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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-4-1, Page 7Amt. 1, 1802. THE BRUSSELS POST, 41111VOMISROIMIGGIVAIAMBILASIMMIVIRIMPOPMXIII THE REACHING liAND. Rolm home miter 11. 10114431/1301100, 1100 naturally experts' serviette and ellesigtel but etedd not have evee imagined slice as foimil in Illy friend Philip Moelatol. 1 had been gone twenty year's, awl 1 ean aware how impeessione will fade ri»(1 neenery become defeetive in that length of time ; but ho was so different from the promise of his ealay !madam] that. I at once fel the ohauge be inuelamore then a %yarping of tny recollection. When we htei parted, just after gradueting front the 8111110 801)0g0 s -he to etudy law,and I to take a prom istng business poet 10 Australlit-ho was 0 healthy, stelwart young man, indomitable, buoyently itggreasive, uncompannieingly ambitious andblessed with taleats insuring hie sueeese, Galling et his office, fennel n ehrunkon meti, old before his titne, his hide ainl board streaked with gray, and deep lines rudely cut across a waxon forehead. Tho first glance told me that I beheld a tragedy of noltle gifts' and aspirations. Not until I hatianswored his questions as to nay proepotity, and he had told me that his permit's wove dead, and thet, ilot having Clanged, ho lived Omen, alone ill the old homestead, did I speak of Ms appearance, reel beseech him, the name of our friend• ship, 1.0 tell nia what, calamity Isad come to him. He loolcod at tee a few moments, Im- elda to reply, the pupils of his stniken eyes dilating, and pallor forcing its way through the yellow skin. At last, he replied, Nt ith shaking voice, and cencetaling the trembling of his hands by tightly preeeing them upon the chair mane: " Yes, John, I will tell you. But you will be the Duly mortal exeunt myself who knows what has ;mapped the strings of my energy and purposes. 1 cannot, tell yeti here, though." Greatly wonderinel asked : " Where can you tell nut " " Como tat the eiti home to -night at e teelack." Punctually to tho appointed time, T sent solemn echoes of the old•fashimutel knocker through the wide hall. The house, Elated from colouiel days, 11 0111,10 keep pace with modern itnprovement, awl sealed. (Id front the etreet, amid high poplitrs and 811118, was gloomy enough et all times ; hut clouds had brought the °molter night earlier, and the rattle awl rustle of the withered leaves, as tho wind tore thorn from the boughs end scurried them eterose the dead .grass, scented to deepen the dismal quiet of the phew ; or, in my fancy, exeited by opprohension, to bo the whispering of the demons of fate and mystery. An aged colored servant, whose hearty voice, as I remembered 11, had been lowered to n piceli of melancholy, opened the door and bode me go upatairs. Philip welcomed me in the study with an air of relief. As he turned up the light, the evident pain in his eyes, and the elude before the gratedire, showed ine he heal been brooding in the Eleatk. An easy rocker, drawn close to his ehoir, silently revealed his wish that we sit, there. I accordingly asked him to turn down the light, which he gladly dkl, and we sat down before the fire•plece. Anxiously interested in my friend's con- dition. I full naturelly to analyzing it as re. fleeted by the calm:emu of his face, and I now saw, (wen in the dim heiteth-light, spark of hone Out this lint revealment might lessen grief. " John," he began, "you have noticed that this ts not the same study father used. lie, you remember, preferred the room at the top of the house, which looked out over the alituting room of the back building, aad commanding the view wo have so often, as yoluig men, admired in those happy 09311. Men of studious Intbits seem to take instino- Lively to the heusettops, as if nearness to the ground makes the tnind earthy. I, too, liked its Relit:tole, and, after father died, I kept it until -" lie stopped suddenly, and. the spark in his eyes was :penciled by despair. I said nothing, aml he went ou 1 " But I wilt start at. the beginning, and if you can suggest en escape tor me, you will be more than et friend to me. I'm at -Waring John -God help me, bow I su 'fee 1 You know what prospeets I had. I wrote you how I Neu elected Pr; scenting Attorney. I was whining legal triumphs swill as might have owned itny one's head, butyou behold 1110 now -a, emplote, a hopeless wreck. " Yes, I taitunplied until the cue of the State joel ELI rkton came to me. It was ley first capital ease. Attrition was a welltkunwn innal of the city, end an ac- quaintance of inject, His wile died sadden. ly, undee circumstances eutliciently suspi• cams to werrant his errest, There Were only circumstances, but very, vary strong against him, aud I saw that a conviction would be a laurel. worthy trying for especially as I knew that sueoess meant my certain nomiuntion for State Sonotor. Briefly mid horribly, John, MY ambition rose to madness. lt trionpled down -my scruples agehist conviction on eireinnetan• tial evidence said even the sympathy had for Harkthn as a elnse aequaintance. You will not, yin, cennot, nielerstand me when 11011 you that my embition became -blood- thirsty. It set a mark-Harklon's life, You shrink, my friend, and it is right you should but, before high heaven, I swear it to be true that it was the external int pule° --a determination which weld hove boon form- ed only in the deepest" heart of Lucifer Mint self. " Through the day, and night, af ter night, not stopping to sleep, 1 Unified tho eircum• stances until Iliad weighed, and pared,. and shaped, and fitted them lute 11, Inmate of conviction, If I thought of Harkton at, ell, it was ouly as tho Old high prierst regerded tho sacrificial lamb -as necessary to salve,. tion. Triamph become my religion mid tny God. " Ono nipt"-itouto recollection silenced the trembling yokes for tete minutes -"I sea up in the old study, stringing the Teets, for the Imielredth time, epee a, thread of prosecution. I was M fever of elatien. No possilde defence 0001(1 himitli down my theory of the wifeentirderer. et:ready olutched victory to my soul. I MOW 01/1181.. 0118 to everything but 1410 ease ; the hours, tolled from the mteepleynnEler, etraelt epee my ene, bet (BEI not roach my brain. 1 re. veiled m a vealiaation of vietoity, of the at- tainment of my cheriehed height 0, and of triumph over the comae) fer the defendoet, who wee my bittoreet epporient, Suddettly 1 was disturbed in my eustacy o slight noise, owl, looking around, there, within emelt of iny hand, quietly stood Joel Idorkton. " For a moment I was chilled by the fear thria 1 wee the victim of a hallucination, but the meat's vole° assured me of his ineterial presence. " • on ere Working 10 convict me,' was what ho maid, in mild reprorioli. " ' How did yea come beers 1' I demand• ed. '" ore:taped from jail, atel crawled up wee 'modeled weird hy Moto Imre tale, 1 over the roof there, foolishly perhape, kit ow that nit; two gleritig eyee at 1110 three. yrill to 101 me tO 014001Mr insionol of gook- hold followed my Et, ery move 01, id, as, hold. int; tnydife, as you 0.1'0 dientr, We have Mg 1110 lawn op. 1 loeire.1 ohm% There bun !needs, Mot 0101,1, (MEI ;10 enrol) Ets I wet 1. 1 110 011.11C8110 410110, 1 110 111181. 1.1 telk to you, I nen innonett,' " Innocent l' I repotted in Boort), Yon ydur wife 1it radii blued, The proof inatontrovert Ude.' " ahriunk from me, heldieg up hin lienile ileapeiring tesilizatiEnt of iny bit ier eves gild Of Ili% 11114111W 10. pitting himself lute lily power. I Wes furiuna al the mere prospeet of defeat, and 101 Ines% hove seen 111 my fleet, Hark too luel never bre et a sttoug man, but Ile Wa.I now far; lwr weal: oiled impriaoninent. 1 enitla cattily ay. tail! hiln, 81111 I orgeted that, att a piddle of - Peer sworn to see 1,1101. 1110 IRMO/ Wer0 %dual, cate, it, was my duty to do 'to, tie far the act 1 now tall you of avare justified, but" - he puttied, turning to net In %dulcet Li-wife:out domention-" hi so far as lny aapiratione eought to make a Weeping -stone of this man'e life, the am Wal " But you will mirely let me tao new, and give me the chance to escape,' Harkton saiEl, weekly, " `No,' I hissed, rising ; 'I will reaurn y00 1,0 pri800.' " I grasped. him, Ile eimply amid, God help me,' weakly, eubmissively, awl the sound of thoee words 10480 110000 008.08.1. He (11,1 not rosin, and I threw Min to the floor and tied his bonds with towel. Ileavou pity 100 ! these words, 11 11.1 pil eons supplica- tione- they ery in the whet trenight, and Ilia 0y(18, in hopeless entrestly, glow youder in the cools, " I will not detail how he Was carried bock to jail ; nor bow 1 tried his case ; nor the proise reueiveil ; I need Hay is that, I won, and 4oel linekton was -was hanged for the inurfler of his Wife." 'The fire Mut slMIC intv lint it still sited enough to show tho lorrer reflected in his fume by the point; yot to be told. Rim head had fallen upon his breast, so that bin las t worde bad been ;twilled and ho gripped the knobbed owls of the eltair-arms an a man, relepended over tan abyss, would clutch lb support. 'f wo n1001110 later," Ile preeently resum- ed, " t here ennui to me indispntahle proof 1 hat Herk ton 11119 innecent. That eight I sot late in my stiuly--a, night like this, with the wind fretting in the bought' and the leaves whispering t1 each other before they died. 1 sot rit the table, not studying, led, fighting the retTiorao my heart. I heal rat cowed. the nomination to the Senate, but nty old aspirations, were, like the leeves, whil•petene ]00.1 in toy soul of their death, "Suddenly, by the indefinable perception of the nerves, I became aware of a present:0 In the room awl before my fright permitted me to look up, I °might the indietinet view one gets through the cornet, of the eye. Slowly, chilled by apprehension, I turned my head, and there, jest where Joel Hark. ton had stood on the night of IliS 080114/0, I :saw a hand extended toward me. Only a, hand, I looked for the wrist, the arm, the form, but my sight avent elear to the wall. It WW1 nothing but a, hand, except that it protruded from a round disk of blackness, os if thrust through a. sable cloth." A shudder stopped hitn for a few mot remits ; then, turning again to me, Ile Bahl ; "And that hand remained there, always reaching out to me. I broved tt night after night, trying to study, to be my old self, to forget it when at my down town office, but I aould. not. It became worse titan the hand of a thief who steals avorldly goods; it stole my avatar, my ambition. It' drove 1110 here to this mom, but, my friend, Cod held me! that hand is still up there, reaching out - daylight, or Einalt-it is always, always reaching. The years have net, and I have gone trp there day 1L11(1 night, faseinated, tor- tured by the hope that it has been with- drawn; but it has alwaye been there, and, heaven pity ine1-1 is op there now -now. IL is steeling away my life. It has been reached out to stay me finny upward career. Look et me -a wreck. My God, it is the hand of Joel Harkton I" He full back in his choir overoome, and I sprang up, in the fear that my friend wits a, victim of that terrible, almost incurable, mental dtsortler-an halluomation. "Philip," I inquired, earnestly, "are you sure that it is not imagination?' "Imagination!" he repeated, with increas- ed terror; "yott mean an hallucination. God brIp »IP if it is, 1 heve thought of that. 1 boliev an hallucination to be in - [Arable. Let nto yon that my grand. lather was tortures(' to his (loath b,y the vision of a rat. It is tho iroa law of heredt Rm. I would rejoice, my faiend, if I could only believe that this hand is that of a spir- it, Then it might be exorciaed. I ram still young to aeldeve something; but that hand grasps the very centre of my life, and slow, ly, surely, it te compressing me to deittla It attracts me to that 000m, oftett in the dead of 110 night. I feel it pilling me there, and I cannot resist It is an hallucination, and it will kill ine," He reasonfal Onus more calmly than he had told the story, and I saw in this feet, n. hope for him. With sudden purpose I ask. 1, ed: " Philip, have yea ever taken any one up there?" " No," be replied, starting into pereept inn of 0)) purpose ; " if others tan see it, it is the hand of a. spirit, mod there may be found a way to drive it from ine. Aro you bravo eeough to go lip there with lee?" I am. " Now ?" "At thee." " flume, then," he anid, 'rho old mansirm being 11111), partially oeou. plod, It wits a solemn ()epode irto through it, our loneiteps echoing emptily through tem wide hells, and jolting and jeering the wealt• ened beams, the wind tort neing the loosened casements ettel growling its uncanny glee in the huge chimneys, At the, study done, before unlocking it, Philip turned to nie, ond, holdeng tip the ! lamp, looked searehingly into my face. A frightful 0110,0ge had 001110 over hie own. His oyes were shiny and unateady, and, for the first time, the chill of it thought far neore terrible Wean the ghoutly Neill flew over me --that my old friend WAS Et madman. ttion of my poaition !lashed upon me. I was in to lonely attars, beyond earshot wit it manioc. firmly oolieved the rowelling hand W119 delttsion, Should I tell hint so? If told him 1 (101 not see it, wthld he not titan inton toe with the °et:tap:two:env rage of a imettio? Whatever his pelmets bi NCI 11 tinising mo, le seemed to be satiefied, and he said : " deem, yon lake the bone, open the door and walk 1 will welt toe yoe here • indll you toll me if you see it. If 1 go in, my ay 00 riV1.10.1 111)011 it, 11,1111 y011 WIll ltIlOW then where it 841[1011,1.8. 11.680 yott othrege 1" Without replyieg, took the billy, while Ile losertod the key and shoved the letta I tan ned the knob flow ly, trembling, afraid of him as much es of what, 1 might sea in the mom, end posited open the door. The (dose, (lamp until of an emitted epartmont 1 teethed out na I stepped over Wesel, ft. wee a email room, with ceiling slanting r with the roof, le a moment I saw that it retnained peoeistly 101 111 1110 long past -a somewhat gloomy pleats at any Gime, but 1 ho e101100, 111 every Ecru tr ediEl 1 0811 110.1111, " 1./0 yOlt (MO 11 ?" Philip 8311,1 on 1, hesitated, hid I Innen Oy relleetael thrt tartild nut deeeive him. It -fore I eould re Plaa however, lie 11.181“..1 808310.1 ly, alnios leroeintody in, tidied OM tulip free' et hand, and, r• ilehine recap tilled inn t the table. Then, bolding the light lov..141.1 ho 118 pt/1/1 10/1 With 111/3 101114 forefinger But I saw nothing, alowly bead three, nyound, and hie geze, fierce 11018, 11/./01 r":;1)on't you ace it be naked Imarsely. " No, Philip," I answered, feintly ; " see nothing. " There, there," lin almost Remained " right thero---two inches from nty finger, hand rumblers out from a blauk 'mot in t air. There, there -a hand with it sear it the pelm. There, there -now you see it,' " No, Philip," said, " do not ficc it.' With it low moan he dropped the lamt upon the table and sank tipou his knees crying r 110','13/11,y Ood, my tied It is an. halltieinat I was myeelf so agitate:1 diet eaunot tell how I brought him down to liia room. 11e waeproetrated. I itepeculiarit y,strungt lit cued by the ease of hie grandfather, 1%110 to fear an hallneination more than 0, Nth it Meal, awl I saw that this feor, how Kate nantiated by my failure to ere: the vino.. would soon torture ltira 10 death. the desperate hope of saving him, I devoted my• self to tho nutty of epparitions, reading vary: fully the 08,S08 of liernardotte, Earl tinty, !Sleeted and snotty others, 1 00054 speedily Clo11811100.1 that Philip wax tho victim of a phantasm, and knowing that the metal daraugerneut heel come to him in the way he had related rind by heredity, MIN little hope oi a, cure. There was one chance, however, and I resolved to try it. 1 read that apparitions are sotnetimem &even away by natural 111011110 ; 1,111114, if it scorns to the victim that the apparition comes for nom purpose lind he 10 to believe that the purpose has been a emomplishod, the imagin- ary visitant departs. f did not have to look very deep to finel a plausible object for the reaching out of the hand, It haEl appeared on the night, af tee Philip had learned that Harkton was inno (rent, remorse bad struck deep into his heart. Naturally sensitive um I knew him to be, his wish, torturingly helpleas -under the eireninstance.s, would be for forgiveness -et shake of the hand of the friend whose ignominious and innocent death he had act voinplished. Ile alicady believed it to be the hand of Joel Harkton. lf he could bo convinced that it whs held out to him for no vevengefel pupae°, but as a ingn that the injured lnan WAS willing to forgive,my friend might besaved. Fell of this idea. hastened again to the old house, and found Philip in the study, brooding again over the fire. It was ecotone November Sunday night ; the city resting f rom its lithot -one of those nights of oppres• sive quest ; the earth, the sows, and the thin °resell tolow over the mountain, seeming to be calmly waiting. With EIS Calm and matter-of-faatt manner as I could force, I told Philip what I believ- ed to be the purpose of the hatul. He sat, with hie head wearily supported by his hand, and, when I bad ended, he turned his face, wofully haggard toward me, mud answered, despairingly : " What would you have me do 1" " Go up to the study, and accept thee/Tor of forgiveness that has been held out to you for fifteen years," I was surprised ab the efreet, I thought it would be gladly received, but it startled him ; his faste grow mom livid and it set every nerve trembling. He looked at me some time before his quivering lips would form the words. " John, it is just fifteen years to•Mght since the heed, appeared, but. -but-" " But what 1" " A learfril change has come over me, The hood attracted me before ; but it is now horribly repulsive. Olt? I cannot go up now. Elute tne there last night al o'oloe.k, and as I looked upon it, 1 shrank from it in new terror. It has grown old and withered, and it, trembled as if the mem that half' it were Orel and it must soon drop. 011, heeven pity me ! what will come %Men iC falls I" I shall die." I grasped lits hands in my intense wish to mint and help him, I WM' that his malady had elmost run Rs course, and that when this phantasy unlined the foul of a, droop• ing hand, he might indeed, dm, I pleaded Wil 11 him tn go with Ina once again, and fin. ally he yielded. I toot; up the lamp, and WI1011 we reach. ed the study -doer, Philip neevously 101 lock. ad it. The same musty cloaenoss blew in my face. But it Wail net that WhiCh rooted me to the spot -it was au impression, not received by sight, but by the perception of some other 90000, that there WAS, indeed, a presence in the gloomy opartment. Con. noring it with dillieulty, I followed Philip in, and, heleing the light forward, I was week into speechless awe ; for there, in. deed, as he hail described it, I SSW a hand protrtultng from a black sphere of ear-tt withered hand, as of en old man reaching ont to grasp another, and trembling with the abet. Had my deys and nights of study over Phillp s ease affonted my brain? lIad I caught the dreadful men- tal disorder from him Was I, too, vio1101 of an hallucination 7 Philip turned to me, t4 spasm of agony written on his face. He gave one wild glance at my face, then, chit:thing nie with terrible strength and intensity, he said, hoaraely: " Yoe see it ?" " Yes," I answered, nut above whisper. " hand?' " Yes, yes," I muttered. "A hand as you have described 11." " Mereiful heoven I" he cried ; " it is not en apparition ; it is, indeed, the hand of loci liarkton." His words brought me pertiolly beak to mysel 1, and, mason returnivg, told me that my theory of forgiveness avould apply now as well tis before that if it were, indeed, Et spirit hand this course might give it rest. Idhilip," I said n, voice forced lute something like calmness, " The spirit of Joel Hark ton wishes to forgive you, Reach Iowan' and temp the hem'," 1 SDAV lb look of detperato determinittion ly micas his Wu Kw only n, moment he esiteted ; thee, walking forward, Ile slow - y remelted out his hand, ond I 'saw his ingots aloe with those of the reaching lit'lle'leadly the stillness of the tnghtt WIWI pekoe flattering of the air and rt (try %Mali seemed tO recede rapidly into dist- thee and idleness ely twos, which had been tweed upon tho reachIng heed, now saw illy empty space anEl pierced enobstrueted o the Wc411, 1 Wiled to Philip, end foetid tim lying dead upen 1110 finer, hitt With an xpression of relief and jcy upon his face, AGRICULTURAL. J Latina Wheat, WU, 841 RO1;18.1, of 48,11.4 o0 l'APRILI 11.:. et", 1...t11.001. ,, Many of tho newspapers of the 1 , E.:emery have puldadied within the past few weelse the retell el' a eoniperative lost ro 1 • ently made m alum., of the Attlee of Ladoga wheat for mulling ate coin. pared with lied Fife Rod other urte iu which the Lodoga W118(1,1 Wad 1181.1 very inferiar, Artielee leaded " Ladoga. Wheat Failure," haw, berm commis, and 1 lin large number of letters of enquiry hom formers whigh hove of late been received 1110 Experimental Fartn leads 010 11,81c law 080 of youe eolunium, to make what I be. Neve to 11u 11 fair pretion lotion of the whole finestion. it.. has long been known that varieties of grain ripened as fee berth ea it IS possible to grow them where the Hummer ti0a15011 IS 01 far 99 1 ,1,11 are tll strong. WI Wr 11,k 1,1 rt.,i,10 1 hale, (IVO, 101.1 0011.`11,ing Ladoga whet', and oink mu, thew extravagatit VI ill toad le. 4'1'1111'1011 i I 1 fm or mil bud Ilelattiu I. 1,, the t WO teats: of inaltin 1100r from Logoia wliertt grown in anil m01111'14,1111 with Bed Fife, the een parisone were in every respect fen', bot vaatieties being Etquall), plump 01111 11,11 de veloped, where:el in the reeently peleithe. 10818 Of MintortpoliM R Very pralr wimple 0 Ladoga Wheat Wall IntlY 5 pounds 1E) the bushel, en') erne pitred wi 111 very 40180 sample of Reel Fife, weight') pounde to the leithel, Comment En suelt a est nenuteeesary. I hen the results of the Canadian teat 0 grinding the bre 1 oga were made p111.1i8.1114.11y of the miler"' though that no 1%11.'1801 017 11410 could le: with quan are SO stnal arE from 18 to 21 bushel Rho reeent 11iimica polls tont Was with 21 bushels) nwl effort hove been maile every year since to 11;LV. 1. 1 0 Ota Illa. 0 OA Wolzhi 110 Nalls1,1ory rIvaramoss8¢88.188:840.8.881o.ssuroaroompO18. „ Latest From Europe I) .1 I Aunivereary of the Oonnunne in Paris --1.,, The Mist%ke of the Britieh Minere. 1, It. wood Hem bo fawn' of the WIDE.- • \waxy of the Commune that the Anaroh- 1 lets of the continued, have reatureel their ex - f 7mrimente with dynamite, li":th the explo- a ,' miens in Parie, one in the lioulerard St. Ger.. g min awl one in the Lobau barraeke, are be- lieved by the pollee to be duo to the zeal of r these Radical 8501aliets, or Socialiatle Rarli- ' cals. No one WM killed, anEl there is ne, known eine to the authors ot the outrages. I • 'The a melt police, actieg after their man- ; nor, have wrested. a, 111.1111bOr of pertains OR suspicion, searched the lionize of known An - short often aequire by a long prneeins of Ito. etto that weld,' definitely set tle the iime,tion olinuttization an early ipening habit. This of the relative value tn the miller of Ladoga habit, once stomped by riature on ally par., and Red Fife. 1 am pleased to be :the, to Hauler variety, app. ins to be retained by say that armngetumns have lat elv been that grain even ween hi gown in completed welt the Dominion Sleeting Com. ties where the EIVA,M1 1011ger, AS 80011 119 pony of Toronto, with this °Nem v ii -w, possible :tiler the organization of the experi- and a carload Eif rev:lege wheat grow 31 hi the mental farina WitS begun, efforts Were made, Northwest will Amu ly 1,e available for the under instruutions of the minister of Agri• purpose, Ae Rs 1 118 r8,11Its ef that culture to obtain front northern 1104.0.4 IWO 11.00 ItIlOW1) they will Ito (10.11/, Nee. some of' tho bunt early ripening varieties of In ihe immn t lam it W.01111 be unwise et- ' wat grown there for experimeetal test Mel( Inly great weight to the test whleh has I Canada, Correspondonee was openeEl in receutly 1/001/ math,. in Minneapolis. , November, in Mil, with a seed dealer of It should neve!, 1,0 forgoI ten that the work higls repute in Riga -lir, E. Goegginger- (tarried on by the: experiment al larnis with 41111 IL sample of the best Red Fife retsina. new varieties of graie is purely experimeut• blo was forwarded to Min with tho 00E111001 al. No 0%1% Kparr.1 to 8881100 every pro - Gut!: he would select arid forWitial to the Ex• mining sort for tent. Tele whole world has peteriental Farm at Ottawa 100 bushels of been laid 1110101. tribe!" for Ode perpou. IT4t Et. the W011 (lg.( a 1+10, 1/0 p vowre,„ !tenthly, ttagor,y, anxiottely es I IrEoked, i» 1 Irri make itrti finial butter 000(ler beef :snot at very lew temperature, churn it le fresh 6;1 ;formai( Alla yolks of eggs, and tteat Bre bolter wham removed, dm ben early ripening wheat he could ele min, 01111 tO gat i1 11.8 nearly RS TIOSAiblO equal in quality to the sample of Red Filo rent. In reply, Mr. Goegginger slated that he had scoured affil forwarikd ono of the moat highly esteemed early ripeoing varieties pro. (Mood in northern Russia.; that it was a, wheat much valned there on amount of its (polity, and, being grown Bear Lake Lad- oga, in letitude 00, earth of St. Petersburg, 11 WAS known as Ladoga, wheat. When this wheat arrived in the spring of 1 887, and be- fore it Well distributed, samples were sub- mitted to several parties who wero believed to be good judges of wheat from a North- west standpoint, and they all gave ic as their opinion that the Ladoga wheat Wan of good quality. This grain WEIR distributed at once among farmers in Manitoba and the North- west territories, and some of it was sent to the Indian ogencies for tests, It proved earlier in ripening thou Red Fife by an average of about 10 clays, and thea early ripening quality it still retains. In the spring of 1888 a further distribution of this wheat %vita made, and after the harveat of that year, et sufficient quantity was obtained to make some tests of its milling qualities. Sixteen bushels of Ladoga which had been grown at the Experhoental Format Indian Head were taken with a similar quantity ef the best quality of Red Fife grown in an ad- joining field to the roller mill at Fort Qu' Appelle. The flour of the Ladoga, when compared with the Rod Fife, had a slightly deeper yellow shed's, The product from both these varieties was forwarded to Ottawa, where sacks were sent to two of the leading bakers, and after a careful test both gave it es their opinir it that the Ladoga was the stronger flour of the two, although dm 11- 00 in eider. Samples of the bread, Hour and grain of both Ladoga and Red Fife wore subtnitted also to the Agricultural Commit- tee of the House of Commons when the most ethical members eould find no fault with the Ladoga ether than on the ground of its being a little yellower than 1410 Red Fife. Samples of the Lailoga grain grown in different parts of the Doluinioe were also sent to the 10101 ing Boards of Trade in Canada and too nein.. bee of speeittl experts for their introduction of Ladoga wheitt, permit me to quote the fellewing from the letter width was written by me to the Bonade of Trade ond experts and forwarded with the samples : "It is well known that farmers in the northern parts of Ilemitobti and the Territ- ries have In the peat suffered intich loss from frosau wheat, and they are anxious to ob- tain some variety which will ripen RI few days earlier than the Red 10110, so as to tub mit of it being harvested before the early frosts wenn alo stroug is this feeling that farmers at willing to gm inferior vorimies rather than suffer stzeh losses as they have experienced in the past. " view of this condition of things et - forte aro being made, ander instruation of the aliuister of Agrieulttwe to en:Rover to seetwe an earlier ripening wheat of good quality as nearly up to the atandard of the -lied Fife as possible. You will boar iu mind that the object, of this introduction is not by any means to displace the Red Fife ; I think the growth of that variety should be encouraged in every erotical:le Way, but. tho Minister desires that eal earlier wheat of good quality should be secured to be grown whore the Red Fife doe% not succeed, and thus discourage and prevent, as far as practicable, the i Mr/Amnion of soft end in• feriae varieties of wheat, so that the present high standard of our Nutth-west retain may be generally maintained, and at. 1110 some time the necessity of formats met and tho settlement of the country stimulated." I shall not weary yonr readers with de- tails of Ole opinions of the experts on these severttlaamplea Of Ladoga, whet ; they were most perplexing and varied on the same sample, in some 10010110es from soft to extra, 'No. 1 hard, all the p:tetiontars, together with Om results of a 11 11/1110/. of careful analysis of these wheats by 111.r. F. T. tilintb, eheinist of the Experimental Farm, will be fou»el in bulletin No. 4, issued from the Central lexperimeutal Farm in Match, 1889. A sectend milling test was muie late the :amp SeaS031, by taking to the roller inill at Semis, about '20 bushels of Ladoga and similar quantity of Fifa of same weight, grown at the Experimental Farm at, Blandon, and the resells obtaitteri were precisely Mettler te those already gam. In summieg up the evidence sebroitted in bulletin No. 4, I wrote an follows ; " That Ladoga wheat has been SUbjeCted to a searchiug cwiticisin ; tables of the entire results of its gaowth have been give» ; the rtblio have been nalvised of snalt defects as tetra boon bloted during tho progrees the two years' tons, and making the motet liberal allowance for these defects, it seams not too much to any 001 the evi- dence thee far obtained is so fli Mont to show: thitti the Laclega is a productive mia variety of hard wheat, which 1100 ii1118 far ripened 0000 tho *limo Dominion days earlier on the ventage than the Rod Fife that the beta crumples obtained ere fully as Hell in gl Ann as the hest Rod Fite, and while the oultivetion ditto Rea PIM ahould be recommended in am) section of tho North•weet, whoa° it likeiy with early sowing to escape the autumn frosts, tho growth of tho Ladoga may iv rattly entirely - Agee wherever t he ripening of the Bed Fife rowertain whiten incorriug the tisk of mai Melly lowering the revelation or the general quality of Ormailian bard wheats." Many varieties ot when havo been brought from Russia, Germany, Eraneo, Great 1 Ire. tain mho. parts Ili H111111)9 odic, Herm have bean lirocmht from the C.ope Geed Ifripe and Algiere it; Africa, ASilt ha, sent its quota from be plains of India and front the mountain Elistriets of the Hinedaytts, from altionles r.f 10,000, to 1 7,000 feet above the seat Other varieties have been breught from Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to which has been added every sort obtainithle from the States and Canada. 'I hese hove all been /ruefully tested side by side, their growt 11 watched, and their quality and vielE1 recorded. .k large proportion of the foreign sorts have proven vary inferior to many of the varieties alrenaly grown It ere, and whatevee may be the conclusions re. ' garding Ladoga, as compared with Tied Fife, if early ripening wheat 'must be had, no other sort has yet been found so early which is equal to the Lacingo in quality, vigor and productiveness. The only reason why special prominence has been given in the Experimental Farm reperts to Ladoga wheat it is believed to be the best for the North-west country of ali the early ripening varieties at present in cultivation. The Red I ELUMP! WOMEN. -- They Flop and Paddle and Futv and Snort I 11,111 aware thaantatGheig'reglies'no such word Ra the above in the dictionary, brit that shall not deter me from employing it when it sounds tc exactly fit a certain, and by no Teams eless of female humans. There is a word known as" flumpy," but this does npt define the latliee I now refer to more , cbstinotly. A fiumpy woman Is defined as " A cross -tempered old le.shiened female " while I should say the fiumpy woman ie one who is not so much cross as gushiegly simple ard tactlessly foolish. She, the fintripy 000100,0 enters aestreet ear and swishes herself into the seat provided for her person -for your flumpy woman some way always gets a good seat because she is supremely selfish -and drmvs along breath of relief that she has at last arrived. To her as she !lumps down on the scat, 110 OLIO else ever had so much sorrow and seffering as had she to get to the ear and no one so much deserves sympathy anti attention. She blows off her breath like porpoise and doelares to her familiar -the flutnpy woman .10001 ly has a now fam Wear oath mont n -that it is awfully hot or terribly cold ; the streets are dreadfully slushy and the walking horribly bad, and it thousand others miser- ies, as though these were not likewise the lot of the remaioder of human- ity. When she goee to the the- atre she flops to her aeat, does the flumpy woman, with et crash, and then complains te her eneort that the mots aro abominoble and that she never coulee to that particular theatre but she wtshes she 11011 staid at home. In this pions deelaration I ana cer- tain her companion heartily joins and so do all 11001. her. If it chances that she euter an (Mice or store on 'easiness she immediate- ly !temps down on a seat and explodes in sighs and " %vilest's" as indicating that she is the mut tnjtired and longauffering person 011 the face of the groan earth. She comes to a newspaper ()thee and swears that a paper never, by :toy chance, gets its notices legitt, and W181100 they would leave bar name out, and then, when tide is conceded, wonders why they will print stuff about in- conseeptential people and never mention those of tnoment. She writes long soreeds to the editor, in which she flumps as she does when she walks, talks, Hits or rides, and in these each other word is misspelled nod the others underscored. She paddles when she walks, puffs when she breothes, snouts when she would laugh, giggles whon she would mile, snivela whey. she would ay and pants when she would perspire, anti take her all in all is a decided- ly uncomfortable person to meet, mud I never see her, and she is many, hut I offer an involentary prayer for her poor sneering husband, who goes about as tt whipped spaniel without hope os prid_e_or eel:notation of relief. The One Thing Needful, Gihnoly lied another very implement that, with litiellnaly, the widow Fleaajnok' hose entree is fitanens for being almost ea weak as dish -water. Ho sliered op his coffee (.4 it, and milled sardonically, whtle his landledy tried to et1.1.80 tonath fowl. 13;114ps I dale% pnt in ally sugar, Mr. ' 0, the anger is all right." " expect I Elidn't put in enongli milk.' " No the milk et ell right." " what is !netting, Mr. Gihooly I " Coffee." &cubists all over Paris, and dist:every(' some doentneute but no dynamite. The cloth - moults are 80111 to itudieate 111, ONitir0110.11 of Anarehlat league, which is highly proe hable. At no time since P171 1181 Paris or- aby chief European city been fru from sueb a, league, The British Ini118111 1111 l't. speedily found. out they have outdo a neetake. '1 heir week's holiday hoe only put netney in the hands of celliery owners end dealera, end before they have time to recoup themselves for the week's wages lost they will be notified of a reduction in pay. Wtth so many coalfielde izow open awl better mining appliances at committal the men can secure no benefit by esteletion unlees 1Wo days' rut a week is more beneficial to their wellbeing than one. There was a rumor that the employers themselves would refuse to reopen the col- lieries for sonic imo and t bus force the men into another holiday against their will, but this scarcely likely. The chief coal own- ers deny it. Their private interests are against it, and their only reason for so doing would be to belp the owners ht. Durhem by Eleprwing their men of a week's wages, and thus preventing them from con- tributing to the relief of the Durham strik- ers, for though " the holiElay movement" is now at an end, the stamegle in Durham eon- tinues with Meru -tied bitterness. The de- termination of both Aides IS stun, and with their growing desperation the men. are getting vicious. A reporter of the Neweres- Chroniale, who liad written something Whiell did not please the miners, was set upo by thousands of the men at one of their mass meetings. He was pelted with. mud and bricks, and finally chased through a neighboring town until he found. refuge in pollee statien. The police at the meeting were powerless to protect him. Fife is a veheat of the highest quality, and 18 prOballly 1110 best which has yet been pro- duced. The Ladoga on the average is less productive and is more liable to rust, but mail tee con get a better, early -wheat it may be wiser to enconrage the growth of this variety in the more frosty districts of the North-west than to have the high character of Lho wheats of that country gradually lowered in value as it now promises to lc by the introduction by the farmers themselves, in their search for earlier ripening Roils, of a number of inferior soft wheats front Ontario. In ease the Ladoaa should not, fully realize the anticipations first formed regarding it, there Ls already good reason to believe that some of the new cross•bred sorts which have been originated at Central Experimental Farm from the Ladoga crossed with lied Fife will C0111 1/1110 earliness with the re- quisite (nudity. Help Maaitoba. 'Manitoba farmers will went help this spring to get through with their work. The enormous orop of 1,st, year, combined with it late harvest ...I unfavourable fall weath- er, has forced it great deel of work to re- main over until the approaching season. There will be inillions of bushels of grain to be threshed and more ploughing to be done than usual. 'Malty fitment hove had hun- dreds of loads of grate to haul to market (luting this winter. Tho semen promises to be a busy one for the farmers right through. What with threshing 011,1 marketing, gram, attending to their spring seeding, breaking new hand, etc., the farmers will be busy up to next harvest, when another rush of work will iot in. Numerous opplientious from farmers ell over tho unary are already being received in Winnipeg for farm labour- ers, but they cannot be filled. The Winni- peg Commercial urges that an organiaed. effort ehould he rnade to induce farm la• bowers to go to Mouitola, and that it should be done at once. There should Ilene idle mon in Canada while nth prospects for work are held out. The Heart Surgeon Of the Tethon Medical Company is now at Toronto, Canada, and may he consulted either in Payson or by letter on all thronia cliseues peculiar to man. Id( n, young, old, or middle-aged, who find themselves nerv- ous, weak and exhausted, who are breken down bona excess or averwoek, resulting in many of the following symptoms .Mental depresaion/ premature oia ago, loss of vital- ity, loss of memory, bad dream, dimness of eight, palpitation of the heart, emiasiots, lack of energy, pitin in the kindeys, head - 'eche, pimples on tho face or body, itching or peouliar sensation about the scrotum, wuting of the organs! di:release, speaks before the eyes, twitchteg of the muscles, eye lids and olsewhere, bash illness, deposits in the urine, loss of willpower, te»derness of the scalp and spine, weak and flabby amulet', desire to sleep, foam's to bo rested by sloop, constipation, dull nessofhearing, lossof voice, desk() for solitude, exeitability of temper, ennkon eyes surroun (led with LaAllitN ntratIM, oily looking skin, etc., are ;al }:ymptoms of uervous debility Oa lead to insanity aml death unleas cured. The :spring nr vit.al force having lost its teeeion telry f unction wanes in constantence. T11080 W110 through abuse committed 111 ignorance may be pert, knanon0y eured. Send your address for book on oil diseases premlior to men. 1 !Books sent free settled. Heardiseue, the 8yroptoms of which are faintspells, purple line, numbness, palpitation, skip heat% bott flushes, rush entitled to the head, doll pain irt the heart with boats strong, rapid and 1000gaint the wend heart, heat Vaster thee the, lint, pant about the bre ..81 bone, ate., elm posit ively be en red. No cmc, tin lay. Send for heolt. Address, Al, IT. LUTION, 94 Maccionell Ave.:Toronto, Ont, Simplioit On one occasizin Dingenes saw a alzild I drinking ant of its hands so Ire threw awe), the 8111) W111/%! belonged to hit. Saying. " Tbitt child has b atm ow in Rini- 1 plicily." The ine.ro wo 110 ve of 1 his ; plieity, the: freer we are end 1 he 'rho really poor man in be who, not content 1 Wil 11 111.088811 irS, 118liki.V8 all 811110111011h Whi011 aro beyond Ma means, " It (tot worth while for ma to occupy yonr time, gentlemen," atid the counsel fOr the defendant. " 'rho ease is as plitin as it MO be. lint my client lute pad me ten dot - litre to defend him, nnti as aat hottest man ought, to do something to erten the motley. I otip go 011 With a :Teeth six hours long ' lie paused n. omment, took a drink of wetter eurented the faces of the jniymen,and woceeded 1 " If neeessitry, But rather then bore you with a Aix hour'it speech, gentlemem t MISO Wilt111 VIP 11` and evidence aro no ;lithely nn the aide elite:I, the defend- eg, 1 wig (bpi, 11. 10 Will10111 Ober nra 8181 giv,, 111,.11 liis teu (tellers 1 your 01•111101 LOW in)." " loax bcx tize grateful 017 tonna favor of the dofionimii..