The Wingham Advance, 1909-08-26, Page 3New English -Speaking World
Nation Forming in Africa.
In 1902, the close a a bitter, bloody
war, Great Britain haa the two aturdy
Dutch republics, Orange Free State and
the Tennevaal, down and helpless. There
followed much diouselon in parliament
fiato how they should be ruled in the
future,
A sportsraanlike and generous policy
prevailed. The two republice were ac-
cepted air colonies and allowed to govern
themselves„
And now Greet Britain receiveher
reward,
For out of fax South .Africa is being
forged a great new British nation—a
=nation nearly as populous as all Canada,
a nation of English and Dutch working
together, It's the new jewel a the Bri-
tish crown.
English Cape Colony and Natal and
.1:Mt& Transvaal and Orange Free
State have joinme-to form one country.
They have Agreed on a constitution and
laid it before the imperial parliament.
As soon as parlitiment can dispose of
the budget and its tariff arguments, the
constitation will cloubtlass be ratified
parts of Cape Colony, etre Ravage and
(lowly iporant, unworthy to be in-
trusted with self goveruntent. They
were Kaffirs and Zulus.
Here's the way the wet constitution
aoired the problem: •
No restriction as regards color were
placed in the constitution. Bat certain
qualifications as to property holding
and education mead° all Weeks except
the 'better class in Cape Coleiny.
Also four aenatora and representa-
tives are to be appointed iu the general
assembly who will be specially the le-
presentatives of the blacks. • They shall
be men who are clovely in touch with
tbe needle end interests of the black peo-
ple hi the uew eolony, They shall re-
commena measures for theux to the as-
semblies.
Another peculiar problem ban to be
met by the framers of the constitution
—a eapital. .M1 the chief cities of the
colonies wanted it, of course. $o it was
divided. The seat of executive govern.
anent was placed at Pretoria, the old
capital of the Transvaal, the seat of
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'THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA. SHOW N IN HEAVY DOTTED LINES. AND
TWO MEN WHO HAVE WORKED TO CREATE IT. DR. JAMESON ON Vie!
RIGHT AND GEN. BOTHA ON THE LEFT.
—
and the new nation will begin its formal
existence.
And the significant big thing about
the constitution—apart from the fact
that the colonies linve agreed voluntar-
ily on the union—i.e. the power that the
'colonists place in the English govern -
anent.
England may appoint the governor -
:general of the new colony, which is to
lbe called South Africa. The governor -
;general will get $50,000 a year.
This governor-general apopints admin-
5strators who shall be the executive of -
Mors for each of the four colonies.
The governor-general names eight of
alio forty senators, who serve ten years.
The provincial administrators name the
game percentage of the provincial as-.
Isemblies.
No bill or resolution canebe passed by
either the cblonial or the provincial as-
semblies without being recommended
first by the governor-geenral or the ad-
ministrators.
This vesting of power in the English
government by the colonies is Britain's
returns from—her investment of confi-
dence and generosity to the conquered
republics in 1902.
Another significant thing appears in
Ithe South African constitution—the dis-
;position of the negro problem.
That South Africa, has a negro prob.
Ileni is shown In the percentage of .black
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population among the four colonies. In
some places they outnumber the Whites
ten to one.
The problem there was much 'more
serious than ir the United States. Also
from the,factthat the .blacles, except in
legislative governmetit. at Cape Town,
and the seat of the judiciary at Bloem-
fontein, capital of the' old Orange Free
State."
This arrangement—new in govern-
ment—allayed many local jealousies.
In coming to the agreement about
forming the new colony, there was a
long debate. Part of the people wanted
a loose federation. The rest wanted a
real uniofi with a centralized govern-
nient. The 'advocates of the latter plan
won.
In reaching the agreement the men
who had fought each other bitterly with
gnus and bayonets ten years ago, work-
ed hand-in-hand for the common good.
The impetuous. Dr. Jameson. whose spec-
tacular raid set the firm of the Boer
war, and. latterly president or premier
of Cape Colony, worked with General
Botha, who fought the British so bit-
tealy in the war.
"It's for file bigger South Africa,"
they say; "the South Africa of which
Cecil Rhodes dreamed."
For Cecil Rhodes is now regarded as a
prophet.
THE CAROLINE.
4"ilashey as She is Wrote" by
\Grace Carew Sheldon.
(Buffalo Times.)
Capt. Wells put the "Caroline" at
ferrying people back and forth from
Fort Schlosser to Navy Island, which he
considered a good money-znaking ven-
tuna The captain started honest, bub
.he gave in to the inducenients offered
;him, so history says, by the belligerents,
who were disgruntled. men from both
(Canada, and the States, and ise 1837 it
` Tag rumored that the island held 7,000
.'of these gathering retainers, and that
lho was taking them supplies.
The United States, along the borders
ref lake Erie Was not idle, as it had fine
eamvanies of militia in training, .coin -
Jimmied by General David Burt. The
Wan British also, built a gunboat, 'the
"Menge in Chippewa Creek, and the
Englietle ..N.avy was called on to supply
mon for at. Capt. Drew, R. N., was one
of the office"
At this time the commander of Cart-
,ada's militia, forces was Col. Alan Mac -
:Nab, of Hamilton, Canada, and he or-
idered the capture and destructiot of
ttho "Caroline" by a flotilla of yawl
boats, under Oapt. Drew, at midnight
on Deo. 29, 1837. Ris orders were to
spare no' one. Approaching the peace-
ful "Caroline," they. answered "Friends"
to the watchman who called out, "Who
goes ahere?" Springing like wild cats
upon the "Caroline's" decks, they mur-
dered the sleeping men, only two of
*whom escaped, being great heroes, but
-who were fearfully wounded. They were
aware. Capt. Gianau Appelby and Cepa
eChartee Harding, who carried a Otiose
• Wound on his 'temple to the grave. But
for these tvso alert men, not a oul would
eltave spry:wee to describe the dastardly
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INNOMMINVIIEMIMOINAIMWOMotrywNORNOIMI•la
fatality, of which the war ery of the
perpetrators was, "No quarter. Rill the
d --d Yankees."
Twenty-five or more raen, some quite
unattached to the "Caroline's" crew, .as
passengers often. took a night's lodging
upon ]ler fin want of a hotel at Schlos-
ser, were murdered in their sleep, and
the hawsers out, the ship ignited and
sent adrift to pas sever the Cataract of
Niagara, and not ono of Capt. Drew's
men were wounded, showing that no re-
sistance was made.
:A. prominent Buffalonian named Dur -
fee was discovered in the morning with
a bullet in his brain lying prone on the
wharf. MoNab was knighted and Drew
given a Post Captaincy in the British
Navy for their prowess.
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Ire who usesI:leiklegs is thereby en-
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M the more lyric. Ire wits among the
first of Anglo-Saxon blood to sing the
open road.—New York Evening Poet.
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where feminine beauty is concerned."
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A • NEW DETECTIVE,
Catching Thieves - by Machine the
Latest Trilling.
The eleptemaaph, a.s may be inferred
from its name, is an apparatus for the
recording of theft, wince' automaticaaly
photographs those who break into offiee
or house and accurately regiete.rs the
hour of their visit.
The room to be peoteeeed by the elep.
tograph contains a system of wires and
wallets that are properly' distributed
over the windows, doors, settee, etc., be-
hig connected with all objects a value.
As soon as a strauger penetrates the
room, a photographic camera, under the
action of some contact, involunieuely
and uneonscoiusly touched by the per-
son will direct 'Waif aueomatically to-
wards the contact, that is, towards the
thief, and, after having opened the ob-
jective shutter, will ignite the magnes-
hun powder intended to supply • the
Ala,shlight, and again close the oejeetive
after the view has been taken, le el ex-
change the film, get a new portion of
powder toady 'and register the exact
hour.
The whole of these divers operations
is completed in less time than is requir-
ed to deaeribe it, the apparatus being
immediately ready for taking another
view, eis. soon as the intruder touches
some other contact, and so on. Like an
invisible detective,the cleptogeaph elms
follows any motions of the thief, in or-
der to prepare a set of authentic and.
irrefutable documents, to assist the po-
llee in their search for the crerninel.
The current required fr working the
apparatus is either half of that of an or-
dinary battery or—alter due reduotien
through proper resistaaces—the current
derived from the electric mains. Being
enclosed in a box entirely hidden from
the burglar, the cleptograph cannot pos-
sibly be harmed by the latter.—From
"Machine Identifies Thieves," in Sep-
tember Technical World Magazine.
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4 • •
Tommie's Manners.
Father—"My son, will you have tart
or custard for desert?"
Tommie (briefly)—"Tart."
loather (encouragingly hoping to re-
call the boy's manners—"Tart, what?"
Tommie (triumphantly) — "Tart,
fiat."
That Was Something.
He liad never ben to sea before.
"Can you keep anything on your
stomach?" the ship doctor asked.
"No sir," he returned feebly, gnoth,
Ing but my hand."—Success Maga-
zine.
MANY .MASTERPIECES
Of Greatest Geniuses Preilueea
Late in Life;
(By Ada May Ii.recker.)
Inen hare' Me world's chief. \Yorke
and thinkers performed their greats
achievementa? AVitat is the ago of me
tal virility"?
Prof. Osier, not long, ago, in his no
able address, said:
"Take the sum tn
of buau achieyeme
in action, in seienee, ill art, in litel
ture; subtract the work of the m
above 40, and while we should mi
great treasures, mien priceless treasur
we would praetically be where we a
to -day. It is diefieult to .name a gre
and far reaching eonquest of the mil
whieh has not been given to the wor
by a man on whose back the sun )1?
still shining. The effective, inoring, VI
alizing work of the world. le done b
tween the ages of 23 and 40.'
W. A. Newman Dorland hits made pr
louged Scientific investigations, lend fin(
no 40' or 53- year "dead line." Ile abo
ishes the "dead line" and establishes
"live hue" with undreanied-of possibil
tie still ahead, He produees abundei
evidence for the conclusion that it
the mature genius that has re\olutio
ized the world.
Mr, Dorland points to the records o
40 men famous in all lines of intellectu
activity. They fall into two mai
groups, the thipkers and the workers. I
the first .class are found philosophei
and natural scientists; in the soon
those whose intellectual aetivities cu
minated in some practical and visibl
application of their Brice of thought—
inventors end
MERE ENUMERATION' AN' INSPIRA
TION.
"Merely to enumerate the names o
these distinguished men," says Mr. Doi
land, "becomes an inspiration. Involute
tarily we doff our hats and. with rever
ent mien note the procession as it passe
before us, a magnificent array of geniu
and mentality."
The records give an average ago of 5
years as the time for the performane
of the naster-work. For the worker
the average, age is 47 years, and for th
thinkers, 52 year's,
Chemists and. physicians average 41
dramatists and playwrights, poets an
inventors, follow at 44 years; novelist
give an average 48 years: explorers an
warriors, 47 years; musical composer
and actors'average .48 years; artists and
divines occupy the position of equiiibri
um at 60 years; essayists and reform
ers at 51 years; physicians anll surgeons
line up witk the qtatesmen at 52 years;
philosophers give an aveeage of 54 years;
astronomers and mathematicians, setae
ists and humorists reach an average of
56 years; historians 67 yore; anl nat-
uralises and jurists average at 58 years.
This average age of 50 years for the
masterwork is seen to be mielerieing
wben it es remembered that the 400 hves
analyzed include ninny that were snuff-
ed out prematurely. Ilyron, Shelley,
Keats, Poe, Mungo Park, Christopher
Marlowe, and Thomas Chatterton, and
many more, completed their life work
before the ego of 4.0 years.
Mr, Dorland concludes thathad these
men rounded out lifetimes of 50, 60 or
71 years, they would, have dene es en
better work than that already acorn-
plished. He believes that these men had
only begun to show the wonderful pbssi-
bilities of their minds, and had they
been permitted to live longer, doubtless
still greater and more brilliant achieve-
ments of mentality would have been
placed to their credit. . It is probable
the t tben the average Age of the mas-
terpiece would be nearer 00 than 50
years.
FORTY 'YEARS THE AVERAGE,
The figures regarding the duration of
mental activity in these 400 records are
most interesting. The average is fame
to be 40 years. For the thinkers it was
39 years, and'for the workers -41 years.
For the poets, satirists, and humorists
reformers, novelists: dramatists and
playwrights show a duration of 35 years
and essayists 40 years. Musical compos-
ers show 41 years, while actors and trt-
iste average 42 years. Hiseerians and
divines average 43 years, jurists 44
years, and naturalists 45 years. Physi-
cians and surgeons strike an average at
46 years; astronomers and mathemati-
cians 47 years, and inventors 49 years.
While in the vast majority of cases it
WLIB found that decliningphysical and
mental aebilitY progresses with equal
pace to the end of life, there looms up
some striking instences of remarkable
mental vitality and virility, standing
out, like beacon lights of hope, far be-
yond the period of normal decay.
VANDERBILT A "WIZARD" AT 80.
In the World of commerce Commodore
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PLITNAM'S PAINLESS
-CORN EXTRACTOR
VundeThlirxii about SO rare of age,
Met...used the mileage of 8 road from
120 to 10,000 miles, and added :about
one hundred millions to his fortune.
Grote, in his 71st year, began hiss -work
on ".Arietotle," and sail at this period.:
"I tun sure that My inn -Sleet is as good
as it ever was,"
Handel, at 72, blind for the Met six
:1*Pare of bia Ms composed his,oretorio.
"Tlhnnph of Time and Trust," and died
at 74, working until the last.
Wordsworth was appointed to the
laureat vhip at 73, and lived to see hie
eielitieth birthday.
Galileo, at 73, made hie last telescopic
discovery, and Thiers, at the same ago,
established the 14ienc1i republic and he -
came president,
Verdi at 74 produced bis masterpiece,
"Mello," and in his eightieth veal; wrote
"Falstef fe which was equally brilliant.
Holmes et 74 publiehed his medical es-
says, at ID published "Over the Tea-
cups," and died at the ripe age of 83
years.
Longfellow at , 75 wrote Ms imposing
meditation, "Hermes Trismegistus." At
the same floe Disraeli published bis
"Amenities of Literatnre," it three col-
a= work. and that notwithstanding
total blindness for three years preced-
ing,
SOME "MERE YOUTHS" AT 75.
Hwy Clay at 70 was still a leader,
Bismarck was forced • from the chancel-
lorship,. and Thurman at the same age
was nominated, for the vice-presidency
of the United States,
Humboldt postponed until hisseven-
ty-sixth yea] the beginning of the
crowning task of his life, the "Como,"
which he successfully completed in his
ninetieth year.
Laplace, dying at 78, said with his
last breath: "Mat we know is meth,
ing; what we do not know is immense."
Browning weote with undiminished
vigor until his death ne 77.
Joseph. Jefferson was as effective in
his roles at 75 as when at the height Of
his physical power, •
In this galaxy aresnot wanting the
names of octogenarians. Cato at this
age began the study of Greek, Plutarch
begin his first lessons in Latin, and So-
crates learned.- to piny on musical in-
struments. Gladstone beegan his great
Midlothian campaign at 80, and became
premier for the fourth time at 83.
Goethe completed "Faust" at the same
age. Hahnemann umerien at 80 and was
woiking at 91. Tennyson at 8a gave the
world one of the most beautiful seven
songs in his "Crossing the Bar."
joh.11 Wesley at ieS preached almost
erery day' and still held the held �f
Methodism. Pope Leo MIL showed no
signs of intellectual decrepitude when he
died at 93. Cheoraul, the great fitientist,
was busy, keen and active when death
called him at the age of 103.
HOT 'WEATHER MONTHS
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•
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A Chicken Stealing Bear.
annjdt:
•I •
Quiney, Saturday evening, shot
killed a good sized Wok bear just
within ...the city limits and adjoining
Point Grey. By dint of hard work and
a, novel arrangement of a bicycle- bruit(
was crusted from the bush where he was
found dead this morning a mile dowa
the dusty road to Qniney's home.
The animal measures over four feet
in length and weighs over two hundred
pounds. It had been stealing chickens
and giving trouble for a 'year past.—
Vancouver eorrespondence Portland Ore-
gonian.
Many a man blesses the food .who
doesn't pay the butcher,
WHY DOGS GO MAD WHEN CHILDREN DON'T
Hero is a powerful story in a pieture.
These dreadful summer days make all nature yearn
thing in the world is water!"
Altman beings, ehildren especially, who exist in the
from the heat and burning dust through copious draughts
their ealyation.
But not a ,it less do animal:I crave water et ree's
hilvo4nis•II5144 3.4 A•41 44..5 fhl4tIf '111141, tr,+
for water. As doctors will tell you, "The grett4st
bake -oven streets of the rifles, get quickest relief
( f refreshing water. In the torrid season it is
tsr.i An1 uf ell intl.:lat., does aro the most
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HOW TO HANDLE. scAst.
MANURE,
Farmers generally do not realize
that the pungent but*invisible, gas
that escapee front the manure heap
18 the most valuable constituent. This
gas is cometantly being fornieil so long
as the manure lies in moist heaps,
and is as constantly musing from the
heaps into the air. The drying of the
manure takes away front it only water,
leaving all tile actual plant food be-
hind. The complete removal of the
water will leave the manure in bet-
bteorforecto.nditien for preservation than
The decomposition of barnyard man-
ure can only take place in the pres-
ence of moistore, and if we can with-
draw all moisture the residue will
Preserve ts fertilizing qualitiea indef.
initely „and when moieture is ewer,
ated from the manure heap it carries
with it none of its fertilizing qualftles,
but goes into the atmosphere simply
as watery vapor,.
There are only two ways in which
manure loses its value. One is by
leaching by rain, and the other by
heating, whidli accompanies* chemical
action. 'When the menure is heaped
in the field, or elsewliere.in the open,
both these agencies' begin their work.
The rain falls upon the heap, and
washes its more soluble andvaluableconstituents into the ground Immed-
iately under and around the heap,
and bacterial action begins in the
heap, freeing its nitrogen and turn.
ing its phosphorus and potassium into
more soluble forms, to be washed
down, by tie next shower.
About the most wasteful method of
handling manure is the eld one of
putting .it into small heaps in the
barnyard. *Fully half the potential
fertilizing value of the manure, as it
s vowed by the animal, is found in
the salts dissolved in the liquid pos.,
tion; the full effect of ,neither the
solid nor the liquid portion can be
realized except when used in connec-
tion with each other. When the
inuid is allowed to flow away in the
table or yard, or where it is dis-
placed by raln and separated from the
olid portion, whether in the- yard or
ield, it carries with it these fertile
zing salts, but when it is merely
vaporated they are left behind and
till combined with those of the solid
potionb.
The eat way
to handle manure le
obcoelnetetzt atphreealitiquiitd abty oanbaeunidaarasto ales-
orerfectly even as possible, and al,
ow the sunshine and rain to do their
vork. Sunshine will evaporate the
eater, but that. is all, and the rain
vhich, follows will redissolve the salts
nd wash them into the entire surface
f the soil, where they are needed,
nd not simply into little spots here
nd there. Understanding* the nature
nd value of manure, the need of
ho'rough distribution becalms appar-
nt. When 14 18 spread with the fork
here will inevitably be lumps in one
lace and bare spots in. another, thus
osing part of the 'possible effect in
ne place by excess and in another,
y' deficiency. This requires to be
uarded against. •
The liquids contain the richest and
est soluble parts of the manure_
he only parts, in fact, that are cone,
letely digested. The solid drop.
ings do not muse any quick growth,
ecatme they are not only low in
itrogen, but what they de contain
f this element Is not soluble, and
hue cannot force growth at once. Nit.
ogen is fou,nd in our fertilizing ma -
rials in three forms—nitrate, am-
onia and organic. The first is the
oluble form, in which plants use
eir element. The others are changed
are or leas slowly into the nkrate
rInso141thtloerltfoormii
quids from a cow
ere ere 12 pounds of nitrogen. As
trate of soda contains 16 per cent.
nitrogen, the liquid maniere is as
rong as a solution of 75 pounds of
trate in 1,925 pounds of 'water. If
e consider the potash in the liquid
enure, a barrel of water of 40 gals
ns, weighing .325 pounds, if made
ual in strength of the liquid, would
ntain about 12 pounds of nitrate of
da an
d seven pounds of muriate of
faith. While this would force crops
ink of pouring mrdwdwoiwdiwdod
sprinkled evenly, no one- would
ink of pouring out by 'the pailful:
The following table shows the mime
r of pounds of nitrogen, phosphorie
id and .potash in. a ton of fresh
ins from' horses, cattle, sheep and
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Nitrogen. acid. Potash.
Swine ... 9 2 10
These figures also show that the
great value of stable manure lies in
the liquid parts. Practically all the
potash is passed in the liquid form,
and the most useful part of ni4re,
• CONDITIONS OF TUE CROPS.
yields of the greet cereals this year
are at a bumper record; the final de-
termination will he required to give it
first or second place with the leMse who
wheat, coin arid oats ere recorded by
the Agricultural Deportment aggregat-
ed 4,627,009,000 bushels. The yield of
wheat per acre was only (weeded once
48 recent yore, the egferegetei of 735,-
049,000 fells little below the 1906 crop
of 70,263,000 Mulch, which was the
second largest orop ever gathered, the
record beiug made in 1901, when 748,-
000,000 took the edge off a poor eon
yield. The effect of this great drop
coating after two years of small yields
has Annulated business es elsewhere re-
counted; it comes in time to replenish
the depleted stooks on farms, graneties,
elevetore, mills, warehouses and dome.
The returns are the more gratifying be-
cause the year opened unpropitiosly.—
"Crop and Business Repot" of the Com -
Menial National 13ank of Chicago.
PROSPERITY IN Siegel'.
It is no longer necessary to speak
In cautious terms of faint and scattered
signs of iiidustrial revival. The evi-
dece of improving conditions is too abun-
dant and conclusive to be gainsaid. Tho
MoVement has developed to rapidly dur-
ing the lot three months, and how in -
eludes 80 many lines and lase gained
suelt momentum that, with fundamental
conditions all favorable, a relapse is no
longer to be feared. The industriee of
Modern society a1 so inter -dependent
that starting the nmehinery fVOla a state
of inaction is like starting all eight.
horse team; it is difficult at first to get
them pulling together, hut when they
have gained momentum even the lagging
Members are wept ihto line and are
aeon keeping 'atop and piffling their
share of the load.
All of the signs that denote rising
prosperity and ell Jim conditions pre-
cedent are At heed: The wreckage of
the petite has been cleared Away; the
apprehensions which it arointed have
dIsatmeared. and our Week 8.0 ftteine
The only radical and
lasting, cure for Hay
Fever, 'jay Asthma &
Bronchitis is
CATABRHOZONE
Other remedies may afford temporary
relief, but Vatarhozone ems flay
Aver so that it will never' return. It
is guaranteed to do this, and should it
fail your money will be refumled. .
Two menthe' treatment, price $1.00;
trial slave 00e. All Druggists or the
Catarrhozone Company, Kingston, Ont.,
and Buffalo. N. Y.
a_et
the future with an optimism and cour.
age born of knowledge of the wonder-
ful resources of this country. Shelves
are bare of surplus goods and the Own,
try has grown up to elite facilitiea and
?quipment. At this opportune time to
inaugurate a new era of prosperity
comes the best all-round crop ever pro-
duced .in this country.—Crop and Busi-
ness Report of the Commercial National
Bank of Chicago:
TELLS' FARMERS HOW TO APPLY
LIME TO SOIL.
Going oa the assumption that progres-
sive Jersey farmers .1/114 truckers are
open for ettgestions in ways of income
big the productiveness of their land Dr.
Edward B. Voorhees,' head, of ehe New
Jersey agricultural experiment station,
isi a pamphlet he has just issued recom-
mends the yeerly application of lime.
It is shown that through a lack of
lime the growth of crops has become los
satisfactory, clover has failed to be pro-
ductive in many instances, and even oats
and corn liaxe not given profitable re-
turns,
"Farmers are puzzled at times," he
epos on, "es to the best way of supply -
mg the needed lime. They have offered
to them various kinds of burned. and
crushed limestone, burned or crushed
oyster shells, beeproeucts from factories.
and gas plants centaining quantities of
iime.
"The object of liming is made mbre
complicated still by the chemical com-
position and inarket values' of the dif-
ferent limes. Some limes can be bought
for halPthe price of others, yet we know
that the lime with the lowest selling
price is not necessarily the cheape,st, nor
edthartoellaeost.I.va
i,t,ilni the highest oiling price tbe
is it more detailed outline of
his euggestions with regard to the use of
time:
"In reclaiming swamps or very acid
clay soils it may be necessary to apply
three or four tons, at times even more,
of water alaked cm air slaked lime to
make the land fit for the vigorous
growth of cultivated crops.
"einem' such eircumstances it will al-
eveys be wise to add enough lime in the
first place to correct the existing acidity.
In other aoils the amounts required are
iriuch smeller. In heavy clay soils, not
markedly aeidS.2,000 to 2,500 pounds of
water slaked lime applied epee in five
years will prove aufficient. Similarly
1,500 to 2,000 , poundsmay be recom-
mendea for loam soils and 1,000 to 1,500
pounds for light sandy soils. Where air
slaked lime, crushed limestone or oyster
shells are used the quantities may be
safely increased by one-quarter or one-
third, and where alfalfa is to be estab-
lished. by one-half or more,
."Insteaa of applying the quantities
just indicated onee in Live yeaza we may
apply correspondingly smaller amounts
once in two years, or even annually. The
advantage of the smaller and more, fre-
quent applications lies in the fact that
the soil is not allowed to become so
markedly deficient in lime,e as it some-
times becomes in five or six years under
intensive methods of cultivation. Fur-
thermore, the smaller quantities may be
readily distributed by means of the fer-
tilizer drill without &relying nauch ad-
ditional labor.
"As to the time of application, the
farmer may consult his convenience in
tide eespect. The lime may be spread on
sod or on fall plowed ground in the late
fall or winter, it may be spread and
barrowed into the soil in the early
spring or it may be distributed by means
of the fertilizer drill shortly before seed-
eIt is only flowery to remember in
this connection that lime Should not be
spread on top of heavy dressings of fresh
manure, nor mixed with fertilizer con-
taining acid phosphate or salts of am-
monia. Moreover, it would be best not
to lime the lead immediately before the
planting of the potato crop, lest the de-
velopment oapotato scab be encouraged,
but preferablyhartesed, on the crop after potatoes
re
"Pinally, it mie, be urged again that
the farmer will find it profitable to ap-
ply generous quantities of lime to his
land; that he will find the cheapeet
pouree of supply in materials containing
the largest amount of Waal lime (or of
actual lime and magnesia) for the given
price; that he should apply his lime in
• 0. fine state of division, and that, when
the land is no longer markedly acid,
small applications at frequent intervals
'will give ssiore tatisfactory returns than
large applications at longer intervals."
Frog Industry In France.
It is in France that the frog was first
generally used for food, and it is in that
country that the indrietry of frog farm-
• ing has been most largely developed.
The green frog exists abundantly
throughout Prance wherever there are
marshes, ponds or sedgy margins Of
rivers or bays that contain fresh or
slightly bratkish water.
The best outfit for frog raising is one
ear niore shallow ponds or reservoirs
filled with grasses' and other water
plants, It should be so «Heated that
the water ean be partially 'drawn off
Sd as to facilitate the labor of catching.
ef, 46 is often the ease, the pond aiready
abounds in frogs, they are simply' pro-
teetea and bit for a year or two to
propagate. If feext does not prove
abundant, the owner throws in live
earthworms, as the frog is a eatinivor-
ous animal, and prefers the food, whe-
ther worms, lervae or insects, froth and •
in normal, living eondition. If ho frogs
exist in the water they are planted,
either living or in the form of eggs,
width hatch when the water beeomes
warm in April.—Popular Mochanies.
Origin of Sailors' ooliges.
In the course of an after dinner ehat
recorded ixt Sir Algernon West's "Iteeol.
lections," the late Admiral Sir liarry
ICeppel, who served in the navy under
The pigtails dkappeared, bue the col-
lars worn by sailors had their origin in
the dresaittg of the pigtailswhichSir
Ifarry reeollectett being in use—whenit
blue eloth Wits put on the inen'et shoul.
ilea to keep the grease off their jaekete,
The pigtalle diettpepared, but the _col-
lars remain to. this day,--Liondoa
The United States appraisers at New
Xork have decided that personal effects,
in order to miter free, muet accompany
the owner.
The 1..*nited States 'tariff on salt bas
been reduced one cent on it hundred
Pounds, Now you ean anent salt in
your porridge wlon you breakfast with
rSam.
Japan's foreign trade in 1008 decreased
about 855,000,000 or 12 per cent., as com-
pered with that 01 448 preceding year.
The Chinese boycott' is said to have had
considerable to do •tvitit this decrease.
The trade of the British Empire with
Japan is about one-third of the total.
.
Kitchener has been made a Field Mar-
shal, and to him will probably be en.
trusted important work intended to
bring about the co-ordination of the
defence forces of the empire. Ile will
proeebly visit and familiarize Iiiniself
with the defence forces of the various
British nations.
According to the C. N. R. reports, the
Saskatchewan harvest has already be-
gun. Some whet has been cut around
Saskatoon, and cutting is expected to be
general about the end of the week. In
some parts, 'however, the orop is backs
ward and cutting will be late, A good
average crop is expected.
Say not that the spirit of oratory is
lie more—that the press has (superseded,
the forum. In the Connecticut Legislas
titre the other day a member deseribed
the cracking of the party whip by the
House leader as "the hoof-beate of an
ass striking upon the strings of a sacred
harp."
The Greek flag which was run up oz
the Cretan nsilitary barracks on the eve -
citation of the islaed by the internation-
al troops, has been lowered, following
the note of the Powers. This action of
Greece will probably, for the time being,
avert a conflict, and meanwhile the fu-
ture of Crete will become an internation-
al question.
There is no blinking the fact of here&
ity, and it must be considered and. given
its full value. But it is possible to over-
estimate it. The rogues' galleries of
Scotland' Yard, Chicago and New York
are said to show no. instance of father
and son crooks being on file there. Can
it be that the miserable life of a crime.
nal parent tuts it deteraent effect on the
London, Eng., hotels are in the midst
of their season,, and. much difficulty is
found in accommodating the rush of
visitors. It is said to be a record sea-
son. The London Daily Mail presents
the • following 'statement of where the
hotel population comes from in a table
drawn up by it manager:
America .. 30 per cent.
Continent .. 30 per cent.
England,. 25 per cent.
Colonies.. ... ..... . . 15 per cent.
-OA.
One of the big life insurance com-
panies of the United States is planning
to buy 3,000 acres of land and establish
se sanitarium for the treatment of its
policy -holders affected with tuberculosis.
The company is willing to spend $100-
Q00 a year in this limner. It asserts
that one of its policy -holders dies every
32 minutes because of tuberculosis. An-
other company says it pays out more
than $800,000 it year in death claims
on account, of the same disease.
• •
The Vancouver Colonist makes the
statement that on Vancouver Island and
the islands immediately adjacent to it
there is standing to -day sufficient mer-
chantable timber to simply one billion
feet annuelly ter the next hundred years
for shipment over railways. That is an
enormous amount of potential wealth,
if properly protected from fire, and by
hieelligent regulations as to cutting,
this timber may be more to British Co-
lumbia, many times over, than all her
gold and silver mines,
•Tho greet efforts made to turn Thaw
boos upon a suffering world have failed.
He has bon adjudged to be insane, and
remanded to the asylum, where he will
probably spend the remainder of hia.
worthless life. Next to being sent to
the electric chair, this result is probably
the best that could have been hoped
for. To some extent .the laws of the
State of New York have been vindicated.
It is, at least satisfactory to
know that the wealth which was relied
upon to inake murder safe in Thaw'i
case ha$ been dissipated without sues
eess.
4 • •
?he United States Government his
issned its August erep repent. whists
it a most favorable 01I0. COatnry to
expeetations, winter n heat promisee a
yield in excess of that of last year. With
an aereap nearly two and it halt mil.
Ikes leas, it is estimated to yield 432e
9e0,000 bushel, or nearly 5,000,000 bole
els more then that of lad year. Spring
wheat acreage is more than ft million
greater then last year, and the
estimated is nearly 44,009,000 IrseQs
greater. This makes a total wheat yield
of 703,268,000 bushels against 604,601a
000 lot year. The rnited States corn
map is estininted to yield 3,000,000,000
bushels, while the mit crop 18 placed at
1,270,000,000 bushels, it record yield.
Theo figures go 'far to substantiate
the claim of the lenited Mato Depart -
meat of Agriculture that there was no
basis in fact for the "bull" scares:6.01a
crop failure, so far as that connt7 Was
concerned. MO of the trim ts now
praetieally sale. If the Canadian owl
Argentine crops meet our expoetations
the old world will have a full granary to
draw upon.
•