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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-12-13, Page 3+-04-0+0+414-0+0+-0+0+0+0+04-04-0-004-ce-een+04-04.0+0-4enefce OR A SAD LIFE STORY s•—• +040+04 041-040+0+04-0-4-0400404-040+040-4-04-04-04040+ CHAPTER XII. merry going out hringeth often mournful return home; and a joyful evening makes many time a sad morn, The return drive, as it is quicker, be • ifig all down hill, so is it 4 moro silen one than that to the villa had been • Byng indeed is as gaily willing'to b 'fondled by Cecilia, aS he was on his way up; but there is a mixture of maidenlj reserve and sub -tender reproach in he manner which makes their relation somewhat strained. The afternoon' pleasuring has had a jading effect upon • Arnelia's spirits, as, after heving been sucked dry on the subject of •Sybilla's maladies, and afterwards at once shaken off by her female acquaintance, she has not been fortunate enough to meet with any one el -se to exchange talk with, and has sat in disconsolate yet patient lone- liness on a stone bench, afraid to stir from the spot where he had left her, lest she might miss her lover, of whom, however, she has unaccountably seen nothing, until when the Angelus is ling - Ing, and the shadows spreading, he has come to give her curt notice, with half - averted face, that the nacre is at the door. In point of fact he has been too conscious of the disorder of his features to dare to expose them sooner than he 'can help to her fond scrutiny. He would give anything to be able to sit beside, instead of opposite to her during their • drive home, as a profile is a. much less tell-tale and more goveinable thing than. a full face, and he is painfully con- scious that as often as she imagines she can do it without being detected by • him, she is stealing looks of inquiring anxiety at him. He tries to put her off the' scent by spasmodie comments upon the entertainment that they have just quitted; and she does her Vest to keep • up the ball of conversation, since she sees that it is his wish. But in vain. Each forced remark, falls still -born, lead- ing to nothing. It is Cecilia who at last succeeds in giving a fillip to the languid talk. "I did not know that Mrs. Roche was a cousin of your beauty, Miss Le Mer- chant," she ,sa,ys, suddenly, growing tired of her pensive attitude, and ad- dressing herself to Jim. He starts guiltily, "ma not you?" He must lobk odd; for even Cecilia's large and preoccupied cow eyes' rest , upon him with an expression of sur- prise. "I wonder why she was not there to- • day." 11 is not exactly a question, yet her great shallow orbs do not seem to be going to leavd his face, until he makes • some response. He tosses himself to slo so. ' "I understood Miss Le Merchant to say that they are not going out just now." "And why- are not they, pray ?" in- quires Cecilia, in an injured voice; as if the retirement from the world of the two ladies in question were a personal injury to herself; "they are not in mourning, all their gowns are colored ones, and they do not look as if they - hall bad health—perhaps, however" • (after a --moment's thoirghtful attempt to find a solution) ---"perhaps, however, they may have something—one never knows—people have such 'unexpected diseases nowadays—hysteria perhaps or fits." s At this ingenious suggestion Jim is conscious of a writhing motion passing over the stahvart form of Byng beside him. In his own train, if there is room for anything but the desire to evade • Amelia's eyes, is a dim sense of relief at a suggestion so grotesquely wide of the mark as that made by the younger Miss Wilson. In perfect 'Innocence of the effect produced upon her compan- ions by her bright hypothesis, Cecilia goes on to rein -hid her sister of the par- allel case of a very handsome girl whom they had once reckoned' among their acquaintance, and who was periodically being found. by her family with her head under the fender. But Amelia rises but faintly to the reminiscence, and the re- mainder of the drive is accomplished in a general silence: The, next day is the one which 'had been fixed upon for the expedition to Certosa. II was only with a very large admixture of wormwopd in his prospec- tive pleasure that Jin -'had ever looked forword to this party, but now he an- ticipates it with absolute dread. How can he face Elizabeth and her mother with that ominous phrase of the "screw loose" -still ringing in his .eaSs ? He feels a traitor towards them, in that he 1, has, however "unwillinglye, overheard it. To add to his mental uneasiness is the feet of his having as -yet not broken to Amelia his intentions wilh regard to the disposal of his afternoon. Amelia's eyes have for years had the habit of covertly Watching him to read his wishes almost before they rose, . but in , their gaze yesterday he had, unless ' misled by his guilty conscienee, detected new quality, a quality of ajarin and enlighlemnerit. He will get over the communication of his piece of news as early in the day as may be; so, having t finished breakfast before Byng has put in his, as usual, tardy ap- pearance, he takes his hasty way to the Anglo-American. finds the family lucre in a More placid frame of mind than that which they had a presented on one or two of his recent o visas. 'Sybilla is expecting her doctor, r en which occasion she always likes to i have a more lacy coverlet than Usual a threwver he farigind feet; a greater 0 eflloreeeente Of pink ribbons about her 0 thin theoet, and a disposition of pots of blies about het' wen head., Alnelie, ° y live and longeruffering as usual, is u Wont, is moving about in patient exe- e antioh Of her vain and tiresome whirrs d • sies. Cecilia sits tranquilly in the win- dow, knitting an elaBbrate pair of men's woollen gloves, not, indeed,—to do her justice—far any one in particular, but with a wise forethought for the acci dents and possibilities of life. Since, on this occasion, his sweetheart shows no t inclination to draw him away into the • dining -room dor a tete-a-tete, Jim has to take the bull by the horns, and rush into his subject in a more public man- ner than he had intended. But the one ✓ desire to get it over outbalances all $ minor considerations. $ • "Amelia," he begins suddenly, and even to himself his voice sounds' dis- tourteous and abrupt, "shall you want me this afternoon?" The moment that the words are out of his mouth it strikes him that the form into which he hes, thrown his question is more than necessarily untender. She stops in the patting of Sybilla's smart pillows, and perhaps there is something a little abrupt too in her monosyllabic "Why?" "Because"—standing before the fire- place, with his back to the three women, and throwing the words over his shoul- der, "because if you do not, Byng and I were thinking of going to gertosa." • There is a pause. He hears that Ce - cilia's needles have stopped clicking; her work has dropped into her lap.-ln another moment she will have pfopoed to come too. "With the Le Merchants," he goes on, shooting out the fateful words like bullets, "a partie carree." • Still silence behind him. He cannot go on staring for ever -at the billets of wood of the unlit fire. He has to turn round and face his companions._ The only one of them whose pleasure or dis- pleasure in his announcement he at all heeds—Amelia—is "stooping over Sybil - la, rearranging in a high, picturesque tier behind the invalid's long back, three cushions, and her face is almost • entirely hidden from him by .her atti- tude. "Of course if it is in the least incon- venient, if you have made any .other plans for me—if, in fact, you want me," he continues in a tone that is at once apologetic and dogged. "But I do not," criet she at last, and with a distinct laugh in her voice, a laugh into whoSe quality he is not anx- ious too curiously to inquire. "You must • not be so conceited as to think that I always want yout In point ef fact you could -not have hit upon a day that suited me better. I am really ra- ther 'throng' to -day, as they say in Yorkshire. 9I have quite a hundred things to do, and father wants me to help him to correct the proofs of his sermon, the sermon- he preached at Mr. 111offat's church on the Holy Innocents' Day. He has been asked to publish it— is not that flattering? Poor father, I believe he will end by being a popular preacher—in fact" (laughing egain), "the whole ,family is going up in the world 1" There is such a forced mirth ,in her tone that Jim feels much more guiltily „uncomfortable than- if she had treated him to hysterics ox- sulks. Nor does his satisfaction with himself increase when, upon his rising to depart, she runs out, of the room after him, to sayto while her homely face twitches against her will, how much she hopes that he will enjoy himself; how perfectly happy she shall be without him; and how eagerly she shall look forward to hear- ing all about it from him to -mar -row. "It ‘vill be almost better than going to Certbsa herses," she ends. But against the unnatural altitude of this last flight of abnegation nature re- volts, and becoming conscious of .a break in her voice, she hastily retreats and gets back into the salon in time to see Cecilia shaking her elaborate head and to hear her remarking with slow emphasis, "Mark my words! There is something odd about those people, and it is not hysteria I" With spirits sensibly worsened by his interview, Burgoyne returns to the Mi- nerva, and, mounting to Byng's bed- room, finds that young gentleman stretched upon his bed, gloom in his usually jocund eye, and an open letter lying on the floor beside him. But Jim is far too preoccupied to notice any- body's gloom but his own. . "I came to ask at what hour we are to set off this afternoon?" he says with a sort of flat moroseness in his tone. "We, indeed 1" rejoins the other with a groan, and rolling over With a sort of petulance on the bed, disheveling the elealey-smoothed pillow by burrowing his ruffled head in it --"we 1" Therels such a heart -rent woe in the accent with wbich.tne last monneyllable is promninced that for a moment Bur- goyne has no other idea but that his young friend too has become aware of the "screw loose," has heard, perhaps,. in detail, that, story from before whose ominous opening he himself had fled. the thought, sends his heart info his throat, sO as la render 111111 incapable 'of asking an ,explanation of the other's •afflietion. , "We!" repeats Byng for the third knee and very indistinctly, as he now ying entirely on his face. • ' 'Why do you go oil ertying 'we' in that diotic way ?" asks Jim at last, recover - ng his volee--recOvering it only to em- ploy 11 in imitating the younger man's melds, in a manner which displays lose exasperation than natural talent or rnitnicey. It 15 not a politely worded nqUiry, hat 11 108 the desired result -of clang, as st terns on Isirn at Wheat it IS fined, Making hint net only roll over nee again, bat actually sit up, "Why do .1 say we?" tepeals he, his oung eyes looking lamentobly Out from nder the fall of his tumbled hair--"be- ause it is not Wel it 18 you! You lucke og, you will have her all to yourself I" z ...0-4,,,,•alw40*-Amouvrz7Pr Jiro heaves an inaudible sigh of re- lief, Whatever may be the cause of tris companion's enigmatical donduct, it is evidently not What he had feared. There is, however, no aevidence of relief eor any ether mild quality in his next remark. • "If you svould talk less like an a$8, •should have a better chance of known] what you are driving, at I" The query seems rutty to renew ant deepen the other's tribulation, lie fall back into Ins former attitude. "You, will hold the white weeder o dear Juliet's hand!" hegroans. "No, d not go" (with a sudden and startlin change of tone, springing off the lied as he becomes aware that, his friend i making for the door, unable to baa those rhapsodies, whose full distasteful ness to their hearer the utterer little eon jectures). "1'11 tell ysu I 1'11 explain Why ate you in such a deuce of burry? I cannot go to CertaSe }recalls I have just heard from my mother tha she is to arrive to -day. She will be:her in another hour." -Jim's fingers are already on the door handle, but this"' piece of news arrest "Your mother? 1 did not know tha she eves coming abroad." • "No nlore did -11" "It must have been a very .sudde, thought 1" "Very!" "What a delightful surprise for you I' "Delightful V' There is so ludicrous discrepancy between the adjective and the accent with which 11 18 rendered tha Jim bursts into 4hitler laugh. "She would be flattered if she could see your elation at the prospect o meeting her!" • Byng's blood rushes up under his clear smooth skin at his friend's jeer but he answers, with some dignity : "I do not think you have any right to imply that I am not always glad to see my mother; I do not deny that, if it had been equally convenient to her, I had 1.0Agee she should have come twenty four hours later." Jim feels ashamed of himself, though being an Anglo-Saxon, he has far too much false shame to- confess it directly and what he means for an arnende when it conies, is of an oblique nature "I think far the best plan will be to put off the excursion altogether; I am sure that I am not particularly keen -about it." The indignant red has rapidly died out of Byng's face; his placability being only to be surpassed by his slowness to take offence. "Is it possible?" he asks, in- a tone of -stupefaction; then, with a sudden tardy recollection of the rosy fetters in which his friend is held by another lady; he edcls---"But, of course, you are not -3 was forgetting!" Jim winces. "As it is your party 16u had better send up a note at once to the Piazza • "No, do not let, us both throw them over !" cries Byng, eagerly. "Heaven knows it was hard enough to persuade them to accept in the first, instance. If you go we shall at all events keep our corhmunications open; and you—you will say something to her for nue?" "What kind of something?" inquires the older man; carpingly. "Am I to. tell her only what a fine fellow you are in general, or anything more circumstan- tial?" "Tell her," begins Byng, in a rapt voice; but apparently .the sight of hie companion, who has somewhat ostenta- tiously pulled out a note -book and pen - MI, and assumed the patient air of one about to write to dictation, dries the stream•of his young eloquence; "tell her —nothing." "'Nothing speaks our grief Le to 0. speak nothing l'" replies Jim, leaving the-rm with this quotation -on his lips, rather hastily, for fear lest tile other should change his mind. ino,•••=••• CHAPTER XIII. It is five o'clock, the hour fixed for the expedition to Certosa, and in the entre- sol of 12 Bis, Piazza d'Azeglib, Mrs. and Miss Le Merchant are sitting—hatted, gloved, and en-tout-cas-ed—in expecte- tion of the arrival of their double escort. Elizabeth's afternoon. has, so far, not been a lazy one, as her little cousin Berne and his dog have again been good enough to pay her a lengthy visit. and the former' has insisted upon a reps tition of them usical performance of tin other day, though with truncated rites • Without the powerful aid of Byng, Eliza belt has found it a task consIderabn beyond her strength to hold a larg( collie poised on hiS hind legs, on a music -stool. He has jumped down re- peatedly, and tow lies on his back—an attitude in which experience has taught him he is less attackable than in any other—sawing the air with his fore- paws, and lifting his lip An a depreca- ting grin. "Where is Mr. Byng?" cries Bertic fretfully, baulked in his efforts to malkc his wily victim resume the ,peependicu- lar. "I want Mr. 13yng 1 Why does not Mr. Byng come?" "Perhaps if you went to the window." suggests Mrs. Le Merchant, in that pa- tiently coaxing voice in which we arc wont to address a tiresome child on a visit, • instead of the buffet which we shoirld bestow upon it were it a resident —"perhaps if you went to the window and looked out, you would eee him coming round the corner of the Piazza.'" The suggestion le at once accepted, and the child, balaneingehts fidgety body en a chair, and craning his neck over the ivindownedge, IS shouting shrill pieces of information a8 to the passers- by Lo his friends within the room. Pre- sently he ehrieks out in triumph: "I see him! He 18 just, coming into sight! Ile ie walking so fast 1 :No P-1.1 moment later, with, a changed and dis- gusted note, as a nearer view correets the ibest impreseion—"it is not he at all I It is only tire other one ' "Only the other One 1" It is quite ini possihle that the sound of the child's volecan reach down to the open por- tal of No. Bis, at, which Jim has noUr arrived, 0,nd. lints Also certairi that nei- ther Of the ladies whom he hos come to visit /PO likely to Word their surprise at hie haveteg arrived alone with the etank brutality Whiebi is eOnfined to the utter, ences of 'Walley; arid yet, Jim, as he preeents himself, announced by Ann - lois, the hard -featured possessor al Pi it lovely name, is quite as OPriSaialla, 4s 14 be had overheard the bey's slighting remark, of being "only the other one I" Before he can begin his apologies, the eager little boy has run up to him. "Where is Mr. Byng? 1 want Mr, Gyng 1 Why bas not he come? Eliza- beth mints Mr. Byng 1" At this laet, clause Burgoyne is Con - sous of a atilt, hot flush rising to his face, and partly to hide it, partly to avoid seeing what the effect of taiveorn- rillintealiett may be upon her for whom it is meant, ire Stoops over the child, ad- dressing his answer to him ; "Mr. Byng is very sorry, very Sorry indeed, but he cannot come" "Cannot come I Why cannot he come?" 013ccause he has gone to, meet his tnalranY," replies Jim, trying to speak in a light and playful voice; "she is to ar- 'eye Unexpectedly in Floreece lo -day; no good boy would leave Ide mammy when she had come all the way from England to see him, would her I3ut to this fustian and copy -book generality the • young gentleman ad- dressed iS too angry to reply. e "It is a great disappointment to Byng; he bid me tell- you what a great disap- pointment it is to hina I" says Jim, turn- ing to the two ladies-, and looking apolo- getically from one to the other. Elizabeth's head is averted, but on her mother's features he sees, or fancies lis sees, slight evidenees of a feeling not unlike relief, "lin is not of the least Consequence," she says, cheerfully, "we cart go any other day just as well." Burgoyne's heart sinks. In these lest • sentences he too surely traces signs of the evasion and woulcl-be-retrogade • nature which has all along cheracterized Mrs. Le Merchant's relation with him. It has seemed to him tnat he has been looking forward to the expedition with sensations of almost unmixed dread, and yet now that he seems to be going to be delivered from it, what he exper- iences certainly does not come -under the head of elation. ' "You wish to give up the excursion then 7" he asks, In a tone which he hon- estly tries to make as neutral and color- less as he can. "Well, I' thought so—we thought so, did not we, Elizabetb ?" The person thus addressed lifts her head. and all over her features he, eagerly scanning them, sees written a warm acquiescence in her motherly de- cision, an *acquiescence which, as her eyes meet his --his, in which his disap- pointment is written a good deal more plainly than he is aware—chitnges slow- • ly and sweetly into indecision. • "I do not know," slue answers, her gentle look clouded a little and yet kindly interrogating his. "If Mr. Bur- goyne is willing to burden himself with us; and Bertie must play at being a grown-up gentleman, and help to take care of us! Bertie, will you play at be- ing a grown-up gentleman ?" To this prbposition' Bertie assents warmly, and begins thresonically to re- count to inattentive ears the high and eingular deeds with which he will cele- brate his arrival at maturity. But, as Mrs. Le Marchant puts a strenuous veto tmon his adoption of escort, and as late nurse appears at the same juncture tG fetch him, be and his dog are presently removed, and the other three set off without him. (To be continued). ENGLISH WORDS IN FRENCH. Paris Paper Publishes a List of 'Words Which the French Have Adopted. A matter of interest to many students of French has been taken up by the Paris Matin in the objection it makes to the increasing number of English words Incorporated into colloquial French. This new but mild and pacific form of English invasion has led to the publica- tion of a list. of words which have be - eine more than "acclimated" and naturelizecl by general use in France, Many refer to sports and sporting, and hi this group of words adopted from the English into French are turf, trotting, Tattersall, racer, maiden, milord, car- riage and gentleman rider. The techni- cal French definition of yechting must impress Englishmen as -ingenious Sport dont le yacht est ninstrument. English drinks have no great vogue in France' but the French have adopted severalof the English words which dis- tinguish them: gin, punch and grog. They have adopted also the words tight -weight, lawn' tennis, Leigh, stew, home, handicap, ale (biere blonde et legere), "all right," cocktail (which the French papers define as American, not Griklish), bridge and bridge whist, bull - !Inch, block system, ballast, blackleg, event, dining car, destroyer, drag (mail zoach), dandy, covert coat, commodore, hand (poker), flyer, featherweight, five o'clock, fashion, hunter, jockey club, Iseepsake, knickerbockers, lunch,' ma- cadam, mutton chop, outlaw, outrider, Paddocic, pedigree, pickles, porter, pud- ding, quick beginner, rircehorse, raglan (overcoat), rocking chhir, roast beef, sandsvich, selfsnade man, shocking' sleeping car, snob, team. tipster, toast, topvveight, tramway, trolley, treick, tun- nel, "tub, walkover, wharf, waterproof and whiskey. Some of the English • words adopted into the French, lan- guage came by way of the United Steles, and one of these is the word 'bluff," of which in Paris this original description is given : "An Engifsh"word to which Amerieans have given a particular. It is used in the American game of poker to designate the • position of a player who seeks to dis- dourage the continuance in the game Of his adversaries and to indece them to disregard the chalice to recoup their losses or td add to their winnings by 'raising.'" The French explanation of the Origin of the Word "lynch" is RS follows: "An Anteriean custom called after Colonel Lynch, who authorized a crowd ta -seize a criminal and to try and ow - cute ISM en the spot." A French *etb has been formed from lynch, the Verb lyncher, Le., to execu e Wsithont the forms Of atithOrity of la . This Word has searcely been adopted In French, but golf, grouse, garden party and gentleman have been. About the only difference between family jar and O. faintly row ie that the' er St trIOS siD01101S 'Direct. ...From..the Carden The Purest and Cleanest Green Tea on • Earth. Delicious and Economical in Lis6 CSSLON GREEN TEA. Lead oaokete only. 400, 000 and 00o per lb. At all grooars. About the Farm" • VENTILATION IN WINTER. I am inclined to think the subject of ventilation in winter is often given less attention than is required for best re- sults. A large egg production demands .vigor and vitality of the flock, and systematic ventilation is an indispensable • factor in securing those decirable quail - ties. The principles of ventilation are easily understood by remembering that warm air rises, and that it is neceesary to admit fresh air at the bottom of the room witheut allowing too free esscape, at, the top, of the warmth needed far the imntort of the hens to give best re- sults in eggs. Necessary as is warmth, • fresh air ranks first in Importance, for • n1-1ees ventilation is good, the blood will not be properly oxygenated and the bird will consequently get out of con- dition. I have kept hens in cold, open quarters and by good methods of feeding had them lay wen during coldest, weather, simply because they had abendance et pure air. If ventilation is perfect, many losses will be avoided and the vigor el the fowls increased, and they will be in condition to help overcome faults in feeding and mgnagement; whereas, if it is net, the birds win be subjected to fou], vielated air for' long periods of time. Even if well provided for other- wise, they will' become debiltated. The eggs from such birds may prove a great disappointment when wanted for hatch- ing purposes. Many are the plans for ventilation, but owing to, family construction, fre- quently fail to work well in practice. When I built my new poultry house, ventilating flues were purposely omit- ted. I am careful to begin aright in the fall by not housing .the birds close- ly too soon, and allow my fowls their freedom au winter as to going out or not, as they prefer. When the weather is severe and they incline to stay in, close the house, but see that it is .well aired every day and the air thoroughly changed. - I plan to air the houses while the birds are exercising in clean, deep lit- ter for their whole grain. I keep them a little hungry, never allow them their fill except at tight, then they eat with appetite and are ready to work witb will. If the hens are descendants ..f a healthy, good laying strain, and have been rightly raised and well managed, they will give a good account of them- selves in eggs. * HOG NOTES. A sow can rear two litters of pigs a year as well as one, and it Is surely a loss when this is not done. • A drjr," clean bed is one of the secrets ot success In the management of pigs. Give the fattening pigs full rations now and final rounding up will not take so much grain. Do not overfeed the store hogs. The fattening pi,gs should not take too much exercise. Yet close penning is not desirable. When kept in small lots the foulness of the yard and pen is avoided; the pigs are less liable to dis- ease in the free open 'air and on fresh green food. A comfortable shed in which the hogs are protected from the stOrins is an economical addition to the pasture. This shed need not be expensive, 11 11 is only dry, light and well ventilated. When the animals are forced to stay out is the storms all day and slob in a cold, wet bed at night, they will not do well. An animal must be comfor- table befbre the best gains can be rea- lized. Separate the most forward pigs for the early market; crowd them along to make room for the next best, until all are gone. IMPROVING MEADOW -LANDS. M. F. Ames gives his way of improv- ing meadow -lands: Late this fall I would go over this, fields very thoroughly with a light har-1 row, not cutting deep, but breaking tbe surface roots. In the winter I would' prepare a fertilizer very 'nearly of the: following formula: 100 pounds of nitrate* of soda, 400 pounds of dry tankage, 300 pounds of muriate of potash, 1,200 pounds of old phosphate. Mix these thoroughly and there will be a fertiliz- er of about 2 per cent, nitrogen , sy per cent phosphoric acid, 7% per cent. potash, well adapted to grass on a strong loam, as I think this should he te have given fair crops for Iwo years without fertilizer. If the soil were Mucky and had a lair proportion of vegetable it might be well to put 100 pounds nsore of the potash salts, or if light and sandy 100 pounds more of tankage to the ton, re- doing the acid phosphate by the sama amount. In the spring, as early as he can go over the land, harrow again and sow about 400 pounds of mixture to the acre. Then sow ten pounds of red clover seed, four pounds Alsike crimson clover, fifteen pounds of Or- chard grass, ten pounds tall oat grass Lo the acre and brush in the whole. LIVE STOCK NOTES, Coarse Fodder for Sheep. --For winter feeding, clover hay, pea straw, corn .and fodder, oat hay, oat straw and, millett are admirable coarse feeds. Their, value, basedupon palatability as in-, dicated by the quantity eaten, is about in the Order given. Storms take the life out of sheep fast, er than anything else in the waled. Try to get them under cover *every time cold rains or heavy falls ofesnow come on. Oals for Horses—There is no grain se safe for horse feeding a.s oats, the, ani- mal rarely being seriously injured it by accident or otherwise an over supply i- given. Unless the horse is hard pressed for time or bas poor :teeth, oats should be fed whole. Musty oats should be avoided. Placing the percbes in poultry -houses stair-fashion—one above the other -- -s an old custom. Why they should be arranged in that manner no one knows. The fowls want, to roost an the 'highest point, while there is plenty of space n the lower places. lf all the perches' are nuilt the same distance from the floor, there will be no crowding, and the fowls will be more comfortable. We believe than the working hen should have three good square eneals n day, or have the means provided where- by she can secure what ' she needs lo her heart's content, just the same as the hard-working man or horse. To be able to do the best the body must have suitable nourishment. supplied 'n large quantities and in a palatable form. The cow and sheep are animals, like the hen, that give a profit to the farm- er in the shape of a product of their bodies and not of labor. When doing their best, and placed in natural condi- Sons, both cattle and sheep spend the entire day eating, and drinking. In this way the body is fed all day. WAX BATTLESHIPS. • Comparatively few know that by the British 'Admiralty's orders perfect ino- dels are made in paraffin -wax of every new battleship before It is laicl down, and these models are tested in a tank. The models are from 1211. to 2411. long, the tank being 4-41. long ande20ft. wide. The models are made of wax be- cause it is a material which does not absorb water or change its weight, so that alterations can he easily made, and the material can be melted up and used again. The American naval autleorilies also have models of all their hulls con- structed, but these are much more ela- borate than the British, being formed o white pine, and lilted with rudders, efaise keels, propeller shafts, arid all etceteras. At Bangor City Council meeting a councillor said that the corporation cemetery was in such an ideal condition as to make the living wish to be among the dead. 404.04041410.404:40.004:1 4) 0 el) 103 ,411 411 43 Nursing baby? lies a heavy strain on mother. Her system is called upon to supply,'" nourishment for two. Some form of nourislurzient that will be easily taken up by mother's system his needed. Scoff., Ematrion contains thi t greatest possible amount of nourishl • ment in easily digested form Mother and baby are wonderfully helped by its use. At.t. DRUGGISTS: COO. AND 01.00 0,4400.0044.00.10.44.1114, (4 ;