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OR, THE RESULT OF A
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'Thank Ilea von !" sits s her.
'For what?" quest ions Hilary,
wl 0 1a not feeling as sympathetic: as
us 'al.
Tor—" He checks himself abrupt-
ly. "Because we are once • more
alone,"
"You must he tired," .says she'
sweetly. "Po 3 o really wart to
talk'? Am I boring you? You have •
had a long journey, 1 k0ow---"
"What nonsense!" says he. "As If
1 should mind a few utiles by train."
He has not altogether understood
her. "Will you sit down ]sere until
the next dance begins'?"
"It must be almost due now. and
you have Promised it to Mrs. 1';'st.u-
Moore. "•
"So 7 have." Iic would have add- 1
rd "worse luck," but civilization 1
pros ents hint. "Still there is a;
minute or two left."
She nukes no answer to this, and
the silence growing a little opt rt's-
sive, he breaks fresh grouts'.
"lTow fond you all seem to le of
fancy halls down here!"
"Not always! But once a thing
is started, you know what a tun
lists always is on it. It becomes
an epidemic. It is worse tutu11 the
measles. It catches all the uotm-
ly!"
"We are certainly of the monkey
tribe, Such imitative animals! But
fancy-dress bails—they Hurst be such
a worry!"
"Not greater than others. Look
at red hair. Let one woman preach:
a crusade ou the becomingness of it,
and all other women will dye their
hair like mac. That must be a far
greater worry than giving a fancy
ball. Because, at all events, the
tatter permits us—at least some of
the fortunate ones of us—to show
ourselves at our best for once in our
!ICCs,"
"Ah! you can speak!" says he.
"being one of the fortunate ones."
It is very ready and very delIght-
ful, of course. But to Bilary, in
Icer present mood, it savors too
much of the man of the world, of
the word in season—of, in effect, hy-
pocrisy.
"I wasn't thinking of myself,"
says slu„ quite calmly. "I apt, of
course, quits out of it. I should
have lilted to array myself in gor-
geous apparel,"—here she smiles—
"but I nadn't 111. penny to do it with.
I was thinking of Mrs. 1)yson-
htoore."
"It was very good of you," says
Ker.
11 is manner conveys to her the be-
lief that he thinks it very good of
her to waste a thought upon her at
nil, but this docs not satisfy Hilary.
Why .didn't the say it?
"t'roed of ate?" says she; a sudden
desire to make him speak has driven
her to this direct question.
"Yes. Why should you? Others
will no doubt take that task out of
your hands. Many others."
Ile laughs, and a vision of Mrs.
Dyson -;\!not'e's very short skirts
conies Once again before Ililary's
eyes. Is he laughing at her ? Sho
turns her eyes soddenly on his.
"Are you a friend of loess?" asks
she,
"A friend? An acquaintance ra-
ther, end," nleaningly, a guest,"
"Ah, I sec! Your lips are sealed,"
"They would be certainly if there
was any cause for sealing," Ile
smiles and giles himself a slight
shake. "Nave we not had enough
of 'leel'y' for - one evening?" asks he,
with a lather comic smile.
"1 don't See how I have been fool-
ish,' returns she, 10111011s. nlisundcr-
110nrling him. She gives him a M-
ile return smile, however, as she
103s it, which betrays her knowledge
if his meaning, and at once he feels
that "peace with honor" hes, for
the moment at all events, been re -
'tared.
'you foolish! Never!'' says be.
"Not cyan—•when-1—"
"Not even tlheu. One can forgive
you for keeping up the masquerade
under our—peculiar cit'cumstances."
TTo regards her steadily, an if wish-
ing her to understand that there is
11115111 Plg in his-. words—a desire to
approach the delicate subject of the
will. Miters colors Wetly, and
trifles witlt the corner of her apron.
•'I suppose you wanted to study
me?" says he. a lit tie daringly.
"Ah! That was whet was so un-
fair. I know it now, Why should
1 study you when your hand 11u op-
portunity of studying me?"
"Yet 1 had. I had," says Tier
11x1313. Ile toughs as if remember -
Ing.
''Hut not as if you saw ole as my
proper self."
"Y„>lt'—other self teas not to be
desp!s.•11. And how do you look when
you are your prober self'?'• -
"As 1 look now, of course." •
"]Chat! Do sou always go about
in a cap and nprun7•,
"Oh, uunsense!" here they both
laugh a lit lie.• "You see f have the
advent nes.. 1' have scent you twice
in ordinary cluhhes, whereas you
have never seen me except in this."
She tltrlis out a fold of her gown.
•'This' is very becoming," says
he.
! "I don't know what elso you could
0113'. I1111 sure," disconsolately. "And
I 017'1 help thinking lbat I
shouldn't have done it. Diana was
very angry with me."
h you did sass
"
"111my0ryg1cl3o r
lser,
u earnestness. less. "I t
with sudden til
has mode us friends mucin more
quickly. It has taken the chill out
of our Introduction. Don't you see?"
"Yes, perhaps so." She has seat-
ed -herself in one of the chap's, and
now leans forward to speak to him
more earnestly,
She had so arranged her house-
maid's gown as to have the sleeves
tucked up to the shoulder, as though
about to go in at once for n. severe
scrubbing match. This lets her love-
ly naked arms be seers in all their
Nullity. the rests them on her
knees now and looks up at tier.
"Do you know I never ]snow what
to say to a partner whoa first intro-
duced to hips?"
"I remember what you 'first said
to ore."
"So do 1, It was 'forgive me.' "
"No. it wasn"t: It was ':1 glass
of grater, sir?"
Hilary blushes hotly. "That was
not an introduction at all,"
"And was the other?"
"No. After all" with a little
embarrassed laugh, 'I don't think
you have ever been introduced to
me."
"We must get your sister to do it
• to -morrow. I only cull to -morrow?"
"I hope you 10111 conte to luncheon,
Diana will be very glad to see you."
"And you?"
"I shall he very glad, too,"
suppose Diana
"Thank you. I s Ppo e
!wouldn't allow me to be butler to-
morrow?
"Certainly not," laughing and
.looking little confused.
0o g a
"I'll ask her, however, It would
' do me good to wait ou you this
tire,''
She is looking lovely with this neve
'earnestness within her shining eyes,
•es,
!with this soft touch of shyness on
her beautiful lips,
Hilary lifts her eyes to bis,
"I wish," begins she. "lir. Iter, I
wish you would forget all about that
stupid prank of mise."
Iter drops into the chair beside
her.
"I'11 do anything you wish," say's
he in n low tone, "If you will call
me—Fred."
"Fred! is that your name? Oh! I
couldn't call you—Fred. 7t would be
impossible." She rises quickly to
her feet. "Why, it is Only a week
ago since I saw you."
"What has that got to do with
it?" 170 too has risen. "Why
can't you, of all people, cull me by
my name? You !night remember
that I alts 3.0110--"
ITo pausc.5—l>l11'p0sely perhaps. Hil-
ary grows crimson. What is he go-
ing to soy?
Pty? My?" stammers she. Her
glance has grown cold. She is in-
tensely angry with him, partly be-
cause of hor unlucky blush, partly
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From every part of this broad land I
come letters of recommendation for
1)c. Chase's Kidney -Liver 1-'111s.
They 50011 to be well 517110d to
illy needs of many people, who ob-
tain no benefit from ordinary kidney
medicines.
When you wait to think of the
hosts of cures they are making it is
n1'') wonder they have sticlt an 0nortn-
o'is sale.
71138. Caswell Reid, Orrvillc, Mus—
telco, Ont., writes:—"For I100i'ly
twenty years i was 1101(11led with
kidney disease and have recently
been completely cured by using three
boxes of Ih•, Ohaso's Kidney -Liver
f111s. X have tried a great many
remedies, but never seamed 10 get
anything to do me (11uc11 good until
I used those pills,"
Mr. John Gearin, an old ,esldent
et There'd, Ont., states: --"For twen-
ty years';f"waS badly afflicted with
kidney troubles, Indigestion and
bladder derengoineet5, I)ur'ing that
beca1110 he has born the rtuthor of
it,
"Your—cousin," mowers Ker sofl-
T ber been of Say
Sal-
ly. If had b u g uy to
something 11, clsr, 11• • sudden touch
of
hnlitel11' has prevented 11411,
!ho next deuce Is beginning,''
sass !Hilary, still with her planner
distinctly changed. "itlrs. Dyson -
Moose', will he waiting for you." :the
loaves toward the doer of the ball-
ruanl. hoe follows her.
"You will give me 1(11Olhel' l>1101'
on?"
"1 'ant afraid not. My card is
,mite full."
"Then, till to -morrow," says lie,
indifferently as it seems to her.
"I shall telt Diana you are come
hog."
"1)111' 4111100, Miss Plut'rougll:s,"
says a gay ITussa' at this moment.
CRAFTIER. XIII,
"000x1 heavens, Ililary! hero's
Bliss 1(1s oh1al" says Dillon, ill the
hurried, subdued voice WO all know,
when tlestcuctiou is descending Upon
ns. She pounces upon her work—a
frock for the youngest darling—and
makes a rapid llig'ht from the win-
dow where she has been sitting, into
the Middle of the ra0111. It is 11101'0
Et movement of impulse than tny-
thing else,
'"Mat means two hours!" sass
3111111 tragicalh, stopping short in
her tu'rangement of the flowers in
the v(Ises,
"And he is coming at one. You
told hila the hour."
"Ile Ig1o135 it. I say, Di," with a
sudden gleam of hope, "let us x113'
we tire nllt,"
"Too late, I saw her, and she saw
me, as she came ftp the avenue."
Hilary falls back in her chair.
At this 11101110111 a loud rat -a -tat -
tut is heard at the hall hoer.
"I Suppose there is 110 safe and
sure way of murdering any one?"
says Pillars' gloonl117. ••'•
Here thedemis thrown o
Pon,
gne!
1
Bliss Kinsella enters, with all the
signs of storm about her, followed,
by Clifford, who had met her just
outside,
"I ca110 lit t11115 early, me, dear
Mrs. Clifford," cries the old maid,
"because I felt I must speak to yel"
Ililary's heart stands still for a
110110111. IS it anything about Tier?
About that luncheon—or tier?
"About what, Miss Ilinsella?"
asks Diana anxiously.
"Why, about Pettier!"
Hilary's heart gives a great re-
bound. She comes quickly forward.
She .takes old Miss Kinsella's hand,
and Positively beams upon her, to
Diana's intense astonishment.
"Toll us!" cries 1Tilary.
"Well, Pother—ye know me nephew,
Pother Kinsella—ye saw him last
night? eh! yo did now, didn't ye'?"
'Diana, I hope you will be able
to say yes to that, ' says Clifford
solemnly. "This, .I must inform
you, is a most important case."
"Yes, yes, of course we saw 11in1,"
says Hilary enthusiastically. She is
feeling so obliged to this old bore.
"Ho was a sort, of Scot, wosa t he?"
"A Highland chieftain," says Clif-
ford, correcting her severely. "0f
the very first water!"
"Ye'ro right! Ye're rights" cries
old Miss Kinsella, her curls vibrat-
ing witli excitement. "A Highland
chief lie was, 1111' 101'0137 lie looked -!
I couldn't take mo eyes off'him all
night. A matcher, me dear, that
made him a thrifle Brad, You know
he will !tate his flirtatious ways
Solltet 11(108!"
"We knowl we known" says Clif-
ford sadly.
"Flirtations, but not indecent,"
says Miss Kinsella, blushing a bright
orange. "Well, an' what will you
think, me dear Mrs. Clifford, when I
tell ye that they put him down in
tho list of characters for Mrs. Mc-
Intyt'c's fancy-dress hall, as—"
Ilene she breaks down, and dissolves
into tears.
"Oh! Mies Kinsella, what is it?"
asks Diana tenderly. "There now,
don't distress yourself."
"I Must begin at the beginning, inc
dear, if I'm to make you understand
it. When ole nephew, Pother Kinsel-
la, arrived at the hall door, that
jackanapes of a footman they have
10(15 standing just inside it, with a
pencil and paper in his hand, an' had
the impudence to ask Pottier about
his characthee!"
"11is character?"
"Yes, me clear. Iris chnractlier I
An' you all know what me Nephew
Wether is 1 A rog'Ine snewdliropt"
' Bore elm pauses to wipe het' eyes,
which gives Hilary a chance of re-
tiring behind 111e Irish: Times,
"Dear Bliss Itlnsella," says Diana,
gently, "I think the matt must have
wished to tenon' what costume your
nephew 1(118 wearing, with a view
to putting it 111 our daily Paper and,
perhaps, 111 the Gentlewoman, or
same ones society papa`."
"Yes, me dear. So it seems now,
but at first 100 nephew Pether could
not understand what he was at, an'
you know what it spirit he has,
(suite bloodthirsty when his honor is
called in question!" .
"But the roan explained?"
"He 'did, tee clew, Ilut Pother was
so flabbergasted by that time, that.
ho couldn't remember what he was,
so he told the lean that he had
Sha ehnl'nete'," and that the 'mis-
thress ]clew ilial well!"
Here TTilar7 gives way, and burets
into a Ileal of laughter, followed by
/?rout, who has been growing hyster-
ical,
'Nass ICinsolla, 7 ltnpe yrolf' tvlll'
pardon tills reprehensible merriment
on the part of my wife and my sis-
ter," says Clifford solemnly, "No
cleubt hysteria has a, good dud.. to clo
with it. No one could hear your
harrowing tale without being deeply
tnovod, As for mc—' Here, his
voice beginning LO 5hn1(e treac•het'ous-
ly, 110 subsides behind his handker-
chief. "]Chen 7 think of Mrs. Mee
Intyro's Puce when mho heard that,"
says he. "Such an aspersion on her
cliarecther!"
"Ola, but, nue clear, there's worse
to conte," says Miss Kinsella, tear-
fully, 1'a1110r pleased with the !sense. -
lion she is so evidently creating, "It
seems that, that scamp of a footman
gave Ine nephew t'ether's message
straight i0 Airs, McIntyre 11118 morn-
ing, w11011 she was stoking over her
hill. Alt' now 1 hear they're goin'
to take revenge on tele poor nephew,
trine' 1 y n. great sufferer and shad
to got up six to LIvmC; tithes night-
ly to pass water, I tried
doctors and tined all sorts of medi-
cines to no avail,
"Finally, I began using ;Or. Chess's
Kidney -Liver Pills and soon found
relief, Thus encouraged I continued
to um] these pills and after having
taken twelve boxes was egain in per-
fect health and vigor, I can sleep
undisturbed, the pains in the kidneys
and back are gone, and I ata forting
1ve11 and strong, 7 consider :T)1'.
Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills a great
boon to suffering humanity and had
X known about them when 1 10115 a
,young titan could 110.00 04011110cl miffer-
ing all the hest years of my life."
T1'. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills,
one pill a dose, '25 cants a box, at
all destines or Ttd)nansnn, Bates .i:
Company, Toronto, To prnl011 you
against intil.ntimts, the nor( re it, and
signature of 1)7'. A. W. Chase, the
fan"lous' receipt, book author, aro on
01 Cry 130X,
and are going to put him in all the
papers ns Mindy, ye gaadhol'.' As
if here Miss Kinsella begins to sob
wildly, "Pother would go anywhere
o
111111,1111 his breeches!"
In.'s frightful,'" says Clifford, who
ought l0 be ashamed of himself.
"Yon know the old lines, don't ye,
11'11's, Cliffot'd, 1110 deal"?
" '01!, ]'lady, 3'e g11ndliee,
t'a'ro like a lliglhlaudher,
1'001' want (1' yer breeches,
For want o' yet' breeches!' '
The old lady chants them in 0
shaking voice.
k' ice
'"They soiled sltdly fain ilIltr," says
Clifford. hath lfllnry and Dinua aro
beyaud speech.
"011 to think o' me spotless
Pother being so treated," [nen on
Biles 1Chlsrlla, distractedly, "Mfrs.
Clifford, ale dear you're a great
friend of Mrs. ]1icInt.yre's, I cattle
to ask would •you go up to her, un'
beg 11110 nephew Pother off? You could
explain to her, No dear, that he
never meant 11,"
Inspiration seizes on Diann.
''711 tell you what I'll do," says
She, "I'11 give you t1 little note,
and you must take It direct to airs,
Meintyre yourself, You know yon
are a groat 15100/115 of hers, and she
can refuse you nothing. I'll just res-
ole in the case, cunt you can du the
rest,"
"You couldn't come with 1110, xne
dear?"
"1 could," says Diann thoughtful-
ly, "hitt 1 know 1 should spoil mat-
in's, You, who aro So eloquent,
dear ]Hiss hinsella, requite no advo-
cate."
The old maid brightens up percep-
tibly, and gives her head alt airy
little shake. Eloquent! Yes, she
has felt that all her life. But it is
plenSant to see the fact acknowledged
ut hist.
"Well, m0 clear, there's some truth
in what you say," returns she mod-
estly', "and I'll take the note. Whilst
you're writing it, I'm thinking - 7,11
tell you a little thing I said to that
brazen creature, Mi's. Dyson -Moore.
1(77 gracious, 11Ir. Clifford, did ye see
her petticoats?"
"I tried hard," says Clifford. "I
think, after a bit, I did."
"Scandalous! Scandalous!" 177180
Kinsella uplifts her arms,
"What did you say to tier, Miss
Kinsella?" asks Hilary.
"just a word, me dear. No more,
I went up to her when she was danc-
ing with one o' them strava;glers from
the barracks, an' I asked hon
wouldn't she like the loanof a kilt?
It struck me," says Bliss Kinsella
thoughtfully, "that she was a little
short with me, when I met her at
supper afterward."
You?" begins Clifford, "but—"
At this moment a loud knock at
tho hall door is Beard,
"Who's that?" demands Miss 311. -1.11 -
sella, eagerly.
"Some friend, no doubt," says
Diana carelessly. "Now; here is the
note. Yau ought to take it at once.
You know if the account is sent to
the papers--"
"7 know." Miss Kinsella is peer-
ing out of the window that com-
mands tho hall door. "Why—if it
isn't that young man that is staying
with Mrs. Dyson -Moore."
"Is it? Very likely. You really
ought to see about that at once, if
your norm ew—"
"Is he coming to see you novo, or
Miss Burroughs?"
"Both—he, desperately, "is a sort
of cousin of ours. But if you don't
"A cousin? You don't say so. On
the mothers side, or the father's?"
"The father's. No, tile mother's—I
assure you the first—"
"Theo, lot 1110 sec, his name should
be--"
"7'11 see you to the gate, bliss
I',iuselle," says Clifford genially,
conveying the old lady safely, out of
the troop' just as Iter enters, Bliss
I{insella manages to give him a good
stare, However, - as they pass cacti
other.
(To be Continued.)
AUSTRALIAN'S COMING,
Country in a Bad Way Owing to
Failure of Crops,
Notwithstanding the cessation of
1110 drought and the better agricul-
tural conditions in Now South Wales
the outlook for the country contin-
1105 glc>01113',
A cablegram was sent to England
last week by the Government, stat-
ing that 14,000,000 acres had. been
selected and taken up by settlors
during the previous three months,
but this message did not state what
is the truth—that 13,000,000 acres
had been abandoned as useless in the
same period,
Out of seventeen large properties
in one district, nine have been abatis
donod,
Iu south-western Queotatsland ton
large properties have been relinquish-
ed as worthless, and all buildings
and plant Sacrificed. They cover
thousands of square miles. Tho
whole west Is being eaten out by the
rabbits.
The New South Wales harvest was
estimated by the Government at 18,-
000,000
8;000,000 bushels for export, but only
0,000,000 bushels will be fit to ship,
ns the !'est is bioaehed, and in ,poor
condition.
The financial position continues
prer11'i0115, 1111111 until Government
borrowing is stopped, end recent lar
-hor improvement can be looked for.
The Agricultural Joint Stock Bade
has just written off nearly all its
capital.
'{Phot is causing most uneasiaoss,
however, is the steady exodus of
thrifty, well-to-do men and small
0apitn.liStS, who dacha's that they
aro "full of Sydney," and oro leav-
ing in tows and threes by every boat
for 0011011a anct the United States.
They say that they Cal do not.111(15
in Australia owing to the laws, nod
must; go elsewhere. alt the sane
111,1e employes are intensely dissat-
isfied
ulsat-
v 91 tin working f 'Arid -
Walton
'-
is i (fi 1 1 1 a the 1' 7
f0 l g 1 lh
ta'trtion Court,
Amv—"Try hrolher, the explorer
was tolling me that iii some Tarts of
Africa y0i1 can buy a. wife for a few
old attr(line. this end bends," 7(tr.
M'&l'llsty>nugg--"Well, a 5007 wife's
Worth that,",
O%63aeight I✓taY'sY"tfd a
T'E
EE
but the separator is a machine and
cannel manage itself, If the speed
is right and the bowl properly bal-
anced and
u ' 111 u
to n)f
d 1.10 motion tun. an 1
n (I
the milk - at,the right temperature,
there will be very little butter fat
-1v ll( 33111 if any
left in the skim -milk, ,
ono of the conditions above enamor
ated is not as it should bo theca will
ho fat lust in the slcilnmi1k. The
skiuunillc ought to be tested every
day.
NO 7.01111 IT 11,1.170 UP.
Level eel1ure of all hoed crops has
of late rapidly become the rule ra-
ther than the exception, and but, conz-
oatativcly few farmers 11010 fail 111
adept the practice In all ordina;Y
cultural 050(01 ions. Not very utility
yearn have lased Hulce it was cus-
tomary to heap hills around pota-
toes as high its they could conveni-
ently he made, end groat 01(141s were
1.111'owll up between the ears of corn
at the last plowing. The advocates
of this method claimed that a more
perfect growth might be Blade. Then
Soule progressive farmers began to
question the wisdom of this line of
argument, and having the courage of
their convictions, they began level
culture, and found. that IL was not
only easier, but actually produced
better results, and front that time
the old ridge and 11111 system began
to lose ground. 1n the first lance,
good fanners have their lands so
diai)lecl that surplus water does not
stand 0'11 the surface, and there is
no necessity for the ridging and hit-
ting of crops to get rid of this, and
with level - culture the roots of the
plants have more room to seek for
food, and in consequence furnish ma-
terial for heavier crops. The best
corn and potato growers now prat
tier' level culture. They 0111 the
lane in perfect condition before the
crop 15 planted, and cultivate i1
deeply the first 1100 or three times,
and after that cultivation only an.
inchortwo deep to 1(10p down the
weeds and prevent exatp0ralton. This
gives the roots a chance to spread
out between the rows and adds to
the yield. Oftel. Lilo roots of a po-
tato will run two and a halt or
three feet from tho row, something
that would not bo possible with hill
culture, and the roots of corn will
occttpy the whole ground if not de-
fended by cultivation.
COUNT BY EIGFITS.
Very 1VIuch Easier Than the De-
cimal System.
A society is about to be formed
for the propagation of what is called
the octimal system, or counting by
eights.
The most natural way to multiply
and divide is to double or halve. It
is simplicity itself to take ons apple
(or anything you please) and multi-
ply it by placing another by its side;
you multiply again by adding two
more, and so you go on doubling.
In the same way you divide by
halving.
Nov,sin the decimal system it is
not possible to do anything so neat
its that; you must get to your unit,
or 131150, of ten, and it is intposeiblo
to do that by- the simple process of
doubling the low figures. You can
certainly halve one in the sante way
as in the new octimel system, but
if you take ten, you got down to
two and a half very soon --a very
broken figure—and it gets worse 115
you go lower.
Not so with the eight. It was
contended by its opponents that the
process of dividing or multiplying by
Pimply shifting the point is not pos-
sible. In decimals, 80 means thirty,
but 13.0 means three, which is an
easy method of dividing by ton, but
hawUtyonoal?d this bo in Use new num-
To
To this, the octimalists reply that
the figure of ten is quite arbitrary.
that rho most natural figure is eight,
and that if we had seen taught to
count by eights, wo should have ox-
pe'10n00c1 no difficulty,
In that 0050, 30 would bo equal to
twenty-four, while 8A would be
three as at present. Further—and
this is 1111010 they 111],111 they score -
3 would be tlirec-elghtlis, not three -
tenths, whish they stigmatise 05 a
very' difficult division to obtain
- naturally.It is nli very well when we Have it
nlnrkocl out for us on a scale, but
just think of the difficulty of split-
tiag an apple into ten equal. parts,
and then colnpa.r0 that with the sim-
plicity of obtaining eight parts by
merely halving 1
Supporters of the decimal system
say' that tho human hand was the
basis of calculation—there being ten
digits; but octimalists point out that
there are only eight fingers—that the
thumb is a special part of the hand.
MIS SERIOUS STUDIES,
:S,
"What studies aro you pursuing?"'
asked the landlady of the new board-
er, who had told her he was a, stu-
dont.
"T a,m studying psychology," he
answcrecl, "X am delving into un -
strayed Holds. I'm studying the—"
Just, then someone passed him the
dish of hash.
"I ala," he continued, '`fathoming
rho mysterious lnnknown,"
And the landlady never knew w117
all the people round tho table smiled
audibly. '
WOOD) ASIItLIN FOR. CLOVER,
IPill wood ashes aid in securing a
good "catch" of clover? la theso
days of unem't(in clover crops a1y-
tlting ]het. 1'111 enhance the chance of
success >s certainly worth atrial.
We have tried wood ashes and can
now answer the above question most
emphatically in the affirmative, at
least so far tIs 0110 example will
establish n proof, for ashes 1•tavo
practically made this year's clover
crop fol' us, writes tt eorresponclent,
'Phase ashes wore applied a year
ago last August as 1t top caressing
for wheat ground which was seeded
to clovu1 the following spring, We
estimated Lltat it increased the yield
11t Least tell bushels per erre, snaking
the ashes worth four dollars per ton
+
to the wlhcat drop,
But this is not all. At present
the p 101 of tate field to which the
ashen were applied is covered with
the 1nest uniform stand of clover 1
have seen this yen-, while on the
part where no ashes wll'0 t1Snd 1110
crop is (11111011 a failure and will not
fel nisi one-fourth the .hay the ash
clover will, notwithstanding the fact
that it is all strong ]and and all but
an acre of it pact a good Lop dress
-
fog of find Manure at the same time
the ashes were applied to the - re-
maind0r of the. field.
This seems to me pretty strong
Proof that ashes are good for clover
—it is certainly conclusive proof in
this instance and with this soil,
whieb is a prairie l0al'1—e. herr oats
1 of
marking x1'. lima
1. Tito in ma 1 t
sof 1 .1 e
i,
the ashes is 11013 so conspicuous that
it can be seen at h distance and even
the exact position of ouch shovel full
of the ashes thrown slightly beyond
it can 130 told by
TI --EE RANK CLOVER.
On one strip we applied both man-
ure and ashes. This strip stands
out plainly from that around It to
which only the manure was applied,
but I can see no difference between
it and that fertilized by ashes alone.
From present indications I should
estimate the increase in the hay crop
due to the ashes alone at least ono
ton per acre. About two tons of
ashes wore applied, hence each ton
of ashes will mage a half ton of
hay. At eight dollars per ton this
-
woulcl give fou! dollars value per
ton of ashes to he added to the four
dollars per ton benefit _to the wheat
crop, making eight dollars in all,
This is two-thirds the chemist's esti-
mated value of the potash, phosphor-
ic acid, and limo contained in a ton
of ashes; hence between tho wheat
and the clover together an exceeding-
ly large amount must have become
available for plant use, or made
other food available, or prevented
the choking of the young clover
plants by weeds or sorrel.
I ant inclined to believe that the
great benefit in this case was due as
much to tate keeping clown of red
sorrel (which grows quite abundant-
ly on this soil) as to its fertilizing
properties. Whore the ashes were
applied very little sorrel is found,
but this is the principal crop on tho
remainder of the field. Now sorrel
is a very acid plant, and is, per-
haps, an index to over acidity of the
soil. If .so, this condition would
be remedied by the lime of the ashes
and such soils would be more bene-
fitted by its application than those
less acid.
Thus fur ashes have surpassed our
most sanguine expectations as a fer-
tiliser, and as a limited amount of
VJhent aro accessible W0 hope to con-
duct 501110 further experiments along
this line especially with reference to
ashes as a remedy for sorrel and as
a fertilizer for small fruits.
GUINEAS ON TUE FARM.
Tito guinea hen, both as a useful
and ornamental bird, should have a
Place on every farm. 'The only ob-
jection usually made against them
is on account of their noisy outcries.
Ono soon becomes accustomed to
their pcouliaa 111118ic and hardly no-
tices it, or dlsrogttl'ds it on account
of their many desirable qualities.
They aro attractive to the sight,
amusing in their habits and actions,
and by many their flesh and eggs aro
considered sapmtioe articler, of diot,
Their flesh is clerk and Much ]ileo
that of 1410 prairie chicken. Their
eggs are fully equal to !,hose of the
common chicken, differing only in
having a loss quantity of albumen.
They begin to lay tho first warm
spring days, depositing their eggs
in any convenient hen's nest, and
later when vegetation is advanced
they secrete their nests, which often
are found to contain from 70 to
100 eggs eac11. Some of them will
not choose individual nests and if
turkeys are kept with them it is fre-
quently the caro that: guineas will
be hatched by then, four weeks be-
ing required to hatch both sorts of
eggs,
Guineas usutaiiy hatch !.heir broods
about the last of .Tidy and require
no care or attention if they have
sufficient run, The m0)1101• lien at
this Mom is very shy a1(1 it will only
be by accident: -het you see her,
closely followed by Mir brood of 20
ol' more chicks, Their food et this
time consists entirely of insects, of
1which they destroy surprising num-
rhos. One morning in September six
young guineas were shot end in
!cleaning ing them their crops were found
'completely extended with gr(1sah0p-
purs, earth crop containing more than
half a pint,
u'' SEPARATOR,
•let
WATCH '1'713 5 ,t. Aldo 1
Too many 0Pera101'S take it for
granted that their separators ate
doing good work nnil fail In test,
the skim -)milk. No greeter ntistnTce
could be 1114111). Mast. 'of the stand-
ard 1110.>'ai of Perinea I ors 1v.i11 clo.
good 'Wolk if properly managed,
111onehe—"Isabol, what has put ,you
in such a bad humor?" Tsabel-
11t11g, I've just had a communica-
tion ft•01th Jack, and ha writes such
a horrid hand that I can't tell whe-
ther it's a proposal, an 0110 to sum -
min', or that cure for chilblains ho
poondsad to sand me."
IA 1 To prove 10 yoeun Mol Din
(,h•Isn'' Ohtnlee t le 11 0117101 t
ah
d every o 111 0 for neo
4
bud awry fent 01 itching.
111nrrlin>rand nrotrnAhl�(hilos,
i•..manlxfaeterershese 'nnrnn105111'.,,00ras•
1•11ontals in 1.18 daily )mr8' and ova y5nrn01.1117
111n1 1wh1t they think 11,1 1. 17011 can 1150 -ft and
rt, pest,1'sem7"nhark
oA\s0,,1A51oared. 1,5SS00 noronla
it ileo u
TULA'S W ELESS PLAN
ITIS GREAT PLAN 110 DISTRT-
337,1TE POW it
Electric Towers Will Oend Out
Currents for Lighting ad.d
Meeting,
An enormous mushroom -shaped
1011'131', liar Just been completed at.
Warcl0nc13'ffe, Long Island, N,'V„ by
1110. Nikola Tesla, tate distinguished
electric inventor. From this tower
Mr. 'l'osla is now preparing to put
into 0Pel•(t11011 the most daring and
maiming scheme ever conceived in the
development 01 wireless telegraphy,
For over four years Mr, 'Fe8111 has
Linen hard at work (almost clay and
night experimenting and endeavoring
to snake bis marvellous theory
praetiabla. Fr0i11 time 10 time dur-
ing that period he ]las intimated vtt-
51101y tho immensity of his plan, and
the equally tremendous results that
would follow its introduction, and
now, at lust, he hos alulotmced bis
preparedness to put his theories to
tl>oir first practical test.
For a large part of Ilia work al-
ready done Ilr. Testa is indebted to
Life getamo5lly of Mr, J. l'icrpont
RTol;gan, who is extremely interested
in the scheme.
Briefly explained, Mr. Tosla's as-
surance of what we play expect In
the next few years are as follows :.
NIAGARA '1'0 NEW YORK,
A ceaseless day and night service
of 011111ons upon Millions of volts of
electricity from the electric power
plants at Niagara :]?ells to 1110 War-
denclylte toner , the electric Power
being forwarded from there by 1'0x-
la's wireless sy:,'Lenh to New Yorke
City for the purpose of illuminating
the entire metropolis, running eleva-
ted and itndcrgrotlald ten ins and
tramways cat's, operating lifts, mo-
tor -cars, trucks, Bud ferry -boats, fur-
nishing heat, and even winding up
clocks and malting thein keep perfect
time, by -a system of half-hourly re-
gulation.
The erection of Tesla towers, simi-
lar to the 0100 111111' at Wacdeuclyllo,
at convenient places everywhere, for
the purpose of distributing wireless
telegraphy to bo used for illumina-
tion, power and heat, Only such
towers as are erected within a given
distance from Niagara Falls will be
supplied from the power plants there
wail 010011icily, says the New York
Alnm'lcan,
All the other towers will derive,
111010 Own 11010011 from generating
plant erected alongside or between
the main uprights, and each will dis-
tribute about ten thousand horse-
power of wireless electricity under a
tension of one hundred million volts.
Mr. Tesla declares that lie is able to
produce and handle that much with
perfect safety from ono tower.
Each tower 1.111 be capable of
transmitting sheat, power, and light
to cillos, factories, and private
houses within 0 radius of thirty
miles or more.
LT141T131SS SYSTEM.
Eventually Mr• Tusks proposes the
extension of this tower system until
practically the whole North Ameri-
can continent is dotted over with:
thein spaced sixty!miles apart,
s0 11101 Juact n y is II ' every Inch of
e y
ground is covered by the 11510 wire-
leel''1 c,
1ss`110sAAlrardenel3'0'o totvOt' is 188 feet
high from the ground to the toP of
the cupola. The smallest diu100s]0n
across Ito base of uprights is 97
feet. The height to ledge of cupola
!s 153 feet, while the cupola itself
is -35 feet in (Baluster. The tower,
whicir is to net as a giant receiver.
has eight sides, with n staircase and
lift for reaehitlg the cupola plat-.
form. It is there that the wireless
vibrations aro received and shot out
again 111 the voltage desired to given
points scattered over a very wino
radius.
LIGI4TIN0 OFR HOUSES.
Ono of the chief uses will- be the
illumination of residences. It takes
very little potter to light a dwelling
with vacua tubes operSte(1 by high -
frequency currents, and in each in-
stance
nstance a terminal, a little above the
root will be sufficient. Another vaht
able application 10111 be the driving
of clocks and other such apparatus.
plc, will require absolutely no a.t-
ple, will require sbsolut)ly no at-
tention, and will indicate rigorously
correct time.
There are iunumesabl0 doviccs of
all kinds which are either 11011 em-
ployed or can be supplied, and by
operating theist in this way 11r. Tea-
ls may 110 able 1.0 often' a great colt
vonionee to the whole world. The in-
troduction of this system will, ac-
cording to the inventor, give oppor-
tunilies for invention and manufac-
ture such as have never presented
themselves before,
'VEST POCK' IST WILD LESS.
Among his other SC11011108 'Mr. 'Tesla
propises a perfect system of world-
wide wireless telegraphy through
which widely 1,1p1trnt.ed friends will
be able to converse instantaneously
1111k without the sligill test clangor
that their wireless co n'ey:4.1°n will
be overheard by a third Person. .
Little instruments about the size
and shape of a watch will he carried
lit the vest pocket, and will record
market quotations, ra0e5 and int -
portant news features.
Another iltilo watch -like instru-
ment is one with o diol face by
means of which the wearer can trans-
snit and recelvrr 11.1111055 111058ages to
and from frien115 man's' Mlles fifty,
Watches of both sender told receiver
will 1>e keyed to a, oertnin pitch to
prevent their 00nu11tinicalions froth
going astray or fulling into the
watches of disinterested third per-
sons,
b
WRONG DIAGNOSIS
"Marriage," said thhe 70011th, "scorns
to 111100 a civilizing cif:. on nim).
It's only the old bachelor Who is
011)nd 0117,'
"85Wroliag a(gain51, 70011115 111-011," h'eplicd
the sago from Bagevilie. "Alt old
bae,110100 i5 c111155 x1(1 m•tisty h1ca1.150
?asm,Diht 1"t1aTrall tuinkw
J. 3110 fsn't afraid to soy what 11e
l as -,L. -4,'S