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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-2-16, Page 9+ 4 4+++++4 h-1.44++++++0; H':4++#.++.F+: OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST • r•+•o,. ,.,•.+4,+4.441,1 ,o. !o„} r f",4,4,+ ,_44,!*' `n'+N,+',e:+, 4;,.:+q„ ,e,4,',s,{,p.. OECAPTER V.-(Cont'd) After that the walk home was de- lightful • no further mention was • puede of:the man wlio had insulted • and frightened her, er of the lock- et, though Darnley had not forgot- ten it; and the sky above was not • ;tearer than Na,.ey's mind when the re-entered Ripstone Hall, not oven .aware of fatigue, heat, or.dis- Domfort in ony shape or form. A very smart -rather too smart -- slog -cart was waiting outside the groat entrance when they arrived. Derrick Darnley frowned slight- . ly as he said "The millionaire has lost no time. Mr, Crawshaw is here, I see." Nancy' smiled. "Aren't you jealous?" she asked, •• with a little •lau gh, as sheth threw off her hat. t "Do you care about money?" ryas the young ' man's reply, put tbruptly and questioningly. I adore it! she laughed back, and then the laugh died away, and i. startled, fearful look came in her ;yea. "Who—who is that speaking?" the asked, hurriedly. "Those refitted seeents," Derrick baigley replied, eereiesslty—he was ending over ono of the many`:dogs that came to greet him—"belong • to Mr. Crawshaw, or.;_ to give him Ws hill title, ° Mr. Thomas Moss Crawshaw, late timber foreman„ of The East End, London, 'but now ewner-of several -estates, and cm - bustler of the Manor House, situat- ed about two' miles from here." •CHAPTER VL "Oh, thieve yon are, Derry—back already—mid what have you done with Nancy, 'pray ?" There was a decided touch of peevishness in Dorothy Leicester's , pretty voice. of arnley was silent for a inoment; he hadbeen standing staring up at the broad staircase in a fixed,' almost vexed way, when his cou- sin came out of the large drawing- room and put :the above query to him. Tie woke from his reverie withra start and looked down at Dorothy. "Miss Hamilton is in her own room, I believe," he answered, in e curiously short manner. "In her room; then I expect she Is tired out, and no wonder, starting bff to walk to the village in this beat.' I mean to scold her well. the you'going in to say `How d'ye So' to the great millionaire, Der- ry You know it is your duty to pay court to all his wealth." Dorothy's face had lost its cloud, and was as sunny and lovely as Banal; she had been a little vexed that Derrick should have left her to go after Nancy; but now he was " k. again, and .that was all she eeSseas steresaaneeemeseeekale less. occupied with her own feeli this subject, she must have no that Mr. Darnley was in anything but a pleasant humor. "Mr. Crawshaw is quite prepar- ed to receive any amount of hom- age, so come along," she lauglred, slipping lior dainty hand through his arm, and trying to pull him to- ward the drawing -room, whence hilted sounds of a strong, -load voice, holding forth with much consequence and vigor. • Darnley's brows contracted in a frown. • "Manythanks, but I would ra- ther be excused, Dolly," he said, curtly. '!I have had one experi- ence of Mr. Crawshaw and I am in no hurry to have a second. 1 think l will go and rescue Merefield from the cubs, ho must have had about enough of them by now," "You have only to utter the =- Bleat words, 'Crawshaw is here l' and Merefield will be free immedi- ately, Dorothy observed, with a plight sneer, and then she gave an wpatient little slat, "I should like to go with you," she said, "but I must remember my duty as hostess and return to my nery ; unwcleome ,guest." Darnley pulled a broad tennis hat low over his eyes, and, with a short whistle tothe dogs, set off • across the lawn towards the ten- nis ground. He was both surprised and an- noyed. Why bad. Nancy suddenly flown away up the stake, vanishing before he had time to draw breath, when she discovered that Orawehaiv was in the house? ' Darnle,y had boon bending over the dogs, •aispcnsing pats of wel- come all resins!, and he had not seen the &ranee that had come over the girl's laugliing, happy feed, nor the expression of stenething akin to agony which had . flashed into her eyes. He had not meeu the sud- den terror, the exquisite fear, about money and that brute, Craw - which had overwhelmed her at the intelligence that her dreaded foe was not only actually close at hand, but would be near her every day to torment and trouble her, All that Darnley had seen was her hasty rush up the stairs, with an eagerness that as he remember, ed it sant a curious pang to his heart, which grew deeper and deeper as he walked across the grounds. "My judgment has been utterly at fault, it seems," he said, bitter - ]Y, ,to himselff, kicking savagely at a little daisy that was roaring Ste innocent and pretty head to greet the summer sun, and she is no better than the rest. What was' that she said just now, 'I adore money t She said it laughingly, but it Was the truth she uttered, all the same. Moneyl-money I -- money 1—and —money!—and this brute, 'because he can boast of a gigantic banking account, is set up and worshiped I" He turned aside moodily as he neared the tennis covet, forgetful of poor Lord Merefield, who was al- most reduced to a bundle of rags from the affectionate vigor of his partner, the: Hon. Ella, and, teach- ing a shady and lonely earner, fiung- 1lS golf 00 the grass and gave way to his thoughts. "Wbydo I' let this girl vex me.' as she does!" he cried, impatient- ly, to himself; "is it not sufiieient that T skould have been foolish enough to have been bewitched by her facto the very instant. I saw it —that in one moment she shows have scattered all my prudence and worldly wisdom to the four winds, without worrying, myself over ever,, little thing concerning her, as I have done these last two days? Would any man bailie senses' do as T am doing 1" He pulled a low easy garden ehaii close to hint and flung himself into it. "I'll have t,, smoke, it will clear. my brain; I want to see into this matter rightly; I won't condemn her too quickly 1" So saying, he pulled out his sil- ver ease—a gift from Dorothy and, having lit a cigar, he folded his arms and began to think. Soothed by the fumes of the fra- grant weed, his mood softened, and Nancy's face, with these wonderful eyes and tremulous, sweet red lips, returned tohaunt, fascinate and torment him. "Hang it all!" he mentally de- clared, with a sudden determination born of a variety of feelings, "I am a brute to judge the child so harshly; so much for my great theory of never going on anything. like circumstantial evidence, when at the merest, the vaguest cause, I immediately begin to imagine all sorts of things. Now, why should I doubt her about that locket? What earthly connection can the ainty, beautiful, rend..tn+nllec- "r"s-E*!i'se a thorough tidy—what connection can she have with such creaturesas this man whom she, refused, to let me follow and thrash—to-day? And why should she not treastue a little gold locket if she likes?" Ho took his hat off, flung it away, and rumpled bis dark, early locks, his face growing shadowed and un- easy again. "I wish, though, she had let me get at that fellow. I would have given him somethingto remember this day by. She seemed as if she feared to let me go after him. By Jove 1 I—if—" A flush rose to his face, and a smile came uncon- sciously to his lips, making him almost handsome in that moment. "What if she were nervous about. me?" Then he frowned. "Pooh bah I conceited ape that I am, why should she care abort me 1 She has only known me about three days altogether, and doubtless doesn't desire to extend dhe acquaintance- ship." He flicked away his cigar ash ra- ther. moodily ; but his thoughts soon went back to Nancy, and Isis heart beat in a strange, quick way, while his pulses thrilled as he remember- ed how she Irani clung to him in her fear, and how tempting and exqui- site ber xqui-site;ber face had seemed to bin as she gradually grew calm and her smiles came again. Look whichever side he. would Nancy's fano haunted' hint; if he Atilt his eyes, she laughed .out of the darkness, . "She is a witch!" Darnley cried, suddenly, to ' himself; "the has charmed me." Il° gave himself up to the en-' thrall -melt of this conclusion, and gradually beeatno quiet and con- tented. "Sire is en assg » was a: I ttr his next verdict, as he leisurely finished his cigar ; and as for her thinking thaw, even for and instant, why the whole thing is ?e disgraceful libel, and I ought to feel ashamed of my.- self yself for letting, it come into nay mind fora single instant. How .proud she is i" was his next thought. "She disowns the iamiltons. Serve thein right, too, if they could turn their bathe en her when ehe need. ed them, They ought to feel that she despises them now, that she will never need their help, Thank Heaven that she will never come to want thein . now. How happy she is 1 Her face is like a flower bathed in perpetual sunshine; it is the re- flection of her mind, Who eould' help loving her It is no wonder Dorothy has not grown tired of her, for she is as sweet and rare are she is beautiful 1" ttard hews his rhapsodical smokes were broken by the arrival of Lord ]Merefield in a very bad temper, "You are a niee fellow, Derry," he commenced, flinging himself- on the grass, viciously.' 'I think you might have given me -a hand." "You have four such able one's near in those possessed by Misses Maude and L lla that .1 d out think yeti can have needed mine." Darnley ]it another cigarette, and smiled while the young earl vented his feelings freely en his friend. "1 believe they would have gone on playing till doomsday if Fairfax hadn't suddenly espied Crawshawglaw about to 'depart, and the cubs, of -course, fled to greet him. I hope to goodness he.will carry one of them off—the two together are too much for me l" "See what it is to have a coronet at your back," laughed the other man. "The coronet may go down to the bottom of the sea, for all 1 ears I" observed Lord Merefield, gioomil , then, withan assumption oft indifference, "What have you done with Dolly i" "Oh, we parted eompany hours ago. I"fancy she is with the mil- lionaire. Are you going in? Take care, Merefield, the cubs may seize you again." But Lord Merefield was oat . of earshot, and Darnley laughed soft- ly to himself. "What a' case that Is; poor boy, certainly love is not altogether a paradise to him." ' And then, left alone in the cool, soothedby the fragrant •scent of tobacco, he gave himself up to his thoughts of Nancy and her fas- cinations; while she, up in the se- clusienof her dainty bedroom, was standing gazing out of the window, wondering in as blank, vague sort of way if her happiness and content- ment had gone for ever, and what lay for her in the future, now that Thomas Moss had crossed her path again. "It is like some hideous dream! Ah I I was right when I -told myself I was too happy; yet, though I feared something might come to trouble me, I never thought of this I never thought that he could eome into this life, mix in this world, and now he has come, not quietly, but Ioudly and ostenta- tiously. Why has net Dr. Grantley told me about this1 If I had been warned, I might---" best there Nancy stopped. Warned or no, the disoomfort,the horror of meeting this man would have been just the s,•me. She sighed a little, then sat d wn and thought it all out inher c..1, commonsense way. "After - " she mused, "things are so - e-etaCiifessele �'timR not be . rad. Thomas Moss, foreman Yorriok's timber yord, is a very different oroature from Thomas Moss Craw- shaw, Esq., millionaire and great matrimonial catch"—her face light- ened visibly. "Of course, he will consider me very much his inferior, doubtless in his heart he will re- joice that he escaped the folly of marrying me when he can now take a wife from . any poor, aristocratic family ho chooses ; yea, yes, how sil- ly I was; the difficulty will be in- finitesimal"—the edlor had eome back to Nancy's cheeks, the light to th000 marvellous eyes. "When all is said and dune, he can only roped me as a poor dependent en Sir Humphrey's love and generos- ity, and so quite beneath the great Mr. Crawshaw's notice. Besides, I am safe now; if—if he should try to remind me of the past, I have ono who will protect me. now and always." (To be continued,) A long-winded, prosy counsellor was arguing a teehnicaI case rec- ently before one of the Judges of the. Superior Court. He had drift- ed along in such a desultory way that it was hard to keep track of what he was trying to present, and tho Judge heel juse vented e very suggestive yawn. "I sincerely trust that I am not unduly tres- passing an the time of this court," said the lawyer, witha suspicion of sarcasm in his voice, -"There" is some difference1 " the Judge quiets ly observed, "between trespassing on time and encroaching on eter- nity." 4 ARE FAST WIRING FIGHT DISCOVERY Ali' CAUSES 01' .S1RIO US EPIDEMICS, #'. ogler Tells of the Wonilei'ful Werk Accomplished in Dee Generation, Preventive medicine, says Dr, Osier, writing in the . American Magazine, was a blundering art until thirty or forty years ago, when it was made a science by the discovery of the causes of many ser- ious epidemics. Iii is in connection with the great plagues that man's redemption 0 man may in the fu tore be effected; at present we Have only touched the fringe of the subject, He goes on:— How little dei we appreciate what even a generation has done! The man is Only just dead (Robert Koch), wlio gave to Itis fellow men the control of cholera, Read the story yellow fever in Havana if you wish t r gotan. idea: of the pow: ere of exjterimental medicine; there. is nothing to 'match it in the his tory of human achievement,. ONCE WHITE MAN'S ({RAVE, "Before our eyes to -day the most strikingexperiment ever made in sanitation is in progress. The digging of jtlae'`Panama Canal -was acktlowledged to "be as question of the helath of the workers. For four centuries the Isthmus had been a white man's grave, and at ours time during the French con- trol the mortality reached the ap- pailiug figures of 170 per thousand. Even under the most favorable cir- cumstances 'it . wasextraordinary high., GREAT - ACHIEVEMENT. "Month by month I got the ree. ports which form by far the most iarteresting sanitary reaming of the present day. Of more than 50,000 employees (about 13,000 of whom. are white), the death rate per thou- sand for the month of March , was 8,91, a lower percentage, I believe, than in any city of the United kingdom,' and very roach lower than in any ' city " of " the United States. It has been brought in a great part by researches into the life history of the parasite which pro- duces malaria, and by the effec- tive measures taken for its destruc- tion. Here, again, is is chapter in human achievement for which it would be hard to find a parallel MOST DEADLY ENEMY. "Man's most deadly enemy," the writer goes on to say„ "is tubercu- losis—one of the great infections of the world, whose cause'it has been one of the triumphs of our genera- tion to determine. With improved sanitation its mortality ...has • been reduced sines 1850 more then 40 per cent., but it still kills a larger number of people than any other disease—some 60,000 in Great Brit- ain and Ireland in 1908, and 589 in London alone. Practically between 10 and 11 per cent, of all deaths is e due to it." We real further :- "A plain proposi.tloo is before the people. We know the disease, how it is caused, ]tow it i9' spread; how it should be prerentea, ,]row in suitable cases it may be cured flow to makethis knowledge f. the prime thing. It is a campai-n for the public; past history shoe that rt as a. campaign of top ti O. a Dox at your ctr'ogglst's, win melte ilte oomforlablo for you again, They reiteve the worst headache In 80 mutates or less, NRtto,d D, and C40111'3301 Company of Consda, fafaitoti, . . . 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There is no good reason why the feed lot should not be kept in good` condition, even if there is no hill on the farm, If the land is leve] and "only a small bunch of cattle is to be fed, a g cl plan is to re- move move the top soil with a road scrap- er to the depth of six' inches or more, and then cover the surface with smooth stones topped off with coarse coal cinders mixed with sand. Of course, the best way to keep a small feed lot dry is to pave it with brick. This costs something at the start, but the investment will pay every time, The cattle are &ways on dry footing and no feed is wasted by being thrown on the ground. If a' Targe lot of cattle is to be fed, the cost of paving a large lot. is out of the question; but it can be underdrained with success. Tile drain laid• in the ordinary way,. from ten to twenty feet apart, will keep any lot that is not located in a swamp in good condition, even in the 'es e ra'inctlr art or the. season. Drainage will cost no more than sheds and sinless the sheds are very wide they soon become soaked with `the driving rains and mud is then carried into then by the cattle, and are little better than an open lot, On our own farm we have two lots of ten acres each, which are perfectly drained. They are on a slightly sloping rise, and we placed the drains about.twenty feet apart. Perhaps 40 feet would have answer- ed the purpose, but we decided to take no chances, and we are satis- fied with our investment. These two lots cost us $400 for tile and work, besides our own, but we think •, because our cattle have in comfort. -0. M. is been fatte Coulton. WITH THE DAIRY HERD. measures for its stamping out, The fault o 'damry7uerf'i,, g-..5• though simple on paper, present (al is not so much the lack of know - difficulties interwoven with the very) ledge as the proper application of fabric of society, but they are not the knowledge they possess. One thing that we ought to con- sider when we start out to buy breeding 'cattle is the fact that the knowledge, skill and character of the man we buy them of is about as important as the animals that we are buying. Can a man sow poor seed and hope to get a good crop? Will Na- ture make any exceptions in one man's favor? These are questions which ought to interest the man who keeps on year after year breed- ing his cows to sone scrub bull. Too many fanners lack the push and energy required to build up a fine herd of dairy cattle. They are poor business -men. The cow cannot turn all of her energy into the production of milk and still have enough to build up her offspring rightly. To raise good, vigorous calves, we must see to it that the mother has seffrciont of the right kind of food and goes dry long enough to do the work rightly.." insuperable, and aro gradually dis- appearing. Only prolonged and united efforts carried through sev- eral generations can place the dis- ease in the same category with ty- phus fever, typhoid and smallpox. • A SUBSTITUTE. "Good gracious, Willie, where did ,you get that black eye?"' "Johnny Smith hit me with his fist•" "And I hope you remembered what your Sunday -school teacher said's,bout heaping coals of fire on the heads of our enemies?" "Well, I didn't have, any Boal, so 1 upset the ash -pan over him," 'A worthy and,provident.roan went to his legal adviser. to make his will. He gave many instrtictious, and it seemed that everything Zeas. arranged. The lawyer began to read over his notes, and put a pout tohis client. "Oh—you have made provision for your wife in the event of her surviving you. Does that remain unaltered if she should marry again?" "No, no," said the client, eage19y, "What am I leav- ing her? One thousand dollars a year. If she marries,, again make it $2,000. The lawyer thought. there must be a misunderstanding, and pointed out that most men put it the other way about. "I know,". said the client, "but the man who takes her will deserve it." "Da you think a man should take his wife into his confidence. regard- ing his business affairs?" asked the mi. man who had just been married. "12 he isn't making aur merely, nlahly nlnno Coa ba, onra ao11) b yea " re hod . e'' - tr�s tbtroat aud laeiaa . Bq ■ DEEP LITTER TEEIDING. A Western doctor who had a fine flock of hens, but whose hours were so irregular that he could not feed them at stated times, writes that he has found this method to give en- tire satisfaction. For this sort of feeding a layer of litter is first spread over ,the floor and then a layer of grain such as cracked corn or wheat, then an- other of grain, alternating until. the mass is from six to eight inches. deep. Young chickens attack this heap vigorously, and often . dig, out square holes clear' down to the bot - or til , - o exp 1re0Cet one, tom in their eeareh for grain.' cautiously. 1 This eontinttai digging gives (them plenty of exercise and, as a rule, they thrice excellently. In someexperiments m ase in this matter, litter -fed chicks actually gained much more than those fed by hand, although both lots were fed exactly the same rations, and the hand -fed birds received all they could eat and at all times. If the litter is kept perfectly dry it does not become foul, because the constant movement of it by the chickens keeps it well aired and no unpleasant odor results. UNDISPUTED WEALTH. • Savages have Solved the Problem of Political Economy. le a land where food and drink and ready-made clothes grow on trees and may be had for the ga- thering, it is not easy to see how a man can run very deep,y in debt for his living expenses. But in "The Island of Stone Money," W. H. Furness, 3d, explains that na- tures ready-made clothes are not ornamental, and the soul of man, especially of woman, from the equator to the poles, demands per- sonal adornment. Like all adornments, polished shells, tortoise -shell, variegated beads, and so forth, demand labor in the making. Here, then, -the na- tives of Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, have solved the problem of political economy, and found that labor is the true standard of value. But this medium must hel enduring, and as their island yields no metal, they have • to re- course to stone; stone, on whie labor in fetching and fan/tiouing has been expended, and as truly a representation of labor as the mie. ed and minted coins of ctvilieati,n, This medium of exchange they call fei. It consists of large, solid, thick stone wheels, ranging in di- ameter from a foot to twelve feet, having in the centre a hole var�•- ing in size with the diameter •a the stone, wherein a pose may be inserted sufficiently large to bear the weight and facilitate transpor- tation. These stone "coins" are not made on the Island of Yap, but were originally quarried and shay - d in one of the Pelee Islands, four miles to the southward, ht eco Yap by venture- + rs, in canoes by and some native na and on rafts, over the o no means as pacific as its name im- plies, A noteworthy feature of this stone curreney, which is also an equally noteworthy tribute to Yap honesty, is that it is not necessary for its owner to reduce it to pos- session, After concluding a bar- gain which involves the price of a fei too large tube conveniently mov- ed, its new owner is quite content to accept the bare acknowledg- ment of ownership, and without eo much as a mark to indicate the ex- change, the coin remains undis- turbed on the former owner's pre. wises. There was one family whose wealth was acknowledged by every one, and yet no one, not even the family itself, had ever laid eye or hand 'on this wealth. It consisted of an enormous fei, which was ly- ing et the bottom of the sea„ Many years ago an • ancestor of this fam- ily secured this remarkably valu- able stone, which was placed on a raft to be towed home. A violent storm arose, and the party was ob- liged to cut the raft adrift, and the stone sank out of sight, When they reached home they alI testified that the fei was of mag- s nificent proportions, • and lost t through no fault of the owner, It l A VYHI 4LING .LC1.•MYUt1M 11 OUNTA.T1Vll'VAS USE A. UIIRA IOUS GUAPIII» StI4,LE. The Quaint and Impressive Cugtom Is Very Rapidly Bteeerning Extinct, Gomera is two centuries behind. the times, although it lies -not mono than fifty miles outside the track of steamers. ' In importance, as in size, it is sixth among the Canary Islands; but is possesses one feat- ure that is distinctive, the whist- ling language. By a curious graded scale of shrill whistling the moun- taineers of the region are. able to converse over a distance of as far as four or five miles, The art is of great antiquity. Th original inhabitants of the Wand were the Guanohes, who were cone quered by the Spaniards in the fif- teenth century. These were a pari. fora] eo le despite de h P to t emoan. P , p tainous nature of their territory., It was their need of a means of es communication across long distarp, ces over the great ravines that c�}i the heights which caused the deveqsle opatent of a system of crude signal.. ling by whistles into, A COMPLETE LANGUAGE. The like method is employed by the natives of the Atlas Mountains In Africa, .and it may be that the prim- itive manner of whistling was brought thence to Gornera, since long ago there was -considerable emigration of the Africans to the Canaries. But the signalling in oke Atlas Mountains has never expert8• ed beyond its original simplicities. while. in Gomera it has grown into a dstinet language, As far back as 1650, Da Sprats who was at that time Bishop of Rot chester, wrote a letter to the Royal Society in which he made mention of an Englishman he had met :at Teueriffe, This unfortunate man had been made deaf for'fifteen days br the shock of a native's whistling et his ear. Indeed, as one reflects on the distance that the sound is made to carry, it becomes apparent that the noise must be fairly deafening at close quarters. A hotel -keeper in ants CSruz de Teneriffe employ- ed mploy ed a Gomeran as kitchen girl. She had a lover in Laguna, almost five miles from the hotel. Yet the girl was accustomed to mount a hill that rose at the back of the Hotel sued there indulge in a series of EAR-SPLITTING WHISTLES. And always the lover arrived to visit her within a half hour, coming by trolley. That such peformt• angio requires special powers is de- monstrated by the fact that the Gomerans of the mountains have extraordinary development of chest and throat, • It is small wonder that the is- land is little known, as it lies two. days' journey from Tenerine, and is without aecommelation for guests. Its extent is. only iiftoen miles in length by thirteen in breadth, and the population num- bers a scant fourteen tbbusand. It is, however, an ideal spot as far as climategoes in all seasons of the year, since rain is fare, and the temperature is uniformly delight- ful. The primitiveness of the place is shown by the fact that it has no roads, only bridle paths, and those are so steep that cruppers and breast girths are essential to hold the saddle in plaeea. One must adventure over the ^ ugh trails if he would hear the nage, for it is not untaineers. whist used except by t e Dwellers in towns are not faint with it, since with them there'ex- ists no necessity for its use. To the mountaineers, however, it is A GREAT CONVENIENCE, and women employ it as well as men. erne of the less Sskilful re- sort to their fingers in the mouth, after the fashion of our own boys; but this is a confession of inability. The language is made up like a sort of Morse code, with high calls and low, abort calls, and long, with rising and failing inflections, and with a curiously articulated' utter• anee, something similar to triple - tonguing on a cornet. Quaint and impressive as this whistling Ian• guage is, It seems a pity that it should die out. It, however,' sures ly passing, and a few years mora will witness its extinction. SILAGE' TOR SHEEP. It is believed that greater! care must be had in preparing silage fes beep than for cattle. Sheep Te- xture a sweet and dry silage. Thick - y planted corn eut before it iswellmatured, does not make ideal si- lage for sheep. Corn planted about like field corn, harvested and. put into tbe'silo ivhen it begins to dent, has proven very healthful to sheep, and they have done well upon it: If clover hay is fed in conjnnotiol with this silage, cheap and ratio factory gains maybe made in shoe) fattening, was, therefore, conceded that a few hundred feet of water over it onght not to affect its market val- ue. The purchasing power of that. stone, ']therefore, remains valid. Nothing helps ono more than looking for the helpless. 7.aN � 8k'; .a r, IT Oh8 418. ()abut atony, husgs m. aurae OM t6tbut end leads . . • The average man woelet 11401101 lose $50 on a horse r-►ec than pe OM fee taxes: Wbyl