ouco by rolling
and harrowing, as the work eau
then be done more Satisfactorily and
more cheaply than at •any other
time.
While :lowing for • winter wheat
need not be deep, it must be done
thoroughly. Four or five inches is
probably most satisfactory in a ma-
jority of the winter wheat belt
States. Deeper plowing is unneces-
sary, as the roots of the wheat
plant are surface feeders aud do not
go down very deep. I believe that
the barnyard manure applied to tho
surface of the ground after plowing
is much more valuable than if ap-
plied and plowed =dee. I scatter
my manure -over the field, then fol-
low witlt harrow and roller and
work it into the upper layer. In
this way it is made eery fine and,
being mixed with the surface soil,
the plant food contained is at once
available •
FOR THE YOUNG PLANTS.
This gives them a goad start, makes
them healthy and vigorous and en-
ables them to withstand unfavor-
able weather condition's better than
when the land is not fertilized.
In the winter wheat belt there is
no question as to the compatative
value of drilling and broadcasting
wheat. The drill is so much supe-
rior to tile other method that those
who have tried it seldom question
its efficiency. Broadcasting, how-
ever, is still practiced in some sec-
tions and will probably be the rule
for some time to come. Of chills,
the press drill is without doubt the
best, especially where the soil is at
all light or subject to clrouth. The
earth just above the seed is pressed
down, enabling it to collect and re-
tain moisture, thus giving the
young wheat plant a. quick and
healthy start..
The amount of seed for an acre
varies sonaewhat with the locality
and kind • of soil. As a rule five
pecks an acre is most satisfactory.
Some farmers claim that with good
land, good culture, etc., three pecks
will give a. good crop. This may do
in Some localities, but where the
weather is very severe and where
there is any question at all as to
the vitality of the seed, a large
amount should be put in. In select--
ing the Seed, always be sure that it
is perfectly clean and that all the
dwarfed and shrunken kernels be got-
ten rid of. Most of the modern fan-.
Ding mills are so arranged that
weed seeds and chaff are removed
and also the wheat iteelf graded.
Choose only the grades with large,
healthy kernels, as the Iowa ex-
periment station proved that yields
may be increased from two to five
bushels an acre simply by the selec-
tion of plump, vigorous, large seed.
To prove to you that Dr.
stea, Chase's Ointment is a certain
;At, and absolute awe for each
‘`Igby' and every form of itching,
bleodingand protruding piles,
the manufacturers have guaranteed it. dos tes-
timonials in the daily prose and ask y our neigh-
bors what they thinit of it, You can use it and
[zet your money back if not cured. etc a box, at
ell dealers OTEDMANSON,BATES 8n Co.,Toronto,
Dre;Chestscer. Ointment
KEEP UP THE MILK FLOW.
In order that the best results may
be had from tench cows they must
be provided with a uniform, full
supply of feed. The shrinkage in
milk flow is always due to uneven
feed supply. It may be from a
change of feed, but more frequently
from shortage of feed caused by Mid-
summer drought or a drying up of
the pastures during unfa.torable
growing influences.
There should be a remedy at hand
to relieve these periods of short
grass supply. How can this be
done 9 The soiling crops may be
employed, and these so arranged as
to succeed each other and thus re-
lieve the pastures during such times
or seasons as the shortage of the
grass •will not keep up the inilk
flow. It is quite important that the
milk flow be maintained, as when
once lest it is seldom recovered, and.
never without considerable cost, of
feed and care. It is Much easier to
retain the flow than to recover it
when once influences are permitted to
destroy it.
What there soiling crops shall be
we cannot safely suggest, as your
soil, climate and general conditions
will best direct you in this selection.
Rye, alfalfa, oats and peas, sweet
corn and field corn in about the
order mentioned will be found good
soiling crops and will htelp out in
the lack of pasture that may chance
to happen to the injury of the ranch
cows. It is now time to plan and
plant in order that there be no lens- I
take in -keeping up the flow of milk.
Those little crops are of great ser-
vice when the need requires and al-
ways will pay much more than the
expense of sowing, planting raid cul-
FIGNT FOE, COTTON TRADE
•004.,.71.•
BR/1N WILL BATTLE 'OB
ITS EXISTENCE,
'Yankee Conarboilzsa. 'Have Poreed
'Up
Cotten a Ralf Penny a
Lancashire, England, is preparing
to light for its existence as the
world's greatest cotton centre.
Things have reached stioh poxe
that it must fight for its existence
or go under. Spinning mills have
been closing, many partly and a few
altogether. The expansion of trade
hos stopped. Orders from India,
the groat depot for ietncashiee
;tootle, have almost ceased. At the
bidding of bold groups of American
speculators mill -owners have had to
Choose between condectiug business
at Et heavy loss or stopping.
The plan of these operators is eim-
plicity itself. The world's cotton
crop (and its 'destination) is known
almost to a hundredweight. This
year some groups headed by Mr.
Theodore Price of New York, gehtd-
ually acquired control of what was
left of the old crop, the new one
not being available until Septem-
ber. Unless something is clone Brit-
ish millowners will have to pay a
total of about X40,000,000 extra.
for their raw material between now
and October.
•This spells. ruin. During the past
few years profits have been out to a
minimum by foreign competition.
America fights for British markets,
and India. is building her own fac-
tories. What is the trade to do ?
Is it to sit hopeless before chance
groups of speculators, allowing them
to bleed it as they please ?
COMBINE V. COMBINE.
"This is not the Lancashire way
we must meet combination with
combination," says Mr. C. W. Ma-
csea, president of the Master Cot-
ton Spinners Federation, and head
of the great firm of Henry Banner-
raan. "Alone an individual -firm,
however large, can do nothing. We
must break down the 'ring' as a
matter of self-defence. Two years
ago, when faced with the work of a
group of Liverpool speculators, cot-
ton spinners agreed to purchase no
cotton during August, The plans.of
the speculators failed in cease -
'rings' have already forced up prices
a half -penny a pound, or the equival-
ent of L10,000,000 a year for the
crop, the association proposes that
the mills should close on Saturdays
and Mondays each week. Those
mills which on account of promised
deliveries or any other special cir-
cumstances caen.ot closte aro to pay
a, levy of 1-168 per et indle, this
ti
being equal for tho quarter -me to
a,bout, £1.00 a, month for an 80,000-
spindle mill. Before this proposal is
carried out it must be considered by
the numerous firms throughout the
trade. Circulars were sent out last,
week. The organization of the Lan-
cashire cotton spinning industry is
an exceedingly effective one. In the
past we have proved what combina-
tion could do. Much more, however,
remains to be done. Once Lanca-
shire held the trade almost attire.
Now Lancashire has to fight the
world first. To -day we do a quarter
of the world's cotton trade. Twenty
years ago we took three-quarters of
the American cotton sold and so
presumably did theee-quarters of the
trade. To hold our own we have
to fight for fair treatment. I do not
despair of Lancashire cotton—very
far from it."
SNOW AGAINST BULLETS.
The result of experiments recently
carried out in .Norway, by firing
Krag-Jorgensen rifles against heaps
of snow, indicates that the school-
boys' traditional winter fortifica-
tions might be rendered of great
value in practical warfare, carried
on in regions where snow abounds.
Although the =Azle velocity of a
Krag-Jorgehsen bullet is 2,360 feet
per second, yet it was found that a
bank of unrammod snow arrested
such rrojectiles at a depth of pene-
tration not exceeding four feet. This
is nearly equal to the resistance of
manned earth, and exceeds that of
ordinary wood.
REPORTING HIS WIPE.
When Mr. Chandler was Secretary
of the American Navy, he issued or-
ders that efficers should not permit
their wives to reside - at the foreign
stations to which their husbands
weie attached. The order was
promptly rescinded upon. the -receipt
by the Secretary of the • following
from Commodore Fyffe, in .commana
of the Asiatic Squadron: "It be-
comes my painful duty to report
that my wife, Eliza, Fyffeelms, in dis-
obedience to my • ordere, and in face
of regulations of the Department,
taken tip her residence on the Sta-
tion, and persistently refused to
tivation. leave."
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Health kiroke Davin, Was Pale and Exhausted — Restoration earn° With t h ei
Use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food.
The case described in this letter is
similar to thousands in which Dr.
Chase's Nerve Food is successfully
Wed. It is one more example Of the
marvelous Mebuilding effect of this
great food cure.
Mrs. Geo., Canipbell, Upper Harbor,
St. John County, N.B. Writes :--
"Last summer my system was com-
pletely run down, and X was pate,
weak, and exhausted. I had taken
care of a siok friend for fear months
and lose of Sleep, as well as the
strain and anxiety, was too much
for roe. When X would lie down or
sit <hewn . the neaveg, M. My ,legs
would twit 1,, and X felt strange set -
salons in the joints.
• "When in thie condition, I heard
of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food and be-
gan to use it, It seemed to help me
from the very first, and gradually
restored me to health and strength.
To-dtty X feel as well as I ever 814,
and give the credit to this great
preseription of Dr. Chase."
• Mrs. John Miles, 286 Wellington
street, Ottawa, Ont., whose husband
Is employed With Davidson &Thecae -
ray, lumber dealers, state'.—"I Was
very weak, had no stroxigth or
energy and suiTered nearly all the
time with hauslacthe, ii !act I had
heddetche f or '-ihdithe " Whole attyia itmt
before beginning to use Dr. Chase's
Nerve Food, X Was mist° trovibled
great deal with shooting pains
across the small of the back. Under
this treatment ray health hae been
wonderfully improved, The hea•ch
mohes are a thing of the past, the
pains in my back are cured, and X
feel strong and healthy. As an evi-
dence of restored streegth I may
say that I am noW able to do all
my housework without becoming ex-
hausted."
Dr. Clhaeo's Nerve Food, 50 cents
a box, 6 bOgasi for 52.50, at ell
dealerts, PkImanson, Bates vc, Olen
Terontol.
AN 1101:111 WITH 'UNCLE BAN
HOW THE Bus YANICEE
simalps THE DAY,
ni,••••44.
Some Interesting 3Y2atters of No.
rnent and. Mirth Gathered.
:From His Doings,
00,00.
oongress' approprns iatiofor thee
session just cloSed will exceed $9217,-
00One of the largest •cotton mills in
the world is to be built Mar KaU,
SOS City.
The -bathing beaches in and iloan
es this summer=
fro
aNivt‘b ailrsgoes.1: daltlfres
is
grave danger of
the extinction of the mookieg bird in
Louisiana.
In most of the New York churehea
prayers were offered for the recovery-,
of King Edward.
Trade with the United Otatea' thew
possessions shows it great increase.
in imports aud exports.
One Kansas town of 14,000 popue
lotion furnished 40 divorce cases for
the last term of the District Court..
Plans are on foot for running elec-
tric cars between Cleveland and To-
ledo. The distance Is 118 miles.
Rerorts from Butte, Mont., show
that the copper mines of that dis-
trict lost $10,000,000 during the
Charles M. Schwab, head of
the Steel Trust, is to have a home
on Riverside Drive, N.Y., to coat
more than $8,500,000.
It is estimated that, allowing a.
yearly output of 60,000,000 tone,
the stock of anthraeite in. Pennsyl-
vale will last 80 years.
The Treasury at Washington closed
its business on the last day of the
-fisaal year with an "available cash
balance" of 5208,680,022.
The production of both hard and
soft coal was but 60,000,000 tons in
1880; in 1900 it was 240,000,00g
tons—a fourfold increase in, twenty
years.
A few decades ago Riverside, Cal.k
Was a desert, the home of the herne4
toad aficl Irrigatiou hae
made it the wealthiest county in the
State.
It is announced from Macon, Mo„
that on it construction 'division of a
new• railroad in that vicinity three
women are employed pushing wheel-
barrows.
The Tacoma Steel Company has
chosen a site there for a 250 ton
blast furnace. It will be the first
modern blast furnace erected on the
Pa,cific coast.
It is said that 'tenement house
rents, for habitations of the 'kind
ranging from .510 to 525 per month,
have remained practically stationary
in New York for the last three
years.
All of the unskilled employees oe
the Carnegie Steel Company at
Pittsbing, nearly 15,000, have had
their wages increased 10 per cena.
This will make the wages of the
lowest laborer $1.65 it day.
As an exhibit. of its own and ari
index- of the nation's prosperity, the.
-United States Steel -Corporation's
report for the first six months of
the current year, showing net earn-
ings of 564,407,153, is interesting.
The Boston Pilot, an Irish raper,
is making a vigorous appeal for tilt)
removal of the Lion and the Unicorn
from the Old State House, where
these orphaned • emblemsof0years sovereignty were replaced 2
ago.
Physicians in South Carolina are
greatly concerned over what they be-
lieve to be the alarming increase of
insanity among negroes. Vears ago
this disease was almost unknown te
the colored population, but it ap-
pears to be spreading.
The descendants of Brigham Young
the Mormon apostle, have decided t�
hold annual family re -unions. Al-
though he died in 1877 there are
over 1,000 direct descendants, and
there is not in Silt Lake City an
available building large enough to
hold the "family." There are living
six widows of the Mormon prophet.
LIGHTING TRAINS.
The State railway 'administration.
in Prussia has just settled upon a
system of electric lighting for trains
which is attracting much attention.
in Germany. The axle -driven dyna-
mo having been found objectionable
because it borrows too much power
fro*ri the locomotive, and the system
of storage batteries being undesir-
able for other reasons, the plan
adopted is to place on the locomo-
tive a steam -driven dynamo, which
supplies a current to a small regu-
lating battery in each car. Thus
every car in it vestibuled train leas
a separate lighting system fed from
its oWn accumulator, although the
general supply comes from the gen-
erator on the locomotive. Each car
is provided with ceiling lamps and
seading lamps.
PORTSMOUTH HARBOR.
There has existed a harbor at
Portsmouth, resorted to by fighting
ships, front the most ancient times
in British history. The Romans un-
doubtedly used it when they had
their stronghold at Porchester, and
:they appear to have named it portus
Magnus, or the Great Port. The
footsteps of the Roman Proyincia,19
and • of the Saxon e and Normane
may be traced, -and:from those times
onward the imme of Portsmouth
occurs frequently in our history. The
place had attained so:me measure of
importance in the reign of Henry I.
Richard Coeur de Lion set Sail
thence when --esthe left the shores
of his kihgelem; and in the time • of
his successor a meal, establishment
existed at the port.
"The weather is very •trying to
everybody," said the physician,
"Yes," replied Sir. Neaten ; "I
don't see how my Wile is going to
bear up under Pi.. When tho sun
cloeSn't shine it grecs her the blues,
,tithen. it (lees tibia .tinys it's
ing 'the evapet.'; ' •