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OR, THE CONVICT'S DAUGHTER,
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CHAPTER V.---(Continue(1), night befere She had gwern that 13111
"Ingot or no, Ws kept you nigh on
newlemi years. As you've begun you
nine ao wtql go on. You owe me much
more than you (inn pny by doin' what,
1 ask, then you'd be free le follow yC,ur
own will. But nest ininc must be' obey-
ed. Will you do this Lilies, yes or no 7"
Sunbeam straightened herself and
looked bravely into bis face.
"You mean me to enter houses so es
to report on them, ise. 'as to show yeu the
eay Myatt them? Is that your mean-
ing 7"
Ile nodded,
"You're sharp enough. I'm glad you're
On' to canon to it.'
A quiver ran through her. Her face
grew pale iss death.
"Them father, I'm parry, lint I can't.
Ask me anything but that. I'll work my
lingers to the belle, but that I cannot
His fase darkened again. A 10w curse
Noise from his lips. She drew back
trembling before the glare of his little
eyes.
"You „can't 1 Well, you mu,st. I give
you till to -night. If you still say no I'll
then tell you how I punish an undooll-
ful, ungruteful doughter wot doesn't
think o' her father's comforts. 1 bet
then you'll wish you'd sed yes-I.eL me
pass. My hand itches to spank you.
But I'll wait till to -night. You 11 give rue
your answer then."
"It will always be the same," mur-
mured the Md.
But he bad banged the door in her
facs and was already outside.
With a cry, like that uf a wounded
bird, Sunbeam flew to her aunt's arms
on sobbed cut her distress.
"I thought he loved me, auntie, ane yet
he wants me to do what 1 cannot do 1"
e exclaimed,
"My duck, my duck, Try ie come to
his way o' thinkine it will be best.
"What, you also? Oh, awitie, I can-
nel,. I would rather die. Why did you
rear me? Why did you make Inc love
you so? I cannot do this thing."
"And yet you're his child. You must
obey one or rother. 13111 is a terrible
man If roused. And this is the first time
you two come to loggerheacle. 1 might
have knewn he'd something like this up
his sleeve."
"Ile's never asked IL before I" moaned
the girl.
"I might have guessed he would,"
sae; the w0111011 stroking her hair lov-
ingly. "But, you must be brave darlin
would lull anyone who rimed the joy
Dem his child's face, And yet be had
been the one to do Mal. Her ire rose
'against him. She would have given
woolds to be a man herself, and thus
meet thin on his own ground.
Sunbeam's head drooped. She threw
net despairing hands.
"Oh, GAP she cried, sobs breaking
her voice, "help me, for I ant power -
lose I"
CHAPTER VI.
Duncan, mming home after a 'torn -
trees hard were. brushed up against
Sunbeam In the 11a1TOW passage, The
misery in her eyes appalled Ilan. Had
elm already discovered her father's un-
woelbine.es of such affection as she had
ehowered on him in his Absence.?
110 smiled kindly at, her, and stepped
lee as she was about to run away.
"How's the puppy te-clayr Ile asked,
noting how the coler ebbed and flowed
in her pule little face.
"As happy as though he had never
known a day's trouble," she replied in
O spiritless voice. "Would you like to
see him? He is in the garden."
"Certainly!" exclaimed Duncan trying
le meet her eyes, and following her
through the kitchen as he spoke.
!Jetty, busy at the table, glanced up at
them and seated. He noticed that she
had been crying. Also that Bill N'as
nspieuous by Ids absence.
His blood boiled. Had the rogue been
bullying them? And yet be hed sworn
to nog whoever caused a .shadow on
Sunbeam's face. What could have hem-
p.
Out in the neat back garden where the
same love of vegetation shewed itself as
in the front, his wonder put itself into
words. For he felt that hes interest in
the slog was nil, in Stetheam intense,
more intense then it ought, to be.
"What is the matter witIl. sou, child?"
be asked gently, taking the puppy from
her as she picked it up.
"Nothing," she stammered, the coli'
rushing to her face.
"Nothing." exclaimed Duncan, "and
yet the light has gone out of your eyes,
little Sunbeam. Your aunt also looks
the picture of misery. Is it anything I
can help you with?"
She shook her bead.
"No, thank you. There is really no
thing the matter," she replied in a low
mice.
Duncan put the dog on the ground and
followed it to the end of the little gar-
011t.t try to give in or things will be den. A huge currant bush led him from
the Imuse. Ile appeared absorbed 111 the
animal's Irilies, and stood silent unlit
she hild come up to him.
Then he faced her. Her eyes met his
fos the first time, and the look of dutnb
appeal in their velvety depths made him
feel more than ever that there was some-
thing terribly wrong,
"Sunbeam, I wish you weuld, let me
help you. I wish you would see in me
a friend," be pleaded in a hurried whis-
per, steopmg over the dog as he spoke.
But not my self-respect, auntie. Oh, Fee from other gardens not Inc off, they
hew can you urge ine to. give Mr might be observed, and for her sake he
"13ecause I think it's wisest now. My wished to be cautious. "Although you
dear, I once had to help him, It's too have not known me very long, a few
terrible. I've been lady's maid many a days simply, can't you trust me? I
time to help him." would do emytteng to bring the smiles
Sunbeam looked with horrified eyes back to your face."
Into the comely fase. Sunbeam sighed. Iler nunl's WOrds
"Oh, auntie, your" site exclaimed, feel- crept Mtn her mine. putting a curb on
ing as though indeed the ground had bet somewhat willing tongue. Perhmes
given beneath her feet. he was only a detective, like the lodger
"Yes, Inc. And IL hasn't made me se they lied years ago. Any word against
had, has it? And I tietrit have a high err father would be used by him. She
oddiontion to bribe me to it. I did it, dared not smile And yet the blue eyes
(hers all." were se honest, the face so good. She
"And I emit," nnirtnurcie Sunbeam, lenge(3 for the comfort of telling 'her
the leers filling her eyes again. tremble. He was strong and would tell
"Well, 'woes.° (omits you to -night," re- her what, to ee, whether duly to a par..
worse."
"Nothing, enn be worse," exclaimed the
girl !wily. "Ile has managed alone so
long. Why should he want. me new?
Let me go away and earn my living,
not—"
"You owe lem eomelhing, my duCk.
IM's been a good father to sou, working
end risking hitnself, whilst you had all
the, comforts he could gel. And he
loves pm, 'Yes, yeu owe him some-
thing, Sunbeam."
plied the woman, sadly. out demanded the eacrifice of honor and
ewhat, ean be worse: Deeth? Not in self-respect, whether it were better to
my eyed Will he kill me? 1 elsoted pre- obey, or accept the punishment await -
ter it!" Ine her. She shuddered a lithe as elle
"Lor, no! He's never cemmitted mur- thought. The remembrance of Gentle -
dee yet, llut melin0 to make yeti lean Dan, the tall black-eyed man she
marry Gentleman Dan, You'll remelt,- had seen so often in her childhood In her
her him. the man with the block 030)0 fathers company, thrilled her with. hoe,
who used to frigblen you so " ror. How could she Inarey him? And
The girl's .slight times' swayed from yet bow could she do that othee thing?
side to eide, She clung lo ter aunt as Fop a jneweet she esesej hi silent
ron-
tluugh for support. filet, her head (hooped to hide the Mass
"So you'd bellee do the ether thing. le her eyes. Through them the leureed
After' all, where's the harm? You ought vision of the gay modem rind the
to be rich and riding in your enrriage. 11,c,ughtless restless 3)1(3)3)3, playieg et her
Them what has them ain't a patch on feet, made a picture that imprinted itself
yeu. Some eloift lcnow how to epend vividly on her memory. In eller des's,
their 01001e3' right. So there's little harm when after nneth tribulation she found
1,1 doing euch a simple thing es show- pence again, the rentembrence of il, tens
ing the ways of a big house. Thai, isn't agonizing,. Her short life had been se
stealing yourself." timely, so free from core. ,so [rough(
"I can't, 1 can't," reiterated Sunbeam, with love, that, the shadow that had now
eineteng her 110110101 despairingly. fallen tmon it overwhelmed her with fie
"rhen, God help yon, for 1 can't. rm darkness. She bed never imegined
'led myself. And ori ne Cientleman Dan trouble so hard to bear. She had never
has you for a wife 111"--" felt 00 111Ierty Mone.
"But he wen't. They ean't foree me le NeeerIlieles,1 site realized that elle nmst
marry him. My father 10VeS me. Ile suffer ili secvecy, and not 11111 the risk of
Won't be So cruel," jeeparclizing her father's eafeiy by cell-
IfeltY shook her head (1010111113'. riding in Ibis handsome emaliger, with
"when the devil's Itt your father n01 ths kind voice end :still kinder :nee,
thing Can tern tem. I IttuAr: Lot' Ismr I So she see:Hewed her hare bravely,
knowl tle's set on thie, Yetell 1(800 to and, raising her 11011(1, :Aid, in a trenni-
bend ono WO' el' rather. 1 !sad that 311 lens voice :
Ili eye. That's wha1 he had view ail "tiredly. il nettling! T helve bed
these
31)1 ('5.'' own way so Jong that I 331111 it, difileull
."1 van denounce Gentleman INin," to obey. That is 0 31v father wished
Murmured Sunbeam in 0 IcAv 0011:11, lo 0(1)1(1 1(3). and 1 Pett,0(1.-
"And your Ottlint• w1111 him?, Not if 1 "311(1,1111M OUP he exclaimed piny.:
ko,ms you, ety &twee les esetuee be feey, though 011 heeling of . the tenth 1
creed ruin 31e1e retiree Peal 1.1 nese 11; 1)1 through Io brain, "The Meth e
two 31)311 go must be dote. eillsrei Sunbeen: refuses 10 pierce n eloud.
more freely, for I do not know whet the
thirig Is that you refused to the But your
father heves yeti. And love, as a rule,
is neithee a hard 1101' a eruel taskinas-
ter,"
"lf IWO thinge are wrong, which le
worse; to sac:Nice oneself and one's lik•
IfIge ot' antSe conscience?"
Ile spread 0111 31301 hands expreestvely
"One's eonselener, (trees temor, shout
311 511(.0(1 at, ail e1.818. 111111' Senbeam
Bi301111-03111' 1131 1Yari0s31'Y.Thiss1"
s
must ie a terrible ono to caue sle
l
thoughts. AI sid before, youe Mie
loves you. Ile will evegive You se
en enigma to solve, I am sre. ln((1')))'yuni.el:ev111ntoIce,1er
3/e1 Ore still an iurant, therefore still un
des his nonteol, Tey le obey without
outrage to your boiler feeling:4, I feel
Slire yott will never de anything
wrong."
"Ali, hut yen forget," shr murmured.
onillion "Nly father's ideas of
right and wrong weblii not be yours.
'You heord wind, those village ellildre
5111d. Yoll knew II'S true. '1 (Incense le
might try to make me see things in hi
own light -he might, I say. - And
"And yeti would lie tees to yourself
my ehtlet," he interrupted in a low voice
11., the Sound of an opening door fell oi
Me ear. "I feel sure of it. Our soul
nre 0111'own, to seek or raise. No per
01(1 can 14113(13) them."
Ile bent down and culled 1110 dog lo
him, as 110113' Crm
een crie hiliTylitg
(them llm path. She glanced quickly
front one to the othcr. suspicious loot
shot into her face.
"Sunbenni, want you lo go into the
village," she said. "And, sir, your luncl
is reedyWd
. hat 0 silly eal you Ore
Sunbeam,_ to be out in the sun with no
1101 on. and your head so bad! Besides
what (lees Me Sinclair Care 1.11101.4
ugly hoist?'
"Heaps, ?dies C,reen; he's going to be
0 fine deg. And I'm most grateful to
Sunbeam for looking neer 1111T1."
She sniffed inceeclulciusly,
"You 1010(0 you only bought it out of
sheer extravegance, ex kindness,
'cos you 500/ this child fighting for its
the Nothing will make Inc believe that
you like the little wretch, 1110(13)11Sun-
beam always -11a8 100k 10 such weakly
things, Now, 1113, child, fetch your, hat,
end 111111(0 haste," she continued, as they
re-entered the house. "The facl is, the
child has a hearlashe-excitement el
having her dear hither home; and 113101111
1401 In take a walk to get rid of it," elle
added in an aside to Sinclair.
Ile nodded sympathetically, meeting
her inquiring eyes with an -inscrutable
smile. For he SIM that she 1(100 11u11
suspicious of 1111n, end perhaps afraid
Mat Sunbeam had poured out her griev-
ance into his willing ear.
1111,1 he heard the aunt's dose catechiz-
ing when Sunbeam came downsleits, he
would have seen Mt he was nc..1 far
from the mark, for she was dreadfully
afraid that the girl had told 1111(1 of that
moening's 8(113(113. 1111131 as shd
e like
him, she still had her doubts about him.
"Foe all we know, he may be a 'tee,
a -masquerading as en artist,' she mut-
tered, as Sunbeam assured her that she
had said nothing that could do any in-
jury to their einnee. "An' them It
through you -lits daughter -your father
got caught, it would be terrible! Or
Gentleman Dan," she added emphati-
cally; "if he's nabbed, you may give up
all hope for your father' Not but what
as 111133)5 against 13111; prison ain't the
best place for him, Al ell events he's
safe there! But he mustn't be put these
through careles,suess of his own flesh
and blood. Remember that, Sunhearn.
You may think him mighty herd, but
look al all he's clone for you, and hold
your tengue. Now, there's the Ilst of
whet I want, and try to walk back your
smiles 011(3lo make up your mind to do
what your dad wants. It'll be better
then marrying Gentleman Dan, for all.
he's such a swell, and irll be simple
enough, yiou bet. You'll run no dun -
3)01'!"
She Ictssed the pale cheelc,s heartily.
If only the girl were not se good. What
harm wits there in Bill's request?
Where, indeed, would they he now if
she herself had been 00 squeamish years
ago? But the thought of marrying Sun-
beam In the smart member of the gang
13111 had belonged to so long filled her
with misgivinge. It was et terrible
threat. Surely her brother could not
mean it? Surely Ile weuld never cerry
it out.
As Was her wont, she watehed Sum.
beani go tiewn the (fouling road. But
this time with en felting heart. For the
girl clid net turn back ()nee, and she felt
that, she blamed her for her cerrnsel,
Had she not felt her shrink as elie kissed
Imr? Bill 11(1(3 1cilledthe child's love and
11 1101 in thorn. Willi (71)03(311(3 sigh she
wenba
t ck le the kitchen and burst into
h111it
1 1
tstut from his window had witness-
Sliilliettle'A dem-whim. Ile saw the
ether stomas saddened Ince fill with
yearning and anguish, and all his
&tees ('(1(14,0(3,l'hore was something
serious 111,5111,else why should both WO -
111011 100k se wretched?
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FRUIT TREE PRUNING.
For some time pest several English
leeelcultural journals irate! Curie:lied
interesting matter ne, to the respective
1111)11 10 or the printing and nomprituing
O of fruit -trees, The evidence in some
; eases .diseloses strong proofs that the
. emotion (105341(11 01 annuel pruning,
and that often. or a severe nature, is al-
together' mistake.
A contributor to the "Gardeners'
Chronicle," n grower of fruit tSees,
epee -10113' apples of the best English,
French and 01101v1les, 1311470HIM long since be has limited at iirei
n (7011(111101011 that if (31111111(13'(101)11)3310(1with quality are the deeleed objects,
regular" pruning as practised by most
gardeners 15 a 1111131113)13, 1)0 11(1111115 11101
thinning necessery every Rev years,
1 Red long branches should be shorleoed,
$ end thet cross, nwkward growths
. should be alcen out, but the annual
prilning that one sees ln most gardens
is wrong. 'rime spent In cleansing 1111
ttees from American blight, refiner-
ing, etc., is much more profitably em-
ployed. Many sOr1.5 hem not foiled to
clop for at least twenty years, and soine
seasons Vet'y henvily.
Mr. J. Wale reports on experhnents
1 re pruning and non -pruning, the WI -
Terence), he says, between pruned and
impruned plum treys being nearly 100
' per cent. Williams' 13,m Chrelien pears
also showed a great difference. Lane's
Prince Albert apples showed the least
differenee, but still it wile Meorly ole -
fined, 'rho trees of each 14111d of fruit
enly slightly pruned exhibited inter-
mediate effects. These experiments an-
nually increese in value and interest.
Some details are as follows:
131even trees or apples, Prince Albert,
fire grOWing Under equal. conditions In
el' respects except In regard to prun-
ing. Five hoes in one row have been
111111110113' and carefully pruned. Three
Imes in the next row lave been annu-
ally end badly (er roughly) pruned, and
three trees in the mune row have eot
been pruned. All the (sees came from
the same 5011000, 1101d from the same par-
cel of trees, and We10 planted on the
same day. Ench tree has produced more
er kess fruit every year since 1800 to
1006. inclusive, and the average weight
per tree 101. the W11010 of that period
is: Three badly -pruned trees yielded
1119.0 pounds of frail per tree; three
non -pruned trees. 183.6 pelmets of fruit
ete tree; fiV0 well -primed trees, 105
pound e fruit per tree.
In order that readers In 03, understand
Ili,' size rind market' value, as well us
tbe economic value of the finite 28
pounds of the largest opples 'were se-
lected trent each sieved sample, and
the following, after careful counting,
was the result: Seventy apples Inom
the well -pruned trees weighed 28
tounds. 125 apples from the badly prun-
ed trees weighed 28 pounds,' When
sold, the remit from Um well-peuned
trees realized from $2.10 to $2,50 pee
cwt., that from the badly -pruned trees
51.45 per cwt., anel fruit frOin nen-
pruned trees $1.20 per cwt.
It 11 thus shown that the non-primee
and badly -pruned trees have up -Io -so:,
prOdliCed nearly double the quantity of
Dent produced by the 'well -pruned; it
is also shown that the latter have pro-
duced hotit nearly twice the value of
1hr 100.111011, whieh makes them about
01111111 111 value (commercially) 1,3) to the
slid of 1906. The future will prove
which system of management is the
best or the three; 1)111 10 predict future
events by the past is not very difficult.
and, judging by tile progress made by
the well -pruned frees, the reeult in the
near future is almost a foregone con-
clusion in favor of mod pruning,
Much more 01153' bo said aboid, this
.11111011-diSputed question of the benefits
arising from good pruning as against
slight or non -pruning. 'rhe great bulk
will ageee that good pruning Is the beet;
but there are also other fruit growers,
who say that regular mutual printings
are a mistake.
Fonm wiTriouT PERFORMANCE IS
HUMBUG.
In this shrewd business nge, we in.
sist on treading dairy coSvs for milks
Color of hair enci skin. graenful turn
or horneperrection of syirimetrical con.
tour, end 111e numerous other fancy
considerations Wh1C11, in Ilia past, breed-
s have often sacrificed utility to attain,
are all eery wen in their way, bul they
do not pny wages, lotesest .or rent ror
the everyiley commerciel farmer, into
wis se Minds the animals or their pro-
geny must finally pass. Gradually tha
tonviction hos forced itself on unw11-
ling minds that pure-bred dairy cattle,
unless, persistently selected and bred for
censtiluilon rind performence, are bound
In dehniorate, lo the point where their
average asefuluess will be no higber,
and often actually lower than that cf
grades or scrubs, A higher level
utility, which Ls profitableness, 'can ee
developed ond maintnined o.nly by 0101'
01111111 ration111 501CellOn and breeding
to that end.
elereoVer. every wide-tt wake d n try.
1111111 nOW knows. Mat appearance, er
eescallel outward evidene.e5, of . daisy
11sefIllne55, theugh perhaps of some sig-
nificance In a geheeni tvey, Dee ofteu
ns deceiving as stn. Gdod judge§ 4 1
duiry slI1 nury pick out ecnue good
cowe, led, the best of teem (70111101 1)0 de-
pended on le inectern en the best cows
ef 11 herd, muell less to vele their ee-
lc:Miens in eider ef proporlienate vulue.
'rills eon I,e (10111 only by careful, con-
ecienllous testing with the Milk scales
rind Belicoele lest, npplied for several
etrecessive peeiods; and 11111.11
breed 8550611 11011s commence 'official
testing 011 this thorough and etihnue.
live bask, we Shalt never he able to.
Wed detry entlle so intelligently ns
we elicited. The while (tits is the nse,
11)11(111 geml 10101 15e11 dobe by [reline
1411' elegem periods. Even a week's or
31 movili's lest is hitter Rum none, al-
though Very linlile le exalt one's psi!,
ef the e ,W Ihnt 1111110 0/e11 when
11 mut then dome 110 MIllrasled
1110 alendy, persialen 1 1111111er.
Much 01111 be , done lo guard egoists',
HIS certainty as le Hells, Green's dis-
trust ,,f him incrensed as the day
sugitemed. For she secreted continually
'1 his way, mid the many little meet-
ilgs between Sunbeeni and himself, that
eel brightened the pest week end m-
imed the 11101)0100y of his present life,
nutrred by her presence. Only
of,e0 tad he a chance of .Speaking to the
gel Moue. Ain' then was when, 011
starling out nfler an early tea, he found
hi stooping over a bed of nnsturthens,
withering the flowers to decorate Ills
table,
"140 (11,0111)," he murmured, pausing by
het eide, "I want 3101 lo remember 111(11
If eves seei ere in need of help I will give
11. 1 oni your friend."
13) you," elle hreallied, raising
grateful eyes lo 1,10 flushed face, "I will
refuel; iter."
Al111 111,11 1r) perged on Up the path.
wey. his pulses belting tensity. look
o the hazel eyes lind pierced to les soul,
1mI, fur no etason whatever, he fen
emote! rends' lo snerinee les life end
0,111 fm, the sweet -heed glrl, But the
teed of bee 1311 Id'. grinning upon him
tom the doorway, gem him a shock.
In tas power, and wants si lien ond elle!, darkness mound t
off. No deubt the losete l: sly mid les reembly eel I 3"
13141ed PA' 3011. POI 11)p<; 3i,'' A tom' or imiire'r Wa`, rer- t
Dither beers you IliI mcies," him give troniy tester le put im with 111011 ono of
you enothet (hawse. Nol Ibu) I knew semputhy. 01ee:0 eyrupality woo dungee.
Anything. It's jaSt VS 1111,01; ,a,11.; om, (MCI nw.liwm1 10 evude.
nie 05 13.3 a you, And yet it's Indere{ "Is il wrong lo dieagree05111i 11 3)311
3111(3 be illaUld Waot 30 Make IMO of yore e" the retied. 11 • emelt et tmetely in
meets les 'week less damsel oes her
have tomeone he iree(vs in fete hots•re," "You beve leernt 30111. f:tdeehhei) unit
"Is there notelsos 1 ean do ?!' pleaded n5,1: 31111 Ihul 7 \\ ell„ /11.0 miprosed
the tOrlt g1 Pete hoe In which de-; 1vbut en seine re enle nee t11111101
31I0ne.j aireadY begun to work. I 10,13, !.110' ilig 010.$01 (Minion. 'suet) 11,
"Nothing, I'm Afraid," replied (telly, pLink of hems., A Ming Ilint eppears
the reedy treirs terteeing le her eyes at ligt right 1,, n ;spent reto .N; lard 10
night of see 1114.1011 blicSery, Only the his offspring. 1 ee11101 expiate mysel'
Niue n eenitinertithl fool he WriS to allow
I pretty face to gnin euell n hold on 1111111
"Whel (\seed Eileen soy?' he mueed,
11 ithig, ns visien 01 that yeung lady
1,iifori, his meninl 03 001,
('le, be cotelintled),
-eseso44—.-
Iroimmulil may he 111)) 0(1(111 from fin-
al bY (1011111111fl the 1)1001,,) 11 water
ond louring O'kel• a 11111e salls of lemon.
"Deco your Mist end went n joh, 3117,,
Meeleire?" "Nee 11111. it you've eel, (me
us him 111 metier hien take 11.'
smell hy retesting eight Months
after freshening, and taking the twe
tests M. mejunction, Best of all, how.
ever, and by far the simplest 2(10111011,
10 3m earefut keeping of milk record
throughout the pen', and 3'('S 1' after
year, with ocensionul tinanneuneed vis
Its frein an oillcial inspeefor, who will
welch 5eve0111 inilkings, and emitter,
1110,weigifie ni" milk with those reeerd-
fel for previouseedeys, lo see Whether'
they correspond, and will then tithe
sionples for Babcock tests, to determine
ths evelege pereentage of fat. 11, le
euch work an this that the Dominem
Depnettnent of Agriculture Is carsying
C11, !tee of charge, for the Caundifin
clutry-beeed asencintions, rind no better
(Inc of effort was ever undeetalcen by 0
Depaiiment nf Agrieulture. 11 will
new lie up lo delomen le acquaint
themselves with the Records of Por.
10110101)01< er the breech In which they
ant 1111111' 1(11111113' in and, whe11
buying heifer colves or young bulls,
to insist on knowing the offload milk
and butter -fat 'Tense's of thee' drams and
grandams, leielimately, there will 50011
be plenty of breeders of blooded stock
reedy and anxious s13)3)13' them.
Form in dairy cows Is all right. no tar
es it goes, but 'without performance It
is a humbug,
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ADVICE TO VICTIMS
TELLS READERS DOW TO CURE
INIEEMATISM AT DOME.
'Directions to Mix a Simple, Harmless
Preparation and the Dose to Take -
Ocereonies Kidney Trouble.
There is so 'much Rheumatism
eVerywhere that the 311 lowing ad-
vice .by an eminent euthority,
who writes for readers of a large East-
ern &lily paper, will be highly nppreel-
ated by those who suffer:
Gdl. tram any good pharmacy (mo-
hair ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion,
cute ounce Compound Kargon, three
ounces of C.ornpound Syrup Sursapa-
rifles Shake these \yell In a bottle and
lake 111 teaspoonful doses after each
meal and at bedtime; also drink !plenty
f good water'.
It is claimed that there ore few vic-
tims of this. &end and torturous dis-
ease who will bit to find ready relief
in this eimple heinc-made mixture, and
11) inost 00
8" a permanent cere is the
This simple recipe is said lo strength-
en and elennse the eliminative tissues
or the Kidneys so that they can filler
and strain from the blood and system
the poisons, acids and waste inattbr,
which cause not only Rheumatism, but
numerous other diseases. Every men
or woman here who feels (hut their Icld-
ncys are not heelley end active. or W110
SOOT'S frOm any urinary trouble whet -
ever, should not hesitate to make up
this mixture, as It is certain to do
much good, and 11)534 save you from
niuth misery and suffering after while.
MUBDERED ItYL'ANATIC MONK.
Coffins Containing Victims Found In
a Cellar.
telegrom to the Zeitung, of SI.
rehles a terrible story cf
ertmes which have just been discovered
et Verelmlutel, In the Government, of
For :genie yenrs past a monlc untried
Isedot has exercised n powerful attrac-
tion over the inhabitants of the neigh-
borheod, especially women, by reason
of Ills eloquent sermons. Women of
Ici.nrltiog1110niieir7liii.aeldlL atdh ebt1111elvtrefohregFeed."o'lte
Liinh
11<e midst, of the forest near the town.
Fedot, who was meted as an "origin-
al " Insisted that his devotees, before
confessing, should bathe In the bath-
room attached to the beraeltage, and
should oho lie down In a coffin, so that
they might become accustomed to the
itteeRecce'ntldlyetitsell;:eral yeung women of tile
diseppeneed, but. despite the
nlarm caused, no suspicion attached to
Fedot. A few clays ago the wife of a
young soldier who had gone to see the
monk foiled 10 home, and the
soldier proceeded to the hermitage, in-
tending to force Fedot .to disclose the
"ei'hle111111inneon'teher'entsl1)h0(1111850.ing, and the eel -
(Nor, who pressed Into the bedroom, saw
a coin's lying on the floor. Lifting the
lid he was titterer -stricken In find with-
in a lite dead body 01 3118 wife. fie 1111.
171(7(31010131 infesmc(3 the police, who
seleteilltedeetilheer 3)1000,,
yefound a number cf
ether e0311110 lying side hy side, and in
each of them was the demi body of a
women. Up to Me present all search
for the missing monk has proven fu-
tile.
IIE IS 105 YEARS OF AGE
SAW NAPOLEON'S DISASTROUS RE-
TREAT 3)110e1 MOSCOW.
Beteg Al'olnisky1Soulpeclisyt.s Principally en
e'en and Tobamo, 10111103101)
One hundred mei five years old, Ruble
Peegtlittletutt, 1\11\s'.highritsoll'i)i.gra‘nvidlilint0glititerS'setilrtititilrs,
liege in Nov York danced the wild steps
01 tWO MIAs:till (lances, performed tills
feat despite 11 illineness which compels
11111101111 (1.11101;11('I'll'1111:111110 11811° teofm11119i1 11 sol e11
ins eyee, that welehed Nnpoloon's be:t-
een legions straggle wesiwurd again in
the Russian snows( ninety-flve years ego,
shene as brightly on 11113'401,1 1' of Riede
Wolnisky's deseendents on Sunday
nigh', ois legs, whieb e/11.1.!ed 11101
heold 1115 inbeg2,
s11 1)1111 1 110111 er
1113 nor ns
eh
merelly in Forsyth Steve New York,
ie 1007, as he premed with his great -
great -grandchildren in the 7.01110 mit die
Erniklaell and liderebrelce into the wild
rhythm of the Komarishet,
The only thing that tired 11011111 Wol-
nisky on Sunday night was the length sif
time he Mid to go witheut Ins pipe. Ile
smokes before he gels up, Ito smokes ell
thly und lei smolees after he goes to bed.
lie had plenty of lea at the wedding,
where he performed his remareable terp-
sichorean feats, however, end lie needed
it, fur his daily quota is
113011T FORTY 13IG GLASSES,
brewed strong and token without, milk.
lie &tido no water' nod no liquor as
rule, thougbl he lakes both in times of
eminency. One meal deity, consisting
of soup, bread, and a little meet, is his
only food, and ie set for him 51 )3(7)011.
Sharp eyed, vigorous, mentally active,
learned In the Tolled and nil the sacred
writings, master of seven languages,
(018e as the prophets, Rabbi Wolnisky,
though no longer penclicing any rab-
binical duties, except the perfortnenee of
marriages, is the spiritual father of
thousands of Ids fettle 110 is the Moses
of a great faction of 1118 people in New
Wyk, and his decisions draw accileim
their shrewelneeS even from those who
find defeat, in hie judgments.
13010 111 leobrine, in the state of C,rod-
no, litieelan Poland, he moved about ss,ith
his parents in his early youth and so
come le see the ice -beaten regiments of
the Little Corperal falling back from
elescow. Marsying early he settled in
Antipole end traded in liquors niost of
his life in Russia being spent in the
wholesale liquor business. lle prosper -
eel, and twelve childeen came to him and
Ms first wife, who died before he left his
'lluesinn home for America, about
lwenly-five years ego, with twe of his
sons, the first of his family to seek these
shores.
WOLNISICPS BUSINESS RUIN
in Antlpole began when Alexander II.
WeS assassinated in 3881. Alexander
111., who wits by nature inclined to mild
measures, fell under the influence or the
leaders of the old regime and in a period
of repression which the activity of the
revolutionaties seemed to demand the
11115Siall soldieey were more aggressive
than ever.
Cossacks broke into Wolnislcy's estab-
lishment in 1.881, drank all they oould
swallow, and opened every barrel in his
welt -11110d cellar. When they went un
their t003' he WeS ruined. lie at once
determined' to Have the country.
In the emst stile of New York he was
immediately recegnized es a 3)e18011 of
eetraordinary learning, and he was
elected rabbi 01 1110 Eldridge Street Syn-
agogue, which place he held for many
years, reliving enly tWO yeill'S ago upon
the death 01 1115 second wife. He re-
moved at then time to the residence of a
son, who lives at No. 2118 Thatfcrd Ave-
iie. leer,East New York, and 1100/lives
tt
Welnistcy's second wife wits twenty-
twe years old when, 03. 1110 age of sixty.
five he married her. They had fifteen
childeen. lie has ninety -Iwo living
direct descendants, of whom fifty -ems
are in New York City oc State er in New
iers'eYn
rts, OTHERS ARE IN RUSSIA.
Ills descendants hem been increasing
at a Tate Of twelve a yeat' for two or
three years. He knows the name of
every sine of them and never forgets
their birthdays.
He rises every morning at four o'clock
and has a few glesses or len and a pipe -
fel of Moboke tobacco, imported from
Ilussia foe breakfast. Ho uses three
pipes„ one for the street, one for the
house and n'third for smoking in lied.
This last lets a big bowl and a long
stem, the bowl resting on tho floor. 'He
has never been 111, but, eight years ngo
Ile wes run down while ercesing Canal
Street by a fire chiers buggy. A wheel
paesed over his ankle, 'breeking the
belies, end when it healed that leg was
a Mille shorter than the ether, making it
mi5"es:4,11"31 to wear on it a shoe with a
very thick solo.
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A Boston schoolboy was tall,
weak and sickly.
His arms were soft and flabby.
He didn't have a strong muscle in his
entire body.
The physician who had attended
the fami13t for thirty years prescribed
Scott' Emulator:.
NOW:
To feel that boy's arm you
would think he was apprenticed to a
blacksmith.
ALL 'DRUGGISTS; 50o, AND $1.00.
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EEALTH
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ExcmssiVIS ATIII,ETICS,
l°3x0ectise is as necessary for the hue
Map 101113' ris rood and drink, 1 I. is 1111-•
pose:dee 431 malutale perfect. health well -
(tit II; hut it must be 11114m1 111 modern. -
lieu, foe exeitse 111 tbie reepeet is es,
intimate in its Wtly, 11011 litttlietheeS in.
the soma Wtly, 118 eseeaS 41 1.1111113).
The frost of exercise is la litelease the -
tissue (Ininges In the leely, The Wenker
Cella; Urn deslroyial 111111 netheed hy
r.ew and stronger cells, the nutrition,
le inereaencl, and the waste products.
ere (Mown off. If Wm exorcise is Me-
rge] to extrmite lengths 1 mny heppen
that the wish! products tme theoWn In-
k/ the Syshall ill so (pest quantity that
they cermet be disposed ef in the ordin-
ary way, nod they accumulate to such,
1111 eXtettl. 111111 the body Is petsoned by
fie own waste, The result is the same'
Re, way)) an exces8 of food is lateens
and so ernise, which in mocierulene
tends et 1101110151',counteract the evil or ever --
eating, in excess only intense* the:
It has always been known that ex-
cessive physical tuber hes a tendency"
10 shorten life, rind the allainuien't
Mu age 'Le seldom the lot 01 (110. labor-
ing men. But the fact es often curious-,
Ly overlooked that physicel leiter Is pity --
steal labor, wbether 11. 011081915 111 Wield -
Ing a pick and .shovel or in throwing
see:ghls, rowing a boat, running, or'
jumping.
The dangers of Inordinate dcwoliOn lo.
a 11110110s are that one part of lite body,
one aet of museles or certain organs,.
1.0011 as the heart, will be developed
eut of proportion to the other prase
;lees is eseecially the cese in the young,
,who have not yet attained their growth..
Again, as lines just been noted, the
body becomes poisoned by its own was'e•
thrown elf more rapidly then it can be.
eliminated by the 'trainee processes.
The nermus syetem, which presides.
ever and regulnles all lite functions « f
the body, is 3)121 30 a great strain, and
the overtralned athlete is in gent dan-
ger of becoming neurasthenic. But It
ie especially the Ihenrt, met neleries, the
carriers of nutriment to all the orgnes
and tissues, which are ape to suffer the.
MoSt.
The 'hear( Is a patient organ, and'
when strain is put wpm) 11 it quietly
inemses its hulk anct its strength le
meet the task, So long as the street
ss continued, It worlcs along, but_ wben
the call upon IL is diminished 511ddce-
13 . the young man giving up bls &e-
l:eke end Inking to et sedentary Ilfee 33.
neisculos lisere begins to degenerab
l'he arteries. under etraln, act, in tee
sante way, end when the tension Is te-
lexed the condition known as arteries! -
creels develops. The tissues nre pooriy
'nourished and the mem ages before his.
time.
When devotion to athletics has been
exceSsiVe, 11 11 only by the greatest carts
in iraining dewn that the athlete can
avoid the denger of weakened body'
and nerve. -'Youth's Cempenton.
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HOME ISENIEDIES
Insomnin Cure. -Go to bed, burn over
on your side, open a newspaper, lay it
Itghtly over your heed and face; in ten
minutes yeti will be fast askrep.
woes wish mee,teine,--Delms plena.
er water when IRMA; medicine el,
rheumatism. It veal do away with the
had effects sometimes pisoduced In Iles
sthrnaeh.
To D1' -)p Medicine. -Cut a groove
along the side of the cork of a med
eine bottle; put beck in the Ixfillecand -
P. will be easy to count the drops OOP
by one willinut pouring too fast.
-Remedy foe Sleep walla/lg.-Took
nieces of eileloth on the floor at the
side of 1110 101, \Allen stepped upon
the Nritact er the feel with the cold
will cause the somnambulist le awake.
31111< for Sere Eyee.-Boil entsluur
pint of sweet milk and when tient, the
boiling point put, in a piece of aline
110 slze or the top of your thumb. Put
the curds in a sett cloth and lay on the
eye.
liet water used both internally 'and
externally Is ihighly recemmended
medicul men ns n cure far insomnie.
1351111ns the feet in hot water is said
te be particulnsly efficacious.
Parsley Settee -The hest strive roi.
(111 kinds of 1111111s or SONS of nny eind
is made of pareley. Use One 0(11) of lard
and a Inthdrul of parsley, Put cie the
stove and let simmer until the pnrsley
ls thoroughly cooked, strain and let
0001.
Olive 011 on Bruises. -ht the treats
trent, of breises, where there is extort-
slm ellscolorritien of the skin, If olive
0.11 be applilecl freely without rubbing,
Out diseolorallen m1101413, will inapt
peor Abserbent coblen may be soaked
in the oil and applied. If the skin ly
,broken, s little boric Niel should ha
applied over the ebrnsion.A black eye
thus treated can be rendered norinal
In n few helms, especlally gi the oil ha
applied WOrtn.
'rake 011,0 0! Yotir Back. -People ere
mere lecely 10 calleh cold in lite back
ens than they are gen.crally mare of, and,
3 It neglected, this MaY prove a SerionS
matter, The back, eS1)0011111Y between
130 ell<luldersi slooUll elwaYs be l3e131,
0 W 011-00 V P.1` 0 CI , 01111 neves lean with yoor
hulk agninst anything filet is cold. ,
.Never stt 'with the' brink in a direct
dratiethe nml when wnsmIng it by the
fire. do not eonlInue to keep ihe back
reposed 'to lite heal, sifter 11 .1105 become
(11)111\W:11131y warm. To do se is (1473)111.
1)11.1)13),
Emermiley [351183. 1011 Lockjaw. --Pour
on elm wound wnrm spittle of lumen -
Hee. Tills will relieve in a minute.
Then pour warm wilier en hol 500043
001105. hold the extended per( 111 it, as
hol se be enn sintul 11, Thon woe (iv
bnclebone of the pettsill tome the neck
(Sewn evigh O0000110 pepper in 1101. Vine°
par. 'retie red lett coals. pour so them
,NWeet 011, 11411t1 Ole 0,01111t1 O'Vel' the
'1101) 1)1 as 1111 0)4 eon lie bore°. Ito 11110
three or ront 1111,es n 1103,, let pietieet
Inke font eltt es turpentine cmIlls ilengiet
and 010 lc) 'he roeulle, 0, poson (sr ,
.Miinita lied,- die ni kg:hiss.
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