The Brussels Post, 1907-8-8, Page 2DR, A SAD LUPE STORY
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CHAPTEB XXVII.--(Contineede
After. she Le gone, he rages about the
garden, and pas.ees beyond it to where—
still sunilght-smilten---the blue Mediter-
ranean is breaking in Joyous eelle•
He sits dOW11 on the shelly 81111110,
and, in futile anger, huts back the wet
pebbles into the setee azure lap. Away
to the left, the three-earnereti town
swarms candescent up tbe hill, and the
white light -house stands ou1, against the
laplsoolored air.
How sharp -cut and intense 11 all is?—
none of our dear undecided grays. Here,
U you are not piercing blue, you are
dazzileg white or prafound green. There
Is, indeed, something less sharp -cut and
uncompronitsing—a something more of
mystery in that glory thal—brighe too,
but not making its full revelatioa—en-
velops the long 11111 range that, ending
in Cape elatifou, stretches away to 1110
far right. Round the caviler, to the right
too, ,a party of Arabs, sitting sideways
Oft 111110 do/Weiss, white draped, with
their halk-swallied heads, are disappear-
ing on their small beasts in the clear
Ole. It is like a page out of the Bible --
a flight into Egypt --and they aro going
towardEgypt too.
Jim's eye follows the placid Easterns,
but without catching the Infection of
their tranquility. "Whenever I see her,
I stick a knife into her ! le is impos-
sible! There is no use trying! I will
give up the attempt.. It Is out of the
question to have any happy relations
with a woman who has a past I"
After all, Mr. Le Nfarchant does not
like Hammam Rhira. lie thinks the ho-
tel cold and the roads bad. Jim °rev
hears hitn telling someone this, and ids
own heart leaps. 11 (0 true that he takes
11 10 task for doing so. Perhaps, after
all, Elizabeth's removal would have Leen
the best solution of his problem. Had
.she left Algiers, he could sceecely have
followed her, and she would have been
freed from the chance of his clumsy
stabs.
But all the same, his heart leaps. It
leaps yet higher a day or two later
when he discovers that, though 110111 -
mem Illera has not met with 5Ir. Le
Maechant's approbation, yet that, by his
trip to it, he has been bitten with a
Wet° for travel, the outcome of which is
his solitary departure on an expedition
te Constantin, Tunis, etc., which must
occupy hen al least a. week. His wife
accompanies him to the station, but his
daughter is not allowed le go beyond
the hotel steps.
Jim surreptitiously watches her hover-
ing with diffident affection round her
father, unobtrusively and unthanked,
fetching and carrying for him. He sees
the cold kiss Wet just brushes her cheek
and hears the chill parting admonition
to look well after her mother and see
that she does not overtire herself.
It is accepted with ready meekness,
but leaves the reelpient so crestfallen,
as she stands looking after the depart-
ing veldele, that 13urgoyne cannot fore-
bear joining her, with some vague, end,
as he knows, senseless valleity of cham-
pinonship and consolation.
"He Ls gone for a week, is not he?"
is tho form that his sympathy takes, in
a tono 111 which he is at but small pains
not to render congratulatory.
"Yes, quite a week."
"Are you"—he is perfectly conscious
white asking it that he hes not the
slightest right to put the question—"are
you glad oe sorry?"
She starts perceptibly.
"NVIty should I be glad? Do you
menee'e-evIth an uneonquerable streak of
satisfaction in her owe NTrIte.--"oNaust
1 sball have nininmy all to myself? You
must not thiuk"—with an obvious rush
of quickly -following compunction—"that
I am not fond of him, because he some-
times speaks a 11111e roughly to me."
After a pause. In a lowered voice; "You
see, when you have broken a person's
"heart, you can seemly benne Mtn for
not hewing a very high opinion of you."
So saying, she suddenly leaves him as
she had left him in the Jarclin d'Essal.
Ile does not agate aperonch her that
tiny, but at dinner -lime he has the
answer le les question es to her being
glad nr sorry at her father's departure.
She is apparently in the best of spirits,
sitting 110511011 Mow up to her mother
for the better convenience of firing a
eeries of little jokes end comments into
that peeent's appreciative enr.
"They make fun of the whole hotel,"
observes Miss Snell wen exasperation.
"I do not believe thal one 01 515 eseepesi
When he is not hero to check them,
there Is no bolding them 1"
No holding Elizabeth 1 The phrase re:
cues to him several Umes during the next
few days, as not without its justness,
WI1011 he sees Its object, flitting about the
house, gey as a linnet ; when 10! meets
1101' singing subdurally lo herself upon
Pre stairs; when he watches her romp-
eng with the Freneh children, end mis-
ohloyously collecting emote of Clapham
eloqueneo from their governess, which
she is good etwegh to retail for les own,
and her mother's benefit when evening
unites the three in the retirement, of
then 111110 salon. For, elrange and im-
probably Useful eg it seems, he has
somehow, ere three dnys aro over,
effected an entrance Ink) that small and
fragrant sane:teary.
ens. 1.11 Maechant's first fears that the
ineeting with him agnin eveuld re -open
sorrow have disappeared in the light of
her daughter's childish gaiety, end ere
even exchanged foe a compunctious
gratittide to Mtn for beelng been in pare
the cause other new lIghtetenetednese.
The weather hes again leoleen, 11 Ind
which he !Ilene011118 evholo hotel does
not deplore, since it was Me own °sloe'
tellottely displayed wet-doydreerinees
tied wag filo °nese Of Ms first admission
within the doors that aro Mused upon all
ethers, Mort:6101 had it 1101, 1)0811 wet
weather, could he have held en umbrel-
la over Elizabelles heed when he met her
in the eucalypthe• weed, and they walked
ameng the naked trunks. \tittle the long,
Woee, pale foliage \raved like dis-
shevelled hair, in the rain, end the pun-
gent asphodel:1 grew thick about their
feet in the reel emelt? And when, 'tw-
eed -bye, the clouds disperse again, and
411e1e comes a fun day, braeketed be-
tween three or four foul 01108-1110 usual
Algerinn proportion—it has grown guile
natural to all three tbat he slimed sit
opposite la 1115111 in their drives; tha 1.
he should haggle with Arabs for them.
and remonstrate with the landlord, and
generally transfer all 1110 smaller rough -
of life from their shoulders to les
own. Brought into more intimate com-
munion with thent than he has ever been
beetee, 13uegoyne realizes how much they
belong to the kneeling. honing, spoiling
type of womankind. Elizabethe would be
the easiest woman i11 the world to num-
ege. How ire it that in her ten years of
womanhood no man has been found to
undertake the lovely facile task? fle
tilmself knows perfectly the treatment
Mat would befit. her ; the hinted wishes
'—bier tact is too flue and her spirit too
meek to need anything so coarse as
commencls — the infinitesimal rebukes
and ethe unlimited—oh! limitless—car-
esses :
"Praise, blame, love, kisses, Wars
and smiles."
Every day he finds Matson repentng
Wordsworties line, and every day, in
his fancied guidance of her, he tells him-
self that the blame should be less and
the kisses more.
Mr. Le Merchant has been gone more
than a week, and February has come
wetly in, vreth rain wildly weeping
against the casemenls, and angey-hand-
el rain boxing the unlucky orange-lrees'
ears. It has rained for forty-eight hours
without a break. The Grand Hotel is at
We end of its resources. Uncle Toby, his
struggle ended, Iles 'vanquished in the
Widow's net.; and there is murder in
the lurid eye which Miss Strutt turns on
the votary of Whiteley.
not alone, ouldeor man as he habit -
litany is, looking upon a house merely.in
the light of a necessary shelter, has no
quarrel either with the absent sun or the
present deluge; for are not they the
cause of his having spent two \\thole
afternoons in the company of Elizabeth
and her mother? To -day has not Eliza-
beth been singing to him, and cutting
him orange-llower bread-and-butter,
when Fritz brought in the afternoon tea,
and set llw real English kettle fizzing
over its spirit -lamp? And, in return,
has not he now, after dinner, been help-
ing her to weed out her own and her
mother's photograph -books? As he does
so the idea strikes him of how very
meagre her own collection of acqueiro
tances seems to be. From that weeding
have they not, by an easy transition, at
her suggestion, passed to the more play-
ful and ingenioes occupation of ampu-
tating the heads of some 01 (118 rejected
friends ane applying them to the bodies
of others? Each armed with a pair of
scissors, and with Mrs. Le Merchant for
Umpire, they have been vying with each
other as to who can produce the most
startling results by this clever process.
The palm has just been awarded 16
Elizabeth for a combination which pre-
sents the head of an elderly lady, in a
widow's cap, mounted upon the cuirass
and long boots of a Life Guardsman.
hues -application Of the cornet's discard-
ed head to the body of a baby in long
clethes, although allowed le be it pretty
conceit, commands but little real adleir-
ation—an instaned of nepotism which 110
does not allow to pass without protest.
Elizabeth, elated by lice triumph, has
flown out of the room to examine her
private stores for fresh material, and
Jim and her mother—for the first 11010
115 11 happens, since that early meeting,
when her anxious eyo had so plainly
implored him to leave Algiers—are Ion-
a -tete. Her thanged a-spect towards him
as she sits, with a lingering laugh still
on her face, beside the wood flee—
which, Mier having twice gone out, ns
it ahnost always does, the starches being
invariably woe burns brightly and
crackly—steikes him with such a feeling
ce W01.111 pleneuve that he says in a voice
of undisguised triumph:
"What virile she is in, is not sho?"
"Yes; is not she?" assents the mo-
ther, eagerly. "Oh, I cannot say 11011
grateful I am to you for having,cheeral
her up as you have done 1 "Oh,' with a
low sigh that seems to bear awny on Ils
slow wings the last echoes of tier late
mirth, "if it could only last 1"
"Why should not it last?"
"If nothing fresh would happen 1"
"Why should anything fresh happen?"
She answers only indirectly :
"'Fear at my heart, as al a cup,
The Ille-blOod seemed to sip.'
Sometimes I think that Coleridge wrote
those lines expressly for me." After n
pause, In a voice of nnxious asking:
'elte hes not mentielied him to you
lately, has she?"
eNo.,4
eThat, is a good elem. Do not you
think that tint is a good sign? I think
that she is getting better; do not you ?"
For it moment he cannot answer, both
beetuise he is deeply touched by the con-
fidence In hien and his symenthy evi-
denced by her appeal, and for a yet
More potent remote Little elle guesses
bow often, end with whet hearesearch-
Inge nitd splrit-elnlcIngs, he has pitt that
question to henget.
"I do not know," he replies et lest,
with difTleuity ; "it is herd te judge,'
"You have nol told lan that we ore
'here?" in a quick, panic-struck tone, cs
fa one smitten with a new and sharp
apprehension,
"Ole 110 1"
"You do not think ent ho is at all
likely to join yob hero?"
"Not in the least I" with an elmost 011-
gry energy, 11111011 reveals to 1111110811
how deeply clishisteful the 111080 segges-
tlor, of Byng's reappearance on the
scene 10 to 111111.
Mrs, Le Merchant heaves a second
eigh. This lime 11 10 one 01 111(01,
"Theo I do not see," with a sudden
bound upward into saugulnetess \Odell
reminds tem of her deughter, "why wo
should not all lie very comWrtable."
Jim is condering iu hie mind epon the
sIgnilleanee of thie "all," whether it is
meant lo include only ?,le. i.e Newland,
or whelhee, under itg ebellete he 11110 -
SW 11111y creep into WM promised com-
fort, when she of whom they have been
speaking re-enters, She has a packet of
pholographe, presumnbly suitable for
amputation, itt her hand, in whet is
also held u tete/pone which 5110 extends
to Burgoyne.
"I met M. C.Ipriace bringing you this.
11 seeme that you 0119111 to have Ind it
tWO 111110 ago, but by some mistake, it
was put into another gentleman's room
—.8 gentleman who has never arrived—
an(' there it hes remindu. Ile was lull
of apologles, but I told him what culpa-
ble eatelessness it showed. I do trust,'
with a sweetly solicitous look, "that it
is not anything that matters."
"It cannot, be al much consegeenecee
-replies jim indifferently, while a sort of
Peng darts through 111111 at the thought
01 (1011 strangely destitute Ite is 01 1)0811)0
W be uncomfortably anxious about, and
SD tears 14 open.
An English telegram transmitted by
French eleres often wettr.s a very differ-
ent air from that meant lo be imparted
to it by the .eender, which is, perhaps,
the reason why Jim remains slering so
.lung at his—so long that the two wo-
men's good manners prompt, them to
remove their sympathetic eyes from him,
and to attempt a little talk with each
other,
"I hope you have Teo bad news?"
The elder one permits herself 1.1110 in-
quiry after a more than decent interval
has elapsed, during which Le hes made
no sign.
lie gives a start, as one too suddenly
awakened out of deep sleep.
"Bad news?" he repeats in an odd
eoice--"what is bee news? That de-
pends upon people's tastes. IL is 'foe
you to judge of that : it concerns you
as much or more than it does me."
So saying, he places the paper in her
hand and, walking away to the little
square window—open, despite the wild-
ness of the weather—looks out upon the
incligo-colored night.
Although his back is turned towards
them, he knows that Elizabeth is reading
over her mother's shoulder—reading
this :
"Bourgouin, •
"Grand Hotel,
"Algiers.
"Have heard of Le Merchants. If you
do not Wirt to the contrary, shall cross
to-morrow.—BYNG, Marseille."
Ile is not left long in doubt as to their
having mastered the meaning of the
In't.'"Illevels corning!" says Mrs. Le Mer-
chant, with a species of gasp; "and you
told me—not five minutes ago you told
eee"—with an accent of reproach—"that
there was not the remotest chance 01it.
Oh, stop him ! stop him I Telegraph at
once! The office will bo open for two
ur three hours ?'el I There is plenty,
plenty of lime 1 Oh, telegraph at once—
at once 1"
"It is too late," replies Jim, retracing
his steps to the table; "you forget that
11 is two days old. You see, they have
spelt my name wrong; that accoulds
for the mistake. Bourgonin 1 It looks
odd spelt Bourgouin, does not it?"
Ho bears himself giving a small, dry
laugh, which nobody echoes.
"Ile must have sailed yesterday," con -
threes the young man, wishing he could
persuade his voice to sound more
natural; "he may be here at any mo-
ment. If the weather had been decent,
he would have arrived ere now."
"Then there is refilling to be done 1"
rejoins Mrs. Le Merchant 111 a tone of
flat desperation, sitting down again on
the chair out of which she had instinc-
tively risen al the little stir of the tele-
gram's arrival.
Elizabeth is dead 5115111. Though there
is no direction by the eye lo 811051 that
Ilm's next remark is 8111101 at ber, there
can be no doubt that it is awkwardly
thrown In her direction.
"If this had not been de1ayed-1f it, had
not been too late, would you have
wished, would you have decided to stop
him ?" •
"What is the use 01 (1810109 me such a
question now that it is too late?" replies
she, with more of impatience, almost
wrath in her voice than he has ever be-
fore heard that most gentle organ ex-
press.
But besides the ire and irritation,
there is another quality in it wlitch
goads him to snatch a reluctant glance
at her. She is extremely agitated, but
underlying the distress .and disturbance
of her face there is an undoubted light
shining like a lamp through a pale pink
strade—a light, that, with all her laugh-
ter and let' jelces, was not there beef an
hour ago. He had often reproached him -
sell that, by his clumsiness, he had
stuck a knife into her tender Mart. Slio
to even with htm to -night. To -night the
tables are turned. 11 Ls she that has
stuck a knife thee him. It Le clear as day
that She is glad 11 15 too late.
(To be ceetinued).
FLOWER OF THE FAMILY.
"Uncle 'Meths,. how old are you?"
"Pas' 70, boss. I'll soon be D. °Mo.
geranium."
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CANADA'S COAL AND IRON.IN FAR SIBERIAN PRISONS
1)051INION 'WILL RE THE GREATEST
PlIODUCER"IN TUE wonLP,
ThousOmis of Square 5111es ot Coal —
Many Iron Deposits us Yet Neg-
11
If the mineral 1e:d
di:eny of the Dentin-
e -It to ever to bear my Ittrge proper
-
lion to the agrketitural indestry--em
nay It Le only ubou1 01 111111 tts vot—
e will 1101 be gold oe silver that will
being about (les inerenee, though much
f...:01(1 1111d eilver Wiil tinitoubtedly 1,0
mined. *The value of the finds, how.
010r, and the Maumee of woraing them
profitably, are more oe less problem°.
tient, What remelns quite cortnin
that Canada ie &stetted one day to oe
the groat caul and iron producer of
thee'reevvelUldto.ly years coal has been work-
ed. in the carboniferous racks of Nova
Scotia, and the crentaceous rocks of
Veincouvee Island, hut more lately the
et eataceous rocks of the Bockies have
supplied mast of the fuel requirements
of the Western Provinces. Ott a smal-
ler scale collieries have been opened In
New B•etinswick, in the south-west 00!"
1181' of Manitoba., in the Lethbridge Dis-
trict, of Alberta, and in the lelondeke
tegion of the Yukon. But these fields
are as mere drops la an ocean com-
pared with the ereas of coal that are
Iceown to oceur M. the North-West Ter-
ritories, and more especially in Alberta.
VAST COAL AREAS.
For many hundreds of thousands ed
sauare miles, the country Ls occupied
ler coal -bearing formation, It is, in-
decd'IPeaenillotea1111o
11 liftiPeOel1811vlI
ssibille10aPIoPre°1115
olcrloct
Pay be available—the human 1011111 re-
alized such figures—but it, may be men-
tioned that I). B. Dowling of the Cana-
rd= Geological Survey, has estennted,
lied be emelders his estimate very con-
eetwative, thut frarn the coal areas al -
goads' knower in Alberta there is a pos-
sibility of extracting 150,000,000,000 tons
in about the tollowiug proportion:4.
'Geed lignite, 44,000,000,000; true coal (be-
low bilemeneus), 20,000,0011,000; steam
'and anthracite, 00,000,000,000.
In the southern portion of Saskatchte
Wan, Me. Dowling calculates there ere
ever 26,000,000,000 Ions of coal. Most
of this is possibly ligeito of an inferior
order, but any one who has studied the
111T111101180 strides, cannot, fail to realize
Mat the time is not far hence when
'almost .any fair lignite can be easily
employed as a power peoducer. Only
et few years ago pessimistic wiseacres
evere estimating the probable coal sup-
ply of the world, and counting on (1
shortage in our great-grandchildren's
time. The calculations of . these esti-
mable statisticians were excellent in de -
gale and were wrong only in that the
Lasis on whicll they were compiled was
absolutely false. .
It was assumed that we knew of
practically Mt the large coal areas of
Ilu. universe. Since those croaking fig-
ures were given to a nervous public'
it is probable that 50 times as much
coal has been located as the amount on
which the woeful estimates were based,
Australia, India, and China have more
than enough to supply their own re -
genera -Penis for man.y generations to
come, but Canada bas enough and to
Grave lo supply the wants of both hem-
ispheres.
Long before the .present severe eli-
te -wee conditions converted the Pelee
:legion nee the Arctic regions, im-
mense forests flourished on what are
now the shores of Hudson Strait and
bteffln Isleuid; these forests, now largo
coal fields, 1110y, even in our own city,
supply the steamers that will, within
a few years, adopt the Iludson 13ay
'mule for carrying wheat from Manitoba
to Europe.
InoN PRODUCTION.
If the iron production of Canada were
in any way proportionate to the value
of the iron ore deposits, sIatisties re-
garding this indestry \Nereid be both
interesting and startling. The fact,
howevee, remains that in comparison
to the population the production is ex-
ceedingly small, and in comparison to
the ore deposits moiling development
is hardly worth mentioning. A quarter
lot a million ions is, approximately.
Canada's average iron ore output. Com-
pered to the 44,500,000 tons produced In
Ihe Untied States, iron minIng in the
Dominion would, indeed, seem to be 0
vete' small branch of the mining in-
dustry.
The souse of this absence of note mire
ing are twoWld. In the first place, the
deposits that are within rensenableectis-.
'lance of civillzation—namely, the im-
mense areas in (eitebec, north of the
Se Lawrence valley—are of the ilmere
its of titaniferous description, for wMch
no satisfactory system of economic)
smelting has as yet been discovered—
or perhaps, one should say, hos yet
'been made publicly known, for Et group
ot New York capenlists 0101111 to have
The right of an invention that is, by
We electrolytic process, to expel the
ltaniene from thd non at a rate that will
tompete with the rectuclion of ordinary
magnetic ores. 130 this as it, may, 11 -
menet has not so far been treated pro-
illably on 8 large Seale, and, at the pre -
Cent day, the titarefeeous deposits of
Xeliebec are at little value.
The second reason for the eeglect of
tome of the earge iron ore deposits is
their locntion. It is well known thee
large portions of the Labrador penin-
Sula—called Ungava on ihe Dominion
maps—contein huge deposits of mate
'nettle end hematite that lend themselees
in eats> smettleg. Some years ago a
thilodelphia sendiente engaged the pre -
'
sent director of the Canadian. Geological
Survey to toport on the iron deposits of
the Nastepoka Islands of Hudson Bay.
Mr. Low reported flioding peaellcally
'unlimited quantities of good ore, but
censidered that the situation wee such
as to render profitable mining out re
the question. Of the Labrador depos-
its the same meek may be made 10-
41ny.--Inank 7. Nieholas, tn ilevlew
Reviews,
Even when ft friend urgently requests
you to point. Mit his faults, 10111 do Hi
11113115 ARE THOUSANDS OF THESE
PENAL ESTABLISHMENTS,
A Desolate Land Near Ille North Pole—
Prisoners Fish for a
lee Mg.
A writer in a New Yolk paper tolls re
hie extorlemee as re Stheritte prisoner 115
[(glows
"1111S IS the polies, of 1111SSIS In &M-
ing With 111080 whom elle 10901115 tet
firebrands, likely to sot the heather
abinew—to remove them file from ilte
haunts of men, lo nice them thoustunis
of miles across wild teuckwee country
and set, them to a 311W bIlo in these deem
Into solitudes. Sileoia, vest, eramingly
illenitnelo land, is dotted witbt thousande
of these penal establishment:1.
"They nee designedly distant from the
railway, which winds ils way across the
continent to Vladivostock, and far, Wu,
from any trade route of wagon or care -
van, and hundreds of miles of wild
ootudey septtrol.e these settlements front
nett another. ilet•o in these tiny convict
tionimunities vile criminals anti those
who aro merely political offenders arc
dragging out an. existence that, is hell
upon earth.
"Weal if thee attempt to escape?
Guards sum -nu -et them, und beyond thy
iiteecilese Mends Iles tho wild, open.
bereen country, wheve hunger and cold
would torment 1110111 by day and whore
the envenom; wild bectsls would assail
Wein by night.
A DESOLATE LAND.
"I was sent once to a settlement in
the very norlh.ernmost part of Siberia,
right on the fringe of the Aeolic circle.
it W00 only some 23 degrees from lite
North Polo. On that occasion I was one
01 0. party of eight. We were taken by
train to 1.110 rillS514111 border and then
driven in ,jolling wagon 0105 the
rough, half teemed roads for hundreds
of miles into the interior of Siberia.
We 001110 al le.st to a small town on the
Meer Yonosel. Wo underwent a fifteen
days' journey down the river in a boat.
It was a small open boat, unprovidett
With any sail, and there W(15 110 Shelter
from the weather. Often Wi) were land-
ed on the bank and camped out in the
open, lying on the ground.
'rho Mee village al. which we arrived
eventually, and where wo Were to settle,
was in the midst of a ciesolaW land. For
IOC versts around not aeollter human he -
Ing dwell. (A verse I may explain, is
Omit three-quarters of n mile accoMing
to English. measurement). T110 village
was a collection of 40 huts, and the total
population did not number 1110PC than
103 persons. Included among these were
en °Meer and fifteen soldiers and e
priest 1 The rest of the inhabitants, save
the conviels, were natives of the land,
a half -wild people called Tunguees.
ewo prisoners were 'hoarded' with
these seeit-savages, having to share their
primitive hut dwellin,ge and being large-
ly, dependant on them for food. We
lived chiefly tuonn fish and such wild
animals as could be trapped, with few
roots. Of brettd we got but, very little.
The country around was so marshy that
it was almost impossible to cultivate the
soil, and flour and other things bed all
to be brought up by the river.
"The Government makes an allowance
of threo or four roubles a. month for.
each prisoner, according to the class to
which lie belonged. Well-to-do convicts
are allowed move than those who collie
none (ho ranks of the workers. With
this nioney we had to find ourselves in
food, a large part of which we bad, of
course, to purchase from the natives
but we were permitted to fish ourselves,
and thus helped to eke out out' scanty
5u11 -"TERRIBLE BEYOND WORDS.
"It WILS at rare intervals that any
stranger ever penetrated to our little
village. Occasionally a fish merchant or
n skirl buyer would come down the
river making a periodical eall to pur-
chase supplies from the natives. The
nety 011101, communication with the out-
side world wits through the post. We
weve allowed to have a letter boat our
friends once a month—but, of course,
the oflicials perused that letter before It
came into our possession.
"E'xistence in that place WRS terrible be-
yond words to express. The senee of
loneliness, of exile from We world, the
deem days, and long, sleepless winter
nights brought. on a melancholy that
wets pil•Iful to behold, and some meet
who weep less strong mentally than
their fellows, were driven completely
insane after a spell in that piece.
"Four times I have been sent to
Siberia. I ale asking myself now, as the
time approaches for MO to velum to
Russia—Will it be made live?"
Aleele.eeseVeNWeiWe
ON DIE Rai
efeeeereve.AAAAAAA,VeteVe
SWEler 1.11EANI
The manufeettere of huller from sweet
venni has become 11 e01111tiolt It1.11011V0 111
11111,11'11111"1.1110111Cti'lliilltwij1 114TesitSt:1`11111d1'011111111y1,1'11(13.
coldly by We (Wheeler of the Department
of Agrieulture id. 01111w11. sui.ntion
•,13-iNft.fitist1:111,11:11..11111ilkiiiiiiiillg,liok, dairy dennitseioine.
eesetettluel'ilholtiellsor 11)11,71.70;0111")-i
titigh°,11eitifgeionerxi tgr)dr ge1,11(14110ierie%;t11,141.,1
feet that on nerre than ono Ot.011Sloll 114
ill(r:Isityypsritz,1010,e)vlein:trcLtIommt;18,
was said to have hetet made in this pro-
cess, khe J. D. torten, the supeeinten-
(lent of the sehool, published 11 Faun*"
lel on Me subject 111 M04, giving S01110
detail:1 Of 1110 process and a mord ol
the bottermaking at the dairy school
1111V1.11',e111et,ext-.
from me:Interns which have adopted
tit111"noleit143.e.,e,oltaitiolo eiciii41154;11. very highly 01
tbro Sitectly speaking, it is not a sweet
cream process, its the large amount ei
"starlet, or torment. added to the VITS111
iggiVsesuinitotetilltt at,c;11)1)101ysoourv ail,rmiitie311.110"47,1;. cone ,
Ily this process there is lose danger of
tiinejstitit:tsirbitoo Ilw quellty of bleier Dom me
gentle which may Iteve been
he the milk if the mom churned soon
after separating than if these germs SIT
allowed to inultiply during the ripening
moose, If the cream le pasteurized,
the clanger is leseened etill more. 'rho
importance of acidity recognized in We
large amount of ferment added.
ln the application of this Diocese to
oreinary creamery practice number of
things have to be coneldered, In the
111.01. place a lirst-dass pasteurizing and
coaling outfit, especially the latter, is
absolutely es.getitiall. Vete- few 0001(111'
01180 aro properly equipped in this ('0'
.0(1011. 'fills impees also en ample sue.
ply of cold water end ice.
A reticent objection to the process
for bot, weather is that the churning.
itivretrkehaigmpeaeldbacking of MO 1.1111tAsr
is
until late in the after-
noon, while in the 1.11/0110d Cret1111 pro -
ass the churning can be dono ie the
early morning and cooler part of the
day.
A bulletin has been published by the
Department of Agriculture, [theme not
with a view of edvoceling the adoption
of the proeiss, but simply for the (1ur-
pose of giving information et) 411050 who
may be interested in the sulevele
in this 14111101111 aee germ tho resells
ef. an investigation by Ir. T. Shell, eltent-
ies of the Central Eeperimental Farm.
Six chornings were made, three with
sweet cream and three with ripened
cream, equal quantities of the seem
cream being used for each precess in
three separate trees. The object wets to
ascertain 1110 coreectness of the claims
inacie for this process that there is an
avoidance of all foreign and had flu -
VON, on improvement in the. kocieing
qualities, a saving in Me time 01 butter -
making and 'no greater loss 01 butter
Oa Wan by the ordinary method.
It was found nod there WO5 110 greater
loss by the sweet cream emcees than
be We ordinary method provided -111e
cream used in the former is ce the TC0111.,
S11.0 PIC1111054. T110 111111.01, from the sweet
cream process was somewhat drier and
contained lees curd, from which it may
be intereed that its keeping qualities
were better.
NOT GOING kr ALL.
"I must be going," declared the young
man for elle fourteenth time.
"Not at all," responded the young
itoly. "You are sitting perfectly. still,
I assure you."
"Henrietta," said Mr. Meekton, "is it
true WM 180111011, 'have no 'perception et
the comie?" "It must be trate, Leoni-
das," Was t110 anewer. "Otherwlse, some
of them would never marry such ridi-
culous' mere"
The Cynic : "What arto you thinking
et, friary ?" Mary ; "I am dreaming of
my youth." Tile cynic : "I thought you
see a iar-awey look he your eyes."
Mrs. Flynn "An' pbwat's yer son,
eloike, dein' now, Mrs, Casey'?" Mrs.
C:ascy : "Shure, Moike ain't, dein' any-
thing, Mrs. Flynn. He's got a Govern-
ment job."
Ile was one of the smart men who nice
to show their cleverness. "Watch nio
lake a rise oui of him," he said, 145 the
tromp opproached. Then he listened
solemnly to the tale of hard luck,
"That's the eame old story you told me
the lest Limo yeti accosted me " 110 said,
when We vagrant had finished. "Is ile?"
was tho answering emotion. "When
did I tell 11 you?" "Lest week." "Mnse
be I did, Innyhe I did," nelinitletr the
'tramp. "I'd' forgotten meeting you, 1
lc you valee heg (demister:I, Wee imprison all last ,Week,
CAN 1.1LMEr1 PAT 13E INCREASED 13Y
FEEDING?
This is an important question. 1 have
teken a great interest in 11 10)' more than
fifty years, writes Mr. Benjamin Craw-
ford. I have tried to solve it for my-
self, I have read a great deal on hoer
skies of the question end We writers on
both sides, after gtving their experience,
ekeeteeoefeceeeoorreetereeeleroceoceeseie
FOLKS
YOUNG
00-0000-0-0-00o-roo-ceo-o-o-o-reeo-emet
WHEN JOHNNIE JONES \VAS LOST.
Johnnie Jone.s was lost, completely
lost, He Welted tip We snook he looked
demi the street, and then he looked
illness the shoot, but not 000 .at WO
Is'AISOS Was Ilts; 1101110, ;1011111110 J01100
del not liko being lost, Ito had tiot St1011
1191 11101110r 1411. It very long limo, eot
since she Ind left lien in the yard to
ploy, (Woe they had 111101.110(1 10011 111111'.
1011, 110 hut,. Mee swinging on the newt
gate, when Suddoilly he inard Wet sound
4)1 muste, 1111d 011W several people me -
m, tea thee,. ens 01, pieces,' be 5111C1 to
111,14g4oOLIrTvonnetirtesrettrtve folleetten to (511
himself, "1 think that I Inel better go
and see."
to wave the stool eniese (111 Older person
Noev Johnnie Jones was never (Wowed
ems with him, but he did not Wink of
that as be opened the gate and ran out
cm the strut to follow the gathering
crowd.
Icritletrileet1119.eonillf.sot
05.\0\1;w:1111ehowillison [ho next,
tool dolma, ionete hurried on, too. Of
cause, however, Ile ceutel. not run as
feet ate older I:mete, mid very soon he
wits passed by the crowd. Then, when.
lee could no longer twee the tensile ho
looked aroend hen, and knew that he
was lost.
Ile was sorry that ho had gone away
from home, Ile thought, it 1nust be
about hover thee, and hci W115 very
hungry. Then he remembered teal this
1008 1110 dtly 11100100 had promised lo
tette hen to the pnrIc. Ile would have
cried bind 110 not loon te breve little lad,
end had he not lolown that a boy el -
most four is too old to cry unless he. is
actually hurt. .
He sal, di)W11 the cuebstone, and
wished that, some one would come to
find him.
After a while he saw a policemen
coming toward Itim from adoss the
street. HQ, WOS 11 very tall policemae,
led Johnnie Jones decided lo spent( to
hint. Ille mother had often told ithn that
policemen always take care of people,
and help them whenever they ran. So
Ito lipped his hat politely and said:
"Please, ele. Policemen, will you find
me? 13ecauso rin lost." .
The policoman smiled down at Johnnie
jones until johnnie Jones smiled up at
the policemen. and forget 'what a little
los, he was. Then the oftleer lifted him
in Ms strong arms, and esked him his
name, johnnie jones could tell him his
mane, but he could not tell him which
way he hod come nom home. So they
d,ecided to go to the neareet drug store
and ilnd the nember of the house.
The policeman began to tell him
stories about hie own little boy, whose
mune WOS Johnnie ereen, and Johnnie
name was so interested that lie forgot to
be tired, Just before they reached the
drug sWra, 10111111he :hews heard a dog
harking. Ito looked around end there
was the very tl tg WM lived next door
1, him, and ployed WW1 111111 every day.
"on r said, "1 know that dog. Ho
le Max, and he van tind the way home.
You'll take me home, won't you, Max?"
Iso diked the dog, who was so glad to
sce his little neighbor litat he WtIS trying
hie best to kiss 111111 on Me !ace.
"All right," the big policemen said,
"inn 111 conw, too, so 8111111 know
wheee you live if you ere evee lost
again."
Sfax wegged Ian and Lognn to
hot home. Johnnie ;Wiles trotted afWe
518.5, one the policeman after' Johnnie
Jones. It was not very long before they
80111(1 see the hone% and there was
meteor standing at the galo, looking up
the shoe!, and clown the street, and
across. the street., for her little boy.
Where she sew him she ran to meet, him,
111141 clasped hint in her arms.
"Mother, dear," saki Johnnie Jones,
"I was lost, and the policeman found
Me, and then Max found us both, and I
Abell never again go to see a circus by;
myself."
Mother told him MA the band of
music he had tweed did not leelong• to a
cleats, but '1111S the Clitizens' Band on its
wily to Me park, `and that, since so
leech Lime 11110. passed while Johnnie
Jones was lest, it was too tato foe him to
ge to the park that day. Of course the
little boy W11S 0011'y to notes tiw leteat,
13111 110 was v•ory glad to bo home once
man, and theniced hint for being so kind
inore,
elother shook bends with the police -
to her boy. As soon as he had gone, sho
end Johnnie Jones went into the house
for their lunch, alld afterwerd the littlo
follow was so tired that, he fell asleep
111 moth,er's lap, and dreamed that be
was a tall polleeman, finding lost boys.
litivo come to opposite conclusions.
Strange as it moy oppear. they ere both
right from their standpoint. The ma-
jority Of these who sey Wet Ilw per-
centage of fat ran be Illeasasell 111 011114
by feed are faience who helve been
Poor feeders, or who have cOMIlleneell
to feed in the fall when the butter week]
no1 como good, then elte feed did have
a manifest effect, and the cream would
churn easier, and there would be 100re
butter, although, perhaps, the mile
would be no richer, 'rho others sets, they
have tested the milk and foci direfully
but cannot Increase the percentage of
butter lat. Now there: is ono wny bo
settle this question—feed the cows good
food, take good CON al 11211111, and they
will gtvo you move and richer milk. My
•experience is that the mill: can be mode
richer by feed, but 11 takes iimo and
cafe. 11 ean be clone, end when 11 Is
orwo fixed 11 Is apt to be transmitted to
the offspring. '1'0 heve good cows three
ato necessary --good anceetry,
good feed and good core. This cannot
be accomplished by feedlng and Marv-
els; by spoils. Thc COWS 111 1151 110 W011
fed all the time, It requires patience,
perseverance and strict attention to de -
tells, The cows should be milked clean
°v
I Nevra5; tai mseeri "'I1°03'1,11 icintgees 11v n150 81.111(x1,1 1 Iv al1
l 1°1t).
milk was left in the 'udder; t.he 5011'
oveuld give less sleet time; the other,
that the last milk drawn was a great
deal richee then the thee There ts one
thing I do not know, ond that is, how
the 06\V melees the milk or leitt., long
the material flone which sho makes 11
Ls In her system believe It Is turned 11110
milk. Tbete 15 one thing I think, and
that is that she canoed, melee it outeof
niv and 1811101. 1110110, This 1 (10 1(1101V,
nisi wilen 1 fed my eows well in Ihe
winter, especially when they woo dry,
they wive more and better milk next
summer.
One of the advantages of winter dairy-
ing, to Make It pay', Is flint the COWS
luivc 10 bo fed grain. No cow tint I ever
fed did lee best until ehe wns fed grain
for six months, end some of them tor a
longto time. I am C0TIV11100C1 that by
feeding well Me cows of New Bruns-
wick would give mote Man twice tts
much 1111110 as they do 81 pereent arid
Mal the percentile° of better Int would
be raised ot least nee per cent. With
lee tows 1 ineronsed 111011' 011117 flow by
ore -1101e metres In Weir full capnelly,
and doubled the quaeitity of butler, seeelee foe thee gee:cation of eeCletee
SENTENCE SERNIONS.
-Short prayers may go farthest.
To love tradition is to limit, truth.
A. good Inertly resolutions die of heart
failure,
A Mg &tingle often Irides a mighty
small business.
No man possesses more religion 111051
he practices.
When men say "our faulW" they
usually mean yours.
When fent' gots into the_ pulpit faith
pee out of the pews.
Sintles help, bet 11 often lakes stecalt
and teem To keel1 life eunehine,
&Moo aro more [metals le forget, Moir
Sill8 than to have them forgiven.
Many a men 15 shouting Itis convic-
tions to down the voice of conscience.
You cannot enjoy riches unlit your
lumpiness is independent at therre,
A little learning is dangerous if you
Dirt lemming to get 10 heaven by de-
grees.
Tilo isaddost people in this world are
those who seem hrtve no sarows to
face. •
Tho long look within ourselves 'W111
CONS 115 Ot a lot of impalic»ce with other
folks.
When yeti pray toe 1110 renewed of a
mountain >00 1101 better onsr omen tvith
a steam shovel, •
The last, pereon to miler heaven will
be the one wboee religion hes ell been
ho the first poeson singelar.
Wo ofWn talk a peel Wed (Meet Ihe
,salvation• 01 eeele in melee lo mope