Exeter Times, 1905-09-07, Page 6iir.eee-.
�'1'iii' •i••E• • , • • • .• •• „f• •f,4.4,„Hei-HeHei fiekiskieweiello 1 or reproach, nothing of lite or death and as the years rolled on, he look-
; •} but telling him that she had found ed to her for all the comfort and
lace
the wedding -ring broken. "My very !brightness of his life. But those
dear Basil: To my surprise this who kew hintbet said that shu
• morning, un opening Hmy jewel -vaso. had never occu,icer the santerHis FavorUc Niccc, 1 found the wedding -ring broken. 1nclse i!Yun knw t !tr what in his heart which Leath had.pr One spot of Brentwood was sacred
to de with it (halt 1-" to Sir Basil -he would never allow
! Swiftly, sudck•uly, as had been it to be touched or ch, aged -and
foretold. death came to her, without that was the nook, on the terrors
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•j- pain, without bitterness, without shore the passion -flowers grew. tic
11 •(- agony. 'the pen dropped from the would not have than cut ur pruned;
A SECRET REN'EAI EV `chile flrgrrs; her hunt fell opts the the grew in Inxuriant profusion.
raper. She died eith a smile on
T.,. • rC and he allowed no ono to gather
�« • 4. her lips. There was not even a Ihenn. rte loved his fair young wife
spasiv el pain, no faint murmur er Nettie with all his heart, yet ho
4,444444.444+74.44÷4.++,44. 4.1"144'•"+4 %• 44+++44.44.1.4, cry. The throbbing, labeling, brut.- never once waned up the avenue
Een heart had (topped at last. With without thinking
of the beautiful
CHAPTER LIV. & sinil. in llie dark ryes. "1 feel the Willi' that chanted a requiem face atnong theflowers which had
Dr. Griffith placed a (:hair for hie more at else about you." ' among the great trees her soul rose brightened into new and sudden life
beautiful young patient, and, stand- Leah smiled to herself. She was to heaven. an 1 the body left behind
ing by the table, waited until she
spoke.
"Do people," sho said abruptly,"
ever die of a broken heart?"
"1 have He•vtt ku n tcase " an-
swered
-
swercd the doctor, I't
hou
h 1 have
heard and rend o such
a thin
g
"Some months , alb since,she" said,
looking at hint with calm, grave
eyes, "1 w'us OE strung as any one
could wish to be. 1 had splendid
health and a• perfect constitution.
Now I have hardly strength enough
to live, and every one thinks I ton
in danger."
•'There 'nest be a reason for it,"
remarked the doctor, quietly.
"'There is a reason, which I will
tell you, and I avant you to judge if
it will kill Inc. 1 have had within
the last two months a trouble -a
terrible trouble -000 that I have had
to bury in the depths of my heart. I
could not speak of it, or hint it, or
place confidence in any living crea-
ture concerning it, 1 have shut my
secret in my heart, and it has been
preying upon it. It has eaten my
heart away. The constant repres-
sien, the desperate effortn I have
made to serol as usual, have been
too much for me, and now I (eel
sure that I have some affection of
the heart which will sown put an
end to my life."
ire begun to understand something
of the. ease.
"Do you want to live?" he asked
briefly.
"No, I want to die," she answer-
ed.
Then came a string of questions,
all which she answered candidly
enough. The doctor knit his brows
and was silent for some time then
he listened to the action of the heart,
and grew graver still.
"I think," he said,"that you have
always had n great tendency to
heart -disease; and now, T not sorry
to say, it is a confirmed (85e."
Her fact. brightened, and she noir-
inured a few words to herself which
he did not hear.
"I wish," she said gravely, "to
hear the plain truth. It %vitt not
frighten me. I prefer death to life."
"It Is a hard truth which i have
to tell you," he answered, gently.
"i am ready to hear it," she said.
"It is t his. I think it probable
that you have always had a ten-
dency to heart disease. Perhaps,
had your life been happy and with-
out trouble. it aright never have
developed itself; but. the pain you
hove suffered and the repression have
made it fatal. You understand the
word fatal?"
"Yes, 1 understnnd."-she said,
"110.1 1 thank Heaven! I am very
ill. At tinges my heart seems to
stand Mill. it ceases almost to bent.
A cold perspiration comes; my ince,
any hands, and lips grow cold; it
seem' to me that in another mo-
ment 1 sha11 die. Again it beats un-
til 1 eaunot beau the trembling of
nay owe, body and my blood is all on
fire. "
"Yes; those are synipt.,ms of dis-
ease," Ile said.
••Tell are doctor." she asked. "how
hing do you think i have to live?"
"Not long," %vas the grave reply.
"D1( n great measure it lies in your
own hnnds. If you could get rid of
this cure, if yon could prevent your-
self, you alight live a little longer."
•1 could not,' she said;"the re-
straint hat- been too great and too
persistent. Will you tell me what
the end will Le like?"
1 wish you would not, ask me,"
he answered, leoLing pitifully nt the
fair face.
"It will be the greatest service
you can render me," she said. "It
tent t so little t0 me. 1f 1 have
Kone months. to live, 1 shall carry
out an intention which 1 have form-
ed: if not. 1 shall forego its 'Tell
better because she was drawing grew cold and beautiful in the en-
nearcr to the golden shore. brace of death.
'Mere followed two quiet, peaceful � • • • • • •
and happy weeks, of which Mettle So they found her, dead, with the
liked to think nfterward. It struck half -written letter and the broken
t •times h looked weak her at t that Leah 1 u wedding -ring.
she>
and ill, but undo no complaint. 1 The duchess was almost frantic.
News came from England rl h• Sir
au , a , and a
t ► t
Sho refused 0 1 d tobelieve
�,
that .c•
t ti Leah
Itasil had been returned member for was dead. it teas utterly i►npossible,
the county. The duke and (Indust; she declared. she called for brandy.
Were delighted. Nettie 1vae pleatsed, wine, hot venter -every possible re-
and
�
and tnikrd Here about it than she storative. She would not see the
talked of anything else. mark of death on the beautiful face.
Le,ih went to her room; the seat She sent for doctors, 80(1 wee of
shone bright and warm, and the air the first was Dr. Evan (ii ifliths.
way full of the perfume of flowers.1 1[e recognized her at oiled! This
She was tired, with a po:uliar •f.e1- weas the despairing girl who had seem to follow one.
ing of longing for rest which was smite to him longing with her whole Lady Carlton has a fine, handsome
new to her, and her senses had been heart to die: and the longing had boy, whom she has named Arthur,
suddenly • sharPencd. Sho 'could see i been granted. 11t was accustomed who inherits her blue eyes and gol-
further; she could hear with almost + to many a sort sight and scene, to den hair. She thinks that there is
painful distinctness. She had a let-. every kind of sickn•ss and distress; no boy iu England like him, and Sir
ter to write, but the feeling of fa- but 1;e had seen nothing which Broil is of the salute opinion, though
tignc was so strong upon her that touched hint more than She (lead peth•tps in his heart he loves best
she was hardly inclined to commence face of this hapless girl. Tears the baby girl culled Leah, whose
h i' task. •'I will do it at once, and enure into hie eyes. (lark eyes and lovely face brings so
then it will not trouble me," she '1•h•+ duchess told him of the broken vividly back to hint the one buried
said to herself. 5)1e went to one wedding -ring; she thought it 8 most forever from the sight of men.
of her jewel -cases which was kept marvellous coincidence. And the One morning Lady Carlton, at play
locked, and which opened Only with little story conveyed to the doctor lwith her baby -girl, caught her in
n peculiar key. From it she took was almost. all that he wanted to her arms and held her up in front
the 8111ai1 ring case that Sir Basil know. Of course there was nothing of the picture of "The Passion -
had given her, and drew from it the • to be done. 1)r. Griffiths raid that flower."
old-fashioned wedding -ring with ' there tins no need for any inquiry; • "See, ltnsi1.'' she cried -"little
which she was to have been married. the cause of death was heart disease Leah will be the very image of her
But, as she lifted it fro m the case, ' -_there• was no doubt of it.
arra(."
it snel:ped and fell in two in her , The duchess raised her hands in Sir Basil crossed over to his wife.
hands Whether it hnd been put nslonishment "She will resemble her," he said,
at his approach.
Ile was very happy. Life had been
0110 Tong auccese with hits. Itis
fume was 1•v,•r growing; the time was
coming when his name would be
honored wherever is
} l forever th . English h law u
c
t, K
a •e wits spoken. k ,n • •v • k •t
ti
t o r1(. No one ever Ht
I
that woman ,
t a ►Lan hod duel for love of
hint.
'There is no fear that Leah will be
forgotten at lirentw 1. The beau-
tiful picture of her shown at the
Royal Academy and called ""1'ho
Passion -flower," hangs in the draw-
ing-ruoun there. Every one who sees
it stops and looks with 1Ztnder at
the lovely face and dark eves that
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away in some awkward fashion, orf "Heart digrnse!" she cried. "I
whether some one. in harking (o'er bare never heard her complain of
the jewel -case; had lakai the ring hoe heart!"
out, accidentally broken it, And re- ' 1 have," sobbed Hettie. " I have
placed it without mentioning the frequently heard her complain of a
fact, she could not tell. She was sharp pain, and of h• r heart beating
not superstitious, raw did not think slwly."
it an omen or augury of evil; but i "She must have suffered for
it gave -her a terrible shock. She years," said Dr. Griffiths, but he diel
quietly; "but 1 hope baby's face will
not have the shadow of melancholy
that lies 011 this one."
"I hope not," returned Mettle.
"Leah always had that look, even
when )ter face was most radiant it
was there. Oh, Basil, how young
and beautiful she was to die!"
"[ often wonder," said Sir Basil,
trembled as though 801110 great dts- not add that •the disease had been "what would have happened had she
aster had occurred. She had intra- aggravated by some terrible (!luck. It
ii. (le. 1 never like to think
(led to write to Sir Basil, and re- Tie respected the secret that he had that our happiness-eand we are hap -
turn him trio ring, leaving the letter kept 10 (lett. py, swot wift`comes from Leah's
to he handed to hi,n. Now it lay 1 The Quchess would not allot. any- death."
broken in two -the ring that had thing to he touched in the room un -
been worn by so many faithful wives til the general and Sir Basil carne.
that had been given by so many lov- The unfinished letter lay' upon the
ing husbands -the ring that she had ' table, and the broken wedding -ring
received with such loving trust and was in the folded paper.
confidence -the ring that she had l They had telegraphed at once for
Hettie looked at hint thoughtfully.
"It is not so, Basil." slut said.
"If Leah had lived, you would have
tnarried her, but she never would
have been happy. I think she want-
edhopcd to wear until she lay (load Sir Arthus and fir Basil. Fast as something snore than ore finals in
this world. Her torture was noble
and Basil took it from her. steals( could carry them, they went and lofty; I do not think any hu -
It was broken note, like her love, to Mentone, and found the terrtale plat( lute. (could have satisfied her.
her hear, her life( 1%hut Mould n•tcs that Leah was dead. •
Po you remetube•r true restless long -
Basil do. she wondertl. WVould he All the calm, imperial beauty of ing on her beauteous face? See -it
have it mended? 1Voulei 1lettie ever Fier youth crone back to her ns sip is there, even in this picture. She
wear it'. She had never shed a tear a lav sleeping after her long fever and would never have been (happy."
since she had found that Basil did `pain. There was no pain on the ••Perhaps not," allowed Sir Basil
not love her, but her eyes grew dint, beautiful (ace: the thick. dark eye- thinking of the broken w•edaling-ring
as she looked at the broken ring. i lashes lay like fringe on the white and the letter over which she had
Site kissed it 8:t though It had been !cheeks; there was a strange beauty (lidd-"perhaps not, Deltic,. 1 think
a living thing and understood her oil the marble brow; and the proud vett are right." he said as they
action.
A broken wedding -ring is never a
pleasant sight, and is nlwaen sup-
posed to be nn onel of misfortune.
but there was something 1terably tinsel. who Fal parted from her on
sad about this. 1t signified so beard the »teenier, saw' her again.
much: the heart of the girl to whom lie kissed the pale lips that had
it belongej urns broken as surely as murmured so many loving words to
lh.• wedding -ring which lay before him, weeping like n child• 011(1 re -
het snapped in two. She took the welting that he had nut loved her
two halves anti folde(1 them in 8
curves of the perfect lits were set ,�,o%•ed slowly uwny from the beau -
in a smile. The duchess had cover- tiful, passionate face. •
ed the couch on which she lay with That was how they judged her.
lovely white blossoms; rind so Sir THE END.
shot of paper, settled it, fuel ad-
dressed it to Sir liasil, then she
drew totl•nrds her a sheet of paper
to write the letter which she felt
ens to be Ihu last she would ever
pen.
CHAPTER LV.
Leah looked out at the gplden sun-
shine and the bright blue sky. butt•
fair the earth was! It seemed hard
that every one could not be happy,
that hopes t perish, 1'ye be all the teeter bemuse• he cried tike a "1 do not consider such n test, in
%vret-ked, life all spoiled. 'Then she child when he placed them in the it•.;f• sufficiently reliable," said Mr.
begun (o write. That rnott,nt pre- dead white hands. One could lint, 11. W. Benton-Inghalm, secretary of
sensed the supreme temptation of fancied that a smile passed over ate the Lundut Association for the Pre -
her life. She longed se intensely to dead ince. Ilei secret 11.85 safe for . vention of Premature Burial, when
tell hint that site knew ItII. to re- over now, and no ane knew why she interviewed on the subject. "'There
prottch hint flint he had preferred un- hnd died. No sumplciun of the truth is alwaym a chance that the test
other, 10 tel hint that it 11'x8 rho came to any our of them. Wright fail occasionally. and in such
knowledge of this fact which had Ho they mourned her. and no sting ' a serious smatter as the risk of pro-
em., doctor." � killed her. She longed to satyr this of bitter lacIlgies Increased their mature burial one should chance
"You will not lite fur months." he t to him. tie
It so 118 r.1 to (:ie pain. nettle rind the general learn- nothing.
said -"the greater the pity." and
t n ksign. Ile ((amid live ed to love • other in the !Mist "The may really infallible test of
"Ile. greater the ley!'• She cried. and he happy, and no one would of their trouble more then thee death which has been discovered so
••C ill it be weeks?" ever hnew what she hnd suffered or would ever have done in prosperity. • sir i:; the presence of decomposition.
why ell. had died. They it •d long and sincerely for
4
plied
"(Weeks in all probnlllily," he re- she :.cat for sonar tinny with the Leith. The general for a long tithe'
pen ite herr hand. it %vas the ' 1(e %vas quite unlike hintself-he seemed ` MADE SURE OF 111•:AT1i,
"Arel the end?" she asked ngnin. groat 1eniptation of her life. `:tett ! linable to recover from the blow; ; ,
"The reel will be sudden and Ware- she tell him or not? When Phe came 811(1 thorn w•eer thnos when evruw ono i The will of John Nosh i enke of
fol." he nnswrred. "it may be at ll4,5100 o ('onflrtun, n .luutice• of Ihr
to die, should she feel nay rho hap thought that iiettie ensu follow her 1'tnco fur StafTurdshirr, just n(1unitt-
nnv time. Any sudden sorrow or pier that she hnd left him with this sister. Icd to probate, cuntntn5 the fulluwiug
joy (night striae fatal. Calmness. sting in his breast. this nunm,ry t There was a great outburst of ser -
pence•, resignn11o0e nh•e yorir greatest which we:uld 1eltvae.s be to hint one row in ISH •14111(1 when t decease pn88age, show to
that the
helps. Poor child." he said, in nn of bitter pain? it wouid be mottle t n the papers o (108) ens ndx1u t t0 nlI ar sero
( 1 told that Leah, the beloved niece � of death. "And luslly. I make it a
outburst of sudden, lender pity- ' 1(1 ge+utc(. If he knew that her un- of Oeuvre! Sir Arthur IInt 14m, had.strict. and sole cat•ge to my eye-
"pnor child! I.ife ham been hard for ' 1:ni•pir.:,s hnd killed her. hr could died suddenly at 1lentonc, of heart- h
cut ors that before Hcy body is placed
you!"
"Very herd." : she declared. pre
eter be happy again. Ile %vas hon- dieee' i in my coffin. they shall engage any'
err::hue and sensitive; the chances 1 Eng visitors 'n uwto s i
f. f • .rt her own family doctor, or some other
"I wish," he said, "that you `wore tint if he knew the truth. he grille; none lent.. it without. tears.;medical man, at a fee of ten guineas,
would [allow• toy 11(Ivice. 1 could ;would ne1er marry; Ilettie. Ile was They tell each other how soon she to perform j cr n. on my body the opera -
not ante your life, but 1 might pie- 'nut one to build his hnppin••s5 011 %vio to have 1)001) married to some , tion, to thoroughly and completely
Ion it." the grave of the woman who ha,l `(,1(0 %chem she !rte.(' dearly, and hoar sever the main arteries of the head
more.
l'he duchess gnt•e hill the letter
and the ring. He releived thele in
silence. What had he to say?
But that night, when nil was still,
he crept hack to the r , and laid
the two 1ta1114s of the broken wed-
ding -ring on the cold, white breast.
No ;,iu else should ever wear it; it bran° become very yellow and the
acus buried with her. eyes assume the color of emeralds.
Eni1'% the next morning he went If death bus not taken place the tr-
out and procured some erode' pas- lected fluid causes no harm and no
sion-totters. Sir Arthur liked hint discoloration takes place.
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Those who suffer frotn the fear of
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In the event of circulation having
ceased, the skin and mucous men-
fin, fIr reptr •rt. t nm sl eying lo(d hunt .0 well. she fudged hen sho was writing 1e her lover when + 5o as to render tr1v revival in the
1.herr at Menton,•: I shall die here, rightly. if ever he knew or suspect- the nmmnet5 come. Leah's grave is grave nbsuluteiy impossible.
and. 11,11,•11 i die• they will be sure to col the truth, he would never have the 1uos1. beautiful in the cemetery. !
send for you. Yon will root say that ;nn11hIr happy moment. It was a A tall, while (Marble cross hears 1:� r
y00 have !well rnr''" great temptation. Iler heart throb-' Immo. and mnsse5 of superb scnrler
'i will not.- he promised. !bed with it, her whet,• hamue trent-'pa-sine-fio%rers creep iip it and over.
I'Ace CO ley hest thanks," she said bled; and then with a supreme ed- hent the grave.
hoidieg out 114.1. hand to him. "1 fort she conquered it 'I'ht•y'-nay. • • • • • • I
knew (hero env 5onu•Ihiti radically area he whom she lured, when he Titre years have passed since
wrong. I nal happier and •'asi,•r, now !heard her story-hl:d prunuutn''l her Le•nh's depth. but her memory lives
that 1 unoratanl what it is. You ;selfish. She could (lot.; new that bright and beautiful n•nnng those
have done nm. n service. Forewent" !that was untrue. :ate (uuld make who loved her hest. Sir Mobil and
Ile tho,tght Of her n humlred 1 irnee. ' the grr,,te:ct ancrlfic•a that any tc0- 1 Ilei t ie h81, been three years Ilar-
Ne wished that he had detained her, nun could Make. nil the more noble rigid. and they live entirely at Brent -
that hr Ind forcers her to semi far ' met it weu'd remain for ever a sec- 1 w I. Sir Arthur implored them to
bet friends. 11e reproached himself ret between 1I, havers and herself. She let it hr so. 11e could not bear to
milli the end of his life, and yet he !would not tell him nap word. if in :live stone twain. So they had con -
hot) not been to blmn.. that past life of he •s she had been 1sent (el to r0nke Brentwood their
"Von look better to-nt.(ht, 1.oli." `selfah, her selfisl•netts would be house: len%inc it 1(t times to go to
Said •h.• duchess. Thy deadly pallor atoned for now. :,be could write a( filen, when the genern) nlverivs itc-
hed left the fair face, and there nos simple realer, magi g nothing of love coml'anicd theta. Ile loved Ilettr,
SUPPORT
SCOTT'S EMULSION serves u a
bridge to carry the wukentd and
starved system along until It un fiad
firm support kt ordinary food
Feed for (lee we*.
SCOTT & IIO W N [, Ch•s.tat4
Tesoro 0, (lntarlo.
j e ted 11.001 u1 dreasteew
$ the farm and garden. It certainly
WIZEN (BUYING A COW. does not pay to do otherwise, for
When you go out to buy a cow just as sure as "like produces like,"
what (10 you look for, ur, in other so true will it be that "as we sow so
words, whet kind of a cow sleets also shalt wt, reap." With the soil
your idea of a profitable one to pur- put in best condition for profitable
chaise? If you are buying far your production theca should bo sown or
011'11 use, the sooner you iettrn to de -
to planted seed that is pure acid true
pend entirely upon your own judg_ name so far as this is possible.
(lust( the better. Almost every farm-
-the
(lest in quality is none too good
er hus the pleasing impression that -the cost may be a little more than
his cows aro better than his neigh -
of
the ordinary, but that will be
hoe's and no matter how honest the °t small account in the end. There
man may be when the cows aro aro different varieties of the same
brought you are the one who has
grains, but some are found to do
better than others. Get the best.
to prove whether or not they aro
profitable. Wo do not care as to
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
size, although some of our experi-
and away goes the accumulation of
years, all on account of a shingle
n •u • ace policy
• o Of course,the 1 s tau of
roof.
1 Y
1• calamity, but to the
will lid in the eu u y,
hour, i
m n alt Fn his property s
honest n
1,1 p y
slire:throes brie •s . •r nus
insured, a !, Sc i
loss. Fur better use a meatal roof
and thus reduce the danger of such a
calamity fully ono half.
It %till pay to give the best of at-
tention to »election ofallseeds for
ONE MAN'S BIASED VIEW
HE SAYS CANADIANS AB.E NOT
HOSPITABLE.
Worse Than Welsh Boarding House
Keepers. Says a Recent Im-
migrant.
A few weeks ago a stuurt yq th Ip
a Liverpool utltce went to the senior
partner and said, "Is thes0 nos pros-
pect of ndcautceatent herr tar u1('?"
1'1'1(1 uf•uid there isn't much.' said
the senior. The lad thought for a
tueutent aid then coolly remarked,
"1 want to get married. Will you
give 1110 £50 to start housekeeping
with?" "Delete!, 1'11 clo nothing of
the kind," said the tarot of business .4"
severely. "A fellow with your wages
and prospects has no business to get
married. "'When," said the youth, In
no arise abashed, "I think I shall go
to Canada. Will you give rue £50
to?,.
start la ( ane them. (brew• nu.
by this sublime uuducity, ti ea
, ,replied,
Ic r
c
Fis 1 tall."
3A
in less than an u week the young mon
shard on the deck of a westera-
bcund steamer with n ticket for moo-
tieal and the change out of a J:b0
note in his' pocket. Last week the
benefactor received the following let-
ter front Mor.treal:-
WO'1(T11 COMES FIRST.
"As regards the place, it is rather
a good town; but in business circles
'influence' is as important here, I
find, as at horse. Opiiioe as to
prospects are very much divieiel. Ono
Canadian soy's that I shall I'.0d no
difficulty in making a career for my-
self, while another will say that
there is no prospect at all. 1 fancy
that a good mutt needn't fear starva-
tion here, for the first recognized
thing is worth; but as to pay -well,
so far as I can see, a business roan
is no better LIT here than at hoa,e.
Wages may be higher (mine aren't),
went stations have tried to ,rove Straw mayform an integral ,art 1
but so is the cost of living, albite
I S f rents are simply appalling. Still, f
larger cows the more profitable we of the ration, 811(1 the proportion of feel that there is a future before the
think It is in the cow not her sire.. hay and strnw may bo accurately re- . country, and the land %rill certainly
One must learn to form his opinion gelated. Horses waste much less of at no distant date take a good place
quickly and size up a cow upon short such fodder, especially if sorne other in the world's commerce. Protection
notice and the faculty to tell a good material than straw is used for bed- is everywhere, and even a packet of
or poor cow by examination comers ding. , pine is taxed. Car dares are 2jd.•
from close observation of cows, of Farmers should always k cep in 110 penny rides here.
typo and results that aro apt to mind the fact that there is more pro- •
come from such a type. I( one will fit in keeping one good brood n►uro
EYE TO MAIN CHANCE.
study his best cows, ho will observe and sending her to a %yell bred rood is shout the sante as at
that they have certain similar char- stallion than in a yard full of coin- 1 home, while wearing apparel, etc., Is
acteristics no mutter what the breoa mon or ordinary mares. The more f rather deur. Chamberlain said (hut
or size of the cow may he. i that a man raises from the latter too increnecd pay protecliun
We do not like the smooth (slick kind the smaller his book account w.(,old enure than 111081(01001:•0 increased
looker as she is called) cow, yet will be. cost of living. Well, I haven't work
she is nlwaym the easiest one to sell. It is well known that the treat- rd out a suti1 yet that would bear
Sho carries a good-looking udder, is went of the cow has a decided in- him out, but I don't size up a coon- .,
good sized and would make fair hoof Iluene° o1 the flow of milk and its try's fiscal policy in ten days. I do
if knocked down at once; but mark richness in butter fat. Here is where not like French-Canadians; here they
you, sho takes good care of herself the cruel herdsman is baffled, for (10 rule the town. A good percentage of..
before sho dues anything for you, ; what he may he cannot compel the the people cannot speak English
, uuu
and a good share of her food goes cow to give a lat•ge loess of ri h the tricolor ire flaunted pretty uruch; t•
to supply the clothes on her ',tick, milk, but must depend on good f. el- in fact, 7 fancy that half the French
Wo like to see the cow in moderato ing and right treatment for his gain. here think that they are ,rifted f•wnl•
flesh, not poor or thin fr hick of Kindness in the cow barn is neccs- the Quai d'Orsay, with their news -
food or care. We like the firs wide nary to success. paper called Lat 1'ntrie! The Cana -
apart, thin thigh, Targe barrel and, When properly handled, money can dian is more patriotic in talk than
the ribs wide apart; a good, wide niways bo trade from keeping hens. ' any Englishman. The bells here, in -
space between the hip and first rib. :'Thousands are gaining all or part of stead of giving a sweet, musical peal
Hun your finger along her backbone their living from this business. 01( at, the hour, as our English bells
and the rougher it is, the better. the other hand, many do not sec- would du, clang out a few verses of
We like to sere the cow thin just teed, usually because they do not •fn(I Save the King,' or 'Kole Brie
back of the shoulder, so that the 1 understand the business. To s•'c• , tonni11.' And e -et, when it comes to
backbone is rather prominent ihcro. reed, one must thoroughly under- treating an Englishman with kind -
1f she is thick there, do not buy stand all the ins and outs of i ltry ness and hospitality, they err worse
her. She takes too good care of keeping; must be ambitious, under- than n Welsh boarding-house keeper.
herself• (stand and Hot afraid of work. Whoa No, when you Want the best con -
We are simply in %emit of a ma- ' it is possible so to do, those who ' sideration for your own peculiar
chine that will work up the food we contemplate beginning on a largo needs, you will find it. T fancy, over
give her into the more profitable scale should go to some well estab- . tate border in the States.
product, and the less toil she lakes, 'hilted plant and put in a week or S('{)M 0r THE EAR"Tli.
and the less she wastes, the better.: ten days of actual experience in tho
Wo have taken pains to observe j1( handling of such a plant. 'Ther in t n man Comes otrr
our own herd that (he profitable here from the ltd country %tiff
cow steads always tens thick just! CON'I'EN'I'iSr) FAILMIN(i. about 25 cents in his pocket. Ile
!gets knocked about a bit: then, say,
back of the shoulders. We like to! I'anninq i8 %chat the farmer inakcs' he is successful. lle doesn't reuncrn-
sce a email neck, clean c►duo 1 good,
e e, it. Ile can either farm contentedly he• his own sufferings and help other
wide dishingforehead. a or 6c pessimistic in his views. Con-
y I strangers accordingly, but just
and large, clone nostrils. 1)clher us tented (wining means farming with
from the Roman nose cow; she's b n bails the of the inn 1(t netting all he
coarse everywhere else. (.old, large, advantages. Ito 'who is pessimistic ran out them. 1 stn told that
tortuous milk veins running Wel, farms at a disadvantage, for he Mottree! is not the best place to livo
forward; thus indicate that blood looks with a sort of scorn at Ute in, on account of lir scour of the
flows and plr11ly of blood t to work he has done and is cluing. No earth which makes its unsavory hea�l(
and return from the udder. We du `` farmer or mutt fullu%ciug other vera- .here, but it is n fine centre trotl►t
not like a cow up on legs (ort ter, I tions can do his best when he does which to find employment out west,
as it means that her barrel is too
not respect his work, no I stick here until I can move to -
small to bring It close tore ground i '1'0 lova his work 111081)8 content-; wards the setting sun. Plenty of
avoid the straight lectins. ' 1 tnent for the farmer. ile must try ; English eat west, and, believe me,
to do his work to the best of hie there arc 110 better all-round men on
The real finishing work i8 in the, ability and ever he un the alert to
udder, wall up in front and high uj,
the earth to -day than they."-Liver-
inenlarge this ability. '1110 work of : pool Pest,
the rear, trots of gond :,lir and
almost. anyone would seem to be ____5 ,
well placed, and far enough apart easier than the farmer's, but it is NEW ZEALAND PRACTICAL.
so that you ('4111 milk her without untrue. '1'11 driy the iartner dors not
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continually' hitting knuckles. Hent,' have to drag out 1(t 4 1(.m., or quit School Children Equip Namesake
fleshy udders aro no gond; Vey
should milk (limn well and he soft after 7 p. me and then flu the t•ho•es Warship.
by lantern light. Ile shoves his
and flexible, and have plenty tissue H.M.S. New Zealand sail. •1 from
to perform their (cork. We have work so flint it docs not shorn hint Trrvelport, h'nglond, not :en_: ago
-he is contented. Juin the Atlantic squadron.
not said n word about breed, ns 1'ho luxuries Of the farm msy seem to
that is not. (chat we are after: it is to the xurier to he email, but I:u •I'he present of the school children
the type of cow that is to maks the. of Neve Zealand to the ship had pre-
ttiest milk for um at the bast ex- this as it tone,, the city offices aro vicusly been forwarded to the west -
full and overflowing with men who penny. Neither' does the price of the ern port. It hung
i n gunnill-
cote cut any figure. The price of or- are planning to get into the country . shield and a bell hung [roma full -
(t071 e• cows ranges from fiat) to R,i0, in the near future noel hat 0 little sized head of a 18tomel ,Maori, who
but there may be more profit in the farm %there purr air and such things • holds in his teeth the suspender for
8:15 one than in the one crating $130. ns go to stake life really worth 111', sante. This mask, which is of an
When you sec the cute you atom, buy
living are in abundance. exceedingly weighty c!uiracter, Is
her 85, 810 or 810 difference in retro 'soisc, dust, dirt, a rush and jam le of bronze. 'lie I:1•II is silver -
is n 5, $1; compared as to %chAlter are wlat make lila in the city, and pinte(1 and weighs, with the clnpper,
she will make 1 jun or :150 pounds u( one week of it. takes the glamour shout 2(10 po'.Inaa.
Hans irobi it for :n. st of the se who
butler in a year or give :1.Onn or The j;u..ra•ry shield, which is of
7 ,(100 poise:s of milk. You %t ill us_ think it the only liar 1,1 tie sum ' "(len-
solid salve,. :nonmed 00 oak, has the
unlly (incl it is the large smooth cow the whole• situation up in the fol- following inscription on it: Inwhng:
7Ittt ett c 1(111 13(1 CO":„(() s the best ha �rnnd vh, 1lo w•ho is dirrcnnlr-nlea should 1e:4k Zealanh}i'hl (rom ethetsr'hotl ichild enNew of
are !' 11,1e 4 nos seeing. W1'e ought' comet him and find the 11:,11 cense: bee R 8masuke C iluny." In this shield
to study 0111 (4118 n11d lied lea why tines let him apply 11:,• remedy 1" (hero are over '240 ounce. of silver,
this oar gives
lariat 1(a much uril'n its
straighten out the kink. Fertile s views of Aueklend, the leer pried -
the un° beside her, under the seine are ma111.l4 S nuhlcmen, at 1i' 1he,i pa: cities of the colony, talc 1 attle-
hnve the opportunity nlwnys 1(t hand ship New %ra:ant ns she now is, and
t
live
cormlitions, 'I here is n Anson fur it, o ♦r, the lute the 1 crater lnttndlrl.
nptl overs nater, the ;v say, revel" the Maori ear canoe of asci,(:( days.
herr secrets to the patient, evely-. Look on the right 1ie'r, %cork on the 11( the ct•ulre is 0 gotr.,u►n 5(1110 nod
ing student, and when 100 Mid this right lidr and you will I:e on the 1hs virv:s 80,, surrou,'Icd by a do-
reason we shall know how to pick 1i( bt s1(1c. '1'18' }((grit :1?uri:.t who is sign of Maori w•nr Inlplrntrrts and
out good cows. oI the tight s.i..o I:u» 115 1o•s un,colonial toms. The tires mod Irma
that side n:»u. lsn't this pun' aihh? of the country are also depicted. 'Po •
---♦---•- i Lr,dy' hnnfelrly' wn8 gJvcn the. task
1'.tltSi NO'1'1•:;i, '1'111•: 11AS1'Tu's '11,1 i•:I:IIAI'il. �o( heh'c(icml',,f1a``csigt', r
f ! ! ! w l.'nlnn l 1(1 1(l /"
Better farming pays up to a ver- Thr ,-011(1 tele,:rel h or 'demirlrnnl � i gIt itt: 11 (;umatiun,
Iain point, aftee which the Mere,:set• is the fa' •,* :,• menus of Ira1-ousel m ,.,,'1:ot.•r4. het oven
1:"61(1:100110171:111:11),,e.
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cost of labor will overhnlaunce t',e of r c•,ts ane•',le• tI„• ;lnsutus. Ti is oleo iu:e s'• d nt about 4 per cant.,
increased value of the (•reit. a e"s.1. ,•• •.e :t• t', •St. r'rie,l ,:1,' the precmeis r,f which are to he
Cowley tells us that I:e r ,• , r . i •', . ' • • 1 1 ' i '. rives sect ' ,:warded as gunnery )'rises. Tito
any other desire 5o etre.14... ,. : •!s • ! can be head sehsel children, in udrlitiot, are giv-
to covetousness, as 11 .,1 n t (,e'•+ eve to eight tar aft celhrtlrt a fft ills:rni,lnt.•d ad -
eventually he mles'er •. f ,. . ,.,,. ., I: roil leer - ,,'" -5. tet Itis nllenet is not at pre -
house anti n large Kanter .t, el 'i: r • ' i..Ira r,• :.,,t trrnplrfr(1. ...
is a certain fascimntou nh,o.t ,i i11- ,n', ,1 •- ,•f s,,.,.1 • '1 he whole nrrnuKrmrul5 in 401811
Ile punt Id ground all cit -'s u%%1(. it I• , •. s: .:, . ,c,: • Ir:h%e been ca••ri(•d out 1(t 11"e re most
becotneq invested with di•:pity; it is tl•.' •‘1 '. :11 o., t' ,t • the (•Lmmiltee of 1,ord !tante:iy,
A frechu, . ,th..t I -alit .1 .1., .. , Hi
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On idld•cneer and n1I buildings 5.11 - 1 . ;•1't ,. ,1 • • i' , e: e . InmrS (tthu in brei e•'t--"1 huvr cane
lest to 1he dnnl;rr of lire 110 unr i. t,•.It , 0 , f • i;•f::' Ir:• rd left '• ifulk* (nine)
could give us at shingle roof. W.:,'Ir. r • • , r, .0 1.14.,.1 I. ,l 4 • in i• .• •t ' : e Le,- --WI'" is ill'' "gry pip). 1
dry, a falling spark, a strung w 411 .1 1 .4.1... . esti ,.tilt ;:raw on that."
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