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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1900-11-29, Page 2DOES PA:N-*TJU THEESI STABLE 1-1.WTS nolonl, xvblaska. 1Vritee nis Experience. It baS been taught that an aPPiica- Von of oil paint to the bark on the trunk of a fruit tree will injure the 1,lees and finally cause its aeath. Until recently we Itave never eeen thin questioeed. Robert W. Ferr.as, Of Ine- braska„ an entbuelastie frt grower' of reliance, writes to the Country . sleatleman as follows: Spree twelve or tourteen years •siege ts entrawee apple trees iu my eery rows badly. To induce rapld and 4ound healing. I had painted with voinnica lead aud on paint all the trees where injured. Te result was to my perfect eettsfacVou, The wounds were not only patatect oyez bias to prevent further rabbit depre- natione tre bodies of teeee were Paint- ed from the ground two feet up. Twe yeare afterward my son called att. on to the euperioeity of the treee pateted over these etaraltng side by side not palatel. They were more • vegorons ad showed 4 better growth, ' Sinee tben 1 Itave painted all my, youeg orebarti treat, foe two purpcsee —to prevent rabbie injury, and to ;! etimetette the tree. Rabbtts will uot tel:C4 peleted tree. and I are tem - %deceit that. treee ere etiondatee In =coin aed health. De itot itedere , steed till -et I paint the tree toty with a beery crtat of e' WoL, • moriteettely stigbt coating, etto tele therele to cover the bare FQr reeny yeeres wben preuing treeea, tfruit, lawa etreet. I have paxaca Iteavily at thoretag4he OvQr tite twentede of all Hellas. large or small. :with ordiaary cheap lead end ott eve toured notioug to preduce such =pia ud eatisfactory beeliug where cut. I can ehow where eat; limbe four tnehee in diameter the-- 1_ at co • have beahta ever eutirele to engOt ;twee. , formerly need, to paint tree Melinda, gum ebeltac dissolved In Tbat at - t8 too exeeresive, teed alma not eeve the purpoeo detire& et traelee auct fails off. leaatag ty tiler& De got fear to ;lee oit petet tee Q. dree4. Tata cooties to rave, Egg. The rentarteelde etory tol tee Here are some "stable bras" th i ere good enough to be efrered to aors Veneers_ generally: Give your stable 4 thorough dean- eng occasionally. It wili more than zepey you, la way et appearence, and. ,T beenaelal in a, sanitary way. Give your stable plenty of air and Oahe Always water Your horses before feeding. You can teacb, luta to drink then by not oftering water after feede tug, thereby avoidueg Possible cell Don't water or feed wleen hot. Give your horse graba ia 4 Ja.rg eurfaeed feed box, or ese en ircu or - with an irregular eurface (half ball) nu:aided to; he will not All hie mout et) fell. chewing his food better. Feed vour horee ae near the gegen tes poesible; witem eating low down more s.aliva, becomes mixed wItle :toed, aidleg digestion. Have your stable stalls ag nearay on, a level aa possible. tee a 'title Itme occasioually 2a your stalls and bare yard. Lime is w great puxider. Don't speak to your horse tweeter Mate Iola would to your eweetheara an &net allear prefouity iteed around Inue—a !write with braine eate't liko to be talked to like a pr.ae fighter. Have regular hours for feeding Itersa aad give hint suffeeteat time te Don't strike your bore with a tor4 !Muffle or strike h' • , it be ueede puntelibag use a smatt whip—everyday clubbing or e.trIltaeg does no eocel. Matte blue reepett You and the whip, aua have hien fear teething else. 'the your horse Wildly, but do not pee aim—it meltes bira too familiar. ret horses are like pet peeple—ner good Feed your horse den heed; if Yeur oats are duty clean them, and don't feed hay full et duet or Ora Don't tie your holes too low dowu or too Jong. just so he eau have the use of hls head to lie (Iowa Change your hoe's reed emcee -ca- tty; it will melte hint feei gaol. elate in bre% rotate. ete. (small quantit tea f roots tret until accestemee :o hem). How weal $V11 Sake tO T. Ay in mid day out on one .ktuelt 0 SANDY SOIL HAN Dal G MANUR WATERCRESS GROWINOt t rermeetatIou IVecesslxv 'In (-irsker to I 4.1Preatable 1Seeinees. for WO onenWhp j. IS' La T a Gooti, Farmer Required to Atake Sne., lender the t.htutl,',0013, tv-tilkOale• cosAto Otlativnting Crotut, The failure or success of the yowl a sueeess in celtivating eroPs oa 'mad riot]. The raanure applied usuaji produces quick effects, but the fern' ity to be restored befote it nen Pro dime another. Much of its nalnera fertility is leached down into tee her pee of the subsoil, and it is this , eral plant food, witch bee teethed iuto o hite clay. rather than. the clay Itself, that realms its value as 4 fertilizer e wbeu brooglat to the surface. let e e.ome places. blue clay is famed under a sandy soil. This is a favorable int li clication, ter this blue clay tletialli conta:es phosphate of lime that when, 4 mixed with the sand makes a soit in which almost anything eels be grcrete., O Where the subsoil is itself sandy it needs to be seeded with clover ift or- der to supply the soil with yegeta.ble I Matter, withelit which the sand wattle Iquickly become a barl'en waste, All plants of the melon family do l well on sandy soil, but it is not aelapte 1 ea to growing grain crops. ^ merit i when the seeding ot grass or 0:01ter • runs out. and it beeteges necessary to sow grain. to renew the eeeding. Yet t wlaen the sett was newly cleared of its ' thin forests there wes a streak of 4 vegetable humus ou the eurfeee teat •.. would briug a clover seedluen, By plowing Mader clover eaeh alteruato I, beeding again. good wheat crops ettaad year, aud eetviug 'wheat with a clever be grownefor a few years. But after a ! while the small amouut of peteeplaate ! in the sandy eat' would become ex - I Delisted and then even wh t bl reauure Was applied the sandy lead 1 would produce enly A rank growth or ' straw, -which meted. and the healti would not yield any grain. It was on sandy soil that the grain Arst faitel in the locality in eastern New Yet* where our first fermata experience was gained. Moat of our own fetrn 'MS a heavy clay. and after a few years* cultivation became very wete 1 The ?Peaty S011, because easily worked, • was te tile early eettlement thought MeV, valuable. It mai be more easily cleared of forest, but this Was more thee offset by the greater (humanity of fertility lu the clay land amt. Its ramie greater productivenees after it had beet: vaderdrained. A. great deal ot seedy land is set wIth peach trees wherever tilts fora sueceeds. It ueeds extra supply 01 Phosphate mut Petaell on such land to grow the peach. and it neede some kind of erode mature to keep til2lo minerals in available contlitiore Straivberrles and all small fruits t de be grown succeeefully on sandy soli, protracted it is well supplied with mitt- eral fertilizere. Tbey can usually bo ripened earlier on sand than on heavy WI. This is not so great an advan- tage as it used to be before the early market for small Orals was suPPIte4 from the South, nn a before the ,bulle of emir vegetables for city 731111LE0 . grOWA ia greets., ousere. I ticek it is settle a beyeed quettloa h ▪ that the greatest benefit is derived e from maeure when it is put, on the d land soon, after it le Made, For a long time I would not be convinced of it. ; It seemed, to me that termentatiele Was neeesSary in order to render the '1 Plant foed available, and if it had to teem piece in the soil it would ef nee, essity be slow; but la YieW Qf the re - suite obtained by experimeete ana the experience of othere. I Can no longer OA -not, but I still questien whetber it is fete best method to pursue all placeet med. eseatially in Nova Scotia, Our ...autl is hilly and our spring ie wet, and le. am afraid 4 great part ot the mantere would be Ion, by weehing before the ground was thawed. enough be retail% it- My own practice I t 11 e 11, using plegty of Jitter in the ;stablest and spreading tee horse manure in ' the gittters back of the cattle. Ity mean.% the limed maieure ait caved, and the horee aad cattle mae nitres are lotimatety mixed. As the etahlee are Cleaned every day the ma- nure is added to a large, deep, square pile in tbe yard, ancl its own weight preseee it very firmly. I doa't ikO the plan of epreading It out in thin, flat piles, ea it, preeeets too much mere face to the weather, awl is uuable E9 absorb all the moisture whiehlalia upou it. Dining the winter and eerty epring thie mature is hauled to the frAealts uetiledggiattinis pusDtrieu4d I3aur5gte before cultivation. begins. A large cart of my E manure is made iu box stalls where at ts necessary to u.se pletety of litter in order to keel) the cattle clean. And Cate tuagure ie heuted directly teem the eteblee to the pile lu the field. have always been taught that it 10 good practice to keep the raauure as haa the surface as possible, but on, accotuat of the quantity cif long straw, have to hl0W it down; while for root crops it ie spread, lu the Dotterel at the drill, No doubt I lose eomethiug my way ot hatulliog Manure, but I do not think tt much, I do not see much signs of aeatinge our do the piles shrink much in eize. The street es =newt:at brotteu up, but not much. elecayed, while the manure locate tresb, and is full of mOisture. The greatest faellt I can And with this way of 1m:id- ling manure le that It is laborious., and the spreadlug leas to be ;lane at a One wben time and labor are mime e'aluable,--John. Gregory., ••••••••••••••••••••••••••9••••••••••••• Jewett' E. Feoueesy. efir.riaaa =teal reauager. wile has potetrY dam at Culherteont ittrat he oeue.; a Iteu that !aye two eggs to eree every ; Itiete-.-91ta egg tnsWe L111,;,' Otber, -itfe is au large as tatkey or 1* geette egg. and the aim 'one le ot the ti141101 CiaOlIQU egg slee, itosa taw ) eeeld Doiet _entity veld, storse to seam; to Umtata. wet place& This le went auteos thrush, end. the 3Xt.00LI4O era- ag emit plaeta affecte the ee te., and vorehts to eoutect with the arriage and harueee destroys var. telt wed weakene leather. Eeep your home feeltug goal ter roper food and care and he wilt m re an repay you for the little tetra ome ou give him. Itteep your horse well groomed, us a well -kept animal not may ktppeara bet- ter but keeps eatiler and Acts better (like 8. man atter a bath) than one neglected. Iheep a tittle oat where your Auttie an get it at his pleasure, not throws g in his feed. 110W do you like • food over ealted? cep your horse's melte and tat Cleaned and wash los tail and dock occasionally in a pail ot k•rs It will greatly stimulate it woe toe.; 4" a flowing tail, e. hefla ani both are perfect tie re - yolk and white. Tile hen e 'en laying these fresh eggs for ix eeks,, at the rate of three a weve. r. Pei:messy will place a ourriber ahem in an incubator and expect twln,eltiente wilt be hatched OM 1 each egg. The hen le a prize -Win. fowl, Is true to blood and Points, In every way seemingly as healthy a - gay other hen. How many liens in Flock, There has always been much Cetus-. slim in regard to the number of :.ens that may be kept in a flock and s i11 lave them do their best, Of ttou numb depeiads upon the limits of tee range given them and the size of t .e buildings. Sometime ago I stert-d out to observe the degree of SUCOtSS attained by my neigbhors who ke poultry and I almost invariably found that those matrone who sold the m poultry and eggs and in every w .y Seemed tO be the most succe.j Wee those who kept from 1CO to 150 bent. A flock of this size would lay eeeuga eggs and produce enough sun 1.1s stock to make its owner take a Pude and have a lively interest In its wel- fare. Such a tack where well Mean care of will bring in nearly or quite a100 per year and that is a sum for ;which most farm wives win do con- siderable -work to obtaen. Of course this is not expected to apply to tho. e yards that are run for the production of fine stock, but as regards to tile general farm flock where it is not yarded but allowed the free range ol the farm: In keeping a flock of this size one cot afford to spend some time each day to feed and water, as it takes no mare time to feed 100 than to care for 20, But in rapst cases where parties, elated by success with this number, attempted to enter a larger field and built extensive houses and enlarged their flocks, disaster seemed to come, disease quickly made appearance and Ilaying qualities qecreased. reeteic-Knet. Black -knot 4s a fungous disease af- fecting the 1;i1um, cherry and kindred tree fruits,. The damson among plums, and the Morello class among cherries are the most susceptible. Beginning with the growing seasoe the t knots develop rapidly. • Thee shoula be cut off as soon as seen and burned at once. The badly infected branches should be mittoff below point of infection and burned, not reft tin- der the tree, nor piled in heaps and left in the orchard. Shored any remain after the leaves ho.ve fallen they should be cut off and burped, and baelltr affected branches also, not later than February. 15, ae the 6eoren or seeesi are then ripet Dairy Butter -fat pereentagt ie no mere e. ed or decreased by this, taa.t er da , other feed. Tile peateutage heetcs to be as much a. fixed thing as Is tee number of legs, or ears, or eyes, or bones itt the COW% body. Dairem. may safely recognize this truth aud net upon it with confidente in tue making up of rations for their cows. In building up a dairy herd the dairyman must work on the indivieuel cow with feede and tes.s. Pedigree will not insure milk -flow or butte - fat. Blood ten1 not insure vigor. i...v- ary blooded and pedigreed cow seoeta be tested just as thoroegety as tee grade caw or the promising; strub. The cheap cows of the greet streite are generally not valuable ea re cevet, for they are generally (Meet> ..e.itU..4 they lack the chief charactetatece tee their strain, the quantity met quebey of milk, the ease of keepleg, the good make-up in general. ehe ebserveet dairyman will And some eo-called Jersey or Holstein -Friesian ar Ayr- shire or other herds that are very in- ferior herds in every ea:sweet-1, bee ust made up of the cheapest and poo.est cows that are entitled to bear one or another of the great strain names. If the dairyman buys blood ot- stain at all he should buy at least 1 useec- table animals of the selected vartety. Milk will vary in color as well as tavor with varied feeds. Butter fat is a compound of ten or more separate substances, all of which , are oily, and this may be the reason f why no single oily substance fed to a r cow will perceptibly increase her per- f centage of butter-fat.—New York Farmer. To Ilaet Trete. The Velure or zuccees of the Yout tree for the first two or three sen sone after planting out depends large- ly on how this work is •done. Pilo young tree as It comes from the nut- sery row ha e been deprived In d gg ng of probably half its roots, WilOSO Of llcos 11 15 to eupp y nourishment to the top or to the branches and leavet The supply thus diminished so con,i erably neceeeltates a rather seve:e pruning of the tap, cutting away an amount proportionate to the amo :at of roots or rootlets left behind in g - ging, This pruning should be acme east before planting the tree, use g sharp knife. Cut away about thieee fourths of the top, preserving a etre. g centre shoot or leader which shotili be cut back well. The lower lateral branches should be left longer than the upper, whith should be pruned bat k rather severely. Any broken or Dieu ea roots should be pruned so that the ends will be smooth. Heine Matte Vinegar. vinegar Is au article in constant use In kitchen& yet how few know bow to keep the vingear jar Ailed without sending to the grocery? We have never bought a gallon elnee !Lyng in Florida. nor did I ever make any be- fore comIng. Yeare ago, however, read a recipe and treasured it in reipd for a tine of peachrhe ray Inet Is not wl e ra for aria la but - about de I me. e the afeele and I ain never without. Tette et ttiat of shelled. corn, bell in a gallon o. water* them sweeten the water with white or g brown sugar; pour all together in a jar or pitcher, tie a piece of thin mus- lin over the top and keep in a warm place, ahrhen strong, which will be in a week or two, the fluid may be pour- ed Into another piteber or jar, and the first one filled with sweetened wat r, the original corn Will last for months In planting the tree in the ground set it no deeper thatt it grew in the nursery, which depth raay be det r - mined by the discoloration of the lark at the base. Let -the roots nett cn a bed of well -loosened son. Replace the subsoil or clay at the bottom of the excavation with top soil, and let the exca.vaton be somewhat larger than merely necessary to accommo- date the roots. Fill itt about loots with pulverized soil, using the hand to perform the work. Ana: tbe roo:s are covered tread the soil well eith the feet. All the soil used for 11 ng should be trodden down quite Armee After the tree is planted stake it a d le to the stake, or better stili, make a compact, hard mound of soil about the base of the tree to prevent the w ni ram whipping it aboit. Intim spring emove this mound. During the first ew seasons the young tree shoned be well mulched with. manure or grass - clippings winter and summer;—Rob- ert R. McGregor, itt the Womatee Horne Companion. Lice mid Rernediett. Chicks hatched later than May will sotaetimes make slo-w growth, hence are driven froni their nests- by the mil- lions of red lice, and the large head. - lice terment the fowls until exhaus- tion ensues. At night the hens can- not rest, and disease appears betause the vigor of the flock has been lowered to a point where the birds, cannot resist contagion. One of the essen- tials now is to provide a dust-bath, so that the birds can dust. Whenevet you notice a fowl rolling on the ground, as though endeavoring to dust itself, it is- a sure sign that lice are at work. 'When the hens do not lay, ex.. amine their heads for the large nee, and also cleanout and drench the poultry -house. Boiling Water or hot soap -suds win kill lice instantly, but the temedy must be used freely; that is, drench the house, every portion, with kerosene emillsion or boiling wa- terand repeat it twice a week until no signs of lice can be noticed. The hens will then rid themseleee of lice with the dost -bath. The advertised tice remedieg are cheap and excellent. Give the Turkeys Range. An eastern farm journal, so -cared, advises a reader of its columns ti keep the turkeys near the house and, not permit them to "stray off" into the woods or fields. '''This," it teas, is the only way to successfully raise turkeys." Isn't that practical anct farmer -like, though? The "acheeere would better learn something about turkeys and their habits before as - sag to tefl others how to do what he himeelf knows nothing about. If there is one point of vitalimportaace in the growing of turkeys it Is the provision for them of atuple range and; foraging privileges. They are by ins stittet a roving fowl, making their own liveng during the summer and fall, when insects are abundant and forage is plentiful. We believe the turkeys win fare better if let aleno and privileged to go where and when they please than if confined to a yard or Inclosed lot of any kind. They like freedom and become dispirited svhen denied it. Sheep neistng--The Mutton Oro's. While the western ranchos raise eheep and sell the lambs as feeders, the farmer sepuld raise his own lambs and sheep and get a. double profit, with lees risk, for it Is all a. speculation to buy feeders, cattle or sheep. and feed your crop to have it all taken to pay for the stock yoe might have raised on the farm. The best cross- for the farm or the range is the cross of the improved mutton breeds which has been demon- strated by the experience of both far- mers and ranchmen. When the far- mers generaLly take up sheep as they have hogs, it will be but a few years until all our sheep are practically pure bred as our hogs generally are. The Live Stock Reporter g:ves the experi- ence of two large sheep breeders in the west who favor the Oxford Dawn cross on Merino sheen. The Oxford Down cross on efer'no stock is the one most favored by :tin Davis, for the reason that a quickly maturing Iamb is the most profitable one for feeclers, and therd Down I will mature at fifteen months. While this mixture results in a somewhat lighter fleece, Mr. Davis considers r himself still to be as good as when average eight -pound Merino fleeces were selling at eleven cents, his clip brought fourteen cents and weighed six and one-half pounds. For some years Mr. Davis etas made annual im- portations of Oxford Downs, and Miele ready sale for histoptfre bred rams at e50, while the first eross on Merino Stock comraands $15 per head. • Watercress- growing is a profiteer ale industry for women, who live neer large towns Mad who hare runoing Water at head. The health of the , plant depeeds upon an Abundant, coo, tinuous current and a eleallow stream, Without thaw the leaves become stunted and the growth will not be plentifel, The best sot/ for it is grayelly lame on elayt becalm it retaias the water, mime the bottom Arm and &applies tutilcieet nourishment, Cleauiug and replanting Omelet tale piece aneually. This entails a good deal of expense, but it le neceeeary it one would obtain the full value ef else bed. 16 a good idea to 411OW ducks tOt follow the workmen while this is go- ing on, as they eat the caddie Worm, whili is always 4 trouble among the evew plants. In remakiog the beds the upper sprigs, of the cress are first gatheted and put (IOWA in a cOnvertient spot for: Xeplatiting, sheltered. from the wind and ewe The beds or dikee are thedi thoroughly cleaned out and the muddy soil removed with all the old roots, weeds and living creatures it coetaing. • bettont ie taen carefully levelted, mut the etreata allowed toe flow, to thoreteglaly scour out ell impuritiee, ler • euffeeieet thaw. The renialitingeaa nOW Preeeed. The eut cress is careful. ly laid down in rows or spread broad - east on the gromed. The former plea AdlnitO of a steady flow of water. If ;seed is Ones, then it is advisable te t)10 SO tvitere the water is sluggish, eth- erwiee the force at the stream woula eterry away the greater part of the aeeds gown. After the plants are laid down, it will be necessary Forteetireee to make a data of large stones where there is a tianger of their being shift- ed from their position, The water is then let in, sPeriugly Aret, for fear ot the pleats heal& dietarbed, uutll the young rootlets strike, which they ;will in tbe course of three or four days. In tide way every brook, stream, or ditete whiete bas etroug current Oen be turned to aecouut; it will only' he necessary to see that the water rims eufficiently for the nourishment of the watercress. The water of the stream ehould he guarded with care in order that it mey not become contaminated. Careful pteiting Is necezeary and the front stems elonild eelected and 4 -altered Musty. two or three sprigs at a time. The more cautletasiy tate oS done the 6i:toner the bed will be ready for picking again. Those parts of the plant that grow out of water and have a brilliant dark color are the choicest. In prep:lei:1g theta for market it must be remerraer- ed that they are apt to heat leal bange color, and care eltoulet be tee. - ea to avoid this. It is best to pack the plazas lithhtly lu the, ccetreeof Iliesket so as to Tea.ve eel oppoitten; y for the air to circulate about thun. But better than this Is a baske wita az air space in the middle. If seut a long distance a block or Ice placed la the centre of the basket wilt keep tee cress fresh.—New York Tribute:, IlItougla and System hi Farm Wn or. To -worit with system In all tab gs pertaining to farm life is a pleaeue to those who are Impressed with th a enethed of doing farm work. To euea everything seems convenient . rot comesme handy, thereby saving tiani often trouble, which surely coulee ea the side of gain or profit. There are many -who only tvork with the tut.5, of the present in mind while doing tee many small chores daily on the faun - stead. This fact is true many times of the young men or hired help that farmers are obliged to have, and this, too, of young men that have been reared on farms, yet having no more forethought or system regerding Ate work to be done than the city tame that never was on a farm or knew what work was. The writer feels teat his life has been shortenea Lome years by the vexation caused b. the n - thinking, careless hired hoe; that te leas been his lot at times to employ. Careless help is very expens ve, even if hired at low wages, and if the employer or a trusty foreman canece. be with him all the time, the employer is very apt to be a loser in the trim- eaction. I have had men empereed that in tying a halter strap, tney would make a different knot every tinte or not knot at all—only bungl ng t„ as would a four-year-oici child. I would have occasion, of coulee, &Jule - times, to unravel the knot. It would equire much time to get "on to" the The modern method of keeptng sheep in a small way may be slid to consist of two things—alfalfa and rape. With rape for summer feeding and alfalfa for the winter, a flock may he fed at least pOssible expense, but with the greatest Maxtmum of proet. Alfalfa is the cheapest permanent cror known. .Rape IS the cheapest annum plant known, for,it gives the largest quantity of feed at the least cost and labor and, besides', leaves the land itt the best possible condition. The mere presence of the rape on the land is worth, in addition to the value of the feeding for sheep, at least elte in its increased productiveness. Alfalfa has nearly one-half inBre protein or Mat- ter containing nitrogen than red Elo• vex-, and is thus eo much more valei». able for sheep aud the production ot .wool. Three hundred 'million dollars worth of eggs each year. Just ,think of it.' and then say that poultry raising ie hou umall TotatoeS. something to be proud of. to atve a stal Pant ill such's. recora, . ombination and at the same time ause much vexation of mina. I will ad- mit that there are some good, careful men exnpioyed on the farms; i nave ad some myself, but it is an adm.tcel act that they are about an scarce as en's teeth in this "neck ea the oods."—J. E. Haynes, in Rural World. it. mace for the Goat. On a good many of our farms these Is a place for the goat. Sheep will eat a large number of weeds and are very serviceable in that regard, but the goat carries the 'sante idea to a far greater length. Sheep are grazers pri- maxily and browsers incidentally. But goats are browsers by nature. They will live and flourish where even a sheep will grow thin. Ieinds of feed that would send the sheep into the flick list will support the goat and 41' make him fat. At ,writer on goats says that they will pees by cultivated eel- gyasses to get at burdocks, mullein uu and thistles. The bushes th.0t are con. 0 LI stantly springing up on our Waste- het., 'la PI? .sides might he kept down bt goats. ;There is no doubtthat a male n or so dir of goats could be distributect among I ed our farms without itt anywaA inter- a li tering with the stock ,now being kept, hat hea No wonder the old hen makes such (iliS a fuss when she lays an egg. '"•it, •dr UNREQUITED tOV he little later Lashmar saw his freeteds amusing themselves la 1 billiard -room, while elm, Mulcibtehre, and the rest of the wonaeu were sit- ting around the drawingtrooto Are. Seeiug his gueste, thus conteet and lumpy be slipped away to his moth- ers room, 'where be found Stella n.d, 1 the dowager sitting opposite each oth- er, by that nearth, where Lady Lash - mar had sat and brooded lo her lone- liness last night. He drew ha his chair between them. and they three sat there for an hour talking of the future, perfectly hap. pyr and at ea.se., And then he bade his mother and his betrothed good -night. with, a, kiss and a benediction for each. He looked in at the drawing -room, svnere the veey same seauclal was still being discussed in tones of deeper t;oleiunity; and then he went baek to the billiard -room and made believe to have been absent only ten minutes or SO. Eto save Ins stud of magnificent cart- horses from perishing in the flantest The loss to Lady Oarminowiwas cora- reale putted at nearly a million. Kr. Pane - brook had been his oWo insurer. The only policies upon the whole establielts merle were those small policies which lusured the fureiture of the operatiVea and which *Tole Denebrook had always iusisteci upon—paying the preraieens himself and dedueting the •anaoarld fweevewnagmeesn' were arrested on mete. eihn and a mass of evidence was brought together, converse public houses and club r repeated in cletail--a hand r teen witnesses were ex cross-examined — the int mantled, till newspaper r etoastel,Vean0de ththeereget'eulatteepasa• : e per -.fp caSmeetitieo teareoeteDociaoefibklyite told. Lady earminow dee Voteutrierbouni!ii or to hear ante FOR SAM. "If I could be gratefuhrettsCettft. wretches for anything it erstayet for ..`4. this fire," she said withe Immense 11 air. "It's such a comfort vadils and naraevenroalg711"bIatittetrn" aele:41CcafIttnrittieT' ewcla gb oyn4S while "la say I. nt:14,:eteuititirlfrpa. there. Victorian andeS.teit "nri'ker44' start' in Easter week, It ter:sgmetedrly ter, the season of prituvoses and be rowviolets and wood anemones leT was there a qnieter wedding„ set a prettier one. according to th spectators, who were all rap about it afterward. Stella was given away by her mother -*0 who bad all t erial graee of portrath Osituit eynolds, clad in whi Angliee, in lerge white mantle hordeved with white, a, white velvet bormett Wit feathers. The tall, thin very ham, and Marie AutiO teuance were wontierOusly that white velvet and fen said that the dowager a interesting figure than the though Stella looked level ple white cashmere gown jacket and little white t reedy to start on her hoe ney to the land of Don Leshmar was to take her randfather and pedigr e had shown her tbe • mother's "atm and tbet this Spanish journey te was to take her to all the in that romentiO land.all in historical aSSOciatienu rich in treasures of art; only as it were enpateelen were to hunt for the traces. entage. They were saved all tro this score, fOr Within a their marriage Laehmar ; Spanish letter addressed to house, anti forwarded to travels. It was from a. lawyer in wrote to emmire whethere whom he had married wait Boldwoodts daughter. by It • with a Spanish lady, �r Wee eiwuaestIttli7exuannagriet, 0.4e-srlee the sole ofTsprIng .4 .TOP wood's marriage with a yOung lady, whom he carried oil from and was supposed to bave =Met St.-Marthfsen-the-PieldS in Asegiteet 180,— the said daughter was sole heir- ess to Don Zavier Olivarez merchant, wbo bad lately died intestate,and who had left papers relating to his daugh- ter's elopetnent, letters 'written by him to bee, in the care of the writer hit ittesgbigauxdraltssett;:ered the letter in per- son, teking his bride watt bite. The Spaniard was an elderly man, and r membered Stella's mother. "There is no doubt as to your lady" parentage," be said. "She carries t proof of it in her face. But th will he legal formalities to be go through before sbe can enter into p session of her inheritance, which i in various forms of investment, part- ly in vineyards and other landed pro- perty, and partly in stocks to:4 his young wife take her place in. so - said Lashmar, who was eager to see mcsiheria,t.Arre.nsdd'Verner, that old barrack in Grosvenor sqoare, six months ; and at the end of tha £30,000 variouslyeinvested. tinte Stella became possessed of abor fication of the inberitrix lasted nearly he necessary to complete the Menet The formalities which appearea "It's nsore than enough to renovat to buy an annuity for dear so that he may feel quite independent," added Stella. Gabriel Verner had been brought back to his old rooms in the castle since Stella's marriage and reinstated in his post of librarian, with power, to , add from time to time to that magni- ' ficent collection of old books which had made Lashmarecastle famous. Lady Lashmar's inuvel was published anonymously a few Weeks after her marriage, and more than justified the opinion of the publisher's reader and the admiration of that still finer critic MI1Nweasstothrieobuso.ok of the seasonet book which a great many people reped,, add` de which everybode talked about, those who had only read the revigets natur- ally taking loudest,. The freshness of the style, with its passionate flow and yOuthful vigor, was curiously contrasted by touches of archaic learning which set the critics wondering about the writ9r. 13efore the book had bee u out a month there were plenty of people ready to affirm that it was written by Mr. Nestorious, and some even went so far as to pro- duce circumstantial evidence in proof of that authorship. - ' Firstly, the 'hook- was produced by 1V1r. Nestorieus publisher. Secondlyat had leaked out that the proofs had srnbtoeol cuebnhno yetelielt:eo,sts:tkes:. atill'ecicsros. LICe epeosl iuts°11 stare nd' 1, have -8. of Twl he rsi dtalernl There wris, however, a small section of the reading public—chiefly women ---who knew by fine instinct that this story of passionate unrequited love could have been written only by a woman, since only to woman is Love the One Thing Needful. The End. e e a Guests and hosts were all gone by the end of the week, each to his or her several destiolea Lashmar to melte speeches in the endeavor to enlight- en the great toaSo of the washed and I=washed, who were Soon to exereise their elective functions and to re- turn wig or tory, as the tide of popu- lar opinion flowed this way or then. He was to come beet for a week at Obriettoae t and then he Tlfa.9 to go away again and appear no more till be come In the season of woetileted primroses and budding hedges to elairo his bride. Lady Lasinuar had stipulated that be should Wait six smiths. He vets to give himself this much time in which to be sure of him. self and his own feebngs, and he was to give ber this much time in which to take her new daughter to her heart. "1 want her to grow to me; 1 want her to be verily as my daughter before you, give her tAle tient tO Cait me mother," elle said ; "and when once there is th's hand of love between ue neither you leer she shall ever have curse to dread the influence of ,the proverbial oultheteitalaw." et have no fear of that mother. I know how noble you are, and that when once you have accepted a posi- tion—I "I shall perform the duties of that position. Yes, Victorian ; but in this Instance I hope to render something more than duty." Lady Lashmar bad a month Wiser- ious illness during her sons absence throughout which Stella nursed her with unwearying patience and care; and day by day and hour by boor the bond drew closer between them, and the proud. reserved 'nature opened its treasure house of tender feeling. "Alt, Stella, my Stella, you have giv- en me new hopes and new joys in spite of myself," murmured the dowager once, in the deep of night. when Stella had been sitting for hours beside her bed, "Alter all, lova is the one thing needful for us poor mortals in our earthly pilgrimage—the one star to guide as through earth's dark laby. rinth—and in lovit.g one another we learn to leVe our tied, wile linS told ua that be is love—" ; "Dear Lady Lashmar—" ' "Call me mother; never again by any 'colder mine." "Dear mother, yon have filled my life with gladness. I never could have been bappy with Victorian if you bad denied me your love." Lady Carminow bad not remained in England to assist at the triumph of an obscure rival. She had taken advantage of good - natured Mrs. Danebrook 'being 'not so well," to whisk her off to Aexles-Bains as rap. idly.as if she had been provided with Medea's firey claarlot and from Aix. when the weather grew colder they went on to 'Montreux and from Mont- reux to Bellagio and thence to Flor- ence. From her Italian retreat the sta- tisna of the Ditnebrook iron works held occasional communication with her ✓ essels through her grand vizier, the manager of the works, whom she re- garded as a particularly troublesome, officious, and pig-headed; person, with a passion for giving unnecessary and even impertinent advice. "I make it a rule never to take any notice of anything he says," she ob- served to one of her friends, a civil engineer, with whoa), as a practical man, she sometimes discussed the pros- pects of the iron trade. e et "But may not his advice be wolth taking once in a, way ?" suggested this gentleman, "were it only as the ex- ception which proves the rule ?" "Oh, if I were once to give way to his idea 1 should never again be mis- tress of tny own property. I believe he is a very worthy person and that, be understands the item trade ; but, be is a horrid radical. The very air of &MUM is infected with revolution." In the face of this calm and sweet - tempered obstinacy the Manager could do nothing. Vainly did he write his views upon the necessity of nsarthing in the van rather than in the rear of progress. Vainly did he inform her ladyship of increasing signs of disaf- fection and ill -will among, her army of workers ; vainly warn her of the Peril of her fortune iovolved in this question. Lady Oarrninow was as ob- stinate as George 111, in his treatment of A.tnerica and the result was some- what similar. • • • • One winter night the cit,y of Brunim was scared by such a conflagration as bad net been seen under that irmrky sky for more than half a century. The ereat Danehrook item, works and all their dependencies-- triodel dwelling house, clet,Vs offices, storehouses, stables --were burning and no power of fire engines which Brunim or the neighborhood could mnster could in ywise avail against the might of at gigantic conflagration. 'be fire had broken in • dozer, ferents places a1me:4f, shmilfane• sly. No ooe coold doult that there d been delilwrate awl elaborately tted arson : and the tieeis of lyere found 11 erlra I'd 21St,Vern1 ections, while it wns n1;..r) tbdt otw of the conspirator:, just ttle less riithlos than his 1e31ow4., I sent an anonyinous ,,,crawl to the d stable keeper,warning him to get horses out of tile way soon after k -that evening. This message the )Ie -keeper had brooded over for rs, 'and obeyed only just in tittle The best protection .againt „ . nra 1 'right Lom lmon O hel, vesfon tie Aar a ald, chi cru ed mar nt, a g the As th, y the elieved pneumonia, diphtheria, etc.; is in ing up the system with Hood's hita; '7 -Six we that bri, trizno •sitodd be cliurrh. aly. ;Ind en rut,e "Le..1.: 'husband.' the scene in Tay ,/11,3 t f the m rli 1.7 1.2 11.e /TM' Loi ter Lurbil f„Lr$51: cloul Of, their Nyt 0.8041. • ogei her raa rvelowd c ..botvide ,