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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-03-16, Page 3assa— • tet .,I.,0*4,o4,4.......0.04.04.0444+++++•+++++++.41 ABOUT THE DEVIL ly Maxim Gorki. Traneleted Irons the Russian. by DaYld. A. Modell. fi sa • fa* +et esisallirefesieseie++.4•4hesieesaasfe+steteassasalsasafise4se- In the autumn, in the saa eeaseri of ' "Excuse my intrusion," the Devil said decay and dealls, life is a real haraship. politely. The grey days, the weepina, -sunless "That's nothiag. However, why (lid ekles, the dark nighteatlie wailing winds, :Jou make me rise?' the black end heavy autumnal earldom "I simply wanted to propose a walk; —all these send - clouds Of glooiny that's ed." thougat to one's mind anct inspire the "Ohl I'll take a short walk with you heart with a steret dread of a life in with pleasure, though the weather as not which nothing is lased, in whielt all of the best," things are eternally ehanglog. Birth, "I suppose you don't fear catehing decay and death! Why? To what end? cola?" the. Devil asked. Sometimes mars lacks the courage to. "No, indeed; I bad contracted a grapple .with the gip= of the thougUts severe cold in life." which possess him in late fall. And all "Yes, I remember; you died quite those who would, live through thie bitter cold." period the more quickly had better an- "Yes, indeed; during the whole of my ticipate its arrival. This ie the ,ThlY life I had been thoroughly chilled." Way in which we can leas e the chaos of They strolled side by side over a nar- gloom and uncertainty beMnd us, and row path by graves and. crucifixes; two enlarge upon. the limn ground of self -con- bluish rays coming from the author's fidence. eyes fell upon the grciund a illumined But this path is not an easy one. It the Devil's way. A light shower was Tuns through Morns which tear one's sprinkling them, and the wind played Mart, and upon it one is always sure freely between the author's bare ribs and to °mounter the Devil—and that the very seine, the. moat notorious of all the the chest that held tux heart. , "Are we going to town?" he asked devils, with whom the great Goethe bag the Devil, acquainted us. "And what interests you there?'" About this Devil 1 am to speak. "Life, dear sir," the writer coldly ex - The Devil Was afflicted with ennui. Ile plamea, is much to wise always to laugh. He • knows there are phenomena in life which "Oa! Has that still some value for you?" he himself. cermet ridicule; for instance, "To be sure." he has never brought the sharp point "And why?" of his irony to bear upon the great fact of his own existeuce. "Well, how shalr express myself? In trath this admired Devil of ours is Man estimates the value of everything by far meta audacious than wise; and in terms of his efforts. Thus a common stone brought from a great height be - were wo to watch him closely we would perhaps discover that be, like ourselves, comes precious to lam." "Poor fellow!" the devil grinned. spends much of his time over trifles. But .let us not pursue this investigation. We "But also a happy one," the writer coolly demurred. aro not elsildren, and must not crack The devil shrugged his shoulders in the choicest of our toys to expose what silence. may be concealed within. They had already left the cemetery, Once, in the darkness of an autumn and before there lay a street—two rows night, the Devil was trampling among of dwelling and darkness in between, in the graves of a cemetery.. He felt him- which the dim street lamps strikingly self depressed, and kept up a low whist- emphasized the lack of light on earth. ling while he was -searching for some di- wren me," the Devil after a pause bes version. gan "how do you find the grave?" The wind, howling as it rushed by the "Now that I am used to it, it's not so black crosses upon the graves, was °him- bad and very tranquil. At first, :how- ing in. Moving elowly over the sky were ever, it was rather trying. The • fool heavy, autumn clouds, which moistened who nailed the lid on the coffin for some with cold tears the crowded dwellings reason drove a nail into my skull. This - of the dead: The pitiful .trees of the was a trifling incident, of course, but cemetery were timidly creaking under it was unpleasant, nevertheless. 'You the onset of the wind and extending know, I was ready to behove this some -ales, their bare branches toward the speech. malicious symbolism—an endeavor to t less sky. The branches would catch in "Spoil my brains, by the use of which I the masses, and then a fearful rustle, a terribly sad sound, would be heard through the cemetery. The Dail was whistling and reflect- ing. 'I wonder how the dead feel in such weather as this? Very likely the damp- ness reaches them, too,, and though from the time of their death they are forever immune to rheumatism, still it must be unpleasant." `Shall I all up elm of them and have a chat with him? It would furnish me some- recreation—and him to'b, perhaps. Yes, I will." "Here somewhere was placed once an acquaintance of mine, a man of letters. I used to visit him alive, why not renew our intercourse? People of his profession are all extremely ainbitious. Let me Bee if the grave fully satisfies them. But where is the grave?" And the devil himself, for whom, as is well known the world has no mysteries, had to wander long about the. cemetery • before he could find the grave of the literary man. "Hey, there!" he cried, knocking with his hoofs on the massive stone with which his. aequaintance was pressed ), down. "Get up!" . "What for?" came faintly from under- ground._ . "It's necessary." "I won't get up." • . "Why?" - "And who are you?" "You know me." "The censor?" "Ha, ha, ha! . No." , "Perbaps a gendarme?" "No, no!" ".And not a critic?" ; "I'm the Devil." "Ohl I am coming immediately." The stone moved from the raye, the ground opened, and oUt came a skeleton. it was a most ordinary skeleton—much " 'It ire. d like those from which students- study the s,' the other plied'Yea- ana the Devil eaid, "Bet, it's awkward, you know. The "Not simp y Passably Goor "You plight to eelnike SOVerely," eve of the Twentieth Century, and all at once the corpses take to acQding Itow Out Incomparably the heat, ridiculous, and, in the Qua, so cruel to the materialists," Again the Devil was bored. This writer during hie lifetime ever wished to be bridegroom at every wed- ding and the deceased at every funeral; and, now, when everything else had sliea within him, ambition was still alive, But, • then, is the body really essential to life? It is man's spirit alone that is import- ant, and only bis spirit is deserving of praise and adoretion, Bet how weari- some mankind is" CCIII,ON Tea. Black, MIxecl or Natural Croon, The Dwell Was just at the point of seg. ' Sold only in sealed lead packets. B y all Grocers, gesting to the writer that he return to Received the highest award and G old, Medal at St. Linda 5994, his grave, when suddenly an idea enter- vsould myself spoil things for people. Then the worms appeared. They—the Devil take theml—ate me with excru- 1 Mating slowness." "Of course; said the Devil, "and they nee not to be blamed for it, either; a body saturated with gall is by no means a very savory dish," "How Much body had I on? Virtual- ly none; retorted the writer. "Still, to -eat even that was rather a task than a pleasure. The publishers, for instance, the worms eat more quick- ly and with avidity." "That's understood; they must be more palatable." "And is it damp in the grave in fall?" the Devil asked. "Decidedly so. But one becomes used to all that. Frankly speaking,the most aggravating things are the various idiots who, roaming over the eemetera, chance t upon my grave. I don't know just how s long I have lain in the grave, for, as I myself and everything about me are im-i/3 mobile, I have no appreciation of time." "You have been in your grave four s years—soon five,"- announced the Devil.' "Yes? Is it so long? During this : n time three ' persons have visited my grave. And they tensed me. Be they ' t damned! One, you know, actually de- nied that I ever existed. He came, teed f the inscription, and said with an air of assurance: "'There was none such! I never read him; though the name is somewhat fami- liar. When I was quite young a man bearing this name kept a secret savings fund in our street.' "Now what do you think of that? And I appeared for sixteen years m the most h popular magazines, besides being pub- lished thrise three separate editions." „ "Your books have been published twice since your death," the Devil announced. "You see! And then two others came, one of whom said: "'Oh is this he?' .ed his wicked head, The two were at that moment on the market. place, Sur' rounded by massive buildings. Low over thesmarket bone the black, damp skv• it seensed as if Ft rested upon the roofs , • and looked down gloomily upon the muds dy ground. "Listen," spoke the Devil, leaning lov- ingly toward the author, "would you like to see how your wife is getting along?" "1 really ilon't know whethen I do or not," the writer slowly answered. "I see ou are erf et cor se!" the aP e Deva t I a • . "No, why—" The writer boldly shook his bones. "I am not opposed to it ,and, besides, ehe shall not see me, and won't recognize me if she does" "Of course, of course," the Devil a sured him. • "I say this because she did not lil it when I used to absent myself Ion from home," the writer explained. Then one wall of a house vanished, else became transparent like glass. T1 writer saw the interior of large mon all very lights comfortable and beau ful. "Nicely furnished apartments, these enviously creaked the skeleton, '"Ve fine furniture, indeed! So circumstance perhaps I should have lived yet!" "I Ince it, too," the Devil said, smilin 00 MONSTER BOAT, A Craft to Take the Flace of a $3,040,000 Bridge•Soon to be Built. What is beyond doubt the largest ferryboat in the world, says 4. B. Moctre in The ittnezican Inventor, is owned by the Southey!. Pacific Railroad Company, and is used in transferring trains across CoCitsrtgau.inoz Straits in Centro. Costa County, Cal., between Benicia and Port This colossal craft is christened the Solano. The boat is not only large in dimensions, but also in power. The Sos lano has a net tonnage of 3,051 tons; is s. 430 feet long, 110 feet wide, and has a mean draught of 15 feet. Iler two en- c., gines have a combined strength of .2,000 I. 11. P. Tbis ferryboat is larger than g most of the great battleships of the or United States or other navies. The Selene transfers, on an average 19 000 trains a year—that is, all sorts of , ta, trains. Often the boat carries forty large, heavily loaded freight ears at one a, trip. Not less than fourteen trains are ry handled each day. The boat has made d .as high as forty-two trips during the ' twenty-four hours. Owing to the great a length of this boat, it is. unnecessary to a' over cut a train, as she frequently car - "And it isn't costly. only about 3 rubles." 9Im—this not costly 1 I Yemeni!) my most pretentione library liroducti brought me but 815 rubles and. work' almost a year upon it. But. who liv there ?" "Your wife" said the Devil • "Is that so. Ah, that's good—for her. And that woman? My wife ?" "It is she." Now her husband appeared. "She has becorae handsome. And how richly dressed! Hen her husband, you say? What a healthy looking fellow; his face is altogether bourgeois. But a in man e seems- . His face, thous looks rather foolish, even mean. B then, h faces.p "Shall I sigh for you ?" the Devil ask- ed malevolently, scrutinizing the man of etters. But the later was -absorbed in the scene. "What joyous, lively faces are theirs! Both of them are evidently satisfied with their lives. Does she love him, do you know ?" "011, yes, very much." . "And who is he ?" "A clerk in .sonie fashion store." "A clerk in some fashion store," the vriter slowly repeated, and then long re- mained silent. The Devil eyed him with satisfaction na smiled. "Well, do you like all this ?" he asked. The writer, with some effort, began: "I had children. They? Yes I know, hey are living. I had two cialdren, on and a daughter. I then reflected: Here I- have a son; in time he, too, will e a good man." "Good men are abundant in the world; vhat it needs is complete men," said the Devil coldly, and whistled some bravura larch. "I think the clerk must make a poor eacher—and my son—" - The writer's hollow skull shook piti- ully. "Just watch how he embraces her. They live too happily," the Devil spoke. "Y -e -s--- And is that clerk rich?" "Ife wai: poorer than I; but your wife is rich." • "My wife? How came the by riches?" 'Why, from the sales of your books," 'So,' said the author, slowly nodding islaare, hollow skull. "So-so! It appears hat I labored Mostly in the interests of ome clerk" "It perhaps does come to that," the evil merrily agreed. "Show me back to my grave." It was still dark. Rain was falling, nd still more threatening clouds wer looting overhead. The writer, his bone attling, was returning with determina ion to his grave. The Devil walked be - hid him, whistling merrily. Of course the reader is not: satisfied e has been overfed with literature ud even those who write expressly t lease him rarely suit his taste. In th resent instance the reader is dissetis led alio because I have said nothin f hell. As the reader is convinced and right y—that after death, he shall find. lodg nent there, he desires while yet alit? o know something about net inferna egion. But, really, I cannot appease th eader's curiosity, because there is n nes a. full tram of cars including two er tracks extending the entire length, so on that four trains may be acommodated at d one time. es The Solano has four smokestacks and steel boilers. The two engines work en- tirly independent—one to each badale- wheel. This monster craft is constantly on duty—day and night. At the crossing point Carquinez Strait is about a mile :wide, and it requires from eleven to thir- ten minutes to make a trip each way from slip to slip. On an average, about thirty trips per day are made. So lass- temsaieally and swiftly are the trips scheduled that there is ver little if an h'• delay to the may trains. Thousands of • ut passengers travelling each way are trans- ferred ever day. The maintenance of this transfer boat involves a very heavy expense to the railroad company. A bridge is the only 1 solution of the problem; a suspension bridge of a mile In length would be too costly to be feasible for a private cor- poration, and a draw bridge would prove a serious obstacle to navigation. How- ever, a number of surveys have recently been made across the Strait to ascertain the nature of the bottom. Raidge pplans have just been forwarded to the War Department for examination. According to the plans submitted, the bridge will be 6,800 feet long. There will be a draw 200 feet aside in the clear on each side of the pivot pier. The average .depth of water along the line of the proposed bridge is about twenty-seven feet. The plans provide for a single track, with the floor . of the bridge twenty feet alsove low tide. It is estimated that such a structure will cost at least $3,000,000. It would be the most expensive bridge west of the Missouri River. It is generally concede that as the very heavy traffic is constantly increas- ing, in a few years at farthest a costly bridge will span Carquinez Strait. Probelbly the next largest railroad ferryboat in the world is the giant steel transfer North Pacific. This boat is employed in thansferang the Northern Pacific Railroad Company's trains across the great Columbia River on their trans- continental line to Portland, Or.—be- tween Halmos and Globe Point. Very recently a large transfer boat was launched at Detroit, Mich., concern- ing the size of which there was much press comment. However, it may be stated that the great ferryboat Solano is at least one hundred feet longer than the new Detroit boat. anatomy of bones; ()Illy it was dirty, had. be was read, too, in bygone days.' if no wiring; and in its vacant socleets, in. "'Everybody is read. What did he r stead of eyes, shone a blue pbosphores- write?' asked tbe first it cent light. The skeleton ,crawled out ‘..Generally about virtue, beauty and h upon the around, saook his bones, to cast the rest.' • 1 off the dirt that clung to them; the «'Yes, y'es; I reel:oiled. His style was ; H ` bones clattered,. and the skeleton, rasing somewhat heavy. How many such lie in a his skull, looked up with his blue, cold the ground! Yes, •the Russian soil is , p eyes, to survey the dark, cloudy heavens, rich in Weal.' ' p "How do you do?' 'asked the Devil. "And they left, the oxen! I know that f "Can't do," the atithor ,eurtly replied. warm words won't raise the temperature 0 He spoke in a low voice which had a of the grave, nor do I want them; still1 very strange sound, as if two bones, sea an ia • rubbing against each other, were crack- pleasant to hear such things. And: 1 how I should like to give them a scold- 3 ing almost inaudibly. ing!" t . r r B . • . .. LION INVADES THE CAMP. s • African Traveler Tells of an Exciting Adventure in a Thorn Inclosure. "While in Somaliland, Africa, I bed an exciting adventure with a black -maned ' lion," writes a correspondent. "I bad a intencled to reach a village one night elbut it was getting dark and we were' a couple of hours' mar& off; so, finding an old zareba, or thorn enclosure, we went into it. This zareba covered half an acre. It was only about four feet ▪ high and four feet thick, the thorny branches composing it having sunk down e and fallen apart.. I i "We repaired about 100 yards of it, p• itched our tent, and the cook got his o fire lighted, gave use some dinner, and I ' turned in. Our nineteen ciortels all squat- ' ted in a circle to .the right of the tent, o our horses were tethered near to them and our twenty-one men lighted three or four fires, cooked their food and lay down to sleep around the camels. We y also had five donkeys tethered to two or three saplings, which were growing about two paces in front of the tent, and, - therefore, toward the centre of the zar- e eba. s "Abaut 2 o'clock in the morning I was awakened by two feeble brays, followed by a third. Lighting a candle, I tumbled . out in my pajamas and got hold of iny rifle and a eouple of cartridges, to meet . the Soma i shoving theirwoolly s heads through the tent door, saying, 1 `Wartsbal) (hyena), Deep growls were going on, and I at once felt sure that it was no hyena, but a lion in the zareba, :Fortunately, the camels did not stam- pede. "It wits pitch dark, but I smut that one of the five donkeys tethered in front of the tent was gazing intently toward. the left and eel: tre, The other four had dis- appeared. There was a black mese di' cerniale in the cadre of tile zareba. Which, however, I founa in the morning to be simply a 10055 of old dried thorn ritish America Assurance ell and no hell fires, which one so read ly imagines. There is, however, some hing else—something infinitely mor Company • SEVENTY FIRST ANNUAL STATEMENT. 311* oacamaza, 1904. ASSETS United States Government and State Bonds .. ..$137,308 00 Municipal Bonds . , ... 042,934 72 Loan and Savings Company Ponds and Stecks „ 201,050 SO Railway Bonds ........282,50000 Toronto Elentric Light Com - tame pany's Bonds ... 20,200 00 Other Stocks and Bondi .... 60,004-00 Ileal'Estate—Compaties build- ing . , 140,000 00 Office furniture . ... 27,514 23 Agents' balsam& a a . 352,038'22 Cash on hand and oh deposit 158,350 11 Bills teceivable .... 8,500 00 'Merest duo iteartiCd •.. 10,941 45 $2,043,618 59 Capital 09011/0 Fund Security to Policy -holders 1,874,042.95 L !ABILITIES Capital Stock Sub- ocribed ..azo,000 00 Less Calls in course of payment .. 14,603 69 ?835,39081 o lams under adjustment .. 163,595 18 y Dividend No. 122, payable. on J tar lith 1005 20 644 20 f Reserve Fund ....1,024,042 95 terrible. Immediately after the doctor has pronounced you dead to your relative you shall enter some boundless, brightl illuminated region, and this is the realm of self-conselousness of your errors. You lie in a tight grave in the emne tery, mid before you passes, rotating lik a wheel, your entire poor life. It turn with painful slowness; but everything passes, from the first conscious step you took, to the very last detail of your life You shall see all that during life you ere wont to conceal even from your elf; all the lies and all the mearines f your life come up before you; al our thoughts you shall think anew. You shall. realize the falsness of every else step. Your entire life—all, up to a second—pesecs before your vision. And to intensify your .agony, you know that upon. the semis narrow and mistaken path that you have trodden others walk elk and shove on another and hurry —a walk ited shove one sitiolitet and hurry everything clearly—that all this they do only to discover some sley how dia. geateful it is to lam such base, soulless Yet, seeing them baster: to their ruin, you eannot 10 any way ware them. Not a sound, not a move can you make, and the desire to help them uselessly rends your heart. Your whole life passes before you and again retsti•ns; and once more you see it from the beginning * * * and there is to end to the work of your conscietee nor ever sball * * And there nev- er come an end to your dreadful woes—never. a here was a good deal, about long acade, in the form of loug words, in the -Huxicy memorial lecture, delivered the other niglit before the Anthropelogieat lestitute, of London, by Dr, DeOis k'er, of Pelts. The following ere Mtne of the terrtie used: 82,043,678 56 • 850,000.00 1,024,042.95 . Lessee PIO from the Organiza- tion of the Company to date 25.888,544.80 DIRECTORATE: HON. GEO. A. COX, President, uffmr, Vlee.Preeldent and. Managing Director. :AUGUSTUS MYERS, liON. S. C. WOOD. THOS. LONG. ROBERT ,T.A.PPRAY. yOlill HOSKIN, V. 0.0 D. LIEVT.-COL. IL M. PELLATT, Ei W. COX. OFCES: Coe. Pewit and SOW .H. SIMS Strootti Toronto* Ont. Sooretnex. branches, so the six or eight shots I fir at it in the darkness did little harm. "The ma were now bushing the fir and the cook supplied four or five of th snen with sticks god with kerosene ra, irily me,de wane torches. I then notic that the donkey was gazing snore to tl left of the centre, and, guided by t growling, which was going on contin ously and furiously, I crept on my han and knees past the donkey for a coup of yards. The men with the torch were then a little behind my right shou "Suddenly the torches flamed u briglitly, and, the being behind n somewhat, I was not dazzled by it,- bu saw te he lion dragging off a donkey. cud not take inc more than one second snap both barrels at him, and Its grow at once ceased. After putting in tw inore cartridges and having the torehe retrimmed we again advanced, to fin the lion lying on his side, giving s•, fe expiring gasps. His nose touched th donkey's throat, a trickw le of blood flo ed down from under his left eye, and a I afterward found, he arid got mi neon bullet in the nape of the neck." E r BABY'S OWN TABLETS. TIE OUTLOOK FOR SEED CORN. The difficulty of getting reliable iseed corn of desirable types and varieties. during the last twos years and the Ma pensive lessone learned by Many corn growers who 88011 seed. of tulknown vital- ity make the question of reliable seed for 1995 of more than ordinary iaterest, A survey of the available OUpply of port -hem grown Ewa. of this important fodder crop indicates thet the (Indent- tiess of getting good seal will be even greater this year than during the two previous years. The best varieties for fodder or ensilage purposes, aleng the northern limit of the corn belt in Can- ada, are undoubtedly of the "Saint" type. In the latitude of Ottawa onl 20 ed Special strains of the "Dent" varieties give good results for ensilage M. the av- es erage year, 0 Unfortunately for progress in corn p- raising in Canada our supplies of seed ed have been drawn largely from the pilu- le try to the south, and have been of types he ana varieties that respired a longer sea - la son to mature than 25 afforded in some ds of our best dairy districts, where the le corn crop is most needed and most valu- ea able. We have number' of very good 1- men who are mmaking a specialty of grow- ing corn for the purpose of seed along P Lake Erie, and who have a limited quan- 10 tity of good seed for sale this year. The st Canadian Seed Growers' on as It taken up in a business -like way the t 0 matter of creating a supply of reliable le seed earn, 4.21d it may be said that the 0 future promises for a permanent basis of supply of a high-class Article aria of a varieties that are exceptionally well Iv suited for ensilage and fodder purposes in all parts of Canada where corn can " be grown, with success. .! The severe frost during the early part 4 of last autumn rendered the bulk of the corn crop in Ontario absolutely age- less for the purpose of seed. A belt about a mile in width along the North- ern shore of Lake Erie was affected only n slightly, and. from some sections in this district there is a supply of very good n "et The cost of the small quantity of seed es corn that is required to plant an acre, y in comparison with the cost for labor A Pleasant Medicine, Which All Childre Will Take Readily. You do not have to coax and threate to get the little one's to take Baby Own Tablets. The ease with which the e in cultivating and handling and the u1- . eines will appeal to every mother. Non is spilled or wasted; you know just ho big a dose has reached the little stom aeh. As a remedy for all the ills o babyhood and childhood arising fro derangements of the stomach and bowel Baby's Own Tablets have no equal. Mr E. A. Jewere, Mitchell Bay, N. S., Bays "I thing the tablets a blessing to bot are given as compared with liquid med e timate value por acre of a good crop, w would seem tomake it clear that the best . available seed of the most satisfactory f type and variety should be obtained at m any reasonable cost. It would be much e better for Canadian farmers if they were 8. able to obtain their supplies of seed sorn in the par; they would then have a fair h idea of what they were getting. 'While a In the ear, the danger of injury to tbe h vitality of the seed from damp and its after effects 'is reduced to a minumusn. d Corn that is shelled by a machine and left in sacks for six weeks or more will . seldom germinate more than 75 per cent., unless the conditions for storage have been -exceptionally good. The average vitality of peed corn, tested in the Seed Laboratory last year were, for corn re- , ceived in the ear, 95 per cent., and for shelled corn, 68 per cent. It is much to be recommended then e that, wherever possible, farmers obtain a their supplies of seed corn iu the ear only. To meet the demand for seed - corn in this condition growers would do s well to adopt the style of shipping crate that is used for this purpose in the States of Iowa and Illinois. This crate o is two feet nine inches long, one foot ° wide, and one foot deep, and is made of half inch lumber three inches in width. ' Its capacity is one bushel, or between one hundrer and one hundred and tiven- " ty ears. If the corn can be planted m ar hills, this crate will hold sufficient seed n for five years. While it is true that there mey be some additional cost for freight, on account of the weight of the cob and of the crate, and that extra work is required in shelling the corn, ° these become insignificant when the dit- Y ference in value between an Acre of good • matured corn and an acre of unsatisfac- • tory crop is considered. • mother and children, as I find them certain cure for all the --'ills to wide little ones are Subject. I de not Imes how I could get on without them." Sol by all medicine dealers or by mail a 25c. a box by addressing the Dr. Wil liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY. Pretty Entertainment That Can be Give With Little Trouble. A clever entertainment for March i to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with unique house affair, which can be ar ranged without much fuss and feather or on as elaborate a scale as desired. A church or charity entertainment ea reap a harvest by clarging a small fe and additional for meals, or a larger on might include refreshments, says Eliza beth W. Morrison, in the March House keeper. Portieres and window draperies of em erald green cheese cloth or crepe pape will pay for the trouble, and the clot can be utilized afterward. in housekeep• ing uses. Irish flags should wave from every available space. Oxalis can be used to simulate sham rock, and a pot enveloped in white crep paper, tied with green, will be a daint finish to the newel post or table centre The green and white chains of paper which one can buy at any novelty store will come in handy to form a eanop in the dining room for the table. The reception commitee, if for a bag entertainment, can be costumed in har mony with the event, the women wear- ing white dresses, green belts and stocks, a perky bow or rosette in the hair and on the breast an Irish harp made '�f shirred ribbon with gold tinsel strings. The maids who serve at the door or in the dining room should wear dainty white aprons and caps, each 'ornamented with a, green ribbon box. The .men can Wear green ties and tiny MA flags in buttonholes or typical Irish costumes can be hired, at the costumer's. The stores are full of suitable couvenirs, from Irish potato bonbon boxes, clay pipes and Bar- ney hats to Irish jaunting carts and tiny pots of imitation shamrock. The menu should carry out the general scheme. Spinach or green vegetable eel- oring will produce any shade desired, and almond, pistachio and vanilla added to creams and cakes, will produce var- iety, while mint ices, bonbons and cyrs- talized foliage will add daintily to the feast. Small elm cakes or cookies iced with white can be decorated with citron sham- rocks, hats and pipes, The darkest citron is used for this, and after cutting in thin slices, lay in just enough to cover and simmer until it straw will pierce it; drain and wipe dry; then cut into shape with sharp scissors or knife. The hats are cut into two pieces, and it is better to cut patterns from stiff paper, which lay on the citron shape. e yarm. To find out whether seeds are capable e of producing plants requires neither ex- . pert knowledge nor special apparatus Satisfactory material is to be found in every farm home, for making germina- tion tests of practically any kind of seed used on the farm. The simplest and most convenient way to test seed corn and other cereal grains and most of the root crop and larger vegetable seeds is to'. place a number of them—say orie hundred—between pieces of moistened blotting paper, canton clannel or cloth; FROM DERISION TO FAME. Luther Burban To -day the Foremost Man in the World in His Line. scarcely a decade ago Luther Burbank was virtually unknown to the world. Ile was held In derision by his relatives, in pity by his friends, In scorn by his enemies, He was denounced by scientific men as little less than a charlatan, a producer et spec- tacular Meets, a seeker for the uncanny and abnormal, an macaw to all true acientifio progress, a misleading, though powerful, prophet of a new order of tillage that could never come to pass. One day a minister in Santa nese, Cal., where Mr. Burbank lives, Invited lam to at- tend cltureh, that he might listen to a ser- mon upon the work he was carrying on. Ile aecepted the invitation, and was forced to listen to an address violently denouncing him as a foo to the God and man ono who was intei•rupting this well-orderefeourse of plant ilfe, destroying forces and functions long establiLled and sacred, reducing the vegetabblife of the world to a condition at once unnatural and abnormal, Going a little further bark In his history, to the period in whleh lit first Attempted to carry out the work oc las life, we find hint more than once perilonely near starva- tion hi a !and of pleuty, but rising by Omer force of noble ideals above oil temporal 111. To -day Inr. Burbank has luyomo the for - Mot tvan In the woeld In tir, cilu,dtcit if now and 1ntere:4Ing forms of frults, tress, Neetablee, grasses awl nuts. lle has tarried his investigation far beyond the point that he had reaehel when Um mluhder rotsollOO 111M, Last year more than vix theu- rand men, embracing, fallow; tapin the voev rikl: and flower of tho SilMitifht trio Of two lloallbpttei.0, made the ilia !m to 11,:a ralito Rosa Itfont, to :May tI» talm »f hia investifmtions, to t ee with iloie awn (Toil thinn4 whic:t tlwr tcentifM 11111131 esuld not c.ceept an Until aithout vimal do - and to le.,!.n tar.e detaila ojf 11-0 sm,rea:•e. re.,ults achieve.). During the year thirty thousand Jolters were researell, t•maing front Ovn.., ettaller ef th globe, nelting for more light upon bis work.—Pront Wiiiiani ta Harwood's 'A. Wonder.-Worite: -ef actenee," lo the Star& Century. set there I:4 an ordinatry dinner plim and invert another plate to cover them The seed should he itept moist but nut wet. The temperature of the average farm house living room would be pito suitable, init some cure shouldbe taken to guard against exec:wave heat or *old. All good strong seed of corn, cereal, grains, eloverm or timothy, thua treated, will have germinated at the end of live days. Very small Needs of the finer grasses, of ixOnie of the garden vegeta- bles and of beets or =angels, may be germinated to better advantage by seat. tering them in a saucer (belonging to a flower pot) that has been water, and, set on a cloth that ahoilla be kept damp, or in a pan containing not more than one-eighth of an inch of wat- er, the object being to keep the saucer moist, but not wet. If smelt a saucer be not available, a brick Will answer the purpose as well. In germinating seeds in au earthen saucer they may be ea- praoyseadotfoththeesulinght, hut not to the direct W. A. Clemons. - RICH WARM BIAMD, e•••••••••e Absolutely Necessary to Health, Strength . and Qomfort--Good Blood Banishes Disease, People with rich, red blood do not feel the cold of winter. When our feet are cold, your fingers numb and your face blue and pinched, it is a cer- tain sign that your blood is thin and, your circulation weak, Your ff blood needs building up with Or. W imam' Plok Pills. They make new blood; they stim- ulate the circulation. The new blood they make races through your veins to every part of your body from finger tips to toes, and makes yeti warm, heron* and healthy. Mr. Alphonse Lacousszere, St Leon, Que., seas: "About a, year ago ray blood became impoverished and I was badly run down. My hands and feet were always cold and I could not stand the least exertion. M3: trouble was fur- ther aggravated by pains in my kidneys and bladder, and often I could not go about without aid. I consulted doctors, but they did not help me, and I was al- most in despair when I was advised to uso Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I got six boxes and before they were all gone I knew I had found a medicine to cure sue. I took the pills for about a month " longer and every symptom of my trouble was gone, and I have- since enjoyed the best of health." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure after doe - tors and common medicines have failed because th'ey actually snake new rich blood, and so strengthen all the organs and brace up the nerves. That is the way they cure indigestion, kidney and liver troubles, rheumatism, nervousness, neuralgia, palpitation of the heart, St. Vitus dance, partial paralysis and the secret ailments that fill the lives pf so many women with misery. Do not -take any pills without the full nama, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People," on the wrapper'around each box. Sold by all medicine dealers or sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2,50, ha writing tthe Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. TREES BUT LITTLE KNOWN. Tropical Forests 'so Dense it is Difficult to Explore Them. According to an expert in the bureau of forestry of the Department of Agri- culture there is, comparatively speaking, little known eoncerring tropical trees, and this despite the fact that natural- ists and botanists are constantly explor- ing the regions near the equator. In- deed, there must be many hundreds of varieties that have been little known and that are unidentified by flexile. This curious feet is due to the excep- tional conditions of the tropical forests. In temperate zones forests are fairly open, and, generally speaking, include trees of only it few varieties. Thus there are oak forests, hickory forests, etc., but rarely any forests where more than three or four kinds of trees exist in any num- ber. In the tropics, on the other band, the ease is exactly tlie opposite. Forests coin -posed of one variety of tree or even of only three or four kinds are practi- caly unknown. So many different sorts of trees grow close together that fre- quently more than 100 varieties may be counted within a short radius. More- over all these grow together in great confusion. They tower to extraordinary heights, each tree, it would seem, shay - ng its best to reach the sunlight. Con- equently the trunks are extremely long and thin, because each tree is reaching o get higher than its neighbors, in order o escape the twilight of the primeval, ropie forest. Leaves and branches are o confused that in many forests one can ee neither sky nor sunlight for miles, he crowns of the trees interlacing and orming a thick, impenetrable roof. To add to the confusion great vines and creepers and hundreds of varieties of vegetable parasites overgrow the trunks. It is said that it is well-nigh impos- sible to cut down any one tree for purs poses of examination, for the reason that the forest is so dense that there Is insufficient room for the tree to fall, even after its trunk has been cue through. It would be necessary to clear a great space, and that is impractical° from the standpoint of the naturalist or botanist. Hence the world is still in rmparative ignorance of the wonders of he tropic forest. A HEALTHY OLD AGE i OFTEN ME BEST PART OFLIFE t for 'Women. Passing Through Change of Life Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in life, and it is generally our own 1 atilt if we die prematurely. 11:120,64.r.413 Idled 0.11143.1M I I le et iee11 .1 e . f : • : - REVOLVING BEAK GIVE SPEED, New French Boat Intended to Creat Partial Vacuum in Front. Tho fl lt Lan speed ohighn tlie fascinating problem for the inventor end here is a whole tribe at work In different arts ot the civilized world endeavoring to neve at some improvement by which the reveller may take his breakfast in London nd Ms dinner in New York. The latest device for this purpose has been orked out by Andre Gambi, Parisian ho has constructed a beak for the prow of easels, which is revolved in the same man• er as the propeller blades of the usual typd craft. This nose is tailed "typeoonold." r suction dot% Enid it Is said to remove al- ra8tt 1;ItixteP'cotillitenidesgrneepaninig wttircoilu io water. The revolution of the construcs on, it is said, will -create a vacuum m Ivan. f the ship, which will be drawn forward by neumatte suction and fly, as It were, :rough a vadutim, just as letters do through h'e'Tphoestitlrer placed attheStern of ships," feth ithtemi IsitV earl e lot& snirprg; MITod I iit! ented, Nevertheless, even under the most avoreble circumstances, leas than one- urth et the admit energy expended by tes he ship. The rest producee other motions or he surrounding liquid. whlell Ste all een- a"llt.20thteh6sh6liase pareosigrreetles is displaces nit qual mast! Of liquid, and, taking into es - most lateral friction titid till the other op. ohm form to a ship'e forward movement, O ships are built at the preeent day, the res producing the desired motion is refitte- d to about one-twenty-fitth Dart 02 200 rating forte. f IttetZeiXleivititt IVA; litttr4 ible6 /dot. o h. s era movement isf the Ship elute viteuum bleb hos beott earereny etudIed rventlY d whiah in England is called 'eavItation.' .ko greater the :meta 01 the ship the More npOrttint that Vacuum `becomes, as waii es 11 the ether Oppelitig forces, and !tit well town that iialp going eighteen mime an eur la obliged to amide Its foal woad. are to add two et OW kaki tO ea • Nervous exhaustion invites disca.st. p When everything beeomes a burden „e and you cannot svalk a few blocks with- . out excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspiration easily, and your .w face fluelies, and yost grow excited and . shaky at the kttst provocation, and 1 you cannot hoar to be crossed in any. o thing, you aro in danger ; your nerves 0 lutve given out; you need building tip it at once 1 To build up tvOinan's nerv.• oils system and during the period of ti change of life -n•e IttloW of no better medicine than Lydian. Pinkliara's Veg- etable Compound. Here is an illuss t tration. Mre. Mary 3. Dabbruzz, of 160 1 Main it., Winnipeg, Manitoba, write.s: ne • la i Tr .ylriollP.Tiknikbilloan; Vegetable Consporm d hits been a blesoing to trio through that deli, ' fo eate period, known as the ellange of life. For g t six years it aieturbed my entire system, hall 114 Pal ',beg& Wag extremely wryest, be. pelo and debilitated, very irregiilar hi0 ilOW, and the blood ell seter.ed ; e toile in my bead. hod frequent palpitatiOn una thrbbing of the heart ; fact, my whole it Eiy81,3411.,20Med to be in illoorder.to "1 reseived no relief ham the sintering hi: 0 cidont to this period until I took Lydia IL 6 Pinkham'sVegetablo Compound; but I data ; inv Mief from the tines 1 Uok the fleet bob. tlo. I gradually improvea, nature took her coarse painlaaly, Ana in duo time Ives Well woman." lira. Militant, of Toni, Maas., in. 1„) *Ites ell siek and ailing women to *rite ; her for advice. Her great c*ptrierese th at their service, tree of cost, •