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The Brussels Post, 1904-6-9, Page 4- -- -- -.. . : ; 1( riteiteellsTennerffacicesresm) s ,-; t-T-mer-sedienseelme , sr l'ssenT=Mnsine y te ,,,,, tt eather merry a elleadthrift than, A ig . ,,,...„,__.4.1.t4a,4.‘...,• ILA , , L.1,..L.L.L.I.A.L. 1 r. E Miner atly day, I" l: A 11',1 1,1 1•1. irl's OR, THE RESULT OF A FANCY DRESS BALL , ... oILLwieeLe1LJ-LAA-IMIDatthuele.• . CHAPTER EL i 'Phis awnil suggestion has its effect. Now Hilterg bad gone down these way they are on their homeward w 3,, and 'At lest," as Diana says, "can talk, Clifford leads off the conversation- al ball in a light and airy feshion. "Ker has just given Hilary, two shillings," says lie, "What ?" Diana peers at him through the "Our dance, I think, says he, tab.- fest-growing brightness of tho com- ing advantego of the fact that the Ing dawn. 11 he were not tho most Mew -boy is a stranger from the Pnr- abstemious or men she waled have racks at Clonbnee whereat:ion the t old herself that perhaps there Inul cow -boy bows to Hilary, end retires been a last Muse of champagne, from the scene, dim regards her with a reproethful 13L --- Yes, I assure you," says Clifford, eye. "I saw blin no it, I don't think "Still ni‘ging on your wild career!" much of him, do you '1 Alost fon says he, "with Nemesis at hand -and lows give the girl they are going the sword of Damocles about to fall to marry a ring or a bracelet, or a -rind ell the rest or it." trally-wag of somo sort, hot I never "What do you mean, Mira?" heard of a two -shilling, piece before. "He's come !" Perhaps it's faehioneble 1 We're "Iler rather out of a down here, sem "Your future Lord. !" sans. Clifford. I know, so we mightn't knonn But With the biggest L on record. I to me it sounds she bhy," "Oh. uo 1' 1o1 really 1" "My good girl, I've been rtnring at I "You must be mate" says Diana. "It's Hilary who ought to be mad. him for the past two minutes. He a dem oay she expected 0 tong. poor was talking to Tanen, and evidently : giro i" cross-examinieg her about you. At ; "Mimes what does this Mean ?" least I hope it; was thnt. To me it says Diana, turning to her sister. seemed as if he was cross-examining 1 ,,011 ! mean 1" says Clifford. Diana about herself. I'll have a "That's tho very word for it. A cross-examination of ms• own with . 'Paltry florin 1 I wouldn't stand it if her later on." "You won't tell 111M tal here ? ' „ II were you, Hilary. I'd ffing him over. By -the -bye, you have it with says Hilary, iu a tone of frightened you, I suppose ? You can show the entree ty. inelancholy coin to Di, can't yea 1- ; "Not I. But Diana will. And after all, Hilary, why shouldn't you get it over at once ? It isn't as if you were bonnd to marry him," "I can't. 1." defiantly, "won't. rel rather die thar see him. I ---ss Clifford Makes a quick movement. Hie eyes are on the stairs above him. "1 expeet you'll have to die," says stairs live Minutes before with her partner -a magnitleent cow -boy -to get cui ice, and is standing near the buffet 0010,1 (11 i 011(1 looking pret- tier than usual (which is saying great deal) in her cap and gown, wheu she feels a touch 011 her arm. Looloinmroend sem sees dine "Don't mind him," says Ilelary, who is choking with laughter. "But oh, such a thing has happened 1 Tia came down the stairs to get a glass of water for some one-" "That wretched Make girl," gasps Diana, who now anticipates a catas- trophe. "And seeing Inc in cap and gown, he. "Por here he conies thought I was an attendant. I 1" "Oh, no !" says Hawse,. coulde't resist the situation -I felt indeed as if I were in a situation, In fact Ker is running- down the stairs at the top or hie speed, to he took me so eetirely bona tide, "Which aln. I?" asks Clifford an- Mously. "Oh, you 1 You're nothing I" says his wife, who is a little Indignant with him., At this, Clifferd passes hie ttrin suddenly rotted her, mul brings bei' elOne 10 MM. "Peer old girl ! Look at her Married to a hopeleet: nonentity !" says he, whereon they all laugh to- gether, and peace is restored. "linary, derthig, you will upriver at luncheon !" entreats Plana softly. "No 1 No I Never 1" says Unary, with emphasis. "I -I couldn't !''‘ memo CHAPTER IV, "Miss Kinsella is in the ditrawit- room, ma'am." says tho cook. It is next morning, awl very 0501e, too, considering the dissipations of the night before. Diana and 111101.7 have only just got. downstairs, end the gonverstalon, "Wet Mat. Draeme looked very well Jest night:" "And her dense," says Ellary. "Ohl dimming!" "No well area( thing," snaps Miss Kineella, "Old ye look at ber steovoe ? Chinese sillt.- 8d, a yara!" "It looked ell righl,” says Mrs. Clifford, wondering what Miss Kin- sella 10 goleg to 801' or ber dross at the next houee she goes to. "And Mrs. 1)e•60n-11100re '?" asks Ellaiy, Mischievously. "What did you think of her dress?" "Math, there was nothing to think of," seye Mies Kinsella prom- ptly. "1 couldn't set, it." "Oh! ilr, 'Miss ltinsella 1" says llitatr. "What an insinuation!" "I thought 5110 looked very pretty" her.DOW womiering bow to get rid of snys Mrs. Clifford vaguely, who is "So did Meejor Illnekburn, that big dragoon fre111 1110 barreeks. Me dear Mrs. Cliffotel, I must tell you," leaning forward, and lowering her to be told, in their languid state, voice, and giving a glance ovee her that that old gossip -monger Is wait- "h°ulders at th° (1°" to See tr 11 inth g to see erm seemm s ore than waS , 10 th.0,1,1-S` closed" "I'm the last can he endured. Mrs. Clifford stares 0"0 01 0 world to PIM 111100 anY at the cook. Oar, an YOU nnow, me dear. But I "Why on earth didn't yousuy Went into &Le of the conservatories, twoenree,111 heti ettx.s she, in all imto just to see if the Chinese lanterne were burning' all right, and sure onough, them she was, she an' the "I don't 1(1)010, ma'am. 1 didn't know *what you'd wish," Meejor, tookin' biggor than ;Men an' And of course she didn't , hone her hand elnspecl in his, behind her pressed into upstairs service for ±110 fan. 'nee, do say that is why she arst time. The parlor -maid had buys them big Inns; just to hide be - been in the lowest spirits since the hi"d with meOlbr"." (10 post nt eight o'clock mune in, and "11 11'1 ?ink there is any real had been quite incespable of doing ""t111 1"; d"," ""Y" 31"frs' who had inade several ineffectual at - anything ever since. The neves the tempts to 8101) this revelation, arid letter contained was that her aunt was a little bilious (the aunt. lived who is 11010 feeling )'OU. uncondort- in Tralee, and f;he had never seen 51311'' "1 410 afealil. M(" IC1""°11•"' nervously, We are keepingo sm- ker), and that there ;was to be a , very big "pattern" bold this even- 0116- "Nat at .a11, Not at all, Me dear. ing in her oWn place, about live miles The day is voting." from her present situation. (A "pattern" ineems a, dance 011 the highway where four roads meet, awl where the Pensunts congregate on stated occasions to foot it gayly to and fro, with the assistance of 00100 old piper -generally, and by prefer - Hilary, conies forward a step or Iwo. o "Did snu hear," says she impree- sively, "that Lady Poltou had a lit- tle dnugh I 00 last night ?" "Ne ? ye don't say so !" This is ence, blind.) ft had occurred, Miss Kinsella's formula. Bb e iises instantly. "Poor dear young urea- theretbre, to hesimple(1)111(1, r mple mind, that it she cried a gram deal over her tore, 1 must fly to her. Good -by. Good -by." She hurries away, all aunt, she might Mid a way to go and enjoy herself at the "pattern.d " """ sot, "Where• is Bridget ?" asks Maws ' 'Pilary." begins Mrs. Clifford, alluding* to the parlor -maid. "who told you? I thought it wasn't „she,e et,34r,g, ma'am. sho,s had expected until---" bad news, she says. "Bad news?" "About her taint, ma'am. She's very bad, she says." "011, rin seers- to hear that. And how is Bridget now?" "The same WaV, ma'am, Put she and I answered him. Called him eays she's sure her aunt is worse!" find that glass of water for the "I know," says Hilary, etopping in. 'Sir,' and got him the glass of wa- "Row ecie she know that?" asks feinting Swiss peasant, Hilary has e barely time to stand back Nom .11111,, ter, wheeoupon he kindly pressed Hilary. thmiddle of the pas de quatro she and give him a gloom that mar„ , this," holding up tbe memorabledon't know, miss. 1 "I " Mrs. Clifford, who has served a has been dcuming up and down the room with an lomat/min, partner. "I him that eternal infainy mo maod i florin, "into my hand 1" "Good gracious, what is to be :long appreticeship to Irish servants, thought it all out while that old hint if he now be* one word betrays her, when Mer is In their midst. done ?" says Diana. land who has beard or the. .,pattem ,, lady (VIS gossiping with you." 'knoW?"- t • Seeing e smart -looking maul (even "Yoe think 1 ought to return -it?" "rot( "Yes. I'll be your parlormoid for at. this hurried moment he notices Hilary mistakes her. "I shan't, that mbea.uty lies Nvithin her eyes") however. 1 01011 keep it as a pre- this occasion only." (To be Continued.) "Nobody told me," says Hilary, "1 morels- asked her if She had heard it, should have been summised 11 she had. Because certabag 1 hadn't. But she's gnne, anyway." "Thank Heaven!" Mrs. Clifford sinks iato a. seat. "What is to be done about Bridget?" rises abruptly, and. turns to Hilary. "Conn, let ns sec Miss Kinselle.. Let ns get it over," says she . To- gether they enter the drawingeroom, "Yoo're surprised to see me, enY dear." Old Miss Kinsella comes to Meet them with a beaming face. 'An' so early too. .But. you know that your Bridget's aunt ls also a cousin. of um charwoman, an' she says she is very bad to -day." '"She chttrwoionn ?'' "Oh; no. Miss 'Burroughs, dear-, your Bridget's aunt. And near with an empty ice plate in her hand, clos mile; but wasn't it a great that apparently she is just taking c ea o , give g • away from eumehody, he rushes Up to Di ? Wasn't it very extravngant ei Hilton', and says' in a. breathless him? Do you think it would be sare tone : to marry melt a spendthrift as he "A glass of water, please." has proved himself to be?" Hilary, after a second's shock, is "Oh. I'm nut thinking of that at equal to the occaSion. nil," snys Diann, in a voice of con "A glass of water, sir ?" guish. "And bew siou can make a, ' "Yes. And in it hinny, ine, good jest of it -I am only remembering girl." that 1 have asked him to lunch to - "Yon shall have it, sir." morrow, and that he is coming 1 , She goes over to the buffet, rao- cures the glass of Neater in question, and brings it back to Ker. "Oh, thanks. A thousand thanks" S1(1'5 he, in a herried tense Ile seizes the glass. stmemes a flor- in into Hilary's hand, and is gone, Hilary steads still for a moment, then subsides into the daele recess of a closet! doorway, her brother-in-law following her. "A Mee beginning," says he wrath- fully. "How do you think you are . going to meet him after this?" "He won't remember," says Hil- ary. "Won't ho? Don't you think sotnebods• will tell him?" "Tell hint what ?" When he sees you -- "Sees me 1 Never 1" cries Hilary, now thoroughly frightened. "Do you think I would face after this ? What on earth did you ask him for?" "WM-, for you!" says Diana in her solemn way. "Then it is useless. Nothing in the world would toMpt me to meet him to -morrow." "But you will home to see him sooner or later." "'Then it shall be later, When ho has forgotten all about -the glass of water.' "Taht wouldn't take hint long," says Clifford. "I expect it has fad- ed rom his memory by this; what he may remember is," with evidently "That you were dressed as a par- gloomy forebodings es to the mis- lormaicl tonight ? And when he sees artiness of Kees disposition, "the you, as he must, doo't you think he loss of his two -shilling 1)1e11e1"- will ptrt two and two together ?" "Nonsense ! I son't believe he'd "Perhaps be has no bead tor meth- ever think of that again," SEWS emetics," says litlarn, but 0'011 she feels that this is frivolous. However, the discussion is brought to an end suddenly by Diana, who comes clown the stairs to them with Peter Kinsella., and having dismissed that florid s•ounts Romeo, warns ere- that if they don't go home at once they will probably. be mixed up with the rank and file at the end. Diana, who is highly incensed with her husband for even pretending to show up Kee to Illlory in a. mercen- ; ary light; girls aro so troublesome I sometimes over the vaguest things. "That's Nehnt I toms" says Hilary, wli Is rather enjoy•Ing herself. "1 told you I thought hini a born spend thrift." "Wen," says Diana lieleny, "I'd RCANY RUSSIANS IIANG-D. Alarming Story Published by Lon- don Newspaper. The London Standard publisbes a at,,„ despatch from a Russian correspond - that she wants Bridget very ent, 111 Nelson) the paper says it plac- and I knew you would want, 'Bridget vero little to -day, being so es greet conficleoce, containing' inset "I think that is why WO should sensation:a statements regarding. the want her." says 'Hilary, turning to, alarineige conditioe of llossia as the the old "busybody thankless," with outcome of tbe war. The correspond- s rather severe air, ent asserts that disturbances in var- "But when her aunt is dying, says toes cities have been followed by Miss 'Kinsella, her old maid's curls wholesale executions without ally aim swaying backward and forward in aa 11 trial. It is stated that 600 per - aligns* ft-101ton, Her face takes a. sons nave been hanged 10 Warsaw lugubsious tern, "And W11011 yoti alone, and that Many others have have two other servants too, and been hanged in Cronstadt and Mos - when death is itt question---" !row. At the latter place the troops mrha cook and the nursery -maid buried eighty ootilins, containing tho hardly count," sa.e•s Mts. Clifford, *bodies or those who have been hong- "and, as a fact, I want 0 parlor-' ed. The bodice were burled secretly, maid very much to -clay. X have in the dead of night, presumably in People to luncheon," the woods. . "No, ye don't say so 1" seem Miss The Standard, in nn editorial, says Minsella, leaning forward, all de- it Oublishes this correspondent's light and anxiety, 8110 has forgot- ;statement uncler an reserve, but it ten her present crusade in her borne thinks there are many indications, they?" I the battleship Olio', that the normal as the sinking of ing desire for gOnlilp• "21111 10110 111D ;seen, far instance, ''11 doesn't matter." soys Diana !disaffection of the population or Rus - calmly. "What does matter is the Isia has born greatly Stimulated by going of Bridget." "I should think," 5113'S 11.055 the war. sella, enraged ut the refusal to grat- ify her cariosity, "that 0 luncheon party should not count with the dy- A FEW DAINTY SALADS. Nut Salad in Tomato Baskets - Scoop out the centres of os many to - 11,040110 as required, mid fill with: a mixture of celery. (cliopped lino with a few ollene), nnel whole pecan and English walnut meats. Place a small outottity of CrOLLII1 or mayon- naise dressing on 'the Op of eacli bamSet, or mix with the sated before putting' it In them. Sweetin•ead Salad -Chop boiled will not lose her way there, and go sweet -breads end mix. with inayon- "Oh I Mrs, Clifford, me 11,101', 10(1 &posing. Serve on a 11001 of Nve watercress and garnish with water shouldn't misjudge the poor. Of coot,et, know Halo about raw," et("ib'hoon.0,)pen blossoms with the . . . %,v nia art 4 if iseases Which Torture Children are Soon Entirely Cured lay the Use of DR CHASE'S OINTMENT 0 . . 51r. Wto. Rig:noes, farnier, Arts lemest, Out., states:- "1 Iluel that De, these's Ointitieet is t.O• hest thing 1 ever Awed for chiding, itching . . . skin anti berme anti nOren Or D1 1 1:111.18. "Volt 'have got .7$1.1., pot0e, . you ready to arrYO 0111 n tart apples into It heats them. ilp very coaeltly, and Itnt 0," small penes, Milt 11.11 together end 1. Hull. 101) 11 nig8 irom 00111' to ton 111.r 1)("0 1, 6110p, whore a larger pair T believe. Unit there is uti better -Men, t hetes me deer," earn the Odd falilie10111 mayonnalin to inoieten. months old, renreSenting tho enehnis eine botight. When the happy bride ,ohytilient to he obtuineti thee De, old leniti, brightening. "And it Over thia mixitire polo* a gill of elal•- Iti'00,16 of Mint', 1111 acre or rain, and groom knelt at tbe altar -loam 11 111:1011L:11110, prO Orrly gro 11 11 , ha a 0, froding govral titter paonad tlirounit thy Chan:05. We have Mend IL Means- ;oust be confeseed hs, al1 thuL rne et. Serve cold. when combineel yeah a ration assemblage, for 011 mum or the Roles alile end always teem it in th, nephew, Pet het. liinseilm is n host, 'Bean Halad,•-Sonl; lime berms over of norn told short, equivnlent lei 2,- of the new boots, turned oil to s i w hoese." in Itheeelf, tita even Pether srt:,,s I; night and rook in plenty of salted quedin,011 w 1 i 1± the theri es or Or, day,' he nays to nie. A a" surely, broken . 'Pour off the water, let the sip .0 pot, acre,. mail guile teiider, 1;111 not l' 1)1(14 nuyll'110.anlylilx0111.1:vre. t..).frcittetheiti)er was inorrthethm eitt,chitt-a to ,03.0,111 , . Any mether who men becomes ne- know nothing. '1'4) ('('0 hot 'LW to- Water l'enn•-•1111., Slownine is seeli an ex- Chnse's Ointment would not think. of Mrs. Clifford, tharr 71 Mont 01(1110 Or- Doe110 e(1111 011(1 14101111 OWer them it ' ..," e e Snort vane ifi n betier rm T11 feed being m,1(110111, it in te,, 1,,,,,s,,, mime, dinme. imeari. io melee to me, who generoue einount of French deesnings . , ., ' , ' ' enable individual SO eriervericent: as 101 glowing lags lime n meet eldver , I. ' there in a baby or tunial elaitieen it aid 0111; 0' lee le'd 10; seven (Marl) m . . is of deity 1. 111110 1111 a 711onan of ern, •••••., -.mr.-..•••••••••••••‘,...... ing elan irrit at lonit mei orap1 1011S• C111011114 L11111 all SON% et barns end Ilepecially during the teething per- iod, children are subject to nezenia, Heald hetta and variouS 10001 of side dISeaSe, Whirl) cause the keenest, stir - tering to themeelves, as well as aox- iety to their parents. 'Mere iS no troatnient so suecerscul ete Dr, Cbase's Ointment, mid os (nee tuna, always tends to become chineic aud last tot' years, prompt cure is of the ittmotet innimetance, Mr. 0. Wiley, who is employed as cooper bg the Menerely et. Davis Mill- ing Conmany, Lindsay, Ont., states: "I used Inn Chase's Ointment for 01:10111a on my little. girl some few years ego, and seen brought ntiout a thorough end permanent cui.e, Sho had suffeend for considerable I }Me, and though We tried a great many remedies, 11r. Cliatiens Ointment wns the only. nreparation to peeve en fectlin, (lomat epeak too hlg,hly 01 Cnase's Othtment, ste 0; era,' (Only effected a pronipt and pernoun mit cure in 11115 egee.". ing or an oneestral rehalve 1'' Fate doesn't know herself what this menus, but it Sounds splendid. "When yienn dying, we don't thinle of nineheons," snys she. which certainly IS en 111ContrOVertibk fart. "Well, but you See We're not sly- ing,'' semi Tillman "Oi course 3/ thddnel.'s aunt is dy- ing," sae.s Mts. Clifford, "she must go .to her. 140111Wer, I hope she CVIGOSSOZSGAA ON THE FARM. Qt1 UNI ZOGSMZO IMPOIETANCail OM 00.0 TILLAGE,„ Prudent nion, in the light of the Most recent knowledge wo have of soil eanclitions arid performances, clo not commit themselves into saying thin Or this is true of tees sit, 01111 this is the late, writes SY, le, Me- Sparrao. They have come to re- gard the bolds they plow, tilt anti plant as great books with many un- cut follos. We min peep in, hero and there catch a Word or it phrstee, and Mahe What WO 1111111i pretty intelligent guesses, but he W110 Say8 he has read it all and understands it, even to tho digesting of its laws, gives good eyidenee of trespassing "Where an- gels fear to tread." But we are sure that if we want to receive all the advantages from the work of them unseen frietuls of the soil we must surround them with conclitioas. We know the former who is exhausting the humus from his son so that hardness and coin- No one shoutcl ever plant a field or pactnees result; so the water -holding ootatoes without, lirst soaking the seed 1110 e01TOSPre sublimate solu- tion (2 ounces of corrosive sublimate to 11(3 001101,0 of water), elven if the need appears perfectly free or every traee of scab, soale it, ne the germs of ;tent) may be elieging to the skin of the tuber. 'Pile expense is 510011 and the remedy mire. if the trettled seed is planted upon. lend Mee from the germs of the seal). Bordeaux miSturc, is just. as sure O romerly against blight as the ear- rosive sublimate egainst scats But one thing must be remembered, and that is, it is not. tt. cure but 0 pre- ventative. In using it gots must commence early and apply it as of- ten. as necessary to keep every leaf coated with ad armor plate of e0p- per. Then. the germs of the dread- ed blight wilt riot be able to mail entrance. Don't apply it once or twice and think that will do, as you will he very likely to lose entirely the labor expended in the first appli- cation. 11 you lake up the battle emu must keep it up until the season is over, or your labor may be in vain. In a wet season you. mas" have to go over your neld as often as once a Week, or even oftener. The only safe way is to keep that armor plate solid, or the little foe may' en- ter. lu an ordinary season four or five applications give very satisfac- tory results. Bordeaux mixture con- sists of 6e pounds of sulphates of copper (blue stone), Ein pounds 01 loitnigiehl3andm 11111(001. 2edatillons of water, thor- ---+---. SORTING DIABIONDS. It was formerly necessary to go carefully over tlio earth containing diamonds, to pick out the garnets and other foreign substenees, until nothing remained but the rough dia- monds. This is a slow arid labor- ious operation, but it has been an essonthil part of the mining inclestry until it, was superseded by a recent discovery. One day a young sorter mune 111.1011 it by thence, A rough diamond. aucl a garnet happened to be lying OD a 81111111 board on the rage rams whop planted 111 drills thirty inches :Tart, early in Mity, will ;yield three good mops of pas- ture forage in IL 111V01.111/10 Fx?0800, 5. That rime is the most tio.tisfac- Wm, and cheapest, 1100011 feed for swine that WO 111100 10•1• (3. Thal, every feeder of hogs in Wisconsin should plant each Riming a small field of rum) atijoiehig 11111 yard, and provide himself with a few yarde of me -textile loran, to properly food tho rime to brood n01118 1.111d young pigs, 7. That rope sinned Ise 501111 for Ibis purpose in Ovine thirty inches MING 'WOW'S MONEY r•••••••.• ZITLBTINMIAX YITIDTT TURN'S OUT MILLIONS. • A Private Firm net Malcom Zone ey for a Great Mehy Countries, In 110 l'enpeet is Birmingham mom cosmopolitan than in its supply of coin, Money ean be had by allybody, in any quantity -for consideration, Thu Dirminglinin Mint, thongh it o port to toolitto,t, tit>, stirring, ot turns out. of English coins, 4(1>' emend and mat i vat Ion an et. ends is not a, Government establiehment, pro„th hos been moon ats. and in the way of supplying the (gem rape mistime until. the 8, The liege should not he tinned moues probably done snore than any money - 'needful" to foreign Governments has nro nt leust twelve to fourteen inches malting* establishment in the world. vented Mena rooting whilo in 13y this impartial distribution of wealth Messrs. Italph Beaton and high, and that ther should ho rape field, Sons have built up a splendid and 0. That rape te not a sittisfactore- nrontable business. reed when feel alene, whey it. is de- A few dam; ago the limn slapped street to have any fleeweight gain the nest instalment or a nuge Iegym, made in hogs, though it bes been teen order for ton million piastres. Mined that they W111 1,451 ab011t Tho consignment weighed live tons, maintain themselves without loss of and was conveyed In some (30 eases'. weight on this feed ramie. In the old piracy flays a ship C011. tabling among its curgo coins valued leitieVENTTON OF 1?0TATO DIS- at .C8,000,000 would have been a IeASES. prize worth having, and would not have passed unchallenged, In those piping times of peace the vesesel trips oir to Alexandra without inolesta- Hon. It is noteworthy that this valuable order Wan 10011 ill open cons - Petition against Vfenna and Berlin, and other sludiar orders are likely to follow. 1.1K0131101.7S DEMAND. capacity of the soil Is reduced, the air not admitted and conditions of warmth destroyed. IS 17•04 encoUrng- ing the development of nature's means of replenishing the plant food So Is exhausting. The bettor farmer is he who never loses sight of the importance of :moping the mechanical condition of his land up to the standard or good CrOp prodeet 1011. 1.1ef Ore We knew there were such things in the world as bacteria, the good femme know the importance of keeping his land in good "heart," or saving manure, plowing in vegetable mutter, grow- ing clover and thoroughness or til- lage. Tho land that is well filled with humis is in tho best conditinn for absorbing moisture and holding it in a state of capillarity. This soil condition Is also most favorable to the admission and occupation; of air, and consepuently n'arnith Well; so that while we may not say that soil moisture is of first coesteleration in the life of soil organism, it appears to DO of soon importmeee that if we have made its coliditioes favorable we have done the best also in the way of supplying food, warmth and air as needed. PLANTS USE MOISTURE rather than wator, if We MaY note tho distinction. Humana water, or that. which moves rapidly, is of lit- tle use to them. in their growth, while standing water is death to them. The kind that is useful aad indispensable to them is that which is held In the soil by adhesion, till- ing the spo.ces between the soil par- ticles and passing thence into the structure of the plant. This mois• ture is supplied to the growing idant very 11111011 more from the stored sup- ply, from which, it arises be• capillar- ity than from the current, crop - growing rainfall. Of course the summer rains are 1.1Sefel ill washing the foliage of trees and plants, anel as it siuks into the earth, contributing to the moisture held there and thus relieving tbe de- mands made on the stores of the water level, and often no doubt rats- bench where ho was working, He Ina this level by considerable addi- raised encl of the board. The tions, yet when we consider the tre- mendous consumption of water used by plants in their growing season -- the quick -growing plants using as much as 600 pounds to produce ono pound of dry matter, we male to a. realization of how inadequote nn or- dinary rainfall is to supply this de - meted and how important it is that we use evevy means in our power to avoid waste of the stored simply up- on which: We are depending. As is well 1111101M the water is brought up through the soil by capil- lary action. II the soil is occupied by plant roots they uso what part of the moisture they mny raul evap- orate it from their leaves into tho could not be imagined. The entire work ie now dope by anochinery. garnet slippod off, but the diamond remained. nie found that there was O coating of greese on the board, which had retained the diamond, while the garnet slipped off. Ile procured a wider board, coated one stele of it with grease, and dumped a, few handfuls of diamond-oarth on it. Then he found that by holding the board in a slightly Inclined posi- tion and vibrating it all tho mater- ial except the diamonds moved to tho lower end and fell off, while the diamonds remained in place. Then he invented a machine by which his discovery might be etilised. A more simple and complete device for sav- ing time, labor arid loss of diamonds atmosphere, but the roots do oot -use n.11 that: comes 115 to them and what they tlo not 1.150 is monied to the surface and is absorbed by the atmosphere, tho earth's supply beteg used .without having udded to plant wealth M passing. When the soil is left undisturbed foe any' considerable time mauler water courses aro established for the ,Lnd, 11110 not willing to pay the price, moisture in its passage to the at- 1 though it really costs nothing. When mospliene. 111071 falls 111 110 usually wants to These courses are damned by stir -1 get something to "patch him op," so Oita he can continue. the foolish things which Man caused bis bad condition; hence the almost untversal resort to drug Lineament instead of the aaturof omens of restoring and maintaining health and strength. If a mart is really" desirious of being nattivally sound and healthy, lie w111 ti•s, to think out the means of be- rennieg so, These means tiro all 111- 11.APB I,1)11 PIGS. eluded in am eeven fundamental men- , eiples al practice' hygiente-immels, 1Vbilo this forage 43001) is relished eserciee, rest, alr, light, food, drink, by all clasene of live stock as 0 rules end bathing. THEY GRUDGE GOOD HEALTH. Theoeetically, evory adult person of tom intelligence wishes to be strong and healthy. Practicelly, a major- ity of them wish nothing of the sort. They would liko to lie well enough, ring the sevrace nnd breaking the crust that forms, 'Phis is ono of the important oil -lees of summer cultiva- tion. This is conserving. moisture, Mitch means Dot only Mopping the atmompherie loss of it, but by hold- ing it in tho growinee crops' root terrifoey to be at hand abundantly as needed. For 0000 0 coistury Blraning- ham has taken a lead in this literal kind of money -making. As far beak 118 1787 tho famous Matthew Bout - tort coined under contract for the British Government at, aboitt £800,- 000, and "Brummagem halfpence" were in the early part of hist century almost as widely Mined as "Birming- ham jewelry." The Soho Mint, run by Poulton and Watt, wes completely wiped out in 1857, and wee replaced by the present: 1110e1) 1110r0 extensive establishment, and for many years afterwards this was the only mint in England except the Royal Mint in London, Further enlargements be- canie necessary to meet the enormous home altd foreign demands, end among tho countries and Clovern- ments which have come time after time to Birmingham for their money am India, Tunis, (Meade, Turkey. China, Hong Kong, Hayti, Sarawak, Tusea.ny, Venezuela, end Chili. CHINESE ORDIett. pigs and sheep 60001 to do better on t lois et e e it ,, kinds or stock. It, is It wait his wedding -day, Iltgliunt mints of the ttotIc nem. e 1 a a 0 borhoo (m.1 "at, hithoguegh°1iongg 01)))0(',..1,.> ti•0‘1", nerig1111-, 11110'.11171111;11 1111V, ailtitlalst, raloati,aa,•1-aS'iltihellhollahltIgd i il.tOonli,114111h0r1111t-o'vr the horse, with its in the newest or outfits, ho (darted In Birmingham, Ismge numbers of water, odd wino InaCO and a ba11r 8111 4)11 01011111e11, and it taints tho for the church, aCcomPailied by his eetntrles who lmtv Mint, 11101r OW11. ' great or -simple, that she doesn't leaf, with a few ellces or celery, beil milk of cows pastured on 11. Ex- best man. But his than: ,hoes hurt jean still coining in the great hard- . Snow). 'Mein' only' a poor, dosolato till tender, drain and when cool eat PO1'11110111 8 W11 11 the (11, 1/ al, 1)10 Win- Ms pet Cern, and 1)2 100ked an thongli ware centre for their tools, lnor many ole maid," . , ooh 1 not eo desolate, miss /gingen_ them into mites. Preparo an equal eonsin EXPerlinent illation to test. ,he would have to hobble up the years :Matthew 11010ton end Samos The host linen etin•e 10 the r0E- Wei 1 had a complete monopole. bit the e . .. 1.1.111(11', 101411lid Irony. cortoun 1 of tel Mod celery, arid when Ile 'maim ler pigs, gave tho 1011010111(0 , aisle, romils; cue by 00rOrLing him 10 0. redelaior- production or tills kinci of mn0hinery. ' In some instances, notably that of China, the coins were not made in Birmingham. As a matter of fact, no Chinese coin has, so far as is known, ever been made outside the Celestial Empire, The pride and pre - indite or the Chinese hal to be hum- ored, so the firm sent outs a complete plant with men to operateSit, and tho coins were struck in Oldna. No few- er than. eight separate Monts havo been sent out to Chino' in this way. The same thinly -seas done in Milan in 1862 for the new kingdom of Italy. settee 1,600 tons of "blauks" being slapped to funnish the raW material, Again, in Marseilles, whea die re-os- tablishment of' the Empire under Noe Poloon EL rendered neceseary a now tal were 111 this y 'ay turned into mon- copper coinage, lime 750 tons or me- ey Iseeneh stun. 'The total value of these two deecriptions of coin example, In 1850,), t)Zesiel,:act,de tho IatPaPlir nx n:waSatTle. 11:101 C:kmaLlen I 0101 1i0e7±:t10808:steclitiNtnewtgresro- visional Governmelin, Grave mess; tllOir and these coine WO 1 minod to replace te 0)511, copper coinage bs• ce Birminglmen Mint. were the arms of the I &Ma, with the legeno, Much of the WM* &Me bY .9.1r is of great bistorecal intfigistft4'.pt'rto_toe and ot,tatolrerii.ie.1c den, a "Vittorio IninanuelloToTes: \in 'vie with tlio value and the, date's, soh. centre. When Tuscany' becametrt itI Jett to Victor Eminaeuel, as Ikeper._ United Italy, this coinage was ts, seded by that of the new King', I Me ed in Milan an described above. 1868 the :Italian tlosewninent order' nye million 11,4 tn pieces -or ten 1210108, (1114 and in coesideration of the 0),. °client manner in n'hich these and other coinages were executed Ms Majesty King Victor Eiranneuel con- ferred the honor or knighthood on the firm, MAKING MINTS. • A great part of the coins Welled out have been made of nickel, ,00 al- ley consisting of 20 per cent, of Melee al to 80 per cent. ol (01:111011. 01' thin deincl of 00111 SPrVin, some yOl1111 ago purnehsed 75 tons, other elistomer5 being the ltepublie of Ecuador and Colombia. Bub the actual rocondnethre of 00111n by no mane represents 'Ilirmiegiume's entire share in the production of the world's small change. The vast bOlk 01 the presses ront tliee in the , -, pat.,1 tiro, the oigS fed ape» -the rime i 1.,1" ''.,vr"..1tv83-1 ',hot" think :1'01M usury tumuli:I,' 0' 1110 WO. .13et ' • 111111111; made 00 1 he a 1. or a c e "I 110 ' '''' ' ''' Int P"80n il) 41,' "wld f;t1 that's Ivhat he'r, tilways tellin' ine, lemotts 0,. gain onisou", iv„, rail bira "arvorVonc,h1.'' Tilts -1111y? YoU're hut 'up I 0-11.1,y` be sines. I re Soree, • suppose it hen 1101110 711(11111 1/1', lit IL 9 , r;P„V81,72,gr gynin than :was tegiiirect by the pigs " f`:" You 't micoadvd (Or aul &rouge nut* fur veel, yed ilorm elcii•cr 1,0t,lvrr, hin'ira'.' hull "roll,' Chnee's Ointment, en eons n faiih I eon.; Slid it I ; out." aaa rAarVanen Mif box; at nil &Tore, or Tdnionvon, Ilats Compansi, 'formic, To pro - y, hraOve, tett e-011 agit1nSt11)1110101,1,, 11,'trait end )(191)41t)(11' Or 1W, A, Chase,. the famous reeeipt boo', an- ther, are on every 1,,»:, Toryte11,1111„tghmitone.. 1 be6)ie1(rloi1e4'e111i11e1e1, a1 1pv oni, 11(.sl 1 ocl(ecare init1 ,,,,.0,.,i- 1r1"N41•11'1"("i1-"AO '411111))0)')(.011)0 10 1)1(111,',!00110N 101110re14011e. .its minuted(10110hew)rerenteedtt.inydtee nit Is Meng," roes she. me eineneennos n Me tnily erne mot ek somese, poielingistereotee team, e ; ,,e Nom li ned t e• eels rel. the eel le 1., :ltt s, newly- expresedme ') on emit 1 e 1 7, 410)- 1fl' 1'),(imp,' iii, ii,ei.a, is the word. lnhoi't sneO essl/ il'Evtiee e:!flyWs gtondnlirpoid od011W Mgiri 1a 1 in i„avlon ne1..„ ,1 ur111 r„10„,,,..;8•r•/1-1'oes,0?, (1100r, .1'011 a 1'")1•,1):.,c...1.j1i, l•,i1,1 11n it)t I TM ento youAnd cizigiv,71pxak,,%tzCOloit1lion with their groin 1 111 than \Oen II1e11;.4o111011m(:efg youthiult,"alaiaNiewtochaging,M6TIMa platof Dem finse.er11t.1.010r.,,5ii, , CAPACITY 11e The productive ceeadty of the hig Mallon factory enormous, nnti on nemerotte ()evasions as rattily 1114 11 1111111011 401111 3)11(1 been turmer out, packed, and despots:bed in a shigle etriy, Lever'e ,Dry Soap (n, poweer) • to wash \wisdom and iinonelee- 111:0 11, Tramp No, 1 ,-"De you I now, that old :Meer whet has jusl. gone 01) the 61r111; 'end tne inn pudlnee to tell ine thees if s 110111.ct, spent my mones' tor beer 1 might oYenim a brielt: 110115e?" 'Prelim No. 11-"Wlint did you nigiS" Tr/Ohj'y No, 1-"1 venancled bint with greet sa cestlenoSS that yer meet, ?viol' botiOeSt't '