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A The courts have decided that refusing to 4.14-olevmPaPers oraertedicals front the mt. ale, or removing eel le vriaa• theataao,otal i•eprIrriafaolo evideace of lab:mob:le fetal AFTER MANY DAYS. CHAPTER M. Nearly a year had one since Cyprian Davenant turned his back upon British soil. It was the end of May, high season in London, and unusually brilliant weather. the West End streets and squares thronged with oarriages, and everywhere throughout that bright western world a delightfal flutter and buzz of life and gayety, as if the chil- dren of that pleasant region had in- deed in some manner secured an ex- emption from the cares and sorrows of meaner mortals, and were bent on mak- ing the most of their privileged exist- ence. A neatly appointed broashara wait- ed before the door of a house in Half - Moon Street, and. had been waiting there for some time. It was Mrs. Wal- sing,ham's brougham, and the lady her- self was slowly paoing to and. fro her little drawing -room, pausing every now and then to look out of the window and in a very unpleasant state of mind. She WEE elegantly dressed in her fav- orite toilet of India muslin and lace, and. was looking- very handsome, in spite of the cloud upon her smooth white brow, and. a certain ominous glitter in her blue eyes, "I suppose he IS not coming," she muttered. at last, tossing her white lace parasol upon the table with an angry gesture. "This will be the second dis- appointment in a week. But I shall not go to the concert, without him. What do I care for their tiresome eta* sical music, or to be stared at by a orowd of great ladies who don't choose to know me?" She rang the bell violently. but *be- fore it could be answered there name a thundering double knock at the door below, and a. minute afterward Gilbert Sinelair dashed into the room, beeriag in his hand a beautiful bouquet of the =rest and most fragrant flowers. " Late again, Gilbert," cried Mr. Wal- singham, reproachfully, her face bright- ening nevertheless at his coining; and she smiled at him with a pleased wel- coming smile as -they shook hands. "Ye, I know it's late for that cone founded concert. But I want you to let ID.5 off that infliction, Clara. That sort of thing is sueh a -consummate bore to a man who doean't know the dilference between Belfe and Beethova en, and you know I have a beep of en- gagements on my hands" Yoa have only eome to 'cry off. then ?" then said sirs. Walsingham, with a sudden contraction of her firm- ly molded lips. "My dear Clara, what a fiend you. caa look when you like! But 1 wouldn't cali- titate that kind of expression if I were yon. Of course 111 go to the con- cert with you, if you are bent upon it rather than run the risk of anything. in the way of a. scene. But you know very well that I don't care for music, and you ought to know—" He stopped, hesitating-, with a fore tive look in his red -brown eyes, and a nervous actiott of one big hand about his thick brown mustache. " I ought to know what, 'Mr. Sin- clair ? asked Clara al. aLsingham, with a sudden hardness of voice and mem. ner, " That it is good neither for your re- putation nor mine that we should be seen so often together at such places as this Portman Square concert. It is almost a private affair, you knowand everybody present will know all about us." " Indee'd and since when has Mr.Gil- bert Sinclair became so careful of his reputation—or of mine?" "Since you set your friends talking about our being engaged to be mar- ried, Mrs. 'Walsingham. You have rath- er too many feminine acquaintances with long tongues. I don't like being congratulate1 or chaffed—it comes to pretty much the same thing—upon an event which you. know can never hap- -Never is a long word, Gilbert. My husband may die, and leave me free to become your wife, if you should do me the honor to repeat the proposal which you made to me six years ago." I don't like waiting for dead men's shoes, Clara." answered Sinclair, in rather a sulky tone. "I made you that offer in all good faith, when I believ- ed you to be a widow, and when I was madly in love with you. But six years is a long, time, and—" He broke down again, and. stood be- fore her with his eyes fixed on the ground. " And men are fickle," she said, tak- ing up his unfinished sentence. "You have grown tired of me, Gilbert, is that what you meanl" "Not exaetly that, Clara, but rath- er tired of a position that keeps me a single man without a single man's lib- erty. You are quite as exacting as a wife, more jealous than a mistress, and I am getting. at an age now at which a man begins to feel a kind of yearning for something more like a home than chambers in the Albany, some one more like a wife than a lady who requires one to be perpetually play- ing the cavaliere servente." "Have 1 beer exacting, Gilbert. I, did not know that. I have tried my ut- termost to make my house agreeable to you. Believe me, I care less for gay- etythan you imagine. I should be sat- isifed with a very dull life if I saw you often. Oh, Gilbert, I think you. ought to know how well I love you 1" "1 could better have believed that six years ago, if you had consented to leave England with me, as I proposed when I founcl out the secret of Mr.Wal- singham's existence, and that the Yan- kee divorce was all bosh." " I loved you too well to sink as low as that, Gilbert." "I thought the strength of a, wo- man's love was best shown by her sac- rifice of self. You .preferred your re- putation to my happiness, and have kept me dangling on ever since, for the gra- tification of your vanity, I suppose. It would have been more generous to have dismissed me, and made an -end of the farce at once." " You were not so willing to be dis- missed until very lately, Gilbert. Why have you grown so tired of me all of a sudden?" "1 tell you again it is the position I am tired of, not you. If you were free to inarry it would be a different thing, of course. As it is, we are both wast- ing our Jives and getting ourselves talk- ed about into the bargain." Clara Walsinghttan laughed scornful- ly at this. - "I care very little that people say of me," she said. "English society has not ehosen to receive me very graciously, and I did not think sou would consider Tiounirseodlfwintolurzne.ame_bz baying your name you. see, Clara it does a, masa herrn to have it said he is engaged to a I w.m woman he never ean /31,FFS. .t b does hum some kind of barna ee,rtain air- , . i .,, "How vague you, are, Gilbert, and how mysterious! 'Some kind of harm in certain iroles.' What does that mean e She stood for a. minute looking at him. with a sudden intensity in her face. He kept his eyes on the ground daring that sharp scrutiny, but he was fully con - &dot's of it nevertheless. - "Gilbert Sinclair," she cried, after a long pause, "you are in love with some other woman ; you are going to jilt me." There was a suppressed agony in bar tone which both surprised. and alarm- ed the man to whom she spoke. Of late he aa.d doubted the sincerity of her at- tachznent to him, and had fostered that doubt, telling himself that it was his wealth she cared for. " Would it grieve you very much if I were to marry, Clara?" he asked. " Grieve me if you were to marry 1 It would be the end of my life. I would never forgive you. But you areplay- ing with me. You are only trying to frighten me." "You are frightening yourself," he answered. "I only put the question in a speoulative way. Let us drop the subject. If you want to go to the con- cert—" "I don't want too; I am not fit to go anywhere. Wilt you ring that bell., please t I shall send. the broug- ham back to the stable." "Won't you drive in the park this fiue, afternoon ?" "No; I am fit for nothing now," A raaid-servata came in answer to the bell. . can take my bonnet, Jams," said Mrs. Walsingham, removing that floral structure, "and tell Johnson I shall not want the brougham to -day. You'll stop to dinner, won't you. Gil- bert?" she went on when the maid had retired. "Mr. Wyatt is to be here,and Sophy Morton." "How fond you are of those actor people! So ,Tim. Wyatt is coming, is he? I rather want to se,e him. But I have other engagements this afternoon, and I really don't thinkl can stay." " Oh yes, you can. 'Gilbert. I shall think I bad.just grounds for suspicion if you are so eager to run away." "Very well, Claret if you make a point of it, I will stop," Mr. Sinclair threw himself into one of the low luxurious chairs with an air of resignation scarcely complimentary to his hostess. Time was when this woman had exercised a profound pow- er over him, when he had. been indeed eeger, to make her his wife; but that time was past and gone. He was tired of an &Malice which demanded from him so much more than it was in his selfish nature to give; and he was in- clined to be angry with hiro-self for hav- ing wasted so much of his life upon an infatuation which he now accounted the one su.pretne mistake of his career. Be- fore his charmed eyes there had ap- peared, a vision of womanly loveliness coinpared with which Clara Walsing- ham's beauty scented. of the earth earthy, Ile could. not deny that she was beautiful, but in that other girlish face there was a magic which he had. never before encountered, a glamor that enthralled his narrow soul. The interval before dinner dragged wearily, in spite of Mrs. Walsingham's efforts to sustain a pleasant converse - tion about trifles. Gilbert was not to be beguiled into animated discussion up- on any subject. whatever. It seemed as if the two were treading cautiously up- on the very verge of some converse, tional abyss, some dangerous chasm, into whose deadly deapths they might plunge.ngaye. moment descend with a sudden Mrs. Walsingham questioned. her companion about his plans for the end. of the season. "Shall you go to Norway for the sal- mon fishing ?" she Asked. I think not. 1 a.m tired of that part of the world." "Then I suppose you will amuse your- self with the grouse in Scotland?" "No, I have Just declinetl a share in a moor. I an heartily sick of grouse shooting. I have really no settled plans as yet. I shall contrive to get rid of the autumn somehow, no deubt." The conversation dwadled on in this languid manner for a couple of hours, and then Mr. Sinclair went away to change his dress for the regulation din- ner eostume. The smile which Mrs. Walsingham's face had woro while she talked to hira faded the moment he had left her, and she began to pace the room with rapid steps and a darkly clouded brow. "Yes, there is no doubt of it," she muttered. to herself, with suppressed passion. I have seen the change in him for the last twelve months. There is some one else. How should I lose him if it were not so? Heaven knows what pains I have taken to retain my hold upon him! There is .some one else. He is afraid to tell me the truth He is wise in that respect. Who can the woman be for whore. I am to be for- saken? He knows so many people, and visits so much, and is everywhere court- ed and flattered on account of his money. Oh, Gilbert, fool, fool! 6Will any woman ever love you as I have lov- ed you, for your own sake, without a thought of your fortune, with a blind idolatry of your very faults? What is it that I love in him, I wonder? I know that he is not a good man. I have seen his heartlessness too often of late not to know that he is hard. and cruel and remorseless toward those who come between him and his iron will. But I too could be hard and remorse- less if a great wrong were cl5ne me. Yes, even to him. Lethim take care how he provokes a passionate, reckless nature like mine. Let him beware of playing with fire." This was the grist of her thoughts during a gloomy reverie that lasted more than an hour. At the end of that time Miss lYferton was announced, and came fluttering into the room resplend- ent in a brilliant costume of rose-col- ored silk and black lace, followed short- ly by James Wyatt, the lawyer, courte- ous and debonair, full of small -talk and fashionable scandal. Gilbert Sinclair Was the la,st to enter. The dinner was elegantly served in a pretty little dining -room, hung with pale green draperies and adorned with a few clever water -color pictures, a room in which there was a delightful air of coolness and repose. The fold- ing -doors between the two rooms on the ground -floor had been removed, and the back -room was covered with a cool Indian matting, and -converted into a kind of conservatory for large ferns and. orange -trees, the dark foliage whereof made an agreeable' back- ground to the fresh brightness ofthe pollard' oak furniture in the dining - room. There was no profuse show of plate upon the round table, but the wine flasks and tall-stemtned glasses were old Venetian of the costliest kind ' and the dessert service was Wedgwood. Mr. Wyatt was invaluable in the task of sustaining the conversation, and Clara Walsingham seconded him ad- mirably, though there was a sharp anguish at her heart that was now al- most a habitual pain, an agony prophe- tic of a etnnuag blow. Gilbert sinelair was a little brighter than he had, been in the afternoon, and con- tributed his share to the talk with a decent grace, only once or twice be- traying absence of mind by a random answer and a wandering look in his big orown eyes. James Wyatt and Mrs. Walsingham had been running through a catalogue of the. changes ot fortune, for good or evil, that bad befallen their common acquaintances, when Gilbert broke in upon their talk suddenly with the ques- (iota "What has become of that fellow who dined with us at Richmond last yeas? Sir Cyprian something," "Sir Cyprian Davenant," says James Wyatt. "He is still in Africa." "In Africa! Alt, yes, to be Sliree I remember hearing that he was going to join Haxeourta expedition. I was not much impressed by him, though I had heard hiru talked about as sorae- thing out of this COMM011 War. He had. precious little to say for hunself." "You saw him at a disadvantage that day. He was out of spirits at leaving England," "'Very likely, but Iliad met him in society very often before. He's rather o handsome fellow, no doubt; but I certainly couldn't discover any special merit ia him beyond his good looks. He's a near neighbor of the Clanyardes, by the way, when he's at home, is he "When he's at home, yes," answered. the solicitor. "But I doubt of ever he'll go home again." "You mean that he'll celiac by ais death an Africa. I suppose?" "I sincerely hope not. for Cyprian Davenant Is one of my oldest fruanas. No: I mean that he's not very likely to see the inside of his ancestral halls any more. The place is to be sold. this year." "The baronet is quite cleared, out, then ?" "He has about four hundred a year that he inherited from his mother, so tightly tied. up that he has not been able to make away with it." "What Clanyardes are those?" asked Mrs. Walsingham. "Viscount Clanyasde and his family. They have a place called Marchbrook, and a very poor place it is, withina mile or two of Davenant, The old vis- count is as poor as Job." "Indeed! But his youngest daughter will make a, great match, no doubt, and. redeem the fortunes of the house. I saw her at the opera the other night, She was pointed out to me as the love- liest girl ut London, and I really think she has a right to be called. so. What do you think of her, Gilbert ?" She fixed her eyes upon Sinclair with a sudden, scrutiny that took him off his guard. A dusky flash came over his face, and he hesitated awkwardly before replying to laer very simple ques- time Clara. "Walsinghara's heart gave a throb. "That is the woman," she said to her- self. "Miss Clanyarde is very handsome." stammered Gilbert; "at least I believe that is the general opinion about her. She has been intimate with your friend Davenant ever since she was a child, hasn't she, Wyatt 8" he asked, with an indifference of tone which one listener knew to be assumed. "Yes, I have heard. him say as much," the other answered, with an air of re- serve which implied the possession of more knowledge upon this point than he cared. to impa.rt. "Those aequatntance.s of the nursery are apt to end in something more than friendship," said Mrs. Walsinghatn. "Is there any engagement between Sir Cyprian and. Miss Clanyarde?" "Decidedly not." Gilbert Sinclair burst into a. harsh laugh. "Not very likely," he exclaimed. "I should like to see old Clanyarde's face if his daughter talked of marrying a gentlemanly pauper. ' "That is the woman he loves," Mrs. Walsingham repeated to herself. No more was said about Sir Cyprian or the Clanyardes. The conversation drifted into other channels, and the evening wore itself away more or less pleasantly, with the assistance of music by and by in the drawing -room,. where there were a few agreeable droppers - in. Mrs. Walsingham played bril- liantly, and. possessed a fine mezzo-so- prano voice, that had. been cultivated to an extreme degree. There were those who said she had been an opera singer before her marriage with that notorious roue and reprobate, Clarence Vernon Walsingham. But this was not true. Clara Walsingham's musital powers had never been exercised professionally. She had a real love for musio for its own sake, and found a consolation for many desolate hours in the companion- ship of her piano. (To Be Continued.) HARMONIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS. Black combines well with almost all colors, except those which are so lack- ing in brightness as to be too nearly like it. Black and pale pink, blue,yel- low, green, red, lavender and even ra- then dark shades of blue, clear brown and green are excellent combinations. Brown combines well with yellow,gold and bronze if it is the shade of brown which has brightness. It is effective al- so with black and with certain tones of green. A chocolate -and -milk brown com- bines well with old rose and the dull shades of pink. Very dark green is effective when brightenecl by linings of narrow trim- ming of pale blue. A medium shade of green unites well with old pink. Brown- ish greens look well with bronze and copper color. Dark blue may be brightened by lines of bright, rich red, by lines of old rose or of clear yellow. Blue of the "elec- tric" and "cadet" varieties is best com- bined with black or with figured silks io which tbe same shade predominates. DELICATE STATIONERY. . Correspondence cards are entirely out of favor. Their place is taken by sheets of paper about five inches long, torn from a pad. Every sheet is stamped either, with the owner's monogram itt. the centre of the top or her address in the left hand corner. Blue bond paper 18 partioularly fashionable. The very delicate shades of ,heliotrope and gray, so faint as to be almost uncertain, are also in favor. They come more fre- quently in the smooth linen than in the bond. The monogram or the address in silver, gold or bronze is the only adorn- ment permitted at present on "eorreet" paper. A light wife (loth make a heavy hus- band.—Shakspeare. The oWner of an ostrich farm at Ana* heim, Cal., is trying to break ostriehi- es to drive in single, double and tans - dem barna*. ROUND 111 111101111101110. WHAT IS 001NO ON IN THE 'POOR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. OldiacinedaNsewri:Voyo_riclinEtevreenstte4noi gf tiserprpeeenthroninCgso; R.Ce:ttipatte' A. tree on Mount Etna, has a circumference of 100 feet, and is over 2,000 years old, Queen Bainov,alona, of Sradage.scar, signed the treaty conveying the island to France with a *teal pea made in Birmingham. Gen. Duclieisne, Who com- manded the French expedition, now has the pealand holder. An evidence of the striking'uniform- ity of size among the Japanese is found in the fact that recent measurements no ko evaa.roiaftrounsinefxanceetrdyinrgegtinewoenitneehhmoweind height or twenty pounds, in weight. The botanic) garden of the Jeadin des Plantes includits. about seventy acres. The plants are all labelled, with red labels, medicinal, green for alimen- tary, yellow for ornamental purposes, blue for art,, and black for poisonous plants. We hear frequently alxmt China eggs. but the China hen 13 not as widely known. It teems that the lien in China is kept constantly busy. When not engaged la hatohing .her own brood. she is compelled to hatch fish eggs. Horse-shoers in Saxony are compelled to pass a public, examination ere they are permitted to work at the business. They must understand the ewe and treatment of horses or they will not be licensed to shoe the animals. More than 01t000 persons paid a shil- ling apiece at Glasgow lately to pee Scotland beat England for the football ohampionship. This is a record for at- tendance, the previous record being 45.- 000 at the same grounds two years ago, There are now three reigning mon- arehs who are entitled to ride at the head of English cavalry regiments—the Czar, who as 01°ne1-to-chief ciS the Scots Greys; Emperor William, whose regiment is the First Royal Dragoons; and the Emperor of A.ustria. The most expensive parliament in Europe is that of France. The two ahem - bets cost the nation $14500,000 annual- ly. Spain spends$490,000 on her repre- sentation, Italy $420,000. England $320,- (g)0, Belgium $190,000, Portugal 0150;- 1100, Germany $95,000, The French Government has sent the Cross of the Legion of Honour to the Mother Superior at the Navel Hospi- tal of Toulon, Augusta, Praneoise Marie Madeleine Paillot, The distinction is conferred for services rendered during the oholera visitations of 18650 1884 and 1885. Burine,se humanity to animals goes SO far DS to provide buffaloes kept in stables with mosquito netting. The mos- quitos are as annoying to cattle as to human beings, but when left out of doors the buffalo oan protect himself by rolling in tile mud and letting it oake upon him. M. Piet de la Fauderie, a well known French stamp collector bas jest sold two Mauritius stamps of the "post - office," variety for the sum of 38,000 francs to Mr. Morse; the well Imown English electrician, who, between his hours of scientific labq4 is a ?stamp oollector. The day after the purohase of these two stamps Mr. Meese was of- fered 44,000 bream for them. Belfore, the eastern gate of France, and Ram.bervillers, in the Vosges moan- tainse has just received the e,ross of the Legion of Hem:nits which will be em- blazoned on the two arms in honor of the gallant resistance they matte to the Germans twenty-five years ago. Alto- gether nine towns in France now have the cross of the Legion of Honour on their coats of arms. lVfarienwerd,er, in Prussia, has dealt severely with its Tamsen. The warden of the prison celebrated, a priisonera birthday by throwing open I he oelLs and. treating the prisoners to beer and. to- bacco. At the trial the prisoners were acquitted, as they had only obeyed the warden's orders, but the warden was sente,nced to two years and a half in jail for relaxing discipline, The late Duke of Devonshire's re- nowned herd of Shorthorns at Ilolker Ball, Lancashire, England, will be dis- persed in Augost next.; It contains about fifty animals of the very best lines of the famous Bates blood. The Holker hexd„ whieh is probably the fin- est in the worlde how belongs to Mr. Viotor Cavendish, to whom it was left by the tfukta, his grandfather. There bave belen only six sales at Holker in the course of forty years, and .they realized. about £64000. A belated romance has just come to an end in Paris. A girl oir seventeen wrote a love letter directed to who- ever ah,ould4 find RS pot it in a blue satin bag. and shut, it in the secret drawer of a writing desk. The writing desk was bought at an auction by a colonel on the retired list, who found the letter and spent some time in hunt- ing up the writer. He fou.nd at last, that she was a Grey sister, and. was now over seventy yearts of age, .but in- duced her to leave the order and marry him. Here is a new story about Mr. Glad- stone: A young and absolutely unknown man was 'studying in the British IVIlus- emu with a view to publishing a book on Homer. Time after time he went there and found that the very work he most wanted for reference was be- ing used by Mr. Gladstone. But one day he succeeded in getting it, before Mr. Gladstone arrived. When the right h.onorable gentleman heard who had the book he made inquiries concerning .hine, and finally sent for hint to a pm:trate room. They were, of (course, • total strangers, but nevertheless Mr. Glad- stone sat down and talked to th,e young man for an hour or more, giving hire great help and many invaluable hints. The young mensaid that Mr. Glad- stone talked. as if he had been study- ing nothing bat Homer all his life. When Baby wai sick, we gave her Cesare& When she was &Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castorie. When she had Children, shesevetbein Oastoris SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES. Wife (time midnight) ---Pretty time of night for you to °ohm home—and in such a condition too. Husband—lVf'dee,r, it's (hie) only fright. I ethopped in at zee michroscho- pie slaty rooms and ati'deara I looked at shortie water in michrosehope, ini'dear— zhe -water We drink, nil:clear; ,and, sure zi live, mi'dear, I ehati; it 1 ull of snakes. lVfershy 00 me! Zhe 'ern yet. Children Cry for Pitcher's' Cagorio , THE ANT IN SURGERY. in some countries it 14 itt. Iid 10 Surgi rat Cues. ' Evidently enough it seems odd to re- gard the ant as an aid to the surgeon, but the insect is not only an aid, but a writer in London Public Opinion says that in ecoale countries it 13 considered of such value ixt certain -branches of surgery as to be invaluable to the roan wtio wields the knife. It is not our modern fin-desiecle surgeons who call upon the ant for assistance. Our sur- geons have slot got far beyond that point. They would regard the ant as the carrier of disease germs andoa pos- sible distributor of contagion. If we could have a special breed of steriliz- ed ants it is possible, but not probables that our surgeons naight' make use of them. In the Levant., however, the Greek surgeons, who are barbers as well, employ the ant. The ant they Use in their surgical operations is a. big, strong fellow, nanch larger and stronger than the ants we are accus- tomed to seeing here. They have par- ticularly large and strong mandibles, which make them of value to the sur- geons, wito use them ha bolding togeth- er Ibe Sid.03 a an incised wound. The Levantine surgeon never goes out Lo attend an ordinary ease without hav- ing, a few ants tucked away snugly in some safe plate about his person. He produces his knife and his ants at the same time, and the patient regard the knife with horror and the ants with satisfaction. Having made the outihe surgeon ttext selects an ant from his collection. These Ants are vicious fel- lows and are fierce fighters among their kind. For that reason the sur- geon handles theni with a pair of for- ceps. When the forceps close over the an he basins to struggle at once. As he fights with his mandibles they are thrown wide open. The ant will close them on the first object with whioh he comes itt contact. With his disengag- ed hand the surgeon draws the edges of the wound together. Wben they have been, properly Arranged he places the ant near the out. The ant, eager for fight, is ready to seize 'anything. The surgeon holds it down close to the edges of tbe wound. and the powerful mandibles grip it on either side. The surgeon holds the ant thus for a cou- ple of minutes, while the insect, hay- ing at last found something upon which to vent his anger, gets a firmer grip. When it has secured a asood, strong hold, it gives up its life for science, because the surgeon very promptly cuts off its head. When the head of the ant is removed, the mandibles do not relax the grip they secured in the edges of the wound before death, Wouude SO treated heal rapidly and without furth- er difficulty to eithe,r patient, or sur- geon. NEWFOUNDLAND BANKS, Biktak Up a Cold in Tiple ISY USING PYNY- PECTORAL The a idok Cure for 00170Mill. COLDS, CROCP, BISON. CHITIS, HOABSENESS, etc. Mac, Joseett leoewice, of 68 Sorauren Ave., Toronto, writes: "erapreeterei hes never bited to cue my children ofmnup silepr dose& n cured myself ofa longetan cough after moral other remedies ha ailed. 0 bee shsnsoves! an excellent coup; our. for my funny. 1 prefer 0 to en,' onitr Inecholne for coughs, croup or hoarsanesa 11. 0. Bensons, of Little Rocher, NB., writes: "As a cure for oeughe PraY•Fecieral the best aHling nieniolco F lava my 058, Somers win lave no other.' Large Bottle, 25 Chu • DAVIS & LAWRENCE CO., LTD. Proprietors, Melange& 4140114.00.140.001.4.4 A New Bank, About Forty Square Miles In Area, Dieeevered. A discovery concerning the config- uration of the great Bank of Newfound-. land. and navigation across it has been made by Capt. W. T. Main of the Allan line steamer Careen. Foil all vessels trading to Canadian or Newfoundland ports, it is most important to have cor- rent soundings of the banks. But Capt. Main has shown that these banks are continually shifting, and that the lat- est charts, made in 1895, are now quite unreliable. This is caused by the ac- cum.ula.tion of debris ba some places mid the ever -ploughing action of large ice- bergs, which materially increases the depth in others. In working at the correction of the existing charts, Capt. Main has discovered a new bank, the depths oft which are charaeteristie enough to be of service in approaching the pert of Et. Jahn's. Having mode a report to the Admir- alty to this effect, Commodore Curzon Howe in H. M. S. Cleopatra, was de- spatched to survey it and has confirm- ed Capt. Main's report. The bank is eight miles long from north to south, and Ave miles broad from east to west, with depths of froni fifty-five to seventy-seven fathoms. The middle of the western edge of the bank lies twenty-one mites due east of Fort Amherst, at the entrance of St. John's harbor. The soundings to eastward and also to westward ot the bank, close up to the shore, range from eighty to ninety fathoms. By steering a course so as to cross this bank from the west- ward, a comparatively ice free track is obtained, as most of the bergs carried by the A.rilic_.,urrent sweep around the Bank, according to Capt. Main, extends upon its northern edge. The Great long. 47 deg. 30 min. to 57 deg. 30 min. W. with depths varying from three to northeast of Lhe Great Bank or stra.nd from lat. 43 deg. to 49 deg. N., and from 100' fathoms, and a bottom composed principally of sand and shells. VALUE OF DAIRY TESTS. No one can doubt; says the Mark Lane Express, that there are affluent milk yielding cows, which are not remuner- ative butter making cows, and that every dairy farmer should ascertaia whether the individual animals in his herd are adapted for the purposes to which his milk is applied.. Very few do this, and great losses are occasioned in consequence. The fact has been shown over and over again that unless separate yieldings of each cow be weigh- ed after milking, periodically, the owner would be ignorant of the animal's per- formance -s, or whether her yield as up to the standard requisite to give profit or not. Keeping each cow's milk separat6 for butter making would be tiresome. As there are chemical tests and instruments for ascertaining the composition of milk, it is far easier to resort to them than to adopt the other alternative. In the generality of cases however, nothing of the kind is ever at- tempted., and the dairy farmer remains totally unaware of what ought to be his greatest concern—the individual capabilities of each cow he ovens to do what he expects of her.. Hence the util- ity of butter tests and milking trials to show how very varied are the yield- ings of cowe, both in milk and butter, and how much better certain varieties are for butter making than others. ITS REASON FOR BEING. I anu told, the young man said, that you, belong to a club of girls who have taken a vow never to marry. Oh. yes, . she answered1 joined that 'last summer. How did it happen to be to ganieed ? Why, you see, we were at a, stupid summer resort. There Were no men 'there, and ere got so lonesome thta we just had to do seznething to kill time. Sick Ifeadsolie and relieve all the troublee int+ dent to a bilious state of tits system, such 11 Plaines% Nawies, Drowsiness. 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