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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-9-10, Page 7OGO V.tiilil'G A.V M' AJR./' 1 g, ON 111E FARI tauffakcetvemozio eneeefet) a elgettlet eGene?$CQV- r=94 (p dj o, themselves in words witho,t urher --"a'""""""en at.nennsee gane`"eengeeeetae questioning. "Yes, 1 cull it, luui'.. STRONGER THAN mw -ca orf', ew cY A R A 1 4 S O M E CIlAPTitm VT, Cont, "Nothing easier. I thought I told you ho still profeemes the greatest affection for the prisoner, and the most intense desire to save hjtn, Ho volunteered his evidence to my so- licitor, The Crown had to extort it from him. We knew of his having seen his easter at Laburnham Lodge a fortnight before they did. His statement to us Is more daunting far than his evidence in court was, He has kept back several things that tell against the prisoner. In fact, my main terror in 01'08S-0101 111/1110g him is that ho may blurt thorn out, if he is pressed." "I can understand that. It's damnably clever of him, if I am right in my suspicion. Have you had any talk with him yourself?" "Twlco. Ito professed himself speelally anxious to seo me; to help mo, if ho could, in tho defence. He seemed quite friendly and frank, and answered ovory question freely. I tried, in anticipation, every device of cross-examination, but could not shako his evidence in the least." "I wish I could got a chance," Ar - del said. He spoke half -unconsciously, but the earnestness and confidence with which bo spoke nettled Trevor, e, little, for Trevor was reputed to bo ono of the keenest cross-examiners at the inner Bar. "I did my beat, and failed," he said shortly. "You can have your •chance, if you like." Ardel ignored the first half of the -sentence in the eagerness with which he caught at the other half, "Do you really mean that? How and when can I soo the man?" "I cannot be quito surd, of course. Dut I believe that the fellow would come at onco if bo were sent for. He still keeps up the pretence—if it is a prentenco—of friendliness to tho pris- oner." "That's a lie, anyway. Ho hates the prisoner. Twice to -day I saw hatred smouldering in his eyes when he glanced toward the dock," "That may be; but he sticks dog- gedly to the pretence. Elven the. prosecution, I am certain, believe it.. His last word to our solicitor Was, that he would come to us wherever and whenever he was sent for, and truthfully answer any questions we wished to ask him." "Send for him at once, Trevor, I hope to keep him to his promise in a way ho hardly anticipated when he gavo 11." "Certainly, if you wish it. But, pardon my professional vanity, Ar - dol, I cannot feel quite certain that your cross-examination will succeed when urine has so signally failed." "Cross-examination!" cried Arden in surprise, "I don't purpose em- ploying any cross-examination, I will pluck tho truth frons his heart by a much quicker and moro certain process --a process that cannot fail." "You mean hypnotisiu, Ardol?" "I do moan hypnotism. I will nuke the lean lay his very soul naked boforo us, with whatever lies and plottings may be hidden there." "But can you do this thing? Aro you quite sure?" "Sure as a long unfailing experi- ence can make me. I never yet met man, woman, or child whom I could not constrain to unquestioning obocli- ence. Ivan force the very soul, as you would call it, from the body. I have done it for brief space, leav- ing the husk pulseless and lifeless," Trevor half forgot his case, fascln- atod by the intense earnestness of the other's fact and _voice. "If this bo true, Andel, then surely you must confess, for you have proved 11, that there is a life after death, that the soul can live severed from the beefy," "No, Trevor; 'there is no thought, memory, oe consciousness outside the body. In rho interval I111tes spoken of life is suspondod. Tt is a pauso of blank oblivion. This is not beersay merely: I have tested it by self -hypnotism There can bo no thought, or motion, or sensation ex - cont through the mechanism pro- , viciod by brain or senses, The dis- embodied spirit that can think without brain tissue,see without eyes, and hear without oars, is a myth. But I am not so sue that the transference of life, the grafting of an old life on a young body, is impossible." Trevor could only stare at him with questioning eyes, "Lite," be wont on, "9.s like the flame of this candle," Ito took a long wax candle in his hand as he spoke, "11 can have no c.dstont° apart from the wick and the wax, 1 may quench or shelter it, as I choose, But at boot it can only burn its allotted time, and then Mame and wick—like body and soul —will flicker out together into dark - 1105£ But the name now bo shitted. The taper just kindled may tnito its light from the taper that has burn- ed to a glimmer, and so I believe •it is in the power of hypnotism to steep bodies, the old for the ,young) and so atone the Mann° of life may be made to burn beyond ii:s normal and allotted span," IIo broke 011 abruptly with a shiver, almost, it seemed, of horror, at his own thoughts. "You are to blame, Trevor. You have started mo on my hobby, and I have galloped straight away from the argent business in eland. 1Vhoit eat) 1000 this. man Weevil?" "What place and hour would suit you best?" "Any plaee--any hour; the soccer the bettor; here, to -night, if pee - able," "I think it le possible, But"—al- Mor a long panne— 'lie yore 413i1t', it Lo quite 1017, A.i-dei?'" "In What Waste faiV7Re FATS LIFE "fs It quite fair to bring this mai here on false pretences, to mako be- lieve to trust him, then to take ad- vantage of his eonlidonce lo subject hint to n. power which will lay }els very noel baro?" "Why not?" "Well, if you don't feel it your- self, I cannot explain." "Then 1 don't feel it. It dons not hurt my souse of honor in tite least," "11 does mine, It ranps my con- science." "Yes, your lawyer's conscience, Trevor; your artificial conscience. It is contrary to professional etiquette; it's out of the regular routine; there is no precedent for it; so your law- yer conscience is in trouble, But we cannot allow forms and preced- ents to stand between this young man and .bis right to live. Look the thing squarely in the face, Judge it, as you lawyers say, in substance and in fact. We do this fellow Wee- vil no wrong either way, If ho is truthful, we vindicate his truth; if ho is, as I believe him to be, a mali- gnant alignant perjurer, we detect the per- jury and save his victim." Trevor could find no answer to 11110 curt reasoning, though he still holt squandsh about the task set him, Lawyers have so got into tho habit of playing the game according to the rules, they persuade them- selves it is better to lose by rule than win without it, no matter how high the stakes. Not without a half-conscious hope that he would not come, John Tre- vor wrote a brief note to Robert Weevil, which was delivered by Ar- del's private hansom, But ho came. In an hour the hansom was back with the man in- side. When he was ushered onto the smoking -room, where the two friends sat, be looked, if possible, more stol- id and composed than .ho had looked in the witness -box. White he and Trevor spoke to- gether for a moment or two, Ardel sat back in tho shade, watching In- tently. His face was pale to the lips with suppressed excitement, and his eyes glowed like a cat's out of the gloom, as if tiro were kindled behind them, "'This is a bad business, Mr. Wee- vil," Trevor began, a little nervous- ly, "A very bad business, sir," the other answered, with a side glance at Arden: "a heart -breaking business, Mr. Trevor, 3- was in his service nine years, mann and boy, and in his father's before hint, 11 is cruel hard on both of us that he must die by the word of my mouth. All be- cause the snot temper that was al- ways in the family got the better of him once too often." '.Can nothing be done?" "l)o you mean by my denying the facts, Mr, 'Provo'?" There was not a trace of r'eentinent in his voice, only solid determination. "I'm afraid not, sir. I dareu't do it. I'd not be believed if 1 did, Besides, as you know, I haveonly told what was dragged out of me. I know a lot 1 haven't told." "1 believe that," said Ardol abruptly, moving so that the light toll full on his fare. Weevil was startled by his sudden words, lnstinetively his ,eyes met Ardcl's burning ' gaze and acre caught and held by It, Their wills wrestled, in Weevil's face there was surprise at first, which slowly changed to feat' as the spell worked upon him, Fear In its turn faded away to unconsciousness. 'lits eye- lids drooped over tate eyeballs, as though to shield them from the glare, Arden touched his forehead lightly With his finger-tips "Sleep," he said, in a low voice, and the man ley back in .his 'hair in a profound sloop. The silent struggle had lasted ouly foe a =Inca, but it was tierce whilo it lasted. Andel rose up the victor, but drops of sweat stood out of his forenccld. Trevor Neatened the scene with an interest painfully intense, the Queen's counsel In him still revolt- ing against this "grossly irregular proceeding," "Is he asleep?" ho whispered soft- ly, as if foaming to waken him, "So fast," Andel answered, "that a cannon shot beside his ear would not trouble him now. His will and soli-consclausness are asleep, and every other faculty of bis mind and body is my slave," "Is it fair? Is it fair, Ardel?" ask- ed Trevor, still doubtingly. "Fair or unfair,". retorted the other sternly; "1 shall 1100 ley pow- er to the uttermost to extort the truth and save the innocent, Can you hear 1110?" he wont on, turn- ing to the man that lay motionless in the chair, his face shining white in the electric light. Tho expression of stolid dullness had fallen like a mask, lie Worn a loop sinstet' and cunning. "Can you hear me?" The Wear voice reached his brain, where tea - son and self-consciousness no longor stood on guard, Slowly tihe answer carne back: "I'm listening. What do YOU want of ono?" "I want, to ask you about the trial --about Edgar Wickham." "Yes, yes; Edgar Wickham who murdered poor Bessie Blythoweod, poor Bessie! But t'li take care he'll swing for it," The voice was full of malignity, but it had the unmistak- able ring Of truth, "Murdered poor Bessie Blythe - wood)" Ardol and 'Trevor looked at each other in blank dismay, hero was truth with a vengeance. But the passions of the sleeping mein Wore stirred, though his will Weida and his thoughts edtpwed tier" tho h lea wont. on; "Just. an much n vnh murder as If he put the pistol to the pool' gh'i's head and pulled the trigged', Ho drove leer to her own death, and it's Uncial justice ho shoold die for 11.. Ile broitn her heart by his tteechery; a girl dint was a thou eod tinges too gond for the insolent, cold-blooded puppy." "flow he hates hind" said Ardel to Trevor; "I told you so. He loved the girl Besse, illythewond himself. That le his secret. There is the devilish rage of jenlousy in ltls voice," Then In the sleeping man's ear he said, "Whose hand fired tho shot?" "How do I know? whet do I care? Her own, I dare say. But Wickham, 10(80 111 1111 drove bee to it, and Wickham shall hang for 11," "You have perjured ,yourself to hang 11i1n?" A low, malignant elluelch' broke from the lips of tho sleeper. "It was well done. ,ludgo and jury swallowed It sweetly. Wloo could doubt tho word of the simple, faith- ful servant who was so sorry to hurt his young nlastor?---his sweet young master, who broke the heart of the best girl that over drow breath, and structs the faithful old servant across the face when leo dared to speak of it. 1 think I've come even with him at last." "Get the facts, Ardel, from him," whispered Trevor eagerly, the law- yer's instincts now keenly alive in hint and his scruples gone. "When you climbed into the win- dow at Lablu'nhain Lodge, what did you realty see?" queried Antal, "What I swore 1 paw—poor Flossie Blythewood lying dead on the cat' - pet, her golden curls all dabbled with blood," Tho voice faltered, the lips twitch- ed; plainly the ghastly sight was again before hien, "What else did you see?" "A revolver lying on the floor be- side her." "Iris revolver?" "No; hers," A quirk glance passed between Ar - del and Tt'evor, who had seated him- self at a writing -table. "Hors? do you mean Miss Blythe - wood's?" "Of course. A pretty little thing with an ivory stock chased in silver. I bad seen her play with it a hun- ched times. She used to shoot with it 00 the lawn; it made scarcely any report." "Ga on—what did you see or do moro?'' "I took up the revolver; 01)0 of the barrels had just been discharged.' - "Was it warm, as ,you swore?" "No; not warns, but fouled. A small table had been overturned by the girl's fall; there was a paper ly- ing on the carpet. It was an unfin- ished letter in ]ler writing. I just glanced at it, and then 1 knew in ono moment how her death came." "How?" "By her own hand, my poor girl! by her•own hand; but he drove her to it," "What. was in the letter? can ,you remember?" Trevor was writing furiously, "1 can remember every word. It eves very short: -••',sly Sweetheart, I forgive you; good-bye. Lite is not worth living without ;your love. I'm horribly afraid of death, but it is bettor than this misery,' 'i'hnt was all, it. was enough. At that mo- ment Inv rage mastered me, and '1 swore he should die, and he shall. The whole thing came to me like a flash. I had my master's revolver in my pocket. T had stolen it and practised with it. I meant to use it if he struck lee again. But the rope trill do my week safer and sur- er." "What did you do next.?" Tho question was sharp and stern. The answer came obedieantly,-- "I dropped his revolver on the floor, slipped hers and the totter be- hind a row of hooks on the cabinet, and was back at the window in a moment," "Was the body still bleeding when you entered the room?" "I did not notice." "Yore SWOr'O It was," "1 thought of that afterwards, (To be continued.) TOWED BY A WHALE. Shell From a Gun in the Animal's Body, Whales, as is well known are 11oW hunted in eteareers, one of the most interesting appliances of which is the guru by which the whale is harpooned nerd killed. The gun is mounted in h r„ the stern of she vessel•o adcaub0 turned in all dhiecliutts, It deer a pointed shell in which is an explo- aivo substance. When first eon- sh'uoted the gun was far (roan per- fect, but the ittventoa', Sven Foyn, has by gradual improvements brought it to perfection. An inci- dent is related of one of leoyn's first year experionces with his gun, Ono day a whale way snot, but the shell did not explode, and the consequences wore that the whale, with the harpoon in its body, mia.110 01 with tho steamer in toW, a ves- sel of twenty borse-power. The on- gines wore ordered full speed noltern, but with no more success in arrest- ing the career of the whale than as if the creature had been, en iron- clad at full speed. The wounded animal evade for the open ocean, dead against the wind. Foyn had a ea.il sot in order to chock tis speed; but h't had hardly boon hoisted taut, when it was rant to 0ihrods by the velocity of the pro- gress against the wind, The 'vied increased t11 a storm, with high son., blit still the giant of the ocean kept up his speed, while sea after sea swept the steamer. The situation become serious, and several of the flew naked lroyn to cut the cable; be rocs, however, bent upoa tasting his apparatus titol'- oughly, perha,t9 in the hope of the shell expiating. lint 110; 011. Wont the orad drive over the potter ocean for len bona's, At last the Pablo Snapped—Ito the ,wean relief of nil Cath hoard-) CROP ROTATION. It has long been tlnderl,io011 tdnat, a proper rotation is necessary t,o neaintaln soil fertility, writes 111x. W. E. Patterson. Vol, few farmer's have aolveri this problem to the sat- isfaction of their poeketboOks, Hoene lends are so rich in fertility, they can be cropped 80000ssively, year after year, in corn or wheat, with 11'ttle, or no decroma of produclive- nmt3, lfll'oront dings must enter Into our consideration of this sub- ject, as distance from market, price of labor, quality told lay of soil, market price of produce and its draft upon fertility, The chief pur- iroses in a rotation are perhaps the malltlennnce of fertility, cheapnem of cultivation and the raising of wo.xt- 11)n571 crops, Yoe steep hillsides no bettor crop can be noised than some permanent grass, as bluegrass or alfalfa, Whore neither of 1 have is practicable, an excellent rotation is wheat and clov- er In alternate years, A rotation of i,lhis kind has been known to re- sult only in good where kept up for a period of 15 yams or more. For e'chards, hoed crops are best unless the land gots foul with the annual weeds, when a rent of two years in timothy will be beneficial. 00, where n, catch can be secured, erlm- 9011 clo.nr can be sown at the last cultivation of the crop, say in June or ,July, to be plowed down the fol- lowing spring. I'or the dairy farm, everything ]oust bond to the good of the herd. To that and straw for liilhor, bluegrass for pasture, succu- lent crops for soiling and corn for silage aro necessities. The subject is so big it might form the base of a hundrad topics. For the ordinary grain farm the rotation is more hum (rube, Corn comes as forming the princi- pal feeding ration an the farm in the way of grain. J'1 should bo made to yield a maximum crop by turning 'down a heavy sod anis by the application of fertilizers. This crop should he followed with oats and that with wheat, when land should be seeded to grass for a rots of from one to two years. There is a growing ilispoei'tion among farm- ers to substitute corn -(talk wheat for oats in the above rotation, as the latter has become an uncertain crop in many localities. Where corn and clover aro the most desirable crops, a 'three-year rotation has tho indorsement of some of t',o very beds educators and institute workers. It pays better perhn;ps than any alter where land is full of vegetable humus and where the grain is liable to be- come too Tank, lodge early in June and fail to fi11. In this rotation we bcgiu with corn, following with stalk wheat and seed heavily with clover and timothy. The advantages of this system over the four or five- year rotation aro the turning down of a clover noel once in three years ins'tca:d of clover in four', ;years, of timtathy in five years; as clover la:lia only about one year ordinar- ily. The sante advantage is secur- ed in a crop of corn so much oftener In a givens toren of yea's. To my mind a modification of the last two rotations or a combination of theist gives the best resents where fertility is desirable, as it always is, and labor is as scarce as it now is. This rotation can extend either over four or five years, with corn as a leading crop, sown to clover at last cultivation in Sone or ,July, to be plowed down the following June for wheat, tints returning to the green manuring of other clays end the con- sequent saving of Motility. Gimes :tiould be sown with the wheat t0 secure a stay crop. By this system two clever crops can bo secured in ono yonr; 0110 for futility and opo for hay. Tho clover sown with the carar is also a catch crop, which serves a good purpose when other grace fails. With a settled rotation in ]rind it is much easier to proceed with tile work 'that goes along with it, Forests should be cleared, swamps drained, roclts and trees removed and lines should bo run by a practical surveyor; all with the end in view of entttblishing perma- nent fences and fields of compact shape. t � , CAIRO OF YOUNG TURKEYS, A non should be ready for .the lit- tle turkeys to occupy about a week, with plenty of room for the mother and a good lengthy run. If the mother is a wild °roes, it is hardly best to confine her at all, as she will stn'Uggle to es°ape. Put tho tur- keys out at once in a high, light grass pasture, and "shingle" the mother to prevent surmounting the Wath Gilve the little ones all they want to eat, four Limos, daily, coming down to three when a third growls, and aitorwa''d decreasing to two, No •thern corn heal mixed with milk, sweet or preferably sour, should be tho earliest food, with the admix- ture of black popper when necessary. A little later hard-boiled eggs may be added, bread crumbs soaked in milk, 01* co' late manner cracked corn, winch it is an excellent .plan to scald, 13y tierce they may bo fed whole corn, Its September and October the feeding may be wholly ond'tted, end triton a mixture of 10te and old corn will fatten rapidly with the begirt results in 11ovenvber. Do not allow the turkeys access to fields of groan mats, for they will prove exceedingly tlistlttgous. Brisk showers *111 esu':' f kill, young turkeys, and r>tornal vigilance will bo needed to got rutin under cover, It the shingle fatter' for the mother is objectionable, it is sometimes prnc- ticable to give her the Meader run of a long cord, pegged to the earth. The little turkeys almond be en- coureged to roost out as early as possible, caro being 'taken to keep Moro from the early morning flew until they are at leasta month old, 'Where will not 11e much Clines 1n a snuck front the boss and .hardiest 1 Stoat, not inbred, and carefully watched and fended, dough dietetic, Par will attack and ]ay low the finest n flocks �9 cks tt 1 Ino, ( i and the depredations of foxes will undo tho painstaking work of months, August Is the most trying month for bowel troubles, and bearing this fact in mind and using red and blacik pepper and ginger an preventives, these may be sutnelimcs wholly warded off. Death among very young tem - Immo usually occurs during the first week, Win WO1tJCl? 0 I10111111, To caring for work horses, I like to give thele a drink of water the first, thing in tho morning, then 501l)0 hay, anci finally their grain the lest thing before going to hroak- fast writes W. W. :Morn -Mon. By let- ting thein oat hey awhile before feed- ing 1.1:o grain, they ora nut collo so hungry, and will met eat so feat. If there is something 111 1.110 stomach 1110 grain seinen to digest better. Tho bora) win do more and remain in bettor coneition if worked steadily with short stolen than he will if llu.rried end ttffuwed to et and long at a time. 'i'to last ]1)111 hour be- fore quitting time, he alould have short stops often, then when he gets' to the stable he can have 501)10 wa- ter. At noon give hay while the driver gets ifs dinner, then water and food the grain. C1ve a little water when they go out to worst if they want 11, Al: night the horses should have some water vvl:en they come in. Then give hay and afterward more water before they have their grain. If ono does not feed the salve at each fending the horses should I1aye the largest amount at night when they are going to have a long rent. I onny seem over -cautious about giving water but the horse wants plenty of it only not 'too much a't a time. If you will watch horses in the yard you will see them go and drink often and take a little at e. Hale, In feeding horses ono should watch each animal, as the name rule will not apply to all, THE STRENGTH DF BIRDS LITTLE CREATURES THAT BEAT GREAT MEN. Food Consumed by a Sparrow— Eagles Fly Away With Pigs. The blood of a bird is several 'de- grees warmer than that of a human being, To luau, such a temperature as birds normally possess would be a fever, but the heat of a bird's blood enables it to live much more intensely than we can, Changes take place In the tissues and brain more rapidly. Birds can eat and assimilate front ten to thirty tilnos as much food, proportionately, as man can, and they are thus enabled to do an amount of work far beyond the relative power of man. L1 a lean could eat as 1110(11) 1n pro- portion to his size as a sparrow is able •to consume, loo would need a whole sheep for dinner, a couple of damn fowls for breakfast, and, say six turkeys for his evening meal. A tree spiu1'0w has been known to oat 700 greed seeds in a day, and those grant sleds w000 relatively to the bird's eke' as big Fla an ordinary lunch biscuit would bo to a full grown man of 108 pounds in weight. FLYING AWAY WITH PIGS. A bird's strength is equally n.maz- ing. A whito•tailed eagle. weighing between eleven Med twelve pounds, and with a wing -spread of just over six feet, has been known to pounce on a pig weighing forty-two pounds, raise it to a height of one hundred feet, and Hy straight off with it. The bird had covered a distance of fully (half it toile before the pig's owner succeeded in shooting the thief. The 0000 who could stagger even a hundred yarns under the burden of four other leen of his own weight would be a living miracle. The feat of rising into so thin a medium res the ab', carrying nearly four times its own weight, showed the eagle to be something more than a feath- ered Sandow. Birds can and do work far harder than human beings. A pair of house martins, when nesting, will feed their young on an ttverage once in twenty seoond.t—that is, each bird, hale and female, mites ninety journeys to and fro in. an hour, or, perhaps, a thousand a day. ,Tt must be re- membered that on each journey rho bird has the added wont of callching an insect Even so tiny a bird as the wren has been counted to make. 130 trips to and from its nest within 480 minutes; and She pray it carried home consisted of insects match larg- er, heavier, toad harder to find than Wore caught by the swallows, Among theta were. 'namely good-sized green caterpillars, ten grasshoppers, seven eiders, eleven w017011, and more than one fat chrysalis. Another corn,rnan little English bird, whose strength approaches the miraculous, is the nut -hatch. A iCett.ie h soh -nut. will frequently defy a nun's teeth, backed by his enor- mously powerful jaw m;uaele9, to. crack it. Yet the nuthatch, a bird weighing sumo three ounces only, will stick that sa1110 nut into a crank in the bark of a tree trunk, and rain down upon it resounding blows which very soon break away the Wadi and leave the toothsome kernel exposod to view. TWICE, AS PAST AS /tit/TORS. The wing power of birds Is equally amazing. To make a denuite t051 111 tido direction, a swallow was taken from its nest in the gable of the railway station at Antwerp, and sent by rail to Compiegne), no Prance ft, distance of 1410)1 miles as the prow files. There the little bird was M- ended, and within one hour and eight minutes it was seen to arrive once " more at Antwerp. Its speed was thus 1281 miles an hour, more than double that of our vaunted express trains. A pigeon sot free on July 20th last front the steamship "Touraine," at five o'c1eck in the morning, was back in its loft at Rennes by two in the afternoon of the some day, hav- ing covered 824 miles within hive hours. lifr'ds, undoubtedly, }.ave at least one sense denied to man. This may be called the sense of locality. A pair of swallows will nest in May under the eaves of a certain house in the suburbs of London, and raise a seconil'brood in the following Oc- tober or November on a pillar of a ruined temple by the Nilo. The fol- lowing spring tbey am back at their English summer rcoidence, and next winter the same temple sees them once more. Many other birds, with far leas wing -power and speed than the swal- low, will accomplish feats equally wonderful. The tiny warblers which appear to have strength inteeflicient to cross one field at a single flight will lend their way through the dark- ness of night over leagues of open sea, and land safely at their jour- ney's end. So remarkable in this sense of locality that migrating birds, as we now know, follow at each migration the same Ay -lines. Some go south, and return north across France and Spain, erasing to Africa over the Straits of Gibraltar; others go via Corsica and Sardinia; others, again, by Italy and Sicily. Tho young birds seen to know their way as well as the older 07108, and unless there is heavy weather they never lose themselves. BIRDS AS ALMANACS. Birds have no calendars, yet they know dates. Most of the regular migrants do not wait for cold wea- ther to drive them away from our northern shores. In some, to us, mysterious method they are aware, tveoks ahead of the Iiot frost, that it is time to start; and though the sun is still hot and food plentiful they gather in vast throngs and fly away. The swifts always leave almost exactly a fortnight before the first cold snap of autumn. 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At all dealers, or Edman - non, Baths and Co., Toronto, To protect yen against imitations, the portrait and signature Of Dr. .A, W. Chase, the famous receipt book SEER THE LABD OF GPlIR ZYIILLIONAIItES oRGA,DELZEA? EXPEDITION. A Party of New Yorkers Will Try, to Unearth King Solo- m011'8 Mines. Perhaps at the time of els lamoute • book's presentation to the public it would have boon too newel for 000( I0der Haggard to introduce a hall dozen New York m1111ouailrs as syn• ducting prospects Mr• the uneovor- ing of the real mines of Hine. Solo- mon. But as a matter of current nows Payne Whitney and Broker W. II, Ellis of New York, heading a party of millionaires, are getting ready for entry into Abys::initt, where disguised as hunters, they are to search for the Sublet' land of Ophir, out of which camo much of the ma- terial glory of ono of the greatest of the kings of the Jews. For a thousand years ibe gilded (Ireton of Ophir has been in the minds of mon. BibIlogists have been confidant of the existence of the source of this fabulous wealth; athe- ists and infidels have studied upon the, possibilities of uncovering it; mon have found these deposits here and there and then somewhere else just Over their horizons, But Ophir is still a dream of the Argonauts. Nearly every book of the Old Testa- ment makes reference to gold as the ono material substance worthy of comparison with the glories of that place of places where corruption shall take on incorruptlon and where there chant be no more sin and where tears shall he wiped out of all eyes. Certainly no other mineral in the world is more suggestive of purity and indestructibility. It virtually is nonvolatile_. Its beauty has caught every eye—savage, pagan, and Chris- tian. One grain of it may bo beaten Otto fifty-six square inches of leaf that aro 1-4:82,000 part of an inch in thickness, and the same weight of it may be drawn into wire 500 feet in length, SOUGHT FOR 1,900 YEARS. This is the gold of Ophir—the gold of tho 'alchemists—the gold which Christ came to preach against and which brought about the sublimest tragedy of the world. Yet alter 1,- 900 years it is sought again out of an age of riches which perhaps never was dreamed of by the son of David. In this present instance 1t seems that the search for the mines of Sol- omon is based upon modern ideas more than upon the biblical conten- tion in favor of Arabia as the source of the supply of gold for the temple and for the targets and the shields and the drinking vessels that made Solomon's reign the most mag- nificent in history. According to the story of the Boole of Kings the fleet which Solomon built for the cruise to the land of Ophir was floated from Ldom, on the shorn of the Red sea. When Icing Solomon's ships were ready they were manned by the king's subjects, and King Hiram of Tyre "sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that bad knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon; and they came to Ophir and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents. and brought it. to King Solomon." King Hiram's navy, too, had brought in "from Ophir great plenty of atmug trees and precious stones"; the queen of Sheba had brought him 120 talents of gold, and in the one year the gold that came to Solo- mon weighed 1160 talents. Beside all this, King Solomon "had of the merchantmen, and of the triflic of the spice merchants, and of all of the kings of Arabia, and of the gov- ernors of the country." TURN TO ABYSSINIA. But just across the lied sea lies the shores of east Africa, and, touch- ing this western rim of the sett is Abyssinia, one of tho darkest corn- ers of a continent, noted for its mod- ern darkness. It is believed now that the Phoenicians, who cruised with tho hilimen belonging to the kingdom of Solomon, passed out of the Red sea and cruised all down the eastern shores of Africa, Thus, In spite of the fact that Genesis x., ,29, long has been hold to moan the im- possibility of those former mines be- ing found in other than Arabia, the New York argonauts are turned to- ward Abyssinia. But, according to the latest re- searches and probabilities, it may be regarded as behind the time that these explorers should strike as far north as Abyssinia. Recently Carl Peters, basing a book upon the dis- covery of ruins which he found in Mashonaland along the Zambesi riv- er in south Africa, is prepared for the finding of the fabled land of Ophir in this particular seotion of the continent. Along the river here, far to the north of the Transvaal country and its gold, Air. Peters has found the remains of a once more or less prac- tical and persistent attempt to take gold from the rocks. Ho found the suggestions of a 0000 of When strong- or trongor than aro tho present warliko tribes of that section—omen who had conte from the fan' north to labor tee tho mines and who were prepared to defend the treasures that might bo unearthed. There are ruins of forti- fications, indicating that the builders bad something worth defending, and to the mind of Mr, teeters, this pro- perty was gold, hold by the Phoeni- cians or by the landsmen, who wor0 of Icing Solomon's race, but trained by the seafaring subjects of Inhale. WAS GOLD FOUNT) ON ZAAIBT'.;SI? There aro, stories of tho Phoenicianis sailing dawn the east coast of Afri- oa, keeping always to the shores of the continent, not only because. 01 the snlallrtees of their vessels and the derogate" of stories, 'hilt because of the lack of carr,yiug capaeit.,v fon water, I?oro and there as time and convenience dictnt:ed they landed, grew their crops of grate and sup., plies, and when the larder Wasagain Mil they pushed do stile eoutltward.;