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Exeter Advocate, 1904-4-7, Page 2ell0gelle1410SsielstIzte:elatlit•Seseeete'eSee<1.‹elett<seseeiseeIeeetleeieiseseefefeSei:44 \VliiloMaciffieleae'e troops were - in- vesting Palm, City elosely, .and age geepsive operations, Were for the itionnert somewhet slaekened, Don Altana frequently. Visited his home leriganete. en his mission of euasion. Oxi these. occasions. Poria e per bnt' guest,de- lighted. in sparing his already tor - Wrest host no whit oe leendliation; he poured out streams of fetile but corrosive propheey, foreteiling with acrid tongue failure direee. and cala- mitous retributioe, It Steeds to Donnliguol's honor that his coertesy stood the street:, and that when he had a thousand opportunities for poisonous retort, he foreboro to utter one word that might prick the Hispanielan'e. susceptibilities. He listened to sneer and gibe, calamny and contempt, with Unruffled polite- ness, although in his heart he Cursed the unwelcome guest deeply iand blackly. Asunta listened. too—and tools heart. When she found heeself to all in - "Very well. When you ere reedy, I shall be reeds." • Withont a word ehe left him, OW- ' lag' along the dm -k. corridor and down tee eteir like phadow, mak- a sound, scarcely breathing, , Slie paseed into the, dining-roone, 4 On a coueb ley StOldt litt111 in the Palmetto uniform, enoring starter - (melt, Sffie face was Purple and the veins Of his templee were •swollen and obtletsiYe. His 'glazed. eyes bulged half -open, but they WV not; 'OW hiS teeth shone white Oxon& the tangle of Ureter' moustache and beard„ The arm hung down, the hand on the floor: . • • Moved by some swift prompting to Make certain that he was really be- yond awakening, 'Asunta kicked the Meet hand with the point of her Parisian shoe. It swung in the air at the impact, . and then:fell back to . the Poor as if load; Asunta smiled, arid passed through, the great open window into the grounds on her ,Way to the stables. At the end of the prearranged half - ug hour Asunta was riding through the early, fortifeing him for the run t0 buint into me e, an the big scene just before the eUrtain their fresh scars to the gro.ve—there tents a prisoner at Friganeta., h seer night • with di .Borja. Almost at is no time for there. to be smoothed evil Courage drooped, her infernal the moment of their setting out A A A riotle OR, 13 ROTH ER'S PROM SE' CHAPTlen XV. victim of cireumstences.' You took mtppv Is ill() playwright who a= the wotel of a daughter you leered, and—with not unnatural precipita- tion—spreng to the conclusion that Seemed most plausible. You were hasty in speaking. As her Majesty Said, you should have gone to bee first. Beyond that fault, beyond. to tail offluto the doldruuis Of culpable. Let a.s ' shake hands domesticity or the ftrtuousnese- of again, and agree' to forget that this ever happened.'' folded hands on pauneh; happy he, I eav, to whom comes the quiet hour "I cannot forget it, senor. It is achieve his Moment, of Achilles -heel (tulle esa; his bury it a hie mativais quart diteare of ,yawn before he opens the fifth act. of the drama; happy the seeker a rt or romance in daily Who does not compress all his thrills ini 0 oue week., sthereater -Unit misteke, you 'neve eat been s ! 'Whether such in -Aloes as these ever drifted lazily through the brain. of Hector Grant is -matter of little mo- only God's hand beckoning death - meat, They might well have done weeds can draw them out." se; yet it is more than likely that "Let us speak no more of this, 1 hey did not, for in life the times of Don, Miguel; let us not keep the sore „ greatest stress begin without hhire open." tit' trumpets or roll of drums zind the As regards the aspersions 1 cast chief actor, though he can net but on your character--" take his cue, knows next lo nothing "Not another word. I will not another word. away, When youth goes, the youth .hope dinnned. from Frig:allot& one of Mr. lhoma,s of the heart the thorns, stick, and . conteraPtu.ously cruel, so 'venomous- m' Smith's steaers was completing the l'er vindintive, such a` thorough lheetel. discharge of her cargo of ammuni- -surely, surely, she should be able tior'. and stores at Espoleto; and to snake him her helper. If she could Mr. Thomas Smith himself was help - not succeed ia fashioning him into e big from a launch a nervous, shak- weapon of destruction to Pahnetto ;ag, very perturbed little wothan —but she laughed : .she could do it,. ' with stranglely resolute eyes—Judith she was not Asunta for nothing, and Frere, she would do it. True, she loved (To be Continued.) Hispaniola and the Prispaniolans lit - of how his part is to eeepand, or hear ' m with what supreme consumat•ion it, "Ah ! senor, if I had only trusted tle; but now she loved Palmetto is to end. to my first impressions of you, my oven. less—and in revenge there is no Thus, when Den Miguel asked for first impressions of the Queen. 1 country, no race; and revenge, - re - an interview, Hector did. not foresee came to them now only to find them. veuge, revenge, was the only thing that what the old general had to heightened by your wonderful gen- for which she lived, the only thing say was the first speech of the last evosity, • by her unparalleled ole- for which she desired to live. act in the drama—the drama that mene,y." And then he added with Once, and once only, a. glint of began so like a fragment from Facia that touch of charming exaggera- sanity pierced the thick clouds that ie in the palace in Bloomsbury yon tion so common in the Southerner, rainy night in August; did not fore- "What return can I make. to you • see that this last act would set the 'bah ? My life—what is left of whole world agog with a nine days' is already the Queen's. If X had it wonder, and bring sorrow to be ' sis- free to offer, it would be yours." ter of Maddalena for ever. Don Miguel stood heavy and bow- ed with the weight of his years. His mild eyes were lack -lustre, and be- low them were swart puffs of weari- ness. His hands drooped nerveless, and about his whole figure himg an air of depression that was subtly passion swep up , many a noted , highwaymanhhegasrpar: pervadieg. The sight of him thus I have made regarding my daughter. round again, her only lamp in the rr taken of its hospitality. and altered. touched Hector's heart : he You ought to know. Let nee tell darkness the red light of revenge. • father of the present proprietor was SOME OLD INNS. Taverns That Have Done Business for Centuries. Someliove one always hears with regret that one of England's famous is overshadowed her reason, and she old Moss grown, ivy clad inns saw that all her humiliation and all about to be demolished, says the - her shame were of her own creation London Mail. The Old King of —she saw that even if she took HePrussia hostelry is the latest to e,- pass into the house -breakers' hands. tor from Maddalena she could • not . e . . s . nt Finchley, and from • "All the retern I ask for, Don have him to herself, an 1 s took This old inn 1 , when the .place was built, un - the present day, the license has Miguel, is confidence and friendship Maddalena she had still less chance 757 • until the work here is done, and al- of bringing Hector to her feet. Iftil ' ter that a memory of me not un- she achieved revenge, the price would been in the keeping of one family— perhaps• a record in the licensing an- twa: and the next second one, seething fogs of nals of England. the . turesque half timbered house, and gracious. Now, let us talk of other things." "But one thing more, senor. You have not inquired what dispositions be life. Thatwas too , sno int The Old King of :Prussia is a plc- gls g ' 1 her rose, and with his free hand—the wounded limb was still in a sling— grasped the oid man's with impel - sire sympathy. The simple act of reconciliation matie tears in. the voice when Don. Miguel spoke. -Senor Grant, you _forgive me, then ?" "Yes, yes, if my forgiveness is needed. Her Majesty forgave you. That cleared all accounts; and we began afresh." "But I must offer you all the apo- logies and make all the reparation a man can. You must let me, too; offer such justification for my con- duct as is possible. It was .useless to attempt to make any excuse to her Majesty; but you will Understand —you, who know something- of my daughter." Hector was keen to avoid eny dis- you. I took her back to Friganeta, Hector or Maddalena, or bo i qui.te a noted character. having van - my brother's widow, Dona. Con.cep- and placed her under the charge of i*death, the death! None can be so blind or so easilyquesked several notorious highway- men on Finchley common. It is on cion. Again and , again I strove blinded • as a duenna. Our British record that he once had an encoun- with her to make submission to maidens, with half the wiliness and ter with Dick Turpin. her Majesty, but I found her hard in half the wilful blood of the South -- Round . and about London and its. hate and evil spirit, I was com- erner, can fool the skilfullest British I. ever extending suburbs there may polled at last to signify my will to chaperon. Asunta„, with the grim - still be seen inns and taverns of the effect that as soon as Palm most of purposes for goad; lead but great, age and interesting associa- City was in our hands she should en- small difficulty in hoodwinking , ter the Convent of the Pierced Dona Concepcion. Thus it canie to ti°11s' ' Hands. Myr object was to .remove pass that Asurita. and di Bora lack- I The An.gel Inn, Highgate Hill, He dates back to the -time' of the Re - all possibility of her injuring the ed no opportunity for meeting. formation. Originally it Was called Queen or you. She agreed to this, found no fault with the chance that t.he Salutation Inn. It is built en - not without some demur, yet readily gave him a handsome young woman tirely of wood. ' enough to satisfy • inc. But I had for companion : time hung heavy on i Another famous ism is the Bald - reckoned without the devils that his hands, and an Hispaniola -a de - Faced Stag at Edgware. , Nobody possessed her, that still possess her. lights in the payment of subtle if knows when it was originally built, She had fled from Friganeta. and at somewhacwholesele homage to a. a-nd it would seem as though .each the same time, Major di Borja, one mantilla. From trifling with com- successive. propritor has endeavoured of the Ffispaxdolan prisoners quer-- i pliments and drawing-reom airiness- place his mark on its architee- tered at Leriganeta, has achived his • es, 'Asunta led him on by ea:1y but -to tural aspect fel' many parts of it cussion of Asuntn; but the old man freedom. Circumstances show that 'swift stages to darker themes : and have 'evidently at different tiines was all the more insistent because, they went together. I have naa,de little by little they reached a coin - been rebuilt. In the stables, it ' is while his dignity was in arms all possible inquiries, for while she mon plane of ugly confidence, that, ' alleged, Dick Turpin had his horse's against disclosing the slur on his is at liberty: I fear for your safety, had Don Miguel so•much as suspect- shoes turned, so as to Make his pur- honor, his sense of justice stimulat- senor -1 fear ior the Queen's. God 1 ed it, would have meant a silk faja suers imagine he had gone in an op- ed him to make comPlete avowal of That I should have to acknowledge about Asunta's neck, or a navaja in. posite direction. • all the sad business. The resolve such a. fiend as my daughter ! I once made, he could not be swayed, , fear, senor -0 1 how 1 fear 1 how I to abandon it. fear "Senor Grant, once I thought 1 "You had better report this to such a little while before—waited James and Tinker Inn at Enfield. was blessed in my daughter, now I Don Augustin. He will see to it with tumultuous.hopes and passions. The first is said to be 850 years old, know that I have been cursed in her. that her Majesty's, safety. is not en- rioting in her blood. There was and the latter was reputed to have A. father's love must be grievousler dangered." no unrest in her demeanor now; been first built as an inn and under wounded ere he can. say such. a hard And so, innocently enough, the her breast rose and fell. with the I another name 992 years ago. thing as that. When Vremember all last act was opened. • * * * * gularity of calm breathing and her I at, Its present name is derived from the tender care that surrounded her, encounter which King James I. hand, as she raised it to tap on the and the watchfulness with which Whatever else he was, Major Don door, was steady as steel. Only is said to have had with a tinker at in the flush of her cheeks and the the door of the inn. The tinker's glitter of her eyes did the turmoil of conversation so pleased the King eonnlioytivoiht. emn,akine itasenlsfwNe-irsibtole,hamnd tbat that knight, with £500 a year," the at he made the mender of kettles mons, di Bonin swurig wide the door records of Enfield inform us. with almost painful caution. "Enter, senorita !" "Better not—it is for to -night. The guard is well plied with wine, and Captain Oassarellino--"' "Ah ! I hear - his swine snore—in the dining-x•oosn, is it not ?" "Yes. Be will not wake till day- break—" "In heaven." "It was a poison you gave me ?" "Tear lady, we cannot allow trifles to interfere. One has to make sure. The little sleoPing-draught was made from a prescription my reverend re- lative 'Alexander found useful in Italy 1" "You have made me do murder 1" "Tush one can see you are lily- livered. You propose to do some- thing big—in which I. am to help you—and you boggle at such a. tiny thing, as a fat captain of rebels. ' If' you are as Weak as this,. senorita, all white lips and quaking 'hands, I really don't 'know that I shall trou- ble you to accompany me. shall be more comfortable by ree•self." "You would go back on your - word ?" "Why not ? You go book on your purpos'e." "I ? Never 1" "Captain Cassavellino was the 'first stone in .the path. :You forget your goal When you regratehaving to remove him.'' The cOol half -cynical tone of di Berta, acted on her excited nerveS like a charm : her sudden teeump- d aze her breast. - • Among the very oldest of.suber- Asunta, stood in the dark before ban London inns are the Plough at the door at which she had waited Kings burg Green and the King she was guarded. from every air of Pedro Santiago di Bolen, y lefontane heaven, I cannot conveive how, from ar was no dissembler of his senti- a woman of gentle heart and tvtuen. ments and opinions. Of noble fam- soul, she should have changed into ily, a.ncient lineage, aud. incorrigible a devil. But a devil she now is. arrogance, he held Hispaniola to be am her father, and I say it. "She deluded me, sir; she played upon me, she led me into disgracing the name that has come down un- sullied for three hundred years. But that pales before the insult she of- fered, and made me offer, to the Queen. know the despicable light 111 which I must have appeared to the Queen, to you, to my comrades : but however contemptuously you and all these may regard me---" Hector made a gesture of deprecia tion. "It is as nothing to the loathing I have for myself. "No, no, Don Miguel, you must not allow yourself to ho so carried the only great country in the world (in this, curiously like the English- man in his attitude towards the cra- dle of Empire -makers), and her every deed, if not perhaps worthy of poetic perpetuation, at least inevit- able and justifiable. Her treatment of Aruba and her tigerish. hist for blood as especially personified in Starapa, he applauded with both hands; and he added to her blazoned infamy deeds that paralleled the darkest of the papal branch of his house. As Aruba had been served, so should Palmetto. On this point he scorned to keep silence, and even when by Palmetto's clemency a fav- ored prisoner, he tossed the head and curled the lip at the newest away. We see that you were the. 1 seekers after liberty. le e k and Languid ris It is to Your at interests to know About the Exm traordinary RestorathFe Powers of r. Chase's Nerve Fo There are hosts of girls in this city who are in need of just such e. medicine, as Dr. Oh 1180.8 IsierY0 Food.. By monotonous work in factories, st ores or ollices they have exhausted their nervOus s,,ystems, and suffer from nervous, sick headaches, loss of appetite, energy and 0011)Itton, and weaknesees and Irregularities Peculiar to their sex. • Dr. Chase's Nerve Food: forms new, Hell blood, creates new 'terve 'force end a 01..111,11y adds new flesh and weight. When you have read the letter quoted below we believe Mat you Will he sal isfied 'that this in the very freat you need. Mrs. McLaughlin, 95 Parlia- Meat street, Toronto, states :—"My daughter .was Pale, 'weak. languid and 'very nervous, Ilea: appetite t11$ poor anti changeable, She could Scarcely :drt-kg herself about the hettee and her sterVett were Oont- d. pletely unstrung. Sho cotild not sleep for more than halt an hour atrti a time Without ,stang up and dry- ing out in excitement. "As ehe was growing weaker and Weaker I became alarmed, arid ob- tained a box or Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. She used this treatment for several wookS, and from the first' Wenoticed a deeided improvement, Her appetite became better, she gained in weight, the color rettirne,d to her Nee, mid she gradually becanie strong and cannot say toe mulch in fairer of this 'wonderful treatment, since it has proven such bleaSing ney daughter.". Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, tie e,ents a box, at all , dealers, or Ledmansori, 'Reece Company, Teroiato, To proteet you against imitatione the Portreit and signature of Dr.: A, W. Chase, the famous reeeipt book ate, thole are On eirery, Wee tion quietan asteady g shewed him that he was her 'nester. In. that moment he discovered how to control her, gaide her, Make her the Wave of his will. He had but, to remind bei' of her purpose, to persuade her that the thing be do- eired done was for the furtherance of her revenge, and it was already done. , "Yon acknowledge that it Wee tie- cerieary ?" "Surely." "You would de it aein ? "Without hesitation. "Ah 1 well— you may come with MO, Have you brought the pis- tols "They flee here," \h 1—my o wn —bet t or and better." ' 'In. half an hour, then---'' "The horses ?" PI go to tho stables nowj-t COST OP RUSSIA'S WARS. Four Wars in Seventy-five Years —The Crimean War. The war which is furnishing so much sensation is the fourth upon which Russia has entered within the last three-quarters of a century. Her first and second were with Turkey. It involved an expenditure of Z20,000,- 000 sterling and a loss of 120,000 men. That was in 1828. Twenty- six years later came the Crimean, in which. France and Britain, took a hand. It was spread over 1851-6, cost £305,000,000 and 485,000 men. Then -in 1876-7 followed a further fight with Turkey, in which L190,- 000,000 were expended and 180,000 men disposed of. The Crimean war cost Britain. de,arly. She put into the field 97,860 men, of whom 2,755 were killed in action and 18,280 wounded. Of the latter 1,847 died in hospital; 17,580 died of disease. Deaths totalled 22,182, or 22* per cent. of the whole strength of the army. None went more gaily to war than the Ambassador of that period, Lord Stratford. When he heard that the British fleet had cast anchor near the entrance to the Dardanelles he ex- claimed exultingly, '"Iliat is an act of war! Now I shall be avenged on the Tsar." The Tsar had refused to receive him as Ambassador, FARM ARRANGEMENTS. One of the most important problems that Presents itself to the farmer is how to put his occupation on a good preetical, business basis. Just tie many busieess men have made for - tulles by introducing labor-saving methods and by utilizing what was once thrown away as waste so the farmer can greatly increase the pro- fits of his business by utilizing all wastes and by the introduction of labor-saving methods, writes Mr. C. A. Willson. One of the most frequent losses that •Occur is that of time and labor through lack of proper arrangement of the farm. A great deal of thotight is oftentimes given to the planning of the future house or barns, but not always to the plan of the feral. Al- though we see many farms that have very wet fences, and show in a gen- eral way the progressiveness of the owner, yet almost invariably they are so planned that the lanes pass down the centre line of the farm with al- most perfectly square fields lying on each side, A square field is the most unpractical form of a field there is because of the large number Of turns that have to be made when the Bed is plowed, harvested or the hay tak- en off. In plowing or realeing a field, the nember of rounds increases as the distance from the centre to the sides becomes greater. SHARKS IN EUROPE, ,• The disagreeable fact has to be faced, according to the concurrent :testimony of fiehermen of several na- tions, that the ehark has onee more, to be reekonod With in European Was tees. lia the ,Baltio, where sharks had boon eXtinee Since 1159; they have Made their 'reappearanee 111 considerable **ininibers,. and several fishing boats report having had whole draughts of fiSh deVotred from the nets, which wore broken in the Belt and the Oattegat. A fisheri Bnan who fell overboard narrowly escaped with his life. Shoals of sharks, Some of them of large siee, have 'been seen off the German cedet, and they are even reported as becoming far 'froril rare ha the , North. Sea. Their preSenee 0 attribirted to their pnestlit Of the herring Sheals on the *Wit 'Coast of Norway, • There are at least three things to be considered in planning a farm: First, the general shape of the farm; second, the location of the buildings, and, third, the rotation of crops to be followed. Sometimes it is not possible to make the arrangentent that we most desire because of the contour and general lay of the farm, but where it is possiblethe fields should not be square, but made as long as is practical, and with their openings as near to the been as is Possible. I submit herewith plans for a 160 - acre farm. 'While not exactly suited for all farms yet the general idea, may be incorporated into alxaost any farm, especially one that has, as yet, not been much improved. If a farm is oblong in shape, the buildings should never be placed at one end or a. corner where it is possible to place them at the centre cif one side. The ideal location, of the buildings for economy's sake would be at the centre of tbe farm, but the home and social side of life on the farm. must be ponsidered as well. • There is no place or residence that offers the advantages for making the home surroundings beautiful as that of the farmer except perhaps among rustic mountain scenery. Usually there is such an utter disregard among onr. farmers of 'their ilimzedi- ate surroundings, which should go to make farm homes beautiful and pleas- ant, that I: cannot refrain from mak- ing a few suggestions here as to the improvement of our homes. It. is toe often true, that the farmer's. home is devoid of nanny of the little things that go to make the home surroundings pheeeeful and homelike and yet they will wonder why their boys and girls will leave the faxm for places more beautiful in the city. The farmer has such chalices ior land- scape gardening as the city resident has not because of more room which he has. A. careful selection a.nd plac- ing of trees, shrubbery and flowers, together with a well kept lawn, will matte at comriaratively small cost the humblest home and surroundings look beautiful. Such trees as mangolias, catalpas, and sPruces, and such shrubs as hydrang,es, spireas, lilacs, and rose bushes, properly grouped and placed would be far more beautiful for the front and Gide yards than would apple trees , and raspberry bushes. When eettle are put on a heavy ral tion of grain they will Make rapid gains for a time, probably for two, morithe, and thee they seem to celele to a stancletill end make little or not iMproventent. A number of them go, Off their feed and the feeder ‘gets self into ell sorts of troeble. nue point to be determined is not the amount of groin that we can gee an animal to Consume, but the amount he is able to digest and assimilate. No other grain will put so good a finish on cattle as Peas, A little pea meal foci during the last month seems to firm the eattle up and make them handle and weigh just a little better than anything else I know, but they are such strong feed, and so hard to digest that they carmot usually be fed with edveutage for more than five or six weekunlese it be in very small quantifees. Regu- larity is one of the first principles of good feeding. An important matter is to make the cattle comfortable and induce - them to lie down as much as pose: sible, allowing no one to disturb them except at feeding time A mistake of which many of us have been guilty is that of tying up more cattle than we could feed and bad properly; so - that we were compelled to use a lot of straw for feed that we should have used for bedding. Straw that is musty or damaged in any way will make more beef when used for bed- ding than when eat up and forced on the cattle by inixing with the better But in laying out ca farm the plan- ning of the buildings and yards is not th.e only thing to be considered. In figuring out the diagram submit- ted I have planned for a five-year rotation of crops, a permanent pas- ture, and a permanent wood lot. It IS so planned that each of the fields are of equal size, oblong in shape and as nearly equidistant from -the barn as possible. The benefit to be deriv- ed from having the fields of this shape may be readily understood when we consider that if they were square it would require 257 more rounds or 1,028 more turns to. plow the field round and round, or it would require 4:3 more rounds or 172 more turns with the bincter to cut the grain. Now multiply these results by tlie number of fields to be plowed and reaped each year and the results be- come inore striking. All of this means a waste of time and labor. The advantage of having the fields -nearly equidistant froin the barn is evident when we consider that each year's labor and time is more near- ly equalized by not having to draw all the manure to the back end of the farm one year and close to the barn the next, also the distance travelling to and 'Tom work is the least possible. At first inspection of this plan it would appear that it would require an extra amonnt of fenee, but such is not the case, tor when arranged in the old conventional way it re- qUires even a little more fence, Lastly the placement of the woods to the wiadward side of the build - legs, where it ie poseible, needs coMment upon the protection they ivould a(Tord in the whiter. A.lth ough this plan will not apply to all farms hi every detail, yet, the ideas for the saving oi time and la- bor are applicable to every farm, FATTENI,:.NO 0 A TTLfil. A mixture of grain will always ghee better results thee ansr single variety fed alone, If eny peas are to be fed it is gOod practice 1.0 keep them: un- til the cloSe of the .feeding period. feed. A man should so plan his work, that it will always be 'done at the right time, and yet he should never be in a hurry and never out of pa- tience. A rough, noisy, blustering man is worse than useless on a cattle faxra. There is no royal road to suc- cess in cattle raising; it is the at-, tention to, or neglect of, the 1313, parently trifling details that makes for success or failure. IIOME-MADE WEEDER. Take three pieces of oak, three by three feet long, make the front ends of outside pieces round and bolt 0.11 three together with two stripe of iron at front, one on top, the other on bottom. so outside pieces will work on hinge, fasten handles to cen- tre piece, for back braces ta,lie two. pieces of old wagon tire two and one-half feet long, fasten to each outside piece at back end, punch four holes in each brace and bolt to centre piece; by .nunching several holes in the back braces you ceer widen or close the weeder to suit the width of row; join handles to centre piece and brace handles; take 12 harrow teeth and shape like shovel plow, saw a notch on outside piece two-thirds the depth of tooth, fasten teeth with bolts by boring one hole through the outside piece and another half way, in the form of a stable; by this method you scianiaise or lower the teeth as de- red—4— OLD TIME SCHOLARS. Books and Pu.pils in a School 4,- 000 Years Ago. Education in the time of Nine Hammurabi, some 4,000 years ago, was in a flourishing condition. Vin- cent Schell, a German archaeologist recently unearthed a schoolhouse in Babylon just opposite the great tem- ple. From inscribed books, inscrip- tions, etc., Father Schell has recon- structed the life of an ancient Bab- ylonian school. The scholars sat on the floor in rows, eaeh with a soft brick. On these the small boy engraved the• difficult cuneiform characters. When' he made them wrong the teacher smugged them over, as is attested by several bricks with the thumte marks plainly visible. In one 'mem the scholar was taught bow to write the elaborate and highly poetical forms of adulation. which are pre- served on monuments. Much atten- tion was given to weighs and rives - tires, arithmetic and geometery, but the ehief branches were grammar, rhetoric and the expression of flat- tering forms. ,.„ Girls, it seeins, got pretty much the same education as the boys. Father Scheil found contracts which4 had been revised and corrected by a, Awmmaaonocilioarned in the law, named tb On the whole education and civili- zation under ICing Hammurabi were in a very advanced condition. They knew nothing about electricity, steam power and telephones in those days, but, considering their limited opportunities, the Babylonians were V017 elever, ,people. The contracts revised by Miss Amatboen were net trust contracts and probably from the New Jersey point of view wore primitive and crude. But they an- swered the needs of a, highly com- plex civilization and the womau who could draft them was probably as good a lawyer as can be found in New Jersey. 'Anyhow, her mune 501'- vives 4,000 years. Is it likely the t any of our lawyers will be mention. - ed A.D. 6000? PAINTING W1I111 MILK. Mr. Guy V. Mitchell tells of a steenge use for milk. He and oth- ers have used it for pnetithig barns and outbuildings. 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