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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-2-14, Page 2o+o +o$ 4-040-+-0-e-0-4.0÷04-04-0÷0-4-0+04-01 OR, A SAD LIFE STORY t :0.040404 o O o+0+0+0+ 0 0+040� CHIAPTER XIX. Thero is no greater (lotion than that for' time to go quickly, Implies that it must needs go pleasantly, Jim has sel- dom spent a inure disagreeable period than the hours which follow its con- versation with Byrag, and which ho passes in his bedroom, with his elbows on the window -ledge, looking blankly Out at the Piazza, and al the great 'Bride" of Aronolpho's planning, the church of Santa Maria Novella. Anal yet, when the city clocks, which have chimed unnoticed by him several limes, at length convey to his inattentive ear ' what the hour Is, he starts up, shocked and confused at 11s lateness. Ile had meant to have reached the Villa Schta- vono in lime to receive Amelia, and now she must have long preceded him, and be attributing his tardiness to some fresh neglect and indifference. In Ilve minutes he has rearranged his dress, and jumped into a nacre. Through the Porta Romana, and up between the se -algid row of still and inky cypresses, up and up to where the villa door, pro- mising so little and performing so much opens, as so many do, straight upon 0he road. The day has changed its ravishing blue gaiety for a pensive cloudy gloom, and the guests at the villa are walking ebo11 without any sunshades. They ere numerous, though few indeed in vornparison to the Banksia roses on the laden wall, over which, too, a great e.w•slarla—put in, as the host with a just pride relates, only last year—is hanging end flinging its lilac bundanee. And sten above its clusters, and above the wall, what a view from this raised !ar- mee! Jinn is really in a hurry to find Amelia, and yet he cannot cheese but stop h look at. it—from Galileo:s tower{ on the right, to where, far down the! plain of the Arno, Carrara loses Hayti' in mist. It is all dark at first, sullen, purple -gray, without vaiatinn ar stir -- city, Duomo Arno, Fiesole, and an her ehain of sister -hills --one universal frown ever every slope and jag, over street and spire. over Campanil with its marbles, and Santa Croce with its dead. But now, as it draws on towards sun -setting, in the western sky, there comes a be- ginning of light, a faint pale tint at first, but quickly broadening across the firma- ment, while the whole huge cloud ca- nopy is drawn aside like a curtain, and, az: a great bright eye from under bent brews, the lowering sun sends arrows o! radiance over palm, and river, and city. All of a sudden there is a verti- cal rain of dazzling white rays on the plain, and the olive shadows, merged all the afternoon in the universal gray, fall long and soft upon the blinding green of the young corn. tie has for- gotten Amelia. Oh, that that other, that creature herself made out of sun - veers and sweet rain -drops, were beside him, her pulses beating, as they co surely would, to his tune, her whole tender being quivering with delicate joy at this heavenly spectacle. Some one touches him on the shoul- der. and he starts violently. Has the inlensfty of hes invocation called her epl'il out of her light body, and is she Indeed beside hill!?" "What a bad conscience you mist have. Did you think plat I was a bai- liff?' cries Mee. hying, laughingly. "Where is Amelia?" he nske, rather curtly, the memory of Byng's conmu- rdeation ah?out his mother being too leech in his mind to make it possible for him to answer her in her own rai- ning key. "What have you done with Amelia?" a a" 'Stand -and -deliver' lone," \\' says she, laughing still, but looking not unnaturally surprised- "Weil, where is she?" glancing round. "She was here 1106 minutes ager with Willie. Poor Aturlla!" lowering her voice in a more confidential key. I am so glad you bare come al, last; she is patience per- sonified. 1 must congratulate you upon the excellent training into which you have gat her, but I think that lila lvus beginning 10 1011k a little mlxious. "And 1 think that yeti have been giv- ing te reins to yoer imagination, as usual," replies he, walking off In a huff. There is another delightful garden at the back of the villa, and Nacre, having failed to find her in the first, he now, her for al not growingirritation with being more immediately conspicuous, steles Amelia. It is a sheltered leisure- ly paradise, wvhere while rose -frees, with millions of bursting buds, are career- ing over the walls in leafy luxurleuec, where double wall-flowers—bieedy 100' - 'hors, one should call them, if one coldd connect any warlike idea %vett this Eden el scented peace—stades in freer/1111 C1nv arc flowering as we i3rilaius newer tee them 11rn er in aur chary fele, save in the plates of a Gardeners' Chronicle, Bilt'among than he finds no trace of 11,0 banally English bloaecen. 1I0 finds, in - 'Iced, 11101 n- 'Iced,11101 who had been craned ns her tete competent, Tlyng, but it is not with Amelia, but with one of lite pretty young daugihters of the blouse tial ire is ptic- im; the straight walk In lively diulugne. aim newels his formally: " 1 underelood That Bliss \\'il.+on W115 e;itlt you? Do you happen In know where she is?" Ilyng 5101)8 &hurl in his leisurely pee- ing, Why, whore le she?" he ,ray's, kc,k- ind Mune. as his mother Mut done, but " with a, more guilty air. Sere Was here five Minutes ego, Where can slip have dislr!tpea'ed 1u?" 11 is lite too obvious that In greeting end 1)511111 greeted by Itch numerous m- Ijiraintantes,..tattle pone Aulrlira, ct11uir- enh and that clha.perefes 81)11 have mem- hueloly forgotten her exist/mer, Always rtcrvenely [treaid of beteg herd0uaome. Jirn fettle ecu v!ndod tram what he know, el her Character Mkt She le going about, • • • • hi unobtrusive forlornness, the extreme 8mn11n('ss of her Flore eine acquaint- ances "nuking i1 unlikely that she has found any one to supply the place of the friends who have become so entirely oblivious of her, The conviction, prick- ing his conscience as he hastens con- tritely away from the vainly repentant Lying, lends speed and keenness to his search. 1311 I, thorough and earnest as it is, it is for some time quite unsuccess- ful. She makes one of no group, sho loiters under no Banksia rose -bower, she is no gazer from the terrace at gold - misled valley or aurcoled town, she is 10 be found neither to hidden nook nor evident path. She Is not beneath the Loggia, she is nowhere out of doors. She must then, In her loneliness, have taken refuge in the house. He finds himself In a long, noble room, with a frescoed ceiling, a room full of signs of recent habitation and recent lea, but which has apparently been deserted for the sunset splendor's on the terrace. fle can see no single occupant. He walks slowly down it to assure himself of the feat of its entire emptiness. By a singular and unaccountable freak et We builders, the windows are set eo high in the wall that each has had to have e. little raised dies erected before it to enable the Inmates to look comfor- tably out, Upon each small platform stands a chair or two, and low over them the curtains sweep. As Ile passes one recess, he notices that the drapery is stirring a little, and examining more closely, sees the tail of a well-known gown --0f that gown which has met with his nearest approach to approval among Amelia's rather scanty stock— peeping from beneath the stiff richt folds 01 the old Italian brocade. 1t. is the work of a second to sweep the latter aside, and discover his poor lancee all a1' ne, and crouching desolately in y few arur-chair. 'l'liere Is something so unlike her in the attitude, something( 5) diffeeenl from her usual une0mplaite i Ing; unpretending fortitude, something co disproporlioned to the cause—his own careless but not crimincl delay, as be supposes—In the despair evidenced by her whole pose, that he feels at once terrified and ongry. In a second he too, has stepped up on the little platform beside her. "Amelia!" he cries. "Amelia! \Vhat are you doing up here? \Vilh whom are you playing hide and seek?" 1 -ler words and her smiles are apt to be prompt enough, Heaven knows, to spring out, answering his least hint; hut now Mae neither speaks nor moves a muscle of her face. She scarcely stares at all at his sudden apparition and ad- dress, and no light Cannes across fur features—those features which, now that he looks at them more closely, he sees to be set in a much more pinched pallor than even (twee watching nights and a week of airless worry can account for, "Are you ill?" "No; I am not 111." The sting of irritation which, mixed with genuine alarm, had besieged Jim's mind on his first realizing her crouch- ed and unnatural attitude, now entire- ly supersedes any other feeling. Is the accidental delay of half an hour, an hour say even and hour and a half, enough t1 justify sucln a pavado of anguish as this? "Is it possible," he Inquires, in a tone of cold displeasure, "that I an in attri- bute this—this slate of things—to my being accidentally into? It 1000 a mere acdideul; it is not like you to snake a 800110. I do not rerognize you; I nun very sorry that I was late, and that 1 have made you angry." 'elle chill reproach of his words scents There Is such a meek upbraiding in her natural one, In the humble stud unex- acting one which is habitual to lie'. "Angry!, she repeals: "angry W1111you for being late? Oh, you arc quite nes- taken! in all these, yea's how often have 1 been angry with you?" There is such. n meek upraiding in her Gee that hi; 111-h0mor gives way to a vague apprehension. ''Then what Is it?" he cries brusquely; "what is it all about? I think I Have a right to ask you that; since 1 saw you last something must have happened to o p vat t t produce this s ext'uOrdInor' J� change," She heaves a long dragging sigh. "Something los happened erred to MO; yes, snnieldug .has happened!" 'But what --what kind of a something? 1 have a right le know --I insist upon hnnw'ing; tell ate!' IIe has graspe;i both 11e' hands, whose t,nnutural coldncss he feels even through her rather ill -filling gloves. So „htango and mean a Whig is batman nature that even at this moment it flake - es across him. With a 501150 of annoy. awe. whet Lad gloves Amelia always wont?, Iletwsver, ire is not troubled with then iong, for site tykes them and her cold. kands quietly back. I neat tell you, 1114'1'0 15 110 (1U5,1ion o' to fisting. I ehou!d 11110e told y,na anly- in,e; int eel e re" -glancing ti r\onely round Liu dl ,1•!md entente, not eine!" "Why net lime? Why nut now?" ]I 1' Dem hatters. "1 0,,011 note' os1,e says porously, "1 (le tot (finite know haw I .loll gel hlu',ugh letting 11; it Intel les etenewvh• t'e antm011,11 where it will not n111315r if I du theme. down!' He six,(; at 1101' Iu 1111 un10ign0d be. w:Irlartturul, again eltgltfly sl.ivahed tall!) wtlrail, "Have you gone mad, Amel ul? or rare yam 181111144 a lent out of SyllIlia's bnnl(? 1 you do not clear tip this ext'nordhn Ivy 11iyslilen,tot aI ono,'I omit br cenn- pent d le believe either the 0110 or the ethane" Arena1)c:r loos e.anirnces with pain, "Oh, if it were only 11 meelitir!iiont" she 11)1313, with a: low cry, "1 canna tell you here; it is physically intpossf Me to 11)5. But do not be, ah'ael"-- with all accent of bitterness, whiter he is quite at a loss to a(`C01111 far -"yon slap not have tong to wait; e w.i11 lel you, without fail, to -11;0000w; 10•a1101' row 'nominee if you like, Come as early as 3100 please, 1 shall be ready to tel you; 01111 00wv would you,mindleaven!, me? I want to have a few moments le myself before I see anybody --before I see Alva, Byng; will you please leave ate?" It is so apparent that she is in (lead ]y earnest, and reeohdo to have her re quest complied with, that he can do no tiling but step dizzily clown off the little dais, feeling as 11 the world were turn. Mg round with him. 'A quarter et on (hour later he sees he leaving the party with lairs. 13yng, look mg as simple, ns collected, rind not very perceptibly paler than usual. (To bo Continued.) • I'--. SKETCH OF SWETTENIAM IIAS IIAD IIARD AND VARIED EX PEiUENGE IN PUBLIC LIFE. All People Alike to Hine—Drastic Re- forms in the Serails Settlements -Career in Jamaica. No Mahn is more completely in the public eye at this moment than Sir James Alexander Swetienhan, Gover- 'not' of Jumatea, and the following ex- tracts from a sketch by 110. S. Merger', Powell, a Montreal journalist, in The Nett lyric Post, will be read with inter- est, especially as the Wilier 1100d in Demaremo W111111 Sim lames Was Gov- ernor of that colony-, and has also lived In Ceylon and Cyprus, and has person- al knowledge of Ills work in both is- lands. The sketch was written a week Lefore the incident at Kingston, Jmmica, A FiGHTER ALL 11IS LIFE. Sixty-one years old, with the physical energy anti vigor of a elan of thirty; sit feet tall, muscular, commending, iniperioui; a ruddy thee; steel -gray eyes, keen as a hawk's. '1 here you have Sir James Alexander Swcltenhaln, Gover- ner and C0)lnlandec-111-Chief of the Is- lund of Ian:e'en and its dependencies. This man has been a fighter all his life. Ile served his apprenticeship to the Brit - 'eh colonial civil service in Ceylon and Cyprus. A raw cleric, he worked quiet- ly when other mon were busy with ten- nis racket or riding in the clubs. In Cypru; he followed the same lino at action, studying the people, getting near 10 them, striving to feel with their feelings, lliinlc with their thought. 1le was feeling for a method, striving for a system. And when his chance came be had found both. TIIE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. When, some fourteen years ago, he became Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, with his brother, Sir Frank Athelslane Swettenhant, as Governor - In -Chief, the Straits Settlements 1001.0 n Uueden, financially and in every other 3015e, 10 the British Government:, The country was undeveloped; the natives were Unhappy and discontented; com- merce was a negligible quantity, and gloom In the minds of the people and the Government alike. The Swettln- hems clanged all that. Finding that the melees could 1101 be persuaded l0 work, they cletermined to leach them by (another method. They imported labor from the neighboring British Stales, set about road -making, railway construc- tion, the eslabiishrnent of towns, Line deve'opmenl of trade, the ereniton of n popllnr reliance in sympathy for Brit- ish doggedness, determination end ca- pacity In achieve. When he left the Straus Settlements to become Governor of 13rtlish Guinea the gauntry was be- ing rapidly developed, trade woe flour- ishing, towns were springing up every- where, the people were beginning to take a pride in action, and the colony not only showed a handsome yearly surplus, but, node itself unique by contributing, alone among all the colonies of the Brit- ish empire, to the revenue of the Crown. IN BRITISH GUINEA. 1`11 Bethel) Guinea the met a losk worthy of bus powers. The negroes, who eonslihde the great bulk of the po- pulntien, were 111000601.1 against the planters for importing coolie labor. 'l'ltey were clielnclined to comply w-Ifla the re- quirements of the educnlion code; they were de'erne ed to make trouble. Ai- esaudo' S'votlenhnrn putea slop to all that. He told then that, since they de- clined to work on the sugar plantations, upon whlctt the commerce of the whole Oclouy depended, they must be content I. let the coolies work, and since the oo s augur industry supported then all, they must pay their share of the cost on. lee mlgt nilln. , 110 devised a new edac0- lienal code, which he put into force, and. which he compelled them to accept. Ile 'condemned them for their inertia, shamed them with fle'y words of scorn far theta lack of self-respect, end Ingle theca how they 'might make themselves a pewee in the laud. Once when a. negro 0111(7ge Ryes food. re and the ening:Ts thought they should be paid for digging the drains to save their viiloge iso leaped Iron) his horse, lashed the bystanders with words of contempt, and, seizing a spade, worked fcr an ilnur in the french Ii11 it wns 0011131111e1. 'I'liey Ionic the lesson to heal. feel did the necessary work le methyl, their 0ilingo without delay. NO ltliSPE(;TOI] Olr. Pi3RMfNS, tae was 171r001' 11 1.03,1155105 of persons. One (lay a 'big gun" went to Govern- ment it 11-0 bo argue with hila 0)1,01)1 a erceilit ut, as11re he 10e0 engaged In ciraft- fov the consideration of the local Lcgislnturee "If y t do It that Way you will hurt us1' he smith "end wile ere yon that you should not he 11101 11 the 11163300 01 the people will lament?" thundered the Governor, "Gc away, sir; g1, many, end mark me, 1 11111 tim '11111 11rr5, and 1 goven for the pee - Me, mol for sash minorities!" 111138113.10 QUICK. TO IIELP. When the .news of ilio Marlielque ea- luwlyam la0tahed I3ritshaGu!nen, the 1,eg- Jalaturo was net silting, and Ila nem, LITTLE GIRL AND HUGE BOMIISIIGLL OF BATTLESHIP. A striking contrast is depicted in the illustration of a little girl of 8 years and one of the huge bombs of the great British battleship Dreadnought. The projectile is for the huge 12 -inch guns ;f the battleship. - It weighs S10 pounds and is fired with a charge of cordite weighing 205 pounds. begs were scallerce all over the hundred thousand square miles of the colony. Swetlenham did not hesitate an instant. 1Ie: chartered a steamer lying in port, Bought the entire cargo of all American flour be at, despatched it with '1 letter of credit on the colony for 510,000 to the suffering people of Fort de France and then summoned the Legislature. There vias some protest on elle part of the na-ive members of the Legislature, but when he threatened to pay for the pro- visions himself; they abandoned their opposition and elle bill was paid. PROTECTOR OF THE COOLIES. As a protector of lee common people Swetlenharrl has had no equal in the :•e- mirds of West Indian Governorships. Ile discovered, on his arrival in British Guinea, that lee coolie immigrant wo- men were being made the victims of the planters and the estate overseers. Sev- eral 0f the most prominent planters, lenders In the society of the colony, were guilty. lee warned them .by circular and by public utterance. Tiley tools no 1101105. They had not gauged their man. I -Ie promptly tools up the case of one of the worst offenders, took eyery coolie away Iron 1110 esla.tes under this man's man- agement, and notified the owners end attorneys of the estate that the coolies would not be allowed to go back as long as the manager remained In charge. The proprietors took the matte"' into come. The courts upheld the Governor, and the proprietors appealed to the Colonial °loco. While the appeal was pending, a deputation of planters approached ,the Governor, -and ihrenlened to make things so hot for him if he did not give Why that he would be compelled to resign. Fie heard then out, and then Inc turned an them and said: "Gentlemen, I hold my conunisston from the living. The Bing ordered me to guard tine interests of his subjects here. I 11111 lee guardian, in the King's name, of every coolie 01011 and W01111111 in this colony. You are con -milting a crimp against these people. 1 \warner] you to desist. You have defied nee. Now you Hameln me. Bus I'll make you all an exampie yell Go home, and try end be oral" The Colonial Office uphold the action of the Governor, declared that he had acted in the interests of the people. IN JAMAICA. to Jantalea, which he has governed tar Rea years, Sir Alexander has reorgan- ezed the !Mancini resources of the island, purged the local cion service of idlers, improved 1)10 educational 03510m, and wakened the panple up. When it wns prepared to import terrace negroes to work 011 the, Panama Canal, he refused point-blank to let a single man go un- less the United Stales Government would lodge n caste guarantee on account of provide each negro sent lo Panama, to 1 hr 0 against their being stranded and their families becoming a burden on the Ja- s 'stens ' rochrccd a mann public. Ho ml y 0' insurance for the bunana-growers, whereby they are insured against dam - ego of their fruit, by hurricanes—a novo hll1oe in insurance of crops which hes done the fruit. Industry a wvorld of good 11 inducing thousands of natives to tale it up ns a livelihood. re 10,000,000 GUST011I1RS, 8706,000,000 is Depo"!led by British People in P, 0. Savings Bank. 'the Brillsh Government fast -Office Savings flank, with its 10,000,000 custo- mers, is quite entitled to tall itself the lank of the people. A son of over Mee, - 000,000 0150,000,000 Mewling is deposited, and one in (Amoy 4.,3e of the population of the United Kinl[doln, man, 100111611 and 01131(1, 15 a tI'p ito'.. '1'lm averageamount to Om- en dit heer,dit of each depositor is• LIS es, 4d, The number of slayings balk remounts opened by reg!eEars of County Cantle under the provisions of 1110 \Vorkmen's Compensation Acts and the- County Courts Acis centime) to grow steadily. During suet 31500 1,17101151) accounts worn opened and ,£01,508 deposited 111 nlnni, cur increase of 301)10 200 accounts on the ;ranee( year, '1'1)11 amount l0a steetted by soldier's Manorial uhroud 8110303 an inerens0 of nearly 40 per cant. Ireland; OimioUsl,y enough, has 0001 11;000 tmnre. depnsilors •1111111 Scotland, EaigIomd and \Voles, and, of course, licads,.lh0 list, Invest in C al St ck More money has been made from Investing in Coal Stocks at low prices than (rout any other class of investments. Critlsh Columbia Amalgamated Coal Company Steen 11T 20 CENTS OCR SHAnO. COAL - COAL. COAL. This lies been the cry from the Atlantic to the Peclkc and although every coal ;torte in Canada and the United Stales Ls shipping every pound of Coal they can produce, still' the demand far exceeds the supply. For- tunes will be made during the next few years by investing in Coal Stocks at low prices. The British Columbia Amalgamated Cent Company control over 17,000 acres of valuable Coal Lands situated in the famous Nicola Valley, British Columbia, about 180 miles from Vancouver, B, C. We only have a limited emerald that we will sell in blocks of 100 or over at tee above price, To any one who intends investing in these shares we advise you to wire us at once slating the number of shares you wish us to reserve, then remit by express order, bank 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, sllakana, Washington of We give as our reference as regards nue standing Bank of Montreal, Spokane, Washington. OV THE FR WeeeceeeieeekeeleiateeeeAeeekeWeleettete WINTER LAAil3 FEEDING. I pity any man who attempts to raise winter lambs without plenty of succu- lent food, such as silage or roots cf 501110 Rind, 01' better yel, both, writes Mr. 3, S. Woodward. As soon as the lamb is able to fake his rations regu- larly, We ewe sleeted have an increase 01 milk -producing foot. Nothing is bet- ter than silage and roots, together wills clover or alfalfa hay far rough- age, and wheat bran, nil meal and a little corn for grain. She should have enough of these, so as not to fall away in flesh, and unless good enough to carry over for another year's use should Neve enough corn added to enable tar lc make 20 or more pounds of gain be- sides feeding (Inc lamb. Hay is fent to elle ewes al fi o'clock in the morning, grain at 8 o'clock and sil- age or roots at 10 o'clock. AL noon Nye the feeding rucks filled with good, bright wheat, oats or bn1'ley straw ancl. lc( them pick what they like, Ilse bal- ance to be thrown out to litter the pens. 14 is a fact that the higher they are grained the more straw they will eat. At 3 pen. feed grain and again at 5 o'Clork feed allege or roots and follow by filling the racks with stay. From the way the sheep attack the feed in the morning I have sometimes thought IL would pay to feed during the night. Whatever the time and rotation adopt- ed for feeding, it is very Important that the strictest regularity be observed, Not only should they he fed at the same hour each day; but each pen should 1'e fed in the sante order, if not, the shop - betel will be reminded of his irregular- ity by a concerted bleating that will nearly deafen him. The object of feeding the Iambs is to hurry them along so as to get them lo (1 marketable size and condition as quickly as possible, for the younger the lamb can be sent to the shambles the mare profit. Twin tombs are not, as a rule, desirable, especially early 111 the season. As a rule, one lamb will be all the ewe eon properly feed and when old enough for shipment, will be much plumper and muco more profit than would two. For the first few weeks, It will pay to select the best one and kill the other. liawwever, a few 01 the best may be saved, so that should a lamb happen to be lost, one enay be put upon the Tombless ewe. Later, if the shepherd wants to make Inc most money out 01 his business and 1r willing to give the extra care, be may stare bolt lambs, if good Anes. As soon as the first lambs have been taken them the etre, the twins may be sep- arated, putting one on a ewe from which a lamb has been sold. This lamb. will be raised and filled for the market as quickly as was the first one. Ewes awn strange lamins sometimes wl(h ouch dtllictally. A stubborn ewe can usually be brought into submission by being so confned that the lanb can help itself al will. For this purpose use a crate or hurdle. without a bottom or top. In one end have a hole just large enough for the ewe's head to poss. Fasten so site canna (hive the laub away. Each side is left open so that the lamb can readily get et 110 teals on both sides. With a little assistance fol' a few days, of very young, 01' a few times, it older, it will be competent to help itself when the ewe Is confined, They should be placed in a small in - Moslem n- rosu and the clue released ased at night. 11 wvill be rare ease if the ewe does net lake kindly to the lamb in Iwo or three clays, AL about two weeks old, the lamb will be able to eat and digest more food than is furnished by the mo- ther and it should be induced to eat all it can digest. First of all, It will pick out and eat bright, clover heads and heaves, or the leaves of well -cured alfalfa. As soon as one begins to eat, the others will very quickly learn. FEEDING GRAIN TO C0\VS ON GRASS Several experiments have been con- ducted to test the advantage of feeding grain thus. The conclusions reached were, that. the grain fed when grass was plentiful and while i1 was yet succulent, did not bring any profit over and above the cost ofethe grain. In some instances, ns when grain was fed in large quan- tities, it was sled that the incrense in faille x1111 butler fat did not pay for the cast of the grain. The conclusion has gone extensively abroad, therefore, that it does not pay to feed COWS grain er meal on grass. when the supply of the grass is abundant. I an not prepared to accept such a view, says Prof. Thomas Shaw. It seems to ale It Ls a conclusion reached without considering every phase of the question. If the increased return in milk or butter fat pays for the cost 'f rho grain, and no more, my contention le, that in the end, feeding is 0110(1(1 - el with profit. If the grain is thus paid for, one item of profit is found in the pasture saved. It is only reasonable (o suppose that for every pound of dry smatter consumed in the grain, an equal Bulount of dry matter Will remain uncolsumed In the pasture. This would mean that the car- rying power of a pasture is increased to the extent of the saving °ffecled by feeding grain. A second Mom of profit will probably be found in what is termed the resi- dual effect of the grain • feeding. This has been brought out by Prof. Roberts at Cornell. Six cows were selected that had been given a liberal allowance rf grain on pasture the previous season, and six were also selected that had been grazed in the sane field, but without grain. Ail were put upon pasture with, out. grain. The fol grained the preced- ing summer produced 16% more milk Than the other lot, The heifers In this lot in nitlk, also, made a better develop, melt than the heifers in elle other. This result is in accord with the view o1 many pearliest' men on this question. A third item of profit would arise from the fertilizer obtained from the grain. Where wheat, bran and cotton- seed meal were fed, the advantage would be considerable from this source. Put- ting these lin'ee items together, they .should represent a satisfactory profit, even when the increase in mills pro - (Mellon and butterfat did not more than Fay the cost of the grain, .p WORK IN NEW ZEALAND. IL is said that nobody is ever out of a job in New Zealand'. Thet'e•is an elab- orate Government department, which keeps a record 01 all elle lose employ- nhent, and ihelps them to positions, ad- vancing railway fare to take theta to places where help is wattled, seeking out marchania or nu m faolurerws who wvantmen, and as a east resort giving the unemployed soma occupation on Government operations. F HENRY TFIE HATEFUL. "Next Friday, Henry, is aur silver wedding day. Don't you think we might lclil the fat pig and have a—", "Kill lie pig,woman? Why, 1 ow is the unfortunate pug to blame for what happened five -and -twenty years ago?" 004,4413404414400000;r >` 090000000 0)� 6 Don't lneglect your cough. Statistica allow that in New York City alone over 200 people die every week from consumption. And most of these consumptives might 'be living now if they had not neglected the morning cough,. A `Foul know liow quickly Sc ee °mss' Erna:a toll enables you to throes off a cough or cold. AiL, bltU1disTS; see AND e,1,04, 44440044 .ftr Mt12dt{Ol^`4/0t'W'00rH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00ooa000shoo0o4pvoc o.o. YOU.NG FOLK.S >0000006000o0.00.0-0 042L A TROUBLESOME DOLL Dolly lost her 110111s and legs -- Careless tiring to do 1 Dolly's gone etre lost her head, Lost her body, too. Nothing hut her twig is left, On the nursery shelf, ee Oh, I've told her lots of lines Not to lose herself I Dolly never, never, docs Anything see's told ; f•Iave to scold leer—when 11nd Anything to scold 1 LUCY'S LiFE PIIESEBVEB, Mother came to the door with Lucy, to open the umbrella. It was no dainty """ modern ante with a silk tap and a. slender, pretty handle. This was the big family enihrelia of stout blue cotton cloth, with a wooden handle both largo and strong. "Hold 11 tight, Lucy," cautioned mo- ther, "ar the wind will blow it away." Lucy look hold of the handle almost up in the wire frame -work to grasp it- the tthe more securely. It needed both her plump 11111e hands in reach around the handle. The wind tried to snatch the umbrella away from her, but sho held It too firm- ly Then the wind tried to turn it wrong skle out. But the umbrellas of seventy, years ego were net to be trifled with, and the whirl wrestled with it in vain, So Lucy and her umbrella went bob- bing safely along to school till they, came to bhe brickyard. The brickyard pit was the most fasci- nating place, but it was a spot forbidden as too dangerous. To -day the wind would be making fine waves on its water, Lucy knew. tier pace slackened. "Of course I wouldn't sail chips on lt. I'd only loulc at the waves and the dim- ples the rain damps make in the water. Mother wouldn't care if I just did that," argued Lucy to herself, So Lucy picked her way through the. slinky blue clay of the brickyard to the edge of the pit, The pit was fifteen feet across and eight feet deep—as large as a room and deeper than a man Is tali. IL was dug to catch and hold the writer used in mixing clay to the right softness for moulding into bricks. To -day the pit was full to the brim and the wind raised quite a sea. 1L \4115 even more exciting than Lucy had thought it would be. In her eagerness to watch- the waves chase mach ether across the pit, Lucy leaned forward a little foo far. She lost iter balance, a gust of wind pushed at the umbrella from behind 11ce a sail, her feed slid on the slippery wet May, and. the next instant she was struggling in Llro water, Instinctively she had clung to her big umbrella, and it buoyed her up so that she did not sink, She shrieked for help,. andthe brickmakers, burning brick at the kiln, heard her terrified cries, 1001 - fled though they were under the um- brella. The men were sure the cries came from, the direction of the pit- nut when they reached it, all their estontsked eyes could see was an open umbrella floating on the surface of the water. As soon as they understood that the cries were coming from under the um- brella they acted quickly enough. They were none loo soon. The waves that had looked so enticing' got into Lucy's mouth and blinded her eyes; her clothes were soaked, and their weight was dragging her under in spite. or Lhe umbrella. But the strong arms of the brick - makers reached over the pit and drew' out the little girl, cholcing and very mucin tightened, but stiff clutching desperate - e I,tin in both lnnnds (Inc Uig umbrella that had mode such a good lite -preserver. —t' 1,1 A POLYNESIAN' JOKE. An Englishman's Experience in . the South Sca. Some of the people of the South Sea Islands are not lacking In a sense of humor. This, says the author of "Bey Scutb Sca Log," generally manifests it- self in some form of buffoonery. The town of Mataulu, on one 01 the Samoan Islands, once boasted a "town fool" named 1 ulumntau-lnnc-cse-Lava; line Superlatively Handsome 13011." They were always fond of lie 101011 fool, and 1,1 tlnls one they gave especial latitude. One day there came to Matautu the English yacht on tv1110h were severer tilled gentlemen, one of whom soon be- came known to the natives for his ex- treme stinginess. 110 made a practice o: offering not over two shillings fir v" i s itch wvea w on lh ash t n m'ltcles wv 1 g filly dollars. So the natives dubbed him "Lina Vale," "The Closefisted."' Ono Sunday Lima • Volo attended church at elle mission. arrayed In frock coat and tall hat, although lits fellow yachtsmen Were the usual while ducks o[ the South Seas, At (Inc conciirsion ot. the service, es he left the church, his lordsinip found his way obstructed by Puhunnlau-tone-ese-Lava, who peescnte(1 a striking picture. He wore the cast-off uniform of a German infancy capintll, which was 11101011 too 011011 for 111m, On his head was a buttered "nllnslrele while top-Ilal, lett to him by one of the yachtsmen. In lots mouth wee a tong Grrni511 pipe. 111s (appearance calmed (1n oulhuret of inughler, of which he look ns notice. Striding up to his lord - elite, he 1001 11101 by the arm; deoptte his energetic protests. "Volt are 1117 brother," he said 1n 1511 It -h. "olid I shall now give you my mane, Pulumetau-inneese-envn, and T shall lake yours, Lima Vale, which 11101111g'the Stingy One, Tlirowin(1 en English p5.nny' 0111111q1, the laughblg neliv 3, he added, in Sail 111111, "00 away, good people, and ore joy yourselves with my and my brother's, ti, ievolence:' '1'hen,•destine the franthe struggles et. his lordship to free, hh?rsclf Irani his tormentor, -Puthmllnlnu pullet lass "bre- thee" down to the ys.'bI's boat mut 1111.e 11101 into 11 as if 110 W01'0 n ehtkl, tide. dint! Insuit to injurn, t,y offerlugee axe 01x11(10 hats with hltrrz , `w e.