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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-8-10, Page 7a,. f! ++++4++++++ +:++++++gip++ E+++++++++t+++++++ FORftt'1fNGOflSIf +} } to this good Samaritan's generos- ity" --with a touch an Naney's shottlsler—"he will and, let us hope, not only a comfortable, het a plea- eent.•home," Dorothy's face beamed. "Oh! if Mr, Chaplin wants to see her before she returns, there is plenty of room at the Hall." "Are you going to put up all my belongings, Dolly?,,. Nancy asked, with a faint smile. c'Yes,'''.was the prompt reply, "if that will ensure you being there:" And then, afterhaving tried herd to press Dr, 'Grantley to join them, and having accompanied Nancy while .she went to send her uncle a loving telegram, with Christmas greetings, Miss Leicester drove off in triumph to the station, where Sir Humphrey, looking hale and hearty, despite his lame l.eg.end crutch, and Darcy Hamilton were awaiting them. "I expect we shall have a pitched battle between Janet and Baines," Dorothy declared, laughingly, as they; wore all driving through Rip - stone village to the Hall, a few hours later, aurid the courtesies and respectful greetings of the ten- ants. "You have' no c.,nespt:_:t of what jealousy there is harbored in my maid's honest breast fur your abigail, Mrs. Crawshaw." Nancy made no reply. ,She had grown very pale and her deep -blue eyes wandered over the well -remem- bered spots with a look of pain in them so great that it distressed Dorothy. u3he said nothing, how- ever, judging it kinder to leave the girl alone. "It will bring back all the old horror and trouble at tie .t," she thought to herself, "but that will soon pass." • But she had no knowledge of how much suffering this journey through Ripstone village meant to Nancy, for she knew nothing of the brief romance that had been born here in the summer that was long deal berried andforgotten, and -o she was ignorant , and unconscious cf. and in our home market we have how great a sacrifice of feelings Nancy had made when sire had con- no competition, every acre of this sented to join their•. Christmas party 988,000 has potentially the same at Ripstone Hall. value, and fully half is implanted. "Welcome home, Nancy Tar. — There are in Canada about 8,000, - welcome home!" said Sir Humon- rey, as he stood, hat in hand, at tee up at once, both of you; sed be open door of his well -loved House prepared to travel down with daddy 'There's a good piece of mistle.ce and me to -morrow. Ohl how lovely somewhere about, I am sure, so it all is!" and Dorothy executed a you must Lot he angry if I steal a lance descriptive of joy, which kiss." caxue to a premature stop as Nancy inquired, hurriedly: "And you will really be alone, OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST ,4+4044-40+0.+4•+.4+4•4+414+1+0+.44. ,a+.o...a{.4r,+,1•+ 0+.,4•,l..a,4,r,+e04-04.4-0+•,440.-4-4444.-/-84+4, CHAPTER XXVT, asked, "You know, dear, I told you that---." A year had rolled away ---twelve: "Cob, yes; you told me plainly long oalendar mantles. It .was enough! But that makes. no ,dif- Christmas .time ---a good, sensible, ference. You ai•e'coming down with seasonable Christmas; with 110st us to -morrow,. Miss Nancy, whether and ice in abundance, and a clear, you like it or no. So there is an bright, wintry sky above. end of the matter!" London was very full, people "Dolly, dear, it is impossible 1" were rushing here and there, bent "Is it—I don't think so!" Then on emptying their purses on the jumping up and flinging her arms least provocation. There was an round the dainty form, "Darling, air ofgood nature prevailing; and you must come—you can't refuse if .some nor wretch stood shiver- me—and papa—poor, lame papa— ing, with blue, wan face, .in the, he will be broken-hearted if you gutter, the embodiment of hunger, don't spend your Christ:rime witti sorrow and despair, ho was, after us. _ We shall all be alone—only all, in, the minority, to judge by Merofield is coming, and you don t the hundreds . of comfortably clad mind him; Now, you are hesitating, forms that hurried past him, Nancy. luny don't you say 'yes'? breathing an atmosphere of peace Mr. Hamilton, do persuade her !" and prosperity, . , "I will if I can. I should like In two days' time the church her to be with you above all things, bells would ring out the tidings that Miss Leicester : I am sure it would another Christmas was born, bid- doher good," the young man en- ding all rejoioe. swered, promptly. At one of the largest houses in Nancy's face wore a constrained Grosvenor Square a carriage drew expression; she could not bear to up en this bright December morn- refuse these dear ones, and yet ing, and a girl, carefully wrapped to go back . to the Hall—was she up in furs, sprang lightly out. strong enough to bear the memories "Is Mrs. Crawshaw at home, that must come? Batts?" she asked of the footman As her- cousin spoke site woke who.opened the, door, and receiving from her musings. an answer in the affirmative, she "I am afraid I must say no, Dol - ran rip the handsome staircase with ly, darling; I have asked Darcy to all the assurance of one who was spend his Christmas with me,. now familiar with every nook and cor- that Sir John and Lady Hamilton ner. are away, and—" "Not in her boudoir," she mur- "Oh, don't think of me, Nancy!" inured, putting her head in at the began Darcy. door of a charming little apart-. "Is that your only excuse?" ment.` "Ohl Janet, there you Dried Darothy. "Why, that is are! Where is Mrs. Crawshaw?" easily settled. Of course, Mr. "You'll find her in the dining- Hamilton will come, too. Oh! no, room, miss. She's been there all no; I won't listen to anything the morning." more; I just command you to pack Dorothy ''Hew downstairs again, and into the room named; there she came to a full stop.' "Well, what is happening?" she queried, ns she behold a perfect avalanche of baskets and parcels strewn on the table and the floor. "Is this an amateur grocer's shop, may I ask, Mrs. C'rawehaw'F' Nancy laughed as she came for- ward and kissed her friend. "You are just in time to help us, Dolljs," she observed. "You have met mg' cerasin, Darcy Hamil- ton, have you not?" indicating a rather handsome young man, who was apparently ,very busy. Miss Lereestot's manner was only moderately warm as she ackeow- ledged Mr. Hamilton's greeting, So like Nancy! She has for- given these people their neglect and unkindness to her when she was a poor little baby. Of course, they are very glad to acknowledge their relation, now she is one nt the richest widows in England'.' Ugh! T hate then* all!" So de- clared Dorothy, mentally, giving a vicious tug to her sable boa, as, in obedience to Limey's commands, she removed her fere. "Now perhaps yuu°will tell me what all this means?" she inquir- ed again, as she recovered her tem- per. Nancy smiled. She had grown into a beautiful woman during the year that was gone. She was still as youthful and Fresh as ever, but the girlish simplicity had left her face, and the traoee of deep thought and sorrow lived in her wonderful eyes. Now in her gray gown,made of some soft, clinging material, with her hair piled picturesquely on the top of her small head, it would have been difficult to find a more delight- ful object for the gaze to test en. "I ant superintending the ar- rangement of my poor people's Christmas gifts," site explained. "They are all to be distributed to- night. I don't know what I should have done if Daley had not offered to come and heli, rue." 'Yost know I am only too de- lighted, cousin Nancy!" was the .warm ren'ly, spoken 'honestly; foe, despite -Dorothy's hard verdict, Darcy` Hamilton was a thoroughly good-hearted young 'fellow, who \voilid have fallen 'in lot -o just as easily With lua:cousin:when sliehad been poor and unhappy as he did now when elm was a millionaire. "It seems to me yeti don't want me to do very rnueh," Dolly ob- served, after a few moments' chat ling, as she Watched Nancy giving /ler• orders - to t' e two servants, who were working away like bees. , r'Sib still, and bei; MO look' at you," Nancy reliliod, with a proud tender glance at the girl. "What is all I ask." "Yost will have plenty of op- portunity of doing so all next week, int darling ' • Na,iic y "looked room. hurriodt . d .Y_ "What do milt li baa,:tloily,V N1.it AR,l. DISTIUC"I' NEEDS PIR071;1CTIQN, Enough Peaellos in Genx'gie Alorip to Supply tutt'i'it'a, The relationship between Can= a;cl'a and the United States as re- gards the Fruit in lutitry ,. and the manifest need of a Protective tariff for Canadian 'fruit growers have been clearly shove in a series of article:., by Dr, George Charles Buchanan of Beamsville, Ont., Pre- sident of the Ontario and Western Co-operative Sooioty, Dealing with the Niagara peninsula Dr. Buchanan says;— Ther•e are in the Niagara Penin - rode about 300 square miles of land on which fruit can be well grown, not counting such districts as An - caster and Dundas. Between To- ronto and Hamilton there is an- other .100 square miles; in all at least 288,000 acres. Not all of this is peach land, not even probably 20 per cent. of it. But very little of it is of no use for any fruit. Much.. can be made fine peach land by drainage, or good apple, plum or grape land; some is only good for berries, but all of it is in a good fruit climate. The unplantod land is waiting to double or quadruple in value, whenever the market demands more ,fruit. It may bo assumed that the value of this land for general farming is not over $100 per acre, and that for fruit, purposes it is worth $500 per acre; although mach of the peach land is worth $1,000 per acre; and that whore it has to be drained, draining will. average about $20' per acre, It can further be stated that i. SHE .P , VEINS ' ST FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS 9 ' , EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR has stood the searching test of preserving .time, This is only possible because of its consistent high quality, FRO1t YOUIt GROCER. The Canada Sugar Refining Co., Limited, Plontreal Established in 1854 by John Redpath. THE FARM Useful Hints for the Tiller of tha Soil FEEDING COWS FOR MILE. In ninety-nine cases probably out. of a hundred where cows in a herd. are not producing satisfactory peach land at $1,000 per aero is profits the results are due to a lack known to pay a good return on the of system in the management. In investment in the hands of practi- cal growers. If we take the very herd may he at fault, but this is low estimate. of 10,000 acres pleat- not always a criterion, and the ed at $500 per acre we have a.val e farmer isnot justified in jumping of $50 000,000 for the orchard and berry lands. Now as our home market grows, "Twenty if you like," Nancy an- swered, lifting her sweet red ]i! s to hie; then she was kissed by Dolly, dear?" Dorothy, and then she found her - "Really; o•iy Mer•efield. There self int l crowd of servants, *who le no .one else to •some; Aunt Pris- greetec her with warm though re- cilla is away, so is Derry, and Aunt spectful words of welcome. Anne can't come, for the very good A mist of tears rose before her reason that she has not been asked, eyes, .and her. lips quivered, but Daddy agreed with me that we .Dolly was quick to create a diver - would dispense with the usual „ crowd of cousins this year. I don't "Your Diel room, Nand, she mean anything rude, Mr. Rami: said; then, as she slipped her hand ton; you must put it all down to throirgh.;Narcy's arm, she whisper - my delight at having captured this ad: 'Here is Baines, Now for a most aggravating young persi*: Food free fight. I saw Janet rear - Now, Nancy, beware; play me false ing her head like a Trojan a mo- and—well, I won't even breathe merit ago." what my vengeance will be like, or the quiver turned lute's smile, I shall frighten yen into fits!" and the tears were bravely kept about 1,100 half-castes. Of the And with the Dolly fiung her arms back as Baines was greeted, and twenty married German officials, then the two girls were alone in no fewer than twelve haves Samoan Wives. As tee native girls nearly always speak English and refuse to 000 people, the United Statee claim 93,000,000. However that might come to the conclusion tnat may be, our present soft fruit acre- all the cows were doing well, or he age is fully equal to supplying might come to the very opposite Canada. It is safe to say there is conclusion, . that they were all un - not over 12,000 acres of peaches in profitable. In both cases he might Eastern Canada. If this supplies be wrong. The only correct basis 8,000,000 people it would take on which to estimate the yield of 150,000 acres to supply 93,000,000 a herd of cows is individual peu- people, but there are 180,000 acres formance. Then he knows that of peaches in Georgia alone. certain cows are making good use of the food they consume; others ANGRY SAMOAN Vl'OlIE11- are making poorer use, and per- _ haps still better use. As soon as Armed With Whips trod Sticks the question of individual produc- tion is solved he is at once in pos- They Attacked a Male Critic. ression of the data necessary to The latest news from the South determine whether or not he is Seas brings a story which 11105- feeding the cows, so they will have trates, in a fashion at once comic a chance to show what they can do. and serious, the chief 'difficulty of Many farmers feed cornstalks, hay the German empire-builder in Sa- and some roots, and expect their moa, to wit, the readiness of the cows to yield large quantities of German settler to intermarry with milk. Often the quantity of hay the native women. The white pop- is limited, and the whole ration is ulation of the German colony is wheat bran, cornmeal and nil about 500, and there are already meal mixed equal parts by weight. This should be fed twice daily. Each cow should receive as many pounds of this grain ration a day as she produces pounds of butter learn German, the frequency of fat in a week. For example, if a -tie to be maintained. Are they to be soiled or left to graze 1 The latter is the least troublesome, but fewer head can be kept. In soiling the green stuff must be cut twice a day and left some hours to heat down. -That implies a great deal of carting away manure. ' But then there will be more stock support- ed. If the cattle be left out during the summer nights in a -paddock lAREFBI.i1I 'S CENSUS POPULATION XS I;1CSiErl.h,�9 it1 MORE ,SLOWL e Great Pail In the Birth Bate t id Great Increase in Eluigration. The population of Great Britain, for the first time since the census ' of the kingdomWAStaken, has not, according to the report of the Reg- istrar-General, eg istrar-General, maintained its rata of increase. During the, deoede just 'past tare rate was 9,1 •per cent, During the previous decade it was 12.17 per cent, Especially striking does this Iose of growth appear when contrasted with that of Germany, for while Great Britain actually increased ill' population only about 3,275,000 in tent years its greatest continental competitor in commerce is inoreas- ing at the rate of nearly. 1,000,000 a year. The two apparent causes for this failure to maintain the normal rate of increase of population are the great fall in the birth rate and• the great increase in emigration. The bulk of this emigration has been directed to other parts of the Brit- ish dominions, so that it cannot be regarded as LOST TO TRE EMPIRE,. "The fact that the lowest rate of increase has been in purely agri- cultural counties accounts partly for both the falling birth rate and the interesting rate of emigration," says the Queen. "As everyone who has studied the question knows, the British rural population does not increase as it should for two main reasons, the lowness of wages and the scarcity of hiusing accommoda- tion. The former is undoubtedly to hasty conclusions. The cow isedue to our antiquated fiscal sys- rally a machine for the that outdoor relief will be prized. purpose tem, which .admits foreign produce of re turning roughage, meal, grana; The milking can take place in the free but taxes heavily the British roots etc into milk One does stable as well as in the field. Int means of production not know *whether or nota machine the rich grass land of Normandy . "The ]atter is due to the fact that the cattle are there fed by the the capital required for creating has profitable capacity until it is, picket plan. Every animal has a laborers' cottages is so highly fax - put to the test. If a farmer weighed the milk of his herd of, say, ter cows and -fed the cows alike, he about Nancy, , and again kissed and hugged 1 er wildly. "And now I must go. No, don't trouble to come to the door to see have vain here—so glad! eri.ocl these rnesallianees causes particu- me off, Mt. Hamilton; 'stay and lar disquiet in' colonial circles in .help to get all this work done, or Darothy, with real joy ringing in the fatherland. In April last e, we shall be having some horrible her roues.. IC is like Diel times, German settler named Michaels elictise about having to remain, etc. Nem.. It maces me so happy!" took• it into his head to express Good-bye, darling; you have. metra Ad then, when she had gone these truths in a letter to the eel - me se happy! What! you will came, round and seen all was as it should onial newspaper, adding that quite Mr. Hamilton? Well, if. you catchbe, Dorothy, anxious that Janet's apart from race considerations the feelings should not be hurt, her- Samoan women made inefficient and unworthy wives. Seldom has an author had more gratifying proof of his power to arouse interest and inspire action. The very next morn- ing a deputation of several hun- dred Samoan women of various shades waited upon him armed w1LJ whips, sticks, and gardening tools. The police were just in time to rescue Michaels by taking him into custody. But the dusky amaz- ons scored in spite of the police, for the authorities had to bundle their calumniator out of the island as the only means of Preventing ser- ious trouble. the clear, old, well -remembered bedroom. "Oh, darling! I am so glad to cold, it is your own fault, and if you are ill at Ripstone jou won't enjoy yourself a bit. Take care of Nancy, and—" And so, laughing gaily, Doily flitted out of the room, anti Nancy- was ancywas alone. "It must have, happened some. day, I suppose," she said to her- self, with a heavy sigh,as she stood gazing into the fire; "but I wish I could have refused Dolly. She thinks to make nue very happy. How little she knows!" Dorothy, determined that there should be no slipping through her fingers at the last moment, went herself to fetch Nancy and escort her to the station. She found Dr, Grantley with Mrs,, Ctawsltaw, and a spot of .ex-: cltement on Nancy's cream cheeks. "Uncle Henry„ has come home, Dolly!" she explained, ,hurriedly 'dear.old Uncle Henry ! I shall be so glad to see him again !" • Slro could teeter fougiye herself b for having been made to doubt Henry Cheplin's integrity for one instant, and her warm, generous heart turned with a double wealth of love to the weak, kind, colitic - ons student, who ' had leen .her best and oldest friend, when elle .dis- covered hew site lied wronged him., Dolly's face_ "Ando -and flow you w011't 00110 with '1,1S1 Olt, Nancy!" she said, with t p' isalipninturent. "0 c(dared Dr. ..end C self went to see to the good crea- ture's wants, and Nancy shut the door and was alone. What a flood of memory, bitter and sweet, came to her as she stood in this little room—the un- conscious happiness that preceded the birth of love—the few brief h•,urs of ecstasy -the shock that cut that ecstasy short -the mental agony that followed. How it all came back to her! The gardens and grounds that had lain bathed in the summer sunshine now ttretchod cold and barren in, the winter's rime' before her—a lit em- blem of her desolate heart. (To be eontinued,). THE AMEER'S VENGEANCE. When Sir Charles • Euan-Smith, who died"not long ago in Englaaul, was in the market place o.F an Af- ghanistan town `het was .fired at by a native. He lodged eomplairttwith the Anteor,. who appeared to take iso notice of the incident, mei•aly remarking, ".hart's all right." ;Sir 'Charles complained again and mot with the same reply, }Ie stall, thought that the Ameer was treat- ing a serious matter with less con- sideration that it deserved, but. thought it advisable to shy no mere on the subject. About a week af- terward he was invited by the Am Der to ride with him. Theyrode' for. some 'distance outside the town and passed gibbet after gibbet, At length Sir Charles said: "Your Highness ,has been busy of late." "Oh;' no;" replied the Anreer, "they are your littlo"lbt." He had taken all the' inembelel of the v ould he assassin's family .and hanged ev sue of: them,. H+ HOW FIREFLY LIGHTS. To find out just how and why the tiny firefly is ableat will to trans- form itself into a living lamp a ser- ies of very interesting experiments have just been conducted by F. Alexander Dermott and Charles G. Crane of the Hygienic Laboratory of the 'United States Public Health and Hospital Service hi Washing- ton. The investigation neoessitrily called for oonsderablo delicate mi- croscopical -study of the light pro- ducing organs of the firefly. It was found that the insect produces its light by oxidation, that is, by prac tical combustion. A woman who visited the Brit- ish museum reoently inquired of an attendant: "Have you no skull of O`ronttvell'I I have been looking all round fora skull of Oliver Cromwell;" "No, madam," re- pliecl the attendant. "We never had one." "l2ow very; oder." she exclaimed; "they haste. a.' Cine ono hi the museum at Oxford l" cow produces nine pounds of but- ter fat in seven days she should be fed nine pounds of grain a day, or four and a half pounds night and morning. If one does not know how much butter fat his cows are producing or how mach milk each individual yields he is in the dark as to how each should be fed. When the meal ration is setled, then the roughage, whatever form it takes may be fed with a liberal hand. 1f the ration be well balanced good cows' will do justice to themselves and yield profit to their owner, even on dry feed. HOW MANY TO AN ACRE. The number of cattle to be graz- ed per acre must be determined by the experience of the farmer himself. Under no circumstances is overstocki.ig to be practised, if the supply of grass proves defec- tive, sell offff the supernumerary animals; if the feed be abundant, buy more stock or convert the ex- cess of grass into hay. It is an undecided question whether it is right or not that cattle, sheep and horses should be allowed to feed together in the 'same field. There are many farmers' who will have to such trinity, and others wile posi- tively 'object to sheep. Twelve of the latter to the acre is the rule. By horses .are understood, not working horses that aro too worn out to roam about in search of food, and that prefer the soiling plan,. but, colts whioh aro all for play and disturb the other occupants. Cat- tle. do not bite the grass clean ; sheep eat the heart ottt of clover, thereby killing it; they also pick out their food daintily ; the horses nip, as it were, between both. Sheep fold the 'soil, which is no small gain, but -are not liked by el - thee cattia or horses. There is still 'anothe'r matter to be decided and .which influences the nttnrber of eat- tether of six or nine yards that ed that it produces a much smaller worlm on a swivel, se thatthis sur- return than when employed in oth face .of fodder must be fed bare ; er methods. The average rate of the herder changes tine sweep of the interest on agricultural land, in- tether twice a day. At night the electing farm buildings, cottages, animals are housed. The water is etc., is only some 2 per cent., and specially supplied from pumps to now that the rates and taxes are the troughs. constantly rising while rent does. not increase proportionately, land- owners are becoming less and less willing to sink their capital on such A FINE MEMORY. uNREMUNERATIVE TERMS, Blinks, after inviting to dinner especially when the security is a eontinually falling one. "Hitherto great landlords have been willing to accept a nominal return for the capital expended on their estates largely because of the sentimental interest atsached to them—the pride of possession, soc- ial status, family connection, per sone knowledge of and sympathy with the tenants, and so on. But now that the actual burdens of landlordism are outweighing its tanglible advantages large owners are beginning to sell off their land- ed estates and the new owners, chiefly farmers and small holders, are so ptl% to it to raise the per, chase money or find the interest or their mortgages that they have scarcely enough cash left to repair the laborers' cottages, let alone build new ones. Under these circumstances young couples find it an ever increasing difficulty to marry and settle down Grfoeer Sent Pkg. of Pastern and in the country. One consequence is Opened 100 Eyes of the family, that young men go to towns to in- crease the competition in the labor. A lady writes from Blookline, market, and another is that both Mass.: men and maids emigrate to the "A package of Postum wassent United States or the :British dem- "1 inions, and so the country long- ingone day by mistake. niches for lack of replenishing the notified the Tomer, but find- able population and suffers from' ing that there was uo coffee for the diproportionate number of the breakfast next morning, T prepared feeble, old, vicious and degener- ate folk his friend Jinks, who bad just re- turned from abroad, was telling him what a fine memory his little son Bobby had. "And do you suppose he will re- member me?" said Jinks. "Remember you? Why, he re- members every face that he ever saw." An hour later they entered the house, and, after Jinks had shaken hands with L-rs. Blinks, he called Bobby over to him, "And do you remember me, my little man?" "Course I do, You're the same fellow that dad brought last sum - mor, and ma was so cross about it that she didn't speak to hien for a whole week." d LUCKY MISTAKE, some of the Postum, following the directions very carefully. "It was an immediate success in my family. and from that day we have used it constantly, parents and children, too—for my three rosy youngsters are ' allowed to drink it freely at breakfast and luncheon. They think it delicious; and I would have a mutiny on my hands should T emit the beloved in 001 own factories by our own beverage. people. My husband used to have a "In round figures the present Population of the United I.sngdotte is forty-five and a quarter millions, being an increase of some 9 per 'cent. upon the total of ten years gee, which teen numbered forty - LEFT ON OUR SHORES. "A favorable feature of the re- turns is the marked increase in the growth of our seaports, a fact which tends to show..that our in- ternational carrying trade is 'prn- gressing; the pity is that so much of the goods tints transported aro made abroad and not turned out very delicate stomach while we were using coffee,• but to our surprise his. stomach has grown strong and en- tirelywell since we quit coffee and have been on Postum. "Noting the' :good effects in my ono and a half millions. As the family 1 wro a to my sister, who population of France at the kat was a coffee toper, and after mach census: only totalled thirty-nine and persuasion gat her to try Postum. a quarter millions we have out - "She was direjudiced against ee stripped that country .in the rnoxal at first, but when she iresently struggle, but we have by no melitis found that all the ailments that approached Germany's teeming , coffee gave her left and sheof population, which was more than quickly' well site became and re- sixty and a half millions in 1905 mains a thoeott lr and entnusfastic and had still further increased .at }. g „Her nerves, which had becorue the last quinquennial census. That Postum con"rt. } unique and vigorous offshoot of the Anglo-Saxon racethe Uniteit shattered bV the use of coffee have States of America, , has of eourso grown ticaltiee again, and to -day 'surpassed the three European coun- she is a iiirw' .woman, thanks to tries referred to, largely at their I' stain, 'Name given by Postum expense, and every in the Iasi: do - Co., Battle ,Creek, Mich., and the (fade numbered„over 75,000,000.” "eause why" will be found in the great little book, "Tiro Road to Wellville y. *vltielI comes in legs, All thin may come to at reran whe i� p Be y Ever re 4Pleehre t Inc, ttus, ??the abatis tetter? A new one tt, time tet t11ne. They ere Cenn- ani holt of human interim. waits: -provided he doowt't 'wait tl the pati at 00 duutomobi1M. THE FARM Useful Hints for the Tiller of tha Soil FEEDING COWS FOR MILE. In ninety-nine cases probably out. of a hundred where cows in a herd. are not producing satisfactory peach land at $1,000 per aero is profits the results are due to a lack known to pay a good return on the of system in the management. In investment in the hands of practi- cal growers. If we take the very herd may he at fault, but this is low estimate. of 10,000 acres pleat- not always a criterion, and the ed at $500 per acre we have a.val e farmer isnot justified in jumping of $50 000,000 for the orchard and berry lands. Now as our home market grows, "Twenty if you like," Nancy an- swered, lifting her sweet red ]i! s to hie; then she was kissed by Dolly, dear?" Dorothy, and then she found her - "Really; o•iy Mer•efield. There self int l crowd of servants, *who le no .one else to •some; Aunt Pris- greetec her with warm though re- cilla is away, so is Derry, and Aunt spectful words of welcome. Anne can't come, for the very good A mist of tears rose before her reason that she has not been asked, eyes, .and her. lips quivered, but Daddy agreed with me that we .Dolly was quick to create a diver - would dispense with the usual „ crowd of cousins this year. I don't "Your Diel room, Nand, she mean anything rude, Mr. Rami: said; then, as she slipped her hand ton; you must put it all down to throirgh.;Narcy's arm, she whisper - my delight at having captured this ad: 'Here is Baines, Now for a most aggravating young persi*: Food free fight. I saw Janet rear - Now, Nancy, beware; play me false ing her head like a Trojan a mo- and—well, I won't even breathe merit ago." what my vengeance will be like, or the quiver turned lute's smile, I shall frighten yen into fits!" and the tears were bravely kept about 1,100 half-castes. Of the And with the Dolly fiung her arms back as Baines was greeted, and twenty married German officials, then the two girls were alone in no fewer than twelve haves Samoan Wives. As tee native girls nearly always speak English and refuse to 000 people, the United Statee claim 93,000,000. However that might come to the conclusion tnat may be, our present soft fruit acre- all the cows were doing well, or he age is fully equal to supplying might come to the very opposite Canada. It is safe to say there is conclusion, . that they were all un - not over 12,000 acres of peaches in profitable. In both cases he might Eastern Canada. If this supplies be wrong. The only correct basis 8,000,000 people it would take on which to estimate the yield of 150,000 acres to supply 93,000,000 a herd of cows is individual peu- people, but there are 180,000 acres formance. Then he knows that of peaches in Georgia alone. certain cows are making good use of the food they consume; others ANGRY SAMOAN Vl'OlIE11- are making poorer use, and per- _ haps still better use. As soon as Armed With Whips trod Sticks the question of individual produc- tion is solved he is at once in pos- They Attacked a Male Critic. ression of the data necessary to The latest news from the South determine whether or not he is Seas brings a story which 11105- feeding the cows, so they will have trates, in a fashion at once comic a chance to show what they can do. and serious, the chief 'difficulty of Many farmers feed cornstalks, hay the German empire-builder in Sa- and some roots, and expect their moa, to wit, the readiness of the cows to yield large quantities of German settler to intermarry with milk. Often the quantity of hay the native women. The white pop- is limited, and the whole ration is ulation of the German colony is wheat bran, cornmeal and nil about 500, and there are already meal mixed equal parts by weight. This should be fed twice daily. Each cow should receive as many pounds of this grain ration a day as she produces pounds of butter learn German, the frequency of fat in a week. For example, if a -tie to be maintained. Are they to be soiled or left to graze 1 The latter is the least troublesome, but fewer head can be kept. In soiling the green stuff must be cut twice a day and left some hours to heat down. -That implies a great deal of carting away manure. ' But then there will be more stock support- ed. If the cattle be left out during the summer nights in a -paddock lAREFBI.i1I 'S CENSUS POPULATION XS I;1CSiErl.h,�9 it1 MORE ,SLOWL e Great Pail In the Birth Bate t id Great Increase in Eluigration. The population of Great Britain, for the first time since the census ' of the kingdomWAStaken, has not, according to the report of the Reg- istrar-General, eg istrar-General, maintained its rata of increase. During the, deoede just 'past tare rate was 9,1 •per cent, During the previous decade it was 12.17 per cent, Especially striking does this Iose of growth appear when contrasted with that of Germany, for while Great Britain actually increased ill' population only about 3,275,000 in tent years its greatest continental competitor in commerce is inoreas- ing at the rate of nearly. 1,000,000 a year. The two apparent causes for this failure to maintain the normal rate of increase of population are the great fall in the birth rate and• the great increase in emigration. The bulk of this emigration has been directed to other parts of the Brit- ish dominions, so that it cannot be regarded as LOST TO TRE EMPIRE,. "The fact that the lowest rate of increase has been in purely agri- cultural counties accounts partly for both the falling birth rate and the interesting rate of emigration," says the Queen. "As everyone who has studied the question knows, the British rural population does not increase as it should for two main reasons, the lowness of wages and the scarcity of hiusing accommoda- tion. The former is undoubtedly to hasty conclusions. The cow isedue to our antiquated fiscal sys- rally a machine for the that outdoor relief will be prized. purpose tem, which .admits foreign produce of re turning roughage, meal, grana; The milking can take place in the free but taxes heavily the British roots etc into milk One does stable as well as in the field. Int means of production not know *whether or nota machine the rich grass land of Normandy . "The ]atter is due to the fact that the cattle are there fed by the the capital required for creating has profitable capacity until it is, picket plan. Every animal has a laborers' cottages is so highly fax - put to the test. If a farmer weighed the milk of his herd of, say, ter cows and -fed the cows alike, he about Nancy, , and again kissed and hugged 1 er wildly. "And now I must go. No, don't trouble to come to the door to see have vain here—so glad! eri.ocl these rnesallianees causes particu- me off, Mt. Hamilton; 'stay and lar disquiet in' colonial circles in .help to get all this work done, or Darothy, with real joy ringing in the fatherland. In April last e, we shall be having some horrible her roues.. IC is like Diel times, German settler named Michaels elictise about having to remain, etc. Nem.. It maces me so happy!" took• it into his head to express Good-bye, darling; you have. metra Ad then, when she had gone these truths in a letter to the eel - me se happy! What! you will came, round and seen all was as it should onial newspaper, adding that quite Mr. Hamilton? Well, if. you catchbe, Dorothy, anxious that Janet's apart from race considerations the feelings should not be hurt, her- Samoan women made inefficient and unworthy wives. Seldom has an author had more gratifying proof of his power to arouse interest and inspire action. The very next morn- ing a deputation of several hun- dred Samoan women of various shades waited upon him armed w1LJ whips, sticks, and gardening tools. The police were just in time to rescue Michaels by taking him into custody. But the dusky amaz- ons scored in spite of the police, for the authorities had to bundle their calumniator out of the island as the only means of Preventing ser- ious trouble. the clear, old, well -remembered bedroom. "Oh, darling! I am so glad to cold, it is your own fault, and if you are ill at Ripstone jou won't enjoy yourself a bit. Take care of Nancy, and—" And so, laughing gaily, Doily flitted out of the room, anti Nancy- was ancywas alone. "It must have, happened some. day, I suppose," she said to her- self, with a heavy sigh,as she stood gazing into the fire; "but I wish I could have refused Dolly. She thinks to make nue very happy. How little she knows!" Dorothy, determined that there should be no slipping through her fingers at the last moment, went herself to fetch Nancy and escort her to the station. She found Dr, Grantley with Mrs,, Ctawsltaw, and a spot of .ex-: cltement on Nancy's cream cheeks. "Uncle Henry„ has come home, Dolly!" she explained, ,hurriedly 'dear.old Uncle Henry ! I shall be so glad to see him again !" • Slro could teeter fougiye herself b for having been made to doubt Henry Cheplin's integrity for one instant, and her warm, generous heart turned with a double wealth of love to the weak, kind, colitic - ons student, who ' had leen .her best and oldest friend, when elle .dis- covered hew site lied wronged him., Dolly's face_ "Ando -and flow you w011't 00110 with '1,1S1 Olt, Nancy!" she said, with t p' isalipninturent. "0 c(dared Dr. ..end C self went to see to the good crea- ture's wants, and Nancy shut the door and was alone. What a flood of memory, bitter and sweet, came to her as she stood in this little room—the un- conscious happiness that preceded the birth of love—the few brief h•,urs of ecstasy -the shock that cut that ecstasy short -the mental agony that followed. How it all came back to her! The gardens and grounds that had lain bathed in the summer sunshine now ttretchod cold and barren in, the winter's rime' before her—a lit em- blem of her desolate heart. (To be eontinued,). THE AMEER'S VENGEANCE. When Sir Charles • Euan-Smith, who died"not long ago in Englaaul, was in the market place o.F an Af- ghanistan town `het was .fired at by a native. He lodged eomplairttwith the Anteor,. who appeared to take iso notice of the incident, mei•aly remarking, ".hart's all right." ;Sir 'Charles complained again and mot with the same reply, }Ie stall, thought that the Ameer was treat- ing a serious matter with less con- sideration that it deserved, but. thought it advisable to shy no mere on the subject. About a week af- terward he was invited by the Am Der to ride with him. Theyrode' for. some 'distance outside the town and passed gibbet after gibbet, At length Sir Charles said: "Your Highness ,has been busy of late." "Oh;' no;" replied the Anreer, "they are your littlo"lbt." He had taken all the' inembelel of the v ould he assassin's family .and hanged ev sue of: them,. H+ HOW FIREFLY LIGHTS. To find out just how and why the tiny firefly is ableat will to trans- form itself into a living lamp a ser- ies of very interesting experiments have just been conducted by F. Alexander Dermott and Charles G. Crane of the Hygienic Laboratory of the 'United States Public Health and Hospital Service hi Washing- ton. The investigation neoessitrily called for oonsderablo delicate mi- croscopical -study of the light pro- ducing organs of the firefly. It was found that the insect produces its light by oxidation, that is, by prac tical combustion. A woman who visited the Brit- ish museum reoently inquired of an attendant: "Have you no skull of O`ronttvell'I I have been looking all round fora skull of Oliver Cromwell;" "No, madam," re- pliecl the attendant. "We never had one." "l2ow very; oder." she exclaimed; "they haste. a.' Cine ono hi the museum at Oxford l" cow produces nine pounds of but- ter fat in seven days she should be fed nine pounds of grain a day, or four and a half pounds night and morning. If one does not know how much butter fat his cows are producing or how mach milk each individual yields he is in the dark as to how each should be fed. When the meal ration is setled, then the roughage, whatever form it takes may be fed with a liberal hand. 1f the ration be well balanced good cows' will do justice to themselves and yield profit to their owner, even on dry feed. HOW MANY TO AN ACRE. The number of cattle to be graz- ed per acre must be determined by the experience of the farmer himself. Under no circumstances is overstocki.ig to be practised, if the supply of grass proves defec- tive, sell offff the supernumerary animals; if the feed be abundant, buy more stock or convert the ex- cess of grass into hay. It is an undecided question whether it is right or not that cattle, sheep and horses should be allowed to feed together in the 'same field. There are many farmers' who will have to such trinity, and others wile posi- tively 'object to sheep. Twelve of the latter to the acre is the rule. By horses .are understood, not working horses that aro too worn out to roam about in search of food, and that prefer the soiling plan,. but, colts whioh aro all for play and disturb the other occupants. Cat- tle. do not bite the grass clean ; sheep eat the heart ottt of clover, thereby killing it; they also pick out their food daintily ; the horses nip, as it were, between both. Sheep fold the 'soil, which is no small gain, but -are not liked by el - thee cattia or horses. There is still 'anothe'r matter to be decided and .which influences the nttnrber of eat- tether of six or nine yards that ed that it produces a much smaller worlm on a swivel, se thatthis sur- return than when employed in oth face .of fodder must be fed bare ; er methods. The average rate of the herder changes tine sweep of the interest on agricultural land, in- tether twice a day. At night the electing farm buildings, cottages, animals are housed. The water is etc., is only some 2 per cent., and specially supplied from pumps to now that the rates and taxes are the troughs. constantly rising while rent does. not increase proportionately, land- owners are becoming less and less willing to sink their capital on such A FINE MEMORY. uNREMUNERATIVE TERMS, Blinks, after inviting to dinner especially when the security is a eontinually falling one. "Hitherto great landlords have been willing to accept a nominal return for the capital expended on their estates largely because of the sentimental interest atsached to them—the pride of possession, soc- ial status, family connection, per sone knowledge of and sympathy with the tenants, and so on. But now that the actual burdens of landlordism are outweighing its tanglible advantages large owners are beginning to sell off their land- ed estates and the new owners, chiefly farmers and small holders, are so ptl% to it to raise the per, chase money or find the interest or their mortgages that they have scarcely enough cash left to repair the laborers' cottages, let alone build new ones. Under these circumstances young couples find it an ever increasing difficulty to marry and settle down Grfoeer Sent Pkg. of Pastern and in the country. One consequence is Opened 100 Eyes of the family, that young men go to towns to in- crease the competition in the labor. A lady writes from Blookline, market, and another is that both Mass.: men and maids emigrate to the "A package of Postum wassent United States or the :British dem- "1 inions, and so the country long- ingone day by mistake. niches for lack of replenishing the notified the Tomer, but find- able population and suffers from' ing that there was uo coffee for the diproportionate number of the breakfast next morning, T prepared feeble, old, vicious and degener- ate folk his friend Jinks, who bad just re- turned from abroad, was telling him what a fine memory his little son Bobby had. "And do you suppose he will re- member me?" said Jinks. "Remember you? Why, he re- members every face that he ever saw." An hour later they entered the house, and, after Jinks had shaken hands with L-rs. Blinks, he called Bobby over to him, "And do you remember me, my little man?" "Course I do, You're the same fellow that dad brought last sum - mor, and ma was so cross about it that she didn't speak to hien for a whole week." d LUCKY MISTAKE, some of the Postum, following the directions very carefully. "It was an immediate success in my family. and from that day we have used it constantly, parents and children, too—for my three rosy youngsters are ' allowed to drink it freely at breakfast and luncheon. They think it delicious; and I would have a mutiny on my hands should T emit the beloved in 001 own factories by our own beverage. people. My husband used to have a "In round figures the present Population of the United I.sngdotte is forty-five and a quarter millions, being an increase of some 9 per 'cent. upon the total of ten years gee, which teen numbered forty - LEFT ON OUR SHORES. "A favorable feature of the re- turns is the marked increase in the growth of our seaports, a fact which tends to show..that our in- ternational carrying trade is 'prn- gressing; the pity is that so much of the goods tints transported aro made abroad and not turned out very delicate stomach while we were using coffee,• but to our surprise his. stomach has grown strong and en- tirelywell since we quit coffee and have been on Postum. "Noting the' :good effects in my ono and a half millions. As the family 1 wro a to my sister, who population of France at the kat was a coffee toper, and after mach census: only totalled thirty-nine and persuasion gat her to try Postum. a quarter millions we have out - "She was direjudiced against ee stripped that country .in the rnoxal at first, but when she iresently struggle, but we have by no melitis found that all the ailments that approached Germany's teeming , coffee gave her left and sheof population, which was more than quickly' well site became and re- sixty and a half millions in 1905 mains a thoeott lr and entnusfastic and had still further increased .at }. g „Her nerves, which had becorue the last quinquennial census. That Postum con"rt. } unique and vigorous offshoot of the Anglo-Saxon racethe Uniteit shattered bV the use of coffee have States of America, , has of eourso grown ticaltiee again, and to -day 'surpassed the three European coun- she is a iiirw' .woman, thanks to tries referred to, largely at their I' stain, 'Name given by Postum expense, and every in the Iasi: do - Co., Battle ,Creek, Mich., and the (fade numbered„over 75,000,000.” "eause why" will be found in the great little book, "Tiro Road to Wellville y. *vltielI comes in legs, All thin may come to at reran whe i� p Be y Ever re 4Pleehre t Inc, ttus, ??the abatis tetter? A new one tt, time tet t11ne. They ere Cenn- ani holt of human interim. waits: -provided he doowt't 'wait tl the pati at 00 duutomobi1M.