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NOTES AND COMMENTS
Two years ago the question of relief
errs was very grave in England. Ik'sti-
lutien was widespread and extreme, and
there were demonstrations, prooes-
sion3 and spectacular marchee to 1m -
Kees mein the government the need of
romne dieal kgtslatieen. Public and pre
%ate charity did its utnosl, -the queen
starting a subscription with a liberal
gift. Thera was talk of tarot cotonlrs,
p: talo patches, great state and muni-
cipal undertakings and so on. But
with the advent of spring business so
improved that the problem solved it -
6o11 largely. ,
Last year there was comparatively
little distress In England. Peet/mete
had placed half a million dollars In the
hands of John Burrs, tob_rs represen-
tative in tho cabinet, and ho used A
with care and Intelligence. At the end
of the winter he had a balance to turn
in. Little was heard of farm oolontes
and other experiments, though un-
doubtedly the experience of the people
and government during the two win-
ters had influenced everybody In favor
of small holdings legislation and had
emphasized the importance of the "back
to the land" movement in Groat Britain.
This winter, owing to the business des
pression in Europe, the unemployment
question is again rather sorters in the
British industrial cenlreA. There has
been n revival of "radical" and extraor-
dinary schemes, and the march of a
little army of men from Manchester to
Windsor, with iho alleged intention of
"squatting" on a section of the royal
park and raising vegetables, is ono of
these.
Tho matter ds sure to be agitated in
parliament. The labor party is dissal-
fsfled with the attitude of the govern-
ment., though John Burns has spoken
vigorously against hasty relief mere
sures and pauperizing makeshifts. Tho
other day it moved an amendment to
the speech from the thnono regretting
the om;sson to the latter of any refer-
ence to the question of wedding work
for t•he unemployed, and while the
amendment was rejected the inlmsler•fiil
rnajoril.y in that division was only 47,
the Irish representatives and many of
the radicals, together with most set tho
cont ervatives, voting with the labor-
itos. There was political strategy in
the action of ttie conservatives, who
certainly are no more ready than the
party in power is to embark upon costly
and doubtful publ'c weeks as a moans
e.,f relief for the temporarylly unemploy-
ed. But, with allowance for partisan
politics made, the situation is still dif-
ficult enough to cause much anxiety.
ABOLISHED NAVAL PIGEONS.
No Longer Needed in Those Days of
el'ireless Telegraphy.
An Admiralty official recently con-
firmed the statement that the British
naval pigoen service was to be allowed
to fall into disuse, says the London
Daily Graphic.
"Think of ill" he remarked. "Not ere
eery many years ago people were filled
with wonderment that a horning pigeon
could fly wrath meesages at the rate of
sixty miles an hour and reach its dos-
lination With safety. To -day a wire-
less message can be sent at the rate
of hundreds of miles in a few seconds.
"It was a wise step to establish, as
the Admiralty did, a carrier pigeon ser-
vice in conneteion with the navy; they
are equally wise to abandon the stations
now that telegraphic fncillties have been
brought to such a slate of perfection.
"Now -a days a battleship can easily
keep In wireless eonimun cation with
Raine Head. near Plymouth, white soy -
aging lo l;ibraltnr, or even to I onions
of the Mediterranean. Most of the fleet
hey.) the necessary Installations abroad.
"Ila naval pigeon service had its
drawbacks, birds often not finding their
way home through lesin their reckon-
ing or on account of Injury. Only In
miner ways has their usefulness 4• the
navy been demonstrated. Without
wireless telegraphy. hc'tveter, there is
no qua;Uon that in Umo of war they
would have been a real help."
Among pigeon fanciers there was
some consternation, especially on the
part of those whn belong to what is
known as the volunteer carrier pigeon
serviee, which is not, however, to be
interfere:! with. Brea -fere will no doubt
e,veil themselves of the opportunity to
buy the pigeons e hich have been trained
at the Admiralty Totts.
THE ROTW R1"TORTS.
!Midnight came and still the biro re-
mained.
"110 you like melee' asked the beau-
tiful girl, just to break the monotony.
'•l'assienat ely fond of 11." replied the
bore. 'In fact, music will always car•
ry me Away.,,
She rushed over M the piano and
played reverel popular sire.
"You aro Mill here," alio said, turn-
ing on the stool.
"Yes," yawned the Dore.
°But I thought you snid nereio al -
Ways carried you aw.tye
•' o 1 did --music."
A TNT OF RICHES.
"Ile.w .io you knew that young man
cnn support you in the way you Aare
been acesistimet to?"
"Oh, father, I'm sure of it. He's
at.pp.orte.l an automobile for six monttia
and there more than you have ever been
able to do.I1
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A Broken Vow ;
—OR
BETTER THAN REVENGE.
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CHAPTER U.
There was a certain grim honesty
about Olive Varney. Without knowing
it she had a c)nteuipt for the (ashiun
In which her father had sot about hie
schemes. Sho had loved tum as pas-
sionately and shingly as it was in '►er
nature to love anyone; she had been
t'ilterly sorry for him, and for his
Wrecked and thwarted ,lite. But it is
probable that, had the matter rested
with her, she would have flung herself
straight Into this business of vengeance,
utterly reckless of any consequences.
Thome would have been no lidding and
waiting on her part.
Nevertheless her honesty taught her
That she must remember her vow to
the dead in dealing with the living.
That must be carried out at all W-
ards, and in face of all opposition; she
Would compromise enly as to the man-
ner of doing it. Honesty demanded
that she should give her victim fair
warning before commencing the light.
Therefore, before, turning her back
upon tho quaint old city wherein sho
had laid her father to rest, she wrote
to Lucy Ewing. It was a bit'orly-word-
td simple statement; the sort of thing
that should grip the heart and tear
aside for ever the decent veil that had
shrouded Lucy Ewing's father. She
set out in exact words that oath she
knew so well, and which she had spoken
beside the dead man; and ehe added cer-
tain lines of her own.
"You aro younger than 1 am, and i
do not mean to take an unfair advant-
age of you. So I come—openly and
fairly—as your enemy. i will do no-
thing that you can lay hold of, or that
shall place me within reach of any taw
tl:at protects you; but 1 will carry out
what i have promisal my dead father,
nevertheless. Your father was a vil-
lain, and you a poor fool to believe in
him so long. Theme Ls a grave far
away in a foreign country on which
I knelt once, at my lather's bidding,
and on which i made my vow. !low
or when I shall begin the work that
la mine I shall not tell you; only i want
you to know, as some added injury to
yourself, that I exist, and that my pur-
pose 1s unchangeable. i leave thls
Woe to -morrow and i travel straight
to London, so that you even know when
shall bo near you.
"OLIVE) VARNEY."
She committed that extrnordinary
epistle to the past; paid a final calm
visit to tho newly -made grave, and
Markel for London. And on her jour-
ney to i.ondon (hero grew and deep-
ened in her a resentment she had not
felt before.
For the flr.st time In her life she was
(roe—in the sense that she had only
to follow the dictates of her own heart.
Yet she was so far from free that she
was still the prisoner of the dead man's
hepes and desires; there was no life
for her, save that which he had map-
ped out. Ho had carefully arranged
that a certain sum of money was left
to her, which should last for n limited
time—until sho had accomplished her
object. The amazing selfishness of the
man was show In the fact that after
that she was totally unprovided for;
Daniel Verne/ had felt that, that be-
ing her life work. frnrn his point of
view. she had only to accomplish It,
and them was an end of her.
It was a dreary journey, and she was
not need to travelling alone; but that
growing feeling of resentment filled her
mind. She .remembered the Tetters Lucy
Ewing had written during all those
years; remembered how she had grown
u e with those letters for her girlie and
her text. She reinernberoi the last one
which she had torn up—recollected
clearly n1.1 the little happy turns of
s1•eech---nil that new and delightful se-
cret concerning a Doming love -story.
With (tat she contrasted her own bil-
ler, subdued life; sho resolved that one
o f her first objects should be to nip
that small rornan:e in the bud in some
fashion or other.
"Love has not been mine," she
thought, as she brooded to herself over
the matter►•, "why should it corns to
her? I have grown old before any time
vieth thinking of this wrong that I havo
t.; set right; why should this butter-
fly sett through the easy ways of life.
and have the best of everything and
suffer nothing? Well, her poor little
heart Is fluttering now, 1'11 be bound;
there are sighs and tears In place of
Laughter. And !herr is a dead man
calling- walling lo me always not to
fc.rget. He oalls more loudly now to
me than tie did in life, limns., he has
left everything for me to do."
People who lonke.i nl her ttondervl
W ho she was. She kept herself apart.
end on the boat sat quite still, with
her eyes flied towanls that distant
England they were approaching. Sho
Aeok care. after landing, to select a
enrrtac;ee In which there were no other
pa.:senster --nn ensy thing, bec:nre but
few were travelling that way. She
was a libile annoyed to see another
woman select thnt carriage ateo and
rnako herself comfortable in one core
mer. F.ven while she thought about her
own plans she wetched this other we-
von
o•tc to After the train hall started.
A women ',somewhat older than her-
self, and plainly dressed In faded black.
Obviously It gentlewomen, teem a cer-
fain refinement of face end manner,
and even of small details of dress. Stie
bad no luggage with her. although That
might have been pDieced In the guard's
van. The chief thiat that Olive Ver-
ney neticd about her t'ty the Pict that
she had a curiously eletful, tamed
Ss td, look Apps ler tac I sod tenet
she seemed to bo anxious, if possible,
to speak to her travelling companion.
As Olive had no wish to speak to any
ono, she withdrew Into her oornor and
rat moodily looking out of the win-
dow.
She began to r"gret lho.sending or
that letter to warn her victim. That
had been an act of honesty that was
unnecessary; it would have been far
Letter to have worked completely on
the. plan laid down by the dead man
—to have crept into the life of the girl
without her knowledge. With that
socrot power she held, by reason of the
let'ers she had read, hew easily 1t would
have been to have made her way in
some fashion into the houso in which
the girl lived; to have crept Into her
life, as it were, and so have got a grip
upon it she never could havo now.
les; that letter had been a blunder—
an opening of the gates to tho enema
et the wrong moment. She would
havo given a great deal to recall It.
So completely had she cut herself off
from tho life she had led so long with
her father that she carried with her on
that journey everything she possessed
in the world. Neither she nor her fa-
ther had possessed much, and the set-
tling up of his affairs had left Olive
Varney with but little except a small
personal wardrobe In a trunk, and a
bag, then in the carriage with her,
which held the small snick of money
which she had. \Vith the singleness
ot purpose that had characterized her
father, she saw nothing beyond the in-
definite acoomi•lishment of her purpose.
Tho money would lost for sonie few
months; after that sho must look about
to rnake a living of some kind. In, a
matter of this kind it is always well
le reduce things to their simplest ele-
ments. Beyond her trunk, tills bag be-
side hor contained all that she pos-
sessed.
"I have not been in London for twelve
years.'
It was tiro stranger In the other cor-
ner of the cordage who had spoken.
As Olive turned her dark eyes upon
her in some surprise, Um other wo-
man gave a weak little laugh, and
blinked her eyes and trepeated her re-
mark.
'Not for twelve years! It seems
strange—but then, everything u strange
In this world, isn't it? Upe and downs
—and downs and ups; it's what a bro-
ther of mine used to call once a big
gamo of 'tooter.' And I never thought
b) genre bad( to London like this."
Sho bit her lip and turned away her
head; Olive Varney, watching her, saw
that the tears had sprung suddenly to
herr eyes. Obviously she was In some
trouble, and obviously she wanted to
talk about !t. (lard proesed for sym-
pathy, too, or she would scarcely have
addressed a alrang'r.
"Your return to London Is a sad one?"
asked Olive Varney quietly.
"Only as sad as most things," re-
plied the woman, with a little gulp and
another biting of the lips. "It's a curi-
ous plight to find oneself in after so
ninny years. i've lost everything I pos-
sess. 1 haven't a rag but what 1 stand
up in; i've scarcely a shilling beyond
my actual railway fare. Funny, isn't
it?'
"How did it happen?" asked Olive,
after a pause.
"i'►n a governess—and i've been un-
luwky. Perhaps my methods are a lit•
tie old; i learnt them such a long time
ago. i Jost a situation"—sho looked
out over the darkening landscape, and
gave it lithe quick sigh —"and 1 couldn t
gel another. it didn't take long for my
little bit of money to get exhausted;
and I hadn't a Foul In the wide world
to apply to. 1 don't know why 1 tell
you this, except perhaps because you're
a woman."
"How did you lose all your passe:-
sions?" asked Olive.
"1 got into debt at arty kolging —
deeper into debt every dry. 'then they
began to frighten erre—lo threaten what
they would do if i cedn'l pay thein. They
ware going to turn no in'o the streets;
God only knows what they wouldn't
have deuce. So at Inst I to.ak the thing
into my own !sands, and left behind
rule all my boxes and everything 1
didn't actually neral, and walked out.
1 sold a little Trinket that had belong.
ear to my mother, and f bought a ticket
end started for Landon. There tiro lots
ct governesses waned in London; I
shall coin get work, and then can
send for my things. But It's funny lo
be going back to hmdon, after twelve
years of wandering about In strange
places—and to be going back almost
pennileso and without a friend. So
many people seem to have died since
1 was there --se runny others have gone
away and forgotten me."
"Aren't you afraid?" asked Olive Var-
ney,
"No—not exactly nfrald; I'rn only
tired." replied the woman, with an ether
weak little laugh. "It doesn't ssom
worth the doing, somehow—to go on
living. 1 mean. 1f 1 saw an easy way
out of all the trouble and the petty
meann•'sses and the weariness, i think
I'd take it."
"1 don't think you wou'd " said Olive
Renbusir. "You're riot that sort; 1
don't think you're strong enough."
"Perhaps you're right," replied the
other. as early its she hal agreed to
everything flee IMt hed been said;
'enly, one U so afraid of drifting --
and etr,fling Int never being obis bo
get up neon. And 1 have leen fn quite
god famllie'-:, I ran velure you."
The women chattered en In an incon•
eequent fashion -- now with vague
schemes of hat she well' do when
she shoii'd rene h London --and new
with little whimpered revamp against
the Fate that had driven her to her
proemt position. it had grown ahnest
dart: when they stopped at a atelier,
the name of which Olive \'antey ccull
not Si.'. She saw, however, that there
wars a well -lighted refreshment roust on
tho platforms against which they had
drawn up; and, partly with a longing
to get away from the feeble chatter of
the other woman, and partly out of
sheer restlessness, site got out of the
carriage looking back as she did so
to say that she was going to try to got
sono lea, and would bring her com-
panion some. She moved across into
the warmth and brightness of the re-
freshmerit room, and the door swung
behind her.
As is usual in such cases, tea was the
last thing in (he works it was easy to
get; and the attendant was awkward
and slew. Once Olive made an impati-
ent movement towards tho door, but
►.ging aesurod that it was"almost ready ';
ehe came bate: again and wailed. Then,
before she quite knew what had hap-
pened, there was a whistlki and the
st;riek of the engine, and then a slow-
ly -moving lino of lights beyond the
glass doors o (the refres'hnient ronin.
She sprang to the door and tore it
epen; but the train was in rapid mo-
tion, and even as sho cried out, and
Ihen stopped. not knowing what to do,
it had roundel the curve beyond the
platlor•m and was gone.
It Is probable that someone would
have noticod her but for the fact that
they all seemed to be watching some-
thing
omathing elso. For in a moment the slow,
portly station -master uttered a cry and
began to run along the platform to-
wards the rocedllg train; a porter,
.shouting also, ran atter hlrn. Then
the door of the signal -cabin at the end
of the plaltorrn was burst open and a
white-faced men rushed down towards
them both, wringing his hands and
crying something unintelligible. Scarce-
ly knowing what she did, Olive Varney
ran Loo, and so found herself behind
tho other running figures and down on
the metals.
It all seemed to happen in less than
a second. There was a rush and a
roar end a crash; then tho shining line
of lights In the receding tratn seemed
I: be mixed up horribly with another
shining lino towards the side of it; the
lights were all plkd up and jumbled
horribly against the darkness. Then
many voles, and doors being thrust
open, and figures dropping out from the
two trains on either side.
Site was not noticed in the darkness;
stilt runnirng, alae got to about the
point where she judged the carriage
she had oMupkd to be. And here the
wreckage was greatest; hero cries and
greens could be heard. and men were
clinibing all over the broken woodwork
and lifting still figures out. It was
apparent that one train had cut straight
Into the middle of the oilier. Olive,
with the ono Instinct at that moment
Ln regain her property, watched the
men at work, and watchoi each figure
as it came out, and at last saw tho Ilg-
t'ro of the poor governess.
IL was, of OOUrie, a utero litre mat-
ter of Falo—tire Fate that had dogged
the weaman so long and had stepped in
now to give her quickly what she want-
ed—oblivion. Olive Varioy knew what
had happened where they carried leo
woman out; for some man had
gocovereerness,
d
the face. But the curious thing was
that in the hand of the poor v
clutched tight in a grip eveer Death had
not leen able to loosen, was the bag
which oontalnoi all Olive Varneys
worldly wealth. And when they laid
the woman down, the !rag lay beside
her, still held closely.
Tho shock of the thing had been so
great that the usually strong, self -re -
tient O'h'o had stood np:art, wondering
what she should do. In the first plpce.
It seemed an awful thing to step in at
that solemn moment and rub the dead,
as it wero, of what she held; such a
callous thing to step In and claim the
bag and walk away with it.
While she hung in the background,
she heard a man say that th's lady
had been the only ono killed; the other
train had cut straight through that
carriage. Four or five pooplo In other
oompartmenla had been injured. and n
few limbs broken; but there was no-
titing serious.
".She doesn't seem to have had any-
one traveling with her," said one man,
who appeared to be n doctor, as he
tent over the silent figure lying on n
tstnk in the light of it lantern a porter
was hold ng. "Mr. Station -.\taster, will
you be so gond as to open that bag
and sol if there's any name?'
The statten-master knelt and fumbled
with the clasp of the bag and opened
its drew out a Thin, warn cardca.se.
Opening This, ho heel a cnn! to the light
of the lantern and mail the name.
"Miss Olive Varney," he saki- slow-
ly
"The hag—ia there a label on it?"
"I'eseenge'r from Antwerp," road the
man again.
The (lector wrote slowly, by the light
elf the lantorn, "Olives Varney, of Ant-
werp—killed."
(To be Continue].)
DONT TURN YOUR HEAD
How many people turn their heads
towards the direction In which they aro
looking? Most of 'ie do, and thus rob
the eyes of the exercise to which they
are entitled. The power of vLsion is
such that when wo look straight in
front of us we can sore In almost every
direction except right behind us. Sight
is beyond question our most vsliiablo
sense. We could get along fairly well
without taste, smell, hearing, or feet.
Ing, but once sight has gone our Joy
In lite Is practically iload. So It be-
hoves tis to exerclso our sight. To do
sols, hold your head steady, and mU
your eyes about. look In every direction
—up, down, to the right, lea the left,
everywhere. All the nerves, vena, and
nr'ertes will be strengthened. The
mu .".'s will be Immeasurably improv-
ed.
mproved. 'i'he lachrymal glen is will be ox•
cited sufficiently to wash the eyeball
thoroughly. Them seeing will be a de-
light.
"114 married money, didn't hon. "No.
f1' thought he was marrying money,
1 ut he erely married something else
that waiml'
GRADIN: CREAM AT CREAMERIES.
Evidently Australian dairymen are
laboring under conditions somewhat
similar to those prevailing in Caivella
in the matter of acoopturg cream at
creameries. The prevailing system
now, when all cream is taken in on
the sante basis, causes great dissatis-
faction among dairymen, and justly
so, as it is only fair that tate pate
rens sending good cream should re-
ceive a better price for same titan pat-
rons sending inferior cream.
This system prevails in Australia,
end 1s a source of much dibsatisfaciion,
as the following from tits New South
Wales Falmer and Settler will testify:
"The only reason discoverable for the
poor average quality of the butter ship-
ped to the i,ondon market, and the
still poorer quality of the butter con-
sumed locally is, that the dairy farm-
eis of this state are not clean in their
methods, and the creamery managers
are either not themselves capable of
turning out a high-grade article, or
are not able to compel the farmers to
kcop their cream up to a certain stand-
ard. It Ls to be feared that the latter
is the principal cause of our backward-
ness, due to the pressure of competi-
tion and the practical impossibility of
refusing to accept cream, no matter
how 'ripe' It may be. Under this per-
nicious system, the dirty ani ignorant
dairyman is placed on an c ;ueely wi1F.
tho up-to-date man, with the result that
we havo streaky, nott'el, I.1-flnvcre 1
butter, and the price, as well as the
reputation, of our proiuct s'rffers in
the world's market.
"The remedy Is clear. Unwholesome
competition must bo kilted. Either we
roust have so great an extension of the
cooperative principle that tho whole
butter industry shall be one huge pro-
ducers' trustt, or wo require Govern-
ment interference of a much more prac-
tical and far-reaching kind than we
have yet had.
"One district, one creamery. should
be the rule. giving the creamery man-
ager the absolute power to refuse nil
cream below a proper standard. This
reform alone would work a revolution
In the butter Industry of the state.
The dirty man would hove to become
a clean man, or give up cows and keep
goats. 'The Ignorant man would be
compelled to learn, or to leave a bust-
neas which is entirely above his level.
The creamery manager would no long-
er have an excuse for a low-grade
article, and would be compelled either
to manufacture a first-class sample or
step aside to give a better man a chance.
All the creameries would then believe
in grading. because all would bo able
to Ware? the highest certificate. Tfiis
way lies the butter millennium—New
Zealand price, nay, Danish price, and
en output doubling itself every few
years."
Commenting on the foregoing ar-
Wote, Chicago Dairy Produce says:
"There Is widespread (1 ls.satLsfnction
among the fanners of Manitoba, be-
cause of the system generally ndopt'd
by the central creameries of paying Ilio
same price for all cream. good or bad,
and accepting practically everything
that Is offered. Certainly lhri system is
a vicious one, not calculated to pro-
mote the dairy interests of the coun-
try, and some remedy must be found
for the pres=ent existing (wils. Just
what the reined., will be remains to be
seen. but there seems to be n growing
sentiment in favor of compu'sory grad-
ing as odvocnied In the above item.
however. we fear that this would not
solve all of the problems. although it
would Iwo a step In the right direction.
The creamery men onnknd that the
farmers are to blame for not sirpply-
Ing cren►n of geed quality and, as n
reason for not rejecting tainted cream.
they say that eempelilton is s) kern
that they cannot nfford In lose a pat-
ron by rejecting his cream. But it
would seem to ns that n creamery
would be better eff tvil.heut the pairon-
nge of these who supply poor cream,
fe
then n reputation for quality could
tie estatlisheet. and boiler prices eould
be secured for the output. A creamery
ccndueled along these lines enukl af-
f -.rd to pay more for good cream than
Ile competitors that neeept everything
that is effete(' regeriliess of quality,
and as soon as the farmers fined this
cot. those who are producing a htgle
grade er'e'nni will not Iw slow to tons -
ter thee- patronnee to the creamery that
reerlgnlze3 qualify by an Increased
price.
1 \Ref NOTES.
Oats is not sea favorable a crop to
ecoon►pnnying grass seeding, as spring
wheat or barley, but if sowed thin, or
a; the rate of a bushel an acre, the
young grass will be in less danger of
being smothered by dense shade.
1t is a common mistake w,th farm-
ers to calculate that it a certain amount
o' fertilizer applied to a crop will pro-
duce a profitable return, double the
amount will double the profits. This
theory docs not always hold good in
aclual practice.
Of late years. at planting time, If i
have plenty of food seed, I make it a
point to plant whole, nmediuin-size! pis -
!aloes because it will throw out a few
strong sttlks and they will grow foster
and ranker, and the crop will mature
one 1n two weeks earlier than it cut
to one or two eyes, writes a oorre'spon-
dent. My Idea is thio --that the whole
pctalo supporta the stalk uMll 11 hY
sufltoient roots to be self-sustalntng,
and there is no standstill to the vine.
1 And It takes only about 60 day In
grow a crop of goof potatoes, from
whole, falrslzed seed. Small seed, or
potatoes cut to one eye, will grow a
lair crop, but you eeli nolvie that ti..y
Mneme up slowly and nue .sptn1l it an'
seem el etan1 s we. -1: or insane
(allures wuoh.
LIVE S'TO:-le Nt)I'1:S.
By the right kind ot shocmg many
defects in traveling may be oYeroun►e,
1 lit it takes a blacksmith who tu►der-
siends his business to shoe borer's.
Egg eating and feather pulling ere
winter troubles not common where
hens aro given extras in the way of
green footle and meat scraps. \\ hen
too many hens are crowded into small
houses with Melo or no exoro se they
ere very apt to acquire these habits.
Some tests have shown that pigs fed
en finely ground meal male neuro
growth than tease fed on whole grain.
It is very certain That a good mill, lent
in goof order, lith masticate the gran
much b^tter than any enttnel will when
it is citing as fast as it can swallow,
es pigs always do. And if mastication
of food is nocessary to digestion—as
it ocrtalnly is—then the preliminary
mastication by the mill is unquestion-
ably necessary for the economical use
of grain foods.
In most apiaries, perhaps a great ad-
vantage would result if the number of
colonies were reduced every fall by unit-
ing. Winter strength is spring strength
The stronger a colony 6 in winter ttie
morn it will do in the sprang; tee more
bees (hero aro In winter ttie earlier will
the queen day, and the more sho will
lay because the greater the number of
attendants she has the Warmer is the
hive, and a larger number of eggs can
t e covered and brooded. A Weak col-
ony may bo ted in winter, but there
Is usually no profit 1n feeding a weak
and queenless colony. Bees are too
cheap and plentiful to nurse through
winter.
GER\IAN1'S VAST NAVAL PLANS.
F.xpects to Have 32 Dreadnoughts and
a Few Other Ships In 1920.
German advocates of a powerful navy
do not conceal the pleasure they feel
in tiro confident expectation that Ger
many will rank be:ore long second only
to Great Britain as u naval power. They
point out that the estimates for 1908
provide for nine now battleships, of
which two are of 13,000 tons each and
are practically ready now; four armed
cruisers, two of which aro practically
complete; six small cruisers, twenty}
f sur destroyers and seven submarine
boats.
Tho remaining seven battleships are
now under construction or are to be
laid down in 1908. 'I -hey belong to the
Dreadnought type, with a displacement
e:1 at least 18:00 tons. The partisans
of a groat navy claim that at the pre-
sent rate of building even the largest
type of battloshlp will be completed in
a trifle over three years, or two years
less then in France and somewhat less
than In the United States, and accord-
ing to Herr Tlrpitz, the Secretary of
the Navy, these ships will be ready for
al: purposes as quickly ns England's.
Taking the now navy bill as a basis
for calculat`on, Germany at the end if
the year 1914 will have afoot sixteen
new battleships of the Dreadnought
type, flue cruisers of the Invincible
typo, supported by len battleships of
13,200 tons, none of them over twelve
years old, and two armored cruisers
of 11,000 tons, just eight years old.
Added to these there will bo ten bat-
tleships of the \Vitelsbach and recon-
structed Kaiser classes, with six arm-
ored cruisers by no means of an obso-
lete -type. There will te no vessel more
than 18 years old.
The building appropriation for 1911. it
is estimated, will amount to $65.2e0,-
000 out of a total naval vote of $115,-
425,000, and if the policy cef censtricl-
I ng tour battleships a year Is continu-
ed, ns this party has determined 1t
shall continue If their efforts cnn pre -
veil. German naval men look forward
to seeing the country at the end of 1920
with a fleet of forty-seven battleships,
of which thirty -too will he of over 18,-
000 tons burden ingather with twenty
large mimed °misers.
+
HR GRABBED TIIE IDEA.
"harmony In costumes is the thing
now," remarked Mrs. De Style, "ttie
idea being that a woman of fashion
should clearly express her personality
La her attire."
"Well, my dear," rejoined her hus-
band, "that being the case. you oritthdn t
possibly Improve on your present cos-
tumes."
"They aro certainly elalorate," said
her Indyshlp, "but do they fully express
my character."
"Stere thing," answered the mere
:,an. "Any one can rendlly see that
you haven't a single thought beyond
thein."
ROME \YORK
Wife—Must you go to the club te-
night. dear?
Husband - it ntn't absolutely neces-
•ary, but 1 need the rest.
PROGRESS JN FINLAND
1'01.1-ilc+ ARE \'I:It\' NH CII ADVANC-
ED IN '11114 COl NUIY.
Woman Hate Equal trotter With Men
—Drastic Liquor Law Ilas
(teen Passed.
Since the emancipation of - Ireland
from Russian ruts two years ago it has
acted promptly and enptiutically upe'n
great social problems. As soon as the
Lower was conferred upon then the
people adopted universal suffrage and
made women equal to sten in alt re -
meets In the body politic.
There is no distinction of sex what-
ever. A woman may hold any office
Ii Finland except ono, that of gover-
nor-general, which Is filled by the ap-
pobenient of the Czar, fur It Ls the one
remaining link between the aulocrac
and the democracy. A woman may b
a policeman or a judge, or the mayor
of n town, and there are thirty-two wo-
men In the parliament, where they have
shown a remarkable amount of activity
and ability and determination In tete
enactment of radical registration.
They have proposed and carried
through several reform measures of the
very greatest importance. Filly -six per
cent. of the votes were cast by women
at the first national election, and only
forty-four per cent. by the men, and
It is probable that they will have a
larger number of representatives in the
next parliament—a fairer represcntat"on
of their voting strength. There are two
hundred members of that body at pre-
sent and only thirty-two of them are
women.
ABOLISII LIQUOR TRADE.
Tho most recent act of general in-
terest is a law passed by an almost
unanimous vote totally abollshtng the
liquor traffic. it closes every saloon
every distillery, every brewery in Fin-
land. It prohibits the use as well as
the sale of beer, wino and spirituous
liquors of every kind. IL applies to
private Individuals as well as to hotels
and restaurants, and under a heavy
penalty forbids the importation or trio
use or even the possession of distilled
and malt liquors.
It even forbids the use of wine at
communion service in the churches,
and the sale of liquor for medicinal
purposes is placed under the same re-
strictions and regtilaUoes as the sale
of poisons. Spirits irsol for mechani-
cal purposes must be so doctored upon
!bear importation into the country that
thoy cannot bo used for beverage.
HEAVY PENALTIES.
The pollee are given unprecedented
power. They have tete right to search
private dwellings upon information
that liquor 1s concealed (hero or is in
possession of the occupants. Th' pen-
altles are very severe. The minimum
is a fine of 620 and tete maximum :s
penal servitude for three years.
No provision is made to indemnify
distillers, brewers, rectifiers, dealers
or private individuals whose i:u perty
may bo confiscated <er rendered useless
by the law. Every dietiltery must close
forever, and the loss upon the invest -
meat falbs upon the owner without any
indemnlflealimn whatever from the Gov
errirnent,
TOO STIIINGENT.
This is the first law ever passed by
a national legislature prohibiting the
use of intoxicating drinks, and in that
respect F(nliina has broken the record
and has established a precedent — tote
older nations to follow. It is unfortu.
nate, however, that the low is so ra-
dical and drastic, because It will be
vetoed by the (azar and the effort will
be wasted. Tho grounds for the veto
will be Its interference with personal
rights. and the failure to indemnify per-
sons who suffer loss of property.
The measure is now In the hands of
the Czar and his veto may be expected
nt any time. If the measure had been
modified so os to prohibit the manu-
facture aril sale of strong drinks, with
a fair indemnity to (hose whose capi-
tal Is invested In that business, and
under ordinary regulations, with pen-
alties less sewn, Nicholas II. undoubt-
edly would have improved Its provls-
Iens, and the curse' under whictr iho
pea.
of Finland have been lining
for generation.. would have leen re-
•
moved.
ON '1'lll; QUIET.
Stronger—'This village boasts of a
choral society. doesn't it?"
lIesidenl--"No; we just endure it with
resignation."
fin the level. Isn't a henpecked rnni
n funny -!coking rooster?
4.1
Rapid changes of temperature are hard
on the toughest constitution.
The conductor passing from the heated
Inside of a trolley car to the icy temperature
of the platform—the canvasser spending an
hour or so in a heated building and their
walking against a biting wind—know the
difficulty of avoiding cold.
.Scott's Emaiestfon strengthens the
body so that it can better withstand the
danger of cold from changes of temperature.
h will help you to avoid taking told.
AL1. DRUGGISTS, deo. AND 101.00.
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