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i in =”="’or 2.11 and dBlinnis, a son of Ab-

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g-‘Tfiiecord was beat-en in i810 by a

.,...,on (xtcbor 15th. 1829, Top Gallant

may suzmur, u. daughter of Elngin-

nunsilmuiolis

(o. n MucKenxle) m my last article on our eerlier horaeegand their wonderful endur-

uncefgl- endeavoured to show that.

it wijgthe breeding and individual. "y that gave those sires the abil- Ji-y tgproduoe first class stool: and l the fact that our fore. flt pinned they-faith on breed. the individual: These were thq‘ power behind.the gun as it were that gave this province horses the prominence- they so rightly de- served. -

1n looking over a. list of records made from 1806 down to 1880 I M! that for the firatsix decades of the nineteenth century thatiia greater number of these horses. making records for one, two and ‘Your miles were very close descend- gnuts of English thoroughbred hors- ffifl and in mnily cases bred along 31min“ lines to our early sires in {this province.

'- Away back in 1806 we have the cord of a hone named Yankee.

is horse whose breeding was un- raced made a. mile in 2.59. This

liestnut gelding called the Boston £111.18 horse madethemilejin From 1810-1820 we have a record

of fine horses making records over two, three and four miles. In 1929 Top Gallant, a bay gelding sired by a horse named C0r1ander’and out of a Bishops Hambletonian mother trotted three miles in 8.11 about a 2.40 clip. Screwdriver, a chestnut gelding, made three miles in 8.02 the previous year. Again

trotted four miles in 11.04, equal to about 2.48. These homes were all square gated and each bred back to thoroughbred and Arab breeding. Bowery Boy, a horse of unknown ‘breeding made one of the r first pacing records known‘ when on Sept. 1th, 1920, he paced two miles .13 8.04 1-2. Following this up dur- "ihg the following decade 1830-40 we have four trotters making very creditable records. The horse Edwin iibmlt got. a mark of 2.31 1-2 in 1B4. Sally Miller trotted a. mile in 3.8’! the same year and in ‘i839

oer 3rd and from a. dam by Don Quixote, both of lilnglish breeding.

suede e two milc record of 5.14 or o. 2.8’! clip. This was again beaten ‘bye horse lulled Confidence who later the sflmo ycar made a two mile record of 8.11, about 11.2.36 clip.

In El Onedla Chief, a son of Ihihfly limiter made a. pacing reeovd d 2.91 and in 1888 this same little nude a two mile record of 8Q l-Q-A greater number of the above records were made under llddl Ind on trucks that would not naive the mum; of tracks w- dly- . ~

Another added proof of the en- dumncé of these earlier horses is

NE WSiY NOTES

rm: rusnva or 111s (4)

For ten days the trial o2 the Lords went on. 0n Rbrusry mu, F116. Lord Derwentwater nude g. dignified 8nd Witching clgfen“, Plfldlnk his youth and imgpgl». lelwe; saying that he had "rash. ly and without premedltetiou, en. caged in the affair," and, m‘; though his offence was sudden. his submission was early. The lords, by whom he was tried, were 1n. clined to show clemency. but the King was inexorable, and sentence of execution was passed upon Lords Derwentwater, Nithsdale end‘ Ken. mum. The yzung Countess had now rcachedLcndon and, attended by g, number of noble ladies, wgitqd up. on the King and implored‘ him, with all the eloquence that grief could command, to spare 1m- um fortunate husband. 0n i116 23rd of February. the Countess and Lady Nithsdalc, accompanied by g stun greater rctinue of ladies of rank, again went to the Palace, but were refused audience by the stony- hearted 111011811311, who that same day ordered the execution, and at 01109. 0f the three Lords already tried. That night Nithsdale escap. ed by the aid of his wife; next morning 10rd Derwentwater and Lord Kenmure wereconveyed to Tower Hill, where a scaffold dmp- ed with black, had been erected. As the Earl was leaving the prison, L°Td Wllheiifigton. (who was also one of the rebels. but had been TPDrieved) took leave of him tvith m9 W155i “My Lord Deiwventwat- er, were I to live a thousand years, I should never forget you; so much- courage, and so much resig- nation, in so much youth!"

The Earl's attire is still preserv- ed, so we know that he was dress- ed in u. complete suit of black vel- vet. and wore a. broad-bummed hat turned upon one side and held in that. fashion by a loop and button on the crown. A black ostrich plume drcoped from his hit. As he ascended the steps he was observ- ed to turn pale, but on the scaffold he was resolute and sedate. At this point, the stony runs, he was would to the

turn Estalyshcd

terms would be ton clear u pur- chase." Hc died iutrcpiclly, affirm- ing himself a Catholic and a faith- ful subject of James III. On the night of this

the waters of thc Devil's Water with a crimson glow, which phen- omenon was associated by the peasantry with the death of their beloved master. The red streamers took the name of “Lord Derwent-

their lbilily to retieat as this same mum Lady Suffolk muck u. mllo in 184D ten Imhfn Euler in 2.36 1-2 mi saddle unu ".118 with bulky.

During this decade the above record was equalled by 0111i! 011B other, u. noise named Pelhum of unknown breeding while James K- Polk, a chestnut pacer, made a 160011! of 2.27.

In 1868 the mare Flora Temple. g, daughter Bogus Hunter and from Madam Temple a daughter of spotted Horse of Arab breeding made a mile in 2.19 1-2. F1011! b6- came world famed. In this same decade six other horses, namely Brown Dick 2.25 1-4 (18591. Bl B011 of American star; George M. Pal.- chen 2.28 1-4, a {O11 of Cassius M. Clay; Highland Maid, 2.27, a bay mare by llaitrum out cf a daughter '0! Old Hickory made her record: in 1853. Facony of unknown breed-

g made a. mile in the same year

dlilah l got a mark bf 2.27 3-4 in and the afterwards world fumed horse Ethen Allan got his record of 2.28 in 1858. This horse was a. son of Black Hawk. .

In 1862 'a pacer of unknown breeding called Pct made the milfl in 2.18 1-2. and three years later that wonderful mare Pocahontas paced a sensational mile in 2.11 1-2.

Coming down to the next decade we have accounts of nine horses making records from 2.17 1-4 to 2.25 1-2, namely: Dexter 2.17 1-4. a Hamblatonian i0 and American Star cross. Lady Thom 2.18 1-4, a daughter of Miunbriiio Chief. Ain- erican Girl 240 by C. ‘M. Clay. Goldsmiths Maid 2.19 1-4. This mare was inbred, Abdallah being of Abdallnh 15_ and out of a dnuzh- ter of 01d Ab. by Abdullah f. Mountain Boy 2.21 1-4, a son of Edward Everett and whose' dam was by the thoroughbred Roebuck.

George Palmer 2.21 1-2; George Wilkes, the founder of the Wilkes family. made n. iveeond of 2.22 in 1868. This mm ms a son of the noted Humblcfonian 10. Another horse. the founder of another fam- ily George it. ‘Pamhen by Cassius M, 13y also got a mark of 2.23 1-2 in 1800.

Another instance of stumina was the fact that Ethan Allen reduced his record of 2.118 to 1.26 i=2 in 1860. ‘ Yfwo pears made creditable rec- ords. Billy ‘Boyce stepped u. mile in 2.14 1-4 in (i868 and yenkee Sam peoed in 2.18 1-2 in 1869.

Riemann-nu 101i) u: 1880 PNNQQl-B"! . L?‘ “flmdl. Iive trot ' peo- brs, while gmotdcriéndftbuliulrr and

' W! rec- roi-msr vein-am an»

water's LightsE-a title still. cur- rent in m}! boyhood. The remains of the 155111". were secretly removed from the Tower, (ind conveyed to Dilstcn where they were dcposited in the family vault. Maditlou says that his spirit used to haunt tho glades of his ancestral woods, and a fine old ash is still pointed out as the spot favored by the apparition- Lady Derwentwater accompanied the corpse o1 the Earl to Dllaton. but the peasantry who blamed, her for the tragic fate of their mas- ter, rose against her, and BM was forced to flea from their V6118- eance. Bhe took refuge in p wild chasm now called "The "lady's Hake." but eventually escaped 1° ibuvam in Belgium. whom 51w died in 1133. Bhc also used t0 blunt Diieton and kindle the cres- set on the top of the mined tower. as she was wont to do in life.

e watchln for the Earl's re- of the guru-rs w» children we know but little. John, the eld- egt, is Quid to have been killedvin France by some accident, when he was nineteen years old; but. this in certain, for another story says he 1111111 in London, and a third that he died in Austria at a good 01¢ us, leaving two sons to con- tinue the title. The Earl's dauih- ter, Anna Maria, married Lord Petre; whose descendants still pre- serve several relics of the Earl. in- cluding the suit beforemontioned.

cllffe was under sentence to die three months after the Earl. 111E he managed to escape from new. gate Prison and fled to mucafle visited England in 173:1 11ml 111 1735: on both occasions he was not molested, but caused warmt- wi- satlon amongst the country 101k who met him in the woods at Dil- sten~they took him for the ghost of the Dari. But Charles "could not let well enough atom.’ 101' he W115 on his way to Scotland to 30in 1119 rising of 1745, when he was cap- tured at sea, and hurried to the block on the old sentence. u stit- ed in a former 95118111111- ‘General Forster also escaped from Newzate by "i! "m °1 h" devoted sister Dorothy. This north- heroi rode 11D to London 2:111:12? a 102:1 blacksmith. 11113 gim- trying every other means. provided her brother with a false key, with which he freed himself. Bo well was all arranged that 111

fhmbiwoniun 1o and his darn Lady Pafiiot, dam 0f 59111111111 3- _ a-t try-sung Patriot, grind em not time, bred by Jgosrh Home! of florida, New York, and pissed “Aug; idsnutb, Orange county;

2.14 mm iron: 2.11 to New York, died December mo»

.18 1 trotting mark made

10g. recoldto wlliin 237., ,_ mo» 1m Volunteer mum

crrnersifi. th - . 2.11 ~ 1E uni twciiicy _ i‘ ha f‘ .

ourtvmen Pi

offered 1.15 um and fortune. 1r he 11.

Church and the house of Han- {he 1111116111111 ‘me 1n the constella- over, but he replied that “these “on. Virgil 11nd i5 Supposed to rep-

tragedy, ecllmiv. and a number of stars of February 24th. 1716. a ‘remarkably 211d. 31d. or 4th magnitudes g0 to brilliant (iisplfty of auroro stained make 11D the lengthy figure. A R0-

The Earls brother. Charles Rad- -.

MTUBH’ mu

treaty-four hours he was in on- H &

Walter Besant gives us the hia- iory of this escapede in his novel "Dvwthy Fflrfltcr." The‘ De i-lep- plea, (who Ire among the ancest- ors of the writer) esbapfid with their lives, for some reason; but their estates were confiscated, and they became merchants at Now- cBstle-on-Tyne. There is much yet to relate, but it must keep till next Wolds" m issued. (Note: the cur- ious term, "The Lady's Rake," comes from the. old Anglo-Saxon 30rd "raclan"; to race. run, or

cc.)

LEGENDS OITTHE SKY (l1) - —-€w~—

.R¢tl1mlng to the “Dipper” quar- ter o1 the sky, we can get aline on the uodlacal sign Leo (the Lion.) ll we draw this line through the two stars of the bowl. nearest the handle o! the Dipper, and ruh southward we come to the bright- est star in the constellation Leo. That is the star Regulus, and above it stretches n. fine curve of stars in the shape of an old-fashioned sic- kle: Regulus forms the knob at the end of its handle. Regulus is scarcely n. first magnitude star. yet it was supposed to exert consider- able influence on earthly affairs, and was fonnerly called “R/ex" in consequence. The Lion is easily found in the winter sky and once found it is so well defined that it is not easily forgotten. In olden times the sun was in this constel- lation in the hottest part of the yo“. but now, on account of the fprccession of the eqilinoxes" the sun is in the sign of the Crab (Cancer) at that time. This is the group, too, from which the Leonid showers of meteors come, or used to come. The old folk who witney- cd the Leonid display of shooting- stars in i866, told me that the heavens seemed on fire. Leo ex- iemis some distance, and includes several named stars, and nmny of 10$er magnitudes! Following south. WMWBIORB U19 llneofihe ecliptic we come to the first magnitude 5W1”. Spica as the Romans called ‘ or Azimech according to the Arabian nomenclature. This gm; 1g

rcscnt_ an "car of wheat" which the Virgin 1S carrying. T1115 figure of u winged maiden is shown in my star-atlas as reclining on the

mun inscription, cut on a tablet of sandstone, found in Cumberland in 1816, 1S in Newcastle now; 11,15 911110119 as being a mystical creed of a Roman tribune, composed m iambic verse. In English it runs:

T719 VlTSln in her" celestial seat overhangs the Lion, Producer of grain, inventress o! right. foundress or cities, By whose functions it has been our fortune to know the dgifliqg, Hence the same Virgin is the mother of the gods, 1g pews, 15

vhtue..is Ceres;

In the svmu goddess, polslng life 8nd laws in a balance. The constellation beheld in the sky hath Syria. sent forth To Lybia to be worshipped, than“ have all of us learnt it; Thus hath understood, overspread , by the protecting influence, Marcus Qaeciilus Donatinus, a. , warfaring _

Tribune in the office of prefect, by the b01111iy of the Emperor." It will be noticed that the 50am; is marked by the names of "Bibli- "11 11911-5583’ There 111's no ele hunts. tigers, crocodiles or other tropical animals. in the cipclc, Heme, argues Dr. Spencer Jones, the A5- twrwmor Royal. the z diac names originated in Mesopota a, mu it is of little use to look to India or

Egypt for their inception.

A line drawn onwards and downwards thmugh the last two stars in the Dipper handle, will cut through the constellation BODIES, with its first magnitude star Arc- turus.

q H; olms AND ENDS a -—~—-—— Sunspuis arc. in the spotlight

again. It will, in the usual course

oflfblnr. affairs. be the sunspot mlifimlirn’ $1 1889 or thereaboutl.

Every eleven years or so an» erup-

tlmi of the "maculae" breaks out

on the benevolent face of our lum- inary, and by all accounts his tem- per is not improved in consequence.

We must note however, that there

is some irregularity in both the

pariorl and the severity of the fl-

flictimsl Bunspcts have been ‘fid-

lowed up" by astronomers since the your 1610 when Galilee first stud- ied thcm by means of his primit- lve telescope. one hundred‘ years later, the study had become sys- temutlaed, end in i706 a ,._list of these happenings was IRENE-Fritz and wolf tabulated the sunspot years down to 1M1, and by bad!- erlng tho various observatories. tho present writer egu-ried on the lint

as follows: 1884, 1894. 1906; 1917-8,

1921-8, and" the next "maximum may

probably be looked for in 1938-0.

Tho shortest period onthe list was

188091881, and the longest not-am

uiouitwill be, seen that the period

ofwflven yearns not u "hard and fad rule." ' ‘The

w» *1

Innuendo and iuuspnm lmepbt years of 1018 and 192? wiri aignaliled by great outbreak: o} influena... This looked like something of l clue, and it

ly cbiitclded ‘with’: ‘

This subject will, by, _ ,

nlxt "Hotel!" . ~, The

FARMERS. sfroclit BREED BAMPAIBN m

EXTERMINATE BUT FLY PEST

External and Internal parasites affecting livestock cuusese a sevem reduction in profits every year. It is difficult t0 estimate the total tnlue of animal feeds that provide for the up-keep of these pests, but the loss in feed and animal pro- ducts must be extraordinarily high. Perhaps one of the wmmonest parasites known to the farmer is Bots. this pest causes the greatest zimount of annoyance, particularly udirng ilze hot days when the horse is working, and also the must seri- nus-loss.

There are three species of but flies whose larvae infest the horse:

The Throat bot is Mthe least cammon of this species, and usu- ully attaches in the duodenum, but IS often found in thestomach. Oc- casionnlluihe bots congregate in ihb throat of the horse and obstnrct breathing.

The Common bot fly hovers near the knees of the horse and attaches il-s eggs in this region. The larvae develop in n few days and the horse in biting it slegs releases the larvae which, becoming attached to the teeth and membrane, are swallowed. They thou fasten themselves to the stomach wall, and (mdergo develop- ment during the following months. and passing out with the manure during the spring and developing into the adult fly in a few days during tho hot wcstlier.

The Nose but is the 111051; serious pest, causing intense irritation to the horse. The eggs are laid on the lip hairs. and the tickling thus canted. along with the darting in of the flies, provides annoyance which sometimes causes serious runaways. The life history is some- what similar to that of the Com- mon bot fly. and although there are usually fewer larvae found in the. stomach o! the horse" it is nevertheless the greater plague of ihe- two. The larvae first attach, themselves in the stomach of the horse, then in the spring gradually loosen themselves and attach themselves again in the rectum and finally move to the anus. The larvae sometimes congregate in clusters in the rectum and have been known ‘to completely close the passage. '

Horses badly infested with bots are usually unthrifty and thin con- ditlon. The infestation causes in- ternal irritation interference with digestion and the free passage of foods, and sometimes tho bots are responsible for impaction and other disorders. Collcs in u. great majority of cases are due to but infestation. By umcrptlon of valuable foods. the blood of the animal be- comes thinned, and the general condition lends itself admirably to pneumonia, influenza and other horse diseases. It is estimated’ that fully 90 per cent of horses pastured during summer are infested with buisjivery farmer should udruister treatment at the proper time and rid his horses if possible from this common parasitic infliction. A horse in good condition and health and well nurtured may be able tn stand the drug of a few bots in his stomach, but horses in poor condi- tlon, acting host to hunderds of these parasites or in some cases over a thousand, cannot long en- dure such ravenous demand; on their systems.

Colts are particularly susceptible to this condition, us they are usu- ally on pasture during the period when the ‘bot fly is prevalent.

Thus. rough coated, unthrifty horses and colts would be improved in the majority of cases if prompt and proper treatment were admin- istered for intemai parasites.

The treatment is simple rnd cheap and may be given by any careful horseman.

The Department of Arrlculture is arranging this season to supply at cost I supply of Bot remedies to Farmers‘ Institutes and other or- ganizations that Cooparatlveiy un- dertake Bot Extermination, and u number of communities have ul- roady signified their-intentions of conducting war on this pest, through combined action.

The suggestion is unvanced that districts organize, congregate their horses at a central point on I oer- tain day and make arrangements with some veterinarian or other qualified person to administer the treatment, or arrangements may be made for a visit to each stable. The equipment for treating may be secured by each-community or through the party conducting the work. The trial quantity oi’ treat- ment acquired for the whole dis- trict should be ordered through une preson perfergbly the accre- tary of, an exlstihk organization. thus secure the advantage of the lowest possible cost.

Bot treatment need not be mi- ministered more than once per year, but annual treatment should be practiced. Before treatment the stomach should be emptied. Take away all food ut from 12 to .14 mom's previous to treatment. Bee that bedding is beyond reach. Light ‘food and water may be given six hours after treatment. In foal

2 to 3 months of fouling. . _

A program of this kind will be found practi larly effective and the parasites may thus be ‘controlled nt u cost of only n‘ m: cents per horse. mdividuel 1m fin tiong, in which 0118i or pine he‘: um been established.