~- 5 THE DAILY WHIG, SATORDAY, SEPTEMBER 1S. sop ee We ee Baby's Own Soap isa guard against all skin troubles in children. It cleanses, softens, soothes and prevents chafing and sores. IT 18 AS GOOD FOR THE ; OLD AS THE YOUNG. ALBERT TOILET SOAP CO., Mmras. He MONTREAL. a2 Notice to Creditors. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN PURSUANT to See. 38, Chup. 129, Revised Statutes of Untario, that all creditors, and other nersons having claims against the estate of Mary Doyle, late of the City Kingston, in the County of Frontenac, spin- ster, deceased, who died on or about the 6th day of May, A.D. i902, are required to send by post prepaid or to deliver to W. H. Sullivan, of 36 Clarcnoe siwreet, in the said City of Kingston, solicitor for the under- signed executors, full particulars and prooi of their claims on or before Saturday, the 11th day of October next. And notice is here bv given that after said 11th day of Octo ber mext the undersigned executors will pro- ceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among * the parties entitled thereto having regard onlv to those claims of which they shall thgn have notice and the said exe- cutors shall not be liable for the said as- sts or any part thercofl to anv person or persons of whose cluims thev shall not have had notice at the date of such distribution. Dated at Kingston, this 30th day of Au- gust, A.D, 1902 MICHAEL SULLIVAN, LAWRENCE O'BRIEN Executors of the last will and testament of «aid Mary Doyle. Notice to Creditors. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN PURSUANT to Sec. 88, Chap. 129, Revised Statutes of all creditors, and other persons having claims against the estate of - James Doyle, late of the City of Kingston, in the County of Frontenac, - ceased, who died on or about the 28th day of July, A.D, 1902, are required to send by post prepaid or to deliver to W. H. Sullivan of 36 Clarence street, in the said City of Kingston, . solicitor for the undersigned exe- tutors, full particulars and prool of their claims on or before Saturday, the 11th day of Oc next. And notice is hereby given that after said 11th day of October next the said executors will proceed to distribute the aseets of the said deceased among the parties entitled thereto having regard only to those claims of which they shall then have notice the said executors shall not Le liable for the said assets or any part thereof to any person or persons of whose claims they shall not have had notice at the date of such distribution Dated at Kingston this 30th dav of Au gust, A.D. 1902. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, LAWRENCE O'BRIEN Executors of the last will and testament of said 'James Dovle. WE DO NOT : SUBSTITUTE. We conduct our business on honest commercial principles. We are not sub- stituters. We make it a point to sup- ply just what is asked for: we never suggest the something just as good. 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PARTRIDGE, : 'Crescent Wire Worke, 278 Kine FERTILE" "SOIL HOW IT "MAY BE BEST "SECURED. : Land Cannot Forever Remain Fer- tile--It Must be Renewed -- The Method Explained. Agricultural Department, Ottawa. For many years, farmers in Eastern were grain growers . merely. Necessity forced the inception ef such a system of agriculture. Habit and ignorance prolonged the practice of such farming. The wonderful strength, and seemingly inexhaustible fertility of the soil made its long continuanee possible. The discovery of the peossi- bilities oi the North-West and the gra- dual exhaustion of our fields called a halt. Hence, for some years past change has been made in the air. Live stock farming, the systemn mak- ing the smallest demands -on soil fer- tility, is rapidly supplanting grain growing. Parts of nearly every farm are now much better in condition than they were a few years ago; and, fur- ther, such is nature's wonderful re- cuperative power, since the partial ces- sation of the tremendous drain of grain exportation the average crop return for, Eastern Canada have gone up very considerably. But, as every farmer knows, even live stock farming long continued means a gradual loss of fertility unless considerable food other than that produced on the farm is fed to stock and the manure prop- erly cared for and utilized. : This fact has led to a study of the methods for cheaply restoriy lost fertility and profitably culivating soils so that "improved, rather 'than im- poverished" may be the annual ver dict. It is impossible to discuss the sub- ject exhaustively in such an article as this, but one plan of cultivation found to 'give good results is where the meadow or pasture \is, ploughed in August, the sod being turned to a depth of three and one-half or four inches only. Immediately after plough- ing, if a dry time, the land is rolled, then harrowed with a light harrow. It is then left untouched until grass and' weeds start to grow when it is again harrowed, care being exercised to prevent the sod being disturbed. The harrowing or cultivating process is continued at intervals (as the weed seeds germinate) until October, when by means of a (three plough gang), face soil to be a depth of about four inches is put into drills abéut twen- ty-two inches apart and eight to ten inches high. This is found to be a most satisiactory preparation. of the soil for corn, roots or grain. Where grain is' sown, the soil is ready for seeding at a considerably earlier date than where late fall ploughing is practiced. : If along with this system of shallow cultivation a proper rotation is adopted, most excellent results are sure to follow. As clover is the only crop which, while giving a profitable harvest still serves to enrich rather than to impoverish the soil, it is evident that clover should take a pro- minent place in August rotations in this country. With this fact in mind, a few rotations suitable for the im. proving of our lands may be offered, as follows : 3 year rotation -(1) grain, (2) clov- er hay, (3) pasture. 3 year rotation (1) corn and roots, (2) grain, (3) clover hay. 4 year rotation (1) corn and roots or peas, (2) grain, (3) clover hay, (4) hay or pasture. 5 year rotation (1) grain with ten pounds' clover seed to plough down for fertilizers, (2) corn and roots, (3) grain, (4) clover hay, (5) hay or pas- ture. 6 year rotation, same as five year, but left one year longer in pasture. The reason for surface cultivation and thesuse of such short rotations as given above is to increase the quanti- ty of and place properly the chief fac- tor making for soil fertility. Dead vegetable matter gxposed to moisture and warmth soon breaks down to a form called humus or black earth, the factors above men- tioned. Our prairie and newly cleared soils contain immense quantities of this material. Exposure to heat and the inter-mixture of earthy matter serve to waste. Thus, repeated orain the condition best calculated to disdi- pate this © matter most rapidly and most effectively. I'he functions of this common, yet easily lost, substance are varied and important. Being, as anyone can find out for himself, of the néture of a sponge, it retains the moisture in a dry time, but: will allow all superflu- ous water to rapidly and harmlessly percolate to the lower soil layers. It holds loose, porous soils togeth- er, and so otherwise loose sands be- come staple and provide a good reot hold for plants. 1t renders dense, im- permeable soils open and porous, per- mitting the free circulation of air and water' and allowing the weak rootlets to penetrate the erstwhile impenetra- ble space in search of food. In brief, qt is 'the chief requirement of good physical condition in our soils. It contains much plant food, since it is really' vegetable matter, and a large percentage of this food is in available form. It aids also. in the conversion of the non-available forms of the ele ments of fertility into available forms. Further, it retains near. <urface the dissolved plant food which must otherwise have sunk into thé sub-soil. - The most important source of hu- mus on the average farm are farmyard manure and crop residues. Upon the proper application or use of these ma- terials depends the future of Cana: dian agriculture. : Where the supply of humus is limit- eq ite location becomes a very im- portant consideration. "Now. most of our crops «draw the greatest part of their food from the surface soil, for, while some roots of most plants pene trate to a | considerable depth. most roots of all plants are near the sur face. Plants of nearly all deseriptions thrive hest. where the surface soil is mellow and rich in humus. The great crops produced by newly cleared fields and prairie lands exemplify this, as does also the rank growth of plants in- our forests, where the suhsoil never stirred, or where the annuals and smaller perennials must depend jor their notrishment upon the sur- is face soil almost exclusivelv It would, double mould-board plough the sur- | cropping with deep ploughing. provide. the 1] e, searu fo be clear that amail- ea ba mea eho surface of our fields ana that our sur- Hace soil "should be if "particularly 'good physical "condition of #ilth. .. How to secu 'these two require- ments of Tapia, rank and desirable plant growth must, therefore, be the first consideration of every would-be successful farmer. Experiment and long practice seem to prove thatshal- low cultivation and some rotation, more especially the three-year or: the four-year in dry districts, and the Bee pe rainy districts, are most serviceable in increasing the humus in the surface oil, and so, 'improving the physical condition"; which means a nreading the productivity" .of our i ] GREAT NUGGET MAN | WHO: FOUND | FT: DIES POOR Samjuel Hawkins Napier"s Story of the Discovery of the "Blanche Barclay,' a $60,000 Lump of Gold--His Fortune Lost Almost as Quickly as it Was Won. : Ottawa, Sept. 4.--One dav last week the body of a man who discovered the largest nugget of gold the world has ever seen was brought down from The new vicerine of Ireland ;: whom Earl Dudley, t#fé new lord-lieutenant. NL Countess Of Dudley. Ireland is about to welcome with A WONDERFUL BUSH. It Has Thrived For Over 1,000 Years. A wonderful rosebush grows in the town of Hildersheim in Germany. It is declared to be 1,000 years old, and sprouts from its branches have realiz- ed enormous sums. Some years ago. it is said, a rich Englishman ofiere | $50,000 for the entire tree, but sum was indignantly refusad This wonderful plant clings amid thickly grown moss' against the sid. «f' the famous old church of St, Michael. It is claimed that it has bloomed per- ennially since the days of King Al- fred, and that statement has never been disputed, for its record has been as carefully kept as the pedigree .of the bluest blooded family in the king- dom. It is supposed to have been dis- covered through the medium of King louis of Hilersheim as far back as 1022. aes smp---- Read every line of to-day's Whig. a lumber supply station 200 miles up the Gatineau country, in the pine woods, and buried at Desert. Samuel Hawkins Napier ended his days in a miserable cabin after having once amassed a fortune and become the lion of Great Britain's capital. When in 1852 the world was startled by 'the reports of fortunes won in Au- stralia by inexperienced miners, Na- pier was purser on a clipper ship ply- ing between Liverpool and Melbourne. He withstood the temptation for five years, but in 1857 gave up the sea and joined his brother, then at the Kingowar diggings, not far from Mel- bourne. Their claitn- was just thirty- six feet square, but beneath the sur- face lay a hunk of treasure that made the eyes of kings and queens sparkle when they saw it. i Napier and his brother worked their claim with varying success until Au- earthed the .nugget that made. them famous throughout the world and vielded them a fortune. Samuel _re- 2 LADY MAITLAND, A DISTINGUISHED CONVERT TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, No Midas. Philadelphia Press , a Markley--You know 1t 1s said of King Midas that everything he touch ed turned to geld--even his own chil dren. - Borroughs--Just a little difference between him and me. Everything | touch turns to go. ------ Ii tha sky were filled with. full! moons the light would, be no brighter | than that of ordinary daylight. -- turned to Bathurst, New Brunswick; where he became one of the leading men and was elected a member of the previncial parliament for his native county of Gloucester. The fortune which came: so easily, slipped through his hands almost prec So] be- 'fore long Napier was; glad 'ob the chance to earn his bread by working at any job he could find. Th ; or fomr vears ago the man was ser to the pine woods by sa lumber cosipanv 4 mon, with only a dog as his comp # * gust 15th of that year, when they .un- and there "he died 'sitting at a rough' table. Napier once told the story of his great, find, and it was written down by John Lambert Payne, secretary-of the minister of railways here. Napier said: : ak "We had got down to the pipe clay bottom, which marked the bed of an ancient river and was the chief char- acteristic of all alluvial diggings in Australia, when mv pick struck some- thing hard. I knew at once it wasn't boulder, for there was not the same ring to it. It strutk dead. Scraping the dirt away I caught sight of the bright yellow of pure gold. It was then about ten o'clock in the moriing and I immediately called to my bro- ther. My first thought was that some one would come we were digging out, so we tried to keep it partly: covered while we dug away with pick and shovel. } "When the nugget was at last free it was all that I could do to lift it, and 1 saw that it was solid, pure gold. It was two feet four inches long by ten inches wide and from an inch to an inch and a hali to three inches thick. It weighed exactly 146 pounds four ounces three penny- weights and was actually the largest and finest nugget oi pure gold ever found anywhere in the world: One or two others were found that weighed %s much, but they were not solid or pure gold. "The knowledge that it was enorm- ously valuable made us afraid that some 'one would discover what we had found and rob us of it. The 'thing we did was to cover it over with loose dirt and then we sat aown to plan how we would get it out so as to prevent any one from knowing it.. We discussed scheme after scheme, until we worked ourselves: into a great state of anxiety. "At last we hit upon a plan. We remembered that we had lent a tub to the tailor in the mining camp. We would go down to his place and get the tub on a wheelbarrow, and as we passed the hole where the nugget lay we would place it in the tub. We ar- ranged the whole plan very carefully. We were to take turns in wheeling and if any one spoke to us one was to stop and talk while the other was to wheel right along. The scheme worked well, and just about dusk we landed the nugget in our tent. We threw it under oné of the low beds and sat down to wait till midnight. Early in thé night we put out our light and pretended to go to bed. At last the lichts were all out _and not a soul stirred in the camp. "With a pick and shovel we began to dig .right in "the middle of our tent. We worked hard, and in the course of a few hours haa a hole six feet deep. Into 'that we laid our nug- get and filled in the earth with great care, so as not to leave a trace .of our work. Then we felt safe. No one had seen the nugget but ourselves, and it was now buried six feet out of sight. But a nugget buried six feet was no use to us. We must get it to Melbourne. There was plenty of time to organize 5 plan, and, besides, there might be other nuggets in our claim. We must see about that. For a time we watched the tent, but after awhile went to work every day and left the tent open. We thought that the best way to prevent suspicion ana it work- ed all right. No one in the camp knew of the nugget, and our fortune and lives depended on the secret being well kept. For three months: the nugget lay buried and at the end of that time we washed ont our claim. We found a number of nuggets in the same hole, one of which weighed eight pounds. Aiter paying up all of our scores, we had only $1,000 each leit from our washings. Then we arranged to quit the diggings and go to Melbourne, which meant a long ride. Armed only with shotgun and revolver, we, started in a one-horse cart, and in due time we reached Melbourne. Next day we deposited the nugget in the bank, and our fears were at an end. "The news spread like wildfire, and thousands , rushed to the Kingowar gold fields. While in Melbourne, we named the nugget the 'Blanche Bar- clay' in honor of the beautiful daugh- ter of the governor, and by that name the model in the British museum is known. The bank gave us an insur- ance of $50,000 for the safe delivery of the nugget in London and we sail- ed for England. "When we arrived there, we were made the lions of London. The papers wrote up the story of the nugget and told who we were. The queen sent for u¢, and we dined in Buckingham palace. We drove down from the bank of England under heavy escort, taking the nugget with us. Her ma- jesty and the Prince Consort received us "most graciously; and the: Prince of Wales who was a lad of fifteen vears, showed a very deep inter:st: in the nugget. I do not wonder at that for it was ene of the prettiest sights one could see. Tt was 23.7 carats fine, or as nearly absolutely pure gold as it is possible to get. "Then the nugget was put on exhi- bition at the Crystal Palace, for which privilege we were paid $250 a week. We lived at a swell hotel on the Surrey side and had a great time. This lasted -for--three- months, during which time Sir Roderick Murchison had a cast made of the nugget for the British museum. The work was so perfectly done by an Italian that you couldn't tell one from the other until you lifted them. He save me a duplicate. Finally we sold the nug- get for $60,000. It was nét wofth more than $50,000 intrinsically, but being the largest and finest gold. nug- get ever found," we got $10,000 more for it than its real value. "After a time it passed into the hands of the Bank of England, the in- tention being to keep it for the Bri- tieh Mueum, but about that time a new 'manager . or directorate, came in and, to the surprise and re gret of every one, the nugget was melted dewn and turped into money. it prielded 10,000 woversigne.' : ------------------ Those Worrying Piles ! ; One application of Dr. Agnew's Ointment will give vou comfort. Ap plied every night for three to 81x nights : and a cure is effected in the most stubborn cases of Plina, Bleed ing. or Itching Piles. Dr. Agnew's Ointment cures Eczema and all itch ing and burning Chie diseases, Tt acts like magic. th. Sola bv A 1 Taylor and H. Wade.--15 ee iri -- There are about 3,000,000 pedple al ways afloat, according to the latest ACOWPULALION., ' along and see what | first | » ATI VI BYE 4 EDN What made your linens coarse? . Common soap. Sunlight Soap saves linen. 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