The Brussels Post, 1892-7-8, Page 3Jul.?' 8, 1892
The Partner feedS
The king may rubs o'er land and sea
The lord may live right royally,
The soldier ride in promo and Pride.
The sailor roam o'er the ocean wide ;
But this or that, whatelar befell,
The farmer he must food them all.
The writer thinks, the pool. sings,
The craftsmen fashion wondromt things ;
The doctor heels, the lawyer pleads,
The miner follOWS the preoions leads;
But this or that, whate'er
The fartner he must feed them all.
The merehent he may buy and nth
The teacher do hts duty well ;
But men may toll through btlEy da78,
Or men luny stroll through pleasant ways ;
Prom kingra beggar. whate'er befall,
The farmer he must, feed them all.
The fartner'o trade Is one of worth ;
lie's partner with the oky and earth
Be's 'sterner with the sun and rein:
And no man loses for kis gain:
And 111011 11103' ries and men inity 14431,
The farmer he must feed them all.
God bless (110 10440 who ,00ws the wheat,
Who endow: milk and fruit and meat;
May his purse be heavy, hi 4 heart be light.
His cattle and corn and all go right 1
God bless the seeds his hande let fall,
roe the farmer he 11100( 10011 us all.
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PROM' 1NflBMflG.
8Y MOP. TrifordAS Smaw.
We must modify the system of working
our lands. The land must not only be kept
producing good crops. We cannot any
more afford to allow our landa to go idle for
a whole year that they may bo the better
prepared to grow wheat the following year
to be sold at little more than 80 canto pee
bushel. The farmers will agree with me
when I say that land cannot be sum.
mer•fallowed at a less cost than 88 to 010
per acre, providing that labor of man and
team had to be hired. This would mean
that the cost of the bare fallow to Ontario
every year would not be less than $1,500,000
to 02000,000. This =Imitation is based on
the assumption that one•fourth of tbe land
now sown to winter who t has been prev-
iously summer -followed, which is probably
a long way under rather than over the mark.
It has been observed that good crops usnal•
ly come after the bare fallow, hence the un-
founded notion has arisen that some way
fertility is added to the land by the process
ol tho bare fallow. The opposite is true,
especially in IL wet season. There is a
material loss of nitrates which are washed
out of the soil and pass away in the drain-
age water. The reason of the better crops
that come after is found in the cleaning of
1/ e hind, and in the unlocking of inert fer-
tility through exposure of fresh surfaces to
the weather in the process of doing the
work, The bare fallow rather takes from
than arida to the fertility of the land.
But it is objected that the land must be
cleaned, and there is no other way in
which this can be efiectively done but by
means of the bare fallow. The first of these
objections is true,but not the second. Weeds
can be destroyed without the use of the
bare fallow at all ; nay, they can be enn.
lively destroyed withoet missing a single
crop, I may even co further and claim that
they may be effectively destroyed and two
crops grown in a single season. At the ex•
perimental farm, Guelph, we have repealed.
ly cleaned fields of weeds during the past
three years, and have grown two paying
crops while doing it. The work has been
THE BRUSSELS POST.
000 lbs of milk pet year when cheesulnak,
ing is the object should no more be tolerated
on o Canadian farm. Then (heap foods
should be grown 1 110 Other 10011 1h0 we
grow will equal eoruln this respeoi, where
wo have the sone suitable and where we
cure it in the silo. mb satisfied that n
steer may be fattened (11 )4 0081 Of less Iltem
10 cents per day when own ensilage la one
of the Meters used. It may yet turn out
that the cost will be =Adorably less than
th (0euni, while aeurealiiig to the ;nodes al
former years, the 0001 ,11 feeding attune per
clay of 1,400 to 1,000 lbs lu weight was over
20 cents per day. In our experiments in
the pest we have not fed so cheaply at 15
eents per day, but our object in feeding was
to compare corn silage and meal as a food
factor with roots and meal, as they 11e13
been fed in the past. With corn silage
straw, and about, two pounds of meal per
day, store cattle can be wintered stn coat
of not mere 1(1011 11 to 6 cents per day, and
wlieu under two ream old they may be made
to gain from one to one and a half pounds a
day on this rotten. If we coal cheapen the
oost of food production weave doing what is
egnol to enhancing market values.
We must also pay attention to the time
at which our finished animals are marketed.
In an experiment in swine feeding, carried
on at oer sta-ion in 1891, tie found while
pigs marketea before September gave a
substantial profit, bad the some animals
been tnarketed after Novetnber 1st, although
fed similarly, they would have been sold at
01018. Last auto= and winter we fattened
600 lambs. Had (11000 10)111)0 been put upon
the market December lot the net retuen
would have been $550 leas than if the lambs
had been sold one month later. I cannot
brit aonolude that in future farmers who
fatten lambs tflust carry them on into the
wintsr. Those who do so will probably find
ready sale and got good prices. Although
many of the lambs we fed last winter were
considerably under the average in quality
when purchased we obtoitted prices ranging
from 5 1-2 cents to 7 cents per pound live
weight for them. Those sent to England
had recently been sold for 17 cents per
pound, dressed weight.
With the prices of the present wo must
study economical produetion. Money may
still be made at farming, but in order to
make it we must give close attention to our
methods, and discard all those that are
even of doubtful utility.
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Dust for Towle.
Our domestic bowls go to their dust-bath
with eagerness, and to all appearance they
enjoy it exceedinglj . Lice will stand con-
siderable water without being suffocated,
but very fine, dry dust is death to vermin,
for the reason th it it closet' the small
rpiraclea by which air is admitted for breath-
ing, and thus they are suffocated. This is
the means provided by nature by which
fowls may rid themselves of a torment. They
seem also to take a positive pleasure while
wallowing among clean dirt. Fowls running
at large in summer oan help themselves ;
but when confitted in winter, or when the
ground is frozen, they ehould have for their
use a box filled with (Inc, dry dust. A
little carbolic powder or sulphur mixed with
the dust will improve the bath. Clay pul.
verized in the road is as good aa any mate-
rial for this purpose.
EaSpberry Cluitnre•
If the young raspberry canes are nipped
so effectively done that since the cleaning as soon as they are two and 000(1 feet 111 4441,
process a man can go over from ten to ' they will begin to spread and grow stocky.
twenty acres in a day with a spud and take Perhaps 11 (0 best to nip the bad out at two
out everything that should not be there. 1 feet high, for they will run up some after
will not fp over the various processes adopt- they ore nipped. By so tieing and checking
el 1(14 1(118 time, but -will simply say that the top, the roots become larger and stron4.
the means used were the growing of er and the top branches out more. Then as
rye and clover and cutting these at the prop- soon as the fruiting canes are done with
er stage, the growing of various their burden out them all out. This cutting
hoed crops and caring for these properlY, out of the old canes throws all the strength
and giving due attention to autumn °days: and vigor of the roots into the young canes,
flan. I say it in all Confideuce that in a few BO that by winter they are strong and quite
years the farmers of this beautiful Province stocky, more able to withstand the winds
could clean the hurtful weeds out of 11 111 a and less liable to be blown down.
few years so completely that 100 acres
could be Kept clean thenceforth by the use
of the spud al an outlay of not more than A Man Who Baw St. George.
525 a year, and all this may be done while The patron saint of England has been
paying crops are being grown and without dead a good while. the year of his detail bo
(4110use of the bare fallow. The farmers in ing generally put at 303 of our era. In the
clearing their fields usually do not go quite general decay of all sublue ary things includ.
far enough. The wolk is no thorough, mg butnan bodies, it wonld horsily seem
and then it is not followed. up, hence about possible that there can be yet in existents
every five years they have to resort to the any portion of a man who had set his eyes
bare follow to :dean it again. The weed on a person who died sixteen centuries ago.
bill of this country is simply enormous. Nevertheleos,the fad of swill a phenomenon
We must also pay more attention to the 000018 tolerably well established.
conservation of fertility. It is in the extra When St. George was put to death under
bushels of a crop that the profit usuollY Diocletian, for embracing Christianity,
eonsists These extra bushels cannot usu. there were present at Ins martyrdom a
ally be obtained without good farming gen- number of persons who were so touched
orally, and this means that the land be kept at what they saw that thaY turned Chris.
in a good state of fertility. Now, there are tians. Forthwith they wore all arrested
three modes of securing this end. One of and doeapitated at Nicomedia. One of
these consists hi the purchase of artificial these persons was Akindynos, who be.
fertilizers, a seaond in the keeping of live came a notable saint of the Greek Church,
stock to the greatest posssible extent, and After his death his churches of the
the third is to grow crops which bring for. Orient divided among them his remains.
tility to the land. The first must be done A portion of his skull became the property
with very greet caution, es we aanuot milord of the Church of Saints Comas aud Damien
to apply fertilizers in on aimless way. It in Constantinople. A Russian pilgrim,
is of the third that I wish more particular- Archbishop Anthony of Novgorod, who
ly to speak, as, where it is practiced, visited the capital of the Eastern empire in
stoek•keeping will of necessity also re- the year 1200, and who left a manuscript
wive much attention. We hove two eccount of his vnit, which has urine down
very excellent crops which ran be grown to ns, venerated this relic, and has given
almost anywhere in Ontario, both of which a description of itt. A silver plate was fast -
rather 0. rich than improverish the soil ened to the bone of the saint, and on this
while they ore being grown, especially so plate well engraved his name and bust.
for as nitrogen is concerned, and that is, of Four years after the visit of the Archbishop
course, the costly element of fertility. I it) 1204, the Latin warriors of the Fourth
refer to clover and peas, It ia a fact that Crusade took Constantin0ple, and the spoils
clover will prodnee two crops a year and of the tenumerable religious edifices of the
!stye the soil richer in nitrogen than it was city became the property of the conquerors,
before these were grow. Thoth crepe have and, transported to the West, werebestowed
the Pewee ef drawing free eltreee free, the there on various churthes ond monaaterie,
atmosphere and storing it ix' their roots and The piece of the skull of Saint Akin
'items, hence they not only leave the ground nos watt allotted to a lord of FrenohnOonne,
licher in nitrogen but also furnish larger long a part of the kingdom of Burgnudy.
stores of this in the portion of the plant Re was, propably, o Sire de Vedette. ROW -
used as food. This explains the foot that ever that may be, the possessor of tee relic
both these crops are almost sure to be fol- presented it to the Cistercian Abbey of
lowed by good results when winter wheat Rosieres, a rieh monastery whieh is entire.
wines after them, as it is a, plant that will ly destroyed, but which stood in what, is
not do well in soils not well supplied with now the canton of Arbeis, The piece 01 14(10
nitrogen. When wo can grow pees so adult, skull was carefully preserved in the abbey
ably cm barley soils, 104 us cease to larnent of Franehe•Comte. It is mentioned in au
that we hove to give upthe growing of bar. inveutory of the property of the oonvent
loy to so groat an extent. Made in 1 71 4. In the One of the Revolution
To add to our profits, '100 )11418(4 economize the relic of llosieres disappeared with the
18 feeding. This implies that we mustonly ahlmy and the chums. The monks were din.
keep stock of a certain kind, and 11101 we persed, the monounento destroyed, and pre.
most grow :Meals food for feeding it, .4.11 mons objects gent to the melting -pot. From
010110 the line good blood must be Intro:hoe- that time to this nothing was ever heard o
ed on the side of the eke, on the side the skull of saint Akindynos until this
'of the dam it is far less neces, year, when it, was discovered in a remaalt
sary. To affect improvement, in stock- able way. The parish of a priest commtme
keeping, and rapid improventent, it is not in the vicinity of Restores, the Abbe Gni
neceosary that farmers of fide Province pur, chard, an archleologist of reputation, In
chase one female more than those they now some exaavatione he had made among a
pones% but they must give increased atten. mass of wood. ashes contained in an old salt
tion to the WM of good sires, In the test at pit, 1 m. 60 n under ground, fonnd the
the Guelph station a scrub steer at the ago bone of the saint, witlithe silver plate stil
of one year cost 810 more thon the average affixed to 11,
of other grades with improved blood, that The fragment of skull is a portion of th
is to say, when food values were reolroned ieft parietal Mesa. The Silver Oath,
and alto a fair pefee put upon the meat, vvork of the tenth century, is of aircula
this animal was boldest the ethers in the form. On it is engraved the bud of 111
race to the value of mote than 010. It 18 mint, with his name writtem in Groot
simply folly te try and make money from characters. The figura is that of a young
fattening sahib cattle, sheep 00 Mine. The man ; the lutir is long, the board isolated
sereb In the delrY ie 09 ljellY 111pmfifehic. The plate la fastened to the skull by fon
Tile 0014' that Whi 8101 p0e0(010 0,000 10 13,.
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a,
t
little bands of metal and eight mills. plot WaS plain to me,
WANTED MRS DiAtliONDS.
The 110tr1terdln5r3' Adventure elan hug.
Itolt SpoelellY Nan
The house of Laird, Williamerm & Co„
diamond merchants and wholesale and re-
tail jewellere, of London, employed no
travelling agents. The nearest approach
to (1, 1005 what is galled ''11 specialty num,'
In other words, he was tut employee of the
Immo trusted almost 08 much as one of the
partners, but louder bondso heavy 1,115(4 1180
house need no1, worry 141100(4him if he did
5401 111054 up at the holy he wee due. It
happened very often that, titled people and
three who had grown ri3lt in trade could
not make it convenient to come to town to
deal with the house personally for rare ere,
while others were in wentpf special design's
for birthday gifts, sonverffeA, and the like,
Such people Stu ted their desire by letter,
and the " opeeialty man " was sent to take
their order or ms,ke a sale.
I hod served the house four years without
loss and reettrooly without adventure, when
I was started off for Morpeth, ti town 10 1(10
north of England. TI/0 firm had received
O letter from a wealthy and well known
public man living in the suburbs of that
town to the effect that his wife had broken
a leg and was not able to be about, but
wanted several Bps:MI things in jewelry as
soon as they could be made for presents to
friends. She would also look 01 00105 gems,
particularly a 111 10101111 necklace, but noth•
ing common was wanted. The story was
current that this gentleman's daughter was
soon to be married, and it was anti ipated
that I would receive a very fair order, The
value of the jewels packed up for me for
that trip was something like :97,000. From
my very first trip I had always travelled
after a certain fashion -the Mahlon of a•
commercial travellee, Many of the f ratan
ity honestly believed that, I was a genuine
member. In my grip Ioarried mount a dozen
small bottles df dyes, and 10 1005 sup/ osed
that I was travelling with that line. The
jewelry ease was placed in the grip, and I left
the affair knocking °bout with eneh apparent
carelessness that no one could entertain n.
suspicion of its value.
There was only one odd thing about the
letter from Morpeth, and that was not com-
mented on until after my adventure, It
mentioned day and date and hour when my
arrival would be expected, and I left Lon.
don to hit the exact time. Bad this mat-
ter been brought, up beforehand we should
have said that the gentleman was prob-
ably going to leave home later in the day.
It was in the month of October, and I was
timed to reach the town at 10 o'clock M the
forenoon, The letter said that a carriage
would be in waiting for me to driVe 511 once
to the manor. The train was on time to a
minute, and I got off in company with two
travelling salesmen. I found the carriage
after a, bit. There were two men on the
box, and they at first seemed to question
that I was the right party. Their doubts
probably arose from the foot that I was
plainly dressed and was in the company of
the salesmen. One of them asked if I was
the jewelry man Sir Blank was expecting,
and I replied that 1. wanted to see the gen-
tleman whether expected or not. 'they
hesitated about drivnig off, but as 110 one
else appeared WO finally made a start.
I tell you honestly that I had no sooner
entered the carriage then Iliad queer feel-
ings. The outfit was too common to be own-
ed and publicly used by such 0111040 as Sir
Blank, and the two men didn't appear at all
like servants. I had never been in Mon.
petb before, and was therefore ignorant of
the direction we ought to take or the 1110.
4.51100 to be travelled. After getting away
front the depot a blt. we turned to the west,
the horses going 01 10 sharp trot anti the men
holding conversation in low tones. We
passed plenty of houses and vehicles and
pedestrains, and as we left the town behind I
looked ahead for sight of Sir Blank's great
house and well -kept grounds. Perhops the
pair observed, my anxiety, for one of them
turned and said :
" It's o bit over five miles to the place,
sir."
That satisfied mo only for a moment. The
more I looked at the men and the closer I
scanned tho outfit the stronger grew my
[suspicions that something was amiss. Three
miles to the west of Morpeth is a hill from
which one can survey the country for miles
around. As we reached the crest of this
hill I saw only small farms and plain farm-
houses before me. If Sir Blank's mansion
was on that road it was beyond my vision
and still a good ten miles away.
"See here 1" I called as we began to 115.
00011(1 the hill. "I think there is a mistake.
I think I have got, Sir Blank mixed up with
Sir Dash. Is it Sir Blank who is financial.
ly interested in a great cotton factory at
Manchester ?"
"He maybe, but I dunno," said the man
who ‚1005 driving es he pulled up his horses.
"If he isn't it won't do me any geed to
see him. You see [getting out some of
these bottles], I wanted to show hint some
of these now dyes for fruits."
"Is that, your line, sir?"
"Yes. Here are.ten new colors just out.
I am sorry for my blunder but i'm will -
'Then 5 ou trovels with dyes, dos you 3"
grnflly demanded the other.
"Aa you see."
"Then wot the bloody blazes does you
get into this turnout, for 3"
"To see Sir Blank, of warm, I got it
into my head that --"
"Oh, blow your 'earl and your 'eels, too
Jitn, turn habout hand drive the bloomin'
ham back 40 town I"
"1'11 be shot if I &test" replied Jitn. "He
can get right hout 'ere hand take 'itself
back on 'is hown blasted legs, blast 'int I"
"Sorry for the mistake, and here's some.
thing to drink my health "I said, as I toss-
ed him a coin and doseenhed from the ve-
hicle and walked hurriedly away.
When I reached town I went to a hotel.
Inside of fifteen minittee 1 had leorned that
Sir Blonk lived north of the town, and only
O utile away. Likewise that there had been
ito accident to his wife. Further. that the
gentleman and iliti wife had been in Scot.
land for several weetre. It did nit take me
long to rignre it out to myperfect Batts -
bottom It was a pu
t up job to rob the
house through me, and it had been put up
'with the 141(1of some one at Sir Blank s
house. The letter had his mouogram
stamped on the corner, and the paper must
have been taken from his library. The
writing showed a fair bueiness hand, and
had not attreeted remark. The country to
the west of the hill where I had left the
carriage afforded opportunities for deeper -
e110 mon to cointnit robbery, even in broad
daylight, and I had no doubt that I was
being driven to aome appointed spot when
thew programme WAS interfered with. It
was a citee for the polies, bid: I was by no
means green enough to take it to them,
The house of Laird, Williamson &Co. would
have stood to pay 0 thoneand pounds rather
than 11aVO tho public informed through the
press that there had been a conopiritoy to
rob their 'special man," While 1 made
inany inquiries, I WI" nothing ttivey. 1 es-
cortat nod that the two meet with the vehicle
Wore strangers in Morpeth, and the whole
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I hod intendod to leave on my return to They Know se Mnell ite Men,
A recent lecturer on ants and their ways
deaorlbed those of South America, wee
bad immense structures and provide spnee
for the atorage af grain. Wood ants, in.
London at 5 IA 010 afternoon, but an acci-
dent, on the line detained me till 7. The
night came on dark 'tad mermy, and there
were but few passengera from Morpeth,
Four of us who got on were inhered into
hardwoed trem, divide their 1100/10
the Berne eempartment. there Were 4(011
1.mbiting
ing ants, the lecturer 'mid much rniTht, be
third 44(40 a man about 40 Tears old, of
plain women ticketed to Durham, and the !et(' forty "mPartnlex'tBt IsT°11"Ing the 1341'
learlled from their cleanly habits all their
pleasing address and genme appearance.
As soon am we fell into conversanon he gaVe
810 to understand that he lived at Beverly,
Mr. Molloy, who arrived recently from
Johannesburg, South Africa, aaYa teat the
Kaffir population there laabout40,000. These
natives come ta the great mining map
from the different kraals a hundred- or two
hundred miles uway, take service in the
mines for three tnontbs, and, having earned
a few pounds, go home, buy a wife, and
settle down. The Bahl r camps around the
oily are not very well behaved, for there
are many low canteens, where, especially on
Sunday eveninge, the natives get drunk
and indulge in fights, with the result that
one or two are killed and a large number
wounded nearly every Sunday. The 'fluters
are trying to close up the canteens, but
they are meeting with opposition be-
cause the liquor stores are a source of profit
to the Government.
The idea oi advertising artioles and
tradesmen in romance by conneuting them
with the characters iemot new. Scott was
occasionally asked to-do it, M. Besant, (48
his journal, the Author, prints a letter
written him by a, glover,sent together with a
dozen ladies' gloves: "You might perhaps
have an opportunity of bringing in ley
name when writing some of your new
works, as being a ineeting place in London
for ladies, which is really so; my showroom
on (4(10 0001 floor where all the PaldS, Vienna,
Brussels, and other foreign makes of gloves,
fans, &o., are kept, is frequently crowded
with the very best of London society. I
was reading one of your books when this
thought occurred to me that it would give
O thus of reality to the reading, the name
and address of my house being so well
known." Besaut sent back the gloves.
O town about 110 miles down the line, and
from certain words let, fall I gathered that
he W118 a prominent public official of the
place, I didn't exactly reply that I was in
the dye line, but he probably inferred as
intieh from what I said. I W1tS glad of his
company. He was a fair talker, well post-
ed, and I enjoy ed his society.
The women got out at Durham and left
us alone. We paased Darlington and were
still the sole occupants of the compartment.
Mr. Arnold, as he had given his name, had
been sitting opposite me for au hour. As
the train cleared Darlington he yawned and
said:
" I am sleepy, and yet I earl never get a
wink of deep on the train. By the way, I
found a curious coin on the street at Mar
-
petit Sadly. Can yon place it?"
He had a coin in his fingers as he stepped
over to me. I reached out my hand to re-
ceive it, when lie eeized me by the throat
with both hands and had me on my back in
O second. I was no match for him in
strength. He gripped my throat so fiercely
that I had no power of resistance. Bend'
ing 0000 015, with his knee on my ehest, he
finally let up on Ids clutch and said:
"Don't be foolish, now 1 1 know you,
and rnt after those diamonds I If I can
get them without killing you all right; if
I can't I'll alit your weasand good and
d e y
nu mean to rob 010 3" I gasped.
"Certainly, and you'll show good sense
by keeping !pilot. Excuse me, libt I've got
to do this job shipshape aud Bristol fash-
ion."
He drew at winked looking knife and held
it in his teeth as he used his bands to tie me
with some stout cords taken from his par-
cel. He turned me over, took the pistol
from my hip pocket and tied my arms be.
hied me. Then he tied my ankles and roll-
ed me on my side. Why didn't I resist?
Simply because his clutch on my throat had
almost paralyzed me.
"Now for the sparklers I" he said, as he
took down my bag, searched me for the key
and opened it.
He laughed as he brought out the bottles
of dye and tossed them aside, and Ile laugh-
ed again as Ile held up the jewel case.
"A deuced fine lay out, 'pon honor I" he
chuckled, as he inspected the contents.
" The house of Laird, Williemsou & Co.
carries only the best. What's the cash
value may I ask 3"
"Bot you are a cool one 1" I said in
reply.
" Only fairly so -only fairly. I should
say .06,000 wouldn't be far out of the way,
A very pretty haul and no risk attending
it."
TM placed the jewel ease in his parcel,
lighted 0014400, and pleasantly remarked:
"fake it easy, my boy. The next stop
is North Allerton. In about ten minutes
I'll be eerier tho necessity of gagging you.
Five minutes after that I hope to leave the
train. You'll be discovered at Leeds, and
perhaps sooner, The house really ought to
stand the loss, as 114 13 no Mutt of yours.
Y ou rother tumbled to the game et Morpeth,
eh?"
I was so mad and my throat hurt me so
that I made no reply, and lie was about to
continue his remarks when tho train sud•
denly Blackened speed and a minute later
mane to a stand -still. We had been ordered
to make a special stop at a small station to
let an up train pass.
"Whet in Tuphet's name cloes this mean?"
growled the robber as he looked from the
window, '‘ Special stop, is it? My friend.
I'm about gag you, Utter one shoot and
I'll do for you with the knife I"
He'd taken a gag from his parcel when
he got the cords. BE was bendieg 0000 015
with it in his hand 'when the guard unlock-
ed the door to admit two possengers chang-
ing from an overcrowded une.
"He's a. robber 1 He's robbed me I Don't
let hitn escape I" I shouted the instant the
door opened.
"Out of tho way -I'm armed -I'll do
murder I" yelled the robber, ns he made a
break,
He would have gotten off temporarily but
for an accident. As he went through the
door he caught his foot and fell heavily on
the platform, and the three men had pluck
eureigh to seize and disarm him. And telt°
do you suppose he proved to be? No other
thon that prince of criminals known to
Scotland Yard as "Unice Goff," and a man
then wanted in half a dozen different cities,
He put up the job. The letter paper, es
was proved, wee procured for him by A,
female wallet in the house of Sir Blank.
The two mon with the carriage were ruffians
from Liverpool, who bad hired the rig at
Gateshetod and driven it to Morpeth. Both
worb nabbed, and both peached on the
"Duke," and all three got heavy contain:tea
In prison.
wonderful sanitaly arrangements Some
kinds of ante do not keep cows but live en-
tirely on gtain, Mr. Plunket gave some
facts obout their hitereeting harvesting
operationa-stating that they planted and
cultivated a kind of grass called out rice
and were so advonced in civilization that
malting wee underatood by them. Then
there are muehroom growing ants who
cultivate fungus, and othera %gain who use
umbrellas. Several species make raids on
the black ants, rob them of their larval
and compel the poor black ants to be their
slaves. In the burying of their dead ants
show wonderful intelligence, having ceme-
teries and even bury their slaves in a differ-
ent place from their masters, and are quite
up m funeral pageantry. In conclusion the
lecturer said that much could be learned
from ant life, In their wonderful govern-
ment, common brotherhood, nursing and
care of the young, temperance, and love of
fresh air,
W. F. Liesehing, writing in the new
number of the Selborne Society's Afatiatine
on ants in Ceylon, says lie saw one day a
string of ants streaming forth, evidently in
search of "pastures new." He flicked away
the 14401150 0011 waited to see the result. An
immediate halt was made by the foremost
ants Berl a scene of the utmost confusion
ensued. The ants front behind kept, arriving
at the scene of the catastrophe, and there
wes soon a black crowd of ants huddling and
jostling one another. Some detached them-
selves from the main group and took a cum
round, trying to find traces of their leader.
At last the tail end of the line arrived, and
after brief consulation they all started all
again, and a line soon began to unravel itself
from the tangled mass, moving back to tte
hole Porn which the whole company had so
lately started on "pleasure bound or labor
all intent "
God is nnt only all things to His chil-
dren whort they need him, but He is all
things ageinat Dune who rebel against Ilia
laws.
Every promise in the Bible is rt soldier
with a drown sword, reedy to light for the
011140 of Clod.
A Wonder in Eiztu'es.
Some person of a mathematical turn of
tided has discovered that the multiplication
of (387654821 (which you will observe are
simply the figures 1 to (1, inclusive, revers.
ed) by 45 give 44,444,4.14,446. Reversing
the order of the digits and multiply-
ing 1234311789 by 45 we get a
result equally as curious, viz., 5,555,-
555,505. lf we take 123456789 as
the multiplicand and interchanging the
figures in 45 so as to make them read 54,
use the last numbers as the multiplier and
the resultwill be 6,666,666,606. Return ng
to the multiplicand 947654321 and taking
54 as the multiplier again the resultwill be
53,333,333,834 -all 38 except the first and
last figures, which together read 54 -the
multiplier. Taking the same multiplicand
and 27, the half of 54, as the multiplier, the
productis 26,666,666,667, all es except the
first and last figures, which together read as
27 -the multiplier. Now interchanging the
order of the figures, 27, and using 72 in-
stead as a multiplier and 98704321 as the
multiplicand we get as aproduct 71,11 1,111,•
112, all 1001108(41 the first and last figures,
which together read 72, the multiplier.
Mathematicians and others who delight
to wade around in the realms of the curious
are well aware of the fact thet there are
many wonders to be met with on every
hand, but 10 (0 doubtful if there is a better
illustration of the trite saying 0 " Figures
will work wonders," than that given above.
The Norse in Battle.
When it (tomes to a battle, a horse
seems to know everything that is going
on; but he does Ins duty nobly, and seema
to be in his element. He enters into the
spirit of the battle like a human being. He
shows no fear of death r and it is singular
that, if his mate is shot down, he will turn
to look at him, and seem pleased. A horse
in my battery was once struck by a piece of
shell, which split his skull. The driver
turned him loose, but he walked up to the
side of the gun and watched the firing, and,
when the shot Wee fired, would look away
in tam direction of the enemy, as if to see
the effect of the shot. When a shell would
burst near by he would calmly turn and
look at it. When he saw his own team go-
ing back for ammunition he ran book to Ills
own place and galloped back to the caissons
with the rest. When the lieutenant push.
ed him aside to put in another home he
looked ot the ether sorrowfully while he
was being harnessed up, and when he seem-
erl to realize thot there was no further use
for him he lay down aud died. The neaten.
ant strongly asserted that be dted of a
broken heart.
Your Legions of Ancestors.
Did you ever stop to think how teeny
male and female ancestors were required to
bring you into the world ? Let us reoson
together on this subject an* see if we can-
not prove it to be a most curious and inter-
esting theme to write tind talk about. First,
it WM very necessary that you should have
a fother anti a mother -that makes two
huinan beings. Each of them must have
had a father and a mother, that makes four
more Minton beings. Then, again, each of
these four had a father mid a mother, mak-
ing eight more representatives of God's
greatest handiwork. So wo go on back to
the birth of Christ, or through flity.six gen.
era dons in all. The result of such a calcu-
lation, which can be made in 0 few minutes
by any school child, will show that 130,
235,017,489,534,970 births must have taken
place in order to bring you into this world,
Yes, you who read these lines. All this,
too, since the beginning of the -Christian
era, not since the beginning of time, by
any means. According to Proctor, if from
O single pair for 5,000 years eaoh husband
and wife had married at 21 years of tige and
there bad been no deaths the population of
the earth would now be 2,1 i19,91 5, follows:A
by 144 :dithers Verily, the human mind
shrinks from contemplating smell immense
numbers.
Took Her at Her Word.
"Maria," said the stnlwart young man as
lie gazed ardently as the blushing little
fairy girl by hiS side, "do you really and
truly Iove 5140 '1"
"Far more than life itself, dear George,"
was the contest reply. "1 would even go
through fire and water for you if it were
necessary."
" Make no rah promise in regnrcl to
water,Maria, unless you MI/ swim," rejoin.
ed the noble young man in fond and loving
tones, " Stit in regard to Ore, if yen aro
perfeetly willing to promise me that even
on cold, wintry mornings you will not
hesitate to get Isp eorly and wrestle
with it, I will stnninon up courage 04100911
to ask you to bectome my wife,"
.And them just for tho privilege of going
through life 'with this sxnclitsg masculine
.glan t of 01010, 'kleria promise
LOOK INSIDE YOUR WATLa
Iltviraordinary Parts in Conner:10n Wills
the Tim efoleee or I:vend:0
Open your watch and look 01 1)18 Illtdor
wheels, spritigs, and screws, each an
pensable part of the wholct wouderful nun
chine. Native the busy little belunce wheel
se it flies to and fro unueasingly, day and
night, year 111 and year out. This wonder.
ful little mochine ie the result of hundreds
of years of study curl experiment. Thu
watch oar ied by the average man is cent -
posed of 98 pieces, and its mo»ufacture ern.
bracers more than 2,000 distinct and separate
operations. 8ome of the smallest t twelve are
so minute that the unaided eye connot dis-
tinguish them from steel fillings or epeeks
of dirt. Under a ,powerful magnifying,
glass a perfect screw is revealed. The slit,
10 the head is 2.1,000 of an inch tvide, 30,
takes 308,000 of them screws to weigh ac
pound, and 8(40111111 is worth 01,1'85. The
hair.spring is a strip of the finest steel.
about Inches log and 3.100 high wide
and 27-10,000 inch thick. It 10 coiled upint
spiral form, and finely tempered. The pro.
cess of tempering these spriugs was long
held as a secret by the few fortunate ones
possessing it, and even now is not g,enerally
known. Their manufacture requires street
skill and care. The strip is gauged to 20-
1,000 of an inch, but no measuring instru-
ment has as yet been devised capable of
(Inc enough ganging to determine before-
hand by the size of the strip what the
strength of the finished spring will ha. A.
1-20,000 part of an inch different in the
thickness of the strip makes a differe tog im
the running uf a watch of tobout six minutes;
per hour.
The value of these springs, when finished
and placed in watches, is enormous in pro-
portion to the inatetial from which they are
made. A comparison will give a good idea.
A ton of steel tnade up into brur•springs
when in watches is worth more thou twelve
and one-half times tne value of the same
weight of pure gold. Hair•spring wire
weighs one -twentieth of a grain to theincla.
One mile of wire weighs less than half a,
pound. The bahnice gives five vibrations
every second, 300 every minute, 18,00(0.
every hour, 432,000 every (boy, and 57,-
680,000 every year, At, each vibration it,
rotates about one and one-fourth timesh
which makes 197,100,000 revolutions every
year. In order that we may better under-
stand the stupendous amount of labour per-
formed by these tiny works let us make s.
few comparieons. Take, for illustration, as
locomotive with six-foot driving wheels.
Let its wheels be run until they have given,
the same number of revolutions that At
Watell does in one year, and they will have
00001 ed o distance equal to twenty-eight
complete circuits of the earth. All this a.
watch does without other attention than
winding once every twenty-four hours.
How Women Should Read.
A womon who wishes to be cultivate ;I
will always have a systematic course a
reading on band, which she will follow int
its different bearings, and she will be oes re-
ful not to waste her time with second-rate
or inferior books. She will also have many
interests and an open mind, and any kn owl -
edge she can gather will be assimilated aud
stored for further, use. Cultured women
"000 more than usually mone to take
-
pleasure in the beauty and (-der of their
honses and to love flowers and animals and
everything which the typical Eve should
bring about her to 'dress and keep ' the
garden of home." In conversation her in-
fluence is always elevating, and as it rare] y
000500 10 her to discuss her neighbours -her
mind being filled with more interesting
topics -she is far removed from all thet
wretched scandal that little minds delight
in. She will possess, too, the power of be,
ing an interested and intelligent listener..
To cease when she has no more 0.0 007 15 0550<
thing the cultivated woman will have learnt„
and a true estimate of her powers will keep
her from expressing an opinion on subject
with which she is inadequately acquainted..
She will be free, too, from that dogreatie
narrow-mindedness which is the inheritance'
of the ignorant, and will have acquired the'
blessed wisdom of holding her judgment is
suspensiou on subjects on which our finite
minds can sever know the whole. 13y the'
wide range of her ideas she will be deliver-
ed from prejudice and intolerance, and will
respect the opinions of others, however'
tnuch they may differ from her own. Then;..
again, culture brings a woman " iuto touch
with a for larger number of her follow.be.
Inge, and therefore greatly inereaees her
power of usefulness; for, though an uncul-
tured woman may do valuable work in the
world, yet she can have little influence
over those in her own position, except in so.
for no her intrinsic goodness influences.,
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to meals, I lut've to eat here,"
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