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Khyber Pass.
The Gateway to Asia—Ay Eleanor G. SeOar.
Looking (through some old letters the
other (1.4,y I came on atm dettd Peelle-
evar, Dee, 22, 1870, and in it occurred this
•- prophetic seuteece: "That frontier coun-
try is extraordinerily iatiresting; you
do not neat svalle you are -there, Melt
before'very Iowa history will be played
out amolig those narrow •defiles and. that
the strange, fierce -looking people you
meet svita will itet some important part
in the clash wed. conflict of nations."
Like the eubtle suggestion of a scent
or a, enetell of lialareinembered ineloay,
in a. flesh these words -recoiled, the hour
tied mood in which they were written.
Viie wood fire burning on the house and
throwing flickering shadows -on the high,
. svaitewashea walls of an Indian sitting.
room, silent, dusky !ileum (stealing into
• the room with tea and lamps, the even
tread of the sentry, patrolling up eml
clown in front of the veranda (far it was
the general's :buagalow), a,sense of pleas-
ant physical fatigue after ft long.expe4i-
tion, and a subconscious sense of excite-
ment avowed by memories and assoeia-
tains, thrilled into life by the day's ex-
cursions. For we bad. jut returned from
a picnic in the fortress of Ali Musjid.
"Don't eolne back from India without
having had a, look up the Khyber," a
friend. lied 'written to me before I left
Englend, four months previously, and
when the good fortune of travel brought
nie an invitatioa to pay a visit at Posh*.
svur it seemed a eimple and natural thing
to put the crowning point on my Indian
experiences by a drive up ale Khyber
pass. .
Not quite AO easily done as said, The
. Khyber, I was to learn, was not an ex-
. pedition to be undertaken just like an-
. *theta by aliring a varriage and. ordering
' the coachman to drive to Ali Musnjid.
The great military road to northern In-
dia, "that awora cut .in the mountains
- west of Poshanyur, opening a (=row
athway into Afghanistan," to geote
udyard Kipling, was not a road to be
driven along under ordinary conditions
,.. of eight -seeing.
There were only two days M the week
when it was open, Tuesday and Fri-
days, and on these days an axnied escort
of Khyber Rifles escorted any expedi-
tion, and the pass eves kept open by
armed Afridis for the protection of the
caravans passing to and fro between con-
- tral Asia and India. On no other days
in the week would it be safe to enter the
aass. Officers who had been quartered
tor 'two years at Peshawur }have told
no sinee .that they had eeen less than
I bad during the few days that I was
there, for before 1881 no one was -allow-
ed to enter the pass, and the caravans
.passing through it had to run the gaunt.
• let of attack and pillage froni the bar -
beeves tribes who people the mountain
recesses, Bat after the Afgbanistan war
-of. 1878-79 the Indian Government en-
tered into a compact with the Afridis
and subsidized them for a large stun to
stet as the police of the pass. By this
treaty, tom February, 1881, until August
,of 1890, Gm Khyber, hitherto a name of
dread, synonymous with brigandage and
-bloodshed, became for two days in the
meek an open seed, which travellers
might pursue with a fearless mind, flits
. vored by the spice of adventure induced
,by the presence of the escort. All this
s rveaa changed by the sudden outbreak of
-
,the eribes, -titan the Khyber once more
became the scene, as so frequently in the
• spast, of battle and bloodshed. No caras
• mans passed through it, and some of the
:very mon who, with their Tifles and war-
. ;like appearance, gave a sense of protec-
tion to our expedition, were among those
who turned their arms against us.
Fortunately for us, no anticipation of
,being "snip -ed" from behind a rook or
i bayoneted from the box seat of the
carriage marred the enjoymiiat of • our
...expedition. .
. At 7.30 in, the morning of December,
1890, we started in two large landaus
;for Jamrood, the first halt of our ex-
pedition, and where we were to piek up
our escort. Though. the sun would be
warm in the middle of the day; the
-morning was bitterly cold, an ick air
'blowing on us from the Khyber hills, the
;last spurs of the Sufrid kop, those white
inionntains, which, up till that time, had
sshut in the Tirah• country on one side,
;rendering ,it their proud boast, impass-
able to the stianger and the white man
,--"nous mane change tout cela." That
;country deemed impracticable by sue-
seessive generations of conquereors has
Mem) traversed from end to end by our
,troops, and the "purdah" (veil) of their
;boasted seclusion has been lifted. I
But on the day of our drive the veil of
-
;the future was, closely drawn down over
lcoming events .and as we gazed on the
ymajestio mountains, narrowing in on us
• las we drove out from Peshawur across
the plain, we did not know that it would
'be frau that side that trouble was corn.,
ing in the near future. 1
jb..L. . t '..ffhe road front Peshawur to the fort
;of Jamrood, a• distance of about , ten t,
}miles, goes acrOss a flat plain, with en- '
teireling mountains on all sides, Very
}beautiful they looked in that clear mau-
ling light, standing out lige eameo-cut
lamethySts against it sapphire sky. At ;
l'JEurirood we only hatted a few minutes, I
, as 'we had decided to inspect the fort .
on out return drive. Our egeort was
, :waiting for us, 'fine warlike -looking men, .
In khaki uniforins and anima with rifles.
They ramicled beside the epaelunan and
the next minute we. had. :entered the
celebrated pass. ..
For the first part of the drive the rote
lis it great broad one, winding through a
mildmountainous region. On each gide
. a the road we taw at intervals, dotted
About behind the rocks or on the preeip.
*ells side of the road a couple of Khyber
' }rifles, their tawny khaki uniform and
litheir immovable attitude making them •
iscarcely distinguishable front the gi•ey
lboulders and the • arid, sandy' -colored
. aarth of the craggy defiles through which
, alg'Jainrooa,'Llt Kadani, the hills begin
aFur road woeful, A few miles after leave
o close it and the mid becomes steep
e and narrow. Here we left our roomy
• beldam} and mostutea into Willem ' dog .
carts, drawn by mountain ponies.
.At places the bills are quite preeinit-
afis. The road .follows the course of it
. - wild Mountain icirrent, which has tut. its
• Way betWeen inciuntilins, wilich at places
. . . ... . . .. .
• ,.
•
teem Almost perpendicular, while at
others the slope is more gradual and
the pass a little wider. Tbroughout the
(lay we pissed great cavalcatles of
. shaggy, splendid -looking hill cainels,
. heavily laden with goods from Afghan-
istan Persia and Central Asia.
Ali trade between India Bolthara,
Klierasan and couritries �titI farther
, Afield is earrial on by a tribe of Ghia,
'eels oiled Pavintlets ,(nomads or travel.
ors), who every autumn come teams these
passes, bringing with them inerebandise,
soft brillient earpets frank Herat, tur-
quoises, silk fabrics and arms from
13olchara, dressed furs, sheep skin pelisses
(the skin turned yellow and covered with
rich embroiderey, and the long brown
wool left in A natural conditioe, end
&awl fruits. from Afgliauistan. Nothing
can be more picturesque or unfamiliar
to western eyes than these great cara-
vans winding silently through the wild
inountain defile. At Janes the road is
SO narrow that it seemed impossible
that our dogcarts (or tora-toms to give
tbent their native name) could steer it
straight eotirse between the towering
minds, svith their heavy packs, block-
ing- the narrow way on either sire," But
Just as you get near to them the stately
orciatelfes ,weuld move with dignified
measured tread to one eide and we would
scrape past at an angle which mare than
once threatened to send 'us violently
down a steep place into a rushing tor-
rent. Very different are these massive
handsome creatures, with their long,
• dark, busty fur, and their proud . car-
riage,. ,as of the anima whose foot is
on their native hills and who have uever
booked a foreign yoke, from the super-
cilious, blase, refined-Mokinng Camels of
India, with their grand° dame air and
their general impression of listless, ill-
tempered indifference. These camels re-
minded one of the rams of Henter,"thick
of fleece, great and goodly, with wool
dark as the violet." Behind them came
patient,: heavily laden mountain mules
. and bringing • up the rear in a decres-
cendo of size and iinportance.
The Porindalis are a fine, wild -looking
race, often of great stature, arid with a
lofty commanding air. They are all
armed and. 'have rough long hair and
ate for the most part clad in dirty, col-
orless clothes. or itt sheepskin pelisses.
Often. they bring their families along
with them and establish them in the
plains north of ,the Indus, where they
themselves have to deposit their arras
before pro -deeding south with their
goods, which they take by train to Delhi
Cawnpore, Patna—sometimes as • far
afield as Burmah. In spring they re-
turn, haying exchanged their goods for
Delhi silks and embroideries, for Be -
nares brocades and brass work, for gro-
ceries and drugs and for goods from
Birmingham and Manchester.
As we approach Ali Musjid, the fort in
the middle of the pass, around which so
many warlike memories gather, the pass
becomes so narrow that travellers 'wish-
ing to pursue it further must do so on
horseback. The fortress itself stands
on the tummit of a high oblong rock,
'with loftywalls rising sheer on either
i
side. It s a strong position and has
always been looked on as the key to the
Khyber pass. At the foot of the rock we
left our tom-toms, and just as we were
abating to clamber up to the fortress
our attention was attracted by the be-
havior of a mullah (a notice priest) in
the inclosure of a small mosque at the
foot of the fort, He was gesticula:ting
wilily, shouting out in fierce, excited
tones. His congregation was it mere
handful of Afridis, but they seemed to
be hanging on his words and to be great-
ly impressed by his declamations. I
have often Wondered since whether that
strange little dramatic scene had any
connection with the outbreak- of fana-
ticism among the Khyber Afridis, and
whether similar scenes were being enact-
ed in the mosques in all their villages.
The climb up to the fortress is a steep
one. To people who know Edinburgh
the place can be best described as the
castle rock in a miniature stale. It is a
commanding.position and must from its
nature ever play an important )sart itt
military movements on the frontier. As
we sat eating our luncheon on it small
flat stretch of rock outside the primi-
tive building which does duty as a guard
room memories crowded in upon us of
the • part that road and that rock had
played in history' since the' days when
the 'boy Akbar rode down it by his great
father Briber's side bent on the conquest'
of India. We spoke of the terrible suf-
ferings of our troops in the northern
entrance of the pass in 1841, and of Gen.
Pollock's successful advance through 'the
pass to the relief of Sale's garrison at
Jellalabad. And then one of our party
recounted his personal experientes at the
capture of Ali Musjid by Sir Samuel
Browne in the Afghan 'campaign of 1878.
And from discussing the past we wan-
dered into the future and wondered what
scenes would be enacted on that spot
in the coining by and by. • Those who
Spoke With authority and knowledge de-
clared that on the death of the ameer
a new act would begin and that the cur-
tain would go up to the sound of a mar-
tial overture. But no one was prepared
to prophesy with any certain sound what
course events would take. Only all felt
that the rock ea which we were seateLi
would once again be the theatre of war-
like events. As we watched the long
lines of camels filing past below us they
Seemed hnpereeptibly to +change shispe
and become shadowy hosts of warriors
dead • and gene, speetres foreshadowing
events of thefuture and. sounding the
note of waiting.
But we could not linger long on that
historic rock. We had a long drive back
before us and it would not do'to be over-
taken by the dark in the Khyber pass.
Our eatave Meyers weft determined that
we shoed run ito such risk. 01100 we
had:regained our landaus ,they started
toward Janirood at it hard gallop—eve
might have ben Siberian exiles flying
before arnica Cossacks or a runaway
couple pursued 021 the road to Gretna •
Green by An indig»ant parent. How we
got past, the .clitimins without collision
I do not know.
At -Inwood tea was waiting for us
inside 'the fort, in the quarters of the.
solitary English officer, who was on d0.
taeliment duty there. The fort is atm -
rounded by three walls; in front is the
monster Rend, where the caravans halt
forthe night on their way to and front
the pass. We watebed the Porinattlis
leading their tired tminials into the al.
ready closely peeked ineloeure and were
veminded of Inghland drovers driving
their flocks into sheep pees, on their
way from northern erlene to rattle mar-
kets in the suuth ef tiattland. But far
as the met is lam the west is ite Sas-
twice that lies hetwee» the two etnintries
and. their people. How different they
are and what a world • •ef idea% trada
' tions, prejudices and !Aids—nay, in-
' stinefeesseparates them can ever be
told. The outside eifferenee may be• )
teen With the eye, level with the ear,
detieribed math the pen, hut can it ever
he understood? els} e womlenel, Ise we
drove baek to Iles:limns nu sve a:eree.1
that Mohan., bv ha lin:Ilion
syMpathy er knew:ea:it or 1 1 three eons*
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bined litte done more that any other that the fit•st nigliter—more often bald
than not—loves to display bus keen in-
terest in the drama and incidentally his
admiration for pretty actresses The
nervus trianswito -has got it seat by.
the drum and cymbals, is not much bet. •
ter off and winces visibly every time 11.
point is em.phasized with it clash and
a bang. It is about this time now for
the theatre party -with seats in the or-
e/Matra to come in. They are bate, of
coarse, They bey° been dining at it fasb-
iona.ble restaurant and reach the play .
just at the finale of the first act. There
are eight of them and their seats are
in the centre of the row—theatre par-
es. •apip" uo 'MOLT 0.111 orsa0 00
everyone in flint t.ow has to stand up
as they slowly squeeze, into their places
while the people behind are of course
for the time being cut off from a view .
of the stage,
"In front of this party is generally to
be found the bumptious, saeguine man
who delights in everything, laughs im-
moderately at poor jokes and claps his
ponaerotta hands on every possible oc-
casion, to the great annoyance of ev-
eryone near. Yet he is no worse than
the chronic, bilious faultfinder with his
'bosh' and 'what rot' and 'what a
fright.' There is the chap that I like to
get at, for when I do get him going he
is angry at bimself for having stepped
out of his shell and become his real self.
Just such a follow do I remember dur-
ing the run of The Girl From Kay's,
at New York last year. Be seemed to
look me straight in the eye with an
expression that said as plainly as if he
had • bawled it out, 'You cen't do it:
No one has done it yet.' It took me an
net an a half to accomplish it'e but I
finely made him unbend.
"It is the family inan, who once a
week, or once it fortnight, visits the
theatre, wit° is a source of joy to the
actor. This man isn't burdened with
-money ard always sits in the balcony,
He isn't there to analyze or criticise,
but to seek enjoyment. He is really yonr
frimul before you get started, and when
the plea is over you feel as'if you want.
to shake hands with him.
TOWNS WITH ODD NAMES.
writer to give us giimpsii behind the
eastern veil, is right when he affirms:
For east is east and west is west, and
never the two shall meet.
Nowlierts doefi one feel this more
strougly then on the -confines of the
Iudhui enspire, on the threshold of a yet
more unknown country, •
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If your little ones are cross, peev-
felt 'and, fretful, give them Baby's
Own Tablets, and they will soon be
cheerful, smiling and happy, Worried
mothers who use this medicine will
find there's a sidle in every dose.
airs. IL blathieU, IsTosbonsiug, Ont.,
sap: "Before I began using Baby's
Own Tablets my little one was al-
ways sickly and cried day and night.
But the tablets have regulated • his
stomach • and bowels, given him
strength, and be is now good.natured
and growing finely." Mothers need
not be areal to use this medicine—it
is guarnateed to contain no opiate or
harmful drug, and may be given with
perfect safety to it new born babe.
• Sold by all medicine dealers or sent
post paid at, 25 cents it box by writ-
ing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
-.Brockville, 'Ont.
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, THINGS SEEN FROM STAGE.
Comedian Describes Varimis .People • in
• Average Audience.
"I remember having heard .Toseph
Jefferson say one(' that comedy was a
serious business," says Sam Bernard.
"I didn't understand the paradox then,
but I do now with all its force. Comedy
ie the hvadest and most serious work
savesse esnut eito Spume Re *attar aerie
be on edge. You must do more than
merely read lines and declaim. You must
'be fit and enter into the proper sphit
of your work.
"Oh, yes, it is very pleasant to cause
people to roar with laughter and to
know thet you, as an instrument, are
affording them happiness, There is an-
other side of it, however. Imagine play- Inhabitants Suffer Muth Vexation When
Mg to a eold and stony. audience that
looks at you blankly all through what Away Froin Home,
you know is you r most effective'svork. The names of some towns in the United
"It takes a whole lot of people to ; States probably cause their inhabitants mu -
make up an audience that will fill the siderable vexations when away from home.
average theatre. Consider first the box li;,l'eaaeaacfla "Pin peculiar rranings
party, it conies in .with a flourish and mentionedatheya are aanp t to scan
npt atrouilasoamre°
sound of rustling skirts, laughter and questions by funmakers. Po example the
half finished conversation. There is al- , Zane Trmant-leorlivitik
ways that little by-play among the lae could do business If he welo wre the only 1n York ho, -
die s as to shall sit in the front seats habitant, hoi.cr the exlse laws were en -
which invariably distracts the attention barkeeper the
etozletr,ontheeariltite
l
attention of the aadienee from the sa
InfTnedand thee mbaargies
tae, anti In case there were more than one
Lon -
last seated, the ladies belonging to it, person
inAloneloft alt N.
stage to them. After the party it at hoel,orncitnLIonoe
some, Ky., would encounter mueli the same
just as likely as not will turn their sort of questions, and all, of course, would
backs to the stage and enter into ani- finalrlayut:res asked if they were once Jersey
, c°If a man' hailed from Affinity, N. C., he
mated conversation with the \Atte }
shirt bosoms behind. them, would naturally be supposed to be married
most profific of curiosities. It is thehe s h. ifinteulleig
"The front row of any theatre are eb exupnepettienitlioate a chapter of
wear as wide
a smile as the citizen of Joy, or Happy, Tex.,
or Paradise, Cul, Wit* it temper as eubdeel
as the Inhabniiiitif of lenity, men, sveas
wouid happen, bewsver, it the men trout
.MtlnItyeeould meet a man from Peaea
would indeed be problematical. 'rimy Might.
alter the fashion of /Mine Westerners, boon*
the SHIM of their reopective tOWIls With
Snell ardor tbat at lea‘,1 thus rt.presentativsa
or Peace And Affinity would come to biows.'
'1'hey might at least develop seen dierenin •
for eaen other as the eltisene ot iJrcaixt, Wis,'
whet choule choure to take dinner with a tilt. 1
5011 of Caviar, N. J. On the other hand, they ;
Welt become ALI chummy as the townsmen
of those three towns in tee states Of Coloeit.
do, Oregon and West Virgin111, which WI hese
the name of cook.
aurene coming from Nye, N. C.., Could
hardly expect to lela tnoA. ow York, pollee
fors° and rind shines congenial. Who was a
native ot Lax, Ala., or ii1nd Bay, A1%, int
the contrary, his duties as A metropolitan
bluecoat might prove congenial. It no ialci Ite
was nem seem, 0., he would most likely be
told that his own town must need tes terrace
more. If be replied that it didn't he uslebt be
recatementled to try to get it pooltion in niusa
Nate
several nines nouth of 14ew131011, there is a
Near the Green River. in Nentuckr. and
town by the name of Pls. It bas never beers
recorded in any history ot the United, States
whether the characteristics ot tne people of
Ple ot Lamb, Ill., or Ghlekles, Pa. This is Deer:
tellgof Plg are any more happy and contenceu
itegstibnek aglicgt:: if A ;Tv% fIrrtgliip3
titan other bunion beings, whetner teey bave
iigliailerottisa, in= lgreir TsP7.°Ttrgtalen itt
Pig for appetizers, one what the goed8peoele
dosboonulParladawyso.num from nig
Foot, Texas, or
tantteigigty61:1),., eittilre;tcliustitoliocti. Ingbaanod,rgt Is
answers as a woman from Beauty, W. %Y.
The man wbo belled from Jug, Ala., might
likzeiniabArizary"iiIgliteCOntteeimpLqrlig
from Dry TO1711, Cal. The native of Magic,
Ala., would no doubt be welcomed by eer.,
tnla froul ly,cittlitryistretwlieffic=iavhtinr
or
shut. Should the woman from Alameda, hie.,
or Pueblo% Ga., meet a NV011talt from Jaye-
ville, G., the two might get Into such a con-
thoversy that at the end they would both
he believed to be natives of Looneyville.
N. Y. The Mixon of Posen, Ore., unlike the
citizen ef Quick, Neb., would no doubt feel
very much at home In Philadelphia, and, tor
mueli the same reasons the representative of
Pat. tan ould find a congenial atams-
o Boston.Vegetarians should go to
Gras. S. 1).
Anyone might think that Ice.' Ga., mould
reome a more popular summerresort than
-lel) Kole, Gel. A pity made up of men .
half of whom were born in Japan, Mo., and
the other half in Russia, N. Y., would be ;
Pre% sure eitll fusueree.
Aal rate, theY
would not
eae nagr. sbolrthe 1 a
'
,
Leapyear, Tenn.'become dissetisfied with,
things at home. there 73 little danger ot her
settling In Baehelor, MM. Neither would
Intl; mtaanjufmropm ()Langer, Minn., think of mar -
man may travel from Dan to Beersheba
nowadays and think it a very short lour. ,
ney. There is a dim In Kentucky end a
Beersheba over the line In Tennessee. Neither
Is the trin from London to Pekin a long one
in the 'United States utile contains both
O Pelcid and- a London. and ft is not a long
Journey from Whisky Buttes, Mont, to Seven
DeIRdizEaho.
Elsvi,
XHIBITIONS DESIRED.
FEWER
The leading ngricultural societies of
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interest in the suggestion that bas been 1 It is difficult in any year to make a
made by IL TS Cowan, Provineinl Super- '
close estimate of the supply of alsike
and redcover seed until the season for
intendent of Agricultural Pocieties, that thresbinglis well advaneed. As a part
the number of exhibitions held annually
of their work the instructors in seed
in Ontario should be materially reduced growing) who are employed by the seed
• and that agricultural societies should re- branch or the Department of Agriculture
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Success io ding Sheep,
• ri
nree
The Essential Principleso Sarno British Methods*
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In his illustrated Address " The
Mutton. Breetbi of Sheep" at the recent
Winter Fairs, Mr. Ja, W. Hodson, 14ive
Stock Commissioner, outlined the prin.
• stiles essentiel to success in breeding live
stock. There are, he mid, four teatures
of the live stock business to which OW
tipple pay too little attention, viz., en-
vironment, continuity, utility and. cross -
Ing.
} A man commencing business as a stock
grower should carefully eonsider nis en-
, vironments. Is bis ferns best suited
to the production of horses, eattle,
! sheep or mine, ana if go, what breeds
; are likely to give the best results ?
' ean only Imam this by making a cares
ful study of 'conditions. In Britain. we
find that the envirownents have been
carefully studied, and breeds developed
that are best stilted to the districts.
The British fanner is farming to snake
money end not to satisfy. a. whim. lie
has chosen females bred in the- district
that are best suited to the requirements
of the soil and markets, and has care-
fully improved these by selection end
the use of the proper sort of male% For
this reason we find in Shropshire only
Shropshire sheep. 'In the north of Eng-
• land- and the south of Scotland the Lea.
cester families prevail. • Further up in
the hill county we find the Cheviots,
and ages( in the higher and more bars
ren hill country we find the Highland
or Black Faced. sheep. In other parts,
particularly toward the southwest of
England, we find the various classes of
Downs and so on, each breed having
tahrou:eili successive ages proved best
suited to its district. What bas been
the practice of the Canadian farmer,
generally speakipg? Without regard to
his environment he has chosen some -
thing that caught his fancy and launch-
ed out as it breeder.
The next important principle is con-
tinuity. Here again we may learn a
lesson from British 'methods. 'The Brit-
ish farmer, having learhea what his en-
,
THE CLOVER SEED
CROP OF 1904,
at Ottawa, collect information and make
ceive their grants in proportion to the observations regarding the conditions of
amounts they expend for agriucltural this !-ts well as other crops during the
purposes. Such a change would do away growing season.
From the best available information
with all distinction between the town- at this time, it would seem clear that
The Ontario Fruit Chewers' Associa. I duced in the Province of Ontario will
• prove to be rather less than two-thirds
ship and district societies. the tote output of red clover seed pro -
tion has passed a resolution approving
of an average crop. The severe winter
of these suggestions and expressing the
belief that such a change would result of 1903-4, combined with prolonged
drouth in many of the districts where
in larger sums of money being expended
elover seed is most extensively grown,
for agriculture purposes. The execs).
was. exceedingly unfavorable to the do-
tiye of the Dominion Shorthorn Breed-
ers' Assoc'eti n t 't a- N.M. crop of 1904, In cense twice the
area lcit for the purpose o seed pro -
in Toronto, on Jan. 16, also passed a
ductieu was coesiderably ies's than in
resolution approving of these suggestions
former years. The clover seed midge
and stating its opinion that fewer exbi. was also much in evidence in nearly all
bitions would result in larger attend- of the districts in Ontario.
tunes, better prizes and better exhibite, The alsike crop farea -even worse than
-as well as it reduction in the undesirable the red clover. Not only is the available
features now so prevalent at many ex- . supply of home-grown seed limited, but •
• hibitions,
- virownents require, hu coattail -4e year
After year, generation After generative,
producing the IMMO family of the same
breed, beieg extrenfely careful alma til,*
fuhing new bloosl. It is not au Mire.
eqeueetrietr toluilenestboafritessibseenfarmbroonfewrhpicehrbtrois
fifty or a hundred. years, nor is tee true
of Leicesters alone, but appliee to all
breeds of British live otock.
Utility is •another point that eheleld
always be foremost 41 the mind of the
breeder. Why do Nirk breed itheepT That
they may produce the greateet quantity
of the best quality of wee and mutton
for feed o s d d rtl I We
may cheese a suitable breed, arta eon-
tinue our effort* along the Brune line
for a considerable _period, yet if we do
not keep in mind. the utility of our ani-
mals, our efforts are likely to come to
naught. Too much attention has been
paid to fads and fanciesaand not enough
to the utility of the amine.
Crossing is another feature of breed-
ing very mud misunderstood in Can-
ada. In Britain it means the selection
of ewes of a certain breed waich are
crossed with a male of another breed in
order to produce market lambs, but the
produce of this cross is never used for
breeding purposes.
For instance, Cheviot ewes are mime
times erossed with Down rams and some.
tile Leicester famrilyi
times with Wenialey ales or othersd of
Iambs with bade feeding,norder to pro uce
qualities and
better sail qualities than the pure.
bred Cheviot . u in order to keep up
a constant supply of Cheviot 'ewes a eer-
tain number of the best ewes are mated
with the best Cheviot rams. These are
kept for breeding purposes, white the
• half-breeds are sold to the Lowland far,
mere for feeding purposes. No British
breeder thinks of using these cross -bred
animals for bleeding purpose% Why
not? Because hundreds of years of ex-
periencesberessetossu that good result*
cannot be obtained.
Yours very truly,
W. A. CLEMONS.
Publication Clerk,
until lost"—then indeed we have al?
"what we have we prize not to its worth
the elements of an earthly paradise.
Remember lcrve is the union of 1/ want
and a sentiment—cultivate the senti-
ment.
Here follows some "don'ts" for the
bride.
Don't be too serious,
Don't think you've married an angel,
for angels do not marry.
Don't eut out the babies. Most of
men are vain enough to want little
prints of themselves, so don't forget the
stork when you land out your at-home
bids. --Life.
1::
PAINFUL RHEUMATISM.
Bow It is Caused by Bad Blood, and
Bow Cured by Or. Williams
Pink Pills.
Not many years ago doctors thought
rheumatism was only a local pain caused
by cold or wet in ageing joints and mus-
cles. Now they know that rheumatism
is caused by the blood becoming taint-
ed with uric acid from disordered liver
and kidneys. This acid eats into the
• vital organs, It destroys their vitality,
contracts the muscles, stiffens the joints
and irritates the nerves. Then eolci and
wet make every bones groan with aching
rheumatism. You blame the weather,
but the real cause is acid in the blood.
The stiffness spreads and the pains grow
worse each year until you are a helpless
cripple, tortured day and night. Per-
haps the disease may spread, to the heart
—and. that means sudden death, You
must not neglect rheumatism—but you
can't cure it with liniments, plasters or
hot cloths, They cannot possibly touch
the blood. The only sure scientific cure
is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, :because they
actually make new blood. They sweep
out the painful acid, loosen the joints,
and. muscles, brace up the nerves, and
strengthen the liver and kidneys for their
work in casting out impurities. This is
proved. by the thousands of suffering
rheumatics wbo have been made well and
strong by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr.
T. H. Smith, of Caledonia, Ont., is one
of these many witnesses. He says: 'For
a number of years I was badly troubled
with rheumatism, and was so crippled
up I could scarcely do any work. I tried
a number of medicines, but they did, not
help me. I SAW Da William' PM& Pills
advertised as it cure for rheumatism and.
decided to try them. Before the third.
box was gone I found myself much
better. I continued to use the pills
throughout the winter and they have
completely cured nue. I got so 1 could
work on the coldest day without a coat
and not feel a twinge of the trouble. I
think every rheumatic sufferer' should
promptly take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills."
Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills cure men and
women who aro crippled with lumbago,
rheumatism, sciatica, paralysis and even
locomotor ataxia, because th'ey actually
make new, rich red blood. This new
blood sweeps the painful, poisonous im-
purities out of the system and puts the
whole body into a healthy state. Notbe
ing but good rich blood can do that—.
and nothing can give you healing blood.
except Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, If tha
blood is bad the nerves are bad, for the
nerves feed on the blood. That is the
cause of sleeplessness, nervousness, hys-
• teria, St. Vitus dente, neuralgia, and loss
of vitality in men ales women. Dr, Wil-
liams' Pink Pills faithfully used cure
these diseases and other Mood disorders
such as anaemia, biliousness, indigestion,
heart troubles, backache, kidney trouble
and decline. I31t you must get the genu-
ine pills. The "something else just as
good." medicine 'which some dealers tra
to persuade their customers to take nev-
er cured anything nor anyone. See that
the full mane, "Dr. Williamia Pink Pills
for Pale People," is on the wrapper
around everybox. If iitt doubt write di-
rect to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont., and the pine will be
-mailed at SO cents it bot or six boxes
for $2.50.
:
'Useful Hints,
A delielons wanniedscrver (Bali May be
made by mincing the cold reinteents of
the ealf's bead and heating them in a
same made with the liquor in mid& the
meat cooked.
Here is it wrinkle, says it late English
magazine, for gassing limes at lime
Yon must often bave despaired of get.
ling your lee° that delightfully dingy,
yet clean, color Which you See in the
shops. Make some 'very weak tea Am
aa it few deep, ef India Ink (the beet)
to the tea. Dip in your late.
An neellent Inseventive of M11116111*. 1*
Said to be fouud itt adding a, few drops of
eucalyptus oil to -*veva pail of hot water
used in eleening the WoOderork of a -
Muse aria to the Water iri iwbWu the
breoin is frequently dipped when Stalest-
ing the catpett. Turpentine may be
used if preferrea in place of the etbselyps
tut. • The whale haute in this Way Ns,
comes dislaftesteas
•
DAN PATCH 1:56
aase.,
the quality of the seed produced this
' year is, on the whole, inferior.
The growing of high-class clover s'eed
in the Province of Ontario has proved
to be amply remunerative in the average
of years, and bas, to a considerable ex-
tent, taken the place of th'e production •
for sale of cereal grains. The extent to
wbich clover teed is grown in Ontario
can be better appreciated when it is
mentioned that the Toronto seeasmen
are said to control the world's prices for
alsike seed. •
There are many districts in the other
Provinces, particularly in the Province
of Quebec, where the production of fed
clover and alsike seed could be taken
up to good advantage. More than two
tons of really good red clover seed has,
Within the last month, been threshed
near Shawville, in the County of Pon-
tiac, by the use of an ordinary grain
thresher. W. A. CLEMONS,
Publication Clerk.
-
A QUESTION.
•
. Are Three Women 7Out of Pive Disap-
pointed
I Disappointed? Yes. Because
. There lives within the very flame of
1 iovin Their Husbands?
o
1
A kindofit, iviek. or sneff that will
ba
1 rerAitiet:oine pole we have the grass widow,
who, asked if love cools after marriage,
"Does it! Why, it freezes solid!"
IAt the other pole we have George
Flint, who wrote: "Some woman,
obliged; to .consider the price of eggs in
i aminging her dinner, was listening for
the music of n. footstep that would re -
Mese all risk from the foretaste of joy;
some couple, bending cheek by cheek
over a bit of work done by the one
and delighted in by the other, were
i reckoning the earnings that would make
• 1 extremes lie all married WBetween
and tnarried them rid enough for it heiday among
the furze ana beatber." these
bliss. It is for nal bride to ehdoee
whether she will join the three-fifths
clown in the sloughs of deseend, or
dwell with the two•fifths s far up the
sunny heights.
Any we:nen in love with any num
finds him, after marriage, not the man
who won her, but en entirely different
being. Then conics a perfect of read•
juetmeet—of real falling in love for the
Ineky elect, or real falling out for those
preordained to disappointment.
Married love is it rare, sensitive plant
—a plant needing not only stores of rich
earth heaped about its roots, but was.
pred largess of water and careful dole
of eun and shade at the top, to the end
that blossoms inay lift: asph•ing heads
towards the stars, lTappy the married
./overs who prime and cultivate; gently
repressing the rank growth of a weedy
branelt here, patiently nurtming a ten.
der budding exeellenee there, until the
result seems to belong not to earth, but
to paradise.
In every happy marriage there should
Ins similarity of, prineiples or tastes in
big thingS, Witli differences of tastes in
small things. The former items mu-
tual respect; the latter, mutual interest.
All over -the union 'Must breed Charity
hrotia enough to forgive the very worst,
And hope that tonficlently looks for the
leery best.
'hese be good ingrealeute, end if yea
Wee them With humor. stir in ell tlos
poetry the mixture will take, sina 'break
in an enforced esperetioir for a 11101101
or two ACM itna•t11011---tor Itetteet*.trtritil
.amenon lose their deer delight? arta
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