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The Signal, 1898-1-28, Page 34,7,••••71. W 10 ON IN WIE1 POOH OP THE GLOW. ONNIE BESSIE. "tiositie llama" every one called her, d rightly enough for of all the High - d lassies who gathered at the little Lrk Sabbath moraines not one woolen( so pretty sad 'relining so Bessie. Squire floodrew if the Red Pam was desperately is lore with Bessie, and sought to make her his wife in mite ot eliffereace le rank. Tbe herds at the Red Peas were the finest and largest hi the neighborhood; the barn and storehosses were always well filled. He sires • bachelor, sonethiug over two score years old. And he %anted "Bon- nie Bessie" for his wife. "It the lassie thinks the can fancy he said, addreeaing Bassie's grand- mother, as he stood under the low, brown rafters of the little Bloch Lynn cottage, a hot flush mounting to the shining crown of his bald heed, "if the none thinks she can fancy me, the bar- gain's made. I'm ready and willing to lead ber to the kirk toonorrow; and if • good, trail hothead and aims gold sod silver will make her happy. she'll be as happy aa a queen at the Red Peas." aeons listened. with wide, startled eyes, burning cheeks, and quivering lips. She held her peace, standingtalt and slim. is a sort ot stunned silence, until her gray-haired lover had taken no leave. Then ebe burst forth into vehemeet pansionate protest 1 TM old greed:pother suffered her to Mersa until her pamion was spent. "Wall. 'tie o'er now, and yell simmer down and keep quiet meths. I've let ye ban, your say, and now I'll hare mine. We're poor folk, me and you. I round it hard to get bread when 1104 but my own mouth to feed, and since I've bees burdened wi' you Ire gone to bed many • night fit to ory wi' bun- gler. But I've bores it ail an' done my best, an' always been willing to gi' you a aliare o' y last crust." "But deereat gresulnia—" "Now, lookee bare, nil lads." tutor' steed the old women, lilting her bony Hager aad glowering fiercely upon Sea - ▪ "U ye're foie thouto refine this g oe& aide it—twitre os two. You seek oat Ira, bowieand ne'er cross the threshold again." Beenie was Wont. The great world beyosd the Higkland peaks seemed iso dim and for away, and the old home scenes were so familiar. Tbe autumn days dritted on and in tbe springtime she was going to kirk with Squire Renfrew and be made his wife. The springtime came and tbe wed- ding day wee okee at band. when, one eveniag just bailore the gloaming. Bes- sie went to fill ber pitcher, as usual, at the rooky spring near by. She had so- compliebed her teak and lifted tbe Pitcher to ber shoulder and bad start- ed for the cottages her white, shapely feet twinkling prettily below the short petticoat as the stepped from stone to stone in crossing the little brawling stream, when suddenly she uttered a stifled cry and staggered to a muss - grown boulder, set down, and put the pitcher hastily on the ground. pressing Mr hand on her heart and trembling all over. "it's kis Moist. it's his ghaist," she oriel. "mod 0, how "air be looked at me I" Whatever .Me had seen. or fanned she had sem there was nothing in eight when she next looked up; noth- lag except tbe overhanging rocks of the glen., tire brook ohne/wring is the ev- ening ligLL, sad the white birch trees swaying ioettrally against the sky. "He boa come front his &ram." .Me cried. glancing fearfully around. "I dere dare as do it. 01 forgive me, Jamie. tbst I ever thought o' it." She drew a Olken cord which en- circled her throat from ber bosom ea .Me spoke and knead the slender hoop of silver which depended from it. "I'll never ba' pesos if I marry the squire," the said. "and I ought no to ha' it; I Shall feel I am a traitor. And. Of Jamie, Jamie, after all, I love in one but you, aied sever can." Saddest, the rose with resolution damped ea every feature. "I mast give the squire his ring ° oblied, bred:leg the lea tears from her *ye. "It is herd on blue. but there ia no other way. Then, Janie, thee perhaps you'll forgive a" dear." Lotman( her atelier there she towed beck her aboadeet locks as she finished this adleradakead wait speeding away Lit h the Wilms darkness with the BMA Io0S et • diesiole. Whoa Os reathed the Zed Pass the brighwitageied the VSLogleside lit the Bbe approachYMa_he ed tnear- ed one ao pressed Mr sad, tired, yet mishit.' face ageifeest tbe glass. A miaute and the tapped lightly aminet the gime. The squire turaed quickly, stared, end thee darted to hie fast. "Well, now, well, sow, what's the saaeleg o' Mar he Grad, rushing Milne the roma as& thrOwing up US wisdiewp "Basle, my lama, whet', bar=ar " thins,* that never should ha' answered. ankh* at with a sort d desperate &Emma d &rowing the gold rill trtiatbsr r es she speito, "I've come to give beele 10 roe. Squire Bestrew. I wroog ever to let yea pet it oe." -Why, 4, what do yes Moen I" "'Take yoar ring," she said. "You've Of 'Avid Roble Grey,' maybe, reel rear "Yss I bay*. Dal what thee t" We I, I bed a Jamie aim," the went at the little diver rise/ bat Seek, a grog aaalitsaaal ever wear thy Other shaking Mr; "he prone •Ile—haeovest aft to seek hie for- " With atether mete "sad 11fifor 811" him. e.lite can't _leg illb -Me *Par* amettser—Irele Benin ef teemed Wee steresitiag Ihneeelege ne recently run to Ooo- coast is highly &Imre MAU natives. Tbey out ultable length* to Rieke saingho make Jiloutil, the lost tort for by.. countertalance the ef- 1110 tranefer of Kassala 1 Egypt. tothschild ment-a hrace every on of the 3.0011 luetors of the omnibus ich be is interested ar ..at. the senior member of ichstag. Is 87 fears of In every minion since constituted. He had mber of the Premien dowdy since 1864. pity, owing to the large len students frequent- blialied &g tnatructor- sr, Germen to enable the language 10 witicie e delivered.• tis& e ee Regent. Ma been ary doctor of philoso- bratty of Munich Sinn of tbe Royal Academy le years of age, and a eys •re giving out. Is 1 of the Gold Coast they initiated aad 104 year collect oaly CAN ston- es in 1894. Md.* skins, MO. were exported lc in Germasy hes in extent that the Gov - it necessary te fout- lo Weetphalle. nee. with the prospect e improvement mos si is trying, to discouraste e wes by .bowing that Out of tersetrese re- m average+ profit to each 13 37, and in many & rourrierer was caugbt combination has bee mini liability rorpor- , with • capital et 312. - out sa en ieducement number of °Detracts postkng at tbe rate of t per week. bath a Austria Ina col- imapbs of all the ',ret- ail seen during the last each picture is &thick- et the name. age. sod I subject. with thedate a tekti* of tbe photo- Erektne." is the Mune 1 haukrupt FArl of Ras - British yeet to become !tor. will r in the new Play. his ay. lie is • desemdast e 31. sied Barbee& Vil- le Cleveland. isle were bat Ogg duels r. acoordiag to the re Vitunendatore Gaut et We 108 bad serious Mt- , M. duelist waskill- Mz otbers elted or tbeir mrious dune seventy - la fifteen W- ind in thirtem officers Martian el the Fiji kg to the Berlin Bonen- ) visit Europe to search OM is the beir 1.0 tbe incorne of 335,000 • year e h Governmeat, wbieh on her accession. be- ri lands. anti is looking ited man a good birth. i's consort is ber Chief 'lel Justice. a the Bonfires, has ret. &nil is trying to km' ideas. Both eras of 1 Aquila. King Boraba's mond the late Enver- ister. married wives of ono of them an Amer - /sated down as loyal It - A Ornate' ot--the heeours engaged. with went. to • young wo- who ix not eves noble e osin years a Wilhelm sentences. for lesec Ord hy German soarta m of imprimainent be- lle yearly average of remain,. either througll owes cm the rfut 01 or through the Haiser'e tenors for unfavorable eg the &feeders pun - children under 15 rears Aber person" under 21 freed from his divorce 10 altitatier ' the "ono " question is 'llbritish Moidenhead. tbe mew 1Patit4tit fever outbreak. hi um et the Bead al isonterat Hat thee bid imps In do hathfeldriir eine eiktlifeatY Out owl to Me tbe semi Nob ot three persona. :Outing that " he did they were going to urns to trampe.' hot time Osi Adelaide, cm. 19, the tempernere kehiag 106 degrees, and Irene.. The sky look - On was bine red Ind melodel thot ihe world as mid. At one public iren wire missal with des neared !IQ diffi- end matter. who later "'heel ire tfli• it had oi lest leistils ware. eL4 feel like she did to 'Auld Roble Grey' —I should hate you -LI should—" And here she broke down completely. He took the ring she offered and for a moment. .L look of unut- tretd epais and regret came Otto hia eyes. "So," he and, slowly, "you have come to tell me this, end to ask for your freedwal And you really think, too, you have seen Jamie's ghost F' "Yea And I shall never return to graadmother again I dare not. So I Im goiag away." "Basta my denies," cried a voice, as his strong arm clasped her. TM next moment sbe was oa the breast of her lover, who had come back alive and safes • few days after there was a happy marriage at the kirk, knell.. Renfrew himself givine away the bride, our "Bonnie Bessite." ENGLISH SPOKEN AND WRITTEN. Tweeter*" er the cerrespeiseesee of sae Waved Illkese hi flat Lasemesa At tbe recent Postal Oongreen at - Motion was called to the fact that two- thirds of tbe letters which peas through the Poet Offioes of the world are written by and sent to people who speak Engliah. There are substan- tially 506,000,000 person, speaking col- loquially one or soothe rof the ten or twelve thief modern Ifieguagea, and a thane about 25 per tont., or 125.000,- 000 persons speak Fnelisfr. About 96.- 000,000 speak Russian, 75,000,000 Ger- coao, 55.000,000 Freoch, 45.000,000 Span- iel), 85.000,000 Italian. and 12,000.000 Portuguen. and the balance Hungar- ian, Dutch. Polish, Flemish. Bohemian. Gaelic, Roumanian, 13wedialt. Finnisk. Danith. and Norwegian. Thos. while only one-quarter of those who employ the facillties of the postal departments oivilized Governments speak as their native tongue Engltsh. two-thitsis a those who correspond do so in the Engliab language. This situation arises from the fact that so large enure of the °agronomist business of tbe world is done in English. even among those wt* do not mask litegtith fir theft native language. There ars for in- stance more than 20,000 Post Offices in Indic the bootees' of which In let- ters and papers aggregates more than 500.000,000 perceis a year. and the busi- ness' & these offices is done chiefly &oafish. Chem% of Tattles -total pop- ulation, which is nestle 330.000.000. fewer than 330.000 persona either speak or understand Kngliah. Though 90,000,000 speak or under - nand Maslen, the business of tbe Russian post deeartment Is relative- ly anneal the number a letters Bent throughout the Csar's empire amount- ing to lees than ono -tenth the nun - her mailed in Great Britain alone, though the populotion of Great Bri- tain is considerably lees than one-half pf the population of Russia In Europe. Tbe Souther& and Central American countries in whkh either Spanish or Portuguese is spokes d000mparatively little Poet Office buodoesa. Us. total number of letters mailed and collected in a yeer in all the countries of South and Central America and the 'West In- dies being less then In Australis. Chili and Argentina are, in fact. the only Iwo Routh American oountries in which any important postal bueinees is dos.. and most of the letters re- ceived from or sent to foreign conn - tries are not In Spanish, but in Eng- lish. French. German or Italian. AR IDEA FROM BELGIUM. liallway lies•Hat t er vs Carry Wounded's 55. Seareat In Belgium they have what is known as tbe hospital car, and when a serious railway accideat occurs the car may be run to the spot, where the wounded may be picked up and carried to the nearest large city for treatment. in- stead ist waiting hours for the arrival a surgeons. Again. the oar can be wed to trans- port large companies a lanai& from place to pLace at certain seasons of the year. Tin iaterior of the oar is divid- ed into a main compartment. • corri- dor on ow sido and two small rooms at the end. The hospital proper le la the larger compartment; it contains twenty-four isonted beds of steel tubes hung from powerful springs. Each patient lies in front of two little windows which may be Mimed or closed at will. Each bed is provided with a little movable table to hold ail objects required. Oa the outside of the hospital cham- ber the corridor leads us to the linen closet and the doctor's department, in which there is a huge ctipleserd wed for drugs. inimical instruments aari a folding bed. Various trap doors in the floor open into receptacles for ice, a, provision cellar. etc. Arrangements are made for an operating chamber and there is evonse small cbapal for relig- ions worship. Tbe car will be used principally to carry invalids from Belgium to the miraculous cum at Lourdes. Francs. THE SACRED FIRES OF INDIA. Tbe sacred fires of India, have not all been extinguished The most an - neat whit* still exists was ronsecret- ed iWelves centuries ago in commem- oration of the voyage made hy the Par- see when they emigrated trom Per- sia 3. 1.4*.. .The fire in fad five those every toreaty-toer ware with medal wool sad other free met maters, cent - blood with very dry fuel. Th10 fire. la the village of Oodwada. mar Belem, is visited by Permed in large numbers during the months allotted to the pre - Min genies a fire. TREE IRREGULARITY. • sateraliet pointed out the reason for tress grow/en is their irregular shapes. Their irreeelarity serum 1 gale iisj= frgriallaa 1.11: man aps ta sway ta all directions. .04 110*, teed to balance the Ova. Were they to sway Le the eS1126 dime - WW1 the tree would ha aprooted or brollies sit. — THE CANADIAN BACKWOODS THE GREAT FOREST WEALTH OF THIS COUNTRY. onaffi• ✓ iomee reeris lieteully all••••••••1 - *air teee587 eves ?brass% gee Krell ef ee Inuiellak Ths following Le the third letter of Mi. Ernest E. Williams in the London Daily Mall on Caned& and Can - adieu rwouroes. It is dated sI Otta- wa and is se toilowic I have juet returned from a short tour through some of Ontario's lum- ber regime. (In saying "short" I apeak La a relative sense; tbe dietance traversed would be represented rough- ly by the area of England.) The journey took use well into the famed Canadian backwoods though I abould besitate to call it the heart of the region, for every fresh exploration party finds new lumber country—vast foreeta of mercbantable timber, pre- viously assu.med to be just barren wil- derness. It is hazardous menbirork to dttetoPt a location of Canals's tint - her limits. Two you. ago, for than* Profee- me Hell, of the Geologicel Survey staxted ant from Ottawa In a north- erly direction towards Junes Bay. The country traversed was ao little Irnown, save in fragmeetary faahion by the Hudson's Bay Company °th- eists, who are reticent with their knowledge, that one result of Dr. Bell's expedition la the re -arranging of the otficial map. The rivers hitherto drawn upon the imp as emptying in- to James Bay are now proved to be largely effort; of the autveyor's im- agination. and an Important river. called Bell river, will for the future take their place. Naterally, with geography in this mediaeval condition, knowledge of the country'. reepources was sadly to seek. No me, indeed seam' to M.. troubled &bola feetning m estimate on the sub- ject and its wealth -producing capa- cities were tacitly assumed to be a ne- gligble quantity. Now, bowever, we loess that Tail WHOLE REGION explored by Dr. Bell is well weeded. and has escaped the devastating fires which have ruined so many of the northern forests. TM timber, more- over, is heindle be of cemmercial val- ue. It ill varied la diameter. spruce nod taxnarack being the Wapiti trees, lost while birch asd Banksien One al- so flourish abundantly with balsam - fir, balsam -poplar. cedar, aspen.eto.. and. in the southern parts dis- trict. white mei red thee. lit- tle newly -discovered corner of On - Moto. It may lit menUosed corers an area a 70,000 square miles, and is therefore considerably larger than the wiole a England and Wales. About the asme time that Dr. Bell was exploring Northern Ontario Mr. Henry ortailiven. inevactor of sur- veys to the Province of Quebec, was engaged on another expedition in his section of the Dominion, north and mot of Dr. BeLl's ground. Here Mr. O'Sullivan expiated a region 50,000 square miles In area, about equal, that is. to England's area.' which a couple a years ago was. to quote Mr. O'Sul- livan'. words. "as little knowa as it was in the days a Jacques Cartier." In his report Mr. O'Sullivan seta him, - ▪ to combat the general impreasion that this northern region is &odd rocky waste. lie state.. on the con- trary, that there 15" .n abundance of merchantable timber, principally tam- arack. of which there is • sufficient quantity to supply sleepers for ALL THE RAILWAYS IN THE DO MINION." I cite three two instances of recent exploration to show bow enormous. and as yet enamoured, le Canada's forest wealth and what little ground there is for the statements circoliated. as a rule with obviously interested mo- tives. to the effect that Ontario'. aed Quebec's lumbering days are nearly over. lb any one who has had but a glintpse ot the northern forests the statements are too ailly to smile at. IA is true that in southern Ontario and wherever agricultural mettainente bee prognamed there has been &clear- ing of the trees; that goes wittiont saying; true also, that lumbermen have the lbssurnot only energetwastetal, cutting down sapaings, energetic in pest and so hindering. or preventing future growth; true, again, that Indiana and settlers have Moo careless. and Mill- iag prospectors malicious, and that Iran then ceases heart -breaking hav- oc has been wronerht by fire in many parts of tbe country. But, mariner fun allowance for all them elemente of de- struction .it is within the most mod- est bouods 'of truth, to say that the great faresta of Canada remain to -day tot tin most part as original as when, two centurion ego, Jesuit binelonaries tint threaded their way throne:1 the unknown regions. Thine is a wonderfol charm about the Capetian forests. 'Wild grace is perhaps the hest deseription of their salient features. 'There are no huge truth* *mothered in donee foliage, choked with rank undergrowth to op - prase the voyager. You never fen Met you want to get out elemewhere 301. 110 49.4 air sad draw year Meath Digits the vint &rem ail .rotted fon. faintly studded witb molars. thanes' of freohnemi and lightnees is always TM lead undulates, and tbil Crthteris meets/All broken with lakes and strewn*. so giving naively extended views: and eesa wM.n the mciiimet is narrowed to mob enter tia ths meek of dallette, tamale( stsm. afford• tia open country feeling le net lealehed: It le Jed blooded with What. for wait -4 • faqir terra, World est! Um reeldteeterel There hi the glamor ea EITSTAS rAntY PALACES. • around pat. Repko bare tell me I should dree times woody :a -the MO. en / elL'er...:ei Me. •• • OW autussui, lf I wend appreciate their full beauty, bat I incline to think there nowt be a special quality of beauty in the forest as It is oow. with the mow capping the pyramid tops of the dark -foliaged spruce trees, arid tracing out the dainty branches of pipes and poplars. In these backwoods human preeence dOlee Dot destroy the enchantment of the place. It is far too sparse to do that. What there Ls dem but add the spine of Mann interest to the roman- tic glamor of Nsturis in her chastest mood. Profoundly interesting. In those parts of the forest region where settlement Me been effeeted. "is the cu.rioub Wend of oivilization with the rough plower life. On Sunday, for example. I reached a little town which has grown up with- in the last tow years at the confluence ot the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivera. The place originally held no other hu- man habitation than a Hudson's Bay Company fort it is to -day an impor- tant distributing centre a ch. com- pany. end is presided over by Mr. CoUn Reette, one of the Company's veteran officers. But it is besides. the headquarters of the lumbermen. who have owns into the district. The town. it Ma some 1800 inhabitants, is primitive in appearance. and the pine - clad rooks &ad rapid waters. give It • wild and pictureerme look ea I saw it through a ROA of s1bng *now.The hotel is & rough frame building. yet each room has its globe of incandement light. • visit to the Catholic Church *erred to heighten the [sateen° Im- pression wrouglit by the mixture of advanced civilization and primitive re- 11104.6nalla. The church ie a large acid iseadsome structure, the interior paint- ed white. ornamented tastefulty with gold. the coldness being relieved by the altar feral/things and the brightly painted casts of the stations, etc.. which stood out from the walls. As the °hoer chanted the familiar words of the mass to Gregorian tones, and the faint pothole. a incense came down the eines and THE RITUAL PROCEEDED with all the stately appointments we are accustomed to at home. it was easy to imagine oneself hack at High- gate or Spaniel place. A glance roundoat tbese worshiripers in the backwoods was a Soares of en- grossing interest. There was some- tpathetic about this congregation vrjtici filled a clitirch that Would be Meandered 'arm in an Engliali town of five times the size. 'Twee not an ob- viously devout stion, but it W.0 a quietly attent ve one stolidly at- teative, after the manner a courteous primitive loth Bard life was writ- ten on their "'earthy faces. French-- Canadian, with a not infrequent dath of Indian blood. is the common .tock here, but in a conversation 1 had with same of the men afterwards. their fates were quickly aglow with hope. In the both as in the towns. &premonition of progrees and prosperity is general. Them settlers in biattawa feel now that the worst of the work lies be- hind then. 'Twee rough work a few Mars ago, when a railway was un- known within one hundred or two hundred miles a their shanties. It Is rough. judged by English standards. to -day; but tepee people are inured to hardships. and think little of them. and, after all, to the healthy body and cheerful eoul these are small hard- ships full a oompensations. The men a tem oountry do not dwell on them; their talk to me wee ail of the coin- ing development and prosperity. Nor should they be disappointed. The wealth is certainly there in the raw; the water power, too, for the quint and obeap ocroveraion of pine trees in- to boards; and when the projected can- alizing of their riser is accomplished. the bus: sod scream of saw mills will soon. doubtleas awaken this silence of the forest with the strident. NOT,E OF SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRY. Tbe felling and sawing of loge for timber is not. however, the only form La which Omacia's forest wealth can be given to the world. Recently there Ma commenced the growth of a new lodustry—the manufacture of wood pulp from spruce. In the United Watee also it ham been started. but la Canada where tbe raw material is in- finitely greater. and better in qual- ity besides, pulp-ma.king is already more important. and miast become moth more temortast in the near fu- ture. Cued& new possesses. et Ste. Mario the largest pulp factory in' tbe world. Indeed. tbe United State* are Canticle's thief market for the rya duct. Canada's total export het year, principally across the border. reached • value a 175.777, end in adOition shie Sent away wood for the iinsiachire of the pink to the value of $847,655. Whea It is stated that so rereetly as 1901 the exports were only 11355,11011 and $219.458 respectively. It will be rem With what rapid 'strides this infant Industry is progresesing. Asd the fig. Mos to bend eo far this year show that the Weinman is still bounding rt&y. Bat them figures will reed u - lonely fenny in a few years. wben the minims of scree ot spruce awaiting, the lumbermen shall have been brought try entereries and, of the axe. For ebeitter transport fa. °intim within the poesibilitiee o wood pulp are go va- ried. You do set know it much It England yet. tleitegh paper made prin.- eipally & this material and verioup celluloid articles are not townie:ion; but many more thiom than these eau be made of wood pulp. AGRICULTURAL TRIM FARMERS' ICE CROP. Perhaps there Le no building the cost of which an be so well adopted to the farmer's meow as the ice Mum. For a few dollars invested in cheap lumber, asys a writer, lied two or three days' work, he can have an ioe house that will answer his purpose nearly as well as a more expensive ons, or he can hire a carpenter to buiki the house, 11110 good material, paint and shingle it at a cost ot from $50 to 3100; but one will keep ice about as well as tbe other. The first ice house I built was a cheap one. It WY twelve by fourteen feet, I think, but large enough for our purpose. • few old boards I had on hand. some two by four scantling for the frame. and a few nein were ell the materiel used. and a day's work for W- ulf and hired mato built it. The saw- dust was obtained at • sawmill near by. and the ice from the mill -pond, cost- ing nothing except our own work. For several years we were supplied with ice with little or no outlay Is ourh. The old ice house was not Very otniumental to the place. mind we tore it down and erected a more costly building; bat the old building kiej* tbe ice nearly as well an the new, and I mention it to show the email cast for which ioe niay b eput up so that no farmer who has the tinke to atteind to it need be wile exit ice. Five to ten two-borse Imola of ice are generally sufficient for both dairy end family use. and two or three loads ot sawdust will pack it. If any ono webs. to invest about 350 in an in home eig.ht by twelve feet—which holds about twenty tom—it can be built as fellows: Um two by six studding and cut them about ton feet long. On the outside use good, planed siding and paint lt. The inside a the studding can be boarded up with rough, cheap lumber. Whee Wardle/a up fill in the 1:04•00 hetwelen 'the AngitrVgt_Os•WIFdlist well tamped down. On a building a this kind I would Shingle the roof s.nd put a ventilator in it. I would also put a good wall under the building. and _late! the bottom by filling Month small Edon.. • location should be chosen with good drainage to carry off tbe water from the runtime ikke, for the water Mould not mettle and stand under the building. When filling the house with tel'tenet he the bottom, but only a few flag draw k about the best .ma teri- farmers will have it and most must hue other straw or savotust. Sawdust alone on the bottom does not make a scemplete drainage; so it is a good plan ..first to put some coarser material. an ithe bottom and spread a few inches of sawdust over it. Large bloc.ka of ice squarely cut., of uniform size, pack and keep the best, and there will be lees waste from melting, if ice can be ob- tained from fifteeo to twenty hushes thick. After putting in a layer, go ov- er *4 .44 fill in the crevices with broken WO, thee level the surface with an adz before putting in the next layer. Leave a space of a foot or more around the outside ot the is. to be filled in witb sawdust; then cover the top with about eighteen inches a sawdust. Clow the door and opeo the ventilator in the roof, and there is no tenon why the ioe should not keep well. If sonnet farm- ers 10 a neighborhood will combine in purchasing an ice piow, thie cost to each would be but smell, and with it the labor oed cutting the ice is muolk less. With sesitoble los tongs Use lce le quick- ly loaded from • chute laid from the pood to the loading place. I like to Grew the ice at aleig.bn, and with a man to help me load and panic the ice; a day's work will put 10 .11 that I need. and then halt a day's work puts in the sawdust. There are memo luxuries and convenienees possible to the farmer with a supply of ice for family um. Durina the hot weather mos can make ice cream as cheerily as the farmer, for he Mao all the materialo, if he has ke and an inexpensive freezer. A refrigerat- or placed in the pastry ie a great coo- renieoce for the housekeeper for pi- pe:vise meat,,froit, etc., in summer. Pawing over many other uses for ke, I will only ofty bbst one accustomed to do wi ha.' a surzly nf ice does not want to Manistimp. Caneda's Government Omit pot a• *sport duty on the The United States admits it frerl duty; and the Vetted States knows whet it is &beat. STIPERSTITIOUS EMPEROR In eonimpieline ot the total eclipse at the .on, enrich n on sebediale tee- the 22nd of January, the Emperor of Mtge, who hi 'very ooperetttione and is already said to be in a perfect stew over the approaehing wrest, has order- ed that thel muessealm et emigrate's- Rae Itehltaatly pald to him on that day, the Chimed' New Tear, aball held in a poulteetial hall, instead &the throws resat TOOK MONEY WITH HIM. Esaterner—I am looking for a atm darned Sinarth, who ea me here from oar seetiese ease years ago. Westerser—Look a.foots swag Moms Valorem tea New 'anat. Be MM mob - ode& a fortune by this they Ho 1e4 matey when 31. tales lore. I IAA* I4 the peer: HOW TO GET BOGS IN WINTER. This is always an ithetesting sitbagets, much easier to write about then tabling &built- Our elP•finot• leads as bilis- Here that nothing Mt warm quarters, variety of feed, plenty a meat and many pullets will bring many winter eggs. W'7. Wittman gives this ad - vire: To start with the house was built for comfort, coot about 31.50 per roa- ming foot, and was so situated as to cater every bit a winter nunehloe. Root and drainage vrere given especial attention. The ventilation NY mixed with commit mese, plenty on warrO, 1111114cy hy. &pa mine at all on cold nights, go dr M.. anywhere. Doors were maciii Tight With woolen strips; rio air could elder except at ventilat- ors at bottom of sashes. Scratching sheds were filled with fresh garden loam, which was dry ell winter. Pul- leta were April and Kay batch. all Brown Leghorn@ bred ib line for qual- ity and eggs. Tbey were raised on free renge, wheat, barker, oata and oleos water. Alter °debar let were kept le moderate conlinement, were free from lieu without male birds end were fed meth. of two beithele oats, 0.9in the morel two quarts of voann Mabel toes, ground very fthe, fifty peels& aiddHaga me hundred pone& bran, raked, soot kw thet one centime pounst nig wore :fed et daylight, regalarly, lied a rash was made tor the otratehiag slab where a quart or mix- ed groins Ind Mee spaded in. At mos as told days saellorr quart 'west it' sodNWT 1111111,1_d_ hp et yeti all day. Lori- mese* VIM tinittly rolled in •••••••••••••-••• a length of itry oettag. also cab. helm were °thee diversions. Just before dark all the mixed groins they would cot were fed. Two Web. &la wheat two bushels mink, ono -half buthel buckwheat. one-half bushel oat., oast over one mot per pound. Owns - times they were given parched wbole corm Ten bags of lawn clippings and clover c.haff, 0110 barrel of wane beets and turnips, one hundsed hked waits cabbage, tabLe scraps that' were not se.hty or fat were fed and not charged for. Neither was all tbe charcoaloharp grit and oyster ateilis they would eat °berm& Green ground boos and beef 'fivers were fed daily ia amen quan- tities. Thia and the absence of niale birds mule the hens very tamo—an es- sential. Eggs were all sold to private families at two oso.te per dozen above store price, or four to an mon more than would have beeci realized by sell- ing to middlemen. In floe winter months housed in this building, and fed as I have described the forty hens yield- ed ue a profit of 360.40. FARM NOTES. Poorly farmed land is capital 0111, half invested. Work for better cultivation rather than for more lead. A small farm well tilled will pay much better that • large one half farm- ed. The cardinal virtue' in preparing all kinds a produce for market are neat- ness, cleanliness and uniformity. The saseseor will not tail to find ev- ery acre of land you own. Better not awn more than you can pay taxes on. 'The railroads are cootinually trying to avoid ''carryiing empty.' They make tbeir profit by hauling good loads both waya. Many farmers do too much "hauling empty." The only way to prove tbe beet vari- eties cit fruit is to carefully test new varieties before planting extensively for field culture, for mono a our fruits are very fickle shout mil. The sale a fruits in our markets is dependent upon, 1, Use character of fruit (leered. 2. the kind of pecitalre wood- ttio proper gradling in peeking, 4, the con- dition In which 11. 1. received. Limbs a trees broken by .now and ice should be sawed off neatly and t.be wound covered witb thick .paint or graftieg wax. Trees gnawed by rab- bitsor rericoldisteted witirirpteritice of day mat' live, V not girdted. The aggregate sum yearly mid to railroads and steamships for carrying farm products which on arrival prove to he unsalable no' ow can estimate, but it must foot up enormously, to say nothiog of the freight charges paid on goods sold far below market rates be- cause put up carelessly or in unsuitable or unpopular package*. Stable manure, fresh from the stalls a domestic animala, may be hauled and spread over tbe roots of trees, shrubs, canes and vines, of perennial plants and upon ground designed to be plowed and pleated in tbe spring. Tbere la no bet- ter time to epply manure than when it is made, and no better way than upon the surface in winter. Provided the land ia not so rolling ttat the strength of tbe manure is not carried off by the spring mina. MEN WHO SHOULD NOT WED. The man who says. "Love me, love my dog. The man who can't remember his wife's birthda.y. m.mea who thinks a parlor carpet ought to lea flfteito years. The man who thinks he can keep house better than his wife can The ram wbo thinks a woman's bon- net ought to cost aoout 15 cants. The man who forgets his manners as Boon as he crosses his own threshold. TM men WI/0 labors under the delus- ion that his wife's money belongs to hint The man that thinks that nobody but an angel is good motigh to be his wife. A man who thence a woman la "fixed fox the season" if she ins one new sow& The man who always leaves Ma wife at home when be takes his summer vacation. The man who thinks there is "no place like boon"—for grumbling ant growling. The man who thine' a sick woman would feel better if she would "just get up and stir around." The man who thinks his wife exists for the comfort and convenience of his mother and misters. The mao who talks about "support- ing wife" when the works fourteen hours a day, including Sunday. The men who ba. 105 worth of fish- ing tackle and can't afford a new set oe chrtitias for the dining -room. Tbe man who thtake a five-year-old worsted street gown le the proper sort a toilet for a dinner party or recep- tion. The man who thinks a woman ought to he her own miiihner, drweimaker, searnetress, cook, housemaki sod nurse. The man who dermal know what on earth a woman wants with money when the has a bill at the dry goods store. ODD NOTIONS Faith can remove, mountains, but civil engine -ere prefer to tunnel right through tbem. A viewer maneon hide the fact that lo nal wit*, but a wise man always exposes his lack a cleverness Indulgent motloos tell a Ioy to go op io • too. which emoting.* him to stay In bed. A girl's idea& happiness is to dame with one man and leave two or three oilier* walking the hall floor injeal- Me rage. Somers which make. a man Monde la success of the finest perfection Wben & rum finds fault with hie cof- fee his wife safely infers that the bat- ten oak's ate all right It la bad torn to meld. Helmets! ProsPerity to your family doctor. It affects Ms Hilo. Every other generation knoWs bow 10 brief up alilltren properly. Charity oftea owning a multitude of alas Which ought not to be sowers& PILEBIO PRINCESS CAMEL FOUR TEARS PRI- SONER IN HER OWN 110111I1. Shwa la • Mein wIlhlier Mho& 111,0064- •• • Nor Seaward Lowyr amd otierVedi e logematily Applied Se 11•141111111111 Nue 'lag - Cistlives i4245. •• IMMO . 1114411u *111. Palermu tbe meet wideawske and im- portant city in Slaty, ham just bath startled by the Macovery that it was possible for two well-knowo women of noble family to be kept close prieweere for four yearn in their own penes on one a the principal street* of tha tows without any one knowing IL • rmi pantile lawyer recently informed the police autboritlea tint the Princess Chr- ini. a member a the higheat lulather- soy a &calf, was kept prisoner with bar blind SO -year-old deughter bad vUIa ie the Via della Liberta by Ma steward. Giovanni Cannella. • large force of police and carbineers was seal to the viLla to snake sure ttat es ass escaped; at the door the porter laid them that the Primers wee travelling abroad. Thee paused hien s.od wore stopped by Cannella's mother, who teld them they could Got ester the house is the Princess's shwas& Tiny her, broke in ths doers, as& snot long search fined the two weaseer- ter - a clerk closet, nearly naked. half tram and starving. Cannella, bis family sod &II the aervants ware arrested, the rot markable story of the Priocees was var. itied, and the police are raw hunting for the accomplices in the crime. Maria La Gras, Princlpessa Cartel has had pleoty excitemeat during the course of her In her youth the W'0 a NOTED SOCIETY BEAUTY. and at 18 married the Marebew Artale di Bonet° • &ant' Onafria faltel some years of married life her husband 11"Pr judicialedsepaberratwionithwiiithtme. tbrocwitisclitodr'd0 y of hie children. but left to her tbe young- est child. a little girl born blind, a whom hs denied that Jim was the father. This was about twenty years ago. The Princeiiled a fut. life VW-thati-tak— Mg one lover after another, losing her money lit Monte Carlo and estranging all her relatives by open scAndal; even Palermo moiety bad to give her up. When the cholera epidemic broke out in 'Sicily to. 1885, however, the Princess Carioi volunteered se a nurse and spent enont.he in the hospitals a Pale ermo tendimg the sick. In 1892 her mother died. leaving her as estate that yields an income of 310; 000 a year. The Princess, by that tone I a middle-aged woman fell is love with Cannella, then a clerk earning $2 a week, and a tnarried flan, though she did not know it. Shie made him her steward •t a bigh salary and set up &strange sort or a housebold,such as are not uocommon, however, in southern Europe. The Princess, with her daugh- ter, occupied rooms on the ground floor a one wine of the palace the steward with his family, rooms Li the opposite wing, and they took their meala togeth- er. Cannella then prepared bee plan to obtain possession of the whole of the Princess's tortoise. Little by little he removed all & tbe old earvants and put in their pieces creetures of his own. He maltreated the Princes. and her daughter, forbade tbeir appeoriog at the windows or on the balconies, •nd spread tlie store that they had gone abroad. 'When be found tbe statement accepted by whatever persona inquir- ed for the Princess, his mom col the women grew harsher, he deprived tbsin a clothes, of fuel, sod of food, so that they were forced to beg for bread from tbe gardener and such servants as they saw from time to time. 'His intention was moire:Ole, to drive them mad or te KILL THEM SLOWLY. The unfortunate women were com- pletely iu his power. The Prineass. hail out of her mind, signed every paper that he direoted ber to aim. Cannella meanwhile lived In fine style, kept • carriage, bat shooed himself to be a careful administrator of the property whicli he intended should be his. So matters went on for four years. At last Cannella drew up a will for the Princess to eign-._v_thich evar_ethieg wee bequeathed tohim. nit trond the Princess; through ail her adven- ture the had shown a peasionate fond- ness for her helpless daughter, and when the will was signed. If they Were not both suppressed her child would be lekOt at Cannella's mercy. bit. refused to do his bidding, and, working oa the gardener's feedings, induced him to take a letter to the lawyer, who called la "As. Pelirs' thaffair occurred in Sicily. the Italian newspapers attribute it to the workings of tbe Katie. This means very unlikely. Cannella's acccenplicee arrested so far are members of his own flimsily and dependwita of bin those sought for are tbe persons to whom he intrusted hie steslings. ThS Whom*, Machiavellion In its alinpacity, wee tar- ried out with the mtrict attention to busineas that marks the Italian forret elsimee and could 11/11,4 bees foiled al any time bad the Primed. Carlo! rens. ed herself to action as she did at the Lumd. KEEPS A V ALE An up-to-date New York woman has tritely even encopeded in &atonable( her net. that as a rule, ia eurprieed et no eccentricity of ite members. She bas diemieeed her mall and sagaged 1. ialet. "I have Weer been ao well takes rare of in my life." she confided to • friend. "My clothe. are must beauti- fully kept; my Mote, above end are like new, end 1 have Moir Mfg my bair se well dreamed; lin trevellud he ix leveluebl*, be facets nothing, and ben peeking la perfect "No he dew ootbillit gera I bustAnd. Jiab has ISA *era �M.; nine Maple vallifel see.o " • Oleo etre05