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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-05-30, Page 3.4k or ^ SENATOR SMITII LORD MERSEY The Two Men Connected With Titanic inquiries. Michigan Lawyer and Brit- ish Baron Compared. tWeelely Despatch.) Gre,at Britain and the United Steles will never be more aptly placed in com• ?arisen than when Lord Mereey tak.ee his eeat ent Thureday ma chairman of the Wreck Commission and starts the Ettg- lish counterpert of the Americen inquiry into the loss of the Titanie, England evifi be mirrored in Lord Mereey just as Amerlea has been mirrored in elenator b'emith, of Michigan. Let us notiee Sen - tor Smith first. He is short and etout- ty built, with rtiddy cou,ntepance, And elean-shaven, Titere le 40 mistaking the face. It iean Atnerican face ,a full face, a. square -round face. That is the only way to describe this typically American ethyeiognenny. It is a face with plenty of flesh on it. Now look at the dark hair, It is like its owner—irrepressibIe. it Is parted on the right side, note yeti, not on the left att is most men'e, and from that parting, whieh is like a rough path in the backwoods, it jags right up, An attempt has been made to induee it to lie over on the left side, but there is no keePing it down, and the struggle has resulted in .something which looks not unlike ' Olt wingof an American tette*. Look at the nose, look at the enouth, look a% the jaws, large, olid deaturesall of them, The mouth and teeth oatele the eye the most. Stiong teeth they are and often in evidence, for the large lips guarding them are not ofte,n in repose. Despite its solidity) there is nothing heavy about the face.' There is too' much dynamic energy be- hind it for that, You want to /See Mr, illith wound up to 1)+pm-elate what a stynain3o he lia:s in him. The best place ;to Iiee him is in the United Statee Sea- side. He is talking on a subjeet of which ,he knows nothing, and he is in his elm - anent. There he goes waving his arms* gestieulating and roaring in the tanoet outrageous manner, He is beating his way through the unknown. jungle by sheer stamping force. It ie a crude way of getting on, but Senator Smith has proved it effectiveuees. He got through to the Senate from the gutter in that way. He has at last achieved fame— or notoriety—in the 8arne way, Let us glance at his career. He was born in 1859 in Dowaglitc, Miele the pen- insular etate whieh butts up towards Ontario. His people had been of good standing, but they suffered reverses, and young William Alden had to start 'earn- ing his living by selling newspapers and popcorn. He 80on becazne known—he mew to that—and it was not long before he was a messenger in the Western Un- ion Telegraph Company. Then he got his first glimpee of polities as a page- boy in the Michigan House of Represen- tatives. He studied law in a night school, and four years later, in 1883, was i'ailed to the leer. He /struck the fancy of Col. Edwin Pierce, a prosperous businese man of Grand Rapids, who gave him a brand new suit of clothes and an office above hie shop. Then William Smith "made good." He got money. He built two short railways and sold them for more money. He became vice-president of a toeal bank, and then he acquired, the paper which he used to hawk about as a boy—the Grand Rapids Herald, His tuaquenchable belief in himself carried him yet onwa,rds. There was no public queetirn upon which he did not have P. lot to say, and when Spain wee( having trouble with. Cuba he rushed off to the land and came back and preached in- tervention. He had been elected to the Michigan House of Representatives when enly twenty, and in 1895, after a whirl- wind campaign, which included over a hundred speeches, he beat two million- aires and was elected to Congress as a Republican. Five years no he became a, Senator, and now he is happy on his little pedestal, with the world as an audience. His amazing ignorance is a characteristic part of him. He had what Americans call a "eommon sehool" edu- es.tion, but that was not to blame. The fad is that he never had time to learn anything that did not early him straight ena Ana so we have this self-made man in a position of the greatest responsibil- ity asking such incredible questions as the following: Did the Titanic eink by the bows or the head? Are 'watertight eompartments intend- ed to be used, and were they- used as _refuges for passengers. Where do keherge come from? What are icebergs made of? .Don't you know that icebergs are cora- posed of rock, earth and other sub- stances? Do keberge expel rays of light such aa the stars and moon? Is 48 degrees above zero? Did you fire horizontally upward? 'Do you east anchor when you stop vour engines? Be. tried to make the inquiry a one - lama show and to do all the talking himself, but his colleagues would not put up with thie, and now he is only 'one senator of seven, eaeh Of whorn is texaminieg his own bath of 'witnesses. Ife played the autocrat too long. lie itook no notice of Mr. limey's request to be allowed to finieh his evidenee and go home to England, or of Mr. rranklin's to be allowed to pay a visit to New York, Lastly, he prevented Quettermaeter Hitchens from leaving for England, and that was hie undoing. He was defeated on the question of de- taining Mr. Hitchens, who now has per- miettion to return home on the condi- tion that he will come back if wanted. Amerieane smile at Senator Smith and theft artists caricature him, but it le kindly smile and they would be the last to diselaire him as a represen- ,tative. Serietor Smith represents real Aratrica—the vigorous, visiting young eopntry, full of itself, whieli has not yet made man as Senator Smith. Tears of prattice in Liverpool and then the ex. perienee Of the Admiralty (lettrt, end you have just the man wanted to 00u. duet the Titanie enquiry in England. been sobered by age or had ite corners .rubbered off. On the other hand -Lord Mersey is the representative of a eeun- try Whielt has passed its early youth Alla has traditions behind itk a quieter, •pore refleetive, slightly !slower coun- ltry. IPOITMElitY Mfl .11,18TIPE ineteed of a ectittpe,rativoly young man who is "butting in" to the light Lord Mertey is a man of (Ivor Aeventy, Who is not too 'willingly emu- Ang. bok ifito it, Inetead of mart Who A Trial Treatment. of Cuticura Soap and Ointment Fret! to .Skin Sufferers • If you, or someone dear to you, are suffering the itch- ing, burning, sleep -destroy- ing torments' of eczema or other cruel skin eruption, with its embarrassing, un- sightly disfigurement; if you have tried all manner of treatment, no matter how harsh, to no avail, and have all but given up hope of cure, write to -day for a lib- eral sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Thousands of skin -tortured sufferers, from infancy to age, have. found that the first warm bath with Cuticura Soap and gentle application of Cuticura Ointment bring instant relief, permit rest and • sleep, and prove the first steps in a speedy and successful treatment. Ad- dress " Cu ticura," Dept. Boston, U, S. A. believes, in getting a thing clone he is 0, man who believes in doing it. Instead of an irresponsible dynamic force, he is a etatie force— energy in equilibrium. Look at him, A sturdy -little brown - eyed man with gold -rimmed glassea, rosy faced, keen and. alert; -vigorous, •not boisterous; quiet and fearless, not noisy and bold; a man who knows his business and knows he knows his bus !ns, and so a masterful man; a cul- tured man, not an ignoramus; a man ftill of shrewd Lancaohire coramon sense; slightly precise, perhaps, bat none the worse for that; kindly and pleasant man. Lord Mersey had the act: vantage of a well-to-do father in Liv- erpool, but that could not take him very far at the bar. Mr. Bigham made himself a Q. C.; made himself a puisne judge; made lumf3elf Mr. Justice Blg- ham, 'President of the Divorce and Ad- miralty Division. He is as much a self - MOTHER. (Amite alllueen, in Lippincott's Maga- eine.) Look, mother-eheep in the pasture, Look, mother -bird en your nest— Rose-mother, with your roses, See the child that le On aro breast! 0, mother -earth, with your children— Cattle and corn and vine— Rieh were you in your fulness, And naught was there ever of Ininot I envied you, bird, your nestlings, 0 oornefieid In the valley. I envied you, trees, your leaves; was woe for your golden sheaves! But now I may walk among you, A mother along with the rent. Be glad with me, my neighbors, Jam the child that is on my breast! ARE YOU 'MUD? OUT OF SORTS? DOCTOR TELLS WHAT TO DO FOR "THAT SPRING, FEELING," By Leonard Keene ilirehberg, A.B., (Of Johns Hopkins.) "Why do 1 feel so tired in the epring?" is perhaps as COMM= a query tie the doctor and 6140,4 are ever asked. A. woman enters the meter drug store. laeguid eyes and exbaueted man- ner, she tells the pharmacist that hile has "the epriug fever." Ile encourages her honie-made diagnosis, and advises mlelphur netil nuillteses, or aorueliody!s celebrated "spripg blood tonic." There are in the homes and On the market to -day more than a thousand ready-made cures for "that tired feel- ing" and "spring feveyfe'lley rimy from potash and quinine to ea101401 and soda; they include our dirty old. blend, the soggy poultice, and the linimente "for men and beast." Not even super- stitious and suggestive measures are passed by. My dear mother is as firmly convineed to -day as was our forbears of Na.oliti'e days that every spring her "eys, ter need toning up." We are really "tired," we are siek and dieposed to be iraseible. Housed up throughout the erratic winter, the ace cumulated steam -heated or coal -laden indoor air has made us anaemic. Our blood, and, tissues have been, like hot- houee plaute, made so tender and sensi- tive that even the balmy May days make us ft, bit susceptible to the ubiquit- ous microbe. Fortunately, the even temperature, the mild showers, the eomforting atmos- phere of early spring converts what might have ht worse weather ,become bronchitis, la grippe, tonsillitis, or woree maladies,' into watery eyes, scratchy throat or eneeeing wheezes. To keep well nourished, with easily di- gested and fresh Reeds. such as milk, white -s of eggs, sweetbreads, eteake, fruits, asparague, celery, spinach, hom- iny, toasted. bread, berries and cream; to drink copiously of any boiled or pure water; to obtain all the sunlight and. fresh air possible, these measurea with quiet and rest, will ward off the impend,- tirutfeieflIigiis" lug eiekness or continuation of 'that change of diet does not cure us, beware of the patent medi- eines, Nature will many tiMeil cure the malady, and often when it does, the credit goes to Some old-time fad or a patent medicine. When nature flies her warning pen- nant of "tired" or "out of sorts if it is a. baby do not blame it lightly upon "teething." If it is a grown woman, do not run right to the druggist. Send for your family doctor. If the emergency is (ma that you need first aid at once, be- take yourself in a hot mustard foot - bath, and a hot drink of lemonade or hot water, anclago quietly to bed, there to remain a fair days, - HATS FOR CHINA, (Mileage Tribune.) The Oriental Review, a. Japanese per- lodioal, published in this country, calls attention to the fleet that the Chinese revolution is playing directly into the hands of the hatters. At the republie spreads the queues go. 'The shears fol- low the, white flag. Without queues the Chinese want the hots of the cool - dent. "The first shiprnento from Kobe," says the Revieiw, "on November 21ist, was of 144,000 hats in felt and hunting caps." There's a nation to be hatted! Silk hats for Yuan Seri Kea Wu Ting Being, who has worn them !abroad; for Tang Shoo Y1, and the elder statesmen; opera hats for the young bloods in the cities, caps for the tamers and derbies for the hon- est tradesmen: broad trimmed felt hats for the rough riders of mountainous Shansi and Shen—work for all the hat- ters of the world. NO OPERATIONWAS EVER NEEDED HERE Because Mrs. Ooodine Used Dodd's Kidaey Pills Doctor Said She Would Have to Undergo Operation, but Dodd'e Kidney Pills Cured Her. Central Kingselea,r, York Co., N. 13„ l‘lay doetoe eaid I would have to undergo an operation." So said Alm J. V, eioodtine, of this pause, Did She smiled ne site. made the yemarla for aR need of the dreaded operatien had voniehed. Mrs. Goodin() utoet Dothiee Kidney Pale and is a well weenau. Weep, in brief and in leer own words, Goodiae's experience ieas followe: "I was very miserable with Khiney Disease wad unable to do my (twit work. The doctor said 1 would have to undergo an operation. After using three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills 1 WItt3 11 better and able to do my work. This statement is true, as you van eteily prove by inquiring among my neighbor," Dodd's Kidney Rills eare the Kidneys; ettred kidney e strain all the poisons and other causes of disease out of the blood. Thus Dodd's Kidney Pills are a natural cure for all Kidney diseases and all ills caused by dieeneed kidneys. -4 • I MAJ. THOMAS RHOADES, Who replaces, as the President's mill. tary aide, Maj. Amble DLitt, reported dead on the Titanic. leaa NATURAL CURIOSITY, (St, Paul Diapatch,) An Irishman aropped Into e lereeby- terian church and immediately went to sleep. Alter the serivees were Over the melte% came and abook him by the ann. "We are about to close up,' said the fonctionery, "and I'll have to ask you to go now." "What talk have you?" said the Irish- man. "The cathedral never eloees," "This Is not the eathedral," said the BOXI011. "The cathedral is several blooks above here. Thim is a Presbyterian chtichi ;Ishman at up with a jerk and looked about him. On the walls between the windows were handsome paintiags of theappsttleasi iwuthSt. Luke over yonder?" he demanded. "It is," said the sexton. "And St. Mark Suet beyant Wm?" aiyos 11 " .A.t Ci still further along St. Throatily?" • "Young man," demanded the Irishman, "since whin did all than bllssed paints turn Protestants?" You Are on the Bench YOU—the Publicarethe judge. On your good opinion and ,your good word depends the succes of the advertised article. For no amount of advertising will induce you to buy a second time what you do not like. No advertising will offset the bad effect of a dissatisfied buyer. That is why advertisers must and do maintain the quality of their goods. Advertisers realize that to turn their outlay for advertising into profit they must give goodvalue„. They are not looking for one- time sales. First sales, in most cases, would not pay for the adver- tising* , 4Ct r To be successful, thiWifiust make steady customers. So, quality is being put in to bold Om trade that aavertzsmg produces, $2efitikitagt.i naaedeitlfr '''eefit•tt Thus, to be sure of quality, one naturally turns to goods that are advertised. And isn't it only rea- sonable? fiz • ;.47tfl, , S eeet No manufacturer can afford to advertise for long an inferior article. From the moment the advertising begins, the quality must either be kept uniform or improved—to go back means ruin. The day is passing when you ask for a pint of pickles...:, You pme the brand. 14004 -.I15R.M04.,,.„! You don't ask for Roiled Oats. You name the brand you prefer, The unknown article may be good, but you are not so sure of it as you are of the advertised article, which bears the seal of quality, —a well known maker's trade name. TO MANUFACTURERS You who make good goods fidente in your produc Advertise it. Let the public know maintain their high Make your trade name the • .• )4, and do not advertise —zhow your eon - t.. that you stand back of your goods to quality. recognized standard in your line. 41.114.14111044•01•44-14,01,.......1•04•6 Advite regarding ,your advertising problems is available tbrougb any. good advertising agency, or the Secretary of the Canadian Press Assocsaticm, Room 303 Lumsden Enquiry involves no obligation on your part --so write, if 'interested. in the Poultry. World "Yen bet," said the man, "I've per. tainiy got some dandy chickens. They are leamitioptiedoileertene.ti hecee t three, and 1 nt. tiotb parities are evidently sincere in their belief that it Pi the logband that teakes the fowl a show bird. Neither of them will make a siteceeeful PoidirY- Mali he eternal that the band mere- ly varries the name of the individual nave owl ents no more let than tile name Smith, ltnbluson or einodgreee has et.-)11,4)4ibelavritell A.Xemterril teITA,LITY FIE04T. itt.he real worth of the ;tom Ifl selecting a. bira foe tee becetlites pen the firet thine to ttO1181fler Is of the bird's anceetors, This ifoltlee before the real merit of the individual upechnen, einoe the high firming bird might be worth almoet any priee for ex- hibition purpose, but not be worth a dollar as a breeder. Vilma we COM trace u. bird's lineage back through several generatIoes and find that Ili eaeli one tne Beane desirable points come out good and strong, we can be reasonably sure that these isanie good points will continue to appear if the other bast of the pen does not counteract them, and the longer there features have been bred in line the surer the bird will be to transmit them to his progeny. is 'used ' "COSTS NO MORE THAN Tliy ORDINARY KINDS gsBLOOD WILL TELL." MONEY IN RAISING' COLI. I will eontribute a litt4e of my expert- enee with brood mares. The firet team I ever owned, nine yeare ago, was mule*. At the euggeetion of my landlord 1 ex- changed the mules fora pair uf good mares and began to raise colts. In the last eight years 1 have raised thteteen colts, some fillies, some hors -ea, but most of them mules, writes W. IL Cockrell, in Farm and I sold some of these colts at weaning time, but have kept most ef them until old. enough to work, 1 have soid eleven for which 1 receiveel $1,0S0, and have two Mika yet, two and three years old, that are well worth WO, More than this, in the last six year ei I have rallied and sold six good. *owe. I never sell heifer, and if the calf happens to be a bull, 1 sell it and buy a heifer, reale it, breed it, and when it conies in sell t for $50. One can p•earcely 'ttliee the expense. Five years ago at tho suggestion of this same landlord) 1 bought 53 tame of land, paying $05 per acre, and only paying down $(1,25, • While this land is not entirely paid out, yet I am proud to say 1 ee the end. We have been improving our home little ley little ell the while and enjoy it enore eaoh year. I am thankful for the suggeetions of a good. lendlord and the help oi good brood mares. Let us all remember flat life is just what we make it. To illustrate, a few ye' e ago we paid what was then eoneldered a bigh piles for a eating of Rorie Comb Red eggs. !, Only one cockerel was hatebed frotn, the lot, and he was no more than a fair 'speoimen of what a Red should be. kils sire, grandslre and great-grandaire were among the best of their day in both shape and color, and for this reason we mated him to a pen or choice pullets. The result was highly satisfactory, as he gave us better stock than we securest from birds that were his superior to general appearance, but his Inferiors in breeding. The strong pointof his sire and grandsire and great-grandslre came out strong in this mating. When he wan one year old he was better than wiion he was a cockerel, and when two years olcl he had improved so much more that We considered him good enough to show. We won third prize the first place going to one of his sons. Birds of poorer breeding that outshone Olin as cockerels deteriorated with each succeed- ing year, We have at the preeent time a cora bird who won second as eoek In two of Michigan's best shows. H is a good bird, but we do not use Min in our spec- ial matings as we know nothing about his pedigree. It may be of the best, while on the other hand perhaps he was the only good bird In an ordinary scrub flock. Aee we do not care to run tee risk incurred In luring a bird of unenown ancestry In our breeding pens we have put him in one of our range flocks, 'A few years ago a. man started ih witli Some good stock, good enough so that he won more than his share of ribbons at the local shows where the eornpeti- tlen was pretty strong, Every year eines then he has "swapped roosters," consequence of which he has not advan- ced a. step, while .Me competitors have abut him Out of the field entIrebe BRIDEDING 'AND INDIVIDTIAleiTY olent itin or REQUIRED:. o oaf gt)til spukepoultryof jaIuttrnaanis aartuicltwa "putting its much importance Ifl the breeding behind the bird as in the bird himself." Shortly afterward I received a letter from a fancier who asked; Do you mean that breetleee will pay well for good stuck, evea if the DIiitt ineelves are noi n.s perreea as those of unknown pedigree? 1 du not understand you, and you know you are writing, fur a few peto: ple, at least, who know as litre about the poultry business as I do." That is emit what I do mean. Mitt what 1 have tried to make elear in this article. The first question asked by the fancier of experience when buying a bird for his breeding pens is, "What is ili$ score?' Of course there, are other queso ti ms evhich must Oie answered to his sat- isfeetion betore Le will close the OW, but a careful breeder will not rislc de- stroying the results of years of ecientIfic mating by the introduetion among bis breeders of a bird without pride of an - 0081 ry. C. N. Whittaker. Green bone, when properly groom!, ie abealutely the beet feed for fowls, It provides all the elements for produoing thet01engege aurri d tshsemer), spncie ;:l.oefilair tains meat, blood anti a large amount 01 phosphate of lime, together with other nsouiturtiitoio n.us mineral substances in partial As a. matter of fact, the word "strain" doesn't mean very mute." these days in most cases. While those old hens are doing the incubator act so faithfuly do not forget that they must have some grit and char- coal. These two articles are very im- portant items In keeping the bowels in order, and if she does her work properly she has no time to run all over the Place to pick up those neeessIties of nature and it Is not likely they can be found if chickens have been kept long on the want'to raise chicks to matur- tem work har4 for their is at y1 n eymog ground, ot euntdi food, but be sure that they got enough, It will be noticed that bees on the farm range hi spring are very active In eeenring greeii graes and worms. itt like manner, if the hens can be kept ac- tively engaged in winter in securing their feeds they will be healthier and lay InDimo.e.not leave a pail of water standing in the yard, or the chicks Inv fall into it to drink. A rt. LOOKOUT WHO SAW TITANIC ICEBERG. FREDERICK FLEET, The lookout on duty in the crowsnest of th.e Titanio when she struck the iceberg. a 4.4 PERPETUAL WIDOWHOOD, (Rochester Iferaido The Widow of Sohn Jacob Aster is lit- tle More than a girl, and for a girl to ae domed to widowhood throughout a life of three score and ten, and possibly a longer period, ie not a pleasing proepece, When Mr, Astor made his will, he nro- bably had..nOt considered the possibility Of so speedy a removal. Ifttzlitt says In one of his essays; "No 'young man ever thinks he shall die," and we believe that there are ether men, no longer young, who adopt a similar attitude to- ward life." titat no matter What a man nitre thiek, tile time Is coming when he wilt be fumed to leave this present sphere, and every num ought to consider seriously what this leaving will mean for those 'whom he leaves behind. Whether he has a right to impotio per. petual widowhod upon one whom he has made his companion, Is one or the things optn to grave doubt, Marriage often Means more to a woman than it does to • a Mart, for reasotis so ObVIOUR that MeV do not need to be discussed. To Impose a perpetual widowhood upon a young woman is almost to commit i cr11110. BRIDGE MAXIMS. ettosten Poste • gi3od partncr is rather to he eli0Sen than great hands. Zack of all cAts is master of none. A fool and his neees are soon parted. It's a long- slug Met hos no returning. Take care Of the trumps and the tricks will take care of theluceives. MoneV makes the game go on. A. little, ten -ace Is a tionXetouS thing, The wages of bridge is debi. MORE INTEREST IN TIOeid, It ie very elear that the interest in hog breeding in this eountry is it the biereitee. A gentleman who attended a prominent state fair in the West says there was always a erowd among the live stock, but there svas a throng of interested people, mostly farmer's end their wives, where the hogs were ou ee- bibition. One farmer told him that he had alwaye raieed hogs, more or but he bad done eo with the idea that a hog es a hog. tre looked t.t• it dif- fie ently now, and was at the fair rioter - minted to learn whet 4 good hog is. 'That, he says, was the general eentiment, and similar sentiment e come to tut trent o ther direetione—from everywhere, i fact, We are glad of it, for it is jurit aa easy to rake good steek ae had, stud the good stock firings ntost lnoney. --eve sincerely believe great profits; If you can do nothing else, bree(I itnly t.ogowl males, GRAMS ON MR FARM. Every farmer in the grape -growing section may have a profitable bit of ground to grapes --a small vineyard: Not. only, the loeal but the shipping demand is growing and prices are re- munerative. Besides, grape e are a ery useful fruit in the family. No fruit is more healthful, and it may be put up in many easy and cheap ways. Grape vines require very little atten- tion. They must be staked in a way to keep them off the ground, and in the very early spring should he cut back and pruned closely. 'nut i itb3ilt all there is to it. The grapes are borne on entirely new growth and eloee pruning inereasee their growth, and admits the needed sunshine. ALFALFA TRUTHS. Alfalfa. may be successfully raieed ott a/most any type of ectil, provided that lb is well drained, sweet, free of weeds and well suPplied with organic) matter and mineral plant food. Good drainage mast be provided. The ground'inust be free of weed seeds. If the soil is sour, it must be limed before alfalfa ean do well. Soil e lacking in fertility should be well manured, as alfalfa requires large amounts of plant food. Inoeulation of the soil will generally be neeeseary, andonust not be negleeted. Soil from a good alfalfa field !ee -from a "dime where iii,v-Eet clover 13 growing should be 'deed for inoculating. The best land on the farm eltbuld be used for the first trial of alfalfa. If suceweftil, it will pay better than eny other crop. Alfalfa is an excellent feed for all kinde of live stook. It is rielt in flesh forming and Milk producing nutrient. It le 111.0rO digestible than red clover and is not far behind such materiae as wheat bran in 'feeding value. Alfalfa ealli yield from three to six tons of hay per acre per season, eceord- ing to the fertility of the eoil, 1AR.%1 littrItRoWS, All good bolts 'and nuts ehealdbe removed -from old maehinery that is to be .disposed of a$ eprap iron. It oSten imppens that a single nut or holt is worth More to a buy farmer than the whole amount received from the $ale of an old hinder. We quite often hear some faratere say that when a gas traetor is made that will snceessfully handle all farm machin- ery they svill sell their horses aud buy One. Their theory is eound, but who are they going to gen their home to when treotore are made as perfeet as that. It 1$ pleaaure to it by and watch the work heroes *le up the frist green grass that apnears in the spring. No doubt it tastes about the same to them 84 the first "garden mass" doge to the human being, Our friends, the song birdeg, are with us again for another long aeason, and the man who would kill oe injure a eingle one intentionally is but little better than a brut% What could be more desolate than a eutumer evithout song ibirds? The diameter of the silo should be regulated aecording to the 6iZe of th.e herd, as to the materiel to be used in its eonetruction much will depend on where a man lives and the size of his bank account, The hollow brick silo having _two air Spaces is, perhaps, the best that can be built, hut the first cost te greater than most of the other*, It Le not a wise farmer who Slittiee a diec over a muddy field just because he has a dise that wili not clog and horses that are able to pull it. The work done by the horses is herd ereaugh but the work done to the field is woree than worthless. A very good seed bed may be made in the stalk field by going over it twice with a sharp diee. The second diecing is the one that does the fineat work, the first one merely breaks down the etalks and scratches the earth, Hen manure 18 an excellent fertilizer, but 11 ia not the thing for potato grouted. Well -rotted COW ltittfltIl'e is better and does the best 'service if applied after the potatoes are planted. If it starts the weeds, so much the better. Kill the weed i3 by frequent reileivation. tteed tn be more exteaeively grown than it ie now. The linseed mills have been conducting eautpaigne to get mare farmers le try flax grow- ing, since tli4y are finding their raw material aborter every year. flax is now high in. price, and all flax prodtKqe ate 001Wetluently high aceord ingly. 4-474 4.-4,4Wrealea Hank --I hear Peen Higgins fell Into some property the other day. Silas—Yep, Squire Stubbs" hothouse bed. 1147141711.••••••••••••..• REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. (New York Press.) You have to know a man's weakness not to lusty him for his strength. el. girl who gets a box of flowers can feel as proud as a general who wins a battle, To be a comforting coaspanion to any- body In treuble without saying anything takes the greatest genius of all. The more a man respects the Ten Com- mandments the more, he can want to break thent when the gas bill comes in. -A. evoman feels dead sure of her hus- band when he cornea home from a poker game and has enough left to give her money. fur a new hat. A. girl Is never 4a crafty as in making it seem how she Isn't. Money used in charity seems much more expensive than in any other way. Pebble are too busy with foolish amusements to have any time for !sens- ible Ones. When a man can be I:II:greeted In all Old uncle it' e a sign he may not get "am/thing in the will after all. .& kill who can ,stay wide awake all • night, -dancing with trangers, would fall sound asleep before 9, talking with her family, Eteey to kiss, stay a Miss, The highest flyers Make the shorteet flights. Would votes for werrien bays, to be tied Ito in blue or pink ribbon Some men Rom to think they are do - in' their country a raver by living lu it. Tbera's never any love lost between two men who want the title of the best fellow in town. Tiik, only • widow a womao will trust is When it's herself. 1 A. girl knows novels are natural because she lieVer met any people like those In I the story, The nearest the average inau can 0:line to being a hero is tor some woman to Imagine he is. Most teen have ft deep -dawn feeling they are eaVIllg the eountry by belong- ing to their political party. The best Way for a woman to get a man to come home is for her to have gaud meals waiting there for him, A IN,Tair York inventor has combined an incandeseent lamp with an ordinary dee- tie hair dryer so that a person's -heir eau ha given a light bath and dried ei the same time. Secure & Profitable Bonds Paying 67 q Price Bros.& Company have been in boinoss n Quebec over TOG years, It is the largest industry in Quebec ProVlace, Their holdings of pulp and timber lands are 6,000 milea In extent) and have been valued by experts at over $13,000,000, The net earnings in 1911) were $448,00.0.00o. The new pulp mill now under construction will double these earzungs. Tuber iitnit are insured with Lloyds of England against are. 41 Price Bros. & Company First Mortgage Bonds pay 6 iw eclat.interest on their present price. They will assuredly aivreciate in value. Considering interest return, security, and fittutt inerease la value, they are an unusually attractive Investment. On spaliestion 114 alit lead you Monet. telly (auditing Mete leads, ROYALECU RITIES CORPORATION Li m rre BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING A VON (1/ ra A tt%UFV.N STIMTS R. M. WHIrt4 Wilhite* moteta*ALloottroltIltexpit.irikx-ortAwA. At Nov York bud week. N.298 steer. agik mohtly immigrants, ell - wed. trItele Sant IS Still getting hie ehare of the new eettlere. Thek' lit 01,1114/It front 1869 to the end of 1911 brought Canadian, awl Alai...lean orompaltiv;" $320,038,17;) ittprentinan, It is said that the depo8ed 4ing Man- uel of Portugal will marry the reigning princess of a entail German prineipality, Wantto etay doing what he Wile bred to do. •1.44 The, net fundect debt outetaading of the city of New York ia flQW approxi- mately $1,000,000,000, not including $102,50o,o09 of general fund bonds wideit have been purehased for sinking fund requirement s. 4 ; in the United Stat ei in 1911 there were 1,931 caws of poliomyelitis, with - 440 deaths, In 1910 there were 5,081 eases, with 950 deathe, The report com- piled by the Bureau. of Census from the registration area gives the number of deaths (ineomplete), ai 1,459. seep -- Where 10,000 Fenian veterans were ex- pected to file claims for the $100 pen - Mon offered to each, 17,000 have certi- fied to their remembranee of the fuss caused by the Fenian invasion. Now, waq that $100 any stimulation to their nienaOries? Eight years age, in 1004, the "United States Census Bureau estimated the value of all the real and personal prop- erty in that country at $107,104,211,197. That was getting the figures down very fine. At the last census the bureau just rounds out $130,000p0p0, ..1••••0 rn the three months ending Dec. 31, 1911, there were, 242 persons kWed and 4,700 injured in train accidents in the United States. That is a decrease of six killed and an increase of 977 injured, Will the applieation ef a eorapensetiort law improve matters? The sale of a wood akohol prepare - a t tion to cheer the inmates of a. Berlin muoicipal night shelter reeulted in 89 death, five eases of total blindness and many leeser injpries. Under the Cele man law, the guilty man coukl only be sentenced. to five years' imprisenment. The luck of the homeless is hard. iet I A New York wife shammed suicide, and says her object was to discover whether her husband's love was as strong as when they were married seven- teen years ago. The husband married a widow with three children three weeks later. The -wife then demanded that he return to her, and the second one gave him up without protest, Many people are Passionately fond of watercreeses. Care should be taken in preparing them for table to wash them thoroughly and. well. The stream from which they are picked may be infected with typhoid. 'Vegetables taken from such streams are better boiled wherever possible; but vegetables to be eaten green ehould be well cleansed. The firet sesee water used might be made soapy with- out any disagreeable results. Scientists are now asking each other if any Bethnal ever grew on either land or water as big os the whale. It is doubt- ed. The limit of its size is fixed by the soft material of the water. A.quatio animals are much larger than terrestrial. The weight of igenio existing whales is about seventy tons, and. they are eighty- five feet long. It is estimated that mos- tadons and dinosaurs have *probably at- tained that size. A New York despatch tells us that the divorced Mrs. Astor will take up her domicile at Beeeliwood, Newport, and as "Mrs, .Astor" will preside over that distinguished villa which is now the per soma property of her son. Before set- tling there, however, she will visit Eng- land and, arrange to maintain her high prestige there, but wilt spend nine months of each year in the United States. The first Mrs. Astor evidently intends to hold her own through her 80n; but her way in London nifty not be quite ao easy. 6.4-s Did the Titanic sink to the bottom ot the ocean, wiuming tho depth of the water to be two miles? At that depth the water preeettre would be something tikc 0,000 pounds to the square leash, which is far too great to be overcome by the buoyaney of drowned bodies. Prof. Wood, of tIohne Hopknea Wilke that the eourse of the Itodies would* be direc lb,' downward, without eue'n tt thing ati etopping, in their eouree; but wherever there U;18 DA Airtight or wee vet 7.717111118 rtine j (WOO I/01111715 preesure would orumfee thek walls of the ve,s,e1 like paper. The enn(lition of the United States winter wheat (imp is reported to be 79,7 ner (ant normal, fie oompared with a ten veer aNerseeee of Kied per cent, lite area elee1e.1 Lod fall Artist 312,00 ftefcq hitt the Ivrea now ne410. vnitiv.,tion 1100,4 rvii, execed,itt tnt opinion of the gove,rtv, moles expel .2;),7 4 am A. ittlIt1 is a leca of nearly 0,5/10,01 Ilf•I'PA. "flie area no wiileh the l•rop will 1,e grown ft('nfly n.500,1100 &tele, tztarillor tit lit bit ycii'. „k produtio:i of 11.1 Imelode 117,1 role promieee 270,711,600 buelfela rik (11)111part,:i With 1...,1),orto,r,111) bushels', lutivested last ',eat. the ll1llt1b1t sieve 1904, when the erop was ',fleMdi; 000 bitAltele. ,•*