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The Wingham Advance, 1914-07-09, Page 3w� TIIUR$DAY, JULY' 9 1914 THE W I NG RARM ADVANOE Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over :30 years, bas borne the signature of and has been made under his per. sonal supervision since its baloney. �� - /.,* Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and 6; Just•as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. Whitt is CASTO R IA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare. goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opituri, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea --Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTO R U A ALWAYS Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought -,THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. THIS LETTER FROM MR. GEO. W. BURT, of Redford, Wayne County, Michigan, shows how well satisfied the farmers of that section are with con- crete roads. Nearly one hundred miles have been built in Wayne County. • "Mr. Edward N. Hines, Board of County Road Commissioners, Wayne County, Detroit, Mich. Dear Sir:— Our concrete roads are far ahead of the ex- pectations of the majority of us farmers. Where we used to be two days marketing fifty bushels of produce, we now market twice as much in one day, and can go to the city anytime we want to. We do not have to wait till the roads are good so we can go. Also, our horses and, waggons will Last twice as long. Hoping you will keep right on building these roads, and that the county will stand back of this movement, I remain, Yours truly, (Sgd.) Geo. W. Burt Redford, Wayne County, Mich. Concrete Roads are the best, cheapest'It and most satisfactory roads that can be built. Best, because they permit bigger loads, increase land values and im- prove conditions generally. Cheapest because they are permanent and require practically no repairs, which permits road taxes to be spent in building more good roads,. Most satisfactory, because they are open to traffic every day in the year, lower cost of marketing and cost of living and increase the farmer's profits. Good Roads literature telling all about concrete roads will be sent, free, to everyone interested. Write to Concrete Roads Department Canada Cement Company Limited 804 Herald Building, Montreal • - �.rt,: r,;�.r `, o) r•.n'/,;CJ ilii^. Zi V:, ,tfi,r . :.� . l} ' •'''i J�,IM�2•Kc;{ �.�.� ;... -,- orf a ,:'',p! , u t .. .,F. • CDOODOCC000000000000900000 oOOoo0003OOo00000oo00O00©O 0 HANOVER_PLA:CE,_WINNIPEG Es (inside de the city limits along the sharp Boulevard and e3 0 8 Avenues each side.) Study Your Investment. Because something is offered you for little money goes not 8 necessarily mean that it is a good tnvestaa'tus. The value of an investment should_ he carefully figured ou the return it will tt3 likely bring. If your Inveritrn-nt is itt Town or City Rs -al 'Estate, their, will be no profit made if the Town or city is not growing. If the Town or City is not growing or at a staud-still, property decreases, you lose. If the Tovvn or City is growing and likely to grow and your property is in the growing area it advances at double the per- centage of increase of population. Winnipeg's Building Permit's amounted to $20,000,()00 in 1912 and to $18,650,000 in 11,13. It kept right on growing during the hard times. The prospects for 1914 are mach brighter now than they were at this time last year. Winnipeg is bound to grow, bard timesot easy times. C ondi i ns demandwand a great City just where Winnipeg is situated. Don't shut your eyes to the Investment Value of Hanover Place as it is on the line of the best Developing Residential Dis- trict now in Winnipeg. You may be offered lots elsewhere for less money but study closely whether they are likely to increase in 'value, and what is the reason for such expected increase. Our prices are $225,00 a lot and up according to location. Write to -day to --- ME RELIANCE 1NVESTNMENT & DEVELOPING CO. Ltd., HEAD OPFICE—HANOVER, ONT. Loral Agent---WIllIarn Cur e, %/ WWhem. ey es Otatz.k.- or the week • • BY REV. BYRON H. STAUIFFER ,Pastor Bond Street Congregational t,hurch, Toros* HOW TO KEEP A DIARY "On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. And It was found written, that Mordecai had told. of Blgthan and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus, And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants, There is nothing done for him,"—Esther 6: 1,2,3. visit" Yes, some folks do forget, Sometimes ahusbandforgets t o read,d in his diary, of his wife's faithfulness, lie forgets how she struggled and aved, nursed the children, cooked, ept the house, washed, ironed and weD t—all because she loved frim and home and children. And he yawns Alva)" front the supper table, "Oh, deary me, I wish some one would ',come and spend the evening with ono." You do, eh? You blue old fossil of ingratitude! Suppose; you play courting this evening. Suppose you tell your wife how much you appre- ;eiate her. Suppose you take her for p. walk down Yonge Street, and will' you're out, suppose you put your arra This king, Ahasuerus, kept a diary. through hers and snuggle up wi.. There is great' fun in keeping a diary pose sweet gays which you user tc: for you buy it with great expectations ;have' you begin it with great enthusiasm E Some people think that to shore- and you neglect it •with great prompt. (appreciation is a sign of weaknose nese. It is the exceptional man wito !They imagine it is diplomatic to re really keeps a diary. but, mind you, 'press gratitude. To be stoical a,th 'he keeps it in an exceptional way. taciturn' they think is the badge o•' He doesn't say: "Got up at 7; washed, ;bravery. My Scotch collie knows bet breakfasted and went to work; dined ter than that. He licks the hand that at 6; concert at 8; bed at 11.30." ;binds up his bruised paw. I was There is no use telling your diary all leaving a home where a poor yaane that. But what King Ahasuerus told mother was oaring for two sick babies, his 'diary is worth while, for he re- with scarcely enough food and with 'corded the good deeds of others to- scant clothing and bedding and fuel. wards him. Isn't that grand? Wasn't And the husband, out of work, walked that worth while? I can almost see down the street a block with me, the entry: "This day I owe a Jewish "All, I pity my poor little wife, ana attendant, Mordecai, my life. He un- 1 often want to tell her so," said he, covered the plot of two chamberlains, "but I must keep up a stern front, in Bigthan and Teresh, to assassinate else she'll give way altogether.r She me. Conspirators hanged." Such a cries a good deal as it is. Thee diary as that is worth keeping. To go back to her at once, and put your record kindnesses received is to de. arms about her, and tell her she's a Velop a right royal culture. 'Read brave woman, and for her sake you'ra good Queen Victoria's journal, and you going to try hard to succeed. Do it will remark that in nearly every day's quickly and she'll take heart afresh." entry she speaks kindly of someone. Then others expect that some day Memory is a great diary in ,which they will be in changed conditions we automatically record things. Thr Where showing gentleness and recipro memory can be trained, too, to writ• down one class of deeds or another You can make it an obedient steno grapher. 0 Memory, take up a pe: and record that John Smith hurt m: feelings to -day. Use ink that won' fade. Write what he said in big let harsh word ters. Underscore that Now mark the page at the corner an. Write in red ink, "To be rememberei and never forgotten." Do that a few .times, and Memory will write withou being told. Hiss out the words, ", never forget," and you won't forget. h.nd your diary will soon be a r'eeore of harsh words, of tempers, of quare-• MN, of hates, of spites. You can' re call, at will, the ghosts of yesterday'. Ill deeds, and they will come of t of the shadows to tell you how to strike bank blow for blow. 0 Memory, take up a pen and write. Say that John Smith brought over some sweetmeats for the children; that Mrs. Jones sent np a 'sample of her newly made mince Wee; that the nicely -dressed. lady in the street car arose to offer the 'tired looping woman with the baby a seat tecord the good thought we noticed oing by a moment ago. Use good nk or indelible pencil. Do that a few rotes and- Memory will record the pleasing, and you will have a diary that you can carry into the unfrequent- I d streets of old age, where you will have plenty of time to read, and the nice things- that Memory has ritten away back through the years will make you wear a quiet smile, so that pas- sers-by will say, "What a fine young lace that old Man has." In such a diary you will write less and less about yourself. Not a word about the rheumatics. And you'll al- most .forget to die, so interested will !you be in other people. Did Horatio Nelson think of his mortal wound when he was dying? "Anchor, Hardy, anchor! Do you anchor, Hardy?" I knew such a hero as that in the per- son of an old so'dier who had been dying so long that his poor old body was all but O. skeleton by the time the undertaker came to wrap it in his country's flag. But that old fighting man never thought of himself. The morning of the day he died, he wanted to see the preacher, for he said he knew he was going to die, and he wanted to encourage the minister a bit before he went away. All morn- ing his heart had been threatening to stop, and now it raced along at double; speed as if intent on making up for the beats it had skipped. i"Come in! come in-" he shouted; "How are you, and how's the church, and are there any converts?" Then i he talked army, told how 1 e saw Sheridan riding over the field at Cedar Creek, and described the progress of the battle until he wanted to be lifted up so that he could use the bed for landscape and the wrinkles in the quilts for hills and valleys. He waxed eloquent, saw visions of the blue and the gray, and sank back upon the pil- lows, exhausted, to make an allusion to the conquering Christ sweeping the valley of earth, just like Phil Sheridan Swept the Shenandbab. Then he spoke of his -wife's sacrificing loyalty and the church's kindness. Never said a word about his pain until I asked him, and then, like Charles the Second,. he almost apologized for being "such an unconscionable time a -dying." Within a'few minutes he had a trium- phant death, for there seemed to float around that bed the sweet memories of kind friends and good deeds, For gears the old mail had been storing by these things, and now they came out of the shadows to console his de parting spirit during the struggles of dissolution. But this king forgot. He was so busy with the affairs of state that he never did look back over his diary. He never thought of the faithful old Jew at the gate. Aye, some people forget thegood deeds o f others. They are too busy with the demands of business and society to remember the (avers they accepted in days of trial. They take all that is offered to them, but they don't get around to think of the man that helped them, perhaps to the very position they now hold. They Never say: "There's Jim, dear good fellow; sat up with me when I had the fever; and do you remember wife, how Mrs. Jim went with you to the hospital on the day our Lucy 'was Operated upon? Let's go over to Jim's to -night; they're in hard luck dust now, for he's been laid off. Let's 1talte over WIN o' that honey for Mrs. age's eold, and we'l'l have a rya cal kindnesses will be easier than now. "If my folks really had those tender instincts that novels tell about," explained a dreamy young fellow, "I'd enjoy my home life and stay indoors more with the family." As he imagines his folks are so 'much different from the story -book people, he goes down to the resorts where the frequenters are certainly not of the gentle book - of -fiction sort. He expects some glorious day to come when he will be, by force of surroundings, a gracious, kind - tongued, appreciative gentleman. Nb; here and now is the place and the time to show love, appreciate favors and express gratitude. • This king recollected. He was pretty long in reading his diary, but one night when he could not sleep, and music and dancing didn't interest him, he had them read his diary to him, and they read about Mordecai and the conspirators. "Stop! Has anything been done for this man? No? Then send for Ha- man ,and I'll ask him what would be the decent thing to do." And .the re- sult is that Mordecai in the king's robes and on the king's horse, is pro- claimed through the streets as the man ;'whom the king delighteth to honor." Pretty long overdue, to be sure, and yet better late than never. "Give me my flowers before I die," is a senti ment that makes us all nod our head: and say, "That's so," but if you should happen to forget to send them while your friend is in health, send them to his sick -room; if too late for that, send them to the funeral; if too late for that service, send them out to be placed on the grave; but, at all hazards, send the flowers. Yea, if you have been so criminallyinall neglectful of the reciprocity of kind" deeds as to overlook your duty in the matter until a decade or two or three•have passed since your friend was laid away in Mount Pleasant, carry out the wreath now, and place it on his tomb, If it will not do him any good, it will re- deem your reputation in your own eyes, and you will walk away with a raew manhood. The germ of decency is sometimes pretty long in getting a start in peoples' hearts. But if it has the slightest chance it will multiply. I was called upon to officiate at the funeral of the wife of a dissolute fel- low who, the neighbors claimed, had actually allowed the poor little Scotch - Canadian woman to die for the lack of food and medicine. He could not evenpay for a grave, and the inter- ment had to, be made in the awful Potter's Field, And to cap the climax of shame, when the time for the ser- vice came, he was dead Two years later, I preached in the Buffalo penitentiary one Sunday morning and I saw that man among the convicts. I had time, after the service for a word with him, and he said: "Pastor, I've reformed, I came in here three weeks ago, and on' a thirty -day sen- tence. Last Sunday I heard a sermon on Christ giving every man ariother chance, and T made up my mind I'd take my second chance now." He was as good as his Nord, The microbe of manhood had begun to work. He went from jail to 'seek em- ployment, and he had no trouble in getting it, for he was a skilled me- chanic, He saved $60 in an incredibly short time, and he took ft to the un- dertaker and said, "Get her out of tho T'otter's Field and bury her in a lot in Forest Lawn Cemetery; ' At this second and final interment he was ?ober, and he followed the water - soaked coffin to the grave, a sincere Mourner, and he went away with a resolute face, to get his little girl out of the orphanage in which the authori• .les had Waded her, and make her a home. Oh, the wind blows over the grave of many an unappreciated one, but God writes it all down in Isis great peek. Ile will read it. Ho will remora- er. He will never forget. And some day Ile will say to Gabriel: "Gabriel, go thou down to you cemetery, and blow thy trumpet and wake her, for she has been sleeping long enough. Wipe away the last trace of tears, i nd bring her up to Me. Tell her 'that at last she'll get the horns she has been expecting so long. Bring her up and let the angels put her on 'the finest charger of heaven, crown her with a 'crown of glory and cast �y 11su1dor$A iii lith . ot- white, SOILING DROPS FOR SUMMER FEEDING There is no season of the year when it is so necessary to provide feed for farm uniinnIs as during certain pur- tiau:t .of the stammer, s;tys Kimball's t);11ry Farmer. There is very seldom a rear that some time during the sum nle't' there is not a drought of greater or less severity. At this season animals suffer more than dut'iug the winter mouths when they are .provided with foodstuffs that have been harvested. and carefully stored, Common field corn is useful for soil - Ing purposes later in the season, bet prior to the first or middle of Septem- ber it contains such a great percentage of moisture and so small an amount of dry matter that it is not considered ex- ceptionaily valuable for feeding. Sweet corn is much more advisable for feeding during July and August. It matures more quickly and provides much wore nutriment for animals than field corn. As one does not know in the spring when the shortage is to occur during the summer, it is wise to plant plots of Auchenbrain Brown Kate IV., the new Ayrshire champion, is owned by Penhurst farm, Narberth, Pa. She was purchased in Scotland by Percival Roberts, Jr. Official rec- ord for 365 days; 23,022 pounds milk, 917.60 pounds butter fat, 1,080 pounds butter, 3.99 per cent fat; tested un- der the supervision of the Pennsyl- vania experiment station. Sho made a profit of $365.35. It is said that this cow made a quart of milk and a pound of butter at the.least cost of food of any cow of any breed, green feed successively. The first should be put in as early as possible, •which would be the first part of v1ny. This should be followed by successive plantings separated by periods of ten or fifteen days, The size of plots should vary according to the number of ani• mals to be fed. Oats and Canada field peas provide tnost useful green forage. Their use is to be advised in latitudes far enough north where the extreme bent and drought do not seriously tiffcct the pens. It is doubtful, however, 1f this mixture Is to be advised without qualifications in localities like northern Missouri. Cott•peas no doubt would (trove more sntisfac•tory. As they should not be sown until the ground becomes thor °uglily warm. they provide green for• age hater. Owing to the fact that cow peas make excellent hay, in ease they are not used for green forage, it will be advisable to sow theta the latter pert of tiny or the first part of .lune. using from five pecks to two bushels of seed per acre. WATCH VICIOUS PULLS.. Disaster Likely to Follow Carelessness in This Matter. We cannot refrain from ngnin coni menting on the danger to human life from the vic-ious bull, says• Kansas Farmer, We noticed not long ago that an enraged bull attacked Jesse Arnold. a young farmer living near Manhattan. The fact that the Lull was detained was all that saved .his fife. He was very seriously injured as it was. C. W Looutis of Tollgnlioxie,. Kail., one ut the leading dairymen of. his county was recently killed as a result of an attack of a vicious bull. This bull had previously attached n farm hand, who succeeded in escaping. We have just noticed that an aged farmer in \Vis cousin was attacked and killed by a buil while crossing a Geld. Jolts Graves of hansas City. Kan.. suffered front three broken ribs and n dislocnt 'ed- shoulder, these injuries resulting from nu attack of a bull. A farmer near Utica, N. Y., recently died from injuries inflicted by rel infuriated bull There is undoubtedly entirely too much carelessness in the handling of these :initials. They are too uncertain of disposition cvet' to' he trusted. Of ten111210s their viciousness may be the result of had hnndltng. No man should ever 'take chances with one of these animals. It has been suggested by some dept the matter of the disposition v1. io ccontrolled bproper. t. ectu n .an be v in bree breeding, end animals of bell csp o sition eliminated. Something. might be accomplished along this line. blit we doubt very much whether the danger can ever be eliminated in this manner The safest plan 1s to treat the bull al• ways as u possible source of danger. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •• • • • • • • • THE FLOCKMASTER, • • • If the flock is kept in a warm • place it is best to shear the sheep • early, says the Farm Journal, • Keep the flock in a waren pen • fora few days. • A loosely tied fleece looks het - • ter to the buyer, as he knows it is not tied tightly to hold in tags • or dirt, Wheu tied too tightly • there is danger of its matting, • which reduces its value. 1 The early iambs must be Push - Increase for growth. Increase the grain ration of the • ewe gradually as the lamb be- • comes able to take more milk, • As soon as possible teach tho • • lamb to eat extra grain in a side • pen to push his growth to the • •• limit• • • Good sheep require good care • • • to maintain their excellence. • Poor sheep are always a burden • upon tho rest of the flock. • •••••••s•••••••••••••••••• ' Corn and Cob Meal. Cern and cob meal is not injurious to the stomach and Udder of n cow if it is not fed In too large gnantitieS. It is quite a common practice to grind the corn rind cob together. This is done where the concentrates of n ra tion nre rather heavy, and we have al Ways considered It n good thing to do under such ch•cutestences, n'e wdnld not, however. advise the feeding of more cobmeai than would be supplied by grinding the rob and coin together ft requires shout fifteen pounds of cob - meal to equal the protein in one pound of eornnteal and about one and one- half pounds of cobmeal to equal the carbohydrates in one pound of corn- meal. in other words, cobmcnl is no more nutrittnas,than out straw, Board's I)alryuan.. Something methin Like That "Derr Srtitnldt is so fat that he can't get near enough to his counter to sell 4.00cls:' "I1'ml Sort of a corporation in re• stralut of trade."London Answers. Might and Mane. Torn flood. the pilaster, once describ- ed the meeting or a pian and it lion, and 1n doing ao he redid, 1OTbe matt ran off with all Ills might and the lion with all his manar." Do not It+,114.1- volt ::a!f 11..•.1 friend, +hip authorizes you iu Kay d1s*grc•arwbl• allele to roar !titimstei. - - • e • 0 • • 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • HAY FOR WORK HORSES. Excess of Roughage- Likely to Produce Digestive Troubles. One of the mistakes farmers have been making in feeding their work horses is in giving them all the rough- age they will eat, According to some recent experiments carried on at the Montana experiment station, it is much better to limit the amount of bay so that they do not receive as much as they are willing to eat, saving not only in the cost of feeding but also keeping them in better condition. Two teams. of mature mares were taken which were as nearly as possible of the same type and with the same sort of indivill- uality. In each of these teams one of the mares received as much hay as she would eat, while the other received only two-thirds that amount. They re- ceived an equal feed of grain. In this particular case the hay used was tim- othy of a fair quality and the grain was oats. The mare which received only two-thirds the amount of hay she would have eaten stayed in better con- dition in each case and bad more spirit and sweat less than the other one re- ceiving the full amount. Some similar trials with clover indi- cated the same thing, and also showed that the prejudice against clover is only correct when it is fed in larger amounts than one pound per day for every hundred pounds of live weight. It gave as good results as timothy. These experiments seem to show very clearly the injury due to feeding an ex- • cessive amount of roughage. The stomach of a horse bas a capacity of only nineteen quarts, and when he eats as much forage as an ox, whose stom- ach has a capacity of 267 quarts, it Is believed entirely reasonable that there will be digestive troubles. The loss of spirit which many work horses show and the tendency toward colic and heaves may often be attributed to this cause. There is no more reason why the amount of roughage fed should not be limited just as is the amount of grain. PASTURING SHEEP. Alternate Grazing on Two Separate Inelosures Is Advisable. The ideal way to manage sheep on pastures is to have them graze one pasture down reasonably and then put them on another pasture until the first springs up again. In this way the pas- ture is kept fresh and sweet. But in practice it may be frequently impossi- ble to do this. When pastures get far ahead of sheep they should be grazed down if possible with cattle. In such a con- dition the sheep will not graze down the grass that has become rank and woody. By preference they will feed upon those parts where the grass is Sh01t In such places it is shorterandd sweeter than elsewhere. When it is not practicable to graze it down with cattle it ought to be mown if possible. When thus cut off grass fresh and nu- tritious springs up in its place. Some object to grazing sheep with other stock. Much depends upon the way in which this is done. 1f the pas- ture is large and not in any way over- stocked, there is probably no objection to the plan. Sheep eat more closely than cattle and can do well on shorter pasture. Where the grazing is plentiful sheep can feed upon what is most palatable to them, and the cattle eat what they relish most. Sheep will eat oft many weeds that cattle avoid, and in this way they help to clean the pastures. Swine Raising. In many phases of swine husbandry the question of location or climate has an important bearing. Where mild weather is apt to be the rule in late Mil and early spring, breeding for two litters ay ear will obviously be con- sidered in a different light than in n section much farther north. The breed- er in Canada or on the Atlantic coast will modify many matters regarding breed or feeds that are accepted gospel In the corn belt. Locally, the extent and kind of pasture at the breeder's disposal, like bis other facilities and resources, will, to a greater or less ex- tent, influence bis praciees.—From CO• burn's "Swine In America." Depraved Appetites of Cows. For cows with depraved appetites the following treatment is suggested by Hoard's Dairyman: Take one pound powdered wood charcoal, one pound sof phosphate of lime and one pound of ground gentian root; mix them and give each cow half a teacupful of the mixture morning and tight: also give the cow a little diluted. vinegar every day (about hail n teaenpfnl of vinegar With a te''lrrttpful of water), Ad • i.n fish lyareiits.• Advice to a Don't send your boy out to the col- onies just because you don't know what to de with him. Satisfy your- self that he has a natural liking for an outdoor life, and that he is physi- sally adapted for it. Don't send your boy out with unlimited money. Thro'ty' hint on his own resources and let him trove his mettle. Don't pay a pre- tnium. If the boy has any good in rim he should be worth his board. Don't trend him to Sri agricultural col- lege in lingland, The above advice to Barents was given in a speech at a Royal Colonial Institute luncheon y Mr. W. I . ftieott, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for British Colunabite You will like the rich strength and full Flavor. 501 ea, 'Is good NQS as MONEY VALUE OF SMOKE. Over Half the Heat Energy of Coal Goes Up the Chimney. To the engineer the smoke rolling and billowing out .of the power house chimney is just like so many dollars taking wings from the company's strong box. The smoke escaping from a steam plant is composed of nearly 60 per cent of the beat energy of the coal whieb is being burned. This energy is lost in the tiny parti- cles of coal and carbon which escape up the chimney in the various gases which are freed before they are burn- ed in the heated air and in various other ways. So, for every $10 spent for coal $6.50 is lost up the chimney, Assuming that the energy of coal is 100 per cent, only 2 per cent of this is available in the form of light wbea you snap on the electric lamps. Nearly 99 per cent of the original coal energy is lost in transmitting this energy into heat, from heat to steam, from steam to electricity and in transmitting the electricity to your home. The efficiency of the electric lamp is only 6 per cent—in other words, the lamp turns into light 5per cent of the energy it receives and wastes 95 per cent of it In useless heat.—New York World. Poetry and Poverty. Writing of Poets' Corner, W. J. Lot tie, in. "Westminster Abbey," com- ments on the frequent and pathetic al- liance between poetry and poverty. The first of the poets laid here, Chau- cer—who dwelt in a house in the mon- astery garden known as "The Rose"— "fell Into poverty in bis old age." Spenser, according to Drummond of Hawthornden, "died for lake of bread" in King's street, Westminster. Ben Jonson "died in great poverty" in a house on the north side of the abbey, near St. Margaret's. Dryden is anoth- er immortal to whom the same fate at- taches; also Butler of "Hudibras" fame. Chaucer's house was demolish- ed to mike way for Henry VII:s chapel. Elis gray marble tomb dates only from 1555. Though so late in erec- tion, it is good to recall that the tomb was the gift of a brother poet in hap- pier material circumstances, Nicholas Brigham. "We, the People of England." Every one has heard" of "the three tailors of Tooley street," but it is not generally known that only two of them were actually tailors. The three men were John Grose, tailor. Tooiey street; Thomas Satteriy, tailor. Weston street, and George Sandham, grocer, Bermond- sey street. They were accustomed to meet after business•buurs at a public house in Tooley street iu Southwark to drink beer, smoke their pipes, talk po cs stn sense public lits d dI rtn ff 1 Dur King George Is Possessor of Famous "Tribute of the World." Among the British crown jewels is the famous ruby known as the Timur ruby, the oriental name of which is Khiraj-i-Alam, "Tribute of the World." This is the largest spinel ruby known, weighing a bit over 352 car - Sts, uncut but polished. It is thought to have come from one of the old ruby urines of Bedahshan.. This famous jewel has had a varied .d most romantic history. The ear- liest records concerning it indlvate that it was seized, together with many other previous stones, by the Ameer Timur, commonly called by European hietorian9 Tamerlane, when he plun- dered Delhi in 1'398. At hitt death the ruby descended to his non, Mir Shah Ruskh, and in due time to his son and successor, Mirza Ulugh Beg. At this period, how- ever, the Tartar empire was on the verge of dissolution, During one of the wars between the Tartars and the Persians, the ruby fell into the hands of tbe kings of Iran. Shah Abbas I., the greatest of the Safavi kings of Perfiia, who, acting with the British forces, took the island of Ormuz from the Portuguese in 1622, was a devot- ed friend and ally of the Mogul Em- peror Jehangir, and presented the r:.by to him in 1612, At that time the gem was insc: ibed with the names of re mgr's son and grandson and of Shah Abbas himself. There is a story to the effect that when Jehangir's favorite wife, Nur Johan, remonstrated with him for spoiling the gem by his inscription, he replied: "This jewel will more cer- tainly rand down my name to pos- terity than any written history, The rouse of Timor may ;all, but as long an there is a king this jewel will be his" — meaning, of course, that the possession of so rare e astonewould always remain with the suzerain of Hindustan. And it is a fact that, throughout all the vicissitudes of Indian history, this prediction has been fulfilled. The last of the Delhi emperors to inscribe his name was Mahomed Far - nit', Slyer. During the reign of his successor, Nadir Shah invaded India. and sacked Delhi (1793). His loot, carried away to the then capital of Persia, Lspahan, included the Timur ruby, as shown by a cryptic inscrip- tion of the style affected by the Per- sian scholars of the day. The date is that of the Hejirtr era and corresponds with A.D. 1740. The latest name on the jewel is that of Ahmad Shah, commonly known as Abdali or Duranj, who, the time of Nadir Shah's assassination in 1747, held an important command in his victorious army. When he heard of the murder he • attempted to seize the throne, but succeeded only in securing a large amount of booty, which he took with him when he marched south at the head of his troops and founded the kingdom of Afghanistan. On his death affairs. in 1772, his son, Timur Shah, ruc- tus the movement for Catholic WORLD'S FINEST RUBY, emanel- e to the throne Kabul, and thruby the ruby eventually passed to the tat- pation, when Canning was prime min- let's youngest son, Shah Suja. Inter, these three worthies determined On his expulsion by Dost Mohamed, to petition parliament: on the subject. he took refuge in the Punjab, and and they commencedthe document Maharaja Ranjit Singh forced him to with these words. "We, the people of surrender both the Koh -i -poor and England!"—London Express. the Timor ruby, On the annexation of the 'Punjab, in 1849, the board of administration ears s Descendants.jewels. ew.. ,. the state p b• over allj to n ,Besides his first child, Susanna, These were all displayed in the Ex• - Shakespeare's ouly utber children were hib'tion of 1851, and when this cargo rt boy and a 'girl, twins. born In 1585. to an end the court of directors of the Susanna mnrt•ied a Dr. Hall, a Strat- Dust India Company presented the ford physician, in 1(107, was left a !ruby to Queen Victoria. widow in 1635 and died in 1610. She had only one child, a daughter, who, though twice married, left no children. Of tbe twins. the l oy. named Hamnet. died at the age of eleven, and the girl, Judith, married 'Thomas Quincy and had three sons, wise all died childless. This Is a Fact. "When a man loves a girl in a novel be raves about her through forty chap- ters. In real life he never mentions her name. "What's the application?" "Merely that renlisan in a love story is not possible."—St. Louis Republic. Its Kind. "Thy do you call that piano manu- facturer's business an infant indus- try?" "Because he ma1$ufa.ttures baby grand pianos." -'-Baltimore American. Mounts Strange Steeds. About forty miles from London, In the village of Ampthill., there is an old mansion and estate run by a deal- er in animals, wild at, I domestic. He breaks into harness all kinds of beasts, llamas, yaks, ostriches, zebras and other animals. Some he trains to draw carts, others to carry a rider on their backs. He is a familiar if extraordinary sight on the streets of the village. Proper Authority. Always careless in his attire, "Lab - by," or Mr. Labouchere, at Cam- bridge, used to go about in a very ragged gown, One day the master of Trinity, Whewell, came across him. and -aid, "Is that a proper academic costume, Mr. Labouchere?" 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