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Exeter Times, 1898-6-9, Page 31 IIIINT5 FOR THE FARMER. THE •IDEAL BA.CON HOG. Profitable leog-raising in this year of grace, 1898, is not done in the pen. There axe tevo reasons against pen feeding,either equally strong:First Pen feeding at present prices, is not pro- fitable; secondly, pen feeding makes tco iamb at, for the reason that it precludes exercise, the desideratum for leen bacon and hams. The requesites therefore, and the needs of to -day, are a lean but fleshy hog, raised as then), ly as possible. Two things, them are nece.ssary to this end—unlimited pas - tura crops and the rig.ht breed of hog With regerd to tee first, anybody • knows that hogs on be raised about one-third cheaper on good pasture than in a. close pen, and that from Ap- ril to November is the most profitable period for growing and fattening and, further, this is the period of the erow- ing seasou when it is possible to heve green passe crops growing during all this time. With regard to the kind of bacon hogs, a great change has come over the palates a the consumers a hog producte lei the la.at few years. Fee porle is no longer wanted, not even in the lumber camps. What Is wanted is mild cured bacon, with not more than one Red one-half inches of fat on the bank, In order to get this kind of ba.00n, the lazy, quiet, and easy -keep- ing Poland -China, Berkshire, and Dur - cc -Jersey must stand aside, and the more nervous and. irritable, and natur- ally "harder keeping," improved York- shire and Ta.mworth take their place. ;Farmers are naturally loth to make thie ohange. This is not to be wonder- ed at; but the laws of the rnarkets,are as stringent as those of the Medea and Persians. But the liog-taisers, particularly those of the corn states, may make this change very gradually and in- exPensivelY, and this is done by strap- ly crossing the Poland -China, Berk- shire and Duenajeressty with males of the bacon breeds, aa Improved York- shires or Tamworth. 'CONCERNING GOOSERPRRIES, No horticulturist should ignore gooseberries, for under good oulture tbey will succeed on a. variety of soils albeit, as in the cane of the currant, the best results are obtained on a - strong, rather moist, well -drained clay Mara. As to 'the cultivation, it should be thoreugh, but shallow. Ow- ing to tlet: fact that they do fairly well in partial shade, says a writer, the gooseberry bu:shes can often be cult tivated advantageously between young onbard trees, When set in a regular field, however, theyneould be located about five feet apart each way, or in TOWS six feet apart and toter or five feet distant in the row. , There are several different way's' of training them, but, generally speaking, the bush form is by far preferable. As a rule, however, little pruning is re- quired during the first „three or four years, excepting to head. back the strong new shoots and. remove a few of the less vigorous ones for the pur- pose of developing fruit spars all along the canes. In other words, all that is required. is to remove superfluous branches and check growth sufficient to keep the bushes within bounds — a neetelf larger Itember of fine roots on the plant tat the water smelted ottt, Now these two plants are eat of the eon le thefali, one with ell its roots with it, tee other with part of them Left behind; we inuist get them bale again in the ground somewhere, with tbe little roots all separated throneh the soil so emelt better than they wee before—so made better then God or Nature could do it—that they will glee ue so much better yield than what they would, if left wheel: they were seaugh to more then to pay for all this expense of moviug them. How many of my readers the* they are equal to thist task? GUINEA FOWLS, Theo birdmust be .well known to be appreciated. From childhood we have bed them, on tbe farm, from 5 to 250 in a flock, says a writer. They are no trouble whatever, lay their eggs in nests which they naa,ke in the greas and. wheat fields, we often find- ing nests with from three to seventy- five eggs piled. on top of each other. Vrora some of the note we take part of the eggs, and leave some far them to raise their yoinage They sit, hatch, and raise their broods, and we ofteu do not see them until late in the fall, when they bring their chicks home, sometimes as many as twenty in e flock. Such chirping, such flying up trees I The little keets look rnuoh like partridges when about that size. They are eplendid meat to fry or roast or for potpie; and to enjoy a'breast of fowl, one should eat a guinea fowl. The eggs are considered the riebest of all eggs, and keep well. We put them up tct use in winter; and two years ago, when illness and. death in the family made me forget the eggs until June, we found them just as good as when put away. If you try guinea fowls, you are sure to have eggs and. fowls for your table, and no trouble to get them ITEMS OF INTEREST., newParagrapes wideit May Prove •Worth needing. The swiftest elevator in the world is at the Oneida Mine in Axnador Poen- tY, Cal. The ascent of 1500 feet was lately made in twenty seconds. This was at the speed of a mile he seventy seconds. A tank steamier with a capacity of 720,000 gallons will soon be launched from the Roach shipyard irk Chester, Pa. It is for the Standard Oil Com- pany, and. is said to be the largest m the world. The city tax on property in Guay- aquil is only three -tenths of one per cent., but tire insurance rates are about seven per cent, T� insure 045,- 000 house costs e350 a year. The city tax on the same house is only 15. A clergyman who recently led divine services in ties jai/ at Glaastone, Aus- tralia, unreflectively gave out tide hymn to the worshipping prisoners: " We'll never leave this safe abode, a refuge in the time of storm." A London phrenologist has opened a matrimonial bureau. The object, he pompously announces, is "to secure the Introduction of persons desiring to be married to partners with suitable or harmonious phrenologibal endowments. A• contest between a bull and a lion, in a °aged arena, in the City of Mex- ico, resulted in an easy victory for the bull. A second lion was then pro- duced, and this the bull also vanquish- ed to the great delight of thousands of speotators. Larks and other singing birds are "civilized," you raight say, Like the sheet for the table in Italy, Upon which ourrant, the gooseberry may be start, fact Wm. A. Alden thus comments: "1 ed from cattitigs, or by mound layer- ani convinced that there is far too bag. By the latter method the old much singing of all sores in Itchy, and plants are headed back to in.duce the the killing of superfluous larks and formation of strong new shoots neer amateur drawing -room sopranos may the surface of the ground. Then, late not be wholly without justification." ) in June or july, when the new wood has become somewhat hardened, a has years ago, the Rev. Edward mound of earth is built about the Allen, of Tiverton, England, was given "stool," the earth being heaped up up by the doctor, who said hef had an fear or five inches deep above the base inclinable disease of the heart. He was es of the shoots. When fall arrives then sixty years of 'age. He lived to this is removed, the rooted shoots cue see each of the, doctors pass away, and off and planted at once in well-prepar- attended their funerals. He has just ed soil, or, if preferable, they may be • died at the age of one hundred and tied in bundles and treated as cut- ante tinge, until the following sprittg. Pro- vided care is exercised in removing For 385 years the rulers of Denmark shoots during the winter, • however, have been alternately a Frederick and propagation from the same plants a Christian. This is the law, that a King may proceed indefinitely from year to year. In regard to the best varieties. Christian must be succeeded by King Downing, Smith's Improved and Pale Frederick, and then comes a King Red are the most valuable of our na- Christian again. In view of this law, hives, the Downing being much super- every Danish prince has among his oth- ior to the other two in size and uale er names both Frederick and. Christian. ity. There are also some excellent The caving in of a sand -bank in Long European varieties, most noticeable of Island City led to a /startling tableau. which are the Industry and White - smith; and were it not for their being so susceptible to mildew, these woeld be very valuable, in that they have the advantage of a great variety of col- oring. As it is, however, one will be on the safest side to uSe natives only, and especially if km is growing goose- berries for market, PALL VS. SPRING. SETTING. I think all prominent berry growers will agree on this: That a. straw berry plant to do its best in fruiting, must have a root' system reaching at least a foot in every direction through tbe soil from the plant. These little hair-like roots, says a writer, reach meth further from the body of the plant than one thinks. It is impossible to take up such plants and shake out the earth Without destroying a great- er part of these little rootlets which he are tile food and tire* gatherers for tbe plant. To prove this to be true, select two moll large plants which A clergyman from Hackensack, N.J„ appear to be about equal, and from stopped at a Ilsllew York hotel fox' din - one wash the earth all away Seem the mer, and with it drank three Metall glass. roots by forcing a jet of water again- es of claret. The wino Mat have been g tile Soil around tete plarn, and the very exhiterating, for he became so up - other take up as carefully as yes:. Can roarously jolly under its influence that and Shake out the earth, Now care- he aWoke the text morning in a police fully note the difference hi ,the con- cell. Hie conghegatioo has disraissed dition oe the rots. Vett will eiod ell him; awl tele lest blew &wine& him the tnain roots and the lisagest late yew that heeeafter his ter es. lets teceoneteliehedthe splendid total ernes oa beth Plante; but you will tied enige will be Weak tea. I a g,4051 -g Wins in the ellotted thne. A thirteen -year-old boy was buried un- der the sand, and Fred Bere,ss, with several other men, tried to rescue the lad. When the lifelees body was found, Mr. Beress was shockedi by the dismay- ery that it wee thet of hie own son. A mismated couple recently return- ed to Oxford, Mich, from California, where they had spent the winter. A neighbor esioad the wife if she had heard an earthquake while there. She answered; "Yes, I herd one, and rather enjoyed it; for it was the first thing that happened since john and I have been raarxiecl that be did not think / was to blaane for I" • A deaf and dumb couple were mak- ing love in a lighted; parlor in Cincin- nati, and the young raan had begun, to exprese a marriage proposal in the sign langliage when the maiden sudden - arose and shut off the gas. Now as he could hot continue his proposal an the dark, he is perplexed to know wile - Hier tate but oft the gm to encour- age him, or to fora!: him to drop the subject. • IYONDBIll'ilL WALKERS. RECORDS OF SONE REMARKABLE PEATS OF ENDURANCE, A. Man Who Waited 1400 MEWS 1,000 «oars- weishmen are IMO Hoiden of These 'Waltham Defends, At midniget, on, the let of Jute, in the year 1809, a Scotehman named Cale wteminptRothoeratc013004arpoilisa,y4 ettilaertehdituoenrteon un heard of task of walking one thous- and miles in the same number of hoers. As might have been expeeted at that time, his proposition was received with every glen of incredulity, and many were the uncompletnentary remarka and comments thee were passed eround as to the state of the gallant captain's raental equilibriutn. Despite them all, however, the plucky sportsmen started on his aeduots task on the dete mentioned above, the scene selected. for his exploit being a, corne er of the Heath at Newmarket, and the result• Proved to be a glorious trium- ph' for the pedestrian, who completed the distene,e in the allotted time at four o'clock in the afternoon of July 12, with his physical and mental fame. ties apparently unimpaired, As is often the case in such events nowadays, this provedto be but a forerunner a innumerable other ef- forts of a sineilar character, and two years later one of them was su,ccessful In putting the above performance into the cold shades of obscurity. The hero in this instance was aman named. Thomas Standen, who walked no fewer than 1100 miles in 11,00 con- secutive hours, and this despite the fact that he was more than SIXTY YEARS OF AGB., After an interval of twenty-four years, during which tirne several oth- er would-be record breakers raa,de strelauotes efforts to add their names to the seroIl of honor by emulating the above feats, but without success, we find a member of the weaker sex stepping forwerd and putting down her toot In no funcertein manner. In feet', she continued to step far - ward and and put down her feet with each persistency thet she eventually achiev- ed the same result' as Captain Bar- clay. lWrs. Emma Sharp, who, by -the -bye, is still living. near the Quarry Gap Grounds, Laisterdyke, near Bradford, the scene. 01 her reraerkable walk may thus lay claim to the honor of being the first lady to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours. This is truly a, marvellons feat for a raan—not to mention a Woman; yet soon after thie a second lady, nam- ed. Miss Richards, also sueceeded in a,e- complishing a like performance. However, excellent though the above feats of pedestrianism undoubtedly are, they were completely overshadowed in the year 1877 by the exploits of a littIe Welshman, named "William Gale, who was only 5 ft. 3 in. in height, and weighed but 116 lbs. He walked 1500 miles in 1000 hours. Gale who was 42 years of age, start- ed on his journey, full • of hope and confidence, on Sunday morning., the 26th of August, and during a portion tot every hour, day and night, for gel' weeks, he "plodded along his weary way" around the incloeure at Lillie Bridge Grounds, Brompton, and. on Sat- urday, the 6tif of October, he had the satisfaction of seeing his efforts CROWNED WITH SUCCESS. To reelize. the indomitable will and strength of the man, it • should be known that during the tatter part of his tramp he suffered great pain from ?varicose veins in his legs. He was sev- erel times overcome for want of sleep and dropped to the ground, but the contact with mother earth seemed to reeive him a,gain, and thus he teenaged to struggle on to the finish. s A few weeks atter this, and ere he had barely recovered from his pre- vious exertions, this human marvel amazed. everybody in the world of sport by entering into an engagement to appear at the Agricultural Hall, Is- lington, and walk 4,000 quarter-nailes under the astounding condition that it was to be done in 4,000 consecutive per- iods of ten minutes. Wonderful to relate, Gale succeeded in accomplishing this amazing feat aft- er a. dreary walk extending over four weeks. Daring a great part of this time the athlete was in a, state of aomnoleney-ea, state in which, to use his own words, he wan • as one in a dream, unconscious of all that was tak- ing taut: around hien, and believing bineself to be walking in thick forests able amid beautiful aoenery; in fact, whilst in this state he would have oft- en exceeded the limit of his walk had not the voice of his attendant aroused him out of his stupor, • Immediately upon the completion of the wonderful task, the late Sir John •Astey stepped forward, and amid a scene of areat enthusiasm, he pre- sented the indefatigable Welshman with a silver belt, ,value. • ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS, bearing the following inscription: "This belt wee presented to William Gale, of Cardiff, on the 17411 November, 1877, by some of the nobility and gen- try of Great Britain, in eunememora- tion of his hitherto unpreodented feet, narctely, ewalking 1,500 miles in 1,000 hours, et Lillie Bridge Grounds, August 26611 to October 6tii, 1877; and 4,000 quarter milea in 4,000 conseeutive periods of ten minutes, et the Agrieule terse Hall, London, October 21,s4 to No- neraber 17611, 1877." The feet, which was made from the skin of a, lion, was monnt,ect on velvet coed contained no leas than one hal:tared guineas worth of sterling eitver. Apparently earriea away by reason of bie woaderful and repeated success - ea Gale once again attracted to him- self the attention of hero -Worshippers by an attempt to walk theehrediennet total a 2,40 miles in 1,000 :Nears. Here, however, he beet with hie first reverse, even his powereul constitution beteg unable to cope with Nettle to such Six extent es thite hut, like the man who aims et the, lemon and juse nuiss Since theft time another sty hoe are leen on the horizou of thin particular branch of sPorft, e perste), knowe by the name of Bueleler, also a Welshman, ethane from Newport, who eeteelly walked tbe same diatanee as Gale — 1,0o nano in 1,000 contatieutive 9,1-2 ileinatee. Ana then, in September last, he went to the well-known sporting anktelezvotes—Peel's Greueds, Leeds -- end madeap almot superhuman effort to eo the dietence uuder the tortur- ous condition of 1,000 coneecutiee 9j.4 neinatee; but, after plocleirtg along for jug over a, couple 01 weeks, during which time he had repeated, atta,ces of extutusted Nature gave way, axle leudeler wee compelled to retire. It is worth noting, however, that he hes announcel his intention of accom- plishingtbe feat, and as a matter of face he hs even now getting himself into condition preparatory to the event beteg decided. LEARNING THROWN AWAY. now a rrorostor or Astronomy (mined a, Name for mason Some good, men are naturally such teachers, and so full of benevolence, opt:daily towerd the young, that they cannot help spreading wisdom, wher- ever they go. Nevertheless, a. certain amount of peeparatory instruction la necessary to make it possible for some of the wisdom tleus scattered abroad to ta.ke root. That the seed may fall on stony ground is proved by a story which a gentleman, who went hunting far into the interior of /lova, Scotia, tells in a letter to the Connery Gentleman, , • The hunter was carried sixteen miles at night by a boy sixteen years old and a horse fifteen years old. • The ride was tedious, and the boy -driver was inclined to fall asleep. The hunt- er therefore thought to interest him in something. "I see we are going due west," he remarked. "How do youknow that ?" asked the boy. "Were youever here before 9" "No, but there is the North Star ov- er there." "How do you know it's the North Star e" "Why there are the Pointers point- ing to it." "WItat Pointers?" The hunter explained, and told the boy bow to find the North Star. Then he pointed out two of the planets. The boy seenaed. wide-awake now, and the hunter wene on to give him his first lesson in astronomy, telling hen how Jupiter was thirteen hundred times as large as the earth, • and how Mars showed changes of seasons—how it had bays and apparent canals and so forth, and. how it was supposed by many to have intelligent inhabitants. • He diseoursed a long time on the wond- ers of astronomy. When, after his hunting, the strang- er returned to the town where he had hired the conveyance and the boy, he found tat the people seemed to have a certain humorous interest in him. It was so evident that he was the object of some curiosity or joke that he made Inquiries, toed finally found a. man who could tell him. "Why," said this informant, "you've made a great reputation tor yourself around here." "In whet vttaye" "Oh, the kid that drove you over to ----the other night came back the next day and told all the 'setters' at the hotel that of all the liars he ever heard you were the slickest." "What lie did 1 tell him f" "The boy said that you pretended to know the number of miles to the sun, and that you pointed to a star that you said was called Jumpter, and that you seed it was thirteen hundred times bigger than this world, and that you pointed to another star that you said was one where folks lived like we be. "'Oh' says that boy, 'you, just ought to hear hen 1 He's a peach! Old Has- kins aitnt in it with that feller for lyin.' I tell you he's the biggest liar in Nova Scotia. Pll point him out to you when he comes back.' " The by had pointed him out, and he was at that moment enjoying the reputation of. the champion of all the liars who had. ever come • to Nova Scotia. GREATEST SEA DEPTH KNOWN. The greatest sea depth known to Man is in the Soilth Atlantic Ocean, midway between the island. of Tristian da Cunha and the mouth of tha Rio de Ia. Plata the bottora being there reached, at a depth of 40,230 feet, or eight axed three-quarter miles. THROUGH RA.TZ WARS. Patron, in a Western railroad sta- tion—Gimme a ticket to Gulehtown. Ticket Clerk—Yessir. Seven an' a half. Patron—Seven dollars apd a half to Gulaktown? Why, that's only a few stations from here. Ticket Clerk„'slearply Sevenahalf, Lively now. - Patren—Don't want it. Giv-e me a ticket foe China by way of Gulch - town. Ticket Clerk, briskly—Here you are, air. Five dollen. ENVIOUS OUTSIDERS. George and Laara have been married twn years, and, they are still billing and cooing. Yes. She eoos anri. he pays the bills. gtra-snidePiedIt#41m:suh.e..ttzsticeirar.s.ctsi• IVILAch in Little Is etpeolaily true of Ilbod's Plile, for no modl. eine ever co:nailed es great eurgete Poiret In Se sma/1 sixt0e. They are 4 Whole medicine (Sheet, always resq, M- inty% Wilde*. avraYi Istseieryl prevent a Vold or Bette eine an trey Ills, eaeheatlatilse,ittendleet eopethettiele tte the totake tete .1tetecleetearseparlila, The Case of Vincent Pyrwhite The death of Viacent Pyrwhie 3.2., of Ellerdon Holten Ellerdou, in the Coeuty of alteltinghantshire, would in the ordinary way have received no more attention than the death of an other simple coentey gentleman, The dreamt - stenos of his, 1,,e4h, however, though now long since forgotten, were sensa- tional, and, attracted some eotice at the time, Tt wae cete of those cases evetieh Is easily toreotten within a year, except just in the locality where it occureed,The most sensatiool circuan atenoes of tee case never oa,me before the public at all. 1 give them here sim- PlY and plainly, The peychical people neah Make what they like of them. Pyrveleit himself was a very ordinary country gentleman, a good fel ID no way brilliant. Ile was de his wife, who was Some lefts younger, than himself, and rem beautiful. She was quite a g maa, but she end he faults. fond of adroiretion, and. she wa aminable flirt. ahe misled ne clev,erly, and. was teen sincerel with them for having been, naisled. Her husband never troubled his head about these flirtations, being assured quite rightly thet she was a good woman. lee was not jealous; she, on the other hand, was possessed of a jealousy am- ouneing alenot to insanity. This might have eaused trouble if he had. ever pro- vided her *witb the slightest basis on which her jealousy could work, but he never did. With the exception of hi$ e° wife, women bored hint. I believe she aid once or twice try to m,ake a scene , fox. some preposterous reason, which I was no reason at all, but nothing ser- ious came of et, arict there was never A a real cpiarrel between them. a in On the death of his wife, after a pro- longed illnees, Pyrwhit wrote and ask-, ° edaae to coma down to Ellerdon for the funeral wed to remein at least a f ew a days with him. He would be quite et, alone, and I was his oldest friend, I hate attending funerals, but I was his oldest friend, and. was, moreover, a distant relative of his wife. I lead no ail choice and I went down.• al Them 'were many viaitors in the b house for the funeral, which took place w in the village churchyard, but they le left immediately afteeward. The air of th heavy gloom which had hung over the house s/eerned to lift a little. The ser- ve vents, servants are always *ery etact- ne tional, continued to break down. at in- set tervals, noticeably Pyrwhit's man, Wilt Ir liams, but Pyrwhit himself was self- gr possessed. He spoke of his wife with great affection and regret, but still an he could •speak oe her, and not Un- ena steadily. At dinner he also spoke of e.a one or, two othex subjects, of politics ric and of hia duties as a magistrate, and are of course he mode the. requisite fuss or about his gretitude to ate for coming for down to Ellerdon at that limo. After re -r dinner. we sae in the library, a room Pc'e well and expensively furnished, but nue without the least attempt at taste. Tbere were a few oil paintings on the walls—a presentation portrait of biraself, and a landscape or two— all more or less bad. as far as I remem- ber. He had eaten next to nothing at dinner, but he had, drunk a good deal; the wine, however, did not seem to have the least effect upon him. I had got the conversation definitely off the subject of his wife( when I made a blund(er. I noticed an Erichsen's ex- tension standing on his writing table, I said: "I didn't know that telephones had. penetrated into the villages yet'. " Yes," he said, "I believe they are common enough now. I had thta, one fitted up during my wife's illness to paramunicate with her bedroom on the oflfoottheahboouvese.tus on the other side At that moment the bell of the tele-. phone rang sharply. We both looked an each other. 1 se.id with the stu,pid affection of ohne nese one cilways puts on when one is a. little bit frightened: "Proba.bly a. servant in that room wishes to speak to you." He got up, walked over to the nea,ch- ine and sevueg the green oord toward me. The end of it was loose. "I had it disconnected this morning," he said; "also, the door of that room ts locked. and no one can possibly be in it." 'MAKERS OF GREAT GUNS. 'aite Three Krupes and the wendere Thee Dave wrought tit ordnance. The city of Itseen is located be tbe leneact:arl0a1n°CtIltitgalni voariele, yanmd't the d11;eogliaiedgs LOP both and the retelling of the ore and castieg the metal Into ingots and roiling it into bars have beee the one - patent of the itiliebitants for centur- ies pate. Friedrich Krupp, the found- er of the great work.s beetle:eels name, wae born in 1787, and, when crueible east steel was firet being introduced in- to England • and first importation from there ineo Gereneny had been Wade imPassible through the edict of Napoleon( called( "the contenentan sperm." low, but 2. Krupp began to produce eruciele 00 y ear files, stamps, rolls for coins and shears, itkeivaitoys: pbse,atert5e,alo,n2ttfyei r asitaa,:ivreL ya (s,a;auxual, acl nu,fetameaa oonnttavilti:ine;s: and r $ an ea. use hie cast steei, and after a life full en very of diseppoinements and hardships he y angry died in 1826, after a, long and Severe d. little works, anat d the secret of his :n:3:flea- leavieg to his son, Alfre eleat than the old homestead, still stands in the midst of the licte. lAlfredl Itrupp's energy and enter- prise soon' canquered • ills first suc- cess was to be able to furnish east te.el of various degrees a ha,rdness, hereby iticrea,sing its 'a.datettsbility for many' new 'tarpons. INext came the nvention of the weldless carriag.e ix•es, which were patented in 1853 in 11 countries, and furnished him capit- 1 for enlarging his plant. In 1865, lie terested him.self in coal mines iron re mines and furnaces, which should meeisla the maierial for his own works, nd 'in 1867 he began to reap the hare est from his experiraents inaugurs.- cllong since: with . STEEL CANNON. Since then tbe suecess of these works d their growth have been plienomen- , and when A.1fred Krupp dosed the usy and successful and philanthropic ork of his life, in 1887, at Villa Huegel is princely home on the side hills of e valley of the Behr, the city of Essen, in, recognition of this great ork erected in his memory a great Mentraent on. the most prominent om many nations mourned at his au:37 of the, city, and deputa,tions Easett is a city of 96,000 inhabitants, d over 20,000 of this population are ployed. in the works of the able and ergetic eon of .Alfred Krupp, Fried - Is Alfred. Over 1,2,00 acres of ground covered with buildings and machine . Many: coal Mines furnish fuel the works, over 400 iron are mines rash the metal, and large ore de - its in Spain, near ha,ve been chased, in addition a,nd a ' 1 He had. Maned the color of gray blote ting paper. So probably had I. • The bell rang again—a prolonged, rattling ring. "Are you going to answer it?" I said. "I am not," be answered, firmly. "Then," I said, "I Saari answer it myself. It is some stupid trick—a joke not ia the best of taste, for which you will probably base to sack one or oth- er of your servants." • "My servants," he answered, "would not have done that. Besides, don't you see it is impossible 1 The nistrument is disconnected "The belt rang all the same. I shall try it." I peeked up the reeeiver. "Are you there'?" I called. The voice which ensweeed me was un- mistakably the rather high staccato yoke of Mrs. Pyrwhit. "I want you," it said, "to tell my husband. that he will be with me to- morrow." I still listened, Nothing more was said. 1 repeated "Are you there 1" and still there was no answer. I turned. to Pyrwhite "There is no one there,' I said. "Pos- sibly there is Weeder in the air affect- ing the bell ia some mysterious way, There mug be some simple explanation and I'll fina it all out to -morrow," Ba • • • • went to bed eagle, that night. All the fallowing day I was with him, We rode together, and I expeeted n acted- ent every minute, bat none happened. All the evening I expected him to turn suddenly f.aint and all, but that also did not happen. When, at about 10 oalook, he excused hemeelf and said "good. night" I felt dietinetly relieved. He went up to his room and Valle for Williams. The rest is; ef course, well kriewst. The man's reason had broken down, poestbly the immediate eaten being the death of Mrs. Pyrwhit. On entering his master's room, without the least heettattan, be raised a leaded revolver whinh be carried, in his hand and shot Pyrwhit through the heart:. I behove the eon is neentieeied in some of the ineteheolts oix hetuteidal mania. fleet of steamers have been built w bring over 300,000 tons of this Spa ore! from Spain to the German c desty Makes theinerels of wetnett seftee in silence, raNier than toll their troubles to seryone„ To teeth Indian Woreene Balm a. per- fect hoot:, It cures all wore') troubles, corrects motley irregte taritiee, ebolithes the agoetee of' ohikhbirth, makes week„wercen 4 strong, and rendere life worth ) living. ehttennotentmtmwhmliattweeep podia, cents per Box, or 45 tor $4.50. at Druggists, or Maned on Receipt of Piece On 1'. MILBURN CO., Toronto. THE BXETER TIM ES vao OF MY PAGE OF HISTORY, •••••••1 eturisona Tried to Sell Cubit and the Philippines nor $1,000,000. Manila was built irt 1581, and has for over three centetriee 'been the seat 011Spanish, government. Bttt tenac4. auto as her hold upon the Philippines and Cuba, has been, last reties, almost, ' of her once world -empire, Spain came neer pareing with both these possess- ions• during this very century. Queen Christina—not the present wid- ow of Alfonso X11., but the wife of Perditea,nd VII., was noted fax her greed. On • her succession to the threne she found the Spanish treasury so depleted' th.a,t she •schemed to sell both the Philippines and Cuba to France. She forced Senor Carapazano to undertake a raission, that was ex- tremely diataateful to his Spanish pride. When he opened Christina's propasitien to Louis Philippe, the proud don struck the table a heavy blow and rau.ttered a curse. The Queen pro - jawed to ha,nd over to the French King the Island of Cuba for 80,000,000 reals, about $3,000,000, and the Phil' i nes and Puerto Rico fox. 10,000,000 reale, hien about $1,000,000, or some04,000,0= in nish all. Louis Philippe willing oast enough to pay the price for Cuba., but objected to the sum asked foe the Philippines. "Several millions of Teals is my offer," he remarked, "or else the contract must be thrown, into the lira° Tallyrand, who was present, was about to remonstrate; but as he streteixed forth leis hand to take the Queen's pa- per, Campazano learied to his feet, •seized the contract, cramp/ea it in his hands, and exclaimed: "Your Majesty is right. The contract is worthless, only fit to be thrown into the fire.' And with these words he flung the paper down upon the fire and beat the flaming document with the tongs into blackened fragments. ' et the Rhine. Twenty furnaces at Deisberg and. Neuwied-oratbe-Rhine are reducing this ore for the Krupp works, and are owned Or controlled by them. The main stieet of Essen divides the Krupp works into two parte, connected overhead, with innumerable maramotia steam pipes, and. bridges, and parralel witn it, running east and west, the tracks of the Rhenish railway pass the works iix the north, while in the south tbe railroad leading from. Dusseldorf to Bremen, Hamburg and. Berlin, ekirt the raill. Innumerable treeks connect these two main lines of railroad, -sur- rounding in an extricable network the buildings and crossing the street lead- ing to Muelheim below its level. Poeverful railroads bring trainloads et raw material into the yards and leave the works with valuable pro- ducts, finished and ready for shipment to all parts of the globe. Miniature engines and oars move about between the buildings on narrow gauge tracks, bringing material of smaller size from one building to another until it is fin- ished and ready for the raarket. A PLEASING INCIDENT, A touchieg little incident of the Queen's Jubilee last summer was seen by a few people ouly. A half dozen years ago the Baroness Burdett Coutts, while driving one day near Covent Gar- den, where the costermongers of Lon- don buy most of their supplies, notic- ed tbe wretebed condition of their don- keys, that were, as a xule, half-starved and brutally beaten. • The next day she publicly offered prizes to be given yearly to the cost- ers whose horses or donkeys were in the best condition. Since then an an- neal inspection of them is held Re- gent Square, and the arizes awarded. Hundreds of costers wearing their quaint holiday costume, long-tailed. eoats with huge silver buttons, ante ac- companied by their " dowels "—as they eall their stveethearts or wives—in high plumed eats, lead their donkeys and cartnaxound Regent Square before the venerable baroness, who has a kind word of Advice and sympathy fox. each • one of therm • During the jubilee, without any warning to the authorities, the same strangs procession formed in the Strand and marched tip Piccadilly, singieg the caster songs, which a.re in e dialect of their owe. They surrounded the pal- ace of the banneees in a solid mass, the donkeys and carts covered with rib- bons, men and woneet joining in the chorus with pleasing meloay and pre- cision. They called for their friend and would hot be content until the white - halted lady came out upon the baleone, and received their greeting. • "She is the kindest woman in Beg - teed I" the crowd said, and having sat- isfied theantelves with e, eight of her fate, thee quietly dispereed. No other woman, perhaPs, has ever had the moats and the trill to ahow soh kited/less as this aged lady whotte Wise benefantiolis have reached almost erre country in the world, On the day when the sovereign xecelved, tribete from all Italians, it wan a beantieul thought it the melt °oaten to come with the donkeys whoxa she had be- trieeded to pay homage to this me crowned queen oe the poor. • LOSING NATION'S NAME FIRST. When Wars Are 'Known by the Names ot the Nations Involved. • Itrars are commonly known among nations involved, and it is a • serious fact that the name of the losing na- tion usually precedes that of the vie - tor, Conaiderations of euphony and not sentiment obtain. In the war be- tween France and Prussia., France was completely crushed in a short time,but the contest, by general consent, is known as the Franco-Prassian war. The recent wax in the fax Bast, which led to the partition of China, now ac- tively in progress, was known as the Chineseerapanese, or in European phraseology, the Sino-ja,panese war, A still more recent example is the Gra,eco-Tueerisla wax, in which Greece was badly whipped. To the superstitious the name cur- rently given to the United States con- flict with Spain may, by analogy seem an augury of suceess for tae United States arms. Europe calls it the Span- ish-American war, An objection to this name is that it gives rise to am- biguities, as the term Spanish-A.raeri- can is commonly used to designate the various °entries of South America, Per- haps for this reason there is a growing tendency in Earope to cell •the war Ilispeno-American. Another objection in the eyes of Europa to either of these tames is the jealousy with whish it regards the United States assumption of the name America,. America, it is contended, applies to the whole North and South. Atnerica, and the United States is more often referred to as "the States" even by England. Par Infants and Children, no fai. xlzabo tistaeuro co COLD COArr OrtZ. Mrs. Ile Sette, moingly—Three 'of the girlie I went to sehool with Itave siopoa from their huebands, hilra The sato-, suspiceously—Hure I Perhaps you would like to he the fotteth. (Mrs. Le Sotto, asearedly-011, no, / couldn't leave the children. bloy %%Ivor, Tea toe emelt eatasetose at ,4 - ore kWh