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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-11-22, Page 6 (2)1 of that pry3ontotEron, thpro Ihneh hn--111.iio :E6'mvnt v.:Len Amelia licItt leo%cia rintraZie-ai,ei, an.2 00alla 6° co] to him ills() tho cenN ie- tFq1 that hos 11.:Gen gnnving upon him, sinco yesterday, o tho;iiore than wis- dcm, the artsonto imperative duty on his part. el avoiding a repetition of tha etenrtiri,ion whieh hat forced itself upon notioe in thechurch of ',.;tan Miniato. tee` aesaisia-4;04.04-04-09-0+0+04-9-+ ' ClIAPTEB A Ridden instinct, with wheat his evil! has noihteg, to do, mattes him flash a look back ett Mrs. leo alarchent, 06 if to getige the effeet produced upon her by his betrothed; mkt, following her knee, s he finds that it is resting on Sl e thinks that he le engaged to Ceetlie. Tae mistake is intolorebie to t'airnita tiialP yet a secoriere-'reileetiein tale' him that it is a natural one. In a ;second he sees his Aneeliaa'as she pre- ; eents herself to a strange eye. Miss Wilson is only thirty-one, but upon her has already oome that set solid look of thin middle age, which atiertaltes some Wo - Men before they are well over the bor- ders of youth, and will& other women menage to stave off till they are within near hail of forte'. Yes; the mistake is quite a natural one. Most people would suppose that the showy Cecilia, still fairly youthful, and with se, many n- ylons and well -produced °points," must bo his choice; and yet, as I have said, the idea that anyone should credit hcill with her earnership is intolerable to him. "Ilere she isi" he cries precipitately. "The one to the right side, the other is her sister; may I—may I present them to you?" Perhaps it is his irritated fancy that dictates the idea, but it seems to him as if he detected a sort of surprise in Mrs. Le Merchant's face, when he effects the . introduction he has proposed, and to. which she accedes courteously, after a pause Of hesitation about.as long aa -had followed his inquiry of Elizabeth es, to their addre.ss. Five minutes later they have all saun- tered out again on the terrace, and Bur- goyne is again leaning on the nyall; but tins dme, he has no fear of hearing of Bayswater, for it is Elizabeth who is beside him. Since last he looked at it , half an hour•ago a sort Of glorification has passed over the divine view. Down where the river twists through the plain country, there is a light dainty mist, but the mountains have put on their fullest glory. They are not green, or ,brown, or purple, or blue; but clad in that ineffable raiment woven by...the . sun, that defies our weak vocabulary to ' provide it with a name. A little" snow -chain lies on the sun -warmed neck of Morello, and along atheetopsoof the furthea - Apennines, right .against the acute blue of ahe heavens, liea lineof dening as well. "She began to gay it; snow, that looks like a fleece -soft cloud but I suppose that I looked so brokenhearted—I am ure I felt it—that she resting from its fourneyings, on their - • crests; but it is no eeloud, nor is theta stopped." S, any speck upon the gigantic complete M .Jim makes no rejoinder, he con- areh that over -Vaults town and valley tinues ay -and -bye: and radiant mountains. In the foicisaof - "After all, shehan but send me away. these last, the shadoWs. slumber; bur-Onis always being sent away" (aim over an tae city is the great gold glory wishes he could think this truer than he of: sprieigt The one thing in. Florence does); "but now and rigain one is not that frowns among so many smiles is sent, and those are thetimes that pay the scowling Pittaand that, from here, eor the others! I'll risk it. is invisible. Nearer to him against, the There is a hopeful ring in his voice es azure, stand the solemn flame-shaped he ends, and again a pause comes, bro- cypresses arow, and beside them—as ken a third timeby the younger Can. . unlike as life eto ,death—a band of qui- 1 "Come, now, Bre—looking with o • vcring poplars, a. sort of • transparent straight and &seaming good -humor into. gold -green in their young spring livery. his friend's overcast countenance—. The air is sclear that one can g to counting the marbles on' the Duonio "speak up! Do you know of any cause or o. eanigh • impediment why I.shouki not?" walls. In a more transparent ember e lea light, fuller of joy and gaiety, cannot to, Burgoyne, Time iiandsomely and fairly app just the saved be dancing around, as in man-, who is by neturei's 3 a • „ Fro Angelico's divine picture? cannot begias to .ttelt his they be walking in the New Jerusalem througa her paces tie to h t c°cience f.eti re a a1 soUree corn ll- ot St. Min's great dream? Only in the of his dislike to the idea, o is p New Jetusalem there are to galled and tretabling-kneed flaere horses. Elizabeth is sitting on the wall, her light It possible that it has been in the world -only four years less . than Amelia's solid ondt—half supported by one small grey hand outspread on the stake; her little fine features air tremulous with emotion, and half a ' tear gathered again in each sweet eye. As Jim looks at her, a sort of cold covetous gripe pinches his heart.,, "What a woman with whom to look at all earth's lovelinesses—with whom toeonvq.se without splech!” F,ven aa he so thinks, she turns her end towards him, and, drawinge.in her .breath with a 'long low sigh, sayer - "Oh. how glad 1 arn I did net din be- • fore to-dayl" fler eyes are twined towards him, and yet, as onebefore, he realizes that, it is not ad him that either her look or her thotights are direeted. Both are ahned at an object over lits shoulder, and, as • before, that, object is Byngt, Being too hos been gazing at the vietto There.are tears: in I3yrig's eyes also. Stephenson says some women like at man who. cries'. 13yelg cries easily and genuinely, and enjoys it; and, as he is a remarkably Thi e young nian, there is, something piquant in the contrast beivaeen his wet blue orbs and his shoulders. . • As Burgoyne rolls benne that after - nom? in bus neer°, as before, placed Opposite Ani1ia, his mental vi8ion IS no longer -fixed upon a "double-barielled, et:into:dative, bree,claloading gun ;" it is fixed with a teasing tenacity upon the figure Of a stnallish woman leoking„ oug heirs, over hie shoulder at ceorneibOdy"elee. C/IAPTEle IX. • t "‘Vas it 12, or 12 is, Piazza ' tritizeglierr There ore no iota; fzt alyngts ryi:g GS aa..s thiti mutation tiext eerie it of bis 'friend, as the Miter elle Ij tint funnily, with an Englielt wiper in hic lierale, and a tiviod cigar. Lefwei.n hi4 elean-ohaven It has ativelt him 1,Wrevat limes lately that he will have et « hi; 1..,Yiejd (7101'3, Mid fahe to e thatAiWar4fill PiPP- 1424 elven ineivad. NO, tee far, the ellureliwaleten and the *hag rotioila n ;Ike rotten. 'You had lvttor eotne,.” porsists Bing still., like a magnanEmons vhitil holding mt half his cake to hs friend; whether, like" the 4-5x4ne child. witi a semi -hope that it may be reftetaidt Orwhether, on the Waver hand, it may have crossed his mind that, where there ere two visitees, a the chances of a tetc-a-tete are imprOved be, there being aleci two visitors. "My dear boy," returns jim, this time with a testiness handsontely streaked With irony, "you are really •too obliging; but, even if I wished it—which 1 do nut,— or even if they wished it—which they .do not -it is in this case quite impossible, as 11 am •engaged to go shopping with Amelia." Probably the blow is not a knock -down one to Byng; at all sevents hebearsthe rebuff_ _weh/As diatatuat, healthy gooel tainperaand goeaaoff to put on a, enitiatee tie, Burgayne, thinking no such im- provement in his toilette necessarY, tatrotits away to the Ang10-Americain. ft is true that. he has covenanted to es - core Amelia to the shoptfor Cantagalli \VW, though there is no particular rea- son why, had he so wished it, the pur- chase of the dinner service that is to grace their Bayswater ayrnposia, might not have been deferred for twenty-four hours; elect, indeed, as •things turn out, it has to be so deferred. As he Opens the door of the Wilson's sitting -room, his future' father-in-law brushes past him, with evident signs of discomposure all over hie clerical figure and spectacled face; and on entering, he finds equal, if not superior, marks of up- set equanimity on the countenances of three women that are thearoem's-occu- pants. Over the . wooa fire•-•.-Zybilla alternately roasts and 'freezes her fam- ily, and this is one of her roasting days —Cecilia is stooping, in evident search of some object that has been comMitted, or tried to be committed, to tho flames. The other two are looking on with an air of vexed interest. Sybilla is the first to ad- dress him. "You have appeared at a.'not very happy moment," she says, with a sigh; "we have been haying a. family- breeze; it etas sent my temperature up nicely! It is '100, 100, Point .2." The mention of Sybilla's temperature is always enough to put Jim in a rage. It is therefOre in no very feeling tone that he returne: "If it were 1,000, Point. 99, I should not be surprised, in this atmosphere! Good heavens, Cis, are not you hot enough al- ready?" The young lady thus apostrophized rises, with*sonie precipitation, and with a very heated complexion, from her knees, heeding in her hand, however, the Object of her quest—a rather charred ,pmall- parcel, done up in white Paper, And with a ,fragment of white ribhon still adherring here and there to it. . "Father behaves so :childishly," she says, with irritated undutifurness. "Youmust own that it was enough to provoke him," strikes in Amelias mildvoice. • • . s "What was enough to provoke him? How has he shown his childishness? ' For freaven's sake, some of you explain I" cries Jim impatiently, looking from oleo "12 or 12 Bus, aazza d'Azeglio?" in- quires Being. "Was what 12 or 12 Bis?" replies his friend, with a eoniewhat obviously Ma tentional obtusenese; but Byng is far too thoroughly healthy and happy a young animal this morning to tato effense easily. "I mean Miss Le Merchant's addresa," he 'answers, _explaining., -eat etniably- ate , if he had not Leen perfectly aware that it wea, only "cussedness" that had dictated the, query. aarliere is a 'slight pause. 13urgoyer• wind(' late to answer that he dove not remember --would liae, still more to answer that headoes not see what busi- ness it can be of Being's; but, since he is not destitute of common sense, a second's reflection shows him 'that h.e has no good reason for either the, lie or the incivility, so he replies, pretty calm- ly, with ,ate, .eyes still on his leading article; "I ,believe Miss Le Merchant said 12 • Bis." Having obtained the information he wanted, and finding his companion not conversationally disposed, 13yng is mov- ing away again, when he is arrested by Jim's voice, adding to the intelligence he has just given the monosyllable: "Why?" - "Why eviiater asks Byng, returning readily, and laughingly mimicking the intentional obtuseness so lately prac- ticed on himself by the other. aWley did you tisk?" "I am thinking of paying my respects there this afternpon, and I did not want te ring at the wrong bell." - A- short silence. Jim's head is partly hidden by his Galignani. - "Did Miss or Mrs. Le Marchant ask you to call?" Byng laughs. "Both of them are as innocent .of it as the babe unborn!" • "You asked yourself then?" (in (9. snub- bing voice). liyng nods. • "And she said yes?" The plural pronoun has dropped out of sight, but neither of them perceives it, The younger man shakes his sleek head. Jim lays dawn his paper with ant -air of decision. "Ifshe did not say 'Yes'—if she said `No,'" he begins,. with en accent of severity, •"1- fail to understand—" "She did ,not say 'No,'" intertups Being, still half laUgaing, and yet red- ion'staking advantage of that introduc- euppose he meantait civilly; but father tion which he himself has been the • means — however unwillingly—of pro- curing for hint. It is true that BYng's • mother had adjuited him, witla tears in her eyes, to preserve leer boy frieffr nude- siroble acquaintances; but can be, Bur- goyne, honestly say that he leaks upon Elizabeth. lat Marchaot asan-undesirable acqtiaintance for jnyeialle? The result of his investigations is the discovery of how infinitesimal a share in his motives' re- gent for his young friend's welfare has had. The d:scovery is no sooner made than he acts upon it. "My dear boy," he says—and to his creditsays it hearalet-e-al sea no earthly reason' why you ',should not go; you • could net make nicer friends." "Then why will not you come loo?" asks Being, with boyish generosity. The other shakes his head. "They hal much rather I stayed away; they have token nie enerippe." "Pooh! 'Nonsense! You fancy it." al think not?'—speakiag slowly and thoughtfulleereal am not a fanciful per- son, nor apt to' imogine that my acquain- tances bother their heads obout, Me one way or anothee; but when people try their best,. in the first instance>, to avoid •recognizing you- at all, and on every subsequent, °melon endeavor to disap- pear as soon as you come in sight, it is not a very forced assumption thatihey are not exactly greedy for your sociatya , This reasoning is so close that Being is for the moment silenced; and it 10 the Other who shortly restunest "ttai think it 15 banns° 1 remind them of the -past; they have evidently eome nn - pleasant association of ideas with that pixel. I wonder what it is?' The latter elauseis addreesed more to himself than to Itynge "tactilely some of them have die4i er come to grief, and they are afraid of joint asking after themattauggests the younger man. "On the contraret-othey are all— one mere than eliethea." ""ellt 1 uffilia tYjNe theld 611,6 MOW trial. anyhow; I am sore they would inane waled. (Hat them time, and I am ;tore they would (cone round!' (tiff; ityno etinguluely§ adding, "What could lime been pl(asanter than Mrs. Iat Mor- ehanae thininer when you pr4(,entall her 1.) Miss ,',1711,sotiV The mention of Me; 'Mit:on TeVailq t Jim the exhemely unpleaeatit thomeht, to the other. But 'With this request none of the three appears in .any hurry to comply. There Ls a distinct pause before Cecilia, seeing: that neither of her seniors shows any signs let relieving her of the burden of expkination, takes that burden upon her- self. , "The fact is," she says, setting her little res7ued packet on tae table beside her, and beginning to fan herself, "that Mr .• Dashwood, the man to whole) I was engaged, has chosen to marry. 1 am sure" --with a shrug—"no one has the least desire to deny his perfect,' right to do so; and this morning there arrived ha post a bit of his wedding cake! I chose to take it as an insult to-hirnself, and, though it was addressed to me, he " threw it into the fire. I arn very fond of wedding cake; so, as soon as fattier% back was turned,. I fished it out again!" Jim laughs, with more vigor perhaps than heartfelt amusement.' "Bravo,Cs! You are a real pliilosO- . pherl, We e might alI learn a lesson from' you."' "What. have you done with your.nice friend?" asks Sybilla,. onguidly. "Amelia. dear, this couvretpied is slip- ping off nee again. What a'sympathetic OW he has! .1 am sure he has been a great deal with sick people." "I left hale 'putting on his best tie to go out calling. No, calm yourself, Ce- cilia, not on you; It is not your turn to-. ,day." "a,Vhoee turn is It, then?" oaks the girl, with an intereet not at all blunted by the Mortifying incident of the eake, indeed, she hos begun to nibble with apparent reheat. , • JIM hesitates a second—a second dm'- 1n'a whiclatif strikes him evith a shock that he already finds a. difficulty in pro- nouncing Elizabeth Le Merchant's name. He manoges to evade the neceessity even now by a eireumlocution. "1 believe it is the Piazza d'Azeglio upon which that luminary is to shine." "Is he going to sea that lovely crea- ture ter whom you introduced me yester- day?" cries Amelia, with good-natured enthusiastro al heard her telling him that she lived in the PiaZza' d'Azeglio. Oh, Jim, Way pretty she is! One ought to pay dor being allowed to look tit beet." Many women, whose plaioness Is In Contestable, are able to bo uet te their better -favored sisters; but Atnelia is more than just—she is lavishly generouS. • Ithrgoyne rewards her with on affec- tionate look—a look such as would make her swear that, besides Miss Le, Mar. chant, as beside Duniaitas fair love, "Juno but an Ethiop were!" "She ii::ok4 a$ if he had had a his bee. itnprOVe3 0WOMOn'S ale. •ead viye Ceeiliai pensively, liold a, rtaltAtt Of the bratettlii Cake sit95ead A In i:6". and rewinding it velth "Has slier "I itmer hoe." "Whydill not poll go too?" it -imam Atnelia„Wicitansly Mriking h, as is her habit, as often as she perceives that her younger eller 18 be inning to get to obviOritly upon Izer nwn amoco's nerve3; oaloitrophc., h t -nothing in the, tlin0 of his lost remark te11t3 i4CV- n114111 ShC) doc not quit° undmstand why it ashould—is imminent. "They are Old friends of your3, are not they? They may be hurt if they lind that, a rerfect stranger' litio Mr, Byng is in a c,:reate.7 lavry to Nit:It them than you are." Before Burgoyne's mental v1sin riqe3 a picture of Bl18al7oth's heavenly eye, wmale411:11ndifierentlY over tho dear old itiencas shoulder to find its home in that ot the perfect stranger. But ho says kindly, and even play.Zully: . "Why did not I go too? • Because I was under the impression that I was en- gaged to go with 'another lqyely, being to. choose 'crockery, Was 1 tolg Am 1 not?" Amelia,'s answer is conveyed by a ser- • ies of nods and wins executed behind her sieters' backs, which lie • presently understands to imply that she desires 0. private intervieea. It, is not Inimediately that he grasps what she is driving at, since dumb -show is -often puzzling to the person at whom it is aimed, though clear as day to the dumb -shower. As soon, licrwever, as he masters what her wish iete ha. hersteriseetoaconiply witheits and five minutes later finds them tete-a-tete ite the hideous little diniAg-rpom which had been the seene of their reunion, and of Many after -meetings. "I could not gay so, of course, before her," remarks Miss Wilson, as soon as they are out of earshot, Or she might have insisted lipon my going. She is very unseifislr sometimes; hut the 'fact is, I do not think I ouo,lit to leave Sybilla' again to -day. You see; she was alone' the whole of yesterday afternoon; arid when we came back we found her in a very.lew way.. She had been reading her book of prescriptions which she has had for the last ten years bound up to. gether—and we rather dread her bring- ing it out, as she alvvaye fancies she is going to have the dasease prescribed for." "Humph!" "And, •after all, 'happiness ought not to make one selfish, ought it?"says Amelia, with a gentle sigh of abnegation, as she ruffles her pale -haired head against his coat sleeve. "I have so much of you now—oh, so, much 1—not- to hsperakholese" "Cecilia, of course, is incapacitated by grief?" interrupts Jim brusquely. "She will be gOing Up and down upon the mometains like, another fair one. But your father? He will be at home, will he noir "Yes, he will be at home," replies Amelia, slowly and doubtfully, as if not finding a very satisfactory solution in this suggested arrangement; "but, as you know, it never answers to leave- father and Sybilla alone together for king. You ace, • he does not believe there is anything the matter with her; he thinles that she is as well as You er I" (a gush of wenn feeling towards his father-in- law • rushes over • Jim'heart); "and though he tries to prevent himself. from showing it to her, 'yet I ain afraid, poor dear, that he is not very successful.' ' . Jim laughs. , "And to -day," continues Amelia, "he is naturally a good deal upset about Ce - 'cilia, and that wedding cake; it was very impertinent to send it, was not it, though • she does not seeth loll! it? I hope-- with a wistful smile, an a repetition of, the fond friction of her head against his sleeve—"that wbeee you throw . me oveg—" ' • This is a hyaothesis, suggested with PURE FOOD ,Ivolaorrk „ - Is an Absobee Necessity for the Preser Ittion .of Om. Well-being. • 'CEYLON GREEN TEA, a Poaltively Ail Pura Toe Without Any Adulteration Whatsoever' Load packet3 only, • 400, 590. anti 60a iier lb. • At all groocza, ++++++++++++++++++++++, be reliVied'and- tend to balance the rae 1 also make a good feed, but the less ex - tion. A little corn and oyes fed et times; "''' penside foods should be used if pos- I 011 e arrut t + 16 , siti;li.e fattening hogs should be led, lib- + ' ae erally on corn, roots, pumplcine, etc. + • + • + When feel on corn alone the ration, leo - t , - At ig, loo ,- ,qarbtanae,epus.. Thereeite.etaPaa ,-- 4--f++44+++A danger of Cholera and disease. , Correctivee in the way of charcoal, SILO ECOINOMY. ' • ashes,. salt and sulphur should be kept, in the feeding pens and yards, , - e Up to 1895 I had been ,feeding my • 'When engaged before killing, hogs' deiry herd clover and timothy hay, usually bring better prices than wheni stover, straw, etc., and pasturing dur- taken to market at the mercy of Inc ing summer with corn meal, wheat bran buyers. • i and middlings, 'oil meal, etc., and had The pens for the "store" hogs Should! found that the greater the eituaely of he put In order, cleaned, whitewashed! feeds employed the better, writes Mr. J. it necessary, where lice may be. i P, Gearhart. But about that time niy Spraying with kerosene emulaion willt attention was attracted to silage and ef- be found a sure way of ridding the pens', ter studying the question well, I built a • of all peels. • round end 1422 feet, located beside the The windows shollia be put in and! barn floor and 8 feet below the level rf pieces where drafts and cold wind can( this floor. It cost $42 and $40 for work get in should be repaired. •! and lumber' which I furreisliedo Sheeting with tarred paper and rought I 'have netter had any trouble keeping boards will be an inexpensive. way , of' Let ssiRlaoris, areoxucielpdtutheesidtreisflionigthaenriounnet making the pens habitable. • wall at the top and bottom. FroM this FABNI NOTES. experience, I suggest that the stone work be as little exposed internally as There are farmers' sons in towns and . possible; it is not as good as wood. f cities squeezing out a scaxity, unbalanc- ration os second-rate professionals, have_ made the farm peet usually feed 20 pounds to each cow, (Z.l, mording -and nigtftaewith hay et noon taaanheuuld and about 8 pounds bran and middlings large dividends. mixed half and half for cows in full No matter how many winters have, „ milk. , passed over one's head, nor h.ow many In contrasting,eilage with) other feeds of one's oldtime friends have passed. fifth more milk than dry feed, but will -touch- a tender spot has been made, it e away, nor how nomy ehenges thee I believe the former produces about one - not make any more butter, 'the inilk bee is best to keep One's . eyes to the front' ing thinner. Tito same result is notice- and WO uP with' the progress °I the world. able when pasture is compared with dry My experience in increasing my yield feed. The cattle are*, hoevever, kept in of wheat from six bushels per acre in nicer condition, their coins being softer 1899 to 30ea in 1001 has convinced mita and smoother and their `digestions bet- that for large cropsof -wheat the ground ter. I can save at least three cents a raust be, worked up thoroughly on top: day on each now fed silage'. like a garden seed bed and have a, solidi et The only difference in managing corn boitom, writes a correspondent. This,' fee silage and for grain is that the seed- with.a good.fertilizer, gives good results, ing is more liberal. The same kind of Almost without, exception late, plowing land is selccted; its preparation and man- brings poor crops' ofts wheat. agement the same. Barnyard manure' A study of the needs of soils in re-, is tpreferredi as a fertilizer, six tons to -spect to fertility shows that heavy sods the acre; a surface dressing of 25 bush- rotting in thc ground are the factor, his lump is also given. The variety a most to be desired. In various ways,' of corn. chosen is a large fodder variety they secure to the land the power to such as learning, which matures before produce well when cropped. lat, one frost. It is planted with a corn planter, matter is of greater importanae than; ten quarts to the acre. about alay 10. ireproyement in the growth of grass abet When the kernels reach the glazed. state • clover seede, and if the needed gain Ma the cutting begins. this direction were secured, our •agri•a Each of two men cuts two rows et a cultural prosperity would' be far greatead time and throws the stalks in small Much land is drawing cha6fly upon aes' armfuls. Two low down wagons with stock of available 'fertility that has beene accumulated for centuries, and much, other land has already' passed the point of profitable cropping. one team and two men do, the drawing. paiernia.mps unwise frequency by poor Mist, economy since it con be pusbed when th.ate 'team and eight men can harvest and Wilson which never fails to exasp store 20 tons a day if the haul is not , necessary; a smaller size cannot. One "If we are going to talk nonsense," he verv ion. Experience teaches me that deep, smalr • - • gesture. ii:1 bnilivasytuaselyw,elaingdo.i7ith no at - en • LIVE STOCK NOTES. tempt to return or reward her caresse mike up a pound of loss than it does, g silo.c are much better than large, steal- It takes longer and. costs more to: otoraabclied cflovneditpioonuzds of gain under fav -i 1 • There is such a thing as having thet hors d stalls too wide. This isaa temp 'Union to the horses to try to roll; tha means trouble. -Not more than four feet to the stall is a good rule. , ! It is acknoWledged among dairymera that a heifer's first milking aeriedi • largely determines her (tame capacity, .as a milker. If the first period be short,( she will have es•tehlished a tendency to, go dry earlier than if that period had been prolonged.' For this reason, in • young cow should be kept in milk ast tong as ,possible, .apeciel care should be used also. IA milking, as 'clean milk- ing stimulates' to, greater production, Clear cold sharpens the appetite el the horse as 'Well as that of man, andi oo after a long journey or a ,stiff spell' , of team work., the Mgt for load becomes . extremely keen, This very keenness Is sometimes productive of diedsirous re- sults. Corning in thus after a, long fast, 'Many horses eat somewhat ravenously, bolting their gra.intwithout proper mas- tication, so bringing on 'gripes or step- page. A good plan is 10 put a bite 4 long hay in the rack and let them begin oil that, finishing up with grain, when the keen endge of hunger has been, re- moved.. This is a wise policy' in every case, but very especially so with greedy feeders. • "Go to the Piazza d Azeglio, says sire low one. Bound silos are cheaper and coaxingly, her spirits raised by the more satisfactory than square ones, be- barshness of tone of his interruptioneof size. cause there is less wall space and upper that it owes its birth to the supposition her speech, and half persuading herself surface to the e..., being too painful to be faced by him. • Ile looks -at her strangely for a mo- BRISTLES. ment, then-4,ty • The sows should be bred early so that "Why do you wish me to go to the the pigs Win come in time to make he oaks, in a le tgood growth. vert , -only Whicn, of your brood sows farrowed constrained and od Why aee you a large litter last spring. She alwriys driving me there? has a big litter. Piazza d'Azeglio? that is no longer "Because 1 think you would like it," She is an 'old standby; she is the kind " she enswers; his hand that makes the pig business certttin; she "because—taking • and passing her, lips,'which he feele to is the hind that' pays ,her board. be trembling a little, very gently over the When you reelect- young eows for • back • of it—"bectiase alt through your - ',reeding purposes, pick out her pigs; life I want you to have exactly what you th,ere, is lots of "good lack"' fa doing like, always." • that port of thing. - . i 6 Ho draws his hand away; not Unkind- ' Exercise s neceasary for breeding ly; but, as la shocked at, the humility of stock, and they should be allowed to her action. s • run in the open fields' and lots until "That is so likely," Ile eays, mourn- the cold whet'''th .weather, ey can be . tuna. . (ro, be contin.ued). brought to the pens and allowed to run in roomy yards on fine days. • They should be largely fed on nitro- GI1131 JEST OF A DEAD MAN. and Wheat • bra and middlings, fed in. geneus, foods, stich,as promote growth There has just dieA at Miley, France, moderate quantities, together with skim' oi'i old gentleman of 72, Who during his and buttermilk, should be 'fed; and lifetime was potorious for his eccentric growth and frame rather than fat pro - and mieerly habits, though 'fib was induced, ala4r,000ge . nuHmis. • eteS.o,ilifeed eionrni-imstaitlekds, quraenottistiesip uwinl lPI nl also kl f8 ao la at tendnidnee°11 lbey °al Der, of reletivea, who were astoniehed _net,• to eliscover only a few coppers in ,the house after the funeral. • The, will was then opened, and it read as follows:, "My Dialia1te1ativesi--1 am afraid you are going be disappointed. 1 know that none of you have any sort of affection for me, and that if you come to my funeral It will be in the hope of dividing' up between you whatever I may leave behind Me. 1' now loforna you that 1 have left n� money whatever. 1 sank the witele of My fortune seam years ego in a life aniluity. All. the Money that reinained over and above . what I spool, of the annuity lave' given away or burned, in or er ',that you eliould not have it. I hope his will be a little surprise for you.' A search revealed, however, .$7,60 worth of annuity stock, the coupons of which appeared to have remained un- paid; but on going to the bank 10 have these Coupons cashed, the heirs dis- covered that the coupons had been paid, biit. o.), the special request of the old gentleman, who had given a sepao rate receipt for each coupon,, they had not been cancelled. "This is only a little surprise 1 .ani keeping back for my heirs," he said, It appears that on the oCCasion of thel annual village festival thia year the old gentlenian deliberately Vanua COMO worth of bank note, which he foLnd he had ben unable to lend« • Rapid changes of temperature are hard on the toughest constitution. The conductor passing from tle heated inside of a trolley car to the icy temperature of the platform—the canvasser aaedata""ta tan hour or so in a heated building and then • walking against a biting wind -know the difficulty of avoiding cold Scoit'a* Einal.sion, strengthens the body so that it 'fcan better withstand the danger of cold froth chetnges of temperature. It will hep you to avoid taking cold* •ALL DRUGGISTS: 800. MO $1.004 •11444401440404.044.00041. 4140