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The Brussels Post, 1906-11-29, Page 7+04-04teeeee+o-no+0 4-0+0+0+040 o-e-n-4.0+04-o+04-0+04,-04en OR, A SAD LIFE STORY +0+0+04 o±o+o-a-0+o-4-o+o+o-o+o+o-ao+o±o+o4-04-0-4-0+0+ CHAPTEn VIL—(Continuetl), In dwindling pee8pec1ive, tli0 vlow Is elosed by tt rerrow picture of lucent, purple hill, leicsole or Bellueguardo— names to weicie, the tongne cleaves lovingly. Through Um gay streeLs, over bridge and Blue Arno, our traveller& go; their driver cracking a prodigious whip, and wen a tiny rest dog, absurc1. ly shaven, and with nothing but a small woolly head mud tail left of tho original . design, seated gravely benide him. Away they go, pleasuring; but. pleasure and pleasuring ore not, always identleal. Burgoyne SOP opposite Amelia; and as for Cecilia., it Is to be aupposed that her "When aro you heartache is for the moment dulled, goirtg to introduce me sinco the sante carriage rug covers her eta Miss weenie, asks -Byng presently. knees and those of Dyng. Burgoyne R you shirk it much Wiwi, 1 shall does not look et Amelia; nor though •ffilnk that you aro ashamed of me." his oyes aro flied upon the passing ob- Jint glances affectionately, yet not, jects, dors ho at, first see aught of guiles comfortebly, at his young friend, thern. His vision is turned inwerds, and and (he thought flashes across his to his own soul ho is mechanically re- mind that, in Ms last remark, the tatter pealing in dismal recitative, "A double- qitte put the eaddle on ho wrong horse. barrelled, central -fire, breech -loading gun, by Lancaster; made strong enough at the breech to shoot a spherical bul- let." As 101' A0Vilia• her features are not or a build to express any emotion with much brilliancy; but over them lies a. deep and brooding content. Amelia has not had much undiluted happiness her life, but site is exceedingly happy to -day. She is even strangely tree from the corking fear which usually assails hen al praising mistrikenly, ot being ertlieusiastfo in the wrong nieces, and passing over the right *nee unnoticed. If sho keep to a vague generality of Itenelsortie adjectives, she will surely do well enough, and, on this high holiday that her heart Is holding, he cannot be cross to her. As to Byng, he is emphatically of the settoot of divinity taught int Tom Moore, nor we:: he me known, when leadoff "the lips that he tomi," to fall to make love to tho "lips that aro near." His Lisle is Leo good for him to have chosen. Cecilia for a companion; but, since fate has allotted her to him for the afternoon, ho finds no difficulty in mak- ing the best of her, Nor, to do her jus- tice, is she destitute of charms of a certain kind, though her face has the inevitablo sir of commonness incident upon a very short nose and a very long upper 1M. But she has a good deal of bloom, and of crisp, showy -colored hair, and a very considerable eye power. Byrig's attachment to the fair sex being or far Loo stout a quality to be blunted by such trifles as an inch too much or too little of nose or lip, he also, like Amelia, Is thoroughly prepared to enjoy himself. Up the turning via Galileo they olimb, to the Dwelled at, the tbp—elnek drive of all tourists—hackneyed as only "Yeti look ao it you lied a headache, '01d chap," he sittiug down upott his friemes "If you had been going through as many kitchen ranges as I have thee morning, perhaps you would lave a headache," replies Tim, grey*. "You 1:j1 o dertow lhn1 1 ate going to be r»arried se won its I get home.' Ilyng nods; and Burgoyno, Mille in- nverdly biassing the tact that spares hen any congratulations, lakes himself to teak for 'laving Inade the announcement .eo lugubriously es to render felicitation eavlously ee 1, "You have so largo an acquaintance in Florence already," he says, With .somo stiffness, "that, I did not know that you would core to add to it." "Ono cannot have too niece of a good thing," replies Me other joyously. '"You know 1 love arty fellow -creatures; .nitti this case," he adds civilly, "1 (10 .care very much." Burgoyines eyes ere bent 00 the paper before him, which contains the melan- choly. enumeration of his fleearres—"A 500 double-barrelled expeess, by Henry, •of ledinburgh; a 415) single -barrelled ditto, by same maker," etc., cic.—as he 'nays slowly: "1 shalt he very happy." His aeceptaneo of the proposition can 'hardly be called eager; but of thls Byng •oppeal,'S unaware. "Witco slid( it be then? To -morrow - 1(111 afternoon?" "No.o.o; not to -day, I think. It. hes 'been arranged that we are to go to San 1111iniato—Antolia, her sister, and I." "Threo of you?" cries Byng, raising his eyebrow. "Then why not four? Why inay not I coma too?" Thore being, irt point of fact, no tea - .son why he should itot, and Cecilia's morning prayer being elle ringing in her future brother-in-law's ears; ha gives a •dult and lagging assent; so that et about three onlook the two men present, them- selves at Um door of the WiLeon's apart-. remit nt ihe Anglo-Aineeican hall. That Sylella, is tun expecting visitors is evi- dent by Me fact that, at, the moment of their, entrance, she is taking her own ternperaturo—a very favorito relaxation 01 hops—with a clinical tbermomeler. Sho removes the instrument from her mouth Milieu!, indecent haste, and halite out a languid white hand to Beene "So you are going off on a long after- Yankeyclorn and Cockneydom, rushing noon's pleasuring?" she seys, with 9 hand in hand through all earth's pathelle smile. "I am so glad that nee sacredness, can hackney. But even thee of my sisters is going to stay et hackneying is powerless to Mice off the 'home with me. We invalids meet guard freshness to the eye that sees it for the against growing selfish, though I first time, of thet view when he beholds Lhtnk that is perhaps more the danger the Lily City lying close at his feet, so with tualades imaginaires; we real 0000 close that it seems he could throw a beve learnt, our lesson of suffering bet- stone into her Arno. ter, 1 hope." They have left their (lam, and, as "You do not look so very ill," replies naturelly tummies In a partio carree— Tlyng. la Ins sympathetic voice, 1614111g more especially when ono couple are ide eyes west caressingly on the prostrate betrothed lovers —nave broken into figure, which has yet 00 smallest sign pairs. Burgoyne leans pensively on of ernaolalion about it. !he terrace parapet, and hie sombre eyes "Al:, that IS became of my eclor," re- rest on the bond of sister hills, joining plies Sybilia, with an unimation slightly heals (n perpetual watch round valley tinged with resentment. "You, too, and town; hills over which, In Ilds Into tall ill 10 that common error. My London spring, there is more a promise than a nockw lens 100 that there is 110 such un- performance of that green and many erring indication sI radical delicaoy of colored 'wealth of verdure and blossom constitution tie a fixed pink color like that one 555055(8.99 51111 Firenze% fair mime tee more feverish I am, the deeper .narne. But it is a promise that is plain - 11, grows. It Is very hard"—sneling ly on the verge of a bounteous fulal- again sadly—"lo:' one gots no pity(" ment. Then his look drops slowly to "WItere Ls .Cecilia?" cries Jim, brusque- the oily herself. In white a little space ly, end. ft -donning in his chair. "Why is comparatively does' the Florence that Is not she toady?" immortal liel The Duome, the lily As he speaks, the young lady In ques- Campanile "made Up ot dew and s00 - ton enters—so obviously arrayed for ehine," the Baptistery, Sallee Croce, the eoarittest, in so patently new a hat, and Name Vecchio; he could compass them :stroll immaculate pale gloves, that in a ten minutes' walk. And around 110059 Durgoyne's mind there flashes, ibis small nucleus of the undying dead in vexed mirth, the recollectIon et the tied their work, what a MI 1,1 On es 101moelal caution addressed by Majoe gleaming villas of the polyglot living— O'Dowit to his friend and comrade, a nation of every tongue, and people, "Moind your oi, Dob, my brier!" Would and language! All over 111e hills is the 110 not do well to repeat It:10 his friend? sheen of white wells, the verdure of tended gardens; they stretch away el- ClIAleriell VIII, cold while Monts ageinst the sky. They are of/ now, there being nothing He rouses himself to remember that furtive' to retard them, leaving Sybilla Amelia is beside him, and Mat ho ought telem•telo with her thermometer. They te say somothing to her. So he makes SIT Olt sociably packed in one nacre, 5 rather banal observation upon the "Four Precious souls, and all 11505 smallest of the enceinte that encloses so To dash through thick and thin." muce loveliness. Not, itideed, lhai there is much clash "yes, is riot it tiny?" raffle*, she, about, the Florentine cab-horses—sad- with the ogee pleasure of having e (test among Godn many sad oreaturesa- remark made to hor which she cennot with not a sound leg among them, with go wrong in answeemg. 01 staring coats and starling Him, and poo' London! Why, the whole thing is not broken knees; end with thole sadness as big as Soule Kensington or Days - emphasized by the feathers slack in watery, (heir tired beetle, es if to mock their flo shut:lams A4081 1110aeoursed so. wretchedness by 8 ewe of melancholy burb eureue ben even eve? sterielnessi Sad as they am, ft Must "Lot us go Int() the church," he says, be owned Ilia I, they nee the only sad in s lone that 111110 dulls hes cont. things in the cheerful inorenthie streene pmeion's buoyancy, where 110 0115 ermine over -busy, where, She follows hint, crestfallenly, netting out of the deeps/eyed, green•shultered herself wheeler she hes e1:ewe:n(1 miss 'houses, people lean, tell:big to acqueln- here also, She does 1101 trust 1:513111 (0 tonees on the shadowed pavement be- any comment, upon the hileeion low. Alt the narrow thoroughfares ere Byng and ClecIlla ore Mending before 11111 of bustling lite; but there is no hag- iho high altar, from (war whiaa 11(0- 51(1(1 eque1or apparently, . 110 dreadful snie Matlonnn stiffly beams epon them; gin•pelece gaiety, It (loos 1901 follow and as the other couple tippet/nett them, hero that 6 mail must be drunk because Burgoyne heats the words "drawing - he sings. And down the etraighl, color- oemn tpaus" 13S100 110111 his future sis- ful streela one looks-edown a viste of ter-liniew's Ups, houses diversely tall, each with its Cream yefloty time and its gtmen sled - tom varied here end there by the low- ering bulk of some giant -blocked mourn fain -palace, theough whose grlin barred Windows 5 weeeen peops or a ilog shoals his pointed nose—looks to where, most to where the Apennines raise their twanging nano and Horner at each other, veiled by trips into Baedeker, he posies Into a side chapel made fomous by ono of tho loveliest tonnes (het Me feigned to 81mulate In Tremble death's ugliness, Tho YeitIceen voices aro 111511 and shrill, but they had need to bo higher and shriller 01(11 before they couffi break the elurneer of Min whose vesting place Jim lute Invaded In his flight from C.ecilla New York. Was ever rest BO W80111111 as this of the young sleeper? A priest he was, nay cardinal, Mel youthful and lovely and chaste/ arid now in how clIvine a slumber' is he !apt? Rut how should ((1111 1005 hundred yearn elumber not be watched hy such a gentle Mary - Monier as is welehing his; smiling as if to Mil Min that he does we11 to sleep, that sleep is better than waking, thrill death is better than Wei There is sunken look about hls fate eyolids, 03 if he had gone through suffering to Is red; and his reposeful bands are thin, but below him, OS he) hie epolless marble tranquility. upon his sareopha• gus, the rose garlands wave in lovely frieze, and tho riotous horses rear and plunge in All 1111 of life. Burgoyne has not perceived that Amelia did not follow him. Sho has, (:f point, ot tact, remained In the body the phureh, immersed In her guide- book steadily working through the marble screen and pulpit, and still five good minutes off the side °impel in which her lover stands en so deeply brown a study, that ho is not aware of, tee Intrusion upon his solitude of two women, until he is roused wale a leap by tho voice of one 01 111105 addressing— not inne, of whose presence she le ob- viously as unaware es was he of hers, until this moment—but, her conmaufon. "Oh, mother!. am 1 not a tool, at my ago, toot but I cannot help it, It makes me cry sol" Burgoyne does not need the evidence 05 11(5 eyes. Hie Pars and his startled heart have enough assured him whose are the tears called forth by that indeed most touching effigy at which he him- self Inas been so pensively staring. The mother's answer is inaudible; and then again comes tho voloo of Elizabeth Le Marchant, tearful and vibrating. . "You know I have seen so few beau- tiful things in my life, 1 shall get Used to them presently; 11 10 only sheer hap• piness that manes me—" She stops abruptly, having evinently discovered for herself, or been mite aware by her mother or his vicinity; and even if she had not done so, he feels that he must, lose no time in an- nouncIng himself, "Florence is a place that does moke one often choky," he says, eagerly talo - Ing tho band, which she lumitatingiyi and with 801110 contusion, Mines him It is not quite true; Florence has never nide him feel °holey; and. 11 he is ex- periencing that sensation OM, IL is cer- tainly not the dead cardinal of Portugal who Is giving it to him. "I aur a fool, a perfect fool!" replies Elizabeth, hastily and shamefacedly wiping mway her tears. To give her time to recover herself, and also because he has not yet greeted the girl% mother, Jim turns to her. "Did not I tell you that we should meet here?" There is such undisguised joy and triumph In his lone, that perhaps Mee. Lo Merchant has not tho heart to dash his elatIon; at all events, he is con- scious in her tone of a less resolute de- terminetion to keep hen at arrres length, than on their two last meet- ings. "1 do not think that I contradicted you," she answers, smiling. 110 may steal another, look at 81105- ba119 now. Sho is not crying any longer. Indeed, despite the real mois- ture on her cleeeks, she strikes him es looking happier than at theft' last meet- ing; and though the interval between now and then is too short for any such alteration to have taken place in matIty, yet he cannot help imagining that 1110 hollows ln Mose very cheeks are less deep than when they stood to- gether before the great Vandyke 111 the Drignoli Sala Palace. "And the Entresal? is it all you fancy painted it?" ho asks quIcitly, feeling a sort of panic fear, that if he stops put- teng questions for ono minute, they will, slip out of his grasp again, as they did in the Genoege Palace. Elizabeth's face breaks into a soft bright smile. She has a dimple in one cheek and not in the other. She must have had it ten years ago; how tomes he to have forgotten so sweet and strange a peoullarny? "It is delightful—perfectly delightful!" "Large enough to receive your friends 4111tattl.tetralheW' moment Ulla the words nee oui of hls mouth, he perceives that he has made a false step, and is somehow treading dangerous ground, Elizabeth's smile goes out, like a light blown into nothingness by a sudden wind. ewe have not many friends," she murmurs, "we—'V0 are not going out ala11.' !(o hastens to change his cue, "leyng and 1 aro at tee Minerva," lie says, beginning to talk very lest; "I wonder if, by any chance, you aro in our neighborhood; have I forgotten or did you hover 1011 nee where the 111111'i. sol lies? Where is it, by -the -bye?" Ensnared by the wily and brazen suddenness of this dement Miss Le allirebant has evidently no evasion eoady, and, after an almost impercep- tible pause of hesitation, answers: "We aro at 12 Ins, Piazza d'Azeglio," She Is looking dotiblfully and ben' Uneasily in his face, (is sho gives hill this aneWer, but 118 (105 scarcely 1.11110 for a flash of 80f -congratulation at having obtained tho information, whine in had never realized the eagerness of his desire for until this moment, before he bosom es (mere Mot his 11)Irrioen- toes eyes are no longer meeting his, but have wandered to some object over his shoulder. What Met object is lie is not long left in doubt. Whether 11 is a fee/nano accident, or one of those emir - taus ones, of which those who profit by them are tho ertfficers, 3101 doee not know; end, as 115 1e as the time, and (Team one, be sese, in a (ley anew, will bo when lit Minks of the drown. you nee gelling on nieely! 1 did not stance to the end 0( 1118 lite, too (levy i Mink hel you would have reached tete to quosllon 111 011 100 SUbjeet, it IS ClenlVingd`001/1 gr1110 10-111011`041;," Pretty eunoia ((11:5 110 never knoeto; To owed 111 (11(1111 g le '(1110' on bee hut so It is that td, this moment, the y vela of hie protege breaks upon his y "'You are net ping to give us tho slip Ilke this, old chep—oh, 1 beg your par- don le But begging pardon ever $o sweetly doe/ not alter the Met that he has 508110(1, like a bull In a china shop, in- to the middle 01 (119 dialugue, All four look at retell other for a second: then. since thero is no help for it, Jim (9)90- 50:113 Ills (110311910, and the next moment Me latter 115.951(11 Pito talk with 111111- bolt:,and she is responding with an ease feud 11'88(101D 11001 embernassment such (111 had never merited her spree and hurdle( won utterances Lo leo elder ma, gynmthe advantage of 11110, as nn eoewhat bitterly thinks, Byng hes no connection with "uld titnes;" those peer old times 15(1(011 5:o and ber mo- ther hone so uneecoonlably taken en grippe. Ile 5001111) suddenly relegated hy some natural affinity, to the ma- ther. On their two last. meetings the engeeness to ":11500(0Itas been ell on his sele; Yet now ho has nothing to say to hole it is MIS who 0(111503503"I hope that you found your young lady ilourtshing " she says olvtily. 110 gives a slight Inward start, though -as he Is thankful to Met- his body is quiet. "lits young ladyn Yes, of course ho hos a young lady( Has there been any danger during the last (lye minutes of Ins forgetting that fact? and hes Mes. Le Merchant done him an un- necessary service In recoiling it? "011, yes, thanks, she is ail rigid!" "Le she ettil in Florence?" "Yes, she ts bere; by-(he-bye—look- Mg round wile a 8)1011100 sense that he ought to have missed her—"what has become of her? CM, here she eel" 1905 even while the weeds are on 1118 lips, Amelle and Cectita come Into sight. Amolla with a. shut Baedeker, and the 90t'8(18 look of all easy conscience and re thoroughly performed duty on her amiable face; Cecina well a something of search and disquiet in leer largo roll. (195 eye, which would have made tun laugh al another Lime. (To be continued.) BRITAIN'S GREAT RECORD BUILDING 1`1110 GREAT BA'fTLESIIIP tellEADNOUGIre. Can Turn Out Warship in Halt the Tinte Any Other Nation WouldTake. Take. The English naval authorities 1111.1-0Mull in one ohort year the most pow- erful ship in the world. Their most speedy rival, they believe, could not :11,whee they have done in double the time, and so they can build two ships 15(1(10 that rival is building one, even suppowne her plant to ho larger. "En-, gIneering," London, sa.ys: "Wecan now afford to begin the construction of a slip almost a near later then any 100- (1(31)1nation, 101111 the advantage of full knowledge of their design, and still have it ready for war as soon as they. MANY FIRMS READY. 'There aro eight or nine British firms wil.ng to complete a ship of the. Dread- noeget class in two years and three 01001(1:0; four or five could quite readily thelertake to repeat the performance of completing a Dreadnought in eighteen months. 'Iles eSpeCially the case with the flrine who themsolve.s mann- faoture the armor, guns and gun -mount - logs, as well as the machinery end the hull. "While Germany 001911111103 what Is regarded by some ns a 'menace' to Brit - 1st( navel supremacy, we may wait for such full knowledge of her designs as etre Novel Intelligence Depailment will provide, as we may then not only pro- duce ships suportor in fighting quite - ties, but in greater' numbers, and with - In a much shorter period of lime. WHAT THEY CAN DO. "The prospects, thereeore, aro that in 1908 no continental nation will have in fighting ooneition one single ship of the Dreadnought type, whereas if the Brit- ish Admiralty continue the rate of con. 8(11101101) attained with the ship to be Wed next wed:, they then hove one squadron rondo up of six Dreadnoughts, and, in addition, a squadron composed of eight 31111(8 01 1(18 King Edward '('11.class and two Lord Nelsons. Tho fleet squadron will hove sixty 12 -inch guna, with the enormous advantage of a. short and easily manipulated lighting lino, white 1110 500011(1 113(1131(1500 will have for- ty 12 -inch guns, and flfty-two 1)2-111011guns. Both tell! be enormously supenine to any 51)001511:1 ot an equal number of ships of any other navy. MAKES FOR PEACE. "ley 1908, too, the British nation will now whether foreign nations accept the live -branch. which it (:59 held out in Ins year's naval policy, by a relaxation f naval expenditure, without any di- finul(on of deterininellon ot determine. Ion to ultimately 0)11(010411 mastery ot he sea. 11 (1115 desire for limiting armee tents is not reciproCOted, then there will e equal unenlmity in continuing build- ig operations to ,maintenn our slime - limy at all amts. There should be ro listeke about Ibis view. The Sea Lords who, after all, luive tho confidence er the (1511011, 95111 not newer as to 1110 ee MI principle of supremacy. Foreign nations, end notably 1110 Gorman people, rimy realize (hat, their 5.0:11111910)109 in the development of their neve! programMe —involving as it does in their case not only en enormous 8)10') Tor ships, but something 111ce ten million sterling for the Widening of the Kiel canal—cannot win even the 1(1(151053' ot theer Gman 005(111-111(1 01111111100 of the 'Admiral of he Atlantic.' AMEIIICANS BEATEN, "Where the Arnericene stand in (1110matter rimy be aeon from the feet Mel 11 Um constructive speed-tritel between ha Louleiana and Connecticut these 1110 510511(9(0(1 not Mr from three 551,9111 building, We are evidently 1111!, in 1 poeition to comport) with the nglisli Ibis kind of contest." 0 ti 19 11 11 11 11 rieheele eorifitlennee. triel Mee to escape from !me Art/Orleans, who aro nasally oat', 111 E CEYLON GREEN TEA. N Itleing Exploited by Us on AcDount of its Vast Superiority ever Japans. LEAD PeetefnETS ONLY. AT ALL GR00511 40c, Soc and 6oc Per Pound. • ON THE FARM. IniTCHEntiNG ON TUE FARM. on the groan, the upper end against the log. This nampson will raise an ma dinary sized be tree if attached near the butt. To raise it large tree, saw enee or twice in two. Work lover up and down like a pump handle, moving tba pins up one hole at a time, first on ene side of the sampson then the other. In Meng a cross -cut SSW, joint the $811, SO the teeth are not longer on one Tho end thing is a pod scalding side than the other. Next set saw for barrel or tank. I Mut e tank made f the kind of wood lo be out; dry or Iroz, leineh oak that I used for this purpoee. en wood requires but a lane set, green, about 4 teet aeross and ene, deep, hard wood a trifle more, chestnut cr mulles J. 0. SehroYen After the scald- black ash a still wider set, and bass - ink Is done, (1 is well dented, and wood or willow the widest of all. Set serves for peeking down meal. When saw on a piece of iron beveled at end. use this Wilk fur scalding, f set the Gaup each tooth separately so all will del -tick over it and a hog of 400 pounds to eet at equal width, For a gauge use eau be hoisted in and ecalded as easily a piece of saw pieta 5x2 inches. Have es 5 150 -pound pig can be handled four or three to Set different widths. without a derrick, My derrick is made Shorten raker teeth about 1-32 inch. File of four 2x4s and a block and tackle, cutting teeth square across at, base, o'rtIttieiotissu lsrbloelt aanbdtats citn elttilioislriatn.tly fur many bevel points slightly for hard wood, more for soft. Rub echine oil on saw, When scalding, the hog is holeted out never 105 11 get rusty. of the tank and swung 01119 It bench ele the eade and scraped clean, I use e intent hog scraper which costs from 11 to 20 owns. 11 you cannot get ono et your 10051 dealer, you can easily get it of any large waft order house. When sending for it, get a couple of knives. I have one wall an 8-inel1 beide that miles handy in a great many instanoee. DM. do not do as one 01 :111' friends did, (mice a 12 -inch knife and think thet 111310113 handle and all. Knives of this Sort are sized according to the length of the blade. The fellow that got Mc le-incli knife, said It came handy to use when cutting up corn if 115 ran short of corn knives. A good sausage -mill and ft lard press are also necessities. The lard peess will get out enough more lard over hand pressing to pay for it- self in a year or t.\50. When cool I cut up tho meat. and 11 Um weather Is not too cold it is left id still further loso all fraco of animal heat, then it is rubbed with salt and all allowed to stick that will possibly adhere to 11. Afterward, it Is packed in the meat tank, the hams in the bot- tom, the shoulders next, and tho sides on top, 1( 19 allowed to send In the dry sen for three weeks and then a brine is made that will float a fresti egg. This brine is poured directly on the meat without removing it Mom the dry salt and it is then left for five weeks longer, when 1( 19 taken from the brine anti allowed to drain. Then it is Ming in the smoke -house and well smoked in the old-fashioned way. After the meat has been well smoked I take It (1011'11 and rub each piece with a good coating of borax and bang 3 back In the smoke•hoese, Not a fly touches it and it remains wed and erre until wanted, even until August er September ef the following summer do not pack in oats or ashes, as many do and as I formerly did. My present method beats all of that soli of thing. By having these few necessary tools lark:treeing M not half the work that it is if eveeything has to 1m borrowed and teleen home again. I have a good set of gambrels which have been saved nem year to year. They aro always ready.. When I am through with the lard stick or paddle, I put, it away, and the next fall a is right at hand again. Some wixecs berm butelleHng Unto 1 Rattier a lot of broken posts and ends of beanie and dead limlm that are needed to make hot tires. In ((de way I clean up tho premise.; and hoye Mee dry wood toe butchering. Pieces that are full of nails end cannot 110 welt cut with an axe or saw are here put to good use. HANDY DEVICE F011 SAVING \VOOD. To reader, who live in wooded sections 1 recommend a sanipsnn to raise heavy trees off into ground In be sawed, says M. Lawrence, A sanmson is inetic as follows: Two pieces of ash plate: 5 Melva by 10 fret, by leeinehes nee bolted together 0( 10(1 and bottom with n space between for an nett lever. This Is 2 inehes Mick and ebout 8 feet long with two V01111d nolehes near the end. It rests. on 1 -inch item pins which fa in holes inside ot the sampson. An oval iron is bolted to the levee tilidwaY ne- tween Me notches. To 11119 (1 streng tog ellen( is hooked, the other end pass- ed under the log and boolred to the top of a crotched limb. 'rhe lower end reste CEMENT FOR FARM BUILDING. '(be high prIees of lumber and brick are bringing cement into use as a valu- able and durable building material. 111 Censtructing cow stables, hog houses and poultry nooses cement is proving especially valuable. Where small rough field .stone and plenty of sharp sand COD 1.0 had, nearby, the cost comperes favorably with wood. With ono good man to superintend ((ie the bal- ance of the 'fiber coin be done by com- mon help. Bough Nail stone need very ffille facing in a high wall, providing a good general line Is 101101Ved, says Air. C. S. rbteesitP‘.9grades of pm-118nd cement are the best and the cheapest. The qtrantily to be used fur the foundation tor walls and floors need not exceed, by bulk, one part. cement, to ten parts sharp, coarse gravel. The chief care shouldbebe to lay a good surface about inc thick for floors. This surface can bo made of one part cement to (Iva parts sharp sand. Cement floors have the advantage of being easily elcaned, tree from hiding plates for rats or other vermin, and ween properly laid, prove very durable. In my poultry work this year I have seen the great advantage ct a rat -pro( brooder house, as the losses by rats have been practically ne- tt:log, while last year Willi ISM) hrOOO- 01'S ( lost 30 to 40 per cent by rate alone. Hoge aro very destructive to wood work and cement shnuld be used wherevor the animals can reach tee sides or but - toms 0( 1(15 pens. NESS. Pereogneol'eneeefeee*V"n990(erneeeelefee, IlEALTII ikeetoeon64.8645.6641,41464114145 ST. VITUS'S DANCE. This distressing affeclien, Called My medical Miens aerate, is a nerVeles Male etildlid°rein"rtiwYelivItea. 011,1' till:Ian' fyroegailleelitldn; before five and after twenty 11 is rare. Girls are affected more frequently than boys, nearly In the proportion ef three lo o0110( WiUm °03M() of the dieease is physicians do not know. Soma think 19 consists in ST1 ulhab portion of the nsgouoes iseyrisitaolemiliwtyntoofn 5155 to do wIth muscular contraction, others - that it M due to fatigue or exhaustion of the nerves. The principal symptom Of chance is an Mvoluntary contraction of certain muscles, commonly those of the Moe, neck and arms, giving rise to Ire regular movements of the head an arms, coupled with grimaces. In severe cases Me muscles of the trunk and the Jegs are also affected, so 1(151 1(10 aufferen is unable to walk, end even rolls and tosses about in the bed. The constant movements give rise to an intense and painful fatigue. Some- times the spasmodic twitching of the tongue and the muscles concerned in the act of swallowing Interferes with the teeing of food, and the palle»t suffers • Mom semi -starvation. Sleep Ls prevented or disturbed, although when sleep does occur the movements usually cease. In the milder forms there may be only slight, twitehings of the muscles of the face, the patient seeming only to be "snaking faces" at people. The (Meese often, although not al- ways, follows an attack of rheumatism, or it may be occasioned by a fright on some other shock to the nervous sys- tem, Eye -strain is believed to be a cause in some cases. 11 10 sometimes Imitative in character, being excited by the sight of another child who has St. Vitus's dance, and in this way the disease may spread, as by contagion, through a school. The( strain of school lite, with long hours of study and insufficient playtime, seems to be an occasional cause, or at least to predispose to an attack, Tho treatment of chorea by drugs is unsatisfactory. Same have been ex- tolled as curative, but a further trial has usually shown that the recovery eves in large measure due to other things. Much good can he done by .absolute rest in bed in a derkeued but well -ventilated room, or better yet, in a room with all windows open, or actually in the open air, darkness being secured by a hoed drawn over the eyes. Reading and visi- tors should, be prohibited. The food should be nourishing and digestible. Sedative medicines aro undoubtedly useful, but they must. of course bo taken only under the physician's supervision The eyes should always be exandnea and proper glasses fitted before the child is allowed to return to study after n. recovery from aLattack of chorea.— Youth's CompanioHOW TO STAVE OFF NERVOUS - 25,337 UMBRELLAS LEFT BEHIND. Forgetfulness of the Public is Said to be Ge011111{1. Is the public growing ntore absent. minded? An answer in the affirmative would appear to bo tho legitimate de- duction Mom the, figuree, supplied in the annual more of 1(10 Commissioner of London Pollee, regarding Petioles found in cabs, onnilbuses, and tramway. ears, and received et the Lost Property Oiicc,1,risyear 57,820 artieles were found, an increeme of over 5,000eon the previ- ous year. In 1901, 0,221 4articles wove found, and since then there has been a 01)'::0r8 sinscreienaeisse. st articles were found in 26,770 cases, These 150199 of the de- plared value 04 11017,0115 Mee, and awara8 amounting to 43,509 les. were mild to •ffievers and conductors who found the 10s1 Puballitcicis, t0etpletIness was most, mark- ed in the ease of umbrellas, no fewer Man .195,137 being (041 10 nubile vehicles. Bags numberecl 4;007, articles of nien's clothing 3,2711, womeree clothing 3,229, purses 3,707, opera glasses 700; jewelry 15A351.iogatintditet.0112c711,039172321:0reone, wnre ;tr- . rented during last 'year—no Increnso f 787—and of these 108,538 wero convict- ed. The strength (if the pollee force was 17,210, and the pay at:1,483,676. • - Urelen —"Weans time. mister?" The Major (thinking to itionleale good fnonnnrs)-41f what? ft Wile thy 1103'?"lurch If 3999150t watch:, 00000 0 0 0 linked together. 0 000 0143000000000 Girlho©d and Sco-ges EF Wee kJ In are The girl who takes Scoft's Emr.th it son has plenty of rich, red blood; she is plump, active and energetic. The reason is that at a period when'a girl's digestion is weak, Sedate.: Emalladpn provides ber with powerful nourishment in easily digested form. it is a food tint bullet and lees up a airl's strength. ALL nnuncnsrsi 60o. AND $1 ,03, 40t 06600 4'000001,0404 0 0 0 -0 4 How shall we 015115 go not to be nor. vous? By proper Ilving, proper work - Ing and playing, eating, drinking, and sleeping; above all, proper thinking and feeling. Many a hysterical woman would be stable and strong had she consistently striven with singleness of aim for a laudable object. Besides relaxation we must have version. We must play, if our work is to be effective and hong sustained and if we are not to bo nervous. Ambitiora is 5 wonderful force and makes for pra- gross. Emulation is en excellent stimulus, and industry Is bettor than both, but in excess the combination has worked the ruin •of many. To sum it al/ up, ft you wish never Eft bo nervous, live with reason, have a purpose in life and work for it, play joy- ously, strive not for the unattainablo, be not annoyed by trifles; ••••••••••••0 HOW TO LIVE A CENTURY. Sir Iarnes Sawyer, an English physt- an, has formulated the following nine, teen rules for proloagIne life to one hundred years 1. Eight hours' sleep. 2. Sleep on your right side. 3. Keep your bedroom window open all night. 4. Have a mat (a your bedroom floor. 5, Do not have your bedstead against the wall, EL No cold tub in the morning, but a 110(11 sI the temperature of the body. 7. Exorcise beeoro breakfast. 8. Eat like meat, and sea that it is well cooked,. 0, (For adults.) Drink no milk. 10. Eat plenty of fat, to feed the cote, 45111011 destroy disease germs, 11.. Avoid intoxicants, which destroy thtee 11. Daily exercise in the open air. 13. Allow no pet animals in emir living rooms. They are apt to carry about dieerme germs. 14. Livo 111 1110 00105155 if you can. 15. Welch the throe D%—drieltirign water, damp end thefts, - 16, Have a change of occupation.. 17, Take frequent and short holidays: 18. Llmll your ambitionand 19. Keep yeur temper. THEN '1111e AUDIENCE $MILED, "Ledies and gentlemen " exclaimed ilw103 sliortl.ir fellee1ir4"ptt1(0o).111ogfilt'lliiii?.vi'llritifiV°youy111era vel; lclla01gnnillL11NmllUbagllvltl!feec0;teying11iai(1 fiqidsatata tt to their different departments there are Iwo canals, each of which is pro, Wed with n flop., When yoe' aro eating solid food the flap of the limed canal olosos; and, again, when you drink, the flop 511 (110 solid food canal closes." Al this point, of the lecture a meek little voice at the bane 01 (110 boll wee 11;tol Iln lerrysIrtobal 5 Dipperty-flapporly there meet 11n whoh • you aro having broat1-00 **if itewen steed drolighl, bated than any other,