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lam -was Jimmy Dunlop, ioai Properties of the soil is very dit-
bliad^ a ridassaahuaetts botrk. qt
ptifh The Pinkerton convicted Cerent. An undertsaading of tate
"nater on they secured his par- peculiarities of the common farm
•,drhdia"'be was 3Qleased - crops and soils is very necessary to
w ti► Capjtal $. t0 s''t' e. .the man on the land in order that
g Winos. He 'made good
eeame a fast friend of his bene- a understand and realize the ad -
A
�,f3. , Wiliilairt .A..•)<'.inkorWA, who eaataYes le rotating the grain, grass
�Fm
woe s racing enthusiast, used often And cultivated crops.
4 .i to-itakke Drillie a tfh Mtn on his visits Crops Vary Greatly In hoot System.
to Baratoga': -'Hie- said that very few in considering the comptutt crops
Mian heyy bad befriended reverted to
Ita with regard to their growth. elTect
''Phe founder of the Pinkerton De- on physical texture of the soils and
teetive Agency, most famous private
tee supply of avullablu plant food
Inquiry firm in the world, was Allan LA the soil, we must give atLeutiou to
the following groups 01 crops:—(l)
• ]Pinkerton, a Scotchman. He was a Deep rooted crops; (2) sual,ew root-
-cooper in Dundee, Illinois, at a time ed crops; (3) Gross tee1 ag crops;
when a gang of counterfeiters was Lal Delicate feeding crops; (5) NI-
operating
roperating there. Pinkerton ferreted trogen-gathering crops; (6) Humus
them out, and the citizens, impressed producing cropa; (7) Humus de -
by his ability, elected him sheriff. stroying crops. Shallow and deep
But he had wider ambitions and soon rooted crops are best illustrated by
moved to Chicago, where he estab- comparing the root systeuts of wheat
]Ished his detective agency. The and alfalfa. Wheat as u suatlow
name of Pinkerton became nationally rooted plant exerts an entirely timer -
famous a few years later when the ent influence on the pnysicat condi-
'firm arrested thieves who had stolen
$40,000 from the Adams Express
Company. .News that there was a
conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln n
the way to his first inauguration led
Pinkerton to organize a force to foil
that conspiracy, and since the at-
tempt was not made,- Pinkerton was
credited with having defeated it. So
he was asked by the President to go
to Washington to establish the United
$tates Secret Service. Through the
Civil war he did important work, in
which he was assisted by his son
William,who had
four-
teen -year-old boy,but had been trans-
ferred to the. Secret Service Depart- Gross and delicate feeding crops
went, William was easily the young- can be illustrated by comparing corn
est detective in the world at that , with barley or oats. The corn plant
time, as he was the oldest, seventy- by means of its strong root system
eight, when he died. ,can thrive under more severe condi-
The. importance of tele firm had Dons than can the barley or oat
been greatly enhanced by the war. plants with their slender root sys-
It had a sort of semi -official -stand- tens. The strong root system of the
ing which other firms craved in vain, corn plant can prepare its own plant
and -as Allan, and his two sons, Rob- food to a greater extent than the
ort and William, were skilled detec- weaker types of crop plants, hence
tines• themselves, shrewd judges of we see corn, potatoes and similar
Character, and surrounded them- plants flourishing where shallow, del -
selves by the best intelligence (of irate feeding grains do not do very
the necessary kind), that they. could well. The gross feeding plants will
find, the business of the firm rapidly leave the soil in better physical con -
increased, until branches ,were form- - ditidh' than the -delicate feeding
ed in numetous cities. Their skill, types. and for that reason should
not only in running down thieves, but • precede them In the rotation. Gross
In recovering. olen property, which feeding means a big, strong, vigor -
was regarded as of more importance ous root systetn, which can only oe
by the people who employed them, appreciated by examining the entire
was illustrated shortly . in the recov- root of the plant. There Is as mucn
ery of $700,000 stolen from the Ad- of the growing plant beneath the sur -
race of the soil as there is above, but
at7as Express Company. They broke
up the notorious Molly Maguire gang since it is more eutfaclt to see lust
Of murderers and terrorists in the Part below the surface we do not
realize the extent of the humus mak-
Pennsylvania coal fields, and this mg vegetable matter that la out of
work led to. them being employed fre- sight •'and plays such a big part in
quently by railroad and other torpor- keeping the soil In good physical con-
ations to handle great strikes, the dition.
4littY of the Pinkertons being, at short The Nitrogen -Gathering Crops.
. ptgtiee the gather hundreds of hard -
strike -breakers and at the
Same tithe worm their agents into
he confidence of the strikers. This
branch of the business, however, was
*ready- curtailed' after the Homestead
Trots, and 'a' Congressional'-iiivestiga-
lion that decided the Pin1tei'tone had
sip business m leennsylvania.
When Allan Pinkerton passed
away the business was inherited
Ifintly by ittiliert.and William, and
William ii credited with evolving the
idea which Was to prove most profit-
able to"thhe.flrm. He succeeded in same time supplying this very essen-
getting' nia`ny of the bankers of the tial element to ,the growing plant.
.•tjnited States to join in a protective The legume or nitrogen -gathering
association, and commission' tithe crops have a double value as soil ilii,
Yrnkertons to guard their money. In provers in that -they supply humus
the eighties, there were, outside of and are' also nitrogen -gatherers. For
As few large cities, no such massive these two very'good reasons the farm
dales act are in common use to -day. rotation should favor legume crops.
$obberies were frequent, for it was The Importance of Humns.
jilot a matter of great difficulty .for Organic matter during its process the arc on which the girls' legs would
Vie burglars to blow open a safe. of decay in the soli is called' humus. be•bowed by a glance," said Mr. John
The Pinkerton agents knew most of Every farm boy that has handled a McGrath, the artist in charge of the
-the bank robbers•:.in -the country and. `+Blow knows the ease with which the examination. "The redder the hair
sent this message to them. "Yoe plow can be handled in soils contain- the greater the bow, The girls hay -
leave our people alone and we'll leave ing a large amount of decayed vege- ing a deep bronze head of hair have
'You alone. If yot don't, we'll fol- teflon in contrast with the hard soils reasonably straight legs. They begin
Tow you to the end of the earth;" of hilltops where the organic matter to sag a bit in the auburn -haired
They kept this promise, for when a has been washed away. Humus is types. They bulged out a good three
Phaltei+tdn`itiaek° was robbed no ex- very valuable because its presence inches when the hair is terra cotta,
ease was too great, no time toe -long determines the moisture sup !y and and the lower extremities of a 'car-
p the ease with which the soil may be
to,,tragk,down the robbers. After rot -top' girl look like a barrel hoop."
need to cultivated. All plants are humus
woVrYemucheaboutsthe old did t ion
proles- t fent, thea' but not to the eume the thatrthe Nlavish natrath uralecharms ofns to t the
cent, the most valusbl being the
cion/dee Only the ambitious green legumes: Red clover, tweet clover, red-headed girl more than off -set the
ll - would tackle them. alfalfa, vetches, pease and soy beans. trifling misfortune of her bow-legs,, "
ike nearly all real detectives, These legume crops are known- as "Almost always ber figure is far
....William, Pinkerton was impatient of humus producers in 'contrast to corn, superior to thateed the blonde and
ldherleele ,H,glnles' .ideas. He . used .wheat, oats, potatoes, which are brunette type," he continued. "As. a
. 1 to.say, `Detective work is a matter known as humus destroyers. Why rule her torso is almost perfect and
attention_to detail, determination, grow humus destrbying crops to the there is an invariably beautiful curve
• 4Fourage, a good memory and luck." extent that we do when Providence where the neck 'joins the shoulders.
' iis-metniery served him in one of the has given us so 'abundantly the That is what makes her bow-legged-
' Meet sensational successes of his legumes—legumes that will improve ness seem so sad. I can only con-
Otireer. ' Be was in London and a- the physical conditions and increase elude that nature is jealous ' of her'
Wit. to leave for the United States. the plant food supply.—L. Steven- gifts and will not bestow all charms
pe6 *bilked round to a tailor shop to son, Dept.'of Extension, O.A. College, on any one type of beauty.
ketriee'e a suit that had been pressed, Guelph. There is a remedy for bow-legs,
'mai¢ while there observedd a man as Miss Ruth Gordon demonstrated
Banking and Farthing. Bidwell whom he knew as a a few years ago when 'she felt that
•.tliesperate criminal, The Shop was eI would like to put every farmer her misfortune in this matter was in-
far from -the Bank of England, in a bank for a while and every bank- 'teetering With her career on the
;tf;. Mr. Pinkerton dropped in there er on a. farm for a while, "The farm- stage. Miss Gordon, who played,
. g the
eeBrie Warned The enabler ee hia'-danger- er and the banker have never known "baby -talk lady" in Booth Tarkin -
enough about the ins and outs of ".
neighbor. He, was laughed at, each other's job. It is going to be s ton's play Seventeen," persuaded a
before he had reached the'iJnited e1 Chicago surgeon to chisel holes al-
ma.in task of the merican Bankers'
',seg the beide had been robbed' cif Association to bridge this gap:"—J. most through the bones of her legs,
tie. ' 'Pinkerton was cabled for - puellcher, President American which were then cracked like candy
powered to: huneedown %be • Taj , Aesoelatibn. . canes; all because the little actress
rs,L §t thee& tip one i ttte - , , wanted to have a pair of straight
ba slid the thY d It is necessary to Have strong cows' legs like those of her friend, Marls
Flthtes• The eritone Sot liege capacity `because the ern- ]yin Miller.
, dredit for rdeoVerini 0.0110of a dielir�' low depends on the ,
dtpten Gainsborough, in' amotint that shewill eat above her
SO Allan orttii tl qt maintenance rtc)ufrements and turn 1'_rattionally we would feel safer on
t' the s f T6lie leSA tato dairy ptodact t. Ilia toad if automobiles had . horse .ore welt elle
Ytf bailie 'OUP fides sense:—Dallas News:
tion of the soil than noes the altalfa
plant with its heavy deep reaching
roots. Continuous cropping witu
wheat, barley or oats un a held will
develop a hard pan condition just be-
neath the furrow slice- Such will
prevent the absorption and storage
of moisture necessary for full crop
production. 1u contrast to the shal-
low -surface soil condition we can
place the effect on the soil or the
deep rooted plants, such as alfalfa;
red clover and sweet clover, ane see
the open porous moisture and air -
admitting condition of the subsoil
made by these tap rooted plants.
Gross vs. Delicate Feeding Plants.
iy
past• Pt ateepeap{
�hetild•20204•xag `ae
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the 'feral', and 'relegated
elute for ettrieeildee. •
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The one-man crotieseut is .. a W t
better, while the twoanan-ttrosa.o
is a distinct, step 111 'the eviriutk -4,
sociability,, , 'It 'has Sits place A Til
a ohs,
hush, of course, and cv ne �, t
ittstru meqto of torture c ie
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sthe old Br
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rested now and then for some special
lur
P P..es
a,. ,'
As a regular means of working up
the winter wood pile however, peso
are only to be 'advoea'ied for one who
absolutely has not and cannot gat he
cash to hire a buzz -saw outfit. Mod-
ern life is too busy and full of inter-
est to spend unnecessarily in back -
testing mechanical routine which ma-
chinery enables us to dispense with.
Most of us can find enough manual
labor jobs after we have substituted
as much gasoline for muscle as we
have wit to use.
We have heard arguments that husz
sawing wood • is more expensive than
buck -sawing. But these calculations se legum4:a: (t.e., .alfalfa, clovers,
are generally based on old-time cote ,els and 'beans) can do this, and
ditions. As it work's out in these' ,Luse plants cannot do it without the
times, most of us find that gasoline
,beats elbow grease by a substantial
margin. There is this, too, that buzz
sawing is a more or less sociable job
which goes with a vim and men quite
properly prefer it to the tedium of
hand -sawing.
Again, it will be noticed that the
farmer who buzzes his supply gets
the job over with and goes on to
something else, while the buck saw
adherent is hardly ever out of a job.
The wood pile stares him in the face
until he hates to go past it.
What a comfort there is in looking
at a big heap of sawed fire -wood in
the yard when a cold snap comes on
and the snow piles deep around the
buildings.
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I o get lite boat roturnti trim the
elfalfe crop the alta;t4 Beed ghoul,
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be lmdg}ill�.ed a few hours bolero
sowing wleh'the altaif1. niteo,ciltture;'
When i+n'goulatedbead la ;aowu he
iaoterla.;Ftlidish constitute the culture
are inposition to enter the young
roots of the alfalfa as they develop.
On entering the roots the bacteria
aultipl t -a tilfroduee the charccteris-
lc nodulelr (little swellings) on ,the
soots. 'The action ot.the bacteria
.open growing In the roots is to en-
.ble thegiant to utilize the atm0s-
,,lleric nitrogen as a soured of
_acid supply. ' No plants otbet than
WHY ARI; RED-HEADED GIRLS
BOW-LEGGED?
.,;ht bacteria being present in the
opts. Different species of bacteria
re necessary for the different species
i legumes. -
.t'Itat the €ultupe Means to a Crop:
inoculation of alfalfa seed often
leans the difference between a good.
, gorous, growthy crop and a poor,
.,)lndly light crop. Alfalfa nitro cut-
.ure (price 60c.) may be obtained on
ppllcatton to the Bacteriological
'spprttnent of the Ontario Agrioul-
.rat 7ollege, Guelph-
,Etxract from a letter received
rom C. R. Worthington, Comox,
.1 itish Columbia:
'''rhe inoculated portion of my alfalfa
rep 1308 nourished exceedingly and 1,
:axing most luxuriant growth,enttrely
:owding out the weeds, and showing
splendid color. The uninoculate
.,814,0 has almost entirely died out,
..d Lite few planta left were small and
. ry pale. 1n fact, t have now plough-
. thee, up. 1 luny say that about the
.010 1 bowed wlnu a good many
-4 hLoro did the aurae, but they did
„t utnc uluta. Their plots this spring,
It seems to be a commonly accept- ',thou; exception, are a pitiful spac-
ed maxim that red-headed girls have 's-- • `oda with a few sickly alfalfa
t tempers. But it has remained 'u'•ts feet-"
Fal -
or the djstingnislI}�ed Committee on '•"t•.ng Alfalfa Alone on Summer Fal -
Artists' Models oS, the distinguished low In July.
Charcoal Club, of Baltimore, to make • In experiments conducted at the
the new and hitherto unsuspected-dis- agricultural College at Guelph, it
covery that red-headed girls are bow- :as.been found that excellent results
gave been obtained from sowing al -
legged. , -Alfa alone on a summer fallow in
This announcement appears to be .tie month of July. When sown at
based upon considerable investigation 1st time on a Moist soil, germine -
on the part of the committee. But ijn is rapid, and the plants are en -
why it should be true that ninety-four .i,led to make a good growth before
out of every hundred red-headed girls Inter. There is nut ..pL to be a pro -
have bow-legs, as they assert, they aged dsouth after July. By this
do not undertake to explain. These uethod, weeds are unable to produce
artists are pioneers in making the :e•al in the autumn and the alfalfa
great discovery—science, i its pat- las an excellent opportunity to get
ient laboratory researches, will have ,Yell estabifshed.—D. H. Jones, O. A..
to explain the phenomenon. o.:ege, Guelph.
Art has its discoveries, as well as
science; and it came to pass that the How to )Gill Bindweed.
Baltimore Charcoal Club, composed Get on the field just as soon as the
of a group of earnest young artists .And is dry enough to permit of cul -
who work in that medium, wanted L.vation, Do' not give the bindweed
some models. Naturally, before any t chance to make any early spring
girls were accepted they had to srowth. If the field is in sod, plow
demoltstrate to the satisfaction of the Mellow. If the land was'plowed last
examining committee that their fig- fall it will not be nedossary to plow
gures were worth copying on paper, agatnithis spring. Cultivate every
and artists were notoriously from week or ten days with a cultivator
Missouri. One by one the girl ap- with broad points, that will cut all
plicants disrobed, posed and were the plants off an -inch or two below
rejected; and presently a few curious rite ground without bringing the
Nitrogen -gathering crops are gen- facts becaihe apparent. creeping root •
s(alks to the surface.
orally best known as the clovers, peas The first was that almost all of the 'stay o ue cultivation until the 24th of
Clay or 1st of June. Then plant Dorn
n hills 42 inches apart each way so
mere a t some .hat It can be, -cultivated" both ways.
Y ae soon as the -corn fa up, cultreate 1t
sagged, and others swelled inward ,,tth a corn cultivator at least every
so far that they. actually knocked to- _wo weeks. oftener if possible. Just
gether when the model walked up 15 soon as the corn is cut plow oat
and down the model stand. Out of .he stalks and cultivate every tet"
642 brunette applicants examined in _:rya or two weeks with the broad -
the course of three years, more than mitred cultivator. It is very import -
500 had baggy knees, an extraordin- .tt•to4cultivate again oon after ,
ary proportion in view of the com- he width is cut as possible, a that the
monly accepted tradition that bru- alndw will not have a mice to
nettes have very symmetrical limbs. ;et started into growth.
The statistics gathered by the ex- The last thing in the fall -rib up
amining committee of the Charcoal -rte land Into drills, and allow to
Club seem irrefutable. Here were stand over winter. ,The frost in all
almost 300 red-headed girls and all )robabllity wfli render mater! as -
but a dozen or so of their number llstance-in the•'eradicatton. The ol-
were bow-legged as cavalrymen..owing spring Mart cultivation with
"Itgot so that we could determine .he broad -shared cultivator as soon
Le you can geCon the land. Repeat
.sequently enough to prevent the
,!ndweed making any growth above
.he ground, until the fist- or middle
.1 June. Thef sow Pasture rape
(Dwarf Essex Variety) or turnips, in
trills. 26 to k0 inches apart, at the
:ate of about .1% pounds per acre.
es soon as the crop is up, cultivate
very week or ten days until it oc-
:upies all the; ground and makes
.urther cultivation impossible. - If
ue bindweed `should get started in
he rows, hoe It out as.completely as
eossible. This, hot'ever,'should not
le necessary if the previous cultiva-
.lon has been frequent, and thorough.
A'lus plan requires two years to com-
)lete, •but it 16, Worth doing.—J. E.•
1owitt, O. A. -College, Guelph.
L1ne-Breeding.
and beans. All sucb are very vale- brunette models were knock-kneed.
Able since they add to the stank of
tk This was a puzzling surprise.
soil nitrogen, and make possible the Some1 bulged bit
accumulation of nitrogen salts. Ni-
trogen existing as a free gas In the
atmosphere over each acre of land
is available to the legume bacteria
that have the ability to assimilate It.
The bacteria vt^hlih are parasitic on
"the legume plant roots live in great
colonies assimilating nitrogen for
- their own development, and at the
" !•P4 Woxk
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invisiting nor do` great ataily. slefgb. great s.
ing partiee.get feeth, fin vans •to go time's s,
with jingling and laughter' hout- hem*, who
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in itself was a joy. The going' was horse live
as much as the getting there. The. He keeps
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, you will gather the far as ,the boss s Ole*
business is not booming. There • were ' o cr :
pleasures ofgddle horsesCan'l does 'a Bay just above gS of} yk�..
p going' have'one. 21 small busi , ess - in horse trilling to above -King, later 'both .tihifdQ;s
you `ere going to the Old Folks' for compensates for the slack as in the iow•King on aeconnt'q�.''tra e. 'tree
Christmas dinner, there is no tithe for livery bush ess, was a atand oppgejte . tire' recon'$„
anticipation. You go b auto 'or be "Well, I'll stick to the livegry busi- Hotel, one .at the Unice! Stµtion; an-
street -ear. But there was a day nese lo the end," he says. "I'll never other on Simeoe street, by the Up -
when you went by cutter., or carriage have an automobile in the place. Nev- per Canada fence, another on Spa -
and you pasted the Robinsons and er. Times have changed, but I don't dins above Queen., At train times,.
the Joneses and there were cries of have to. 'I can have my fun, here cabs would leave these stande to go
greeting as you passed• there was with the horses and carriages. to the varioua railroad stations now
time to see the houses aid the decor- "But it has been very sudden. Think degg_tted • the old° Western, at the
etiohs in the windows; the Smiths of'it: twenty years, and I am the last foot of rock street, (now 4pgdiffa
came to their door..and waved as you horse livery left! Why; it was only avenue), the 014 Western, at the foot
went by: people afoot hailed you; to yesterday that the streets were bright of Simcoe street, on the west side;
the Old Folks' was a ceremony, a pro- with spanking turnouts, and the - the old Nipissing, at the foot • of
cession, a journey with a meaning. enue every Saturday afternoon and; all 'Berkeley street, and .the. old Western;
Not so many years ago, when you Sunday—man, can it all have gone! which is now the fruit market at the
wished to convey the idea that some-, "The balls at Horticultural Gar- foot of Yonge street.
thing was very slow in coming, you dens, eh? With the cags and car- There the cabs would hang around
added the phrase "So is Christmas!" ridges lined up all the way from the hotels at the stations waiting -for
But nowadays, Christmas comes with Church to Sherbourne and complete- the trains, the cabbies , playing' pool
a swoop. It has come and gone be- ly around the gardens. And coming and bagatelle—what? Bagatelle?•
fore a man knows it. In a few years away from McConkey's at three in Why, every hotel had a bagatelle
the coming of Christmas' will be the morning, with a crowd of merry table. It was a pool table with holes
symbolic of speed. folks, and you could hardly get at at one end, into which you had to
Can Christmas survive the age of the oorway, the carriages were that sink your ball. ',
speed. Calif Christians survive the thick, prancing and dancing. An editor, an astute observer of
passing of the driving horse? For "Twenty-fourth • of May and New his city, who has been attending raee
the driving horse is passing, has Year's Day, you couldn't even get a meets and -boxing bouts in search of
passed: and with him • goes, with buggy or a cutter in Toronto. The the people, made the.remark the
startling suddenness, a 'complete as- carriages were ordered from the year' other day that Toronto is not as
pect of civilization. before. And we put on our best happy a city as it once was.
There is just one horse livery left white breeches and high boots.for Observe: the cabbies at the Queen's
in Toronto, the Twenty -Fourth, and King street, Hotel cab stand fused• to sit along a
Just one. all the way out to the Woodbine, was fence that railed a small ravine where
There are two liveries in all the big just one splendid spectacle, with tally now stands the new Union Station.
city where you can hire a hack, ho and dog cart, carriages and tan- This ravine lay between Front street
But at one of thein, you can also dems—oh, man, with fine gentlemen and the Tinning Block; which wag a
There is only one simon pure, old -
eh
up straight with the ribbons,
fashioned horse and nothing but horse eh n •
ot aloe ng down behind any
livery left in Toronto. wheel! An a,lies driving high carts
And that is William Wilson's, at with a pr y' whip!"
____ Christ as Eve, the hacks were all
;w
see
Line-hreeding consists in following
a single line dov7 breeding a sire
ar dam to the,. rogeny and such
alosely related Individuals as brother
and sister 'and cousins. It is in -
objections to iteare that it intensifies
any defects in the blood of the family
that is inbred,' The value of it is
that it intensifies any good traits
also. If, by selection, the bad traits
can pe *Idle the good are
perpetuated and made more" promi-
nent, line, or inbreeding, is a valu-
able means of emprovernent. If pro-
per Selectioni are not made, however,
the bad that al -Ways wants to crop out
in breeding w "get the upper hand
and spoil the bgena, of line -bred
More farm '
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If every day tliti life of a school
,kkeeeen 1;0.. eke lesoto. could be' the last. day but. one there Cote!,
s'‘...4014Sbstilltandard, Would be little fault to finkerith ea 71"; er
fureg,e; Mild sooner ,
este
sleet thaa' by use.
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row of cottages on a terrace where
the railway tracks now are.
To amuse themselves, the cabbies,
had rigged up a plank, which, if two
men were sittirig• on it, was, perfectly
586 ree . mit, employed by Santa Claus in the safe. But if only one man was on it,
Fifty thousand automobiles mill
distribution of gifts. Christmas Day was decidedly unsafe, and promptly
past its doors every day. Thousands '
P h 't h was a day of visiting, and the car-
, nages were all on order to carry
And don't know it is there. merry parties t o dinner, and, whdle
Its red stable dpors stand flush corteges to carry larger parties with
with the great \ thoroughfare. No
great gaiety t o supper and dances
sign or name is over the doors.' No
Christmas night. The cabbies put oh
picture of a running horse. No
their best livery that day, for at each
horseshoes nailed up. No painted
1,, and every call they reasonably ex -
sign: "Wm. Wilson, carriage livery.
pected to be called in by the host
Nothing. and given stimethiag to keep them
The pungent odor of horse, the fine
warm, not th mention a piece of
perfume, of leather, billow out its red
Christmas puddine_ by the lady of the
gates on to the rushing highway— house or a great wedge of mince pie,
and are lost in the stench of Faso- well seasoned with the spirit of the
line. day.
You look in the open red doors and „
And ladies had calling days, in
see a great dark cavern filled with
those times, too. Wednesday and
large, still shapes. Victories, Ian- Thursdays Were the calling days. A
daus, broughams; Tilbury carts and
lady would have on her card just Mrs.
tea carts. Shades of a day that i
So -and -So, and her address, and
done! down in the corner, the word "Thurs-
It looks like the livery stable of
days." And carriages and victories
your youth. It smells like it, now would roll around the streets every -
you've - got your nose inside. But where, with fine men up, and ladies
there is something wrong. There are
would fight for the finest turn -out.
the men sitting about the entrance Weddings, we put on our high' hats,
in tilted Windsor chairs? Where
britches and boots and tied white rib -
are the drivers and the stable boys,
bons to the bride's whip. We'd pol-
with sponges and pails, whips and
eamped the lone man backward m -e
to the little ravine full of burdocks.
- Along would come some country
fellow from the station, and would
engage in horsey talk with the cab-
biee. Two cabbies on the treacher-
ous plank would invite him to sit
down. One of the cabbies 'Would
casually rise. And when all the
other cabbies were apprised of the
situation, the other cabby would also
risa and the victim would be dumped
into -the burs below.
Now, see: "The guests at the
Queen's used to come and sit on the
verandah td watch the fun," says Mr.
Can you see this scene: the leisure-
ly esibbies, the thrill of the scheme,
the word being paseed.across the road
to the hotel, the gueshs congregating
on the verandah, the clustering cab-
bies, and then the dump?
Ts filth a thing imaginable to -day?
The Queen's is still there. Front
street is still there. What is lost?
Is it a lack of eavines, cabs, what?
Both Verrall and Wilson are my
o
ish the carriages and sMne the km- authority for the statement that there
chamois wipers.? Where are the ness and the bride got the best pair is not in Toronto to -day a single pri-
hangers-on, very old and very young? in all the city of Toronto.
Where are the dogs, fat dogs, snooz- "New Years, there wasn't a 'car- vately owned carriage and pair.
riage idle in the town. Everybody Miss McCormack, at Avenue road
fling r the strong -smelling plank
called On everybody else. New Years hill, gave up her pair after a runa-
teem years ago. Sir Mortitner
On the flat above this narrow, dark Eve was the Scotchmen's night We IvaY e 'S - -
cavern full of neatly parked carriages Would•be called for midnight. And C ar an enera
with their shafts aloft, pat can hear sure as the clock struck midnight for outs used to be conspicuous because
the dull stamping of horses. the New Year, to the chime of bells of the livery and cockades worn by
"Hello!" you cry in the dimness. all over, we would set forth with our their coachmen. Mr. Wm. Davies's
And William Wilson, Ultimus Aorii- Scotchmen, calling on all the other turn outs were well known for years•
anorum, the last of the Jehus, an Ajax Scotchmen, all through the early afM.,r carriage,s were On the wane. -
hours of the morn of the New Year. William Wilson has bought in sev-'
defier of the lightning of change, an-
swers your call and comes down the We often wondered if all the Scotch- eral of these fine carriages on. that
sloping horse 'runway from the floor men were all out calling on other passing of their masters, and added
above. Scotchmen how any Scotatnian found them to the long, silent rows in his'
another Scotchnein home. But we carriage stable.
lie is old and spry and very young
went forth from place tti place. And
in his speech. Very pleasant and
along bet dawn, we would take theta can't get drivers. Everybody wanes
"One thing," says Mr. Verrall, "we
wish to hire a hack? No? We wish
amiable and oddly courteous. We
homeefeeling fine and very generous. ..to drive a air. We -can't:find any-,
merely to know about hacks?' Very
the red doors of Wilson'S livery, there nonoresewho.',k,nows how to care' for a
In the tiny dim office jost inside
good. Come up.
hangs on a nail a silk hat. In . two w‘iiThsonese cars...." exclaims' William'
it I
TJp the sloping runway vie follow,
rows along ehe walls, with•shafts up- "They. fill the streets. with
out of that dim cavern filled with
right, stanel all the carriages
ghostly vehicles, past the second floor
broughairla and tea carts, with the 'I'
and a beautiful' thing, the Iforsie.4 This
oise and danger. They have .killed
where a couple of dozee horses stand
dust heavy. upon them.' and some
in stalls, to the third floor—my
' shrouded with cloth. But the ' hat generation doesn't know what a horse
heeds only a brush with a wleisk and lookalike, I mean a real, prove horse.c
friends—the harness loftl
The harness loft: a bright little
the caeriages a wipe with the volige like the high steppers and the. proud
room, the walls of which are aglow
if ever the day should really dawn of steppers that used to make the Isere -
and, agleam with every- mannerpeagnsd,
form of bigness. A thousand -
The only other place in Toronto efue loVely; and" Rotten Re* in the
and on every peg as neat as a pin,
e where a hack can he hired ia.at Chas. show for all, the eity. The tallyelio
bridles and reins, collars and hamee,
Verrall's; a name that Will bring' vie- going '0- Markham Fair; with the
"New harness," you rentark.• ,
Charles Verrall is the son of the man Toenarrel•IlllehictearthatsidrsPres!ildoelittedi
from whip to check rein. •
ions back to all the older people. For
proudly. "Old harness, kept beauti-
"Old harness,e retorts Wm. Wilson,
whoeie said to have had the first car- horses than a eow le •like - a' deer.
Horses that were not things:41nd,
"Beautiful harness," you amend,
careitege node,. He has four . victor-
y by Rosedale ladies who up stthight likelmen, aridfnet slouch
"Bones, in feet, that made men sit
Verrall keeps, a combination auto and
In this little room, with enough ins
and broughams and they are all
upholstered rocking (their, a Windsor '
chair, a table, a eat and her kitten. hoeseelrawn carriage to ethe. hur down like bundlese , , . ,-,
nor's daughter's wedding, is an old eeee bee_
prefer the quiet and seourity of the
Toronto?" i • ' "Our customers include several eids taken at a melee veracity is w en the
e Mont the wept creels thnt can diet
"You are the last horse livery n
"Ts ite paying business?" /
' Orly ladies, who drive for _ pleasure hogs Won't 'believe 'him vthe e calla
caosmivaellelsealstiga It:
"'Wit° ean say? wh° aaTt say? 'illness 'who re ord f ' '
"You have a large establishment
o of an open. victoria, rather thano,inj
keep it so fine and handeome, , aid • . . P ava 'bean a Norm% le hereby sleety earatudit• to -the
"You Mug love it, some way, to
qt ifs only the !shadow of its'self.
less restfill stir of the motor eel:
. • And with that William *neon op -
business so quiet,"
44,, Tit '1 'anima aaainat the Wait illg aLittin,'Me-
hyg=1, thir filll at ,bil•ghtite" raVagititrAreritiriiikta ' ' '" 11 t64:1117till'b ii'll thit:'
has_ kept this, the last of the horse , I
'liveries, alive long past ith"da .,Love "'"dmaPaPY.' ti 1 tine>, tio at simi,„,,,,, for tte, Beeeneve .e,,,e wooer,
. —it inth4ene service.
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et taeplip ' it,
seems, very itti,
detailig& 'mach*