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WILD WEST TOWN
OF THE, ORIENT
e-' "Within "thirty versts of the .town Ot
Khulinelien (population 70,000)the line
erosaee the river Sungeri near the settle-
ment of Kitarbin," so runesthe official re-
port of -the Kum of the rant Chinese
Railway, the alanehurian breneli a the
Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Tbe survey end eubsequent report, to
the Czar were suede in, 1808. In juet six
years, Harbin, Russian's far .eaaterii babe
in her war With Joplin, lies sprung from
the proportions of a Inunlet, with a few
of ite Mezichurian population engaged in
preSeboroil from peas and benne, and dis-
tilling a bad brand of brandy, to a lieut.-
ishimg, •bustling eity of 125,000.
There ere 4.90o Russians, not includ-
ing the soldiery, and the rest are Chinese
with a fen' Manchus, Etieltrime has its
own section ef the eity, the Manchus stilt
occupying the original lindens, .around
which the greater Harbin has been built.
But despite.theee racial divisiona, Rate
bin is a representative booni town, a
st'ila West town even sto its bait men,
who, up to , the outbreak of hostilities,
thought nothing of shooling up the town
on occasion s
if The story of the Harbin of to -day be -
C.„, gins with. the survey, of the East Chin-
ese, or Manchurian, brawl: of the Trans-
Siberian 'Railroad. The Russian engineers
engaged in the mole darted across Man-
churia from the Trans-Balk:in provinces,
working .eestseasal in as ,straight a line
as possible toward Vladivostock.
The determination to run a bee line to.
the 'snaffle brought them in time to the
western banks of the principal river of
Alanchuria-the Sungari, Opposite them
lay the seettered mildbouse settlement of
Harbin.. Twenty milea further down the
river was .the city otKIulincheu
An American surveying party would
have made a detour to tap so flourishing
eommereial centre, but not so the Rus-
sians. Harbin was in front of them, it
lwas.on e Aired line. with Viadivoatock,.
Ute 1:oat1 would erase the river at Dar-
" bin, and twenty miles would be Saved. ;
In 1864 Pince,Kropotkimthe Russian
traveller, made an extensive trip of ex-
ploration, in .Manchuria. Alum% other
things, he. entered the Sungari River,
where it empties into the • Anew, and
went up it to the bead of navigation at
Kirin in the flrst steamer ester on the
rivet. Kirin, by the water route„ -is some
200 miles above Harbin, which Prince
Kropotkin did not even' mention in his
account of thetrip.
Seoe4.. When they were rowed by coolies
across the -Sitar. the Russian
surveyors .bad. this expedition of their
countrymen recalled to them" by the
tido of some of the older inhabitants
about a white mans Audi as they were,
-who years' before had stetuned 'past
:their village on. his way 'up the river,
and. who, severe Lweeks later, steioned
past again, this time 'down stream.
The Russians at caw realized that
they hod crossed the river at a nayi-
gable point and were not slow in grasp-
ing tlie opportunity. They Imew that
their Government was desirous of rush-
ing the building of the railroad with all
possible speed.
The Sungari was. navigeble for eteam.-
ers of considerable draught front far
above the point atheist the line would
erase it, The Amur was uavigable
thence to Khabarovek, the. northern
• tern:inns, of the ISssuri Mundt of the
Trams -Siberian Railway. the southern
terminus of whielt i ladivostock.
To this port. the American mita aud
otheupplies for the new line were to
be shipped. Nothing would be cagier
than to send targe quantities of the
supplies over. the Vssari Railway to
Khabarovsk, load them on oteamere
there, ship them up the Amur and the
Sungari to Harbin, and there start
buildiug the line both toward Vladivo-
stock eastward and through Alanclin-
ria westward straieht for the Trams -
Baikal link of the Siberian road.
. So. the initial step la the 'seeming of
Harbin was taken. In the la»gnage of
tbe official report, it was made "the
headquarters of the central ilepart-
ment for the construction of the east
Chinese Railway."
After that history was inade at a
rapid rate in Harbin. One river steamer
after another dumped its cargo of rails,
bridge work, and other materials along
the river banks. Bridge builders, en-
gineers, blaelcemiths, locksmiths, ear-
penters, linemen, railway doctors, and
surgeonss clerks and accountants at -
rived in great numbers from Russia,
and, hundreds of coollies, attracted by
the_ prospect of remunerative work, in-
vaded the little town, Harbin leaped
over night from a fishing village of a
few hundred souls to a litinumng rail-
road centre of several thousand. -
Them while the railroed was being
pushed with • feverish -baste moss the
plains' in eaeli direction, and the foun-
dations for the great bridge across the
Surgari were being laid, word reached,
Harbin that the Czar had leased the
Liao -Tung peninsula for a period of
twenty-five yeare from the Chinese im-
perial government and a road was to
be run to Port Arthur, on the peinsula's
trip, from a tfoint on the East Chinese
RadWay, and the junction was to be at
Harbin.:
Surveyors were bnmediately sent out
from Harbin, and, as a result, in a few
months material was coming in greater
qtmetity tha,n ever by steamer, nore ar-
tisane were arriving from Rusaia and
flocking from the towns of central Man-
churia ,and more Coolies were being em--
pleyed; for two railways were now be-
ing .built out of Harbin instead of one.
llie meantime the railway adminis-
Wain, who had spractleal survey over
Harbin, though Mauchurian officials were
inSuminnal control, had leaved the prob-
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• :Many women are denied the happiness of
children. through derangement of the genera-
tive organs. Mrs. Beyer advises women to use
147' dia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"Dram Mus. PINIMAU: -I suffered with stomach complaint for
years. 1 got so- bad that I could not carry my children but five months,
then would have a miscarriage. The last time I became pregnant, nay
husband got me to take Lydia E. Pinkhambs 'Vegetable Compound.
After taking the first bottle I was relieved of the sickness of stomach,
and began to feel better in every way. I continued its use and was
enabled to carry any baby to maturity. I now haVe a nice baby girl,
and can work better than I ever cc:4d before. I am like a new ViOe
man." -Mrts. rItAlalt BETE; 22-S. Second St., Meriden; Conn.
Another case which proves that no other medicine
• in the world accomplishes the same results as
' Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. •
"nunJIni. PINIMAN I was married
for five years and gave birth -to two pre.
mature children. After that I took
Lydia I. Pinkham's 'Vegetable Com.
pound, and. it changed. me from a weak,
nervous AVOInfill to a strong, happy and
healthy wife within seven months. Witb
in two years a lovely little girl was born,
who is the pride and joy of any liousehold.
If every WOiliall who is cured feels as
grateful and happy as 1 do, you must
have a host of friends, far every day I
bless you for the light, health and happi-
ness Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
COmpeund lias brought to any home. Sincerely yours, Mns. Man
WItAterifs Fiat 31, The Norman, Milwaukee, Wis."
• Actual sterility hi Weinftll is Very rare. If any woman &into
sheis Sterile let her Write to Dirs. Pinkhain itt Lynn, jitass., whoite
adviee is given free to ail would.be and expectant mothers.
35000 ratursxotzttgAirgsfe,pm:,pintgar "4 liouttine
sus mire. ce.. tie* MN*
lem of supplying the erer growing town
and the railroads' builders with food
etas.
Ilarbin is situated in the heed of the
most productive of Manchuria. The fertile
plain Ntretehes for miles to the south,
and a nitwit larger one, with great for-
ests, to Lite northwest, Almost everything
is raised on them in abundanee-wheat,
rye, corn, outs, barley,. rice, grassce., vege-
tables and fruits -and each plain is tap-
ped by tiavigable rivers, the southern by
the Sungari, the northern by the Nonni,
'which empties into the Sungari at Bo -
dune, 00 miles above Harbin.
All this the Ituasians found out as they
went from Iiarbin to build the railway,
and moon down the rivers mum supplies
in ample quantity, brought by Chinese
farmers, who had been teld of the prom-
ising new market for their products, (ma
by Russian steamere sent nate the plains.
country to buy foodetuffs'at the villages
along the river bank.
Consecpwntly, svhen in 1000 0,000 lox.
ers besieged the town for six menthe, un-
til the approach of three Ruesian relief .
expeditious, more than enough suppliee
had been accumulated to carry the be-
sieged safely through on liberal rations.
At the time of the siege 150 foreign- .
ers, mostly Russians, were left in the
town; the vett were scattered along
the lines of the building railways, 'Plies,
directed the defence, and in this they
were aided by Cheng, the Mime coin,
mander-in-elnef at Tonewaugho.
Sling, on the outbreak of the Boxer
movements received. orders from Pekin
to kin all the foreigners in his drstrier,
Sheng liked the Russians; he sent back
word that be had. neither guns nor bul-
lets with which to obey the order, and
if be had he wouldn't commit murder,
' Then Sheng got a reply ordering him
• to execute himself. Sluing decided that
It was no use to parley further with the
Pekin authoritiee and promptly went
over to the Russians, bag and baggage,
and bis Advice dia a lot toward. keep.
ing the besieged Boxers at a respectable
distance.
The ease with which several hundred
meu stood oil' several thousand for half
a year at once attraeted the attention
of the Russian strategists to Harbin.
They reported it easy of defence,
commanding, as •it does, the river and
the plains in all directioue, and a, .splens
did base in case of war, by reason of
the fertile and wooded conntry round
itet, aceessible lsoth by water and
Russia bad not then made the first
of the' series of her promises to get out
of Manchuria, and imme.diately follow-
ing the report of the Rusalan strate-
gists to St. Petersbures, Harbin experi-
enced a boom of such proportions as to
make her first one -min insignificant.
Where one Russia» ertisan. had come
from lila native land before, fifty now
came; and they and the Chinese work:
men, .who flocked to Harbin in droves,
not only erected great railroad shops
and terminals, but rushed up scores of
administrative buildings, solid blocks of
business houses and row sifter row of
residences.
Not only that. Industries, backed by
both Russian and Chinese capital,
sprang into full blast every bit as mar-
vellously -especially those capable. of
furnishing an army with the necessary
commissary supplies.
In six years ten flour mills have been
established with an aggregate daily out.
put of 1,000,000 poonds of flour; a half
million dollars ' has been invested in
meat packeries, tattle and hogs "being
extensively raised •on tit plains around
Harbin, and the city has been built front
the brick manufactured there and the
lumber cut ' and sawed in the great
neighboring forests tis the north and
northwest.
In the last four years Die official re-
ports show that the Russian- Govern-
ment has spent 'nearly $10,000,000 in
Harbin, and that Chinese and. 'private
capital invested there. aggregatee $25,-
000,000-a grand total of $41,000,000.
Up to the very day of the outbreak of
1 hostilities the boom was still on, ap-
parently undiminished in vigor, the city
resounding with the, constant din of
tools all day long and far into the
night, when eleetric lights guided the
regiments of workers.
Naturally-, Harbin' S rapid growth has
attracted to it many bad elements, as
is the ease with new towns ia the wild
west , of the United States. Indeed,
Harbin is a wild- west toren of the
Orient. • .
Afanchuria, is infested with khunkhuz
-red-bearded Manchu brigands -who,
until the Rusaians came into the coun-
try, passing their days levying tribute
on farmers and -isolated villages.
Many of these fellows have been
drawn to Harbin by the glitter of gold,
and as they stop at nothing to gain
their ends, -being reckoned among the
most desperate outlaws ,in all Asia,
scarcely a day passes without aanurcier
in the town, _
It has been the favorite Sport of
many a baud ot these khunklitio,. mount-
ed on why liancharian horses to -
THE FAR EASTERN CIRCUS,
By DeMar in Philadelphia Rocorcl.
s of s45,000 men is supposed to be acorn-
, panted by 2,400 wagons,
When campaigning the Russian soldier
is sopposed to carry two days' rations on
his person. The regimental trains °any
rations for each man for two days long-
er, and the divisional trains for from two
or four days. It is 'reckoned that fresh
supplies should always be obtainable
from the surrounding country or aloug
the line of communicetions within the
six or eight days allowed.
The system is a good one, but the
transport and commissariat broke down
miserably in every impertant war
waged by Russia, during the lest cen-
tury. The experience of the past indi-
cates that the Cow:lacks are the wily moss, or by the soldiers themselves, and
Russian soldiers who are mobile and well they were so lightly laden that they in mg -room of this city.
"The geisha girls'. danee consists of a "
fed in a. campaign.,• terfered little, if at all, with the -mobil. series of posturations and gyrations with
fans and garlands of flowers and paper
They are mobile because they always ity of the force.
and posy parasols, and is modest enough !
have large numbers IA spare horses- The horse and mule carts were of the
often two for each man; they are well smallest type, and lightly built. .Spare to suit Dr. Parkhurst.
"Japan is interesting, even alluring to
fed because of their skill in foraging. animals were. made to carry aheir own
• Russian officers- spend freely ont of fodder, and that of the other animals as the foreigner, but there was .only one
their private unds during a campaign , • time I felt at home there. That was in ,
in order to remedy the defects of the These measures were rendered neces- a park at Nagasaki, when I came on a '
joafficciaTlhetyraiiilsapvoertabteleoun oabnii(gledeotnomidieosiisTo. sary by the smallness and weakness orcatone slab erected to commeraorate the
even during iniumeirrrea. the Japanese horses, which are about the visit of Gen. Grant to that place. Re was
!file exemple was set by Skobeleff - scrawniest animals of their kind. The there in 1870, and Mrs. Grant was with
Ressia'a greatest general of modern
ped, with large, strong, .well-bred horses. the Japanese putp
Russians, on the contrary, are well equip- . him. Each planted a tree, and afterward
the slab -between the
times, during the Russo-Turkish war.
He was a rich man, and every rouble
he owned was at the disposal of his
beloved- soldiers when they needed it.
All the official arraugements for feed-
ing.the isien and caring for the sick and
weended broke dawn. utterly, • and
Skobeieff waa always patting -bit hand
in 11Se pocket through that. campaign.
On one occasion he -spent 15,000 roubles
similar nuisance should be tolerated in
another campaign.
Duriag the advanee of the relief of
the besieged legations at Pekin the Jap-
anese commissars, was, by coin:non
agreement of the foreign officers, better -
than that of ass,' of the' European
troops, aud the Japanese soldiers show -
at gemus for foraging and. accommo-
dating their appetites to the food exalt- Om wicked wept:" inquired one of the
old bachelors.- - . . .
able in the country. •-• '
' "1 didn't see any geisha girls, with
instead of using heavy' waeona . liable
digenone fruits are rare, swan, *our,
aud altogether bad eating,
"Most people have a notien that the
trees there me nearly all like these
littie dinkyolink dwells that the Broad-
. way florists put in their windows. Sevea
miles from Nikko two tuitional roads
meet, lined with cryptoberia. trees. Tlie
splendid avenue .1 travelled for over
fifty lava was bordered by cryptotner-
ias over two eenturies obi, and some
of them are more than thirty feet
around. They are a snecies of cedar,"
. "You spoke of japanese babies never
.erying," • nuggemted yomig °Meer,
father of a brand new paragon.
"So 1 continued the -elderly man,
"end there are so many of them, too.
They are about as thick over there ea
mosquitoes are here between ,and
October, aud I must lay it on any
thicker than that.
"We read pleasant paragraphe in the
impels about Japan'e being the para.
(Ilse of childree. 'Tis said that spank-
ing and whipping are unkuown there,
and that a Japanese mother's min duty
in life, after waiting on her mother-in-
law, is to amine her ehildrem,
"There are no ehildren in Japan. U'lley
are dignified burlesques on the growo-
ups. The little girls of the family take
care of the babies by having them
strapped to their backs. Nearly every
little maid of five or six lias a baby
tied to her, and perhaps that aceou»ts
for the bent and tottering gait of the'
Japanese women.
"As I said, I never heard a Jan baby
cry, but if one begins to make up A
month and wrinkle up its funny little
face, its Mid mother milets it by
raising her body on her toes and heels
• as fast its she can; and placidity reigns
in Short order.
".A. man would feel like' it fool quot.•
ing 'Mother (loose' to a Japanese child
or trying to atnuse it as one does- our
children. As for &licking one under
the chin, that's unthinkable.
"Very properly, I suppose you bach-i
(dors think, the boy Is more highly
prized than the girl, and they celebrate
an ancient custom there called boys'
day. I happened to be in a large in-
land town on• this day, and it proved
interesting. At every house where a
boy had been born during the you. a
tali bamboo pole was raised. from which
flew a large paper or silk fish with
wide open mouth. The fish becomes
inflated and the sight is a pretty one.
Parents who have reason to be particu-
larly overjoyed 11‘. more than one fish.
'Ile dignity and self-possession of
Japanese children is wonderful. As soon
as they ean speak they are required to
learn the rules of Japanese etiquette, .
so that by the thne..they are 8 or 10
years old they know exactly what to
do and what not to do under every
conceivable condition."
i'lIow about those geisha &iris and
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REALER IN SPRING*
Motor.. Require* Assistenco In ttiik,
Ing Now. lisaltiekOiving Bleed.
Spring is the season when your eys-
ton needs toning up. fa the spring you
mud liaye new blood just as the tree*
'rust have new sap. Nature deinande it.
W moot new blood von will feel wavy.
weak and languid. ltVith neW, rich, red
Mood you will be eprighti,y, happy and
healthy. file one sure way to get new
blood and Polt energy. is to take Dr.
. rink Pine. They aetnally
make new blood. They are the greatest
spring tonic in the world. 11.1r. *T. .1.
Mallette, a welt known grocer in Mont-
real, says: "I wish to thank you for the
g' -oat got- I year Millman' Pink Pale
I -ore ;be, 3ne. Aly ardent was very
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made u..:o 'emu of me, As I am in
pistple I nut Wien able to recommend
the pills, anti ibev have already relieved
a dozen of mi flionla who suffered as
(11.1"
Many people fuither weaken their
eystem in••fieing through taking purga-
tive medicines. What nature needs to
help her. Is it tonie, and Dr: Wylie -inn'
Pilla supply thie as no other medi.
...eine can. 13e sure you get the ,genuine
with the full name, "Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People," printed on the
wrapper Around the box, Sold by alt
medicine dealers; or post paid at 50
cents per box, or six boxes for $2.00, by
Writing the 1147.14111lains' Medieine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
FOR THE FARMERS.
to be bogged or to tire out the horses wicked ways," answered the retired
the Japanese bad a great number of 'Ina "I thought I was going. to have some rare •'
hand carts -much like the push carts of sport at the dances given by the geisha
the rtiame limy York „d other Am, girls, but, bless you, I've see,: worse
erican cities. Thee carts were drawn by things among amateurs in the best draw -
bit the lureomans caumal„an, in Central .trees. It bears this inscription in the
Asia, camels were employed, but they General's well-gnown band:
are hardly Seer used to -day by Russian Nagasaki, Japan, Jtme 23, 1879. '
troops. Thousands of dogs are pressed At the fequeet oplovermir Matsumi
into service, mainly for. transporting sol- Tactic Kalenu, Mrs. Grant and 1 each
diers and supplies in sledges across -Lake planted it tree in the Nagasaki Park. 1
Baikal. „ hope that both trees may prosper, grow
In the present campaign the Mikado's large, live long, and. their growth and
fighting man is carrying a. great deal prosperity and long life be emblematic
more food with hiin than his Russian ad- of the future of Japan. '
versary. Against the batter's two days' t:. S. Grant.
to charter a steamer to take a number rations, he carries two cooked rations "The sanie sentiment is engraved un- ".
of wounded men to Odessa, for treat. of vice in addition to six emergency ra- . derneath the. Japanese characters. . I
•ment. He never recovered from the• tions. These are contained in an .alum- know the General's expressed..sentiment
_Government the large sums he expeeded. intuit mess pan and as the rice has been still' lives in the hearts of -the American
When Skobeleff was praised for his boiled and dried in the sum. the entire" people."
generosity toward his troops be renlied sveight is trifling. .
unaffectedly: .• - ,
. . . It is commonly supposed that thi,Tap- • . KEEP 1,17.TLE ONES WELL.
"rOwe *evekything to these men, ani anew •soldier lives entirely on rice and
thousand roubles to hell) them.in their can live, and fight wells on that spare There ought not —to be any sickly, fret -
the least I, can do is to spend- a. few dried. fish, but such ie net the case. Ile
need." . diet, if neeessaryl but he is given meat ful, sleepless children -there would not
be any if mothers gave their little ones
That spirit animates most officers in - and other sustaining fods whenever Fee -
the 'Russian' _army to -day. Gen. Koine, ticable, as well as beer or. saki. an occasional dose of Baby's Own Tab
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Gen. Grodekoff and other fain- Several years ago a military commis- lets. The little ones are sickly and fret-
.
ous Russian officers trained. under sion was appointed by the Mikado to ful and sleepless usually because of
Skobeteff follosved his example. sonse stoomele bowel or teething trou-
ascertain why the physique of the Japan-
it'is regarded as the regular ese troops was inferior to that of the '/•)1e. These and the other minor ills of
thing Iti the Russian urmy .for an ore British, Cierma.n. and other armies. The . little ones are speedily relieve(' and
promptly cured. by Baby's Own Tablets,
eer to have to spend money on his inen commission came to the conclusion that and the little one thrives and grows
to remedy . official ehortcomings. It is beef and beer helped to build up the stet- plump, sleeps well at, night, and. lets the
to be feared that graft has a great deal wart frames of Occidental lighting men, .
to do with those shortcomings. mother get ' her much needed rest as
cherge suddenly . through Harbin'e - ' testi defects are, however, largely included in' the diet scale of the Japan -
:01d since then beef and beer have Weil well. Mrs. lt. M. LaRue, Mountain, Ont,.
streets, in wild west style, shooting off °ffset bY the Datiebt endura"" ef the ese all"' says: "I can reeommend Baby's Own
their rifles, and not infrequently shoot- Russian soldier, born of his doglike loy- Tablets to all mothers who have cross
Ing rip a drinking .place ,or. a whole alty , to the Czar. The American mili- or delicate children. I do not know how
quality. THE POLITENESS OF jAPAN. I could get along without them. Mother,
section of the city• that incurred their tory attache was impreied by that
"When. his battles result in defeat, e Mikado's medicine just one trial! If your medicine
isn't it worth your while to give this
bin in great numbers, perhaps the , Good Manners One Trait of th
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dealer does not keep the Tablets send
25 cents to the Dr. Williams' Medicine
disapproval. .
NOV that Russian soldiers are In Her-
khunkhuz have been deprived of this seams his clothes are shabby, when his' "It is nearly y ,) ears since I was
t‘Preeloitple..
when his biscuits are full of maggots ' .
part of their pleasure in life. But it boots drop to pieces, the Russian sol- in Japan," seta the. retired eaval•oflicer, Co., Brookville, Ont, and the Tablet -3
year or so ago they thought it nothing dier," lie said, ureasoue it all Out slowly "'but 1 guess things haven't chewed will be sent by mail post paid.
of defying the uniforin end the riffle and can only come to the conelusimi much over that way, for all their talk
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' if the Czar only knew!' No Animal Like it.
of the CoAsack patrol. -so pathetic in its simple faith. 'Ah, about western civilization.
"Every one' within Ida reach he, freely was the palitenese cd t 1
"What stria* me most in Japan? It .
be maple and the
The eonvict is another disquieting so- Tit 'the Berlin Zoological Garden
dal factor in Harbin. He has been there is neicv an arninsal which is
brought from Siberia for work in con- discusses, critieises and blames; he silence that is characteristic of nature in wholly unlike any other in the
world. It in the offspring of a
nection with the railroads, and given half suspeets that his generals mar be Japan- female puma from tho Argentine
freedom in many eases. Indeed, it is no fools, and he is sure that his coin- "As to the former, T travelled over it
Republie, and of it =ale leopard
rare thing to tad that this or that ofIl- inisSaries are ritSCals; but no thonglit thoosaud miles in out of the way places , __
i roan India. I
i1,of the town is an exeonviet, of censure ever crosses hie mind afrainst and did not meet with o»e instance of The Owner of it anenagerie In Ger- I
e
The paroled White outlaw is no less the Czar." Meivility or extortion. Yon know the
Experimental Union Distribu-
tion of Choice Seed.
The members ot the Oetario Agri-
01.11fIlval and ExPerimento.1 Union nre
• Pleased to state that for 190a they
are prepared to distribute Into every
Tawriship or Ontario, material for
experiments with. fodder crops, roots.
grains, grasses, .elovers, and fertil-
izers. 'Upwards of 1,500 varieties
of farm crops have been tested in
tho es.perimental department of the
Ortario Agricultural College, Guelph,
for at least- five yeare in emcees -
stun. Those consist of nearly. all
tins Co.nadlan aorta and several hun-
dred new earieties, same of which
have done exceedingly well in the
carefully conducted experiments at
rho C.ollege, and are now. being dis-
tributed free of charge for co-oper-
Ativo experiments throughout Onta.
So, The followhig is the list of
ea-operatire experiments for 1904:
No. Experiments. • Plots.
1 -Three varieties ot oats 3
--Three) varieties of barley...-3
3. -Two varletles of hatless bar-
ley
4-Tivo varieties of spring wheat 3
5 -Two varieties of buckwbeat 3
0 -Two varieties of field peas
for northern Ontario ...
7-Emmer and spelt
8 -Cow peas and two varieties of
Soy, Soja, or japanese beans 3
9 -Three varieties of linsking
10 -Three varieties of mangolds 13,
11 -Two varieties of sugar beets
for feeding purposes ... 2
yarietles of Swedigh
urnips 3
13. -Kohl ltabi and two varieties
of fall turnips
14, -Parsnips and two varieties ot
carrot s
15 -Three varieties of 'fodder or
Silage corn 3
10 -Three varieties of millet, 3
17 -Three varieties of sorghum 8
1.13-,Srass poas and two varieties
of vetches , 3
10 -Two varieties of rape • • -
:10 -Three varieties of OlOYer ,... 8.
21: --Sainfoin, Lucerne and Bur- .
net-------------, ..... 8
22 -Seven• varieties o.f grasses7
2a -Three varieties of field beans
24 -Three varieties of sweet corn 8
2,5 -Fertilizers with -Dorn see-, tt
26-Eertilizers with Swedish 'Pur-
i- . nips 6
27-Girowing potatoes on the level
and'In bids
28 -Two varieties of early, med-
. luni, or late potatoes ... • 2
20 -Planting cut potatoes, which
have and which have not 1
been coated over with land 1
plaster .a.•• ••• •••.,• ••• 8
20 -Planting corn 3n rowe and in '
square, an 'excellent varietyl •
' of early: corn will be used 2
The size ot plot In each of
the first tilventyl.six experimente is
to be 'two rods long by one rod wide;
in Noe. 27, 28 and 20, one rod strnare;
and in No. 30, tour rods sellitrei
one-tenth of an 'acre. '
Each person In Ontario who wishes
to Join in the.work. Way/ oboose Any:
one of the experiments for-19Ci4, and
apply' for the game. Tile material will
be furnished in the order In which
tho applieatiOIM are received until
the supply: IS eXhalleted. It might be
well for each applicant to make
second choice for fear the Britt
could not be granted. All material
will bo furnished entirely free of
charge to each applicant, and the
produce of the plots will, of course,
become the 13roperty of the person,
Who conducts the eXperiment.
Zavitz, Director.
Ontario Agricultural College, 1 t
Guelph, March 3.9th, 1904. .
Kidney Search Lights.-11nve yon
beet:lithe? Do you reel drowsy? payout-
imbs reel heavy? nave you pains in tba
ions': Have you dizziness? nave you a
Ire(' dragging feeling In the region of the
idneys? Any and all of these indicate Mil-
ey troubles. South American Kidney' Cure
a a Heide kidney speck nee works wonder-
ul mires In most complicated eases. -94
The Cost of Great Wars.
feared than the kbunehug, and eppre. it is hardly necessary to point out folks out. on our Pacific Coast are down many obtained these two animals !
some time ago, and, an tee bad only "
hetution of both has operated to keep the the value of this modal attitude :se a on the -laps, and say they will strain one cage unoccupied, he put the e
streets pretty free of pedestrians at military asset. two into it. At Bret he was afraid I,
The Russian soldiers appear, as a gen- a point .to ao yoa out of a cent. They
that. trait °ver became good friends at once and
night, except in the busiest sections. that they would quarrel, but they '
west,.in anticiamtioo of attacks and raids, must have picked up
alt he allowed them to remain In
Even there men carry gime, as in the ?crab rule, to lack the ability, to shift
here, for one certainly does not meet .
ning fights which take place in the heart system. of baggage traina breaks down, with it on their own gtound.
t:The commonest peasant never fails
give 'the strange, a graceful end ono morning a little 'CUil wall t
for themselves in matters of transport
aud they not infrequently join in the run -the cage,
and counnissnriat, 1f their elaborate
victs and the Soldiery. a bard eampaign, they are utterly et if he gots half a elinnee a pleasant - ed to be an ordinary puma. in a ,,
Taken all in all, life in Harbin le ex- word. Eveft the lowest classes salute . few Weeks, nowaver, it resembled'a 1
it loss -unless they are Cossacks, Kal-
grows more so daily, since it is now Rule
tremely strenuous, and it undoubtedly Macke, or Tureomans, accustomed from eanother in passing, with this pre- leopard ouite as inuela as a puma, „(
boyhood to pickime, up their meals wher-Intuit! bow, and I am frank to confess and then the truth beeanie known. 1
sia's far eastern base in her war with
0 • - 1 .1 • • ti il d titent. I like to recall tnie custom iti this i Selentiste are studying th,"ft strange
of the tOWn between brigands and CM1- as it moy wen do under the Arian of eramous how, coupled with a smile, mei horn, and at Grid it woe eupposs
It eost Pranee OVer $2,000,000 a day
o keep au army of 600,000 men in the
field against the Germans. The Aus-
rian economist, Shaine, eight years ago
teetered that a Aver involving the con -
Mental powers of Barone would Oat
Frane0 mei. $5,000,000 a day: Russia,
$5,600,000; Germany, $5.000,000, and
Austria, $0.000,000, The figures would
probably be larger to -clay, and if made
to include Greet Ilritain, the rnited
States and China the expenditure for
waste, destrnetion and death would
gregate nearly $40,00,000 every. twenty.
four hours, or more Omit it million itna
a half en hour.
japini-en ideal base from any point of 'fel en( m onme n'Y can lein,
d when even our young men. 40 not animal with much Interest I id
view. Ilie Javanese, on the contrary, nY -
Even if the Joys succeed in crippling . Sle-Ived. during their war with (lima a find time to lift the hat from the head . 'not eurpriging, sInee no sms ever
, im;egIned that a puma and a leo=
remarkable ability to create their niien saluting one with white hair.
trimsport and eommiseariat apparently
the Thifisian nitro:Ws Harbin will still
have her productive 'fisheries rind her
great waterways, whiell flow through the OUt of nothing as they went along. where foreigners are rarely seen; and ! Tito animal Itself Ls strong,
"I went into some very remote parts I pard would pair.
healthy and of a beautiful oto. In
They um not trouble much about bag- twee there the natives never forgot thier !
very heart of Afenelitiria's only two teally
fertile plains. These risers are froo of gage trains; they had them, to be sure, manners. Though they gathered about ! wine renPeets it is Wonderfully lige
ice from April to October, and for a year !Sven. supplied •and well orgailiZed, but and examined my dress ond feattires, ' rt leopenl. and In otlfers like a
- a year or More a Steamboat eompany, , 1 p ION so Ot cc y la iey
istie of neture," reminded the :svung
has been regularly engaged in bvinging 'half the 'Bum. . . . .
the popular& and schlierY Alike, mid wiry . 'carts or tittles or roolies they chanced geisha girls dancing everywhere. lotus
- - • . 0 . ' , • . ' ' ,
chiefs of the pleins-_grain and cattle for order, and piekea Up any ma native wee like a ehortis in The 'alikadoss 0
to Harbin in great Miantitiee the pro- They travelled in the lightest possible Iis8isfunt PeYlnesier- "I thought allPall
Manehurian horses, fainotei for their , to Meet, making them sevVe the neves. of bri1P194 Phunoge singing night 'and
• ToSt Cizikst!EtT AhteiiintstS tO hr lin$ sZED PtlIZILAt
'diving qualities, for nrinSS transportas sitiee of the moment, mot then 'letting day, mildest pelaces and cottigeat iloix-
them go and getting others further 01i. •Pri inst--------1. gthillf1.• Wei ale spendint thousentt chew c; taggiltiontAtios: hie% etonwptrautn vowel Tdreetats
flan and cavalry ?urposes.
tl e troo a ,ea if t it was doaa tlie most eettrteous way," ! Prtrilne '
controlled by the 11.118Sialt GOverninent., Wero out ot toneh with their wageue "You spoke of the silence! character-
• to t iis company, ninny in- The may drawback of this system "Von VIM probably think . :11k rdtuVeire ble•
Wortktryliinter. whreeterreetinestrwie, ityouesenetatini:Itourrynnreelf.gst Yea
ION lur.11
111 A(ItLi011 na linemen, eneournged 'by the Wes that as the eampaign adean4d the on neiirl.y streets, With curbs of pure e.
• nAt;11 Or TunSIX
44
rying trade, and growing. rich by it. 'GENTS A GARDEN firs ON Ast
' of ecolits Mid other ramp followers, the retired MtVal dimes "Birds of gay
eemmittea exeesses. 'whielt were Voreng.. ----------- apan,. and not once did hear OtTA E. AN
Ittiseian oilleialS, are engeged in. this ear- nrUlieS heeame clogged liy large numbers geld mhos' yOti got tO teir‘e11. retorted PICTIIRESIREPRE.
VBEDIN'O THE TWO ARMIES. ,who treated a won! of trouble and feather mut meet voice ore mournfully Itt • GAN
'1011 NAME THREE
Some Of the Japanese colniminderS "There Are no grass fields or pastor • 611 " "
'I'he War bit the east effording teat ions 'parkin*, driviog them out of the and the •apeeial festivals of ibe VITtitta=y‘otg:nr,V7zoglIrginv:abtutitsitirialtutirp.,1.,trLargTit rfrLdira
charged to the regliktr trOops. ,TaPitno.se LAY (17-4
The Systeme of 1:11Arsesitine. Ana hipatt coot, Amy
• adopted a short iv:1y with these ohnox. lands. but the flowers ore wonderful. ttoes not tett fori ette tent te try end Wye this ptuale, Old MI ire &street ten Inny wins kip
0 et4i fak
'
kiaa:
of the tteneport and eommissariet sys, army on pitha of death 05 SOpn as their peen? ilierry aluI are welt worth
terns of ifilasia, Mid Japilfl. sexrieeli *ere OVer. After the war lb a tri tbete. One liatnrally assoeiates I u *
ills1:67trid,rolptlItifillgt.117,:g."'4'464112"1 ".noilioVre"
I A lk 200 Coiteti
By illiS Uttbainfl f4yateM AU army ter WAS tor mi uteso y art ine. Ben In r ow§ wee *ha anti' II iffouti *dam .1
pretty generally agreed that tio flee • ruits nith Rae flowers, hut in. MAL KttIVVErof BILAInN0 CO.* tliEPir 1407 TonOr:ri0. ONT.
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