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CHAPTER IX,—(Continued?•
Dimly I could distinguish his short,
burly form between 7myseif end the
filial light Of l•he halt -opened Mines,'
,'
but even ihougte all wee as yet misty
and Indistinct, 1 knew that what h•ad
been averred was the actual lrutl1. the
rteetalists hast been. mistaken. Welh
pare and c0n'tinued treatment lily sight
would steer:Ohmu until I became like
other men.
"I can seer 1 cried excitedly, "1 can
see you, doctor—and the light—and the
blinds!'
"Tien you acknowledge that what i
bald you was the truth--tha't I did not
lie to you sewn 1 told you that your
case was net beyond r000vory?"
"Certainly. Yon told me the truth."
I said hastily. "At the time it seemed
ababk+
you. have
'tat, o
n h
too r' r but now mh b
Y
n
shown the proof, I must ask your par-
don if any wends of mine have given
you offence.'
"You've not offended ale to the slight-
est, my dear ser,' he answered pleasant-
ly. "Per:seve.e with the treatment, and
continue for another few days 1n dark-
ness, and ?then I feel confident that a
perfectly satier0.0tery aura will have
course, we must not
effected. Of o
been e
e e but.
0X1)001 a clew vision at once, by
degrees your sight will slowly become
stronger."
And wilt those words be closed the
blinds and drew the ourtnins chase, so
that the rain was again darkened.
Imagine. the Ihanlefuiness that filled
my heart! It was no illusion, I had
aotuauy seen the narrow rays of sun-
light between the half -opened blind and
the dark silhouette of the short, stout,
duI.I bcareded pian who was effecting
such a marvellous cure.
i gripped his hand in the darkness,
and thanked him.
"Flow can I . unleientty repay you?"
I said. '"rltis service you have render-
ee are hes opened up to Ice en abso-
lutely new litre."
01 desire no repayment, Mr. Healon,"
ho answered in his sleep, hearty voice,
"That my 1roetnent of malignant. sole.
ratites es successful, and that I have
been the means of restoring stght to one
of my. fellow men is sull3cient in nett.'
`But, I have one question I WLsh to
ask you,' 1 said. "The mode in wrioh
you were introduced to me Is extreme-
ly puzzling. De you know nothing of
the lady named Edney"
"I know her- flea is all."
"Where does she live?"
"I regret that I am not able to answer
your question."
`You are bound to seereey regarding
her?'
"1 may as welt admit the truth —
one
"ICs extraordinary," 1 ejaculated.
"Very extraordinnryr'
"Not so extraordinary as the recovery
Gt your vision,' he observed. "Remain
:per'feetty qukt, and dont take 1111410
yourself any mental problems. A great
deal new depends upon your owri
calmness."
The fact that illy sight was gradually
returning to ole seemed too 'restonlshing
to believe. This man Slade, whoever
he was, had performed a fent in sur-
gery which seemed to me miraculous.
Again and again t thanked him, but
when 'Iva had gone and 1 10!'1 Parker,
she only gave vent to a grunt of in,
credulity. Yet had I not actually seen
the silhouette of Slade, and .tee streaks
of sunlighlt beyond? Itad I not already
hart eieular proof that a cure was be-
ing effected?
What would Dick, dear old Deer, say tha 1 joy winch gave lightness to my
on his return when he found 'ate cured. ert l
emissary of the Evil One, and mem: s-
od a pious hope that he would never
"darken my 40101" again.
Iv
it es a fuucy of 11111)0 to go dawn
to the Thome of my melt, Heaton Ma-
nor, a Place well known to them110-
qua[nled wttlt the distrlet around Tew'-
kesbury, The great old mtnston, stand-
ing i71 the centre of a wide, hell -wooded
parte that slopes down. to the reeveen
close to the 1171WBride, had been
01oeed, and in the ..ands of the old ser-
vant Baxter and his wife, Indeed I had
never lived there since, on my father's
death, 14 had passed Into my possession..-
The rooms were opened for my insp0
tion, and as 1 wandered Through themtoed down the long oak-pannelled gal-
lery, front rho walls ot which roes ot
my tinge-(li1nzrted ancestors, in their
ruffles, velvets, and laces looked down
solemnly,
a food of recollection'scorecollection'sor
my sunny days of childhood c(ewdcd
upon 9110.
Seven years had passed .5[1100 my last
visit there, The old ivy-covered nuttier
was, indeed, dilapidated, and sadly out
et repair. The furniture and ttangtngs
1(
in many of 0 rooms seemed reeling
with damp and neglect, and es I enter-
ed the nursery, and was shown my own
toys it seemed as though, eke lllp
Nan Winkle ,I had returned again to
life after a. long absence.
Alone, I wandered to the park down
the revenue of grand old elms. The
wide view across the brimming river,
with Hasfeld Church, and the oldTithe
Barn at Chaceky standing prominent
at It
In the landscape, 1 saw that [t ha
no way changed. I looked back upon
Me house—a grand old home it was,
one that any ratan might have boon
proud ot, yet of what use was i1 to
met Should I sell it? Or should 1 at -
low it to still .rot and decay until my
will became proved, anti it passed intothe hands of my heirs and assSgns?
1 deft loth to part with 11, for the old
place had been built soon after the
fierce and htstor;o bade had been fought
at Tewkesbury, '0011.1 ever since Rl)hard
Heaton had commanded one of the fri-
gatee which went forth to meet the
Armada it had been the ancestral home
0f file neatens. Inched, tate village of
Wake. neaten, now -a -days quite an
ancient place, with- its little squat
square -spired ohnech and quaint strag-
gling street, had .sprung up around
the manor. To ale the plao0 was some-
thing of e white elephant, yet, as the
141st of a stalwart ra00 who had ever
rendered loyal service to their s0ver-
ehgn, and the sole (10seendain of an
hcno•a le tamely', it seemed Incumbent
upon me to retain 11, and not allow :t
k go tinder the a'0elloneer's hemmer.My personal needs were small, and 1
was not in want, of money, therefore,
ere I 1•011100ed to Tewkesbury, and
theme to London, I gave orders for
a'rtain necessary repairs to be done,
and that a couple of 0000)8 might be
o:cated and kept in readiness for my
use whenever I might require them.How strange it all west At every
turn 1 peered upon the world through
toy grey glass spectacles, and look as
keen an inteeest in 11. as does a child,
1.'1 seemed now 10 010; say brain, like
a child's, became filled with new 1111-
pnasa1:rns and fresh ideas. After my
dolt, coloriess existence of sound and
tottoh, title bright life of movement fill-
ed me with a delight that Igen cannot
describe. Imagine, however, What Joy
it Is Ie one who has been pronounces
Ino,rmebly:blirnd to took upon the world
again and taste of lis pleasures. it was
I laughed e3' I pictured Lu mysel'f ?lis
am•azemer11 at finding mn at the ratl-
way staLlon on his arrival—looking for
him.
Theo:Tit a whole month Slade cane
regularly each day at noon, and surely,
by slow degrees, my vision became
strengthened*, until at length I found
that, oven thought i wore smoke-dark-
encl.!, glasses, I could see almost es
well as I had Glom; In the days of my
youth. The glasses destroyed alt color,
it was true, yet I could now goo teeth
Into the busy Strand, mingle with the
bustling crowds, end revel in their life
and movements.. indeed, in those first
days of the recovery of my vision I went
atout London to cabs and omnibuses,
'hither and thither, with all the enthu-
siasm of n country cousin or at, child
on his test visit to the Metropolis. All
was novel and interesting on my return
to a knowledge of life.
Slade, 1 found, was a gentlemanly
fellow with the air of a clever physici-
an, 'hut a11 my efforts to discover his
ab0(le proved unavailing, an.!, )more-
over, Net as the cure wase comt.pleLe he
one day toiled to coil as usual, with.
tout word he relinquished tee just as
su111100ly ne he had eomni but he had
restored to me that precious serum
wheet is one of Ged's chief gifts.
In those September days, when all (he
W a•td weaned gay and bright, h went
forth info the world with a now rest
tor life, l lank short trips 10 Richmond
and ilnmpliorl Court, x) that I Aright
again gaze upon elle green teem, the
winding river, and the fields that 1
ictal no well; 011d t spent a lily at
• Brighton, and stood for n full couple,
of trams watching rho rolling sea b al-
ing upon the beach. Six weeks •l:ofore
k
was*. hopeless n1Lsa.nthropo whose 11'e
hail been utterly sapped by the blight.
frig affliction- upon 1110. Now 1 was
strong and healthy in mind and in
body, prepared to do anything or to.
go anywhere,
When ,Pottier w'as. al Iasiforced to
admit that I w'Ms Y]4 longer blind, she
declared' 1b":t tho man Slade was an
Yet over all was ono gr:m shadow—
the remeneberume nt that fateful night
with tt& grim tragedy. Who was Edna?
Where was slue? What ens she?
Through her instrumentality I had re-
pined my sight, but her identity and
her whereabouts stili remained hidden,
0s silo had plainly told mo they would
be before we had parted,
Hither and Rather. i .vent, feted and
feesled by my friends el the Savage,
the Devonshire, and other olnbs, yet
my mind wee ever troubied by the
mystery of the women who had, loom
motives tint were entirely Irldden, exert•
el herself on my behalf, first In saving
my life from unscrupui;ous oseassins,
and, secondly, in restoring my vision.
I entertained a strong desire 1e meet
her, to grasp ler small hand, to thank
ber. I longed to see hor.
CHAPTER X,
The man who abandons all hope is
constantly haunted by fears.. This is
as strange as it Ls unjust, ince much
else In our everyday life, Even though
there had returned to me all the joys
et existence, yet f was siill 1100101111
be an ever-present dread'—a (001511' lest.
some terribile mandate should .5U1derey
Ire launched union m0 by the unknown
director of my actions.
ivy :situation was, to sly the least, a
most, extrat,rdinery one. Valiantly 1
strove to Nil myself of the °Imes:deln
which con.-ilantly crept upon Inc when-
ever my attention was 1101, ecinaliy dis-
tracted by the new existence, not had
so mysteriously been opened 111) to lee.
For n. little while 1 would lot ney 0111114
dwell upon lir fortifying thought thaee
1 wos entirely helpless in the hands of
one who tens. wilholi1 doubt, unecrn-
pulous. 1 had pleei;gad 1117 honer to
keep seerot that, appalling midnight
Celine, end le are alw,tyw as dl1'eelod,
Edna herself, tho woman 55.110,0 volCo
sounded se tender, wirr,5' Molds were
tae small end soft to the 1011011, had
leered neo to this. To her mono ,005
due this •stats t t eoxlstant anxiety as to
what, might deal be demanded of inc.
The thought 000111d 412001) upon nae, now
pausing, nolo odvaneing, 11(1111 at length
it wrappeld rue fennel end round, and
stilled out my breath, like a death -musk
of oc)ld clay, Then my heart MAIM
8)1111., .thy sight seemed to 4h, even
sound wetted Me until there. seemed an
as fel void • fro void 01 depth 101' ev0r
(111(1 for 004)1' ,1071111, a dreadful, conquer-
ing .81(01nce.
A thousand tinges I regretted tbat 1
MAI in that 11100(01.1 ot 111y utter help -
lee -mese given my tommaLse to C(nleeat
the nlysierinus :rime, Yet, when, 1 re -
cone, -1,,,d with Ivl)at extraordinary il1-
gtnuily I had been deceived by the elan
whom i had ,believed to be a 1)0)100-
(0.11181ahle, the cheep cunning which had
14rn displayed hl obtaining from my lips
n statement of all the reefs I knew, and
the subsequent actions of the coal-hotst-
e,l Rina, my mind became confused?,
I multi see no solution of the extract'
(Unary problem, save that 1 believed her
to De deeply implicated in 50)1)0 plot
w'I)teh had culminated in the murder
/1 the young man, and that she her-
self had s01110 strong personal motive
In concealing (110 lenebl0 truth..
I ought, 1 knew, to have gono to Scot-
land Yard and mule a full and straight-
forward deposition of the w'11)le mat-
ter Nevertheless, my story was a very
slronge ono --stranger, perhaps, than
of the many curious romances which
are daily laid before the Director. of
Criminal Investigations, Atter ell,` it
might not. have been believed. f had
no Idea where the scene of the tragedy
why situated, and, having been sight.
less al the time, had notnally witnessed
nothing. Theory, upon. theory I formed,
but when I dug down to their roots
i toured that they merely drew their
strength from my own fear or Jlnagin-
atloa, and were utterly wor'thla8s. 01100
or twice' I contemplated disregarding
m3' 1)rornem and making a full s1010.
111)031.1. to Oho police; but On calm reflec-
tion I saw that such a course was now
absolutely useless. Two months had
etapeed sincere ter, file. -pal nightand tho
.
hotly --or bodies --had, without doubt,
Leen dtopow l of long ago. Such In-
genious evildoer's would exert the ut-
most care It 1110 disposilion of the 00r.
p113 dilecti, and would newer run rise
of dclection. They feared me, I felt as-
sured, and it was this thought which
canslantl,y harassed 1110 for ff suck wire
actually the case, then they had every
incentive to take my Eft: on the w'ele-
established principle that dead men tell
no tales. -
\Vitl 1110 return of my v:sio1) my
sense of hearing bad, curiously enough
1:0001,10 both weakened and distorted
Sounds which 1 heard when le. id aro•
sented quite a different impress'^n naw
that 1 could see. The blind hoer where
those with eyesight•can detect willing
The eery of the former rain thotnsolvee
to act an eyes also, yet the mu nen!
the v1si011 Ls recovered the sharocno.l
sense of hearing again. assumes Its (ter
plat capacity. hence I Mond 111.81 1
Onu14 1101 11010' dislhngulsh teems end
sounds so quickly•as before; indeed. the
voices of those Wenn me soucded seine,
how different 11000 that I had reeevered
my sight.
My friends, into whose circle they
declared I had ret'u'ned like one from
the grave, welcomed nut everywhere,
and I atilfess that, notwithstanding the
oppression. oonstantly upon me, 1 en-
joyed myself lo the top of my bent:. I
stilt remained in my dingy, smoke-
grimed rooms in Essex Street. really
more fee Parker's sake than for my
own, and also, of course, in order to
be near Dielc when he returned, but
nearly avert' owning I 1e03 Old 0.0111e -
where or other, going here and (hero
about lawn.
1 had long ago been a member of the
1-Oevonshir0, and had now returned, and
stent a good cleat o.t time there, even
though the main distinction of the club
wee the number of old (ogles who af-
fected it. But 1 fcttnd it a conveniently
ceeerat place to dine and idle away any
hears of the day that I had to spare.
In the middle of October, when most
amen I knew were away on the moors,
I had a dinner engagement tee oven•
trig with 1110 Clran,nings, stn Cornwall
Gardens. Colonel Channing, a retired
ofiloor of the Guards, was a anan I had
known during the greater part od cey
ittethne. ills service had born plainly
ref a diplomatic character, for he had
served as British military attache a1
Berlin and Vienna, and now lived with
hes wits and daughter in London, and
seemed to divide tris time mainly be-
tween the .St, J0'mes:s and the United.
Service Clube. fee was a merry old
fellow, with while hair and moustache
and a torrid conlplexlan, the dandified
air of attache still clinging to hien, His
courtesy was disthuttivc, save when in
the heat of argument- upon Iltrsopean
affairs et which he pride) himself on
ifs expensive and peeullar knowledge—
ire would use strong and ember impo-
lite epithets e rrarding those who dis-
agreed teeth ht's).
• :1s he sal et the head of his iab1e.
his habitue! inneerle In his eyo, and
the tiny grecs 14,1,On of the order of
the CrOwm of Italy in the lappet of his
dining -Jacket, ho Looked a perfect type
of the ex -attache. Ills wife, a rather
score woman of fifty, who seemed to
exist externally In a (0110110 of black
sada end lace, was pleasant, though
just 8, trifle stiff, probably because of
ter long association with other dtplo-
nr0tie'1s` wives; while Neliie Channing
was a happy, lair -)mired girl, who wore
piety 'blouses, cycled, Bolted, flirted,
and stropped in the, Iligh Street fn they
trO5t approved manner otthe average
girt of South itensinglon.
Nellie and i had always been. good
triendk, Sir, had been al school 1n
England while ber parents had been
abroad, lout on eompiothtg her ((11100-
tion she had lived some five years or
su in Vienna, and had Lime acquired
(eon -lathing of the o(asmapnllitan ie•bit
of her father. She looked chorming In
her pink 11101100 a trifle decollate, as
she sal on my loft tit dinner, and eon-
gralulaled :me 01,lon my recovery.
(To be Continued.)
Ono of tihe Contemporary poets .851(81
\\'hero are the bright girls of the past?"
Dur own ol'servetion is that snmo of
11,0111 0'e administering cautious doses
or paregoric l0 the bright, girls of the
future,
SPORTING ZARA ERIS
EN \l'110 FI(ifI'I' l Olt TUE LOVE OI'
?'Illi (4.91E..
Fighting rind i hdovanp are In Their
DLood, IW1d 'hoy Couldn't Drop
1:111,er If'f'They 'Ttved.
The '/.alcka Klels, with whorl General
11illooelcs and his little force on the
North-West frontier of India arc 1105
waging war, are the toughest, tees our
teems have ever had to en0ouulee, nut
sten exrl:'pting the gallant "lauzzy-
\Vuzziers' of Ilse Soudan, who broke n
British' square 111 the nest iigy'pt:al wag',
We arse fighting the '/saki 1. 1ihels
simply and solely for the reason that
they wish us to do so. Just 110 a high-
eteriled child confined to the 110030 on
a wot day breaks out into ono naughti-
ness tlfher another, GO the Afeldis, after
several years of peace and 1)0113' Plun-
der', varied by occaleona1 skirmishes
amongst themselves, yearn for 41 "scrap'
of somewhat larger dimensions..
The trouble began will the ostial
policy of goading us lt'o taking schen
by a series of "pin -prick" outrages.
During last year gangs of the Zakka
libels swept down upon our frontier
0ulpoets, stole eines, killed a poiluenlan.
0r tea, ted dlsopeealed tato the n10un-
11l[ns,
'Chen they grew holder, end their tact
little pleasantry .vas io descond upon
Peshawar Welt, and, atter a skirmish
with the pollee that almost amounted
It
a n small battle, raided' the house 0f
the Hottest native banker 111 the Ova,
and rode away with the plunder. Arte.'
that, sameth[Ilg had to be done,
ONLY 4,000 OP 'MEM. •
The only satisfactory thing about the
Zakka Kriel Le that he is not numa'ou'—
Llrey only mitelee about 4,000 fighting
amen all told,
1
If, eSv
Ieter, C Other [h h'il>cs J( in,
)h 1
O
7 1 'ail and
WO 01[11 trained u
0 0
well -armed warrior's of more than thirty
lhoiasand eguinst us. At present no such
oumbinatlon is anticipated, but one
never knows. The Zakka Khels u"c
not alone amongst Afrldis !n their love
of fighting for fighting's sake.
With no military roads leading into
their country, and with avenues of es-
cape 0.t their back, through which to
retire into Afghanistan .vett their fam-
ilies and herds, tete Zakkas have 111th.
crto enjoyed the deulble advantage of
difficult access end easy retreat.
A handful of sharp -shooting Zak'kas,
securely porelmd 011 the edge of pre-
cipice, or serum in one of their little
rock-bound Whiled villages, can do a
lot of damage to an advancing foe in
thelodged,
valley beneath before they are des -
And the Zakka can, bolt to Cover :n
emergencies, like a rabbit in n warren,
and Hotting on, earth will dislodge him,
The tribesmen have all torts of hidden
caves and shelters dotted about the
mountain -side where they can retire for
a while when tldngs get too hot for
1110111, Toady to creep 4)111, again. at -night-
fall, and 'pot" en unsuspecting sent"y
or Leo,
Peontior fighting Is an evil necessity
Every now .and then one of these expo-
dit'ons has to be undertaken, but trey
are a most one-sided and expensive
form of war. All the odds aro in favor'
el .ileo Zakka ICile15.
And the Zakka knows this, He only
fights for the sheer fun, of Iho thing
and when the end of the 0a111Pa1g 1
comas he cheerfully sets to work to "e-
huildelle villages teat we have burnt,
with the money derived from slrbsidiee
(111 the Indian Government; while the
young neon of the t'ibo conte down and
shako hands gleefully and join the'ranlcs
of our awn 1041011 Army, where, pro-
perly discipilnO(b, they snake some of
the most tellable fightees we have.
Fighting and thieving are in the Zak-
ka's blood, and he oouldn t drop either
11 he tried. He starts as soon as be
can Walk, and he keeps en at IL as long
as he can hold a rifle.
"1311 A C11IEF, B1'; A 'THIEF:'
They' do litho.tuward•s the aultvaton
Of ,tivo land they hold, and despising;
the trade in firewood, which ds the:
chief means of sul)s'slenoe 10 Winter lo
most 0t the older tribes, they depend
wholly upon pleader.
Clevornese in thloving is the see:
characteristic which lenals to disttuc-
tian amongst them, 11 is a virtue wlt'e l
the maidens of the tribe seek in their
future husbands, and mothe111 fondle
look for in their new-born babies.
Every mate Weld is oonseerated, es it
were, at his birth to (genre. A hole Is
dug in the wall, and the infant ate pass•
ed backwards ad nforwards through it
with the words, "[1181 Shall, Ghat Shan
Glial Shalt"—Be a thief, bo thief, be
a thief."
Al ordlnal',y times we 'pay a subsidy
to aft the Ab'1dt tribes as a guarantee
of tea' good behaviour and to ensure.
1110 rnaint'0l100ce and safety of the Khy•
bee Pase, lett these subsidies are, of
cuur00, withdrawn In wartime,
'l'he Zakka ICltels have title to lose.
Their villages are merely strongly for-
tified collections of stone and thud.
built against the soled rocks, and are
ensile rebuilt. Wo dost00yed flay of
the strongholds in the campaign et
1.807, but they have alt been since re.
butt.
During the preeess of that Carnelian
they cut up a detachment of the North
ampton regiment, at Summar, They
were Prominent in the dzslyerale titterers
on the rearguard: during the March
clown 'the tiara River, aid throughout
the operat'ons they were itnplacab:e la
]harassing our droops.
The Mirka Kltels were the lost to sue -
mit at the end of the war, and they wort
only subdued atter we had lost about
(•100 0814405 and men In the can1p8ige
from wounds and disease.
Vie 7.aklcas eduealion Is not expos
sive, and his rite, which is Invariably
a good one, is generally either itself
a Melon, one, 00 has been purchased
in exchange fir 50010 other kind of
Hampered by no transport or other
paraphernalia, a trained )namfalneot',
quick In laking oevet' or at "spotting"
an advancing fee, ho 011)1 hove quiet(
1Y up and down. the steep 11111 -sides,
picking off our nen and harassing Dur
lransl't0rt wherever ho goes,
A PUFF -THEN BEAT((.
Tor us, on the ober hand, there is
el cry p(sss'b!e difficulty. Our ulxlcers
and well aro expensive luxurlea, and
1110 boss of Ib life means, US well, 111(1
141.14.3 of several hundred pounds and
11110)7 yea's of training, The °emery
is w dlilicite to 111413'0 In th•a4, oe a gen•
crag rift fcr every t filing Man of Lhe
(Moe at least ono "follower' is required
14 handle the transport.
1(1 the 1807 .campaign there were 10,-
C"'
0,Gini mon engaged, 01 whom w my 7,589
were Sullied; but .s:nCa then Lord Kit,
Metier hoe organized many bnportatht
Ch!(a I4t75 walk a vi.rw t0 doing } 15'1111
IIw'a'
many of their comp auxiliaries.
A campaign of Ih',s lcbld eu1uils very
severe strain ort the nerves of the boars
engaged, 'lettere is rarely anything in
Ore way of 'a regular big light, which
is what the 'Demo," loves, and, for
greater part of (11(1 time, tate enemy 18
114114111' 07011 seem
A lithe puff of enterer() on the 0101111'
1111n side, and two unsleePeot!ng sentries
felt dead Io the pound, then, after per-
haps hoveral hours of quiet, the sante
thing happens again elsewhere. Nu
chance of hitting bacic—no iuetms of
knowing from which quarter the attack
wilt ee111e again. AL night a strict Mea -
out must be 1cep1 foe sudden rushes, 1
Mem of warfare at which the Afridis
are past masters.
Luckily, as 11e commander of a puni-
tive force, We have in General Wtll-
eeeke an "old-010gel" at this form et
warfare, for he web mentioned In de-
sp,11k:hes ,s0 long ago at 1881 for his
work against. 1110 Waairls on the sante
(00nlier; whilst he had seen fighting 'n
Afghanistan eo long as twenty-eight
years ago. Many years later he wee at
it again in the 'loch' Valley eantpti.ign,
campaign n the
ser this 1'.s his fourth o
North-West frontier, and leis eleventh
campaign or expedition allogetherl—
I'earson's Weekly,
ON THE FRM.
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TEST OF SEED CORN,
It is a mistake to bust' seed corn shell-
ed where It can be had on the one, but
inasmuch 00 the great bulk of .ensilage
.seed corn whittle pusses through the
trade in Canada Ls shelled, U. is large-
ly a case of Ilobson's choice. Ear corn
is preferable for several reasons, in
the first place, one can see what kind
a11t1 variety of ears he Ls planting from,
and reject inferior ones. Tho embryo
will. be somewhat less liable to have
had cis germinating qualities impaired
by heating in storago or .in teans11.
Most important of all, he Gan lest his
corn by the oar, thereby culling out
111.1~0 that show inferior germinating,
quality, '(1101.0 are almost sum .to , ha
a certain proportion of these which, if
810)1 for planting, would mean either
blanc spews in the 601,1, m•, 1011:11 Le
probably a more serious disadvantage
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earned stalks. Par belle'. In evilly Ivey
to buy un extra quantity of seed corn,
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090 the east for feed. A tremendous
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result of inferior seed corn, says the
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For testing corn by 11)0 oar, several
easy systems have boon devised. They
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watt a label on the butt, then selecting
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of sand or garden mould, divided off
into squares corresponding to the num-
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sprout, the ad'1'Isab'tty or otherwise or
using each particular ear is determin-
ed. Butts and tips should be broken
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Seal corn 011ouk1 be tested every year,
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season of 1007, in the corn -belt Stales,
did not allow the corn to maturo and
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it was pretty hard to slay in the
house on a rainy Saturday, especially
when one had a great many 1138' mar -
b1 I r 1
as With which l0 phly', As !ten It rd.
1lc'0.5o looked thoughtfully 01 111..3 col.
14413011 of "jaspers, "alleys' and "gles-
s!as, he 5n[d, "i wonder who first
thought of playing nlarbl s?,
"A good many W1.14ur ailas than you
have asked the sante (IUeat'on;" replied
110uunll, 'hut no one really knows, al-
though it Ls pretty certain that boys
used them 11101:4) than two thousand
years ago.'
"1 don't set+ how any one can telt.
what, buys did so long ago," said Leo,
pard, doubtfully.
Mamma salted. "As ( went 10 mnr-
L.et this lllorltlalg," she said, "I found
several. marbles In the alley back of
the house, 1108' do you euppwse they
sante there?"
"Oil "elute of the boys must have.
been .playing there!o'cloluted Loo=
nerd, eagerly. "clow malty did 3'oa
find? What did you do with '0111? May
1 ask Teddy to glvo ihrm to the boys?.
"We'll talk about that preently,'' an-
sw0redi Mamma, "but first 1 would tka
IA' 1(11010 how you can be eo sure they
belong to the hays'?"
"Wily, mamma, coursethey dol Who
else would use then,?"
"bid you see the boys?" persisted
manoma, •
"No, but. I'm Mime they were there
playing marbles and host these, for no-
body but boys care for nlui'bles,"
"Very likely'," replied mamma, "and I
presume the melt who found marbles
in Pompeii and among tho ruins of old
Eastern 11•e a5 you
[.h fern 41.1105 were 1151 as t
seem to be that boys had been plang
with then), Ret. these fleet marbles
were only water -rounded stones, very
different from 111e fine ones leu have
te-day..'.
Leonard looked al tree marbles orilt-
cally.
"Who do you s'pose made the first
real ones?" ho. -asked,
"No one knows," .aid 1Mee. Reese, "but
re, early as 11.2tn, or nearly them hun-
ched years ago, they were sent Mom
holland to England, and the little D11(0l
boys had played with them ter year.;
before that time,"
"Where aro )marbles made'' asked
Leonard, curiously.
"Nearly, perhaps quite, all of tient are
made in Germany', and the little Ger-
man children do a great Beat of the
w'or'k,"
"Flow de you know they (1') t11a1, mam-
ma?'
"Derau>o I once visited a marble fac-
tory 1.01 Germany, and saw tbenl, nla11ng
the common gray one,, 11140 allose,"
pointing 4) some upon the bed, "They
were 1111190 from a kind 0f stone found
near Coburg in Saxony."
"Tell 01e about thcml" said L0unard,
ea nerl3'.
91'tlo stones are quarried in large
blocks and taken to the factory, where
with a hammer. they aro brolcon into
little cubes. Sometimes a8 Many as a
hundred of these cubes are placed 111
e:10'lllar grooves in re round stone, smile -
thing like the n[1lekete in, a. grist -?pili.
By means of water, or horselertwer,
lies stone goes round and round alt
the time, while tiny streams of water
are flowing llu'iugh the groves and 0000
the bits of marble.
"Aimee this lower stone is a sceoud
steno, or stout oaken .plate, called a
'runner,' which. sones just low enough
to ,press upon t(he bits of stone as they
are whirled round and round, anti by
this means in a very short lime --nut
more lhnn Moe minutes --they have
become perfect spheres.'
"Why'eel" cried Leonard. "1 dila C
suppose that was the way le make tenth
IYs just the way the sea mnkos 111e round
slimes the find on the bench."
"Yes, the principle is the sante," to.
plied mamma, "but these are only
Cheaper aid coarser ritaebles.
"When they want to ,cake them n Itf
'11e better the my spheres aro put into '
0 wooden eesklined with stone cylin-
ders,etre as these Ore made to revolve,
the frlctton nla1c04 the marbles wiry
smooth, and they aro afterward pollsh-
od"with some of their own dust mixed
with emery ;powder. Now they ere
called 'polished gray's,' and cost 1r101'e
than the ethers. Sometimes they ere
stained dtffor'enL color's, and they aro
Men known as motored marbles. It
Means e,onsid4lw.ble labor, doesn't. Ile'
ended mother.
Loonard looked at 1115 marbles with
new interest. "Are the alleys made la
tie 1 sante way '' he asked.
"No," said 81115, Bee,, "those ere made
fecal ploy. They are m 15503 b1 wonder'
molds, .painted b. 1111, olrotes or brand
rings, and afterward baked. .
"'Ties. are only the cheaper 1(111:11.8;
t1e better 01105 care 1110'd1x1, painted
and fire -glazed. '1'he jaseers and agates
a'0 of glazed and unglazed china, Mar-
bled with blue.greon and home: Al;
100 lin glass marbles, some, 1 believe,
are Mewl, while others are rounded
1)) grinding,
List here Mrs. Reese 1005 relied away,;
and Leonard found that the stn wets
ail and the sialce1lvalle dry again:
Youth.% Campo hien.
' RUNNING iT 11NE. .
A sailor, whit had retired to Spend
the reel of This lit: to the country, was
very proud of hes watch, which; f,e
neatly thirty years, had neves once gone
Wrong, Early ono morning. 110 1uu10(1
a visitor, who was sleying .wilh ldm,
and' together they .set 0111 to see the
sun else.
The host kept cenetilling first his
watch, anti then a Cakndorl \\Veil gn00,
the ldmes of the sunis'rlsing met scf-
Legs There was a long wail In 111' 111100,
vague dawn. Presently, tapping his
Watch with his forefinger, 111' saelhif
said:
tt the sttn ain't over that hill In '
minute and a hnif, he'll be lode,''
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Lots of women template beetle a they
have nothing to 001101111410 of,
No wonder love is W,hnd Ivheii lli4-
glrl has more dollars titan. sense.
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