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Doings and Sayings in
England.
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Nine Days Entombed.
It was anouneed in Tuesnayn "Ga..
zette" that the King has conferred the
Albert medal upon Frank Engine, a
N diver, for gallantry in saving life at a
flooded mine at Bonnievale, Western
Australia.
When the mine wee inundated on
Mirth 10 last all the tminer$ escaped
°went an Italian named Varisehetti, The
Italian was working in a riee 28 feet
above the 1,000 ft. level, and was cut
off by the flood and imprisoned as in
a diving bell, the air in the rise, unable
to escape, keeping the water at a lower
level thaai in the main shaft, whore the
water was 50 feet, above the point
where the Italian was entombed.
Hughes went to the rescue at great
risk to his own life and, after diving
five times, he reaelaed Varischetti, but
found it impossible. to release, him. Ile
shook hands with him and supplied him
with an electric light and food. It was
not until the ninth day that he was able
to effect the rescue, and the Italian was
then so exhausted that he had to carry
160,000 Mormon Converts.
Without attracting much general at-
tention, the Church of the Mormons is
snaking considerable headway in Britain.
The Latter -Day Saints, as they prefer
to be called, chum a membership in Lon-
don alone of between 600 and 700.
Elder Shorten, a youth from Salt Lake
City, who has been trying to oonvert
Stoke Newington to Mormonism for the
past eighteen months, described on Tues-
day the method adopted by the church
in ite propaganda, which extends to ev-
ery civilized country. "There are thirty.
three of us in London alone," he said.
"During the seventysix years that we
have been established in this country it
is estimated that 150,000 of our converts
have gone to Utah."
100 Miles an Hour.
The British Admiralty has now um
der consideration a new ferrn of mar.
ine engine and propeller which, ehe
inventor claims, will revolutionize not
only naval warfare, but the navigation
of the whole world.
The invention ia the work of Mr. F.
Maltman, of Redburn street, Chelsea. At
tint sight the engine reeembles a tur-
bine, but closer ineneetion reveals im-
portant differences, which are the inven-
tor's secret.
Screws of especial design are used, and
they are placed immediately beneath the
vessels keel.
Up to now, the new system has been
tried only on models upon the Serpentine
and the Thames, but the speeds attained
in the largest of these lead Mr. Malt-
snan to believe that on a vessel with the
size and steam power of a present-day
torpedo-boat It would yield a velocity of
100 miles an hour.
"Dead" Woman's Request.
"Ilease get me a glass of stout. I am
so thirty," said a woman who was
thought to be dead, to a policeman who
had been called to see her at Sunninghill,
near Amt..
The woman's lodger, a laborer, discov-
ered her on Tuesday night stretched out
in her room apparently lifeless. His
attempts to rouse her failed and as she
vas very cold and stiff he supposed she
was dead, and informed a doetor, and
the police. The constable was surprised
ito find her sitting up.
She said she had telt faint after tea
end had lain down, but remembered
nothing more until the policeman went
into her room. Her appearance in the vil-
lage street the next morning created con-
sternation among the inhabitante, who
lhad not heard. the sequel to the story of
her supposed death.
Somnambu I ist's Swim.
A seaman named Edward Kermode em-
barked from Antwerp in the steamer Col-
chester for Parkeston, the other night.
Viten the vessel Wats off Bierland Point,
in the Seheldt, Kermode left Ms bunk
.and., running aft, jumped overboard.
The captain did not hear of the inci-
dent until a quarter of en hour later,
when he decided that it wee of lao use
to turn baok. On reaching Parkeston he
a•eported Kermode as drowned.
Three days later Kermode landed from
the steamer Ca.mbridge at Parkeston.
Ms story was that he remembered noth-
ing after falling asleep in his bunk on
the Colchester until he found himself in
the water. He swam for an hour and a
half until he was picked up by the barge
Briton and landed at Flushing. •
Family Poisoned.
A father's endeavor to provide food for
poverty-strieken family has bad a
:terrible (Sequel at Ipswich. A man named
Yarrow, who had been out of work for
some time and was unable to provide his
nvife and children with even the bare
meeessities of life, brought home the other
:night a basket of mushrooms which he
had gathered in a field.
The supposed mushrooms were cook:
ed and eaten with relish by the starving
family. Two days later—on Bunch:I—
nfos. Fearow, a (laughter aged thirteen,
and two boys aged five and seven died.
On Tuesday Mr. Farrow himself passed
away in great agony as well as his re -
Insisting daughter, a girl of sixteen.
Crab 4,000 Years Old.
A remarkable discovery reported from
Nottingham raiws the question,w bcih
him often been hotly debated by natural.
ids, whether animal life can be sustain-
ed without access to air and food. Ten
feet. below the surface, embedded hi rock
sand, a live crab is stated to have been
discovered under the following eircum.
stances:
A workman employed by Mr, W. Ever -
seed, a builder, was excavating the foun-
nations of a building in Haydn street,
when, on breaking off a huge lump of
gook with a crowbar, he saw eomething
Move. A closer examihation showed that
the moving thing was a live crab. Its
shell measured three inehee by two
Indies. In thickness the crab measured
one and a quarter inches. It has eight
legs and tent feelers, and is exactly like
an ordinary sea end), eveept that its
shell has itharp, mimed edges.
The suggestion ie made that the (nab
lutist be three or four thousand years
Old.
Sister'e Bravery.
A peculiarly sad bathing 'fatality hes
Warred at Joss Ilay, Kingsgate, near
preadstairs, a mother hating the har-
rowing experience of watching a (laugh.
tarli drOwning ktruggles, awl the heroic
bet ittoffeetual attempts at rescue by
Intrther daughter, who herself narrowly
NAVA death.
Mies Ella Martin, aged 20, and her
sister, Nora Month), a bright gut of sev-
enteen, were spending tbem holidays at
Broadsteire, and when bathing together
in the vicinity of Joss Bay the younger
got out of her depth and was carried
seawards by the tide.
The elder girl immediately swam to
her sister's aseistauce, and catchiug hold
of her attempted to, bring her Ashore.
Her efforts were, however, of no avail.
Two men dashed, to the rescue, and
the elder sister was saved. The other,
however, was drowned,
Honor For White Mice.
Of curious and novel design is the new
pennant receutly adoptexl for the exclu-
stye use of the submarine branch of the
Royal Navy.
The pennant is of three colors—red,
blue and yellow—representing the three
submarine depot of Portemouth, Devon-
port and Chatham, and is divided into
four quarters. In one division appears a
submarine boat, and in another three
torpedoes, while the other two are adorn-
ed with white mice. .
A submarine seldotn goes to sea with-
out some of these creatures on board.
Hence their right to appear on the flag.
They are extremely sensitive to the
presence of noxious gases --twenty times
more so than a. man—and a careful
watch is kept on them while tho sub-
marine is under way.
Lord Brampton's 90th Birthday.
Lord Brampton, once so well known as
Mr. Justice Hawkins, the great lawyer
and judge, spent his ninetieth birthday
on Saturday very quietly at No. 5, Til-
ney street, a pleasant home, through the
windows of ,which the trees of Hyde
Park ean be seen.
Though much better than he was a
few weeks ago, Lord Brampton is too
Infirm to see visitors or even to take a
irive in this delightful autumn weather.
Innumerable good stories are told
about Lord Brampton and the criminals
to whom he was a terror. One of the
best relates to an incident which hap-
pened in a crowded race train. Three
or 'four of the "boes" got into the car-
riage in which the judge was sitting and
attempted to hustle him. Confident that
he would be knoWn and feared by them
the judge reruoved his hat, and lookexi
his sternest, and said: "Don't you know
who I am 7" The worst of the offenders
looked at his square jaw and close -crop-
ped head and shrank into a corner with
an exclamation: "S'elp me Bob—a bloom-
ing prize-fighterl"
While on the bench his constant com-
panion was a terrier, "Jack," whose
tether was a long blue ribbon attached
to the judge's wrist, and many a junior
beguiled a weary moment watching the
uerolling of the ribbon as the dog pur-
sued his investigations, followed by the
spectacle of the judge "hauling in the
slack." Once "Jack" expressed his opinion
of a case by a loud bark. "Turn that
dog out of the gallery," said the judge,
with great promptitude et the same
tree administering an ;ulmonitory pat
to the atnimal undee his desk. To a
sheriff's chaplain who held that doge
could not go to heaven, he remarked.
"They are more faithful, more affection-
ate, end more intelligent than any Chrie-
tian I have ever met."
"But, my lord," said the chaplain,
"the drawback is they cannot understand
when one speaks to them." "Indeed, Mr.
Chaplain," the judge replied. "Don't you
think they may think it a great draw-
back that you will not understena them
when they speak?"
When a bomb was exploded on the
doorstep of the house of Mr. Reginald
Brett in Tilney street in 1804 it was
always imagined that it was intended
for the judge. But his imperturbable
humor did not desert him. With a
twinkle in his eye he said to his friend,
"It's no use,. my dear Brett, their at-
tempting to Intimidate me by blowing
up you."
At the Old Bailey a. policeman, giving
evidence against a prisoner before Sir
Henry Hawkins, was asked what the
arrested man said when charged. The
constable whipped out a pocket -book and
read without a smile: "Prisoner said
when charged, 'God grant I be not tried
before 'Awkins, or he will bring down
my hairs in sorro•iv to the grave." Even
the judge laughed.
British Officer Reincarnated.
Reincarnation is a fundamental doc-
trine of Budcliasm, and a reincarnation
of a huenate identity, in human form,
though changed in outwaid aspect, is
called a "minza."
A few years back Mr. A. W. Tucker,
Distriet Superintendent of Police in Pe-
gu, wile killed by a game of deceits,
whom he had rashly attialed' at close
quarters, after discharging his revolver
and. without waiting to reload it. His
call to his oraerly to fetch ammunition
gave the clue to the deceits, and they
killed him. Just about the time this
tragedy was being enacted in one part of
the distriet, A humble Burmese Woman
leave birth to a 'baby boy who in time,
before the dans of his babyhobd were
well over, claimed- to be uo legit a per-
sonage than the murdered police officer,
So circumstantial were his accounts
of the mounter with the dawns as to
appear the narrative of an eye -witness,
and when questioned on various other
valets in connection with the life of the
deceased officer, he is asserted to have
answered with such exactitude that the
Barmen people who flocked to hear his
discourse were convinced of the truth of
his assertions. Peculiarities of action
and speech were faithfully reproduced.
Within the past few weeks a still more
interesting ease of "ininztt" lies made its
appearance, and I cannot do better than
quote the account of a Rangoon Times
correspondent from Meiktilia:
"There is a little blue-eyed, light.
haired boy here, between three and four
years old, the son of hard-working and
matter-of-fact Burmese parents belong.
ing to the laboring classes, who until
quite recently prattled like any other
child et that age. The otheredey, how-
ever, he astonished his mother by grave.
ly claiming that he was the late Major
D. J. Welsh, Border Regiment, come to
life again, and went on to describe the
house where be had previously lived, the
number of ponies he had, a.nd other per-
k:trial matters.
'Hie mother was frightened, and called
in the teighbors, to whore the queer al-
nino mpeated Ms story, describing bow
he and two others—a lady and a gentle -
mann -Were drowned in the Meiktilia
Lake in a boating Accident during a
storm at night in March, 1004, when the
three and only mattpants ef the boat
perieha
'anal, is the year in Whieli Mrs. Ilenae,
Ltentenat A, W. Quinlan, Ana Majot
Welsh, both of the Border Ilegiment,
1040 their liverf in this manner (ius a gun-
SeqUellee Ai °tutting to put down the
ceutreamard of thew 4411Ing Doat).
"Largo crowds assemble daily to hear
the little child -until speak. Of coulee,.
skeptees will say that it is a nnit-up job.'
The answer to this is that Burmese coo.
Hee are not given to romancing to welt
an extat, neveral methode have been
applied to Lest the genuineness of the
teuld's utterancee, and people are antis.
tied that he has not 'been tutored,'
I present the story without further
eminent, as furnishilig leaat. a cur-
ious and iuteresting glimpse of a phase
of Burmese belief.
Stunent of Stamina.
This week Mr. John Burns has been
paying a visit to, Berlin and other tier -
men towns,
Herr Caepar, who directs the Depart.
meat for the Social netterment of the
Working Classes, told our correspondent
that Mr, Burns showed. Meatiable inter.
et not ouly German iv:irking oondi.
times and institutions, but particularly
in the types of the workmen themselves.
"Everywhere I took him," said Herr
Ompar, "it was always the people he
studied."
Mr. Barns even attended the manoeu-
vres of the German Garde du Corps at
Wreschen in order to gain an accurate
idea of the physMal endurance of the
average German. Here Mr. Burns par-
ticipated hi long and fatiguing marches
with the men, visited them daily in
camp, and mixed with them freely. The
manoeuvres interested him, ha said, not
from the military standpoint, but eimply
from the light they threw on the phys-
ique of the nation.
Railway Men's Demand.
Eight-hour standard day for all con-
cerned in the movement of vehicles.
Ten-hour day for all others, except
platelayers.
No man be called oet for duty with
less then nine hours' rest,
Minimum of rate and a quarter for all
time worked over' standard hours.
Sunday duty (i. e., midnight Saturday
to mideight Sunday), minimum payment
of rate and a half.
Immediate advance of 2s. to all grades
who do not receive the eight -hours day.
All grades in London district a mini-
mum of 3s. per week above country date
trete wages.
Recognition of the men's union.
With the exception of the North-
Eastern, all the leaning railway dire°.
torates have refused to recognize the
Amalgamated Society M negotiations
over hours or wages.
The railway companies give the fol-
lowing reasons for resisting the men's
demands: •
Their men are not dissatisfied.
Grievances are always listened to.
Working expenses do not permit
tvholesale increases of wages.
It would be destructive of responsible
railway control to allow the tra•de union
to intervene.
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BADLY RUN DOWN
Through Overwork—Dr. Will1ams
Pink Pills Restored Health
and Strength.
Badly run down is the condition of
thousands throughout Canada — per-
haps you are one of them. You find
work a burden. You are weak, easi-
ly tired; out of sorts; pale and thin.
Your sleep. is restless, your appetite
poor and you suffer from headaches,
this suffering id caused by bad
blood and nothing can make you
well but good blood — nothing can
make this good blood so quickly as
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People. These pills never fail to
make rich, red, health -giving bloon.
Mr. H. R. Reed, Quebec city, says:
"About twelve months ago I was all
run down as the result of over work.
My doctor ordered 1-ne to take a cone.
plete rest, but this did not help me.
I had no appetite, my nerves were
unstrung and I was so weak I could
scarcely move. Nothing the doctor
did helped me and I began to think
my case was incurable. While con-
fined to my room friends eame to
see me, and one ef them advised me
to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I
did ao, and soon my appetite improv-
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than a month I was able to leave
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health and able to do my work without
fatigue. I feel sure that all wbo are
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strength in Dr. Williams' Pink Pine.
They certainly saved me from. a life of
misery."
'isnot Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make
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The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont.
AN EXILE'S TOAST.
Here's a toast to Cariada.
From dcress the line,
Drunk in pure cold water,
Better, far, twin wine:
Sing me not of other elimes;
'Till my voice be done,
will sing her winter snow; .
Sing her summer sun,
Fertile field and bulging sheaf
And hearts to guard the Maple Leaf.
Here's a toast to Canada:
May the kindest sky
Smile upon her golden fields,
Smile eternally.
Loving hearts to guide her,
Loyal hearts to guard;
Know she nought of war -cloud,
Nought of iron shard;
But by the good that's in her
Make filend instead of foe.
Our little baby nation—
Ood teach her how to grow.
That's nty toast to Canada—
Weak her smile to share.
13ut deepest Bongs oft chone the voice
When all the soul is there.
That's my toast to Canada,
From here across the line,
Drunk in pure, cold \veto,
Better, far, than wine,
Sing me not of other climes;
'Till my breath be done,
t will eing the winter snow;
Sing her euminer sun,
Fertile field and bulging sheaf
And hearts to guard the Maple Leaf.
—C. Leland Armstrong in the Canaditto
Mage.zitte,
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So it seems that the Japanese Were
been °hectoring" President Roosevelt.
Don't like being hectored, eh? Balti-
more Sun.
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"waste," "linters," "hulle" and "meate."
; The waste is still waste even though
• that cheracterization of' anything now
leads a fugitive existence.
The linters are used in cotton batting.
Ti
Prince Edward of Wales.
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A baker's dozen of years is all that
Prince Edward of Wales can count to
his score, and thirteen is not a very re-
sponsible age for most boys. The future
King of England and head of the greatest
Empire the world has ever known, is
just a healthy, happy, hearty boy to-
day, with perhaps a little reluctance to
follaw the strict course of study and.
training so carefully mappea out for him,
However, bis is an unusual position, and,
he early realized what Ms fawn power
would mean. Hie compulsory rather din
Beta etudies have been met by a qui&
brain and a ready willingness that have
been backed by gooa lintIth, and the
fact that he knows rather more than
boys of Ms age are generally expected to
know, does not steely itself on his gam-
ine boyish demeanor. The bealthy baby
whose miming into the world on June 23,
1894. was heralded by royal salutes and
general rejoicings, has never lost the
place that was su ready for nim M the
hearts of his future subjects, lie is a
general favorite and enjoys his popu-
larity unmistakably. The iong mime
which he was given, Edwin' Albert
Christian George Andrew Patrick Devid,
is only in common use as regards the
first and last, for he is officially known
aa Edward, while in hi$ own honui he is
called Davy. With hie younger bro-
thers and sister he acts the part of elder
brother with full sone of hie responsi-
bility and superior experience of years.
His life in the country has given him
a good knowledge of swimming, a prac-
tical horsemanehip, and a genuine love
for sport and the life outdoors. It was
not until Mat May that lie left hom•e for
the Royal Naval College, Osborne, on
the beautiful Isle of Wight, and it is
in his cadet's uniform that the accom-
panying portrait shows him, So with
the knowledge that he is of much the
normal height and build of a boy of his
age, with true Saxon fair hair and blue
eyes, there ie no difficulty in imagining
pretty 'Nell what the young heir to Eng-
land's throne looks like toelay.'n recent
artiele in the 'Woman at Home has
much to my with regard to las present
life, in width all Canadian boys will be
much interested;
"Prince Edward's plwee in the succes.
sion does not allow him to adopt any
profession as a career. The education
which he is now undergoing at Osborne
College has been chosen for him by the
King and the Prince of Wales became:
they believe it to be admirably adapted
for developing a boy's faculties. The
Ring selected this mode of education for
his own sons with the happiest result,
and it is universally recognized that the
training given by the navy is .first class.
There is a wholesome breeziness about
the life' and the curriculum tends to
train the eye and sharpen the intelli-
gence, and, above everything, the naval
cadet is taught to use his hernia The
King and the Prince of Wales are great
advocates for manual instruction. The
Prince witnessed the aavantages result-
ing from technical colleges during his
tour through the colonies. He Is a prac-
tically trained man himself, and can
speak from. experience in favor of the
education which he has selected for his
son. Our King -to -be has not therefore
gone to the Royal Naval College to be
made a eafier in the professional sense,
but that he may have a good- all-round
training to fit hint for the duties of life.
There he is receiving an excellent general
education, making friends amongst those
who will become our future naval offi-
cers, and associating himself with the
splendid service which hes made and
keeps our %loved England mistress of
the seas.
The young Prince hm entered the
Naval College excellently equipped. He
can swim and dive and row, climb the
mast and set the rigging, and knows
most things about a boat. • At the Tech-
nical' schools at nandringham he has
Merited a little about carpentering, carv-
ing, and metal work, and to use a
needle, He has done some very present-
able cross-stiteh. He can of course ride
and drive and cycle, and is no stranger
to gymnastic exercises.
The royal cadet conforms to all the
regulations of the College and is known
as Cadet Edward of Wales. He occupies
a dormitory with other boys and has his
sea -chest at the foot of his bed with his
initials E. W. upon it. He has no special
servant, but shares the services of one
with several other cadets. The young
Prince has been accustomed to early
hours and finds it no hardship to rise
at 6.30. After a bathe and a swim he
is ready for his Ne•st turn of work be-
fore breakfast at ten minutes to eight.
He takes his meals with his companions
like an ordinary boy, and the fare is
siraple and good. Osborne is botli a
school and a workshop, and the young
Prime will divide his time between men-
tal and manual training.
In. the foundry, the smithy, and the
carpentering shop he receives his me.
°hankie' training and instruction in sem
inanship on the Eclipse, the vessel an-
chored at Osborne for the cadets to take
sea trips.- There are two and a half hours
for recreation in the afternoon and
kilace Edwarn goes in thorougdy for
the tedious sports. He is fond of sing-
ing, and hoe joined the cadets' choir at
chumh.
COTTONSEED.
Old Rubbish Heaps Turn to Gold
Mines.
Front what a half -century ago were
•
worse than rubbish heaps more than a
'million dollars a week now Wine. The
story of this nfind" reads like a romance.
Benne the war the disposal of cotton-
seed gave° the gitmers great concern.
It was usually hauled away somewhere
to rot, or dumped into a neighboring
(stream, where it soon became a nuisanee.
Th laws of Mississippi and other
States provided Severe penalties for giro
tiers who did not dispose of it in such a
way that it would not be ft menace to
public health.
To -day the uses of cottonseed. are so
numerous that the Census Office has
published a diagrant showing the entirses
whieli the four parts of melt little seed
u may go in Mee directions:
into fuel, the ashes of which are used
as a fortilleer, although tliis is now re.
goaded as too wasteful; into fibre, of
which paper is made; or, corabinea with
cottoneeed meal, into an excellent food
for cattle.
But the kernels serve the most varied
uses, Besides making cake ana meal
for (little, they are readily convertible
into a crude oil, from 'Oda, according
to mixtures and processen it may emerge
as oil for miners' lamps, "(impound
lard" and cottolene, "nutter and selad
oils," "Winter yellow oil," and soap. The
invasion of other industries by these cot-
tonseed products would of itself make
a long story. The olive orcharde
eoutheen France have suffered tnuch.
BABY AND MOTHER,
A few doses of Baby's Own Tablets
relievee and Cures conestepetiom indi-
gestion, colic, diarrhoea and simple
fevers. The Tablets break up colds,
expel wet.= and bring •tlre little
teeth through painlessly. Tney bring
health to the little one and eomfort
to the mother. And you have the
guarantee of a government analyst:
that this medicine does not contain
ono particle of opiate '01' poisonous
soothing 'stuff. Mre. C. F. Kerr, El-
gin, Ont., says: "Baby's Own Tab-
lets is the best medicine I beve ever
used for stomaeh and bowel troubles
and destroying worms." Sold by all
medicine dealere or by mail at 25e, a
box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
ENGLISH HOMES AND WHAT
THEY COST.
It ie a pathetic feet .that there are sev-
eral men in the United Kingdom who would
coueider themselves on the brink 9f bank-
raetov If they were redueed, says London
get -Bits, by any evil stmoke of fate to a
mere 'pittanoe of 41,000 a week—who would
find it simply inspoesible to rub along any-
how an the income of a simple millionaire,
white; would be barely eufficient in some
cases to pay the expenses of the lordly pleas-
ure ho.uses which they have intimated from
their ancestars.
The Duke of Devonshire, for example has
no fewer than seven of these stately homes
—six in England and one In Ireland—each
of them fit for the inception of a king and
not one of which as he confessed the other
day. he has yet lived torte enough to ex-
plore thoroughly. Probably he himself does
not know within 41,000 how much these pals
atial homes coot. It has been said to make
a very big hole in nmenro.
In Wentworth 'Weediness, which is only
alle of hls four palaces, Lord Pitzwilliaan
owns the largest private house in England.
It has a froneage of MO feet, Its hall is so
enormous that four suburbah villas could
bo built inlae it, aad tts owner could lite
in a different roOM every day for six weeks
and still leave several rooms unseen, The
Duke of Portland owns five regal homes in
England and Scotland, the value of Whieh
rune into Inilliens, and which with the at-
tached .gardcas and estates, keep hundreds
of servants employed. At Welibeck he
has over thirty acres of kitchen gardens
alone; in the glees houses and garden pro-
per he employs about seventy men and boys,
and his horticultural bill for this one house
is said to exceed 48,000 a year,
13Ienheim Pal:tee, the Duke of Marlbor-
ough's Oxford seat, is so coloo.sal that the
late Duke used to declare he went 4840 a
year on putty alone for his tvindow panes.
ft actuate met 4300,000 to build, in days
Mien money ems more valuable than it Is to-
day; It le 348.feet long, has fifteen stair-
c,sises. and when it was repaired some time
ago his grace found it necessary to sell his
Pictures and books to pay the cast, which
meunted to more than 4300,000.
The Duke of Northumberland owns fiye
stately scats, et one alone of which — SY011
House, Brentford—a etate of thirty 10 forty
men is kept busy, largely in She magnifi-
cent kitchen garden and fruit houses. And
Yet the duke spends only a small portion of
the year in thia princely home, the rental
Tillie of which probably exceeds the Lord
Chaneellete anoint labome.
Gf Lord Londonderry's four soats, Wyn-
ward Peek (Stockton-on-Tees) is 100 yards
lone. and ES feet tigh, while Goodwood, one
of tbe Duke of Richenondas four mansions,
requires about sixty domestics to keen it in
mot:
edasoru.res, with its two wings, 378 feet, and
Such are but a few of the "stately homee"
of England." some of •which are not men
by their lordly owners for more than a few
weeks, if at all, in a Year, although each
them costs many thousands a year to
mlkintineinsa.
ild that there are at least sixty
eountry houses in the United Kingdom wbich
require a staff of from 260 to 100 eervants,
end Involve an annual bill for wages rang-
ing up to 420,000, and in many of them
the gardens alone account for more than
46,00;) a year. How largo are the numbers
of eervante employed in connection with
these houses and estates Is shown by the
following °emote—that of a relatively mod-
est establishment in Suffolk. The total num-
ber of servants employed is 173, and of
th.eso the home farm and stables require fifty -
tour, and the gardens forty; indoor servants
number eeveatteen; the parks and lakes em-
ploy ten, the brick kilns nine, while there
are seven carpenters, four bricklayers, four
enamellers, three lodge keepers, three paint-
ers and half a dozen engineers, blacksmiths
and wheelwrights.
This, it should be remembered, is but a
eeeonal class . establishment, although its
wages bill reaches 48,000 a year. Of still
Mailer establishments there are about coo
in Oso United Kingdom, employing between
fifty and a hundred servants, with wages
'bills averaging at least 44,000.
Expensive as country .seate ar.e to main-
taiu, with a few exceptions euch as those
mentioned they are little more costly than
town houses. For 'a tiny house in Park
Lane, each as would be proeurable 111 a Lon-
don auburb for 460 a year, et rentel of 43,-
000 is asked. while some of the larger homes
nemsna.nd a rental running Into five figures.
In Gresvenor equare the rents range from
41,000 to 40,000 a year, in much as an an-
nual 410,000; 460,000 has been paid for a
house in Qataton Terrace, and Lord Burton
gave 41E0,000 for a house in South Audiey
street,
knd town and country housee are Mit a
Dart DS the expenditure to the wealthy
clas.s we are considering. A steam yacht
tuay easily run away with 46,000 a year; a
"eimilar sum is by no means uneommon for a
grouse Moor and a deer forest; it London
season, with its costly enteetalaments, may
easily scoomet for 410,000, and so on through
the long list of items which figure in the
ennual balance sheet of the rich, and which
are eonsidered as necessary to them as his
tobacco to a peer man. It thus Is not Mt.
Melt to see how an income of Oren £100,000
er 4200,000 may be dieeipated, and how
aghast many a marl woeld be if he were sud-
denly briniest fttee to face with the neces-
sity of cutting down his exnanditure to a
Wilful 460,000 a year.
Dawn on the Prairies.
While he ate the eastern sky lighten-
ed. Tbe mountains under the dawn look-
ed like silhouettee ent from slatemolored
paper; those in the west showed faintly
luminous. Objeets about us becanie
dimly visible. We could make out the
windmill, and the adobe of the ranch
houses, and the corrals. The afietboys
'arose one by one. dropped their plates
into the dish pan and began to hunt
out their ropes. 'Everything was ob-
scure end myeterious in the 'faint grey
light. watched Windy Bill near his
tarpaulin. Ito atooped to throw over
the canvas. When he bent, it was be.
fore daylight; when be straightened his
back, daylight hs.a come. .It was just
liko that, as though some one had
reached out his fiend to turn on the 11-
laminatione of the woeld.—From Round-
up Days, by Stewart Edward White, ie
The Outing Magezitte tot Oetobee.
P0011. etrenteig,
Jelin D. Lennon, trauserer et the
endomtion of Labor, deliverer 1'04;011E1y
Itkiemingten en Weems on strikes.
Vanilla to the amusing featuree of the
ernes eueetion, Mr, Lennon seld
"1 ronentler a strike ef bobbin boys,
Thtere boys renductal tseir fitted evee
Inalliently. Thus the dew they Mined cut
they nested in the spinning roma 0.
tenpleeere' Mill a grett placard Inscribed
with the woreit
"The wa4wre *In is death, the
await of tne WM4 boys YV01.01.'
Mir•••••"1"--7
s
usetteaseeeseeenewareet
POTATO IMPROVEMENT,
As Carried on Throughout Canada Under the Direction
of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association.
(Extract from the last annual report of
the Secretary.)
During the past year very material
progress bas been made by way of per-
fecting our methods of potato improve -
silent end iu inentuting their iMplication
throughout the couutry. At the last
meeting of the association a Airy excel.
len; viper on "Potato Improvement"
Wah eead by Mr, W. T. Maconn, horticul-
turiet. at the Central Experimental
Farm. Upoa the work which Mr, Ma -
coati and many other authorities on the
potato plant, both at Imam and abroad,
have done, a system of potato improve-
ment suitable for Use among Clanedian
growers was drafted and is being applied
by several. this year. The syetem adopt-
ed le simple and practical, yet is founcied
on scientific principles, the individual
plant being taken as the basis for im.
provement. The tubers produced by each
plant are morphologically considered,
simply swollen portions of the vegetative
and not of the reproductive system. The
question has therefore been raised as to
whether or not the principles through
of breeding which imply in the ease of
sexual reproduction through the seed,
obtain in a sexual reproduction or per-
petuation through parts of the vegeta-
tive system. Bud variation is as a rule,
more narrow than is wed variation, and
seine investigators claim that a part of
any plant cannot possess qualities which
differ materially from those of another
part of the same plant. The best obtain.
able evidence at the present time does
not support this view, and the "individu-
ality" of different parts is now general-
ly recognized. Since the tubers pro-.
duced by any single plant are all dis-
tinct parts of that plant, the possibility
of variation in the productive capacity
and in other qualities is recognized.
The system drafted for use by this
association enables the grower to plant
the seed tubers taken from the different
hills which were. especially chosen for
seed purposes the year previous, so that
any•promising variationeethich may re-
sult ienty be selected and used in en-
deavoring to build up a strong, healthy
and productive type. Furthermore, is
almost all parts of Canada no matter
how suitable may be the conditions,
there are many adverse conditions with
which the potato has to contend. Un-
foxtunately, man himself is often the
worst enemy of the potato, and uncon-
sciously, though very materially, assists
in its downfall. The using of small po-
tatow from degenerate hills is perhaps
one of the most glaring examples of
able to depart somewhat from this rule
and to reduce the size of the plot to one
consisting Of 25 rows with 8 hills i,
°twit row, both rows and hills to be at-
leaet 24 inches apart. A plot of this
size, it was thought, should not require
more work than the average grower can
well afford to expend, and more careful
work on the part of the grower should
be encouraged. From emit of the 25
chosen hills „8 of the uniform, smooth
and sound tubers are then chosen, and
caah set of 8 tubers so selected is used
to plant one of the eight-hilled rows, a
this as far as the seed is concerned. The
practieing inneanne relteen —eneen:
is another common error. Against these
things this piem. bereg-
gling year after year, and while there
is a continual survival of the fittest,
wherein a few plants succeed in rising
above the prevailing difficulties in an
endeavor. to maintain the standard of the
race, yet, unfortunately, these are quick-
ly gathered in and hurried eV to market,
leaving the snuffler, less desirable, and
often degenerate tubers remaining to be
used for seed purposes. With such a
system is there any wonder why many
of our best varieties have suffered a
rapid decline, until they are now practi-
cally worthless? What is needed among
potate geowers to -day is some practical
system whereby it may be possible to
select for seed purposes those hills which
have shown themselves superior to oth-
ers enjoying equal opportunities. In
this way seed tubers which rank above
the average would be chosen while those
falling short would be ignored, hence
making for an upward instead of a
downward tendency. The need of just
such an arrangement has been met by
the association in its system of potato
ienprovement already referred to.
In undertaking systematic work ac-
cording to this system it is recommend-
ed in the first place that a good stan-
dard variety be chosen, and that the best
possible seed of that variety with which
to start be secured. The new beginner
is advised -to test two or throe leading
varieties the first year in small plots
side by side, to keee the" hills separate
when digging, and, after having decided
which variety has given the best re-
sults, to select and keep separate 25 of
of the best hills of this variety for
planting in the breeding plot of the fol-
lowing year in accordance with the regu-
lations as drafted. While the minimum
siz: of the seed plot recognized by the
association is a quarter acre, yet in the
case of potatoes it was thought advis-
single whole tuber being used to plant
each hill. At harvest time each row is
dug separately, and the individual hills
within the rows are likewise kept sep-
arate for examination. This arrange.
ment permits tbe grower to determine,
first, the best rows, and, seeondly, the
best hills in these rows. The required
number of specially desirable hills can
then be laid away for planting on the
plot the following spring as above in&
eated. Special blank forms are sent each
grower M duplicate in order that he
may reeord eertalit information regard.
ing the performance of each row, refer- !
ring especially to yield, quality and free- I
dem from disease. While it is urged that
the crop on the improved plot be epray:
ed for blight, yet the sprayiug ot the
breeding plot is left to the discretion of
the individual grower. In districts where
disease is troublesome the desirability of
developing straans capable of withstand.
ing these maladies is each that spraying
is ignored, and those plants which have
shown the greatest power in resisting
disease are chosen. The difference be-
tween varieties in their aptitude toward
blight and other diseases as observed
at the. different experinient stations is
so noticeable that the development of
diseaseresistant strains seems to offer
great poesibilities.
Note—Potato growers looking or
maximum crops are reeommended to try
the above system, While anyone may
carry on the work independent a the
above association, yet there are certain
advantages which come through organ-
ized effort. We ed.vise all, therefore,
who desire to know more of thie work
to communicate at mem with the were.
tary, Canadian Seed, Growers' Amens-
Canadien Building, Ottawa, Ont.,
as the best time for selecting for next
year's crop is not far distant.
Crops the World Over-
Broonthail eetimates the world's wheat
woe this year at 3,024,000,000 bushelit,
having added 31,000,000 bushels for more
liberal and later estimates of the 'United
States and Argentine crepe, says "Crop
Reporter" of the Depertmeat of Amin!.
ture.
The most serious: wheat losses are
looked for in Hungary, the Balkan coun-
tries and Germany. Increases are expect-
ed in Russia (spring wheat) and in
France,
Hungary will. make up some of its
wheat loss by an increased crop of oorn.
Deterioration of the corn crop, however,
is reported by the Danubian States ow-
ing to the lack of raM. A failure there
of that crop would entail serious come.
quenees.
Rye promises a fair crop in Germany
and a bettor thin average yield in Rus-
sia, but elsewhere the prospects are only
moderate.
Barley is expected: to give a satisfac-
tory yield in Austria-Hungary, Germany
and Russia, but fears are expressed as to
quality and color.
Oats promise generally to be the crop
of the year in Europe.
Sugar beets in general are extremely
backward. Both in name and Germany
the average weight of the roots and the
condition of the plants are much below
that at the seine time last year the su-
gar content is likewise' lower, but in
Germany the dill/ enee is not so 'great.
In Hungary sugar beets, while backward,
are developing gradually, and are ex-
pected to give a satisfactory yield.
In Great Britain potatoes are the
worst erop 'of the year, owing to wide?
spread disease. Oats are •the best crop
of the cereals. The quality of hay is •
generally poor, but in hulk it is the crap
of the season. Root Crops and oats are
next; then wheatn barley and potatoes,
Apples and pears are short crops, but
plums are very abundant in England, and
bush fruits have done well. An under..:'
yield of hops is indicated.
The 1907 current crop of Gittee is
mmereially estimated et 155,00(i tons.
eest year G.reat Britain imported (1,-
425,104 bunches of bananas. The import
is increasing largely eaeh year. They
ere from Madeira, Canary Islands, Costa
Riea and British West Indies. The chief
consumption is in the manufacturing dig.
triet, stretehing east from Liverpool in a
broad belt aerolis England, where the
cheap Western banana finds a ready and
growing market among the workers in
the factories. Banana imports increase
as the raw apple imports decrease. Since
1903 Great Britain's raw apple imports
have decreased from $13,536,866 to $8,-
533,782.
C.osta Rica in 1906 exported 8,872,72e
bunches of bananas, valued at $4,436,-
364.
"Dernbusch" puts the deficiency in the
European wheat crop at 179,000,000
bushels.
• a •
THE BUSY BEE AS A "GRAFTER."
AS we force our way through the un-
derbrush and go crunching over the dead
leaves, I venture the remark that the
owner of the apiary would not thank
us if he knew we had caught some of
his bees, even it we did think they were
wild ones. There is always danger of
bees demoralizing their comrades when
they obtain honey as easily as thoSe we
caught did. In spite of the reputation
the have of always improving the shin-
ing hours, bees are like men in the n-
ee' that' they are prone to wander
sp
from the path of honest industry when
the possibility preseats itself of gaining
wealth without' rendering a due equiva-
lent. To the credit of the bees, how-
ever, they usually become infected by
the craze for "easy money" only when
it is very difficult -to obtain nectar from
the flowers.
If we had waited where those we
caught took wing, we should doubtless
have seen them return with scores of
others. It is not to be supposed that
bees can directly communicate to one an-
other anything save the, simplest ideas
such as joy, sorrow, anger, etc.—which
ideas are associated with . particular
notes produced by the whirring of their
wings—but M some mysterious way, pos-
sibly by their excited actions, those that
got our honey let their comrades in the
hive know taht something good had been
discovered.
If the matter ended there, it wouldn't
be so bad; but the mischief is that, hav-
ing had a taste of graft, bees, for all the
world like humans, are likely to take to
out-and-out robbery, which is to say that
they are likely to go prowling around
the apiary until they find a colony that
has been weakened by the kiss of its
queen, its brood -comb, or by some other
cause, and then proceed to overpower
the sentinels stationed the entrance,
rush in and help themselves to all the
stores. Let us hope that our innocent
action led to no such fatal consequences.
--:-Frore "Hunting the 'Wild Honey Bee,"
by David Almon, in the Outing Maga-
zine for October.
• •
AN IMPREMON.
omi, 1 have rui irtspreealoni" exclaimed Dr.
McCosh, the president of Prineetoll College,
ter the Mental philosephy class, according te
Judge. "Now, young gentlemen, continu
the doetor, as he touched Ma bead with his
farefinger. "can you tell Me What an inn
oression is ?"
No answer.
"What; Ito one knows No one ean ten
tr14 what an imorestioe is 7" exclaimed the
doetor, looking est and down the class.
"1 know," (said Mr. Arthur. "An impres.
Sion is a dent In a soft place.
"Young gentleman," raid the doctor, re-
moving hie hand from his torehead and
growing red In tho face, "you arc excesed
tor the day."
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011430.40,00104000404101040•000040100
Etratet,rion strengthens enfeebled
nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and
nerve foice.
It provides baby with the necessary fat
and ./nineral food for healthy growth.
ALL 011U12101911ti 800. AND $1.00.
4•4•4444411.11.4404•44
CURRENT COMMENT
filen44444.444einneenne444.
A Chicago proteador dernands "ein
eriean religion for the American people.°
Ire haa tte petience with the peeple who
would accept thematic or nionarehiced
religions.
'Ile C. P. It. has 114(1. a good year, ita
income having increased $11,000,001
There is nothing small about figurem like
that.
The, New York Comm sioner wants
$8,435,420 for purposes of street cleaning.
It is a huge sum, larger by 411,000,000
than even 'New York has yet paid. But
it is said that "eleanliness he next to g
linees."
•
payiug 0,00
The pr t the
unwed h
ment te a a
guaranteelag Min and fanilly ego- .
eteacetationriagwal141,0 ikt lidsaatoppbieagf.eared, be Oila
. -------en. se ----.-
There will be navel manoeuvres In the
North Sea off the coast of Seotlencl
next month, in which the Channel, Aa
lantic and Home Fleets, with their at.
tendant cruiser squadron and .destroyer
and about fifty small craft, 11%1 take
flotillas, in all about •sixty.seal large
part. Lord Charles Bereeford will be In e
command, These exercisee will partake ( .
of the nature of a test of the arrange.
Inentg for home defence, and „incettstoM
teetion from attacks by an enemy.
‘
the officers to the haudlin of large
numbers of vessels. Outside the fleets
the Scottish coast: has very little pre
•
Rev. J. G. Shearer, the "rota 1 y man"
of the Presbyterian Chureli in Canada,
addressed the Labor Congress at Winne.
Pen the Sunday labor questbanannd
invited it to appoint fraternal delegates
to address the church courts, promisiag
them et hearty welcome and a good helir-
ing from the Presbyterian General As-
sembly when it meets in Winnipeg next •
said "he was ashamed of any labor man I",
1Jvtiiinoe e course of his address nee,.
rid taayn.
shouldn't we also evork?
out would result in the
,wilkniteth
(1 others to work far bira
Sunday,' apt he was also ashamed of the
churchman ewho did so." That's the
lpyouiantt. taTheearinnay.larl:many things wo might
en Sunday than we cane
Nnvootrkgeotnwtihtabtoudtayfffltking sointbody else
work for our pleasure o
4 •
We havn. heard a good deal about ther
Canadian railways overworking their'
men to the point of exhaustion, ti
they have beeiA severely censured the
for. There is anotiter side, bowel?
and it is bitten at by a Grand Trun
aotice that any trainman working moht
than sexteen hours without eight .hours
rest will be dismissed from the -service.
It seems that te-get-the high extra pay
Rather than allo trainmen to leave. a
Air overtime 80,1110
dismissal will be thin penalty of viotatioit
rbeasst airli.atlherat61:weinritnyeroui7',iettnallellien6fortit
duty as long as possible. The matenany
dered that the train be akem off,
4 ,
Rural members hf sides of po11-
tics in the Local Legislate:re are expeet,
ed to advocate some drastic legislation
for the government of automobiles on
the public highways. What the nature,
of the legislation. will be will not be de-
finitely known until these members have
a meeting in ,the early clays of the sea-
sion. It is said, however, that an au-
thenticated list of casualties duriele the
lest eight months is being madelPrAY
for presentation to the House. This im
eludes the ditebing of over thirty farnie
ors' vehicles on eoads, besides causing
many runaways and. other accidents.
Speed figuees will also be shown. The
auto owners may be expected! to enter an
appearance on their own behalf, but
must be said that the reckless conduct
of some of the. oWners in driving through
the country and in the city street.. vill
tell against them with both the la -
tors and the public.
4**
The rumor sent out front Toronto last
week that shareholders of the defunct
York County Loaft Conapeny were short.
ly to receive an interim dividend, nad
semi-offiehil air, and greatly c od the
114,009 whet_ tate nee or
le,s patience to'frec-o'ver something ire%
the wreck. Unfortunately the rumor
we i not correct, and speedily brought an
offieial denial Which dashed the hopes
rinsed. Not only did it do so, .but it
put forward to a year alTinlicaegit,hyandehtahnee:
of the shareholders re
wav thought "a Mall dividend" might
be paid. None but those who have had
to do with the winding up of concerns
involving ;investments by many thous-
ands of people appreciate the task the
York Loan. liquidators have ‘heferanitem.
Ana this earse is in peculiarly difrft.
one, offering opportunity for enellem lit -
nettle» end appeals. There are many
classes of shareholders, each seeking
theie own aavantage; anti minty lawyers
guard their interests. The latest diffi-
culty in mid to int the claim of ths NoVa
S'ectia shareholders, 4,000 or .11,1190 of
then, who hold half a million er an of
stoek. They raise the tvotoutton
thine the eonmeny's adieu he welling such
shares in that Province: was illterel, Mama
they lutist rank as ereditars, net skew.
Italian, anti he paid in fell. nileateleetl•
erSi in other Pierviesees prelims V() reek'
clairete. Olarionaly ff they we'
cool the Ohtani* eharteitaidene aroteln't'
will not be bright. AI arty rate
hearing of eirielenee and =nem* st:if
perhaps appeolny erne tante ten'
neon, „ Jr. 1
lf another must
that day; why
arrying that
stiotion edthout suf