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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1906-03-01, Page 2•••••W• 419406 + Ate 0+0 `11 0 0+0+0+ " Attt0f0+0+0+Airtk t • K.(€019:640:4+0+0+0+ 47:044:44:400:(40'141.4):(44144t" f • CliattarBil • "Where ,Your vitro?" Cyrilas arms, which had been held out to tate her to his heart, deopped to lus aide, "'Where-is-ray-:whati"-Ite. exclaimed, gazing In profound amazement at the lovely face, Which, though fluslind with 1pda:elation still conveyed a hidden and suppre-seetenderness. "Your wife," Norah repeated, her lips quivering; "where is Beccaa Oh, how can you—a" she meant, "offer to take me in your arms," but said, instead, "how can you conte to me?" "Beccal Do you mean Recce South?"' said Cyril, more and more amazed. °How on earth *Quad I know?' What have. I to 'do With Becca South o or Becoa • any one else?" Norah's breath came fast, and her, eyes diluted. t. • "Oh, tow can you answer me so?" she, ealci, piteously. ,ut know everything!. It as useless to try -end -elective me. 'It wieked-.-oruel arid wiclted. Why have you come here?" and tint -lovely eyes grew dangeromely limpid. Cyril put Ills hand to his head. No doubt at that raiment he fancied hie was dreaming, and that it was only a vision o istorah' which stood before him, ask- ing --the most extraordinary .of conun- drums.* • "Norata" he said,. desperately, "Norah, I don't, know what you mean. I'm in 4 whirl. What are you doing here? When. I've not seen her since the night of that confounded ball at , tFerndale-.---" He stopped suddenly, for Norah had•swoyed alidllilYt and with a low cry, sank into tire chair. ,lIc Sprang to her,butsheput her hand OW IQ keep biro off. • „ Ile • celled upon her name in a arenas,, and es her oyes -closed, he looked.around for the bell. . Not seeing it, he did, per - hops, the. wisest thing, he could do -- flung up the winclowtand seizing a* shell with% "ornamented".,,the table, flung it at the window opposite, , Jaele's need appeared" promptly, with every ettpression or wrath upon his face. "Conte over at (Meer shouted and before Norith'had suCceeded.in fight - log off the' fainting •fiti-Jack Wesley was in the robin, looking rimagecily.from on • to the °thee. ' "Weil," said, tutethat has happened? Lady Norah, are you ill? Cyril; are you mad?et-What- brevet yeem-beerr saying -te ter?" • ants what She has been Saying rottoeted. Cyril, half demented. etaaoeliestoepushed hint ega-ettedeateal brought aaglass ofeatiater" and goye it to hem, ,and she opened her eyes. and fixed them on hint penitently, and then on. Cyril, wita an expression diffichlt to de- scribe, bat hill of tenderness And hope, „and a half -fearful joy. • "Art you. better, Lady Norah?" said Jack. "Don't pay any attention to the, 6. Keep away, Cyril,. Now, tell me what IS the loaner." Then Norah opened her lips 'end etrues,glecl for:weeds. • • • • e "Ask himato tellincthe-the -truth," atesntd, brokenly. "I can bear anything taut tins uncertainty. Ask him to tell me „tttedt Is true that he Is married to Becoa ateath..." • ' 'There!" exclaimed' Cyril; "that ;s what she asked me before you ()erne in. *Tell her, Jack ----t-" • "Hold your tongue," said Jack Wes. le'retwhoso acute brain was begiorring to get the drift of .things. ' "Are you married to the young person, mentioned?" "Atli Oh, ,great goodness, I shall nutd," ,said Cyril. • "Married to her! • You *knovit; -she muSt know, that. I am ' not; that I Would not marry any one but but one woman, if my -life depended blatItt" ' if (herd had not been that awful arra gedy behind it, the situation.would have been almost farcical, But It ' was very serious, to two Of th,ent, and Norah 'hid her face in her hands and began to cry. • "Oh, what shall I do?" she moaned, bin with' a eacitnce of joy and thanks- giving. "Oh, how -how 'wicked I have been!" rarre "'Tlfie'br'ought Cpril on his knees beside • 'toe' instantly, and he dragged her hands tendeely from her face and looked up at .her. all his soul in his eyes. ."Nerah, mydarling, my "darling!" Ile Illialred, MI a long string of pea- sionete erulterrnents. "What doe,s it all Wean? Why have you treated nae eo-- so ruelly? Why did you not answer my lettere? Why did you tell Jack" ---Jack disereetly gone. to examine a pie - lure on • the wall, and kent hlit back -turned upon thetpatr--"why did yOu tell Jack flint you were no friend of mine,. ande-aud let me believe that -you wished to see no rnore of me? Oh; my darling, you have nearly broken my heartr , "Mime is ---is quite broken," whimpered Not -eh; her hendsograteping his arm with little spasmodic pressures. "Oh, Cyril, I thought, I believed, that yott had de- eerted nte; that you were married." "Deserted you! Married!" he repeated. "But why -why -why?" 9teettiree you want away velth her -- with Bewail" mid Norah, in 41 IOW voice. wetit• •off with Beccaeopoor little eteuthrt he *echoed. "Great Hea- ven'. what made you 'Winn so?" bellow fold me so at the station," said N, eft, faintly; "and ---you WPro with her , flee night of the ball, and I saw you- elt. I now you give her tae ring ail uttered a groan of theoperatien. "I :mow! Yes; I gave lid the. ring. r mote novo a child 4 tItiek taffec, and 01, 't.t; ns no more than a child, a -a nothing to mo. I gavo her that ring bee cause tam had found 11arid she was unt happy ,ntout that, tonong other things. Vol I ttamght it wotild eonsolc hen arel and then you event away with- out tt tvont "‘Ndliont ,* worth' -Who %rah wr,,te to voto I Afirit you a letter by her; ',moon t help snail. I wrote Arid ett- tinned it all. 1 begged Anti preyed yon eend out lomat- just one word, fitit roar Sec did you when 1 wrote from Brittany, imploring you to, tett tue why yeti liadcue mo at the ball. Way didn't you writer' "I never got the letters; either of them!" said Norah, the tears running slowly down her face, "and I -thought- olo Cerril, how could I help it?--that,-- that you wished to ..break off, that you had thouglat better of it, and—" He puts his arms round her and strained her to him, and cut short „her broken attempts at explanation. aarhank God! Thank Gee he ex- -claimed. "And that is all! You are not angry with me for anything? You -yon love me still, Norah?" "I have always loved your" she panted, under her 'breath, , Jack had transferred his attentions to another picture-, and the lovers had for- gotten him. "And; you cltd not -know why I had gone to Brittany?" • "I didn't know. you had gone there. lo• never received,,either letter," said Norah. "Then -then where are they?" de- manded Cyril, of no one in particulate Norah shook her head. Possibly ,she did not tare very much. She had got her lover again and all in a moment joy had come back to her heart with him. She held him with that clinginggrasp which only a women knows the secret of, as if .she feared some one would come and take' him from her again; and her lovely eyes, full of subtle worship and tenderness, looked into his eager ones. ' • "Where are they? And 'why did the 'peeple at the station tell you— Why, by George! they Must have mistaken the emigrant girl whose ticket I took for Itecce.,"" and in rapid sentences he, told her of the inoident, ' "Oh, tliat was solike you, deara" she murmured. "Bute -but it was cruel that you should be punished; I mean • "Say both," • "That both should be punished because, you were kind to a pooto, lonely girl." "Yes," he responded, with something of his own bright, light-hearted smile, "but It will'be a lesson to me. never help any woman under ,.fifty again. But Norah, 'dearestotell me -the letters. -what became of them?" • Norah Shook her head. • . "I &pilot know;" I cannot—" guess she was going to toy, then stopped, est .Guildford 13erton crossed her mind.. . "And --and what are you doing acre? Are you alone?" asked Cyriledet. tle tone of one eyno, nee $ogettne-emaittons to iielc Virg ne .uoesnit; know which to put first, "Nat -alone, dearest? There is Set:aeon° witig you?" He touched her black dress. "I have heard of -of. your:loss, dear. If I had only been with youl 1 am so sorry, Norah. I only heard of, it ft -Oat -ten mio- utes ago, from Jack here--" % Noran's eyes grew moist again, but she swept the Lear. away. "Yes, 1--I am alone," she said, looking down, and t:vith a sudden sort of embar- rassment, und sheegently began to draw .her hands away from him, reluctantly, clingengly. "What is the Matter?" he asked, •quick to perceive thatesomething wcts wrong. i'What' is it, dearest?" „.„ ' At -this juncture Jacked' looked Nun& "I think I have intruded long enough,' he said; "I'll take myself •off. You can call if you " Went me. Don't , break another ,window, Cyril." Norah held out -her hand to him. "Will you, not say, that you -forgive ni6, Mr. Wesley, •for my rudeness ..to you that night?" she said, her big eyes turned on him so pleadingly that ,Tack's heart, which was of the very softest, melted in a moment, ' "I'd forgive you more than, that, Lady Norah," lee said; "and I understand now that the sting was meant for our young friend here rather than for me; and he, got it. If you had seen hine-wheteigtold hira--.- But there," he said, quickly, "all that is -part•of the past misunder- standing, Lady Norah." Norah looked up at him gravely,. "You are as good .as 'Cyril said," she murmured, 'softly,. "But --but you must not call me Lady Norah." Jack stared*at her. • . "I ---.I beg your ladyship's pardon; Lady Arrowdale, 1 suppose I ought to have Said." "No," said Norah, "I ain not Lady Any. thing, I am simply Norah Woodferti." It wag a day of, surprises, but this Statement, deliVered in her taloa, sweet voice, startled the two rnen pretty con- siderably. Cyril got hold of her hands again, and looked up at tier utmost in fright. Goddegses do not Jose their senses,- or else he might have thought -- jack' was -the first to speak. "What do you say, Lady Norah?" he said, gravely, for he saw that some- thing wits coining. "It it true," 'she replied, looking -from one to the other. "I am not Lady -Norah, Um daughter of the Earl of Arrowdale, but the daughter of the countess' com- panion, Catherine." nee lips trembled, and She lowered Iter„ eyes. "rn—ra try and tell you," she went on, bravely. "You -you must neither of you opeale until / have firrialied, for my head," arid sho put her beautiful handto her foret head, "Is whirling." ' Cyril holding her hand, arid Jack lean- ing againat the window with Ilis arum folded, he told the etory and produced the eertificateil. Cyril 001.11(1 aCarcely4 !teen relent; until hatt concluded, then he broke out : "It is false, Novell! It is •a pure hive*. Hon concocted to stiff come purpose of Guildford Berton's, He ie a sceivatalwaet "He Js' atoundrel, without doubt,' KO the grave Voiee of Seek "Wetacy. "rad I think hieetorf is, trued' "I don't believe -ea' broke n Cyril. "In the grai Plaaet" wont orf*Jeck, very quittlY and gently, "he would not have dared to concoct it, intich less to forge three, copitie. Ile ff; tofi 11Q 'r fer that You eee, a Iasee.er's clerk could eatfy bimetal as to their oinenwis lost takifig a journey to Plyrnouth awl thme +++++++++++++ f+4 -9i+. ther ptaette, anal e:FikirfilraiLni; the regi3, " "Whit* may have nee* taraperei with," said Cyril, tees been of *est service to nevelialt; ea one soerto diapal a delusion which l• ut the Farm Jack Weeley you can't tarteteer with regietere town- "P` UST THINK days. !i1:,ey keep a correct copy at itenessoet lIouset" Cyrias taco fell. • "No! The sto6t is ti'ne, and as Lady-. Mi.iWoedieete seys, she is no a- longer--" 'Watchdoesn't nriatter in the slfgltt- est!" exclaimed Cyril, lagface flusning. "As. it happens, I have 4 Stogy to „lie stopped suddenly to uttett an teactarnatiort Oef. surpriee Ond paint for Sack had:Administered to him a de- cidedly sharp laic Upon the ankle. "Eli? What?" Than, catching the expreesion Of warnion in jack's eyes, lee celored 11, more furiously, and changed the geolion. of hietwarsle. "But I won't. trouble you" with that now, dearest. What if It is true, this ---this revelation? It -doesn't matter to you -nor rne, Nor. all?" “T(1net" sho smiled, through her tears. "And as for xnen, rrn-yes, don't be angry, dearest! -1 am glad! Da you re. member our talk in the woods? Do you reanember my saying that I wished, you weren't a peer's daughter----" a"I remember every word," she answer - cd, shyly, her eyes dwelling upon him with as much of worship in them as a woman ever permits her eyes to reveals "Well, then, I , am happy now!" he said, brightly. s "You see," oild he laughed, "I'm so ,, confoundedly „ proud—" c, „• 'Jack Wesley, with his back turned to, them, grimed. "And 1 might now•=ande then have thought that you had thrown yourself away, • and that you regretted it, but now—,' can both revel in poverty toge- ther," remarked Jack, blandly, "Ex -exactly," retorted Cyril, but • with rather a guilty mil- "we can face, the world band in hend, and—", "Be happy ever afterwards," said Jack. "Don't mind him, dearest," said Cyril. "It isonly his way; you'll get used to it. And bow for a bit of good news. We shan't be se very- • 'poor, after alt.- to smoof_,, ThankstoJack., here, who pretends be o bear, but is .really as soft -as "As an imbecile," put In Jack, in a low voice. • "I've got enough. vyork to last for- dMor,4—yye. Cyril laughed. growled, ed knowing how very -little 'more work would be --"I can't get a word in," he said. "But no matter. And now, dearest—" "And now what about Lady -I, beg Pordon--Miss Norah's dinner?" put tin Jack. "Would it be very wicked if I suggest that the committee adjourn to Cyril's , favorite restaurant?" Cyril laughed: "Jack is always balking of Ins din- ning "Jtraziiti. . . "Because he has within -4 better to think of, and no one.to-think for 'him," said Jack, with a touch :of gravity end - could be? -envy. • Norah smiled at them' both. _ "I wIll do anything you Wish," the Said,. SG sweetly that Cyril had hard work to keep from kissing her straight before Jabk, ' - ' When she left them to put on her out- door things, Cyril exclaimed in a .whis- per: • • *. "You stopped mo in ti1I16, Jack! I was just going to tell herr' - • "You were. And would have upset the whole bag of tricks just as they were arranging. Ifietaiselves nicely." "But -blit 'I shall have to tell her!" gild Cyril, with a troubled froWnt. • * Jack thrust his hands in his pockets, arid screwed-upe his mouth. • "If you will take my advice, just for ,ogeee yout.winekeep. that bit of intonma. non until -well, until after' youaremar- riedO'. he said. "Blurt out to her that you. are thee.,Bart of Arrowdale, and -well, you'llsee what happens. Miss Norah 'a as sweet-- Look here, lad; for sonic inscrutable reopen Providence has seen fit to bestoter. upon you an angel in the. guise of a, woman -hold on a minute! - but angels have some pride, and if you tell her who and what you are; to pride may take alarm. 'Keep plea foroA little while longer, and thank heaven for its goodness to a young cub who doesn't deserve half such luck as to marry the best woman I have ever meta' Cyril grasped his hand in silent con- sent as Norah entered the room. They went to the restaurant, and Cyril being; as Jack, remarked, quite incapable of ordering a • decent dinner under •the circumstances,. undertook , the selection.' They were happy, these three, two or, them ecstatically So, and the third -4W) read the paper a great deal, tiled pre- tended he could not hear their soft'nuna niers-happy' in their joy; ani it came to Cyril as a midden shock when, abrupt. ly lowering the Paper, Jack said, in a tone' of earnest gravity, almost ap- proaching solemnity: aBut Where is this girl, ljeCOS, SOUtli?" Cyril starelisat hine thoughtfully. - " (To be (lontinued). HOW,IT PANS OUT. lit the eompoeition 'of the new British House of taommons barristers are the most numerous class, there being 100 of 'them. ' Manufacturers come next, numbering They ere followed by 60 rnerch,ants, 43 x.artny officers,' 31 soli - 29 jour,oallots, 20 shipewnero and shipbui1derst`d10 authors', 10 mine. oWn- ers, 10 doctors, and In brewers. Among the labor membero „are • la ex -pit boys, exeminers and ex -factory lads, o comPositorst 4 oarpontere, 3 grocerai 43. Astants, t tneehanice, ? .stone notsono, 2 nayiee, arid 2 railway guard:;, 1 neweboy, 1. blaeleonith, and 1 ogriellitlac, a) laborer. There aro nine 1arikere,'8 stock brolzers, and te, farmers. 41117,X1' GAME 11Y1'C:1MM Although 1'4 yeare,;, Old Earl de .01,q, t1lranhs. tli(f: gril.tte:1 gable huh - r -r in Fiint:nal perlinps in the woriii. hart; milk! game than en Y oth- er $411rirtaila4i- 411111'41104A villoia eomtot (AI to 316.,84.0 bead. r:oropriml in the T-11,, were a9,100 partridgeea 15,Ofge nutlet -se. etaa00 haree and!. me fa kr 1'01 4,4 f, 6/106 ;libt, 504) ?Md. 6)1 another '1il- 7tal p1" :?ii'. ' YOtl<S100 116 PI(' flay,: 4- • ++++++44++.4.-4.4.+++++,++ A GOOD ,INVBSTMENT. least winter I &aided to try` an incite ,batote believing that even With my float Of- only 25 hene it wout-1. pay, writes Annie Iloffarth. It was rather difficult to decide on 'what make to, poreliase as, I• ha't but little Money and none to waste on experimenting evith unite. liable temeehines. A.dvertieements and' atalogues galore were studied and a Machine ,,to suit my purse and my re- quirements was found, . The mistake was made with filling ,it with eggs that had been chilled, and consequently I gat a very poor hatch. Counting the eggs at market ` and the cost of the oil used in hatolu g, the chicks cost as much to hatch as they could be sold for -when twe months old, The neighbors chatted me good naturedly over the attempt, and asked to be shown Where the profit was to come in. My success in raising fine chicks with. ,hens metle me feel sure 1 could do as well with the good inoubator purchased. - - The next hatch was good enough to Please the most exacting, but a con- siderable per cent. of the Chicks were loet from over -crowding in the brooder. The third hatch came off April 24. The thriftiest, finest Barred Plymouth' Rock chicks from farm raised pure bred stock. Out or 74 one became puny and, died,. and, although I had, to keep them in a sniall yard of less than 100 equare fed until six weeks old, they grew estate. tellingly. This yard was moved twice, and when my other chicks were sold off these were given their freedom; they 'were floe, large anclenealthy., By July 4 the cockerels averaged two pounds each and by August /5, 31 Fr them weighed 83 pounds and were said to be the fittest put on the local market that, season I had no means ofe separ- ating theni from the pullets, and all were 'fed alike er •they couldhave beereteasity Made to tip the scales at 100 pounds. <with a more fattening food. They were never fed any sloppy food, but had 4 variety.. Stale bread moistened, cooked potatoes, rolled oats, millet, Hear corn, wheat, curds, ground peanuts mixed with the 'bread or potatoes -ande all the, butterinilk and water they would drink. They would eat' eoarse sand. the first thing in the Morning and would oon- surne a surprising amount or it during the entire day. Peanuts and Milldseemed to take the place of meat for theme judging by the way they grew and thrived. The pullets began taying by the middle of October. To sum up 'the sum- mer's work, I consider my incubator and brooder the best investment I have made for many years. All Japan tea* are adulterated, whfle ceyi�n ,Naturat GREEN Tea EssoLtiTELY 'PURE0, Sold Only in Sealed Lead Paeltets at 40C, 500 and 600 per Pound. Grocers.' IlleillESTetlaWARD, ST. LOUIS, 19.01, Nommovorawma. REARING CALVES ON SKIM MILK.. at grea.i,Aanativ, Poe*, think a good. 01f cannot be raised on skint Milk, setsa eorrestaindente Far .., many years .our aloes. were such long-haired, . stunted Rile things we were ashamed of therm But we Itent on trying metal `we. hod "something to be proud of. After frinclr reading and experimenting, we hove mastered the •subjectt andenow.reise fine, thrifty calves. After- letting the calf suck for three days titre pet it in a pen by itself and let it get hungry., Then, With three pints of ink mother's milk .we teach it to drink; this may necessitate two or three trials. A total of, only four quarts and a pint is given at first in three. feeds. If the calf, does not seem to be very stronge we give four feeds, the last at bed. tunett It always gets newmilk warm from the cow until it has a. good. start and is drinking well. This prac- tice continues for two weeks. • At two wcelis_yvet _hegin-tp -feed-skim- Milk. A teaspoonful of flaxseed, meal is mixed with Ilea' e teacupful' of warm 'Water and. leesed on the back of the stove a few mem es. This Is mixed with' one quart shisj uillc and one quart new ,milk, and fea ear'ee times a .daywalways at a tempeenture equal to blood 'heat. Now we have the calf taking two quarts three "times a day. The new milk is then gradually reduced, the Sidra milk litereased ,until at one month the calf is -- getting tame quarts sklm milk and -one tablespoonful flaxseed meal three limes 4 day, The milk must, always bo sweet. We never overfeed; if Ahe mai does riot drink its -Milk up clean atoncewe take away What aseleft ,and give less . next „ time until it has an appetite for three' quarts three times a day; never any More. Overfeeding on skim milk always stunts a calf. Eaeh calf Li kept in pen by Itself. Since no two calves are alike ,We are very particular ° to, give each his own tration according to his age. .When ettah is a inonth old we begin to feed a litUe hay and a few oats or a little meal, thus keeping it growing thriftily. This method involves some trouble at times, but it pays. .„ e Give the Poor fodder in the eerly part of the winter. Sonia straw, corn fodder and pea vines can be fedeat this time. When you, come to the bright, early -oat clover hay the grain ration may be les- sened if the sheep are in geed flesh, otherwise it should be continued. -loose whotarrange in advance for the comfort of their poultry gain profitable egg returns during the Whiter. That people do secure a profitable egg yield in some localities is an absolute cer- tainty. The supply of fresh laid eggs in the city markets everywinter has moi e. than doubled In the last two years, and yet there are not enc -fourth 'enough to sunray the demand at good prices. As a ride, horses hate done better in a, cold stable well ventilated than in a .finer looking buildingnot so well aired. In(1ced abuilding'may be made- se tight with lumber, latheand plaster that in winter time, after a period of several days of zero weather, Itbecomes veryg cold -in fact,' colder than one Simply boarded up witimeae single , thickness • ,of matched lumber. Beyond . a certain limit, the naore tight we matte a build- ing to keep the outside air out, the colder we make the building. THE CZAR'S TIMBER TREASURE. Few people • who • hav,e not traveled abou•t the RUS4411 Empire can imagine how bOlindleSs is its wealth in timber. "Wooden Russia" is the name applied to the vast forest areas of • Russia in, Europe, which cover nearly ,5,000,000 Acres, or 36 per cent, of the entire area at' the country. • In Russia houses. built of any other material than wood areal - meet unknown, outside the cities, and wood constitutes the- princip.al fuel. The forest belt balled thed'Taigat, ' in Siberia, stretches in a direct line from the Urals to the Pacific for 4,000 miles, and is in many 'parts '500 -miles broad. All this Is the property of the -Cear.. • • COLOSSAL DOCK. ..By the end of 1907. the Port of Ham- burg:will possess the , greatest floating deck io- the World: 'It is now, 'under Construction In the shlpyard if Messrs,. and - Voss at ' flarnbuegds anitIA5 to have -alt • aotorileneorledion capagety, cf 35,000 tons. * Its length wi1Tablreat4r e se that the largest rwarships and ocea liners will -.be able to .sue it. The deda Will be eventually towed to Brtinshanaen on the Lower Elbe, where tit den be uti- lized by the German fleet in case if war. The capacity of the largest float- ing deck at present In existence does not exceed 17,500'•toostr.,---e•, PROMPT CURE•. jeans --"He fen't suhh a rabid sooialist as he w ." • • Clarlee-"No, one of Ins relatives con- -vetted hiin." * "How?" "Died and left him, settle money." • RATIONS FOR SWINE. The ,time of greatest fatality among hogs ig when they are compelled to elite. sist for any length, of time on the dry, and most concentrated foods. When the hogs are turned into the autumn glob- ble flels to, glean the dry -cencentrated food there obtained, if ever hog cholera or any other disease occurs, that is the tithe. It is not so much 'because the germs of the disease are more prevalent then, agebecause the hog is forced into a condition which makes him more sus. centible,to the gernas.of diseaem No animal was ever intended to sub. sist alone on dry, concentrate4 foods. What the hog Wile along with mimeo- trated !node is an occasional suceulent ration, with the dpportunity to provide him with clover, rape, beefe, articholtee and elle" etc. There lo no reateno why he shoula be •abandoned do, the condi. tame which invite dieease and death. irliere 13 not a month of the year when an ocaelonal succulentera.tion could not be provided for the hog. This with pure water would enable 'him to resist and ,throw off lhe •germe and dageme alwaye, owevalent and euilleiently frequent to hill telien tedsteelen to condiliom famia ing death. MVP: N,Vtion tho'l toiAtit i in 1 intik tho Stf.lbiej fr)1' t,be 134, rtritzvell .111s1 lie lr441e1 fatioa fi 1 114* 144.4.ft Willi Work OC , E Above picture., of the man and'h.sh is the trade., mark ofScat's Emulsion, and is the synohynr for strength and purity. It is sold in almost all thecivilized coml. tries of the globe., - , If the cod 111311 became extinct i.t -would be a world-wide calam- ity,' because the oil that comes from its liver surpttsses all other fats in nourishing andlife-giving properties. Thirty year no the proprietors of Scott's Emul- sion found a way of preparing C0(1 liver oil so that everyone ean take it and get the fuli'Valne of the oil without the objection ill taste. Scott's Emulsion is bast thing intim world for 'weak, backward children, thin, Mimic people, and all condistionS of wasting anil lost strength. Sow! tor fro esaniplo. I SCOTT te 13011ilstI(14 Orrery mioNto, wr. i x0,40004* Ail ,arugtrato,, Want the Earth? • It so, send 25 cents and rocolve 41 The Earth " every month for one year. An Illustrated naontb, ly journal, that tells the truth about the areal Southwest, tells it in an Interesting way-telb what tho farmer wishes to know abolat the Land of Opportunity -tells young men how they oat hotter themselves -tells „the story of those wile Wya ventured and. Won new homes` la Itattlagi Oklahoma, tToxo.s. Ndwowl beyond. Write to day to Ttirl EARTti. 4440 .Railway Exchange:, Chicago. Are ou DEAF? I was deaf myself for 25 years. I per-, fected and patented a small, invisibla ear, drum , in order to help my own hearing.' It is called "The Way, Ear - Drum.," ahd byt the use or thesedrums 1 can NOW 11EAK WHISPERS. 1 • wand all deaf ,people to ' write me. 1 do not' -claim. to "cure" aUL eases of deafness:, nett ther can I beneila; those who were born; deaf - But 1 CAN HELP 90 per centof those whose hear.: ing Is: .dprective. , Won't' you take the trouble to write and find out all about me and my ine Vention? len me the cause .01 .youri deafness. , Geo. P; Way, 1511 Mamstio f Detioit, Iiiiicat. THE. POOR MAN OF; ENitiaNirr't • • - • • • The curse of the mare who will not work has. always been with us, says the , London Chronicle. In Henry afillas 'reign he was net, allowed to beg the bread that tbeitermed to honester folk, for a- statute was made by winch the old and impotent were granted licenses to begeand any one found .beggingeweith. out cine was soundly flogged and sent htnne- to ' his own Perish. In this way, as Many as a hundred in one day,. in Elizabetit's time, , were sent , "back to the land." The' begging-- license edems to atorle well 'enough abroad, where -the row of atuhorizecl •beggars is a familiate sight outside every church, and .Where the *halt and maimed are seldern seen. anywhere else. . The rise of the,vagrant• in this country no doubt took place Ole ter thedestruction ot. the monasteries,a „god before any other reliefagiviii took trintigstplace. Yet; after* t magnificent 'gal ; we can y the • Monk of :edam* times,. "The friendship of.,• akes us tile friends of Kings." • • CURIOUS COSSACK CUSTOMS. • Many queer customs and usages are prevalent. among the Cossacks of the oDort. No man changes his clothing on- e Monday: '-If he (Welt is believed -that- he would guffer from- a severe skin ease. On Thuraday no fat or flesh must, be picked or, corned. If anyone neglect ed this the meat would be full of worms in ,a fortnight Wool is not spun on a holiday, •else •the cattle will sicken an di'd. A hen is always given' an uoevene number., Bones left from a dinner tat a number of eggs to hatch, never an eveni funeral are thrown into the river, else, the dead will "appear to the tiding *En! fearful. 'shape; and at the seine meal COI One datecut bread -it must always be; broken. • * MARRIAGE F1ALUBIS, t"Many a marriage turns out a. faila tier,' said. the philosopher; -"mainly be- cause the winning ways of the sweet.; leeart- becorne the -winning Ways of thel wife." 110.11maini..1 • 'LEARNING A 'LESSON. Judge -You are charged with ,assault. and battery, What .have you to say? Prisoner -Not a, word, yeronner. was sayin' toe much got me into thise scrape. Wow.. EXACTING, Irate Father-4ane, when are you got, Ing to bring that young fellow to, time?, • Dutiful Daughter --La, pa, last night be •steyedetin 12 o'clock. ' "If I catch your 1og (*alum any of lily, chickens I'll shoot him," said the oldt gentleman who keeps • a hen house,- ang,rily, to his neighbor. "I don't carega said the neighbor. If lieeats one of ,eour chickens 'it won't be rieceesary for you to shoot 'him." • Edwing-Sliall we live with your pat* ents after we are markied? Anp,elint. llic question is, can we li 1); without thorn? • The. following .parogrepli 1 folio it • popular novel: "With one hand he I a bee• head ttliove the raining VIVjd, a flit Abe other called 'tautly ft.!, rissi:A.' neer' ,"I'd like, to go „away for the test el *the, week,' Me," said the Urea book. de-eper. aThere le no need for,you to de tiettdfl retitled the employer, "etay here and lint 'see' of the week Will !tome to you." Beth- ara• het kind of n lot tieu el would eem reelly telvi-o me to there're? Cell adviee you to leave flee Intel ode ;gone, and pt a eiettle roam et - met fli e4' -i -4' -i -m e • eeniete""sa „ d," tinewereif ffitt 4il' ono emealiat atteti