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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-10-22, Page 6CHAPTER 11. Julian Bryanta -wife was extremely at. traetive. There were some people who did not masider hor pretty; but,. on the other hand, there 'were eome 'who ;equally de- elared that he wee beautiful. Bryant had fallen ia lteo with her Noises fend her laughter before eie ha4 reaeized in the least waat shewas like; in Met, he had been mealy weees in the atine lionee before he even ea.wher, but duriug teat time• he lied grown into the triter of weit- ing to hear her speak. he had to pam the door of leie room to go to her own little epartment et the top of the house, and he alwaYeleft, his door ajar when lie knew she was expected %so that he might hear her eoining; ueu•aly she ueed to hum or siug oeftly to herself ae mounted the very steep. stem. She was like a rare ray of sueelaue in the eliab.bY, depressing caneaphere of the boarding- house, somethieg that lifted and strength- ened the young mans spirit, for life ,was none too easy for him. He never knew indeed until he found hireself Metalled as v. boarder in the big shabby Bloome- , leurY establishment, how much be needed ' beautiful thinge about him, nor haw bard it was for him to assimilate hnisselfto the reetrietions and the hardships of city elerk's exietenee, lEe still retleined 4 smartness in las look and or wellaut clotnee, and he was the ebject .of a good deal taf admire - ton from the female eisaorsa; but lie gat out, of the bomaing-houee ne frequeutly as poseible. He loathed the food, and .de- tested the people, and he wae only heal*" when he wets be himself. • Julian was generous by nature; he had been devoted to his mother, and had eounted it little cost to leave the army and to turn round and face a life of drudgery for that inothere sake; but it was impossible for even one o kiiia and effectionate not to feel at times the futil- ity of the sacrifice he had made. Certainly he had redueed-the burden of debts, till very little remeined; but his mother had quickly shown him Of what quality she was made. Her grief for J:its father had been overwhelming at.erst, eo that it had eeen eamek beyond decamp - tion to the young man when one .day be had a little letter from hi se mother calm. ay infarming him that be was married again. Of comae, sae had An excuse for such eon•duct, insisting that this action of her' had been brought about bemuse the did not wieh to remain a .burden 'en her uoy put ane toiniortable seeness by removing herself M coneidera,ble distance. She had married a man her inferior in position. but -a -Plate renzly possessed ef a good aeal of 'money. "We ehall live abroad," she had weittere "I hope. •darling, that you will 'write to me as often as you can." Hie mother's marriege signified some- thing xaore than a' elmck te Inhere Bre- ant-it left him quite alone.Hie mai- tions had beee estranged at the time of hie father s deatb; as a matter, of Mot, - they had 'carefully aleeeenot walling to I be involved in the pecuniary difficulties; the only one who had shown him practi- cal kindness had been Mrs. Marnock, who had married an elderly half-brother of hits mother's, a man who woula have been very k' Juljau had lia been alive at this time. The late Mr. Warnock had been a greet sufferer, and had, never been at the office, but he had roueed his wife's interest, in Julian, and the young 331all had been very grateful to her for giving him, a start. It was so inevitable that lie and Enid should drift into happy conara•deiship. They met one very -wet evening when Ju- lian, feeling not only a disinclination to face the xere but conscioue of a certain .foolieshness of %spending money for food outside when he could obtain it in the houee, had decided to remain at home. He had gone down to dinner late, re- solving to retire to his own room again almost immediately; but his plans had been altered. SOIlle one else was late, too, and as he had entered the dining - room, the clear, fresh, enchanting voice with. the eunny little ring in it which was so fascinating to him came to his ears. The dinner Was cold and not very petising; but they sat and shared it to- gether; and they talked and they made friends. The girl told him that she was quite alone. eame over to England." she seal, against the wish of my aunt; in fact, she was very angry, and prophesied all sorts of dreadful things that were to ha,ppen to me; but I don't mean to be a. failure. I mean to do well, and to make a place for myself over here." And it was not very long before Julian confeseed to himself that the place she intended to make was already found in is heart, in is very heart of hearts. He eyed her as he had not, known it was possible that any one human creature rimed love another. Back in the old daye when lie had been with his regiment, he had flirted, and danced, and paid court as the others had done; but his heast had never beesi touch- ed; and now it yielded itself in one great yearning tendernem and passion for thee lonely girl, -with the sweet eyee and, the happy laugh and the delicate, fragrant personality. And so they married without asking anyone's cement, seeing nothing ahead -of them but happiness. Struggle there might be, work there might be and must be - but happiness; there should be. For Enid Bryant was somethieg better than being Pretty or attreetive or beautiful. She wae Practieal, which is a quality that does •not always aesimilate itself with the are ietic nature. She it was who planned out everything and eaw the difficulties and smoothed them away, who built eastles not of air but founded on hope, and who dreamed of the big things that elle would do to snake hereelf worthy of this man who had chosen her, and who had brought such wonders, such hitherto unknown joy IMO her existence. Before he reached home that memorable evening .Julian Bryant bad resolved that be would not tell hie Wife -what had hap- pened; but her sympathy was no per- functory thing; her love was so magnetic that before they had been alone five vainatee she had got the whole story out of him. She laughed at first, theft ehe was silent, and then she turned her face away. "Oh, juIian dearest," she said. "See what I have -done. I have spoilt your life." He took her in his arises and held her there tightly. -Spoilt my life?" he said. "You are going to make iti Do you euPPose I care about this for 'myself? It le Yoe. / am thinking of," She kiesed hini back, but there wee'a tears in her eyes. . "We were in each a hurry," ehe sala. "We bave been so haPPY3" he said. 'Oh! we ehall always be asaay, please God," the girl answered, createhing eloeer to him. "But things are coming olearer to me, Julian. How a "'fah I had known! Oh! I wish I had haewri!" "Wbat, do you mean, eine]?" "Women are queer creataree," hie wife anseeered. e'el is not at all an. original remark; but, it is -very true. What / mean ie, 7 veal) that I had seen Mrs. Marnoek. 1 wieb 1 had told her that we wanted to P-vt married." -r am glad you didn't meet her," said ,, ,eryant x little hardly. "She is riot the ' eort of woman eo eula undetstand, my disw eweetheeet. Slie' il, bard as naelvv e, e •o - :wan elle never d a heart, Ilict dpegret knew what sentiniene ie. If you cotes to aink of it, L'niti, it showS a mean spirit to have done 'what she has done to -flea," Enid Bryant took 'herself away from her etabenda aame and moved to the -Wiedow. -Perhaests, sae sisal, in a, low 'voice, 'perhaps it means souletairig elee. Yon , Sall this woman lora, 7.0u think be bas no eentinient. I know she es net Youelg- eitt, Julian, 1 urielersteeel whe ebe eats done this -way he itleant to be ea good ey, you .. . You were to be eo mime to her, Wms i eeYau were to bring her something ellieh all her motley had never been ebal to bay." ofahlfe:i5anhalliri.esant colored. up to the reets , "Enid. dearest, <lona talk ileeleeneee„ , said 3 little irritably. "It isn't noemnse. I'm getting. et the truth. aulan, you must have eiveu her 'D'..tiOtillaa.eboin°1rve;reine°01111Telil<clee.'111.•:ibleY-061111eiellearetesihilea' Year ago, how many times she called to inquire and the. flowers :she sent enu and% the fruit: these lovely (lemma whali you, Always sent etraight ire to ma Tema? There was always an excitement when Mrs. Marneclas ear came up to tile doer. Oh! I understand, I uuderetand.” Julian took her in his arms again. "You are a ciliate' he said; "and you are making up romances. Itachael Max. noek i5 nothing but a hard, jealous WO - n. bitter ereature. IL you want to know her real raaeon for doing things fee me, It w50 to annoy -my mother," "Well, have it voter own way,"-eaid Enid; "but leave ma my annances!" "Romaneee!" aspeatea Bryant. "I with —" and then be added, with a, sigh, "I wish to goodness I •eould send back that cheque. Mee. Julian Bryant was pretty and Practical, but elle wae also very young, and the young delight burdening thea- eelves with imaginary troubles. The tease, that had some to her charming eyes now relied ,dowe,her cheeks. "I knew we ought 'not to have done it," ehe repeated. ' "Everybody at the beard- ing -house said we were so fooliele I used :to bate them 'when they 'aeleed, me lacer we were going to live? Ohl Sullen, a love you so much, and yet I am hurting. YOU thratigh my love," The husband tools ,her in hes arms; and kissed away her team, and after awhile the trembling of her lips stopped, and he conjured baelt her. enalle. "We are going to show the world that we can do without it," he said. ' • CHA.PTER 111. They started out. bravely. Fortnuately the 'weather wee with them. The sun was shining and the world. was garbed. green. Enid had. left the Aoademy on. her marriage: in fact, she had come to the end of the year's tuition, which. had been provided Ma- arid heal been very xnuch troubled as, to hey she 1V56 to stay on, and week. Iter marriage' had solved the problem in anedirection, but not in another, for the -girl iniesed thebuy life, the lessonse,thehaed, wqrk, the encourage- ment. Ambition Vas laureling just as keenlyaa ever, but it ha.d to be kept under. They found two tiny rooms in Kensington, too tiny to hold a piano, even if they ceuldhave afforded one.. All day long anliati wae mite each mornieg he spent a fair amount, on riewsea,pers, searching theonges: the eolunies, of adve.a tismeents, and aastening to answer each ae-he felt eiveued be euitibIe: He walked mane miles tdeinterview all kinds of people, and Enid would sit, wait- ing for him to come home and wheat she 'waited exereesing her fingers mi the table Ansi pretending to hereelf filet :the was Practising. She was always radiant when he came back, no matter how tired or dile virited or trees he might be; she had the knack of making any.•little pla.ee home, d he • Somehow there was alweas a flower • to give .peefurne add color, a gift more often than not from the greengrocer round the corner; and she was to resourceful. 'ehe turned to her small honeekeeping dutias. with a zest which surprised herself, and elle -worried her braie and ecorched her hands inventing and cooking original -dishes for her husband.. "What do you think we 'Mao for supper to -tight?" she would cry. "Sprate a la Enid." Or perhaps it was a "creme Chopin," composed of an egg beaten up with sugar: or perhaere she would venture to give him a tiny bunch of asparagus. Be was so tired, poor juliant. and he seemed to have so little appetite. Little Mrs. Bryant shut her eyes reso- lutely to the only too evident shadow that erae falling on the beloved face.She was so delicate in her comprehensive SLY111- paella, so cheering., and she still laughed that bright, fascinating ..laugh 'which, if it did not tome quite so spontaneous, was a fact known only to herself. At least, she never rested till she had swept away something of the shadow, and brought smiles instead. 'Nevertheless, despite her little economies, her .great care and her bravery, the situation was becoming gradually more difficult. • The money went so terribly quickly! Enid hated asking for more, a 'feeling which com- municated itself to Bryant, for he always forestalled the -weekly allowance by a day or two; end gradually the summer waned andthe $1,130. dwindled, and it was not until the early autnmn that . julian Bry. ant. found hes Bret chance, work in the office of a new company. The salary was just half what he had been having before, but he accepted it eagerly, and 'this carried them up to Christmas; then the new company closed its doors, and he found himeelf once again without occupation. It seemed to him that he walked the entire city in theee days, and as disap- pointment after disappointment came to him, there grew up slowly iti hie mind the ugly suspicion that some one or some- thing was working against him, for inany a time when he was just in touch of a berth the chance slipped through his fingers for no satisfactory reason, and he found it given toeomeone else. Julian Bryant did not rely merely en his educational qualities to give him work. Long before things had -come to this pitch, he had decided (keeping the matter, however, entirely to himself) that if he could not uee his brains he would turn to and use his heeds. But here again he failed, the helpless- nees of hie own strength seemed to mock him; for he could get nothing to ded Once, -unknowu to his wife, he wrote to his mother. Ile did not ask for her money, although he might in all justice have done se, for had be not charged himself with the responsibility of her innnmer- ablef debts he vvonld have found himself in a, very different, position now; but he could not bring himself to aek from her: he only oilt his difficulties in front of her and askedher far her advice. He thought it poseible that, through .her hus- band she relight, haves been able to *thew him some way in which to earn his living". It, was a lorig time before he received an answer and then there came a letter very much 'underlined ""ead very affectionate: in which, howevee, els mother declared that it was trete out of her power to ad- viee him or to be of any tree at all. She deplored his marriage in the tendert way passible, and recommended him to try and see what he eould do fra himself with his father's people. As the aryent family was proverbially- poor, this sug- gestion was of little value to him; never- theleee, auliari did approach Ifs various relations, only, however, to :meet with xe- newed disaapointinent, made more bitter by unsougbt and sententious adviee. If eornetimes the question traabled Enid Bryant as to holy her hesbend managed to keep things going, ehe never spoke of this; there vast between them that inost rere anti Yet Sielet „exgaisite sympathy wbieb, sees the lips' in crucial moments; but gradually Enid began to do thinge ether than laagh in her ausband's.pre- seem, or cook fa hie abeetices elle fell to retaking plans, plane to solve the problens of the Waite on her own aMoura. She had kept away from the Academe purposely: net even to hercolf eveuhl she anifese how her 'spirit eeareed to be -Working; but on aro occasion (a day where all ageinst her efforts, e heava dead luta fallen on her atagat young spirit), she met oee of her fernier fellola studeete, ei, girl who had &Me Melamine as a pupil; but who had left at the end of }Wiles finst term., Sybil Stacie:on eves delighted to eee and eareled lier off to the nearest tea.. &hot tor a chat, she ekPreseed Miasmal seirpriee When sae heaxci that Dee had given up her music, sod evae metaled. eteeby any dear," see mid. 'Yoe had it eel betore real I don't lend tellieg tt - British Cycle Corps, with its Colt Gun, Fording a Stream En Route to Join the Main Corps. I ehould have been furiously jealous of icv • You if I'd stayed on I expect they must be pretty sick that 'you've left became GA1 utmuuna rinnnuo! 9 IRATTLE A1 you are the sort of studeet Abet doe e so much good. to an institution. Surely, you, , • . aren't going to let everything eroP, Enid?" "It is rather difficult to go on workiug when one has 4 home to look attee." "Well, I think your huebana ought to anow what you're giving up, observed Miss Jackson decisively. "And you're e lot too young. to leave inarriedebut I hope he is able to amp you evell?" Enid :sipped her tea and laughed.' "We are as lia1My as the day is long,she saud." Sybil ack,son looked at her a little en - "Well I'm not doing badly," she said; "but of course, it's a lonely life. MY peo- ple live in the country, and it's eimely suicidal to try and get a connection for teacaing -where they are, so I've had to stay on in town. You'll vireo and see me, woret you, Enid? I've got a fiat, too, a tines one right at the top of the block, but there's such a lovely view from -the "window. and then I can work at the paao as much as ever I like, and I don't dis- turb anybody, which is the great thing, you know!" it was Enid's turn to be enveous now. "How long do you practice?" asked Miee Jaekson. A flush carne into julien's wife's cheeks as, she confessed that he never touched the piano. The other girl scolded her sharpie. "I call it positively criminal," she said; "but ita always the way; when girls marry they give up everything. I don't know 'what your laulband's like, but I can't help feeling that you've made a fool of yourself. Why, My dear, t•elle you straight now, they expected you to carry everything before you. You might, have been a great pianist with your personal- ity ansi your temaerament. It isn't too late even ae it is. You just think, about It; and come arid ,sea me eonietimes if you can sparer an. hour. Brad said nothing to her husband of this meeting -with Sybil Jackson. She felt more depremed after she and the other girl had parted, and yet unconscionely Miss Jackson had inspired her -with raw hope, bad put something into her nain.atei occupy leer thoughts and. to help her in fornailatin,g those piens which kept her Awake at night, and yet which she cher- ished •es 'being perhaps te tangible solution to them many small probleme. Matters conspired to help her, for at Juliana restless suggestion, they changed their rooms and came nearer town; aad to Etad's delight this new home, small and dingy as it was, held one promise of joy for her, forthere was a piano in their sitting -room, an old jaeagly, well m -worn in- struent, but still a -piano; and when Ju. lien Bryant -was out she felt safe for some hours, his 'wife -would -et working at that piano, making the % notes ring again with the music which, hal almost paesed from. them. And then one after- noon, a cold and dreary day, she made her way to a well-known concert agent and begged to be allowed to play to him. The brilliant promise of her student days Tfali well fulfilled. fortunately, for she played to a critical listener, a man who was sparing of praise, and who never gave encouragement unless it, could be hanestlY But he saw a future in thee ger': Jove and the suffering which love brings had a-vrakened the soul in Enid: she played now as she had never played before. Her heart seerned alive with excitement a,nd joy as she hurried home after that Ince inentons interview. Julian had come back from aae of his fruitless errands; he -was sitting by the Bre trying to xeza. Elis wife's beast sank as she looked at him, and he frowned as he looked at her; and as she knelt beside hire and told him the story of what she had done and what lay before her in the future, the de- light, the hope, the eXeltellient faded out suddenly. "You ink am goi thunk ng to be idle and let you work!" Julian said.' "You muet bespToh:leern wtro'erheteril,. aeal they hurt very ba,ctly. first rough wads he had Still Enid *sled to hold -het own. "Dearest," she said. "what does it mat- ter which of us works We are not two, we are one; and if it cornet: in my wese--" "I tell you, I 'Won't have it," Bryant an- swered hardly. "I an not going to let you earn -money to keep me; and I am net going to let ray wife turn herself in- to a show velem' to be stared at and criticized, and get her head turned with tnuidpnid f;:utgtehr4" but there were tears iA 'tha,ohleie aeruhltiearn. she said, "1 am eo sorry. 1 thought you „would have been pleased," (To be continued.) ' PAIIAGRAPHS. . - If the play is a frost the audience soon melts away. Brklei with Sottr dispositions are apt to spoil honeymoons, . Many a man who is good has a ad look. look. Ttastes of a millionaire may be imprisoned in & pauper's purse. A man who can dispose of 'his troubles for a oonaideration is a gentillidse. Pmakes some people ridicu- lous and prevents others from he- conling SO. "The early bird catches the worm," observed the sage. 'Tea," teplied the fool, "but look how much longer he has to wait for din-- ner time." One on the Other--postor--You should take three or four eggs daily for a month to build you up. Pa- tient -But doetor 1 tannot afford it, Doctor-Weli then you must Lake a, trip to Europe, t WERE IN FOUR ENGA.GEMENTS IN FIVE DAYS. • After That Only 170 of Regiment Answered to Their Names. From a letter penned by one of England's wounded heroes in Alex- andra, Hospital, Gotham Hants, England, a lucid idea is obtained of the spirit of intense patriotism which aetuattes every offieer and inan of Great Britain's forees in the field. The letter was written by Samuel Smiley, one of the pitifully mea:gre remnant of vram,t was one of the nation's era* regiments of the line, the Gordon Highlanders, known throughout the service, as "the gay and gallant Gordons." 111 appears that more than seventy-five per oent. of the oommaxid either perished or were wounded in the first fierce fighting on Belgiun soil, Some extracts follows :-- I:hurricane of Shell. "At MOILS I got a orack on the knee with a, shrapnel' splinter. I knew nothing of it until my officer pointed it out to me. I dug it out with a pen knife and now I assure you I feel no ill effects. Of course there is a wound, but I'll be sur- prised if it is not healed within a we7Ik; 'I'll tell you about the fighting at Mons, but I have absolutely no coherent recolle.ction of Oanabrai. The hurrican of shell there has left me benumbed, and I do not yet re- alize that I am home. We marched out of our billets at four o'clook in the morning and took up a posi- tion on -the main Paris road. Mons itself was somewhat half left on our rear. "We then dug our trenches, and much labor 'and love we put into the work. Theba,11. opened at half -past eleven with a terrible artillery duel, the German shells burstingover our trenehes. Our company, D, with company B on our left, held the right side of the road. Catapa,ny 0 was in advanoe and the Middlesex regiment and the Royal Iristh held the cross roads -to our left flank in the direction of Mons. The artillery fire was continued for several hours, Until a movement of infantry was observe4 m,hich was evidently in- tended for the Gordons. *Samply Blasted Away.. • "They ocbtipied the wood to our left front. We opened on themwith a terrific Maxim fire.. Poor devils,' they a,dvaneed in ,«Nrapanies of quite 150 men in files five deep. As our rifile has a flat trajectory ap to 600 yards; you can guess the result. We could steady our riflles onthe trenches and take deliberate aitn: The first company of them was sim- ply blasted away by a, volley ot'700 yards, and in their insane forma- tion every bullet was sure to- find two billets'. 'The other compalies kept ad- vancing very slowly, with their dead eotnrades as cover, but they had absolutely no chancey and at about five o'cloek eheir infantry re- tired. We were still being subject- ed to a terrible artillery fire -God 1 boW theit artillery do fire l -but we had time to observe Whet was hap - penning on our left flank. The Royal' Iriah regixnent.had been sur- prised and fearfully eut up, a,ncl so, too, had the Middlesex„ Beggars ,Description, "Then followed a scene whieli beggars dew ption by me. We crept, from our trenches and trossed to the other side of the Toad, where W e had the benefit of a ditch for eover. We made excellent progress until one hundred and fifty yards from the cross roads. There wet a II hit house flesh w th the If" --- rminecliately tile Germans opened a hellish storm of shrapnel at the house. They eould not see us, but I guess they knew why troops .s.hould pass there. However, our ordere Were to relieve the Royal Irish, and, astounding as it may seem, etre pass- ed that house, and I was` the, only one to be hit. Even yet I am ann,az- ed at our luck. "By this time the dusk bad set in. Four villages were on fire and the Germane were still ,shelling the plucky Royal Irish. The dead and wounded were all around us. We repulsed a v.ery faint-hearted "Mi- lan attack, and aliout 9 p,m. came our orders to retire. What a pitiful handful we were against the Ger- man host., and yet we 'held the flow- er of their army at, bay all day. "As you know, we created Cain among the Germans at- Mons on that Surida.y and beat them, too. They were in far too strong force for us and we just had to retire. Their "Busy Days." "At four o'clock on Monday morning they attacked us again, so we left the milk (.303) on the- door- step and retired again. Two fights and fifteen miles in thirty:six hours. On Tuesday at two -thirty p.m. the Goadons were ,sent to oust some German infa.ntrY from a position on our left front, VA had to:cross a large turnip field alid I twisted my bad ankle. It was a fine state of af- fairs, and'my company officer got •nie a seat on the limber of the 128th battery, Royal Field Artillery. I had not been up ten minutes before they galloped into action with me - 1 was beginning to feel the reverse of cheerful when, 'after they fired zt.' few rounds, we got our oaders to ma"kWeeolgirotg.etrya'tyhis time the Gr - dons had disappeared, so went on to Cambria& It was late- when we got.in, and I was told my regiment was .oine four miles off. I then de- cided to join some other lot an,d try to get to the 'Jocks' in the meaning. Made the Best of It "-Accordingly I .attached myself to the Royal Soots FUsiliers, 'B Com- pany. At six -thirty on Wednesday morning, as they were going into action, I thought I might as ,well make the best of it, so I went into action .wath them. I fought all that day and marched all night and when eight o'clock Thursda-y morn- ing eame I saw all that was lelt of the gallant and gay Gordons -E70 men answered their names. God knows how many more were alive. I joined up there and earried on no- thing until we arrived at Noyon. Four engagements and fifty miles in fiv`e`IdWaasYa.coanpelled to go sick there. The pain in my /eg was uabearable and the doctor banged m.e on a Red Cross train ancl sent me to Rouen. I was there ao hour when eame the eornmand, 'Hurry up, hurry up; we've got to quit,' so we were chiv- vied up to Havre, and, well, there you are: , Their Future Johnny Jones, the office' boy, had been detected in a, lie.. Ib was not one of the ordinary prevarications of the everyday -world, and more- over, to make tie orime more. griev- ous, he had persisted in adhering to his original roenclacious- State- ment. "Do- you know, my lad/7 asked a rather fatherla clerk, in a kindly fashion, "what becomes of young lads who trifle with, the trut,10" "Aye," was the assured rep1V: "bosses send ,theni out as travellers when they grow up." --- • 'Choy Don't TiaSt. "What are ahe most parishaSle,, most fleeting and most evanesceat things in the world ?", asked the married man. "I don't know," replied the single man. '`What a're they?" "A pair of lboY's shoes," replied the married inert. sang, w e i , road, standing in a, clearing. Our • young subaltern was leading and 1 Many a man who is good has a safely crossed the front of tho honse. sad look, , , V 00 the Farm tac,"tereataatwasestaaasarafamaaaa , Illanagement Of To be a ,successful ho,,,r'raiser one must keep his stoek under the very best environment possible. I)o not think any old thing or place is good enough for a hog. Be should have access to good clean, water at all , trni 'nude N8:111011:st, sItvarl0ibepsonlvicirw.aEte•r 34°r. Renck. Olean, pure water will do more toward keeping hogs healthar thaii any other one thing, The hog has a peculiar skin, ,and under the skin is a thick pad of fat, so that he must get rid of his heat mostly ifrOne his lungs by breathing. In hot weather he needs some 000l place to lie in, and if he can find macl he -wallows in it. Be prefers good, clean water, but if he can elet find that, mud is the best substitute. Shade is very esseotial in warm weather. Buildings for bogs need not be very expensive. We advise colony, houses of the A ,shape, with bot'h sides open with hinges on the top. This type of house furnishes shade, ventilation, and sunlight in summer and when closed, a verycomfort- able farrowing pen in winter. These houses are erected on skids auel can be moved from place to pla,ce with a pair of horses or 'mules. They are ,so constructed that they . are ideal farrowing pens. A sow about to. farrow can 'be placed in a lot in -which is one of these coloay houses, and elle will make her nest in the house if some hay or straw is placed there. Fenders 'should be arranged around the sides of. the house so that the sow will not be a.ble to lie close to the sides and in the ataiewsat.ycrush the young pigs in These colony houses can also be used for the boars and growing pigs although some prefer permanent quarters for the boar and those pigs intended for the market. It is a great adv,antage to feed hogs on concrete or tight ,board floors, espe- ciallyiif. o-ne is feeding ear corn, aa there will be no waste. Feeding in muddy or dirty lots is a very dan- gerous practice. It sometimes becomes necessary to feed pigs separate from the sows, even when nursing. This can be done by building near the colony house a. temporary fence which will allow the little pigs to get in, but will keep out the old hogs. If this plan is adopted the pigs will practi- cally wean theinselves without in- convenience either to themselves or to the sow. We prefer feedirig -the small pigs and in. fact all our hogs in either iron or concrete troughs, with round bottoms. V-shaped troughs can also he used. -Fences play a very. important . part in hog raising. A poor fence will produce a breachy hog as quickly a.s it will a fence-baeaking cow. We prefer any streng close woven -wire fence a,t least 58 inches high for the outside fence, In smaller lots either woven wire or woode.n fences temporarily placed will be cheaper and can be used a number of times. Temporary fences need not be over three feet high ind should be so constructed that - they can he carefully stored when not in use. Woven -wire used as temporary fente is very difficult' to ,stretch after it has been used sever- al times, although it can be used to advantage when lumber aud help are not plentiful. a In planting forage crops ij is an advantage to plant in long narrow strips so that the temporary fences can be placed across the narrow part of the field. It is also an ad- vantage to arrange the crops so that one section is in such align - rapt with the other sections that the cultivation may be done with- out turning at the end of each sec- tion, and when the crops are laid by the teroperary fence can separ- ate one erop from another. When plansare made to establish hog pastures One must not forget the very important factor of pro- viding good, pure water for them. In sections where running water cannot be secured through pipes, it can be hauled in barrels. Many. hog raisers provide a sled or drag on skids on which a barrel is fas- tened on a water -tight floor with sides to it so that the pigs can drink all around the ba,rrel, the water coming out of the barrel about three inches from the bottom through a small hole, whieh auto- matically flows according to the wa- ter eel -mimed. • Running streams of water are very satisfaotory when they origin- ate on the f9,,rin, but if they travel long distances and through several farms and _across" public roads, they are very likely to be contaminated a,nd may spre,ad diseases snob aa anthrax, and hog cholera. Keep- ing hogs healthy is rnueli more im- portant than trying to cure thein when sick. 'Didn't I tell, you. the last time you were here,'?, said the Magis- trate sternly to the prisoner who had been celebrating not wisely but too well, "that I never wanted you to come before Inc again ?" "Yea, sir," replied the prisoner, "but I couldn't make the policeman be- lieve it." • !it