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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8767, 19 March 1907, Page 3

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(From Our Own Correspondent.) ' Eyory one says this has been an exceptional season for grass.'- There Ims not been the usual diminution in the supply of milk to our creameries and tho late warm and copious rains assure a bountiful supply, of green Winter feed which, when converted into milk, wool, mutton and beef will assume a colour that is golden. It will gratify Professor Kirk and others interested to know tha ■ in this district the beautiful irtUe iadybird has increased and ranitiniiod marvellously. About five year--: I saw one in my orchard and show it to the family as one of my boyhood’s pets. When gathering apples the other day I saw twenty on one tree, five being found at a wedding party in tho stalk end of an apple. I hope soon to see the codim moth enemy as plentiful as the ladybird. The former insects, I am told, are thriving on tho moth grub and are Satisfactorily increasing under careful nursing. Searching for these embryo moths the other day I found & dozen fat ones comfortably coiled up in winter quarters. Some orchards I know of where spraying was

neglected not more than one per cent of the apples grown wore free from this pest. Those who fought the enemy have harvested about twothirds of their crop in a marketable condition. „ P Judging by the largo numbers ot drays and waggons daily arriving at ourfrailway station laden with chair and oats our farmers are marketing their crops straight from the chaffing and threshing machines. I also regard this early and prompt delivery as an indication of satisfactory nrices for these products. * It appears that “Esperanto” will soon be quite the fashion, and not a passing fashion, but a new language come to stay with all the peoples oi the earth. It is to bo the universal language. The advantages of being able to travel the world over and converse with its many peoples will bo a “bonsor” boon while commercially it will extend the interchange of the world’s products. I note that the inventor of tho new language (Dr. Zaiuenhoff) has been recommended as a fit and proper person to receive the Kern'd Prize which is awarded to tho person who, during the period, has done the host work m the interests of humanity. laucy what this universal language will moan to tho impressionable ladies and gentlemen who now find themselves tongue-tied as they travel vis-a-vis. Esperanto will break the barriers down and no longer will it be a. compulsion to “speak to mo only with thine eyes” and what a blessing that will bo if either of them squints. „ . . , gMr Andrew Carnegie, in ms ‘‘ Gospel of Wealth, Ko. II.”, dc ; claros that in time the mere man 01 wealth himself will come to realise that, in tho estimation of those or wisest .-judgment, ho has no place with the educated professional man. Ho occupies a distinctly lower plane intellectually, and in the coming day brain is to stand above dollars, poll ‘

duct above both. Tho making of money, as an aim, will then be hated as an ignoble ambition. No man lias ever secured recognition, much loss fame,from mere wealth. It confers no distinction among tho good or the groat. ’ ’ I know a man who gaic public utterance to this belief twentyfour years ago and he was then looked upon as “a, bit off.” Now his gospel is regarded as worthy oi being written up in letters of gold in the bourses and market places ot the earth.” . „ T , ~ The transformation of .London s historical prison recalls a reference to it by Mark Twain in an winy autobiography. Ho says; Art Inn Twain was a man of considerable note —a soldier on the highway in William Rufus’s time. At about tho ago of 30 ho went to ouo of the fine old SEnglish places of resort called Newgate to seo about something and never returned again. When there ho died suddenly.” Hence the Twain s family tree (a gallows) that adorns tho cover of his book.