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The Wingham Advance, 1904-07-21, Page 3Al* ilieltetreialleafleelialea'alltellikeelbeeteanieoaelleseneeeleeeleeleesee'l , $ BROKEN i— — •.__—...___.—L.— $ REA R Ts $ erneeewee aieretaeleesiAleabeeeoeieeieeeekeeteeveeea.aleae...iiesieeebeae4levieola aCT I. They. were bath very young, tee- meatiously x& :ova and aseonisilinglY it,exiearieueme And Lei lake, in ltalf, suffal a i'lly teams leg mixture — of youth alai love line ioexpelience—ehe added a 11, 0. d d mothea .1111d be the ver,y enntlitthe thing that could &stably be called an income. Aluo -ahoy. Heaped the measure of . their Joint unhappiness) with ouch - trifine As unfailing obedience to aim thaternal voice, a rellauce that wits childlike . on the uateernal wiedona, o seifoieprecating fear or hurting a I- 1OVU objeist„ clad all sot e of maiden- ly and gentleniaely scruplett the age, bat not by any means less .sweet and [melt for that. They had not the suspicion of a vice, a selfish thought between them, And they wore Gio obvioutely and• entirely, made for each other that it was froni the fleet, quite inevitahle that they elloulu be parted. They proved, Indeed, only too cagy to part. Evon the worldlysminded mother ,wofild have beea better sat- . Jelled wItli •a• victory not so very quickix ;won, leer, daughter's there hatelfy moved her more than the young titan's gentle, sad -faced roes. enablenees, and altogether they, ale most perthaded her to overlook the mthroecomc Lapin°, though neither made any but tho. motet passive ef- fort* to achieve that so -desired end. • • e But elm hastiay summoned her eworitily-iniudednetes and by its aid de- cided .oaco for all that it would be a pity to dieturle their ,aagelic resgna- tqleni for tile alio) of a poor and.pre- po irtero t. sly ooWInolp1e3 m owe: age. Aild the utiesd the young man to ac- cept a post that had been offered him in India with a voice so tender - Ly like her daughter's that he very nearly refused to coMply —he min- ed fecau 11, the sting, goading to sac- rifice, which he had lately come to aseaciate with himself and fate. However, lie dal comply. The offer- ed work !loll. out holm of 'advance- ment pt modeeate but 'sufficient evenllet, in the vague middle distance o( 1 fe. And who can tell what other mad hopes wore bred or that solitary ' hope, wedded to desire, in the mind of ' a man very young, very inexperi- enced, very mucli In love? But he did not say anything to the girl abut waiting for him and his future fortunes. HO had promised her Mother net to, and he was the very • pattern 'of an honorable youth. • Of course the girl noticed the omis- sion. he wasn't too angelic for ;that. 'She called it the unkindest cnt" of alleand the criedfier blue eyes coIoriess and dim because of it or thought the n reality. she cried a good deal less because of It, and it helped ber, as nothing else could have helped her, to marry the man of her mother's choice a short year later. . She eras one of those one-idesel eternally faithful women by nature, and If she had been asked to wait she would have patiently andobstinate- ly waited through a life -time. But it Is never the most honorable men who bind thew priceless women to them, and hie failure to demand her allegiance undermined her tottering faith In her right to set aside her mother's urgent wallies. She couldn't declde how far It wo.e permissible to devote (herself uninvited to a man, even in thought, and her mother, on the other hand, eves absolutely sure' that it woe not wrong to marry a man lei -theta' loving him. , The mother was so sore that she carried the day, Just • as he had done berore., And thus the girl was hurried into a marriage which elle tola herself would break her broken her spirit. But, than, elm had never been conspicuously spirited. ACT II. • Herein iIo a atory how often told already? So many times written, so many times read, that the greatest indalgence of reader and writer alike •are surely craved for it. She, tricked ay a mista,kcil idea, into a marriage numb against her inclination, to be - Como a tolf-eVaols g, but never inter- esting wife, the pato 'nether of pale children. Ile, ignorant for years of ,the full extent of the barrier divid- ing them, lured by a forlorn hope across 'loaf a lonely lifetime. Hie figure had lost its old boyishe nees, his hair was thickly flecked with gray, (but bis packets were Oomforta,bIy lined, and his position assured, • when, quite casually, he learned that the woman wimee fi- delity be had clung to through all their Reparation and silence had failed him withal twelve months of their parting. He told himself that every divide tog year, every hard-working day, every lo g Lreatilleestie.ht, 1:ad build his old love more firmly Into the fabric of his being. In the toothy tenni:tea. knowing her to be false, be ntight have put ber image from bine and lived to be no lees ultimately happy for the healed wound. But, oomidg now so late, after so long, it unmanned him. Ile told himself again that he was beart-brokenated, osb.sorbed 111 that b lief, forgot to en at the whole fake ssx, betrayed (by a single Individual, which is the 'acknowledged panacen, of the broken- hearted. • The n,ewa had reached him not Grey tardily, but with a angular leek of . detail—Ai:1k the bare ,fact of her mimeo*? at' the far off date and nothing more. No doubt he might havo collected further information free). tho .saine ammo, but he sittoelk morvously from doing so. To keow What Inatome of man had supplanted lam—What good could that do lilm. That any man heti been allowed to appropriate what he had so Mpg looked upon as his own seenied in it- self a eorrowdense enough to dar- ken the reineender of lila days. Habit Chained him for a time to his work, but . his interest. wins gone and hie Imalth began. eeriouely to fall. How numb that Waft 600 to continuoua re- eleeneei in: a trying climate, Jena mud, to tho WOWit wieuld bo tliffienit to determine. Ile, at any rate, exoner- ated the climate. But, for all that, ho ants forced to leave it. Ills friendeacarried him, too ?Week to protest further, on tO a inemeward bound 13111111. T•liey never thought of consulting him. Of coursr. he would want to' go home.' What Onigliafiman of them all, ellained by . eireumstancee to that land of three - Wittig lever anti ever present mos- quitoes, would niles the chante of a lereitiolown to take' hint back to P.ng- land. So It with that lio awoke from the lethargy of extreme weaknesee to find the emit sett breezes blowIng his health back to him, whether he would or no ; found the Arcing, hearty evinds urging him to tho pureult or 'new Ideas( with a life renewed; found tbe reertlese etn,Ves littering aim to tho land lie hael ao long wearied to nete. Witeee and *Ind tared nothing for his cheep of mihd. Att he sat breeding IM •deek titan •116 iliefnne to hear them littarhing Welter. ously togothor over the frail lartelme he held No tamed, "There ore zs goed fLeli In the roe as ever came ! out pf „ they eeemed to. sty. Wares and winde are proverbially blustering and coaree of Wit. "Why, • alio JURY he fat; elio intuit be nearly forty, tti Judge by you. la England, the lane of healthy, pretty women, a man nety.soon flail nealing fort love- eleknoes. 181Ian alive. What Is 0110 woe' man among oto many, when all are falr. Choose a maiden freish and i Youthful, and In her smilers forgot a pale, myth of an out -lived age. You oleo managed without her all these Years, and done not so letalty—come 110w, Own up. How mucht pieasure line( there been mingled In your pretty pretense of sorrow. Even now you might be in a far worse case. Why, you might be bound, IrretrievablY bound, to a woman worn and aged and changed in a • thousand waSee, 'from the girl you remember—a wo- man you wind not know if you pasta her in the street. And, Inetead, you are as free ea the ale—as free art we are --to make a fresh choltio; tle beach love anew to a young heart —tow i much better than you could teach it when you were raw •and: ig- norant yourself you alone know." But: he put las loan brown hands over his ears; he would not listen to the voices of wind and waves, Ile clutched with all the "desperation of a drowning may at las frayed belief in ble own perfect faithfuleess. He defied the pagan •creed" of tire un- tamed seas. Ile' passionate owed, for the sake of les cherished, middle- aggreid, self-reseect, to marry no young • ACT III. And be kept the letter of his vow. .1.1e certainly married, and only a few months itfter his return; but the 'tyle he chow was ziearlys of an age with himself — a widow, frail told del eate, anti faintly reminiscent of a bygeme prettineee. The first. time he saw ber, before they were intro- duced, the reminded him of hie old love. ED could not have said bow or where, but It proved an attrace `Lion strong enough to chain hint to • her side, to bring himquickly to her feet—he who lout never done any- thing before without the utmost de- Itberation and thought. And she watt not by any means generally fascinating, only one of those gentle, colorless womea who fail to interest even their friends, bats who general- ly succeedea 1t chtaiting and holding fast the warmest attachment of a certain class of quiet, shy men. Hor octet was peopled by her for- mer husband and her ailing children, Dow all lost to her, but she did not find much to tell him about them. She spoke to him more about an early attachment that had proved unfortunate. She shook it out of the rose leaves and lavender of memory In which she had long laid it for his inspeetion—a crumpled, faded rel- ic of her girlhood. "We were both very young. Ilis Dante was Brown, too," she said, with a,n uncertain smile. He remembered afterward that she seemeu to look at him rather curi- ously, as thougli expecting a question he had not put; as though she was surprised but not ill -pleased that he should let the subject drop. At the time he was of ly afraii of distress= ing her with continuing it. He be- lieved he had made a special. effort on las behalf, and he was unwilling she should -take trouble t °please him when he was so welt .pleased without. He had beeti quick to notice that, as a rule, leveed her 1 tile al- iments and the most trivial passing events, few things stirred her to conversation. Yet he fell honestly In love with her; fought and conquered for her sake his ingrained reluctance to set any woman in the place of the woman who bad failed him. This was the tent of woman she might have grown into, ho said, In self-defense. An occasional trick of special' or ges- ture in 1118 new idol would remind him quite startilagly of his old Idol, tout he decided that woinen were more alike, after all, than he had thought them. Although he half -dee cided that women were more alike, after all, than Ile had thought thole. Although lee half desPead h'mself for unfaithfulness, he half -excused him- self because, at last, he was faith- ful to a type. The love or Ills youth eeeined very nearten as he gava ban - self unreservedly to the love of hie middle- age. He eeerned to know tles woman by Inslinct Re had no need to question or worry her to learn all he required to learn about her. Then, ono day, she returned to the dropPed topic of her early love,. and there was the merest trace of ex- citement in her voice. "Ills name was Charlie," she said, "that boy I told you about, Don't you think that makes it incire than ever of a coincidence—our love' since your nomo is Charles," "I used to be always called Char- lie—once," liesaid abeently, for he. was looking very Intently at ber. Her pale obeeke flushed almost youthfully. "I wonder," she went on, "you have no story to tell 1110— 110 014 rontauce. Surely you. •met ,some ono abroad—or before you event abroad. • Sho wasi looking yOungor and brigh- tee than ho had ever soon her. It won marvelotte, the transformation of Just that touch of color In Iter cheeks—bow; it rounded them, barr- ed hor to abake off the marks of trou- ble, the hand of thee. To -day she had laid' aside her heavy black—black rievee Milted here -and her hair was !more loosely 'tweeted, perhaps. Apd them In her eyes—a most unueual Oleg—wets a stray gleam of fun and mischief, showing her alive to the comedy of tree having recognized lihn at °nee, although so much had come into tier life between them; of his having failed to recognize jer, al- thougli the had never for it clear hour g But ess knew her now. "How oan you ever forgive iny blintlneee," leSaid. But it aeemod 1it bibulnees bad pleased len'. "Cannot you ace," elle naked, 'that I might prefer to be loved for what 1 am now rather than for something T Walg once, but never can txi again. Now, I know that you lovo 100 'because 1 remind- ed ,sou of a girl you weal to love, but -also for thyself—a w.ontan grow - liar old. Yoe do not only love. me be - C11111401 you need to love me and think It le your duty never to leave off a a thing poll havo once begun." And elle owned to havitig done What, tittlesim Could to keep up a delusion Oa had 'Como by Chalme— ttn eliance that lutd kept lihn dreana leg Of a girl, -still its it 'girl for—well, - long met ber •girlhood. AO, to the Ond, he married /la first lOVe, Lavine fallen in love Wtll her ' -"*"*•-777=7"""",. • ••-•• :L. ,••••••••••••"'"'" iseesse sasof ,..... • /12-- •,••• .•••, • ....7. . . /;. , ''........... .,"...... 11'3. ...,.' "''''........ ..,....aa.... . ..,.......1„, ...°.a.P1,.. 1 W . f11..;',.........,4a .....•0......... 0.:,.........:::,,..........,... ••••••• 4,1 ' . ,ata",-"°- e • ea•. • .• • • 7, - THE ISLET OF ROCKALL UPON WI -1101 1 Ii E STEAMER NORGE STRUCK. tho amend time. Se two hearts, once rig aside as broken, were very credible' 'Retched tor further ue3,—.T. Parry rreuscott in the Sketch. FOGS MELT AWAY QUICKLY, Electricity Quickly Dispels the Densest of All Mists. Richard Guenther, 'United States Con- sul General at Frankfort, Germany, has sent to the State Department an article from a Berlin newspaper relative te method in use there of dispelling fogs by means of electricity which will doubt - les be of great interest to navigators all over the -world. "The eminent English electrician, Sir Oliver Lodge, a scientist of world-wide fame," says the newspaper referred to, "recently delivered a lecture of extraor- dinary Interest before the Physical Soci- ety of London. It was especially inter- esting, as it shows how, from a quite un- hnportant appearing observation, a dis- covery of eminent practical importance may finely result. "The great physicist Tyndall had dem- onstrated decades ago that a heated body, if brought into a lighted atmos- phere laden with dust in its nearest en- vitisreoliftment and forms a dark space around "Tyndall thought that the hot body consumed or burned the dust, in his ex- periment, an organic one, with coal dust. "Twenty years ago Trof. Lodge re- sumed the investigations of the same subject jointly with Physicist Clark and son found that the explanation surmised by Tyndall was correct. It was found that a sort of a bombardment emanated from the heated body, which kept the dust at a certain distance. "Lodge made the still more important discovery that if he employed electricity in place of heat the dust particles ac- puired a polarity for forming into balls, and were thrown against the walls of the vessel in which the experiments were made. In his experiments he did not use coal, dust or smoke, but an inorganic dust—namely, finely powdered magnesia. For the heated or afterward electrified body he used a wire. As early as 1884 Lodge demonstrated his new discoveries in instructive experiments before the British Association for the Promotion of Science, then in session at Montreal. "Two pieces of wire netting which were connected with the ends of an elec- trifying machine were put up opposite each other in a room, through which a slow current of smoke passed. After the tyke nets had been electrified the current of the smoke ceased; the parti- cles of dust, balled together, were driven to the wall of the room and fell to the floor. If steam was introduced instead of smoke, it was converted into fine rain. "This latter result led Prof. Lodge to several gconclusions. • First, it almost showed by itself how rain. was formed from the clouds through electrization, a fact for wIlieh, even if it had- been sur- mised, every proof was lacking. Further - mom, Lodge concluded it would be pos- sible to dispel a fog cloud by tlectricity. "He made his first fog -dispelling ex- periment at Liverpool, where he *as lecturing as professor of physics. "During a thick fog the air about the university was electrified by means of a large Windhurst' machine, the current passing through a bunch of points on top of a lughathet'erected ht1ie reef of the buildieg. In this manner it was spread as. much as possible. The result was that for a radius of from 165 to 200 feet the air wes perfectly clear—that is, free from fog. "At that time the scientist conceived the plan for a trail on a large scale by plac- ing a sufficient number of stations on both sides of the Mersey and charging the air on one side with positive and on the other side with negative electricity in order to see whether a mass of fog on the river, which almost regularly .caused callisithis vesiels and heavy damages in consequence, ceule not be dispelled. "Although the practical benefit was ap- parent, Prof. Lodge did not meet with suflicient support, and his exyeriment had to be abandoried for lack of fends. "He feared,. furthermore, that he could not proem.° a sufficiently. strong current, as a dynamo does not furnish the re- quired high voltege. This problem was solved by the interpolation of the recent- ly invented quicksilver lamp, which per- mits of the conversion of an alternating current of high voltage into a continued current. Experiments to this end have been conducted at Birmingham. "Tn order to demonstrate tho latest results, Prof. Lodge made some experi- ments in dispelling fog by the electrie current before the Physical Society. "The fog was produced by burning magnesium, the smoke being confined itt a large glass reservoir. "BY introducing an electric current into the lighted cloud of magnesium the latter Was immediately precipitated and. Id l down like snow, leaving the air per -1 feetly clear. "Mr. Lodge did not/hesitate to follow up his discovery. There exists, he says, no raison why the vapor particles of a cloud. enimot be foreocl y elctriftoation to cothact And to fall down in the form of rain, a possibility which, for a min- I try like Indin, would be of incalculable value, where unfortunately the dark clouds of the `monsoon' quite frequently piths Away without becoming rain and so deliver the country over to famine. For a metropolis like London the advantage would be twofold—rot the one hand, to get ri(1 of the real smoke and on the other to dispel the fog. "The realization of these expectations would hardly be more improbelde than the prnetical use of wireless telegraphy, and. it Would perhaps not tam require es large machines for the purpose, as foga _usually acme in entre weather and rarely witch high altitnikce. 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These Tablets tame guaranteed to contain no opiates, and ore safe for a new born baby or a well grown ohild. Sold by all medicine dealers, .or sent by mail al 25 'cents a box by writing the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. STORY OF A GROUCH. tarted Proin n TesvIal Cause, but Grew Till it Envelopea Path Persoi a This is the story of it grouth. To begin with, the Doctor was first affected. His eyes had bothered him for some time; las patients were slow in paying up, his apartment wasn't so com- fortable as it, might have been; and so one morning ho woke up out of sorts with himself and all mankind as well, and the grouch was born. Harry, who managed the apartment house, was the next to succumb. His eyes didn't bother him very moth, but his teeth did; his debtors were slow in paying, while his creditors were entirely too energetic in their assaults on his bank account for his piece of mind. The heln in the place was a nuisance he had to fight against and put up with, and when he and the Doctor got together that dismal morning he was in the best of shape to be infected with the dread disease. For the grouch there are several re- medies, and most of these were tried. None of them proved successful, and finally they settled down to a steady afternoon of commiseration, cussing, highballs and cigars. Harry's better -half, Maude, bore up more bravely. Neither her eyes nor her teeth annoyed her; and although she had a very sore foot, which made it impossible for her to wear an ordinary slicie, she bravely applied herself to the task of jollying Harry and the Doctor, in the hope of curing the grouch. In time, no doubt, she would have succeeded; but before the had Made much impression in came Addio and her sister Grace. •Now Addie, who is the Doctor's sweetheart, has a nice disposi- tion, but is easily affected by her sur- roundings, and Grace is "so contrary that she won't do what she has a mind to," as her mother used to say. In less than no time the gleom that had. settled on the party was so thick it could have been shovelled away, and no relief with in sight. People must eat, however, in spite of grouches, and late in the afternoon Harry bestirred him- self to think of dinner. Apparently the smell of cooking brought joy to his stomach and his heart at the same time, for in a moment or two, after leaving the party, he returned and said; "Say, Doc., let's all go to the theta tre to -night." "All right," said the Doctor. "Where shall we go? You go ahead and get the tickets, and. we'll all be ready." Then Maude's grouch, which had been under cover up to that moment, broke out. "I don't want to go to the theatre," she declared. "I won't go. Harry can go, if be likes. It will do him good. I don't want to go to any old Maitre. I want to stay home and run things. I don't want to go, and I shan't,' and she stamped her No. 2A on the floor so hard she hurt her heel, Immediately Addie and Grace declined, end Grace soon went away. Then all the pcsvers of persuasion of the' other three wcre brought to beer on Maude. , She put up the fight of her life to have her own way, but was forcecl to yield to the combined eloquence and entreaties— she is fond of being coaxed—and it was llnally determined that they should go. Be that time it was too late rof Harry to ;0 for the tiekts, and so Addle had to face the storm for that purpose. Pre- sently she returned with five tickets, thee on one side of the aisle and two on the other, having bad to take what NVaS left at that hour. Dinner was soon over, and. Grace was ' rant for; and when Maude was finally in- duced to get ready, the party started. Maude, Grace and the doctor hustled off icgether, and Harry and Addie brought tip the rear. Harry bad to turn back for his glasses, of course, showing that the grotielt was still working, and in fact none of the party could have been called good. natur- ed at the moment. . . . . None Left TO 4#114 Bother You After Using WileOn'S Fly Pads Sold Ueerytebere. 10 cents At 'the corner they halted a car and hurried to board it. Some people were gEtting off at that particular corner, however, and one of them happened. to kick Maude's heel, the sore one, of course, as bestepped from in front of ibe party. This was more time Afaude could stand, the physical pain adding the re- quired spark to the magazine of her groneh. In a flash She turned round, and dug her elbow into ;the man's ribs, awl kicked him on the elinS at the same time, declaring that be was a. "nasty pig." For a second fight woe in the air, and the doctor thought Ile was up against Ile a4 Harry had not joined the party yee after his search for hie glasses. However, • Maude was too small for the man to hit, men had she been of his own sex, and thc ,grouch crowd got into the car safely. The doctor and Maude entertained the party, and incidentally the rest of the es sengers, with an illustrated statement el' the fads concerning the "nasty pig" who had kicked the. lady's sore heel, and. this topic kept the grouch alive all the way to the theatre. There Harry joined them, an they took their seats at the end of the first act, Maude refusing to walk down the aisle to her seat while the curtain was up. This was not altogether from con- sideration for others, but mainly grouch. Seated in the theatre, the doctor and Co ace promptly went to sleep, and:Harry that Maude from across the aisle bom- barded Addie, to her great disgust, with. gites, offers of candy, etc., all of which amused them to such an extent that be- fc re the show was over two cases of the pouch had been cured. None of the party had the least idea of what the pity was about, or what the characters were doing, and the way home svas enlivened with repeated promises frcm each and every one never to go ar ywhere with "that crowd" again. And yet, they are all nice people; all good companions; all sociable, good ne- tured—when the grouch is not working —and utterly free from anything like rudeness. Yet this is it true story of a grouch, founded on indigestion, nursed on insomnia, sore eyes, aching teeth, and a. injured foot; a grouchwhich miglit have been disposed of at the start with a laugh, but which grew and grew un- til it enveloped five persons in a fog that was only dispelled when the momentary separation enabled two of them to see fecm a little distence how ridiculously srvage it made the others.—N. Y. Sun. WHY COVER CROPS ' Are Valuable -Coin roiling soil Mois- ' tnee—ImprovIng tbe At the conference of Dominion fruit inspectors recently held at the Central Experimental Farm, Professor Shutt gars a very clear and scientific &plana- tion of the value of cover crops to the orchardist, of width the following is a synopsis: "Among the many advantages to be derived from the system of orchard cul- ture width includes the growth of cover crops, we may cite as the two most im- portant: The tontrol of the soil moist- ure, and the improvement of the soil. Conserving Sell Moisture — Speaking, genefidly, it is desirable that the sod moisture should be conserved for the or- chard trees during the earlier months of the season. Up 10, say, July 1, the tree is making now growth and is transpir- ing through ite leaves large quantities of water. Furl:acre the swelling fruit is 'making its demands for water. For every pound of dry matter of leaf or wood or fruit, the tree uses at least 300 pounds of water. Hence, in districts where droughts may prevail in the spring or the rainfall be scanty, the importance of satellite: cultivation is marked.' Ily this means an earth mulch is produced, and thus evaporation checked or prevented. The cover crop system allows of surface cultivation in the spring and early sum- mer months. Some Experiments—Experiments have been made to ascertain the effects of rover crops and cultivation on soil moist- ure on the Central Exmerimenta Farm for several years. Thus, May 6, 1901, we found !that there was 131 tons more water per acre, to a death of 14 imam in cultivated soil than in the adjoining plot carrying a vigorous growth of clo- ver. Thiel Means that the latter soil contained one-balf the water in the culti- vated soil. But grass sod is more ex- haustive than clover sod. In 1002, from May to Julys trials every two weeks showed that the soil in nod contained from 50 to 100 per cent. less water than adjoining soil in oultivation—the differ- enee being at times over 200 tons per acre. The drought in the early part of 1903 emphasized these facts and Allowed moth markedly the value of cultivation. In the autumn, on the other band, it le desirable that the water .supply should bo diminished, so that vegetable growth should be oheekedand the wood given an Opportunity .to ripen before the whiter • eets in. This is readily brought about by sowing the elover crop in June or early part of Jthy. Legumes for Improvement of Soils— Tho improvement of soils by the growth; of clover or 801110 other legume is effect- ; al by the 'addition of humus; thul nitro- ! gen. Experiments go to show that by ! this means the Roil can be enriehed to the extent of 100 pounds or more of nit - twit per acre—this nitrogen being np- propriatea from the atmosphere by the plea through the agency of cortein Nue teria that resiae in the elover mote. It theme more tlittu probable that a good crop of clover turned under will enrich the soil to an extent equal to ea Am& cation of ten tonsoof ordinary baenyard manure. Not ouly it that valuable and necessare plant food, nitrogen, furnielled thettply by teie meene. buthuntits-forno ing material is lidded in large quantities, and this bee its partial (lefty ie parti- ed:My important in anwliorating the phyeieal -rendition of the SOIL And, last- ly, the mineral matter stored up in the clover 'crop it finally set free- in forme tandily neeiluilable by the roots of the Arohard trees," • . trikot40444114144$1034010301400404;10010311Mlio.. k k , ;A . :cite Salo ilf;VM110104 I WHITE STAR LINE'S • S, S. BALT-le, • THE WORLD'S LARGEST STEM/Miff'. 0311tiroritltlerel0301130113100“11K*.4.444.60301enn.X301111303.011* The new White Star liner Baltic—the lamest steanuthin in the world—arrived in Now York Friday, on her maiden trip. The Baltic. is of the Nemo class at the Cedric and Celtic, With two imports nut exceptions. She is longer to the ex- tent of one plate (27 feet, and- will, it is figured by her builders, make the ocean trip 24 hours faster than the other ships named. It, Is of interest to note that in dimensions the Celtic and Cedric are practically identical, but slight variations in deck strgetures and, crew • speees give the letter e somewhat greater tonnage. But the Baltic is the first ship to surpass Brunei's wonder, the Great Eastern, designed more than • sixty years ago, in length between per- pendiculars as well as in displacement and tonnage, while in breadth and depth moulded she is atilt inferior. The Great Eastern's beant WM 83 feet (or if her paddle *boxes be included 120 feet), and her depth 58 feet, That her gross ton- ' nage, nearly 19,000 tons, was less than that of the, Nate pits mainly attribut- able to twoaraitsobs. First, ber form was much lese square; if she had been built with the full Alas of the newer • vessel she would easily have been ahead in gross tonnage as in breadth and° depth. Sciondly, she lacked the huge superstructures which are characterietie of, the Baltic, as of recent paseenger ships in general. free deek structures were insignifleapt, amounting to less than 100 tons measurement; in the Bal- tic the aecommodation on the four decks that rise shove the structural deelc, at which the Great Eastern may be said to have ended, account for at least 4,000 tons, probably more, of the total meaS- urement tonnage. In fact, these deck superstructures are one of the dominant 'features of modern passenger ships; in the Baltic the highest deek to which passengers Moe access is no less then C0feet above the waterline evhen the ves- sel is drawing 28 feet, whereas in 13ru- nel's boat nothing except the masts and funnels attained one-half that elevation. In displacement .the Baltic haa the ad- vantage, though not to a very great extant. Loaded to a draught of 32 feet the Great Eastern displaced about 30,- 000 tons; at the same draught the Bal- tic displaces about 34,000 tons, though if she were loaded to 37 feet or 38 feet draught, as she well might be if depth of water permitted, lier weight would be equivalent to over 40,000 tons. The tfeorlleositviing _comperieons will prove of in - Great Eastern. •-• Baltic. Leneth over all 691 725 Tonnage .. .. 22,500 24 000 Speed... 8 to 14 Us... 17 kts. Weigatepf plates 7 cwt. 2 to 4 tons Size of plates „AO ft by 2-9. 28 by 41.0 ft Figures fail to convey any accurate idea of the inonensity of this vessel. Her cap- acity for cm° is no less than 28,000 tons, and When loaded to her Plimsoll mark, the water she displaces weighs 40,- 740 tons. The double bottom is an ele- ment of safety, should the vessel take ' the ground, and it also provides an economical means of carrying ballast. These tanks or cells of the double box- like bottom will hold 6,500 tons of water and the powerful pumps with which the ship is equipped will enable these spaces tO be filled or emptied of water in a very short time. Ocean passengers all know how irresponsibly a light ship rolls and pitches during heavy weather. The Baltic cannot behave in this unseemly and undignified manner, for three rea- sons. First, her great weight will keep her steady; second, when she has not much cargo aboard, the 6,500 tons of water ballast will prevent any excessive motion, and third, she has bilge keels or rolling chocks attached to the hell amid- ships, where the bottom rounds into the side of the ship, and these are powerful adjuncts to keeping a ship upright. But, if in regard to certain dimensions the Baltic does not equal the Great East- ern, in other respects she is far ahead. While the.enginerof the two veesels are not very different in weight, those of the Baltic, which are quadruple expansion using steam at over 200 pounds pressure per square boa, instead of 25 pounds of the Great Eastern, develop something like twice the power, cart drive the. at 17 instead of 13 knots, and yet only Mistime 250 tons of coal a day instead of nearly 400. In the quality of the ac- commodation provided for passengers— and the Baltic is far from being 8 pure passenger boat, but has space for cargo ofover a million cubic feet—the differ- encer are still greater.' Steerage passen- gers have the run of a large part of the upper deck; many of them sleep in rooms containing only two, three or four persons each, in place of the ola open berths, and have their meals seated at tables or revolving chairs, and waited on by stewards like the other Classes. See- ond•elass passengers also have a Aare of the upper deck, together with ample ac- commodation in the way of dining sal- oon, smoking room, etc. First-class pas- sengers enjoy quarters of which spaci- ousness is perhaps the most prominent feature. For proinenading they have no fewer than four big decks—sun, boat, promenade and upper; their dining sal- oon, Omega it gives the impression of being a little deficient in height, is a huge apartment, 'Mika stretches :Levees the whole width of tire middle deck mina - ships; and on the boat deck they 'have a large smoking room and a librarv1; while' the size of the staterooms, ras- sages, etc.. is quite exceptional. The Bailie is fated with engines of Harland & Wolir's quadruple expansion . type, arranged on the balanced principle, which practically does away with vibra. tion, and will steam about 17 knots. She is thus prinutrily intended to meet the want of an increasing number of travellers whose first desire is not great •' speed, but ehe largest modicum of coin- . fort coupled with moderate speed. Ex- perieece. having shown that thie &eider- atmn is fulfilled by the Cedric aud Cel- - tie, it merely remainea for the 'Mite ! Star line to introduce a VeSael of the same type, but still further improved by the addition of emit minor embel- lishments as only a eareful and far- seeing namigement could antielpate. The Baltic eau carry 3,000 passengers,. be- sides a Prow of about 350. All her first- eless accommodation is amiaships. The grime dining- salome, situated 1•11 the upper deck, is a very linndsome apart- ment, mid extends the full width of the ship, 75 feet. It This seating mamma. eation for 370 people, is exceptionally loftv and niry, and with its effeetive seheme of decoration, Welch unites ar- tistic taste aml brightness of itepeet, eau claim to be one of the most palatial saloons on the Atlantic. The first-elefor ani01,1114 100111 alla lib - eery on tha upper pro•meniele deck nee • also luxurious. • apartments,' wherein - everything that tends to the tomfort of paesengere is apparent, whilst the state - mime hare .been devised to meet the wants of the, most fastidious traveller. They eonsist among others. of single ' berth xooms, of which type, it may be noted, the White Star 'line was the or. iginator, and rooms en suite, then lat- ter consisting of bed, Pitting and bath- • rooms, for ouch as are peepared to pay for time extra privacy enjoyed. Immediately abaft the first.class ea- ' commodation ls that of the second-class, whose interests have been carefully • watched. To the voyager. of but a de- cade or two ago the size and decorations of the dining saloon, smoking room and library will come as a revelatien, mid the staterooms in comfort and ventila- tion are lo every way excellent. With •the exception of a limited space forward, the third-class passengers are provided for abaft the wend -clam For no section of the travelling public have • greater improvements been made on ocean steamthips in receet years than for the third class, whose quarters on the Baltic consist of commodious dining rooms (fitted, with tables and revolving chairs), where passengers are waited upon—as in the other steamers of the I line—by stewards; comfortable smoking I rooms, and a large number of two, I three and fele-berth staterooms. I The heating and ventilating arrange- ments of the ship are most complete, and the Baltic, having such huge cargo cap- ! achy, is fitted with winches and other I loading and discharging arrangements 1 of the latest and most efficient type. She has large refrigerating chambers for 1 s prii-neso ivi)iling sante being on the C. 02 e.kthe carriage of chilled beef, the machines fo i The command of this latest wonder of the seas has been entrueted to Lieut. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., an officer of ripe across the Atlantic as having hith- experience. who is well known to tray - i ellers ac erto had theme of the popular Majestic. i With the addition of the Baltic the White Star line's magnificent fleet now consists of thirty-one steamers—besides tenders-ethe aggregate tonnage of which amounts to the huge total of just 300e 000 tons. Of these thirty-one steamers, no fewer than twenty-seven are fitted with twin screws, whilst twenty-one are each over 10,000 tons, as a result of i which latter fact the average tonnage ' ' of White Star steamers is immeasurably greater -than that of any other lite; and —as has been seen—it possesses in the Baltic, Cedric and Celtic the three : largest vessels afloat. Mention, too, , should be made of tbe well-known iOceanic, 37,309 tons, than which no more lustrious .steearier `crosses the Atlantic. 1 WHY WArER EXTINGUISHES FIRE. Few People Understand the Chemical Action of the: Elements.. Few people can explain how water pats out fire, They know it does, and they are satisfied; they make no further investigation. The problem seems sim- ple enough on the face of it, but there Are many simple chemical problems that go to make it anything but easy to solve. . The problem has often been asked • school children, who have taken chem- istry and the sciences, to test their knowledge of the subjects, but in nearly every case the answers were anything but correct. The usual answer is that the water makes the wood or other ma- - terial wet and as fire won't burn wet things it necessarily inust extinguish the flames. Such deductions are far from correct. In order to understand the action of water 011 fire one must have some intim- ate knowledge of the peoperties of fire. "Fire," says Prof. Garrett P. Serviss, "is a form of themical combustion in which flames make their appearance. There may be combustion without flames, but not without heat.' Wood in burning al- ways gives off flames, as do some kinds of coal, but there are other kinds of coal that do not. "In the process of combustion, there t must be two things, at least, concerned. In the first place, there must be the combustible, or thing that burns, and in the next case there must be some supporter of combustithe When wood lawns itt the open air 'Cite Wood is the. combustible and the air the supporter of the combustion." People whp have seen big fires have probe* noticed that during the pro- gress of the blaze there hese been times wben the flames seemingly died out, would blaze up again with redoubied fury. The reason for this is that the water which has been poured on has suimlied oxygen to the flames, giving them renewed vigor. This is the ease in e nigh wind, when the fire, becoming strengthened by the fresh oxygen, gets fiercer and fiercer and is thus harder to put out. In it dead calm, a fire is al- ways easy to extinguish for the reason that all the oxygen in the vicinity of the flames has been consumed. A little water iseof no use in extin- guishing a fire for the very reason that it has not enough to offset the heat of the flames, but is set off into its com- ponent parts, and is burned up in the ilames—the oxygen only making the flame fiercer, The question now arises how a bot of water, instead of supporting combustion, does the opposite and extinguishes the flames. The reason is that a huge 'volume of water falling upon the flames is too great for the heat of the flames to dis- associate into its parte, but instead sort of extinguishes the flames. Water has a remarkable property. that of high spe- cific heat.. 'Many people in watching a burning building have noticed the fire- men pouring streams of water on the blaze and the accompanying hissing noise and rising steam. The formation of the steam lets suddenly 'drawn an inneenee Amount of heat hem the com- bustion goiug on in the building and so hes tended to cool off the building materials and eubdue the fury of the lalreas.nse of this gry,at therific heat &mucky of water and the amsequent absorption of heat from the fire to form, the steam there is not enough heat left to release tbe ox:%gen from the hydro. gen, or, in other words, to set the two combined gases burning. and thus the eonstant savants of water pouring in. mut on the fire and the donde of steam rising NE11.0 nil a kiwi of blanket, whiele abuts oir the air ft•om the flames And eremite them froth obtaining more oxy- gen. This constantly being repeated tends to deaden the blaze mom and mole until it linally dies out. • To Peep Through. ((Ileago Herald.) "/ wish I Was president oftum- ults-. ber Trust," said Jimitiy, "and do bate- hall.maeagers 'had ter e01110 ter me Inc de hoards fer dor fenees." "Why r asked Tommy. "Who, 1 wouldn'e sell dem a blonde beard at didn't have a lmot Iddo In Ito