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REPORT FROM ONTARXO Comv. Horticulture and pomology in this county are more and more coming to the front. The wilitiea here are better for fruit than for grain production. The curranb is beginning to take the lead among small fruit. A ranohman‘s life is certainly a. very count one, albeit generally varied with planty of hardship and anxiety. Although mionally he passes days of severe toilâ€" for example, if he goes on the round up he works as hard as any of his menâ€"-yet he no er has to undergo the monotonous drudgery attendant upon the tasks of the cowboy or of the apprentice in the busi« mu. His fare is simple; but, if he choose, it is good enough. Many ranches are pro- vided with nothing_nt all but salt pork, The Windsor cherry has no equal, either for home use or for market, Mont‘morency Ordinaire is a. finekind for market. Cherries demand good culture, as well as other fruits. Peaches should be well thinned early in the season to make nice salable fruit. Iarly Rivers in a good early peach. At- tention is called to a Texas production, Hine's Surprise, which is earlier than Rivers, and an entire freestone. Steven’s Rareripe can be recommended as late peach. Salway givesa big crop. having I. tendency to overhear. The Kieflel is imply wonderful (Mr. Willard has again sold his crop at a big price, and states that the commission merchants telegraphed him to ship a carload). The apple crop has brought more money to the county than any other crop. Buyers begin to discriminate, and will not pay a first-class price for infer‘ ior fruit any more. It page to pack the ap- ples so that you will be proud to have your name on the outside of barrel. Spray with Paris green. Give food to trees and good cultivation. canned goods, and breed ; indeed, it is a curious fact that in travelling through this our country it is often impossible to get my milk or butter ; but this is only because the owners or managers are too lazy to take enough trouble to insure their own comfort. We ourselves always keep up two or three cows, choosing such as are naturally tame, 1nd so we invariath have plenty of milk Hid, when there is time for churning, e 3031 deal of butter. I - I 5,, _>2L_ _: LLA In RANCHMAN‘S COMMISSAEY Damn-ms” Butt/en's Beauty apple, and McIntosh Red loserve special mention among the new varieties. McIntosh is the handsomest of an, and of fine quality. Yellow Trans- parent is becoming popular. We also keep hens, which, in spite of the damaging inroads of hawks, bob cats and foxes, supply us with eggs, and in time of need, when our rifles have failed to keep us in game, with stewed, roast, or fried chicken lilo. From our garden we get potatoes, and Unless drought, frost or grasshoppers inter. {ere (which they do about every second your) other vegetables as well. For fresh lest we depend chiefly upon our prowess as Intermâ€"Thedore Roosevelt in the Century. Some years ago, writes a correspondent of the Cultivator, a. two-yearold colt. with Ithers in an outlying pmture, was found with a foreleg broken above the knee and hanging limp and useless. It was early June, hot weather coming on. The animal, though fairly gentle, had never been accusâ€" tomed to stall or harness. Iknew it was useless to attempt putting it in a sling or adjusting a. splint or a bandage if left in ture. There was a small 10!: available, with excellent grazing, water and shade. United States Senator Palmer determined to have on his farm at Detroit, at least five full-blooded Arabian mares, and sent an agent to Arabia to purcihase the animals at; ,, LA‘____..L-J L:_ cosmfi‘VTVhre agént has telegraphed his inability to secure the horses. Upon his urival at Damascus he legxrged that {a fix-pan had been issued by the Sultan prohibiting he further exportation of horses because of the probability of war‘ in which event they vould be needed. This did not daunt Ienator Palmer's agent, neither did the historical belief that no Arabian horses are over disposed of except as gifts to royal per- sonages and for purposes of war. He push- ed on and had little trouble in persuading the Sultan to revoke his firman in the interests of a United States Senator. He was elated by his success in this direction, but he has nevertheless signally failed in his alert to get the horses. The rules against telling did not prevent his success, how- ever ', he failed from a far different cause, it being none other than the fact that every horse shown him was spevined, ringboned| wind-broken, blind or afflicted with some other disease to which horses, even the pink eyed, soft-skinned Arabian species, are In this the colt was placed, simply watched, given a. little extra. nourishment in form of oats, and left to its fate. The leg hung in such a way that the bone was in a natural sition, and the muscles were used to keep the foot clear of the ground. The animal moved about on three legs for a month, took care of the one injured, and I do not think it attempted to lie down during this fime. Then it began to put its icon to the ground and gradually to use the leg. By this time pasturage failed. In the fall it had a. substantially sound leg again, and was a. useful animal for years. When trot- ing it showed a. slight; lameness, probably due to a little shortening of the injured leg, km in field work and all ordinary farm pur- Iwitzerland has 660,000 milch cows, all of native breed, and divided into two sharply defined races, the brown and the spotted. [he former color varies from deep fawn to mouse gray, the latter shade being held In the most esteem. The brown race '- Ihort-horned and considered as the origi- nal type. It corresponds to the remains band on the sites onthe Roman cities of the third century of our area. The skulls of this nee, fun then-more, are identical with those band in the Swiss lake dwellings. The gotted race, peculiar to Berne and Rribourg, is believed to be of Scandinavian origin. From the milking point of view there is not very much difference either Ducks usually begin to lay in February, and until that time they may be kept at but little expense. Cooked turnips, with a. small nee. The avérage daily yield is about twenty pounds. iitwfiroved a thoroughly 'aerviceible SWITZERLAND'S Mchu Cows. BROKEN LEGGED HORSES. SPAVINED ARABIANS. FARM. amount of corn-meal, make good food for ohem. After they begin to lay they should have a proportion of animal food. The great flow of milk of cows is artificial. In a. state of nature the cow gives only the necessary quantity, and gives it only the necessary time to sustain the calf. The greater and longer yield of milk is the re- sult of better feeding, better treatment and longer manipulation of the teats. Hence to inciiease the yield of milk, feed and milk wel . Remember that plants to do the work they ought to do require “ standing-room." They must have a mellow, porous soil or their feet will be cramped. It pays to take the time to prepare soil properly. Old Jethro Tull found to his coat shat tillage alone would not keep up the fertility of his fields, but he found what thousands since his time have proved, that tillage and menâ€" ure work well together. Don‘t depend upon surface tillage too much. Pnlverize the soil to begin with. Grass lands, as a rule, are neglected by our small farmers. But little attention is paid to draining in fall and winter, and no mulching or attempted improvements. As soon as the warm weather approaches, sheep and cows are turned in to feed on the young blades, and if the cows give milk, and the lambs grow fairly well for the butcher, that ends the matter. If more care were given to seeding dowu and getting a good stand of grass, no better means could be devised to insure improved methods of farming. With well seeded fields there need be less plowing, and that might be properly limited to the area that can be thoroughly manured and cultivated, A really good grass or clover crop will pay better average profits than those requiring much more labor. “Does your cow cringe and curl," asks The New England Farmer, “ and appear nervous 3nd fidgety when you sit down to milk her ‘1” Well, not much, she doesn’t. She isn't that kind of a cow. She isn’t one of your shy, timid, bashful cows. She just fixes her eyes on vacancy with a glare that will raise a blister on an oak knot, sticks her tail straight up in the air, stiff as a. poker, plants three feet firmly on the ground and then feels around with the other for the milkpail, milkstool, milkmaid ; finds them ; fires them up somewhere into the blue em pyresn, and remarking, “ Ha, ha. 1” amid the shouting, jumps over a six rail fence and tramples down an acre of young garden. Don’t talk about cringing and curling to a. cow that has to be milked with a pipe, line and a. pumping station. Naval men, especially in the last century, have often grown rich on the proceeds of a single successful expedition, or even on those of a single captured hostile ship. In 1743, during Commodore Anson's cruise, for ex- ample, the Centurion, on June 20, took the Spanish galleon Nost‘ra Signora de Cabadan» go, which had on board bullion and oar o to the Value of £400,000; and, before the cm- modore returned to England, his squadron captured other vessels which were worth £600,000. Anson's share of this sum was, I believe, over £70,000. Again, on J nly 30, 1745, the Prince Frederick, Captain James Talbot, brought home rizes which, with their cargoes, were wort over £1,000,000. The treasure and plate alone filled forty-five waggons, and the captain's share of thezplnn- der was about £120,000. In the same year another English vessel took a. Spanish ship with £400,000 on board, and a third, the Surprise. captured a French East Indiaman worth £150,000. Other captures in 1745 were the Charmante (£200,000), the Heron (£140,000), the Notre Dame de la. Delivrance (000,000) and the Conception. The latter‘s cargoâ€"I take the details iroma contempor- ary accountâ€"consisted of a large quantity of cocoa, sixty-eight chests of silver, gold and silver coin to the amount of over £200,- 000, much plate, a two-wheeled chaise, the wheels and axle trees, etc, of which were of silver set with diamonds and other pre- cious stones, and a quantity of gold in bars. “ When the ship was put up for sale, the French captain, upon the promise of a re- ward from Captain Frankland, the captor, discovered to him 30,000 pistolee, which were concealed in a. place where no one would have ever dreamed of finding any- thing ” This ship was one of the richest prizes ever taken ; but its value was exceed- ed by that of the Hermoine, & Spanish treasure-ship, which was taken in 1762 by Captain Pownhall, of the Favourite. The three lieutenants‘of the vessel received as their shares £4 3,000 apiece. and the captain obtained £65,000, While £64,000 went to the flag oflicere on the Mediterranean atltion, where the capture was made. The admiral was at the time miles away from the scene of action, and had very little to do with the capture. It is devoutly to be hoped that the Crown Prince of Germany is not the unfeeling wretch and the firebrand he is pictured by the newspaper correspondents. Otherwise his accession to power, which there is reason to fear must come all to soon, can scarcely fail to be the signal for a general European conflugration. It is not unlikely that the portrnit presented of him is greatly over- drnwn. If he is as represented, hruzque in manner and democratic in feeling, he is just; lhe character liable to be misunderstood in the Court circles in which he moves. There is at least a palpable contradiction be tween the representation of him as a man of harsh and war-loving disposition, and that which shows him as an idol of the common people. The professional soldier may, in« deed, admire such a character. But the toile ing masses of Germany, as elsewhere, cannot be lovers of war, or of those who would in- volve them needlessly in its hardships and horrors. European wars are genera‘ly waged by despots or dynasties. All the interests of the people are opposed to war, and it can scarcely be credited that their sympathies would be with the man who would lead them into it, unless in defence of the national honour. It is on the common people that the enormous burdens of modern warfare fall most heavily. They have to pay the taxes. Theirs it is to make the forced marches, to occupy the trenches, to shed the blood, while the favoured few carry oil the honors and reap the rewards of victory. It is incredible that the people should long for the enthronement of a fighting monarch, or that if Prince William is really their friend and favorite, he can be impatient to lead the national army to the battlefield. Bishop Sullivan, of Algoma, is expected to leave for England in May, to endeavor to complete the endowment of his diocese for which $50,000 is still needed. The German frown Prince. Big Wmdfalls. Sam Jones Says Some New Things in a New Lecture. “ My subject," he said, “is ‘ Get there,’ with we ‘ Eu,’ left out, as you know I am constitutionally averse to slang of any sortâ€" (lwghter)â€"nnd for that reason I let: off the ‘ Eli.’ ” In a sentence beginning with the charact- eristic Word, “ Rwily," Sam Jones paid a high compliment to we scam! and religious life of Toronto, and than said. “ It seems as if Toronto is already getting there, and is sitting there waiting for 1311i 50 come up.” The lecturer said he didn’t intend to show his hearers how bogeb there severale, finan- cially or politicallyâ€" making these remarks by the way :â€" How to get there in the best sense, he said, involved three things :â€"1. Some one who wants to go elsewhere. 2. A route or way. 3. Destination. _ "‘ Richeé are like a. walkingstick ;one will help you along but fifty on your back will brag ypq dowp." “ 1f '1 should get: you there politically you would be covered with more mud than you collld wash ofl in>all ygur lifaz” ‘1 I don't stick very close to my subject," he said, “ but I always stick to my crowd, and there‘s a. good deal in that.” BUILDING A FIRST-CLASS MAN. " Really, it’s a. very hard matter to build a regular first-class man. We have got plenty of material, but the patterns are no source. If I had a. hundred ordinary men to make one first class man out. of I would be very economical with my dirb. (Laugh- ter.) You have got: enough pieces in Toron- to to make a thousand men, but they won’t fit one another. The lecturer expressed a great dislike to the sentiment; of the hymn, “ Oh, to be no- thing,” and wanted to know how “ nothing” could wear a, crown or play & harp. Then he disliked to hear a. man singing" I am no- thing but a worm of the dust.” “Suppose you went away from home, and your wife sent you a letter directed ‘My Dear Old Worm of the Dust,’ wouldn’t there be war in Egy t? Or, supposeyou address- ed her, ‘My ear Wormeas of the Dust.’ (Great Laughter). You're no worm.” " I believe in depravity, but 1 would never stop to discuss whether n: is total or partial. I would just say, ‘ You have got enough meanness to damn you, and you had better look out,’ and if a tellow wants any more than that, he’s greener than I am." “ We’re not: pubreiaction and decay, but the good in us is out; of fix. Here is a good tongue, but it. tells lies ; here is a good hand, but it: knocked a fellow down yesterday. Sin is simply the perversion of a God-given faculty." “I love to see a. man with a. high concep- tion of manhood. Instead of singing ‘ I'm nothing,’ let us sing ‘ I'm the child of a. king.’ Instead of singing ‘I want to be an an el,’ let us say ‘ 1 Want to be a. man.” aving secured the right kind of a man to “ get there,” one who is pure, noble, true, genuine to the coreâ€"the lecturer proceeded to discuss the “ way.”‘ “All liars,” he said, “ are in she false way, and it looks like that Way's powerfully crowded. Everybody here that hasn’t told a. lie in twelve months stand up.” A very few rose, whil. the rest laughed at the apparent confirmation of the lecturer’s charge. “ Five preachers got up,” he said ; and then be quoted the language 01 a. little boy who said that lying was worse than stealing ;â€"â€"“ If you steal something you can take it back : but if you tell a lie you can’t take that; back.” Speaking of the virtue of patience, he said â€"" It is to life just what an egg is to coffee -â€" it settles the whole business. Mother, if you have a. little more patience you will be a precious mother; and it you have patience enough you will be a grandmother." (L Lugh- ter.) Sam Jones thought the preachers were in- clined to talk too much about death and not: enough about like. “ There is not a. single word in the whole Bible telling a mum to get religion because he is gomg to die ; evexy appeal is, ‘ give your heart to Gad, for you aha.” live forewr.’ " v He was not inclined, however, to be very severe on the class of sermons which 52", “ You had better get; religion ; you will die next week.” “That's a pretty good string to run your old rascals in with. I don’t know when you preachers would do if you couldn’t fell back on that. If an ungel were to come dowu nere and say that everybody would live for a. hundred years, you wouldn’t get ten dollars on your salary this year. (Laughter.) Who’s going to church and prayer meeting and pay the preacher, if he’s not going to die? But at the end of about 95 years they would be hiring another preacher and saying, ‘ VVe’ve got to go to the boneyard in another five years and we've got to get fixed up_for‘ it."‘ u ‘1. u r“ v a To a. preacher who had asked him how to infuse more life into his church he said :â€" “Next Sunday just walk out of the pulpit, grab an old bench.warmer and throw him out: of the window. On Monday morning you will have to pity ten dollars in the Police Court; and five dollars for the windo av, but next Sunday morning you will have three thousand people trying to get into the church to see a. preacher that; has done semething. (L111ghter.) We hive got to do something or we’ll never be respected.” HEAD OFF THE DOG. “Here goes a rabbit, running a. mile a. minuteâ€"hustling himself. A man says, ‘ Run, mbhit, run ; it's only half a. mil-1 to your den.’ Ribbit says, ‘M'usner, you needn’t euc ouruge me to run; just head off that dog ”’ (Laughter) f"There's too much encouraging the rabbit and too little heading off the dog. (Ap- plause.) You can preach anything you like to a. Woman who knows her husband is nn~ faithful to her, but she's in hell every minute she breathes. So with the woman with a drunken husband."7 M‘I‘iIJat"; wpiréiach against the barrooms and the gambling dens and the shameless house, the _dogs thpt an? gyxa‘sing‘ 01'“ people down ho desct’ruction; let’s head the dog- a hemp, and encourage the rabbit a. little.” (Ap- plause.) It: don’t take much grit to encour- age the rabbit, but you've got to look out when you head the d‘og ofl‘.” “T56 preachers always say to me, x you head 03 the dog and I‘ll encourage the rabbit.’ I was here for three weeks and I haidly got to Bp‘egk‘to the rgbbit at all.” Peo'plue grumbled sometimes about his style of preaching, the lecturer said, but no- body could complain that they didn’t under- stand him. “I always put my fodder on the ground, where everything item a goat to 3. giraffe can get in.” (Laughter). - a BZthnsiaani, 0513x336, kind- PBEACHING OF DEATH mass, were some of the qualities which were naeded in crder to “get there.” Speaking of courage, he approved of the course of the Quaker who, having been struck on one check presented the other. then pulled off his coat and said, “ And now, having ful- filled the Scriptural injunction, I propose to give you the best whipping you ever had in your life." A new definition of the» dude was given. “ A lltt‘le pimple on the bsdy of society. showing that society‘s blood is out; of conâ€" dition.” Speaking of kindness, the lecturer gave an excellent picture of the Self-satisfied air of a lady who has given an old threadbare dress to a poor woman, “ Oh, there's another treasllre laid up in Heaven.” “ The worst: that could happen to you when you get to Heaven would be to make you wear all the old dresses you have given away. You Wouldn't go calling mach for the first few years." That which delighted the audience most was the lecturer'a illustration of the differ- ence between Temperance man and aProhi- bitioniaf. The Temperance men are pulling the poor old drowning drunknrde out of the river ; but the Prohibitions have gone up the river a few miles fighting the crowd that are throwing the people in. “ As soon as we Prohibitioniets get our work in, you Tem- perance people will he out of a job.” , .,L__,, A , r " Theife are more Prehibitionists in Amer- ica to-day than there were Abolitionists in America ten years before Mr. Lincoln signed the proclamation that made the slaves free, and just as certain as that God was on the side of the Union cause and the emancipation of the slaves He is on the side of Prohibi~ tion, and the proclamatio n will be signed that will sound the death knell of the liquor traffic and make all these slaves of drink free.” Forest and Stream contains a letter from Ernest E. Thompson, of this city, giving a. summary of the amendments embodied in the Phelps Game Preservation Bill recently passed by the Legislature, and referring as follows to the fate of the measure for the better protection of birds : “ You will be sorry to learn that our bill for the protection of birds has been thrown opt for this year by means of a shameful double shuffle to ex- plain which it will be necessary to detail the stages of such a b‘ll in our Legislature. First it is prepared by parties interested and given into the charge of a member who in- troduces it, after which it goes into commit- tee, the member in charge selecting his own committee. A number of experts on the subject are then called up for examination before the committee and the bill is remodel- led and perfected, after which it must pass its second and third resd'm s in the House before it becomes law. fiow one of the Toronto members, Mr. John Leys, profess- ing an interest in the matter, was allowed to take charge of the bill prepared by the Natural History Society. He then selected a. committee to suit himselfâ€"violated all his promises of giving us a chance to speakâ€" sent only for our opponents, the represents.- tives of the Gun Club, sud succeeded in hav- ing the whole thing thrown out.” a Our contemporary comments as follows 'on the contents of Mr. Thompson’s letter : ” Sportsmen, naturalists and all other peo ple who are interested in the preservation of game and birds. will be sorry to learn of the action of the Ontario Legislature refer- red to in another column. It will be seen that the bill as reported does not forbid the dogging of deer, nor does it provide that the intending hunter must procure a license. The provision that only five deer may be killed by one or more hunters from one camp will be a dead letter. since it can never be enforced. The section requiring three months’ residence in the province before any person shall be at liberty to kill deer, or other game, amounts to a practical barring out of all residents of the United States from shooting privileges in Ontario, and will seem a severe hardship to these clubs whose members reside on this side of the line. Some of these clubs have spent large sums of money in the purchase of extensive tracts of wild and worthless land, and have gone to considerable expense in putting im provements on such property. A bill such as the one reported would, if it became a law, mean little less than confiscation of the property of these associations. The matter will no doubt receive attention before long from persons interested. There can be no question about the wisdom of absolutely prohibiting the killing of moose until 1895. These grand animals are growing scarce in Ontario ; indeed, by some they are said to be almost extinct. The failure of the bird protective bill Is a misfortune, and empha- sizes again the point which we have so often : urged, that the people at large need to be educated as to the enormously important part played by our small birds in tho econ- omy of nature. If the people of America cannot be brought to comprehend the value to agriculture of these indefatigable aids to the farmer, the United States and Canada as well will ere long have to pay a heavy penalty for their heedleasness. In no business is technical education of more importance than in the svecstions con uected with the tillage of the soil, and yet the recent cry for trade instruction can scarcely be said to have extended in this direction. Holland, Denmark and Germany furnish extensive facilities of the kind to the sons of farmers, and in each of these coun. tries pnrticulur attention is paid to the pmc. tical and scientific teaching of all matters agporteining to the dairy. The Royal Ag; i. cultural Society of England has taken the question up and the Departmental Commie. ' ‘ ' ‘ LLLLL 1 â€"-«J fink.“ annnln L“- \luvuv-vâ€" _ sion on Agricultural and Dairy Schools has just issued its final report, in which is recom- mended State assistance for the techdioal instruction of the sons ond daughters of farmers. In this country a great deal has been done in this direction, but a great desl more should be done. The edu- cation of farmers‘ children should be more thorough and systematic. They are bone to the greatest and most ne- cessary industry in the world and their training should be commensurate with its importance. A Chinese doctor in New York prescribed for a suffering fellow-Celestial a. decoction of lotus seeds. sweet potato skins, shark’s fins, red herring seeles, willow leaves, grasshop- per legs, frog's eyes, lizard's tongues, oyster shells and sugar cane root, and several other Chinese physicians pronounced the pre- scriber a. quack. It is understood that the critics would have substituted bat’s wings for the frog’s eyes. our New Game Bl“ Champagne, Pleasure and Busi- ness. The men who started pennilees and have built up large/:fififines, have, for the most part, been men of simple hab- its. They have was -d very little upon themselves. They h 24' been content with plain clothes and moderate person- al expenses. The elder Astor was of that school. He wanted little for personal gratification ; but he wanted much in the way of fortune. He gained this by a life of industry, abstemiousuess and econo- my. The fast man rarely gains a for- tune. The talent for spending money rapid- ly on one’s self never goes with the talent of acquiring money. The elder Vanderbilt was abstemious. His principal indulgence was in fast horses, but he was not conspicu- ous at horse races, nor in the betting lists. He was a prodigious worker to the last, as have been nearly all the men who have ac- quired large fortunes. Indeed, hard work had become a law of their lives. Girard was a worker and an abstemious man to the last. Johns Hopkins, being a Quaker, could not be otherwise than temperate, industrious and careful in his expenditures. In fact, looking over the list of rich men who have been benefactors, that is, have given consid- erable of their fortunes to public institutions, hardly a fast-'man can be found among them. The latter class spend money upon them- selves, and rarely have any desire to do any ‘ great things for the public. The inspiration of champagne has never been good in this direction. It has never helped men to make fortunes but it has helped a great many to spend them. The poor men who struck out in new countries and acquired great wealth, grasped’great enterprises and planned bene- flcent things for the public never had their brains muddled very much with champagne or other indulgences in fast living. Wher- ever the success of men in the long run de- pended upon physical and mental staminaâ€" upon brawn and brainsâ€"they have, for the most part, drawn the reins pretty close upon all sorts of indulgences. The ex~ ceprions only go to make the rule one of general acceptance. The roystering. dis- sipated men do not succeed in the long run. Other men outstrip them in the race for success. There was the elder Garrett, who made the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad one of the best paying railroad properties in the Union. In efficient and successful manage ment it was cited as the model railroad of the country. Its stock was so good and the road was on such a solid basis, that the city of Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University and several other public institutions invest- ed their funds in the road, because the steady ten per cent. dividends brought a better income than they could get for money in any other investment. As long as the elder Garrett lived the road maintained its status as the best managed road in the country. The Johns Hopkins University was sure of its dividends. All the Widows' and Orphans‘ funds invested there were sure of dividends. The elder Garrett had no occasion for champagne suppers. His habits were almost as simple and abatem- ious as were those of the Quaker, Johns Hopkins, who had unshaken faith in the permanent value of the property in which he had so large an interest. The elder Gar- rett dying, was succeeded by his son in the presidency of the road. There was a great difference in the character and habits of the two men. The son had come to a great fortune without any effort on his part. Those who expected that he would fill the place of his father have been greatly disappointed. The great railway property began to depreciate. The road was ex tend- ed to Philadelphia. Garrett had a plan of extending it to New York, or rather to the Shore of Staten Island. It was while he was breaching this plan to Vanderbilt at his home in New York that the latter sud- denly expired. The last dividend was passed, the company has been obliged to sell its telegraph lines, its express and sleeping-car business, and to borrow ten millions or more to bridge over present em- barrassments. There is a striking contrast in the actual condition of the road now and at the time of the elder Garrett's death. Much of this difference can be traced to the succession of' the younger Garrett. The son was not like his father. He was not girded up for a. life of self-denial and hard work. He was, in the phrase of the day, a swell young man, very much given to clubs, parties, champagne suppers and to various other indulgences. It became evi- dent that a young man of such lnbits was not equal to the management of this great railroad property. He was compelled to step out. Then came the story of Garrett’s rushing back from Europe, his threats to upset the sale of the telegraph line and to revolutionize things generally, and the story of his removal from New York to Baltimore under the care of friends, with an intimation that he was not in his right mind, whatever that might mean. The son did not ch:ose to follow in the footsteps of his father. He struck out new paths. The result is no longer a secret. It is not a solitary instance of this kind of divergence. If there is any moral here it is that champagne suppers, social excesses, a fat, sensuous life do not go well with business ; and the millions of the father cannot make up for these defects his lineal successor. The ex1ctions of busi- ness were never greater than they are_toâ€" day. These emergencies cannot be fairly met with muddled brains, nor with anything less than absolute selfcommand and a. devo- tion which puts all over-indulgence out of sight and out of mind. It is as true'to-day as it ever was that the winning men in near- ly all leading pursuits, adhere to the condi- tion of temperate living to insure clear thinking and the largest successâ€"[San anoisgo Bulletin On some parts of the coast of Sumatra and the neighboring islands the fisherman test the depth of the sea and also the nature of the see bottom by the noises they hear on applying the ear to one end of an oar of which the other end is plunged in the water. At the depth of 20 feet and less the sound is a crepitation, similar to that produced when salt is thrown on burning charcoal ; at 50 feet it is like the ticking of a. watch. the ticking being more or less rapid accord- ing to whether the bottom is entirely of coral or alternately of coral and mud. or of sand. If the bottom is entirely of sand the sound is clear ; if of mud it resemblesthe humming of a swarm of bees. On dark nights the fishermen select their fishery grounds ac- cording to these indications. A contract for the completion within six weeks of all the bridges on the Red River Valley rAilway was signed on Saturday by the Manitoba Government.