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Contact rates my” advertisements hrmshed one ”@321! |_o the e. _ _- -AH .A Ann-1'- :mfim in Cline". b All adethc new. week. should be bran-am mung TI‘IB JOB : ' ' I: completely stocked with DEPARTHENT all NEW TYPE, thus‘ af- Morn fun}! .. . . a bi Authorized . . . OZJIIWW 6 Up a 0 I ‘ mo l’ulllw v-â€"_ I [CDOIII ”Ulla“ 0d. Duh: issued and collection: nude on nll points. Deposits received 3nd in- !erut allowed It current rates. Interact allowed on Savings Bank do- posits of .1 and upwards. Prompt attention and every (acuity afford- od customers livin gt a distance. J. Y. “out. Office and Residence at short distsnco out o! Knapp a Hotel. Lambton Street, Lower Town. Office hours from 13 to 2 o'clock. “fleaâ€"Fir“ door out of the Dur- flm Pharmacy. Calder- Block. “Monetâ€"First door west 01 the Post Office. Durban. Standard Bank of Canada ARRISTER. Solicitor. etc. Office on Gorion'n new jewellery vote. Lower o in. Any amount. of money to loan M. 5 per cent. "I in nu property. Block. Lower Town. Collection and gone promptly attended to. Benches made pA BR1811- R. Solicitor. etc. McIntyrea “the emu-y Omce. HUGH MnehAY, Durham, Lend Vuln- ntor and Licensed Auctioneer {or the County of Guy. Selee promptly nttended tonnd notee cubed. Auctioneer for the County of Grey Valuator, Boilifl of the 2nd Divieion Court Sale. end all other nutter: promptly mended toâ€"higheu relerencee tnrninhed !AMES CARSON, Durhem, Licensed FURNITURE UNDERTAKING it uquirod. loom mum» in turning out Pint-class Furnace Kettles, Power Straw Cut- ters. Hot Air Furnaces, Shingle Machinery, Band Saws, Emery Machines, hand or power ; Cresting, Farmers Kettles, Columns, Church Seat Ends, Bed Fasteners, Fencing, Pump-Makers’ Supplies, School Desks, Fanning Mill Castings, Light Castings and Builders’ Sup. plies, Sole Plates and points for the different ploughs in use. Casting repairs for Flour and Saw Mills. Farmers, Thrashers. and Millmen Steam Engines, Horse Powers, Separators, Mowers, Reapers. Circular and Cross-Cut Saws annulled, Filed and Set. I am prepared to 61] orders for pod shingles. 0mm 3mm, AMER BROWN, Issuer 0‘ Muriggo “contemDurham Ont. DR. T. G. HOLT, L. D. S. llead 0mm, Toronto. 6. v. REID. Manger. SAVINGS BANK. wanna rousnarmx JAMIESON. Durham. Medical Directory. G. LEFROY McOAUL. AT m ”10‘ ’00303 COW: MAKE'. Inn-o- Asn' I mun-non. Legal Directory. JACOB KRESS. an WE REPA'R“ J . P. Til-FORD. Imbalming :- specialty. Miscellaneous. u PUILISIIID DENTIST. BIARSI IN CONNECTION to ensure Bonnie!) in cuncn m lac: ihan 1‘0st On- THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE. A deSpatch from Washington says: â€"-Rev. Dr. Tulmage preached from the following text: “Be content. with such things as ye have."â€"Heâ€" brews xiii. 5 Why We Should Be Content With Such Things As We Have. The first reason that I mention as 1 leading to this spirit advised in the' text. is the consideration that the poorest of us have all that is indis-n pensable in life. We make a greatg ado about our hardships, but howl little we talk of our blessings? Health of body, which is given in‘ iill‘glfit. uuantily to those who have never been petted and fondled and?| spoiled of fortune, We take as a mat- ter of course. Rather have this lux-i ury and have it alone, than without it, look out of a palace window up-j on parks of deer stalking between' fountains and statuary. These peo- ple sleep sounder on a straw mat-E tress than fashionable invalids on a: couch of ivory and eagle's down.i The dinnDr of herbs tastes better to the appetite sharpened on a wood-’ man ’s axe or a reaper ’s scythe than Wealthy indigestion experiences seat- ed at a table covered with partridge and venison and pineapple. The grandest luxury tlod ever gave a man is health. lie who trades that} oil for all the palaces of the earth isi infinitely cheated. Bless God today.; 0 man. 0 woman, that though you may be shut out from the works of- a church and a llierstadt and a Ru- bens and a Raphael, you still have free access to a gallery grander than the Louvre or the Luxembourg or‘ the Vaticanâ€"the royal gallery of the noonday heavens, the King’s gallery of the midnight sky. 1 Another consideration leading us to a. spirit of contentment, is the fact that. our happiness is not dependent, upon outward circumstances. You see people. happy and miserable amid all circumstances. In a. family where the lust, loaf is on the table and the lust stick of wood on the fire. you sometimes find a cheerful confidence in (lod, while in a very fine place you will see and hear dis- Cord sounding her war-whoop and hospitality freezing to death in a cheerless parlor. I believe real hap- piness oftener looks out of the win- ldnw of than through the opera glass of the gilded box of u. theatre. I find Nero growling on n throne. I find Paul singing in a dungeon. I find king Ahab going,r to bed at noon, through melmicholy, while near by is Naboth contented in the possession of a vineyard. Human. prime minister of Persia, frets himself almost to death because :1. poor Jew will not tip his hat. and Ahithophel, one of the great lawyers of the Bible times. through fear of dying, hangs him- self. Another reason why We should come to this spirit inculcated in the text is the fact that all the difl'erenâ€" cos of earthly condition are transi- tory. The houses you build, the f lands you culture. the places in c which you barter, are‘ soon to go in- n to other hands. IloWever hard you b may have it now, if you are a Chrisâ€" C tian the scene will soon end. Pain. 3 trial. persecution. never knock at the door of the grave. A coflin made out of pine boards is just as good a resting place as one made out of sil- ver mounted mahogany or rosewood. Go down among the resting places ‘01 the dead, and you will find that though people there had a great dif- ference of worldly circumstances, now they are all alike unconscious. The warm hand that greeted the senator and the president and the king is still as the hand that harden- ed on the mechanics’ hammer or the manufacturer’s wheel. It does not make any dill‘erence now, whether there is a plain stone above them from which the traveller pulls aside the weeds to read the name, or a tall shait springing into the hea- vens as though to tell their virtues to the skies. in that silent land there are no titles for great men, and there are no rumblings of char- iot wheels. and there is never heard there the foot of the dance. The lilgyptian guano which is thrown on the field in the East for the enrich- ment of the Soil. is the dust raked out from the sepulchres of the kings and lords and mighty men. 0! the ch‘grin of those might’y men it they had ever known that in the after agâ€" es of the World they would have been called Egyptian guano. Another reason why we 3 ture this spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that. (lod knoWs What is best for his creatures. You know what is best for your child. He thinks you are not as liberal with him as you ought to be. He criticises your dis- cipline. but you look over the wholel field, and you. loving that child. do; what in your deliberate judgment is? best for him. Now, l GOD IS THE BEST OF FATHERS. Sometimes his children think that he is hard on them and that he is not as liberal with them as he might be. But children do not know as much as a Iather. I can tell you why you are not largely ailuent, and why you have not been grandly suc- cessful. It is because you cannot stand the temptation. If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own sure-footed- ness; but God roughened that path so you have to take hold of his tand. If the weather had been mild, ym would have loitered along the water courses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward, and wrapped around you the warm robe of a Saviour’s righteousness! Would God that we could understand that our trials are the very best thing for us. If we had an appreciation of that truth, then we would know why it was that John Noyes, the martyr, in the very midst of the flame reached down and picked up one of the faggot: that A IIU MBLI“. HOME lllcy IIMVV llllll . lknow not where they will dine, they .have no idea. where they will sup; .but hear the birds chant at live io'clock in the morning. “Behold, -the {owls of the air, they sow not 'neither do they reap, nor gather into ‘barns. yet your heavenly father feed- ;eth them; are ye not much better ,than they?" Seyen thousand people .in Christ's time went into the des- ert. They were the most improvif zdent people I ever heard of. $THEY DESERVEI) T0 STARVIG. ;'l‘hey might have taken food enough 'with them to last them until they ggot back. Nothing did they take. lA lad who had more wit than all of them put together, asked his mother that morning for some loaves of bread and some lishes. They were put into his satchel. He went out ‘into the desert. From this provis- ion, the seven thousand were fed, and the more they eat the larger the loaves grew, until the provision that the boy brought in one satchel was multipliml so he could not have carried the fragments home in six ' satchels. “Uh," you say, “times have changed, and the day of mir- acles has gone." I reply that what God did then by miracle, he does now in some other way and by na- tural laws. “I have been young,” said. David. “but now am old. yet have I never seen the righteous for- L saken nor his seed begging bread." it is high time that you people who are fretting about worldly circum- stances and fearing you are comâ€" ing to want, understood that the oath of the eternal God is involved 3 in the fact that you are to have , enough to eat and to wear. ‘ Was consuming him and kissed it, and said: “Blessed be God for the time when I was born to this prefer- mcnt." “They who suffer with him in heaven." “Be content then with such things as_you have." 1â€"‘A:“~ “n v.55llaw vv Another consideration leading us to the spirit of the text is the as- surance that the Lord will provide‘ somehow. Will he who holds the waters in the hollow of his hand al- low his children to die of thirst? Will he who owns the cattle on a thousand hills and all the earth’s luxuriance of grain and fruit, allow his children to starve? Go out to-- moriow morning at five o’clock. into tl~e woods and hear the birds chant. They have had no breakfast. they _ ---:Il A:nn {kn‘r Again: I remark that the religion; of Jesus Ll111st1s the grandest i11- lluence to make a man contented. Indemnity against all financial and spiritual harm. 1t calms the spirit (lwimlles "the earth into insignifi- cance. and swallows up the soul with the thought of heaven. ()h! ye who have been going f1 om place to place expecting to find in change of circumstances something to give solace to the spirit. I commend you this morning to the warm-hearted, earnest, practical, common-sense re- ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no peace, saith my Lord, ifor the wicked. and as long as you continue in your sin, you Will be miserable. Come to (lod. Make him your portion and start for heav- en and you will be a happy manâ€" lyou will be a happy woman. Let us all remember. if we are Christians that we are going. after awhile. whatever be our circum- stances now, to come to a glorious vacation. As in summer we put off our garments and go down into the cool sea to bathe. so We will put ofl these garments of flesh. and we will step into the cool Jordon. We will look around for some place to lay down our weariness, and the trees of the grove will say: “Come and rest under our shadow," and the earth will say: “Hush! while I sing thee a cradle hymn." and while six strong men carry us out to our last resting place, and ashes come to ashes. and dust to dust, we will see tWo scarred feet standing amid the broken sod. and a lacerated brow bending over the open earth, while a voice tender with all affection and mig ty with omnipotence will (le- clare: “I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me. though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Comfort one another with these words. LIVED UNDER FIVE MONARCHS Now Old Mrs. Davies Has Come to Spend Last Days in Republic. On one o! the Cunarders which came into New York last week was an English Woman who has lived uno der five British monarchs and now expects to ‘die in a republic. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Davies. who at the age of 86 has come across the ocean to spend her declining days with her son in Newcastle, Pa. She is one of the oldest immigrants the Cunard Line has ever carried. Mrs. Davies was 6 years old at the death of Ge n'ge III. She distinctly remembers the rejoicing on the ac- cession of George IV. to the throne. When his successor, William IV., be- gan to reign she was 17, and when the late Queen Victoria was crowned Mrs. Davies was 24. She lived in England long enough to become a subject of Edward VII., the fifth sovereign ‘to whom she had owed al- legiance. ' ‘ , ,,_AA1I_--L The new immigrant has excellent health. She has a brother. she says, who is 86 and shows little trace of his years, and her mother lived to be 95. At the beginning of June in each year about 300 organ-grinders leave Italy for London. They return to their native land in October. and live well for the next eight months, when they again start on their pilgrim- age. ORG AN-GRINDERS, Enormous Sums Obtained For English Race Hora :5. Since the great race was first in- stituted the value of the English Derby winners has enormously in: creased. In proof of this it is om): _â€"-‘â€" ______ necessary to compare the price put on the first winner of the classic event with that paid for Flying Fox a couple of years ago. ‘7 . _ The first Derby was won by a horse called Diomed, the property of Sir Charles Bunbury: Several years afterwards it was disposed of to an American. the price put on it being the paltry sum of fifty guin- V '_"C eas. On the other hand, Flying Fox, which was bought by M. Blanc in the year 1899, realized between £39,000 and £40,000. It will thus? be seen that at the end of the nine- teenth century a Derby winner was worth exactly 740 times more mon- ey than it was at the end of the eighteenth century! But so recently as 1874 a horse that had carried off the blue ribbon of the turf was sold for a mere song. This was the unfortunate George Frederick, which after winning the Derby changed hands at the price of £65. ‘ Avnothcr Derby winner. Baron Rothschild’s Sir Bevys, commanded only 500 guincas; while it may in: the animal with which Mr. Henry Chaplin scored his sensational Derby triumph over the plunging Marquis of Hastings, was bought, by the for- mer gentleman for 1.000 guineas. -‘ nI-In Kingcrnft, the winner of the 1870| Derby. was subsequently disposed of{ for 500 guineas. This horse was entered for a score of other races, but proved a rank failure.- It be- longed to the order of SING LEâ€"RACE WIN NERS. Sold originally for the sum of'12,- 500 guineas. Blair Athol was in the end'disposed of for a trifle more than £2,000. The Winner of the 1868 Derby, Blue Gown. met with a very melancholy fate. After being bought by an American for £4,000. the voy- age across the Atlantic proved too much for it and it died. Whilst St. Gaticn and Harvester ran a dead-heat in the Derby of 1884 there was an enormous din'erence in their respective values. St. Gaticn commanded the high price of £15,- 000; whereas the harvest reaped by Harvester was not even one-fifteenth of that sum. .\ L74 \ll Ulstvv um“.--â€" Galtee More. a very popular Derby Winner, changed hands at, the hand- some price of £21,000. the purchase being made on behalf of the Russian Government. It would probably have paid the owner to refuse even that large offer._ Quite a sensation was caused when it became known that ()rmonde had been sold at what remained for some time a record price. This Derby winner had formerly belonged to the late Duke of Westminster, Who had parted with the animal at the price of £12,000. Ormonde was then ac- quired by an enterprising American at a cost of more than two and a half times that sum. or £31,250. It was said that the purchaser after- wards rcfused an olier of £45,000 for his bargain. - â€"_-7L' St" "Blaise, a rank outsider which won the Derby in 1883 with the odds at, Iiftv to one icalized £20,- 000 when sold in New York; and as much as £40, 000 is believed to have been 1efused for Melton.- another winner. But up to the present time the reâ€" cord pricc actually paid for a Derby winner is the 37,500 guincas at which Flying Fox was acquired by M. Blane. Sir Claude Macdonald’s Defence Of English Troops. The North China Daily News of Shanghai. says that five classes of actions by the allies after the siege in I’ekin were unjustifiable, accm'd- ing to the rules adopted at The Ilague conference. It, enumerates them as follows: Firstâ€"The atrocities committed by the Russian troops. Thirdâ€"The armed support given to adjust the claims of Catholic Christians by the French authorities or. at all events, by French troops. Secondâ€"The punitive expeditions organized by various Powers. Fifthâ€"The charity from loot prac- tised by some American and British missionaries. Fourthâ€"The looting of the l’ckin Observatory. Sir Claude Macdonald. the British Ambassador. on April 1?. last, de- parted from the usual diplomatic procedure and wrote to the Kobe Chronicle in Japan a spirited denial that "wanton. cruel and indiscrimin- ate looting" had been practised by the British troops. He. said: “The empty houses and palaces Were converted into quarters and a military hospital for the troops who otherwise would have had to bivouac in the streets of the dirtiest city in the world. I have since heard that a prize fund has been expended in buying rice for the starving poor in Pekin during the winter months." Sir Claude said in his letter that he was constantly Walking or rid- ing through the streets and that within a fortnight from the time the troops entered the city “no Chinese who had remained in their houses were ejected or molested." The British troops had these or- ders: “Nothing is to be burned. de- stroyed or looted without orders.” The News gives this table as to the amount realized from the articles handed in by British search parties: Treasure (Government) ...... $140,000 Silk (Government) ............. 130,000 Sundries ........................ 60,000 "This,” the News sa's, “div up, yielded only 827 a. 3share, i233 shows that the principles of the standing orders were the practice of the force." BRITISH LOOT AT PEKIN. Twenty-six English bishops rank 5 peers. Total...... O” DERBY ............... 8330 , 000 ELEUTRIG BURGLABS HUW. INTERESTING STORIES SCIENTIFIC MB. SIKES. Robbers Are Now Men of Science, and Know All About Heat and Hetals. J emmies. crowbars, and skeleton keys are out of date. They may do for the oldâ€"fashioned burglar who robs the country parsonage, but the up-toâ€"date criminal knows a trick worth several of these out-ot- date, noisy implements._ The burglar of to-day takes a course of lessons in chemistry, and knows as much as an engineer of the properties of heat and the resistance of metals. â€" u--vâ€"â€"-__ . When the Tottenham (England)? Court Road Post Office officials found their safe open. and minus its contents one morning last spring. they wondered What on earth had done the damage. There was a great hole in it, which appeared to have been melted. though what could have melted chilled steel no one could at first imagine. _ U.-V vvâ€"-â€" -“ At last it was discovered that a blowpipe flame must have been used. The thief had been armed with a bit of rubber tubing, :1 blonipe, and a‘ small cylinder of oxygen, a gas which has the property of doubling the heat of a flame. Fitting the tube on to the nearest gas-burner. the oxygen was connected, and the bIOWpipe flame directed upon the me- tal, which ran like water under the terrific heat of 2,000 dcgrecs Fahren- heit. - This is only one 0,! many recent instances of science used in crime. A wholesale tobacco shop in aNorth- crn town recently lost. $4,000 from its sale, which, from its thickness. was supposed to be entirely burglar- proof. The thieves had fused a hole by the use of the electric light. wires. Vienna suffered severely one day] last March from a gang of criminal electricians. These cut the electric- light wires during a snowstorm, causing them to fall upon the tram- car lines, which so became charged with electricity, and most dangerous. Every horse that touched them with his iron-shod hoofs fell. Then, when the frightened occupants of cabs and carriages came scrambling out. the thieves, under pretence of assisting them, picked their pockets. The Whole gang were provided with rubber-soled shoes, to save them from any (I: on live wires. wnéd the Strongâ€"mom of the Gib-‘ son building in Glasgow was robbedM it was a puzzle to the owners and‘ police how on earth the burglars‘ could have known where to cum- nlcnce operations. The latter had taken a house next door, pulled the bricks away, and then bored the boiler-plate casing exactlv behind where the safe Stood. They had blasted open the safe with a tiny charge of fulminate, and not safe away with $8.500 worth uf gold coin and jewellery. “ . h When, a. year later, Peter Baker. better known as “the Smilcr.” was caught in Hull, England. and sent up for five years. he confessed that he and his gang had ascertained the lo- cation of the Gibson safe. as well as having made several other similar discoveries, by the use of an X-rays apparatus. 0 ‘ AAAI__._-.A.. “1' I' "' "' That some criminals are mechanics of a very high order is proved by a crime relic now in the possession of a retired police-officer. It is a Safeâ€"â€" or. rather, an imitation safeâ€" made‘ entirely of cork, and so light that one man can lift it. Altlnmgh. when set up, it forms a perfect imitation of the genuine article, with every de- tail complete, yet it can be folded and carried in an ordinary portmanâ€" teau. Its maker was not a burglar. but asham insurance agent. llis meth- od of operation was to hire an office in some big block of buildings, in- stal his safe to give the place a busi- ness-like appearance, and then, after duping as many victims as possible in a week, steal away, safe and all, leaving no trace behind. Even the drugged cigar has now given place to’ more scientific meth- ods. The thieves who robbed Lady Marriner of her jewel-case lust sum- mer in the Paris express must have been in possession of a chemical lab- oratory in which they had conducted elaborate experiments. Lady Mur- riner, it may be remembered. admir- ed the lovely flowers which a woman in the sflme compartment carried. The latter presented her with the bouquet to smell, and that was the last the victim remembered for an hour or more. What the subtle poi‘ son that had been sprinkled on the flowers was composed of has never been discovered. WHAT PAPA SAID TO RICHARD Mabel had been Waiting for her lover’s return for what seemed to her an age. Her heart turned to stone as she thought of him, young, slen- der, but brave to rushness and reck- lessness, closeted alone with her stern father in the grim old library. The door opened at last and he stood before her, a flush on his cheeks and an expression in his eye. I.“ -- “’.-“" 0-- v-.. Did you see papa, Richard? she asked, With trembling eagerness. He held her inhis arms for a moment without speaking. Yes, dearest, he said. at, length. And What did he say, Richard? Tell me What he said! He refused you? Oh! your eyes tell me! He refused; he will not give me to you? But. I will beâ€"I am yoursâ€"I do not fear his harshnessâ€"we will fly!" But Richard looked down into her Pleading {ace and shook his head slowly, like a man in a dream. . Tell me, then, for I cannot Wait! Was he brutal and cruel to you ? What did he do? What did he say? Richard drew 9 long, deep breaw‘ and again looked down at the face turned up to meet. his troubled He sighed and whispered The engines War cost. abo firms of a first-class man-of- about $700,000. danger 7 through stepping Not every dairyman can so u- range his business as to adopt all at once the practice of soiling. which is the growing of special crops for the feeding of his cows kept in yards and stables. This improved method of feeding cows must be grown up to from a small beginning at first. until the full practice is possible. But at the very beginning of it, it may be turned to great advantage. For the beginning of it is to get the very best pasture possible. on to which the cows may be turned us a rest and change of feed. on which the fullest product of milk of the best kind may be secured. The pasture is the main dependence in case of accident; it is the lite-boat. so to speak, which hangs at the ship's side, so as to be ready in case of accident, 11nd yet may never he need- A pasture should be first and last and all the time, a feeding place for the cows in which they may be sup- plied with a full feed of the very best milk-making food; and this without the labor of expending the strength derived from the food in the mere gathering of it. A fairly good pasture for cows should be such as the cows may rest on seven-eighths of the time; taking but one hour out of eight in the mere act of feeding. The rest of the time will be devoted :to resting. chewing the cud and mak- ing milk. Thus the first thing after, or it may be justly considered before the quality of the grass, should be the shade, under which the cows may rest. It is the grass which makes the pasture. The best grass can only be made on an old field. It requires many years to grow grass fit for pasture. But when it is once made. iii it is skilfully used, it may be made better each year for many years. Indeed there are always some spe- cial fields which may be made most profitable for this use, and when any isuch field may ofier itself for any .good reason. for a permanent pas- l ture. it should be made. the best of i'ts kind by due preparation at first, and constant preparation afterWards. A good pasture cannot be made in one year. It must undergo a thor- ough course of preparation for the! ‘use it is put to. If it is apt to he; wet and to hold water, it should be‘ thoroughly drained. ()ne of the first ' necessities is a. supply of water, from i a spring if possible. otherwise from '. some source to be led into the fields, iwhere it may be permanent. The ‘lnext is that it should be dry otherw ’iwise. The soil should he peither‘ lflight: her heavy; a loam tending to| l clay is the best. The surface will be ' most satisfactory in every way if it 3' is as nearly level as may be. Grass 1 ref ses to grow, as a rule. on dry kno ls, unless the most careful ' tre. ment is given to these easily i wonn out places. So that for a per- “ ma ent pasture. the surface should : be s nearly level as possible. Tiere should be a preparatory course of culture to fit land of any kind, even of the best. for pasture. It should be deeply ploughed. not all at once. but for each of the preparâ€" atory crops. taken with the chief ob- f ject of fitting the land for the pur- _ pose. The first crop should be roots, 8 potatoes. or beets, chosen as the t. preliminary culture for the deep loploughing needed for those. and the niclean working of the land will de- 3 I. 5 ‘3 l. ‘4‘\-ull vv \vup---â€"U stroy weeds and deepen the. soil. Ar-' tiiicial fertilizers should be used for these crops. and through the whole course of work ordinaryr nianure' should be avoided for the reason that it will never be free enough of! needs to meet the neressities of the case. After the root crop should come winter grain. of which rye is to be chosen first. With this, in the spring, clover should be sown. and! the next year be made into hay or' turned under for manure l. in the season when the seed wilUbe ripe.‘ The land should he. worked over with the bread toothed cultivator as of- ten as may be needed to destroy any : Weeds that may appear, and so the: land will be brought into such a fun. vorable texture, and condition other- . Wise, as to be ready for the seeding ‘ the next spring. It. should then ht: sown with barley. Whieh for several. reasons is too best seeding nurse-l crop. 'I‘wo bushels of. seed to the acre of this grain should be sown and Worked in with a broad toothed cultivator. This will iinnlly bring um unrfnfle into an excellent condi- crop. 'I‘Wu bllShUIh 02. soon LU LU'J acre of this grain shuuld he sown and worked in with a broad tumhcd cultivator. This will finally bring the surface into an excellent, condi- tion for the grass $00”. The seed is very iinpurtunt. The design is to have grass that. will occupy the ground {or sovm-ul yours, if not many. For what is wanted is to get the pay for all this wm'k in duly liberal proportiuns. returned in a meadow which will be profitable for several, if not many years. Sc- I I 3-- “In 1“ .rrqu “"0 1'1‘18 (1051“- verul kinds of grass are thus u able. Some of these will last, i) short. time. but the object, in u them is to have the ground full) cupied from the first, and then these temporary kinds run out. other kinds which increase from 1 roots. and make a close sud, fill vacancies. and fully cover ground. These permanent kind grass are blue grass. creeping 1 (low grass, foxtnil grass. yellow - I ’7‘” “" '1 n: ”I. f, CUPICU lluun on.“ . these tenmorury kinds run out the otl1e1 kinds which i11c1ense {10111 their roots. and make a close sod, till the vacancies. and fully cover the '1hese permanent kinds of blue grass. creeping mea- doW grub-4, foxtuil grass. yellow oat orchmd grass. hard fescue . tall meadow fescue. meadow rescue, and timothy, of each three pounds; or perennial rye grass twelve pounds. red clover four pounds. white and Alsike clover three pounds, and perennial red clo- ve1 three pounds. per acre. Some of these varieties will grow at first more luxuriantly than others. but may Bonn d1sa nnear when the others. '“_' 0-w- . THE WEEDER AND 1mm mum, more rofiust an?! of permanent root- ing habit, will remain to occupy the land for a number of years. during. or alter which some artificial fertil- izers with fresh seed, and a {all har- rowing will help to restore any (an- arc. THE cow PASTURE- What the use of the iron-toothed of grass are thus desir- of these will last but a but the object in using nave the ground fully uc- Q rake in the garden is. is the use of the weeder in large fields. It is but an iron-toothed rake of a different pat- tern drawn by a horse. on: two hor- sea. It kills the weeds whose seed. have sprouted near the surface. and does not injure the crop whose seedl' were put an inch or more deep. and both have their uses even before the crop comes up. when the - rain or other cause has ‘ made the surface oi the ground bake. to a hard crust. 'l‘o ,loosen this and make it fine not. on- ly enables the young plants to come up quicker and with less energy. but it makes the surface soil and earth ' mulch to absorb moisture from the atmosphere and conserve that which is beneath, and draw it up from be. low the point. where plant roots can reach it. We know that the growth of an oak from an acorn dropped in a crevice of a rock can move heavy masses of stone and earth as it grow::. At our experiment station they demonstrated that the growth of a squash could lift many tons. and we have read of mushroom! raising paving-stones. but we have not yet learned that in either case the growth which had such obstacles to contend against was any better lor larger because of being so eon- llned or limited. Just so young plants may break through or lift up the crust. of rain-beaten and sun- baked soil. but we do not think they grow any better or even as well for having to do this. So we say break up the surface soil and keep it. line with the weeder in large fields. and with the iron tooth rake in the gur- den. and we think it. will promote a ‘more rapid and stronger growth of ;the plants. The light harrow “nth small. sharp teeth has proven a good ’substitute for the “'L‘t'dt‘l‘ when it “.Vitb not at hand. For more than three decades the ships of the, World have been making use of the Suez Canal as a highway betWeen East and West. The com- parative figures showing the progress in the trailic through the premier inter-oceanic canal convey much in- terest, especially in view of futuiz undertakings of the same nature. ' glance at a table enables one to realize the extent to which the Suez Canal has been of use to the Euro~ fpean maritime countries. A , Britain First With 56 Pm Cent. Germany fled With 15. i The full list, of percentage of gross “tonnage for 1900 is as follows; Brit.- ish. 56.7; German. 15.0; French. 8.5; Dutch. 5.2; Austm-llungarian, 3.4. i{u§siun, 3.3; Japanese, 2.6; Italian. 1.8; Spanish, 1.1; Danish, 0.7; Norâ€" wegian. 0.7; Amvrican, 0.6; Turkish, '03; and Belgian, 0.1. The other day I saw a cab dra' eup outside of one of our big hotels land at young American jumped out. .'says the London News. “What’s your flare?” he demanded; and the cabmaui 'owned to half-a-crown with a caud- our that was in itself suspicious, i'l‘he young American pulled out a. ‘handtul of silver and asked: "Say ‘how many shillings are there in half- ,u-crown?” "Three. sir." Was the lprompt reply. And the representa- tive of Yankee cuteness paid up with- lwt a murmur. They don't know quite everything on the other side of the “Pond." CILIII LIIO I U! uuym .ttm - - -_._ our; four month- . OI. ”b;â€" all mandala 1mg“ mm New“; in r at. WuhlutouJ) Ut‘on moving into a new houso Hm writer made up her mind to do mmy Ewith paper on the pantry shelves ll, Ioonocals crumbs and all sorts of Ms- overs. harbors roaches. gets tunpiml and worn and is a nuisance. 'l'h". new pantry has a large window, it WG-8 stained and varnislugi in light, Nineteen flags ham their separate: columns, thuugh ships of all these nations do not appear in every year of the series from 1870 to 1900. Great. BIiL.IiII stunted with and has maintained a vast prepondelancc in the gums tonnage of ships passing through the canal. Last your she headed the list. with 56.7 per cont. Germany. which comes next. having only 15 per cent. During the last, decade tlivrc have been considerable fluctuatiuns in the British total», and the your 1891 still remains the high water mark. with 9,484,608 tons, against 7,771,346 for last s'cal. ' Germany's increase has been pro~ grossive from 2.069 in 1871 to 2» 047,229 in 1900. Austria also shows a remarkably steady rise. and stands above Bun- sia and Japan, which make use of the canal {or the transit of war ves- sels for the East. American tonnage is only a frac- tiun of the whole, last year reach- ing 0.6 per cent.. largely due, ap- parently. to transport ships to Man- ila. - 4 ‘ Tm: CABBY AND THE YANKEE " 7‘ ll WW; and h a a- o.-.” ' iore tho Workchn carried away their paint pots I had all the HllL'IVPS, high and low, the insidos of tho drawers and doors and the plastered walls treated to two coats of daz- zling white paint. When that. hard- ened I went over it vyitliutwo coat- v- -.Vâ€"â€" - ..... of enamel. It is wonderfullv easy to keep clean and it. costs very little. THROUGH SUEZ CANAL. A DAINTY PANTRY. .28.);an nnur “t“