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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-17, Page 2BET\YEEN TWO LOVES ley BERTHA Ni, CLAY, Then. Lady May tools up a sheet of Weer, and wrote •ou it: "Dear Sir Clinton: --1 have hada loo,: conversation with i a•sy year wife. an i we have explained M e t h other netay things whieh,puzzled ns both. Dear Sir Clinton, this Is my ferewetl. to you. For all that is passed I take upon myself the blame. You committed one errrr--that of concealment; L ,many others. We will bur, that pat, and forget it. If one oleo has been your true and loyal friend for many years may offer alive e, It would be this: "Redeem the years gone by, atone to your wife for her suffering e l eve leer and love ;your enlist; lite in the costs :!a - tion of knotting that yet: are dente. pier duty. It will be Oetter that we she esi not meet again. I as y:eu as :a last favor to me—mate your nnarritt •• known, yon can adv. r ase it in the• tees •mei without any date, but do nit cone•ett it ,stay longer: you have we Read: your wlte is a beeatttful, graceful woman of whom you rimy well be grand. Take care of her. 1 sluff never s•'P yea attain, bet no oi:e will pray mere heartily for your welfare than your friemi. —May Treviyn" She said no word of her sorrow; of 'he Btiddt'u ane;eli5-i that had smitten 1Per, teat:leg her ti€e ail wrteekat,1: of the stub. den blew that had de•str•is std at "tinea Eger bore. her love. bet faith. the long dream of years. the blow that half d.:• fetroyed bier ideal :and, shown her that the idel she had longi, wcrchipped. was. after all, only of elay; not one w"trd-- there was a generous f:trbearan,•e, a noble forgetfulness of self that smote bion. when he read it, demi). i She gave the little note t} Lady fiat . "Reied it. Daisy," tate said. "an.l Schen y'on joie your husband. give it bine." Daisy read it slowly and earefttlly. then looked at her rival. whites* fast pill - bag facer showed that her strength and courage would not hold exit much loneeer. "Yeti are a sohie wants,, Lady May.' tete sail; "the world has not sp.tile-I eon. Na wonder that my husband loves you." Lads May plaee4 ber white band taa the trembling lips. "Net another w.,wl;' cite said. "about your hush;and / ev::ll'r nae; he will Live Yen fc'•r the future. and ro tone else. (;o to him new. dear; give hint that. not.'. with nay dear leve. end firl'weil." She I•n ase d nae net wart then tee % Daisy's hneol in leers: here was a 1:;,'at, half divine. on her Lent ' as she vele*. ••(:nnel-h ' Itrte. nee: God bice- woe: the ,:r"'atest happiness s tla^tt lifer will Loll ft me now will be 11 bear that yo;* are Smell and happy., t, hetei-by." Mommenianomma "Poor Ca.rol" she said, "I am very sorry; it is ail very said." Her patience seemed insensibly to cheer sad encourage him. "I never intended to do wrogle," he said; "I had no such thought. I never intended to conceal my marriage: such au idea never occurred to me when I came to England. You believe me, Daisy?"' "Tea, I beli"'vp you. Caro; do not dis- tress yourself by telling me anything about at. I am satisfied you meant to wrong" Bet there seemed to him ., relief in speakiag. •I might to have told her the fiat moment, I sasteld have said, it is all too late. I ate married, but I did not; and it has been a seuree of undying regret to me. Af -r the east day had passed, I eeeell 1 not: 1 was always deferring the evil hoer—zeroing; off the diieleisisre,umil it grew tee ht.. and then, Daisy, I ectx."3 not 4.) .t at ail." "1 'snderean•1 it. Caro," she said, Ile ,peke quite eagerly then. did not mean to speak to her, but when the fever bad left me. to return and live my life out with you." Site rteecessed every feeling of anger and jealousy; her voice was quite calm us she spoke. "Poor Caro! it was not wise to leave me, but you thought it ail for the best." "Ah, Daisy, I had been mad before. I rent mad Par from bal in g the fever, that one glance at bet added fuel to the flange. Yon know the rest, I have no excuse for it. She is the most. deeply injured, after alt" "I do not know," said Daisy, in that unutterably honest manner of hers. "1 think my agony the greatest. Gera, True. I am your wife, but that is a small advantage --she bas all your love. If we reckon iujnries by the suffering they indite, then I have been the most injured, Caro. because I loved you and you did not love ole. If you had but been frank with me when you welted me to matey you—if you had only told me that your heart was dead, your love was dead, and that in seeking me as your "Let me, to her justice," he said: wife you only sought a companion, it "get Vee d' , estiee to myself. I have not would have been better, Caro." spo'heu to her of tore or of marriage; yes, I own it, Daisy," Ile replied. our conversations, after that first one, Tree young wife went on, with a have all b=ee ea indifferent sub eets. courage that surprised herself: That dies not excuse no. I did not t"You have great faults, Caro. When talk to Ler o: love. but I toohed It; I I married you, I thought you were a. did not talk. to her of marriage, but 1: great hero --a real hero, such as we blunted her footsteps—I was never one read of in books; 1 could not see any !, minute away Irma her that I could faults in you at all; but now that I come spend with her by any possibility. There to t inim over your eharaeter, I see glee - is zee exeuse fair me; I am a coward, a in;, defects, and you should try to cure traitor. I deserve the worst that can thein." be said of nae. I have no Patience with lair Clinton was so entirely taken by myself; I ieu'he neeself; but it was so surprise that be could not speak;ebe tees hard, Daisy. Do not say that I am an literally bewildered; tbis honest, sensible unmanly man; do net say that I deserse Daisy seemed to have changed places contempt. Y"1?i, whose life has been all with him—he power and the influence peaceful, all serene, you eannot tell seemed to fare left him and gone to what the terrible passions of e, man's bet, Ie his sorrow bad been less, be Lave is, I declare that 1 am a StOfl would have smiled; as it was; he looked =az. I woeitl face a hundred foe—I quietly at hea ant not boasting, Daisy; I would leap She nodded her fair bead gravely. into the mi est of devouring flames to "It is quite true," sire said, "you are save a tennna 'life. I am slaomg is deficient in sound, clear judgment; you body, In heart. aced 4n taind, but that axe too impressionable; you are easily love ms ter'4 lose. Heaven Help te Influenced, easily led; end you are nit strong uvin ':ori is the seat of so frank and sincere as you should be," such trio,,".l m•s! sweet Daisy, YOU Sir Clinton could only open ii.is eyes know nothing: of this terrible fire; it Is and wonder what the world was coming all straa"*e* a': novel to van; 1 know to. no fare more terrible: think what it was when it h'xx'xi ••i my honor and my con- s""ie'nel' ewer. It was more powerful than death. • it tined me captive, it band me fi-'. estlel and foot." "Caro„ sit:.i en est Daisy. "do yen think. intr. s line tight for you to tell nu—.'..'' •v ots—ot your love for uno"itar wee. ... Sir Olin' . . ' I 'it) in the greatest %owl"ft-. D y• ,. !t ea strlis'isefierward. se-:ciiste t • ••.,tie, that he was • I. " Ye.: ,1 •te1•imied. Daisy, "that 9m " o". • 'I.4 for you—that I Feil till 7--• • tn.l your sorreew as %eerily es ! :t a at:reelf: hut I am wile . 1 e.vez v wore I hear .af tier lee.• •P ,.:ive given to an- l]t•er e. 1n:. , ,- I ,harp sword in my "1' : i•.n tr.- i one; I will say no nore •.I•;e.• v 1 .. ' . mere. I like you .,, .«l tt, antesles, tint I d"m n .Fl:'e 1 e °to! roe bave n"i leve o,. •, • . • .. •.ew yell? st•.ry now; i' is t ea- • •• •:tee; heir there is .vie 'bite +n . , _' endear -and. Why, eh -•t an. ' Fre ''eleannaei to Lady Mee. whe • .et marry me?"' ••I Sloe ts - •• wart msrrie.i. You r"'ntent err °e'• ta yen:: mother bro fight :nee papyri item, lie market town? One .,u tit clip f," t ti.i that Lady May 7 eerlyn w .. wit to become De chess of Rees -ore. it nit, over the Duke et Il•,es.am .::,t 'r•' quarreled, so that I felt sent it sets rite. I read the words, and they s] tee .t 4 I read.' "Theu." ; ••1 Daisy, "if you knew Hatt -if Vee : that you could never Fre happy e F .;•• wily did you marry me? Tls.t+' 'I• • •enei port of your Glary I do not e: fide eel. All would have been w'llb'.i -.•1 not married me. Wily del reit .i) i-?" Ile !onkel .;rte the sweet. sal fare. \t .•cat there ...ie. . it, manhood and chly- ai:-r in hint - • tip to shield her; he ween, neve. •:rev,. *filet he had overhe.aarl her; he w., .i :Teter confess he truth; she must j`:•ie • ten as she would. "wag it e., yourself en Lady May?" she --tee peeve your entire iniiireren• s ••, Did you sacrifice me se ii^ii'i. f':tr)?" "No, it elle t,.: t for that. I did like you, Deist-. tore m:ze•h. I had e. kindly, warm. tree : f'et ie;n for you, and I thought 'hat 1 c• s stronger; I did not knew that -my Swe was so entirely weever of me. Y ux wonder why I kept n:y male a. .. 'refit from you. It was not intim any wee to deceive you; it was bye:ae;s. ro'l epee, when I was ill, asked my name, and I told you Sir Clinton. Yen .IM not understand me, and called me Mr. Clifton. Daisy, I liked it well, l,_--:tnee it seemed to cut me off from a past that was terrible to me. I etel to myself that I would drop my titles -the I would be Mr. Clif- ontsat I would eo away from, England, and live a new life in, which no one thing should remind me of the past. Then, Daisy, I—I wanted you as the companion of my flight; I asked you to ,tarry me; I thought we should live abroad, and in time grow happy." Her sweet, sad face heightened at the words. "Then you did care for me just e. little, Cairo?" she said. "You must have clone so, or you would not have said that you wanted me to go with you— you must have liked me." He would not have saddened firer again for the whole wide world. "Most certainly I liked you, Daisy. Then we went abroad, you and I. You saw how I tried to forget the past, Daisy. I did, indeed—I would read nothing, see nothing, hear nothing that mould remind me of home—ot England. I would read no papers; L wrote and received ao letters. I meant to do my duty before God and man. I was am honest mom then. A dreadful fever seized me at Fast the iestiess longing to look on her face—the fever of love and of madness. I thought, all blind arud mad as I was—I thought that if I could look once more on hese face, rest, and content, and peace would come to me. I swear to you that I meant neo wrong, only rent and peace ---I asked no more. One look at her would bring to be patient, to be courage- it. So I resolved to look alt her, to cool e laid h band gently on his, the fever that ran hot In my hrwin. CILtI'TEIt LIT. tegmil: HA+ Ai E neon ewer." Daley n at.•hee 1 'lee till. stately fzrure disappear. mei the t.'ar'. Mitered herr eyes. us sh'' lend,eetl. She half repented she and tk,n»; y'et it must have leen d,.n:e s'.on""r 'r Leer; th"ere •Int either bane been a crime .4' a dise:.,.ure. Still sae felt lige it was hart for I.:uiy May. She had d e:u' net wr"ng: the one fain of •toile:.'try wits net se =,"meant She, who bad been !lettered wet feted all her life. She had t:meau,;ht no evil! and the love td her life h:t.l beee•n lavished on a man who was unworthy of it— quite unworthy. Iiaisy no longer felt :angry with Lady May. She was the injured, not the injurer. She felt only l.rofe,und pity for her—the beautiful .woman wh»se life was wreceked and ruined. Site looked at the paper she held in her hangs. "I knew how this story ought to end," Flo Said. "I ought to die; my little child and I should die: then he co'ild anarre: Lady May, and they could live happily tie:ether ever after; the only thin; is teat stories never end as they should do." Then. paper in hand, she returned to the pretty moaning -room, where they lad left Sir (1i:,teen r.. his miserable redaction She e.perted the ml",or ne.ise- les ly, end l..l.ed at him. He sat just where they ieft him. his face teemed with ens hands: and mmm fin, as Daisy backed at him, she flet like "'ane smitten with death. the strange. gray pallor came over her face. the stranger chill ram thraush her lima„ --that terrible tremble whi. h pare say is caned by e person waling over want is to be your g: mve. `lien s.rie went up to him, and laid her han.l en l: • shoulder. "Caro." she said, quietly, "wits yon trot speak to me?" He nnenvered his fare. Dear Heaven, how haegard and worn it was—haw white, with wild, variant eyes! It was the face ref a man who had been almost driven ,sad with pain. • It seemed to change when he saw that it was Daisy. Perhaps he had expected to see Lady • • May. "Daisy. is It you?" he said. "My eyes are clam. Yon are come to upbraid mie. Say what you will." That Daisy had learned a lessen from ethe sweetest of wnmene from the kinf'est. of hearts—there was no upbraiding, no ,reproach. She knelt down by his side, • just as her rival bad done long ago, .:anti threw bet arms round 'him... He looked surprised. Sir Clinton knew that women of Daisy's class, as a rule, are apt to he :shrill in their upbraiding, and not very choice in their anger. He was startled. Daisy laid her fair head on his shoulder. "Why should I upbraald you, Caro? 1 1 ami so sorry for you, dear, that, if , giving my lite would help you, I would 1 cheerfully lay it 'down. I have . no azpbra,idnngs, no reproaches to make to Soy•"• "I deserve them, Daisy," said her ' diusbnasd, disarmed by her meekness; "1 deserve them all, but- I could not tett fiber, .Daisy. I knew that I was a coward, a traitor, unworthy the name of gentleman, bat I could not do it, Daisy; my miserable tongue used to 'cleave to the roof of my month, nee ;miserable heart failed me time after • .time. I could not tell bee, she was so happy in herr innocent joy. so pleased ' 'az: see me, so delighted—ab, Daisy,•I mould not tell' her it would have seem- ed easier for me to have taken a hot iron acid seared her beautiful fa.ce. I laved .her so dearly, Daisy—I loved her oto." • 'That was hard to bear, but she bad • lam_ CHAPTER LIIL BE.TwEEN TWO LOYSS. Then Daisy, thinking that she bad quite sufficiently mingled tenderness and repe ler, said to him; "1 have something for you, Caro. Lady May sent it" She gave him the paper, and be read it through; his fare could grow no whiter—the hand that held the letter shook so that it fell to the ground. Daisy raised it. "It is a noble letter," she said—"noble as hemself; she gave it to me to read, Caro, before I brought it. She says that you and she will never meet again." "I suppose not," said Sir Clinton. in a low voice; "it will be better so. I wish site would let me see her if only once as,*ain, to bid her good -by." "If she is wise, she will not," said honest Daisy; "if you saw her once, you would only want to see her again; there is no use in it." "You are right, Daisy," he said;.?`"Nee tee all, it is no use." "You know, Caro," she continued, "the time has come now when we must look mutters straight in the face. Un- fortunately I am living and unfortunate- ly I am your wife. If I could free you by laying down my life, you know that I would do so; I cannot, therefore you will have to bear with me. You taunt try to like me a little, though I am not to be compared to Lady May; but 1 love you very dearly, in spite of all that has past and gone; more dearly than you can imagine, quite as well as you love Lady May. I will be very gentle, very submissive, but," she ad- ded, dded, with naive fearlessness "I think that I shall speak my mind a little more plainly than I have done." "Then, you see, Caro," she continued, finding that her words began to impress him, "I am not the only one who de- pends upon. you; have you quite for- gotten our baby boy? I told you he bas your eyes, and," added Daisy, with unconscious flattery, "they are very beautiful eyes, too. He has a mouth just like yours, too; I used to kiss it a thousand times and try to think that it was yours" She paused suddenly, and her faee grew burning red; he could not resist the impulse that led him to lay his hand caressingly on her head. She loved him so well, this fair-haired, sweet-faced wife. "You ougbt to love your own boy, Caro; he will be master of Eastwold some day, and who is to teach him to take his place in the world, if you do not? What ani I to say to him in tihe years to came if he asks me, `Where is my father?' Can I say, 'we parted be- cause your ft<tther loved some one else, and not me?' You would not so humi- liate me before my own child." "No, I would not," said Sir Clinton. Then Daisy rose from her seat. "We have almost taken possession of Lady May's house," she said, still keep- ing back the passionate emotion that at times almost overpowered her. "Caro," she sand, gently, "I have not explained my presence here; will you not own that it is better I came?" "Fan better," he replied, slowly. "I came because I did not feel satis- fied; I felt quite sure that there was a mystery in your life, and that I ought to know it; I knew that you would never tell me; the only thing was to find It out for myself. I left baby with my mother, aid came here. Now I will not 'Intrude on you longer; remember what I say to you; if you can endure me—I will say more than that—if you will permit me, I will be your loving, true wife; whenever you want me and my baby, you have but to speak the wordi. you have but to come to us, or send for us, and we will come that moment. Now I will say good by." He looked up quickly; already, in that one short interview, his estimate of Daisy had greatly alterred; he lead looked upon her as having no particular Character err mind. He saw that he was mistaken. She had some very decided charsteteaistics; site was frank, fe l,_lese, straighrtforw•aerd, honest; he felt, in, some vague way, that she eras superior to "Yes," she replied. "I have been away long enough.,' She did not tell him how long. Daisy was growing worldly wise; for her child's sake no one should know that she had acted as a servant in his. father's 'house. She determined upon keeping that labile epsode in her life quite secret from every one. y t . ask how He never thought „ t to o long it was since she left France—pea+haps he did rot thank of it. "I shall go back to Seville," she con- tinued, "and when you want me you will know where to find me. Good -by, Care' She went back to him, always re- nzembering Lady May's advice -she went back, and bending down, kissed his forehead. /70 ps Feolesesit3ZD.1 MEN OF MARK, Andrew Carnegie's latest gift is one of 550,000 to Stevens institute, Hoboken, N. J., for a new eugineering laboratory. Beal Green of Kansas City, who has just died, helped to clear the trees away from what is now Main street, 48. years ago. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania is one of the best marksmen in Philadelphia. He can write his name on a target with his rifle, Sir Arthur Sullivan generally composes au opera score in two mouths, and his profit on the first year alone is generally 55,000. Senator George F. Hoar writes what is probably the most illegible hand in the senate. He consequently uses a stenog- rapher for uearly all his work. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett gale Preached hit last sermon as active pastor of the South Church of Boston on Sun- day, June 25, and will become pastor emeritus on. Oct. 1. When Senator Ross of Vermont began. to practice law, be had so few booka that he arranged to take care of the library of a local judge in order to have the use of that collection. The Rev.. A.. L. Williams of Chicage,, the coadjutor bishop elect of the Episco- pal diocese of Nebraska. will be conse- crated in the cathedral at Omaha ou Sept. 29.. He will probably live in Lin- coln. De Witt 0, Cregier, ex -mayor ot Chi- cago, carte to that city in 1853 and was offered the nomination for mayor. "Of e. city of (10,000?' he replied. "Wait 25 years and ask me then." He was elected just a quarter of a century later, Marcus Daly, the copper king of Mon- tana, is said to be the anonymous donor of $10,000 to the University ot Chicago. L, Z. Leiter has denied that he was the person and added that he knew Mr. Daly had always taken a deep interest in the institution. The German philosopher Nietzsche, who is now In an insane' asylum, never was noted for his modesty. In one of his books ho wrote: "I am that predestined man who stamps the value of things for thousands of years. 1 might become the buddha of Europe." John. Arbuckle. the millionaire coffee king, will not remain in a place in which the temperature is a degree higher or lower than his theory thinks hygienic. Every room in his house and place of business is furnished with a thermome- ter, which Le inspects hourly. Represent.,ti"e C:. H. White of North Carolina is perhaps tae best authority on the history of dueling in America, of which he has made a close study since the subject because his fad many years ago. Mr, White himself, though merely for sport. is an expert with a foil. Richard Brownlow, known as the Lan- cashire hermit, has just died near Bol- ton, England. He began life as a lawyer, but was afflicted with a disease that dis- figured his face, compelling him to wear a mask. He built himself a fine country house on top of a hill at Horwich and lived in it for 50 years, never leaving his grounds except at night. biro. ",Are_yeu >tooz?g, Daky?" he asked. PERT AND IMPERTINENT. A SOURCE OF WASTE. Vetere% T. B. Terry Talk,. on %n Impor- tant manurial Subject. The liquid manure is particularly valu- able. It contains nearly all the potash and a large part .of the nitrogen that is found in the entire excrement from, the animal. The phosphoric acid, some nitro- gen and a little potash is in the solid. A to, of fresh urine from cattle is worth orth about twice as much, as a ton of fresh, solid manure. A ton of urine from horses is worth more than three tunes as much as a ton of solid exorement. There is no question whatever about the truth of these figures on the eyeagre. and yet the bulk of the urine goes to waste. Some 13 years ago, after trials and experiments. and observation. I made up my mind that the best way to save the liquid manure in the stable. where bedding material was plenty, was to bave a cement floor and a gutter of tbe same, if cows were kept, and use absorbents to take np the liquid, and let both solid end liquid go out together. We have a great ,abundance of wheat straw for ab- sorbent and bedding. A. floor was put under our horses. We kept but one cow, so nothing wasdone to the cow stable. The plan was advocated at the institutes and in the papers. I am safe ea saying that hundreds of such floors have been built by our best farmers. as a result. I personally know of some that bave been in constant use 12 or 13 years. and are giving entire satisfaction. At first it was. thought necessary to make a foundation of atones and 1111 among these with thin grouting, and stoma were used for, the sides of gutters. After a littlewe learned better. The first floor we built in our horse stable oost three tunes what there was any need of. We used Portland cement. Several years ago we put In the oow stable floor, and also floors in more horse stalls. They are absolutely ported. We have visitors from nearly every part of the country. who would xenon if this were not true. The idea with me was; "Save the manure we must; now, how is the best way." Throw aside prejudice, friends, and believe me. for I have no possible motive only to help you. We bave used common cement, as bave hundreds of others, with entire success. Portland cement will make a grand ileac. It is the best cement made. But common cement is goad enough, is cheap, and easily laid by anyone. It is not true that it will not stand, in a stable that is kepi from freezing. as all stables should be. The cement floor and manure shed are undoubtedly all right after one gets them in working order, If one can stand the labor of caring for the manure in this way, .&s any one can see, there must be a large amount of absorbents used in this case in order to effeotuatly save the liquid, and to seems to us that the same amount, if not considerably less, will so- complish the object more fully and satis- factorily, with a collar, and at a good deal less expense. The objection raised to the barn collar will be entirely overcome when a suitable amount of absorbents aroused, and the less expense of build, ing and the comparative ease with which the manure can be cared for, make, as we look at it, a strong argument in favor of the cella", cr basornont for. manure. When we talk about building cement floors in our barns, ant manure sheds separate and apart from them for manure it means an expense that the ordinary farmer will shrink from lnourring, how- ever much he may believe in the method. It means also an amount of labor to be performed every day in the year in the way oz getting the manure from the stable to the shod --as is must be done with a wheelbarrow or something of the kind—whioh most any farmer will seek to avoid, unless he is quite sure of a oor- responding pecuniary gain. What is said in regard to the value of the liquid manure and its waste on the majority of our farms is true, and the necessity of adopting some means by *Isiah it may be saved should be urged In the strongest terms, but the cheapest and most practical way of acoomplishinit the same should be adopted by individual farmers.—T. B. Terry, in Practical Farmer. Rudyard Kipling seems to be the poet litigant.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Xing Alfonso (after selling his islands) —I wish to thunder my ancestors hadn't tacked that XIII on to me.—London Judy. President McKinley has now been giv- en almost every degree in the dictionary except veterinary surgeon.—Pittsburg News. Dick Croker is collecting a great many more hard luck stories than sovereigns on English race tracks this year.—St. Louis Chronicle. Although the father of Fitzsimmons was not a preacher, Fitz himself now en- joys the reputation of being an ex-pound- er.—St. Louis Star. The United States is Patti's Klondike. She knows where to come when she yearns for pin money, and another "fare- well" is promised.—St. Louis Chronicle. Peace shows Admiral Dewey's real boldness. He absolutely and firmly re- fuses to be killed by kindness. And to run away from a friend's admiring ban- quet takes more genuine courage than to face a foe's fire.—Baltimore American. TRUST THRUSTS. A GREAT MILK RECORD. h. Stoke Yogis Cow That, Carrytug at Calf for Six months, Yet. Gave, 12,133 Pounds of Milk, The Jersey cow, Between, 86664, may Miller es Sibley, her owners, and who are large American exhibitors at the Toe conte Industrial, in Hoard's Dairyman, considered, he. al things c ons t se1 bas d us,g best ruin: record for a year of any cow we have ever owned. In one year her total was 12.133 pounds, She was in oalf during this time, six and one-half months. Tills is an important point to bear in mind. If the coW bad been kept empty the probability is that she could bave peen ,lade to give over 16.000 pounds. We are not aware of any other Jersey cow that has piled up so big a total and that at the same time married a calf fox so groat a portion of the year. lifer best day was 64% pounds, the beat seven days, 411% pounds, the best 31 days, 1,753 pounds, She made a butter test for us by the churn of 1$ pounds, 933 ounces in seven days The cow was 6 years and 3 months old at the begin- ning of the year's record. No cow on our. place was; ever fed atuy milk. In addi- tion to good pasturage,, in summer and good clover bay in winter, our other feeds If you don't approve of the whisky trust, boycott it.—Sioux City Journal. Who shall pen the iniquities of the ink trust? Who shall blot it from existence? —St. Louis Post -Dispatch. The commercial travelers, of whom there are 800,000 In the United States, are trying to engineer a grip onthe trusts.—St. Louis Globe -Democrat.' With both Delaware and New Jersey doing a lucrative spot cash trade in the formation of trusts, the only banks be- tween them will not be those of the river. -Philadelphia Times. Many of the governments now doing business on earth are merely giant trusts. In their efforts to boycott other nations, to monopolize trade, to take the earth, they are, after both method and purpose, giant trusts operating under laws of their own making. -Galveston News. HIS WHISKERS. What Oom Paul really needs is a hair cut and a shave.—Quincy Herald. President. Kruger is not much for pret- ty, but he is strong on bluff.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Oom Paul is a wise old man. He says in times. like these you can't tell what is going to happen.—Kansas City Times. On the theory that the Britons will fight only with threats, Oom Paul has got 'em licked to a' standstill before a shot has been fired. -Detroit Journal: Mow; cow, agrwkltN, ,A.a.c.c. fite664. are ground ants. cern mn_enl, bras and et little oil meal. In winter we feed. also, ensilage and sugar beets. Iletwoen'a sire is dilly Russell 26354, and her dam Cocoa Butter 64933. Between is descended from Stoke Pogis 3rd on three different lines. It is an interesting fact to noto in this commotion that the milk records In the Jersey breed for all periods are held either by descendants of Stoke Pagia $rd or his full brother Stoke Pogis 5th. ,flmp. a granddaughter at Stoke Pontis 6th, holds the record far a week with 971 pounds 10 ounces; Adelaide of St. Lambert. for a deo, with $d' pounds and for a month. with 2,005N, pounds. Gertio of Glynllyn holds the record for a year with 16.780 pounds S ounoes. These two latter are descendants of Stoke Pogis 3rd. The two cows in tbe Jersey breed that have the next highest yearly milk records, viz., La Petite Mere and and Matilda 9th, with 16,6t10?l pounds and 114,1531i' pound'. reipeetively, are daug'iters of Stoke Pagis leet1 Imp., the sire of Stoke Pogis 3rd and Stoke Pogis 5th. HANDY ARRANGEMENT. An Effective and Economical Plan fee Soiling Sheep. When it is desirable to keep sheep in yards near the barn for the purpose of soiling a structure can be made as fol- lows: A green paddook of about an acro is divided by fenoes into four parts. A partly open shed with feed racks all around it is placed in the center. For 50 sheep a building 20 feet square is amply .1 rig 1•eeMltl ll'-- Expsrtmngnt. An experiment bas been eanduoted recently .it Nottingham. Eng., with con- siderable care; that is worth noting here. Separated milk was being sold at 2o a gallon and whey at ono -third of a cent, and with title and mltlze or barley meat tests were made on growing pigs, always in lots of six pigs at az time.. Barley meal and skim milk has always been regarded in England as a model feed for produc- ing choice bacon. The point :most dis- tinctly brought out was the feed value of the whey. The butcher showed that maize meal. scalded and soaked before being fed, produced thin bellies, too muoh fat in the back and the carcasses were softer than he liked. The meat from the milk and maize and whey and maize was superior, the difference, it any, being in favor of the whey. The greatest profit was made out of the combination of maize meal and whey, a fact that rather surprised the experimenters. In a second experiment, in whioh barley meal was tried against maize meal, the barley meal made the firmest pork, with more lean in it, bat the cheapest pork was made from the maize. These English experiments confirm the most reliable tests made here and are besides in exact accord with the bast scientific knowledge. The milk is rich in the protein of whioh the maize is defici- ent and a mixture of maize and barley ground, and soaked or scalded, produces pork in whioh quality and profit are always satisfactorily combined. PLAN TOR SOILING SHEEP, large. A door from each quarter of the paddock opens into this shed. As one quarter is used, the gates opening to the other are closed. Gates are provided in each fence adjacent to the nadaook. The doors are in four sections, -the two upper to allow fresh air and free ventilation; the lover to open into the various fields as wanted. Provision for watering will bave to be provided as circumstances may permit. The crops that may be use- fully sefully fed in suob a yard are rye, olover, grass, rape, mustard. peas and oats, barley, turnips or any others that are need when sheep are fenced by hurdles. San Jose scale.. Currant bushes and other small fruits are subject to the San Jose scale, and even when none are perceived on those bought in, watch them from time to time that none are feasting on them. In these days, when the scale is so wide- +spread, all fruit trees should be examin- ed often. Tree Cells. The living Dells of a tree are those just below the bark. All the interior ones are dead cells. There is no life in the center of large trees. There is no decay, though dead, if air and moisture be ex- cluded. Sheep a 'tensile to Pastures. Let us fix In mind that sheep never crop a pasture bat to benefit it. More- over, olimb over rooks and ledges where sows would nob go, and almost every barb that grows su oes them for feed. The Forest Wealth of Canada. The forest wealth of Canada is greater than ,that of any other country. The total area of the timber land is nearly twice that of Russia, the next rival, and likewise nearly twice that of the United States, which stands next and nearly equal to Russia. Ontario is the leading province in the export of timber and sends the greater part of its product to the United States in the shape of planks, , boards. loge and shingles. Quebec ships most of its product to Great Britain, ex- porting spruce and other lumber, pine deals and white pine timber. New Bruns- wick stands third in exports, while the resources of the other provinces are com- paratively little developed, although Brit- ish Columbia possesses the largest com- pact timber resources in the world, only a fringe of whioh has been cut. The Paoiflo coast is beavily timbered as far north as Alaska, and it is estimated that the Douglas pine, cedar spruce, Alaska pine, eto., along the railway line are worth $25,000,000. There aro also vaeb areas of undeveloped woodland in the entire north of the Dominion from Quebec to the Piscine coast, a large proportion of whioh is almost wholly unexplored.— American Agriculturist. Hot Water for Insecta. The old-time remedy of hot water for insects is coming to the front again. Water heated to about 125 degrees will kill most any insects. A vessel is filled with water and plants in pots are up- turned and dipped into it. A slight skim of kerosene on the water is an additional ;i: advantage. Paint Sawed Oft Limbs. When large limbs are sawed from orchard trees do not fail to paint the soar, Limbs' broken in storms should be, sawed off to make a Olean surface, and then be painted. Many 'a valuable tree• whioh has rotted • down started deoayina from exposed wounds. -Practical Farmer Spraying. Spraying is now part of the fruit grow- ers' duties. 1t must be done. Luckily iit seems unquestioned that trove fruit better than ever was known before, that are 'prayed regularly for a few yyears. . It n arty prevents fungi and las eta bat adA1f to alai vigor of the tires,