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Exeter Times, 1905-05-18, Page 6His Favorite Niece ; OR A SECRET REVEALED. x"1'1"1"1"1.1.11'.14 CHAPTER. XXIX. Basil." she rejoined. "I cannot On that scone evening a large party help it. I do not wish to be jex- Was assetu1leer at Dyne Mabey, and lous; I do not make myself jealous; Sir Bald made a great effort to give it conics naturally. yesterday, when bis mind to the present. He tried you .were talking to Lady Grautltigh, to forget the beautiful voice he had Rho was laughing and looking up at heard and the street fuce he had teen you; and your eyes were so bright, In the old gray church; ho tried to Basil, I felt a pain as of a wou• nd forget the stern, haggard man look- ing with sad, wearied eyes over Zhu waste of waters. Ile did his best; but the eyes of love are keen. anti Leah SEM that he was quiet and talked lees than usual. ifow site loved hint! flow her whole heart i;hone in her face ae she went up to hien! How the love - light glistened in her dark eves and tho sweet, sensitive lips trembled with their lova-sighs! She had a grotty caruwinrg fashion of going behind hien and whispering loving words that no one else could hear. "Basil, my darling," she said tremulously, "you have tired your- self with that long ramble. I felt almost jealous because you did not ask mo to go with you." Ile forced himself to talk. to her, and he promised to row her as far as tit. Margaret's Bay on the mor- row. "I will Ring for you," she said. "A new song came for me this morn- ing. It is dedicated to me; I havo been asked twenty times to -day to sing it; hut I- resolved that you should he the first to hear it. It is called 'The Tryst;' tlio words and the accompaniment are alike beauti- ful. Listen, and tell ate what you think." "j will come with you." he said. He was setting at the far end of the room• away from the pianp. "No; I want you to stay and listen critically," she replied, laughingly. Ho did listen critically, wondering what there was in tho rich contralto that reminded hint so forcibly of the cigar, ringing soprano he had heard in the old gray church. "She glided o'er the meadow grass, and through the young green corn; Sweet, as the summer blossoms she -And fres1 as summer morn. M1Wc laughed and loved beside the brook. That sang its gay refrain; And where wo 'net that day, my love, Wo swore to meet again. "Ilut ere the grass was dry and nrow•n. Amici the ripening corn, Lep to the churchyard on the down A maiden's corpse ens borne. I weep alone beside the brook, A11 s•.voll'n with autumn rain. ten- where we nx•t that day. my love, We shall not met again," No one spoke to Leah as she went back to her place by her lover's side. "1'o you like it?" she asked. "How could I help it?" leo cried. "But thiere is something strangely familiar to me in your voice. I had a peculiar, weird sensation. as though I had heard it in another world." "'That, 1s intpnseible," she replied, laughingly. "If i had met you in another world, 1 should have remem- bered It. I Was jealous and paired for whole days niter goat said that you thought another face fairer—no, sweeter than ndne. If my voice re- counts you of another's i will never sing one mote to you again." He was flattered by her jealousy; but it did not pain hint ns itwould have done had he loved her. "Basil," she said, gentry, "do you think I ant very jealous?" "1 iso not Leah. 1 hope not. I should imagine that to ho jealous 'Host cause acute pain." "Po you not know what it is like," ilio said—"this pain of jeal- ousy. "No." he replied. "I do notre- member that 1 was ever jealous 10 my whole life. Ah, yes, once I re- member! When my sister's lover cause, and I knew in my boyish heart that he was to take her from me -1 ware jealous then. I remember. too. that for a tune I hated the move who wav going to marry her. 1 have never been jealous *ince." "Never?" asked Leah. "No," Sir Basil laughed; "I :nay safely say never." "NI •rut t.Mnk that jetIOILty is a sign of lover' asked leech, wistfully. "I cannot tell: 1 have never thought about it," he replied. "I should nitnoet say not." "Aril 1 think the two must go to- gether," said Leah. "I ani jealous. 1 am surd that if yon paid mulch al- tentien to any one Mee. or sniff that. any girl was very pretty, or looked at any one as though you admired her very much, 1 should be jealous." "i do not see. why," he said gently. "Ali. th.•n, you do not. utetorstend, 'tiy'irt1 ta he arm LW'ILa -•i .��w LEAKS ON THE FARM. Assuming that the farmer is a man of ability and industry living on a farm of 160 or 200 acres free from debt, let us inquire into some of the losses that. he sustains unnecessarily. 1%'o aro considering un ordinary tar►u; the lirst leak we find is the incum- brance of worthless growths support- ed by some parts of the farm. Bush- es, briars and logs aro found not only in the pastures but also appro- priating rich cornors of the fields—a constant reminder of the curse re- corded in Genesis: "Thorns also and inflicted by a sharp knife. Hast , thistles it. shall bring forth unto she whispered, "have you ever been thee." Tho neglected stump in tho middle of a good field is a source of Mengel- to machinery and a harbor fur the groundhog. The combined fence without agents or admirers but with many owners is an eyesore and a leak. It may bo seen skirting a field occupied by an old rail fence). briars. bushes. etc., a rich strip of ground entirely wasted. Another source of loss to the farmer is keep- ing and feeding scrub stock, putting feed and caro into an animal that will only bring a low price when fin- ished, but this leak is being stopped, for improved horses, cattle, hogs and sheep aro increasing; still wo can do better along this line. Improvement can also be made from year to year in heeding arrangements—sheds that will shelter man, stock and feed can bo built at small outlay, windbreaks of boards, straw ricks, or cedar trees can be provided that will save ani- mal heat. Another leak is a want et system and extent of plana in faros work. Ask the average farmer to- day how many acres he will devote to corn, oats or wheat. next year. what rich acre for potatoes, what field he will seed to clover, if ho will sow rye next fall. thus insuring early pest'ere for ewes and tenths the following spring and a good place to feed a bunch of shoats; ho will reply: "'Time enough yet." Another had leak is the want of caro in selecting pure seed. It is still the custom of some farmers to huntthrough a pile of corn in the crib for seed when the planter is ready to start, satisfied to risk a weak or dead germ. Tho same man sows his wheat as it came from tho machine, when he ought to havesel- ected corn in the fall and to havo fanned up his seed wheat. Lack of keeping correct accounts is a general failure among farmers. The business man in any pursuit dare hot proceed in the inaccurate method followed 1 y too many farmers; it. is just its neces- sary for t he farmer to know how he strids at tho end of tho yeur as the merchant. A true inventory of ! ro- porty in hand at tho beginning of each year, a ledger showing the re- ceipts and expenses of each month and a balance struck can he made anis kept by any farmer of ordinary intelligence. The negligence of sav- ing and applying all the manure mode on the farm is a leak wide- spread and grievous. This subject 1e1 so important thatwe cannot discuss it in a paragraph. Are we doing the hest we can in this 'natter? We fear not. The question of how to manage our forage crops so ns to secure their feeding values and return the refuse to our fields in the hest shape fur plant food is indeed an important matter. 10 Ir jealous of ate'," "No," ho replied, frankly, "never, Leah." "Never, Basil' Ah, then, I am sure you do not love oto as much as 1 love you. Are you quite sure?" '•I ant sure," laughed Sir Bevil. "I do not wuterstand that. When you seta other men around me, and hear the compliments they pay tete, do you never feel any jealousy?" "No, on tho contrary, I like to see you admired." "The other day," she continued, "when Major Stapleton followed No to the piano, acid would turn over the leaves of my song, looking so sentimental about it, were you not jealous?" No, I thought. him very kind," answered Sir Basil, cheerfully. "1 will try to make you jealous," she said. "Never play with Ore, Leah," he remarked. "Wo are hat py. What new element do you want to intro- duce into our happiness'?" "I do not want a new element," sho said—"only to deepen an old one." "Weiat is that, Leah?" ho asked. "I should like you to lovo me more," she said. "Sometimes it seems to ie that. I ask for bread, and you give me a stone. It may be my fancy; but 1 cannot help thinking that 1 love you better than you love too." "How can you measure love'?" he asked. "Ily love," she replied, quickly. "There is no other way." "You must Have patience with me. Leah," he said. "I am a novice in alt these 'natters." "You ought not to be a novice now," she replied. "1 wish you would tell me when ,you really began to love ale." "Leah, you like to talk about love," he said, endeavoring to turn ttie conversation. "Do 1?" she questioned, gently. "It must be because my heart is so full of it." She Icft Sir Ilasil more than a lit- tle puzzled. If jealousy were pert. of love, then assuredly he ].now not love, for he knew no jealousy. And he wondered whether Leah would ever find this out. Disease takes no summer vacation. If you need flesh and strength use Scott's Emulsion summer as in winter. Send for free ample SCOtf & eowNE. Chemin., Toronto, Ootvta 10e. aa4 ei err; all inggists. CIIA1"1'1';It XXX. When Sir Basil started for Rose - walk the next day, he Honestly be- lieved that he was going to see Mar- tin Itay from the most honorable and the highest motives. Ile might, of course, see the beautiful singer again; it was not improbable; but he was not going for that purpose. A second time he left the Abbey for a long ramble without asking Leah to accompany him. This time she noticed it, but said nothing. Wh.n he reached Hosewalk, a young and beautiful girl was seated near the wall overlooking the sen. 11 hat, at the first sight. of her, tirade his heart beat so fast? He had to pass close by her; but he would not look at the golden hair and s.veet face. lie went into the qutint flow'er- APPLYING M:1NI-ItE. Spreading the manure and allowing it to lie nn the surface should be practiced only o11 level delfts where (here is no danger from snrfnco washing. It has been claimed that when manure is spread broadcast and allowed to lie on the surface there may be a serious loss of ammonia into the air, but experiments have shown that, in case of properly pec• wreathed porch and •rapped at the pared manure, loss from this cause door. 'then, as one watches things must he very small. in a dream, he saw the young girl On a !vanity soil there may be a loss of soluble constituents in the of the manure are uniformly diatribe-I'sn't It To Please You When ted, tho liquid portion being gra.l-; Likely Of Others. It Pleases Millions ually end thoroughly incorporated! with the soil particles. One serious! ��'�® disadvantage, however, of the me- i thod is that the manure before being plowed in is leached to a largo ex- tent of its soluble nitrogenous com- pounds, which, as wo have already observed. aro necessary for ferutent:t- tion, and, therefore, it does not so readily ferment in the soil. It is not advisable, therefore, in the cost) of light or sandy soils to follow this practice, but it is preferable to plow the manure in as soon as spread. As to the Beth to which it is ad- visable to plow in the manure. the Once Tasted Always Used. 1 1should lobserved that genera rule )e to it shotdd not be so deep as to pre- Black, Mixed or Green. Highest Award St. Louts 1904. vent the to ins of fermentation moisture d sold onlyIn lead Packets. By all Grocers. tool air insure frrnteutatiun and d to permit of rapid very rontpuct seiht, 1 hu fresh •water in front of every rctop nitrification art e washing down of nitrates to the Put a shallow dish with setae LIVING SEA LAMPS. drain. In depth should not exceed 4 inches. In light soils this depth may he consid- erably increased. although in such soils there is more danger of loss by drainage than with heavy clay seriltt. Application in the hill or drill is useful where the Supply of manure is limited and the full immediate ef- fect is desired. For forcing truck crops this method is especially val- uable. Well -rotted manure is hest suited to this method of application. It has been claimed, however, that manure applied in this way some- times injures tho appearance of root crops, especially potatoes. by in- creasing tho amount of scab. The application of liquid manure has certain obvious advantages and is largely practiced. especially in Europe. Manure leaching is a quick - acting, forcing manure, and is es- pecially valuable for grass. nrl,a' and w•nik toward him witlt a firm graceful step, "I beg your pardon." he raid. "I want to ser Mr. Martin slay." "e1y father!" she replied. "Ho is not at hotne." "Not at home," repeated Sir Bas-. i1. "I and sorry for that. 1 was to see him to -day. and 1 have walked some distance. 1fave 1 yo'ir per - POULTRY NOTES. Milk is the best of poultry foods and will often take the place of meat. There is no proper place in tho barn for the poultry to roost. Carbolic acid should be mixed in the limo wash, and it should be ap- plied about once each month. Guineas in the farmyard are a protection to young chickens. They aro noisy and scare away hawks, and even fight there should they Ily down within reach. Always see to .t that the drink- ing fountains are clean and well sup- plied with pure, cool water. impure water affects not only the health of the fowls, but gives bad flavor to their eggs. Too touch soft food is worse than none at all. It is bad for the digest- ive organs. Hens must havo some- thing to grind. If not they will get shabby, and have a mtopy appear- ance. Grain and grit are indispetts- ab1e. A chicken run. made by covering a slender framework with cheese- cloth stretched firmly and tightly over it. is a great protection to they young hires. It keeps the ground dry so that their tender feet do not get wet nor muddy. drainage 1f the manure is spread a long while before tho crop is planted but in ordinary practice ilio loss from this source is also likely to be Insignificant. in this method of ap- plication the fertilizaigg constituents, thuslatetn about him. It gentle Bet- tie in her heart hated anything, it mission to wait until he returns?" was this world which had not ac - "Yoe can wait if you wish to do knowledged her father's worth. :-;he est," she replied; "but the hour of did not know couch about his doe - his return is quite uncertain." trines end belief: he haat not given "if you will allow me. I will risk himself the trouble to teach her. She it," he maid. "i do not think any had every quality that went to make one could lints a more beautiful spot ( a noble woman; but she was not than this in which to while away the talented. tine." "'There twistbe good." Sir Ilasil lie sat down on the pretty rustic 85111 to himself, "in one who is loved bench. which was so placed that one Ins she loves her farther." could see the incoming tide. And. though the duke, in his quiet For a few minutes they were silent.lianghty why, had denounced him, 'nettle did not raise her eyes front a Martin Itay rose from t hat moment her work. and he was wondering why d in Sir Basil's estimation. the presence of this one w011110 matte so great a difference to hint. "1 heard you singing in church last Sunday," he said. "1 have 110(41 staying in this neighborhood tar mime time. You have a very beau- tiful voice; I was quite delighted with it." "i 8111 fond of mode," she an- swered --"above all th!ngs, 1 ant fond of singing; it is the one pleasure of buy life. I forget every th:tr; else wh•'n 1 sin,;." "Is there FS) much in your life that you woald like to forget," he asked suddenly --"so yotm; a life as yours?" "1 am not sure," she replied. There are sorra' things 1 s'huuld like to he able to thine lege aeout." "I should not have thought." he' said, "1 hat you had had env trout le In life. Volt are young, and your face has something 11 the joy of childhood 1n it." Then he talked to her of the coon- . try, of the, era, rr,d nI her father. and he west delighted With her en- ile told her ahunt the picture In the academy and in her turn how the artist had come and taken a sketch of her face. "Yon seen' to li a quite out of 1110 world here," he said. And then she tole) hint of her busy life, and how. do whet she would, she could not ::lake the days long enough. He sot 1 y the ivy-covered vrtll more than an hone: anti when at ln't he roar, longing to stny, yet aware that he had brit there lung rnottch. they both felt as though they had been friends for years. ife was so different front the t)e'e of mien v:ho had cone to ace ilet tie'w father hitherto. sharing her whole t:Ge '.I.. did not remember to have talked to nnv ono II!'e him. '1 he music of the sea was sweeter that night than ever; and llrttie fell (151001' with a smile on her lips, and dreamed of a dark face, and dark eyes that said to her what no other eyes had ever raid. (To bo Continued.) of chickens. They may not be aide; to get any if you do not thus sup- ply them, and their growth will be retarded. Water is necessary to the very smallest chicks. Ilous, when laying, require 'nose! food than when not laying, just as a cow requires moro food when giv- ing milk than at other times. The amount needed for layers would make non -layers too fat. 1f possible, tho laying hens should be fed separately. When the weather is too bad to do work that you havo planned, why not put in a little time constructing good, substantial brood coops, end thus make your wife's work with young poultry less irksome. Early hatched chickens aro vigorous, but not strong enough to live and Thrive in old coops, with, currents of c•ild air circulating about them. The coming winter layers that. will soon be making their appearance, will need tight, warnt coops to prevent being chilled to death, or stunted in their growth. • EVEN I)ANGEIIOUS TO WALK. Next to stopping at home the most dangerous thing is to go for a walk. About thirty-four per cent. of tho ac- cidents which befall people occur in- doors, and twenty-four per cent. oc- cur to those walking in tho street. Horses and vehicles come next with 18 per cent.; recreation with 6 per cent., railway travelling 5 per cent., trams d per cent., the use of fire- arms 2 per cent., animal bites 2 per cent., assault 1 p.c., and steamship travelling scarcely 1 per cont. To become a permanent passenger on an Atlantic liner is, perhaps, the safest thing. A BORN DIPLOMAT. Ile—"Miss de Jones—Clara—I never loved anyone but you. Will you bo my wife'?" She---"Itut I've been told that you proposed to four other girls within a month." Ile—"True, clarling; but I slid it merely for practice, so that I wouldn't blunder in proposing to you,' How the Deep Sea Dwellers Derive Their Light. The most recent and surprising dis- coveries of luminous animals were made in the course of another excur- sion into the region of the unknown —namely in the efforts to explore, under great difficulties. the forms of life it. the uttermost depths of the sea. It is hard to concieve that life can exist at all in such physical con- ditions as those at the bottom of the deepest soundings in the ocean, where the water is five miles deep, where no ray of light ever penetrates and where tho pressure is one a two and a half tuns to the square inch, oe about twenty-fivo times greater than that which will drive an or- dinary railway train. Yet it .has been found that these depths teens with animal life, and that the plague of darkness is overcome to some ex- tent by the artificial light given out by fish, crustaceans and zoophites. Most of these have their counterparts in creatures inhabiting shallower seas, and there is every reason to be- lieve that in length of time and by a gradual change the profoundest depths of tho ocean were peopled from the more shallo. waters into which light penetrates, and that it was to combat the darkness its the new conditions,,that the light making and light -projecting organs of many of these deep-sea dishes were develop- ed. The reader will perhaps agree with the opinion recently expressed that "hard as it is to conceive the bare existence of any life at all in the sena t� THE EAST END Ot LONDON TRAGEDIES OF EVIiIRY DAY IN THAT QULR'I'i' t. True Stories of Life t.. the Crowd- ed City, as Told By the Bis- hop of London. D'. Wilmington Ingram, the Bishop of leerdui, has long ben looked up- oi' as the Bishop of the East End, says London Answers. Ile is well known all over 1Vhite chapel, Able End, and Stepney, and ether East End districts; told it is safe to say that no bishop is more toted by the pour than 1)r. Wilmington 111gruu►. Ilis uneunventienal nlaualers and the Ituppy knack he possesses of getting at the hearts of 1he people have mad., hint a great favorite. It is owing to these characteristics that his Fast lend experiences form most interesting reading. "You knock," the bishop says, "at a door in the East End. After long hesitation, it will be opened tt',aut a foot by a little girl. You will hear a ditaant voice from the washtub in the rear: 'Well. Sally, who is that?' "'Then Sally will turn her head hall round and shout: 'Please, moth- er, it's religion!' " The following incident is relating to one of the bishop's Haste; Monday excursions. On Bank Holidays Dr. 1Vinnington Ingram almost in- variably spends a day in the com- pany of 130 to 200 lads in the fast End. IIo says: "Ono day I noticed the express stopping pretty often, and wondered why, as it was not advertised to stop anywhere. At last the guard came to see me at a way- side station, W1TH A VERY RED FACE, and said he would hold me responsi- ble for what my boys were doing. IIo said that they had pulled the clanger connecting -trod three tithes. I went round to see what was hap- pening, and asked whether any of them had done it. 'Oh, yes,' said a littl. chap at once, 'it was hie! 1 war- only 'tinging my 'at up on it!" "Not long ago 1 was visiting in a London hospital a little girl, the daughter of a clergyman, who lay very near her 011(1. She said to mu: 'I want to tell you, bishop, l am afraid of dying. I feel it coating nearer and nearer, and I ant afraid.' I waited a minute, and prayed that the right word 'night be given to conditions found in the ocean abyss, ate, and then I said: 'Would you be we cannot fail to realize the cum- afraid to let Inc carry you to tree pleteness of the triumph by which room?' 'Oh, no!' she replied. 'Then beings, doomed to livo in eternal why should you bo afraid,' I said, night, aro supplied not with mere 'to let someone who is ten thousand shining secretions of luminosity, but times kinder and ten thousand times with rows of bright. and over -burning stronger carry you in His arms into lamps, in organs fitted with lenses His other rooms?' The thought an 1 reflectors, which shoot their seemed to still her fears, and when beams sideways through the circum- I came back next day they told mo fluent waters, or project shafts of she had never felt a moment's dread, lighs, before their eyes to illuminate thti: path. Some men would rather be presi- dent than not to hold any office all. at No Cash to Pay Until Fall, 1905. MAY & JU are the Best Months to Make Money Raising Chickens Chicks hatched then grow moro rapidly and require less caro than at any time of year, and the knack of running the business successfully is acquired under the most favorablo circumstances. One good May or .Tune hatching will bring out a brood of chicks that sell about October 1st for enough to pay for an Incubator anti another batch can then be started that will got the chicks out in time for the Christmas market. The next hatch will ho ready for the March and April market, "broilers" commanding tho vary highest market prices. :1 e,.,,1 Incubator is the foundation of real; success in poultry raising, bringing the whole matter from guess - v :-k to i-.•rtainty. We furnish you with a Chatham Incubator eat catty terns^. No cash to pay until November, 1905. By that time it shntthl have paid for itself. Nothing else raised on a farm peva like tithe and the beauty of it all is that the women folks or chi'dren can easily attend to the very small amount of work there is to bo dope. Half an hour or so a day is all the time rcyuired. Getting tho,right Incubator is pretty nearly the whole thing. The Chatham is the safest and surest Incubator made. It does the trick ; 100 per cont. hatches every time if the eggs are fertile. Rather than go into details of construction here, we will print a few out of many hundreds of testimonials Brighton, Ont., Apri11:4h, 190S. The etanso:. Campbell Co., Chatluet. Ont, MST sir, -1 toll you when !teetered Dry Incubator and Waxier that I wooed let you know what suxew 1 had with my first !Web. When the incubator ar• rived 1 went and got eggs to put In 11, and ami was anxious to get it started 1 took alt the eggs I onuld from the party, and he had snly enough so i could not pick them over. There were some small ones and some long and narrow, and se I afterwards found out he was keeping twenty-seven bees with one cockrel, so they did not look very good on the *tart. 1 put ft r afa eggs ictions l intsely, the I Incubator in. * y kick two haring fled in the shell• which l think h era -claire 'They are all strop and lively. 1 am wry [did not order the 10) sireln+teal of the 10. I have It now filled with silty white Wyandott eggs 1 wish you could We have similar Every Incubator FREE BOOK. A Complete Guide to Poultry Profits. tell me when I could get • good poultry paper, somethingjthat would suit a beginner. Yours truly, 11 H. BARMIER, Roe 2/, firtghtou Ont. P.A.-1 would rather attend to an InculdTor than one hen now. There Is some satisfaction in knowing that if you look after the m you will get chicks. Val.ne, Ont., April 16th, 1903. The Manson Campbell leo., Chatham, Ont. Dear Air,—The Iembalm, that we purchased from you on the lath Jan. last is certainly a dandy. Out of a No. S Incubator with 53 ferule eggs I got 76 chickens, and they are all strong and healthy. 1 used li Rations of oil. 1 think there Is no Intim inoutxtlor in the world. Yours tntly, HRS. JOHN R0718011, Valens 1'.0., Ont MANSON CAMrnCLL. letters from every State in the United States, and every Pmvinco in the Dominion. we tut out is the best kind of advertising we do, for it sells many others for us by its never - failing results. Tho Chatham is built on honor, and its construction and workmanship aro as perfect as an experience of fifty years and ample capital can make them. The Chatham was the first Incubator made that was goof' enough to admit of its makers taking chances that it would make its cost for the poultryman before it was paid for. Don't imagine fora moment that it is any longer possible to make big poultry profits by setting hens. As hatcher; hens are es out of date as stone hatchets. If these erratic, uncertain birds are kept busy egg -laying instead of wasting their time setting, the poultryman will pocket a good many extra dollars in profit. If you want to get full particulars on the subject and learn all the details of successful Incubator hatching and profitable poultry raising send to -day for our superbly printed book, " How to Make Money Out of Chicks." It's FREE. Send for it now. THE MANSON CAMPBELL CO., Limited Dept.: 14 CHATHAM, ONT. Dletributing Warehouses at Montreal, Que., Brandon, Man., Calgary, Alfa., New Weetminater, 11 C„ and II•llfat, Nlrl. Factories at CnA111Ael, ONT., and Memoir, Mn•n. Mao Manufacturers of the famous CRATRAM FANNiNG Mlf,19 ANI) C1fATRRAM FAlt11t ACAf.CS. 11 but had fallen into her last sleep with her head on THE SHOULDER OF JE.S;US. "I shall never forget, nmong the many sad scenes at which I have beer. present in East London, the time I spent with a father and his wife when, on the same Sunday morning, they lost all their three children ono after another First one (lied in the early morning, then the second, and the third. all in the same rooms. "1 was with them through it all, and when all three were lying dead round us we simply sat together on the sofa in the room and all sobbed. Such a tragedy ns that in a family does not, happen often, but when it does happen you see the grip which children have upon the heartstrings of the parents; you see vhut a tree ntendously important thing it is that the children should bo affectionate, happy and good. "f remember also coming nape. is ono little honte in Bethnal Green. The man was out of work. 'There was scarcely any furniture—it had all been pawned—and very few clothes left it the house. Ile was 'regular down on his luck.' as vee say. But I found that mean engaged when I caano ori him—he did not expect a visit from me—with the bit of the lop of a fir -tree and two candles, wiring Howe two candles on to the bit oI fir -tree. t hat Itis three) little children might have something of a Christ- mas -tree. I do not wonder that those children loved that than! 'There he was, in all his poverty and all his distress, taking a little trouble for 1118 1'OOI1 CHILDREN. I never- was more glad in my life t hat I had something that day to leave them which would provide the i wherewithal for a dinner, in order thnl, if that poor little tree failed to cause hilarity nmong the children some beef and plum -pudding might el i better. "I can remember one home in East London which was simply lr1111le•. 'I'Ir, husband was nlwny's drinking and beating his wife. i was holding a mission in that perish, and 1 got hold of that man, and made hint give up the drink and take the pledge with me. Ile turned over a new deaf; he came mit en the side of fled altogether, and only a short time ago his wife metme with it happy, smiling face, and said: 'Sir, 11e has never gone back from that (lay five years ago. My home is the happiest home in hast London, nod 1 1111 the happiest woman." tr. one of my districts there wits a club which I and my fellow -workers knew as 'The lllnckguards' 1'It be- cause it consisted of fellows 0W1 had been turned out of every Other sncie- t y. I iepew 1 hat nniong the mem- ' hers were numbers who belonged to o gang Id thieves. 'The first thing we did in this Blackguards' flub was to get the Inds boxing, and the committee kept them at that pastime for about six months, bringing what good influ- Ieinem they could to bear upon them. Thee' suddenly, one clay, one lad said to another: 'Go and wash your fare, y'o•i dirty villaine 'j'hnt. was the second course of ovolat len. 'I'u0 Hirt 1 state was bngntelle—a wonder- . full; refining game. From bagatelle ' the lads gradually advanced and learned other things. 'I•hc resin _hale been that 1 last held n servrie in that district, and i have seen twenty !or thirty of "The Blackguards' C'li,o' sitting in fituflh, ns reverend and godly as it to gt:-Slhlo to, I:. 4> 11 I • •