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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1908-03-19, Page 2h er.usiss ammo_. _... 444444444+4444♦+444+++4+ +++44444444♦4444+4+ 1 A Broken Vow ; _---OR # BETTER THAN REVENGE. C1I.\f'f tilt III. • In the calm, cold, dispassionate lenge- No. 3 nways' Gardens, Chelsea. differed in no way from Nos. 1, 2 or 4, nor indeed from uuy numte•r in Green- ways' Gardens ---save, for the fact that Miss Lucy Ewing dwelt there, and so gate it distinction. The mysterious Od- ley also dwelt there; but she gave Jis- tinction to troth' -ng. To put the mutter bluntly. No. 3 took lodgers; to put it {politely, they let apartments In a modest way. Which, to sum the matter up, was Odley's me- thod of making a living for herself and Lucy; and as Odley had been in the way of letting apartments all her lite, she had framed her view of existence generally from that standpoint. A pian, in her eyes, was merely a prospective lodger. who might pay or might not: rt woman was ono w•h) would in all probability complain about the beds. and revile the cooking. In some far-off day --too kung ago to be remenibhered--Odle)- had been styled "Miss"; she bad not forgotten it yet. That circumstance had given her ideas above her, station ever after; she had dreamed about it. For the rest, let it Le said at once that she had been the companion and faithful servant e,f the late Mrs. laving„ had stayed with her till the end; and, having amassed a cer- tain small nmuunt of money out of her liberal wages, had calmly taken the deserted Lucy, and had .set al.out mak- Ing a living for thein bath in the man- ner sugge -ted. She had been "Odley" to the mother; she was, quite affection- ately, "alley' to the child. But fear the faithful old woman, Lucy Ewing might have starved. She it was, too, who had kept alive that fiction about the father she linew to be a scoun- drel; she it was who had guided the childish hand. to begin with, In writ- ing the letters—perhaps the better to preserve Ihsf tattered thing. to fam- 11) respect. Much hard work and many dis:oppto:ntments had not Soured her; whatever lave had ever totbllel her life ria] been given to the gill. Until the end of time Wiry was prepared to go ,n letting apartments in order to pro- I seen it only Vnex beluree. Ili: always vide for her darling. slneulled along with his bands in his 1.c1 it not be Mupposied for a iw w nt pockets, and his head up, and his Lips that Odley had not had her dreams.puckered, as if ready fora slight whistle The actual romance of things hail pressed tier by: but she built up romanc- es for here'elf. According to her own statements, ninny lodgers in the past hnd sighed on her account, and had even given up their apartments in de- spair because she would not listen to their tales of love; which vis an easy way of accounting for those who had one away without paying what was due. and a romantic way also. Elderly gentlemen had stormed the stony cita- del of her heart in vain; youths had teat their callow beasts for tier. She could have given you a string of names on the Instant; and the curious thing Wits That they had all done remarkably well In life since, and that not a single trio of them had ever married.They ' al' about her, and to make it 1e -ems r,eor- w•ile•d despairingly for Odley, bind to did than It might oihcrwse have been. age of Olive Varney. at once; It did not destroy her 1 )C ehe did not fully understand it. That he r fattier could ever have wronged any- one was absurd; this was some launder or some lie. But the hideous brutality ut it --the calm, ccihl fashion in which the threat was set out—frightened her. She vas reading it for the Hundredth time at least when Odley cc mse (n hi ,no room in her heavy, Pel And the grey old head and the fair young one were laid together over the paper. Odle, knew, In her secret heart, what Roland Ewing had been; sho would never have been surprised had he neon aQCused of all the crimes in the calen- dar. But it had been the Weir of years to teach this girl that polite Action con- cerning her father; to hold him up as a sort of Ane romantic figure who might one day come back Into her life and chane it all as with the wand of a magician. incidentally it may be men- tioned That Odkey prayed hard every ,might' of her lite that Roland Ewing might never come back at all. "When you've been in the world as keno as i trete, do`lle, and knocked ght ul, against peeople, and been sou after''—Odley gave a tweak to her grey hair, the better to give it an alluring aspect ---"yen won't trust what a w01i1011 Writes about a man. Many a nice piece of good paper i've spoilt in any time, saying what I think of 'em --an' even that didn't keep Coln away (rein ate. As for the verses they've wrote tc me—erne out of books and seme out of their own silly heads—it'd sur- prse you. Don't you worry, my dear; if feisty Olive Varneys came here, they d have to see alley first." that Mr.it was at that vu y .\tart►u Blake LUrriCa rule (,reeeuway s (,u1UeUa and bL Olied towards the house. Ile had not tory tar to come, for the simple reason that his studio wa.; in a stieet net live hundred yards from the Galtiens; and you w eind have known his figure anywhere, had -you a sket;hing ex•neditton; he congratulated huu-e!1 on the fact that he lied arrived now in lime to stand between her and this unknown danger winch threaten- ed icer. For tiis place was here; always she hail naturally tut•nod to tum, in any dilemma or any difficulty. That was always 10 go on, for an indefinite time that need not be arranged about; until perhaps, in some dear impossib-e day, a dream that onto had cane to hint should prove to be true. Here she was, his little Princess. hidden away from the world and waiting for that wonderful dream t) come true. "Tell me it ner'l true, Martin," plead- ed the girl. "I don't understand it in the least; but I can't believe that my deur father ever wronged anyone. Tell nit yiu don't believe it, Martin." Ile took her hands and solemnly as- sured her that he was absolutely cer- tain there could be no truth in the thing at all. ','hero had been some great blurt- oeer winch ceu'd easily be set right. "Leave it all to nee, little girl," he said. "You know I promised your nei- ther that I would look after you, and see that nothing ever troubled you, so far as 1 could. You're much too young and much too light-hearted for any- thing so bad as this to touch your life. Trust be; I'll keep it away from you.' "1 know you wall," she said gratcfu'- 1y. "I've been longing and waiting to see you, Martin," she went on; "I ve such a lot to tell you. When ono 's twenty, you know, things seem to hap- pen with such desperate rapidity. Yon have been away for weeks and weeks; and the world has been moving on, sir, in that time, I can assure you." "Odley's had another love affair,' said Martin, shrewdly. "I caught tho gleam of it in her eye just now." "Wrong," said Lucy, laughing. "Od- ky's bottling down in her old age, and is only reminiscent of the past. But we've Iel the two lop rooms.' "Excellent," he Enid. "Regular pay- ments? Or does Odley have to worry them? They were always an awkward pair, weren't they, Ilea: a rooms?' "Very; but this time it's all right. And oh, Martin, he Ls the nicest mun )0u coned imngaio—.and he writes hart all day—and hes going to be rich and famous one day, and very ranch talked atieut." "Sounds bad," said Martin, with a shake of the head. "1kesn't seetn to be much stoney in it. But is ho really trice? And what Ls his name?" "Mr. Christopher Dawn€," replied Lucy. "He's quite young—and very nico—and the things he writes aro beau- tiful." At that moment the door was buret open, and a young man literally threw himself into the room, snatching off his hat as he did so. Seeing a stranger he stopped and blushed, anal seemed inclined to retire; paused, b:ow•ever, and ckeseel the door. Ile was evidently quite young—not more than about four-and- .twenty—and hath never issued from the"" and he twenty—'►nd Alight!, built; ho had alwa •s half an old but set on the back clout him ca y n indescribable air of atert- Ness and brightness. No sooner was e f his !read. As ho had gradually he in the room than you felt certain grown more and more bald as to his hes was going to bolt out of It again; forehead, it may be said that ho allow- yet it was Ito gocxl a kind of energy eel his hat to alip up for the special pur- that it was quite erisible tie might some pose of following his retreating hair; the day set tiLs particular Thames on fire, habit gave him a learned agtpxarauce and prove Lucy Ewing's prediction to not at all in keeping with tris charas- —oe Irue. ter. I . "Ohbeg your pardon,' he said, Years ;,go. when Lucy Ewing had loon fil01'first at the girl and then at a little child, Martin had grown into Martin."1 only rushed in to tell you a hetet of turning herworld as mach that I've had a story accepted, aryl that he ext":(l int° a fair)•lanJ. In all le such an event, you know. that it's tl.eir walks abroad, and in all they did, • se mewhat surprising. As i've no doubt arta in all they read, he brought in an „tool pay up almost at once, youelement of fancy to play upon the child- mightrlgtttell Miss Odley that it will be tett imagination. in order to transform all re she'll understand what 1 moan." Lucy Ewing quietly performed the of- fice of introduction. Martin thought he saw in icer face a new color. and in her eyes a new light he had not seen before. i11-1113 own gener•)us mind he bummed up the young man; looked at hint with the keen eye of one who be- gan , real) e story which even Mr. Chris tnpbter Dayn,' had not written. Ile bowed. and pointed to a paper the young man carried in his hand. "is your story there?" he asked, and the boy shyly passed it fter-)sS to hire with something of a blush. As Mar- tin turned the paper to look at it he suddenly stopped, and started, and fix- ed his eyOS on an item of news and be- gan to read it eagerly. Christopher Bayne looked de:appointeed, end spoke: "'Chat isn't the story, \Ir. Make." "No; but it's another story; Lucy." Martin Blake raised his eyes and look- ed at her steadily. "You were expect- ing someone to come to yell today from Antwerp. Listen to this: there haat teen an accident to the b -►at train, and there Ls one i'erson killed. Her name is Olive Verney." "Oh, ;oor woman!" exclaimed Lucy softly. "Oh. tl'; 311 for the best, little girl,' said Martin. "Tear up your letter; lite only enemy you ever had in the world has leen taken away from it. You wore only meant for happiness. Lucy." (To be Continued.) s= 1 oe+6144441.1.w. The Frm 'la season i1 will pay to haul toe quite A GREATER LONDON NOW a long distance it it cannot be secured near at hand. '[h 1 SOMETHING MUST IIIE DONE TO GIVE KAISER AN LL.D. AND A D.C.L. UNIFORM GOVERNMENT. King Oscar of Secden Enjoyed a Great Many 'Titles. Aniong the compliments paid to the Kaiser in England was the Lx'stowal upon hint by the University of Oxford ct the degree of Doctor of Civil l.aw. It was not his first academic honor; he was already an 1,1..1) of the University of Pennsylvania. Despite the military training, Euro - peat princes usually seeure the ordin- ary academic degrees from their na- (imnnril universineee. brat the attainment of the higher onei is tar from com- mon. Aniong several hundred persons of royal rank, there aro not mere than twenty-five sr thirty who It,to the right to call themselves doctor. No member of a reigning louse ever enjoyed more titles of this sort than tho late King Oscar of Sweden. 110 held diplomas as honorary doctor of all the faculties of the University of Vien- na. Bologna and Leyden. was 1'h. D. of Erlangen and LL.D. of Oxford and Cambridge. Tho Kaiser sharers hi; Oxford honors with King Christian VIII. of Denmark and King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, the tatter also having the 1.1,.1). degree from the University of Pennsylvania ['rime Henry of Prussia is another holder of nn American degree; lie is an LL.D. of Harvard. and so i3 the Dukt (1 the Abruzzi, uncle of the king o' Italy. The new Grand Duke of Baden. Fried. rich 11., is an ti.►norary tactor of juris prudence of Bonn and Heidelberg. "Tic Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of hlcser was made an honorary doctor of philo sophy during the jut+i!ee of the Uni versity of Giersen, and the heir to the ttirono of Malaria, Prince i.udwig, ill doctor of political economy of ►Municli ani Erlangen. and doci er of engineer ing of tho Technical High School of Munich. Archduke Rainer of Austria, a tlrire cousin of the Fingerer, is honorary doc- tot of philosophy and technical science a! Vienna, the degrees being in recog ninon of services to art and science fir patron and student. Tho Regent cat Brunswick, Prince Johann Albert of Mecklenburg, has honorary degrees from all four faculties of Bostock, and Duke George of Meiningcrr, a patron of art, is doctor of philosophy of Jena. while his son, Prince Bernhard, who is inteereyted. in Greek archanologicsl discovery, has the same degree from the University of Breslau. Not all tl:c advanced degrees are honorary. Prince Maxminan of Baden, the next heir to the rani Duchy, is a doctor of iqw at Heidelberg in right of achra' study, and Princess Ernst of Saxe -Weimar acrd Julius Ernst of Lippe are else doctors if law. Duke George cf Meoklernburg-Strelrtz and Prince Ilenry of Itruss are doctors of Wilke \\'riltham,oty I:ag increase„, by 20,000 es its In right of completing the coure- and 'Tottenham by 37,000 in the same Ca in various universities. time. The following table will show Prince Ludwig; Ferdinand of Bavaria th' increase since 1901 in the cotmty u. art M. D. of the \font^.h school, and lite uncle, Prince Karl Thedor•e, has the same degree and Is a famous eye gpect- alLst. Prince Max of Saxony. brother cif the King. Ls a doctor of theology. Only two worsen of royal rank hold academic degrees. Queen Elizabeth of Itoumanta, who is Carmen Sylva in lit- erature, has honorary doctorial degree% from the universities of Budapest and St. Petersburg. The ether is the Prin- cess Therese of Bavaria, (laughter of the. Regent, ieritpold. She has gained celebrity thrOugh explorations in South America and the University of Munich has made her ? Nh. D. LIAISING GEESE ON FARMS. Young geese are easily cared for, anti cause little trouble or expense to raise after the first six weeks, provided they have access to good •pasturage. They are really grazing biris and wilt !or - ego theniselves on the right Lind roe lend. Not only do they get most of their own living, but tend to impreire the quality of tho land. No great expense is required for !Articl- ing. A low house, four feet high, a n:wees•S for shelter. The floor should be ;eV- eget ..v- ere1 with plenty of litter, and tic s;.'ec,al attention to warmth is r'quiree.l. Dur- ing the pasture season geese thou'J ee allowed free range in their past -ire re- turning at night for shelter. it peetur- age is limited it would pay :et crow green crops such as oa's to be fed (Al by the geese. A pond or strain is not necessary but it Ls desirable to swim In and they will find a great deal of natural lo el along the banks of small sluggish streams or on over -flowed land. During the laying season early in the spring the eggs should 1x3 removed from the nest so that the goose wilt lay as ninny eggs as possible, usually from thirty to forty. The surplus eggs may bo placed under hens, throe or (cur eggs to a hen. choosing large- sized argo-sized birds. The period of hatching is thirty days. The eggs set under hews are apt to lack moisture and should be sprinkled occasionally to prevent the inner skit from being tough and hin- dering the hatching of tiro gosling. The young goslings will almost raise themselves, being hardy and strong, and growing very fast. They Eon be- come able to look after themselves. Un- like chickens, they need very little brooding and at the end of a week or ten days may be kept in good sized (kicks of twenty or twenty-five. During the first ten days or so they should bo cenfino i in a low movable run to pre- vent their wandering away and get- ting lost. This run should be In o shady place and connected with a shel- tered coop. These youngsters aro fel very much like young chieef:ens, plenty of good shlrnmilk being especially desirable to make rapid growth. Atter the first ten drays the appetite of growing goslings 'weenies very vigorous and cheapness should be sought in the food rction. Be- sides the grass pasturage which will furnish a large part of the food it is possible to work off various rations by ao'oducls such as sltghtlyl dannagiod grains which may be had at severity - five cents to one dollar per hundred at the grain stores, making a specialty of such lines. Tha goslings may be either grown quickly to market as green geese or kept through the season for (he Christ- mas trade. What Were Green Fields and Farms Twenty %oars Ago are Thickly Molded Uhel'icls. "England will shortly be Landon and Leaden Englund,' said King James 1.. in alarm, 300 hundred years ago, and ties forbade anyone to build on new founeatioits within two miles of the city. Charing Cress, st Itieli is now the googt'aphit'ai centre of London, was hien a hairnet in the fields. To -day the same situation ►s tieing repeated. The nati•;n is afraid of being ctershat1 wed by the city, which is cta'nt ng •its rights to expand. One of the halls which will to intro- duced at the present s< ss:on t f 1'ai•ttut- meat will prevido for Lee creat on of a the fact that nature was ruthlessly rob- bing her of her charm=► day by day. Perhaps they felt that there was only one Od!cy in the world, and that she might relent at the eleventh hour. The lolling of apartments was her business; romance her recreation. She gave long accounts to Lucy of each and And in tie growing friendship of the later years, that idea still predominated, tri a certain whimsical way; and the man still taught the girl to look at ev- orytteng—je►ys and pleasure alike—as not quote real or sul stential. In otter worde, they were all supposed to be semi -thing better thin they were; Mar - every 1)1ni,osa1; in the small silting• tin Bl.rke nota mere Ivor struggling rt.oun that was thein tare went through artist• but something very wonderful -- a Performance, almost nightly, to show in disguise; levy herself a Princess:. how flat the one and then the other also nccesCsrrrily In disguise; and Odley bad approached her: tier imitations of anything that was convenient for the delete! ng lodgers, turned ter the nonce u,ornont. As in her marvellous love into ardent losers, "'re rnngnl(lcent• episodes, set In this, Odley was every - More than once, in Sprightlier days. she thing by turns and nothing long; and reheareeed how they had pursued her hnd been known, particularly In Lucy's millet tables and over chairs—the while childish days, to do the most extraor- little Leey clapped her hands and d nary, things on oc:as[on, and to marvelled at what a thing this love was. change Into anything at a moment'; in the fifteen years during which notice. i.ucy Ew:ng had grown teen chitdhetoJ Martin Blake, coming to seek his to young womanheed she had two dis- Princess. found her. for some exirnor- t:ncl impressions. The first — that dinary reason, in tears; and was shown Odley was always the same, and seem- the letter. Having lines vn something ed. indeed, to wear always the :lame concerning Mr. ite3lnnd Ewing, he saw s<,rt of gtnrtttc•nts, of o neutral tint, easy in the letter something the girl could to ibm figure; the Fec•md- lL•;tt lathing not understand; anti took an early op - %try bad couhl happen in a world that pertunity to speak eeertatn hurried le!d her friend Martin il:ake. And as words to the. anxious Odley about It. t;r•r+w.ays' Gardens had echoed to his ..Oepley, have you ever heard the step many and many n time since first hold- Odley Lad brought her there. she really name before?" he asked quickly. itc))cf- Nnett him very well indeed.ing the astonished ttoninn by one arm Ile hail teen her mother's friend In in then little hall of :\'o. 3, and shaking that tar:,(( tirn•e when tier. ►rwttnrr tied her the better to arouse her faculties. ten alive. fie' seemed quite c+ld then, "hoard it? Have 1 ever heard any- ultl,ougth. as a matter of fact, he wns thiiig ''ise'' she asked. in an agitatexl no more than twenty. tN tit•. at thirty- whlspec. "i.or' bless you. sir, hasn t five. he seemed to her gr,tt•tng t•a<cion the child boon writing; 4o her father to be abut the same nge. She re +nein- under cover of that name fee years anti tem' how' he hail held her closein his years. Friends of Mr. Ewing. they were; arra on the day that great less hail Inc ii~csi to travel about with them, tlf- r eme to her; and on every eeecesitn of (herbs or difficulty since he hall some- how seee►ne(1 to pervade the business encily and quietly and to set it right. On the day when first we look into the hett-re at Greenways' Gnrdcns cn refire li of i ue'y ream:. it was a day that had downed lenity tear Iter. Other days had dewnerd br:d'y elurtee the fifteen years when l-ee cella) rens eller tit ngs d 'tine:ly: days 'hen alley had been pes.s'm:stic. and had re'nte'd. perttnt s. the 'riles of some particular lodger whe e lovestory had teen rather more des- gverer;e and rare dee i, than That of hts ftl--rsi earl *tan ne .ire :n the world eeenoti le latent anartmrnt . ate•l %rents to eleequ eivsys' ()Wens. But on this par- ! c .!sr !Ntr a latter hal come to her will s Weir postmark --a letter which aec•t Mt tart wildly beating tefore ever she .ipe>,eted ii. beeense of the Instant tto:rf%t "AA atntgRasted it r,}ust hate ce me Mir,' it mysiericua father who had ne-e, aflvit so ling. (1;vningt '1, She found that deadly threat, written • WHAT HAT IS IT? Two antes stand side by side in the stable. To both cows the same ration Lt fed. yet one will extract from that food as much again butterfat as the ether. The butter product of the food is 100 per cent. greater with one cote than the other. This fact is seen in leo great frequency In all herds of claws. What is that inner quality whereby one cow produces so much more than the other fmni the sonic food? It is hard to find the right name for it. but it may be called "dairy qua- lity." Now certain breeds of cattle are distinguished for this quality. To have the power to acoonipltsh this work in greater Itrol ortlon and perfection by reason of Irving been bred to that pirr- pe.ss from long linea of ancestors of quality. One would think that there would not be a dairy farmer in the land who would not be keenly alive to the ne'oasity and economy of using such cattle for dairy purposes. As soon would we think he would cut hay with a reaper and call it the best way. But the soe al'ed general purpose no- t:on has .ie .st.royed in a few men the prover to look into this quest•:on in an eoonotntcal way. Thcy scern to be un- nahle to take the same advaiitnge in their choice of c w machinery that they de in choosing their mechanical ma- chinery. They cannot be fooled into inking a plow for a cultivator, yet thou- snnd.s of farmers will srend their lives in trying to make cows of beet breed- ing do dairy work. 1( they were doe° r;tudents of cause and effect they would not be beguiled this tease. Why should n' -d a termer bre a close student of cause an t effect. We must stop w esttng tune and money in trying to run a dairy with cattle not fit tor haat business. There are only two kinds of cows. These which make more then they eat and those that eat mere than they make. Which kind tie you keep? Sure of it? EVF.BYTiiING iLN KE1- ISG. "To -morrow you may have something to eat,' promised the (leder. "[lore is your dinner," said the nurse next day, as site gave the half -famished t phoid convalescent n spoonful of tapi- teen years ago. whin last we heard of my gentleman." `o -a pudding; "and the doctor emphe- "Then there may 1 e some truth in slues That .everything else you do must it. Odley,' said Martin Blake, with a t: • in die same prop)oi'tion." grate face. "At all events, it mustn't Two hour; lett'r a frantic call was teareI from the bedchamber. touch her; If Una woman is what she seems to be, shell stick at nothing. and she's not likely to Once hcr.self within reach of the law. Ste 'eems k+ suggest site's coming to I.eneien at cncc; we shall have to Le watchful. my (alley." said O "Trust me. sir," said with a grim shake of her grey head. "Not even all the little affairs of the heart 1 ve been mixed up in have unsettled me to that extent. For the time being, sir. t shall feerget 'e m; 1 shall watch, you may be sure. 1 shouldn't be sur- prised lo find there's s•�rne truth in ft, air. Make; it may aco.ount for all this silence of fifteen years. Certainly she makes out the story vel y clear. sir— dales lr-- d ales en' everythin . •' Martin Blake went hack 'o so the girl Ile had been away for &erne w•eelee on "Nnir,e," breathed the man heavily, '1 want to do Some reading; bring me a postage stamp." - — IN MERRY OLD ENGI A D NI:Vs8 BY el%IL AIt1)t'r JUIN iJULI. AND IIIS PEOPLE. greater iiond-,n. 1t will bo backed by the great power and influence of the London county council and will have as its aiin the placing of the wto'e metropolitan area. ueth its population of inore than 7,000,000 persons, under the control of one central authority. At present the county counell governs the administrative county of ton 'on with a p-npulxtion of about 4,500,00u .•ind ween n,w Parliament •:s jealous of its pow. -r. The opposition to the new bill twill come from these members c f Parliament w•bi, belevt with King James 1. that "Enu'.arel will shortly bo London and l.onden England.' THE PRESENT AIWA. The jurisdicto:t ef the London cern- ty council covers an area. which ;s roughly contc.inriJ within a title hav- ing (:haring Cions as its centre and a radios of Mout five miles. 'the metre - police area whielh it is proposed k hr ng under the control of the Lon- don county count 1, or same body which may be constituted to succoo l it, Is ce:ntalrcd .in a fifteen mile circle.- it rnnipriecs Iho county of London.. rho whole of the county of slddlesex and parts c( the c- unties of Surrey, Kent, Essex and Ilertferd. \\'tun the county ronncil was fermrd twenty years ago it was given juris- d ction over all of what was them fairly to be calked 1/ ni :n. San 0 then. hew- eier, Landon len-s grown and spread with enuizing rap:d.ty. \\'tier•e there Isere green fields and ceunlry vil'.nges twenty years Ngo there are to -.lay street after s'reet of hous's and .tees. Olen fle'.ds wh ch lny bx ttvc en London ani the small country towns have leen covered with a steady overflow nt houses until w hat tvere one • uutdepend- c nt ;,roughs have b_ en stvampe d and absorbed in TIIR 1.1EE OF LONDON. The borough of East Ilam alone has grown since Ito ('(It its of 1901 by 44,- 1100 and that 'if West Hann by 41.000. Occurrences in the Land That IttiUns Supreme in the Commercial World. Grosvenor square. London, is to bo paved with w•eoi this year. Eleven bullocks were ron.ked to'ii7ath in a fares lire at Ednngliiorpe, Nor- folk. Derbyshire cteu.chnnen hive presented the Bishop of Southwell tv.th a motor car. Lord Brassoy will leo installed at Dover us Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in May. A thousand chickens have Leen de- stroyed in an incubuter lire at Vassal road, Brixton. Mr. \Varake, M. t'.. win introduce a Lit into the House limiting the \so.•k- ing day to eight hours. Tho Marconi "t'ele'graph (Company f9 r,ow accepting messages for Canada at a rato of 1Gc per word. Charles de ('eurchy, who claims to he a descendant of Napoleon, was eon - kneed at Leeds for begging. It is intimated from the \\'ar Ofl'e that mounted infantry will net 'ern part of the territorial force. Sir S. T. Evans, the new Solicitor- General, olicikr- General, Ls to be presented with the freedom of the Lorough of Swansea. Five men hate h•:cn nrreoteJ at Casa - them in connection with extensive pocket -picking on football grounds. A stag, hunted by the Mut-Kent pack, entered a public louse. It was se- cured by the landlord and his custom- ers. Since its fnrreatien in 1SRi the Self- Ve!p Emigration Society has emigrated over 10p00 persons, nin.!n'y to Canada. Pictures painted by convicts whl'.o undergoing Cerins of imprisonment aro to be seen in Wormwood Scruhe Prison. Sarah Fisken, an n!d rag tricker, died in destiiuton at lir:stol last week. She was found to have a bond of £80. At a wedding on Southend-on-Sea re- cently the party on leaving the church passed under an arch of fishing reds. \\Chen the Rochester barge Ryan was cff Woolwich the wife of the skipper gave birth to triplets—two boys and a girl. An alarming outbreak 'if measles tins occurred nt Halstead. At the [latish school nearty 400 school children aro attacks d. A fox, chased by a nurdber of Rep - ton boys through the village, ryas fin- ally bagged in a Sunday -clioil, to the great terror of the children. Alexander Eifee, who died recently In \Vandswerlh prison, aged 80. heti been a►e inmate of prion and worklieu.scs kr the last Af'y years. A trnrnp was recently found in an East Ilam church. Ile had made his bed under the communion table, using the cushions from the seals. Twenty-three boys and fifteen girls have asked to join the party of poor iaw emigrants which is l+eirg sent to Canada by the D,nmbeth guardians:'"' As there is one license to every 113 inhabitants in the Llangollen urban area the licensing justices declined to renew 25 per cent. of the licenses. The three rare American prong-lorred antelopes which President Roosevelt has presented to the Zoological Society ar- rived at li gent's Park. Having shut up his folding bed, a Ileelcmondwike father •:Lscm•ererl 20 er:iinuttes leiter that his wife had left the child in it. The child was suffocated The Emperor of Austria and runny feretgn pr.:nce a aro en rho subscription list for lire Benedictine Abbey Churett which Is to be built at East Dulwich. Shoreditch has a larger number of ur.em;tloyel than ever before, 749 hav- ing their names ns� � � Ito the ureau register, as ag, Def last year. Wil.\T CUBED ills ^.,01,D. iucke--1 see your cold is better this mnrntng. Wicks—Yes. and 1 believe I've d scov- ered a sere remedy for colds. Ilicks--\Vial Ls it? Wicks --A collar button. 1 sw.+'`<.cved ono last night in mistake for a quinine pill. COUi.I T iIEI.P iT. insurance Of Ictal—"Of what Com- plaint did your father die?" \ppticant--"The jury found hlxlt guilty." areas which are included in the scheme: F.ss,x mama 1911,(10 [kris ...... .• mama mama .. 15.600 Middlesex .... .... .... mama alt .(1110 S u rrcy .... .... .... mama .. 99.000 Kent ........ 13,000 Total 553,000 In other v.orl.e, more than 500.000 finite have been addd to the p-•pula- tton of ou'or London In eeven )cars met the pewees 1s stilt gong on. All these people are truly Londoners in their habits. In their sympathies and in their interests, yet they are being gov- erned ►,y authorities designed for the administratie+n of the area in tt•1►!ch they 'Mal why^n it was a ccu.pied by fames anti villages. No wonder that Parliament feels jeahus of the growing power of the London county council. If the new bill Been through It will govern n sixth cif the wl-o'o population cif England and its revcnuet will be nearly half Ihnt cnl- lcc'eal new for national pureerisea. At pre-ent 11 has control of the epiucntl ►n o; nearly 700,C'O chftdren and if it tikes over oho schools controlled by the au- thorities In the surrounding boroughs it wit lx' r: spwns.h!e for • • \VISE SAYINGS. It is totter to break up a quarrel than t•; patch it up. The price of pcputori,y is sometimes a willingness t3 be bored. \Vtien a woman patis•es to reflect it is usually in front of a mirror. When a than has to defend his ace tions he admits his weakness. There Ls more :.r lees charity in the heart of every man—usually less. Unless we have sense in our beads, it 13 hard to keep money 1n our pack- ets. So many people find 1l easter 10 take two steps backward than eine inn -eels. 1t Is all very well to ask for ndvicee but some people make the mistake 01 following it. \\'hen a smell boy refuses a second piece of oak'•, it's a sign thie•re is some- thing wrong with him—or with the cake, When a married main brings home n box of thee:elate; tns eld of cigars, his wife wants to know t•. halt he has been doing. TI1E ICE SUPPLY. Every harmer needs an ioehousee. al- though there are many that do not have them. It is not necessary that it cost a great deal to previa:10 the build- ing sine almost anything which tins sides and a roof will keep ice. provid- ed plenty of protecting material like sawdust is u1.1ee1. It is usually the dls- prsiIion rather than ability which is lacking when a former tails to secure as ample supply. Not only Le ice ne/cesstry in handling' dairy products In hot wevrther, but there are many other uses for it about the home. it helps the housowife out in supplying dainty and palatable dishes for the table. It is iiseful in the sick - mom and often is an actual necessity carrying out doct')r`s instruct/ons re- garding the treatment of 3 case. Wester in household supplies are not nearly so great where a we'll -filled refrlgere• tear can be relkd on to keep things cold from one dtty to the next. As teams end men aro erc•ta1Iy not very busy at IIOOKED. "No man shall ever kiss me except my futures hu .sbend," she said, as she was about to leave the gate. "Suppose i agree to be your future—" "Why, then, 111 kiss you,' she said. eagerly. And she did. iter mother was informed that he had propoecl, and the old lady called on hien the next clay to arrange maty tors, and before he knew it ite was eternally booked. It was a very mean advantage; but a bird in the hand is w. rth two en the garden gate. 1,00'1.000 YOCNCGSfER.S. It spo'td; roarly 554,000,000 a year and it ha.s a groes debt of about 44n0,001.000. It has 40.000 people on Re payrolls but if it 'oak in the aded,itienal area dt- manded l:by the bill now nefore Parlia- ment it will have an army of at '.east 303,000 men in its pay, for the bill con- templates not only extending its area, nut giving it greater oorilrol over the sub-,rdinate authorities within its own urea. It c+w'ns 117 miles of street -car lines and Iasi year 13 carried 350,000.- 000 50,000:(00 posreernger?. Most of the local aur- tlioril'.es affected by 4he bill also own street car lines, and these. of course. would c• ine under the onntrot of the London county council and be. mai% uniform with itis system. SOMETHiN( NEW. "Burglars broko into Green's dry goods store the other night and stole three bolts of silk." •` \\•Cil?'' "N.ew he's advertising a great burg- lary :ale." 404046.40+04404.0404440.4640 That hacking cough continues Because your system is exhausted and your powers of resistance weakened. Take Scofl'e,i Emule,riotn. It builds up and strengthens your entire system.; It contains Cod Liver Oil and Hophosphites $ prepared that it is easy to take mot* digest.. AIL DRUGGL1T$. es.. AILD OM TRAITS OF i.00OMOTIVES. etre a1restcrcd by Skilful i)rit ers. it is a remarkable truth, and might be profiteb:e in helping us 10 make (sir allowance for the dit(erence between the teinperaments of different men -- that every locomotive engine running eon a railway lois a distinct individu- ality and character of its own. It is perfectly well known to expert- enccd practical • ng rneers that it a doz- en different looein•,t►ve engines were made at the same time, of the same p,eower, for the .Sarre purpose, of like materials, In tho same factory, each el those locomotive engines would carne cut with its cwn peculiar wh:tiia and ways, only escertainab'e by expe'r:ence. Ono engine will la:ie a great meal of coal ani water at once; another will net hear of Mich a thing. but will in - ',1St on icing coaxed by epadefuls anal Lucketfuls. Ono 13 dispooext to start r:t1, whorl required, nt the lop of 1113 lased; another must have a little l,nme e, waren to hs work, and to get well into it. These peculiarities nre so accurnte'Y triactererl by skilful drivers that eine p►articuiar then earl persuade pnrticur• lar engines to do their best. it tsoul'l scorn as if sterner of these "e -N''( mene+tera" derareet. en being nr•, cut of the shed. "11 it's Smith t to drive me. I we,n't go. It friend Stekes, I am agreeable l•, eonli- thingt" All koe rnotiYee cne nc•s nre kw -s !eq. sr1 in damp end foggy weather. 'i'e-y have a grent satisfact on In th • r w•e• k when the air 1a; crisp and fro•ty. \t tench a time t':ey are vee:y cheerful nit 1 brisk; but they atrmagz'y 'et.je•ct In h•i,e and masts. These are p o.nts of eh'ur- ecter 6n which they ver n11 united. it I. in their pie l:II: rtt:ea and vnrietkt el character that they are most remark. Mite. Pectillia iii s The man who makes a he, el 11 i•tg for his family is seldom el nru li use areun3 the Mouse.