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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-08-23, Page 6Kle+-3Ckie A TALE OF SOUTIVRN CtilNA. • a+0+:4+0-fia4i:4-0-4-0+3C€4.0+A+, CHAPTER XXXL4(Continuedi. Avis had not uttered one word. • Larry glanced up at his cousin as soon • eis the light appeared up on the scene. He was battled in his desire to see her face, since she had protected herself in eh genie Way with the folds of the gar- ment she wore, wlach was a way Chi, - 'nese women had of screening eheir • lases against impertinent glances. Larry would have given something could he have known what the thoughts of his cousin were. Did she eeally suspect the truth, and that they had hopes the prisoner of the palace might prove to be Dr. Jack.? Not by a sign dideshe betray the fact. Still, this was only what he would have expected of Avis, whose extra- ordinary resolution he had on more . than one occasion found, cause to fer- vently admire. Brave heart he thought, which would carryher through in spite of all obsta- cles. Surely, if ever woman deserved ,to be rewarded for constancy and de- votion, Avis was the one, They were advancing now. How confidently tlie Chinese drego- Man led the way. No Egyptian courier could, by assumption, clothe himself in tbe solemn grandeur that was Kai Wang's by reason of heritage. Even Lord Racitett's eyes kindled whenever they fell upon the idol -maker. He seemed to have assumed a kingly 'demeanor since passing under the arched doorway of the imperial palace. Vague suspicions went groping through Plympten's brain, very Much as a tangled skeiu whicn he had neither the time floe the inclination to straight, - en out. • He had a dim idea that perhaps Kai Wang really came of a royal family. This would account forehis close en - flection with the .great viceroy, the Lulig of China, es Li Hung Chang has been called. It might ats' o, in a measure, explain how he came to take such a decided in- terest in the palace of the emperors. . Out of these elmotic fancies Lord Beckett might have woven quite a. little drametic and romantic story had he been given time, since all the required elements seemed on hand. , Ile ayes not the man given to such speculation, however, being rather pro- ' saie and looking after the ordinary things in We, quite • content to leave such imagination to poets and ,novele 1sts bent on winning thelaurel wreath eif fame or the useful shekels of corn- . !fleece: Plain'? then Lord Beckett was .quite pleased to know they were making substantial' progress, land that no im- provement could be kedinthe way a their guide .led the expedition along. Another thought, however, ietruded itself, and this was more likely to be t the truth—perhaps Kai Wang assumed f this royal carriage so that he might 1m - press., any guard upon whom they, d chanced. Since deposed emperors and new a ,fiedgling , sovereigns were floating t around so plentifelly, perhaps The *be- wildered Soldiers would he nadir to fall -in with any scheme to hoodwink them, especially if the eandidate for honoras appeared to , possess , all the necessary t requirements. , f Well whatever scheme Kai Wang t was floating he was well adapted to car& it out, and, for one, Lori:h.-Rack- f -set tramped in his rear, content to play second fiddle in Chinese ,diplomacy. the ,proper thieg for bim to he seen performing suck a• menial office; slaves and henchmen are toecheap in, the dominion to allow a ruler, however petty, to soil his hands with such la- bor. e A murmur of voices had also increased in volume, .proving that the Imperial - palace was somewhat in the line of a disturbed beehive just at present, armed retainers occupying the halts, poeeibly with a view to having an in- fluende over the next meeting of the cabinet, when the succession of a- new prince must be placed upon the carpet. Larry felt Avis tremble a littlwas she pressed against barn—at least he fancied ,such was the case, and hastened to re- assure her. • "Courage,. dear cousin. Trust all to him, and we will win," he said In har ear. "I fear nothing under Heaven," came the steady reply that thrilled him, so bravely was it spoken. At least, there was no need of any, further encouragement in that quarter. The scerte was now opened before them. It was well worthy of an extended observation, ad had the conditions been Deere favorable, Lord Beckett, for one, would have been glad to -have eat- isfied his Curiosity at full length. • d. s, As it was, he had to be content wit e. sweeping view of the panorama, int the midst of which his little party wa directly bound. , The .rich vestments of ministers an mandarins could be seen as they min gled together, shrginghto and fro. in pelted by the electric excitement tha permeated the air, - A coup in Chinese politics does n� mean the same as it might in soni Western nation. When Napoleon th, Third entered Paris and cfra.maticalez seized the reins of government, seating himself upon the throne, it was neces sary that his course should be strewn with the bodies of those who blocked his, ambition • or .were unfortunate enough. to get in ,the way ,of his firing legions. Not so in China; still behind the age. There, the wretched emperor, hedged about by the responsibilities of his roya office and with the enormous burden his ancestors' glories upon his devoted shoulders, is a Mere puppet, ready to dance or retire when some strong hand pulls the string. • Now, it is the Dowager Empress, anon t was Li Mang Chang who did, the tring act. Every dog has his day, even in China. Any indescision on Kai Wang's part t this critical juncture would certainly have been fatal te their hopes. - Once among the mandarins and their roaps of retainers, not to speak of the mperial guard clustered in many guar - erg, discovery must mean immediate eath. When one walks over a powder mag - zine and realizes that- an iron nail in he heel of a shoe may flash a spark hat Will hurl all around into 'eternity, he sensation can hardly be called a Pleasant one. , Yee .that fully described the feeling hat assailed our friends when they ound therneelves 'knecking elhows with he crowd of exalted personages In the great central palaver chamber of the mperial palace. Many eyes were turned on Kal Wang, Mandarins . of high degree` stopped alking to look keenly at this new ar- a CHAPTER* XXXII. WA who seemed to ,move upon his way with superb Indifference, as though o the purple born. • , They knew not what to make of It, he Air was So surcharged with daz- ling, rumors of astounding events, that, hese pawns upon the chessboard, even lie 'eights and reeks, were hardly eure f the ground they stood upon. ne master mind of a keen -witted. wontan swayed them at will. ' Pew were in her counsels, few knew What the next move might be, yet ono id all believed the old state Of affairs tie at an end, and a new regime about o he, launched. , treiace, what, at another' time, might ave seemed" a trivial affair of small im- pileup% noW asetimed a magnitude 01 heir eyes. Even the advent of thee stranger -ram- mer' was' enough' to arouse a sudden tisPiCious interest, since who, eOuld sae at he might not be a new prime aVOrite with their royal mistress. and "tined to occupy' some high, niche of wer in the coming dynasty, perhaps thes throne itself ? Had there been a secret way of reach- t ing the dungeons of the palace fuel' the rear, their task would have ebeen ren- T • deresl far .less 'difficult, and the danger- e ous element in it would have also t shrunk considerably. Unfortunately; this could. not be done, 0 the building being so arranged that the passages, from four skies, teeing the cardinal points of the compass, came together in the centre.. That was where danger lay. a Under ordinary conditions the palace w might have been fairly quiet at this t hour, and a few melting figures Mere or less would not have attracted Much h attention, since mandarins, and princes, a with their suites, had the privilege of [ passing to and fro; and, beside, some ef the coureselors were apt, to come at 'early fort the usual meeting at dawn, he 3 conformity with the usages of .Chinese th rlaw. • Yes, a dozen things might aave hap- pened, each ono of which Would have en lbeen of considerable profit, to them.; bet ;Yee - it was irnposeibie to have 'Matters al - way,; regulated to bring.,eabout the best e eremites, ,and the 'wiseeniiin is he" who a suits his .ealls to the prevailing breeze. c , That, Kai Wang meantto do. tt .The eritical moment Arew near. . They- were approaching the eentral c eone, where more or less confasion 0 might be expected: Kai Wang knew "just when a ehange T wee required in their plans; and none a of them were at all eurprisSe ed"to 'e ee hint deliberately biow but the light 'that a had thus far bon a faithful guide to keep theie feet from eturebling, ° It was not needed hest now. He headed the entediluviart lantern w to Larry, who accepted it without a a murmur of reproach, being quite willing to to eerve in the capacity of lisekboy or n any other department that would ad - Vence the eimee for ,which they "ATP )) 01111Sted. nesklets, terry, being quiet wilted. h wets able to roe% coach:Mous at * a bound. la If Kat Wang ietie 10 play tho pert 01 11 ernandartra to whom they served as his ai following, or atifites at WOUld be - It ;suited Kai Wang to have this inas ression gain ground ; such a fence was pt to prove the Alrongest, bulwark they mad met against the discovery of their .ue value.. 01106 Or twiee Ito wae adareesed by Main officials of the palace in the ',Wintry routine of their business. Then appeared the value of apeech. he old maxim could not apply in such case, for it waa the string of valiant .ords whieb Kai Wang let fall that onAituted a teolden shower. ' On Path oecasioa he seemed to Meet ith abundant suceees. eince the deep canine of the obaequioue officials, hose Made were evidently not any too ecurely fantened upon their bediee, ae. kened satisfaction and learribiei recage Ilion of authority. Little Larry woe dumfounded by the rilliant eiteceee of hie leader. It may ei renterniared that 'Larry hed t lira if a eertain antotint of experienee s 1 . mandarin weariful the yellovis eke ; but, gteett ea had been the tory attethed to Ida tide ihreugh the pole of old Canton in a jineiekehaw; Mat not hold a (audio to tbe &eh 11 RQI V.:QZ4g L1Q0 fa the halal e apiD MLEDQ IceeleIlenvo oriel ieeeeaina 1i3U3 hdreteation EOL'Ale, geedue of th worelealiel feierad of Ihre 3aeh Vow epee°. it Reel:rad- treava,ed in hounde, and, with Ws eisuall fatale imagination, Larry couica feso Kai 'Wang, Iatiae nee/. future—when the old empreee Peal iest bee grip to sergaeious Li ilhaeg Cherie -- Seated uetea the throne, eater of the IN0,13111. \Veen second be thought got in it worls, ,however, 1'02nenalte,red ttrat thert6- was inariy a slip 'twig the clap ,and the lip, and just, at Preesent hie friend's tenure - of life hung upon a .pretty rnaU thread. itia case a particularly bold deed is under advisementthere is 'nothing eo goed as knowing the ropes ttiorooghly', and Larey, could sea that their wide- awake courier .hati accomplished' this to the Queen's taste; He had not- paid numerous secret visite to, the prieonee Emperer in the palace without great advantage to him- self, believing that the time was bound lo come, sooner or later, when this ie- foimation might proveof almost price- less value. That hour was at hand. Lord hackett played his part as well as the conditions allowed, although he was . sopiewhateamstouss, leat ',eves woederful paint which had been used to disguise his florid complexion failed to entirely conceal the sarne, But those who looked at all, gazed upon the striking form of the leader. It mattered not what manner of riff- raff Made upe his following, for in Pe- king are to be seen some of the rawest remarkable specheens of Tartars arui Mongolians on the face of the earth— people who seem a cross sbetween the lower class of Chinese and the Russian serfs of the far-off Siberian, steppe. Any old thing goes in thig cosmopolitan capital of the North, where the nations of the earth seem to gather for the great football game that Is to presently take place, poor China being the pigskin in. question over which the desperate tussle must occur. Yet when Lord Beckett came to think over the matter later on, he was amazed at the very audacity of Kai Wang in thus leading such a heterogeneousapro- cession of nondescript followers threw& the collectest,hosts. Perhaps it was this veey element that went far .toward winning tae reund, Ther'e is nothing so succeseful as sue cess, and this is best influenced by con- fidence and boldness. . Many an operator on • 'Change has guided his crafte.through the worst of tempestuous finteepial billows, jest as the trained hand and eye of the old Indian guide takes his freight of Pas- sengers throieglia the boiling Sault $te. Marie Rapids, by heeding boldly for what appears. to be the worst eddies. And, Strange to say, Kai Wang won, with a leng% to snare. _ He preased through the central palaver hall an entered a merble passage beyond, leav- ing a flutter behind. •• . And Larry, who had beenaholding,his breath, fearing discovery at any in - stint, Wolenanly muttered : • "That crisis is pasta thank' Gest 1" (To be continued). o leaver Gwahheel Serceihearre Hair Save Her and It ffleene Off. A WOOD=SANVING-4Y, Has a Tenon -Saw :Similar to That Used By Cabinet -Makers. It is marvellous how many of the tiny creatures in the insect world conceal and preserve their -eggs. Some will deposit them in extraordinary places, others will insert them in the skins, of living animals. . Others, again,. deposit their eggs where the young grub, after earning from the egg, finds food °loge at hand. Among these last mentioned are -in- seas wha bestow great labor in the cradle' of their avoeneg. The _place -they select is a hard part of a leaf or the 'Woody branch of a tree. In this they saw out a hole large enough to con, tain their eggs, whence their name,' saw -flies. For this purpose they are provided with an ovipositor of peculiar eonstruction, 11 consists of two long pieees closing like a sheath over a third. In the tenthrede, this third piece cote.' tains two little saws, each of which has., been compared to the tenon -saw used pee the cabinet-rnaleers. The tenon -saw le single, but, that el the tenthredo is double, consisting of two distinct saws. 'the insect in using them throws out one ' saw, and while it is returning pushes out the other, te • This alternate moticin is continued until the cut is made, when the two saws, receding from each other, con- duct the 'egg between them into its place. Not only is the edge of the saw notched into teeth, but on every tooth a. number of smaller teeth appear, W HAIN IN A 'DREAM? Two Instances Which Show That -They , • Came True. Is it possible foe a dream to foretell an. event? Mr, Geo. A. Sims tells a couple of stories which would justify him, at least, in "believing In dreams." •"One morning," he says, "my house- -keeper brought me a cup of tea, and airreke with a start as she entered my room, `011, Mrs, Bully,' I said, Tye just had, such a nasty dream 1 I dreamt my sister had come ta tell me someone was dead.' • "'fbree-quartere of art hour later Illy sister actually did arrive, although it was only a quarter to nine—a, most uta usual hour for bee to be out visiting -- and 6110 brought nee news, sure enough. of the death of a brother-in-law, "Again 1 wai in Switzetland with my wife, When, early one morning, she woke up in sortie agitation wed told itie she hal dreamt that we had got to Chamonix, where a black -bordered ter from my steter awaited nee. The let- ter-eonittined wave of a death, "We arrived In Chamonix the sante eey. Before we had been there many Winne a telegram was handed to Inc. it 1,V,I5 from the Melee of whom ray wife had dreamt that morning—lite same eister Nvito had figured in my own,fate. elatetne on, a previteue ee si 0 h mina The Aester, that picturesque stretch of water which separatethe reefden- teal from the busineee quarters of the city of Hamburg, WQ,9 11P-0 scene recent- ly, kay tbe qemnart imepeee, of a rude awaaening arena love's young dream. A weladeeesed young couple had hired a roveaeat at the Gurlittstraese landing stage for a little spin, and who knows What pretty eecrets would have been whispered into Angelia's or if she, had not lost her balanceand tumbled into the water? The, young man pluchily div- ed in after her and eucceeded h tera6p- Ing her hair, which, oh horrorl came off in his aaads. Eventually, the girie was, saved by a boatman and the youth got out unassisted, but from all ap- pearance his feelings towards the fair lady had undergone a complete change, of which her involuntary immersion was not the only .cause. .......e..a....4 HELPING 11401'11Ele. The morning after Uncle John's ar- ,,risaat..et, tee elk feria mliere *ewe. lima as a boye he Went early downstairs, to find his pretty niece Eva arranging a great bowl of flowers. - "I tell you it seems good to be here," he said, standing in the doorway to Sniff the Morning air, Pend it caws me geed to think, there aie five of you girls to help your mother, instead of her having to slave the wI y our mother U11, with a family of b ys. Where's Jennie?" "She Is in e—she's in the garden, picking somearoses," said Eva, the pink in her cheeks deepening.. ' "M -m. Where's Doris?" asked Uncle , John. , "Doris has --Doris has gone out into the simmer -house to write a letter she Wants to have go off early," said Eva. "Mary?" inquired Uncle John. "Mary—Mary has gone for a little drive down to the- station with ono of our neighbors," said Eva. "She loves The air early la the morning. It makes' her feel bright endefresh, and ready for her practicing on the piano." "I 'should think likely," said Uncle John. "How about Katherine'?" "Katherine hasn'te-ashe hasn't got out of bed yet," admitted Eva reluctantly. "She says that the little extra sleep •in the morning makes so much difference in her day; she got so tired in:school last year." "M -m," said Uncle John. "Then I sup- pose your mother is—er—" "Mother, is in the kitchen just now," said lava. looking uncomfortable. "Same old place," said Nncle John. --Curious, isn't it?" SENTENCE .SEIRMONS.. Little sins open the -doors to large Ones. • • The currenck of kindness is cash in any. Country: , Saepitiore is the substitute of the sloth- ful "for vigilance. - An optimist is a man who never stope to open a sandwich. Itae eceuee calling people to happiness -in .a sepulchral tone. , . Only a destitute' age mints" befit rich as the greatest virtue. The sunshiny man drives all the moonshine ofit of his religion. There is no virtue in the innocence that only fears the wrong. It's not always the saving man who has most chance of salvation. • It takes' more than the ability to say "dear sister" to make a real saint'. The practice' of righteousness will cure Your 'prosperity to regulate others. Preaehing on the dangers of money often ma's its first effect on the collec- ti ne—--- You always will find the.lioorest play - ea wears the most professional clOthes. There is no virtue in- the Sunday that makes ehildren say, "I wish it Was Monday."' Half the problem of keeping ire the right road is solved if You will keep your revenues. a The bible Le a good time cards, but a man- makes a mistake when he tries To use it for tt. ticket. • • WHITE MAN'S PERIL. Whispers of 'wholesale native risings In various parts of .the British Empire are rather unnerving when one re- members that the white population a the Empire is only 54,000;000 as against 344,000,000 of the coloreerrades. In other words, the whites are .outnumbered by more than six to one. India is the por- tion of the Empire which contains the biggest ,proportion of native-born peo- ple, namely, 0e.6 . per cent., Very few of them being of English parentage. Hon -Kong is at the other extreme, hav- ing only 1,7 per eerie. of native-born re- sidents. In Western Australia 30.6 per cent. of the Population are native4born; in the Orange River Colony 65,e per Cent., In Nev Zeeland is the highest proportion of natives of the United King- dom, 252 per cent. ‘of the whole popu- lation; Australia has 17.7 per cent. dr tea population from the United Kingdom; Canada, 7.3 per cella; Orange River Col- ony, 4.6 per eetta GETTING A DECISION. "I haven't seen your wife out lately:, Mr"0,(isc)hde likceettifst:art ham these (lays." "Is she ailing?"' "No. The feet of the matter is; a week ago I took home two of the handsomest bonneta1 could find in town, and told her ehe might have her choice between ahem. She has been busy day and.rtight ever since trying 10 Make up her mind which of the bennete to keep, and was as undecided as ever when I 'dame away Ibis morning, One moment slue likes one, and the 'next elle prefers the other," "You ought to help het' diit of. her 'dilemma." .alloW eetn I?" "Why, quite a simple operation, Take ne of thOlft ami etirry it hack tie the hop. That. will be the one Sh011 Veretrit," II informed tite iltes steldett death, by &0I/1110M of a yoting neplieve of mine." 1 AS HEALTHFUL AS IT IS 0000 cEYL„,ON 'GREEN TEA Is not, adulterated' In any shape or form. and • because pure Is healthful. Lead plows 400,, 500 stroi 600 per ID. ,At *0 Crocior& MOREST AWARD ST. LOUIS, 1904, o 4- . I About the Farm,' t. 1 ' Producers can do this most feasibly niost successful way et handling 'fruit, task, whether they are harvested as should devote himself assidiously to the soiling food, Harvesting cowpeas is not an easy , yet devised. -The manager of the union then becomes their selling agent, and as beer, as silage, or feel. study of the markets, and possess the the' grain. The difficulty ,arises from ability to deal advantageously with - the hick of suitable implements, then. commissiomen and other buyers. le difficulty in curing them without tele is true many fruit unions have failed. groat a loss in leaves when dryirig, anh dismally through petty jealousies, un- othfetadelinireuvlitnYoullis naturehndlingreasonable suspicion, and management, aeo found the strongest reasons for using' such; yet when really successful they a. 1nthemti1e shoe otaauc nor is the country without examples Of st, es the producer and the consurner. The commission rnen are undoubtedly right, and they seem indispensable under pree 'sent conditions; but if intermediary specialists in selling fruit are necessary, there is no reason why the producers should not employ one at a salary and, thus unite to some extent at least these divergent interests. HARVESTING COWPEAS. tat: ebae banding letainefeleeeeeiattet 4-1m101:1 ;%t)Vp them toethe greatestfoxtent possible in the form of pasture or as a fertilieee, writes Prof. Thomas Shaw. are almost ideal and welhworth' attempt,. . ing and re -attempting in any apple growing community. • The best implement, in my judgment, The solution of the marketing probs beyond all comparison, would be the tem lies mainly, in the direction of _or - pea harvester. It has guards wheal ganization. Once a .union fairly raise up the vines, It has a dividar launched with a hoard' of honest and - which sepaeates them from the uncut influential directors representing . all portion. Two men would be required parts of the community, and an efficient to follow in cutting ripe peas; to hit manager, conditions surely not inapos- them aside in bunches, so that the horses or mules used in vetting would not tread on them. Some practical growers • claim that cutting should begin as- soon as any get a fIrst-class man for a second considerable number of the pods. are salary. ' formed; others when the first filled pods begin to turn yellow, and yet others when the crop Le -nearly matured. Tee time aSsigned tor harvesting the late sible, success is only a question of a fit- tle sweet reasonableness and patience. Leave the selection of the manager .16 the board, but do not expect them te !JIVE STOCK NOTES. t- --a__ • There is such a thing as overfeeding. It is dangerous to feed the hoa full and shy bearing varieties is wbea the rse leaves begin to turn yellow. Climete ration on idle days. Feed the pigs too should 'influence the decision es to the much and they get off their feet, and time of cutting for hay. The more naoist iint woirldletra.ke some time to get them back , and cool the weather, the less advanced should be the stage at whieh the crop In the ordinary course of horse labor is cut. Of course, the more advanced the maturity, the easier on the farm, there is no work too severe each yearShould lebe CURING is the crop cut. GoAtF0pRossfiesfiAled% of , high. 1 co idered wise or , neces.sary to rest As the leaves raising a • foal ., i ore censtant to be performed by rneres th m at any time, some of the young , est feeding value, the aim should be to RI si ck can take their places. With oi. save these to the highest. extent Peach- dit'arily goods care, there is no reason cable, To accomplish this, the crop, why 4 mare ltould not do her year s MUSt net be left- lying toe' long in the farm work and raise a colt, If a 'a Sun before being raked, nor shoidd it farmer is to produce horses at a profit, be handled any more than can be 1vt441- these are the lines he muet• go on. ' a ed in the curing, process. The time coil- There' are ' several ways .01, feeding eer ed for in curing varies from four to farm animals. One of these is to pro five toten or twelve days, even when vide a ,mahatenance ration. This keeps the weather is fairthe body alive and repairs' the waste - The plan most coinrnonly adopted is , that is made each day by ah.e workings to mow only when the vines are dret of thebodylike an engine that must to ted once or oftener, to rake after one use a certain amount of power to .run or twa slays', exposure, to allow to lie in the windrows for some time fair wea thee and to complete the curing in cocks made rather small, narrow and high, Others put into cocks at an earlier period and Open these out semeWhat daily, but this method of curing involves mucn labor. When cowpeas are cured, they may be stored by putting them into a mow, ca stack, or under ,a hay, shed. 'nee are considered ready 161- stofing a hen no moisture exudes from the twisted st Ike, - They Anaylbeestored -earths!' if the peas are put away in alternate lay- ers with straw. .,Some growers secuee poles fro:n to ae feet long and plant them in the ground. at suitable distances in the pea &Id.' When the peas leave wiih, 1, but not .enotigh. •to shed their leaves, they are stacked around these poles to the width of 4 to 6 eet.across the staek, ac- cordiag.to the degree of the succalence of the peas. Strong, stripe are firmly nailed to the poles at suitable inteervals. Theare natiedan in pairs and at right angles. They serve to prevent -the hay from settling too firmly. Some other material as crab grass is put on the top of these miniature stacks to shed the ram The most eernmon method of securiag seed is to pick by hand and then to run the rode through a' pea huller or to beat (ho peas oat with, a flail. Theerop. is usually gone 'over two or three time; as the peasaripen unevenly. This is ofie reason why hand-picking is praetieed. But even in the south, where labor is cheap, the cOst of securing seed Is half as much aa It is worth. • It would seem to be a bettet way to let the crop stand until the bulk of the peas are ripe, and then to cut it .with the pea harvester, The -then who' lot, low could put the peas in small buttehea and from these they could be &awn and threshed within a day �r two a the season of cutting. As with Canade field peas, the concayes and cylinder teeth would have to be so, tedjustedas not to' break the peas. MARKETING FRUIT. Reelecting fruit is a business by 'Itself and if properly • done requires the tut - divided ettention of those who engage la 0. Thus say the commission ,nten when put on the defeneive by insinua- tions that they are only obetaclee of free and natural intercourse between Pairostiora. SCOTra reitILSION. /Alyce es II Wile 60 carry the retaliate! and ,shwas4 sysiernIaleng testa it ea* fled firm seppert In etelinary heed Stott tor tree movie, jSCOrtClienralAtt to ' dekflt/44 lake $1,00; all desettaa its own machinery before any real work Li accomplished. No profit comes from such a ration, as can very readily be seen. It is only from what We feed be- yond the maintenance ration that a profit can be expected. CARE IN HANDLING BUTTER. Farmers who run dairies should be pareticularly careful -to market their but ter in an attractive form, *Pack it ire jars, butter cases, or make prints, al- ways striving to furnish the packages most eatisfactory to your customers: The oldhabit of marketing la rolls is out of date and results in much poor butter reaching the. consumer. ENGLISII'lL;ANGUACR.. Is Full of Perplexing, Difficulties as ' Nathat Words !exactly Meat*. That "policy" which a,„ man gets from an insurance company is no relative to that other word "policy" which the Pre- 'sideht of the United States, for instance, may use in dealing with (he .beef quos tion They afford a curious instance, of the .ability of two entirely distinct English'. words. to look like one. The latter is a, lineal descendant, along with "polity" and "police," of the Greek "po- lis," a city. But the former is the late Latin "pOliticurti," "poleticurn" be "pa- leaticum," a register whereindues were enrolled, which is believed to be really the Greek "potyptyehuntea a document folded into many leaves. If so, the de- velopment ef the word may be parallel- ed by that of "diploma," the parent. of "diplomatist," which meant simply a document folded double. "Spanking" did not suggest chastise- ment originally. -e It was unknown to • Johnson in this sense; to him a "spank- er" meant "a person who takes long steps with agililyee Rapid motion seems to be the root idea of the word "spank," which Is not merely Eepresentative of the sound of the act, as "slap" and "enlace are. The low German "spank - kern 1' "spenkern," to run and epring about quickly, is close to the original meaning. Hence a "spanking pito, ' a "spanking breeze," and a "spanker," the sense lot an active and sturdy .pere son. • Strictly 'speaking,,,a "journal" should be a daily publiration, although the word no longer has that limited use. The case of "journey' is exactly com- parable. Even to Chaucer it stil meant( a day's progress, end in the fourteenth. century it was poseible to speak of one; eountry as being "fifty-two. jorneyee" twenty milee', distant from another—a "Journey" beingi I'So you made him peomiee to g ea op emoking 2" said one girl. "Yee," an.• worrid llo olhor . "Itiet I nover knew you es-wee:Ay obieeted to emoking ?" al den't. Bat I lead to make hint dc. sontelltitta te ;-, low his' affection."