OCTOBER 14, 12:3

THE CHARLUTTETOWN GUARDIAN

PAGE NINE

FOR FARMERS, STOCK BREEDERS andgMGARDENERS

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B! AGRIOOLA

ODD COLLABORATOBS (2)

With the launching of "ILMB. Fina-fore" thn tide has turned. and the Gilbert and Sullivan combina- iion had become famous". yet there was a latent antipathy between thn llbrcttist and the composer that qncatcned a dissolution of the partnership onvat least three oc- wslon; before the final break. It |eems to have been a. case of tem- peramental incompatibility. as th-

ychOUIRIYSiS would say. wu-

schwenke Gilbert was butc-

Qffig brusquc. distant; Arthur seymour Sullivan was urbane.

polite. and. in spite of his unfor- tunate initials, was a general faiorite. In person the contrast W55 a; great: Gilbert was tall and "high-domed" as one observer states; while Sullivan was "short ind plumplsh" and after the man- ner of the clay, affected "side-

ns" a monccic. In the musical world the oornposer began m be regarded as a lost leader; in his own mind was a yearning to devote his genius to the composi- ticn of oratorlos and the severer fonns of classical music: but his youth had been passed in such pqyefLy that the immediate lin- mdai gain, though frown music which he looked u as frivolous. was $00 99111131112 be lightly re- lected.

These men had now worked out s, scheme of collaboration to which we can only apply the term odd, since it was for the most part carried on through the mail. Gil- bert would think up the plot. (of- ten based upon his earlier "Bah Ballads”), writc the_ verses, and then. after “licking it into shape", would perhaps send ‘s. whole act to his (D-WOTKOX‘. Sullivan would be- gin by familiarizing himself with the rhythm of tho verses. using it is said, a system of dots and dashes- grid only whenhc had mastered it would he exercise his ingenuity on a melody suitable to the words. when the melody was settled on, the orchestration was rapidly com- plated, and the finished work re- turned to Gilbert, who rarely had to return it for alteration. When presented to the audience, the peflectlon of the work seemed the result of close and intimate colla- boration, while at the time the col- laboratis. as likel as not, were scarcely on mi terms!

At the risk of ge ting ahead of my story here is an anecdote which throws some light on their relu- iions. When DTJYIQY Citric revived one of their earlier works-the Soi'cerer—in 1898, the two men were in the theatre. In response to calls for the author and the com- poser, they advanced from o positc sldCs of the stage. bowed the audience, and retired without a gluncc at each otherl Nor did =~ van eve-r again set eyes on his v-worker; he died two years

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The “Pirates of Pcnzanoe” was produced in 1879; and in it G11- brrt had a fling at the iii-my. 1n this instance the collaborators pcckctcd their dislike for the time being and came across to New York with the object of protecting their rights and curbing the "mracy" to which their work was subjected. The opera. was pro- duced in that city undcr their supervision. and the audience was reported by one newspaper as "delirious". so we may sugpose the opera to have been hig ly cessfuli Probably it was soon a!- ter this initial performance that Professors Earle and Vinnicombe gave a performance of "the Pirates." in Charlottetown, with the aid of local talent.

Four years later the composer was knighted. and became Sir Arthur Sullivan. No such tribute Wos paid to Gilbert as Queen Victoria lived. she great queen, with 1 suavlter in modo in her mentality when dealing with subjects who had offended her susceptibilities.

TY and she denied the honor of knighthood to Gilbert bees/use she disc. roved of his mockery of E118 15h institutions. It was Ed- wnrd VII who conferred the honor on Glllbert lust twenty-four years later: and Just seven years miter Sullivan had. been carried to his restirig- lace in 5t. Paul's Cathe- dral. r William did not 10$: en- Jqv his honors, for he dl , in tragic circumstances, in 1911 four years am- attaining knighthood. The partnership had come in an end in 1898, and though the prin- ci h each in his own

pals ad tried, ogere, to find collaborators. thr-

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search was in vain. Odd though "WY were. tOGBI-her they were 1n- ‘imitable, and as the poet says Never either found another" who Wlfid hiii 0f! the Dlhlic taste so

we . The brief sketch h i glrhélitgdulfhe meratiiqricmofivalgifi van’ e in m». enoeaf/orc. w W“ mmm‘

iked: the “Yeoman of Lhe Guard" with its more classical B515. appeals more strongly to the present writer; and the "mm. diluers" wmiilletes the trio. The ill-ii. I heard. when first produced in the United States, was glflyjegt- ed to a deal of unfriendly criticism because Gilbert was s,“ d w i... Wkmll’ flm af- rdpub ican ideas Perhaps. It was his way. But (hfie i»! Rood music in the Gnn- noliers. _

OUI. NATIVI BIROHIS

I mm 501d T-hlf. g up of young People in Charlotteggn intend to mike B study of our native birches during the autumn and winter. This is very commendable (o; sev- l oral reasons. First. it will quicken- thclr WW1’ of exsc observation:

the Canoe Birch. Secondly. n takes the students info the “grout! outdoors" when perhaps the fielglp borhood o! the fii-e is more tempt- ing but not so heal . Then ago-in. ltizivesanaddedin restwuiei» leisure moments, as indeed is the case with all forms of nature study: and the memory of their hikes will be pleasant. years after the 0c- cssion is gone. All these things de- termined mo to help. s0 I drew up ckindoftsibulsriistofourbirches 114mm i-he points of distinction. Amonu’ the first thlntgs I noticed was a multiplicity o common m- Ddilular names. which is of course very confusing to the student. “first in one district, is the Cherry Birch. in another district may be known 8-5 The Sweet Birch; while it may be the Black Birch in s. third oom- munity. botanist, no mime: his district or even his nationality, knows what itmeant by Betula lenta, so that the student. in the interest of clarity, ou ht u; mem. Jrize the one invarinbe systematic name. With this preamble wc go on to divide the bimhes into two well-defined groups.

(A) Bark of trunk colored, aro- matic. Fruiting catkins sessile (not stalked) erect. Twigs and leaves aromatic.

(l) Betuia. lento. linngcryg-Jrho Cherry. Sweet, Ol.’ Black Birch. A largo tree. Bark of trunk brown, in we ashy-brown and fun-owed; not separating into sheets. Lcaves ovate or ovate-oblong, pointed. more or’ less -sha.ped at the basep bfldh?» Ewen and shining above. Frui catkins shortlwlindrical, .5 to 2. cm. long: scales of catkin 4 mm. long. smooth.

(2) Betula lutea. Michaux f, — Yellow, or Gray Birch. A large tree. Bark of trunk yellowish or silvery-army. semi-sting inin thin filmy layers. Twigs gray-brown. not as aromatic as No. 1, but still noticeably so. waves Oval» to ovate-oblong, mostly pointed, dark green and dull aibove. Fruiting catklns narrow-avoid, scales s min.

long pubescent. (B) Bark of trunk white or whit- Fruiflng catkins

ish, not sroanatlc.

ltalked, lsoindlng e., almost

@1111!) In N0. S, flrooplng in No. 4. (3) Betula povpulifolla Marshall.‘

--White. Gny, or Old Field Birch.

A slender tree. Bark of

opening ivas Sept. 27th, 1825. was a. great day for for miles round about the country folk poured into the town to see

six wagons loaded with con

cnger carriage. built

Tuber Growers Warned To Get Seed Early

ocuviwa, Oct. i3—(CP)—Potsic '

growers weze warned to order their cntified seed potatoes for next year vutihout delay. to guarantee filling their r.eeds and at the pre- sent price levels.

‘The Department of Agriculture announced there were 2,000 000 bushels of certified seed potatoes available now, but growers in oth- er countries were increasingly ap- preciative of the quality of Canad- ian certified seed

Of the 1938 crop. 1.71700 bushels were purchased by "nwers in l7 foreign countries. alfhouch only 466.000 bushels of certified seed potatoes were sold in Canada. This meant only one bushel of every 20 planted in Canada was cf certified SL'l"“'.'“l‘d and nrrtiubv explains

‘why Canadian growers n e not pro-

ducing more bumrier crops of fine mealv potatoes of ton grade, ac- cording to the Department.

Latin titles to the spczies. It will be a useful Cxlitlsc iar the young people to veriiy the measurements with a metric rule or scalle.

FIR-ST RAILWAY LN BRITAIN

A “Note by the Wuy" in The Guardian recently, give the Wash- lngtou Star's V€l':.iU|l g1 the origin of the meat-sandwlcli. ‘rliere was more persiflage than hswry in the account, although it was made to appear that the National Geo- grapnic Magazine had sanctioned ils statements. In effect 1|. was related that the first rsiluiay for passengers was opened in Britain in i827, that the pace xvas so slow and the journey so long, that pass- engers were allowed off the train at intervals to buy sandwich; to avoid starvation. and that ‘butch- ers’ were allowed, shortly after- wards, to sell the toothsome viands on the trains.

As a matter of fact, Smiles (he of the “Self-help", a book fam- ous in its day) gives in his "Lives of the Engineers" a true account of the first railway which differs in several respects from that given

above. The first railroad in Bri- tain was between the rt of Stock- ton and the mining wn of Dar-

ilngton. both in the south of Coun- ty Durham; the distance was about twelve miles; and the date of iifi Dnrllngtcii;

the train arrive. At Brusselton, some miles away. was "Locomo-

tive No, 1," with George Stephen-

son, the inventor, a5 driver- therdi on

flour; next a covered wagon for the directors and proprietors;

with passengers; and lastly six more wagons filled with coal. As this long procession was only thought capable of four to six miles an hour. it was headed by a horseman bearing a. banner in- scribed "Pericululm privatum util- itas publlcai’. But Stephenson

opened the throttle, the speed rose

to fifteen miles per hour, and the horseman then decided he'd carricd his pcriculum privatum far enough, and got out of the way. At Deir- lington it was found that 450 peo- ple were in the wagons! A fort- night after this opening ceremony (on Oct. 10, 1825) the first pass like a stage-

coach and called “The Experi-

merit," was put on the line. Some~ mink! horse-drawn carriages ran on the‘

smmth’ White (“by °r 9hMKY'-'saine line. and as it was a. single

not easily separating. Twigs rus- set. Loaves deltoid, lm- rloled, long-pointed, smooth, ing on both sides, endulous. nuitingi cat-kins cylindrc, 1.5 3.8 cm. om, ascending; scales dark or

ash -brown, 2 to 4 mm. long.

( ) Betula alba Linnaeus. var poipyrifera Marshall-white, Pap- er. or Canoe Birch. A largo . Btu-k of trunk lustrous white, then pinkish to bronze. in successive cushy-separable layers. Leaves ovate. taper-pointed. slender- petio- led, 3 to 9 cm. long. smooth and green wbove, paler below and. n lttie

hairy on the "veins", un- equally sermte. Imiiting oatkins cylindric, 2 to

5 cm. long. drooping: scales 4 to i! mm. long.

Thae trees, like the willows. up- pear t0 hybridize freely, and it 1:. therefore not uncommon to find specimens with intcrmediaic char- acters. The namm Linnaeus, Mar- shall, and Michaux fik, are those of the botanists who first ve the

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MACHINERY REPAIR WORK

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84 Queen SL,

—LIME—

PM Blzger and Better crops Government experts recom-

mend fsll liming. and now is the time f0 bu!’ "hill! Pfiw‘

IFXIIIW. but take no chanc s, BUY HIGH GRADE BROOK-

VI LE GROUND LIMESTONE f0! befll. results.

5Decial Fall Prices for P.E.I. up to December 31st, 1939:

Bulk -—- - — — — -— —$2.80 per ton Bagged - - - - — — — 3.55 per ton

Car lots 30 tons or more delivered nearest Railway Shiloh

Don't Delay — Send your order-u now to

Brookville Manufacturing Go., Ltd.

Brookviile, Saint John c». N. B. ivnts. n. o. s. spams. rm.

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Charlottetown

line there were four sidlngs to every mile, to permit the flow

traffic. As one of the sldingg was i 8311151111” the ‘ '

opposite n wayside tavern, “Early Nook". the guard and pas- sengers took time off "to liquor up". as Smiles says. There doesn't seem to be miv mention of sand- wichesl And l never heard of their

then‘ twenty-one coal wagons crammed]

NATURAL RESOURCES MABBHFIILD.

' 2 CONSERVATION 1

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BY MIL LUDLOW JENKINS.

ANIMALS or SPANISH narucarzs

Royal S.P.C.A. Se d; V Unit u. FPrunce “H”?

As soon as new: of tho g .111" ‘conditions existing among . e m“ mals belonging to the Spanish we. vublican troops and civilians who 11B" been pouring mu. France n numbers exceeding 400.000, Cg tam pa!“ Milccllml. Secretar q the Royal S.P.C A. dispatch his as. sistant and an inspector to Pen Dlgkflan to investigate,

9 P911011. of the investigators showed that the animals were des_ Peraicly in need o: water, food, and veterinary services. A sum. "E311 of the mum is of nterest:

A9 3i»- Cyoren on the Mediter- ranean we found about 12,500 "OOPS ellcamlled. Conditions were in a. state of indescribable confus- ion. Mcn. mules, horsss, sheen and goats were all lying on the ground exhausted. There was no fodder whatever for the animals, and no water. The whole land is given over to vines and there is scarcely an meadcwland. The result uras tha the animals could find little sus- tenance and. after their priva- ilonr, had little hope of recovery without attention, Some horses had sores. a few were lame with super- ficial wounds and all were very thin. The mules were in better con- dltlon and there were a few dead animals lying about, Because of the hot days and bitterly cold nights many animals were found dying of pneumonia.

The fair condition of the ani- mals is without doubt a case of the survival of the fittest, and the fact. that the worst ones are dispatch- ed for food and British Press rcp- resentatives asseri- that the scar- city of dOlZS and cats is due to the fact that these, too, have been eat- en for food.

"We continued to is Boulou which is a center for refuges civil- ians and their animals. Here wo- men, children. horses, mules, fowls and few spots an- all nilf- in fields which are completely bare of grass. Many are in pitiable con- dition and unless helrp is promptly

SOW THESE PERNNIAL FLOW- ERS IN THE FALL

Seeds of many perennial flowers may be sown this fall rather than next spring. They will germinate earlier and will have a correspond- ing lcnger growing season next your. Then. too, the weathering of winter speeds up germination in many of them which, sown in the spring are slow m i-lppcar. in fact, some of them wi lie over s. year in the ground before appear- ing if they do not have the weath- ering. The irises, the gas plant. Dlctamnus fraxinella, and delphln- iums trolllus and aphloxes some- times show these tr ts.

Sow delphinlums. columbines, foxgloves, Canterbury bells, peach-leaved bellflowers, co- reopsls-in fact any of the hardy pcrennlals—latc this fall and save that. much spring work iiud get bet- ter results in the way of genninii- tlon. Primrose seed gives much

ha"! 5°1d ‘m ‘he "m" in “w” higher percentage of germination

early days. "CRANFORD"

‘When that 1 was a tiny boy,’ my grandparents. (who brought me up, as the phrase ran), had on the side- board a. gloss vase with a lid, which they called a pot-pourri. The vase was filled with dried rose-petals well sprinkled with salt, to pre- serve them. When visitors called the lid was lifted alld the room was filled with the Perfume of bygone summers. Some of our Eng- lish literary classics remind me of that pot-pourrl; when they are opened, we get n bicath, as it were. of the sweetness cf the fur-off days -~whicl1 will ncvcr return, A group of women wrltcrs, in the first half of the nineteenth cciitury, have re. corded for us their impressions of the country life of their time, and singular to say. have treated it with an affectionafc humor, rather than with the pungent wit which prevailed at a time when Lady Montague could write of her own sex: "The only thing that recon- ciles me to being a woman is that I am in no danger of marrying one!" No malice of this kind is to be found in "Cranford" by Mrs. Gaskell: the ladies of that little country town’ had their foibles brought to light by the author, but

is done in such kindly fashion that they thsmsolvcs must have smiled as thcv rcnd. Much of the book, you sny to yourself, is small

Reliance, Scandia and Per- fect Choppers. Knives and Plates and parts.

FM. Lplough & Go.

. Feed?

- C, birds that have

- if sown in the fall than in the fol-

lowing spring.

Sow the seed in rows where it may grow along until the plants are sufficient size to transplant. The one danger of fall planting is the wash from heavy rains, a dan- ger always in plantng seeds in the open. To obvlaic this danger, mulch the beds with some material that iwlll not mat. down soldlly, such as oak leaves pine needles, or fresh

‘ straw. In the spring the beds may

,be protected by frames covered i with window screens or lath tobreak the force of driving rain: and pre- vent the tiny seedlings from bong washed out of existence. The , scheme is used quite W11“? by pro- fessional gardeners to protect their seedlings. a large proportion of twhich might be lost if fully ex-

; posed to spring downpour-a.

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given the death toll will be heavy. We found about 250 horsse and mules at mls place."

It is heartening to learn that as soon as the report. was received a Veterinary Unit was or anizcd in TOIW-ekht hours under e Reader- ship of Col Robert J Sicrdy and Dr. D. H. Sheppard and sent im- medlately to France.

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-When John and Mary left the city to start life ori a farm in a northern State, they became great- ly interested in nature study. As they got the farm work going and learned how to make a living from small fruits and poultry, they be- gan to study the wild life around them. They bceume especially in- terested in t-he so-called game bligds, pheasants, quail and part- r r;

es.

In the fall, city nunicrs came into the region and for several weeks the i: nosphere of the coun- tryside was spoiled. Instead of peace and loveliness, there was the noise of guns. The birds that had -see¢ned tame and friendly dis- a into the woods and swamps in a desperate effort to save their lives.

John and Marv pcsfed their land against trespassing. then reduced

s swamp which adjoined their pro- perty. This swamp proved an idea refuge for the birds. In the win- ter they established several feed- ing stations on their rroperiy where they fed the corn and buckwheat which they raised. Some of the townspeople said: "They will make themselves poor, feeding the wild things."

'I‘he'n one day a city man who owned a large estate near-by cal- led. He had heard of their work "I want to make my entire thous- and acres q sanctuary," he said. "I want to save life instead of de- stroying it. will you supervise the work?" he asked. “I will pav fair WERQS. and we can grow all the

food you want for our feathered friendsP-The Monitor.

Christian Science

ALLOW WIDTH (‘or LATH m

A LATH SC ENOUGH SUNETg TVRiTE THE SEED BED BUT BREAKS‘

11's Flu |__g=r,)r>(F__ ose who grow lrise, from seed,

B Popular garden pastime of recent WG-11, should plant the seed an inch deep this fall. Siberian, Jap. 911959. and the tall bearded sorts. This will give good germination next sprlnz. which will not result wi as much certainty from springsown seed, some of which will take a year before appearing.

The perennial seed-bed should be ml-ide early and enriched with a balanced plant food applied at the rate of 4 pounds to a 100 square feet. to encourage a strong early growth of the plants so that they may better withstand the hot dry takes such toll of seeding: cash weather of midsummer, y/hich year.

talk; but you read on and on. till suddenly it i5 inborne to you "Why this is genius!" And so it is: to take the trivialities of the past and make of them a way of escape from the present. is almost Is at a stroke of genius Gs the abili y to 'trnns.port us into the realms of the future. (Cranford. it may be add- ed. on the list of the Public Lib- F811’ .