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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-10-25, Page 7A?eses,-+-'---e1' _. ..».... ....,............. _ _ 04,04"1,~101,4-o40+n+o4-o+0+1,¢-0.+o+o4•0•'4•0+0+0+0+04-o4o the same latent he Is aware of a slmul• ,... q la newts Incline lion on the port of 10811 and telfn to avol't Moir heads, and pass him wilihoul claiming his acquaintance, Perhaps, 1f he lied had lime lo reflect, he would have allowed them to do so, t: but the impulse of the moment forbids i1,' \i'hy should they wish to euL him? " - I What hos he done to deserve it? 'l'en years ago they were his very good ,OR, A A SAD LIFE STORY .01.11411 0 .¢C)'$D• O'a t $•O$O"t`O'b'°+0+0:0+0+ O+O+O+O$-O4O+O•¢O$O$ • CHAPTER IL hack upon his mind. The day on which Toni nearly choked himself by swellow- ing a Linsley bead; the day on which the lop-eared rabbit littered -ah, rullhlls of course I '!'hese were what Trac had 1- stralghl, as tite needle to the pole, tar the day on which Tarn pushed Miriam the corner where the collected umbrella.; into the mont, end Elizabeth fell in, stand In 11101' WHO 0.,011 of Inde, loo, In trying to fish her out. Elizca- lhu'goyna would iirobllbly have both, the eldest, the almost, grown-up laughed et the unconscious irony of this 011+, embarrassed by leer newly-lengtil- • 111quh'y if he had heard 11; but lie haus ened petticoats, s', harrassIng al cricket, not, his lineation being otherwise direc- ted. On the sante umbrella (m+st as (himself, being helped on with Iter meek- intosh by one of the too men wllo had accompanied (ler, a pepper-ald-sull- -. hatred, sturdy gentleman of en ob- viously unacademic) cut' Is the lad whose face had flashedupon him with that puzzling sense of unfamiliar famil- iarity. Since they are now in close proxIlnily, and both employed alike in struggling into their wraps, there is no-. thing more natural than that she should turn her eyes full upon him. They, aro very (he eyes, though far from ,('Dung ones. Is it, a trick of his imagination, or does he sec 0 look of half-recognl- lion dawn In them, swell as must hove been born 111 1110 ow•n when they first .alighted on ler? At all events. if there is such a look of half recognition in her •eyes, -6110 is determined that it shall not have a chance of becoming a whole one. Etthor he is mistaken, and she has 1101 recognized hint, or she Is determined not to acknowledge the acquaintance, for she looks away agate al once, nor does sho throw another glance in his direction, indeed, It seems to him plat she hurries cin hoe preparations with added speed, and walks out into the night accom- panied by 'ler double escort before hint, The weather has changed, and for 1110 hotter. The rollicking wind has lulled, • the pattering rain 'ceased. Between the ragged, black cloud -sheets star -points shine, and a shimmering 100011 shows her wet face reflected in the puddles. Talk, wilt S. had been impossible on their way lo tho meeting, is not only possible but cosy now, and Brown Is evidently greatly inclined for fl. 13ur- g0ync. on the other hand, had never felt more disinclined. It is not so 010011 that 11e is out of lunette with his tiresome friend, though he is het, loo, as that his whole mind is centred out making his memory give up the secret of that Pace that. has conic back to slim out of ,come vague cavern of his past. Who is the w0011111 totem 110 101101.5, and who knows 111110? ["00, a1 reflec- tion, he is sure that fiat took of hers was one of half -of more than half -recog- nition, and yet whose place in his his- tory. whose very name he seeks so 80111103', She does not belong to his Ox- ford days, as he has already ascer- tained. Ile has learnt from 131,own that she does not ibelong to the Oxford of to- duy, being apparently a stranger, and, with her hu5bald, a visitor to the Warden of — College, in whose com- pany they had arrived. 110 esplores 111e succeeding years of his life. In vain; she. has no place there; 1n vain he dives and plunges Into the sea of his memory; he cannot fish up the pearl he seeks. He must Murk buck to earlier days -his school time, the six months he spent in Devonshire with a coach be- fore 110 came tip to New, Ahl 11e has It -lie luta IL at last I Just ns they have reached Brown's door, while he is fum- bling with his laleh-key for the keyhole, Imprecating the moon for withdrawing her shining at the very inslant, he .moM^•L needs her, Burgoyne has Dome up with the shy object of his chase. It is con jured beak into his mind by the sword Devonshire. "I have it," lie 60ys to himself; "her heir 1015 turned whale, that was why I' did not recognize her, it used to be raven -black. But it is she Of conrSO it is 8110.( To think of my not knowing her again 1 Of course itis Mrs. Le Merchant." What a door into the distance that • mumu has opened l -a door • through which he passes into a Devonshire gar. don, and romps wail rosy -faced Devon- shire (tihildeen. The very names of those children do coining back to him. Tom and Charles, those were 111e schoolboys; Rose Miriam, and -Elizabeth, He A.0 and t F recn)ls-absurd 1'1010 of freakish mem- ory -those chUclren's • pets. Tom and Charles had guinea -pigs; Miriam line( a vhat had Rose? Bose white ral; Rose -t must have had something; and Elizabeth had a kangaroo. Elizabeth's 001190roo was short-lived, poor beast, and died labout hay-ttne; the•guiea-pigs and 111e 1911110 rat. have been dead too for ages 1100' of churn. And are Ton and Charles, and Ruse and !Miriam, and bright Elizabeth dead also? Absurd 1 Why, should they be? Nothing more 1n1 - likely 1 'Wily, It Is Only 1e11 years ago, atter all( -. Ifo Is roused from tits meditations by al Brown's voice, to find himself in Brown's study, where its owner Is filling himself a pipe, and faintly, offering hila whisky and water. 13)11 It is only, en distended attention that Burgoyne lends, ei1110)' to the whisky or the whist} s master; and his mistyers are sometimes inattentively beside the mark, to talk, which indeed Is not, without .some likeness to 1110 boasted exploits in Clements Inn, and the affec- tIonate inquiries after Jane Nightwork, of a more famous tool than he. 1L is a relief to the guest when, earlier than ho had eypeeted-a blessing be, no doubt, owes to Mrs. Brown -his host breaks tip the 5ea10e, and he is free to retire to hbS own reon% At ante he Is back hi that Devonshire garden, lie is there Utmost 011 night, between sleep and wake, It is strange" that peason0 end. 1, clretunsla res balf5hec from :015 inent- ory foe len iong years should r)sll book with such lyraulous insistence 11018, St10l1 silly r000llooied 1x1005 croWti +I "'I'l1.e1•0 Is 110 '110.8001 lolly we should net go home now; are yen ready'?" cries Drown, bustling up to 1110 friend, who fins 1101 weited be' this quantal to malar ✓,. 111 races, in climbing apple -trees. E1iza- be1h \vas sixteen; he remembers the fact, because her birthday had fallen two days before his own deportueo. Ile had given her a gold thimble set with turquoises ulnen the opcnslon; it was not a surprise, because ire recalls measuring her finger for the size, Ile can see that small middle finger now. Elizabeth must now be twenty-six years of ago. Where Is slue? What is she -staid, wife or widow? And why Iles Mrs. Lo Marclland;s hair turned snow-white? Had it been mere- ly grey he would not have complained, though he would have deplored the loss of 1110 line smooth inky, sweep he remem- bers. She has a falx right to be grey; Mrs. Le Merchant must be about foriy- six or forty -levan, hien Sonne. 13u1 white, snow -white -tile hue that one connects with a venerable extremity of ago. Can it bo bleached? Ile has heard of women bleaching their hair; but not Mos, Le Marchant, not the Mrs. Le Mar- chant he remembers. She would have been as incapable of blench ns of dye. Then why Is she snow -haired? Bo - cause Providence has so willed it is 111e obvious answer. But someholw Bur- goyne cannot bring himself to believe 111111 she has dome fairly by that white head. With the morning light the might of the Devonshire memories grows weak- er; and, RS 1110 day advances, the Oxford ones resume their sway, How can it be otherwise, when all day long he strays among the unaltered buildings in the sheet sedate college gardens, down the familiar "High," where six years ago, 11e could not lake two steps without be- ing hailed by a jolly fresh voice, claim- ing his company for seine new pleasure; but where now he walks ungreeted, where 1110 smooth -faced boys the meets, and who strike him as so much more boyish than his own contemporaries had done, pass him by indifferently, un- known to the whole two thousand as he is. Ile feels a sort of irrational anger wth them for not recognizing him, though they have never seen him before. Yes, there is no place where a man Is so quickly superannuated as in Oxford. lie is saying this to himself all day, is saying it still as be strolls in the after- noon down MOsopotnnlia, to fill up the 1hn0 before the hour for college chapel. Yes, thorns 310 place where melt so soon turn into ghosts. He has been knocking up 119nins1 them all day at every street corner; they have looked out at 0101 from every grey window in the quad at New -jovial, athletic young ghosts, so much polnfuller to meet than rusty, century -worn old ones. They aro rather less plentiful in Mesopotamia than else- where; perhaps, because in his day, as now, 11iesopotamia on Sundays was given .1801' to the mechanic and the per- ambulator. 011, that (leaven would put it into the head of some Chancellor of the Exchequer to lay a swinging tris upon thin all -accursed vehicle! But not even mech111010 and peramb011110 • can hinder Mesopotamia from being fair on a fine February, day, W11011 1110 beautiful floods are out, the floods that 1110 Thames Conservators and the .Oxford authorities have combined to put down, as 111ey, have most, other beautiful things within their roach. But they have not yet quite succeeded. To -day, for in- stance, the floods aro out in 1019111, Burgoyne Is pacing along 0 brown walk, like a raised causeway, 081111 a sheet of while water on either hand, rolling strong ripples to the hank. Gnarled willows stand islaldCd In 111e coldly urgent water. A blackbird is fly - lug 0111 of 1110 hushes, Milt a surprised look at hiding (himself turned into a sen -bled. No sun; an ov00 sweep of dull silvor to 019111 and left. No sun; and yet es helooks atter doYs of rain, n, the "grand dccoraleur,' as some one happily called 01111. rides out in royalty on a 810.nred sky -field, turning the 1811010 drenched county into mother -at -pearl - a sheet of opal stretched across the drowned meadows; the di:Mince opal too, a delicate, dainty, evalesoenl, loveli- ness 0nn1011001 front the ugly brown jaws Of winter. Burgoyne is.lealing over the wooden bridge beneath which, in IIs noi'nud state, lite venter of the 1nsher rushes clown Impetuously; bat Is now raised to such a 11019111 that it lies level, almost (tush 181111 1.11e plunking. 110 1s staring across 111e iridescent water plain to 'where, in the poetic atmosphere o[ skin aid mist, dome, and schools, and soar- ing spires Blendetherealized. Deny old place 1" he says. under Ills heath, "everybody is dead; end 1 em creed; and 13i'Pwn is tender then eny one, 1 am glad that you, at least, .are still alive 1" Aro these more ghosts conning round the corner? A meet and a. woman ghost strolling along, and looking 000111 them as strangers look, When they ere with- in n glace or Iwo of 1111 100 women says something -something shout 1110 floods -10 her colnponiOn, and at 111e sound. ilia •goyno slants. Ile did net speak last night; if she 111101 spoken. I.811ttld 01680 known her al once. She always had such a sweet volae;' ,- Ire rouses 1118 arms front the bridge - lop, End fuming, meets Ythem face lo, tae, eye to ey0, and 01 011 10sln(4 110 (.las soon thin both recognise 111111, At Mends, and Ile was the familiar conl- rudn of their children, the daily guest at their lode. \\-hat has the unavoidable lapse of those yeas done to slake him less fit for their company at twenty -Hite than he was al nineteen? `there must be some misconception, which a moment will set right. I em afraid that you do not remem- her me, Mrs, Lo Merchant," he says, lifting his hat. This is not quite time, as !le is per- fectly, conv(ncod that they are as much mvara of his Identity as ho is of (hut's, Bel what formula has a man to em- ploy 111 such a case? They both look back at hint with t1 sort of irresolution To his astonishment, in their eyes is a volleily of flight, but apparently she- 1w0111er1's minds moving more quickly than men's -Is the first to realize that flight is out of the question. el am sure that you have no intention of cutting me," Am goes on; with a smile, seeing that she is apparently struggling with a diilicully in utter- ance; eat, least, you must be very, much changed frau what you wore ten years ego If you have. My name is—" "I know -I know !" sihe interrupts, finding speech at last -speech low end hurried. "I remember perfectly. You are Mr. Burgoyne," iter contusion -she always used to be such a placid, even -mannered woman - is so patent, born of whatever unac- countable feeling it may be, that he now heartily wishes ho had let the poor wo- man pass unmolested. But such repen- tance is too late. He has arrested her; she is standing on the gravel path bef010 him, and though he feels that iter extra- ordinary shyness - rnauvoLse 11onle, whatever 11 may be -has infected him- self, he must make some further remark to her. Nothing better occurs to hits than the obvious one - "It is a longtime -it is ten years since we mel." "Yes, ten years; it must be quite ten years; she, assents, evidently making a great effort to regain her composure. She does not feign the slightest plea- sure in the meeting. end Burgoyne feels that the one thought that occupies her mind is how she can soonest end 11 13111 his roused curiosity, together with the dipiculty of parting without further observation after having forced his pre- sence upon thein, combine to pievent her succeeding. "And (tow is the Afoat?" lie asks, re - 11001019 that this, at least, Is a safe question; a brick and mortar house, at ail events, • cannot be dead, "How is Devonshire ?" Apparently it Is not so harmless a question as he had imagined; at least Airs. Le 'Merchant is obviously quite in- capable of answering it. Iter husband, for the first time, comes to cher rescue. "Tia Moat is let," he says, in a dry voice; "we have left Devonshire a long while nine, nine and a half years ago." Tho stoat let 1 Jildging by the light of that Windsor Castle had been turned into a Joint Stock Company Hotel. 11 is probably', then, some money trouble that has turned Mrs. Le Merchant's hair white -snow-white, as he now sees it to be. But no, he rejects the explanation ns insufficient. She is not the woman to have taken a diminished income so 011X11 to heart. Good manners forbid him to ask, "Why is the 1\•loat let?" So all' that he says is, "Nine and a half years ago? Why., that must have been very, soon lifter I left Devonshire," He addresses 'ills 800101k involuntarily ranter to the wife than to the husband, but she does not answer it. Tier eyes are fixed upon the bubbles sailing so fast upon the swollen river, wdiicll is dis- tinguishable only by its current from the saneness of the surrounding hater. A lark -[here is always a lurk in Mesopo- tamia -a tiny, slrang-tln'oaled singer, that never seems to have to stop to Iako breath, filis up" the silence, shouting somewhere out of sight among the black clouds, in and out of which the uncer- tain sylt is plunging. Whether of a Moneyed nature or not, there's evident- ly something very unpleasant calmed - ed with Their leaving their native coun- try and their immemorial home, so ho had better get away from the subject as fast as possible. "Anyhow," he says, • with a rather nervous smile, "I hope that the world has been treating you kindly -that things have gone well with you since those dear old days when you were so good to me." There is an intent's pause -perhaps the would not have noticed iL had not his suspicions been already aroused - before tho husband, again laking upon him the taste of replying, alstvers, with a sort of labored carelessness - "01i, yes, thanks; 080 do not com- plain. It lens not been a very' rosy lima for landlords lately, as yet are aware." "And you?" cries the wife, striking to With a species of hurry in leer voice -a 11111'03' due, as his instinct tells 111111, to the fact of the fear of his entering 11110 more detailed Inquiries. "And you? We must not forget you. Have you been well, fotu'ishing, 1111 lhls long lime? Do you still live with your—" She stops abruptly. ii, is appar0111.bhat she hits entirely/0/901101 what wits the species of relation wilts whom he lived, There is n little tinge of 1)tlornoss in lois heart, ,plough not in Ms tone, as he supplies the missing word "stmt," And, ON, all, lie had forgotten her name; Why should not she forget his aunt? "With my aunt? Well, 1 never exnctiy lived with her; I, made, and 1111100 m,3' henllqua'lers_ there when 1 , 0111 !n Eng- land, 1Vhdel) is not very often. I have boon a:, rolling ,stone; I hnve rolled pretty well round :the world sh10e we parted.' '1'1tey do not ode in the )rest where he 1100 rolled, nor holy mud) nor how 111110 moss 110 hes collected hi the process. They ere only 111niieg how 1110y can best got rid of titin. llt:tt the past is strong upon 11101; 1e cermet let theta slide out of 1]!s life mein for, another ten--lwenly years perhaps, without finding out, from Ilion something ebout his ilye merry 'pl0yma1051 Ills Inquiry must needs be ut Vngtio elle,' Who dares ask specifically after this or that man, 08011100, n1' 68011child, when len yca1Ss have toiled their II'des between ? "Andy u080nl1190117"110,:113'.,,00111 Et certain wistfulness laking in the different banal phrase. "Deur rocs what a jolly party the used lo be! 1 suppose that --plat they are all uul in the world now?" , Ilia oyes are fixed apprehensively upon the molder of those young eenn'ades, to when he lOuis cautiously' alludes, l'er. (taps, carefully as he tae worded his question, 110 11)0.y have douched some lereible raw, Her face Is turned osldo, pv00011109 only, its profile to slim, but she answers tamest at once --- "Yes; 180 aro all srnllered 110;8. C011111e is denting prangs 111 Florida -- lie does not mind the heat; you know he always said no we0.111e1' could 1111 11,11 11,1 for him; and Tom has an ostrich farm ,11 Australia, and Rose has been 11111'11 d two years -she has a dear little baby; and 11'(iriam Is married. foo; 18" have just calve clown from her wedding." "Miriam merrier! I" repeals Burgoyne 1n n tone of wonder. "Miriam with a husband instead of a whits rut l" The mother laughs. 11 is the first time that he has heard hey laugh, and she used to laugh so often. "' think she likes the exchange," There is another little pause, again filled by the lark's crowding notes. There ere two words battering ngatust the gale of Burgoyne's lips far egress - two words that he dares not inlet'. "And Elizabeth?" She was the eldest. She would naturally have been men- tioned first; but neither first nor Inst is there any speech of her. She must, then, be dead --dead long ago, ten; for there is no trace of mourning in ler puerile' dress. Elizabeth is dead -- bright Elizabeth, the beauty and the pet! Is it only fancy that the sees in the eye of 111z0be111's mother a dread lest he shall ask tidings of her, as she says, hastily, and with a smile,"Well, I ant afraid we must be going; it has been eery pleasant meeting you again, but 1 am afraid that the Warden will be ex- pecting us?" She adds to Icor porting hand -shake no wislh for a repetition of that meet- ing, and Ile watches them down the Willow \Valk with a sort of sadness in his heart. "Elizabeth is dead! Elizabeth is un- doubtedly dead I" (To be continued). m - MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL. It was a particular habit of John Mc - Nab to have a glass of Scotch. whisky every night, and his good wife put the bottle and glass on the table at ten punctually. For fifteen years John lint never exceeded his one glass, but one Monday night he helped himself a second time. "Did you drink twa fu' glosses?" 1150011 wife, "I did1110," replied John, solemnly, `Art' what's the meaning o' such ex- travagance rive?" "Neel, it's 111ce this. The rrleenlster said in ifs sermon yesterday that every elan is really twa-(bat is, a material man and an immaterial one, an oolor and an inner man, so tae speak, and it seems to me ane gless atvoen twa is hardly enough." Mts. McNnb said no more, but nest night at ten, hated' of a bottle and a; glass, she placed two glasses -ono full and one empty -on the table. "What's 111e empty, gloss for?" asked MONTbeaby, 're baith fu'," replied the wife. "Gee awn wi' you, woman; you're haveriii " Ota, no, I'nl no'," was the canny re- ply; "tine's (u' o' material whisky. That's . for the lbalerlul Ulan. The ither's fu' o' inunaterial wlmsky. That's for the immaterial man. Noo dae you understand?" And John was reluctantly compelled to admit that ho 1111. Mi'1 m1'0 HT. Ile: "Can I see you home, miss?" She: "Yes, if you wish to. All you've got to do is to stand perfectly still, and if you're not, too shortsighted you'll manage it easily. I an living just across the road." " An Irishman hadj ust come Over from Ireland to London to seek his fortune, when, as he was walking along one of the busy thoroughfares, he sate a batch of policemen going on duly. "Begorral" he exclaimed, "11103' taint me Rho strides of London were paved wid 'gold; but I find it's paved wit." 'cop. pers.' " if rr aGo gave utter mankind would have to invent milk. Milk is Na- ture's emulsion—butter put in shape for diges- tion. Cod liver oil is ex- tremely nourishing, but It has to be emulsified before we can digest it, Scott's Emulsion combines the best oil with the valuable hypo» phosphites so that it is easy to digest and does Far more good than the oil alone could. That makes Scott's Emulsion he most strengthening, nourishing food - rnedl- cine in the world. Send 1' or free sample. SCOT'' az tIC DING, Chomists Toronto, Otit, SOO, and 411.171), 1I1 drug/stets YOU REALLY MUST TRY C illeLON GREEN 'ITA. ktsrne flavor as Japan, only perfectly free front adult. aerations of any kind. it is to the Japan tea drinker what a1SAl.ADA'0 Slack is to the black tea drinker, Lead packets only. 000, 000 anti 60c per M. AlkoWteleoNAAAlsAAWASVONS1 ON Tri FARNL FARM POULTRY RAISING. In dealing with poultry and the Ginner the esigeoeies of th0 latter, as to situation and circumstances, must be thoroughly understuod, 7'o the fanner ifs poultry is only one of many different branches of (eon 110110, it would. be sim- ply misleading to induce him to keep more fowls, or 1101/1 out more chickens than he can suceessfliy manage and rear. IL is errs to bo 1108110 01 mind that, the great bulk of the egg and poultry, supply must come from the. farmers of the country til all seasons of the year. It is also to bo remembered that it is not for u few tarmers with n great ninny hens each that the largest. proportion or this supply will come, but rather from the many formers with a few hens caoh, and who two, there- fore, more likely to manage them sue- cessfully. There is no reason, however, why a farmer should not 1n111i0 a pipe - chilly of poultry raising if incline -nen and circumatal,:e lead 111111 to do so. From 100 to 1311 hens should not be loo 1111nhy for the ordinary Tarnier to pro- fitably, handle, and it should not be difficult for him to hatch out, and rear to marketable age 13U 001110ens. If he has help from wife or family a large 110011AT 11119111 be reared. There are two great markets open to producers, viz. :-Tito I -lump and 13ri. List Markels. Both offer remunerative prices for the reliable pl'oduet in the shape of eggs, and the superior gnn111,1 of poultry at almost all seasons of the year. 1, 'Their fowls should be of a variety that arc ns newly all the year 80111111 money makers as it is possible to have them. 2. They should cine from vonstilu- tionally strong and good egg -laying strains, 3. They should be gots' 1111101' layers; moult 111 midsummer, 711171 1171 of 111e best market types, 50 that their progeny will be the sane. h. To have the whiter layer and flesh producer combined will necessitate a choice of one of the dual purpose or utility varieties. 5. Should eggs only be required for selling at all seasons, except tate mmtll- ing period, one of We non,setling varie- ties will answer the purpose. 6, In producing eggs fur stack the purchaser should carefully asecrinin that they come from the best egg -laying strains and market types. IIOW TO DRiESS POULTRY. \Ve will assume that you Have a plump chicken or turkey ready for the knife, and, as 11 will he better le make it a Milo more explicit, we will say chicken, for all are handled in much the 8111110 manner, Billing.-Allach a stoat cord, with the noose at the loose end. to beam in suer a position that Ilse bird. In strug- gling. will not be able to strike itself against any obstacle -then hold its feet together -thous( them through the. loop -see that they nye held securely and that the head of the bird is about oppo- site the waist line, nr a little below. Now lake told of the wings and lock them --this is done by bringing one over the other and catching the tip 1,f. the other tying under that of the lower. This will make it possible for the bird to extricate itself and will allow the dresser free use of bolt !lands. Then in the last hand grasp 111e head trolly and force the bill open by the The Horne Market calls for fresh egg: ase of the thtmlb and middle finger. good ontl pnl.ultry at all periods of the Alter You have a secure hold, thrust the year. The better the quality of the poultry and the fees101` 111e eggs the better are he prices obtained. The prices paid. for 11ew 10111 eggs in win- ter in the leading dice of the Dominion range front 35 to 50 cents per dozen; for poultry, from 20 cents per pound for early birds, to 15, 10 and 8 cents as 100 season advanr.0s. The aim of the pro - ducat', in this case, should he to reach the higher price markets of Toronto and Montreal. For hot11 poultry and eggs there is an increasing demand. The aim of 111e farmer should be the year when they are worth most money. A striking feature of 111e summer egg trade of the past two years has been the high Nice paid by leading purve3ors for 1110 strictly new -laid article. As 111911 as 20, and in some cases, 25 cone per dozen, were path lust summer. The cause of these high prices Is, perhaps, given in the words of a leading city grocer -with a choice trade -who re - it -nuked to the writer : Our customers will not have any other kind that the strictly new -laid eggs with the peculiar flavor to idem," and we must try and meet this demand. Whether these un- usual summer prices are only temporary or are likely, to be permencnt remains to be seen, but the trend of the markets 10 recent years, is to increase rather than decrease 1110 vaso 1,i' the choice product. The British Market and its require- ments are :-Large eggs, 7 or 8 of which should weigh one pound, and preferably of brown shell. They should be Of good flavor and as fresh as pos- sible; clean and carefully packed, so as to present an inviting appearance on arrival; poultry, only of the best mar- ket types, and should be shipped in order to secure 1110 best possible prices. As in the case of eggs appearance and quality are great factors in,detormining values, The careful packing of poultry and eggs 1n0y, be attended to by 111e ship- pers, but it is only the farmers who can place the fresh eggs end poultry of the desired type and quality in the (lands of 111e storekeeper 00 shipper. Cold-slornge facilities are such that the products ts a•0 kept 111 excellent condi- non o d1-(ou en route. Formers mud other producers should nt once realize that success In meeting the requirements of the mm'cels en- mmneraled cat best be brought about by compliance with the following con- ditions, viz. blade down the throat just behind the head and draw It across, with the point slipping across 111e neck -or backbone. This will sever the jugular vein and in- sure a good "stick." New withdraw 111e knife. and allow the bird to bleed for a few moments, then place the point of the 1011110 against the roof of the mouth tstilt the Gulling edge towards the left Ilnnd and force it ihrcugll,thc membrane foto the brain cavity, -turn it three- quarters of the way round, twisting the wrist in the natural way, and then draw the blade directly across the base of the brain, thus severing the spinal cord and thereby destroying the control which, in life, the bird has over its 1 teaers. h With a few trials this method will be- come quite easy, and you will find the feathers almost ready to drop off, As s0011 as the bratn has leen pierced the dresser should turn the knife into the skin of the lower bill 01101 11101)5 a 11010 through w01011 a hook suspending a weight of some kind should be hung (a horse-shoe attached to a piece of strong wire is excellent), this keeps the neck extended and assures of a thee- ough bleeding, which is all important. Plucking. -After this operation quick- ly rttb the hand d0W11 11,0 neck, remov- ing 111e feathers therefrom, then pull the tail and wing feathers by a quick, firm twist and begin to remove those from the tenderest parts of the body, ttelfc11 on the chickens are the breast and back near the hese of the tail, and on the tur- key the breast and thigh. Never use the finger nails to plck proinlsouously-the side of the fore- finger and end of the thumb are far quicker and will not scratch. When pulling the short, or pin feathers; the nails will have to conte into the play, but great care should be used that only a careful clean pluck is made -not a scratch or scrape. By the lime the body is Onlshed tho bird will be so nearly dead that flapping will be almost impossible so that the wings can be unlocked and picked clean. It is not necessary to remove the point feathers. Nearly every auC - wife values lite turkey's for brushes, and clo not mind paying for the slight additional weight, while the, chicken's may be cut oft at the ale' joint and not efl+et the sale of the bird in the least, -thus saving considerable time and d1segYeeable 10111. C111 U tt '. 1\ \\,\ (11 Y 14,4l ui tllhl(IU1l(1 !all I taus, • ..m w 1'r • id Boy -is 11 at pie good? Ilnc1 tiny -Naw( "Den 'why yet, eatingg It?" ''Tor aggravate de outer kids! Day, tuttgino dttt it's deliolousi"--Lite. SIR SURGERY MARVELS FORTUNES PICKED i14 01f DUOS GOING DOWN. Body Wrecked tassels' Ilavo Been Safely Taken Off Dangerous Becks, The most celebral0d 8660 01. salvage La ihat of the great steamer Milwaukee, `110 was a brand-new 1'essel of 7,300 tons when, upon her first voyage, she tut1 hard a.,d s• upon 11110 r11 08)19• of ilia :lcuttshfuscoast scar9A11a100-0 deep, There she lay, jammed hard and fast, and oxlioscd to 111e sinal of a heavy. swell whfch wllldn the first tj•0nly'-four lours twisted her bows 10 pines. Captain 1 entrusted rain 13ac11t,io1, who was u l W1111 1110 taste of salving her, saw at first glance that the tore part of the ship was beyond hope, and leselved 4011 a des- perate expedient. Ifo hung a bell of small dynnrnlle cartridges around the lull, just forward of the engine -roots bul0lieed, end by 0ring these, actually, out the vessel completely in two. BIG DIREDGER BROKEN IN TWO. The broken bows were left upon the rocks, but all the after -part of the ship. cOnlltilting the valuable engines, lva5 floated sn[ely off. The saved portion was then towed back to the Tyne, where Messrs. Swan and Bunter, her original builders, constructed a new fore -part, and splicing this; onto the stern section, made iter as good as new. An immense dredger called 111e Wal- ter 1311)4, which sank in Leith harbor, was vegetal in a similar fashion to the Milwaukee. Settling on a large rade, she broke her back. The salvors fas- tened arouse 11e1' heavy rubber bands containing dynamite cartridges, and filing these electrically, broke her clean in two. The open ends were then closed in with bulkheads, the water pumped out, and ut once the forepart rose like a cork. But. the stern end, being full of heavy machinery, refused to rise. When it did rise, 11 was no sooner up than it capsized end sank again. But the sal- vage 111011 steric tee 1110 work, and though ii sank five more times, yet eventually they' got ll up and towed it l0 shore. Thu cost of this kind of salvage is naturally malty, heavy. The bia1 for about raising the Walter Bibby \\ e1' Y Nas 0'20,000, FAST ON TIIE DREADED MANACLES. Many a vessel which once lay an op- parenlly hopeless wreck upon an iron- bound coast is to -day carrying great cargoes across the ocean at many knots an hour. The Plhiladelphia, for instance, which once. as 111e steamship Paris, held the speed record of the Atlantic. Ml will remember how one dark night she ran upon the Manacles, and lay there in an apparently hopeless position. with great rocks piercing her steel bottom. A German firm undertook the task of salving her on the "no cure no pay" Principle. If floated they were, we be- lieve, to have hall the value of the ves- sel. It was a most successful gamble for the salving firm, but great credit must bo given to them for the skill wihich they displayed. In a 'few weeks dil'ers had blowvn away the rocks and patched every hole, and the water was penlped out, big tugs laid hold of her, and presently she wits hauled out of her r0elcy bed and towed safely into Falmouth Harbor. It is said that the cost of the salving operations was less than $22,500. As the value or the liner was certainty not less than $750,000, the profits from the operation are 00.5!)' reckoned. 0 In 1811„ H.M.S. Rowe, a great 1 ton ironclad, ran upon the i'ereiro Reef off the Spanish coast, and, heeling over; lay there with her bows clean under water and numbers of sharp points of rock sticking RIGiIT TIIROUGH II11) DO'ITOM. .A Swedish salvage company undertook to save her. Divers went down, and, using very small charges of dynamite,. blasted away the rocks that protruded through her sides. In all, 400 cubic feet of rocks were taus removed, Next, a huge shield of metal Was cast and titled over the broken part of the hull and lightly bolted on. At ebb tide immense pumps were set to work, and presently 1110 grant ship was seen to bo slowly lifting out of 111e rocky cradle in which she had lain for so maty weeks. As the title turned the ifowe rose, and at full flood was towed safely out. To -day, fourteen years later, stio still figures upon the active Navy list. The rescue of H.M.S. Victorious was not, strictly, speaking, a work of ship surgery, for the vessel's hull was never injured; but it is worth recording for the ingenuity disployed by the salvage people. On February 11111, 1800, the tons vent [ I5 00U 7 t Victorious, u vesseln , 11groltnd off Port Said in heavy gale. She ran on to a balk of slieky mud red sand, and every effort, to get 110r off with her own engines and by powerful Lugs proved unavailing. R,5101D OUT OF 57 FEET OF \VATEM It was the engineer -in -chief of the Suez Canal who solved the pr0bleln, Ile suggested placing n dredger g on o1, It c side of the vessel 10 dig, the sand awnp. 110111 leder her keel, at the surto time employing two lank -boats to force heavy jets of water .under 111e 00110111 of the stranded ship ,and so keep the sand 11001 settling beck. '1'llis device proved eempletely successful, and within forty- eight hours the Victorious 11'00 safe In 313 feet of writer, fiow dangerous her position was luny he judged from 1he fact That anolhrl' vessel which ran upon the seem ' sand.. bed a low years previously, sank in 'up to the masthead, a1d, Ill's there buried 1111 the end of the world, What is saki to have been lire most wonderful fent 01 'salvage engineering ol, its kind wits 1110 raising of the 0nhie grant ship Utopia, in the 13ay of Citral. tat'. She ren on the ram of H.M.S. Anson, and sank in 57 feet of 1011101. Tho depth was great, and the currents fierce; yet slivers 5ueeceded in erecting upon 1t88 a 11140 eolfer-dam, \vhlcl 3 raised her shies above water. Tier hull Was then 301Ched, 1110 water pumped eel, and slhe wos floated. Token' 1)06(0 to Scotland, she was reputed to ria haunted, and atter laying by for years was, we believe,-ven111011y broken 1130