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Now ?Hilary had. gone down these
stairs dye minutes beforewith her
partner—a Magailleent cow-boy—to
get aa iee„ and is. standing near .the.
buffet enjoSing it, and looking met-.
tier than usual (which is sasing
great deal) in lier capand gown,
when she feels its tett& on her arm.
Looking, mend sbe. sees Jim, -
"Our dance, I think," says he, •talc -
big_ advantage of the fact that the
cow -boy is a stranger from. the Par -
at Clotibree, whereupon the
This .awful: suggestion has its effect.
Boon 'they, are , on their benneWard
Way, and. "At last," as Diana says,
."can talk,'' . .
Olifferdeleads off the conversation-
al ball in a light and airy fashion.
"Ker has . just given Hilary . two
shillings," says lisa
"What ?" . . •
. .
. •
Diana peers at him • through the
fast-growing brightness . of the corn-
ing. dawn. If he were net the most
absfentious of Meu• ehe would have
:
cow -boy bows to Hilary 'tad retires
toldherself that perhaps there had
front the scene. been a last glase of champagne,
•
Jita regards. her witha repro echful
eye. "Yea, I assure you," says Clifford...
• "Still urgingon your wild, Career!" ”X 'saw him lib it. • I don't think
says he, e with Nemesis at hand—and much of him, do you '1 Most fele
the sword of Damocles about to fall lOws give the girl they -are going
—and all the rest of it." . - • to marry a ring or a' bracelet,. or • a.
• "What do yoa mean, Jim?" • trellyeweg - of some sort, • but 1 never
"Ire's come I"
"lie?" -•
"Your future Lord !" says Clifford,
with the biggest L ori record.
"Oh, no 1" :Net really !"
"My good girl, I've been staring at
him for the past two minutes. He
•heard of a, two -shilling plate before.
Perhaps it's fashionable ! We're
rather out of it down here. syou
khow,• so we Mightn't .knOw. But.
to me sounds shabby."
"You nmst be mad," says Diana.
"It's Hilary Who •ought to be mad.
was talking to Diana, and evidently / dare say she expected a ring. poor
cross-examiulng her about you. At
least 1 h.opo it was that. To me it - what does this mean ?"
seemedas it be Was cross-examining nays Diana, turning to her sister.
Diana about herself. I'll have' a "Olt ! moan !" -,says Clifford.
ei•oss-examination of nry own with "That's the very word for it, A .
her later on." .paltry •florin.! I armada% stand it if
"You won't tell him I'm here ?" ;I were .you, Hilary. I'd fling him t
seys Tillery, in a tone of frightened over. - By -the -bye, you have it with
bow th
entree ty.
"Not I. But Diana will. And
after all, Hilary, why shouldn't You
melancholy coin to Di, can't you ?"
"Dom't rainhim," says Hilary, 1
get it over at once ? It isn't as if , who is choking with laughter. "But
;tant were bound to marry him." I oh, such a thing has happened ! Ho 1
"I can't. I." defiantly, 'wen't. 'came down the stairs to get a glass
1 d rather che than see him. ;of water for some one—",ClifSord makes a quick movement. I "That wretched Blake gil," gasps
His eyes are ou the stairs above ;Diana, who now anticipates a catas-
1110).
"I expect you'll have to die," says
he, `Tor here he comes !"
"Oh. no !” says Hilary.
In fact Kyr is running down the
staire at the top of his speed, to he took me so entirely bona fide,
find that glass bf water for the. and I answered him. Called. hint
fainting Swiss peasant. Hilary has 'Sir,' and got him the glass of wae-
barely time to stand back from Jim,
and give him a glance that warns
hiia that eternal infamy will brand
hint if he now by one word betrays
her. when Ker is in their midst.
Seeing a sinart-looking maid (evei
at this hurried mama be notice
that "beauty lies. within her eyes")
with an innpty ice plate in her hand,
that. apparently she is just taking
away from somebody, he rushes up to
Hilary. and says in a breathless
tont:
''A glass of water, please.''
Tillery, after a second's shock, is
. equal to the occasion.
"A glass of water, sir ?"
"Yes. And in a hurry, my good
gil'l. "
sl'eu shall have it, sir,"
-She goes over to the buffet, pro -
cur's the glass of water in question,
area hrings it back to Ker.
i hanks. 'A thousand thanks"
says lie. in it hurried way.
lie seizes the glass, squeezes a flor-
in into Ililary's hand, and is gone.
Miele,- stands still for a moment,
then subsides into the dark recess of
a closed doorway, her brother-in-law
following her.
••A 31iCe beginning." says be wrath-
fully. "How do you think you are
going to meet him after this ?"
"Ife won't remember," says Hil-
ary.
"And. seeing me in cap and gown,
thought I was an attendant. I
couldn't resist the situation—I felt
indeed as if I were in it situation,
ter, whereupon he kindly pressed
this," holdiag up the memorable 1
florin, "into my hand 1" a
"Good gracious, what is to be r
done ?" says Diana.
"You think I ought to return it?"
s Hilary mistakes her: "I shan't, e
however. I shall keep it as a pre -
cloys relic; but wasa't it a great d
deal to give for a glass of water,
Di ? Wasn't it very extravagant of ,
him ? Do you think it would be safe .1.
to marry such a spendthrift as he a
has psoved himself to be ?"
"Oh, I'm not thinking of that at
all," says Diana, in a voice of an-
guish. "And how you can make a
Jest of it—I am. only remembering
that I have asked him to lunch to- • a
morrow, and that he is coming !
When he sees you—"
"-Sees me ! Never !" cries Hilary, I
now thoroughly frightened. "Do you
think I would face him alter this?
What on earth did you ask: him for?"
"Why, for you 1" says Diana in
her solemn way.
"Then it is useless. Nothing ia the
world would tempt me to meet him
to -morrow.
"But you will have to see him w
sooner or later."
"Then it shall be later, when he h
has forgotten all about—the glass of
water." „ • n
"Taht wouldn't take him long,
says Clifford. "I expect it has fad- '
ed rom his memory by this; what he K
may remember is," with evidently
gloomy forebodings as to the mis- t
erliness of Xer s disposition, "the
loss of his two -shilling piece!"
"Nonsense ! 1 sonst believe he'd
ever think of that again," says a
Diana, who is highly incensed with
her husband for even pretending to
show up Ker to Hilary in aemercen- s
ary light; girls are so troublesome if
sometimes over the vaguest things. p
"That's what I say," says Hilary,
who is rather enjoying herself. "I
told you I thought him a born
spend thrif t "
"Well," says Diana boldly, "I'd
rather Marry n. spendthrift than • a
miser ttey day !"
nu I?" asks Clifford an-
xiously.
"Oh, you ! You're nothing !" says
his wife, who is a little indignant
with him.
At this, Clifford passes hisarns
suddenly round her, and brings her
to him.
old girl I Look at her !
Married to a hoPeless noneettity 1"
says he, whereon they all laugh
gether, end peace is restored.
"Ililar,y,. darling, you will appear
at luncheon !" entreats Diana softly,
"No ! No 1 Nestor 1" says Hilary.
with Orriphasis„ •"T—I eouldn't!"
CHAPTER IV.
"Miss ICinsolla is in the dhrawn.-
room, ma'am," says' the cook.
It, is next morning, and very early
too, considering the dissipations
the night before. Diana and Pinar
have only just got downstairs, an
to be told, in their languid etat
that that old gossip -monger is wai
ing to see them, seems more tha
can be endured. Mrs. Clifford star
at the cook.
"Why on earth didn't you say a
were in bed ?" says she, in an irate
tone.
"I don't know, ma'am. I dida't
know what you'd wish."
And of course she didn't, .boing
pressed into estairs 'service for the
first time. The parlor -maid had
been in the lowest spirits since the
post at eight o'clock came in, and
had been quite incapable of doing
anything ever since. The 1101V$ the
letter contained was that her aunt
was a little bilious (the aunt lived
in Tralee, and she had never seen
her), and that there was to be a
very big "pattern" held this even.-
ing in her own place, about liVe miles
I
from her present situation. (A
"pattern" means a dance on the
highway where four roads meet, and
where the peasants congregate on
stated= occasions to foot it gayly to
and fro, with the assistance of some
old piper—generally, and by prefer-
CTICO, blind,) It had, occurred,
therefore, to her simple =ad, that
if she cried a great deal over he
aunt, she might find a. way to g
and enjoy herself at the "pattern."
"Where is Bridget ?" asks Llama
alluding to the parlor -maid..
"She's crying, ma'am: She's ha
bad news, she says." •
"Bad news?"
"About her aunt, ma'am. She'
very had, she says."
"Oh, Ism sorry to hear that. And
how is Bridget now?"
"The same way, ma'am. But she
.• hWs s11r, hir ii,t • • t"
the conversation, "that MI'S, Brawn
looked very well last night!".
"Aeal her dress," says Hilary,
"°“hisrlactAsnaterli 1:18•Cla; thing," snaps Miss
Kinsella. "Did ye look at her
sleeves ? Chinese silk— 13d, a yard!"
"It' looked 'all right," Says Mrs,
Clifford, wondering what Miss Kin-
sella is goleg to say of her dress at
the next hone° she goes to,
".Ancl Mrs. Dyson -Moore ?" asks
0- Hilary, mischievously. "What did
you think of her dress?"
"Faith, there was nothing to
think cif," says Miss Kinsella prom-
ptly. "I couldn't see .
"Ohl fie, Miss Kinsella 1" sore
"What an insinuation!"
"T thought she looked very pretty"
Says Mrs. Clifford vaguely, Who is
now wondering- how to get rid of
01 her.
did Meejor Blackburn, that
7 big dragoon from the barracks. Me
d dear Mrs. Clifford, 1 must tell 'you,"
e, leaning forward, and lowering her
t- voice, and giving a glance over her
n shoulders at the door to see if it
es was Ormly dosed. "I'm the last
one in the world to pry upon any•
,e one, as you know, inc dear. . But I
went into one of the conservatories,
just to see if the Chinese lanterns
were burning' all right, and sure
netough, there she was, sho an' the
Meejor, ookin bigger than ever, an'
ber hand clasped in his, behind her
fan. Tim do say that is why she
. buys them big fans;. jest to hide ' be-
hind with meejors."
"I don't think there is any real
harm in her," says Mrs. Clifford,
who had made several ineffectual at-
tempts to stop this revelation, and
who is now feeling very ..uncomfort-
able. "I am • afraid, Miss Kinsella,
nervously, we are keeping you—
and—' •
"Nat at all. Not at all, inc dear.
The day is young,"
Hflary .conaes forward a step or
you hear:" says she impres-
sively, "that Lady Bolton had a lit-
tle daughjer last • ht
"No ? ye don't say so !" This is
Miss Kinsella's formina. She rises
r instantly. "Pons dear young crea-
o tare. I must fly to her. . Good -by.
Good -by." She hurries away, all
, sails set.
"Hilary," begins Mrs. Clifford,
d "who told you? 1 thought it wasn't
"Row can she knew that?" ask
Mary.
"I don't know, ."
Mrs: Clifford. 'who has served a
ong appreticeship to Irish servants
nd who has heard of the "pattern,'
ises abruptly, and turns to Hilary.
"Come, let us see Miss' Kinsella..
Let .us get it over," says she.. To
ether they, entor tho drawing-roem
"YoU're surprised to see me, nay
ear." Old Hiss Kinsella, comes to
meet them with a beaming face
'An' so early too. But you know
hat your Bridget's aunt is also a.
ousin of my charwoman, au' she
says she is very bad to -day." -
"The charwoman ?"
"Oh, no. Miss Baez -beets,: dear—
your Bridget's aunt. And I hear
bat she•wants Bridget very badly;
nd I Icri.eve you would want Bridget
-ery little to -day, being so tired—"
think that is why we shbuld
vent her," says Hilary, turning • to
the old "busybody thankless," with
a rather severe air.
"But when her aunt is dying, says
Miss Kinsella, her old maid's curls
swaying backward and forward in an
angry fashion. Her face takes .a
lugubsious turn. "And when . you
ave two other servants too, , and
hen death is in question—" •
"The cook and the nursery -maid;
ardly count," says Mrs. Clifford,
'and, as a fact, I want a parlor -
laid very much to -clay. I have
eople to luncheon."
"No, ye don't say so 1" says Mise
insella, leaning forward, all dee
ght and anxiety. She has forgot:
en her present crusade in her butti-
ng desire for gossip. "An' who are
ley?"
"It doesn't mat ter," says Diana
almly. What does matter is the
oing of Bridget."
"I should think," says Miss ,
ella, enraged at the refusal to grate
y her cariosity, "that a luncheon
arty should not count with the 0-
g of an ancestral relative !" She
doesn't know herself • What this
means, but it sounds splendid. "When
we're dying, we don't think of
luncheons," says she, .which certainly;
is an incontrovertible fact. -
. "Well, but you see we're not dy-
ing," says Hilary.
"Of course if 13ridget's aunt is kly-
ig," says Mrs. Clifford., "she must
o to her. However, I hope she
ill not lose ber way there, and go
o this 'pattern' iestead."
"Oh ! Mrs, Clifford, • me dear, WO
ouldn't misjudge the poor. Of
time I know very little about any -
ling that's goin' oa meself" (there
n't a thing going on in the neigh-
rhood, touching poor or rich,
reat or simple, that sh.e doesn't
low), "bein' only a poor, desolate
d maid"
"Oh I not so desolate, Miss Kinsel-
la'," ' says Hilary, with mild ivony.
YOU have got Ur. Peter, you
kn
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ol
l'e
in
1.11%
"Won't he ? Don't you think
somebody will tell hint?'
'Tell hire what ?"
-"rhat you were dressed as a par-
lormaid tonight ? And when he sees
you, as he must, don't you think he
will put two and two together ?"
"Perhaps he has no head for math-
ematics," says Hilary, but even she
feels thaL this is frivolous:
However, the discussion is brought
to an end secidenly by Diana, who
ecimes down the stairs to them with
Peter Kinsella, and having dismissed
that florid young Romeo, warns Hil-
ary that if they don't go homo at
once they will probably be mixed up
with the rank and ale at the and.
You
vercome
The Tired Feeling.
Insti3 New Vig,or and Energy into the System
Add New Flesh and Tsui isby Using
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Why not join with nature and re-
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fatigue and make spring the time for
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giving way to weakness and despend-
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Everybody needs it spring restora-
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Experience has proven that there is
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It is only reasonable that this
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Headaelie, sleeplessness, irritability,
stoincteh troubles, loss of energy,
ambition and the ability to apply
ores self to the task in band are
emong the indications of an exhauet-
ea eondition of the system.
and
A month's treatment with Dr.
Chase's Nerve Food will do wonders
for you.
Bedes sithe benefit you feel, you
can prove that new flesh and tissue
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111 Wcight.
Airs, L Edwards, 14 Winnett
street, Woodstock, Ont„ and whose
husband is employed with the Can-
ada Furniture Co., states:— "My
daughter Was very =eh run down
It
"Well, I have, inc dear," says the
• maid, briettening, "And it
ust be confessed by all that ane
phew, pother Kinsella, is a heat:
himself.. But even Pother snye I
sow nothing, 'Voter° not `up to-
y,' he says to inc. An' surely,
rs. Clifford, that's a most extraor-
ninv remark to make to ale, who
n olit o" in bed at seven .sharp
cry moreing" o' me ilea But
al 's *bat he's always me.
)1I '10 pot 'up lo -day' he says,
'mew, it has 1301110 ea 0 in', hut
ith can't fled if. out."
Hilary is shalcitig with laughter;
rs. Cliffmel comes to the rescue.
"It 18 8litima" says she. "A silly
fires:dim. Yon must tell Me, Nine
flt, nut ho talk slang to you. And
is the tveed, Don't
• taiuk," with a view to ehangingL
in health, felt tired and languid, and la
tveS Very' nervous. She began the da
use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, and ler
now1 can say that she is very much di
better. She has gained in weight, al
her color has improved, and she ev
seems real strong tied well. We have th
also used Dr. Cliase'S Ointment in 'Y
our family and 1 cannot speak too SU
highly of its emotive properties." fa
Dr, Chase's Nerve :rood, 50 cents it
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expected until ---"-
"Nobody told me," says Hilary,
"I merely asked her if she had hoard
it. I should have been -surprised if
she had. Because certainly I hadn't.
But she's' gone, anyway."
"Thank Heaven!" Mrs. Clifford.
sinks into a. seat. ".What is to be
done about Bridget?"
"I know," says..lailary, stopping in
the middle of the pas de quatre she
has be'en dancing up and down the
roont with an imaginary partner. "I
thought it all out while that old
lady was gossiping .with you."
"You know?".
"Yes. I'll be your parlormaid fOr
this occasion only."
(To be Contbeued.)
THE ABSTEMIOUS JAPANESE.
A.mazing Amount of Work on a
Light Diet.
In tbe war between. Aussie, and
Japan the problem of furnishing a
food supply will be forboth coun-
tries one of the hardest to solve, and
will limit the number of men. that
can be put into the held, In this,
says the author of "Japanese Physi-
cal Training," great advantage will
lie with the little islanders because
of the amount of work they are able
to do on a small ainount of food.
The Japanese are naturally abste-
haious in the, matter of eating. Rice
is the staple of diet, with dried fish
as almost the only =eat, and with
plenty of vegetables and fruit when
they can be obtained.
An American traveller in Nagasaki
was amazed one day at seeing the
swiftness With which the Ja,pa.nese
then and women, boys and girls,
Passed baskets of coal from lighter
to ship, chattering meanwhile as if
it were but a picnic' in which they
were enga,gecl. When noon came and
they stopped for lunch he went
emong theiu and examined their pro:
visions. Ono had an apple, a tornae
about three heaping tablespoonfuls
of boiled rice. Another had two
tomatoes and a. tiny rice cake. • 'O1.
the man with the onion the travel-
ler asked :
"Is that all you have?"
- "Wliy, , yes,',was th.o . reply. "I
would not care to eat more just now
nor 1. hitve.:five. hours' more work this
afternoon."
"What did you eat for breakfast?"
"Oli, sconething very fine; a bowl.
(sisreefi,,
eoi.A.eitee' seine little strips , of
ried
"AnS what will you eat to -night,
when work is done?"
"Probably some boiled fresh ifsb,
lettuce, tomatoes, oilioies -and cu-
t:ambers.'
'Accustomed to such a light diet
From infancy, , the Japa.nese builds
great endurance on it.- On- the road
to Peking the Japanese soldiers out -
Marched all the other troops, and
at the eed of a day required only a
handful of rice and a kettle of boil-
ing water to prepare a diet which
;net every requirei-4.n.ent.
MORE USEFUL.
At a certain echooi it boy wes re-
gularlyabsent during the .hour in
whieh Latin was taught, and the
teacher called vocal the boy's father,
tit whose iestructiona it had been
Learnt the lad kept away. The
teacher. asked for an explanation,
and tlinfather said, 'It is all right.
During the Latin bow I am teaching
Jiminy something that he will find
far More neeful tban Latin in , his
progress through life." The teacher
was interest ed, end asked what what
this subject might be. The father
reiiiied, "I em teaching my son how
to shave wiLhont 4 looking -glass,"
el e TO trove to yet Viet tDr.
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and el/cry toftin of itchiest,
bleedlogand ptotruding Talent
the manufactereat have enaro 0 toed It. Sea toe,
tinicielels in the dully pregs and ask your neigh,
here what they' 1;111ak O' it, Yon oan use it anti
sot sees monee heck it not ell rod. Me o. hoz, at
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BACTERIA IN THE SOIL.
Since 1881, when it was found that
certain micro-organiSms working on
the roots of le,etiminous plants have
the power' offixing the free nitrogen
of the air ' and converting it into
plant food, we have gradually come
to forget other bacteria who influ-
ences upon the soil is as 'great or per-
haps greater. Now, when we hear of
nitrogen bacteria; we instinctively
think ,of clover, eowpeas, etc., and the
associative action cif bacteria upon
their roots. As a matter of fact,
useful as these bacteria are, they play
but a small part in the preparation
of plant food.
Any fertile soil is literally alive
With these lout forms of life some of
which are beneficial but many 'of
Which bear no relation to the soil ex-
cept that it furnishes them a resting
place. If we take a dram of loam
which has been thoroughly cultivated
we Will find in it anywhere from 10,-
000 to 2,000,000 germs, somo of
Which aro building up plant food and
others tearing it down in their fierce
struggle for existence, while others
may be deadly disease germs waiting
only to enter the body of some ani-
mal or plant. Of all the germs, we
will probably find only a very small
Per cent. of those which werk on the
roots of leguminous plants.
Few, if any, of our higher plants
have the power of direetly eonyerting
complex organio matter such es stable
manure, straw, etc., into plant food.
About the oialy foein in which nitro-
gen can be used by ,plants is in the
form of nitrates or ammonium .salts.
Before this crude material -can be
used therefore it must be •converted
into simpler compounds, or , as wo
commonly say, the manure must be
well rotted. This is the chief func-
tion of a large number of our soil
germs of which there are two distinct
classes. First, those which decom-
pose these substances into ammonta
and nitrates; second, those Which oxi-
dize the ammonium salts and nitrites
into nitrates and thus make them
available for plant food. It is evi-
dent that the presence. of these bac-
teria is essential.
In ordinary soil these two classes of
bacteria balance each other and there
is little loss; but in soils very rich
in humus, in manure heans or com-
post piles, care must be taken or
ammonia will be produced faster than
it can be oxidized and thus escape in-
to the air. It is.this process of ex-
cessive denitrification which we have
to guard against, and which can best
be done in case of the manure heap,
by keeping it 'dry, since moisture is
necessary for the growth of all bac-
telqaWb...ile nitrogen is perlia,ps the most
ft
important of plant foods, certain min-
eral foods are necessary, and in their
preparation -bacteria also play an im-
portant .part.' Those most commonly
found in the soil are athe sulphur and
iron bacteria. These belong to the
higher bacteria and are of several
species. - They cone-ert the minerals
into a form available for plant food.
Thera is also another form of bac-
teria., which is attracting sonic atten-
tion. These are the bacteria which
fix the atmospheric nitrogen without
the intervention of a leguminous
plant. Just to how groat an extent
these bacteria affect the nitrogen. con-
tent of the soil is unknoevn, though
it is thought by some to be a mat-
ter of great significance. The sub-
ject of soil bacteriology is still in
.its infancy, but it may bring about
as great aeschange in the cultivation
of the soil as pathogenic bacterio-
logy has in medicine and surgery.
•
. PRESERVING MEAT.
A German professor claims to have
disoovered a process for preserving
meats that. will revolutionize the
packing industry, and go far toward
solving the Problem of supplying
amides in the field. Public tests were
held in Berlin recently, and a cor-
respondent who was present thus de-
scribes the PrOCOSS:
"A young ox was slaughtered, skin-
ned and disemboweled in the usual
manner, contents of the head remov-
ed and feet cut off, so that only the
carcass remained. After the blocid
had been allowed to flow out Prof.
Emmerich., discoverer of the process,
injected his solution ef acetic acid in
the arteries and veins of the carcass,
applying it . in . both upward and
downward directions, using a funnel
for the downward injection and, an
irrigator for the upward course. Then
the acid, having impregnated the'
flesh, was permitted to filter out,
drip by drip, and the prolessor pro-
nounced the meat 'preserved' and
proof against heat, cold, age or vary-
ing climate conditions."
"For, .ineat to be preserved for a
short time;. say two or three weeks,"
remarned 'Prof. Emmerich, "a weak
solution of my acid preparation, suf-
fices: If the moat is to be heist from
tWo to four mouths a stronger ap-
plication is required and the carcass
needs to be 'treated in the same way.
The whole proceeding, as you have
seen, is extremely simple, but needs
to be watered, since there are core
tain tricks of manipulation, such as
tying up of veins, that need to be
aP1441e
11:cdat
' so prepared has been shipped
to Durban, Smith Africa,. from Ger-
mail ports and found, after nettai eel-
inary preparations, to be delicious in
flavor, and quality., Another thin -
meet waS vecently made to South
America, retained there it. fortnight
and then reshipped to Cermany. Not -
Withstanding the faet that the moat
had been purpeeely placed near the
.beilers of the ship. and had twice
passed the equator, it arrived there
itt perfect condition, the only differ-
ence from freeit meet being that the
surfttee; Which had .been Sprayed With
cetic acid, had taken on a some(
what darker hue andhed liarderiel
Superficl,ally so that before eating d
thin slice from the oetside had to hi
cut off.
'Prof, Emmerich's process is saki td
be no more expensive thait the simpli
process or dry -salting. 113 obviates
however, the costly necessity of tea
frigerating, while from it hygenli
point of view it is pronounced by
conservative Certuna experts absolute
ly harmless,
Baron voa Ascii, Bavarian 1 -enlisted
of war, in repoetteg upon the official
experiments conducted in Munich,
says; '`Eminerich's process enables uft
to offer soldiers meat from sound,
well-fed animals equaling in qaalit3
meat from entirely fresh slaughter,
ings. It has the further advaatage,
from the 'standpoint of transport, et
coiripelling us to carry many less cat.
tle with it moving army, saving 1.114
time, space, labov and atmoyance in
cident to Caring for live' stock on tho
march. It would seem to be possible,
finallY, to preserVe for future use thd
moat of cattle which might be threat,
cried by pestilence; if they are slatigli-
tered immediately the danger of nes
tilence beemete apparent."
ORCHARD SPRA.YINCI.
•I did my first spraying about 1893,
at which time 1 used'paris green as
an insecticide and a year later mieced
it with bordeaux, writes 0. .G. Hutch.
lugs. I have sprayed annually witlt
this material' ever since. 'Venally
thrce.. applications are made andeach
time the poison is use in the bor.
deaux. The first spraying is demi
. „
i'l4ftst• as the buds are opening, tbe sec -
tend just before the blossoinsfall and
the third. about when all the bloom '
id shed. A fourth application is pile
on about a week or ten claya later,
if the weather conditions have 'been •
=favorable. Spraying not only pays
me well, in the production of. better
and more perfect fruit, but 'll keepit
my trees in far better 'condition them
those not sprayed. Good, ,Ottrong,
vigorous trees are callable Of produc-
ing fruit more regularly than weak-
lings.
I learn something about.mixing.and
applying the material each year. • The
Plan to be followed this season is as
followa: In making 50. gallonsban-
deaux wo use two 50 -gallon barrels.
One is filled half full of water, to
which is added three pounds blue -
stone (copper sulphate). This is St:9-
pende,d in the water in* an old 'sack
or basket until all the material is
dissolved. The other barrel is filled ,
three-fourths full of water, to which'
is added 12 potiacis well-slakeci, good
stone lime. This should be previous-
ly slaked in another vessel. s When
stirred thoroughly, add four or five
12 -Taut pailfuls of lime water to ni
barrel containing the bluestorie so-
lution. Stir the mixture continuous-
ly whilethe lime tvater is biting ad-
ded. About the fotirth pailful°, the
mixture assumes a, clear, blue color.
In this condition it gives us the best
results. If too much lime is ridded,
sve do not think thecopper spreads
so evenly', and certainly it doesnot '
work out so well through tbe nozzle,'
We then- fill the barrel, containing the
solution with water and add 21.
pounds of arsenate of lead or clispar-
en113 is cailed, .
lai: tttiXtl1i'� 15
ect at each spray-.
Ing. Usually we add one-fourth ,
pound paris green per barrel whee
spraying after the blossoms fall. We
find that the parts green being heavi-
er than the other material settles
more readily in the blossom end , of
the apple. I have allways used a
hand pump. This year I ordered a
gas power sprayer and will give it a
thorough test. Vonmorei nozzles with
bamboo extension rods are nised. I
will try the now mystery nozzle this
year. Our yonng trees are usually
given one application. This is re. .
peated if it is thong -ht, necessary. The
young orchard, on the bottom land
was planted in 1902. It was cultie
vated for two years and is now seed.
ed to clover and bluegrass. It will
be mowed regularly from now cin, -
but the grass :will be left On the, •
ground as a mulch. There are: 000,
trees in this block containing • about -
200. each Of Japanese plums.' Europe-
en plume and. peaches. The -indi Ca-
tions are that there will be few, if
,any, peaches or plums in this sectioe
this year, but I never saw it better
prospect for aeples..
HOUSE OF THE FUTURE.
Changes- in the Homea of the,
Next Generation.
The twentieth ,century house, when
it is- tlioroirghly worked oil t. will be s
very different in character froth the
houses of any former period. For.
example, it is very doubtful whethee •'
it Will have chimeees. It SeallS pro-
ba,ble thatt. electric heating will supers
sede the coal fire, and le that case ,
riot only will the chicnney-stack and
the. blackened and blackening chimney- •
pbts go, but also the • interne.' group- , ,
ing 'or the mini about' the' fireplace;
instead there will ba it heater: ln the
centre of the apartment. At present "
electric heaters eppear to be designed •
by' iron -mangers' apprentices in their
spare moments, but there is no 'rea-
son why an electric heater ehould not
be made a very,' gritOlolis and beauti-
ful thing. Moreover, the air in rooms,
will be win out by an electric fan
and will' emne in through a proper
abaft and filter ; and these appliances
mete only afford seope for the design-
er midmetal worker, mid tlici. Meer-
ganee of the air shaft upon the roof
an architectural reattne, but they re-
lease the windows frorn the task of
ventilation. The architect will rio
losger be tied to the hygenie sash •
wind.ow obliged to keep the tops
of his winclows close tothe ceiling
level; he will place them entirely for
light tied for 'beauty of internal and
external effect. Tie will be able to '
make thein to Open or not as ha
wishes, and so he Will be able to put
them in piney corners Where itow
he dare. not elo beeatiOu of the
risk Of
it clecieglit. ire bo tied
to YIO• partiettler shape, it. liberty he
Will lictee to use With diseretiOnd