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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-8-7, Page 6. Da.•;* $b409w...; Or A Coming• Vengeance CITAPTEE "Why, where on earth here yea been, father?" ehe demendetl. "You ought to have beedi beak from yeur beat all hour ago! and wot' s 'appened to liesem? She's all of e ,toel What it, e. beanfeast, or a prize-fightS I Might xteed, get into mischiet and trouble. when I let yer out to-riight. alight ati well trust a couple a babies eut of yer sighel And why ou eertit don't yer ocaue wot yer stand gawking there for?" She ehrtehed at the :still trerabling Mina, and drew her in; but the hermit/seek hest- tated, and, looking from the truculent figure, to Clive depreoatingly, began nee, vouelY- - 'This gentleman, TibbY—" The weird lit:tie (meatier° gave a melo- dramatio stert, and feared at MVO as if ehe saw him for the first tirae, amd, with her arna round Mina, eyed hies up and down with an aggressive air as if she re- eented hie presence, tied was quite de- termined to accept no excuse for "So it es a gentleman!" the stied, as if he imight, easily hare been mistaken for a lemp-post. "An wot mieht Gentleman want?" He's been very kind to --to Mum," ex- plained the dwarf apologetically. L''You see, there was a row, Tibbr—' "Oh, was there?" retorted the girl with n deceptive suavity. "Well, there'll be another, and a precious big elle, if this gentlemen don't take hisself eV, and mind own businesie As she uttered this disooncerting threat the shot out a hand, el -etched -hold of. the dwarf, jerked him ettembliagly over. -Pie threshold, and slammed the door in Cliee's face. Olive stood staring at the door for a mo- ment or two with pardonable confusion; then he tinned away, and set off home- ward with the ory ef the street singer, as the went doivn. un•der the blow of 'the belt, mingling' strangely with the sheere and shouts which had iteclaimed his triumph in the Reese; and with the faces of the two girls, that •of Lady Ed•th, Lord Ohefiterleigles daughter, and Mina, the poor little nightingale of the London streets, Chasing each other like distsolving views before his mind 'e eye. • CHAPTER III. Olive let himself into the modest little house in Bureligh street, and went up to rooms-emale but by ne means un- comfortable diggangs-on the second Roor, Me reading lame wee lit. and he sat down, started a pipe, and drew some papers to- wards him.; for be it knowu that a mem- ber of Parliament's work does not „cease when. he leaves the Rouse -that is, a mem- ber plagued by a conscience and ainbi- tien. But he found it ra.ther -difficult to wan- eentue.te his mind on the Blue Book he 'wished to master, and he leant back and blew smoke rings in the air, trying not to think of the poor little street singer. Ile bad almost eueceeded when there came a knock at the door, and in response to Clive's "florae Me" a man entered. ' lie was Olives fellow- lodger, and lived In still more modest rooms on the Roor above. Ile was a rather singular -looking man, with one of those. olean-shaven faces which rouse the :curiosity of the observer, while riveting his attention. The filet was not only an irapassive elle, but it al - eared to be absolutely incapable, of ex- pression; the lips were thin, and scarcely moved when he spoke; and the esosiin were theek and drooping, so that Clive leould. not have told, if his life dePended upon it, whether his fellow -lodger's eye were dark or light. movements were es devoid of expression as his counten- ance; as he 'stood in the doorway -he was in his shirt eleeves, mad they and the rest •of his clothes seemed to hang upon him as if they were displayed on a too meagre tailores dummy -he looked more like an automaton than a sentient human being. One may live in a house in London for ten years without learning the name and the oceupation of one's fellow -lodger; but by a few chalice words Olive had come to know that the man was a journalist; which no doubt accounted for the feet that he did not rise until midday, and did not retire to rest u.ntil early morning,. "Hullo, Quillen!" said Clive. "Come in.' "Sorry to intrude," said. Quilton, but „rye run out of beeea. Gan you spare me a pipe?" Clive signed to his open pouch. "Cer- tainly. Sit down." Quilteta sank noiselessly into a. Chair, and filled a blaekened Clay slowly and with precision. , "Do you happen to know the rest of 'See, the Conquering lie-ro Comes'?" he :mid, without lifting his head. Clive laughed, and shook his head. "No, I suppose not," remarked Quilton. 'Nowadays people never know more than the first line of anything. I a.slred a bands- man in the Park the other day if he could repeat the whole of 'God Save the Ring,' and offered him a shilling for the feat. Of course. he cenldn't If know the whole of 'See, the Conquering Hero Comes,' I would repeat it to you as my humble tribute to your triumph to -night." "Thanks," said Olive, with a laugh. "You were in the House?" Quilton nodded. "I was. It. was a fine speech. a remarkably fine speech. It warmed even us up in the Press Gallery. am writing a leader on it tor The Bea- con." "Menke," said Clive again. em glad you liked what I Beide Quilton raised. his lids for a second. "Yes. They were saybeg in the Gallery that yeti were the coming nia,n, and rrn inclined to agree with them. Whether e‘eiti'll be happier when you have arrived is enother question. From my knowledge 8 of human nature, which is—" "Which is not limited," remarked Clive, a for, from -words that QuiIton had let slip feom time to time, Clive knew that this 6./Y singular beiug lead been Feat traveller, el) and was an extraordinary linguist, P 'I &meld say the difference between e failure and. success is inappreciable, But ° don't, let me disoaurage you; in fact, I -thould like to join the great Mr. Grahate a. and equally great Lord Chesterleigh in su their admiratien and appreciation of your la Phenomenal success.' "Thanks," said Clive onee more. "Yes: they were both eery kind." • - , „"I saw them,' eaid Quilton, lighting on •his pipe, and regateling the expiring mateh $te if it were something of absorbing tr toren,. "I heard some of Graham's men in eaying that you were the hope of the two part .' There was a pause; there in an Wa - NO lie belonged to that liealthr end teOlate# deed eXtretreely ,liniieed elees Yeung men. \the fell tkeleep 'fere 609U a their heads Ouch the pilloWand are 9 4Wehened by a, proleinced hombeedinee •the door by a len, cluttering Iservaire If he lied hose inclined to forgot elosing ineident of beet night, lie Watt %eluded ot it While ShaTing by tbe sli but perceptible boar ,,On bie theek; _ the Mere serious hlow w tell had fa eat:Welly' etiquith he tooatht PitYielglY en the yowls girl. He wondered whet she had been baidly hurt; and it eee to hini that in cowmen leunanity he ou , to go and ascertain, neterithstanding the, ttui1114:1;lintl:Wel- i .1'i al Iftflrevslir: jaiihue:eth: if ea I ine I 1:1111 h‘aTef let 011 bpi rti"Ye et .1 n" ee;i tix ihvt et:e:el :4 341'1:4; le Itliri itell:14: I oddeleeking ereature whom the hunchbeck tll- o'cleek. and after he had made a go Fel breakfast. he lit his cigar and walked t'ae opirds the Howe As lie was pass e Welliegton Barman an open earri no , overtOok him; there Was seine luggage 1 h b . ti • 1 g sr- git a thin and peevielelexiking young man, ag Wrapped. in a big overcoat, an with an he eyeglass. . Tig. He was Clive's eldest heother. Adolphus. ha Lord Sharieg. Olive stopped, aod the he coachman, touching his hat, pulled up. la- Adolphits Molted• aft if he were enolined rather to out his brother; but Olive went lip to the carriage and nodcled. "Meriting. Dell," he :said; "going some - Where?" Sharing's wizened face flushed an en, healthy Pink, tied he surveyed the tall, g erect figure and handeome. healthy fa ter; of impoverished reoble families of 94 • aer Freeze°, It le SiOt BO iong ago since , ala three titles, two of wtach , were "IFreneb-one a couet and the other the a znarqUese respectively, aria one of A t • wee: au US man armee-vele put up and E0 1 .14+ E0! ea e ndon, the pikes rang ing from $200,000 to, $500,000. aer teed ght ham is very lama interested. in The B °"1; ? It doesn't follow that he wo be Interested in Me, eaid When. onlY a reporter, hack, and 'general II thy' for that youthful but pie/Mitt:mg jo nal." Ahother pause; thee he remark "Lord Chesterleigh was looking well, dthooviebth,h; all the better for hie rest Tine repeated reference to Lord Chest leigh reminded Clive of the wild -1000 woinau whe had seemed to threaten t ex-l'oreign Minister; and, ivoteleri Whether Quilton, ivimee ktiowledge of history of public) eliaracters all ever t world, and of Loeteen life generally, see ed to be eaeYelePaedie, dgtald- otter a eel tion of the mystery, Clive, after a in Duette hesitation, said: "BY the way, 1 witnessed, In fact assi ea at, a rather ourioue incident to -nigh There was a block outeide the gates revey, and, while it was stopping, a wom darted out of the crowd, and -well, a peered to be ging to throw something Lord Cheeterleigh. I etiught her arra, a tried to hang on to her, but she got aw by a simple trick that ouglit• not to ha taken in a schodelboy, and lest her." "Oh," said Quilton, that sounds jute eating." But he did not look at all 1 toreeted; indeed, hie face was More li a waxen mask than. usual, if that we poseible. "What sort of wcanan was she ."What sort of -woman? Oh, a tall, dal. woman, with a foreign look about her something Spaniel:. I thought. She w Poor, I should.think, forth a to . she Was shabbi dressed of oolOr somewhere about her dress; pe haps that is why I theught she was foreigner." "Did Lord Cheeterleigh see her?" ask Quilton insliffeeently. . "I think not," replied Mire. "He wa looking- the other way, towards Viotori etreet." "And Lady Edith?" "No, I'm sure -yes, quite sure -she di net; :the We looking at the block. Yo know her -you called her tardy Edith?" (Milton shrugged his shoulders ver slightly. NO, he said. Rotv should poor devil of a literary heck know th daughter of Lord Ohesterleigh? But suppose most persons knew her Christia Mune; s in the papers often enough What do you make of the incident? 13 the way, it would serve for an interes ine paragraph for The Beacon -oh, .don be 8, tensed. Strange to say, I haye tha singular possession ,for journalist delicate conscience; it is' a great ellaum beetles, and handloaps me rather sev erely-as in this instance." • • "I am not alarmed." said. Olive.. "1 a quite sure you wouldn't Ilse the inciden Quilton. What do make of it? I don' know. At first I thought the might h intoxicated; but she wasiet. I rathe fancy that she mistook Lord Chesterleig for some one else. Why thould a queer looking -WOMan rueh up to his earriag and threaten him in that fashion? Wha do you make of it?" "I don't raake anything," replied Qui/ ton. "I am 'rather inclined to think with You that it was a case of mistaken iden tity. I should say that Lord Chester leigh was the latst man to be conneeted with a mystery in whiell a+ woman was concerned. Ke 'is reputed to be a temple of all the virtue% the domestic ones esPe cially. But it would. have been ember raeeing, to eas the least of it, if the we inans eceentric behave= had been obeer yea by the crowd, and attracted the M- ien o police. The story would leave been all the inornMg papers, and Lord Cheeterleigh and his innumerable say no ing of his eart,y-would have been grievously distressed.' "That occurred to me just in thee to prevent my giving ohatie to her," aid. Clive; "so I let her go." • "You aoted wisely, in my humble opin- ion," said Quilton. "Always avoid a scan- dal, It is Just possible," he added, "that the woman was mad. Did that explaa- ation occur to you?" • "Of course," said Clive; "but I don't think she was mad, excepting with Pas- sion. never saw a woman in. a greater rage. She reminded me of a wild oat." There was a pause. Quilton smoked without opening his lips, and bloiving dense 'clouds through his noee. Presently he rose, "Good tobacco of youre this, Harvey," he aald. "Take some more," said Clive; "take enough to carry you through the night. I guess you smoke right through your w•ork, as I do." "Yee," admitted Quilton. "Your heart will be as weak as mine, when you are as old as ain." Olive regarded him with faint curiositY. He had often vrondered whether the man was young or old; the smooth face, the impassive manner, baffled any conjecture. "You. speak as if you were a Methus- elah," he said. • "I am 'older, as a .matter of fact," said Quillen. "Good night!" Ile paused, with his hand on the door knob; and with hie thick eyelids com- pletely covering his eyes, and his f,one and manner one of abeolute indifference, said: "The woman stood right upder the lamp- light, and yet you say you should not know her again?" Clive looked up with slight surprise. "How do you know she stood right under the lamplight?" Quilton turned his pipe from one corner of his mouth to the other before reply- ing.• . "She could, scarcely have been out of the light jvhere she stood," he said. "Oh, well, of course, she was in the light," said Clive; "but I didn't say I houldn t recognize her again. • I'm not ure-yes, I think I might. Why do you 'Upon my word, don't know," an- ered Quilton. "I imagine my euestion rang from my desire to display a res. eo and polite interest in. your little tory. I will go and finish that leader n you; it's getting late. I've likened you mere, ate, and Peabody. Is there nY other orator or philanthropist, an- ent or modern. you would like me to eaten?" Olive laughed, and peeked ,up hie Blue oak. „ •- "Good. night," he sad. "Don't lay it too thick; there's a good' fellow." Quilton went upsteirs with his nofeeiees eed, and entered hie own room, turn - g the key mechanically and "as if the tion were an habitual one. The roein s eparsely, furnished and much littered e 'servant was never allowed to ae- rie% or :duet anything -and the deal ble, the ehaire, and a rickety lodging- uee sofa were oreerded -with 'books and pers. A cheap pa,raffin lamp, and a ttle of gin arid /toe aotemPanYing glams, .,od the writing pad, on which bey e leader that Quilton eyes writing. e poured himself out some gin and sat deem to hie work, finished it, and, puttee; on his coat, got hie soft felt hat front ite heals; then he ',tweed, and, with $ his hands thrust In hie pockets, stared at the shalehy carpet, worn by hie eontin. ual peeing to and fro during the rict. of t cia yen Canadian knows as Toronto's Pol- °4 lee Magistrete. But not many peo- tee int ple kuow Colonel Denison to be a age prophet and an Author of note. COL. OTIORGE T. DENISON, Saw Coming Change in Cavalry 'Tactics Beck in' 1877. Colonel George T. Denisen everY u. 0. ste t. the Ohesterleigh cermage was drivm an of his younger brother with az-, unfree Such is the ease, however. Thirty. six years ago he wrote a book, "A History of Cavalry," and entered it a eempetition inaugurated by the Russian War Department, by au- thority of Emperor Alexander II., or the best history of , cm -teary. There were three prizes, and Qe1,- onel Denison, in oampetition with ee the world, won the first prize - 5,60`a roubles. There never had been before and there never has he he been since any such complete work 13* ly stare. • at eyes, I' am going to Rafborough" Ita esid querulously. "1 ion very. enwell. T ay {teeter says I must get away from Lo ve den, get away. for perfeot quiet and rest." "Sorry," said Clive. "Rdw is the guy"- e- nor?" 11-• "He bas a bad attack of the gout," se ke Sharing, eyeing Olive pecusingly, see' very much upset; and no wonder. r " read that abominable sPeeell of yours 'k the paper this morning, and it drove hi - half mad. 'Pon my sole. I can't thi ea3 how you oould nave said the things Y IY• did, Deuced bad Rem, I call it. See to me you've gone off your head, and not r• only forgotten what's due to youeeelf as a O -a gentleman. but what's due to the.fam- ilyt" ed "Sorry you didn't like the speech: Doll," said Olive goed-tesuperedly. 'Mee sorry S that the guy'nor's bad. I suppose he e wouldn't like me to cell, wouldn't see me • if I did?" • . "He certainly would not," replied Shar- d in,. with a sniff. "And I don't see how 11 you could expect him, twin. fact, I don't see how you could expect any of ue to Y stand the infernal nonsense -the way a you're ee.rrying on. `1 -shall lose the train e e if I den% look out. -Drive on, Wilson." I Clive walked on thoughtfully tied seme- n what sadly. As he Teethed the Square he • came within eight <if the newspaper man's Y stand, and there, in large lettere. on. the t- coutente bills, was "Mr. Harvey's speech on 1 the Rousing of the Poor"; " 'The Priend t ,of the People' on the Dans of London." a Clive was not a ram man, and he avert- ed. his eyes quickly, with the embarrass- • naent Which a modest man feels when he sees his name conspicuously displayed in al public; but it must be confessed that his t, pulse quickened and that he was °Mi - t scious of a sense of gratification. At any e rate, he had done something last night to ,r deserve in some slight measure the title best,owed upon him. 4 - " (To he continued.) old BARGAINS IN TITLES. id ry. serviee-and which he claimed I" would be the basis of future mile- tary mounted operations -hes pm- nk ven sound and has been universally ou zes acl•opted. • With the perfection of firearms, Col, •Denisoe marked a coming -change i▪ n cavalry tactics. . He pro: phesied that cavalry would be .s,rna on the subject. And, furthermore, a prineiple which he advocated -a principle revelutionizing the oaval- F,uropean Nations Do a Thrivin Business in Decorations. . These lots for sale: Dake, $5,000; eerl, $3,75e ; marquees, *2,500; - count, $,250; baron, $1,250; knight, $1,000, and a splendid as- serementaof orders and, deepeatione a e prices ranging from., $Y00 to Although foreign countries do hot thus openly advertise their readi- ness to do business with those Who aspire to affix a handle to their naanes, the fact is generally recog- nized that a, e,onsiderable traffic itt titles is oa,rried on. The tiny republic of San Marino ; which does a roaring trade in. titles • of nobility at fixed rates, devotes a e. s greater part et. the profit to the maintenance of its foundling and orphan asylum. . It will "make you end all year heirs, or only our beirs male, if such is your desire, a cleke for $5,000, or an eaal for a3,750. • An idea of the traffic done in titles may be gathered from the fact that a German firm trading ie. Swe- den sends out a circular, marked Private and Confidential, offering to secure any orders and deciika- tions required. The list includes papal honors -for the Pope does a little business, too, and will make you a count for $2,250, or a baron for $1,250 -honors of Persia, Tur- key, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Rou- mania and Austria, the case of .which very considerably. The Portuguese Order of Christ, for insta,nce, according to the list, may be had for between. $1,000 and $1,500, while the Order Of Isabella of Spain, with a ribbon identical . . with that of the Prussian Red Ea-' gle, coste from $1,000 upward. The A.ustria,n Iron Crown runs to $5,000. The Orders of .Saint George vary in price in different canneries. Le Sicily it costs $375, and in 13averia, more than awice as much, but you may become a knight of Montene- gro for as little as $75. . "Thelaing of Greece does. rather a prosperous business with the Order of the Redeemer, which can be had for $250, while Servia, bestows the Order of Takova, for a like sum, The Prince of Monaco has for disposal the Order of the Star, for whieh he asks $175, and for $50 less one ran secure the Order of the Sun of Nasr-en-did from the Shah ,of • Although titles cannot be, bar- . abed) utely toneless emote he added, "A -till very beautiful girl, Lord (theeterleigli's Ta daughter." •ta "Yon saw herr Yes, she is very beauti. ho ful," aseented Olive. Pa "Yes, I Was etanding neer the earriage bo while the was talking to you," said Quil- et ton, in a, casuel way. th "I wish. I hail aeon you," eaid Clive. "1 It eliould like to have introduced you to Mr. Graham. add Lord Cliesrleigh, Mr, Gra- Ig........._ ,13oling Shoes Everybody For , THE PERFECT SHOEI FOR SLIMMER SPORTS A.% YOUR DEALER. • • oompontion. He half turned towards' the door, then went to an old ottphoard at the and of the room, took from it ct small battered box, and, unlecking it, timeed ovet tentie implore and trinkete until lie feund a mall miniature. Ile <serried till's to the light, and re - gaited it for come mOneetits Welt an int- paeeive eouittenance. "Yee she'S chalice& a good deel," las Sabi refleotively. d,oebt whether he Would ha,ve known her. 80 she lias broken out tigainr that's ,had." Ite tossed. the miniature lee) the box, looked it ctireftiliy, and, lettine hiittelelf cite of the 'room, went down the stairs let his 'Antal noieeless fashion. OH A PTI:In ea, arvey Wse not. trouble(,t wit ered ia England, et is, of course, n, open secret that a generous con- ributipn to political funds often avee the way to a place in the, eerage. Apropos of this .it is in- eresting to note that Franz Kos- uth, the son of the famousizatrioa harged the Htnigarian government ith receiving no less that $1;4004- 00 by selling baronies, • Another phase of this traffic in titlee is revealed by carefully word - d advertisements whieh have ape eared in Teenderl Papers front time t • time, offering for sale the titles Y a 0 dL G. T. Denison. • .1e , ed firearms, Vika the sword and tlee, larie.e.woula 'fii:11:iniee disuse, thatacaaralry would noaabe used to beatralowri an enemy by Shock, but woUldabe= in _effect mounted infan- try*This contention -regarded as •raisteken or absurd by most mili- tary authorities when Colonel,Den- . ison's book fleet appeare,d-aha,s been proven sound by modern war. In the Boer War and the Russo- Japanese War, the mounted rifles won the day. The British went into tile Boer War with 3,000 steel - armed cavalry of the old type, and it the end, of the war had 100,000 mounted men in the field. That was the only way they could fight the 87.5365 Boers who took the field-- 'rea-tidally all mounted riflemen. In the Russo-Japanese War there was not a single charge again,st riflemen on foot. The sword and lance were llo-Where. The rifle was supreme, inspiring, the only effec- tive action fel cavalry as well as infantry. • Few as the achievements •of the Russian cavalry were, what - fire action. ever they jelid achi.ieve was .through • His Naine Was Peacock. In a small village lived a gentle- znan whose name was Peacock and hi :3 great hobby was the breeding of turkeys, of which he always kept a large quantity in a paddock in front of his house •adjoining the roadway, which was a great attrac- tion to the public. One day a trav- eller passing that way mingled with a little crowd that was watching their anties, and asked: "Whose turkeys are these?" A youth re- plied: "They're Peacock's!' Trav- eller: "I asked you whose turkeys are thoee ?" Youth (answering again): • "They'ee Peacock's." Traveller (excited, and boxieg the yontat's ears): "You young fool, do youethink 1 can't tell peacocks front turkeys ?" _ Starting at the Bottom. ertaisaaletaasegateeeriameasetieegeseea On the Farm voive...64.4646.41,41.4roi. Proper Storage. Too zatieli emphasis cannot be plaeed upon the proper storage of potatoes. Not aloue eliould this emphasis be placed because proper storage controls the Fusarium oe dry -rot and other dieecie' es but be- cause the vitality of the 4seed is such an important fector in potato pro- duction that it should aever be overlooked, There is, in the opin- ion of the writer, no other single factor so importaril to the potato in- dustry, Proper storage prevents theeepreo.gress a the disease as a dry - rot. Spraying will not control the ciias Storage litter and sick • seed should not be alloyed to reach the manure pile, as this will be a sure method of distributing the disease and infecting the fields. A seed plot on non-infected sil planted with carefully selected, healthy seed will offer a means of getting a sound seed supply. Whenever potatoes are placed in a warm, clamp storage they go to pieces; the fungus often showing on the surface as patches of a, white, moldy growth. In damp storage, bacteria, early becomes aseociated with the Fusarium disease, causing wet, soft acts. Storage cellars should be kept cool, dry and wall drained. Burying. (pitting) in the field is more satisfactory than most cellar sto,rage seed purposes. Dairy Hints. . The -dm that as always bawling is seldom best at filling the pail. There is no danger of having an over -supply of goodacountry butter. In the metropolitan centers it has become almost' an unknown quan- tity. • If you have only a small quantity of cream shake it in a fruit jar or beat in a bowi with a fork or spoon. 13e sure it is pure erearn with no • milk, otherwise, it may prove a long and tedious process. Those who scoff at the value of pedigree have but to look at the huilian family to see a repetition of the same traits from generation to generation. Is it not just as plaus- ible to believe that the well-bred animal .will iii all likelihood inherit some of these traits? Certainly, it is hopelese to expect anything but scrub stock from scrubs. Individ- uality counts for much, but • the power of pedigree should not be ovealooked. ' - • - Study 'the peculiar traits of the various f members of your herd and strive to adapt yourself to them. One coev prefers corn to oats or bran. Humor her in her tastes and she, will reward you. The good hum- orof even a, cow is worth striving for. The R—oaa Drag. The earth road will doubtless be commonly used in rural commun- ities for many years because of its low first cost. The ever -recurring problem of upkeep on such a road can be solved very largely by the of the so-called split -leg drag. Anyone who can use tools reason- ably well can build one of these drags at a eost of $4 or $5 for labor and material. Very few ',tools are required in.. making the drag, and its use is as simple and cheap as its construction. If desired, metal drags can bebought at a somewhat great cost from manufacturers of road machiteery. Careful use of the drag on a road that is already in reasonably good condition will almost entirely pre- vent trouble from ruts, ,naud holes or dust, and give good servic,,e at a low cost. Notes of the Hog Lot. Tankage makes. healthy hogs and gives them bone and muscle. Do not keep too many pigs to- gether and compel them to sleep in one nest. The most economical gains in pig feeding are obtained by a judicious blending of nitrogeneous andacar- bonaceoue foods. Crossing:may improve the hogs for the leed lot alone, but not for the parpese of perpetuating their kind, Notes of the Sheepfold. Sheep must play an important rt in the restoration of fertility the worn-out grain -raising areas the country. A common error of the inexper- ced breeder is failure to provide od shelter. Lambs cannot make od gains with, wet feet or soggy ece, One ma,n can feed 400 lambs to a ish between fall and epring more il3r than he can feed, milk and an up after tee dairy cows. void crowding the lambs in the ding quarters. They need a lot room on account of their natural bit of crowding, he ram should be in perfect eora ion, bee aot at, at mating, he 640 breeder is always want - to iraprove his flock and aside re ti * love of sheep the profite e stanulated his efforts to have ter ones. Pa "I'm going to have my laoy begin to at the bottom -and work up," said' of the millionaire. • "I presume you intend to start jee him in as an office boy, then." p "Exactly." go "Shall I put him on the pay -roll fie at the regular office boy's salary ?" "No, I wouldn't do that. You'd an better start him in at about $100 a eas week. The boy's simply got to have cle a little pocket money." • A fee Wife (pleadingly) -"I'm afreid, of Jaek, you 4<t not love Inc any more ha —anyway, as well as you used to." T IIttsbancl - "Why 2". dit °meal yoU always 'let me get up to T light the are now." Husband- ing 'Nonsense, my lovel Your getting fro ip to light the fire makes me love hag oU all the more." bet d salts; to • Nalkofo Laxatives are especially good fot children because they are pleasant to take, gentle tu • action, do not irritate the bowels war develop a need • for continual •or increased doeei, eec. a box, at your Druggist's. hiationol Drug and Chemical Co. of Cianadao Limited, 177 Mil FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAN9 •••••••••••• NEWS BY, MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That • Reigns Supreme in the Com- mercial World. The largest cloolc in the world ie at F°err<l'Wales.evitrytheuszend People in England arid Wales, fifteen die an. nually. iBnizlaiii.gham. is the great jewellery maaufacturing centre *f the United K A medical offieer reports thaa there are 10,000 people residing in the northwest wards of Deptford without a bath in -their homes. .4 • The King received iu audience at Windsor, Field-lia,rshail Sir John French, and handed him his faeld marshal's beton. The 'cemeteries- around London cover 2,000 acres, and the land they occupy represent a. capital of $100a 000,000. ' Three men were sentenced to six months and ono to three mozethea iraprisonment at Carlisle for pick - big pockets at a West Coast corri- dor express. The Mercha,nt Service Guild have announeed that increased pay fore eaptain.s and officers have beea granted by various lines, including the Union Castle. Unmarried men who 'will under- take -to remain single for four years have been selected as recruits by the Swansea Watch Committee foe the Borough police.. ' Prince Christian's pigs, including some noted prize -winners, have been sold at Slough.. A sow named Saucy Vexen was bought fair the King for over $130. • A serious attempt by suffragettes to de,strey crops over a large area, and also to cause a heavy less, life has. been discovered at Yaroaila Wood, near Birmingham, .- • John William Griffith, said to be the oldest living authority on Ched- dar cheese, has just celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of his birth aelat'air\ at Shepton Mallet: Two acres of ezerehevorks con- structed by the Royalists -when Newark was besieged during the civil war io 1644 have been desige I noted as public recreation grounds. Eighteen thousand cotton opera- tives of Nelson, Lancashire, a.r making preparations for their an- eual "feast," in which 'Way Neil spend between $100,000 and $150, 000. 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