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atharines Man Killed Hig i’wfe at Tonaward i. Deaths the Resuit of Domestic Quarrel. vards Shot Hi Died. ANADIANT AWFUL GRIME $ IN BRIEF ING W it M England M al bou LEF] W ) 18 awandas ocâ€" s â€" alternoon, i. Catharines, May Sharton | two bullets The shooting 1e of Barton I°C mself and AI 1 mal Udg supe after=nson. 9@ at St. the last e remainâ€" U hat O U with c.OCK W ili.G 1S8 10d w n 11 st 16 d it e Gradually they awoko to the full reality of the good fortune that had befallen them. The strength of his youth scemed to have reâ€" turned to Darcy Lonsdale; he took his placo once more among his townsmen, he wont briskly to and fro from his office, he worked hard at his business, the clorks came back one by one to the offise, and far more than its ancient glory reâ€" turned to the house of Lonsdale & And then these sinple people, who had boen through the fiery fyrnace of sufferingâ€"who had borne sorrow, shame and disgraceâ€"who had never ventured to hope for justice in this world4â€"knolt and thanked Heaven for their rescue, and Darey Lonsdale‘s eyes grow dim with grateful tears as he opeced his Riblo and read how the just and morciful Creator saves those who put their trust i2 Him. . Kate could not rest until she had seen the earl in order to thank him, and the little lady went over to Eramber Towers and asked for "My doar Kato," he salid, "Lord Arlington has a love of seeing justâ€" too done. I remember when he raised half tha county because some wrong had been done to a tollâ€" gatekeeper. It was such men as he who made old England what she is, and who made the word ‘England‘ a syrnonym for honor."_ "So it will be printed in every paper in England?" said Kate. "Well, my only puzzle is, what could have inspired Lord Arâ€" lington to do such a kind and genâ€" erous action." Felix knew that Lady Maude had been the chief instigator of it, but that was a secret he never told ; he kept it all his life. It was Darcy Lonsdale who answered his wife‘s question. 4 \whh.. 7 so they sat aroand the fire until they were quite ashamed of the hour, and Felix reneated every one of the carl‘s noble words, while the two ladies listened in raptures; every time he paused they said, "Go on, Felix," until he assured them that be had repeated every word.. _ There was good news in very truth, and the pity was that Lord Arlingâ€" ton was not there to see Kate clasp her arms around her husbanad‘s neck, and sob out that she always knew matter would come right â€"that he was so good Heaven was sure 1lo make his innocence clear. Presently ;uihc looked at him with tremulous ps. "Is it really, true, Darey, that you aro to be the earl‘s agent and have a thousand a year? I can hardly believe that it is all true." "It is true, Kate," he replied. "Eve, my dear, what have you to say to me, my true friendâ€"the one _ true true friend who loved me well enâ€" ough to offer me her fortune if I would take it. Eve, I shall never forget that." l _It had been avranged that Eve should spend the night at Vale House, "I am quite gure," said Eve, springâ€" ing from her seat, "that I _ hear them ; and that is Mr. Lonsdale laughingâ€"do you hear, Kate? â€" laughing â€"and he has never laughed since the trial! Now I know there is good news." yy What a night it was! The vicar drove away soon after the earl had loft ; and then one by one the comâ€" P ay ecwindicd down to about twinty. ‘These would not let Darcy Lonsdale leave themâ€"they had so much to say to him, and were o anxious to make up to him for their coldness; and when the host grew anxious, they would not scparate until they had sung "Aull Lang Syne" in chorus. Thon they escorted fathor and son to Vale Howse, where Eve agd Kate anxilously awaited them. 4 No wonder that they praised and blossed him; he was a kindâ€"hearted man, who knew how to use his infiuâ€" ence in a noble mannerâ€"one of those men who, to keep alive in the hearts of tho people & love for their rulers, do more than many orators and statesmen put together. . .. ‘ *7a00 Oue., ; L "You cannot make light of the deed," returned Felix; "It is a good one. â€" My father appears to be a new man toâ€"night ; there is a light on his face and fire in his eyes that I bave not seen there for long montlhs. The miracle bhas been worked by you â€"you have remoyâ€" ed the faish reproach attaching to his name. I can fancy, but I canâ€" not tell you, what our home will be like toâ€"night. My heart beats fast when I think of the mother and the children ‘there, my lord. I am not very eloquent, and I am moved too much for words â€"I can only echo my father‘s request ; command me as you will." P o "I will make you this one promise, Mr. Felix Lonsdale : i{f ever I want a service done, or want a friend, I prilil come to you." "Thank you, my lord," responded Felix; and when the earl drove oif home he knew that he had left gome of the happiest hearts in England beâ€" hind him. ; y $ The earl was more touched than he liked to show by the emotion on his handsome young face. "I have only done justice, my dear boy," said the earl, kindly. ‘"Your {ather was an injured man; I bave tried to set him straight. Au reste, I wanted a good agent, and I have found one." , I It was such a pleasant evening, and Lors Arlington had so contrived matâ€" ters that Darcy Lonsdalo was the real hero, And not himsel{. He was all that was most kind and con:iderâ€" ate ; ho talked to him, and wom his son‘s heart forever. But in everyihing he _put Darcy first, ‘so thac peojle mgit uncerstand all ihe hbad en dose for him. Was it any wonder that when he was gone the men stood in little groups, each one praising him? "My lord, your life is filled, so people say, with great and generâ€" ous actions; but none could be so great so generous, so noble as that which you have done toâ€"day." | Felix followed him to the carriage, and said; * Shbo was starilsl at the expression of his facse, at the tone of his voice â€"sgtartlied,, asd juslt a little afraid. "You do love mo, Violet, do you | cot ?" ho asked. ®No, thank you," he returned. "It woulkl to!t b> spontansous. You would do it because I asked you." 7 "I will «dlo co sow," siie said; and she placed the sapphires in their cases. "I have noticod," he said, " that you are always ready to thank me when I tring you any of the silly trilles women love so muchâ€"you are then most amiable; but never ouce, by Leaven, since we have been marâ€" ried have you come to me asd kiggâ€" ed me of your free will !" DERRNEH Oe itteecterotesantamrematyomratremem sc mss se "I would eay anything to please you, Owen," she said. He locked into her fair face. "I know you woulid," he returned ; "but it has never occurred to you to throw your arms round my neck and kiss me, andâ€"and say, * Thauvk you, my dariing.s " _ * ks __Sho shruok from him with a little ehudder, his dark face was so closo to hers. With the brilliant sapphires in one of her hands, she looked hallf wistâ€" fully at him. ‘The man who had it in his power to make such presents as this was worth any amount of patience. _ He turned away impatiently. "Ii you thought any set form of words, any pretty phrase, would please me you would use itâ€"L am quite sure of that." "Can you think of nothing else, Viclet ?" he asked. She looked puzzled., + "I cannot, indeed, Owen; but I will say anything.you wish me to "I say ‘Thack yos, with all my Leart," cshe cried. "is that sl1, Violet 2" : "What more can I say, except that you are gocd, kind and generous?* Hs brought her homeo one day a set of sapphires so brilliant and rare that she cried out with rapâ€" trre when she saw thom. "Tkere are no sapphires finer than these," he remarked. "What do you say for them, Violet ?" "Then you must have some Jessons, my charming wufe," he would anâ€" swer, lavrghingly, foilowing up the remark by epeech that was anything but relined,. That was dons in good humor; what he could be when the humor changod she had yet to find out. Siic did not love himâ€"shg never made tho least pretence of loving him. She was kind to Lim; she tried to talk to lim, to amuse him ; she obeyed his wishes, and mads hersel{ very amiâ€" able and charmingâ€"not because she loved lhim, but bocause he was the means of procuring her all the luxâ€" ury, the magnificence, the pleasure that sho now enjoyed. In his coarse way ho felt that. " You talk so strangely, Owenâ€"I do not umlerstauq you." She did not like him very much. Although ho was a baronet and a manr ofi wealth, he was not a thorâ€" ough genticman. That she must have known. Thorough gentlemen aro men of honorâ€"and the man who steals the promised wife of anâ€" other man can bardly be placed in that category. She found that Sir Owen was coarse in his manners, coarse in his speech. Sue often, even in those early days, shrunk from him, saying : Sir Owen was very kind to Violet in those days, and she was so comâ€" pletely dazzled by the novelty of all sho saw that she never rememâ€" bered Felix, except to congratulate hersel{l on her own good sense in having given him is conge. Some slight _ indications of _ impatience mado her think that Sir Owen had a certain amount of bad temper, but at present he had shown none to herâ€"indeed, she thought him far better than hss had _ represented himself. He had told her that he gambled and drank. She had seen nothing of these bad habits; she was too inexperienced to detect that he had placed a restraint on himself{ â€" which might break down any day,. love. CHAPTER XxXVIIL Lady Chevenix wrote a long letter home, telling her mother how greatly she was enjoying Parisâ€"how she had been to one of the state balls at the Tuileries, and how. the emperor had danced with herâ€"and Mrcs. Maye, on her side, made all the ladies round Lilford envious by telling them how her "dear child ,Lady Cheveâ€" nix," was enjoying hersol{ in Paris and what a favorite sho was at the Imperial Court. "The young aiways think both their love and their sorrow, immortal. I will say now what I have never said before, because I thought it would pair you; I thought she was not worthy of such love as yours. She had nothing but a beautiful face to recommend her; her soul was not beautiful, her heart was not true. The time will come when you will Eay that you had a fortunate esâ€" cape. I pray Heaveo that it may be so." But Felix looked grave; the world must come to an end before he could see a silver lining to that cloudâ€" 'tho cloud of his misplaced, unhappy _ "My dear father, I shall regret her until I die," returned Felix. an interview. She tried to thank him in a dignified, matronly fashâ€" lon, and ended by falling on her knees and kissing his hand, very much to the earl‘s confusion and delight. It xwas a new life for them all, and the warmth of it cheered and brigh‘tened them more ;han anything had ever done beâ€" ore. y But Violet‘s epirits rose again when she found hersel{ in the magnificent mansion. After all, her husband might be coarse and bad tempered, but she was mistress of those superbh rooms. This was her house. She was to live in the midst of all this luxury, with troops of liveried servants at her ca‘l. Still she did not say to horse‘f rnow that it was Neither of them had the faintest idea of selfâ€"controlâ€"â€"it was a thing unknown to either of themâ€"so they reached Garswood without exchangâ€" ing a word on the journey. Their comâ€" ing bome was quite unexpected, conâ€" sequently there was no rejoicing. It was night, too, and cold. Sir Owen was not well pleased at their reâ€" ception, although he hbhad expressly forbidasn anyonsy to write. _ _ _ "You are sulking with me," he said, laughingly. "Ah, my Lady Chevâ€" enix, you will find that a losing game. I do rot think there is a person in all Englandâ€"man or woâ€" manâ€"who can sulk so long or so thoroughly as I can mysel{;" and that she found to be perfectly true. mhe was very ill crossing the Chanâ€" nel; but Sir Owen only laughed. Seasickness was a sort of jest to him. He never dreamed that his young wife would resent the laughter, but she did. When they landed at Dover she would not speak to him. He might be master, she said to hersel{( a hunâ€" dred times over, but no man should laugh at her. _ es Thoy were not very plessant wor‘s for & bride of only a few. ‘weeks to hear. She thought over them for come time. "Fclix â€"would never have spoken to "Fclix â€"would never have spoken to mo in that fawchion," she said to herâ€" ecl. "But I must cbey. There is no h:lp for itâ€"hs is supreme master." *I am not unkind ; but I warn you f2irly that I have very little patience with the caprices of women. As for thcir other nonsense, I should never bour it. A man cannot be expected to go on honcymooniag forever. That king of thing is all over now, and wo may as weli take cir proper places. Mino is to ha master, and I tell you quite frankly that I intend to bo obsyed. Make up your mind to that and wq shall got, along all right. Thwart me. and we shall not agree." "I Cid not think you could by go unkind to mo Owen," se sad, pitâ€" courly. A ie sn She had a sample of this when they reached Calais on their return to England. It was not wet weather, but there had been a terrible gale, and the sea was rough. Violet was a bad wailor and when she heard the surf beating on the shore she begged of her husband to delay their passage at least twentyâ€"four hours. She was #o afraid, she said, of a rough sea. He laughcd. It was all nonsenseâ€"the sea would not hurt her. No one ever heard of an accident to the Dover and Calais boats. "If you aro ili you w.ill «oon b> weli again; tho wholo passage coes not occupy two hours. You must bar it as other people do." t She allowed that ; but the passage made her very ill. Would he not wait? She did not like the idea. She had been so free and un{fettered all her life that it was new to her to be unâ€" der control. She had yet to learn that Sir Owen had the obstinacy of twenty men, and that when he had once set his mind upon anything he would carry it through. Her wishes, caprices, fancies, and desires would hbave about as much effect upon him as summer waves had upon a weaâ€" therâ€"beaten rock. That was the first disscnsion beâ€" twoen Violet and her husband. he would fain have remained longer, but Sir Owen was tired of Paris. He liked English sports, English habits, and English cheer. Hoe was angry that Violst should for one moment prosgume to like Paris. It was unheard of, he said, that any English woman ghould find Christmas at home dull. And that was the first time that Vioâ€" let saw him in a rage. He ewore lowlyâ€"not at horâ€"that was to come later on. He Seclared the whole race of women fcolish and idiotic. He frizhtened her «o that sghe was glad to escipe from his presence and give orders for the packing up. "I am not my own mistress, after all." she said, with a discontented look on her fair face. "I cannot do as L Jike; I~never dreamedithat I should have a master." hint revmplaisnt â€"AiBadeinibit ied h Tirtca Nh trevd.â€"rrk t i She was not clever at lying, alâ€" though she had broken a noble heart by her weakness. She had not the qiuick, ready fashion of speaking falsely which she acquired afterward. Bhe luried her faco in her hands ; it was easier to weep, after tbe weak lashion of women, than to speak. ‘‘Nay, Idid not mean to pain you, Violet," he said. " Do not cry. Still, I should like to know that you love me. No man would like to think that his wife had married him for his money." t After that little scene Lady Cheveâ€" nix did not feel quite so sure of her husband, and began to stand a little in awe of him. The gay Fremch cajital might be as gay as it would, Sir Owon would not remain,. _ Invitations poured in "De you love me, Violet?" ke deâ€" manded, angril‘ly ; and before she bad time to speak a sudden conviction darted through ber mind that she did not love him and never should â€"a certain terrible conviction that, alâ€" though she was married to this wan. ske loved Felix Lonsdale still. Bhe trembled as she answered : * Yes, you know Ilove you, Owen." Eho knew the words were false, but she was too frightened to say anything else. 1 "I know you ought to love me," he said, savagely ; "but there is no understanding a womanâ€"fair dealing is not characteristic of the sex. Still, wpon him and his beautiful young wife ; he would not accept them. One of his fixed rosolves was to br in England at Christmas, and to Engâ€" land he was determined to go. In vain Viclet pleaded that Garswood at Christmas woul‘ b> dull. Ho laugzhâ€" ed at the notion. I should not like to think that you married me for my money, and for nothing else. Did you, Vioget ?" _ "No place is ever dull where I am, Violet," he cried. "That shows how little you know me. I shall fill thoe place with visitors of my own choosâ€" ingâ€"and I promise you that wo shall not spond our timg in s‘inging psalms." 14 She had never thought about lovâ€" Ing him; he was to ber a rich man who had wanted her to marry him, who had bribed her by his riches and kis title, ard for whom she had given up the man she really loved ; but to love Limâ€"she had never thought of It : Lkad never entered into her calcuâ€" lations. He was to have her beautly, ?}“i was to havre his money and his litle. says: "I can recommend Baby‘s Own Tablets to all mothers who have cross or delicate children. I do not know how I could get along without them. Mother, isn‘t it worth your while to give this medicine just one trial? If your medicine dealer does not keep the Tablets send 25 cents to the Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., and the Tablets will be sent by mail post paid. There ought not to be any sickly, fretâ€" ful, gleepless childrenâ€"there would not be any if mothers gave their little ones an occasional dose of Baby‘s Own Tahâ€" lets. The little ones are sickly and fretâ€" ful ard sleepless usually because of some stomach, bowel or tecthing trouâ€" ble. These and the other minor ills of little ones are speedily relieved and promptly cured by Baby‘s Own Tablets, and the little one thrives and grows plump, sleeps well at night, and lets the mother get her much needed rest as well. Mrs. R. M. LaRue, Mountain, Ont,. It cost France over $2,000,000 a day to keep an army of €00,000 men in the field against the Germans. The Ausâ€" trian economist, Shaffle, eight years ago declared that a war involving the conâ€" tinental powers of Eurone would cost France over $5,000,000 a day; Russia, $5,600,000; Germany, $5,000,000, and Austria, $6,000,000. The figures would probably be larger toâ€"day, and if made to include Great Britain, the United States and China the expenditure for waste, destruction and death would agâ€" gregate nearly $40,00,000 every twentyâ€" four hours, or more than a million and a half an hour. _ The animal itselft is _ strong, healthy and of a beautiful color. In some respects it is wonderfully like a leopard and in othors like a One morning a little cub was born, and at first it was supposâ€" ed to be an ordinary puma. In a fow. weeks, however, it resembled a leopard quite as much as a puma, and then the truth became known. Scientists are studying this strange animal with much interest, which not surprising, since no one ever imagined that a puma and a leo pard would pair. _ The owner of a menagerie in Gerâ€" many obtained these two animals some time ago, and, as hls had only one cage unoccupied, he put the two into it. At first he wasafraid that they would quarrel, but they became good friends at once and so he allowed them ‘to remain in the cage. Spring is the season when your sysâ€" tem nceeds toning up. In the spring you must have new blood just as the trees must have new sap. Nature demands it. Without new blood you will feel weary, weak and languid. With new, rich, red plood you will be sprightly, happy and healthy. The one sure way to get new blood and fresh energy is to take Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills They actually make new blood. They are the greatest spring tonic in the world. Mr. J. J. Mallette, a well known grocer in Montâ€" real, says: "I wish to thank you for the great goc l1 your Lr. 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It is the offspring of m female puma from the Argentine Republic, and of a male leopard from India. ; "Oh, no, you would . not!" he laughed, carelessly; "you _ only fancy so, You and your mother will have so much to talk about that I really could not stand it, you knowâ€"I could not, indeed. I will be ‘there in the evening, and will drive you back hoime." Bhe knew that to say more would be quite useless, so she made the best of ‘the arrangement. After all, there were many delights before her. She had a superb costume, trimmed with costly sableâ€"one of the great Worth‘s masterpieces â€" and she fvras to wear that for the first time. Her heart beat as she thought of the pleasure of driving in ber _ magnificent carriage through the _ streets of Lilford, dressed in her Parisian costume. (To be Cantinued.) [ "You will like to see your mother and father, Violet," he said. "Order the carriage when you like. I can not go with you, but I will come for you. You bought some presents for them, did you not ? "Yes," she answered. &he looked wistfully at him. It was her first visit simce her marriage, and she would have ‘liked him to be with her; but she was beginning to urderstand that she must not interâ€" fere wwith his arrangements. She could not resist saying: all herg. She was beginning to unâ€" derstand that for her everything deâ€" peruded on the humor of her husâ€" band. It was not all hers, but she was at liberty to enjoy it. She was so peased that Sir Owen recovâ€" ered his good humor, and the first evening they spent together at Garsâ€" wood was perhaps the happiest they ever had there. On the morrow Sir Owen found a hundred things that required his atâ€" tention; nevertheless, he was also thoughtful about his young wife. â€" "I should enjoy it so much more if you were with me, Owen.". KEEP LITITLE ONES WELL. The Cost of Great Wars. HEALTH IN SPRING. No Animal Like it. Yhe ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS j Toronto It was therefore fitting that this same bay‘ which had witnossed the bumiliation of the old, should be the secene ol the crowning triumph of the new. In 18905 Japan proved, by, force of arms, her power to enter the ranks of ‘the worldâ€"nations. China lay defeated before her desp‘sed riâ€" ral. and it was to Shimonoscki that L\ Hung Chang, China‘s envoy, came craviog and obtain‘ng poace. F Shimonoseki and Moji have been the cenitre for two of the most momentâ€" ous events in modern Japanese hisâ€" tory. It was here, in 1858, that the fleets of the great powers came to punish Japan for some offences against forcigners. Many; men still living nearby took part in that conâ€" flict, and ‘they say (whether rightâ€" ly or not, I have no means of knowâ€" ing), that the Marquis Ito himseif was among the defenders. The fleets shoelled Moji, and the people mountâ€" ed their batteries and vigorously reâ€"â€" plicd. But every Japarese shot tell short. The result of that bombardâ€" ment was not merely! local ruun at Moji, but stretched out to the overâ€" throw of the old Japanese feudalâ€" ism â€" and tho inception of a new igeal of mnn occidentalized orient.. The streets are ever a tangled conâ€" fusion of pavement merchants, â€" of pationt coolioes carrying heavy burgens, of laughing childgren, _ of rare horses or cattle carrying poâ€" visions, of shouting rickshaw men. Even here, in a place where foreignâ€" ers are counted by the units, many of the men, but practically! none of the women hbave put on European garb. ts oi star k Thoso who are enraptured with the poetic sige of Japan would â€"reâ€" ceive a shock from the streets of Moji or her sister town Shimonoseki. They are as prosaic and as dirty as those of the worst parts of the Black Country. Everyone bears the the traces of toil. The streets are narrow and tortuous, and have that indescribable slummy, smell (the nearest approach to a description can be a combination of the odors of boiled cabbage and spilled parâ€" affin), familiar in the back streets of London. ‘The childgren too often show plain tracos that their mothâ€" ers are busy at other work than caring for them. The roadways are without footpaths, and on wet days anything but pleasant. Drainage is exceedingly primitive. Every shop has its front open all day, eien _ in those winter times. tic m‘litary and naval preparations now proceeding in the neighborhood is as carefully covered as possible. The hills around aro honecycombed w.th forts and protcetcd by artillery at evory proint, but ons 1â€"0ks in vain tor the guns,. The supples now being landed from a thousand ,junks are, every one is fawars, for m‘litary use, But there are no ‘men in uniform supery sing. Tens of thousands of troops lie ready within a brief march ; but there is mot a soldier on the streets. ©MThis scenery, at least, is typically Oriental. In ‘the harbor, both on the Moji and the Shimonoseki sides, the native craft are emptying and flling with great spoed. Packages covicred with matting are ‘boing iswung on the backs of tireless cooliecs or swung on ever moving cranés. In the deeper water groat steamers are lying, surâ€" rounded by coal barges, and an army of women ard mon is coalâ€" ing them by hanrd with a rapidity no machinery can rival. This is not the sleepy Orient, but has the spirit of the bustling wost. The mullitudinous jaunks thomscIvs are avell worth aotice. The rule here seems to be "one junk, one fam‘jy." The fam‘ly live continually on the great, angular, unpaintcd boat, the wife helping at the tiller as she carâ€" ries her baby on her back, and the children playing around. Here is a junk #o large {hat ‘halft a â€" dozen households could find room oz it ; here is one so tiny that its poor owner and wife and chiliren can only find room to sleep at night by pullâ€" ing matting over the bare deck. Tais junk is outwardly thoe replica of an old Spanish galleon, and this is the image of the pictured pirate craft which awesomecly rejoiced one‘s boyâ€" hood days. The sa‘ls of yonder craft are quiltod like the curtains in . a West Hoempstead â€" lady‘s drawingâ€" room. Many have a distinctive notre of their own, proclaiming them the prido and holdfast of ,their inhabiâ€" tants. j Bom2a may grow, enthusiastic over the nimble women who {fill the bunks of the stcamships with coal. I canâ€" not. Seeon from the steamer‘s deck, their appoarance, as they stand in long lines passing up the small baskâ€" ets of coal, no doubt has a touch of peturesquoness. A nearer v.ew spoils the coffect. These are adult women, all amazingly short and sturdy, all stunted in growth and aged in looks by severe and gonstant to 1 unsuited for their sex. As one watches the weaker of them drop down on the dock of thoir barges, exhausted afâ€" ter the‘r work is dors, the sease of the picturesque dies. The hills, blagck and jined with m‘dst, stands grimly arcusd. Stacks of titanic chimneys on the low leve‘ls of Moji, yvomit forth thick smoke, reâ€" calling the horrors of P.ttsburg. Ton thousand craft, from the 8000 ton Harland & Wolff steamer to the anâ€" tique jurk, lie packed around. Stacks of coal, almost mountains in thomâ€" selres, are one great ceatre of work. An almost urccasng successon of trains add to them, â€" whilo myriad workers bear the accumulating lca‘s to I‘ghters nearby. The locomotives, you not‘ce, are Baldwinrs, and the coal trucks are the newest patternâ€" stecl, automatic emptying. The open fires burn weirdly on the native boats. There is a feeling of haste in the air. It is hard to realizo that around here is ore of the best fortified spots Eyeu't_,!)‘. Every trace of the g‘ganâ€" Moji is the Gibraltar of Japan. Whether you arrive by land or by sea, the place gives an immediate impression o( culminating majecty, says the London Daily Mail. Great hills tower up in every direction, and behind them lie .snowâ€"clad monâ€" tain peaks topping them. i Here and there you spy openings on the rocky @hore, : artfully conâ€" cealed natural harborg. A well proâ€" tected channel takes you !into the Bay of Shimonogeki itsel{, and here, after a short journey, you come 023 the twin towns, Moji and Shimocoâ€" se_k‘lL. on cither side of the bay. _ " | No. Experiments. Plots. " | 1â€"Three varieties of Ooats ........ 3 ‘"| 2â€"Three varieties of barley...... 3 ;’j 3â€"'1;wo varieties of hulless barâ€" # Oy sessnssenses . aessasins . ansassees . wesessnee . t ¢| 4â€"Dwo varieties of spring wheat 2 q| 5â€"ITwo varieties of buckwheat 2 g| 6â€"Tw»o varieties of field peas 5 for northern Ontarie ... ... 2 e| 7â€"Emmer and spelt ... ... ... 2 _ | 8â€"Cow peas and two varieties of n Boy, Soja, or Japanoso beans 3 e| 9â€"Three varieties of bhusking e NONPIDIE sessss avatce avuans innt Nlpshi600H Cnaacints k 10â€"Three varieties of mangolds 4 1| 11iâ€"Two varieties of sugar beets e for feeding purposes ... ... ... 2 h| 12â€"Threo varieties of Swedish U T ROPIAIDS Lacerss Dauser: aperss pevatr amerces *A e] 13â€"Kohl Rabi and two varieties n 10f NXuH AHERILNS . 1i | 21â€" kascss " Hf T | 14â€"Parsnips and two varieties of * EDLE | suules avdees mevers Peuries aptonss 6 ?| 15â€"Three varieties of fodder or + KE JSD AEDFEL usens svaat cerseas csiucee HH { 16â€"Three varieties of millet ...... 3 t 17â€"Three varieties of sorghum .. 3 18â€"Grass peas and tw» varieties 5s NOE BETERNNE | mursss / arsose O arbies acmpes .R e | 19â€"Two varieties of rape ... .. 2 »| 20â€"Three varieties of clover ... 3 o | 21â€"Sainfoin, Lucerne and Burâ€" e BOF s2u0 semm comer ao commsmmess comess â€" S .| 22â€"Seven varieties of grasses... 7 e| 23â€"Three varieties of field beans 3 a | 24â€"Three varieties of sweet corn 3 n | 25â€"Fertilizers with corn ... 6 ; | 26â€"Fertilizors with Swedish Turâ€" r MIDNG avess surer emmer semaies amtssessocrnnss ME y | 27â€"Growing potatoes on the level â€" reim@ HERHIRG 2o Sereriihy atmorsericss acues § a\ 28â€"Two varieties of early, medâ€" n] ___ ijum, or late potatoes ... ... 2 anoese soldier and sailorâ€"in arms armament, uniform, organization discipline ana â€" drillâ€"is Europsan but ho addresses himsclf to his task with a reckless disregard of life, a sacrocy, a subordinatioa, and a {ree dom from personal ambition whict in the April Bookiovers Magazine. The most expensive fur is that of the black fox of Kamchatka, the skin of which when dressed becomes <a 'm attractive blue. A single skin is as much as $1,000. Japan; but at the iioas Liamil poitiGeâ€" al action is bounded and controllied by infiuences and principles unknow and alien to the West, out perfoectly comprehensible to the Asiatic, who never forgets thark the state and its supreme head is greater than him molf, his party, or his policy. Japa has the secret of using _ Europeat scionce without casing to be Aslatie It is a shallow. view ol the Japanest nation which regards it as Europ canised. It remains at the core Asia tic. What it has borrowed is smal by the side of what it has retained The prospoct, strong iwenty years ago, that its upper and intelligent class>s woull adop! Christianity, ha vanished. Thore nas come instead a remissance of Shinto [aith, a reovival of Buddhismâ€"just as Iâ€"d4am grows strongor in every Mo«lâ€"m countryâ€" and a widespread dosire to preserve the Japauese sititude in faith, is morals, and ia social !i‘c. The Jap Japan is making the last stand of Asia. II it fails, Asla ccases to tw a scparate intoger in human de velopment, and becomes an appan« age ol Europs. If Japan wins, it has wrestled well and Overthrows more than its enemies. It will beâ€" compe the teacher, first of China and then otf a wider Asia. Japaness eduâ€" cation wislely rotains Chinose as it classic tongur, playingz the part in the training which Greck and Latin play, or did play ,in our own scheme of liboral study. Its administrat> ors and officers are slone in knowâ€" ing both Chirose classics and modâ€" err science. They are ready f0* their task. They havo already hbe gun it. The prestige of vietory will give them authority and acceptance in remodeling China,. Japan, aite all, is alone in raising in Asiatic Btate to free gsellâ€"government. I4 institutions are less like ours thas they seem on the surface. Prescrip tion plays the prodizious part it al. ways has in G@siatic society. Th renss ol p>rsonal loyalty to the Emâ€" prror is strong to a degree no Euro pran, much less and American, can appreciate â€" or understand. ‘Tha eingular attitude of mind which per mits what to us scems abasement in attitude, coremony and action, and yet preserves a compleie selfâ€"respect is retained by the Japanese. They vote, they have partiecs, they pracâ€" ticc ar amaziog freedom of speech 1 JAPANâ€"THE HOPE OF ASIA COOPOC evennt aameee pemees es ncenmsssnees . OB 27â€"Growing potatoes on the level ind LA S nss sunlertichy abnenseriess maaees KB 28â€"Two varieties of early, medâ€" ium, or late potatoes ... ... 2 20â€"Planting cut potatoes, which _ have and which have not j | | been coated over with land > DIRBDOEE »mume. ass sumse aer ammacoes ns ME 20â€"Planting corn in rows and in | _ square, an excellent variety ‘__ _of early corn will be used .. 2 ‘The size of each plot in each of the first *wentyâ€"six experiments is to be two rods long by one rod wide; in Nos. 27, 28 and 29, one rod equare; and in No. 30, four rods equare, oneâ€"tenth of an acre. the College, and are now being disâ€" tributed free of charge for coâ€"operâ€" ative experiments throughout Ontaâ€" rio. The following is the list of coâ€"operative experiments for 1904 ; No. Experiments. Plots. 1â€"Three varieties of oats ....... 3 2â€"Three varieties of barley..... 3 Jâ€"Two varieties of hulless barâ€" s ley sessnssesses . aessasint . asssssees . wesesseee . t 4â€"Tmwo varieties of spring wheat 2 5bâ€"Two varieties of buckwheat 2 6â€"Two varieties of field peas for northern Ontarie ... ... 2 7â€"Emmer and spelt ... ... ... 2 8â€"Cow peas and two varieties of Boy, Soja, or Japanose beans 3 9â€"Three varieties of bhusking 10â€"Three varieties of mangolds 34 11iâ€"Two varieties of sugar beets for feeding purposes ... ... ... 2 12â€"Threo varieties of Swedish TCOe ES Lsseses seuser ) apaiss aothte annncks â€" dE 13â€"Kohl Rabi and two varieties 10f NXaull THERILG . 1.i» 21. kss Hf 14â€"Parsnips and tw varietios of MSCERDOTE . seumee avikes mnaust Pnrtias apteree 15â€"Three varieties of foddor or Each person in Ontario who wishes to join in the work may choose any one of the experiments for 1904, and apply for the same. The material will be furnished in the orger in which the applications are received until the supply| is exhausted. It might be well for each applicant to make a second choice for fear the firset could not be granted. All material will. be furnished entirely free of charge to each applicant, and the produce of the plots will, of course, bocome the property of the person who conducts tho experiment. & _ _ C. A. Zavitz, Dircctor. | ; Ontariq Agfioultural College, / Experimental Union Distribuâ€" tion of Choice Seed. The members of the Ontario Agriâ€" cultural and Experimental Union are ploased to state that for 1904 they aro prepared to distribute into every TDownship of Ontario, material for experiments with fodder crops, roots, graing, grasses, clovers, and fertilâ€" izers. _ Upwards of 1,500 varieties of farm crops have been tested in the experimental department of the Ortario Agricultural College, Guelph, for at least five years in succesâ€" slion. _ These consist of nearly all the Canadian gorts and several hunâ€" dred new tarieties, some of which bevo done exceedingly well in the carefully conducted txperimeots at FOR THE FARMERS. 4