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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1905-05-04, Page 61+1-i+H-H +4-1-1-1 I t.'Mi• 41-144-1-1-141-1-1-1-1-i-11-1-11-11 ilis Favorite Niccc; 7 +H-1-14-1-14-14-1-144444-164-144 4-144 4-1-1'•l-l--t••!:•!-344-b-l-4-444.14 4 ('IIAI''1 EIt XX u11.—(Continued). to every heart. and left nn irttpre$- Hettie Made the most of her edu- &ion t here. %hen the clear. earnest. voice ceased, there was a slight stir in lite organ -loft, and thea a dead silence. Mint broke it? A clear, sweet voice. which Sir Basil never forgot, singing a solo in a grand old an- them, every word of which was dis- tinct and audible—'beautiful words, well thatched with the fine rruusie and the angelic voice. He listened in wonder; he had heard stoma of the finest singers in Italy and some of the grandest music in the world, but nothing liko this --clear. sweet., and puthet ie. at t imes sonttdlig as thouglt it wel•n full of Wars, and noes, took her with hint for a few again jubilant and ringing. He was —____OR A SECRET REVEALED• cation; she gave lessons to the chil- dren of the well-to-do people wh e lived in the neighboring villas, Cho sung in the fine old Norman church, she made pretty little sketches of the lovely scenes aroune, them, and so enrnee money enough to supply her father with all that he needed. It was characteristic of him that Ito never noticed his daughter's shabby dress or her worn shoes. She gave hint unreservedly all she had—her love. her money, her flute, and her attention. Tho only break that ever came to the monotony of her life wag when her father, going out on busi- days. She thought it an act of not sentimental, and flattered him - kindness on his part, while he knew that without his most loving and devoted daughter he should enjoy very little comfort. Sho had novor spoken to him of what she had read and seen of Leah. She knew that he perused the newspapers, but so word or look from him revealed the fact that ho had seen her name. Hattie was compelled to proserve silence on the subject, but her thoughts ever reverted to Leah. So it often hap- pened that, when father and daugh- ter sat together in tho porch of the pretty cottage, watching the sea in the distance, both wort thinking of Leah. elart'ln saw her still as tho beautiful child with the flash of de- fiance on her face with which slip had left him. Hattie drearnd of her always a9 she had seen her last, in the brilliancy of her beauty and magnificence. Neither of them over imagined how near she was to them. Southwood did not posaese a news- paper of Re own. and Deno Abbey was quite out of their world. The great preen hill rose between them, and separated them as though they were in different hemispheres. In Southwood no one troubled himself or herself about politics. •'The Voice of the People" was dumb there: the portlier agitator was but little known. Most people had an idea that the quiet, stern - looking occupier of Roeewnik was a writer: and they knew that, he could not he well off because his daughter had to support hint by her exertions. 'Phis fair, gentle girl. whose) whole life was spent in working for others. who neverad time to think of her- self, was X'ently beloved. If over she had a leistire hour, it was spent in some deed of charity. She visit- ed the sick and the sorrowful; front her slender -store she helper' those who were in greater need. When means failed her, when !rhe had nei- ther food nor money to bestow, she gave kind words full of consolation and tender In their wisdom. She worked very hard, from early thorn until dewey eve. She rose with the sun. She had manuscripts to copy for her father. lessons to arrange, a hundred things to do. If the day had been twice as long, she could have filled it with pleasant duties. She was beloved by all—by the ehil- then whom she taught, by tho par- ents who employed her, by every per- • eon with whom she had to deal. It was not only her fair. angelic beauty but her sweet temper and witrome Daring lur.chenn he spoke of the ways, that won all hr arts. music ho ham hoard at Southwood. 1 hese wore the days of ?Karlin in of the clear, sweet soprano voice, so Ray's decadence. atel ho could not rich and rare in quality. perhaps have ehosen any :pot on earth when•° he could have been more secluthetl or more forgotten. It was n strange chance that brought these two sisters so near toeethcr. yet placed them so far self that he took a practical view of most things; but as he listened he thought to himself:— "That must be how the angels sing." Ho looked up into the organ -loft from which the sound carne, and there he saw a picture that was pho- tographed on his brain for evermore. A tall, slender girl stood in the midst, of the choir, in a dress of pale bluo--a girl with a face so fair, so rapt, 90 seraphic, that it awed and bewildered him. She was singing— not to the people, who listenedi with bated breath.—not to him, whose oyes never moved from her face. Her head was slightly upraised, her face upturned. Her thoughts had pierc- ed the old grolned roof and the blue ether that lay beyond, and had gone to the land where angels dwell. Her golden hair made: a halo round her head, and Jet could have thought that an angel had descended from "the realms of light." Then. as the per- fect spiritual loveliness of the face dawned upon him, be found that it. was strangely familiar to hire. Somewhere else ho had seen those lustrous blue oyes and that sweet pleading mouth—the sante face, but with a dikereat expression. Then it dawned upon him slowly that this girl had been the original of the picture. "'1'ha Float Glimpse of Morning." and he remembered what ho had said to Leah, "Thatfaeo has what yours lacks—tender/wee." "i am qcstin4t to know her through the arts," he said to hirnself. "She dawned upon me in painting, I see, her etherealized by tousle—yet what is she to roe?" She was nothing to him, yet dur- ing the whole of the day that rapt. spiritual face seenmed` always before him. He would have asked who she VMS, but he knew no one there, and when the anthem finished trite van- ished. ITo lingered in the old churchyard. where the tall elm -trees cast graceful ehndows on the grass, but he caught no glimpse of her. ile went horse to keno Abbey with the clear, rich voice ringing in his ears. There was a little rivulet that ran through the lone woods, ho bent over it, and, lo, the sweetface smil- ed at hila from its clear depths! He laughed at himself. No woman's fano had ever haunted hint before. With all its brilliant beauty, even Leah's had not haunted him as this ono did. The duke said that he had hoard at. yam% singer spoken of there as hav- ing a very beautiful voice. One or ttvo of the visitors said they would like to go to Southwood Church. The (nuke of Hosed -me declared Half apart. The stop green hill that laughingly that (hero was a feud stone, between Alibey and Southwood between himself and the rector of was typical of the great barrier Southwood and that until 1t was canto which parted them. 'there were Milnes when both at the sante moment watched the same Reale the same skietr, yet neither had the hetet notion of the other's presence in that part of the country. n and op- pressive. had been hot aunl.m The . 3fartln Hay had suffereel notch. and it was some relief when the enol breezes of 11,1t limn emote. They heard casually that Rene Abbey was filed with visitors, bet that any of the visitors canopied them never (recurred to them. Father and daughter would not have sat so qui- etly watching the heaving waters hail they known that Leah was so near them. 'Phe occupants of iteno Abbey sel- dom attended the pretty old Noonan church at Southwood, where llettio sing me sweetly and so clearly. There was a church nearer to them called St. Itarbauld's, which at oust in the centre of a little village neer the sen. But Sir Basil liked South- wood hest. He admired the quaint old Norman church. with its n•luare lower and line arches. Through the windows one could see the tall elnt- trues; and Sir Basil said that more devotional thoughts carne to hint there than in any other place. So, one Sunday morning, when the whole party went over to St. Bar- haeld's Sir Basil went through the woods. climbed the steep hill. and d seen oaf the b ettert iful, grassy slope.. until he reached the old Nor - wen church where his fate awaited hint. Ile never forgot one detail— the green churchyard, the row of esu; -trees that evened to elle( it in f,otit tho world. the old fashioned einehal. near which trail :4t111110Wers grew. the golden hare that tilled the 511 o•ttoith+, and the deep shadows within. l ate rector read the prayers. ane1 said a fow words to the prt>vl•e — le, hesent words tbat went home healed neither himself not; the duch- ese would leave St. liarbaul 's. Sir Basil derided that every Sun- day while he remained at Dene he would go and hear the beautiful voice that had channel hint so greatly. "If any one could fall In love with it voice,n}oul think k thnt hae done ao." he ,atid to hirnaelf. Some strange instinct that he did not undorrat srsl at. 1110 tines kept hien silent to Leah concerning both tho fat's and the voice of the fair young singer. Ile w"ald have told her that in her he reeognirrd the original of the painting they had admired. but that he remembered so well that She had bpm hart by itis compnrfson of her own and the pic- tured face. and he did not wish to remind her of the cir•curnstnnce. "I wonder." thought Sir Basil, later on in tho day, "if she stands there every Sunday in that pale blue dress, the light on her golden heir?" Ile ans sitting by one of the open witnloes that evening, haunted still by the fair fare he had urn, when Leah carne eudeenly behind him and inid ane hand caressingly upon ble hard head. "lintel," she said, "you have been very distrait to -day. Ito you know that you have not spoken fifty w(rrels to me. 1 have been patient to bear it so long, but now you must make amends for it." Even as ho looked up into her face the other fairer one t.eent ed to (naso led ;green them. "How shell 1 make amend'.," he asked, with a smile. "Yon nest find that out for your- self," she replied. If. drew her to the seat by his aide and whispered *one tender wncd* to her. She loved hint se entirely that very little ,ratisiie,i her. Onto more exacting might have thought that ho was not a very de- monstrative lover, but Lvali was too • u'tch blinded by her own passion 1o!I"i4` 444 i4'e+1044•1f♦+at note any defect in hint. That hour spent with him at tho open window in tho autumn gloaming was one of IP the happiest she ever knew. That same night. while her maid L stood brushing out the long dark T rippling waves of hair, Leah. with a happy senile, was looking at her own fact In the glass. She said to herself—and the words carpo home to her afterwards: "If I never have any more happiness whim• 1 live, I have had enough for a lifetime." Sho loved him so well. The week that passed before Sun- day ensue again was u long one to Sir Basil. Ile had not the least intention of ever being, oven in thought. untrue to Leah. If he had dreamed that there was any danger in seeing the beautiful singer again, he would have avoided her. Ila was engaged to marry Leah llattote—how could ho know that he Wa9 in dan- ger. In Italy he had loved to listen to such voice e; hero in England ho never missed goo.1 'music when ho had a chance of hearing it. What harm could there he in going to Southwood Church to hear a grand old anthem beautifully sung? Ile did not, speak to Leah about it. He had ono definite motive for silence, and ho had twenty reasons that were not quite definite. Sunday carte—a t;eatitiful day. bright, warm, full of fragrance, the sky serenely blue, the green earth all smiling and fair. Sir llasil was more silent than usual at the break- fast -table, and tho girl who loved him, looking at his thoughtful face, wondered if he were thinking of her or of the future before thorn. On that. bright Sunday morning no warning came to Sir Basil that he had better not sea the young singer again. TTo went. She sang more sweetly than ever, and looked to his enchanted eyes fairer than before. With her dress of pale blue, her fair, flower-like face and golden hair, she reminded him of the beautiful figures he bad ween in the churches in Italy. He must find out who she was; he would much like to know what natne went with that face. Ile would like to speak to her; it would bo pleasant to know if her voice sounded as sweet in speaking as in singing. This time,- when the people went out of church he contrived to bo among the: first., and then het yaw the blue dress trailing over the grass: he noticed that every movement and action of the girl was as full of grace as her singing was full of music. 'The sun was shining on the tall elm -trees and the green graves where the dead slept so well; on the old Norman church, on the groups of worsbipper9; and something stole into his heart that had never been there before—a now delicious life. It. thrilled in his veins and hent at his heart—a keen pleasure so great as to Ito almost pain. Ile thought the tranquility of the day had touched him; he thought the beautiful music had affected hits. Something had with sudden sweet swittnt's9 changed the fair face of Nature for hire. Ile watched the girl who had sung of tho "bright seraphim." She had stopped flog of all to speak to a group of fair-haired childtren; then he sate that this old then and women all tried to have a few wools with he Hum DAlltl' ECONOMICS. The first $25 of the annual in - memo from a cow yields but little or no Leola to the owner over the cost of her keeping and it will take 5,000 pounds of milk at 50 cents at hun- dred pounds to bring that sutra. If by [roper selecting and breeding one can get at cow that will yield 8,000 pounds of milk with but little, it any, more expense for food and care the extra 3,000 pounds will repre- sent pro:it. It is recognition of this principle and action accordingly that makes fortunes in other lines of business and why should not. the farmer profitby the example. Which cow gives the most milk anti pro- duces the largest quantity of butter in a year, may be known to every farmer who lilts a herd, but only a few of them know the exact quant( Lies for every clay or week in the year, simply because they do not keen records. Then there is the cost of milk and butter to be known, as soma cows aro heavy feeders, and do not. produce accordingly, while it. is also possible. for a good cow to give large yields and yet not at a cost to allow a profit. An I'ng- lish farmer claims to have made a diseovcry which Is valuable if his claim is well founded. As is well known, it is difficult io select a calf at birth for its future usefulness as a milker, yet be asserts that it. can be done. ITo states that on the inner side of the cheeks, near the corner of the mouth. troy be, observ- ed the pales, which have different forms according to whether the calf will bo good, medium or Indifferent milker. 1f the pulps are largo, broad and flat they give large quan- tity of milk. If they are only round the milking qualities will bo only ordinary. if painted the milk yield will he email. The "palp" i9 not defined, hut it le probably a por- tion of the mouth raised above tho smooth surface that can he felt, or plainly seen. The economical and profitable production of milk and hutter is easy for the farmer who will attend as carefully to all of the details of business as iso men in commercial pursuits. Beginning with the selection of the calf by some well established rule and fol- lowing rap with its physical develop- ment and proper care, food, exercise: and training. a study of its disposi- tion and treatment accordingly, even a hart tempered nnlral can bo made to do his Beet and developed Into a source of profit. when otherwise. it would not be worth the cost of its keeping. 1'11ODUCiNG COOL) MILK. Never milk cows in a dusty at- anosphere. It is a yore method of svi.ting the milk with the worst forme of bacterial organisms. Germs cannot live on pure air and water. but are found by millions in those substances when they contain dust or other organic :natter. When for - her; after that she disappeared, and eign matters of any kind enters the he could not sew in which directlbn milk pail, it is sure to detract f:•one she had gone. the value of the milk as a food or Ile found the old sexton. Sir Basil for the manufacturer of butter or discos cored in a moment the way to cheese. his heart: it was suggested by the I few people appenr to realize that almost pathetic manner in which tho once ccntaitinat.ed, there is no wo- man said that. it was a dry day. Iio thud by which silk can be restored was so completely oVerwholtncd whjen to its pore condition as found in the Sir Basil dropped something into his banal with which to stake the day more comfortable that he would have answered any number of ques- tions. "Who was the lady that swig?" Slie was M199 stay—STiss lfettla Bay, daughter of the old pan who lived at Itosowalk. Where was Ito9ewalk? "It Is a cottage built. on the elope of the hill round there by South- wood"—a vague direction, but Sir Basil remembered every word of R. lett° tens the old man? Alt. that the sex(lon did not know! All that he could tell was that he cow's udtter. At tho temperatare at which milk is drawn from the cow - 0.7 degrees_-- foreign ntntter disaolses very readily and is then iuttl>ossilee to remove by any chemical tneano such as straining. At the sumo tem- perature germs multiply at their gre►tteet rate, causing souring, gas and various putrid flavors in milk. Milk contains arnnll quantities of mineral, carbonaceous and nitro- genous matter in solution, the ideal cotelitions for germs, growth ani 1ucrerete On entering a 1>acteterio- logical laboratory an observer will notice milk cultures of the moist vir- ulent Feral*. Scientist* oto milk hal heard that ho was a fat 0 a extensively ter growing gowns on Re- writer In the political line, that ito count. of its special fltneee for this WW1 i , and that his daughter worke1 very hard. Ile know little of bite, because ho kept away from every one and shut hima'lf sup in hie little cottage. t tile. a "]father a curious history." thought the young baronet. "Such a father and such a datighter! cannot pos•.ibly be It political. writer of any note. or 1 should have hcnr,l sotto one spent( of him. Before long I will see for myself what Itosowalk is Mie." ('I'o be Continued.) WORDS SPO, N IN HEAT. They had been married fully thres months, awl were having 1 heir thir- teenth tinily quarrel, thirteen being an unlucky number. "You only married :no for my tnnney," he said. "i didn't do anything et the kind," she retorted. "Well, you didn't marry too becnuse you loved me." "i knew I didn't." "in Heaven's name, madam, whnt did you marry me for." ".rust to make that hateful Kato Scott you were engaged to cry her eyes out because she had to give you up to another." ile fell down on the whine bear- skin rug at her feet and rolled over in it until he looked like at huge the farm. and they enter into many snowball. of the household dishes. In testi- "Great Caesarl woman"• he *put- orating the profits from poultry. the tared, at he tried to get the hair out of hie mouth, "what have yon done? Why, 1 marrted you because Kato Scott threw me over!" And by the time dinner was randy their sweet young hearts were once more so full of outshine that awn- ings were quite necessary. purpose. The dairyman should always bear in mind that. milk la one of the most delicate articles of food, and if he physical and chemi- cal 1A ♦ a understand!:1 i . cal nature it will he an aid to him in producing a sanitary milk. No time !bottld be lost after milk- ing in cooling the milk to about. 50 degrees. Hero again tho micro or- ganism condo in; like other members of the vegetable kingdom, cold is inmicnl to their development. MEAT ON FARMS, Ronst pork and roast pig aro fav- orite dishes, and &he termer never 1111S9413 the pork from his table oven when other meats are lacking. Ile can Just as easily and cheaply hero const duck as roast pork. in pro- portion to food consumed, the duck will cost no more than the pork, and a four -pouted duck can he put on the table in eight weeks from the time it is hatchets. The farmer who anis- es one hundred ducks can have roast duck twice n week nearly every week in the year, and he does not have to plckte the meat to keep it. The (tuck can Ito raised on any kind of fond that the hog will consume. and the fernier can have a rene•ket for his ducks at horse, leaving hint the pork 10 sell. What 'would a farm, be that did not contain a flock of fowls'' The eggs are considered es adjuncts to eggs ani poultry consumed( by the family should he given the tamo as though touch supplies were pur- eha.e.ed. No farmer should Bell his eegt and live on something lest. de- sirable, o-sirable, but he remelt' enjoy the ancon luxuries a* those who aro wil- ling to have the best is the cities. "SALAD is now the Favorite Drink of MiH�n Black, Mixed or Natural Green. Sealed rackets only HIGHEST AWARD ST. LOUIS 1904. PROFIT IN POULTRY. 1'ew people realize what enormous quantities of poultry and eggs are consumed or how rapidly modern methods are revolutionizing the pots lev but:ineee. Not many years ago there was not a largo poultry farm in existence, and no one believ- ed exclusive poultry farthing could has made to pity. but to -day there aro many large poultry farms which aro giving a good account of themselves and it is dilicult for ono to spy what the limit is to the size of a poultry farm or the wonderful improvements in methods of handling and selling. It is certain that the American hen is snaking herself farliota and is rapidly being recognized as on en equal footing with our other great Interests, such as dairying, stock raising and other agricultural pur- suit a. -__♦ WA.X-FAfMING IN CHINA. An Intereating Description of the Work. Ono of tho occupations of China which is little known to the outside world 1i wax -farming. A tiny insect is cultivated with groat shill by the Chinese of a certain district, because of tho fine white wax which it pro- d•tces. The Scientific Atnoi•ican de- scribes the work of these wax-farrn- ers. This little insect, which is hardly yot known to W(atern science, has many peculiarities, ono of which is that for the successful pru•tvction of wax two stages of its lifo must be pas.'ted in very different re:;ions. The earlier stage, in which *he females develop until almost ready to depos- it their eggs, is in the Chien Chang Valley in tho weetern pert of China, whero grows a tree, at an altitude of eve thousand feet, on which the Insect passes that stage of its Olds - (cure. In May it is time to remove the colonies of wax -makers to tho lower altitude of Szechwan province, where is foetid another tree, feeding upon which the insect makes its wax. 'This removal is one of the most pictuioequo features of the industry. The:man:is of porters are employed In it. The colonies of inserts remov- ed from tho trees are wrap{etl in leaves of the wood -oil tree. Packed carefully in baskets, they are slung frurn the shoulders of tha porters, who must hour them front two to four hundred miles The way lies over the rocky paths and heights of the Szechwan mountains, through several cities, and ends at the farms where the masters of the bearers await them. All tho journey Must be made ut night, as the :;en's hunt would develop the insects too fast. At that time of year it Is the cus- tom of the cities along aim way to leave their gatc't open all night in order that the progress of the bear- ers may not be interrupted. With tho baskets s:►apended from their shoulders, the porters run in weird procession at their top speed from dark till daylight. Clad almost in- variably In rain -proof straw, they carry picturesque lanterns, which swing a9 they run, throwing tho fan- tastic shadowa of their bodies all round. At. daybreak the men find some dense shade for their burden*, pre- pare their meals and go to sleep. At nightfall they aro under way again. At the farms where tho wax is to be formol the leaves containing in- sects aro tied to the limbs of trees, Smother A Cough Press your hand hard enough over your mouth and you can smother a cough, hut you can't cure it that way. The outside is the wrong end to worst on. SCOWS [Min thoroughly cures coughs be- cause it strikes at the root of the trouble. The throat and lungs need a regular system of educa- tion to cure an old cough. The point of value about Scott's Emulsion and coughs is that while Scott's Emulsion does soothe the raw throat and lungs, it also nourishes and heals the inflamed parts. It replaces inflamed tissue with healthy tiuue--the only real cure for an old cough. Send for Free Carnet. *COOT & DOWNS. Chemise, Teresto, where the hest of the sort develops theta. Crawling out, the males pro- ceed to forst c•uroone, and these are the source of the vote. In a short time the entire trete; are covered with the shining valuta), so that, but for the treat, ono would believe they were hidden in frust. '11iin white covering is sum etirnes a quarter of an inch thick over 'nett of a tree. It is scraped off duel refined. and from it are made candles for the household, objects for the temp i's, and many other things, and an annual tribute of the best quality is seat. to tete em- press at feeing. IN THE JUNGLE. A Woman Describes a Fight Be- tween Panther and Hyena. An Englishwoman travelling with her hu:,band in India passed an en - tiro tight in the top of a tall tree, waiting for her husband to got a shot at a panther. She describes the cxper knee in tho I'nll Mall Maga- zine: Toward ono o'clock we were cer- tainly getting drowsy, when we wore both startled out of our sleep by hearing the most fearful snarls and yells cooling from just below our tree. My husban.1 was peering out in an instant, but only just in time to see two largo animals, fighting hard. disappear into the shadows of the trees. In tho diftivult light of the moon wo had not time to see for certain what animals tl-ey were, but it looked and sounded like a panther driving off a rig. Whether what 1 had seen was the THE STAR (IF BETHLEHEM THE FOUNDATION OF ALL AS- TRONOMY. Here Is a Fossiblc Explanation of a Brilliant Star. '111e recent conjunction of the two great planets, Jupiter and Venus, itae been watched with interest. The fourth of July they approach atill roarer, writes Garrett. Fisher k iso London Mail. Tho dawn of •astronomy is said to bo traceable to such a spectnclo. Somewhere about 251.0 B.C. all live of the then known planets reached the sa>no longitude in the course of their ordered wanderings—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn were grouped together in the same region of the sky. This observation, which was naturally made in China, is iho edest. on record, and probably redy IMIensidered as the foundation of all asuonumy. Mr. Stoc kwoll, an astronomer of replete, hes made a very interesting suggestion as to the poa.;iteu part which such a conjunction once ploy - ell in the accepted history of man. In the beautiful story of the Gospels, few things aro more difficult either to atc.'pt er reject than the Star of Bethlehem, which lea the Wise Mon of the East to the birth -place of the destined Saviour of mankind. 1f we deny its existence, as Browning asks, "lehat comes next net Flchto's cunning cut at God 11io,s+lf?" If wo accept it in its full descrip- tion by the evangelist, what becomes of all our reliance upon the imntuta- bility of natural law? Modern criti- cism pins at a policy of rvconcilia- tlum, and tries to explain what it. cannot frankly accept and would be sorry to deny. '1'1IE CONJUNCTIONS. Many attempts have been made account for the star. A bright & f. teor or fireball, flying across the land in a direction which the astro- 1oflically-minded Magi might well fol- low in expectation of meeting with aomo aomarkable portent—a tempor- ary star, such us lately blazed uut in Perseus, only far brighter—a comet, pointing towards the humble Bethle- hem stable—all have been suggett.ed; but it is wif..rtunately impossible to test such hypothesis. kir. Stockwell looked for a simpler Wither er not I do not know, but and more probable origin for tho a dark shad ,tv passed beneath us, Bible story. lie remembered that and there, right opposite us un the when Venus hapl-ened to seine with bank. with his white chest gleaming in the moonlight, sat a largo panth- er special splendor in the morning sky, Greenwich Observatory was always besieged with inquiries whether it My husband got his rifle into post- were not the Star of Bethlehem re - lion and flet. el, and the panther roll turned again. Ot course, the Magi ell over with a growl. In a minute were learned in all the astronomical with another low growl, ho rolledtali 1. re of the Chaldean :shepherds. and over again into a clump of wore not litdy to Imiateke the fam[I- ban,grasses just at the bottom of the lar Ile i er-1'hosphar, t2 a star of bank, and rental:led quite still. Ile morn and eve, for a portent and pro - was completely hidden from us, ani dig}. But was it not possible that we could only watch the plata and Ven::s might have been is caw knctloa wai•.. hardly had we got settled with some. ower planet at the when a crackling came on tho dry TIME OF THE NATIVITY? leaves under the tree, and a hyena apponred. Ile stopped a few yards It is a simple though a laborious front the clump of grass in which the task to calculate the positions of all Panther lay, and began baying. If. the planets at argiven time. Tho it was intended as a challenge. itI "Nantieal >Lntantscc" always contain had the desired result. for in a min- a list of their places for several tate wo heard at savage growl come Sears to come. and seamen steer from the long grass• and quicker than their courses in confidence that noth- my eve could follow in the uncertain lug will fel-ifyr these preeletions. By light the psni her had sprung out the same process we can follow their upon the hyena. utovewents beck into the past, and And now how can I describe thatsatisfy ourselves where Venus or awful tussle? Snarl:r, howls and tierce Mart was shining on any given night. growls all horribly ntixeel as those Mr. Stockwell accordingly comput- two fearful animals fought. The ed the moticne of the chief planets panther. we could Fe,., was ,ieyerepy about the nasumed tune of the birth wounded, in fact, one shoulder ate of Christ. It was clear (h t any pea reel quite useless, and soon it star or combination of stat which seemed pruhablu thn. the hyena could tidal the account of the Star would got the best of it, when stet- of Bethlehem must have been an un- eg denly 1 h two animals parted a few usually coneplcuous object in the yards, and lag gasping and panting morning sky within .two or three on the around. years before tho death of Herod In 4 M • husband availed himself of this; 11,C. Saturn and Mercury were speed - chance of a shot, and with the report I i'y rejected as not being bright enough to he worth considering. The that rang out like n minim the by bolted, nna the panther rolle.l' conjtinetions of Venus and Mars aro ovc'f on his side. Wing new riotaln hever v consitit'unii9 Oaks. Cel - that he would never move again, my: c"laifonof the motions of Mars husband called to Inc to come down; i and Jupiter showed that they had no but this Was no very era,• matter, ns; conjunction within the assigned spa '•, somehow my, knees felt 'toot cur- : of time which was at all likely to tousle. feeble. i did meow. how -1 have led tho Magi to Bethlehem. ever, to reach the ground sprite safe- ly, and was hurried back to camp just as dawn was breaking. • TO A I1AT You cannot steel n tint with im- punity in New %entente Someone has dared to venture upon an exchange o of headgear in this colony, the re- sult being the insertion of the fol- lowing "agony" in the local Press: "A Brand-new Felt lint was 'ex- changed' at a Iocnl lintel last 'Thurs- day, and has not been returnticl. It the present owner Mould escape hanging, it it the late owner's de- vout wish that the lightning may strike through the hat into his mis- erable skull. and convince hire that he is a low-down 'thief anll it dis- grace to an honest hat." LEGISI.ATiVl: STRIKE:. There is a strike atilt running In Germany which has lasted for thirty- five years. It has other remarkable features, an the strikers are mem- bers of Parliament, though a very small one. They are the deputies to the Diet of the priu$dpulity of Hato,- burg, tntze-burg, and they are striking against the reactionary constitution imposed by the Grand Duke of Mecklenh+erg- Strelitz in 11409. Since that year the member, of the Diet have steadfastly refused to meet, although frequently called upon to (10 so. SETTING NIM RTG)rr. "I don't know whether you've no- ticed it," said Bragg; "I don't know why it should be, but I can't help remarking how much thn girls al- ways Make of me." "liow carelcsri you aro h•centing In your speech." told Knox, "you left a word nut of that sentence.'% "Eh! What's thnt?" "Tho word gun' after 'much'; t A FASCINATING THEORY. Only Jupiter and Venus, tho two noblest of the planets, remained. Withan increasing er dor of research, re h 31 Stockwell tuckwcll s• t himself to ferll.>w their perplexing movements, Remark- ably enough, ho discovered that these 'Annetta were actvnlly In conjunction 1 on the eth of May, B.C. b, and that 1 r the conjunct l in was a . 1 ingu al y deo) one. Roth planets were almost In the plane of tee eliptic at that , period, and at the ►potent when they canto nearest on each other they . meet have been all but In it straight line to a terrestrial observer. (Being then to the west of the sun, they would ee vixiblo as a single star of quite unusual brilliance about two hours before sunrise on that day. Any one who will look to -night at the 1 onutiful sight presented by these two splendid planets so near together can easily convince himself that. If they came into apparent contact, tho reserltnnt star would awe and amaze all who new it. Whether it. was really the Star of Ik•thlehetn must be left to ote.ers to de'.ide. though no other explanatine f that fascinntinq story has boontit for- ward which has any definite astrone omicttl foundation. FOUND TIME SMALLPDX. In a house in the l:ngllth town of Exeter eat two men. (tne of them informed his companion that the lost timo he was in town he suffer- ed front smallpox in that very room. "In that corner," he laid, "was a cupboard where the bondage' were kept; it is now plaet. reel over, but they are probably still there." And he took a poker, broke (leen the plaster and found them. From their "find" the two men contracted the disease, and it spread throelpli tho town and worked fearful havoc. -----♦ Honesty is tho beet policy wheel MO truth U knows.