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The Wingham Advance, 1907-09-12, Page 311.--•••••• MRS. RUBBERINO PASSES LOSSES FROM FOREST 'N'IRES. I 050,000)00 Werth of Standing Tinelef41 ON IIER. NEIfillBORS I foreet firers in the United Statea deetrey It Ito boon officially eatiimated that Liiirned Annaally. f anuually about $50,900,000 Of atanding 11•1.....1.0*.n..,M.,M141..",•••••••••14.*•••••••••=0,••• 1 timber and burn Over an area of at least A Monologo:a on the Shortcomings', of Summer t "e°1"°° a"". Hotel Visitors. dental origin, ettelt tte fiparks from loce- afea:rof the fereat fires are of aeciden- motivea or other enginee, fires of hunt- ing Cir camping parties or from burning 4/134 grillaing all over heriface when ich'e' brush piles. But, Recording to Oountry eeeee you -wish you'd have the deceucy Life in America, it is estimated that et 41°t t.° la)P 0 Yaw' feet and' throw your- least two-thirds of these fires are of in- geerlifnlitaoall over the pleao anti emira ilea toutional origin, iu the =levity ot such at you, And 1 heard thie morning ---ah, gained in starting the fires being the im- Whenever abet vulgar doll grille 1 cateis the object thet b expected -to be dont you lemi yourself that anything, provement of the pasturage. oodrauvecroa,ogueentliouis laseiveaheranfooreunani ingiziegthoat ruyoeuu ithaoin; mai; sbeornoaeat;onsiptohrear iniltporof vtebnie ebnlitraillign d her and her queer looking that direction, but it must be liorne in eolnpanious .in the cafe after' ,I went to mind that these fires also deetroy mueli bed Met night, Yeti won't foal rue again of the grace. annual and perenniai herbs by that staff about going down te the and shrubs and by burning both the aiRar counter to ge4 a newepaper-aud I seeds and the plants in the long ran want to say to you right now that it you even the paaturage in the forest is injur- (New York Suna Mrs. llubberluo, ecated• WA the Ver411. dali, of the slimmer resort liotel with her hueband, who waa fruitleasly trying to got the drift of the stock market out ot the morning pager, was sorting over the porch parading hotel throug for his in. Xermetion and for her enjoyment. "1 4=2;11 imagine what you could 'have been thinking, or driukiug, when you re- marked last night that time) wore some attractive people Imre," she mid. "We becoming a sort of pose with you to wear those hued speetaelee, anyhow. I vette "1r you just dealt to be dieagreable. Where are they? I haven't seen any of them. Of all the dowdy, frumpish thrown togeth- er, imitation, would-bges of women, I nee- er saw the like in all -- "There bonies that crazy old Never - quit woman, fixed up like •seraebody about 18 years old, and if you make her, step hero for a talkalike you did yester-• day ramming, I shall certainly get up and leave; now, remember. The crazy old :affected thing! If shot; not a grand- mother, she ought to be, and the way she tittere and gig,glefs all over the place), (ogling the stupid fools of boys that buzg around her morning, noon and night - and, for all their stupidity, Pm perfeetly ,certain they're only guying her -yes, end making those ridiculous old watery ,eyes of hers at the married men, too - well, if it isa4t disgusting I never saw :anything that was. "I should think you'd be ashamed to 'flatter an old creature like that, QS you did yesterday morning, for of couree there isn't any possibility of your mean - „deg it, and it isn't deeent for ft man of -7yenr age to be ridiculing wo-men to their faces, no matter how crazy or flighty they may be. You kalow just as web as do, only you're teo stubborn to admit it, 'That tea weeefeacs tt, tea baok to the days of Itoopskigia ead cameo earrings, and wet you stand right up and tell the piti- able old simpering thing all sorts of non- sensical thiags about the way she's been looking, and you haven't enough sense to see that when you tell her such things alio just moistens her dry old eyes and rolls her faded old. blueys of oyes around and takes it all as if it were Gospel. I call it a shame for men to set out de- liberately to make drivelling old crea- tures like that believe that they are not dn their dotage, and I want you to— "Well, there's that Mrs. Stiokalong looming out in her riding habit, and it's ta wonder to me she's not afraid to ride a horse for fear of jawing the enamel loose from her cracked face. How's that? Her natural complexion? Ha, ha, hal Well, I always knew that you were a nin' ny, James Rubberize, but I cer- tainly never thought that—Her nat- ural skin? Now I do wish that when you ;get into one of these kittenish hu - motel of yours you wouldn't attempt to zny me, for I simply won't stand it. You 'know just ari well es you know you're --alive -that that Stickalong woman must • -get up long before daylight every morn - 'hag oi Ifer life to eprg.id those eakey lay- ers of porcelain over her yellowish old fano. "Maybe the crack -brained old back. number ian't angry at me just because last eveaing, upon pretence thet I want- ed to borrow a pen to write some let- ters before going to bed, I gipped dowel the hall to her room and knocked on her door just to see what she looked like with her layers of mako-up off, and she oaree to the door, thinking it was only a ',bellboy or somebody, and, mercy on ual ilf ever you saw such a fright I honestly athink you'd fairly laugh yourself to eleath, 'deed I dot She'd just finiehed steaming her face to get that tinny old staff off of it, and of all the millions of wrinkles and crowsfeet and liver spots all over her forehead and the blotchiest saffron colored cheeks, and her jowls just hanging in pouches, and she had all of the rata out of her hair, of course, and the woman really has only about nine heirs of her own, all told, and gra- cious sakes, how she did glare at me when she gave me the pen, and I said to her that it must be latch a bore for her to prepare for bed, but that it must be even more wearing to get ready to meet , the world in the morning, and really 1 thought she was going to seratelf me. As it, was, she hastaly closed the door, and aro goieg to begin to develop a taste for MI rather than improved by these re - low eeniaanee at your age, and as fat and hideous and, puffy ace you ore, why, I shall --,-- "I'd like to know who ie chaperoning those two eluffy wuffy looking crazy - haired girle coming out of that eottage over the way -if ehey have any elm?. erone at all. There's a sort of myth there and, the aunt of tho. other live tem 7; miscellaneous 18, In thie caee, therefore, the laeomot:ive sparks around hero that tho mother of one of or aunt belonging to those two giddy In Pennsylvania a ;limiter proportion caused I haven't met anybody that has actual- a greater Minter of fires than the burn- ing of fellows; or pastere land. over there in the cottage with them,but ly come into contact with any mother ones, and I see them riding all over the is shown and in the estimate of the place with a lot of silly looking men, and twenty-eight States previously mention - no chaperon at all with thean; and they ed it was found that sparks from locomo- go sailing and driviug and rowieg and tires citarted the fires which devastated strolling around juin, as if they'd never over a million acres, or over one-eighth heard of a chaperon, and I think it's a of the entire acreage burned over en- ceinte for folks to lot light headed young nually, with a loss of about $3,200,000 elate like that behave in each a way at from this cause alone. This loss is nove a place like this as to cause talk, and 1 likely to be reduced through the haven - if I had my say_Row? you aity yoa 1 tion of an efficient and unobjectionable know the fathers of both those girra, spark arrester. and that the girls are allowed um act I To locate a fire in the woods is often liberty by their people, and thAt by no raeans an easy matter. The trained James Rubberino, I think we ell'allf go 1 I mate the distance to a forest fire within‘ f.orest ranger is no moro likely to esti- improved apparatus, he incroaseil to two hun- ten miles of correctnees than is the mese , dred and meaty nines, over water, • may , nee en e process o e see one as seem incredible, but I have known core- i atul#nt.tgLankPatage Of cleevelopmentesanC4ewas rwetilerVe . potent men to pass three days in tont- sthown, is ready to do comercial business peaked fires. In one year -1003 -the Forest, Fish anti Game Commission of New York re- ported the %tune of fires in that State as follows: Railroad loomotivea, 121; burning fellows, 88; from other fixes by wind, 01; fishermen, 47; incendiaries, 0; campfiree 0; tobacco conokens, 23; hun- ifriir++44++.+++++.44+•+.7 The Marconi System of Wireless Telegraphy. 64 44414 were slot 1.copt Meeneat iticepeesisi etene ,t them, "Ve Oat. A, Wit, vieleat pile 4WeVt thw eaereder ow* and eseermeal forty schwa- ; ere, with terrible le*. Oftt '11144 DOD - I treat betweee tee delay* la goatee new*. ; tee stiow moms of rencilme relief by sail- ' ira veesels, end the vole/WOW elifferilef and ;towel death from inervadon expoe- ure then, iced tee promyt metbodia ef 1.904 ++++++++++41"e are very *Mang." (gees, and beautleullY lobo. The eld world , ;eaten goverament-In ail-depatiarirtY4elitye, 114 Wite werfa le booming =idler by do- ox'reliti,i/feue,41 tir 4teOla 313moritithboon aclopbtod for ia pot by any ramIner ot means so far dis-'4 Lloyd's AgerioY, and in all querters ot the taut from tho now na it was aye yearo Itg 0, 1 glebe. There are over two hundred emu. Y U t It le established 14 all navigable waters, great liners that the timo meaeurenient of 1 , and en civet's, coast line In the world. Mar - the Atlas:ate has Swindled with the 1$'68'111.; I conigrams havo boon transmitted across more ot time. says tho Moutreal Witness. The then three tbolistosd smiles of oeean, trout melee bac* played its part In the worlea e. angiand to Rusesia over alternating reute 14 144rillkagOa 41441 AM the wireless tolegrafaaa lautl and sea, from Dngland to Italy; aerose system is so (iambus on this ovolutioa ter tbe Continent of Dame and the Alps, and the benefit of manklue that It is only reit- on mans at sea over two thou.:end mass sonabio to believe that la the not tar -die- from the lute,e of operetion. tant future, tentinents will be oven mom 14r. Marconi wee born at Villa Gluttons+, acceSsible for the purpoeo of communicatien near Bologna, Telly, on April 25, 1874, and totntoth.oeollitareoui-fitted ocean-goiug stosenere sw,ual,s8Iterly.neeprtcut aatnLvelrhiyornagaenbd 0 latoolurr ,a3 kUoUg And ter this universally appreciatee boon interest in olectrioity, and when the news wo have to thank the systematig, classifiers- came In 1888 that Pretessor Ileinrich Mertz tion of the scientific experience of Mr. 0. had showe that a disruptive electrical dies Marconi, wlio in this matter has, indeed charge muses eleetro-magnetio waves to penetrated tbe constitution of nature and Unrolled the mystereous peeee of Its eistory, ty conceived of the possibility ct eareyies the velocity ef light, young Marconi prompt - until wireleee telegraphy (*amide to the high the liertzian waves to telepraphy. lie was realms of the ruarvellous from the reek succeesful In doing tble in a few short Year; wonderful to thiuk of a message bolas tone- "stem mor„ffeotive and tar_roaaaing, ttaa ment on the Cornish eomit of Buglanei to name is famous throughout the world inercial stateme altogether. bottom of soieutIfic truthatilaess. It is reallY he continued, and is coati:liana to maim tbe nutted foam one sensitively 'tuned' instru- •41-daY, at tbe ao of thirty-three rbsso, think of it maintalniag itsi form and shape . never see a single snail. In the cool of RAISING SNAILS FOR MAR warreseireeseraeretriswowirleseeree Millions Bred on Farms for Europe's De* lectation. , Frain° is perhaps the premier enaii yards s uare is sufficient for * eel= producing natio; although Austria, Ila- of 10, snails. no Jana a pienga eerie aed Switzerland heve thousaucto and during the rainy months of March of Snail farms, where the famous ewer- and April the teeants are introdueo4 Bete are raised and fattened on vine and covered with a layer of moos and • !magma 'Ihe demand for enails in France straw four inekee thick. Under the in- ' is far too great for the supply to be left Mance of heat dnd mobaterc; the iseearget : to chance, and time it comes sheet that buries himself &ad. reautine thug in ()b- anal.' fanning is an. important incluetry. smutty the breediug aeasion in the l'aris alone censumee beeiveco bummer. September and Maya when these little creatures are ut them best. ofF°Ieltuiese,inetarboribagueeed, davit!? leenadveaceinsieolica ' Coining upon a Frenelt, Italian or Ger- grecs. It will thus be seen that the Snail man snail farm unexpectedly one would is strietly a vegetarian; and it will not suspect its ideutity, for beyond the platee non -meat eaters to learn that the wild tattail becomes so strong on this diet enalls within. bounds little is visible save that he can drag an object weighing Bev - low wall or fence intended to keep the enty times as much as himself. boxes and cabbages by the thousand. And in the daytime you might. spend hours in walking round the foam and on waVes of oither-this medium of extreme tenuity and elastisity which 13 difuecel threush- out all space; and to thiuk et it being ro- celved at the station to which It is directed on this aide of the Atlantic 4n4 recorded correctly on an instrument 'tuned' to A sensitiveness corresponding with the trans- mittes• so that there can be no overlapping, or stealing, or breaking of taessago between ono polat and another. Truly, the swry of the Marconi telegraph reado like romance. Substantial facts prove its triumphs, wbich, Into those of truth, are moot glorious and "Marconlgram" Is uow a dictionary ac- cepted Wore 86 the system of telegraphy whiels it implies is a reliable and practical business force Jet the world. Its develop- ment within the labt few years has been marvellous, even lu an ago when imieutifie marvels are commoe. The possibility of telegraphing without wires by means; of electric waves In tree spaoe was foreshadowed by Dr. Ff. Hertz, in 1887 and 1888, but the art reeelved genesis in 1.895, in the nand of Mr. Marcell', fuld IVENS given its most prominent impetus, iyhee, in 8, using North:al wires, SO to 100 feat at each station, and a ten -inch spark adieu coil and au improved 'coheres,' he Ouooeoded in transmitting wireless sig- nals a distance of about forty miles, which distance within another twelve menthe, bY II •th • away from here very soon. When you get to the point where you deliberately ' invent yorne to oover up the conduct of "What's that? That Titiansky wo- man's hairr her own? What% that you said, -her hair 'looks like the afterglow of an autumn eutaset'? James Rubber- ino, if you sit there and say any raore fool things like that to me I certainly shall become just as inceneed as I can lee, for if there is one thing that I can't stolerato it's to be taken for a simpleton, And. you might to know it, by this time. Ira own hear, indeed. Do you moan to dell me that you ever ERN a natural col- or like that woman's hair anywhere - that theme ever vats such a color on land or sea? Did you ever eee a woman with black eyeee ha.ve brick red hair, you crag? You just say those thine to an- noy me, that's all, and if you don't— "Now, listen. Here eeMe3 that braz- en, bold eyed Mrs. Imethere this way, and if I served her right I'd out her dead, anything more than good day to her I ,oertainly shalle-(Why, my dear lira ..1.Methere, how do you do tordig? Isn't git a delightful afternoon? just facing ',rile world for the first time to -day? 'Well, my dear, you know what Iato ',flouts will do for one, and, really, you ,do look a bit tuekd up I Mare, and •-olt, you are going. for a sail? 'Well, Ao hope you will enjoy it! Ta, ta.I) The elhamelese thieg Did you see the way she waa glancing over my ehoulder let you all the time I watt talking to her. Not that she could poesibly care the least for you -I hope you are not idiotie enough to suppose that -abut that she's I just crazy to have all the men in the place leowtewing to and grovelling be- fore her, the awful, bull necked, pasty hoed, lumpy creature, end I beg of you for your otvn sake not to let me e.atch - you eecolumiging so much as a word with her, for if you are so calmness that you don't mind being talked about, I inn not, And I wouldn't have a common thing like • :that have anything on rao for all the -- "'Why, hero comes that niee Tittle Mrs. Plemug, MI do be nice to her. How's that. The ideit, of your daring to call one ,,of my friend; a, knocker 071(1 it allb right -to my Mee. She's one of the dearest little Voinett net ever lived, and she has had Mote than her ehare of trouble 'with her brute of a huebend, ttnd etin help it, 1 am awe, if you tack beaded men con - 'If :ender lee plain and trho Ms a eiwoet face. atnyway if she is plain, "Buhl The intpudence ef that, common looking needy woman in steleding there airtight cartes in wheel Ares a Itmeter ever taken from Leke auperior pert. ‘in the doorwayl-andl &egged as if she of eleettic lighta 'rho light laid heat It was 12,249 grOthl tona, the draught aerate going to ft hall et 4 otcleek itt the ,L1pr en the fruit and tea ac easily regu- being 19 feet 9 Welles forward arid 20 ligterThocitt--And atatriag (loam this WO e'e, Mk at tt Who is that you aro looking at so in - looking dumpling of a creature, Mrs. the particular Mope or gully from whiah j _ , limit fgt. years ago Mr. Mpaorconi Isirceee- ' walla, ragialfd,113g4146 TeTt, airid,?' ter CBOT; tently out there on the lawn? That cowy, Bonier)? Web, I certainly admire your fence, even after days of effort, as the, time his comparie lute a contract with 'ilicri it emanated was es evasive from a dis- "" I 1.sondon Times correspondent to ante his out of your head every time moee deceptive wilao-the-wisp, If it were not for the accidents of a Pleeroldee byelettete'Vett 6113laetrreltia,. heti: elf: taste, I declare, with your eyes popping . that insigiiificant, dolly looklYnOgu, f8a0t0,' aiwami , ladme oneltiVile Iti. b1.-Siness On 71 'eco4namerICiat shapeless thing. I wouldn't mind it at in sae o, a. ,..43 mem. ..e annual fire heels. Therefore the station has been re- , a;wa,Bte.rucourcs,e, „a riouaci or a rain, ".!_ all if you had the least bit of Mete with , milanTesi groat as they are, would be int- ineveS1 te Clue pay, near eyeney, e. ei., gad the elletingalshect inventor hue ZUViv, ea, your with your eyes -and me sitting districts during a droughty season fires ris"trnoeugetaatiocriellrelgewaftVatbOr9'caleastt4eef laonnre y gregter. In thinly settled forest ...a -- regard to women, but when you just de - right with you --such a plebeian looking are springing up in all directions and the land. He le now la Xrissand tuning the ap- hands, and she doesn't keep her nails available men are Goon occupied. Not Merateeethereu.to tit: propseru pitch ande aro person -did you ever notice her fat, red clean, either -with a lot of tallowy hair only m. ,ust soviet fires be left t.o run their elgetree 1,.oefite,ela tZpionn: In Initi ajanWalciialwuel course but if a fire has once reached be an accomplished feet. Towards this work Inman governmerit has contributed scattered all over lier empty head -oh, on earth. the Oa , eighty tbousand dollars. 'With the perfectlou her hair is natural enough, but I'd like -ilea a.- 1 J ,..certain diimt ens ons no powei ' of am system to tho extent already indicated, top . to know who'd want such foolish towy ! Ds axes ear quenching the fire are be estimates private wireless messages will hair, rio more character to it than there various, a great deal depending upon the post ten cents a word, while press messages will be charged five and buoiness telegrams can't pick out somebody decenter look- i to h f th it y Only a dense- pograp y o e eOul r . The public is beginning to realize the iti ie. the hair on e caterpillar -if you cents a word. ing than that to become breathless and:May be necessary, Or a large sized broom Importance of this system. Trade and corn- ly, branched green pine or apruce brush_ senile over, why, I think it's time—" i with which to whip out the running fire moose, as well as the indivIdual, are tho bfooroltiy Y(1)uurionreas tope lame)! ano: ol Mrs. Denting tripping down the porch e ado or shovel is needed to oover burn- one hundred nines at tte presognet telme t?iat or to sweep burning embers bask; a nr lecler 'Ha, hal Look at that skinny leoking with that ernitation of an Ellea Terry ' iri logs or embers with soil or to dig you aro not in communication with the shore on000r a sidosesooro tolibc:,it ootohe;. Solomoe of ouswiciaeon swing to her -ha, hal ,What? Graceful . trenches; a mattock is necessary where unsophisticated en wooderaf t. id and ure It h SAVES LITTLE LIVES. MOSt liquid medieiZes advertised to cure stomach and towel troubles and summer complaints contain opiates and are dangerous. When the moth- er gives Baby's Own Tablets to her little one Ole has the guarantee of a government analyst that thia medi- cine does not contain. one particle of opiate or narcotic. Therefore, see can feel that her little ones are safe. There is no other medicine can equai Baby's Own Tablets in preventing summer complaints or curing them if they come on suddenly. Keep a beet of Tablets alwaya oe hend-they ietlY save your, child's life. Mrs. '0. E. Hancock, Raymond, Alta., says: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets' for summer complaints, constipation and sleeplessness, and alwaye with the best results." Sold by all medicine dealers or by inail at 25 cents a box from iihe Dr. Williams' Medicine Om, Brockville, Ont. ing a fire The smoke was visible, blit th oughout the world. SEED EXHIBITIONS figure! Why, ft! was al' nocegasity to "pia tip al news looks like those pictures one sees of the she'a ealaciatedi 811- ' and hence not ettsily handled with of the times atter a ten or twelve days' sail. n , the coil cover is tough and the soil rooty To -day the passengers on many of tho trans - her for her height, you say? Why, the , , .. _ - a s ade or shovel alone; an axe to cut woman is a skeleton, I tell you, awaPy blaMng snags from which brands famine in India! Just enough flesh on jautumnruatile wvigeltabuellysttlimealfuervynroyf tinhooritiWilz even Ireagat oo tarown to get logs out of the the best nave of the world having been re- use calved through the medium of the wireiess can almost hear her bones rattle as she of tho trenches, or a saw for p ose. to ship, and printed on board ship. with all the pads sheti got en, and one , way telegraphic service, sent direct from shore walks! She looks like something the cat euIt i unot difficult to determine how is about two hundred miles, The normal range of au ordlaary outfit dragged in, and yet there aro a lot of rauch 9money might be spent for protea tor a steamship but if there Is a long-distanee apparatus on like you, try to make theraeelves believe teen under regular foreet management. The cost necessarily must vary according - ° way aeross the Atlantic, first from ono shore noody-naddies of men around here who, ea boat the messages are received all the they rave over her big solemn broven toAthe eke of the poperry. 11 ark of 1,000 acres compact. vantages are obvious. and then the other. Tito benetits and ad - that the woman is passable looking, and oyes with their pleading look, and I sup- ly ,loscated piney be made safe perhaps imufmuorpoicrueto avualueeettrioiceoua4 n oinnnuainnoutiliatin hand, the wireless system le pose she practices that pleading Muff i a un er one caretaker. With increase in the -nlavTic-cii-en. xis before her glass for an hour or so every } ize and the need of help in addition to in tho st. Lawrence and on the eastern coast of Canada, Including Newfoundland and La- menting of her life, and 'deed, if I did- 1 i'll r gul r plo eee, the cost grows brador, has been a great boon to navigation n't have any more meat on me than that , TaPeeltUaY, bat em Y diture of ten cents in the matter, among other things, of m- u an expen I'd----- Ian acre would in most cases insure prao- porting icebergs and foga, and In making tho passage of steamers at dangerous points "Efuht There collies that Gititt Wo- II Meal immunity from fire. safer than berme). To be more explicit: fat- % addition to largo amounts spent by man, dressed within au inch f 1 lif 1 eenuy a lightship ships taken . . burnt and fly' e cents per acre was being m°11hduaavtr: ita PQ8Iti”' 9- -ler ---e, , private owners for fire fighting the Adir- ape tad incoming and outgoing as usual, and that's the fourteenth gown , endemic and Catskill counties and. New tt in tho usual manner as their guidiug I've counted on her since we've been latrairtnt7 ttfiVii here, and all of them impotted, too, and ' York State lest year paid out $185,000 icouwuresde; bdui 'bn an area of about 3.500,000 acrea for against being misled, and aocidents were tararrcarig yet I hear that her husband -nobody a ship to bo without the Mar - over sees him down here, though, I no- ., fire fighting when 560,000 acres were averted. For con! apparatus, therefore, looks very muoh Mee- s on y a. c er in a stock broker s um . spent evithout imminiity or improvement. abeoluttey necessary means of insurance. office, and that frock she is wearing did -1 The clause in the Constitution of Now Again a veit oe fog may "hole up" a boat u't cost a penny less than $300, and it's York State which prevents the cutting some distance at sea; at tho same tiedse. thome , raleentile ICI ;oleer .helle:113.13p1. ohewcart.AanMarillooni- all mighty mystifying, 'deed it is, for the , of timber, dead or alive, on State lands , manicure girl told me that Mrs. Gititt's. -.! 1 .3 Lt. cl i _1 .e . precittues sue °tate also irom making ram informs her of tho fact; she according- Pxtraet trent the Wit ttenual report qf the Becretary ef nseiseiatiOn; At the last annual meeting of this associa- tion detailed expleuationa wdre giveu of the plans that had been adopted to offer epecial prizee to merabera for creditable (Wilhite of latud-selectea, improved and geeeral crop seed that were brought to- gether in connection with .the various provincial or distriot exhibitions. These exhibite of selected seed were always an attractive and educational feature of the exhibition, and have done much to make the work of the association more appreciated by the general public. Among the places at which these speeial exhibitions are now held annually throughout Canada are: Guelph, Ont., only open to members in the Ontario district and held in connec- tion with the Ontario Provincial Winter Fair. Creditable prizes are offered at each of the places for special selections of seed and plants taken from the hand -selected and improved seed plots. The classifies - tion of the prize list provides for two eections for each of the smaller grain crops considered. Section 1 makes pro- vision for hand eelections of plants from the standing crop on the breeding plot. These plants are exhibited in the form of sheaves. Section 2 provides for a group ex- hibit, consiting of a hand -selected sheaf from the breedieg plot, a half bushel of threshed seed from the same plot, end a bushel and a half of threshed seed from the improved seed plot. Where prizes are offered for corn, ther best ten ears are called for, the said ears to bo selected from the seed corn plot. In the ease of potatoes, prizes are also offer- ed; special awards are also offered to those members making the most credit- able showing of selected seed. These awards are usually in the form of medals or cups. Without a single exception, these ex- hibitions have amply justified their establishment. As time passes and the general public, as well as the members themselves, come to look upon these fairs in their respective districts as permanent organizations and as annual meeting rtehveeiraierde.al rgaele: paenrpaet iumatioornt,a. nexce. tension and perfecting is obviously the dut of this association. the evening you could not kick a cab- bage without dislodging a score or more. 'The boxes are SiX feet in length by three feet in width and run in long rowa a yard apart. Around each of these shel- ters, which are only a few inches high and have sloping roofs so that the rain may flow down into gutters at the lower ends, rows of big, leafy ciebbages are planted. At Orgelet, in the Jura Mewl- taine, le farm containing 1,700 shelters, each containing it pretty lively family of 2,000 mails. Here there were three and a half million smile altogether, and they had 08,000 cabbages to feed upon. The interior of eech box is lined with a bed of dry moss, and here the, simile slumber in peace safe from the sun, cola- ing out at night to feed. During the four yeses it is necessary to keep them in order to 'fatten them umf or market they eat many times their own 'weight in greet; stuff. Indeed, they are so yore, - clew) that in a single night in the wet season a hundred thousand of them will Pendulum enough cabbagee to fill a mar• het part Pilled Over. Before sunrise the film is a buay eight, for scores of hand,s lave out oollectieg the snails and pattink them back in Ole boxes that they may be I protected from the heat of the day. Only two kinds; of snails are eaten, the gros blaze, or snail of Burgundy, native to the vineyard districts, and the petit gris, which oomes mainly from the Pas de Calais region. The former is much larger than the latter. Prices in the wholesale market vary very much, according to the season. Thus between April and May the gros blanas fetch from $1.75 to $2.25 a thousand, and the petite gris from 41 to 00 cents a thousand. But from September to the middle of October the big Burgundy snails fetch from $2.50 to $3.10 a thou- sand and nearly $4 a thousand from Oc- tober to April. During the early weeks of Octeleer the armil farmer is sorting out hie full grown stock, three or four years old, from the younger snails; their age is readily in- dicated by the markings of their shell. They are then placied in some shady spot and left to dry, great care being taken to remove from the shell the layer of earth that covera it. The snails are next plaeed on grills or sieves maintained at an even tempera- ture of from 41 degrees to 43 degrees FahVenheit, and so long as this is not exceeded they may be kept for a whole year. If, however, a. few extra degrees of warmth deludes them into the belief that spring has returned and they em - ergo from their shells the cold destroys them at once. Snails are farmed in this way in order to insure a supply in the months when they are mostly in demand and when it would be very difficult to find them if they wore allowed to roam at their own sweet will Since they are essentially a cold weather dish priees fluctuate with the thermometer, In great cities of Europe you will come upon -stores devoted entirely to this deli- cacy and oraamented by an immense gilt snail over the door as a sign. Huge ; tuba of snails in the rough are displayed, and there are besides dishes of carefully prepared molluscs all ready for eating. These have been first cooked, then extracted from their shells and finely minced, The meat is then mixed with b tte , h d arsle and herbs d finally the ehells, trimmed and made ! smart, aro refillod with this prepared paste. The most popular snails to -day come • from Dijon and Macon in Burgundy, where they are fed on vine leaves, and the parka, as the local snail farms are called, open their gates in the month of August, when the little creatures bestir themselves actively. Men search for them in moes, at the a er is on y a pool name' up re the improvements that lead to immunity. ' v floes ahead; time is gained; and time is , State --the manicurist comes from the Sue neg eet nemeses the d h 1 i anger an- i xee eY at sea as much as it is on losid. i TWO hundred miles is about tho distance 1, same place -and so ehe has no private nually, for the burned areas of this year from each of the short-distanoo stations means of her own, and, nit lay on ue, the become the fire traps for next year's Which form the chain along the ottneeibin ''• amouut of flashy diamonds the creature fires. It ls estimated that during the wore at the german last night -and I traxibroNerver"aaanCiiiaeavderrelsatitand atel--...'" .1 last ton years fully 700,000 acres were course. Ir: Intended to add them --give an' eta think it's a shame that something isn't d (5 1:1 0 s y e nee done to keep places like this free from with an estirriated &mange of over $1; ere are a u r y s ores n a ct roots of trees and below the old walls 000,000 and an expenditure by the State aild aNeewf°u Th bo t thi t tatl I C mid f olks reject with derision ? Is it not a such— ndland, thoroughly equipped with tositive end a regretful loss to juvenile I cigar? James llubberino, don't I see $500,000, exclusive of what private own- graph Convene. is so generously bestowed the PaUtilo° ' which are merely grassy plots of land surrounding vineyards anel woods. The "What's that? You are going for a and counties for fire fighting of about Tie° sittervietn *eft tenocleoyourtn&unt3ifohost tkteor. iterature that when the artistic quality , ' snails caught are deposited in parks, pocket? Vow dare you have the impia This shows that the fires on about itrireatitle; ' grai; iirmmteh "i'atb Atilt.) .0ellue stories should be denied in a venal endea- } surrounded by walls to prevent the snails from escaping. And they are fed three cigars sticking right out of your ors have spent. a I nese stations include Fame Point, Que.; fairy or fable like character ot those denee to try to-- you want to read three and a half million acres have cost lefeerter, .aue.• Cape itaarCe, Nild.•'"Iinalif ex, von to spirit them from off the nureery I diligently from August to the end of Oc- your paper? Web, then, for naercy approximately one and a hell million N.S4 Cape SS.ble, N.S.• Sable thand; St. book shelf where they belong with • wee, do bens directly, in addition to the incith I John' N.B., Cape Dear, P.'10.1.; Quebec; nether Grinnn, into the sehoolroom where they ; ; Growing amid the grass the prisoners sakes, why don't you read it -who's pre- f tome Que.; Clarke City, Que.; Battle Har- have no place! This then is my riev- ulable indirect d e find all kinds of luscious herbs, such as Why Animal Stories Sell. Is it not an outrage that good animal stories should. be traduced into manufae- turing netural history which intelligent VALUE OF GLACIER& The French Are Finding Out Bow Meet/ They Add to the Water SuPPIY, The French Government began last spring a novel and intereeting etudy It has long been recogniz' ed that the molt- ing ice of the glaciere among the Alpiae regions of ;southern France contribuMa in the summer months a very important part of the water supply. required by the towns and manufaetuaing interests. It is proposed to obtain a scientific kaowledge of the ecozioniic value of these glaciers. For flab purpose the Beetle= rif Studies has been organized. in the Agri- cultural Department and a considerable force in charge of seven men specially trained in the scientific service has been detailed to eurvey the glaciers aud tutdm3 a thorough study of their regime. The work is to cover the entire mountain re- gion between Switzerland, Italy and the Mediterranetua The purpose is first to obtain exact has formation as to the size of the graziers and the area covered by them and then to examine the entire glacier area every spring and report upon the quantity of water it may be expected to yeeld durhag the melting season. This amount varicga of course, with the precipitation and it will be of great economic value in know months in advance approximately how much water from the snow end. me of the mountains the mills, towns and irri- gated lands may expect to receive dur- mg the Beason. venting you from reading it? But that's an afterthought about wanting to read your paper. You wanted to sneak around to the other side of the veranda and get into a chat with that swishy-swithy Gititt woman -hay, the horribly vulgar perfumes that the creatures splashes all over herself 1 -but you are going to sit right there on that chair till I tell you to got up, thitt's what you aro going to do, for if you think for a minute that I am going to let you dance around after a lot of loud, overdressed things that look as if they ought tribe in tho ohorus of a roof giteden show, after the way I've slaved and toiled for you and worried about you all these yeers--if you think that lot you come down here for the aurpose ef deliberately flouting me every *no you got a chance, you are the mis- takenest person that ever breathed tho breath of life, and the sooner you know it the better, for if ever I catch you— (At this point one of Mr. Rubberino's male friends strolled up.) o m n • • ance-that the hest of animal s orioa mint and marjora.m, thyme and sage. Lab.; Pictou, MS., and North Sydney, 0.B: CONDITION OFVEGETABLE CROP The usefulness of the Stamen' system was should be lost for indefensibly distorted. Illustrated in a striking manner during a natural history; that sham science shotua Hero for three months they feed to their sweventatirnv man weeiflwrivereelioAstt naenng The general outlook for the vegetable lightful fiction; that the author mhora repare to take their winter rest -little ! gam some time ago on tho Labrador coast, seek to disturb our eajoyment of de ' ,tsotoptsivngcoolndlTwIlienenththeye respect for the genuine pleasure he has : wearthsereungtcitt crops in Ontario is not eucouraging, roe ' egtagiee men thrown ashore on the Island; we wish to remember with gratitude and. port the crop correspondents of The On- I at Ipdian Tire a!;.,121 DozzlneSthirt.:Velp cgt- reaming that they will wake up to find athaetstliparroceictt8petZ lag:±3;1 US to do so by proclaiming the fable to themselves in Paris with a murderous handfulE3 Of leaves an moss are thrown era were o ally reek • Y M ° given us, should make it so difficult for tario Vegetable Growers' Assooiation. bfrueettdruustautuiue cook bending over these. Then it is that AO the <trope have suffered for the want there and at other place along the OOrt• be feet. We• go to him for entertain- over the ground and the sleeping snails of rain during the past few weeks, and abeleef louThrilLefietl,/;i2.01/1Zeaoansetwtraelotaneya ment, not for fact, and it is unflatter- *num hive ing to our intelligence that he so under- lie reached or relieved. what the reading publit buys for enter- Now is crawl under, having first cloeed up their nights, end the ravages of slugs and out The Hon. H. J. D. Woods, the poetmaster- ent; fable masquerading as fact is shells entirely with a sort of calcareous some have received a setbaek from cold endure Much. sintering before they cou I estixnates it. Pacts es facts are not subsea/tee, worms. The Ottawa district is the only general of St. Johnt'llsloravAcdroland, wtleoting tainm the time to pick them up in aofilbt that itheso stations are a bowl to the unprofitalele businese; and the reason cgrelolatttrsbaawhk:rtse authdeybeiturre tehtoemredulufn ttuil trhee- ona that reports favorably; in that lo- g t. 8. cality large crops o ca age an ee ry are eetpeoted; potatoes there will be an excellent orop and of good quality. In general, the potato yield is expedted to be May half a crop. Beeta, carrots and turnips will give fair to good crops, while parsnips will be below the average. Early and niedittnl cabbages are not plentiful; in some localities they are "I was just telling James, tho dear old e „ „ thing," Mrs. Rubberino said in a fond "'e"r,c'e a s, e e g an will be all right. The cel - tone to Mr. Itubberino's friend, "that °ainifl°"" ory crop will not be large mid the stocike he looked to) vaetly better since we mine somewhat small. The onion °top will be clown here-ann,t you think so? The much below the average. In the Scotland district, Blood county, where onions are grovnt extensively, they have made Vapid growth, but mildew has appeared and w111 materially affect the yield. thiteet corn will be fair. Melon's will yield a good crop. The tomato crop will be very Groweris, probably will not grow tie largo an eereage of tomatoes next yell.. 13. Cowan, Secretary °Maria Vegetable GroWere' Association, Mega ning Oluiettbers, Toronto. eer Record -Breaking Cargo. Thde *tomer W, 11. lifter recently eale tied tor Duluth iho lorgoot oro carip poor deer does work so hard MAN old offiee, and he gets away so rarely, that do love to have him enjoy himself in every way possible, and it pleased; me Almost to death to gee that he's not pest teking interest in the ninny charming women here, for, 'deed I always say, what would be the use of having a bus. band that didn't like pretty women end wo didn't attract them, too. A wonata moat feel perfectly absurd to have a man just tied to her apron strings, don't you really think?" Ripened by Electricity. Batteries ere, being ripened in INglond eleetrkity. The Wishes aro hung hi people doing business on that coast and the extension of the aide= further north 14 a question of only a short time." One of the Waal nowspapera coramenttas on the matter, said: "The remarkably successful soy In which relief has boon seat almesit Instantly :IA: these poor, wreaked fishermen and th tontine, Is en illustratirsi ef the triumph of modern science and the Marconi wirelees telegraph. lighthouse keisper at Bella Isle was In communication with the anther - the animal storiee of these gifted au- thors of the new sehool have sold larg•ely is beeauee their fairy-like nature, which iso strongly appeals to the reader's imp gination is develo ed ith h ti , quired. After this tlie parks are closed p es sue irro- until the following August, all the bar- riers aro taken down and the farmer and shnisansastrtanimtmegdeitittebuesoynsupnrevparoingn. the • sietible 'charm. The reader does not In Switzerland enaileries are need° by ' want natural history; he does not ask selecting a piece of damp, chalky land or cave if the dory 18 true, he wants and enclosing it with smoothly planed , merely to be entertained, and of this boards covered with tar. These are sunk . , ;,retgalgi The studies of the engineer, Imbee.ux, though confined to one pa.rticular water system, has thrown considerable light upon the importance of this source of water supply. He has proved that from April to August about one-half of the water in the Durance River is derived from the glaciers that feed its head streams. The Durance supalies power to eoores of mills, its waters irrigate many valley farms and Marseilles derives its entire supply of potable water from it. It is expected this yeas to make great progress with the survey of the glaciens. illey will be mapped on the basis of these these surveys on the very large scale of about six in.ches to the mile. These amps will be very helpful in all future study of these vast accumulations of ice, and in fact the work that the French have undertaken will be a very imperto ant contribution to the science of gla- ciology. Among the scores of glaciers that will be surveyed this season will be threw of Mont Blanc. A still larger undertaking thN summer will be the mapping of the greeters in the mountain group of which Pelvoux is the most conspicuous feature, and the survey of the glaciers in the up- per valley of the Neste, among the Pyr- enees, is also a part of the summer pro- gramme. Some of the gladera are retreating, and this is eepecially noticeable among the mountaina of the Pelvoux region. The study that has been given to this matter in the last few years in. various parts of the world seems to show that glaciers have their periods of advance geed retreat. Some of the Canadian gla- ciers that have been diminishing a little for years are beginning again to push their fronts a little lower into the val- leys. The French Government has given to Pierre Calmant the task of searching the archives of the department of Isere for old documents coneerning the climatic and glacial •conditions he order to study the varaitions for long periods of the dif- ferent phenomena that influence the quantity of water supply from the gla- ciers. • patent fact al the members of the how fete the ground e rt.abarnaziod trhrooeuftetgh school of animal story tellers save only inside, at a point where they emerge !gilt inches, and on the ttre elaiterSetonl°shtliat'81onallontiwthdea tho Rev, W. J. Long, appear rtow to be from the earth, there must be a shelter end. the anxious Monde of the wrecked crew. the steamers ware ordered to tho owe* aware -Front Caspa.r 'Whitney's "VieW- which will prevent the snail from bur- tenibeg. g pa. e. pointis in the Outing alagaziuo tor Sep- rotting tinder the enelosin Head A. Pastoral, Asbestoe. According to a bulletin of the United Statez Geological Survey, commercial as- bestos includes two distinet types of fibrous minerals. The more important type is the fibrous variety of serpentine known as chrysolite. This variety is always associated with serpentine, which is derived from the alteration of erup- tive rocks. It has been reported as oc- curring in commercial qauntities in Mas- sachusetts, Vermont,. North Carolina, Wyoming, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and California. The prothietion of asbestos in the United States In 1008 was 1,005 tons, valued at 828,055, as against 3,100 tons* valued at 842,075, in 1005. Importe of asbestos in 1900 were valued at $1,070,- 170, and in 1907 (fiscal year) at $1,014,- 540. It enters free of duty. The eastern townships of the 1" • ince of Quebec, Cesada, furnish 85 per cent. of the world's supply of asbestos. In 1000 the Canadian export was 50,804 tone, worth $1,020,257, most of whiele Came to us. Improved methods of min- ing aro being introduced in Canada, and the output Is increasing. Asbestoe is extensively used for plata tering and for lumber that is employed in buildings Where insulation against fire and eletcricity are desired. Its use in fireproof structural, and especially la en. velop electrical conductors, is constantly The output of all existing asbesto* mines is insufficient to supply the de. mend for this product, and the leading( raatufacturing firms interested in the in. dustry are diligently searching for need 'depoeits. - 1 .16442.46-444.01.446.1044.44444.— (hoyaeld's Nermeostr.) It wee a 'beautiful night. The gentle *Olt - are et the evening played Musically amid the silky Soaves Of the tartly trees and the omen bushes and waftail from SAW0t+21 thg distant Bade the delloath fragrant* et the powieaft Obbegile Mid the far Off oder et the been Meet. "noise," he mocod, es they set on the Melt- etY *Outten toes eurreunding Mks. P1111 - PO, PigirtY, hoesissubtful Is Win Jilt' t,elng ov it, Betsy, When we are Married We'll taws n till ou Our Olen, all te Our- siereAs. " "W14%1411," whitipitted, reeettfallY, "why saiouhl want ter rinT a teat I Wall Then eel was si ono mom intratt thlet tread* of the dabber. Moho and thaeeelasr thrOated trait still setae front the . — went tee bee' Wheel 'V* tot Air t' tha treutte rear,* still played inn d thei In the Canton of Lucerne a plot 200 Convalescents need a large amount of nourish - %lent in easily digested form. Scoft"a .Eintetsion is powerful nourish.. ment—highly concentrated. It makes bone, blood and muscle without putting any tax on the digestion. ALL Daum:119're, 800. AND $1.00. 00.414043044440440441110+01.