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The Wingham Advance, 1906-01-11, Page 344++++++++4444+444444++4 +44 4i44++++ AT LUTHER• MBANK IS DOING e Sketch of His Boyhood and Now Ile Came to Take Up His Wonderful Life Work. ++++++++++++++++4 411+++.444-4-f+++++4+++++ 4+4+44 This might be called the Story of the their 'appearance or manners might be i Wizard and the Yellow Poppy, if it mproved. He did it in the queemst way. ale Wene not for the reason that the hero story of the yellow poppy -will illus. Of it dislikes to be called a wizard and trate it. One day, in a field of wild because the poppy is no longer yellow, peplos, all as yellow as the sun, Ire but a gorgeous crimson. So it anight founi one that was marked by at milli - be more fitting to call it the Story of son bar—just a delictao line, but de - the Wise Man and the Crimson Poppy. cidedly red. At least the first pert of the title will What would you have done with etand, and for the latter part you may such a flower? Palled it, perha,pe, and prefer the Shasta Daisy, or the White thrown it away? The chances are, Hlackberry, or the Spineless Cactus, however, that you wouldn't have seen or the Prickless Pear, or the Fixed it at all, or, seeing it, thought nothing Star Flower, or the Seedless Plum, Or, of, i. But to Luther Burbank it meant to go back to the beginning, you might Wonderful things. Ile know that wild call it. Luther and the Big Potato, for flowers rarely vary from the type. In fame and -1 was about to say fortune, a thousand blooms there may be not forgetting that our hero is still so poor one variant. A variant is a genius, in that he lives on a pension—began with plant life. The yellew poppy with the the planting of potato seed in Massa,- crimson steeps fairly shouteal to the &Lisette. nursery anan for oportunity to de - Once upon a time—it may have been velop its capacity foa• redness. 50 or more years ago—a boy was born Glory of the Garden. in the village of Lancaster, Massachu- setts, with two, or rather three, naval'. Luther Burbane took it up, roots and tages; ho was poor; he was a Yankee, all, and set it beside a, common red which means that he had a Shrewd, poppy in his garden. Then he took a lutraavorldng, moral ancestry, and, tiny camel's hair bruele and, as 11 an from his babyhood, ho had. the run of insect flew from one blossom to the a shop where there were tools, and of oilier, Ire eiteried the pollen of the red a big nursery where useful plants of Poppy to the pistil of the Yellow poppy all sorts were grown for sale. Ile had lof the field. poor health, too. One might think . "There, now, you have your opportun- that a disadvantage, but it turned out ity, see what you do with it," he pro - Ito bo the greatest good fortune of all. bably though. The gifted waif absorbed the material for advancement in life as As ho was delicate, he was kept in school longer than his playmates, and as eagerly as an ambitious boy makes ihis idle time was spent in reading and his way at college. The gardener had crossed the seeds and waited. Ho ,in studying the tools and materials in erod the seeds and crossed. agaan sea gath- !his father's shop, and the plants in his ecting each year until he finally prieduc- eincle's nursery. His ill health forced bim to leave work, so he went to his ed a crimson poppy 18 inches in circum- ference, the pride and glory .of any gar - uncle's farm and learned the nursery business. . This uncle, Luther Ross, den in which it is grown. So ho produced the Shasta daisy, a yellow calla lily and was famous for his grape vines. Poo - pie came from all over New England an amarylis, or Japanese lily, 10 inches for his plants. in diameter and of gorgeous color. Started With a Potato. Adding to World's Work. But breeding flowers is but a pas - The boy of the idea that if he took time with Luther Burbank. Useful some common plant producing a food plants appeal to him more. He has di - that everybody eats and improved it so vested the prickly pear of its spines that it would give the finest quality and made it a friut edible and its foil - and the greatest quantity he could age suitable for forage. With his make a fortune selling seeds and spineless cactus he fluty turn tho des- alantsert into pasture land; he has turned There was a good deal of complaint the blackberry white and made the .atout potatoes just then. Year after fruit larger and of finer flavor; he has akar tubers had been growing smaller, grown walnut trees—one of the slow - 'rougher, more watery, more subject to est growine hardwoods—into market.; dry rot and insects. able timber in six years. Where one Tho delicate youth planted an ex- blade of grass has grown he has ,made perimental plot. He hoed it, weeded a thousand to grow. it, watered it, destroyed the Colorado In his garden to -day are 60,000 black - beetles that threatened it. He watcheil berry plants, of which a possible 59,970 the field blossom into. white constclla- will be dug up and burned, the select - tions and marked the most vigorous, od 30 being used, for further experi- most prolific plants. Then, while the plot monting. His plum trees have as was greenest and bloomiest, lie pulled up many as 500 grafts each, so that in a nine -tenths of the plants and burned small orchard, ho has 300,000 distinct them. varieties of plums. Perhaps, but one The few remainiing plants were al- will meet the full approval of Mr. Bur - lowed to go to seed. Luther had no bank. potatoes to sell, he simply had for his hard summer's work a handful of po- Costly Experiment& tato seed. The seeds were planted. Every costly experiment has some Another long summer's work of weed- definite, practical end in view. Flowers ing, watering, fighting of pests; on- are bred, for finer color, foam scent, ether bonfire of unpromising plants hardiness, size; fruits are improved for and —the reward? No, a few measures similar purposes, to increase flavor, •of tubers about as big as marbles1 quantity, and to extend the fruiting But they were smooth, free from season. In his experiments, year scales and rot; inside they were fine pass amity, but in the end there is grained, white and firm. something to add to the world's wealth Then another long New England or pleasure. Th s spineless cactus winter of waitiug. Then the marbles alone, it is believed', will, in a half :were planted, and the boy, now 21, did century, turn millions of acres of semi - his third summers' hard work, reject- ing and destroying all but the best plants. The potatoes were of average size and retained all good qualities noted in the little ones. The next year the largest and finest of these were planted. In the fall the boy had many bushels of the biggest, smoothest, mealiest potatoes that had been seen in many years. Tho papers had pho- tographs of them—life size. Letters from femme poured in, asking the price of them for seed. Pour years' work! The Burbank po- tato was on the market and Luther Burbank was famous and able to 'vend, all his days in California, where he had. been ordered to go, as a gen- tleman of leisure, if he chose. He went to California, and—he im- desert land into pasture by supplying a plant that will grow in arid. regions and furnish forage for cattle and sheep. As to the possibilities plant breeding, Mr. Burbank says: "Ono more gain to the hoed. of wheat, rye, barley, oats or rice; ono more kernel of corn to tho ear; one more potato to the hill, or peach, pear, plum, orange or nut to the tree would add millions of bushels to the world's food supply, millions of dollars to the world's wealth, not for one year only, but as a permaramt legacy. That is what I am trying to do. "I have here a plant school to sup- press the bad and develop the good qualities of flowers, fruits and all u.se- ful plants. I give them everything they need as a wise mother does to mediately began to throw his money • children —the right conditions of soil away, so people said, as fast as ho and climate and food —fertilizer. I keep the evil away, sterilizing the soil asoukt How foolish, when it was so hard to and water as you sterilize milk for in - get and when he was so likely to need fonts. It takes 100 generations, some - it to support a frail life. You reenern- times, for a plant to overcame hered- her how vexed Jack's mother was itery fault, but the work is always re - wheat be traded her cow for a handful warded in the end and the world is of beans. Luther Burbenk's mother the richer." did not scold. She knew she heel. a So this is the Wizard of Santa. Rosa gifted son an:d that he was showing the who with his wand of scientific knowl- greatest wisdom in the handling, of his edge, patience, labor and scorn of money, is tinning the sands of the money. He went to Seats Rosa, in the heart desert into sands of gold to .the m- ot the Sonoma valley ean.e of the most richment of his fellow men. beautiful end fertile regions of South- Poor pensioner that he is, the fame era Oalcifornia. This was 30 years ago, of his munificent gifts has beaten a Sc bought several acres of ground, pathway to his cottage door.—Chicago built n cottage, started some roses Little Chronicle. growing over it, mid brought his mother, then 60 years old, out to make , ; Frost. 17'1 home for lira. "It is a land in which There are two very distinct varieties miracles can be :wowed with plants," of frost, a "black' frost and a "white" he wrote to her. frost. A white frost is indicative of the For 30 years he liras been the miracle probabilities of rain, but two white svorkecr of the Sonoma valley, leading frosts seen on consecutive mornings, and, a quiet, laborious life. Emerson in his still more, three white frosts so seen, essay on greatness says: "Be true and are certain forerunners of rein within the world will beat a pathway to your a few hours. On the other hand, a black ;door." More than 60 visitors a day'— frost, especially if it comes on gradual - J2,000 every year—anen of saience, ly during two or three days, indicates statesmen, .philtenthropists, gardeners, cold and dry Weather. If during frosty speculators an, flowers and seeds, and weather mist disperses and small de- snere idle, tourists, have beaten a path torched cirrocumula.s clouds appear in between the walnut trees to the door the upper air, a thaw may be expected. of the rose-small's:a cottage. When Cirrocumulus is the scientific name for they got there. if they are admitted, those clouds which are familiar to every; they see a small man of -delicate frame body under the name of "mackerel sky." and refined feature.e, grey, 'modest and Some other signs of an impending break - retiring, and somewhat careless in his up of frost aro the following: A. watery dress. And he will say with a Emile: sun setting in bluish clouds, and casting "Bo quick, gentlemen; say time is reflected rays into thef; the stars look- Woirth about $230 an hour." ing dull, and the larger ones only visa THE PURESI TEA Cannot be bulk tea in open chests, exposed to the mixed odors of a grocer's shop, but the kind that comes in Air Tight Lead Packets, fresh from the plantations. That's 11111, los •••ea+++++.14.+4.+++.1.-raesastfeellet+ MILLIONS 1 OF WAIFS v++4444444014.14++++++++++1.4a, Father Knickerbocker pays approxi- mately $2,500,000 a year for the main- tenance and caro of "dependent children," This is really a monumental column in dollars raised. in New York city to the tragedies of families—the sorrow and the suffering of women and children. Week in, week out, day after day, the stories of these tragedies are told at the Bureau of Dependent Children in the old Charities building, 66 Third avenue. Seven thousand applications by desti- tute mothers left starving with their little broods have been made for help already this year, and these figures will have mounted considerably higher before its close. Just think of it, 7,000 Piteous appeals for shelter and for food by helpless mothers for themselves and their little ones in this city of palaces and untold wealth! "If only the philanthropists or some of our millionaires would sit here for an hour or two a day.for a week!" said. the kindly man who listens daily to the Mothers' stories of their sorrows and wrongs, "they would see and hear what would make their hearts melt with Pity." It is a story of the bread winner taken away, wined it may be at his work, and the family left penniless and thrown out on the street. A. mother, ill and weak, having tottered out of a hos- pital and unable to earn longer the few dollars with which she had struggles to keep her children with her, or it may be that the hospital claims her and that she must go, to add still further to her burden. With pale, .pinched faces the women come, darkenings around their sunken oyes, their lips bloodless, their clothing thin and threadbare, their shoes broken, the uppers merely remaining—the stamp of hunger and poverty over all. , It is noontime, but perhaps they have had no breakfast, or if they. had, it was a meal merely in name—a piece of stale bread, a cup of water. And hanging on to their skirts are four, five, or six little ones, with the hunger pallor in their eager faces, their clothes in rags and their little feet sticking *rut every- where into the cold through their broken shoes. In the majority. of cases there is also a baby in arms, a poor little bundle of rags crying for what the mother cannot give it Malnutrition, the A Generous Pension. , Wee the moon's borne looking blunted. —Creamery Journal. Ile has spent all his own money for handfuls of bean and. other seed. .And he charges nothing for his valuable time. He gives that bo the world, not to the casual visiter. Besides he is squandering a pension of $1'0,000 a roe given him by the Carnegie Insti- tute, paying it sme for seed, and soil emit gardeners. His business is breed - big plants. He still keeps up his old practiee of making bonfires of inferior growths) that might be sold for then - wattle of dollars. When lie first went to Santa Doss he willed upon. las neighbore—Mr. Yellow Poppy of the fickle, and otbers—emtil Ito knew every plant for miles around. Ho even took journoya into the desert and discovered that the acquaintances eiiip of the spring owing. was worth .oultivtaing. eriticised those friends $00617, telling them in, what SNIOPOStii • what they call the 'weisenhaus: Doses. - tions are frequent among them. The Italians talk of an instiation for chil- dren as the 'eollegio.' It is a great thing with them to get the children to col. lege with good food and good clothes and, good shoes. "We even have women and children sent over here from Europe met by men who pass as their husbands and get them off Ellis Island, when in reality their husbands are in prison in the home land. We had a case recently of a wo- man who went through Ellis Island in this way whose husband was serving a life sentence for murder."—New York Globe. TO BREED FROM ZEBRAS, Government Plan to Create New Species of Draft Animals. Secretary Wilson and officials of the bur- eau of animal industry of the agricultural department, with the co-operatioa of Dr. Frank Baker, superintendent of tho National Zoological Park, are about to ongaL4e in the most curious zoological experiment tnat was ever undertaken by the Government. The Germans are making preparations for a similar experiment, and the Congo Free State, in Africa, will also attempt it, Robert P. Sicinner, United States Consul -General at Marseilles, who was recently sent to Abys- .114+444+4+4+++++ NAL `WHILE HE • LIVED .4, te+++4+•-•le++.10.+4,0114-.++441S++441 I worked with a gang in the Nine Pits oolitery about fifteen years back, anti there was ono Mall there W110 balled troto. South Wales as I got pretty friendly With, I've called him a "man," but don't know it the title oomos right. Ile was - ! more like a stunted boy Ulan a man, and mere like some sort of queer animal. than := either. He had a monstrous largo head , and shoulders, and a pair of little, bowed, • twisted lags, 7a0 bigger than a child's of 9 _ years old, I've said -------- retty friendly, but - I dame icnow as I was snytning mere than - FEEDING • to him. was clever and could speak Englisn as wen as any of us. Iie had been two ems and more at the Nine Fite, and he brought some money with elm when he came. and se had a cottage of his own and a tidy piece et garden, which was above valet the rest of us had, There wasn't a man of six feet amongst us stronger than he 'wile. To have seen lam awing his pick would have made you hold your breath. ne could wale, you see, down some of the narrow, low gal - lutes, where chaps like me would have to crawl. I lived along with my f ether and sister then. We were precious poor, and father used to say he hoped Hotty would marry Some one able to keep her, and so give us o lift that way. Ono day a new hand came to the pit, Jim Marwood by name. See him on Sun- day. Ming to chapel, clean and smart, as straight as a pole, with his blue eyes look- ing so frank and sinning, and you'd say he looked a picture. He struck up a mighty affection for me before Ise had. been a month in the gang. Ile told me all about his friends and ouch like, most confidential, and I found out he had to keep his mother, and hadn't a six- pence he could call his own. Well, one day—I remember it as clear as yesterclay—lt was between the lights on a September evening, I was smoking my pipe iri our back room—father was out of the house—when I heard voices in the other roora across the passage. It was Matty sinia to make a treaty with taut Gosern- , and my sister talking together. anent, has obtained, through the Ras. Mo.- 1 Matty was the dwarf. Ile had a long konuen at Herar, Africa, a pair of Gravy , welsh name, but we called him "Matty" zebra stallions. They are large,.pwertul and ' in the general way, 'because of his rough comporatively rare animals, which range 10 ; hair, and he didn't seem to mind the joke. a wild state in the Abyssinian forests. Mr. i ../ love you," he says to Hetty. "I've Skinner endeavored to secure elle while lie , loved you ever since I've ;seen you. Won't was in that country, but there was none in i you marry me? I'd be a good. husband to captivity at that time. Since then Emperor Meuelik has had his forest rangers search- 1 She went into a light, kind of scornful ing for zebras, and the first pair that were , laugh. captured are now on their way to Mr. ; "Marry you?" sho says. "Why, Matty, Skinner at Marseilles, whence they will be you must bo dreaming. Of course, I won't." slapped to New York, The Department of He was silent. for a minute; then ho says: States had been advised of the shipnaent. "I'm stunted and crooked, I know; but I By crossing these zebras with the Ameri- love you better than any other man will can horse and the American mule it is pro- ever love you, and I've a comfortable home posed to create an entirely now breed of to offer you." animals, which, it is believed, will exceed "It you had twenty houses, I wouldn't in speed, strength and endurance every voni- have you," she answered quick. "So do ety of the horse or mule which we now have eay no more about it." in existence. The experiments will be coal I think he moved round the room after done in the room likely to frighten she ducted at the Washington Zoo under the di- , that, for his voice sounded nearer to mo. bird. Some birds are naturally timid They will be watched with the greatest in - zoologists of the agricultural department. tween you and me. Do you think I've been "Jim Marwood's the man that stands be- THE PRIVATE CAR AND THE FAV - it is useless trying to tame them; the rection of Superintendent Baker and the . He spoke short and savage -like: 1 StannardOREDBSIIIIkPerPEinRS. heart is weak and they need extra gen- and easily alarmed. When. they are so, iciest by zooloDists and live stock mon all i blind? Jim Marwood has got your heart, Roy 'Jetty never was the girl to be cowneexat MeOlure's talk.% about the private car the January 'over the world. Eecretary Wilson is ad- and do you think you -will ever marry bini tlo treatment. We have known a. bird lased that the authorities of the German while I'm alive?" it for cross brooding, because it is proof moment like gunpowder. and the beef trust. He begins by con - piece of linen down the centre. possessions in South Africa have been en- of this kind almost frightened to deatia bite will kill a horse or mule, but does not oars, and shows how, as originaly plan - against the tsetse, an African fly. whose ----- . "It is Jim Marwood that has got my epropos of fresh air, the bird in the I to say it before you or any Jnan. I know ned, they were of great benefit to the e railroads, the shippers and the consum- , heart, and I have his, and I'm not ashamed Injure a zebra. winter's evening is too often hung in a trouble, It is believed that n half -bred that you are so mortal proud of, and I and brought to the large eities of the prejudicial to health in a room where zebra will be as much immune from its ef- , know Jim is poor, and We shall have to gas is burning. If the bird must be in facts as a full -bred animal, hence the ex- wait for years, but you needn't think ..n_c?„1:t.4.h. the delicacies of the south and this room the cage should be lowered periment is considered worth trying. The you'll frighten me out of marrying him, ""`" and partially covered up. Smoke, steam, cessity of providing 80M0 beast of burden limy I'd never marry such a miserable, wicked, style, builcts up a structure of facts that After thae Mr. Baker, in his clear and all sorts of vapors tend. to injure German authorities recognize also the ne- for you won't; rind if I didn't marry him, Africa, for neither horses, mules nor oxen yourself I would." illness and. loss of voice. thrive there. Carabaos, or water buffalo, I I saiw him no more that night, and I urthelieva,ble sweep of the abuses. He A forenoon bath daily in fine weath- from the East Indies endure the climate ' didnd't let on to Hetty that I had over- talks principally of .Armour, as the larg- The average horse, 'with the usual flow of saliva, eats one = quart of oats in about fifteen minutes; with this flow partially. stopped t takes • thirty minutes. This shows how important • • it is to have the proper quantity of saliva and digestive juices. Clydesdale Stock Food • increases the saliva and digestive = juices because the feed being • made "tasty" it makes the I animals " mouth water," the same as our own when we add butter or jam to our soda bis., cuit; it makes it snore enjoyable to eat. The horse, therefore, eats its feed up clean. The increased digestion and assimilation makes the blood circulate better, loosening the hide and making the coat glossy. - Nothing injurious in it and can stop feeding it without harm- ful effects. Our Heave Cure, Tar Foot Remedy, Colic Cure, Embro- cation Liniment, Gall Cure, Balsam Pine Healing Oil, and Worm Powders are equally as good in their own way. Money cheerfully refunded by the sealer if any Clydesdale Preparations do not give satis- faction. Try Hercules Poultry Food. Clydesdale Stock Food Co., Limited Toronto, Ont. Care of Callarto itle$44140+144 When the canary Is in ordinary butith the more plainly it he fed the hetter, says the Pittsburg Trees.' The weld 'mixture is what is called Mask mid Iwhite canary seed, the lilac, k being good summer rape. Of this one part is sullied I to two of the other. It is important . however, that the seed be good and clean—that is, fres from dust and grit. " 1 The canary seed should be fat, glit. tering seeds, and before putting it iu the tin of a morning not only should the • tin itself be cleansed, but the seed • should. be put upon a piece of white pa- _ per and the dust or grit. if any, blown away OP removed. In addition to these seeds a little green fwd. must be given, , fresh every day, but not damp. The best pant probably plaintain, ripe grounded, ; ripe chickenweed, a little lettuce or we. I ter cress, . As to dainties, the less of these the - I better, We may, perhaps, make an ex- eeption in the traditional morsel of 1 ; sugar or crumb of sweet biscuit, but a 1 bird will not keep long in song that has g !much of either. Water should be given fresh every !morning ,thc little glass fountain being 3 I previously well rinsed out. Soft filtered water is best by far, A great many ailments are induced by hard water. In the wild state birds drink the rain wa- ter from the leaves. This is pure, and 1 contains, of course, no hardness, • Sand is another important sine qua non of health. It should be rather coarse or gritty and very clean. Perhaps washed sea sand is as good as any. The bottom of the cage should, always be 1 thickly strewn with this immediately af- ter the cage is cleaned in the morning, a stock being kept in the house for the purpose, • A song canary will not do well for ; any length of time in a stuffy, badly ventilated room. Another thing that tends greatly to keep the bird in health — is a sun bath. On fine days the cage should be hung that the sunshine shall penetrate the cage, but at the same time it must be remembered that too much heat is very dangerous, so one-half of the cage should be invariably covered, with a cloth. This cloth conies in handy in several other ways— at night, for example; more particularly when the temperature is low or likely to be. On such occas- : ions the cage is to be covered quite over, but in summer a part should always be 7 left open. The cloth may be required also at times when anything is being deavoring to domesticate, the zebra and use and she Cashed round on him the sidering the legitimate use of private by some one, while sewing, tearing a in Africa, and has caused a great deal of you've got your cottage and your garden ma; how they boomed 'the fruit industry, Thls fly prevails in the German colonies position we have already condemned as that can endure the climate of Central little wretch as you! So don't natter gives you a bird's-eye view of the almost the health slowly, or, indeed, to cause hear them. est owner of 'ornate ears, Who controls a er is an excellent preservative of life much better, but the zebra, which is a nat- , ivo of that zone would be even more use- The next day we were all underground, dozen or more lines, owning fruit and . and voice in the sone canary. A saucer It b d ti t d —Chi as usual. SO= OW or o er, Matty meat cars tank -cattle ana even. eonunon the water • Record -Herald. great word never gets through the ears to the heart. REDUCES ROLLING IN VESSELS. Death and sickness are mainly re - physician calls the hunger pinch, and the ful if t coulde omes ca e Cage ibl f th diti d Fred spons e or ese con ons, an - crick E. Bauer, the superintendent of the bureau, will tell you that the general situation among the poor of this city was never so distressing as it is to -day. For when the husband and father dies or cannot work there is never a penny to keep out black poverty. They struggle for existence witha few dollars a week had always been desperately hard, al- ways a mother of keeping body and soul together and a roof over their heads. Strikes, especially last year were re- sponsible for quite a large percentage of the applications, the wives of iron workers, tinsmiths, and bricklayers being obliged ‚to seek temporary relief for themselves and their children. Savings had been swept away, credit was gone, and nothing remained but to part with the little ones until there was •a return to normal conditions in the building trades. Another cause of suffering, and one which Mr. Bauer hopes will be vigorous- ly dealt with, is desertion. Under a law recently passed, wife desertion has been classed as a felony, and the deserted, if found, may now be extradited from any state in which he has sought a re- fuge. Fully thirty per cent. at least of the applications to the bureau raise, ac- cording to Mr. Bauer, from wife deser- tio4he public at large," said Mr. Bauer, "have little idea of the number of de- sertions there are. It is something shocking. These men seem to have no heart, to be even without the brute in- sinet, for when a poor woman is most in need of attention is the time they select to clear out. It may be the strug- gle is too much for them and they lose nerve, but it is rather hard, you will ad- mit, to leave a wife to struggle for her children at a time when she should be going to a hospital. "The fact, is, the poor women are not able to undertake the task, and if we do not look after the children they must starve. Some women, of course, are too , proud to let their distress become known l and so one rends in the newspapers of a family found starving. "We will certainly prosecute under the new law, which I am sorry is not ret- roactive, wherever we can discover the delinquent. Difficulties, of course, we ( sliall have to contend with, for even in the hardest eases a woman will not. con- sent, to do anything to the man who deserted her that will send him to pris- on for two or three years. "It was Guido, who wrote, I think, that a woman has a good deal of the spirit that prompts a dog to lick the hand that struck him. In the very worst cases you will not get the woman to help you find the deserter. I believe often they know where the husbands are and will not tell. This law, however, is one of the best that has been passed in a long time, and as soon as we have a few cases and it becomes generally ' known that there is such a law it will certainly act as a deterrent. "The desertions," continued Mr. Bauer, "aro chiefly among foreigners. Wo are told that the family is everything to these people in their own countries, but they seem, when they come here, to want to get rid of the wives and children. It may be that they think this has some- thing to do with freedom, but they must be made to think differently. "I have no doubt there are many cases of fraud, that is collusion between the husband and his wife, so as to get rid of the children and the cost of keep- ing them, and, oftentimes for the sake, I believe, of having them well taken care of free of expense. "1 do not want to Single out any par - Nelda' race, but the Russian .1-ews are very apt as soon as possible to take a Mesta of getting their children sett to German Invention Which Aims to Pre- vent Seasickness. According to German newspapers, Otto Schlick, of Hamburg, has invented an appliance which reduces the rolling of ships to a minimum. He calls it "Schiffskreisol" (ship top), It is stated that if it fills expectations it will prove of great importance, not only that ,soa- sickness would be done away with, but the efficiency of war ships would be greatly enhanced, as the bitting ability would be vastly increased. Much inter- est appears to be manifested. in this in- ve,ntion in shipbuilding circles. Recently larger experiments with this"top" took place at the works of the Hamburg - American Line, in the harbor of Ham- burg, before a company of interested parties. Into the old torpedo boat See - beer a ship top had been built into the boat amidshipss This top has turbine paddles and is so constructed that it can make simultaneously rotating and pen- dulous motions. By the combined mo- tion the rolling of the ship is to be av- erted. The apparatus was set in motion by steam power, making 2,300 revolu- tions per minute, and the result is said to have been such as to justify,the be- lief that it would accomplish what is claimed for it. t - t Evolution of the Pianoforte. George Rose, in the Connoisseur, writes an article on the Evolution of the Pianoforte, from the early Persian dulcimer, the wires of which were struck with two sticks, for which Bach wrote his preludes and fugues, to the piano- forte of to-day—and the ingenious me- chanical or automatic pianoforte players, which have lately become popular, v IN NI:. L....W(111,1H 61JillEi..1.gAS7ailgidaWkiblil, FLAVORING PURITY IWANTA Signifies purity, strength and economy. /0;v4iro.leci 1:2,4f/dfiliVelliakjhr A ts TIN WILL EQUAL $1 WORTH OF THE COMMON AL- COHOLIC PREPARATIONS SOLD GENERALLY. LIQUID EX- TRACTS CONTAIN FROM so TO 90 PER CENT. OF ALCOHOL OR PRODUCTS OF COAL TAR, "IT IS PURE, HIGHLY CON- CENTRATED AND IS LESS '- LIKELY TO LOSE ITS AROMA THAT!" FLAVORS MADE, FROM ALCOHOLIC BASES."—DR. R. A. PYNE, DOMINION ANALYST. AGENTS IT,grtg.tilit ItrignIgi are paying the largest eommissions of any company doing an honest busi- ness. 44IWANTA" MANUFACTUR. ING CO., Hamilton Maywood and me found ourselves always pretty close together. He seemed to me to bo hanging on to Jim in a way I didn't like, hearing what I had heard, and I kept as close' to both as I well could. I noticed that the dwarf scarce took his eyes off Jim, except at 12 o'clock, when we stopped for our bits of food, and then he sat i na earner by himself under a truck and scribbled on a piece of paper, with a queer sort of smile on his face. , makes as goodabathas any, box -ears approximating 14,000 in alt, rep- :being clear rain water. It is usually resenting an investment of about $14,- . placed in the cage, but if the bird has • 000,000. He tells how Armour & Go. been tamed thoroughly and allowed its carry not only their own products, but freedom for a time every day the bath fruits and vegetables for shippers. genee- . should be placed on a chair or on the ally, and how inuch of this side issue is floor. The bird will come to look upon conducted entirely at the •expense ;of this as a very great luxury and the rage the railroads. remains unsoiled. The railroads - for these rivate Pa, p level. It we.s a dangerous part of the cars a "mileage charge," afterwards col - In the afternoon we got down to a lower Holding Court in Missouri. mine, as we all knew, and we kept our lecting the freight rate, Although the davy lamps pretty tight, I can tell you. rental for the cars brings in a handsome (Kansas City Star.) There s lir-damp aboute," solO on,e interest, on the anoney inveeted, these Scene: Mayor's court at Bartlesville. ; of,.tAhnedamon. spark would settle the lot of us, big ShipperS aro not satisfied, but turn Lawyer Clevinger to Lawyer George: wouldn't it?" said the dwarf. the screws just the same and squeeze "Oh, go ahead with the trial; you own "Ah, that it would!" Jim answered. their rates down when their products the court anyhow." George: "You going Nothing more was said about fire -damp, have ever known, came around to 6 o'clock Whieh the smaller o leper pays. to be sent to jail for that." Clevinger: however, and that day, the longest day 1 are carried at a failure far below that to strata for that, you honor? He ought without an explosion. Armour in addition, on account of "Oh, can't you take a joke? I didn't The cages were ready for us to get up the breadth of his interest, is able ;to mean it." George: "You are a liar; you to the top of the shaft, and most of the drive these cues so that they1 the niece did mean it." They fight, Clevinger men had gone. maximum slumber of miles a day, and "You go now," says 1 to the dwarf. "No," he answers; "I am going to stay so gets his stuff threugh, at the expense , e scratching George's face' and George a little overtime to -night. You all go on not only of other shippers, but of the chewing Clevingei's thumb until Clev- ' And look here, give this to your sister Het - Mr. Baker illustrates his narrative . Inger howls "enough." the f ighters and send the cage down again for me. ordinary routine of the railroad itself. A bucket of water e"d up svith many rue incidents, which serve is brought by the janitor, i tie—Howiplui tyoau?b—tianuddieteilnitohemryto heapaedn i tt I. wash their hands, and the trial proceeds. in a handkerchief. I took it gingerly en- to bring home to the evader the menace . nough, for with such suspicions in my mina containeul in this control of tho rates z 1 half expected it might go of in my face samehow. "What are you afraid of?" he asks, Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Com - shore. pasty, and shows 'how Armour and he It the trusts. He tells of John D. And we touched the signal rope, and up "Nothing," I says, as sharp. defy the railroads and name the actual price at which the products shall be ear - went Jim and me, and the dwarf stood un- derneath, and turned his face up, watching ried. Mr. Baker goes further and makes us out of sight. charges, astounding, hard of belief, until well, I felt more comfortable when we he has proved. them with hard, cold put our feet on firm ground on top of the facts He shows how pslities play a part shaft, and had sent the cage down again and iiew politicians garner rebates, and "Wonder,Ifou.rhlm. "Maybe lietty will ti' yuu some time,' what's in that bundle?" says tells at length of the gross injustice of , tho discrimination between beef and cat - 1 replies, little thinklnk how it concerned tie. This article containing the exposure him. it does would create a sensation a any I took it home and called IIetty to open time, but it is of peauliar interest just it. Our cottage wasn't fats from the pits, now when all the country lOOkS tO and it couldn't have been above ten min- utes since the dwarf had put it into tny Washington for rate legislation. I 7 1 head. She Undid the knot, and there—if you would believe it—tvere tho title deeds of BARBERS AND SURGEONS, his cottage and (SO tied up in a bit of can- ; vas and the scrap of pe,per I had seen him At the hall of the ancient City Guild ' scribble under the truck. There were these of Bathers in London an interesting Ist: here is for you. 'Ugly and wmoisrwedrahabaotne., I am, but 'wicked' 1 am not. event occurred last week. From the ear - Think kindly et a dwarf, if you can. God ltiietentluinyesup.4, both in England nail on the ontinent, barbeey and surgery were !a- ims alive, and I shall keep nsy word. C We hadn't got to tho end of the poor , naintteld, a,,nclI tett le.evservidenedeinag dirty little letter when we heard a sound the antiquity of the LoaSsin Guild of made mo as wen as him." dull roaring, hsalting the floor we stood on, BanlyeaSurcgeons, rey bai,.. I) as it it was thunder under our feet. list of ;their masters from the year 1308. that made our hearts stand still—a long, "An explosion in tho mine!" says Hefty, 71iS union was dissolved by Act. of Par - with a face as white as chalk. liainent in 1745, benceforta the 13arbers' Gompany retaining the old hall, in Monk- It was no use trying to dig hira out. Ho i he must have opened it—that : a. welluS,tireet, where it had been situated knew when he opened his davy lamp—and • week .since the days of Richard II., together Inman help weale corporate property, records, she cried about it for a and said ; could never resell him there. . think sho is happy now, for she marrietd of se happy again. But / were createa a separate company, out pte a.nal. pictures, whilet the surgeons ' sheshould never b ; ty's cottage stm, and the garden Is all of Wastiiireghegonrest.V the pke,useesndta1ytoydasalte,College co . /no the Easter latter. They live in Mat - abloom with flowers. — London Evenine, ever, the old association was renewed at. News. a Court of Assistants of the Barbers' Ocenpany, when the President of the Dream Foretold Son's Death. ' • - Royal College of Surgeons wee admitteil to the ereedom and livery of the coin - His foot fastened in a frog, Irvine pithy, and may thus be truly said to run down and instantly killed by a train was leave become a "Barber -Surgeon." The Smith, 21 years old, a brakeman, yesterday tit Waverly. He was a son old hall in which this ceremony took of Mr, and *Mrs. Aaron Smith, of this 11.1):0:1:3.06e'eliflvietalesefeo,7ittelelentsvtaallselYbYbe8111gestitillillilliG'omrareedailt1 city. „-, with many weeks ef Vandyke, Tidy, Friends of Aaron Smith, section fore- Reynolds, and Gainsborough, and a pie. man at Medora, say the death of his son tare by Holbeini representing Henry tas foretoIal IiIneeakic,lersal .il`Tsv,,Tia ice Idnl.r; VIII. pasesenting a charter to the Bar. ivngthclast dreamed of sechig my son killed by the ber•Sturgsame teons. The company else pos. ears in identically the same manner as eeerees hole° old plate, notably the his death did to -day occur. It was no Tudor grace 515115 and eover (plate quark, surprise to me." Royal Oak ems given by Charles H., 1519), -presented by Henry VIII„ the At the time of the young man's death Li commemoration of his •eseape at llos= Smith was at 'work near the station of &'l1, and a large silver puneh-bowl re - Fidelity. Avnt E. E. Monahan, with a Ives entertaiued at a :banquet in the ceived from Queen Anue. The President message announcing the death, waved evening, feel, in responding to the toast for the father, but it was neceslary only of the "Junior Liveryman." epoke with for him to corroborate the exeised state- pride axial pleasure of his association tient of Smith, who, anticipating him, v,ith the Guild 'and the hall which hall Said: "He's killed, is he?".---Meti.,.= sot- coos ben the home of to =ay Of -ir respondent St, Louis Wale: -Demetiratt illattriout pred,ocsators. 14 . .. • I said you shouldn't marry him 'while I Sol! Impoverished soil, like impov- erished blood, needs a proper fertilizer. A chemist by analyz- ing the soil can tell you what fertilizer to use for different products. If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell you what you need to fertilize it and give it the rich, red corpuscles that are lacldng in it. It may be you need a tonic, but more likely you need a concentrated fat food, and fat is the element lacking in your system. There is no fat food that is so easily digested and assimi- lated as Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil It will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream, fail to do it. Scott'semulsion is always the same; always palatable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults, Ws, will fiend you temple tree. Bo sure that this plc - Imre in the form of si label Iti on the Wrapper of every beUle of Enna - Sion you buy. SCOTT & BOWIE CHEMISTS Tii21110, i&ISOc. mad SIM°. Drsitsittel.