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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-08-31, Page 34jh lot. you carol Why, you've brought i Itim. 10 the grave, you good-for-nethingle The Return of the Prodical 'It: ci,z,,muigetloti bounder. "Then an awful passion of rage came This is the story watch was told by the parson after the re -union dieter, whereat the old bays of a certain school had foregathered from distant places to patclt up with memories the old days that had gone: A thing happened to me last summer Mach presents a curious probloni to those who are interested in trying to unravel the tragic inconsistencies of hu- man nettura and those who like to in- quire into questions of casuistry. The thing, too, ba e a grip of living interest which maisceeit, pereaps, worth the tell- ing. I was spending my holiday on a ey- cling tour. The man with whim I was to have gone failed me at the last minute and I was alone. Weary with the hot aid squalid town -you I.now that mine is a slum parish -I tried to keep as far from bricks and mortar, as was possible. When I could avoid the high road and travel along by- paths. I made cuts which were some- times shorter and often longer than the conventional road, but at least 1 gra- tified my desire for rural solitude, and I often, I am sure, passed through lanes in which bicycles had before been al- , most unknowe. It was part of my whim -and what is the good of a holiday if one cannot be whimsical at one's will ?-to put up for the nigat where it was possible to do so at some timely inn. I seldom had muclt difficulty in finding a night's lodging e in this way. The country folk at whose doors, I knocked seldom refused a lod- gers and many n pleasant homely even- ing did I spend, chatting with a farmer and his family round their ample tea table or listening to the quaintly gar- rulous wisdom of some aged gaffer, to whose word the hamlet bowed. One day I had wandered far from the beaten path and when evening fell 1 had to admit that I had completely lost my bearings. It was late in August and the' evenings were short. It would soon be dark and in the uncertain light the mi.; familiar lanes were bewildering enouele Moreover, the sky, which had been over- fIat all day, was growing ominously black and there was that sullen stillness in the air which bodes a coining thunder- storm. I had been riding carelessly unobser- vant ,of the turnings I had taken, fas- cinated, ns a cyclist sometimes is, by the steady whirr of any machine as it raced gently along the smooth surface of the line, and allowing my thoughts to wander whether they would. My pump of locality is not largely developed and when I dismounted from my machine and looked alertly round I could not for the life of me make out which way I ought to go to reach a tiny village where I had determined to spend the night. I had reached a place where three lanes met, each one looking identically the , same as the others; there was no guid- ing finger -post and no house was in sight. While I was standing in helpless doubt- the first drops of the threatened storm began to fall with a slow deliberation which suggested the businesslike prepar- ation for a heavy shower, and the dis- tant thunder growled angrily. "I must get somewhere out of this," I said, and committing myself to chance I remounted and rode quickly down the lane which happened to be nearest to where I was standing. It is a long lane, says the proverb, that has no turning. This was decidedly is long lane, and I bad bowled along at a good round pace for some ten min- utes, before it showed any inclination ! to turn. Then it swerved so sharply to . the right that -for it was now quite dark- I almost ran into the hedge. The 'surface became so rough that it was im- aossible to ride, the rain was sheeting down and the thunder was booming near- er and nearer. I was just going to turn back, grumb- ling at my ill -luck, and try another of the three cross -lanes, when a vivid flash of lightning lit up for a second the whole scene, and I saw about 100 yards before me a well kept farmhouse stand out from tee gloom. I pushed my machine as quickly as I could along the rutty track up to the farmhouse gate, opened at, and hurried, dripping and miserable, sip to the door. Jknocked loudly. A dog in a kennel tesomewhere at the side of the house . barked sharply and strained his chaiu, 1.but I heard no sound from within. So , far as I could make out, there were no lights in the house. I knocked again more loudly than before, and at last, arouseil. by my knocking or the fierce barking of the dog, I heard someone rip proacbing the door. A BOA glimmered through the crevices and a man's voice asked gruffly: "Who's there?" Man you put me up for the niglit?" It returned. "I'm cycling and have lost any way and been caught in the storm." "Who are you?" "My name is Ransome-Rev. George 3Ransome." "Are you a parson?" "Wait a bit, then; I'll let you in," added the voice after a considerable pause. I heard the sound of heavy bolts be- ing shot back and a key turned grat- ngly. Then the door was opened cautiously on the chain and a mat's face peered round it and surveyed me suspiciously by the light of age, although the man was evidently young. "You're sure you're a parson?" he asked after a protracted stare. "Of course I'm sure," I said, losing . temper.. "For goodness' sake open the door, my dear fellow, if you're going tie take me in, and let me get out of this rain, or, if you caret put me up, tell me where I shall find the nearest Inn." "No, come in," he replied simply. Re nndiethe chain and held the door open. "Bring in your macbinea, he said. When I had entered he carefully shut, . belted and locked, the door, Then he ' stood looking itt me, 'We've a dead man in the house," he : said. "1 suppose you're not afraid of a corpse, are you?" "No, I'm not afraid, of course," 1 anc- wered. "Bet if you're in trouble l'in Wry to intrude Perhaps, if you would. rather-" "It's my father, he died on Monday. He was 72 and had never known an aehe or a pain. Ile was a. fine roan." He spoke almost wistfully, as one who crav- ed for sympathy and scarcely. expected to get it. "l3ut you're wet," he added, before I could answer, "and maybe hum gry. Come into the kitchen. I'm all alone here, with the old father, so yon must excuse things a bit rough and ready. But you're welcome to what Moos is." Ile led me into a spacious kitchen, sparely furnished, but aglow with coil- scientious eleanlinees. On a table in the middle of the room were bread and cheese and a jug of ale, A small fire was burning in the big fireplace. "Take off your wet coat," said my host, and I'll dry it at the fire. .And fall to on this supper. I was just going to have a bite myself. Wait it. bit. though, we've got too much light," I stared, for the only light in the big room wa.e from the lamp with which the man liad came to the door and it was burning ill. "I'll tell you why, perhape," he said., "by and by." He took a dark green shade from a shelf and fitted it to the lamp, which he then• put in the centre of the table. A dim disc of light was concentrated there; the rest of the room was in heaviest shadow. The bread, cheese and ale were alike good and. I was hungry, therefore I gave myself up to those delicacies, my cone 'union doing the same, and we spoke little. ' Come," said my host, when supper was ended, "if you don't mina coming, I should like to show you where the poor cid father is lying." 1 !mew the people of a certain class consioer it an act of friendly conliaerce to ask their neighbo-s to see their loved oees in death, and that any hesitation to do so would be construed into unkind- ness. Therefore I rode ae once and pre- pared to follow him. The man took the lamp from the table not, however, removing the heavy shade .-and lee the way to a room near the front door. The room had apparently been the best parloe, reserved with a kind of hoinely state for use, only on gnat occasions It wee furnished with the solid unlovely furniture which de- lighted a less aesthetic generation and the air was heavy with that strangely distinctive scent which one associates with cretonne covers. A round. table stood in the centre and on the table was a coffin of rough workmanship. coffin was open and the lid was propped up against the table. "See," said my companion. He held the lamp aloft that its light might fall upon the face of the dead. I drew near and looked. I saw the rugged face of an old man hushed into that soleann ma- jesty which death stamps upon one who has toiled hard, and upon whom long years of patient self-restraint have set their mark. It was the face of one who had struggled and now rested) and the big, horny hands folded above the white covering, told the same simple tale. The son bent dowa and ldssed the broad, marble brow. "I'm glad he's dead," he said, abruptly. "You mean-" "I mean that he is happier so. He has been spared a trouble which would have sent him to the grave broken-hearted." I looked et him inquiringly. "You shall know what I mean," he said, "but not here. The old man might hear! There, 1 know that's superstition; but never mind. Come back to the kit- chen and I'll tell you. We were sitting one on each side of the fireplace,evith the lamp, ever shaded, on the table between us, before he spoke again, Then, leaning forward toward me, he told what he had to tell. "If you'd known the truth," he began, in a low voice, "you wouldn't be sitting hare now. Because you are talking to a murderer." "What!" I cried, springing to ray feet. "Yes, me. Sit down. Pm harmless now. It was only a moment, but a me anent was enough. Harold Donaldson was the man. He's lying now in Shrub late, a mile from here, with the blood across his proud face, curse him, and his zings -all those glittering rings on his fingers -dimmed with raire, and his lye ing mouth biting mud." He had risen and was pacing the room. I sat speechless. "Excuse me, sir," he said, as he sat down again. "I won't think about those rings, and then I'll be able to master myself and tell you the story from the start. And the start's with myself." "I've been the scapegrace all my life, since 1 was a -little lad, and hit, a laborer over the head with a rake be cause he said iny father was fat. I've been the trouble of .my father's life, but I always loveti him, and he loved me more than life. But I had to rove. I couldn't stay here, though the old man begged me, and I knew he was alone, and I tell you I loved. him. But I couldn't stay. It wasn't in me. I hated the folk round, and they thought all manner of ill of me. I went away five years. ago -went -where? Heaven knows. Everywhere, anywhere. Of course, I did badly, and wasted time and anoney, when I had it, which wasn't often. But I kept. straight, I swear I did. I've been nearly starving, and things have been within my reach that I could have put out my hand and taken. But I never did •it, for the old anan's sake. "At last I began to do a bit better. I got a little pile together, and I said, like the man in the Bible story, 'I will arise and go to my father.' I set out for home. .And alwaye through the long, long journey -for I was at the other end of the world -I kept picturing any home- coming, and I thought it would be like that story -the old ehap seeing me afar off and coming to meet one, and falling on my neck and kissing me. And to -day I've come home, and the father's dead, and I've killed Harold Donaldson! "I was walking from St. Austen's- that's the nearest town -thinking of how glad the old man would be and that I would try and make up at last for all that worry I'd been to him, when I saw Harold. Donaldson coming along the lane. He's the squire's eon. About my age, I should think he is. I remember him when le was a boy and was a boy. I remember him then with his airs. I remember hint in the squire's pew at church, and how 1 hated him then as I usect to look at him from where the vil- lage children sat, and he stared back SO proud and cool, "So you've come bottle?" he salt "I met him in the lane, and he meg. eked inc and 'doped. "/ growled 'yes,' and tried to pate on, gor who wanted to be greeted by that eauek.up prig first of anyone?" "But he stood in my way and would net let um pass. "‘I suppose you know your dean dead?" he asked. and looked at me with his insulting green eyes. nearly fell. "'Dead!' I cried. "Net dead?' ' 4101.1 lye bald, 'dead; and a eireelialia upon me. I tried to speak, but no words would come. Ile kept his green eyes upon ino, staring and cool. And then 1 caw those rings -three of them on one finger, ehining. And I don't knew why or how, but that did it - those rings. A eort of mid came before lay eye, but through the abet 1 saw the green eyes and the rings shining, shine ing, and with the mist came madness. I rushed through the, mist at the green ayes, I got hie tliroat. I felt the loose skin, smooth and flabby, and then the Mixed or Creen. Highest award St. Louis,I904 larynx, and I saw those rings lifted through the mist to defend him. soia only In Lead Packets. 40c, 50c, 60e per lb. By aliGrodere. Anil the madness grew as they came, and I dashed him on las bitek helpless an picked up a big stone, and banged, and banged, and banged with it at the green eyes and the rings lifted to defend them. And so I lined him. "I left hini and walked. on, but look- ing bacic I saw that the red sun was flasbing on those cursed rings, and I came back and rubbed them in the dirt till their brightness was dimmed. "With that the madness went quick as it had come, and 1 knew that I had killed a man, I sat down by the hedge and thought, and soon I formed my re- solution. I would come on and see the old father buried. Then I would give myself up to the police and be hanged. For I knew that those green eyes and those rings would never let me rest. washed the blood from my hands in a stream. Then I walked quickly home. Two old women who were watch- ing beside ray father and wailing and gossiping. I turned them out and locked the door. He is to be buriel to -morrow and then when I've seen that I will go and tell them who killed Harold Don- aldson. "But when you carne a thought struck inc. If they find me sooner -if they track me down and take me away - promise that you will read the service from the prayer book over the old man's body, that I may hear it before I go. Promise, air; I have had a bad lot, and bade an awful mess of things all my life, but I did love the old dad." The murderer was standing before me with a look of intense pleading in his face and a wistful gentleness in his voice. I made the promise which he sought. And so I sat with the man and heard him tell with the simplicity of a child of the old days when he was a boy, before he began to roam, until the clock struck midnight. As the last stroke ceasel a terrible knocking came at the door. The young man rose at once. "It is the police," he said calmly; "you will remember your promise, sir 7" He went to the door, unbolted and opened it. I heard the sound of heavy steps on the stone floor and gruff voices. A lan- tern flashed. I opened the kitchen door and went to meet them. The man was handcuffed and two policemen stood beside him. "Tell them, sir," the prisoner said, with a look at me. I drew one of the constables aside and told him the story which had been told me. IF you put the right tea into the teapot "" there's no fear about the results Ceylon Tea is the world's preference. Black, d "We've no objection, sir," he said with a shaky gruffness when I had done. He unloosened the bandcuffs from the prisoner's wrists after a hurried consul- tation with his companion. Altogether we entered the room where the old father lay in the majesty of death. There I repeated the sentences of the burial service and some of the prayers. The policemen stood with un- covered heads. The son knelt. He rose when I had done. He stooped over the coffin and kissed the dead brow. Then he turned to the constables. "I'm ready," he said. "Take me away. I killed Harold Donaldson. Thank you, sir, I've heard the service read over Ms body, and I'm content." Then he suffered himself to be led quietly away. Ir THE MAKING OF HONEY i se4-0-64-e-e-e-e-ese-e-er•-e••-est++4-4045-0 1 The beekeeping world Is limited by the con- sumption of honey. Many who like honey do not uso it, because of the large, quantities 1 of adulterated honey on the market, unless ‚Ahoy can buy comb honey, and this is al- most twice as expensive as the extracted by I reason of the cost of producing and tho risk taken in- shipping. For when the combs aro sold with the honey the bees are compelled to build now ones, and wax la very expensive, since they consume from ten to sixteen pounds of honey to make ono pound of it. On the other hand, the combs used for ex- tracted honey will last a long time. My grandfather had some which be said were thirty years old. Again, when comb honey Is stored it is apt to candy, and if it does it cannot be liquified again, without destroy- ing the comb. Then, too, in shipping comb honey must be packed as carefully as glass, and even after the greatest precautions are taken, if the weather Is warm or very cold, much jarring will work such havic to its beauty as to make It unsalable. 1 The study of bees is practically an inex- haustible subject. Many books have been yritten upon it. My grauaftther said satd that he had worked with bees and studied them for forty years, and yet felt that he had ' only begun to learn what there was to know about them. The honey bee is not a native of America. It was probably brought here from England by the early settlers. The In- dians celled it the "white man's fly." The wild bees that inhabit the cliffs and hollow trees of this country are of this strain. They . aro sometimes called black bees, because their bodies aro very dark. About 18G0, It- alian bees wore introduced. These have ' yellod bands around their bodies. In this 1 connection it is interesting to note that Vir- gil, in a poem deVnoted to bees, speaks of "a ; kind ot bee which is yellow and glistens ' like the morning sue. This kind Is the best, : and it you keep them in your hives, your pots will be filled with honey." They aro I still considered superior to the black variety, and most beekeepers now have this kind, though often mixed with the black bee. When the beekeeper has.removed from the hives all the combs and replaced them with empty ones from the cart, he wheels the former into the honey house. Here tke cap- pings of the combs are shaved off with a wet knife made specially for the purpole, and the honey thrown from the cells by ' centrifugal Inc. - Tko smallest extractors hold two combs, while the coition sizes hell four, six and eight. There is one in Cuha which holds twerity, and is run by steam power. Tho extracted honey is run through pipes into tanks which stand outside the honey house. The different tanks contain different grades of honey according to the kind of flower blooming at the Brno the honey was being gathered. The honey Is drawn from these tanks into sixty-ponnd eans, which are piac- of in casea holding tWo cans each, qnd it is then stored until the price goes up to about Kix cents per pound, wholesale. This usually happeas In the summer or fall of the following year ,for we seldom have two good trees In eucceesion, and by the end of the "ea" year honey is comparatively soiree. The cappings taken from the comb before ex- tracting are drained and melted into cakes ot yellow bees wax, part of which 15 sell, but most of it IS used by the beekeeper, who Melds it lute foundations for new eolith. The hives are arranged like the houses In a eity. except tbat the fronts are turned away froto the street, The street Is provided for the Apiarist, end as the hives have no back dote, it it more pleasant for him to mum by the bark yards than the front, Mach street is lettered raid each hive 11 number- ed. 13y this malted the WOW keeps a record of each colony noting the ago, color and Strain 01 the minim the amount of honey, the number of hoes and any other fact he limy wish to neve NC future reference. The arena vinee in front of the hive:, help the been to locate their homes. These levee Are Mit in tiro storeys. The lower ea* 1* thilea the brood oast:leo, IM the upper one is the Intact'. The Mien and stile brood nest aro gsstifinal to the brood I chamber, and the honey la stored in the su- er. ily this arrangement the bee -keener ; is able to take the honey without disterbillS Ithe queea or the brood. When bees are run 'for comb honey Om supers aro shallow and !bola the small sections instead of full sized The warming season lasts from about the combs. s first 01 APO/ tp the first of June, Duda 'the warm days of May wo isometiroe: whosig twenty swarms In two hours. Then tb is exciting and hurried enough to suit the :city people who are afraid of encountering something "slow," In February we go through the apiary, find each (Steen and clip her wing It 13 only by this device that the swarms from ayY°aleLanag71"( swarmcoTesouthe q ,natot 13We watch her as she crawls about on the ground in front of the hive and place her in a cage Int the entrance of an empty hive, and the Marra comes down and enters this new home without further inducement. Now, if !each swarm wore allpwed to fly out with its , queen, we should have to climb a tree atter 'every one. Bet that would not be the worst of it; for when ao many swarms come out at once they are almost sure to get mixed, 1 and, if the queens were with them the hoes from each swarm would kill the other queens, and matters would soon become so complicated that the beekeeper woulJ not know where to begin. Scientific Brevities. The Austrian Government has decid- ed to exclude all kinds of frozen Colon- ial produce from the Empire. Professor Wedding, a well-known Ger- man physicist, has perfected an Mean - dement lamp in which Zirconium fila- ment is used in place of the ordinary carbon filament. The new lamp con- sumes less power than the old and has a life of from 700 to 1,000 hours. Sulphur fumigation has been found by the New York experimental station to seriously injure apples, by producing discolored spots upon them. The jury which is to 'examine and re- port on the competitive designs for the Peace Palace at The Hague is to con- sist of seven members, one of whom is to be a lay member, representing the commission, while the otter six are to be architects representing Great Bri- tain, Germany, France, Austria, Holland, and the United States. Editors -By a Boy. The following is a sentence or two from a schoolboy's composition on News- papers. "Newspapers are sheets of paper on which stuff to read is printed. The men look over the paper te see if their names is in it ()leen, and the women use it to put on the shelves and such. Don't 'know how newspapers got into the world. II don't think anybody does. The Bible says nothing about editors, and I have never heard of one being in heaven. 1 I think the editor is the nussing link eh= . fellers talk about. The first editor I ever heard of was the I eller who wrote up I the flood. He has been here ever since. Some of them belong to church and some try to, at least all I know, and I only know one. Editors never die. At least, I never saw a dead one." - e Law as to Patent Medicine. (Springfield, Mass., Republican.) Certain remedies of the patent kind have acknowledged value. Many of them are the Prescrintions tot physicians whose virtue has been established in private practice be- fore they are put up in the wholesale form and offered to the public direct. Most of us know some such. But the' great thing to be I obtained is to make all patent medicines stand before the patient for just what they are. There is only one way to do this, and it has been insisted upon. in counties of the old world, whero it is required by law that the ingredients of each bottle shall be stamped upon it, so that the patient may know just what he is taking. .ry 1, T 1,, • I CANADA OUR HOPE AND PRIDE. (Birmingham Mercury,) (itecltcd by the S.e. rotary of tho Canadian Manufacturers' Assosiatioa in response to the toast of Canada during the recent tes- tIvItles in Great Britain.) We may be proud of Canada. Who Isn't of his home? We're glad to sing the praises of the iand from which we come, But wo had very nigh torgot, amid this festive That wo bad left our native land, and cheer, dreamed our home was here, But now you've set us thinking, a haze conies o'er the view, And we strain our eyes with loosing look acmes the briny Little, And aeo again that 110510 place that no com- mercial worth Can value; for to us It is the dearest spot on earth. There, from our home, a landscape is spreading fur and wide - Sunrise upon its western peaks and In the east noontide - Inviting brush of painter, commanding politer pen, To paint and picture beauties of mountain or of glen, Ravine and rushing torrent, calm lake and verdant wood, The hunt and roar of city, or rural soli- tude; Vineyard or orchard, fruitful farm or mineral mountain gorge, The hearths of homes or chimneys tall of factory and of forge; And plains whero hopeful millions of home - seekers may still Find welcome, and of fertile fields broad acres yet to till; Great speeoing iron horses that faint not with the weight Of carrying a thousand leagues the burden of tthhe ei r ?XI ad; And • a en barge and massive areosici That search the world for markets for our teeming industries. We would be proud of Canda, though she bad known no past, And though Dame Fate no horoscope upon her future cast. Though we were simple farmer folk, with- out acknowledged place, And artisans and tradesmen of some ignoble race. Wo still would feel a glory In the record standiss, forth - The annals ef that youthful land of true - men of tho North. But we were born of British stock -are kith and kin to those By whose brain and nerve and muscle the British Empire rose; Then enlaelemd we for incentive to inspire us to Title -deeds to ancient honor -legacies of lasting fame? Holding rank that riches boundless, In themselves, cannot possess. We may boast of something better than ma- terial success. There was Jewish blood In Nazareth -(view not history askance) London is not all of England -Paris 1s not all of France - And when Britain realizes that the bleed of eevebroydy18asth Of as pure as that which surges through the heart - When her statesmen scorn traditions that as stumbling blocks have stood, And will frame their legislation for a world- wide Empire's good, She will meet her distant subjects -noble, loyal, true, and tried, And will know our fair Dominion -Canada -her hope and pride. -Frank Lawson. His Object. Mamma -I gave you a nickel to- be good yesterday, and to -day you are evi- dently trying to show how bad you can be. Johnny -Yes, mamma; I want to prove to you that you got your money's worth y esterday. THE IDEAL 1FE Shapes the Destiny of Men -The Influence of a Healthy Woman Cannot Be Overestimated. Seven -eighths of the men in this world marry a woman because she is beautiful in their eyes - because she has the quali- ties which inspire admira- tion, respect and love. There is a beauty in health which is more at- tractive to mend than mere regularity of feature. The influence of women glorious in the possession of perfect physical health upon men and upon the civilization of the world could never be measured, Because of them men have attained the very heights of ambition; because of them even thrones have been established ad de- stroyed. What a disappointment, then, to see the fair young wife's beauty f a,ding away before a year passes over her head I A sickly, half- dead -and -alive woman, especially, when she is the mother of a family, is a damper to all joyous- ness in the home, and a drag upon her husband, The cost of a wife's con- stant illness is a serious drain upon the funds of a household, and too often all the doe- "Lydia H. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound toring does no good. made Inc a well woman, and I feel so grate- ful that I am glad to write and toll you of my marvelous recovery. It brought me health, new lite and vitality." What Lydia N. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for Mrs. Ainsley it will do for every woman who is in poor health and. ailing.. Its benefits begin when i ts me begins. It gives strength and vigor from tho start, and sorely makes sick women well and robust. Ms.Dessie Ainsley If a woman finds her energies are flagging, and that everything tires her, dark shadows appear under her eyes her sleep is disturbed by horrible dreams; if she has backache, head- aches, bearing -down. pains, nervous- ness, whites, irregularities, or despon- dency, she shonld take means to build her system up at once by a tonic with specific powers, such as Lydia E. Pink- haues Vegetable Compound. This great remedy for women has done more in the way of restoring health to the women of America than all other medicines put together. It is the safeguard of woutan's health. Following wo publish, by requeet, a letter from a young wife, hfre, Bessie Mosley of 611 South 10th Street, Pacoima, Wash., writes: Dear Ma Pinkbem:- Remember Lydia E. Pinkham's 'Vege- table Compound holds the record for the greatest number of actual Mires of wonenn's ills. This fact is attested to by the thousands of letters front grate. ful women which aro on filo in the Pinklatin laboretory. Merit alone sun produce 'Melt results. Women should remember that a eure for all female. diseases actually exists, and that cure is Lydia E. Pinithatints fond, as flnk; few women ever haveawith t t "laver game my Obilit was been I have suf. Vegetable Corapound, Telco no eubsti- inflammation. fenuile weriences,boaringdown . mins baelinehe And wretelled heedechert It ' eareetesi by stomach so that I could not en. uederstand Write to Mrs. Pinkhem, If you IWO eyetptotem yob. dot t joy in; mode tied halt my time was spent Lyn, Mites., for special advite-it is in bed, s free and always helpful. LnIgn E. Phildliun't %�W. Compets4 *Kook Wbera Otitto hit *********** 4+4 rir '.+•4-•-5+ it* tr*-** *le $.* 114*4.4444+++ Results of AccrIculturai College Experiments With Autumn Sown Crops, .4 4.4.4+4-4+4-4-44-44-444 44+44- 44-44 4 +4 4+4+444 4+4+ The wheat harvest bas been completed per Acre he the expsairoant for four yeas at the Ontario Agriculture' College. n'he and of 7.0 bushels of !seed per Maw ia weather conditions of the past year have the teats for five year's. been favorable throughout Ontario for " In the oo.oporatiee experimen4 011„ autumn sowii crops. The brief repert tee direction of the Expisrimental Uniere, the successful growth of host of the' ductd throughout Ontario in 1005 ander lelie;l3e Vreessuclutsteaofgievxeps etsionTeen toot oottil 1%!Pterreni :, ft eiTlevwairnigetisevaerQafgeWilyiteelrdliWirTtbIlekHgalt th.of at the Agricultural College and. through- I grain per acre: Dawson'e Golden Chaff, nut the Province of Ontario. ' 23.2, Imperial Amber, 22.2, Michigan Am - Sixty -one varieties of winter wheat ber, 21.7, Buda Pesth, 21.1, Tu*. Biel, were grown in the experimental delnint'i 20.1, and Banatka, J,9.4. Winter rya PPM went during the past year. The five Ineh,. i And average yield of 24 bushels per Aare. est leading kinds were of the Dawson11e, 1 i The winter barley was badly winter kills golden chef f cities, hustrau avinged throughout ,'h, i • Hai Vitals - heads, red clsaff and. white guile]. The, es a4u1. winter rya gasp 8.1. arid 7.6 tone 1 yields in bushels of grain per acre of ' of green fodder per acre respectively, , these varieties were as follows: Abun- dance, 617; No. 6, white, 01; Superla- A.5 long as the supply bates material will be distributed free of charge 14 U$ tive, 60-1; Dawson's Golden Chaff. MO order in which the application are re - and American Wonder, of grain per measured bushel, 58.7. In awlieigthilte 1 experiment and to report the reeline caved. from Ontario farmers wishing to five varieties went over the standard 1 of any one of the following twit*: 1, of 00 lbs., the Dawson's Golden Chaif ' Hairy Vetches and winter rye as dodder and the Abundance reaching 613 Ihn. crops; 2, three varieties of winter whet; These varieties are all softer in the 1 4, autumn and spring applications of grain, but yield more bushels per acre i Nitrate of Soda and common salt ort Win - than such sorts as Tasmania Red, No, ter wheat; and 5, two varieties of win - 5 Red, Turkey Red, Crimean Red and ter rye. The size of each plot is to be Buda Peth. Those varieties of red wheat one rod wide by two rods long. Material for numbers 3 and 4 will be sent by ex. press and that for the others by mail. C. A. Zavitz. 0.A.C,, Guelph, Aug. 17, 1905. whihe give the highest yields of gram in the past year were as follows: Imperial Amber, 58'.2 bus.; Auburn, 57.5 bus.; Genesee Reliable, 57.1 bus.; Early On- tario, 56.8 bus. and Prosperity, 50.9 bus. per acre. The average yield of grain per acre in 1905 was 56.7 buehels for the eigh- teen varieties of red wheat, Generally speaking, the white wheats yield more 1 grain per acre, possess stronger straw, I weigh it little less per bushel and are Dr. Williams' Piuk Pills Cure Dis- slightly softer in the grain than the ease Through the Blood. A MODERN MEDICINE red varieties. Within the past few, years efforts have been made to improve both the Medicines of tho old fashioned kind, quality and the yield of grain of some i will sometimes relieve the symptoms of disease, of the best varieties of winter wheat by though they can never touch means of systematic selection and by the disease iteelf-they never cure. Or. cross fertilization. There were forty-one dinary medicines leave behin,d them indi- new strains of winter wheat grown at gestion, eoustipation, biliousness and the college this year as a direct result , headache; purgatives leave the patient of the work donecin plant selection. Sonne feverish and weakened. Dr. Williams' of these are very promising. Of twelve Pink Pills, en. the other hand, do direct new strains of Lawson's Golden Chaff, eleven yielded better than the ordinary good to the body, blood and. nerves. They fill the veins 'with new, rioh, red Weed; variety reported in the previous para- they brace the nerves; they drive out ease by going right to the root of graph and two yielded at the rate of dis fully 68 bushels of grain per acre. the trouble in the blood. They always winter wheat grown at the College in Mrs. Geo. Henley, P.oxgrove, Ont., says: Some of the most interesting crops of do good -they cannot possibly do harm. 1905 were those obtained from crosses ; "It is with thanks that I tell you that made between different varieties in previous years. Severale thousand hy- brid plants were grown separately and are now being carefully examined and classified and the seeds selected for au- tumn sowing. These hybrids were se- cured by crossing such varieties as Daw- son's Golden Chaff, Bulgarian, Turkey Red, etc. The object in this work is to secure new varieties which possess the good qualities and eliminate the poor qualities of the parent varieties. The results so far are very encouraging. The results of twelve separate tests ma,de at the College show an average increase in yield of grain per acre ef 0.8 bushels, from large as compared with small seed; of 7.8 bushels from plump as compared with shrunken seed; and of 35.0 bushels f: om sound as compared with broken seed. Seed wheat which was alloweti to become very ripe before it was cut produced a greater yield of both grain and straw and a heavier weight of grain per measured bushel pilbs in 1902 a large amount of the winter pathoseipitation, cure anaemia, headache, heart indigestion, kidney trouble, than that produced from wheat which was cut at any one of four earlier fore it was harvested owing to the wet rheirmatistn, lumbago, neuralgia, St. stages of maturity. In 1897 and againrhetiintttisni, wheat in Ontario became snrouted be - weather. Carefully conducted tests showed that an average of only 76 per cent. of the slightly sprouted and 18 per cent. of the badly sprouted seed would grow and produce plants. Sure- ly he is the wise farmer who wilil sow none but large, plump, sound, ripe seed of good vitality. In each of six years experiments have been conducted in treating winter wheat in different ways to kill the stinking smut and the results have been very satisfactory-. Untreated seed produced an average of 3.6 per cent of smut in the crop of last year and 9.3 per cent of smut in the crop of this season. Seed wheat which was int- mersed for twenty minutes in a solu- tion made by adding one pint of for- maldehyde (formalin) to forty-two gal- lons of water produced an average yield of grain per acre of 50.4 bushels in 1904 and of 50.8 bushels in 1905, and that which was untreated produced only 46.0 bushels and 43 bushels per acre for the corresponding two years, thus making an average saving of nearly 6 bushels per acre. The treat- ment bele mentioned was easily per- formed, comparatively cheap, effectual in killing the smut spores, and instru- mental in furnisbing the largest aver- age yield of wheat per acre of all the treatments used. In an expeannent conducted at the College on four different occasions win- ter wh'eat grown on land on which a crop of green peas was plowed under produced au average yield of wheat per acre which was 22.1 per cent (6.5 bush- els) greater than that produced on land on which a crop of green buckwheat was plowed under, and 14.2 per cent (4.2 bshels) greater than that which was worked as a bare fallow, having been plowed three times diming the summer. The results of an experiment conducted in the year 1000 show that for that one year at least the winter wheat was sown on red clover sod yielded 20.7 per cent greater than that which was sown on timothy sod. Two years' results with commereia.1 fertilizers show that 160 lbs. per acre of nitrate of soda in- creased the yield. of winter wheat 7.2 bushels at a cost of about eighty cents per bushel. As a result of hundreds of inquiries we learn that in Ontario about 33 per cent of the winter wheat is sown on pea ground, 25 on clover sod, 11 on barley ground, 10 on timothy sod, 0 on • summer fallow and 12 on land following potatoes, beans, oats, corn and roots. Many tests conducted at Guelph in- dicate the importance of sowing about , ninety pounds of winter wheat per acre 'oit an average soil. This amount might be increased for poor land and de- creased for rich soil. If the land is in O good state of cultivation it natters bat little whether the seec1 ie sown broadcast or with a tubo drill, but if the land is dry or lumpy, that which is sown with the drill is likely to give "the best results. The highest yields her no 0 have been obtained from sow- ing betweeit the 26th of August and tile eth of September. The average results for six years show a yield of grain per acre of 60.4 Imeliele for the Mammoth variety and 57,5 bush- els for the common variety of winter rm The retsina from winter barley in Ontario are uncertain, as sot/Aimee the yielda are very hiseh and sometimes of realty. He ordered time 'set envelops they aro very' low. The two varieties should bo placed in a bot, each child to grown in 1005 gave only 7.2 and 8J draw one and have the portion of the bushels per acre. Winter oats are it re- property described on the paper inside peeted feilure an 10.2 tons of green. Crop the eneekese. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured, me after my doctor had sail I could not be cured. I suffered. from an almost con- stant fluttering df the limit, and some- times severer pains. The least exertion would leave me breathless and tired out. My appetite was poor,and my head ached nearly all the time. I had lost all ambi- tion to do any work, and felt very hope- less. I had taken a great deal of medi- cine without any benefit, until I was ad- vised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These have made a remarkable change in my condition, and I am feeling better than I have done for years. I gladly give my experience in the hope that it will benefit others." Now Dr. Williams' Pink Pills build up strength as they did in Mrs. Hen- ley's ease in just one way -they actually make new blood. That is all they do, but they do it well. They don't act on the bowels, they don't bother with mere symptoms. They go right to the root of the trouble in the blood. That is why Vitus' dance, paralysis, general weakness and the special ailments of growing girls and women. But you must have the gen- uine with the full name Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, on the wrap- per around every box. Sold by all medi- cine dealers or sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes far $2.50 by writing The Dr. Williams' hdedicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont, FATHOMING EARTH'S DEPTHS. Scientists' Curious Suggestion for Inves- tigating Sphere's Interior. A suggestion was recently advanced by Charles A. Parsons at the recent British Association meeting, that deep borings should be made into the earth's crust for the purpose 'of investigation. of tho eel -al.'s interior, and that a shaft such as this might be sunk to a depth of 12 miles, has already been noted an these columns. Another scientist has pointed out that the pressure of the rock at such a depth represents some 40 tons per square inch and wouki render the task impossible, owing to the inward viscous flow of the rook material. In reply the Hon. C. A. Parsons suggests an experiment to solve the problem. He points out, that the crushing stress required to make hard- ened stool flow lies between 120 and 600 tots to the suqexe inch, while for tough brass or cartridge metal the flow is at about 60 tons per square inch pressure. His experiment would be, says the Sci- entific American, to take a column of granite or quartz rock and carefully fit it into a steel mold. A small hale would then bo bored through its centre and a pressure of 100 tons per square inch then applied, to observe what shrinkage would result. Such a ,pressure as this would corespond to that encountered at a depth of 38 (miles." Champion Sneezer. An odd competition recently held in a Lancashire town was a sneezing con- test, in which half a dozen old women took part. The prize offered was $5 and a silk handkereleef, and the competitors were permitted to make use of any desired means to brines, on the sneezing fit. a pound of the best snuff being provided by the committee. At a signal each woman dipped liberal- ly into the snuffbox and immediately the sneezing began. A largo crowd, at- tracted by the unique idea, roared at the facial contortions indulged itt by the women as they gave vent to. sneeze after sneeze. The first to fall by the wayside was n rather youngish women, who was led Froin the room with streaming eyes and reddened nose some five monutte from the start. There was no other break for ten minutes after that, but at the end of the 27th minute the ftith staggered out into the fresh air to cheek the con- vulsive etehoos, and the match was won. The winner, however, urged on by the laughing audience persisted until tbe full half hour had passea, and then dropped to the floor completely exhaust- ed, one hand elntehing the prize, the other the almost empty snuffbox. -4 Preperty Divided by Lot. The will of an Auttralian detective provided an unstated Way for dividing his property among his six children. His estate, bout $35,000, eeneitted most