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Home My WebLink AboutThe Signal, 1898-12-1, Page 7• '40,3444 • i ... 0...A • mrrar. y,- 4110,0n, ,;;;i •„a • ,. •4.-1•,i. CRA%VS�AYI Sp 111- de RAWSON:Sit Beryl Itis etateiai{lg Wm infinitely sieved at the sight a ! I.'r int ming trou Ile, but thfuktuy 1I.u1 menage eveu OW belief, which the did trot fora ene- mas share, was more merciful than a knowledge of the truth would be. t$be hermit conld read without diffi- culty the meaoiug of Lola'l''flis of de peesioo and fear of impending trouble, sad she sighed as she recognized iu it ell the evidence of the struggle tiroagb wblrb the bad passed sad the gathering clouds of doubt and misery which bad beret her. "If you feed tb• letter, Beryl, in the light of tint suggeetien, you will nee." said Bir Jaffrey Meer • long gleam, "bow everything Maass DSO in with IL All that tint poor girl says is Do vague se to be in reality itecoiereat Them it is plait' that it L no Interference with her lave for me which drives her awy. -'oars is thus •beelut.ly iso bite what- ever for her act while the little, trem- bling prayer that I may never know the cause is just whit one might look far. If there were any nal facts behind, she would know tint I mut find them oat, bet able--tkle trouble might Ire bidden. Tbea her conduct !last night --all L eousiateet with that cue terrible thought When I think of it, I declare 1 am like a madman w,aelfl" he ex- claimed, asd thea be began to stride from nue end of the room to the other In impetuous haste. Soon after tient Mr. Gifford was shown He was going b meek to Sir Jaffrey when b• caught, sight of Beryl sad ',topped abruptly. "Have you any news, Mr. Gifford?" tiers the utmost Bale could bave dem would have been 10 drive 1t straight You'll see my point, sir, if you'll just , take this paper knife and watch the difference to i1. direction it euu try to strike first et your level end then al Dome mark above yon." A. he spoke he acted in illustration of his words. "I see what you mean," said Sir Jaffray without attempting to make the a exprriment. "But why do ' you think it wan a woman?" "For Ibis reason: 1u the dead man's clutch I found this piece of black tare, toru, I huve not the ■lightest doubt, from the drew of the woman who struck his the deathblow, and the unprofes- sional thing 1 have done i■ to take that out of the dead man's hand and bring it away with me. Another reason is this: Here Is a little, ouriousiy shaped filigree gold keepeake tbal wan never made for nay paprore oo this earth save to please the eyes of • woman. It looks :1k an Indiiu thing or Japanese, sad it's one of those balls that those east- miren are au clever in maki.g. There's • bit of a wrench here where the thing seems b have been pulled off with a jerk. That 1 found lying clam to the body. and tbat also 1 took leave to bring away with me. Tham are my reasons, Su Jaffrey, for saying this re the work of • woman, and I venture to think that any 1 f mea in the country would gad then convincing." Sir Jaffray took ap the little trinket and bald it close, as 1f to scrutinise IL But there was no need for any close examination. Beth be and Beryl knew 1t well enough. It was the pendant a a gold filigree bracelet, ons of • pair which had been bought in Mexico when he and Lola were on their honeymoon. The com- panion to it had beau given, with sev- eral other thing., to Beryl. Before either of them said a word Mr. Gifford eontinned,�ouejust e same asked Sir Jaffrey. "You mayspeak DB, losiueenliks way and io: ek reservedly before this nay, Miss Le7oerr "Tbea 1s me other thing I should like to have done, more unprofessional "Yes, 1 have trews and acme 01 it still, bat I dared not go so tar. 1 want- atraoge and startling sunagh. In the ed to bring Tway the dagger. Tbea mar- tinet place. let me ask you what were der's been done with a dagger that bee the relatious between your wife sad alae enough character In it to hang • regi- ment of moldier'. 1doe't..ppose that there's another like it in all the blessed country. Bot I couldn't touch it, you w , because the doctor would see to a Frenchman, M. T.rrtanY' -- •.- Beryl started at the quadri* add looked eagerly at the man. "They were Daly those td elequnint. aue ship. Years ago .1. had baro • trice that some one had been tawperiug nrosie pupil oaf kin, and when ha taloa,- -weak the lowly attar death. ter the eta-. to this neighborhood some time since 1 sen that any boy stodeat -ebtl(ftrukil ' asked him to come to the manor hoose when a dagger had been taken out of and subsequently invited him to envy the wound boors after death. Then here. That is ■11, save for the poem 1 there'd bave been no end of awkward tuld you of yesterday." questions for me to &mower at to what "Yon mustn't naiad my questions. I'd been op to. So I bad to leave. it." Sir Jaffrey, please; but, tell me, would "What was it like?" asked Sir Jaffray; he be likely to write to her?" who now had Dome to expect that every answer the man gave would only in- criminate Iola more and more. He was right in this sae. • "It's a smallish affair, but very dead- ly, 1 abould say. The haft is a singular reddish kind of porpoise or alligator side, with three rings of born running round it to give the bolder • firm grip, and these rings an of different colors, while the steel whisk shows up the back of it is studded with tiny broom knobs, "Certainly not" "Do you know the baudwriting on that envelope addressed to her!" "Yes. It is that of—Pierre Tnrrian." The words came slowly, es if by forge. "That .000ndrel has dared to write M, aria" -- "If wM found in her reams LMS ott+sn- ing, mod this letter may love been the :0, !(.sure. It wee found in another i,iarw.,, It ran as follows: ','.,n muff be by the smarm toed. Tree .ru•,d at the aorta soda/ the park at a ...law k w�!ght. P. T. • ': here was a dead silents in the room .a+sw,.man mad nut the words of the : s er, a...1 each of the hearers seemed - to !;.ser the other's bean beats. "There is more behind. You mast (case to prepare yoaraelf few • shock. o it J:.ffray, and you, miss, too. That letter was picked ap within 20 yards of the cottage mentioned in A, and clone to the wall of the pottage was found— the body of this Frenchman, Torrian, with a dagger plunged right through his heart." Sir Jaffray and Beryl interchanged a lightning glance and Beryl's pulse seemed to atop for a beat and then go bounding on with double force as the mws wee told. CHAPTER XX. PERMS TL`talaa's rt:IDg1 Sir Jaffrey was for the moment so Mocked by Mr. Gifford'• terrible Dews that be mould net trust himself to mak. "Wait, please!" he axelaimed impa- tiently, with • wave of the hand, when the detective was about to continua The reeollectioo of bin adventure on Ike preview' evening, when he had seen Lola close to the .areae of the murder, S ooded upon him, together will tae fear he had mentioned to Beryl that Lela was mad, and, though he fought lord not to draw ties inference which the facts suggested, be could not remit the eonclosim which was forcing itself upon bis—that Lola was mad and par- hapa in some hooey had been driven to do this desperate thing. "Tell it., please," he long puues, "when was this mat found?" "I fooled It myself, Sir Jaffray, less aha• an hour ago." "How long do you think the man had been dead—today?" "I can't say 'meetly. That's • matter for the doctors Bot I should think i` lc 14 boon •beat or something of tli.t sort. My view is that the time of the murder might very well be about 10 cr 11 o'clook last night, might he before or might be after, but I expect that's what the doctor will say." "It is terrible!" exclaimed the barrio .t and relapsed again into silence. Mr. Gifford began to get fidgety, and he glanced now end again at Sir Jef oly and'tapp.d with his lingers on the table and on the cover of the notebook he held in his band. "There's t great deal to do, Sir Janie" be aid at length, "led time is short if I'm to be hot of the trail. And I've more to tell you, if you please, which I Walk you outg 1 to hear." "Owen. "replied the baronet prompt- ly. "There are three point" I marked, and with regard to two of them I've dose • very nnprofeemmeal thing—very anprofemioyl—bat I—well, I was art - tag far yes, and—well, I did it." "Well?" "I wag the gest to fad the body, Sir Jaffrey, sed I thought I tmgbt to make thermal of the time. There doem't mom to have been much of • straggle M the plat, sed I gather that wbeevter did this was Nandiag talkie* at rids maim mdeely, whoa, wilikeat • wed pe•bably, t he .pe with like dagger " "She?" tatorpeaed Sir Jaffrey. "Aad jet drives it home between bis ?the," eantias.d Mr. 04 iird without Mediae elm I.brr.ptdea. "Sie must have Mea a rather tall wemes, of great ' tnoitk, beeense the dagger was 4eivem nahe home to the hilt—fie hilt amebas the man's elethee--and 1 j.Age nbe was tell heelless the dirsotl.n of the blow was a IrISe dawn, *MOW if Abed Moet said after a tate body of and the extreme eud of It is of broom and made for all the world like eats a those slouch bats which the cowboys in the wild west are g Ily pictured as weanug, only, of course, very, very small. I never saw such a thing before, and I abould know it agate out of 60, - Neither (lir Jeffrey nor Meryl dared to look at one ■uother during this de- scription, mid at the close neither said a word. Both knew the dagger only too welL Like the bracelet, it had been bought when on the wedding tour in America, and the fellow to it bad been given by Bir Jaffrey to Beryl's father, and it was at the present moment in the collection of arms at Leyoesl,r Court. Mr Gifford himself seemed to feel that then was some strong reason for the silence, and be made hafts to break it meuUou the polut; tliit's all." And without saying any more be wrut away again. bis Jaffray bung bis bead in bitter humtL&(iou. Nut Beryl jumped up. "Are you going?" he asked as if die - appointed at her leaving Min. "1 wank to talk all this over with you. We got to be brokeu to the muter, too," he said. "I shall nom. back again, but 1 mast go home. For one thing 1 want to nee bow my father is," the answered with- out meetlug his eyes. • ribs went out W her carriage, and. get- ting in, told the coachman to drive home as quickly aa possible. In an iucooceiv- ■ bly short time she was back again, and she found Sir Jaffrey .tell pacing the room when sire had left bin, figbtieg down the fears which would force Unre- solved ■poo bim as the result of Mr. Gifford'. discoveries. "What have you been doing. Beryl?" le asked aa she entered. "I have been borne, Jaffray. Mr. Gifford started an idea in my thoughts, and I have been home to carry it oat Let us be frank with ossa another 1n this terrible bodge m jfave 70u Idea of what it all means or of what can do?" "Then le only me possible ezplanne tion—if this man's thoughts have any foundation—only one. My poor wife bas gone mad, and all them awful eoe- aequenoes are the outcome. I have beam thinking and tbinking and thinking about it all antil I am almost mad my- self." And be threw up bis bands with • gesture of despair. "It is bor'rible, horrible beyond belief, horribleI And 1 feel as helpless as a child-" "Well, I have thought of one thing that we can do," said Beryl, "and I have lean borne to prepare for 1t " "What le it?" asked Sir Jaffrey eagerly. "It is not neoassary to believe all that Mr. Gifford says and seems to think, but we may act as though -what Ise believes is correct and do what we an to make any proof much harder. You beard what be said about the dag- ger, and we know to whom it really be- long•, and we know what people will think if it is towed out that such a weapon were ever taken from the manor house. " "How oan they belp lading that est?" bunt in Sir Jaffrey. "I have been thinking of that, and Q.i* ws seek I *emit beware. Yea 're- member you brought home two of these daggers from America and that one of thew wan given to papa? Well, I have been to fetch it, and I thought that if it were placed where the other ought 80 -be, supposing, as we fear, it is not then, it would help to turn aside sue. picion, for a time at any rate. " "You ase • true friend, Beryl!" ex- alaimed Sir Jaffray, taking her hand PLANTS AND FROST. Pr.e.eese■ Fur (-old F'rarw.rtlow to Thaw Oat a Pot Plant. It stands to reason that 1f one can in sou:e way afford protection to tee wore Leudet flowering pietas, such as are iu petal 'by a slight 'ranch of Jack Fro",, lite besutyof the gardeu will be enjoyed for a lunger period. This may be amnOm- pliebed by the use of a screen of chuese- rloth stretched over and a little above the beds at nighttime when the signs iudicate treat. This thin network will effectually prevent the cold from .et (ling doting in respect to frost as the Davy lamp does to the gams in coal "I must go. There's a lot to do. 1 thought I'd better bring thele two things here," be said, pointing to the bit of lace and the little gold trinket, "and I'd have had the other if it hadn't been that it would bave been seen a1 mos. I'll keep this bit of Iooe. 1 shall want tbat, and you'd better say nothing about it I suppose you want me to go m with the matter, Sir Jaffrey?" And he looked up as if waiting for instruct - teens. "Yea, you mast go through with It Sift it to the brewer." "There's Sot mock to sift sow. Ti. man who p, te his hand on the owner of that dagger and that little bauble there and this scrap of lace won't bave any difficulty in finding the murderers of the Frenchman." His two hearers shuddered at 11. words. "I'm not et all more that you're right," said Sir Jaffray, "but you must find out et any cost. Of coarse," be added, with some hesitation, "you un- derstand that you •n acting privately ' r ane, and you have sir weed to tell atvthiog of what you fled out to any one else. Your f ees will be paid by me." The man's eyes gleamed in an instant with a eon of restrained avarice. "I bave done my best. Sir Jaffray. I kuct t!.e marrow pain and tronble which may often be saved by • little silenre. If you will excuse me now, I will go. You know all leo tar. I heti better be eat acrd deism, because the po, lice make melt mistakes at time•." He took his hat and went away, and Sir Jaffray and Beryl remained agheat at the story to which they had listened and all that it threatened. fife Jeffrey' w.11twadtng by the wiw- dow leaning against the side shutter and preening hie head heavily agatnet Ma bead, while Beryl sat quite still in her cbair by the table, preying her bands together feverishly in herI.p abet feeling so chilled tint she trembled vio- lentl7. "Phe most be mall it is the only possible canoe," burst from Sir Jaffray like • memo of Data. Thea • keeek was beard M the deer, toll Mr. Gifford came look into the room again, shat tee doer earefelly be- hind bine and •dvaewed right into the middle of the room befogs he .yaks "Mame me, Sir Jaffrey, but there's a palet whieb you'll perhaps like to Mere pet very plpla to you. I don't ask wry gt•.Meas 'goat the ownership of t1M dyger, lest of mums you'll see that • geese deal must tern oro ik I dm'I know whether yes think that the greet armpliostinna whbb w,nld eor- Misly arise 1f it were proved b belong to say nee particular can bath any way avnided, bet H that ass be done i1 sbewid he done, and that without • gt5a*$'s heedless delay. I Height I'd 4164'4 The Darned shad le Use great hell, Beryl beteg Neo or three steps above Mat. and preening it "Let us go at oeee and pat it there. It eras always kept in that old oak cabinet in the blue draw- ing seos.' Tiey went at moo M the room and towed the dagger gone, as they had ex- $cled, aid the cabinet locked, but with the key is the leek. la a moment the dagger which Beryl had brought was put into the place of the other, the outline of the weapon •bowing ea the plash tieing exactly the .pot when it had lain. Sir Jaffray locked the door of tbe oabinet and put the key in kis pocket with • tigl of relief. "I thought your wit@ would kelp me, Beryl," be said, feeling very grateful to her. "You were always • clever eooneelr. " "I have bad another idea," she .aid. "That little gold filigree hall was taken off one of the pair of bracelets of whieb Lola gem me one. I' have brought it with me, and 1 should like to pmt it back among her jewelry, as it will de- stroy soother of the link. which seem to have had serh effect upon Mr. Gif- for 1. Even if the rest of the bracsl.l should be fonud and this is hen among bet jewelry thine L no connection abeam" iso is a xiom %) Mr.. Wittlee--When do you oomdder the beet time to clean house? Mrs. Panenm—When my husband fel sink. He alwaye get. frightened then and M afraid to use the language he would be likely to Indulge to at other times —Chic ease News. Henry Peet —We curious that In melees. Ing war jewelry men favored cartridgee and women swords. Mr. Henry Perk—Net at fill The 'word Is the weapon of oommand.—Jew- elere' Weekly. • sate Grimiest, tadeed. Critmnnheak—That malt Butts is ea original fellow. Yeast—Wbt makes you think ed "Why, he borrowed f6 from mw yeetr. day and paid It hawk today."—Yonkpre Statesmaa. Gately. Atte--Yoe know It le a woman's pr1vt- lege to change her mind. Its—i know it le, but when et. atY changes his he has to pay damertea.'eeQllle airmail Enquirer. Ta. Orse'e. 'Trouble. "fee you have any t riehhie keeping out of debt?" "Seine In the world, bot N keeps me bnwtling trying to gee la."—Ohio Stale Journal 410 TON ratTATION AGAINST TROST. 'alues. Where the plants are not of any great height this mean. is very prao- ticable and its been used to much ad- vantage by one grower of violets. His plants are in oold tomes, and for con- venience of rolling up the cheesecloth during daytime an appliance such as is Mown in the out is used. It 1s of very simple construction. While dealing as above with protea tion from frost • writer in American Gardening hs thought it not out of place to consider alai Low the frost does tie injurious work and to draw a lemon t beref rum. Iii cases of frost bite the usual and most emeaci'ns remedy is rubbing witb mow, although at first sight that would seem 0o remedy at all. In point of fact, however, the heat engendered by the friction briugs ■bout a very gradual permeation by warmth of the frozen member, m gradual indeed that the rupture of the (rotor tisanes which severe friction. unaccompanied by the modifying effect of the rold mow, would iltee4(14.17 bring about is avoite4e and with time and care the member 1. thawed, circulation in resumed and its functions continue. Now, with planta, this absolute ueed of extremely slow thawing i+ often overlooked, and it is bighly protiable that a very large per courage of the loam incurred by iutetoe frost would be avoided if more atter" tlnp were paid to this point We often notice that after a frost the leaves of even the hardiest shrubs are black, as if burned. If we examine our of the shrubs duriug the frost, we obeli find not only it, but the soil also, abso- lutely froaeu, and the circulation of the ap le the roots and branches at a stand - .till In the early morning it is probe• 117 white with boar trout. the sun roes, and in a very short space of time a beat many degrees above freezing is beating upon tbome leraved the boar frost nu Its at once, and as the genial warmth pene- trates the tisanee ■ local circulation le set up and transpiration "begins. In a very brief space, however, the rest of the plant being frozen, the circulating moisture le exhausted and the leaf dies. A slow, gradual and general else of temperature, however, iustead of a rapid and Iocalemist would thaw the plant all over and thus permit the los from transpiration to be made up from other parts of the plant. his probable that thegreateet danger aline in thawing the foliage before the toots, for it is quite obvious that if tee latter are not in a condition to supply the leaves with moisture when these las ter are thawed and demand it collage% most ensue. It is clear, therefore, that frozen pot plants are best thawed by being dipped in cold water a few degrees only above teeming point This will gradually peoetrate and thaw the soil and at the same time prevent the foliage being dried op in the way above indi- cated Leta Fell Week. When everything 1.proteoted for Win ter, I prepare the hotbeds and cold frames for the next spring's use. It it much easier to remove the old moil and manure In the fall than when it is frozen in the spring. Besides 1t makes a gond mulch for the small fruits to protect them during the winter. The soil for the botbeds in the spring should be placed in the cellar or where it will not tree.e, and 1 have found none bet ter than well rotted sods mixed with n fourth part of old manure. Before the ground freezes I plow the portion of the garden that is So be sown or planted early in the spring, and if the furrows can be only set on edge and the ground left uneven and rongb the better will the frost pulveilae it, says • Country Gentleman oorreepoodent rl.r.) Rete.. The best time to plant lilies is 10 Oe totem and November. Dracena senderiana is one of the choice things for the center of jardi• Mena and fern pant Among the seedlings of 1595 pr'erent- ed to the Chrysanthemum Society of America Dix were awarded orertlficatee— Solar Queen. Australian (fold, Penn "'Jeanie, Frank Hardy. Autumn Glory and W. H. Chadwick. What the calla needs: "Water 111te a mill, heat lake a furnace, fond like an army, absolute resit during summer." It is hest not to take up dahlia root. for at lest a week after frost, s the Webers ripen better and are not so likely to thrive' when stored in the cellar over winter. The roots should be turned up- side down in the snnahine to let the water Armin out of the stoma .ay. an Iothnrity. Perennial phlox can be transplanted kr October and November. POULTRY omits. V. MISY1 t• wm.vueee ki♦ a neeenea Link. Some yearn sinew the enl.mns of the journal egmtaitie'd inquiries as to th. sutural bleary of our various breeds ret poultry. Poultry hempen, both for ex bibition and table purposes, would he neer.esrily int, noted in .00h en in gnlre, for Its Invest igatirm might hay. affnr e.d them material aesiwtanae, bo whatever information may baye beet than ae.qotred 1t ban not yet to no knowledge, been given In the pobllo, mn bents the prerrut allu.iou to tae aobjerel Derw it's aim iris ble work ou the "(high ot Specter" edmedal We the mode in wbiot snob tulquiriia what brat bh twuductes and would bring lutes lwpor'taut awrar ante to its practical discuserua. The first gneatiuu is, Whether al differ ant breeds of domestic pool* -are to he •tiribiit ed t) 041118 one colu shock Now, the existeuee of undenwrtioate galls, such as G. gi$anttaa and (1. hankies, however satisfactory they may stand as the respective parrots of the Malay and the bautam families, al though there are difficulties; as regatde the latter, will not account for the par outage of other fowls. In respect to sire and general features they may stand at either extremity, but .till Nese am uniting link is evidently wanting. 11 Item been therefore ooneidered probable that the bird which occupied ibis pari tion, sinew be eauuot now be 'found or traced, baa, like the camel and io s less degree the sheep, been absorbed by domeaticatiou and no longer esteem iu a natural wild 'tate. The renewer there fore to this question .rents to be in the negative—viz, that then does not exist and probably never has existed any me common parent fur all the present mem boreal the poultry yard. Oce,eergeent tic this I would put a second question, L there any other wild italic's besides G. giganteue and hankies that would an, ewer the requirement' of such a nom mon progenitor? Again, has the obaer• elation of the poultry breeder furnished him with any instances in the different varieitea where• falling back for a nom mon type has shown itself? Or, on the coutrary, bee his experience in this re spect tended to support the ideauf their original specific distinction?—Poultry. Small Capital For Poultry. It is an advantage with poultry keep ing that the beginner can make hie capi sal it be will be patient sale Colman'e Rural World. What is meant is that if one commences with 60 bens be need not be compelled tp boy more 'tuck im mediately, as he can prepare ume year for the next. He may have 200 bens the mooed year and have ■I1 aocommoda tions complete. The third year be may have a flock of 500 and then inereast every year, so that in five years his farm may oostain 1.000 lona. 11e will extend the period over five yeah ; henoe, as the beginning is with a few, tbecapital will be small, and, as he aide to the number of his hens, be at the same time en. tereaselerdapisal. New. that is a, in favor of the poultry busineee—this gradual enlargement of the capital— which makes it so enmities to many and which also makes the business poli ble to -those who cannot derive as large profit in proportion to capital invested io any other pursuit, but the great Bifid culty is the tact that nearly all who turn their attention to poultry are an willing to wait five years. They are not inclined to build op a business, but en deavor to get into it the first year, with a profit on limited capital and no ex patience, the reenit beiug that the lice of failure@ is • long eine. The one who begins with a few and increaeea his Belk acquires experience ea be progresee&_ CAPE TOWN TO CAIRO. r4thAw''^.: e-' r - weak lungs t: cll1SAT JRll AIN'S GIOANT*C'RAILROAD • BUILDING PROJECT. Of tam Flee Thousawd Mlles awgllend el .w Has Kleist of War T5,..nh All bel Two tieedt 4-.Klte•ea.r'e SIg- ■Inewat Meeasa. 1s mhed... 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Through the meetings jungle, across deserts and great stretches of veldt, over countless streams, through forests and around mountains, the pathway fort the Iron horse has been biased. Starting from Cape Town Rhodes has pushed his end of the work into the very heart of what ft will soon be a misnomer b oall the dark continent Hl. surveyon bave gone north as far at (JJIJt. where Livingstone died. From Cairo General Kitchener Imogene south alines' to the courts of the Nile. Theoretically bis business in the Sudan was to punkah the khellf1, but actually his mission was to ae,cwtupllah something that should have more permanent results He was nearly two years In reaching Om durman, but behind his picket.' trailed • rusty track. Do you think he dragged • railer•d across the desert merely to aban- don It after the Mandist hordes had been obliterated? The war correspondents who a000mpanfed bim wondered at the stability of the line which he established. It woo the most durable "rntlitairy railroad" they had ever seen, bot the key to the puzzle was furnished by Kitchener hunself when he cent • telegram to Cecil Rhodes which read like this. "When are you going to come 00?" Just what Mr. Rhodes answered is not on record, but there is a strung probability There aro many r.•oply' who catch cold easily- -whose lung's ) seem to need special care and 1 strengthening. Such should take /+j DR. WCOD'S NORWAY PING STINT. 'kJ It so heal* and invigorates the t Lungs and Bronchial Tubes as to render them capable of resisting; colds. "I was troubled for years with weak lunge," says E. J. Furling, Lower Woodstock, N. B., "and could not get any relief, but on trying Dr. N'ood'a Norway Pine Syrup, it acted splendidly, heal- ing and strengthening my lung.." Price a$ and Son' at all dealers. ■ECHA1uICW 1?f*TITOTE. GODRRICH XECRANICN' INSTITUT"' LIBRARY AND READING ROOM, eta of East street and Square tulala/n). Open from I to c r.e., and from 'Ito to ►.1. ABOUT 2000 VOL'i( iN LIBRARY. Leading Daily. We kat l y a on File. ted Papas WrestMEMBERSHIP TICKET ONLY n1.0. Granting free use of Library and heading R•,, nn. Application for muutbenblp received h Libreria'',COLD' NE. H. HAMILTON. H. CULI1-4 rreE, ttw•rotary. Goderieb. March 1x 1M+5. SOVEREIGN. BOW. Set ea Fanuapie to the World for Rage. tartly of 1 loran Att.odane.—.t hereof ou.•lay'. Keoord. The rulers of Europe spent a recent • , Sunday e s follows: First of all was Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who, with the Empress Fred +r- ick, the Duke and Duchess of Contuse, t, with their children, and ushers . of the (mat tamllr. attended serene aids Tate chapel at Windsor to the morn The t sear it Windsor preached from Isaiah. 1,111„ h: "For my thoughts are not pour tbouglee, neither ate your wane lrgJl._aa1wQ the leerd•" In tb. seem - log Queen„Iijotoria reiTa pra.. a, n."'"”" stately Francis Joseph of Austria, with be daughter. attended masa at Budapest' in the morning. 'The priest read from Matthew, chapter 24. beginning: "And Jean. went out and departed from the temple and His Maniples came to H m . for to .how Him the buildings of toe eemplc." King Leopold 11. of Belgium attended. • mess in the private chapel of 1.aeken Palace at fl a -m., with the Daren and - Princess Cleun'ntiue. There was no ser- mon. eo-mon. President Faun of France didn't at- tend -church. He spent all Sunday haul- ing at Naugle. The Czar of Humbs. Nicholas II., awl the Czarina attended morning servlet at the private chapel at Yalta. Then was no sermon. King Christian IX. of Denmark at- tended service at noon with the Cum' ret - land family at the Cumberland Castle, at llouuden. The text was taken from the 1470 Psalm. A 1pbeeeo X.111.. et Amain heard intim with his another in the private oratory 'g{ UfANI'.(8 " ''sero wee no sermon. King Oscar Il. and fatally of Sweden attended church to the Palace Church at Stockholm. The court pastor took ble text from Sialthew, 26th chapter Don Carlon, the Spanlah pretender, at- tended private Crass to the Royal Chapel at Lisbon. 'There was no sermon. Wtlbumlu.. the newly crowned ruler M the Netberlaude, attended maniere .ervioe In the private chapel at Tho Hague. The text was Luke v1 , S1. Th. Sultan of Turkey heard the Koran pliant b not to remain undisturbed for read The words were shoes of chapter' long. The sone of British Influence had 114 "I fly for refuge onto the Lord of been extended until now It reaches clear men that He may deliver me from the mischief of the whisperer, who whtsper- etb smell suggestions into the breasts of men." rp to WelgSL Don't wait until two weeks before show time to get yoor birds op tt weight. The time to start is when they are 24 hours old, and the object should he kept in view until they reach the hands of the judge. A chicken that 8, stunted in iia growth will never react standard weight, so be careful with thein. Grow a lot of bone, and make the frame capable of taking on a lot M fleet. If you will take bold of mono Plymouth Rock hens that are jurat up u weight in our shows, you will find that they have a keel on them that hang. like that of a dock. This is canted by their being too fat. A fowl should he up to weiieht in good condition, a con dition that will show them in their best 'symmetry. If birds are kept growing until they reach maturity, and the par ant stock was all right, there will b Do difficulty in getting them up tt weight. We find boiled wheat, fed k little clicks as an all around diet, 011e the bill better than anything else, but meat serape, cot green bone soda eerie ty of food are the things to keep them eating, and tbat is what will keep them growing. Mr. Louse is the fellow win meet be looked after. He cannot thrive in your Hook it your chickens are to be kept growing. Get them started right and they will be rep to weight without securing any forcing.—Pacific Poultry man. Qwallty Makes the Trt.e- Make it • point to have your poultry of the best quality beton shipping k market One who is not accustomed k visiting the large markets knows north ing of the enormous amount of inferior poultry that 1s sold and which largely affects the prices, yet there in "away, a demand for that which is good and at • price above the regular quotationa The smarting of the carcasses before shippng also lead. to better prime. ()1. rooetere, which seldom sell at more than half prion, should not ire in the enure boxes or barrels with better stock and to ship pomltry alive and have r'f/hsters in the coop with fat hens i> simply to lower the price of the hens as the buyer will estimate the value h0 the presence of the inferior stock. le tact, never send any poultry to market antes in first class condition, and un ler no circumstances ship the interim with that which is better.—New York 'rodnce Review. Flagons la Aske. In some parts of Asia it le considered immodest for a woman to show the wide' a her fingers, while among Mohammed an women of Arabia, who are closely veiled, exposing the bank of elm seek la an emergency is held to be a moot greeter bre•ob of decorum than display Ing the face.—Boston Traveler. A Careless Traveler, (Airman Mao (no Washington limit- ed)—Hello I Whit's the matter? Conductor—Matter? "Yea. What are you stopping ben fort" "This is Philadelphia." "Wall, C11 he dinged I I Intended b take the through exprese and I've struck a way train."—New York Weekly. Vale.►1. Peaette.. "1 wonder how Tredway became snch $ .u.,. -.s a-wAtee of Antlww " "1 think that it wee his (-willow@ prac- tise that did it." "How wan that?" "When he noted to write home for money, be told the meat ingenious fairy Mariam Imaginable. "—Detroit Free aul'TR Or THR TRA8uA►RICAp'Ar;,amAA-.!X that the uncrowned ruler of South Africa niay some day get Ina train at Cape Town and check his luggage for Cairo, 6,000 miles away. When that Is possible. It may be Doted that the riches of Africa w111 he pouring along through .the steel bound. narrow channel which will tisva • British catch all hung at either end. Of course the read le not yell butte, ht • gnat deal more of It actually mints than most people seem aware ot. The vary center of Africa has yet to hear the rattle and roar of a rallnuid train, but the el. across the continent lengthwise. with only eos little break of 900 miles It is this 1100 miles that so far has balk- ed England In her eforutoconquer aolear right of way for the building of • north and south railway through Africa, and me fez her diplomacy has not been equal to everoomlog the difficulty. For this dis- tance, the distatws between Lake Tangan- yika and Lake Albert Edward, the Kongo Free State and German east Afrtoa adjoin' each other, oontsibuting together a barrier of alien territory extending somplet.ly across the African continent. Ther. is I1tan doubt that England, If a free hand be given her by the other Euro - men powers and Aby.lnfa, will at no dia- lent day reconquer and hold all of the southern Egyptian provinces, thus secur- ing a clear field from fhe Nile's mouth to Lake Albert Kdwafd. it la the obtaining of the right of way across the 900 miles which separate Lke Albers Edward from Lake Tanganyika that has long proved an oneolvable pilule to the British govern spent With this exception England bolds un- interrupted domain nortbwardly through the Interior, from ('ape Agulhas so tb. Kongo Free State and German East Atri- se. In Cape of Good Hope the progress of railway building In the last quarter eentury has been marked. In this colony, when to 1879 then were but 63 mile. of railway, then were. by official report. on January last, 1 268 miles. It seemed that even this obstacle of the lacking 900 miles was to be overcome when, In 1894, in convention of the retire sentaivee of the two powers at Brussels. the Kongo Free State lensed to England a strip of territory 15 miles In biesdth, ex- tending from the most northerly point on Lake Tanganyika to the southerly end of Lake Albert Edward. But Germany merle go prompt and stren- uous a protest against the tossing of the stripof. territory to lengl.,nd that 110. Kon- go go Fred State ,aeltsl tbe tele,. Enriand bas by no means given the thing up, how e ver, and It Is generally believed that the extraordinary emit), reoently developed between that power and Germany had Its origin 1n a mttual •greenest resi ed tm M the question of the right of way betwrwd Ickes Tanganyika and Albert t:dwanl With this right of way serun,l, as It seems it ultimately will he, the path plaln for the building of the meowed he *ween Cape Town and the headwaters of *5. Mita PNAa*Le8 Are your torus heeler to remove than them that others hews hal ? Have they not had the same kind ? Have they not been cured by uaiug Holloway's Corn COMP Try a et le. aA. era. Innee.et. "Anil on a mine, Rrtdgwt,_ esthe fir g*rl; don'tutgn into tA. dining room just now. Mr. Goodman Is rtriair grace "Raying grasp. is it!" th..erond girt replies. "Well, Oi washed the -men mastiff_ mastiff. and If him or *army else say n osy swim nn It, 11's the week •v thlie children, sod (N ain't of aid 4 tell tblm ee he their rarer President MoKinl.y of the United States stayed at home In Washington. ENG<_AND A CENTURY AGO. These "Good old Times" W.r. r.orfate, week.d and tleslg.ht.d. The pe.slmist. rewarding only the lnlqultlee and Inlustloes of the present day, has only to turn back one bemired yearn to end that the world really does move oo, that our to-murrows will surely be brighter than the yesterday.. A writer In Chambers' Journal esys of "Oise Hundred Years Agp.Jq England:" Eng- land was at war with Franc.. 1'o tntdigR food for pow ler the recruiting eeigeane was assisted by the press gang. In 178R Nelson woe the battle of the Nilo and broke the ocean power of Napoleon. TM land onmpalgne of wellington bad freed :he Peninsula. But the slave trade in our colonies flourished. The printing machine was • men hand press. There were no cabs or o,nnlhu.ee. Steam loco- motion ocomotion helonged to thirty mart after data. 'then was no voting by ballot. Pocket borough. flourl.hee; political debauchery was rampant. Then was no poll—ie fern*. Superstition reigned supreme; every nge had Its "wle woman" and fortune teller. Duel* were ootnmon: so were die - holies. outrage* at sea. Men were axe - sited for high treason, forgery and horse stealing. Hanging, drawing and quartr- Ing wen the chvrlshel punishments of the criminal rode The hemp crop was the most flonrt.hing and fruitful of hair - vane The gtbbel poet cast Its baneful .halos over the Irmo. I'uhlle ex.eutlnne were a popular ontdgor entrtalnmene provided by the state for the •li neons of the i °p le. Suicides were buried with- - —lat widen: OK Idltalaa'11t .tlh - nleleefine • of four crows muds, with a mak• through their hearts. Women were openly flogged. There wan o public brand for scolds. Whipping poem and Meeks were nreminen. In every town and vltlge. Women were p i' -ed Ie the pillory and pelted hr the !ermine. with rotten eggs putrid vact:01-ms and the Ilk& Fwging we. of frwgnent nooue- renes In the army: deserters were inees- ttnwntal shot, seamen were 'torment? hanged at the yardarm for mutiny. Ryes penny newsrooms had their per.eentlowe and martyrs On the fish of September, 17t+', six informations were beard before the. magbtrates at How street and geld by the stamp office agaln.t • "Me. Wllllasaa for suffering in his room In Old Round Court sundry persons to read the -tally ethernet, and other newepepers for the rnnldrestien of one penny each. TM n11cn.n being held to be cheer male nett. Ok tufamou• Williams was cnnvlrted in the penelty of (.t ne ew.110 Infonaadn.,. ry.. 1110•8 by rn..r 11 teanw fl*.. Annswdtng to rennet.* peau window g lees la responsible for eye .trofn, ea e minent of the faulty refraetlou. '>rJ�