The Brussels Post, 1906-11-15, Page 7•
.¢. .04,040.4soe-a4.0-aossa 0v*a+0$a*Y4dscs$o4-A-0.0+0 o4o-0-a linnet and handkerchief into he lap, f I!oils kisses. Perhaps 1t is they, perhaps
Q She has forgotten her effort to comecul.it is the thought which tilt:Wes her ,meet
the blenicness of ilei' dismay. Unless ' hesitating speech that bring a light lhlto
she ccneeais the whole of her face In- Anulus leer -reddened eyes,
deed, the attempt would be hh vain, since "If you will net ee be better off--"
• a u' A{ * >
each feature speaks it equally. She slops.
°iter whole fortune?" site repeals, ul- "Yrs, deer, go on; 'If 1 shall never he
• a n.. ! y Rmost inaudibly. "All?" seller ofC—I certainly never shall; I
feel sure that you will be able to put my
d their earnings for the next ten years into
your eye, and see none the worse for
then[ 1"
t t p 11 y i quotation,
If — you — will—nerer—be—hetter—
• d d l t I t d off," she repeals again, more slowly, and
boos kin g off at the same place,
•
"Well, dear?"
"IL you will never be hotter off," This
• y y y time she finishes her sentence; bol 1t is
rendered almost inaudible by We fact
+0+0+0 0-4•04-0,4-0-4-0+0+0+0-0÷0-4-0-4-0+0-4....)+0J of her flushed face end quivering lips
being pressed agnlnsl his breast. "Why
should we wait any longer?"
"Why should we wall any longer?"
To most persons, granted the usual con-
dition of reeling of a betrothed couple,
this would seem a very natural and
legitimate deduction from the premises;
but, strange to say, it comes upon Bur-
goyne with the shock of a surprise. Ile
has been thinking vaguely of his
change of fortune as a cause for un-
limited delay, perhaps fur the rupture
of )ifs engagement, never as a reason
for its immediate fulfilment.
Ito gives a sort of breathless gasp,
which is happily too low for Amelia
with her still hidden face to hear. To
he married at once! To sit down for all
lime to Amelia and £S00 a yearl To
forego for ever the thrilling wandering
life; the nights under the northern stars,
the stealthy tracking of shy forest crea-
tures; the scarce coarse delicious food,
the cold, the fatigue, the hourly peril,
that, since its probable loss Is ever in
sight, makes lite so sweetly worth hav-
ing—all in short that goes to make up
so many an Engiislunan's ideal of
felicity; that has certainly hitherto gone
to make up Jim's. To renounce it all!
There is no doubt that the bitterness of
this thought cones lirsl, but presently,
supplanting it, chasing it away, there
follows another, a self -reproachful light
flashing over his past eight years, shov-
ing him 1118 own selfishness colossal and
complete for the first time. In a par-
oxysm of remorse, he has lifted Amel-
ia's face, and. framing It with his
hands, looks searchingly into it.
"I believe," he says in 0 shaken voice,
"that you would have married mo eight
years ago, on my pittance, 11 f had asked
yon l"
Nu "Yes" was over written in larger
print than that which he road to her
patient pale eyes. Even at anis instant
there darts across him a wish that they
were not quite so pale, but he detests
himself tor R.
"And I never suspected ill" he cries,
compuncliously. "I give you my word
of honor, I never suspected ill I thought
you looked upon my poverty in as pro-
hibitory a light as i did myself." '
"1 do not call it such great poverty,"
replies Amelia, her practical mind re-
assuming its habitual sway over her
1C Herr,
mot tons. "Of course it is an income
am nobody's heir we must tools facts that would require a little monngement;
in the facet Amelia, dear"—in a lone but if we cut our coat according to our
cloth, and did not want to move about
loo much, we might live either in a not
very fashionable part of t.ondon, or in
some cheap district in the country very
comfo•lab(y."
Despite his remorses, a cold shiver
runs down Burgoyne's spine at the pic-
ture that rises, conjured up with too
much distinctness by her words, before
his mind's eye; the picture of a smug
Bayswater vilia, with a picturesque
parlormaid, or the alternative cottage
in some dreary Wiltshire or D0rselshire
village, with a shrubbery of three Au -
cube bushes, and a kitchen -garden of
half an acre. It may be that, her frame
lacing in such close proximity to his,
she feels the Influence of his shiver, and
that it suggests her next sentence, which
is in a less sanguine key.
go be continued),
OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
"What, at my pretty chickens
an h0 r dam?"
says Jhn, oppressed by+per overwhelmed
tools 111(0 1111 erlinelnl and iit•,ary tartly,
and in not ar 0ulo•1 apt
illy dear, o no look $o bi'o tori- lent' e .
I amt not absolutely destitute; 1 meed not
become a sanuwielt man. I have still
got my x'800 a year, al ver cwn,
which ueflhee man nor mouse, neither
curate nor vicar can mite from me, I
can still go on 010111lg upon that; the
question is" --his words coming more
slowly, and Ins tone growing graver—
"have I any right to ask you to riot on
it too?"
tier hand has gone 1n feverish host°
out to his for answer, and her eyes, into
which the tear. arewelling, to k with
t I o v l
nn intense dumb wistfulness into his;
but, for the moment, it remains dumb.
There is something painful to Burgoyne
in prat wistfulness, almost more pain-
ful than the telling of that, news which
ltos produced It. Ile loops down upon
the table -cloth, and, with his disengaged
hand, the one not Imprisoned in his be-
trothed's fond hold, draws patterns with
a paper -knife accidentally left there,
'The only thing I blame Iter for," he
continues, not following up the branch
of the subject that ifs last speech had
begun to open up, and speaking with a
composure which, to the stricken
Amelia, appears to evidence bis attain-
ment of the highest pinnacle of manly
fortitude, "the only thing 1 blame her
tor, is her having hindered shy adopt-
ing any profession. Poor old woman,
It was not malice prepense, I know; she
had not seen her Jessamcy then, proba-
bly had not oven a prophetic instinct of
hint, but as things turned out"—stifling
a sigh—"it would have been kinder to
itave put mein the way of earning my
own living."
Amelia's head has sunk down upon
Ws hand -he feels her hot tears upon it;
but now that the theme has no longer
reference to herself, she can speak. She
straightens herself, and there is a flash,
sucli as he has very seldom seen there,
in her rather colorless orbs.
"1t was monstrous of her!" she cries,
with the almost exaggerated passion of
a usually very self-controlled person.
"After staving always told you that you
were to be her heir!"
"But had she told me so?" replies Jim,
passing his hand with a perplexed air
over his own face. "That is what 1 havo
been trying to recall for the last few
days. I never remember the time when
I did not belioro it, so I suppose that
some ono must havo told me so; but I
could not swear that she herself had
ever put it down in black and while.
However," tossing his head back with a
gesture as of 0110 who throws off his
shoulders a useless burden, "what does
that matter now? I an not her i' I
CIIA1'1'ER V.
Thera is no particular reason why
Burgoyne sl(,uld not Impart to his com-
panion what he knows—after all it Is
not very luue't—about their two
countrywomen. Upon reflection he had
told himself
this, and conquered a re-
luctance,
Fluctance, 11at he cannot account for, to
mentioning their name; and to relating
the story 01 inose shadutvy idyllic two
months of his life, which tom 011 of it,
.that has ever come into contact with
theirs. So that by the lime—some
thirty -,pix (lours Paler—whin they Peach
Florence, the younger roan is in pos-
session of 55 much information about
the objects of their 0011110011 interest, as
It, is in the power of the elder one to
.impart.
To neither of them, meanwhile, Is any
.second glimpse vouchsafed of those ob-
jects, eagerly—though with different de-
grees of overtness in that eagerness—as
they both look out for then) among the
luggage -piles and the tweed -clad Eng-
gitsll ladies at the station. 11 had been
the intention of Burgoyne Mut lie and
his friend should put up et lite sabre
hotel as that inhabited by his betrothed
and her faintly; hat finding that It is
full, he orders 1.001115 at the Minerva,
and in the fallen dusts of a rather chill
spring night, finds himself traversing
the short distance from the railway to
that hotel,
As lie and Byng sit over their coffee
after dinner in the sails a manger, al-
most its only lenenis at that late hour,
the younger man remarks matter -of -
Melly, as if stating a proposition almost
too obvious 10 be world ultering—
"I suppose you are oft to the Anglo-
American nosy."
"I think not," replies Jim slowly; "It is
past ten, you see, and they aro early
people." Ile adds a moment labor, as If
suspecting his own excuse of insufll-
ciency, `air. Wilson Is rather an in-
valid, anti there is also an invalid, or
ecu[ -invalid sister; I think that I had
better not disturb them to-nlgh.L"
Byng has never been engaged to he
[Harried, except In theory, and it is cer-
tainly no business of his to blow his
:friend's flogging ardor Into flame, so 11e
contents himself with an acquiescent
observation to the effect that, the tarin
must have been Cato. But at all events
the next morning finds Burgoyne paying.
his fia'cre at the door of the Anglo-
American, with the confidence of a per-
son who Is certain of finding those he
seeks, a confidence justified by the re-
sult; for,` having followed a waiter
neross a court -yard, and heard him
knock et a door on the ground -floor,
that door opens with en instantaneous-
ness which gives the idea of an ear
having been pricked to catch the ex -
Pedant rap, and the next moment, the
intervening garcon having withdrawn,
Jim Mends face to ince with his Amelia.
Her features are all alight with pleasure,
but her lir'st words are not particularly
81110ro115.
"Would you mind coming into th0
dining -room? Sybilla Is in the drawing -
room already this morning. She said
she was afraid it was going to be one of
her bad days, so 1 thought" (ranter re-
gretfully) "that possibly she would he
a little later than usual in coining clown;
ling himself upon a fresh subject, since
lie feels prevented by circumstances
frgnl saying anything likely to bring
Min much distinction upon the old one.
"Your tattier?"
"Ills throat is better"—with an accent
r piety, of hesitating filial sil as if [hero were
I
something else about him that was not
better:
"And Syuula 7"
"Oh, poor Syhilla 1 she has her bad
days now and then."
"And, like the early Christians, she
resolves to have all things in common
I expect that her family havo their bad
days, too, say's Jhn, drily
"'Well, we do sometimes," replies
Amelba with reluctant admission; "but
she really does try to control herself,
poor thing; site is hardly ever unbear-
able now."
"And Cecilia?"
"She is rather in trouble just now;
I fear were is no doubt that the plan
she was engaged to lies thrown her
over. You never saw him? Oh, no 1
Of course the affair came on after you
left England."
Burgoyne's eyebrows have gone up,
and his face has assumed an expression
less of surprise than admiration at this
piece of news.
flow many does that make? Four?
Well, .courage! There is luck in odd
numbers; perhaps she will land the
fifth."
"Sho will toll you about it herself;
says Anoltu; "she tells everybody; she
likes lancing about It—ii is very odd,
but she does, When you thou 1110
over"—rubbing his hand, which she
holds, with shy and deprecating ca•ess-
ingness against her own cheek—"I shall
tell nobody; I she.. keep my misfortune
very derlc."
"When I dol" repeats he, with laugh-
ing emphasis; but to his own ear both
the emphasis and time laughter sound
flat. This is perhaps the cause why he,
a second time rums away from his sub-
ject; or. more probably, he is really in
chaste to get to the new one. "Mean-
while," he says, his eves involuntarily
dropping to the carpet, as if he had
ratllar..not see the effect of his words
upon her; "meanwhile, some one has
thrown me over."
"You?"
"Yes, me; I did not write it lo you,
because I do not see much use in put-
ting down bad news in black and while,
and even with this little delay, I an
afraid," with a dry smile, "that you
will have plenty of time to enjoy it.
He pauses for an instant, and she does
not hurry him with any teasing ques-
tions; but wails, with meek patience,
t11 ho feels inclined to go on.
"My aunt is going to be married.
If he has wished that his news shall
produce the effect of a torpedo, he has
no cause to complain of his want of
success. Ills placid Amelia vaults to her
feet.
"Married!" she repeats with a gasp.
"Why, she is quite, quite old!"
"She is sixty -[vel"
The color has flooded all Amella's
taro; the blazing color that means not
pleasure, but consternation. It is some
moments before she can frame her next
query.
but, on the contrary, site is much `And is he?—do you?—bas she chosen
enelier." wisely, I mean?"
It is possible that an extremely ardent Jlin loughs again.
love may be indellendonl of surround- Can one choose wisely at sixty -live?
Well, whether she has or no is a mat-
ter of opinion; she has cltoson the curate
of the parish, who, by reason of Itis ex-
treme juvenility is still in deacon's
orders."
Miss Wilson's limbs are shaking so
that she cannot maintain her standing
altitude. She sinks down by the din-
ing -table again in her hard :their. It is
a very hard chair on which to receive
such ill -news.
ings; may burn with as Reece a name,
when its owner or victim Is sealed on
rl a hard horse -hair chair beside a dining -
room table in a little dull hotel back
room, as when the senses are courted
} by softly -cushioned lounges, penetrating
flower scents, and cunningly arranged
• bric-a-brac; but perhaps Jim's passion
aI is not of this intense and Spa•lan goal-
ie" sly. At all events a chill steals over him
es Amelia leads the way into that small
and uncheerful chamber where the WII- "And you cannot hinder It, cannot you
son family daily banquet. fie is not so dissuade her?" she asks falteringly.
lost to all sense of what England and "I shall not try; poor old woman.
Amelia expect of him, as not to Lake her Aller all, she has a right to pursue her
in his arms and kiss her very kindly own Happiness in her own way, only I
and warmly, before they sit down on wish that sire had made up her mind
two hard chides side ly side; and even twenty years ago; though to be sure,
when they have done so, he still Holds how could she?'—with another smile—
her hand, and kisses it now and then, "slime, at that time, her beldogroo i
Ho has a great many things to say to was not much more than born."
her, but "out of the abundance of the A dead silence supervenes—asilence
i! +
110901 the mouth speekolh" is not in- of shocked stupefaction on the ono sloe,
variably true. Sometimes that very of rather dismal brooding on the other,
abundance clogs the utterance, cud, AL length Amelia nerves 119rsolf to put
after a ton ,months' sep05011mi, 111e a question upon which 11 seems to her,
hinges of even lovers' tongues are apt not very incorrectly, lhnt her whole tu•
at first to be somewhat rusty. lure hangs. She does It in such a low
"And are you really glad to see me voice that none but very sharp ears
again?" asks the woman Sho is scarce- could have caught it, Jines eats ere so;
ly a girl, having the doubtful advantage practised ns they are in listening for Ito
of being Iher betrothed's senior by two stealthy trend of wild animals, and for
years. The horsehair choirs ere abet- the indescribable sounds of mountain
ously powerless to take time edge off 1100 solitudes at night,
bliss; end she 0011 scarcely commend "Will it—will it—sake a great differ -
her voice as 5110 asps the question, 01100 torgoyyou?e li"
fts his eyes, w
"I decline to answer all sucla futile 1)uuhich have
in-
quiries," replies he, smiling not un- :been idly bent on the floor, and looks
kindly; but there is; no tremor in his .straight and full al her across the eon.
sense. "Even if I did not diecotn'age net' 01 1110 141hla
Ulnen on principle, I should have no line "It will mato) all the difference! he
to answer them to -day; I have so much answers slowly.
to say 10 yell That I do not know where Poor Aphelia is holding her handl:er-
to begin.". chief in 1100 hand. She lifts it to her
"After len months 1118t 18 net surprls- mouth and biles a comer of iL to elide
mg," rejoins sire, with a stifled 51(011. the quivering of her lips nod chill. She
There is 190 sentimental reproach In hor does not wish to add to his thin by Any
words or tone; but. In bollf 1[11•X5 0 note breakdown on her own 111111. But Jim
of wistfulness which gives his eonseienoe divines the quivering even utidot' the
a )prick. 0901501 of cambric, and loops away
O1 course nal of course not( he re- again. „
joins, hastily; hut, it Is not really ten 1100 Ili0n07 is 121)11110( entirely In lier
months—no, surely-- Men power," 110 continues, In an on-
s
1 n month. one week, 1 twovoice; '
w da 's atonal and
emotion -Al when s
four hours and n 110111" days, he an-
naunn0d .her marriage la roe, she nisO
Ageing such exncllhido of 1110111nry announced her intention of settling the
what.ullpeel inns lie? Bo nttenlpts none, whole of 11 upon her--lar"—he p0usee a
and milt' thinks with n faint unjust b'r!, second, as it resolved. In keep out 01,1115
taltati that she might have spiurd hhrvoice the.1ecent of snlire end bitleines5
the add lionrs, ,het pl0ree5 through its colnl—"her ins-
",Uld hmv, ere things gels, it? flow aro band." mnitor•of-loaf Arneth guilty, and he Can Oharaeler one. 1t Is a l00 easy descent
,you all getting on?".he asks,pro `its melte has dropped holt shielding ! g
g I 'lp i• i P 1 sb g llyv ,Its thanks ter ;� J+1 colllyu»O• that lu p We ;ti ,�t1,ty cl�uus.
Y g
of reluctant lender affection, as of one
compelled, yet most unwilling, to give a
little child, or some Other soft, helpless
creature, pain—"we must look facts in
the facet".
There is somolhidg in his voice that
'makes Amelia's heart stand still; but she
u.tbempts no interruption.
"It !s very had for rile, dear, after all
'these"—he pauses a second; he is about
to say "weary years' wailing," but his
conscience arrests him; to (him they have
not been woa'y, so after a !lordly -per-
ceptible break, lie goes on—"after all
these many years' wailing, to have come
to this, is not it?"
He had not calculated on the effect
which would be produced by his melan-
choly words and his caressing tone.
Site buries her face on lits shoulder, sob-
bing uncontrollably,
"They were not longi" she murmurs
brokenly. "Notting is, nothing can be,
long to me as long as I have you, 01' the
hope of you("
CHAPTER Vu.
It is, perhaps, fortunate for Amelia
that she cen11o1 see the expression of lite
face which looks out above her pros-
trate head into space, with a blankness
equal to what tau been her own, a
blankness streaked, as hers [vas not,
with remorse. Ile would give anything
to bo able to answer her in her own
Rey, to tell ler that, as long as he can
keep her, the going or coming of any
lesser good hurts him as little as the
brushing past iris cheek of a sttnrnler
moth or wind-blown teatime. But when
he tries to frame a sentence of this kind
iris longue cleaves to the roof of his
mouth. Ile sail only hold her to him
in an affectionate clasp, whose dumb-
ness ire hopes that she attributes to.
silencing emotion. She herself indulges
in no very prolonged manifestation of
her passion. In a few moments she Is
again sitting up beside Mel with wiped
eyes, none lire harelsonnl", poor soul,
for having cried, and listening with a
deep attention to an exposition of her
lover's position and prospects, which he
is at no pains to !Inge with a factitious
rose -colo'.
"Bove you realized," he says, "that I
shall never be better oft than I am now?
'Revert never! For though of course I
shall try to get work, one knows how
successful that quest generally is in the
nose of a math with no special aptitudes,
no technical training, and who starts in
the race handicapped by being torr
l
yens tootot" la
to
the dismeln°ss of Ms panorama
'raises no answering gloom in the young
woman's Spee, She nods her head
gently.
"I realize IL"
A'" -,i this is what I have brought you
to after elf meso years' wailing," he
continues, in a tone ot profound regret,
"All '1 Cat1 otter you at the end of them
Is a not particularly genteel poverty,;
not even a cottage with a double coach-
buOusel"—laughing grimly.
"I do not went a double Vieth -house,
nor (Wenn a single anal" replies Anions,
Stoutly, end laughing loo, a, Mlle
thorough returning leans. "Do net you
ltnov 11901, I had rather drive n cOsler-
niongers barrow with )'011 than g0 in
a eonelh end six wliheut yawl"
This is the highest flight of h110,g1na•
Bon of tvhicll .71111 has aver known his
LARGER F1iE'.'.
British Women and Children Demand
Bigger Footwear.
Are British wornen's feet growing
larger? The fact that the boot and shoe
manufnolm'crs of Leicester and North-
ampton, alto are now catering for the
footwear fashions of next spring end
suns ser, are offering sizes up to eights,
would seem to show a tendency in that
di"eclton.
WW1 what withering scorn a blush-
ing British mei(en would have Inolced
et a. shop assistant who sinned to sug-
gest "S's" to her a fav years ago( But
me Leicester manufacturer now says,
"We have found lately a special demand
for girls', boots hl 7's and I's." Another
Leicester rectory has lied to throw away
all its old Insbs for children, in response
I'1 lend complaints from buyers, "in the
North particularly, and in make the
slandarr.TS of next year's fillings for chil-
dren snmewllet easter. Even. the nnr-
stl•y d ohtds weth'iliunhe
changean(n part to
rnnthe 0effe•cnt
of 1hslraeenstt
sandal craze In expanding young foot.
Aiantfaclurers are 110W offering 'or
next seal's fashions lower heeis end
broader rounded foes; • "Ilse extreme
pointed toe," they declare w1111 one ac-
cord, "is doomed."
grit IiE'l" IADP CRI iIINAL9,
'Unhappy Homes Drive Wallis to the
Streets, Then to Crime.
The street is a. powerful factor in the
slaking of criminals, writes Mr. 'Phomas
Ilolnies, the Pollee Courl missionary, In
Po rson's Weekly. Take the ease of
a young Winn between 17 anti 20, whose
parents either abuse each other or abuse
11!111.
After a Brno this atmosphere ot bhhk-
eeing becomes unbearable, and the luck-
less youths wanders into the streets, and
spends his Spare 111110 there.
The result 11 this conduct can be seen
Query week in ileo newsinrtpers. You win
discover any number or cries of young
men 1111911 for disorderly holhavior,
The writer points out that the fines
in many instances eenlrol be.110ic1, Anti
the yo1111(1 (tan serves several bays' int -
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ON THE FRT'IL
ADVANTAGES Or A HAND SEPA-
RATOR. •
The hand separator has greatly re-
duced the expense of hauling raw pro-
duct to the factory. Not only does cream
require less space, but also less time.
for as milk is delivered six times a
week it is not necessary to deliver
cream as often, and the load being so
much lighter it is transported more
rapidly and at less cost. This, I believe,
is a very important item to consider In
connection with the hand separator
problem, writes Prof. A. L. Hanker.
Going on the basis that a marl and.
team on the farm or a man and horse
have a value respecting labor, it Ls not
difficult to figure or ascertain the ex-
pense of transporting milk or cream to
market, and 11 often happens that the
time taken out for this delivering is most
valuable time, as in cases where certain
important worts is in progress on the
farm, such as harvesting, planting,
haying, etc. It often happens that a
ta'mer's time can really not be estimated
by the hour, for there aro rush seasons,
when his lime becomes very valuable.
It Is therefore fair to figure that his time
throughout the year, whether rushed or
not, hes at least a certain value and
that this wine is not by any means
small. -'
Secondly, the value of fresh skim -
milk on the farm is often .underesti-
mated. By the use of a hand separator
night and morning at milking lime, the
by-product Skits milk can be brought to
its highest possible value. This should
2 cents. This would be a fair pay for
five minutes' work, 24 cents an hour
and the skim milk thrown 1n. Not only
r made, butthe
l e
•e (ilk and but m d
Is more n
secretion is stimulated and the lacta-
tion period prolonged. It may bo re-
marked, however, that the differences in
mill[ and butler yields between this
method and careful stripping are not
great. This Danish method emphasizes
more perhaps than has hitherto been
done, the actual and potential losses
due to incomplete milking.
CORN, CATTLE, SWINE AND
GRASS.
Corn, cattle, swine and grass, make
a grand combination. 1L is exhilara-
ting to ride through the corn bolt and
to note the luxuriance of the Corn
crops where (his system of farming pre-
vails. The farms a -e also cleaner. 110
grass and clover roots, together with
We fertilizer put upon the land, explain
bath. But the fields would be' much
cleaner than they are it the [armors
would use the mower on the ragged
places in the pasture fields, and in
some instances would supplement it
with the scythe,
There can be no question but this
system of farming 1s one of the most
profitable that can be adopted. It turns
the corn to good account, especially
where it is all harvested, and the swine.
following the 'cattle greatly produce the
waste that would otherwise result.
Even when the corn is grown mainly
for fodder, es in the wheat -growing
areas of the northwest, thhis combination
is an excellent one. There is always
seine corn in the fodder, which means,
of course, that n reduced number of
hogs Is necessary to follow.
Even where dairying is practiced the
combination cannot be Improved upon.
This plan involves more labor than
not he lost sight of, and, by n careful growing beef, but it also probably
calculation, may be figured to be worth brings with it more profit.
all the way from 15 to 40 cents per 100
pounds.
The third and last important item
under the advantage of the hand sepa-
rator may be considered as, indepen-
dence of the producer. As cream is a
marketable product it may be sold to
any buyer or it may be shade into but-
ter on the farm.
Considering all the advnntnges that
are There slated, it is not more than fah'
that the producer be somewhat inde-
pendent in his decision as to whether or
not he finds the hand separator a prac-
tical machine for Thin to use. There are
many sections of the country where
creameries are close together and the
short (haul makes the hand separator
less necessary.
SCIENCE OF MILKING COWS
CLEAN.
It, is well known that the overage
milker gets less milk than he who does
a thorough job, that incomplete milk-
ing means not only direct but indirect
loss, not only an immediate lessening
of the fat yield, but tends toward dry-
ing the cow. A Danish scientist, has re-
cently developed a special system of
udder manipulation, a sort of massage
of tho mammary gland, es it were,
a•lhtoh It is claimed augments the flow.
The Ilegelund method, as It is called,
involves three manipulations, each
thrice repeated, or until no milk is ob-
tained. First, the pressure of the quar-
ter en each side against each other
thrice repealed, followed by removal of
the mills; second, the pressure of the
glands together on each side, the fore
quarter being first manipulated and
dell the hind quartets, followed by re -
morel or the milk; and third, the fore
quarters are pressed between hand and
body, the hands holding the teats
loosely, then the Hind quarters also,
followed by milking.
'trials of the scheme made at the
Wisconsin and New York stations af-
forded a daily average , increase per
cow of a pound of niillc and two ounces
of butter. The after milk was very ricin
in fill, testing above 10 per cent. This
after mincing takes not to exceed five
minutes' time, often only two or three
minutes. The two ounces of bullet' may
he held at a low eslimole to be worth
A. `VALUABLE SETTING.
A Samoan's Petition to the Captain of
a Man-ohWar.
Queen Victoria was always a kindly
ami a home -loving body, and it 1s pos-
sible that if it had been left to 1101' to
decide she would have hesitated to sacri-
fice a setting of eggs for the sake of a
birthday sable. It was on the twenty
third of May, says the author of "My
South Sea 'Log," as an English man-
of-war lay in Apia harbor, in the Sa-
moan Islands, that a native cane aboard
with a note for the captain. It w•as from
one of the district chiefs.
"To the Captain of the English Man.
01 \Ver," it read. "I, 'ltd -le -tau, send
you my greetings and love, and the
love of 111y family, and send also my
love to Queen Victoria. We Samoans
have mucic love for England;
"Most noble sir, to -morrow will be
the day of the Queen's birth, and 1 have
leaned that at the hour of noon all the
great cannon on your ship will he fired
and the earth will quake with the noise
thereof.
"Great sh', I oast myself at your feet.
I have nllleh love to you, but I beseech
you not to fire great guns to -morrow.
Do not fire them for two days more, and
my heart will he big with gratitude, be-
cause my wife has a hen sitting on nine
duck eggs, and to -morrow is fie day
foo them to break their shells.
"Noble sir, if the greet guns are fired
they will all perish and grief enter my
house. But in three days it will not
shatter it they hear the guns. I beseech
you to do me this favor."
Husband; "Would you have married
me if I'd been a poor man? But p'h"aps
that is rather an indiscreet question?"
Wife: ."Questions are never indiscreet,
dear; answers sometimes are."
A foreigner, who had heard of the
Yankee propensity for bragging, thought
hs would heat the natives at their own
game, Seeing some very large water-
melons on a marital -woman's stanch, he
exclaimed: "What! don't you ('11150
larger apples than those in America?"
The quick-witted woman then replied ;
"Apples! Anybody might know you are
a foreigner; them's gooseberries."
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Moat people know that if they have
been sick they need Sco8t".s Emu,
.:mora to bring back health and strength.
o t Scoef.s
trot '
u
But the strongest lig point ab
Einaaat 'iion is that you don't have to be
-
'sick to get results from it.
It keeps up the athlete's strength, puts fat
on thin people, makes a fretful baby happy,
brings color to a pale girl's cheeks, and pre.
vents coughs, colds and consumption.
Food in concentrated form for sick and
young old, rich and
well, ng and od
3'' , poor.
And it contains no drugs and no alcohol.;
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W I LOOPING-CQUCH.
flats common affection of 01111d110011--
pertussis, the doctor calls 11--t8 Usually
regarded as one Of the things a 01111d
has to have, end it IS supposed that the
only thing to •d0 is to put up with, It, as
with all unavoidable Ills, the best one
can. Tho philosophy of this state of
1111nd of mothers is good, but the indif•
ferenca it sometimes engenders Is dis-
101(5
tinctly10 bad,
neglect so fatreratmal 11ent. causes (ho par -
Whooping -cough is often 'a, trivial
affair, but it Is sometimes fatal; and
even when not so, it may pave the way
for serious ills by weakening the resist-
,ing power of the child to other germ -
diseases, ash
d series, such as scarlet fever, measles,
and especially pneunlonta;or the strain
of (ha cough and of the forced holding
of the breath may cause a blood -vessel
in the brain or In the eye Lo break, with
resulting paralysis or blindness, or It
may produce a rupture.
Fortunately these troubles are rare,
but (ire possibility of tiheir occurrence
should be borne in mind.
Whooping -cough is a contagious dis-
ease, 050101ng with greatest frequency
in the winter and spring. No age is ex-
empt from its attacks, but about (half of
(he sufferers are babies under two years
of age, One attack usually insures safe-
ty against any subsequent ones. Owing
to its great contagiousness, a child with
whooping -cough should be kept away
from other children, and should never
he carried out in street -cats and other,,
crowded places to give the . disease to
every susceptible child or even adult in
its vicinity.
Chu patient must be well wrapped up
when outdoors or when getting air by
an open window, and the living -room
should be warm, although well venti-
lated. The diet should be simple, and
food should be given frequently. but. in
small quantities.
During the entire course of the dis-
ease, even in the mildest cases, the child
should he under the constant supervi-
sion of the doctor, for the disease may
take a had turn when least expected,
and the bast way to prevent an evil out-
come is to he always on the watch for
if.
Children with whooping -cough often
g, borough it with but few signs.. of ill-
ness, but cure should not be relaxed for
this reason, and the mother, nurse, or
some adult should be present always to
do what little can he done to ease this
paroxysrns.—Youth's Companion.
ONE THING WE MUST IIAVE.
We can live without food for thirty
days or more, we eon live without water
for about seven days; we cannot li'' o
without air, however, for five minutes.
Consequentlyas much or more atten-
tion should be paid to our water and
air supplies as to our food, There should
be vigilant inspection of school rooms,
factories, theatres, public buildings, etc.,
to insure .perfect ventilation.
\Ve spend about one-third of our lives
in bed. We must breath regularly,
however, during our sojourn In slum-
berland, and 1f w0 breathe pure air alt
night, we will certainly arise in the
morning greatly refreshed.
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British Judge Laments Glaring Untruth.
fulness in Court.
The British people are said to bo tho
most litigious on earth. Judge Edge
declared at tine Clerkenwell County
Court that in Muir litigation they aro.
"glaringly" untruthful.
When giving his decision in a case,
Judge Edge said that it disclosed a
"distressing amount of perjury," and
he then proceeded to call attention to
the necessity for an act of Parliament,
le "..check the glaring perjury (hut now
goes on in the law courts.".
"Perjury," he said, '"Is growing more
and moro common. It is one of the
saddest features in the Englishlife to-
day. People go into the witness -box
and take We oath, knowing al the same
time that they are .going to -make a state-
ment which is altogether the opposite
of the truth. They do this knowing
there is little chance of being punished,
and they lie with a coolness and delib-
ernblon which are enough to stagger
one.
"Recommendations hove been made by
the judges, 11111 Parliament—I do not re•
her to the present one more than 10
tiny other—seems to prink that it is bet-
ter to bet perjury go unpunished rather
than risk the chance of an acquittal by
a jury.
"How long perjury will be allowed. to
g0 on uneheOked I do not know," con-
eluded Judge Edge.
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"AUTOCRAT" OF EGYPT.
Nationalist Leader's Allnek .an Lord
Cromer—Britain's 'Worst Friend.
Aiuidephe Iiamei Pestle, the Egyptian
Nationalist lender, in an interview with
the Paris correspondentof the "Pall
Mall Gazette," declared that Lord Cro.
mer is the worst friend Great Britain
could have, "He had an admirable ops
porhlniiy of winning ow' love, but he
hes acted a oppressor, s nn It o r as n tyrant,
lila detesleble tact in (ire governance
ot (Egypt le the hypocrisy Which is ower
averylllting, An autocrat or a tyrant,
recognized as such, simply imposes his
will, t.ord Cromer Imposes his will just
as surely, but through (ho twins of law.
tis Is en autocrat ns great as About
Ilnnikl, lire Czer, oe the Kaiser.
"Wo Aro constantly being mile to
feel that we are an interior race, In
whet way are w'0 inferior? 1 pin surd
the Fellnheen are As intelligent ns 111e
lower olmssseS in England, rand its cap-
able
ap.ab le tit s eTfgo-
1nenr
vert n t
'4, \
a ask
for
a Constitution, for an Egyptian Parlia-
ment, such as was promised Co tr1i when
the regime of khedive Totvfik Was sup.
pr'd
pressed. Pot' twenty -foul years Vo
have Wafted tor'rat Parliament."
helnel Pasha dented that i
t his tolloty'
trig desired to aofma tuldar'1 Turkish, (lets
man, Or any othee tutelage, "We Wish
l i relteln EgypYdnit.il
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