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OR, WHAT TBE. THRUSH SAID.
CHAPTER el 1 --(Cort tan.
He Wee 4 quiet little fellow, and X wee
glad of his esompany, We shared our cop -
pare while 'WVliteteito And wit" thtl
littera .
were we foraged for. toed by day
sod sieN be the 'Meets 13Y night. Some-
times we got a box to carry, or a horse
lo nold, awl earnee a few pence by thet.
breed. Wes dear) and amen were hard,
and we could •barelY keep ,btely and soul
toegether, o"
I coald get no work. Trude was Black,
mettly uieu wer.etaat of employmentand
my ignorance! of the city, as well as MY
nreeviotial dialeet, Were againet me, I
OOAO my spare shirt, then my waisteoat;
then I fold mY naw boot e adti bought
Nome old ones, netting a Ohilling oil the
o exclatnge,but at the end of wee lt we
were at the end of our'tether. and etarva-
tion 'stared us in the face.
It was. a Friday night, wet and dismal,
end after Maas' freitioss efforts to earn
the price of a cruet, we stole lute a court
off Drury Lane, and. Went to sloop In a
doorwaY which afforded some shelter frotd
the rain.
Whers I strafe 'in the morning I found
niyself alone. Harry had gone, and had
pinned to my teat' his nete of farewell,
Written on a bit of the margin of a, news-
, Paper. The not said simply:
• Good-bye; I'm off. , Thank youfor.betieg
eo good to net. look to yeurself. I will
trythe voad. Keepasap your tagritte-
Yours,
Harry,
P.S.-If yOu can't hold out, try, the
soldiers.
It was imeless to leo% for him.' He might
be melee away by this. X walked down
• to the dock gates and tried. for a Job ;but
: there was a crowd, and the Meta shoul-
dered me out of their way, each one tree
ing to get area and I was too miserable
to light. Why should IP -What did it
, matter? I left the docks and wandered
abbut the streets till eightfall, eaten I
-made me' way to the polioe-officeeto ask
for a ticket for the casual ward at Clerk-
enevell Workhouse; for it wee raining, and
the wind was cold, and I was wearied
• out.
There was a strange mob of vagrants
camping round the entrance to the pollee -
office waiting for the doors to open. I
sat down on the pavement close to a
dle-aged woman in a ragged frock and. a
dirty red shawl. She was a swarthy ere-
mite, her skin tanned by long exposure
to -Om weather. She wore no bonnet, and
was smoking a shert blaok pipe. X
watched. her for soine time, a,nd thought
'what a hold, hard, wicked face she had,
awl at length, more from euriosity to
hear her speak than from. any desire for
' information, I ventured to ask her a ques-
tion about .the tickets.,
She turned twee me with a soowl, which
.graduallY melted away, as she looked at
me, and at last said, not unkindly, "What
'do you want to know for, boy? You're not
going to Clerkenwell, are, you?"
I said I was. She sat smoking for a
few minutes, then took her Pipe from
her lips, aid atroking her thin with her
great brown hand, said, very much to
my aurprise, "You mustn't; no,' 1.011
Inustri't. You're only a boy, and not toed
to no kind o' wickedness, I can see, Don't
" atm go, bees; don't you go."
"I have no other place to sleep," I said.
She shook her head. • "Sleep in the
• .streets; boy, aleeptetin the ebridges ; any -t
where but there. It's the worst work-
house in all London. No, you nmetn't
."But you are gobing," I hinte
The wonaan laughed. aOli, me," e said.
- "It's good endugh for me. But you are
different. Ah, don't be stubborn- ,Take
an old woman's advice. It's a cruel place.
•Don't go, don't go." e
• "I'm not a, ohild,'"I said. •
She laughed again, not pleasantly, and
answered, 'Ten know nothina nothine I
know it all. Been through it 4311."
Then, very earnestly, she continued,
leaning closer to me; "Be advisee now.
• Be told. I know these places; and I've
• • lad sorts of me own. Don't go, doa't.go.
D'ye hear?"
I rose up wearily frona' the pay,ement.
"I will take • your advice," I said.
She nodded, and put the pipe back in
• slier mouth. "Good," she eaid, "good boy.
Now you're talkinea and •turned her at-
tention another way.
I wandered through the mud and rain
• as far as Loudon Bridge. Then, being wee,
and cold, I turned into one of the reces-
ees,' and was about to take possession of
a corner when, reaching out my hand, I
felt. it pushed away, and a girl's voice
said, "What' do yea wautP Find a place
of your own." ,
I turned away, but as I left the recess
looked back, and saw a young girl sit-
ting up against the wall of the bridge
• - locating at me. She was thinly Mad, bare-
headed, and without shawl.. The rain was
falling steadily, and the east wind was
. • chine' eneugh, for March. It was no won-
der, then,' that the girl'shivered and hud-
dled herself together in her dismal corner..
' I left her and crossed the bridge, but
the wan face, so thin. so very _young,
'seemed constantly before my eYeS, and I
!returned' and., spoke to her. '
• "Wtiat are yoe doing there?/' I asked.
She answered my question by asking
Another -"Who are your- e'
• te• "An outaast, Wee yourself," L said. •
She stood up, and aoming algae to me,
• looked fearlessly in my face. "X see," the
aced -"you're lodging on the wrong side
.of the doors • Rave you got' a, bit of bread
About your -, • o. ,
I shook my head.. The girl, with a shiver
and a..sigh, .tuinee away and sat , down
- 'again in her ,eorner. "WAIL'S she said,
"blood's 'warm, chummy;•corne azid sir
'aside b' me."
•'I sat beside her,putting my arms, around
;aer, and she neetled againet my shoulder,
• and we were friends directly. She was
• an affectionate little creature, and as
grateful for ray company as I was for Thi•
s ended the bout, and the two tom-
• hers. Leaning her wet hair against mybatants, laughing, swearingand wiping
breast, and holding my right hand Sing- the blood from- their faces, made their
•ingly' at her calk damp fingers, she told way•tb the counter anwhich d reallado for half a
gallon of porter, was' served in a• ,
eseeta. tin can, from which they drank in turns.
As for me, I had seen enough, and was
making my way to the door, whet a hand
was laid upon my shoulder. I turned and
saw "Blood. and Oune" standing before
nae,
"Itould on tare, 'crafty," said he; "yez
belangs to us thow, and'll be afther de,
soriein' to pay yore footin' out e yere
bounty, avick."
• I went back to the-et:setter and paid
for hair a valor) of beer, which tva.s hand-
ed round amongst the dozen men who had
followed me. , •
"Blood, and Otins," br, to give him his
&treed name, Donnie Cassidy, drank first,
"What's • yete name, 'entity?" he staked.
I said, "WMiara Homer." k
"Bedad, thin," ;said he, "well jiet ohne.
ten yez the 'Pilgrim for yete distinguished
air o' ntieery. Have yez brought yen!!
bends Wid yeP" •, •
"X dotet know what you mean," I said.
"Mane, is it?" said 'Dennis, "I'mane the
use av thim, an' ital. 'mighty 'green yez
are. But 'this" is an Oirieli ridgiment, and
ye'll jist 'ave td toight or tin -rt tailor."
X said I was no .'fighting Men; upon
which Deneis shrugged his thoulders eon-
temptuously, and Saying, "Thin plaze God
ea needs be a' good tanner," tenoned and
shouted to- a tall yeseteg fellow at the
other end of tbe rooffiteftlifitaky, Micky, ye
stele oome here ,avieleaeattlemalse the wel.
came to Ole 'entity." •
The young soldiete With' a broad, good-
huniored smile op his' face, ciente 'over toS
me arid heat out his hen& "(led calve
yez, 'entity," he. said, "atuLthe divil Make"
Yea ,wal eolno."o
44hoole handswith him, end the next
instant received" a sharp box on the ear.
Dennis at once elbowed hie WAY littellie
• s
ese
me, in the 'plod/lave Bast -London tone,
the histpry of her young unhappy life
-
X was touched- to the quiek, auti felt as
though I would have giv,eu my We inbst
cheerfully to save her from the tender
wavelet& of that cruel city. Vnt 1 was
Nominees, friendless} I could not help her,
I could only comfort her, I put raYself
between her and the. wits& I tied MY
neckerchief over her heed, and holding
her close to me used all the word e Of
erraPatter and kindness which email an
uncouth fellow as I could command, and
so oho fell asleep, and slept -for hours In
the wind and rain, while I sat watthing
her and wondering hew in wealthy Loh -
doll each things might be.
Very early in the Moralize the market
carts began to rumble over the bridge.
The child -woman Awoke, and looked at
me with' a smile. esaae.
"We must go," she said; "early nein'
an' late breakfasts is the rule in that
hotel." She ,got up Shivering, and tried
to straighten her hair with her Angers.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"With you, if you like,',she said; "net.
ther of us has nothina and we might as
Well snare."
I shook my head, "No," said .1, "not
that. Let me see if I eau get a few cop-
pers for you."
"You're not going to give me the slip Pa
she said.
"Nee.
"Iext •notbing to nobody. I ain't," she
said, her eyes filling with tears; "but You
won't leave a poor girl all alone, will
Yeti, ohunasay F"
• I said 1 would come back if I was alive,
Sne gate Me her hand then; and 1 bent
down and kiesed het. I .had"never kissed
a woman , before. And, biddileg her cheer
• up, I set off across the bridge.
When I had gone a hundred yards
so 1 aeard a whietle, and looking bac
saw the little °Venture standing on the
seat Of the bridge waving my neekerehlef
as a signal of farewell. .
And then, thinking of ray sister, who
bad been a mother to' tae -God blew; her
-I went down to the Tower Oates and en-
listed for a soldier.
And soepoor Carrie got a splendid shit -
ling.
•
CHAPTER V.
net the heart to tell poor Carrie
what I had done, or that 1 was going
away from her for good. X gave her the
shilling, and saying I had sone work to
do, and would meet her in the evening,
bade her good-bye. She stood at the end
of the sbridgce, a little way out '.of the
crowd, With the shilling clasped in her
hand, and her eyes axed upon tate with a
strangely wistful look, as she echoed my
"good-leye," and then the groat human
river swallowed her -up and I saw her po
MOTO.
But the expression of her eyes haunted
me, and my heart ached at the rectollec-
tion. It was a 'strange look, and had in
it sometl3,ing more than sadness. I know
now, what I only dimly imagined then,
that in the gloomy world Of poverty there
are so many souls starved to death for
flack of love as bodies for 'tack of food.
`111 a city of three million Ohnstiana that
poor girl was famishing for one little
morsel of human sympathy.
Two days after I and five other, pieces
of social drift -wood were locked upin a
cattle -van 011 the South -Western Railway
and bundled off to Davenport to join the
South Munster Regiment.
We reached batracks about six in the
evening, and were taken before the ser-
geant -major, who eyed us disparagingly,
asked which prison we had escaped from,
and told the orderly to "March 'em, to the
tramp -ward and lend 'era a long scrubber
and some sand till they olane thentsolvaaes."
The receiving -room, or trarap ward, Mt
the sergeant -major caned it, was every
dull, and I soon became so melancholy
that I could not beer to ,remain alone. I
'therefore walked out into the lines, and
hearing loud shouts of laughter and a
noisy babel of talk proceeding from a
square brick house of eta storey, I ap-
proached and found it was the canteen.
I went in. About a hundred soldiers, all
dressed in shell jackets and the hide,oue
Kilmarnock caps, were lounging on forms
retied a big, low -roofed room. Most of
them were smoking othort clay pipes, and
all of them' Were drinking beer out et
pewter pots.
• The noise wabdeafening, Some • were
singing, some talking, er rather shouting,
one was playing on a tin whistle, and in
the centre of the crowd, where a ring
had been cleared, two men, stripped to
the waist, were fencing with single -sticks.
They were both big and powerful men,
and well matehed. Theytough). with a
kind. of savage good humor, giving and
taking very revere 'hits without wincing,
an all the while keeping up a. great
stamping and laughing, mixed. with vol-
leys of the most horrible dmprecations.
One of the ni had a, gre'at cut -Across the
nose, and another just at the parting of
his hair, from waith the blood was trick-
ling. His opponent's right arm was red
and swollen, and across his face were two
broad purple weals edged with crimson,
which, added to the fact that he had only
one eye, and that his teeth were large and
prominent, gave him a very terrible ap-
pearance.
He was evidently a favorite with the
crowd, who cheered him cputinually,
ing to -him by his edelmame of "Blood an'
Ounce" to '"pale the hoide 82 him,' and
to "make him sraell timber." 'But once,
when the other man got in a !sharp cut
on the ear, there arose a cry of ?Well
hit, Buether, sure he's lib guard At an.'
To which "Blood an' Ouns" replied, with
many oath% "Thrue for yoz, Bitnehee, dar-
lin', but ,wait till I'm aftber puttin' a
ta.ew mouth an the roof a,v hint, an' it's
the •dacent instill I'll give yez," and at
that instant "Buster" received a' terrific
cut on the nose, Mad in the return broke
his stick across his opponent's skull.
PRVAT OFFICE
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Uncli of the pleasures of le is lost
in the worry of preparing meals. Bovril
in the hands a a resoureeful woman
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simply into hot water and lifworecl
taste Illalsoo au excellent bouillon.
Meats reheated hate their original
flavor restored and cathanced by a little
Bovril. Bovril Sanawiebee are in
oonstant \ demand by old and young,
espeeiallY by olaildren. Boaril Tea --
hot er eola-oan be oerved at any time
with crathere, and. no a last thing at
night to induce sound eleep, hot Bovril
IS unequalled.
centre of the room. "A ring, boy,
ring!" he cried, and before X knew what
was going on I found ninon sitting on
Buster's knee, while the Yelleg Irtsbman
sat opposite to me on the knee of Donnie,
stealing pleaSiently, as if the whole thing
was a joke. As, indeed it was, to. the
South Munster men,
X had no wish' to fight, but I could not
escape. 1 stooti up sulkily and defended
rayself without strlaing back for some
minutes, but a couple of needy bloweitt
the face and the jeers of the onlookers at
my supposed cowardice roused my anger,
and X made a sudden rush, hit out vic-
iously. and sent my opponent down with
a heavy blow on the temple. "
Imagine my surprise when he jumped
up leughingly and called out, "Well. hit,
'entity, ,give us yere mitten," and the
other men applauded, and breaking up
the Ting, mute crowding round me with
hearty congratulatioxis.
"Ye'll do, by, ye'll do;" said Bennie;
"if ye'll only look more pleasant ygal be,
a Joel,. and make it a rale trate for it
oomrade to•foight wid yez.'t
But when I refused to drink with them
they were fairly astonished, aud I left
Buster and Dennis standing with open
menthe, and young Micky looking on -with
aix-expreseion whithe said plainly that he
was deceived in me.
After this I went no more to the can-
teen, but sat in my own corner of an ev-
ening and moped die/hely. In the day-
time I was kept well employed 'at drill.
The drill was almost inceseant, and the
drill instructors. for the most part were
brutal bullies. I hear that the army is
muoh altered since my time. • I am glad
oe it; there was abundant room for ilia
provemene.
• WAFTER YL
The worst of -all the instructors was an
English corporal named Bates. I conceiv-
ed an intense hatred for this fellow -,at
first sight, and he returned it. I could do
nothing right for him( and as he gener-
ally drilled my squad, he managed to
make my life more miserable than ever.
Yet I was so znelanoholy and took such
small heed of what passed around me that
I never rebelled against his tyranny nor
resented hie insults, until one afternoon
when, having exhausted all his stock of
Profanity, he suddenly rushed up to me
and paid:
"You 'blookheatl! If your sister had no
more sense than yon—"
He never finished the sentence. Without
it thought of the consequences I struck
him, just as I had struck Black Jack, and
he fell ins a heap upon the gravel.
Thera was a lance-oorporal naraed En-
nis acting as assistant instructor, and
this man, seeing hie„, superior attaaked,
call•ea out to the men of the squad to
seize me. But ray blood was up. I tripped
one man, knocked another down, and ran
across the parade. and through the side
g ate into the road, with a dozen recruits
at my heels.
It was it steep road, and at the head
of it stood a eentry. As I approsehed he
carnet to the oharge, and called upon me
to halt. I made a audden turn, vaulted
the wall into a field, and got into the
high -road leading towards Saltash.
Here I had a straight run with a clear
frott, and behind me, arta distance of
about fifty yards, the lance-corperal and
men of my squad. Foe a time my pure
suers kept well together and maintained
a good speed; but after going about bait
•a mile I looked back and saw *eat only
two of them were, likely 0 give tee any
trouble. These were two brothers named
Daly. Their were about the same dis-
tance behind me, and were coming on at
a steady, swingingpaae like practised
runners.
I decided to try, first of all, to make the
paee too hot for them, and failing that,
to pump them out as much as I could, and
then turn suddenly and attack them. -Ac-
cordingly I put on a spurt for a hum,
dred yards, and then looked round again.
They had not responded. I had gained
upon them, but they Were still running
with the same steady, businessaike stride.
They meant staying,
The road dipped at this ti'eint, running
through !a thick wood, -where •the birds
were singing and where 1 could see the
wild fiewerS gleaming amongst the trees
as I passed them. Again L quickened my
pace, and again I leaked ,rottncla and saw
the brothers coming en steadily, shoulder
to shoulder. If I could only put land
enough betwixt us I might slip them Yet.
At the bottom if the hill' eras a little
hamlet, with an inn on the right-hand
side of the road, and hefore this inn a
group of ! countrymen at on benthee
drittkinge. As.I -came up at racing .speed
they rote, and obe of them ran into the.
middle of the way to strop me. I made as
If I would peso him on the left; but as
he reached out his arm I doubled the
,other way,and catching him off his bal-
ance, pushed him into the dust. His com-
panions burst into a -hoarse laugh, and
he get up* and shook the dirt off his
,clothes, but made no attempt to follow
rno. Axmd 1 ran on without loohing back
for Or g4441 qUerter c u hour.
Wben I did look back the Delp; were
nearly helf it mile behind, but still cora.
ing on at the same rate, Ahead Of eat
the road -ren nearly straight, but go the
cottages and gardens were getting more
nonierons along its edges, 1 concluded I
must be nearing a village. I therefore
tented oft along it narrow& road whieh
branehed to the left, and Went on at MY
beet pace for it good mile.
was still running at my tin) sawed, arta
had a ;mate' stitch coming in my Bide,
when there outlenly appeared from a by-
way , butelier-hoY driving rapidly in A
light, cart drawn by a awing° mare.
I droppea into a walk at once, and as
the cart came up with me called upOn
the boy to stop. He reinedf up, ana asked
me sharpiy what 1 wanted..
I told,him I wanted it lift in hie cart,
but lie refused very manly, end was whip-
ping up his mare, when I oiled out that
I would give him five shillings if he would.
take me it couple of miles. Min produced
the derfired effect. 11e pulled up again, I
get into the cart, and we drove on at a
brisk troet.
"You seem in 3' anighty hurry, soldier,"
said the butelter-boy.
"Yes," Said I; "I'm late of pass, and
if X don't get. to Saltash before roll -call
L shall be made a prisoner."
He glanced at me rather snsPieiouslY,
but drove, on. I looked back and saw the
twe 1)8,1ys turning the bend of the road.
When they 130,47 whet had happened they
heated and tried to "shout, but they were
too much pumped out to speak: For a
minute they leaned against the bank as
If to get their breath, then they oataae
on again,
• (To be continued,)
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Persian Woman in Street -Attire.
Her face is shrouded in a veil, re-
lieved'only by an inset piece of net-
work that Allows the wearer to see
where She is goiiag.
MEMORY MAKES nig MAN.
Memory is an excellent quality,
and every business demands a spe-
cial memory adapted to its particu-
lar needs. Take the doctor, for
example. He has' to know the hu-
man body better than its very
owner, and must carry in his mind,
perhaps for years, little points that
-may be needed for future reference.
Medical 'memory is quite as impor-
tant as medical knowledge. Every
lawyer is obliged to know, as a
child knews its alphabet, the prin-
ciples of law, and the judge must
carry his training memory even fur-
ther. Naturalize clergymen must
allow their memories to run upon
religious matters, and there are
many divines who can literally re-
peatawItole chapters from the Scrip-
tures. Each profession, each busi-
ness has use for a man whose me/n-
(1v can be trained for the one pur-
pose of applying it to the partieular
vocation in which he is engaged.
,
. A GENEROUS FOE.
A very unusual kind of sports.-
manehip was all:own by the Maori
chief who was taken prisoner by the
'British after a hot engagement.
.His captors .were talking to the .
man, and one of them asked him
why he had net captured the -Bri-
tish prevision and ' ammunition
trains a few days before, when he
had the chance.
The chief gave a loud, seornful
laugh.
,"You fool V' he cried, '"If we
had stolen your food 'and powder,
how could you have fought us r
A pint of water weighs twenty
bunces.
neefalaie beedeehee-aplitting,
hogesebeee--alt vanish when Ton tette
010rxi.Co Ieaadie Wilier.
Tarty de not conteie phenacetin, acetentlid,
morphtne, opium or any other dangerous drug',
2.5g. a boxat your Druggiere, tze.
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EVERY DAY VIE SUN SUMS,
jleat and 14 Nig oh ithintIgn.41 Power for
t‘as the eurishine really been har-
nessed at 'esti • Can its 1e -giving
properties definitely be utilized kir
supplying meter; power, It woulel
really appear as though they *meld,
At any rate, a Frenehman, M,
Charles Winter, has just achieved
moet remarkable result.
By means of a special battery and
a particular oheanicalaoluti'
on this
modern -wizard has ulecloubteelly
succeeded in storing electricity
which gives a small euereet 'The
battery consists of two thin plati-
num plates, one of which dips into
a solution of perchloride of iron,
the other ,being in 'contact with a
mercury salt. When placed in the
sunlight a chemical change takes
place in the. contents af the battery
and oharges it with electeteity I
When the current is used up it
leaves th.e battery in its • original
condition again, arid it is ready for
the life-giving sunahine on more.
It is difficult to realize, 'at once
what a tremendous change even iia
domestic economy alone such a sun-
saliionestorage-battery would bring
but
First and foremost every house
would 'surely have its own electric
light. And most houses would
probably be electrically heated as
well, for heating would then cost
much loss than coal. And eooking
would almost certainly be accom-
plished by electricity.
A thrifty housewife would be able
to put out her storage batteries m
the daytime, and the house would
practically run itself in the evening.
If there wa's any doubt about the
supply running a bit shore towards
morning, the batteries could be put
out at three o'clock on a, summer's
morning and you could have your
cup of tea a,t 'seven o'clock, your
warm bath, and your breakfast
later without the slightest difficul-
ty, and all at a comparatively small
coat. The only trouble would be.
foggy -weather.
As regards the oost, it would
mean practically °illy the initial
one of purchasing the batteries.
For practical and commercial pur-
poses it would be impossible to use
platinum for everyday use owing10
ita expense, But it as the idea and
the definite achievement whieh
eount,
Now that the storage 'of electri-
eity by sunlight has aetually been
achieved there is nothing to stop
the further development. A win-
meneement isa a revolutionary dis-
eovery has been made,
With a. battery of We large rolls
plaeed ert the roof during the day,
it would be possible to store eriough
electricity, through the agency of
ounlighb, to keep six lamps goisrg
at night, This has already been
proved.
There ia no reason at all, when a
substitute for platinum has been
found, why the practical storage of
electricity by sunlight should not be
developed at a rapid rate.
If the progress were maintained
at the ,sanae rate as in other dis-
coveries, it would not be long be -
fere sunshine stored the batteries
of motor care, heated and lighted
houses and streets, and generally
kept the modern world going,
It would net be absolutely neces-
sary that there should be sunshine,
either, the whole time. Ordinary
daylight will achieve the same re -
MOST LUXURIOUS TRAIN.
The Russian Royal special train
ig the heaviest and most luxurious
in Europe. When it was construct-
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of dynamite, and it 'cannot be
taken fast over most of the Euro-
pean lines, because their metals are
'WO light, The train oontains Is
small chapel, with an icon of pecu-
liar sanctity, a library, beth -rooms,
drawing -rooms, dining -room, and
bed -rooms. The servants' quarters
are .at the rear, and consist simply
of an ordinary van -like carriage ar-
ranged with sleeping -bunks, as if on
board ship. The train is so made
that it can be changed to fit the
Russian or the mid -European
gauge.
In Tasmania an area exceeding
20,000 acres is under cultivation for
the growing of apples; last season
the yield was considerably in ex-
cess of it million bushels.,
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which not only cannot be washed away, but
aCtually grow stronger with age and use.
Every farmer owes it to himself to insist that the
money he pays for road -taxes be spent to the best advan-
tage. As a ratepayer, he is entitled to the 'best roads that
can be made with that inoney. When culverts are washed
out, and the road rendered impassable, he not only suffers
inconvenience but 'may also be caused financial loss by
inability to getnecessary supplies in time for sprina-plant-
ing. And at best, With wooded culverts, part of the money
that should be used to malteebetter roads must be spent
every year for repairs. ,
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tAISING BEEF CAT
attle are divided into er
into crtahx elateees' aeverdine 10
the work they do to the beet adverts
tage. In other words, the (Memel,
tem they make of the feed they eerie
ume ever and above the amount
needed for Initillteliallele deterrelnee
this olass, writes Mr, W. S, Oris -
When we, take into consideration
that 'cattle are only maehirtes for
converting hay, fodder and eeraille
illt0 Senile product for human tood
and they erectile only machiues or
factories known that will convert
those materiale int e beef, milk, bate
ter and cheese, we get a mach clear.
er conception of the real meaning
of beef cattle, milk Oattle or better
°'ttle. •
Eybeef cattle we mean those
types of eattle which will use their
surplus feed to best advantage in
the manufacture of beef, Of this
type we have throe peonainent
breeds Shorthorn, Hertford and
Aberdeen Angus. While these are
the three leading beef breeds, there
are others, such as Red Poll and
Devon. By some writers the Red
Poll and Devon are claseed as dual
purpose; but for the present we
will consider them 'beef breeds. .
Of the three breeds mentioned
first, we can ecarcely say one is
better than the ether, for they be-
long on the same is'a, mat-
ter of choice or preference with
each man himself which he likes
best, and then that becomes the
best for him, Every one of us will
give our beet attention and efforts
to the things we like best' There-
fore, the breed of cattle we like best
will give us best results and be-
comes best for us.
The ...tworemaining breeds are
good and in'some sections are very
popular, but for strictly beef pur-
poses are rather small and have
a tendency toward the dairy con-
formation.
I,Yhen, we go into the haziness of
producing beef we want the breed
of cattle that will produee that
product at the, least cost and in the
greatest quantities. Then it be-
hooves us to select one of the best
reeds. I say one of the best breeds
and I mean one. Do not make the
mistake that so many have done and
think that you can produce better
steers by breeding together two
breeds than pure-bred steers of ei-
ther one. Just remember whenever
you breed together two distinct
breeds you are producing grades of.
both breeds and going down hill.
Again, when you breed together two
distil -ice breeds you are much more
apt to. confine the poor qualities
of both breeds in the offspring. As
an example, and one that is own- .
monly practiced, if you breed a Hol-
stein cow, which produces a large
quantity of milk, but poor in butter
fat, to a Jersey bull, a breed which
produces a small quantity of milk
and rich in butter fat, you are very
likely and most apt to produce a
heifer that will produce a small
amount of milk, the character in-
herited from the sire, and that lit-
tle poor in butter fat, the character
from the dam. The reverse is your
deeire, but you may be disappoint -
eel. Knowing these things, and also
being able to buy the pure-breds
of any breed we may fancy, let us
act wisely in the matter and pur-
chaee, our foundation stock of pure
breeding.
I take it we do not expect to raise
beef cattle, or any others for that
matter, except for the profit they
give u,s in consuming -the products
of our own farm, convertieg them
into beef and establishing a, new
ehannal through which to Market
these products.
Then, if this is our 'desire, do as
we would in purchasing e piece of
machinery for any other purpose--
eiuy the machine that was manufac-
tured for that particular purpose',
and buy the best. The best is the
one tied will do most satisfactorily
the greatest amount of work and at
the least cost.
I am a greet believerdn beef cat-
tle when we can make them con-
sume our farm crops at -market
price and save the trouble of haul-
ing these away. Unless we can fig-
ure niarket prices for our erops feel
at home, then the feeding or raising
of cattle becomes a burden and noe
O profitable businees. Yes, they
simuld do more than this. The
should make us a, profit above all
cost of feed, labor and incidette
which always enter into any busi-
ness preposition or venture.
SUMMED UP HIS CASE.
"You never got what you want
in the restaurant," said the irri-
table person.
"You can if you know how to or-
der," replieci the Bad; earee,Stie
man. "U I want something; cool
ask for a cup of hot eoffee, and if I
rant something wenn I asked for
aced
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She -"Don't you think itee e
to coax it woman "%an to drive
leer g'' lie ---'`Can't • say; but
think it' e a; great deal safer."