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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-2-7, Page 74 - poi • +01-o+0+0+0-4-0+04-0+0+0+0+0+0 4-0+0+0+0+0+04.0+0+0 OR, A SAD LIFE STORY 61-0-4-04-040+0+0+0+0+ CHAPTEll XVIL-CContinued). "I w111 not -I will not la you say such things," he says, trembling. "She is :good; she has a deur face; and I love le .hour you say so ! May le -may I bring hoe to see you ?" As he makes this request, he feels the little flngers.lhat are lying in his palm tglve a nervous start; and at once, quiet- ly but determinedly, the captive hand is evrthdrawn. It and JIs fellow fly up to :het' face, and Ingether quite cover IL from eis view. Though, as 1 have sald, they ere small, yet, it being small too to match them, they concerti it entirely. "You will not say no?" he cries anx- iously. "1 am sure you will not say no 1 I shall feel very much snubbed If you Still no answer. Still that shielded face, and the ominous silence behind 11. 4 le rises, a dark red spreading over his- Seatures. "I must apologize for having made the esuggestion. I can only beg you to for :get. that 11 ever was made. Good-bye I" He has nearly reached the door, when he hears the feou-thou of her gown, and ,turnIng, sees that her unsteady feet have carried her after him, and that her face is changing from crimson to white and back again with startling rapidity. "I thought. you would have under stood," she says, faintly. "1 thought that sou were the one person who would not have misunderstood.' His conscience pricks him, bilt. ho is never very quick to be able to own elm .self In the wrong, and before he can •bring himself to frame any sentence that smacks of apology and regret, she re -alines, with a Mlle more composure and In a conventional volce "You know-wo told you -even at 'Genoa -that -that we aro not going out, that we do not wish to make any now acquaintances 1' "1 know," replies Ile with some Indig- nalton, "that, that, Is the hollow formal bulletin you issue to the world In gen- eral, but I thought -I hoped -1' "Do not being her to sea me," she in- terrupts, abandoning her effort for com- eesure, and speaking In a broken voice, while her eyes swim in tears, ' "She- sho might bo sorry-she-sho might not like it -afterwards 1" He looks back at her with an almost Iterreled ale. Is the answer to her sad 'riddle coming to him thus? Hes ho had 'The brutality to force her Into giving it? "You have been so kind in not asking 4110 any questions, you have even given 'up 'alluding. to old throes since you saw that it hurt me; but you must see -of 'course you do-lhat-that there is some - Siting -In me -not like other people; something that -that prevents -my - leaving, Any friends 1 I have not a friend tin the world" (with a low sob) "except rely mother -except mammy I Do you, think" (breaking into o watery smile) "that it is very silly of me, al my age, to cal( her 'mammy' still 1" • "I think," he says, "that I am one of ;the greatest 'Autos out, and that I should be thankful if some one would kick me downsl airs." And with this robust expression of selfdepreciution, he takes Ids hat and departs. 0+0+0.1)+-04-0-0-0+0+0+0-4-04-0-4-0+0+ • he Leen within the portals of the Anglo- meee(ellie 7 wee en els eetemeue Iie cannot mako it more than twice. This neglect of its betrothed. however, is not of quite so monstrous a cast as ell the first blush IL may appear. 11 18 she her- self who, true to her Ilfe-long principle of shielding him from all disagreeable experiences, has forbidden, hen her door. Ile can aid her neither to bandage her father's swollen foot in the severe gout - fit under which he Is groaning, nor to alley Sybilla's mysterious sufferings which always display a marked Increase In acuteness whenever any other mem- bor of the family shows a disposition to Set up claims as an invalid. Cecilia, In- deed, Is ready enough to give her help nursing her father, but she has on former occasions shown such an un- happy aptitude for tumbling over his swathed and extended leg. and upsetting Ms physic ail Over him, that she is re- ceived with such obJurgations as his cloth will permit, so often as she shows her short nose within his sick room. Only -twice in a whole week. Can Arne - Iia have wished to be taken quite so literally when she had bidden him stay away? There Is only one answer p05 - stele to the question, and he shows his consciousness of it by at once raising himself out of the chair In which he is sunk and turning Ins steps hastily to- wards her. CHAPTER XVIII. • "The Blutnen alle, Hems 1 Hems!" 11 was to German flowers that the above behest, was addressed. If they obey 11, with how much more alacrity do the Italian ones comply with its glad com- mand. IL is a week later, and now no •one can say that "Lite spring Onus slowly up this way." Vines, flgs, and mulberries, all are emulously racing out, and the corn has added two •emerald inches to its juicy blades. The young plane trees in the Piazza d'Azeglio, so skimpily robed when nest Jim had rung She entresol boil of No. 12, are exchanm jng the "unhandsome thrift" for an ap- parel•of plants:Ms green, and a wonder- ful Paulownia is beginning to hold up her oldster of Moccinia bells. an has watched the daily' progress 0! the the plane leaves froth the lbw window of No. 12's entresol. The daily progress? Is it possible that he has been there every day euring the past week? He asks himself this, with a species of shock, and it is with a sense of relief that ho finds that ono whole day has intervened, during which he had not heard the sound of the electric bell thrill- ing through the apartment under the ketch of hitt own lingers. What can have taken him there, every day Mit one? Ile runs over, In his mind, with a misgiving as to their insufficiency, the reasons of his visit. For he first ho had an excellent excuse. Surely it would have been barbarous not to hare lin' parted to the anxiously watching pair the good news that the object, of Uttar mysteriout tartar had really and authen- tically gene t On the second day it seemed quite worth whllo to take the walk, In order to tell chant that he hes Incidentally, learned. the clergymen's destinntion lo bo Venice, and his inten- tion to velum via Milan and the SI. Gaillard. On the third day, being as near to Utah es San Annuneiate, it had seemed unfriendly not. to inquire after Mes. Le Ittnechent's netnalgia. On the fourth— Ile is pulled short Up in his reminiseences. Why had Ile gono on the heath day? He can give ea answer to the question,. and slides oft from IL to teethe. Which was the fourth day? MS It -yes, It was -the one on W111011 "10 Wind WOW ns coldlY,east as 11 Tillgin helve done across Salisbury Plait* Ithked eXptinge, and he had found Eliza- belh sitting en a shiver- ing over n poor Mllefire of' green Wood, end blowing It with h pair 01 bellows, lie heel eelpe.d her to blow, and between them they had blown 1110 flee entirely 'may, 08 ellen lutppene In IN) O000 ot bendlers of the helleWS, and Elizabeth had laughed she eeied, A.111 Itletint011es hew teeny MIMS MS it Is the expression of the unjust wr which Burgoyne, feellng 11 much pi Banter .10 be angry with some one o Linin leUnself, is arliticially and not successfully fostering. Again Atnell 11p quivers. "I thought," sho says, gently, "If you have no other engagement t afternoon; 11-11 you are free—" • Nothing can be milder than the fo which this .suggestion takes, And there Is sorriellting in its sham) that p voices him "Free 1" ho Interrupts tartly, "of cou 1 am free ! Have I a gouty father ant ' filyesete7p,ic sister? Why should 1101, 1 "1 am very glad to hear II," rejol she -the light that his fitel proposal talc° her out had brought into her fa g.rowing brighter and mere esteblishec because in that two then is nothl atenr_ev!at your meeting ua at Lea vil "And seeing you end Mrs. Byng wet ing about with your firms round ea other's neck, -like a couple of scho girls," crles he, wile a sort of spurt° grumpiness. "I can't think why you should object to Amelia's walking about with her arm round elle. .Byng's neck," says Cecilia, whose attention to her "Lequelle" Is apparently not so absorbing but that she has some to spare for the conversation going on in her neighborhood. They all laugh a Mlle; and harmony being restored, and. Jilt graciously vouchsafing to forgive Amelia for hav- ing Ignored her tor a sennIght, she re- turns to her patient, and he to his hotel, Where he is at once, contrary to his wish, pounced upon by 13yng. Fo'8onto reason which he would bo puzzled to explain le himself, he has for the last week 'rather avoided his friend's company -a task rendered cosier by the disposition mantfesled by the your man's mother to monopolize hen, e di position to mnce. Lurgoyne has felt n inclination to run counter. IL is wit out enthusiasm that he receives Byng expressions of pleasure in their amide! tat meeting. "I have been searching for you leg and I ." "Have you?" "Where have you been?" "1 have been to the Anglo-Americain" -with a flash of inward self-congratu- 'ellen at this query having been put to- day, instead of yesterday, or tho day be- fore. The other looks disappointed. "To the Anglo-Ameeicain? I thought-. I hoped; Mem you -seen them lately?" • Burgoyne has ceased to feign lack of understanding to whom the personal pronoun refers, and he answers with as much carelessness es at a moment's no- tice ho can pul on-"Wliy, yes, I have, once or twice." "Do they -do not they think it strange of rne not to have been near them all this time?" "They may do" -drily. 'My did not say so?' "They did not; perhaps"--sarcastical- ly-"the subject was too acutely painful for them to allude to." Frequently as he has exposed himself to them, his mentor's sneers never fail to send the crimson racing into Bying's face, and it finds its way there now. It does not, however, prevent his proceed- ing, atter a confused moment or two, with his anxious catechism. "She -she has not referred to the sub- ject?" "What subject?" ".Te -to me 7" "She has never mentioned your name. Stay" -his veracity winning a reluctant victory over his ill-nature-"ene day she said that you were sunshiny, and that sho liked sunshine." As he speaks he looks down at his boots, too unaffectedly annoyed at the justification of Elizabelh's epithet, which He retailing has worked on Byng's coun- tenance, to be able to contemplate him with any decent patience. But there is enough evidence in the boy's voice of the effect wrought upon him by Miss Le Marchanles adjective to make his com- rade repent very heartily of having re- peated it. "I should have been over," says Byng, in a low, eager way, " every day, every hour, as often as they .would have re- ceived EIC, 0111y.11141 I could not leave any mother; and see -she has taken them en grippe 1" "En grippe? Your mother?" repeats too honestly and disagreeably startled by this piece et news to be able any longer- to maintain his Ironical manner; "why 7" The other shrugs his shoulders dis- piritedly. "I have not an idea; it cannot Ito be- cause they did net, seem to wish to be introduced to her at the Academia the other day; she is quite !namable of such petithess, and sho admired her so the- cadously at fest, did not she? 'You hoard her; but since then she has taken 11 into her head that there is something -I cannot bear even to say ii," -dash- ing his hat and Moves vehemently upon the table -"something lotiche, as she calls it, about her, Mother thinks that she--she-sho"-sinking his voice to en indistinct half -whisper -"has-has gone off the rails some time or other. Can you conceive" -,raising his tone again to one of the acutest pain and Indignation - "that any one -any human being could look in her face and harbor such a no- tion for a single instant?" 1 -restores With eyes ablaze with wrath- ful pity at his friencrsjace, expecting en answering outbreak to his own; but none such comes. Burgoyne only says, in' a not much more assured key than that -which the young man had em- ployed: "110W -how can such an idea have got into your mother's head?" "I do not know, but IL Is there; •and whet I wanted yeti, what I have bean searching everywhere for You for, is to ask you toe -to set, her right, at once, without any delay. It is unbearable that she should go On thinking such thinge, arid nothing wield be easier for you, who know them so well, who lcnoW 011 13taubg)ouyi'rtialleisma111', first too muchstupefied by this appeal, and by the impotsibility of answering it in a Satisfactory man- ner, to malte.any response al all; but at len,tgtnhov about teem ?",he says, In a vette whose surface impatience !titles a much profounder feeling. "Who drifts ever stly that he knows ell about any ether living soul?' Slav Many. trInes Mita I. tell you , that, until we met at Genoa, I had not Set eyes an Miss Le Marchant for Len good years?" the tone of this speech, so widely ferent front the eager .4e.0eritaticd of ath ea - Ise US* a's the suggested task, whlch he had ex. Facted, Byng's face tapes on a crest. allen, almost frightened look, "Mit when you knew .them," Int says, "In Devonshire, they -they were all right then, wero not they? they were -If well thought of ? there -there was no - his thing against teem 7" "Good heavens -no 1" replies Jim heartily, thankful that the appeal is note go worded as to enable 111111 to give a warm testimony In favor of his poor friends. "There was not a family In all the neighborhood that steed. so . high. Everybody loved them; everybody had a good word for them." Bynges countenance clears a little. "And there Is no reason -you have no reason fur supposing anything different now?" Jim slirs uneasily in his chair, Can lio truthfully give the seine convinced affirmative to this question as to the last? It is a second or two before he answers Heat all. "The facts of Me are enough for me; I do not trouble myself with its supposi, tioilit,;:ege els up and walks toward the donr es Ile speaks, resolved to bring to an end this to lam intolerable calecbtent. "But, you must have an opinion -you must think," cries the other's voice, per- sistently pursuing him. Ho turns al, ltaY, with the door -handle in his hand, his eyes lightening. "1 asked her permission to bring Amelia to seo her," he Pays, in a low moved VOICC; "if 1 had thought as ill of her as your mother does, do you think 1 should have done that?" (To bo continued). rrn yet ro- rSe la be IL Is morning. The east wind is Glean gone, and the streets are full of the scent or the innumerable lilies of the valley, of which everybody's hands are full. Ho stops a minute and buys a great sheaf for a miraculously small sum, from one of the unnumbered sellers. It shall his peaoe for him, if indeed it needs mak- ing, which it has never done yet. Ile almost smiles at the absurdity of the suggestion. He finds Cecelia awe in the sitting -room, Cecilia sitting at the window reading the Queen. Upon her largo pink face there is a puzzled ex- pression, which Is perhaps to be ac- counted for by the fact that the portion of the journal which she Is perusing is that entitled "Etiquette," and under it are the answers to last week's quesUons, upon nice points of social law, which, if you do not happen to read the questions, have undoubtedly an enigmatical air, as in the following Instances: "Your hus- band talces the Baronets daughter; and you follow with the Prince." -"We do not understand your question -babies never dine out." etc. Upon Jim's entrance Cecilia lays down her paper, and al once offers to go in search of her sister, with whom she shortly returns. Ile bad been quite right. There Is no peace to make. Amelia greets him with her usual pa- tient and perfectly unrancorous smile, but his second glance at her tells him that she is looking old and fagged. It is only In very early youth that vigils and worries and self -denials do not write their names upon the skin. "How -how pale you are I" he says. If he had given utterance to the word that hovered on his lips, ho would have cried, "how yellow I" "It would be very odd 11 she did not," says Cecilia with a shrug, looking up from her "Etiquette" to which she has returned; "she has sat up three nights with father, and lust evening Sybilla bid us all good-bye. You know she never can bear anybody also to -be Ill, and when father has the gout she bids us all good -Ye -and Amelia is always taken In and sheds torrents of tears -do not you, Amelia?" Amelia has subsided rather wearily into chair. "She'really thinks that she is dying," says she, apologetically - "and who knows? Some day, perhaps, it mqy come true." • "Nol, it," rejoins (ter sister with an ex- asperated sniff, "she will see tLe all out. -will not she, Jim?" "I have not the remotest doubt 01 11," replies he, heartily, and then his con. sciousstruck eyes revert to his be- trathed's wan face; all the plainer for its wanness. "No sleep, no fresh air," in an injured tone, checking off 'the items on hit fingers. "Bul I have had fresh air,' 'smiling at him with pale affection; "one day Mrs, Byng took mo out for a drive. Mrs. Byng has been very kind to me." She does not lay the faintest invidious accent on the name, as if contrasting it with another whose owner had been so far less kind; it js his own guilty heart that supplies the emphasis. His only resource is an anger which -so curious- ly perverse is human ' nature -1s not even feigned. "You can go out driving with Me. Byng then; though you could not spare time to come out with me," haesays in a surly voice. She does not defend herself, but her lower lip trembles. "Come out with me now," he cries, re- morse giving a harshness mien to the tone of the sincenely. meant Invitation: "You look like a geranium in a cellar; It is a divine day, 0 day to make the old feel yoling, and the yeung beinertal; como out and stay ottt with me ell day. I will take you wherever you, like. 1 Wi'Phe genuine eagerness of his proposel has tinged her sicicly-colored cheek wile a, healthier hue foe the moment, but She shakes her head. "1 could not leat'e father this mottling, he will not lako his medicine from any (MO else, and he likes mo to sit with him while Ito eats his Arrow -root." The only sign of approver of %this in- stance of filial piety given by JIM is that he rises ,and begins to stamp irritably about the room. • "Ile is really not at all exacting," continuel Amelia in flexions damsel& lion ; "ho was quire pleased jest now when I (old him that Mrs. Byers was going to lake tee to 0 party al the Ville Schiavone tills fterneon. 1(0 "Mrs, Ilyng I Mos. Ilyng ngatn I" ' A mjes•le not what, Mr, SVilsert said, but dif ns to Ce ng la, Ic- ch al - 1.15 g s- 0 h- s etheley, the (vorid marvelled how ono who differed so widely from his subject in mutters of profound import 110W- " ever Martily he sympathized with hen in politics, could possibly do him jus- tice. But the result dispelled all doubts or fears, eileneed all cavil and criticism,, and "Morley's Gladstone" has taken its place beside "Boswell's Johnson," and "Stanley's Arnold" as one of the great masterpieces of biography. The only fault to be found with this noble work, as originally Issued, was its bulky and costly form, and many who would have. been glad to possess it were for that reason compelled to deny .themselves. Appreciating this, The Macmillan Com- pany have now brought II out in- a new editten comprised in two volumes In- stead of three, and costing only $3.50 as against $10.50. Yet nothing that the original edition contained has been omitted. It Is a complete re -issue, and may -be obtained from the publishers in Toronto post paid for the amount men- Uoned. The hearty reception already accorded this new edition at a popular price would seem to justify the practi. cal Wisdom of the publisher's action, alai there Is no doubt the sale will be very large throughout the Dominion. The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, Toronto, THE IDEAL BIOGRAPHY. The Life of the ilt. Hon; W. E. Gled- stone, by the Hon, John Morley, in two volumes; $3.50, post paid. \Vhen 11 was announced that the biography of the "Grand Old Man," \Matt Mead Glad- stone, would be written by Mr. John DECLINE OF THE FARMER VAST CUANGE IN CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND. Economic Pressure Squeezes Out the Farmer -Decrease of Land Under Cultivation. Tho great change which gees on year by year In the agricultural conditions of England is emphasized by the Acreage and Live Stock Return for 1006. The most striking feature to which the returns point Is growth of the cities and towns of Great 13Htain. To quote the words of Mr. R. H. flew, who is respon- sible for the report: "Without attempt- ing to press the absolute figures too closely there is litile fear of exaggera. lion in the statement that something like half a million acres in Great Britain have been' diverted during the past flfteen years trete agricultural to residential and industrial use." Another notable fact. is the decrease in the area of land under cullivatton. TL fell in 1900 by 20,000 acres, "In con- tinuation of the process which has been annually recorded for the past fifteen years." FEWER HORSES. • This decrease 1s largely due to the elimination of the yeoman farmer, who is gradually being squeezed out by the oconetnic pressuile. When by foreclo- sure of the mortgage or otherwise ho disappears, its holding usually passes to an owner, who lets it, and thus trans- fers it to the category of land occupied by tenants. With regard to live stock there bit ,a decrease for the year In the number of horses and pigs aed an increase in the 'Mother of cattle and sheep. The de- crease in the nuinber of horses is not appreciable, as 1005 was a record year. P1GG'Y'S PLIGHT. Chem is a decrease in the number of unbroken horses, and Mr. Hew says "11 the reduction in the cumber of young stock in 1006 is to bo regarded as signi- ficant, it may perhaps indicate that a limit lies been reached, and that the development of mechanical nteatis of road -locomotion is beginning to elle& tho breeding of horses in Great Britain, The plight of the pig is serious. Though he may keep his premier pest - lion In Ireland, ho 18 a falling Idol on this side of the channel. The total Mini- tel, of pigs alive now Is half a 11111110e belosvu pthi:do tof 1904. Th howl:nice, still sought after, for UM returns say that "Um de - mond for 'pig products' appears as etc. 1veurtu7a; Tho eof the year may be sum- tMd upllisns.t°11°Ws 1- GaLessee. Cattle .. . 23,835 Horses .8,752 Sheep 103,104 'Pigs ' 101,458 A betted minded Wean IS one Wheel we can convince the[ our way Of think ng is right. 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To any ono who intends investing in these shares we advise you to wire us at onco stating the number of shares you wish us to reserve, then remit, by express order, bent; draft or registered mail. Write for booklet giving full information about Nicola Coal District. For further information write or wire us Immediately. SHARP & IRVINE, Brokers, Mar Spokane, Washington We give as our reference as regards nue standing Bank of Montreal, Spokane, Washington. istooNAeWeleseeswyeekeseketeetratisesesa EJN THE Mit eseeesteWeeseveAteeAseteeeeeee~eW. GRASS. PROD(jCTION, With no crop is thorough preparation more Important than with the grasses, writes Mr. \V. D. Ilurd. The smallness and numbers of the seeds arid the [te- nets character of the roots demand a fine soil. Briefly our preparation is this: Plow usually in the fall at least '7 inches deep, through harrowing wlih a dlek harrow in preparing the seedbed, roll if necessary to anal lumps, but faslly leaving a finely pulverized surface with 11 dust mulch le prevent such great loss of water by evaporation. A good plan to follow is, when you are very sure you have harrowed enough, har- row once more and you will be well re- paid for your labor in the increased germination and growth. One of the chief reasons the hay crops aro not larger and that what we do have in many cases is poor in quality is the fact that, the land is kept In grass too long, and is not, re -seeded often enough. I know of fields in the neigh- borhood where I live that have not, been plowed or re -,seeded for 12 or 15 Mrs. Now, no man in this or any other country has been able to carry on farming successfully by the growing of one crop year. after year indefinUely. NVe practice on a part of otir land a four or five-year rotation. That best suited to our needs is: First year, po- tatoes; second year, corn for silage; third year, oats or some other gran seeded to grass and clover; fourth year, and sometimes the fifth 'ear, grass and clover. Willi our land not so suitable for cultivated crops we endeavor to sow grain and re -seed, whenever the produe- lion diminishes „below a certain paint. For those ileitis which are not to be put thfough one or more cultivated crops, I would recommend plowing as SOOS as the hay crop has been removed and working about once a week with a d'sk harrow for the remainder of that season. This is especially effective when witch grass is present. e The mixture which wo are finding eminently satisfactory is per acre: 11 pounds timothy; six pounds red clover, four pounds alarm, four pounds Ken- tucky bluetrass roe redlop. With us the alsike clover outlives the red clover, hence the reason' for including it In the mixture. In favorable seasons the first crop coming from this will be almost clear clover. If the land Is kept in grass another year there will usually be less clover and then the timothy will come in. \Vhen we (Ind our flalds showing any of the 'natation of acidity In the sod we apply lime. Formerly we purcliased thd casks, slaked it by means of water, or by covering with moist earth and then applyed 1500 lo 2000 pounds to the acre broadcast just before seeding limo and thoroughly harrowing it in. Since farm labor has beconle such an item with us we have been using lime that cemesein 100 pond sacks, ground fine and ready for use. As this is partially hydrated, it is necessary to use some- what more. Of this agricultural lime we use 500 potinds more to the acre ap- plied in the same way. We do not lop dress our grass lands with stable ma- ma, All of this most valuable ma- let:eat tent we have is either plowed or rrowed lino the soil before one of the cultivated crepe, usually the corn in ul o °rotation before spoken of. There are two reasons why we do not top dress with manure. Not the least ni value is stable manure in the strawy material with which the anima excrement is mixed. We want this in the soil to furnish 11 SEM, helping to Impreve the physical, chemical, and water holding capacity. 11 11 Le spread on lop of sod land, the winds and sun dry 11 out and In most eases it Is blown about, and lost. \\'e do not lop dress our grass lands with stable manure be- cause we feel that by so doing much plant food Is lost. This is especially true of the nitrogen, by fee the most expensive element to buy. In passing from one stage to another the nitrogen of the manure goes into the ammonia stage, the gas escapes from the manure into the air and the land furls to re- ceive what it might. If, however, this manure is harrowed or plowed into the soil, the ammonia is taken up by the earl water, it posses through the vari- ous stages of nitrification and in most cases is taken up by the roots and into the tissues of the pints. While we do not top dress with stable Manure we do top dress with chemicals and are having tee best success. As early in the spring es possible we distribute broadcast on the grass land a mixture of nitrate of soda muriate or sulphate cf potash, and acid phosphate. By this top dressing we can keep up the production of newly seeded land and are able to double the hay crop on lands that have been seeded for some time. In fact the improvement Is so great In old seedings that one of our neighbors who secured a bag of this top-dressIng to try, declared wo had mixed grass seed with the fertilizer, grass grew apparently where there was none. SEVERED HAND A 110AX. Derry Police Were Puzzled hy Ghastly Find in a 'Wood. tgoeeceoessso43450-o-teeretsetemsextesil LYOUNO FOLKS ceeto-o.00-00 0-04:7000.00* EARLY AND LATE. Go' to bed early -wake up with joy], Go to bed late -cross girl or boy. Go in bad early -ready for play; Go to bed late-.mopIng all dee'. Go to bed early -no pains or Ills; Go to bed late -doctors and Mlle. Go to bed early -grow very tall; Go to bed late-atay very small. TROTTY'S Q.UARTER. Trolly slopped short and steeped !Ss pick up Something shining Ilene the gut. ler. Wasn't 11 lelgett, though b Trotty stared baud at IL He had never had suOlt luck in all has life I Alt the pennies that lit had ever owned were made by selling papers, and they did not last long. Now herb was a quateer, and a bright, shining ono, too 1 Trolly heaved a sigh; per- haps it was a sigh of joy -he 4111 no0 1 know. What should lie buy with - 117 Vielons of cake and Mee deuced beloro hen. Redid not often have such things, for he spent, ins pennies for a night's lodging, and hover' faired Lo have his -meriting cup of coffee at ono of the stands, and at noon he bought soma rather greasy looking sandwiches, and a glass of sichunial niillc, But in spite of• hie simple fare, Trolly seemed to thrive* He had not been much to. Sunday, school, but he knew enough not, to steals Flo fingered the bright quarter lovingle, but suddenly his face•grew very grave. "'Tana Inine 1" he said, sadly.. Ile did not realize that he had spoken out loud, so he was rather startled to hear a voice say close to him: "It would not be wrong to keep it, for the person who dropped it must have passed by a long time ago, and he would nut know where to look for it now." The Speaker had such a. kind face, and bis hair was white. "Whiz ts sald Trotty, "1 guess ye'r -at passun, ain't yer Y" "What makes you think that, my, boy 7" lie asked. ." 'Cos yer know wot's rite I Well, 11 if ain't wrong to keep it, I guess 1 will 1", Trotty wattledto talk more to his neve friend, hut -just -then some one.came up, and, the wo went off together: Tetley put his newly -Mend treasure into his shirt pocket. His suite -1f it could be called that, for his cone was of ant entirely:different color from his trousers , -quealvetetreeworrigged to trust that precious That was Friday, and Trolly made fifteen cents. "Good wuk I" said he to himself. "Now to -morrow I'll have a feast and spend 11 1" Trotty meant his quarter. But he did not spend it, for he poul(2 not bear to part with it aItershe- had spent his fifteen cents for his lodgings and his meals. Sunday was always a busy day for Trolly, but ales one was not. IL was noon before he sold - 111S papers, and he did riot have as many as usual. Perhaps .he was later than he generally was when he reached the news- • stand, but whatever the reason was, it was nearly noon before he had sold any. He slip had his precious quarter inhis pocket. Sauntering down the street, he ' commenced to whistle a lune. Ile was surprised to find himself by one. of :the down -Lown churches. "Guess I'll go. in 1" thought Trolly to himself. "Whiz 1" -he said, in an under - breath, "if there ain't my • passun 1" But the service was about to begin, se. Ito gave his entire attention to it. Ho listened eagerly as his "passun" told of. the sick .children in the city with nothe Ing to brighten their lives, and how they longed for growing plants, so that they, could watch- them. grow. Trotty's eyes grew big. He would buy a plant. tho very next Sunday I That week was at poor one for Traty. Why, he had sol many 01 1110 papers Ieft.that he was. al -1 most' disoouraged. 1 He walled In a very, impatient frame or mind for Seturday, so that ho could buy a plant for Sunday: Ho found a beauty for a quarter, and asked them to keep it for him until the. next . afternoon. They promised, and. • Lee -next day, at a quarter -past three, Trotty stopped -for it. The minister spoke of the sick' children agaln, and wanted everyone who wished to glvo money to put i1 on the .plato. Teeny was so absorbed in the idea of giving a plant that he 11111 1101 take 11 10 about the money, so he thought it very strange that only .money and slips of paper were put on She plate. How 811111. Ing tbat plate was I why, it was elle* - es bright es his quarter that he had given in exchange for .1110 plant, 50,115 lifted his plant and set 11 on. Some boys and girls near by shook with laughter, but fortunately Trotty did nol see. them. Ho waited eagerly for the, plant to be given to the minister. .• • . ' Trotty was surprised to find his "pas-, sun," as ho called him. take the plant and. hold it lovingly. Nt hy, he was say- ing .something I Trolly guessed .it was a speech.. Ile did not know he had done anything unusual,- And after it was elilutodv.ehris,elthtsand"pa:-n Trostint;r1readd,o‘gthatneades in his eyes, and' Trolly told him 011 .aboul, the quarter And when the minister Said, altleSSIUCh eS ye did it unto one of theta/ my ,beeth- rem.oven these least, Ye.did. ItSunto mo," Trotty was happier than if ho had . bough[ 'cakes and pies with his shining • • ,• quarter, moss REALISTIC. Her-e"Thee say LW old Golclburg, with all his milltOna, is money mad." Ilim-"He isn't half so money mad as some of his relatives." tier -"Hate they as much money as 116hit53: 1110f1, noe They are nand because they 'Caret get -any of his." , * , • •• BETTER WAY. The left hand of a. woman, severed at the wrist, and wrapped in brown paper, was picked up by a pedestrian in Pre - hen Wood, near Derry, Ireland, a few days ago. ,Attached to the hand was the following letter: ""Tice deed is done, and well done, A month has passed in perfect silence. Tliey thinic he has gone, and so he has, but not to the same place. 1 will meet, you where wo met on the night we saw each other last. This hand is a sign; se you see now I was not talking with- out moaning what I said. Bury this thing." The finder hastened to the police, who, wonting in grim silence, scoured the district for a clue to the suppesed tra- gedy. They refused to answer any ques- tions, and only on Tuesday night thought fit to show the hand to a. doc- tor. The theory of a foul murder was instantly exploded. The doctor said that the hand was obviously taken from some hospital or school Of surgery. It was neatly sealed with red wax at the wrist, and had been preserved in spirits for at least. 11 months. The whole affair was a clover hoax, the author of *Moll has not been discovered. Inkwirer : "What. became of that. queer patient you were telling me about last spring?" Dr, Price: "Oh, he's got a complaint now that's giving me a great deal of trouble." Inkwirer : "Indeed! What is it?" Dr, Price: "Why, a com- plaint 'about the amount of my bill." A young minister who indulged in many furious gestures in the pulpit preached in et church which was about to lie closed for alterations. His friends were rather inclined to chaff him when a paragraph. appeared In a local paper Malang :-"The Bev. Mr. Thumper preached in = Church yesterday. The church will be closed far throe weeks for repairs." 004:944.040016.000000010406040/00.51 103 0 °1Lb 45 Nursing baby? 44 0 / 0 Cs 1 it's a heavy strain on mother.' 40 O 4414. 41131 Her system is called upon to supply4 : ,43. 413) nourishment for two. 0 1 0 0 , Some form of nourislurient that will : be easily taken up b mother's system:srp is needed. - 40 a ,041., . , 0 Scolea z,inabston contains the AI) 0' greatest possible amount4 of nourisk: NI, 0 , 0 anent in easily digested form. _ .49 Mother and baby are )visaciatfully help94 by its use. DItgest3ISTes Sete AND $1.00 410.000,4)41.044400$03444944140 Iawe heifer to take !hinge good etas turedly Instead of golling angey,* re. marked the thoughtful thinker, "Thai% Vat," Mk:tined the ex-plok* NORM. "When I Was in the leisines, of takingthinge I always let the 0111011 fellow do lho got -triad 00 • •