HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-12-01, Page 3STORY OF A WHALE HUNTER!
Medical Scientists; Eminent Analysis
Adventures and Profits of a Bazaradousj eeer the highest testimony to ite worth.
Business.
- 'Within the eutire range of nettirel Wa-
lt tory there is nothing, in my opinion,
r -"Which can give to the ,general cstudent
more profound interese than the whele,
and nothing in al the various pursuits
of maim4 possessors a more exciting
and thrilling field of adventure than
that of whale hunting, Se.ys a writer la
°Forest and Stream."
My experiences as a 'whaler have ocen
chiefly ass an officer, earl I have both
made end lost a gorse deal of Asolity
palling from New London and New Ilea, -
ford.
If eve can believe anything that i AO
-
sated by the wise average man of eel-
ence, the whale would never enaatoee, fish
Stew, as it is really a quadruped. ht
Is a warm-blooded animal, aud tioso L9.
pendages called fins or flippers are rn
reality its legs; its heart is like that
of man and other samamats, baling two
cavities ana doing double duty In the
line of circulatiug blood. It is not the
offspring of an egg, but is born alive.
What are generally called the Inotyholes
of the 'whale are really nothing but its
nostrils, The whalebone of commerce
comes from the jaw of the animal, and
le found. only in the variety known as
the Greenland or right whale.
While the whalebone whale has no
teeth, those of the sperm whale are ear.
red in the lower jaw, and as to the elm
•which these creatures etin it may be
stated that they have been known to
menet= 100 feet in length exist to have
weighed nearly 250 tem. We often, hear
the remark that something we see as
very like a whale,and yet there are sev-
eral animals to whieh we nmy truthfully
arty that remark, namely, the dolphin,
porpoise, grampus, bottle nose manatee,
which is the favorite food of the right
sea elephant aud narwhal, or sea uni-
corn. Nor will I stop to give all tbe par-
tioulare. bearing upon the equipment of
a whaling ship, bat proceed at onee with
soma of my adventures.
And first, in fancy, let us take a little
run in the Soath Atlantic. We are in
the vicinity of a great plain of seaweed,
whale, aud they are numerous in that
vicinity. One of the crew has ascend;
ed to the 'crow's nest,' for you must un-
derstand that it is desirable to discover
a whale or a school ot then before we
come near enoogh to see them from the
leek.
The boats aro ready, equipped with
• harpoons and lances and rope, the crews
duly asigned, when, lo 1 from the crow's
nest' comes the cry, 'There she blows
'Where away r 'Abeam, to the leeward,
sir.' How far off 1"Twit miles, sir,'
• 'Let us know when the ship heads for
sher."Ay, ay, sir I"Keep her off—
hard. up the helm 1"Herd up it is,
sir.' Steady 1 St ea d. y 1"There she
bloevs 1 A large right whale with her
calf, sir, heading right at us. Very large.
There she blows! Now half a mile off
and. feeding, sir, and coining right to-
ward as l' We lower away, and are off.
Now it is that you see the advantage of
the drill eve have practiced for malty
days.
Every movement must be quick and
, sure, with no guessing or questioning
what is best. There goes the great
mother whale, followed by her offspring,
both of them moving slowly and not
heeding the miming danger. The boat
has reaehea her side, a fearful flurry of
excitement follows among the crew. One,
two, and perhaps three lances ere
thrown, and. away she goes, coloring the
ocean with her blood, dragging the rope
• with fearful rapidity, then she stops,
goes into wbat we call a flurry, or her
death agony, when she swans with her
head out of the water, making a circuit
of miles and lashieg the sea into a foam
with her tail, and as she grows weaker
and weaker slackens her pace, straight-
ens herself out upon the water on her
side ,and with her head invariably to-
ward the east, dim. If the wind is blow-
ing the sea makes a clear breach over
her as if she were a rock, and this has
sometimes deceived the mariner. I re.
member. one instance where a captain re-
ported in New York the discovery of a
rock in the track to Europe, and seg.
eane. gested that this had perhaps 't eon the
cause of many 'shipwrecks, when he had
only been deceived by a dead whale.
It has frequently happened in my ex -
penance that a evbale after being har,
peened has turned in anger upon les pur-
euers, and with his great flukes shatter- ,
er their boat to pieces amd killed many
men; and I have also known a whale
when angry to raise himself so fax out
of water as to look like a man on his
feet, and then to let himself down with
a crash upon tbe ill-fated boat. And
then the speed with which the whale
can move istis continua' wonder with all
those who have hunted them. The
quickness and facility with which they
.ean use their monstrous flukes is only
equalled by the coachman's whip. It
Was never my fate to be seriousiy in-
jured by an angry whale, but they have
frequently suggested very decided
thoughts of eternity.
Once a fellow dragged me downward
into thte Sea "full forty fathoms,' judg-
ing by ray feelings; and on another °co-
si.= I happened to be on the back of a
'big sperm whale when be made a start,
and, holding on to the harpoon, I trey-
elled for n short time in a circle at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, when I
thou& it 'expedient to slide into the
sea, and trust to ham incised up by one
'at of the boats forming the hunting party.
And what will strike you as a fish story,
but it is true, before I was rescued I
actually went within an ace of swim.
ening directly into the mouth of Ma
other whale which was strolling along
the spot as if anxious to inquire about
,the general commotion going on,
The largest right whale I ever saw
wits captured off the Kantichotk mast
'by one of ray crews, and it was during
the same year that I proeured a full
ship of 3,200 barrels of oil and 40,000
pounds of whalebone within the space
of sixty days. 'Mimi the monster just
mentioned was killed the sea was very
rough. After the boats had been low-
ered, it was neceetiery to move than
with great Care, )est an unlucky wave
ehouhl earry us on top Of the whale, and
this Actually happened, for when I call -
mi upon the harpooner to fasten lie did
ieo, when our boat Ives inetently thrown
upward. ana am men killed. Vertu. g
rudely, before the boat filled, / had time t
to put it fatal lanes into thewhale, and
we were refined by another beat. ' s
As 1 wan getting in I saw 'near by i
the bodv of the killed seen, in stand. f
ng posItion, few feet below the surt
seett fate of the water, alien by diving X d
eaaglit him by the ear, but a big WatTO t
tame, causing me to lose my hold, and, t
the hotly of our bravo comrade When a
&Wit ()a (4 eight in the blue waters. t
Into this whale we were obliged to send f
A eneeeerion of lames, and he 'spouted I
Morel marl disgorged food for six hours, t
having in that time lost wilitt we esti- f
Ynated et a hundreil barrels of Isbell v
stione. Da I MIA till you something
'nom silent thie hero of Namseltattin.
evo Itiag 113 our slup nea nxo
measured 1U foot; hie greeted eirth o
75 Lom foot Itmg, and flakes q
IL liana. 'lie lips Moen reside thirty g
barrels h1 al; throat end tougue the , s
*awl Amount, and the total Xiehl of bis t
• blubber 240 barrels. The bone taken
• from the testae of his mouth weighed,
2,800 pounds, mut his market value, Re-
cording to the prices of oil Anil boae
then. ruling, $18,000.
And nOW, without going into eat the
particulars are to how we hunter's of the
sea do our work when prepariug our
game for preservation, I will give you
a few facts which have come to ray
• personal knowledge bearing upon the
euttural history of the whale. Here, for
example, is a fact which 1 have not seen
mentionea in any authentic books, On
taking off the skin of a whale, you
eerie(' to the blubber, wlIM rest$ upon
the flesh or muscle, and this I Ilene
found to be covered with a fine hair or
fur, about an inch long; to this fur is
attached a black pigment evhich answers
tho purpose and, is used by the sailors
as you would a common soap; but the
bignificance of Olio feet is that in real.
sty it makes the whale a fur -bearing
animal.
And now about their numbers. I have
sailed, a thousand miles without seeing.
even the sign of a whale; and yet in
the North Pacific I have on several oc-
casions looked upon a thousand or more
individuals of the sperm variety in eine
great school, covering the sea, Appar-
ently, to the horizon and when thin-
bling and rolling and pitcbing, ancl spout.
ing they have presented a scene, of
grandeur Ana confusion which no pen
mulct possibly describe. In these schools
theret is alwaya one fellow swimming in
the centre, who seems to be the leader
of his host, and he is called by the
sailors, the Old Soldier. And I may also
here mention the curious fact that when
you strike ft whale with the lance and
he makes a demonstration with his tail,
the entire hent go through precisely
the same motion as if influenced by a
kind of magnetism:
Nor should I omit an allusion to the
almost human intelligence of the whale.
I have known them to lie perfectly still
long enough to let see get within reach
of their flukes, and then suddenly turn
upon the boat and crush it with their
capacious jaWS; and thus have X seen
them watch for and destroy a number
of boats and lull a number of men, All
this is very unkind on the part of the
kingly creatures of the ocean, but 1 as.ve
never been disposed to blame them for
any Of their savage eccentricities. Not
only are they hunted and killed by the
Yankee race, but they have a more ter-
rible enemy that goes by the name of
the "killer." This creature is serpent.
like in appearance, armed with sharp
teeth, and as the right whale often
swims with his mouth open, the killer
fastens himself on his tongue. When
thus attacked the whale is greatly al-
armed and utters a bellowing sound,
which may be heard a distance of ten
miles, meanwhile lashing the sea into
foam with his flukes. After the killer
has eaten away the tongue, the whale
dies from starvation.
But again to look upon a pair of
whales while fighting with each other
Is a sight that can never be forgotten.
I have seen an old fellow, after coming
out of such a conflict, with his jaw-
bones bent all out of place, ana with
fearful gashes on his head and all along
his body. When thus fighting—and the
leaders of the various sehoole often
come together—they roar, which res
sembles distant thunder, and the spray
which they often scatter into tbe air
reminds one of tbe surf on a rocky
shore. And then they are so ferocious.
During the Rebellion it was my fortune
to participt0 in two battles, but the
terror I then experienced was not to be
compared with that caused by a fight
between angry whales in the North Pa-
cific.
And here comes in an incident which
happened...to me at New Zealand a greet
many years ago. I hacl killed a whale,
and having stripped off the blubber,
east off the carcass, The wind. and tido
landed it high and dry on the shore. A
few weeks afterward, on visiting this
spot, 1 found that a whole family of na-
tives had eaten ‘their way into the car-
cass, and turned it into a habitation.
This was anything but a sweet home,
and its influence—such as it was—per-
vaded the vhole country for miles.
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THE "TIPPING" FAD.
—
The Suffering Public Has the Remedy for
the Nuisance in its Own Hands.
One grows very weary At times of
these complaints over what is called "the
tipping nuisance." At what semis to be
regular intervals, the newspapers break
out in criticism and denunciation of the
rapacity of hotel and restaurant wait-
ers, attendants on shipboard, sleeping
and dining car minions, and All the rest
of it. bulimia/di victims write to the
editor, and the staff thunde,•ers are un-
leashed and set upon the pirates. But,
as we say, it is dull busioess, and for
our part we regard it with very little
sympathy.
Surely the public has the remedy in
its own hands. The patron of these re-
sorts and vehicles who disgorges more
than he wishes to part with er on of -
ford must be a poor creature enough, it
seems to us. We -have never been able
to see anything particularly formidable
in the average garcon. He is. often rude,
inattentive, unpleasant, and again he is
polite, considerate, and prompt. In nei-
ther instance, however, do we recognize
the obligation of tipping. Undoubtedly
one foie moved to acknowledge in some
substantial way the courtesies one re-
ceives, and here we Confess to a sym-
pathy with the praetice. But our ob-
servation lends us to corolude that the
ineolent and haughty minion gets the
biggest seamy, and this feet—for such
it is, we solemnly behove—persuades us
that the whole structure rests upon the
towaraice of the tipgivers therriseivee.
They bow down before the waiter, and
the, bow low in the Motet ratio of 1'
insolence. Enter any of the gadder and
pretentious restaurant e of our great
whote flash furniture and uphol-
stery, showy linen, gime ntul cutlery are
it
n evidence, tuul nate the behavior of the
average mama, hixi nervottsnese, his in»
ratiating overtures, his. patient amtietv
o be on pleiterint terms with the head
miter. Them are thousends of Nov
pends wit° actually regent it as a pile%
lege to have soeial relations with the
reebdoters who wait upon them. Why
hey do it, heaven only knows; but they
o, and the epectisele of dollar bills scat.
eyed about among garcons who serve
hirdouto food with almost; infuriated
ad eertainly unconcealed CalliPaTE for
heir vietinos 15 ne frequent ne it es pita
uiV
tins do eelf-restmeting prams militia
o them depredations 1 We might go
miller mid lurk why they actually ia-
ite them. To the argument Gust one
rill eta get waited on at ail esthete ire
wopitiatee the myrmidon, Are velar that
Ile can itt li•rist avail la:irate of thie
ffeneive kind. In ali tit 10:4 thew am
Mkt, unpretentimiss pleeter Where otte
et s tlx very best tf feral. pleasantly
erved, without hatiag to ay eourt to
be AtterithOtiS, Why, Om, pay extra -
CEYLON NATURAL CREEN TA delciArs and coon.,
omit:rat. it is to the Japan tea drinker what "f3AI.A0 A"
Is to the black tea drinker. Sold only In sealed lead
packets. 200 and 401. per lb. By ail grOoarfOs
'agent prices for inferior food and, un- On the =row pavement, leaning thel
("ergo the process of looting at the hands backs agalest the high wail, then face
of a lot of rowayebucceneers who scarce- I turned to the houses, are godless mime
ly take the trouble to hide their low I with shawls ou their bode, watching th
opinion of you? Nothing could be wester ; open doors of their cottegea as spider
than of a reduction of these places to, watch their webs. Some of these worm
politenesa of manner and moderation of , have babies in their laps—a. great many
rates, if only their patrons would out, 1 of them are playing with their ehildren
bine fax self-protection. The trouble is And between them and their louses are
that men and women crowd. to places numberless Mild= elsippleg and (lane
where showy vulgarity., pretense, lulu.- ing. They OX0 skipping and dancing
dace, and rapacity. reign supreme sum- these pretty girls, to the sonaidest in
ply because they think it fashionable , ferno in East London,
and smart to do so. . It is impossible to write what we see
lielrold, I 'show you A irae/e. nese
womeemetlimas unepeakable ;spider* of
East Isoneloneolove their abildren, Look
how they nestle them to their bosoms,
look how beautifully they smile upen
their playi And look, too bow the elul»
dren cackle fina sznile into their motheres
is a '
how trustfully they .subside into these
arms to tall into a tranquil sleep. Is it
possible that ten, twelve or fourteen
years will deems that mother's love into
that most horrible and gbastly form of
enpidity that ever entered the heart of
111141Thaell$ettler children dance, and sing,
and stip, They are prettily drowsed,
their bair is metly bruelied, and their
• games aro played with innocent enjoy.
merit They will dance and sing and
Wats, and peep in through the open doors,
till at last their imams are empty, and
✓ they are free to go in.
* *
o At the end of the eourt, wbere we pass
e out, there is a halfsdrunken girl in an
$ old ulster, a straw bet slung over one
I eye, She lurebee against my -companion
and ,inumbles incoherently. Instantly the
, terrified mother darts forward and mash-
es her Arm. "No, no, my girl!" she says,
• tentlerly. "No, no!" ISfy eompanion
, looks at her and nods. ".All right," he i
says, "no berm done."—Ifarold Begbie, •
in• London Mail.
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eyee* how adoringly they female tame One of the mot striking illustration*
For such people who have no smile There is a repugnance in England 1344,1311'S WELFARE.
pathy whatever, and protests agninat. against such literature, and. because of
the extortion which, they deliberately ens that repugnauce these places exist, If
courage by their patronage awake in as I wide what 1 Some there would be
only unadulterated satisfaction. The such a cry as would sweep out of exist
sooner such simpletons are louniliated once all these streets with the open
and impoverisbed the better fax rational doors and send their guilty lendlores
civilization, ',Hungry ,To" once sett, "A with their guilty tenants into perpetua
Rucker is born every bour." Re should exile. But the comfortable, well-fed
'have said "every minute—Washington world, which sees vice marshalled by the
Post, •police under electric lights, and Sub-
. 0 e • , scribes to rescue societies m one sub -
Or, A "11 eW'S 01- trn wit 0' u res s , aeribes to a newspaper, turns its back
urn this quarter of the town, and, here
Piles. —itching, Ineeding and Blind Plies. a any rate, leaves evolution to itself.
Comfort in one applleation. It mos In three Perhaps the world is right. .But here,
as we move up the alley, and as men and
to six nights: It cures an skin diseases in women loom up through the darkness,
vitae and GM A remedy beyond corapare, one behind the other, and. pass swiftly
into the houses with the open doers we
and it never fails. 35 eente.--68 , Standing there, look at the dancing, ;kip -
0 se pinlichildren, at the babies toddling and
VICE'S CARNIVAL. coomg around their mothers, and cry out
_ to ourselves that these 'helpless unto -
A Walk Through One of the Wickedest cents deserve the care end protection of
the state, I know not how it is, but
Streets in the City of London. moving slowly through that Babel, pens -
"What is it?" I eels, "The wickedest ing every now and then to guide a little
street in London," he answers, and leads child out of our patch, I find my brain
repeating over and over again in a mock-
ing iteration:
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child;
Every mother is naturally anxious
- that he r littic ones BMW be bright, good
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the way.
At the entrance to this alley is an
Iran post, shining under a gaslight. We
pass on either side of this post, scjueeze
between two greasy walls fax a few Pity my mniplicity,
paces, than enter the alley itself. Stiller ale to come to Thee,
On one side is a high, blank wale reach- The children are singing the songs of
ing up into the darkness; on the other, the streets and I try to listen to them
twenty or thirty little one-story houses, and catch the words, but ever and ever
flush with' the street, in a grim, un- ! my brain drowns their prattle with this
broken line, each one with its door wide insistent hymn of childhood. Is it a
epee. At the far end, whore the alley fancy, too, that I suppose these toch
narrows once more to a neck, is another I citing babes to be appealing to me for
gas lamp. The houses and the tall rescue, as they stand there in the gloom
brick evall opposite are seen in the misty looking up into my face with large, dark
twilight of these two lamps; they are wonderful eyes? Yes. it is a fancy; a
greasy and grimy, and shine in the soft trick of the brain. If I stopped to take
1 them in my arms, these tiny babes, they
would run crying to those (heedful mo-
thers.
ight as coal dust shines on the hot faM
of a collier, One feels that 11 1± does
I not rain soon the walls will crack.
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WINTER FEEDING OF CATTLE
The Type to Select—Some Hints MI
management.
! • • Commissioner's Branch,
• Ottewa, Nov. 17, 1004.
The fattening of catle is carried on
under sucli widely different circumstan-
ces that it is impossible to la,y clown any
hard and fast rules, awl say that these
are right and all others wrong. There
are, however, three conditions essential
to success 3/1 the stall feeding of cattle,
viz., good cattle, an abundance of cheap
winter feed and good management.
To -day we find that compact, well -
finished two and three-year-old animals
weighing from 1,250 pounds up will com-
mand the highest prices. Of course, lf
weight can be combined with quality
so much the better, but quality is of
first importance. From the butcher's
point of view the steer of best quality
is the one which curies the greatest mr-
centage of its weight in those parts of
the carcase which give the highest pric-
ed. cuts. In the Chicago and New York
markets, the most discriminating in the
world, the rib and loin cuts command
over four times the average price paid
for the remainder of the earease, and it
is apparent that the prime beef animal
must be good in these parts. They must
be thickly and evenly covered with firm
yet mellow flesh of -uniform good qual-
ity and free alike from hard rolls and
blubbery patches. Coarse, patchy ani-
mals will no longer be tolerated, much
less those that are bony and bare of
flesh on the back and ribs.
With the proper beef type in mind, it
will not be difficult to recognize a suit-
able stocker. To find. him is a more dif-
ficult matter. Owing In:rgely to the
grea"-. expansion of the dairy business
during the past fifteen or twenty years
it is becoming more and more diffieult
to procure good stockers for feeding.
To get satisfactory animals a farmer
is almost compelled to breed his own. In
case he dos so, too inueh importance
cannot be attached to the selection of
the sire. It should never be forgotten
that be is half the herd. Good grade
cows are all right to breed from, Lut
the bull should always be pure bred. It
is poor economy to have fifty cents or
a dollar in the first cost of the calf, and
lose from ten to fifteen dollars when
the finished animal is placed on the mar-
ket. Besides this, the price at whieh
pure bred bulls can be obteined in these
days leaves no excuse for the use of en
inferior animal.
An abundant supply of cheap feed ia
essential to success in winter feeding,
We can no longer finish our Cattle an
a ration of hay and grain with any
margin of profit. We must have some,
thing that can be grown in larger van -
titles • and at it very small test, and
corn ensilage fills the bill. It is beyond
doubt the best and cheapest winter feed
at our disposal, The chief advantagee
of ensilage are its great palatibility, the
saving of labor which it effect% and
the Met that it can be fed at any time
of the year with equal satisfaction.
IVIiile corn holds first plisee as a cheap
Winter feed, it has no monopoly of the
field, The farmer Who aterows a large
qimntity of grain, and lute consequent-
ly an abundant supply of straw, will
find that by growing st, quan-
tity of roots to feed with it, he
eats fatten cattle at a very reasonable
cost. Field roots MT a eceding value
apart from the digestible nutrients,
which they contain, in that they mem
eise a beneficial effect upon the dips.
tion and general health. Cattle that re-
ceive liberal rations of sufficient feed,
such as roots and ensilage will have
the sleek, thrifty appertranee of grass
fed cattle, and these will be little iron-
ble with indigestion or having them go
off their feed as is often the case with
cattle that are fed exclusively on dry
fodder and grain.
The grain ration depends so largely
on circumstances that it will isot be
dieenesea here., It is alevays well, how-
ever, to commence with a comp:m.01mo
ly liglit ratioe, and finish with the more
concentrated groins. 'Water and salt
should alwaysbe within easy reach, aol
the 'cattle should be kept. free from
liee by the use of mine of tbe peoprice
tary dips, or even .orainara black oil,
whielt is primps, ea cheap end effeetive
as anythisig else. Yours very truly,
W. A. Melones
Publication Cleat
FALL CLEANING AND ORCHARD
(Pros Bulletin from the Ontario. .Ag -
Healthiest College, Guelph, by Prof. W.
Loclilieed, Guelph).
Mutat min be eitid 18 favor of an an-
nual fall erebard meaning, although
the fact that there Is more leisure after
'he fruit has been gathered then in the
ush of our -early 'spring when SO many
1)1411 ends nxut he 4tttended to
hem are 1110117 'Urgent couviAeing
teems why eur orehaida should be VOW
ol elie value of 'specially bred COM;
given by the Prairie Farmer. It is a pie -
titre of two cowii. One it' a Thistolit.
The other Is evidently a Shorthorn
dual purpese animal. These animals
were in the hard of If. 13. Guider, of Illi-
nole. The Holstein made net profit
from butter of $48.04, The Shorthorn
made a not profit $17. The picture
ohms that eviale she is a beefy animal
elle is defective in some points 4141 a beef
animal. Now, the greateat argument
of the advocates of a dual purpme cow
ies that the is suited to the great num-
bers of farineto who are not opeelally
dairymen nor beef breeders, and who
want an embnal whirelt will give some
male, and at the same tinse raise reelable
veal calves of beef animals. Now, a$
every faemer atm an interest in butter
to some extent, eon he afforti to keep an
animal that makes but $17 profit from
butter simply bemuse elm will raise a
calf that the butchers want? In. other
words, -would it not take an extrema
dniary calf to make up the difference
between the Holstein and the Shorthorn
of $31.94 a year? Then, too, it is, of
course, to be remembered that the Hol-
atein evottla supply a calf of good, size,
and if it was a- atelier calf from sucle
cow, would it not conunand from a
chtlayman a lamer price than, the beef
calf of the aual purpose animet?
abort, does it pay any farmer to keep an
animal that Imes han $31,04 in dairy pro.
duet merely because she will bring /lint
fi• veal of greater value as a veal than
the dairy cow will?. It seems to US to
he simply a business proposition, and it
does not matter that the farmer is not
altogether a dairyman. If be le a far -
carefully cleaned of rubbish and litter
during late fall anti orly winter.
People often wonder how it happens
that certain insects appear in such als
arming numbers during the summer, A
few careful observations during the fall
and winter will show how these insects
pass the cold pbriod of the aear. The
egg masses of the tent caterpillars will
be found encircling the smaller branches.
If these bracelets of eggs be removed
whenever seen muck serious damage will
be averted die following spring. The
canker worms pass the winter sn the
egg state, and these eggs are often to
be seen M masses on the branches. The
codling worm passes the winter in a
COSOOTI, under bits of bark, boards, and
in crevices And a general clearing will
get rid of many- of these troublesome
pests. The grape vine flea -beetle and
the plum cumuli() pass the winter in
their full grown beetle condition in shel-
tered spots, often near the base of the
plant. Squash -bugs also winter over full
grown in sheltered spots, under boards,
and in corners of outbuildings.
There is also a necessity for a tbor-
ough cleaning up of the orchard for the
purpose of destroying many of the fun-
gi which renmins on the ground in dis-
eased leaves and fruit. It is a well-
known fact that many injurious fungi
produce winter sporee, and which, al-
though the leaves decay, the spores do
not. In early spring these will produce 1
spores which will scion spread to the .
early leaves. The diseased. fruit, plant,
and leaves shoulcl be burned, not throevn
on the manure pile, for then the spores
will be able to survive the winter and
reproduce the diseme the following ..ea.
son. Moreover, many fungi persist in
the leaves as delicate threads, which
develop rapidly in leaves, where they
germinate and produce disease.
It may safely be said that if all
leaves, decaying fruit and diseased
twigs be burned at the approach of whi-
ter, the damage from fungous diseases
would be lessened very materially.
KEEP THE BLOOD PURE.
Nearly All the C'.o...nnaon Ins or Life are
Caused by Weak, Watery and
Impure Blom?:
Bad blood means bad health. That
is why Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Imam
geed health—they actually snake new,
nob. biood. Bad blood poisons the whole
system. The nerves break down, the
liver goes wrong, the kidneys get clog -
11
ged and inflamed, the heart flutters
and jumps at tbe least excitement, the
stomach loses its power to digest food,
the lingering colds, in fact the whole
boby gets out of order. Then you have
headaches and backaches, can't sleep
and can't eat and feel utterly tniserable.
And all comes from bad blood and can
be cured by the rich, red blood. Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills sends coursing to ev-
ery part of the body. Mr. Daniel Me -
Mullen, of North Pelham, Ont., suffer-
ed from bad blood, but has been made
well and strong by Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, after all other treatment had
failed. Mr. McKinnon says: "Until last
spring I had been afflicted with a weak
stomach, headaches and kidney trou-
bles. At times I was completely pros-
trated and my suffering% wore of a most
severe nature, At different times I was
treated by no loss than seven doctors,
but from none of thein did I get more
thao temporary relief. As time went on
I became hopeless of ever being well
• again, Last spring a friend drew sny
attention to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,
had only taken four boxes when I
and I decided to try this medicine. /
founi a decided improvement iu
condition, and 1 continued using the
pills until I had taken a dozen boxes
when I was a cured men and the
srefferinge I Ma formerly endured were
but a disagreeable memory. I admit be-
ing alt entlineinstie admirer of Dr. Wil.
Hams' Pink Pills, but I think 1 have just
muse for ray enthusiasm , end will al-
ways recommend them to my ailing
friends."
Just as surely as Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills cured Mr. Meltinnon they can euro
anaeinia. indigestion, headaches, bask -
mime, kidney trouble, rheumatism, lum-
bago, sciatica, neuralgia, nervousness,
general weakness and the special ail-
ments of growing girls and women, All
these ailments come frons bad blood,
fuel Dr. William' Pink Pills tan cure
them by filling the veins with UM, rieli,
rod blood, liut you must be sure to
nave the gmuinepille with the full
mune. Dr. Williamsyrink Pills for Pale
People on the wrapper scround every
box. seId by medicate dealers every.
where or snail at 60e a box or SIX
boxes fax $11.50 by writing, the Dr. Wil-
limma lileakine Co, trockville, Ord.
l'oblieity mid Poindatity,
,t1soety year; ago," says au observing
atIvertieer, "the ceiling, of axtmeal was
coefined to a few foreigmbern re*Ideete,
Threngli newspaper publicity it has be -
coma a table food of o:lniost iinirersal
use in tl,is country, It is asserted that
if -the southern growers of the superior
conn should advertise cornmeal in the
newspaper,: it would be made as popular
ua env lareo,14..f.tsi. food."
iner he certainly has Nome intareest xi
what a cow will do hi, butter.•—DrisAtieal
Farmer.
Ifoletein Ii1k for Public Institutions.
The general use of Holsteins in pelptis
iustitutione, such as hospitals, oboe,*
etc., may be noted as a testinumial not
only to the produetensas of the breed
but also to the welbknown And peculiar
health.giving properties of their milk.
The State of Minnesota is now founding
seven. herds of pure Holsteine; at Piave
Valle State Hospital,Anoka State Asy-
lum, School for Feeble 'Alluded, Hastings
State Asylum, Rochester State lionpital,
and State Training School at RerWing.
Holsteins for the Farm Dairy,—Ae-
cording to the Fartriere Guide dairylnerlt
Will Make no mistake in putting in IMMO
Volsteia cow; in fact, tbey are fax
ahead of Jerseys As ell -round dairy ani
-
male. Tbey will give more milk, make
more butter, raise more calves for either .
veal or stock, are A hardier breed, and
cannot help giving better returns for the
same care.
Holsteins have been bred for thousand*
of yeto's for dairy purposes, and that
is one reason why they are making
such great records to -day. One can read-
ily see that they would be better for
a milk dairy than the Jerseys because
they give such a Icor quantity of milk,
I see no reason why patrons should not
be just as well plemed oath the milk,
although it is not quite go rich in butter
fat as that of the Jersey. The elements
in it are better proportioned as food for
both young calves and children than fs
the Jersey milk. Tours truly,
G. W. Clemons,
Secretary Hoistein-Friesian Association..
$t. George, Ont.
MOST POPULAR BOOK.
It has become the -custom to pielc the
most popular books of the year, by the
number of copies issued. Going by this
standard, probably the most popidar book
in the world is Dodd's Almanac. Where
other books figure their editions by tbou-
son& and hundreds of thousands, Dock's
!Almanac counts its annual circulation in
I millions and tens of millions.
A copy of the 1905 edition has pust
come to hand, anti is filled as usual With
useful information concussing the move.
ments of the heavenly bodies, as well as
the various important dates of the year, •
and a number of statements from dif.
ferent people in Cadmus, that give some
idea of the great work Dodd's Kidney
Pills are doing.
The true test of merit. is time, and
surely Dodd's Kidoey Pills have stood
the test of time. Fourteen years ago
they were known only to one scientific
man who had spent the best years of his
life in their discovery. Their growth in
the public estimation was slow at first, •
but gathered in speed and. strength as
it grew. It is noted in this year's Al-
manac there are letters of appreciation
from Denmark, in the north of Europe,
to Egypt, away below the line that
marks the southern boundary line of_the
Continent.
So Dodd's Kidney Pills have grown on
their merit. To -day the Canadian public
use ten Ones as many of them as they
did a few years ago. And. this little
book has 'Become an annual and welcome
visitor, not only in every home in Can-
ed, but iu almost every home in the
civilized world.
•
ILIVES IN A WORLD OF SOUNDS.
' Wonderful Aptitude of a Blind Man in
Finding His Way..
1 James Nicholas, a, succesful business
man in Lincoln, has never seen a street
i or a business house in the city. He is
I mine broker. Six years ago he lost hi
sight while working in a mine at Lead
Dm He had been a miner all his lif
' and as soou as he.. recovered so that h
could go about he took up the busines
of buying and selling mines. Here ur
some of the things this man—he is 60 -
has educated himself to do.
He can make his way about the eit
and go to any house nuMbee on an
street at any time of the day or night
It is all night to him, but he require
no tad in going about. He can piek oil
the street car he wisbes to take by it
peculiar sound, .which he calls its echo
The only time he has been deceived 1
recent months was when the company
changed one of its ears from one isubub-
Ian line to another. Ho always travels
on what is known as the cemetery line,
and can tell when his car is within 60
feet of where he wishes to alight. The
ear has been run fast and. slow at times
in the attempt to deceive him, but in
vain. He can pick out the store or office
he wishes to enter and rarely misses the
door, if he has been at the place before.
He rarely misses the street crossing. He
carries a thin metal cane and says he
can tell by the sound whet he has reach -
el the crosswalk. Ile ean tell men whom
he knows even by the seund of their foot.
steps. Last year this man made $3-000,
and he says he will increase that clean.
up this year.
"When I got out of bed after ten
months spent there after ley accident,"
lie said, "I worked out my own methods
before I tried to get about. Some blind
men have dogs to lead them, and others
go stooped over, feeling along with a
cane for a clear path. -That doesn't do
for me. I early learned that the world
was full of echoes My task was to die,
anguish them and then catalogue them.
This was a big feat of memory, but
have accomplished it.
'When I first came here I lived in a
block in the Ints_iness section. That wits
my starting place. I first learned the
streets about there, until I could. ,go it
block away ana find my way back Ina
aided. Gteelually I enlarged my travels
tmtil now 1 caimgo anywhere hi town
alone. If you give me the number of
tiny louse in teVal I can lira it with-
out any help, simply because I know ell
of the "streets. If 1 were suddenly put
down in some part of the city I believe
I could hare to identify it within five
minutes simply by the souilds about
"All of my other senses have become
snore alert since blindness mime, but it
grows ote one so gradually that I have
not recognized the growth. I live in a
world of rounds, and. these I can readily
identify. The step of a woman or of
by or of it nutri 1 east dietieguish with
accuracy. One etreet miller has a dlr.
fermit ea° from smother, and I need
only smarele iny mestere* to identify. it.
The Wife in time 'earns to tell the foot -
atop of her Mishima or her Alla, hut it
hi Imre that nun one win be found 'who
earl rlistim.mish the Modelle of any num-
ber of permute. I ten thie with
Innuirod different Mende. and tall them
tv name without hesitetion or error.—
Nebritsita, letter in N. Y. Sun.
Kidney Vxncr1tneriti-M6r641 t1'6
thee for experlmeeting whets youete daemon-
ta that roe are a *victim of tome 'elle forks or
mother of Wiley inseam. Lay hold cif the
treatment that thousands 'have Visited WO
faith to and has cured 'quickly teld peemett.
tittles Omni Amerlem Milner Care reeds
pre-eminent tis the world .of witellelne as tie
folAu.1