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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-10-15, Page 2fieef+):(.4? 4 eeeftief+leefeeeelee49ef+ fX43 -? ? e -e3 73efeh e} i+3ef-Hsi+ 0 A douse f Mystcry OR, T! -IE GIRL IN BLUE 43 ! r fr3 :d 4 : •43k+ f+3 +)E+3CF.# ,i+/ 3�•4� 4 43+ 4i;(4- -tE4•:f+x(+ni CHAPTER XXVTII,-(Cont'd) "To talk like that is useless," she responded. "Remember that he knows something." "Something, yes. But what?" "He knows inure than we think." "Where is he now ?" "Nobody can discover. I saw him once, but he has disappeared. They say he's a wandering lunatic. Iid left 1)•tnbury suddenly after showing signs of unaduess, and al- brought exposure upon us. We have though that terror of a woman, has c,i,l3, you to thank for it. You know wife, strove to trace him, she was mequite well enough to be aware unsuccessful. His insanity, coupled that when I snake threats theyare with the fact that financial ruin overtook him svcldenly apparentiy never idle ones. preyed upon her mind. She fell ill, 'And you are sufficiently well ac - and according to a letter I received quainted with me to know that 1 lzom °edge a few days ago, she never• run unnecessary risks." died suddenly of an aneurism, and "I know you to be a devilishly and opening the box, took out the was buried last Thursday at Bud- clever woman,' ho said. "But in half-dozen or so letters which it ]sigh Salterton. .le announce- your dealings with that man Hea- ec.ntained, and spread them upon ment of her death was in yester- ton you showed weakness—a cow- the desk. Among them were two arc's weakness. A11 that he knows square, pale -blue envelopes. As for sapper, Richard the Lion- day'speners, is through your own folly. You I took my own letter and affixed a hearted." Jack winked at hint, T listeneddto those words open - mouthed. My wife was dead! Then attempted to mislead him by your stamp I glanced eagerly at the ad- and Dicky laughed aloud for pure I was free!actions and letters, but be has, it dresses of both, joy, although what the nickname With my strained ear close to the seems, been a little too shrewd for One born the superscription: meant he had not the least idea. you." Mr. P. Gechkuloff, 98 King Hen- H '1' with Jack, d "And if he does know the truth— ry's Road, Hampstead, N.W." even, indeed, if he dared to inform Upon the other were the words the police—what direct evidence which caused my heart to leap joy - can he give, pray?" she queried. fully within me. They were -- "Pre was blind, and therefore saw "Miss Mabel Anson, nothing. He is now road, and no- Langham Hotel, London," body will believe him." I posted my letter, hurried up - "Even though he may be an idiot stairs, and paid my bill. his mouth is better closed," her a 1 0 , "Now that you thinly our for- tunes have changed yeti contem- plate deserting us, eh?" he snap- ped, "A single word to the Prince and you would conclude your ca- reer rather abruptly, I'm think- ing." Is that intended as a threat?" she inquired in a calm voice, "Take it as such if you wish," the man responded angrily. "Through your confounded bungling you've plan the girl had dropped them into 3t, and 1, heard her linen flounces beatingalong the corridor again, Those etter s were in the post, and beyond my reach, She had written those two mis- sives daring the night, and after the departure of her visitors, They had, no doubt, some connection with the matter 'which the trio had s. earnestly discussed in that tan- talizing foreign tongue, In hesitancy I remained some lit- tle time, then a sudden thought oc- curred to me. I addressed an en- velope to the hall -porter of my club, enclosing a blank sheet of paper, and then descending, post- ed it. The box was placed outside the bureau, and the instant I had YOUNG FOLKS rooua0000•aao•csc 0ooa DICKY'S BRAVERY. "Nonsense!" said Jack, the big brother. "l'm going to sail clear over to Village City; and besides, e, small boy is too much in the way in a boat." "I'll be just like a mouse," pleaded Dieley. "Just so," answered the big bro- ther. "Isn't a mouse always both- ering round where it has no busi- dropped the letter in 1 turned, as Huss to bo, and. getting hurt, like though in anger with myself, and, at; not?" 'Then as he saw the dis- entering the bureau, said to the appointment in Dicker's face, the clerk -- "I've' unfortunately posted a let- ter without a stamp. Have you the key of the box?" `The box belongs to the Post Office, sir," he answered. "But wo have a key to "Then I should esteem it a favor than he, , Mother never worried if you would recover my letter for when Dicky was out with Jack; and me. It is most important that the ar for Dicky, he dumbly worshipped addressee should not be charged for his -wonderful big brother. its postage. I regret that •my ab- They sailed eight miles across the sent -mindedness shotticl give you bay, and Jack made a few purchas- this trouble." • es in Village City. When they set The clerk took the key from e out for home the wind was dying drawer at the end of the bureau-, down, and a slow fog semed to be creeping in from the open ocean outside. "But the tide's with us," said Jack, "We sha'n't even be late big brother's heart softened. "Olt, well, then, come along, kiddy!" he said. "But mind, you are to do just as I say." The big brother was twenty, and there was no more skilful sailor of a small sloop round Sunfish Bay thin wood of the door 1 stood breathless, fearing that they might distinguish the rapid beating of my heart. "Your ingenuity has always been extraordinary, madame," he said, reflectively, 'but in this last affair you have not shown your usual tact." ?" 1 th U tt 1 d" Edna had already packed her T: a v whatmannerP "Tu h "His Highness places confidence companion growled, trunk, but had changed her mind, raced them comfortably along ud- tn you, yet you sit idly here, and Hia words startled me. • This nn- and did not intend leaving Hall denly, however, they were iW the profess yourself unable to assist seen man's intention eras apparent- that day. T heard her inform the fog, spread like a soiled sheet every - him " iy to 'take a further attempt upon; ceamherntai.d of her intention of re- where over the water. Soon they could hardly see fifty yards ahead of them. "Bttt it's all right, opera of H. M. S. Pinafore, with Steamship Company, for clay or b 1 of • only Dicka mile more, ssuredand we're close hie "sisters and his cousins and his throughouttits; thea eoccur weekly beriug thafk to Ttihc•ye of cc>canrn rieregard ttl�e r. inshore, anyway. Wo had hen told to put on our 1.'be shall beach forms the peso- milk aw t\eict,;+tg two pounds to the Sunfish Bay is pert of a Uig oldest clothes if we wished to eipal attraction of Herm. It is rluart , i :meat pounds to the, gal- sonnd, which narrows almost like a ehriin or else to brio old ones about e quarter of a toile long and j1°t• This is net absolutely accur- bcttle retroed the mouth. When with us and change at Herm. 'NUM consists of nothing but small shells :de,but ncurly'cnotigh so for Arae- the tide goes out, it tears through host Itad provided shrimping acts of different shapes and colors; there Boal purltc,ses, or twenty-one gal - Sunfish Bay at six or seven miles fur those who cared for that en- is no sand or pebbles, nothing but; 1`'ts Or milk to a bushel of corn. an hour, pressed on by the great loo shells and broken shells—millions of �� e presitum better results would weight of the water behind. Be 1•e secured if oven a smaller quan- yond the cottage where" the boys Whilst w tl shl2ost of tlue shells are shaped Isles tete' of milk was fed, say fifteen lived a small point runs out into the party rheic was much very small winkles, but with varied gallons. the sea, and past ' that point the I 1 t 'f t t L th waters fairly whirl out through the narrow neck to the open ocean. As they neared their home buoy, where the rowboat was moored, Jack frowned. "I've got to make it the first tithe," he thought. "'With no more wind than this, we never can beat back against the tide; we might be carried miles out." So at precise - 1, the right moment he let go the sheat and brought the little boat's head round. He reached over quickly and seized the mooring rope. But alas! two unfortunate things happened. The sail stuck half -way dcwn; and worse yet, the mooring was fouled somehow, and refused to be hauled in. Jack's eye caught the difficulty at once the painter of the rcwboat had , ben altogether too long, and it had caught the center- board when he had come about. There they were, a hundred and fifty yards from shore. in thick fog and a spinning tide, the sail in a mess the centerboard fouled, If Jack let go of the buoy -rope, the tide would carry thein down in an instant, Jack• yelled and shouted, - but no one heard bim. Then, with quick decision, he turned to Dicky, "Dicky, will you do as I tell coil" ,yet wide-eyed, Dock y nodded. Dicky, "Get hold here, then," said the big brother. '"Now, Dicky, listen. When I let go, .this boat is going to pull awfully hard. She's in the tido, you see. You must hold on. No matter what happens, or how much it hurts your arms, bald tight. Wrap your legs round the tiller, so. Now, are you braced ? I'm Let- ting go. Hold !" Jack let go gently, to prevent any sudden strain on the boy; bet then, with a spring, 1>e was half -way down the boat, working at the center- board, and the whole strength of the tide was opposed to Dicky.. He shut his teeth and hung on, The sloop swung out, then back, like a pendulum; the tide gave it great jerks, which seemed as if they would pull Dicky's arms from their sockets almost' but be would nob let go, Lying face down, .116 could see ,only the water racing by, but he heard Jack working and talking, Just a minute more, little bro- ther, just a minute more ! Hang to it tight, that's.the boy! It's all right, Dicky, it's all right!" The big brother's voice was loud and cheerful. At that minute, with a sidewise twitch, the 'rope squeezed Dieky's hand against the gunwale: How it hurt] Tho teary came into his eyes, but he hung on. His army were getting nnrnb, and he ccmld hardly see even alto water now. And then—•Jack had hold of him and the rope togoth:me .the strain wasygd>ne, and he was lying in a; heap in the bottom 'of the boat. When tho sloop was safely moue - ed, Jack turned to hint, "Hard work, kiddy?" Dicky nodded, ""l'hy, what's the natter with your hand?" Dicky held it up, with a raw red line acroas the back. "1 pinched it," lie answered, It was into the big brother's eyes that the tears almost eame this time, "Dicky," he said, "if you had let go, we'd have been out some- where in the sound; and with this fog and no wind, we'd have stood a very good show of being run down. But you're a little brioik, and so hero we are all safe; and anybody who tells you again that you aren't any good in a boat, you send them to me." And in spite of the pain in hie hand, Dicky was happy.—Youth's Companion, i+INOV, 'Q*.019ogta09 AAPNAO�1ma*.APA e A DAY AT HERM for 10,80 a.m,, but it was nearer 11 a.m. when we started, and wo ireaohed Herm after forty minutes' sailing, A short time was occupied. he landing the party in the rotting boat which we had towed alung, Provisions were. then brought ashore and spread un the pebbles. To these we did justice, After refreslimeuts wo separated. Those who had conte to shrimp chose nets and fishing baskets, and having brought with thein veno old shinnnilk in feeding thein, but they hoots, old trimmers, old washing may sea, he se well Informed as to the most profitable method of fee 1-• ing it. Skinunilk in itself is an um balancer] ration and tntsue:able for any kind of young stock as a soler. feed, It can be fed most adva t• a eu is 1t connection do • tl t g t ly t rr none > n with t soma: ether feed that is unbalanced in -- the the opposite direction. The best, balance for skimniilk on the aver= age farm is, and the best balance for corn when fed to voting stock,, of akirnmilk Protegee' 1] eery of the \Piston gill lsperimud. Stntian, has gong into teis subject with great thor- oughness, and gives details not. they all returned to the beach tired merely of his own experiments, but. out, very sunburn, but thoroughly a tabulation of the. Danish expori• @ 4 satisfied with their afternoon's melts, which are of very great "Ilerm ! Where on earth i& work: From one to one and one- value. We cannot enter into these: Harni'1" T fancy I hoar my readers half pints of prawns was the aver- in detail, but give the conclusions, age catch, t1,•tot>gh one man had reached, which we think are entire - three pints; the majority had iy reliable as a basis of action. caught whitebait and prawns to- The profit in feeding skins -milk: gether and one had caught a Wood- with corn or corn meal depends: and feigns one of the group known sized conger. Others had picked very largely on the proportions an es the Channel Islands. This group. or shells or sea-s'ecds, of which which they feed. I iufessor I1eWry s is composed of Jersey, Guernsey, some very lovely kinds were found. eooelusions are that when feeding Alderney. Sark anti the smaller anl Three ladies had walked to the elle Pelted 01 corn 'teal with one' l tts well-known Berm and Jethon, famous shell beach, ono and a hall to three pounds of separator skim - Finding myself in Guernsey, one riles away; but returned rather mills, 027 pounds of skimmilk will ro• 1N[ FRI SKIM el 1 LKS. 17011 FEEDING. 1?arn>ers who aro feeding young etoelc, and particularly hogs, rea- lize in a general way the value of skirts, they changed their apparel and then set,out to follow the tide, It was running .out fast., disclosing reef aFtet' reef of rocks which had been submerged.. on our arrival. Some of the ladies got behind the rookie and presently appeared in bathing costumes and then follow- ed the others. A11 the fishers walked into the sea, almost to their knees, and keeping near the rocks, found an abund- ance of whitebait and prawns un- der the lung trails of sea -weed. After fishing for from three to four bourse ander a blazing sun, exclaim. Well, as the geography books do not tell us, Herm is a small island situated iu the English Channel 'save 109 pounds of meal, When three to five pounds of skimmilk is fed to one pound of corn meal it. bles, which added to the heat of the, requires 440 pounds to save 100' day, 'rade rather "a toil of a plea -1 pounds of mead. When five to seven sure." pounds arc feel to one of 'teal it As we had c•hoseu a clay on which requires 44ei pounds to save 100. no steamer ran to Herm we were pounds of 'teal. When five to sev- not allowed through the gates et; pounds arc fed to one of meal which guard the path skirting the it reqto uires pounds,pounds fedlta when coast, which has been made for of corn meal 553 pounds. On s,n Std vii ns. Prince Mueller of Germany has atora.ge 170 pounds of skimmilk leased the island of Herm from the equal 11)0 pounds of corn meal. glorious summer day, I was asked bred, as they had pickets out a path if I would make one of a picnic for themselves over the loose sane], strewn hero and there with peb- e was sailing an stat- party to Herm the following Tucs- then nicknames nor being late for day.To this 1 gladly consented, supper bothered him. He watched seed on the Tuesday morning found the blank sea -birds sail along so myself at St. Sampson's Harbor, close to the little waves that every A large family party of my very now and than they touched—as if hospitable entertainers soon am - they were skipping -stones, Dicky semblod with their invited nests, thought, Now and then the sail In the Channel Islands intermar- riage indignantly again `. the ria c betwee 1 the differeut families sheet. demanding \rind, butt tide i>• eery frequent and as a popular •',1 warrant is out against you; my life. But I chuckled within my - nevertheless, you still consider the self. Forewarned is forearmed. Prince your friend. That is curl- Just at that moment 1 heard the oust" she remarked, with a touch waiter tap at the door, and open - of sarcasm. ing it, announce the arrival of an - "Most certainly. It was Oustro- other visitor—a Mr, Boesch. moff's doings. His Highness is "%i'hy, 1 wonder, has he sought powerless to control the Ministry you here ?" exclaimed the man when of Police." the waiter had gone. "He must "And you believe that you will be safe in England1" she inquired du- biously. "I believe so. providing that I have some important news!" Next moment the door was again thrown open, and the new arrival • 'naming, then I left the hotel, and caught the ten forty-five express for London. (To be Continued.) •—••r A DIAPASO? OF THE SKIES. (By A. Banker). Viewed from 'the cliffs of the sea- shore a great display of so-called summer lightning, when the 'clouds above the horizon are from time to red. Lime lighted up with a rapid sue - All three spoke quickly together cession of flashes from a great ter to -night it is best that we should in a foreign tongue. The man storm raging beyond the range of remain strangers — you under- Boesch then made a brief statement vision, is a spectacle both weird and Stan' "." which apparently held his two coin- beautiful. At each recurring flash "Of eaurse•y, panions for some moments speech- the heavens are illumined in a bril- "And Mrs. Anson and her charge? less in alarm. Then again they all ]sant, lustrous glory, now pulsating Are they at a safe distance?" commenced talking in low conficlen- in a throbbing effulgence, now "Yes. When I 'let Heaton he in- quired after then-. He particularly wished to discover them, and of course I assisted him," They beth laughed in chorus. But her words in themselves were sufficient proof that she feared the result of our re -union. They im- pressed upon me the truth of my suspicion, namely, that Mabel held the key to the enigma. "What dues he knowl" asked the man, evidently referring to me. "He is aware of the spot where the affair took place," she answer- ed. What?" gasped her companion in alarm. "That can't be, He was stone blind, you said!" "Certainly was, But by some means—how, I can't say—he ascer- tained at least one fact. "Did he make any remark to yon?" "0f course he did, He gave me to understand that he was acquaint- ed with the details of the whole af- fair. A long silence fell between them. The mention of Mrs. Anson and bless. The her charge held me besot o r g "charge" identl ie erred toevidently fwas Y Mabel. I only hoped that from this conversation I might obtain some clue to the whereabouts of my dare li "I wonder how' much Heaton really does knew1" observed her visitor reflectively at last. "To much, I fear,'-- she answer- ed. No doubt she recollected how I had expressed my determination to go to Scotland Yard. Again there was a prolonged pause. "Boesch has arrived in London, I must see him," exclaimed the man. "'In London? I thought he was stil at his post in the Ministry at •Sofia " she said in a tone of sur - price. "He was fortunate enough to ob- tain early intimation of Oustrom- off's intentions, and after warning me, escaped the same evening, He took steamer, I heard, from Trieste to London." "Why associate ,yourself further with that man 1" she urged. "Sure - 1,v it will only add to the danger." "What concerns myself likewise concerns him," he answered rather ambiguously. ""You have apparently of late be- come closer friends. For what rea- son 'i" "You wiII see later:" "With 'some distinctly evil pur- peee, I have no doubt t she observ- ed "but remember that I have no furrthcr interest, in: any of. your fu- ture schenies." He grunted di:hiotisly, tial tones in that strange language —Slav I believe it was. Whatever it might have been, ing into darkness, or now, in a and although I understood no word spasm of convulsive energy flashing of it, it brought hack vividly, to my out in a vivid, glowing transplencl- memory the indelible recollection of encs, as though the portals of hea- the night of the tragedy at The Bol- vett itself lied been burst asunder tons' anel a distance glimpse of the flash- ing glory of Paradise were unveiled. was no mistake—those tones were But to ho enveloped in those il- fantiliar. That trio of voices were htmined clouds and to be in the the same that with my sharpened midst of the rolling thunders and ears I had overheard conversing in surrounded with continued scintiil- the inner room immediately before the commission of the crime. I have said that my nerves were shattered. All the past was a tor- turing memory to toe, but the quintessence of that torture was my failure to discover my love. I be- would be willing to undergo even lieved that she alone could supply though it involved risk and hazard, the solution of the enigma, rand It is a glorious morning, not a what truth there was in that se- cloud to be seen, and the early spicion you shall duly see. morning sun is lighting up the The three voices continued to morn clad sumtvits of the surround - speak in that foreign tongue for erning mnttntains. As, however, the perhaps half an hour, during which traveller ascends higher and higher period I was unable to form any cloucls commence to ather, and it odea of the trend of the newcomer's is evident that a thunderstorm is announcement: Then I heard the vi i s tors taking their it leave,apparently- t i isv th ma n Y o those gesticulated r as f g o snrancea cf respect which ntark the shallow foreigner. T extinguished my light and opened my door cautiously. As they passed on their way down the corridor I succeeded in obtaining a very good view of the interesting pair. They were talking together, and I distinguished the man who had first called upon Edna by his deep voice. He was a short, thick set, black -bearded man of forty, well dressed in black, with a heavy gold albeit across his ample vest, His companion, whose name was apparently Hoesch, was consider - older, about ilfty-live or so, of spare build, erect, thin -faced, with long grey whiskers descending Wm ei- ther cheek and shaven chin, IIe wore a frock -coat a,ncl silk hat, and was of a type altogether superior t'� his companion. The woman Grainger's coffee was In ought to her as usual in the morn. ing,, but about ten o'clock she rang again, and when the chambermaid responded, said— "Here are two letters. Post them for me in the box in the bureau, and tell them to send my hill at once, 7 leave at ten forty- five," "'Yes'in," And the girl departed quivering for a moment into a phos- phorescent glow, and then subsid- ations of lambent electricity, as oc- casionally happens to Swiss tour - 'sets and mountaineers, though awe- inspiring and somewhat alarming, yet is an exeerience altogether thrilling and weird, which many approaching. Soon the booming of thunder, echoed and re-echoed the , from the mountain side, becomes ever louder, and hash after flash of lightning streams down into the plain beneath. And now be is in the electric cloud itself, its lumino- sity occassionally, it is stated, sur- reunding the mountaineer as with an areola of glory—an angelic hon- er, which, however, was not con- ferred upon the writer,' Now the thunder peals above him, peals be- neath him, peals at his very sidle; erashing and reverberating 'with a swelling, detonating roes. But excelsior, exeelalor, upwards and yet upwards, and he soon emerges from the darkness into the glorious sunlight; the cloud, which viewed from beneath was black and gloomy now appearing as white and as bril- liant as the snow itself ; and though the thunder still rolls, and doubt- less a deluge of rain is still de- scending, be is above it all and rev- elling in the midst of a sunlit scene of su remest grandeur. And perlia,ps the thought crosses the mind that in another sense the experience of many is similar. En- vtloped in the gloomy mists anti storm -clouds of doubt and unbelief they at length lock upwards, and, supplicating for light from above, emerge from the darkness, anti r.ea- to post the letters, hie that the Sun of Righteousness, To whom, I wonclored, were those the Light and' Redeemer of letters addressed ? Within my mind the world, by receiving, Uimsclf, I strove to desist some plan where- the stripes due to them, has eatis- by I could obtain a glance at the Pied the demands of Eternal Justice, addresses. The box, however, was and has thereby for thorn thrown only at the foot of the stairs, there- wide open the gates of thekingdom fore ere I could reeolve upon any of glory. ;? song, extolling the charms of Jet sey, puts it: "Nearly all that you meet is your aunt, your uncle, of British Government, and lie closes 1`lirtcfore iF out read -ere wish In your cousin !" it reminds one of it against visitors except schen trips ret the most value out of their i-hemany-relationod Admiral in the err arranged by the Guernsey sktnunillc, they should feed it in the t o torsion of ttt•c or three ounds went. r t e were awaiting to ar- rival of the different members of to in- terest us in our surroundings. The colors, nrilliant purple, glowing n s,nr , r you wan o ge' sailingboat by which «•o hoped to orange, bright green shells, deli -full value of skimmilk, don't feed yc in.hogs altogether on it. To do reach Herrn was pointed out to us tate pink cradle shells and sante ,i; is to waste it. By combining the outside the harbor. every fragile -looking anis daintily two in .the proportions above. giv "How are we to reach it- we striped mauve and while, the exclaimed„ "In small rowing boats" stripes gol>,rg round the shell, smal- ler e11 you gat the full value of the was the answer. and smaller, until they end in corn. Oecu in the centra of St, 1' point. There are small whelk On this basis Professor Henry son's harbor was the oil, shells and mitauy other kinds o1 figures• that wizencornis worth 50 Samp cents a bushel and fed at the rate ed Great �iiesteru Co.'s steamer, which I do not know the Warnes. n? one potted of corn to one to three "Ibex," This boat, which was one For more than forty years, vlsi- p tors have been carrying awayshells I of skimmilk, is worth 28 cents per of the best on the Channel Service, y g 100 pounds; but that fed at from on Good Friday morning, 1898, ran from this famous beach and still as toseven to nine pounds 10 one of corn on therocksthe off the ers ewes' ser- he the -prone and. slowly sift hae aro millions left. One andful it is worth only 10 cents per 100 eri,All the d' onnthes ewers say after handful a ,bounds. When corn is 28 cents a ed and landed' the beach, but p'ckiok out the whole Leslie], fed in the first -mentioned the boat was very much injured its rat from the broken pieces. It quantities skimmilk is worth Ie ha close proximity of is rather amusing to watch the visi- anti out}y i tors,in twos or threes all aloe land prevented a Serious catas- g trophe. `Phe steamer \rias repairer.] the beach, intent on gathering and replaced on the service, but on shells. Thirty years ago shops ex - January eth of this year it ran on -fisted in Guernsey and Jersey where • articles made with these shells night be purchased, e.g,, hand - mirrors, photograph -frames, hand- kerchief and glove boxes, ate. Wooden articles were chosen and covered with putty, into which the shells were pressed, after being ar- After resting at the bottom of the ranged in symmetrical devices, some rocks off Gurnsey, which tore huge holes in its keel and in a very short time it sank, All on board were again saved, with the excep- tion of a sailor who refused to leave the ship, and one of the pas- sengers who remained in his berth. it ""as These old-fashioned shops no longer exist. The landing -place at Herrn is on the south-eastern part of the island and the shell beach is on the north. path leadin to it as t The ver rough P g Y g fatiguing, binprincipally and a g g, g strewn with over sand at n v t loose .gravel and stones, with here and there stone steps. This being so, the visi- tor has not much time to collect shells as however he may hasten his steps if he has come by one of the trips, which are usually for the half day. Re no sooner gets to the beach than it is time for him to return. At the most he does not get more than three-quarters of an hour there. No visitors are allow- ed by the Prince to stay a night at Herm. The hotel has been closed since he has leased it, and visitors may only obtain lemonade or ginger- boer, tea, milk and bread and but- ter at one house only, and that only on steamer days, About 5.80 p.m. we thought of re- turning, Empty provision -baskets were gathered up, boxes of mineral waters were carried down to the boat and soon we ware all ready to. start for home again. 7t was propoaod that the should rail around .Jethon on the way beck, This was carried unanimous- 1y, and] so we did. Unfortunately, un the way the breeze dropped and we were delayed one and a half hours in consequence. However, the clay was perfect and wet ]tad mach to interest us'iit our sur- roundings. The Doctor steered back and we landed at 8 pet, at St. Sampson's after a very plea- sant Clay and with the hope of a similar trip et no far distant date, ADELAIDE ROWS, Duvaux Farm, Guernsey, ocean for .seven months; W raised by a..(,,'terman SalvageoCom pany and found to' be completely ocvered with sand and sea -weeds, after two or three unsuccessful at- tempts it was at length towedinto Ste Peter resPort, ' After being cleared of sea -woods and sand], which operation oceupi- ed a number of men over a weelt to perform, it was temporarily patched up and removed to St. Sampson's Harbor, where it now lies. Relays ofmen are working on it night and clay, in order to en- able it to reach Milford Haven, where it will be thoroughly over- hauled and refitted. Our party now wore all assembled and we were rowed out to the sail- ing boat, A' doctor, his wife and lady friend, with three or four prominent resiiants of St. Samp- son, with their families, not for- getting the children, made up the party, As we loft the harbor, a young man, who 'was the only mem- ber of his family unable to be with us, became rho recipient of many parting iniunetion, sneh s t-- Yott li find my will in my bottom drawer 1 rYon if put up a monu- ment for us an Delancey Parke . No such gruesome thoughts cc- •>upied our n)inds, though, as we sped over the waters, a merry party of twenty-two people. The day was glorious, sea and sky the loveliest blue, Herm and Jothott facing me, and behind Herm, 'Sark bathed in glorious sunshine, so hot that e faint haze seemed over the water, As we drew near Herm the, tide was going down and a good view was obtainable of the rocks which guard these islands, as one visitor exeletintcd in.- horrified tones-- "Facicr 1 sticking up all round ! The horn' for starting was fixed cents per 100 pounds, but when fed iu the larger quantities is worth but 9 cents. FARM NOTES. Dig potatoes when the vines and tubers have reached maturity. Choose a dry, clear day, so that the crop may thoroughly dry before go- ing into storage. But don't let the tubers lie in the sun .too' long, or they'll turn green. ' There is snob a thing as devoting too much attention to politics, to the neglect of the farm, and there is such a thing as devoting too much attention to the farm, to the neglect of politics. By politics we mean the science of government, "that part of ethic i s wh cUal de s\ ith v theP ro- servation, peace, prosperity and safety of the nation or state, the .. protection of its citizens in their rights, and with the improvement' of their morals." A sample of decorticated cotton- seed meal recently sent for analy- sis contains only 1.05 per cent, of nitrogen, equivalent ,to 35.3 per sent. of albuminoids, instead of 7.- 00 per cent. of nitrogen, equivalent 1, 43.75 per cent, of albuminoids, which is the average obtained in pure decorticated meal. This snakes o difference in valuation of $4 pee ton. The color ofthis h s lit cal is roe they lighter than pure cottonseed meal, but o1hertcise quite like it in appearance. Microscopic examine- riot shows the presence of rico starch, and by oareful sifting frag- ments of rice kernels and hells may be identified. Whether this form of ad.ulterabion is extensively practis- ed is not determined, but purchas- ers world do well to be on their guard. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Jenkins--"13obby, what's all that row at Barlow'si Is anybody being killed 0' Bobby -"No, p^spa. Willie liar• low's mamma is cutting his hair." "Do your know him 1" asked a ecnticmenof an Irian friendtie other day, in speaking of a third portion. "Know him!" said the portion. ''I knew him when his' lather was,a Mlle boy I" r I1 OOP J.