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ath After advantage of hat being the e names being ; in the larger 1ad it in some proven sutcces mtended _ that, make reforms t is enjoyed by mittee _ should ts logical seâ€" rivileges at the experiâ€" iffrage to woâ€" \ m m an< ‘eCover L HANDS, C to wfl‘.‘ oll whetber ind or the [ashionable ime out‘ in that KILLED. â€"BACK, more al z00. beath 1O ESCAPE UrWe Ex les ler the yt n NnA D. 1 should irticle Wls ilr. ‘s. He words 1 V 110 in, Jjust cept Robâ€" nâ€" 1D in nour ist s at at he it nts d W D by addrossing the Dr. Williams‘ Medi clne Co., Brockville, Ont, . . 1 per aroum1l the box. _ Sotd by all axllcine dealers or sent post paid at 30 conts a box or six boxes for $2.50 l th> trouble had disappeared, and i have not since had the slightest reâ€" turr o( tic discase. These pills atlso strengthoned me in other ways and I believe them to be the best of all Emss 13'1]1\‘,\.1" % Dr. Williams‘ Pink Plils enrich and ‘outish the blood and strengthen the nerves. It is thus that they cure such troubles as dyspepsia, kidagy allmonts, rheumatism, partial parâ€" alysis hoort trouwbles, St. Vitus‘ dance and the ailments that make the lives 0‘ so many women a source of misâ€" ery. Do not take any pills without tho full name, "Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills for Pale Poople," on the wrapâ€" There is no trouble more dangerâ€" ous to lifo than disease of the kidâ€" neys, for the reason that before any special symptoms have made themâ€" setves manfest the disease has asâ€" sumed a formidable character. The symptoms that first mani{est themâ€" selves are usually weakness in the small of the back, pains in the reâ€" Klion of the loins. The urine is someâ€" times highly colored, while in other cases lt is extremely pale, frequentâ€" 1y depositing a sediment. As the trouble progresses these symptoms krow more severe, aad frequently terminate in dropsy, Bright‘s disâ€" aase or diabetes. Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills are a specific for aill kidney troubles, and have cured many cases alter all other medicines bave failed. Mr. L. Lussier, a wellâ€"known naviâ€" gator, of Sorel, Que., gives his exâ€" perience for the benefit of other suflâ€" forers. He says: For several years 1 sullered very much from kidney trouble. The sympioms usually made themselves manifest by severe pains m the back ami kidneys, and someâ€" times they would be so bad that I woukl be confined to my bed for sevâ€" oral days at a time. I tried a numâ€" ber of different medicines, recomâ€" mendedl for the trouble, but got no rellel, _ ard _ finally became _ o discouraged that I thought _ a cure was impossible, and stopâ€" ;â€"d taking medicine. Shortly afâ€" tor this I react in our local paper of a case of kidney trouble crrod by the use of Dr. Wllllnms’i EFink Plis, and this induced me to. try this molicine. I soon. felt that thosc pills were not like the other m«dlicines I had been taking, for in the course of a few weeks I began to experience great relief. I continued taking the pills for a couple of swonths, by which time all symptoms . A Disease That Often Terâ€" minates Fatally "Yeâ€"es, and the ivy wWants trimâ€" ming. Why don‘t you put it in the bauds of the painters, Mr. Maude ?" "What, and go away â€" already ! Bsurcly that is too much to expect," 1 ventured, looking down into her eyes, which, if not boasting any practical _ attractions of "hidden depths," were vyery clear â€" and straightforward. Nlattoring, if still astonishingly proâ€" SAIC. 4 I led her around the garden, gathâ€" eral for her my best roses and fasâ€" toned them together, while she criâ€" tically surveyed the front of the bouse. h "It wants a coat of whitewash, doesn‘t it ?" I said, anxious to show her that I was not too conservaâ€" "Be kind to me too, then," I sugâ€" gosted, venturing, now that we had got among the trees of the garden, to put my hand lightly on ber waist. Bhe understood, and with a real blush at last, shoe let me kisa her. "I bave been a hermit a long time," 1 said in a low voice, "and I hava fallen out of the ways of the world and of women. But if you will only bave patience with me, and not be too much frightened by my uncouth ways, 1 will make you a very good busbhand ; and I promise you it shall be your own fault if I do not make you happy." pij. flatt SAC. D C MBBREPPVizsis\, SPc mcondss c & "I am afraid you will think I care more for <â€". mex plans than for the great happiness and honor _ you have just done me. But, Indeed, Mr. Maude, it is not so. It is only that I never {ind any one to sympathise with my elforts but you, and so I tax your patlocce tow much in my delight at meeting some one who is kind to Miss Farington might be cold, might be prosaic, but she was not stupid. She saw at once she had gone too far, and hastened to apolâ€" ogizeo with very maidenly humility. giveo up to strangers the accommoâ€" dation which has always Lbeen reâ€" served for my friends." iT:LOVE’S EXILE. ’g PEPIEIELILILLIEAELE zi z. zL. . L. Lussier, of Sorel, Tells How He Overcame the Trouble After Repeated Failures. Unfortunately I am im sure of it," she said sim with a confidence which wa ring, if still astonishingely »ro KIDNEY TROUBLE Romes in C Gied in the mesh excbte; LOVE‘S EXILE. ,*'? too “l'l‘h to f “N°| For 1 had decided that not honor enough could be done to _ my ! guests at the cottage ; and, Ferguâ€" ‘ son and old Janet joining in the ! work with a heartiness which made ‘ me love them, we turned out the _ whole house from garret to baseâ€" iment, and for a week there was ! such a sweeping and garnishing | as never was known. We had only just got it in order when Fabian‘s telegram came announcing that they were off, and for the next 48 ! hours nobody could stop to take breath. The stableâ€"boy had insistâ€" ed on erecting at the entrance a | lopâ€"sided triumphal arch which, ‘ after having required constant reâ€" newing of its branches for a day and a half, having been put up much too soon, had to be taken down at the last moment, as it was found that a carriage could not drive under it without either the arch carrying away the coachâ€" Eoamie o e e en a e 0C In the meantime we jogged on with our engagement, and I found in my daily walks with Lucy, and in lunchâ€" eons and teas at her father‘s, no charm strong enough to make me for a moment forget the fact that in a few days Babiole wouid be under my own roof. A hob C 2 #<5 h of aim, she used to say, not harshly, but with an implied reproach to my own more vulgar and sensual views, were the only sure foundation of happy married life; and I felt that so long as there was an unrepaired pigâ€"sty within a mile of Larkhall, I was an object of comparatively small importance in my fiancee‘s eyes. And the worst of it was, I couldn‘t conâ€" tradict her. Reserving all her enthusâ€" iasm for philanthropic projects, she was on other matters the incarnation of common sense.I soon found that it was the vague reputation for intelâ€" lect which any man gets in the counâ€" try who likes his books better than his neighbors, which had attracted her attention to my unworthy self. She was disappointed with her bare gain already ; I was sure of that ; but. having made It, she was not the woman to go back from her word She even had the good taste, on findâ€" ing that her "plans" palled upon me, to drop them out of her conversation to a great extent, but I had a sbrewd suspicion that they would be let looge upon me again with full foree as soon as she should be inâ€" stalled mistress of Larkhall I was secretly resolved, however, since my ladyâ€"love declined to rule me in the right woman‘s wayâ€"through â€" her beartâ€"to assert my â€" supremacy of the head in a startling and unexpectâ€" ed manner so soon as I should be legally the master. k 3 yan But Miss Fapington‘s heart and mind were far too well regulated for her to tolerate, much less seek, such an empire over the man who was to be her lord and master. She despised sentiment, and meant to begin as she intended to keep on, neither giving nor accepting an unreasonable amount of affection. Respect and esteem, and above all, compatibility means without affectionate impulses, and being aiso in a most propitious mood for sentiment, i should have been by the end of the week a sub missive, if not adoring slave. I wantâ€" «l to be a slave ; I was even anxious io become, for the time at least, the mere chattel of somebody else, & gracious and «+ kindly someâ€" body, â€" be it _ well _ understood, who would give me the wages of affection in return for my best efforts in her service. not be jJealous." m Blie laughed, a bright clear laugh, scarcely without a touch of goodâ€" humored contempt at the suggestion. *1 jealous! Oh, Mr. Maude, you would not seriously accuse me of such a paltry feeling! It would be unworthy of you, unworthy of me." I felt, when I had taken my fiancee home, and formally received her parâ€" ents‘ _ sanction to our engagement, that I was mysell uaworthy to live in the intellectual and moral heights on which she flourished. But I could creep after her in a bumble fashion, and do my best to make her love me. CHAPTER XXI. I suppose no man ever tried harder to be gueeply, earnestly, sincerely in love than i tried to be with Miss Farington ; and I suppose no man ever failed more compietely. 1 be.ieve now â€" that to any other woman I have ever met, being a man by no And in the meantime y loyalty to my friend and my friend‘s wife was strengthened by a new and sacâ€" red bond. 6 10 O 2009 2 UEHPTC. * Mrs. Ellimer ! Why, surely those are the people who used to live at the cottage! Oh, I have heard abcuat them and your kindness to them. People saidâ€"" She hesitated. * Well, what did they say ?" " Oh, well, they said you used to be very fond ofâ€"the daughter." *So Iwas; so Iam. But you need se se i. e e ie 2 uk "I don‘t know. The is Mrs. Elimer, the c Scott. She has been "Indeed! Oh, they will be people to know. Have I ever of them ? _No, no, I don‘t mean that; but you could come and stay nearer to ws. ‘lhe people at Lossie Villa are just going to leave, 1 know." "I am bound here for a little while, as one of my oldest friends has just asked me to give shelter to his wife and her mother for a few weeks." * sadk t . The mother‘s name they will be some ie daughter‘sâ€"Mrs. een ill, I believe." Why, surely those heard She asked me no more questions, ammdi J took her into the diningâ€"room to admire the roses with which we ‘"Why, don‘t you know your own mother‘s voice ?" ‘"Yes, yes, but who is she talklfi about ? Who is it wants a nice wife?" "I suppose most of us do, only we are not all so lucky as a certain young actor I know," I smid ‘brightly; but my heart beat violently, and I {felt Babiole‘s fingers trembling on "Well, I must go and congratulate him. I‘m sure I always said that a nice wife was just the one thing he wanted." "Who‘s that?" asked Babiole quite sharply. I was leading her slowly downâ€" stairs, when Mrs. Elimer‘s high piereâ€" ing voice, coming towards us as the door of the housekeeper‘s room was opened, suddenly broke upon our "Shall we take Froudeo toâ€"morrow, Mr. Maude? Or shall I prepare a chapter of Schiller‘s Thirty Years War ?" she asked, jast in the old manâ€" ner. _ "Or a coupie of pages of Anâ€" clent History ?" "I think," I _ answered slowâ€" ly, _ while my beart leapt _ up as a salmou does at a gly, an}k I honâ€" estly tried not to feel so disloyally, unrmistakably happy. "that we‘ll do a little modern poetry, and that we‘ll begin with ‘The Return of the Wanderer." But as she spoke, the light died out of her eyes, and I saw the fraâ€" gile white hand, ‘the blueâ€"veined delicacy of which had alarmed me, euddenly clutch the bannisterâ€"rail tighitly. ‘"You mustn‘t boast too soon," said I, ag I ran up the stairs and supâ€" poried her. She recovered herself in a Tew moâ€" ments, being only very weak and tired, and sho suddenly lifted _ her fage to mine quite merrily. "You must be ready for one! mead, I mean, not one Where is poor mamma ?" "Oh, she‘s gone to talk to Janet. She thinks I am still waiting for her to do my hair. â€" But she shall see thiait I am not am invalid any longâ€" er. ‘"‘The wings will grow again, and when it goes back to the lightâ€"â€"" "We won‘t talk about going back yet," she broke in with a little shiver. "I want to forget all about London for a little while, and try to feel just ais I used to do lhere. I wouldn‘t bring Davis with me. Poor mamma is going to be my nurse, and you to pe my doctor, and I an going to tako Craigendarroch after every meal." "And all the while it was only a gilly moth that had singed its wings in the big bright candle you â€" had warned it to keep away from," she a.nswere(l.gravely aflter a pause. "I thoughi it was an angel flying over my staircas_e._'_’ l_sal.d gently. I was just outside the front door, where I had been hovering about with an unlighted cigar between my lips, _ when I caught a glimpse of sof t white drapery in the heavy shadows of the old staircase. I went back into the hall and looked up at her, as she stopped with one hand on the bannisters, smiling down at me but saying nothing. She wore a transparent white dress that lookâ€" ed like muslin, only that it was gllky, with a long train that reâ€" mained stretched on the stairs above her as she stopped. an hour of going upstairs to the big south bedroom, which had been aired and cleaned and done up expressly for her, she flitted down again with quick steps, and witih a faint stain of pink color showing under the transparent skin of her thin cheeks. Mrs. Ellmer and I were rather afraid of the effects of fatigue and excitement on a frame scarcely conâ€" valescent, but the pleasure of being back among the hills was such a powerful! stimulant that within half the entrance, and gave us a hearty cheer as we drove past. Ferguson was standing at the door, and I vow his hard old eyes were moist as he lmsisted on helping the little lady out himself. Janet, in a cap which rendered the wearer insignificant, made a respectable curtsey to Mrs. Bcott, as she came up the steps, but throew her arms around her as soon as she was fairly inside the hall. All the men and boys about the p‘lqce had assembled in two rows at _i1es, yes, we‘ll set you up again as none of your London doctors could do," I said huskily. She smiled at me,â€" still keeping my hand. "*Will you, Mr. Maude?" she asked half doubtingly, like a child. "See what marriage has done for her," broke in Mrs. Elimer, _ half mourn{fully, _ half _ tartly. ""She wouldn‘t be satisfied till she‘d tried it, and look at the result." At that moment a yelping and barking behind us attracted our attention, and the next moment poor old Taâ€"ta, released from the yan in which she had been travelâ€" ing, overtook the carrlage, and tried to leap up from the road to lick my face. *"*Taâ€"ta, old girl, why, we‘re going to have the old times back again," I cried, much movgd ; and after a drive, in which only Mrs. Elimer talked much, we all reached Larkâ€" hall in a more or less maudiin conâ€" diition. overcome by old recollecâ€" tions. 1 could not speak, but just held out my arm and supported her to the carriage which, by my orders, was waiting outside. As we drove off she leaned agrinst her mother, and held out her hand to me. "Againâ€"after â€" four years, to be back with you under old Craigendarâ€" roch," she said, almost in a whisper, w!‘t_h moist eyes. Im sure nobody wanted me, and I was dying to get away. It was nearâ€" ly six before I could leave, and I rushed to the little station just as the passengers were streaming out of the traimn. I knew that Babiole was among them, and I came upon her suddenty as I got through the dotor on to the platform. She was leaning on her mother, pale, thin, :m.sted, so that for pity and terror i mean on purpose to meet me â€"I was forced to attend a most dull luncheon at Oak Lodge, where I, in absence of mind, made myself very objectionable by expressing a doubt whether any lawyors would be found in heaven. I‘m sure man. or tihe coachman carrying away the arch. They were to break the journey by spending _ one night at Edinburgh, and _ I had proposed to meet them at Aberâ€" gdeen on the following day. But Miss Farington‘s uncle having come to 'Ba.llater on purpose to annoy me â€" made me stay to_ tea, though one now, mountain. have proper care at that critical period in their lives when the funcâ€" thons of womanhood were developâ€" ing. These physiological changes usâ€" 1ally take place at a time whengirls are bending every effort to succeed in their school work, and are deâ€" priving themselves of the outadoor exercise, rest, and sleep which is sc important at this time in order to keep up good ttealth in the face of the strain which is put upon the The Wonderful Benefit to be Obtained by the Use of Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food When you meet with pale, weak women who complain of lack of vigor and vitality, and suffer more or less in a feminine way, you can be almost sure that they did not " Well," they answered coldly, "it is always possible for a man to beâ€" come poor again." . A GRITICAL TIME IN WOMAN‘S LIFE But somehow the idea did not seem to impress him {favorably. ‘Ah," he sighed, "I was happier wwhen I was poor." "Heâ€"he might not give you the chance." It is said that when a hungry Inâ€" dian goes hunting bhe kills the firet thing he seesy, if it is only a crow. If he kills a duck he drops the crow, and if he gets a deer, he throws away the duck. Some girls are regular Inâ€" diane, aren‘t they ?" ‘"Well, he and I were very good friends, and there is nothing I should like better than to meet him and make him listen to reasonâ€"as I‘m sure he would do." Bhe shook her head. _ ‘"*You don‘t know papa as mamma and I do. He wastes his life so that people deâ€" spise him, and believe that he cares for nothing but the day‘s enjoyâ€" ment. But they were wrong. He is fierce and sullemn and he never for gets. He came up here to see you, and to do you harm, and he will never rest until at least he‘s tried to." ‘"Better ?" said I, simply, coming up to the sofa and looking down. All the energy and animation of the evening before were gone now ; but to me Babiole never lost one charm withâ€" out gaining a greater ; she had been fascinating in a lively mood ; she was Irresistible in a quiet one. She gave me her hand and answered in a weak voice : s ‘"Yes, I‘m better, thank you." "What have you been thinking about sc quietly all by yourself ? I don‘t fancy you ought to be allowed to think at ali." ‘"‘I‘ve been thinking about poor papa. Have you heard anything more about him ?" . *‘*‘Yes, he‘s ali right, 1 believe, setâ€" Tled down in Aberdeen. I don‘t think you‘d better try to see him, though. It might set him worrying again on the old subject, which perhaps he has forgotten." 1 went straight into the drawing room, where Babiole, lying on a roia before one of the windows, was enjoying the warm light of the de clining sun. The next day came a reaction from the excitement of her arrival and Babiole was not able to leave her room until late in the afternoon. I bad paid my duty call at Oak Lodge in the morning and had been disconâ€" certed to find that common sense and philanthropy had grown less at tractive than evers Lucy expressed her intention of calling upon Mrs. Bcott that very afternoon, and when I explained that she was tired and not likely to make her appearance before dinner iime, my philanthro pist said she would drive round to Larkhall in the evening. From this pertinacity I concluded that Miss Farington was not so entirely free from human curiosity, and perhaps {eminine jealousy as she would have liked me to suppose. At any rate she kept me with her all day, an unquiet conscience having made me exceed ingly docile, and it was 6 o‘clock before 1 got 4duome. hole system, m o c w d When your daughiter gets pale and A fear evidently struck her here that the reminiscence was illâ€"omened for she hastened to add, "But then 1 didn‘t deserve to be happyâ€"and you do. Goodâ€"night," she concluded, ab ruptly, and drawing her hot hand with nervous haste out of mine she left me. "A nice girl for you!" she said, scornfully. "She must be more than that, or I will forbid the banne. I was afraid you would think it strange that I didn‘t say something. about it," she went on, after a moment‘s pavse, rather nervously ; ‘"but when I heard itâ€"Just nowâ€"I prayed about itâ€"I did, indeedâ€"just as I used to for myself and Fabian." *"‘She is a very nice girl," said I, playing with Toâ€"to with unconscious roughness, which the monkey reâ€" sented. y had loaded the table. But when her mother joined us a moment later, brimming over with excitement about my engagemeat, Babiole nodâ€" ded and said: "Yes, mother, I‘ve heard all about it," and offered no congratulations. As for me, the remembrance of my fiance this evening threw me into a reckless mood. "Let us eat and drink for toâ€"morrow weâ€"marry Miss Faringion" was the kind of thought that lay at the bottom of my deâ€" liberate abandonment of myself to the enthralling pleasure the mere presence of this little white human thing had power to give me. Mrs. Ellmer and i were very lively both at dicner and afterwards in the sludy, where we all went meroly to look at Toâ€"to, but where Babiole insisted om our staying. She did not talk much; but on the other band, her face never for a moment {fell into that listless sadness which had pained anrd shocked me so much in London. WheA at last she was so evidently tired out that we had reiuctantly to admit that she must go to bed, she let her mother see | that she wanted to speak to me,, and remaised behind to sayâ€" | *"I want to see this lady you are going to marry. For I‘m not going to congratulate you till I see wheâ€" ther she is sweet, and beautiful, and noble, and worthy toâ€"worship you, Mr.mMaude," she ended earnestly. A Kansas Editor Ruminates. Lane New Leaf. Not Ready to Try (To be Continued.) it ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO _As a t;reatment for growing girls, Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food has the highâ€" est endorsement of all who have tested its virtues. It is succegsful because it actually forms new, red corpuscles in the bloo@â€"increasing the quantity as well as improving the quality of the bloodâ€"and creates new nerve force. Blood and nervous force are consumed at a tremendous her surroundings, and suffers with stomach pains and headache, you may be sure that her nerve force is being exhausted nyore rapidly than it is being created, and that her nerves and body generally are cryâ€" ing out for more blood â€"for rl'c{. pure. lfeâ€"sustaizring Mood. rate during tiis trying time, and listless, seems to lose interest in As the Provincial Winter Show is to be held in Guelph immediately afâ€" ter the Experimental Union meetâ€" ing, and as the excursion rates will cover the whole week, an excellent opportunity will be afforded all persons who wish to visit Canada‘s chief centre of agricultural educaâ€" tion in December next. Programmes, giving fuil informaâ€" tion regarding the meeting, excurâ€" rdven Atist i iattal intecs D4 MBrrAcciuan sc t Wt a & Bs 4 d o4 4 0A iA 14 Principal of the Canadian Corresâ€" pondence College, Toronto, and others. Besides the reports of the coâ€" operative _ experiments, addresses will be delivered at the regular sessions by Prof. Jas. W. Robertâ€" son, Agricultural Commissioner, Otâ€" tawa; Dr. B. E. Fernow, Director of the New York State College of Forestry, Ithaca, N. Y.; Hon. John Dryden, Provinciai Minister of Agâ€" riculture, Toronto; Dr. Jas. Millis, President of the Ontario Agriculâ€" tural College, Guelph; W. J. Brown, Besides four general sessions, there will be two sessions on houseâ€" hold economics, which will be speâ€" clally interesting to the ladies. Miss Bessie Livingstone, Normal School, Ottawa ; Miss Laura Rose, Guelph; and Mr. G.°C. Creelman, Suâ€" perintendent â€" of _ Farmers‘ Instiâ€" tutes, Toronto, are among the speakers for the ladies‘ sessions. The next annual meeting of the Ontario Agricultural and Experiâ€" mental Union will be held at the Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 8th and 9th, starting at 1.30 p. m. on Monday. Reports will be presentâ€" ed and discussed on coâ€"operative experiments conducted â€" throughout Ontario, in agriculture, horticulture, economy, botany, poultry â€" raising, and forestry. As there were in all about 4,000 experimenters throughâ€" out Ontario in 1902, these reports should be very instructive. £ ANNUAL MEETING oF $ EXPERIMENTAL UNION te ie o fe iJ eGe ie o$e h uen olfe ofe hn se tf e afe ohe ahe e sfrofe e ofe cfe ape ofe Evidence of _ wilfal adulteration was found in a fow instances. One e2emple of alsike obtained froim Prince Edward Island contained 26 pounds of colored sand per 100 pounds of seed. From 10 to 20 per cent. by weight of sand was freâ€" quently found in samples of alsike and fimothy seed. On the whole, there has not been serious caus» for complaint because of low vitaiâ€" ity. It is the large quantities and Noxious Nature of the Weed seeds found in most of the samples that render the evils connected with the trade in grass and clover seeds of more than ordinary importance to agriculture. The number of weed seeds per pound of seeds as marâ€" Purity and Vitality. In making these examinations the rules adopted by the Amssociation of American â€" Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations were followed in detail. In the seed laboratory these samâ€" ples were subjected to two examinaâ€" tions for Early in the spring of the prosent year G. H. Clark, B. S. A,, who is conâ€" necsted with Prof. Rubertson‘s staff, and who is now in charge of the seed laboratory, planned to make an investigation of the conditions of the trade in grass and clover seeds. With the assistance of{ agricultural assoâ€" clations, institute workers and other interested persons, over five hundred oneâ€"hallf pound samples of timothy, alsike and red sclover seed that was offered for sale by local dealers were procured for the seed laboratory. With each sample was enclosed a statement showing the name of the dealer, the plagce at which it was offered for sale, the price per pound or per bushel, and the origin of the } The testing of seed for purity and vitality by ecientisic mothods has been an important matter in tne agricultural progress of Germany, Bwitzerland and other Europcan counâ€" tries Laboratory methods for seed testing were ad_pted by Dr. Nobbe, of Tharandt, Germany, thirty years ago, since mwhich tim> seedâ€"testing stations have been established in nearly all Earopean countries and the United States. Canada has now one modern seed laboratory equipped mwith the necessary apparatus fjor testing the purity and vitality of seeds. The fact that Germany alone now maintains thirtyâ€"nine soed control stations shows that seod testing is highly valued as a mcans Of safeâ€" guarding the interosts of agriculture in that country. The results of the mwork that has already been done in the Dominion seoad laboratory reveal a great nead for active Mork in seed testing, an well as persistent eiforts to protect Canadian {farmers and fields from the many evils that are ponnected with the seed trade. l vhe ofp on hn ofe o afe o B ce o e ol olie ofe ce ol ole tfe ie she ofe ofe ofe down system, and I can say that her health has improved very much unâ€" der this treatment. She used to complain of being tired in the mormâ€" lngs;‘her appetite was poor, and she lacked energy and ambition. Since using this medicine I can see e great change in her looks, her nervem are steadier, she has more color in her cheeks, and is fecling very much better in evrery way.* «Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food, 50 cents & bor, at ali dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto: Dr. Chase‘s Nervre Food keeps the su;‘)}l:ly in excess of the demand. s. Coates, 38 Morse street, Toâ€" ronto, says: "My daughter hes been using Dr. Chasme‘s Nerve Foo® for nervousness, paleness and a rumâ€" The members of the club declare that "the homeless cats of our city now destroy our property, flower beds and young Chi®kens, disturb our slumbers, wreck our nerves, wring our hearts through their sufâ€" ferings at the hand of the small boy and the vicious adult, and are #® menace to the health not only of our pets, but of our children and of our households. Many fine cats are anâ€" nually lost because they are neâ€" cessarlly left behind during the sumâ€" mer in the care of possibly fond, but ignorant servants, or because their owners are incompetent â€" to diagnose or treat the simplest of ‘eline diseases." BEVICDT CABC RIPUTW L 4 It is stated that a Miss Peek has already donated a lot in Brookland, D. C., for the establishment of & house for the cats. The means of providing funds for the accomplishment of these purâ€" poses are to be obtained by the care of cats, the sale of desirable speciâ€" mens, the collection of small _ fees when collections of felines are made, the dues of the club, the occasional sale of donated articles and an anâ€" nual cat show. i rant cats may be left, to call for undesirable additions to the cat poâ€" pulation, to provide pets for seekâ€" ers after such, to offer superior care for pet cats during the absence of their owners from the city, to offer protection to straying cats until their owners can be located, to furâ€" nish the best medical and surgical treatment for afflicted cats, to painlessly kill the incurable and to accomplish through every possible channel the fmprovement of the cate of the national capital. Devoted to Making Pussy‘s Nine Liveg as Comfortable as Possible. The Washington Cat Club, an orâ€" ganization of 185 members, has been incorporated. The articles of incorporation set forth the object of the club to be to pick up stray cats in the streets, to designate addresses where vagâ€" Two Many Jobbers Dabbling in the seed business and the resuit is that compctition has been confined to pricos alone. Un{ortunately most farmers as woel! as soed merchants are not acquainted with the impuri« ties that commonly occur in â€" grase and clover seeds, and when making their purchases are content _ to ecrow cown the price and trust to luck. _ As long as thore is a demand for cheap seed, a worthless low, grade article will be oifered ; and until Canadian fTarmors hbave come to know that the highest obtainable quality of seed is always the cheapâ€" ost, the best qualily of our _ homse grown seeds will be exported to countrics where the seed trade is comiwwcted on a more businessâ€"like basie. sion rates, etc., can be obtained by applying to the secretary, C. A, Zaviltz, Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario. of reliable seed houses into the hands of incompetent and irrespon= «ible local dealers whose main businesg is of an entirely different character, There are far a There are few agricultural merâ€" caniile articlos the real value _ of which is eo dillicult to judg> from appearance as grass, clover and other small seeds. _ Competition is sald to be the life of trade, but fair competition in the seed trade is pose gible only when the seeds is sold ac» cording to lixed standards ol quals ity, or under a definite guarantee based upon _A standard metho1 of analysis. _ The seed trade in Canâ€" ada has boen passing from the hands The trade in red clover and al~ sike is, undoubtedly, the most {ruit= ful medium for the dissemination of weed pests. The steadily inâ€" creasing demands for these seeds for both the home and the export trade has encouraged their proâ€" duction on â€" farms that are foul with weeds. Canada exports anâ€" nually large quantities® of â€" alsike and red clover seed to European countries, where a thorough sysâ€" tem of seed control has become esâ€" tablished, and where Only the Best Reâ€"cleaned Stocks can find a market. The screenings from these imported seeds are mucH in demand on our home markets and are retailed by jocal deaiers, keted, ranged with timothy from 0 to 237,600; alsike from 90 to 10904 ; and red clover from 0 n 45,,05. The approximate aumber seeds in a pound of timothy seeds is 1,350,000; aisike 750,000; and red clover, 200,000. The weed seeds ramed in the order in which they most frequeatly occurred consistâ€" ed of Foxtail, Ribgrass, Lamb‘s Quarter, White Cockic, Sheep Sorâ€" rel, Curled Dock, False Flax, Popâ€" per Grass, Mayweed, Canada Thisâ€" tle, Common PHlantain, Lady‘s Thumb, Pigweed, Black Medick, Ragweed, Charlock, or Wild Mustard and Perennial Sow Thistle. WA SHINGTON‘S CAT CLUB. F. W. Holson, $ Live Stock Commissioner, 4#