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CHAPTER L
There was something wrong, very
terceig, at Waldo's Bank; or, more
exa.ctly, et Messrs. Candelent, Pettey
and 'Waldo's, the full title ot the
Area gateralee known by the mime of
its junior and mast prominent pert -
Aar.
Tie day's work lied, opened. as
usual. Precisely as the clock struck
nine Mr. Waldo ba4 crossed the
threshold, ea hie habit bad been for
the lett lortg years. Ile was al-
ways the first to reach, often the
last to leave the bank. The rest of
the elerke and employes had follow-
od close upen Mr. Waldces beets.
Only Cm chief cashier. e1r..Surtees.
had beelittle behinclhenel the.t
morning. bat, this was notaiug un-
usual either.
The chief cashier was a little re-
1311Ss On. the score of punctuelity.
The •offence, though serious, Mr.
Weide forgave him ; for they' lied
beee clarets togethernd were still
good friends. Ainong the subordin-
ates the matter was almost a joke :
except. indeed, weal Perey Meggitt,
the aseistant cashier, who sneered
and. wondered why the firm was so
easy wieli the old fool, But then it
was ell ltnowa at tbe bank that eleg-
gitt was an ambitious junior, who
already ceunted upon stepping into
his emeioes shoes.
The days business, as 1 have said
began as usual. The elerite on at
rival cbauged their eoat,s and wen
to their ledgers. the lileggitt and
others stood at the counter. Mr.
Surtees was itt the little glezed
eheatber, his own private sanctum,
which was partitioned off one corner
of the great central retell. Close by
'this was the passage into the part-
ner's parlors, whieh Mr. Waldo ma
attested, in state and alone.
At. the other end of the baulaper-
and Waldo wished to della the aid
of the law,
Meaawhile Mr., Surtees remained
closeted M his eittle chamber. Mr.
Waldo came and went from his Par-
lor into the bank, and from, the bank
back into bis parlor, but spoke to
no one. The vague feeling ot un-
easiness gained grouuti. There was
thunder ii the air, trouble impewl-
Mg, aad no one knew upon whom the
blow naight Mil. The clerks wond-
ered and whispered, but still nothing
trauspired.
Curiosity was not much assuaged
by the first visitor who went into
Mr. Waldo's room. This was Mr.
Liraming, of that eminent firm of
etocktbrokers Litateing and Comas
cup, who constantly called. They
did a, good deal of business with the
bank, and came' for orders oeariy
every day,
”f Was on the point of looking
said Mr. Isinuning. gaily.
"when I got your menage. Thiegs
are pretty lively ; AleeiCene on the
toot --whether up Or down I minuet
y for certain ; but there is money
to be made or lost, and plenty of
it in that line within tbe next two
weeks. Welt whet can we do for
you, Mr. Waldo ?"
"Not muchh not much," replied the
beulter, rather hurriedly. "It is
ly A. Small Matter of business.
u sold. 1 think, £3000 worth of
rteiguese a short Ulm ago Mr a
elient of ours ?"
edr. Limming referred to his pock-
et-boae.
"Yes, quite so ; and the seeurities
to be banded over to -day."
"Exactly." repliea Alt. Waldo,
"Well, the fact is--" he stuttered
and stammered rather, and had some
difficulty in getting, out whet he
ted to say-s"the fact is, a very
circannetance has occurred -
tor was a red-biaze covered door something' quite extraordinary anti
leading into the strong-rown of the Inew in my experience ; these Porta -
bask, Inside the baize door ,I.voS gum bonds bave been. mislaid."
second of iron, heavily bowl" innt I "Mislaid, They made a, bulky
clamped with a Pereet look ot mos,' , parcel ; eecuritles are not so easily
elaborate workmanship, e. master-
piece of the most celebrated safe- "1 did not say they were lost; I
,Inakere in the world. o arrival or °aid ptielnitl. Why I eent for you
eirhee Half -tut -hour utter tit was to ask you--"
Mr Surtees Mr. Waldo rung for
him. The cushier, wbo was really
waiting for the summons, °bored it
with alacrity, it was account day,
and there was securities to be hand-
ed over to the various brokers and
banes -works which the head of the
firia did himSelf, With the assistance
of the cashier. It was mit a long
job, and was generally finished with-
in lutlf-an-bour.
eacTo-day, *however, the clerks and
porters, whose duty it eves to carry
these securities round to their sev-
eral destinations, were Itopt waiting
quite An hour, No one understood
the delay. It was known that the
settling was not a beavy one. \ 2y
were Mr. Waldo and Mr. Surtees so , less to bave misleid them, and it
raight do the bank harm if it got
abou
"Mum's the word," said Mr. Lim-
n -ling, putting les finger to the eide
oe his nose.
And with that the rather self-sat-
isfied, swaggering sort of gentleman,
electing -white waistcoats And very
bright ties, sauntered out of the of-
fice.
If Mr. Limming's visit did iittle
to satisfy the clerks, the next arrival
tended. to Mere:Ise rather than allay
the excitement. No one knew him
by sight. Ile sent in n.o card, and
from the deference with which Hos-
kins ushered him into Mr. Waldo's
room it was Clear that he was a. per-
sonage of some importance. There
was something very peculiar in his
look, too : a soft, stealthy air, as of
a cat about to inake tempting. There
was a feline glitter inhis bluish -
green oyes; mad his- grey moustache
iosebrushed out straight, might have
belonged. to a veteran mouser accus-
tomed to pounce promptly on its
prey.
It was no other than Mr. Faske,
officially enown as Inspector Faske,
of the, Criminal Investigation de-
partment, Scotland Yard.
On entering the bank -parlor Mr.
Faske removad his hat, which,, by
the way, he always •-carried very
loosely on his head, so that it rock-
ed from side to side when he walked,
and produced his card.
"Oh, yes, to be sure. Mr. "Faske
from Scotland Yard," said Mr,
Waldo, nervously; "I am gled they
sent you, as I believe you have had
particular experience in these affairs.
"Might I presume to ask what af-
fairs ?" said Mr, Faske, showing his
white teeth, and looking, with his
bushy white eyebrows and straight
moustachios, more than ever like a
amt.
"Of coorse. I forgot. You know
nothing •.whatever of the circum-
stances of the case. •I had better,
perhaps, tell you exactly -What has
occurred." •.
"Undoubtedly, if you wish for my
assistance'," replied -the other.
"Well it is .not a long story, only
1 hardly' know 'where to.begin.'' '
Begin in the middle," said Faske,
abruptly. ''What has happened?•
"We have lost a large number ef
securities, Portuguese, front ,the
strong room of the banke'
• "Stolen ?"
• "That is Mr you to say. To me
it is quite incomprehensible." •
•-
"lou have the numbers, ol
course
"Certainly. Here i5 the security
book. • Will you examine it ?" •
"Nd ; but I will take down the
numbers if you will read them out to
me. It is most .important."
The detective carefully meted these
particalars and then went on,•
"And you. are certain they were in
the strong room 9"
• "I saw them there myself three
days ago ; they made a bulky parcel.
They. were in twenty -pound hands,
1.1
"To carry over to another account?
By all means."
'Of course at our risk' said Mr.
Waldo.
"Naturally," said Mr. Limming
nything else 9**
Mr. 'Waldo turned over the papers
in Ids desk end selected one which
he handed to Mr. Linuning. "Kind-
ly nutke those investments is the
usual way. I think that will be all
-no, by the way," and he laid his
hand an Mr. Limming's am just as
12e was Jea.ving the roome-"We should
be obliged to you If you will say
nothing elmtever about the missing
Portuguese bonds. lt SeentS so care -
70 YEARS VS, 30 YEARS, jAT THE PAN-AMERICAN
I$ THIS TO. 13=flId7S, faa)
NAN'S
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Medical and. Sanitary Knowledge
Have Increased and. in Are
• Lasting aonger.
In spite of all thet has been writ-
ten concerning the present days be-
ing days when the young maxi is
ailed upon to fill responsible and
important positious, there is unmis-
takable evidence to prove that old
P155 are fighting hard for Places
near the top. At no time in Previ-
ous history. for instance, hae there
ever been so large a number of inert
over sixty earning handsome liviogs
as there is to -day.
la London, on the Stock Ex-
change, and elsewhere, aged men are
elingmg to places held by them :duce
they were young. And now that sta-
tistics amply prove teat there is a
ull in the airtia-rate, there is fur-
ther ground for supposing that the
• • • • ••••
PANAD.IIQDE PAIRAT TE
RplapITIOtto
(Special by Martha Craig.)
The Cauadian portion ot the Model
Dairy is tattler the euperintendeuee
of N. E. W. Eiderkin. et Asaheret.
Nova Scotia, President ot the. Mari-
time Stock Breeders' Association,
which embraces New Brueswich,
Prince Edward • Island. and Nova
Scotia, assisted by his son. Ie. W. Ch
•leaderain, a, student • of Guelpli Ag-
ricultural college, Ontario.
• Later on live stock will be sent to
the Pau -American by private Ana-
viduals, Mr. le. W. E.:Merida is ex-
pected to love Buflala soon. Tie is
goiag to Canada to inspect all the
iive stock before they are sent over.
The Model Dairy barn is situated
near the East Amherst gate. and i
a, centre of attraction to those in-
terested in. agriculture. and a matter
of euriosity to city people. Here it
is proposed to care for and feed the
• old men mil not budge- In 1878 cows, and prepare their product for
the eirth-rote was MO. in MO it the merket in as nearly an ideal
seek to 20.3 per thoesancle-the low- way as possible. In the barn are to
est recorded birtberate tor Ragland,' be found the herds of live eows each
Then, again, men and women are Canada is represented by Rye lierelS,
• living longer than they did. Medi- vie, eamasteios, jerseys,. Ayrsbires,
1 and salutary knowledge -have IP'• Short Horns, and French Canadians.
d and humanity bits reaped the The remaining herde, vl. -Guerit
meat. So that old fellows ofstye-
_ selee. Iled Polled, Polled Jereeys
ntr are hale and licartY out( a" "Welt Belted, and Brown. Swiss are
enabled to cling to the excitement ownU by Americaus. The Canocliart
and remuneratiou of daily toil, when
formerly they would have given up leave._
eows with their °wears are 40 W-
and taken well-earned rest. •AYRSIIIR
A great authority, 'When recently
writing on the subject •of the lower- 1. KirStY Weelace uf Aue
ed. birth -rete, says that there le Robert Reford, Ste. Anita
s Ine reeoMPenSe in the feet that we 'Me.
'a ROW in a fair way to rectify the 2. Betsy let of Fairfield Nains-
vinous waste which for genera- Robert, Retort!, Ste. Mine de Belle -
tions has gone on In theelestruction True.
of lives wilich never live to repay 3. Lady Flora of Orchardton-W
the outlay upon. them. W. Ogilvie, Lachine Rapids, Que.
In plain language this only means 4. Alite 2rel of Leseueesock-W.W.
that men are lasting longer in con- Ogilvie, Lachine Repels. Que.
sequence of improved constitutioas S. Pearl of Woodside -Robert NeeS.
and • Newick.
BETTER SURROUNDING'S. • FRENCH CA NAPI A NS.
I. Lune, Flora -Long Points Asy-
um, Long Points, Que.
2. Rouen -College Viessomption.
Long Points, Que,
3. Luna -Joseph Dugeo, St. Jac-
ques. Que.
4. Denise Championne-Areeria, Den-
is, St. Norbert, Que.
Douchette-J. li. Gliay,
Chl-
couUml, Que.
JERSEYS,
long over it?
Theu the cashier came out with
his face as white as a sheet, walked
with faltering stop into his glass
box, and thett-it was plainly visib/e
'through the transparent partitiou-
buried his head in his hands.
Something wrong indeed t The
ii.ext move was from Mr. Waldo, who
called in Percy Aleggitt,ethe assist-
ant -cashier,
"The day is getting on," said the
banker. "Uave these sent round at
once, Mr. Meggitt."
"Are they complete sir? Perhaps
I had better run over the list with
Mr. Surtees to make sure,"
"It is not necessary," replied Mr.
Waldo ; "I have just done vo with
Mr. Surface myself."
• "Very good, sir. If they're all
right-"
• "Yes, yes; they're all aight. That
will do, No, by the way, how
stupid of me 1 There is a parcel of
Portuguese, £9,000 worth, 'which I
. leave retained. They were for Lem-
ming and Cornecup. As you pass,
Just beg Mr. Limning to step rolled
here -and -and -send Hoskins to me.
Meggitt bowed and left the parlor,
his hands full of papers, and his
manner of importance. The work
.of distributing the securities was
'usually Mr. Surtees's, but the cash -
ter that day was evidently slot equal
. to the occasion.,
Hoskins, who went into the parlor
next, was the senior porter, an old
o tere as staunch o. earventto tee
erne• as he had been to the Queen.
'rev would. have trusted him with
untold gold at Waldo's ; abeve all,
he could. be trusted to hold his
tongue.
• "Take this telegram at once to the
central office, Hoskins," eald his em-
ployer ; "and then this letter to
Scotland Yard. Not a word in the
office, mind, about oither of these
messages."
• "Right, sir," said Hoskins, brief-
• ly.; and, with the military salute
he would have given" a 'field -Marshall;
• the old porter withdrew.
The • telegram was • addressed to
lyfr- °flesh -nits , 'Dandy,. the senior
partner, who lived at Wimbledon,
. and who eeldom, if ever, came to
town, except' when called upon to
advise iis•to the 'larger- operetions of
the bank, ,in which his great experi-
ence :lad keen financial insight made
• hiut • an. inv,tuable sulthority. • Mr.
Dandy ' left, the whole control
• and management to Mr. Waldo. But
the settior partner was wanted this
morning. , •
Your presence urgently required,''
. so ran • thes me.ssage. "Securities
missing from strong -room. Very
miatertious affair. Have sent for
,the police' • .
The letter conveyed 'by Hoskins to
the authorities at S co tl and Yal•cl
WEIS, ix, effect, a request that one of
their' practised and astute detectives
might be placed at the 'disposal of
the bank. There was a strong sus-
picion that a felony had been perpe-
trated, wee messrs. Candelene laindcr and there were four hundred and
HE XEN0 PRESENTING THE IecitePH AFRICAN WAR MEDAL ON
THE ROUSE GUARDS PARADE.
Eerie Roberts, Cenanander-le-Chiefheads the
of reeipients.
Ofty of them. They attracted my
attentioe when I last went into the
strong -room with Mr. Surtees."
"Mr. Surtees
"Yes; our chief cashier. He and
alone have access to the strong -
Clean."
"Each of you has your own key 9"
"Yes, arid they ore always in our
ossession-at least. I can *Answer
for mine." awl Mr. Waldo pointed to
lus watch -chain; "and I have every
reason to believe that Mr. Surtees is
equally careful of
For some little time Mr. leaske
made no •remark, but eat there nurse .
ing his leg, and apparently closely
examining the knot with which his
right shoestring was tied.
"Lock been tampered with ?" lie,
said suddenly. but with a gentle •
voice, as if aSking the question of
himself.
"Not the slightest, signs of It. so
far as 1 can see."
"Perhaps 1 had better see •for my-
self. Can. we get to the strong-
room without attracting attention ?"
"It. is there," said Mr. Waldo,
pointing to the red -baize door at the
end of the room.
Mr. Fasee, without another word,
got up, went straight to the baize
door. opened it, struck n Welfare
match o5 his boot, 'and hold it close
to the lock of the heavy iron door
within.
"Ali 1 one of Stubb's patents ;
Aothing like them, they are the safest
in the world. Never anew any
one but 'Velvet Ned" who was a
match for patent Stubbs. But this
one has uot been tampered with, that
is dear. Have you your key, sir?"
Mr. Waldo removed his key from
his watch -chain, and. handed it to the
detective, who immediately unlocked
the door,
"As I thought, It works all
right ; there has been no foul play
with the lock." Then he locked
the door, returned the key, and went
back to his seat in the parlor.
A fresh pause and a still closer ex-
amination of the shoestring. Then,
quite suddenly, as before, Mr. Faske
asked : "And this Mr. Surtees ?"
"One of the oldest -in fact the old-
est and most trusted of our employ-
es. He has beea in the service of
the bank these thirty years; indeed,
'we were clerks together. 1 cermet
bring myself to suspect him."
"H'm, Is he here ? May
I see him ?"
"Of course; but perhaps it would
be as well to wait until Mr. Dandy.
arrives. He is our senior partner.
I telegraphed for him the moment I
missed the bonds."
"Quite so, quite so. We will wait
for Mr. Dandy," and with that Mr.
Faske retnened.to. his all -absorbing
occupation, with his right leg and
shoe.
Half -an -hour more elapsed, and
then Mr. Dandy arrived.
A slim., well -made little man, with
rather a stoop in the shoulders, and
a shufiling walk indicative of ad-
vancing years. 1 -le was extremely
neat exid natty in his appearance,
more like an old beau from the west
end than a magnate of thefanancial
world.
Directly lie entered the parlor err.
Waldo erose 'he had been a clerk
when Mr. Deady was a partner, and
the old feeling of respect for his su-
perior clung to, him to the last. Mr.
Faske also got up from his chair,
and, after the partners had shaken
'hands, he was formally introduced.
"Well, • Waldo, what is all - this ?
Thieves in the bank -hey? what -
What does it all mean ?"
• Mr. Dandy spoke in the feeble,
chirpy voice of a yery old man. But
there was„tauch keenness'reft, in the
dark and piercing eyes, one glance
at wlech, , Lind at the somewhat
prominent nose, ought to have warn-
edintelligent persons' not te expect
to get the better of Mr. Dandy in a
bargain or in anything else.,
To be continued, '
•Sandringham cost $1,200,000.
The average rate for English towns
is 4s 6d.
I feat-, said the physician, as he
came from the siek room, that your
wife's mind is entirely gone., Well,
replied the other man with a sigh of
seeming relief, I'm not at all sur-
prised. She's been giving me a piece
of it daily ever since we were Mar-
ried,
WHAT DIVERS ZAIthI.
• • •
"Ileeir Pay M High, Bee it is
Dangerous Business,
raan must possess good nerves The tight which has for so long r-
end phyeical strength to be a (liver. ed sharply in seine ludostries
be-
sald Md been engngt11 in tween tie; young men and tha, old
that profession for the last eighteen -11 t ! •............• will
SONV 411EZA, WAIV BEcoX,
• IN% WBA1,4TITY.
7474 WlYriatrItrjItaeet°lInX.'
cepa 0Q-nviCtt
Early tete 'preeept century
iltrAt?rt jx.:;47y,f4wwLe$4, oarct. itrig
memander, Captain 'W. Lake.
'nig. tapped a barrel •ef beer ,rieten
115 ship was on short •eilowence.,
...The Pions:ill:gent was illegal. Captale
t441rfobrtisevIligtyllogfl°cetertaveeliege? a.*43.1'9°U.4grt• "
mertiele and Jeffery threatened te
report the matter to the Admiralty
on his return to EAglauch 'wberetipori
his inhuman commander zet, hine
ashore on the uninhebited island of
•Scrinletdbreatwei4.yi.n the West Indies, and.
Jeffery was, bowever. reeceed br
an Americart tratileg veesel, after
Ita.ving endergoue feerfel privatione.
and • eventually werked his paSSage
to London. Here ftial Otteo was teem
tip by Sir Frauds Burdett. who se-
cured for hien 4600 comperteatioa
from Captain Lae. who .weee, inoree
tried by court-euertiat and die.
(1, the eervict., Jeffery. ineteed
(11.3e:tiering hie, mangy, letireitaefed
dtwill of two shops in his zin-
c tmouwitil.. of Portereouth ad,.41e4a
AN INNOCEN'P MAN.
The ease of 'William Henry Barber,
London solicitor, 'whe. in 18444
•
was sentenced to 14, long terea 0fi •
einseortetien 'for an alleged forgery
which he was intiocent, wae eri
eptionally hard ow. In those
days discipline in our over -sea. penal
settlements was enforced .with ruth-
ess severity. and poor Barbel",
tortly atter his arrival., was Aogged
for some trfallug dereliction of duty.
He never held up hie head agaiii;
and although after four years of =tee
his in:meet:ye was made plain, it
as but 'wreck of an English gen-
that maimed to his waive
Ian receive. with the coPgratite
1 thins of his friends, the Sum of
000 which, perilemeut bed voted
es a FligLt compensation
unmerited sufferings.
Curiously enough, within a e*ery
few months of Me. Barberes ease bo-
ing
vie made public another itzeocent con -
an exeshoopheeper Teemed Dump
was diecovered in the chain -gang et
Norfolk Istand. received a "par-
don." arid .tette aina presented with
about P.2.000, raised in the Austral-
ian Colonies by public sobscription.
Unlike Barber, however, he did not
C12005 to return to England, but
settled in New South Wales as .4
5110012 farmer. At his death. some
twenty yeere• ago. it was found that
he hatl left the whole di his Mega
•fortune to charity.
'WEALTHY RUSSIAN FAMILY.
years to the writer. when question" become etill fiercer. If tere are
ed. as to the qualilicatiorie necessary (twee young men it must uuturally
to make a successful diver. ave hfollow that the odds will gradually
known many an instauce where an were in the tile men's fuvor; the op -
apparently strong mau his refused posing force as it lessens in numbers
to make a second descent into the will eteeieuely grow weaker, and
water. The sensotione one feels in many
descenaing into the Sea frothe first merry old boys of eeventy will
tune are decidedly strange. There sdtetlectet(l oyt1,1,euitehsjo,bios x%wnlille holding the
is Inver/414 a buzzing in the ears,
jag byan
5a0n1Ucecifi's131: tohfiswiosorrnPan- advantages,yet;•setv;virtled wdVall,leliansieagite8s
would undoubtedly be great; 11.
A diver's dress is very heavy, from would not be one with that varlet
180 to 200 lb. The helmet alone that sparkle, that bright sunshine,
weighs 50 lbs. In the water. how- that lively mirth wbich is associated
ever, the whole dress does not weigh with all that is young and inexpert -
more than 50 lb. to 00 lb. I once 'enced. That indefinable charm,
worked in the dress in the hold of a which is always eo closely linked
ship amongst some broken barrels of with all that le uttexpected and un -
gametic soda,. It was impossible to tried, would be absent. There would
move the cargo without suck pro- be a dull sobriety and a damping si-
tection from the fumes. I worked ileum about the earth; it might be
away for two days In that hold, but 1 decorous without being wiser, fiat
ha,ving no water to take off the and yet no more moral. It would
• weight of the suit my limbs meted assuredly he much more timorous
Lor months afterwards.
Most oia the professional divers
lia.ve been trained from boyhood at
Whitstable, England, and earn front
$20 to $35 a, day tvbeirat work.
The ordinary fee for a diver with his
assistants-naraely, tWo boys to
work the air -pumps, lied an attend-
ant -is $25' a. day. When the work
is dangerous the fee is greater, For
instance, on some wrecks 1 have re-
ceived as much as $35 a day and all
expenses paid. A good diver is sel-
dom in want of a job. He is known
to nearly all the big salvege com-
panies, who are always wanting
men in all parts of the world.
11. is possible now for a num to re-
main live or six hours under water
without the least inconvenience. By
the submarine lamp, which was in-
vented a, few years ago for the use,
of divers, one can even see fairly dis-
tinctly at night. Do you know that
some few years ago IMIloram,
well-known diver, lit one of these
lamps, when they first .came out, at
a depth of 36 ft. in iene of the docks,
and read an article from aepaper by
it. It was perfectly audible to those
above through the speaking -tube.
Some members of the Admiralty
were present at the time. Halloram
was a very daring individual, and
the only diver, I believe, who ever
smoked. a cigar uader water, and
this he did in Kingston Harbor. Of
course, the cigar was lit and placed
in his mouth before the helnaet was
put on.
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AN OBEDIENT PATIENT.
An old doctor, whose memory was
beginning to fail him, was called in
to sae a young mat who was ill. On
arrivIno• a, the house he found his
patient in bed with nothing the mat-
ter with him but a slight cold. Af-
ter prescribing the usual remedies he
said:
Now, my dear sir, you must stay
in'bed till .1 come again.
• He went away end forgot all about
his patient. The time flew by. Gne
day the M. D. came across the young
man's mother in the street. The:
sight of Mrs. Jones brought his pa-
tient t� his mind, and with a start
he said:
• By -the -bye, how is your son getting
on?
• To his amaiament Mrs. Jones re-
plied that he was still in bed, °bed-
ientto his commands. • He had been
there three weeks. •
SWEDEN'S SCHOOL !GARDENS.
• Scientific , gardening is taught in
the national schools of Sweden and
in • the seminaries • for • the educe, -
tion of national school teachers -
'There is a school garden in nearly
every • rural 'School district . in the
kingdom. The garden is placed near
the school honse, and the children
receive practical instructio'n in the
cultivation of plants, berrie,s, Row-
ers, herbs, aad fruits, the_ raaaa.ge-
inent of hotbeds, grgehoueest and so
forth. The parishes are required to
furnish the necessary ground for the
gardens, and trees •and shrubare
annually given to the children to be
planted at their homes.
und unprogressive.
Economists predict a perfect hy-
gienic world. and, at the same time,
conclitiees that must cause grave
concern to all for whom brightness
and advancement and 0120027 moa-
ners have any •attraction.
As a larger laid larger percent-
age of the population lives
its full term, and has increased
opportunities of doing more work,
the young man will fincleit is Larder
and still herder to emerge from the
lower positions in life. The ve.can-
cies will be fewer to an alarming
extent, The victory of the old man
will result in the idleness, may be
the penury of the young man. An
ever-increasing host of persons who
maintain. a fairly vigorous condition
of mind and body is bound to be to
the disadvantage of the lad who
would work hard to bo encouraged
by the prospect of
AN nAnLy ADVANCE.
Many young men will go in for
tredes •mid professions for which
they know themselves to be unfitted
simply because they will learn of the
remote chances , of progress 'in the
special line that they would have se-
lected had the field been open.
In France this state of affairs - is
said to be much in evidence. The
stationary character of the popula-
tion there has given rise to many
schemes, and many hoped-for reme-
dies ha.ve already been put forward
cold found wanting. However gro-
tesque and fantastic the plan may
be for redressing the evil, the French
appear to favor it.
Even in Australia, • where of all
places conditions are thouglit to be
conducive to a high birth-rate and
rapid growth in every desirable di-
rection things are not so. Satisfac-
tory as could be wished, and there
is a tendency in the birth-rate to
fall. The chief reason seems to be
that the proportion of "fertilo”
Marriages is not on the rise but on
the decrease. Twenty years ago the
birth-rate waS- higher than it is to-
day, despite all that leis been done
in the way of better housing and
better living. The birth-rate among
the Australian -born women, too, is
lewer than it is among European
women who bave left their natiVe
lands and emigrated to the colony,
wbrich decrease has been regular
persistent since the year 1881. '
Over there, as in Great Britain,
the death -rate has been low, so that
as time goes 011 there is little or no
ground for doubting that unless a.
radical change takes place, this
world will largely beCome an old
man's world.
• We shall see old men behind • the
shop -counter, old engine -drivers, old
soldiers and sailors, and bakei7s and
tailors, and candle -stick makem
• '
• Belligerent Tramp -Your money or
your life. Belated Citizen -1'm sor-
ry, but I just settled, for my wife's
new Whale ha this alternoon, and
Belligerent Tramp (interrupt-
ing) --Say no more, old chap; l've
been there myself: Ilere's a quarter
to help you get a fresh start in busi
ness. •
1, Gypsy of Sprueegrove. Cat -
an Government.
2. Printroee Perk's Prutle--W. E.
. Massey. Toronto. Ont.
3. Queen Mae, et Greenwood-W.E.•
. Massey, Toronto, Ont.
4. Maple Avenue's Rexina-le. N.
Neil. LuCart, Ont.
5. Mossy of Ilurieey -Canadian
overnment.
HOLSTEINS.
.1. Meg -0. A. College, Guelph,
Out.
2. Linke Mercedes De:KO-Matt.
Melee -demo Cededouia, Ont
3. Meat Aggle-Matt.
Richardson, Caledonia,, Ont.
4. Beauty of Norval -Wm. McClure
Norval, Ont.
5. Tidy Abbeicerk-11. Bollert,
Cassel, Ont.
SHORT HORNS.
1. Rest: 3r4 -W. 0. Pettit and
Son. Freeman, Ont.
2. lath Princess of Thule -A. W.
Smith, eletple Lodge, Ont.
3. Delay 1).-0. D. Muer,. Sparta.
Ont.
4. Miss Molly -Canadian Govern -
5. Queen Bess -Canadian Govern-
nie:,iit.
rjecows are melee a six months'
test, lasting from the lst of May to
the lst of November. There are four
prizes to be competed for: lst, for
the herd showing the greatest net
Profit, butter fat alone -considered,
as determined hy the Pabcock test.
2nd, for the herd showing tho great-
est net profit, butter alone consider-
ed, as determined by the churns.
3rd, for the herd showing the great-
est net profit in total solids. 4th,
for the herd showing the .greatest
net prpfit in total solids and in loss
•andrigain in live weight. Each herd
isem charge of a competent herds -
Man, who makes it his business to
study and put into praotice the most
profitable methods of handling and
feeding each individual cow -under
his charge. Feeding 'is done three
times a. day. All feed is weighed to,
each cow, and charged against her.
at a. lixed price, the prices are got
by averaging the pries prevailing
throughout the United States and
Canada, dulled the pa -It *eve years.
• The cows are milked three times ai
day -at 5 a. nt., 1230 noon, and 8
p. m. All milk is weighed and ac-
curate records kept. From each
milking is taken samples. for both the
hectometer and 33abcock tester. The
lactometer readings are made each
day, but the Babcock tester is only
used. once a. week on .Lhe composite
samples of twenty-one mindngs. The
amount of batter is estimated on the
basis of 85 per cent. fat,
For the purpose of ease in hand-
ling, and economy, only one day's
milk is used each week, to find the
actual amount of butter made by
each herd; the total amount of but-
ter for the week being flgured on the
basis of what is produced in one
, day. At present the Guernseys are
leading, with the AVrshires second,
Jerseys third, and leol.steins fourth.
The three leading Canadian herds
are fast gaining on the Guernseys,
and Canadians may look for these
three herd8 to be leading at the close
of the six months' test,
HAD TO GET OUT OP 7riat WAY.
Magistrate -What's the charge
against this man? •
Officer --Scorching.
Magistrate (to prisoner) - Have
you anything. to say?
Prisoner -Nothing: only there was
wonme learning to ride a wheel
coming behind me.
Magistrate -Honorable discharged.
Next.
- •
Since 1840 the population of Eur -
ape has increased 33 per cent, but
the number of thildren attending
school, 115 per cent.
There Is no wealthier family in
Ruesio, than the Inpukins of 1.Jstil-
12012, and banters.
Thcee owe the fouotletion of their
vest fortune to a hideous punish.'
went inflicted upon their beautiful
and accomplished ancestrese' Ma-
dame Lalmkin. by the cruel and et-
dolent Czarina Elleabetb. The un-
happy lady was publicly kuouted,
after width ber tongue was torn out
and she was banished to the Siber-
lan mines for life. From her sub-
terraneun' prison she was. however,
rescued by Peter III.. who bestowed
upoa lter personally a. million of rou-
bles, and upon her husband sundry
orniouely valuable eetates and
Ming rights in the then little de-
veloped mountain region lying bee
tween Ustillich and Pass Neer.
Finally, mention ought to be made
of Titus Oates, who received a pen-
sion of 300 as some sort of com-
pensation for having undergone one
of the severest castigations on re-
cord. Ile had been sentenced to be
flogged falai Aldgate to Newgate,
and, after an interval of two days,
from Newgate to Tyburn. This tete
rible punishment was so rigorously
carried out that, according to a con-
temporary account, he might as well
have been 4a,yed alive.
NOVEL CHURCH SERVICE.
A church service in the hollow of a
tree recently took place in Gipps-
land, the Eastern province of Vic-
toria, where the Duke of Cornwall
has had some shooting. A giant
euealyptus, or "gum tree," had been
cut through at a distance of 20 feet
from the ground. The remaining
part of the trunk was then hollowed
out and roofed overhead. A room
25 feet in breadth was thus formed.
It was found capable of accommodat-
ing e. congregation of fifty. But it
is not to be permanently used as a
church. Its owner iatends convert-
ing it into a crethnery..
• T-Frr, SEA'S CIRCULATION.
Deep-sea dredgings show that most
of the sea -bottom is a region of cold
the temperature of the water even
at the equator being sometimes be-
low the freezing point of fresh water
For a, time science could not offer
any satisfactory explanation for this
strange condition ; but it is • now
proved that the water of all the
oceans circulates steadily not only
in the familiar superficial currents
of which the Gulf Stream is the
most representative type; but in a
slow • and mighty movement froln
the it and antarctic poles, creep-
ing southward and northward along
the sea -bottom to the hot regions of
the equator, there risieg to the sur-
face very slowly and setting north-
ward and southward toward the
poles. It• Vans keeps up a constant
circulation..
WEDDING PARTY OP 03.70LISTS.
A wedaing itt which all the partic-
ipators were cyclists took place tL,
Si. Mary's Church, Fulham, Norfolk,
England, a few days ago, The coin-
-
pany, about twenty in number, rode '
to the church oit taStefully decorat-
ed machines. The beide was attir-
ed in spotless white,. nor were the
orange blossoms ania the veil left ,
. .
out,. whilst the bri‘0.44M.s. also in