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The Brussels Post, 1904-9-29, Page 2-npa,, ., ,.,,' eirevswaiu, , , ,,519 -i ,,,^• Thcricc i eriy A 1111DNIGHT CALL. r rym. .,,..,.,. ?PPM, CHAPTER C1:TAPTER XII,—(Continued.) "The following morning the great discovery was made. The Van Sneck I have alluded to was an artist, a dealer, a man of the shadiest repu- tation whom my patron, Lord Lit - timer, had picked up. It was Van Suede who produced the copy* of "The CrimsonBlind.' ' Not only did he produce the copy, but ho produc- ed the history from some recently discovered papers relating to the Keizorskroon Tavern of the year 1650, which would have satisfied a more exacting man than Littimer. In the end the Viscount purchased the engraving for £B00 English. "You can imagine how delighted ha was with his prize -he had secured and engraving by Rembrandt that was absolutely unique. Under more favorable circumstances I should have shared that pleasure. But I was face to face with ruin, and therefore I had but small heart for rejoicing. "I came downs the next mornh:g af- ter a sleepless night, and with a wild endeavor to scheme some way of getting the money to pay my cre- ditor. To my absolute amazement I found a polite note from the lieu- tenant coldly, thanking me for the notes I had sent him by messenger; and handing me a formal receipt for £+800. At first I regarded it as a hoax. But, with all his queer ways, Von Gulden was a gentleman. Some- body had paid the debt for me. And somebody had, though I have never found out to this day." "All the sante, you have your sus- picions?" Steel suggested. "I have a very strong suspicion, but I have never been able to verify it. All the same, you can imagine what an enormous weight it wits off my mind, and how comparatively cheerful I was as I crossed over to the hotel of Lard Littimer after breakfast. I found him literally be- side himself with passion. Some thief had got, in his room in the eight and stolen his Rembrandt. Tho frame was intact, but the engraving had been rolled up and taken away." "Very like the story of the stolen Gainsborough." "No doubt the one theft inspired the other. I was sent off on foot to look for Van Sneck, only to find that he had suddenly left the city. Ho had got into trouble with the police, and had fled to avoid being sent to gaol. And from that day to this nothing has been seen of that picture.'= "But I real to -day that it is still in Littimer Castle." said David. "Another one, Bell observed. "Oblige me by opening yonder par- cel. There you see is the print that I purchased to -day for £5. Then this, my friend, is the print that was stolen' from Lfttitrier's lodgings in Amsterdam. If you look closely at it you will see four dull red spots in Lhe left-hand corner. They are supposed to be blood -spots from a cut linger of the artist. I am pre- pared to swear that this is the very print, frame and all, that was pur- chased in Amsterdam from that shady scoundrel Van Sneck." "But Latimer is credited with hav- ing one in his collection," David urged. "lie has one in his collection," Bell said, coolly. "And, moreover, he is firmly uuaer the impression that he is at present happy in the possession of his own lost treasure, And up to this very day I was un- der exactly the same delusion. Now I know that there have been two copies of the plate, and that this knowledge was used to ruin me." "Btit," Steel murmured, "I don't • :exact see ---""`I aim just coming to that. We hunted high and low for the picture, but .nowhere could it be found. The affair created a profound impression in •Amsterdam. A day or •two later Von Gulden went back to his duty, on the Belgian frontier and business called ine home, 1 packed my soli- tary portmanteau and departed, When I arrived at the frontier I op- ened my luggage for the Custom officer and the whole contents were turned out without ceremony. On the bottom was a roll of paper on a stick that I quite failed to recognise. An inquisitive Custom Pl'ot's° otli- cer opened it and immediately called the lieutenant to charge. Strange to say, he proved to bo Von Oulden. He came up to me, very gravely, with the ac 1 paper r in his hand, i I " `May I inquire liow this came amongst your luggage?" he asked. "I could say nothing; I was dumb. For there lay the Rembrandt. The red spots had been sausages' out of the corner, but there the picture was. "Well, I lost my head then. 1 ac- cused Von Gulden of all kinds of dis- graceful things. And he behaved like a g'enlleman—he made me ashamed of myself, But he kept the picture and returned 1t to Littimer, and I was ruined. Lord Littimer declined to prosecute, but he would not see me and lie would hear of no explan- ation. Indeed, I had none to offer. Enid refused to see me also or reply to my letters. The story of my big gambling debt, and its liquidation, got about. Steel, 1 was ruined. Some enemy lfacl done this thing, and from that day to this I have been a marked man," "But how on earth was it done?" "Por the present I can only make surmises." Bell replied. "Van Sneck .,vtte a slippery dog. Of course, he had found two of those plates. He kept the one back so as to sell tho other at a fancy price. My enemy discovered this, and Van Sneck's sudden flight was his opportunity. He could afford to get rid of me at an apparently dear rate. He stole Littimer's engraving—in fact, he must have done so, or I should not have it at this moment. Then he smudged out some imaginary spots on the other and hid it in my bag- gage, knowing that it would be found. Also he knew that It would be returned to LfttImer, and that the stolen plate could he laidaside and produced at some remote date as an original find. The find has been thine, and it will go bard if I can't get to the bottom of the mystery now. It is' strange that your mys- terious trouble and mind should be bound op so closely together, but in the end it will simplify matters, for the Very reason that we are both on the hunt for the same man," "Which man we have got to find, Bell," "Granted. We will bait for him as one does for a wily old trout. The fly shall be the Rembrandt, and you see he will rise to it in time. But beyond this I have one or two im- portant discoveries to -day. We aro going to the house of the strange lady who owns 213 and 219, Bruns- wick Square, and I shall be greatly mistaken if she docs not prove to be an old acquaintance of mine. There will be danger." "You propose to to-nigbt?" "1 propose to go at once," Bell said. "Dark hours are always best for dark business. Now, which is the nearest way to Longdean Grange?" "So the house of the Silent Sor. row, as they call it, is to be our destinatian! I. must confess that the' place has ever held a strange fascin- ation for me. We will go over the golf links and behind Ovingdean vil- lage. It is a rare spot for a trag- edy'.,, Bell rose and lighted a fresh cigar. "Cone along," he said. "Poke that Rembrandt behind your books with its face to the walla I would not lose that for anything now. No, on emend thoughts 1 find I shall have, to take it with me." David- closed . tbe. door carefully be - him] - hihl and the two stepped out into the night.' ' CI-TAPTE1t' N1II. . Two Glancing eyes .of dame were streaming Up the lane towards the girls, a long shadow slanted across the white pathway, the steady flicks of hoofs drew nearer. Then the hoofs ceased their smiting of tho dust and u man's voice spoke. "Bettor turn and wait for us by, Never pole To Cure Piles. A TRULY REMARKABLE RECORD MADE BY ® ' RA HA. 9 OINTMENT ■ Thorn is no disg)ating the fact that 11r, Chase's Ointment is the only as-. "teal mid jmedtive core kr piles that has over been peered for plastic sales.. Day • after day there appear . sl;ate- ,meets in the newspapers front per- sons who have been. cured. Ask your . friends and neighbors about this great ointment. "For years I suffered indesrriineble pain . and agony from itching pile', teed tried all leneitvn t'mnedice with little ee tie relief anti tunny tirnces With tderensed pain. A friend ad- vised the tis: of lir. Chase's Ont- ment, and I cern truthfully say it is superior to . anything I' ever weed, bringing quiet, relief wit/met pent , or ofTensi•ve odor, ami I can h,nirtile 1'eeomnienil It its the best remedy nn earth for itching poria. I write gills letter with the abject of helping other yufl T.0e who have net been so 7orttrnate as to meet With Dr. • Cbase'e OSutmeiitt')-ltfr. Thos. • J, 'Murleil, lleavertan, Ont. "It gives • me very great pleasure to recommend :i)1'. Oliaso's Ointment. I Was troubled with Itching piles Idr twenty year's, and tried very many needieinee, all to no avail, arntil I need Ih', (?base's Ointment. Alter. the fourth application the itching and Mines disa.ppfaredl, 05 if by mWgic, and 1 can say to anyone situ- ilerly afflicted that if they will try Dr, Chase's Ointment they WI1l be eurei. 'Th'ere ite no more rortlsin curse send none ea easily a.pplitd."— Mr, le, 13. Leman; Oliver, Catches. ter Co, N.S, 13r, Cbruse's Ointment, 60 cents a box, et alt deaiors, or 1'Idiimnvon, Bates & Company, Toronto. To protect yon Cgnin. t Ineitotiaes, the portrait and signature of 1A•. W. A. Cheep, the famous receipt book au - three are en every holt, the farm, driver," the voice said. „Bell, eau you manage, Man?" "Who wits that?" Enid whispered. "A sttiingne?" "Not precisely," Ruth replied e< "?sift td Air, David Steel. Oh, 1 an sure We ran trust 11.01, Don't am(0 hlin, Think of the trouble he is h for our sakes," "1 do,"I'bdd said, drily, "1 am also thinking of lteginafd. 31 nut dear Reginal;? escapes from the los tering cure of the dogs we shall be ruined, That man's hearing is Wen denial, He will come creeping down here en those flat feet of his, au that cunning brain will take Il everything like a flash. Good dog!' A hound la the distance growled and then another howled nrourufulle It was the i laint of the beast wlte has found his quarry, impatient fat the gaoler to arrive, So lung as that colttintted Henson was safe. An attempt at escape, and he would b torn ut in pieces. Just at the present Moment n' n fit I. ut almost boped c t th 311 b o that t I 1 attempt would o made. It certain- ly b i n to t ly was all right for the present, but then Si'illlnms might happen along on his «'ay, to the stables at any mom- ent, The two .nen were corning nearer•, They both paused as the dogs gave tongue. Through the thick belt of trees lights gleamed from one or two windows of the house. Steel pulled up and shuddered slightly in epitc of himself, "Crimson blinds," he said. "Crim- son blinds all through this business. They are beginning to get on m nerves, What about those dogs, Be11?" "Dogs m- no dogs, I am not going back now," Bell muttered. "It's per- fectly melees to conic here in the daytime; therefore we must fall back upon a little amateur burglary. There's a girl yonder who might have assisted me at one time, but—" Enid slipped into the road, The night was passably light and her lloatithful features were fairly clear to the startled men In the road, "The girl is hem," she said. "What do you want?" Ilell and his companion cried out simultaneously : Bell because he was so suddenly face to face. with one who was very bear to Slim, David be -1 cause it seemed to him that he had recognized the voice from the dark- ness, the voice of his great adven- ture. Aud there was another sur- prise as he saw Ruth Gates side by side with the owner of that wonder- ful voice. "Enid!" 13e11 cried hoarsely. "I did not expect -- "'To confront me like this," the girl, said, coldly. "That I quite un- derstand. What I don't understand is why you intrude your hated pt'e-f 501100 here." Boll shook his handsome head mournfully. Ile looked strangely downcast and dejected, and bone the less, perhaps, because a fall in cross- ing the downs had severely wrenched Iris ankle. But for a belated cab on the Rottingdean road lie would not have been here now. "As hard and cruel tie ever," be said, "Net one word to mc, not one word in my defence. And all the time I am the victim of a Vile conspiracy "Conspiracy! Do you call vulgar theft a conspiracy?" "It was nothing, else," David put in, eagerly. "A most extraordinary conspiracy. The kind of thing that you would not have deemed possible out of a hook," And who "'light this gentleman be?" Enid asked, haughtily, "A thousand pardons for my want of -ceremony," David said. "IL I had not been under the impression that we had met before I should never Hare presumed—" "Oh, a truce to this," Bell cried. "We are wasting time. The hour is not far distance, Enid, when you will ask my pardon. Meanwhile I am go- ing up to the house, and you are go- ing to take me there. Come what may, I don't sleep to -night until I have speech with your. aunt," Davll had drawn a .little aside. By a kind of instinct Ptah Gates followed frim. A shaft of grey light glinted upon her cycle in the grass by the' roadside. Enid and Bell were talking 'lit 'vehement: whispers -they seemed to be absolutely • uhconsoIou ' of anybody else but' themselves,' Dave id could see the anger and' scorn on the pale,. high -bred face; he could, see Neil , gradually °emending as he brought ell Itis strength and flan power of will to bear, "SVhat will be the upshot of it?" I'tuth asked, timidly. "Bell will conquer" David replied, "Ho always does, you know," "1 am afraid you don't, take my meaning, Mr. Steel," David looked down into the sweet, r bl face of his companion, troubled tie h s man on and p thence away to thevivid c r ay_ i id rilhson patches beyond the dark belt of fol- iage. Ever and anon the intend stillness of the night was broken by the long -drawn howl of one of the hounds. David remembered It for years afterwards. it farmed the most realistic chapter of one of iris most popular novels, "Heaven only knows," he said, "1 have been draggcd'into the S.business, but what it means I know no mors then a child, I am mixed up in it, and Bell is mixed up in it, and so aro you. Why, we shall perhaps know some day." "You nuc not angry with ine?" "Why, no, Only you might have had a little More confidence In me," "Air. Steel, we dared net, We wanted peer advice, and nothing more. Even now 1 aim afraid 1 ata saying too much. !here Is a wither - Ing blight over yonder house that Is beyond 010)0 words. And twice gal- lant gentlemen have come forward to our assistance. Both of them aro dead. And if we had dragged you, a total stranger, into the arena we should inorally, have murdered you." "Am I not within the charmed Cir- cte. now? David sinned. "Not of our free will," Ruth said, eagerly. "You came into the tangle with iiatherly 73e11, Thank heaven you have an ally like that. And yet I ern Tilled with Shame. "My dear yaurag lady, what have you to be aelianied ore" Muth coveted leer face with h0,' Minds Inc a menial fuel David Yaw a tear 00 twO Weide through the 1 1 gout? arid. 1111111 and 1 nut so fooltell. What van you think of a ghi who is fill this Way from honk nL ulldnigllil 1G is so -es() muntridet,ly,, It might bu in some girls, but not in you," David snit., boldly, „tine has only to look In your faro - and see that only the. Rood and the d pure dwell thee:, But trete you not t afraid?" "lorrihlY afraid, The levy shad- , owe startled me. Ilut when I discov- ered gout• errand to -night I n'n8 bound to venue M,3' loyalty to , Finkd dem3itcled it, and I had not one single person in the world whom Y I could trust." "11 you had only come to me, Rliss Ruth--" e "1 know, 1 know nolo, 05, ft is ]es h' lonely it t b . and thing • Io1• 1 fie ] o a 6 a ! b" have ono good man that she. can re- ly upon, Awl you have been so very good, and no have treated you very, very badly," But, David would not hear any- thing of the kind. The wholo adven- ture was strange to a degree, but le seemed to matter nothing so long els he had ilutli fon.' company. Still, the girl must be got home. She could not be allowed to remain here, nor must she be permitted to return Ito ltrigliton alone. Bell strode up at the sane moment. y "Miss Henson has been so good as to listen t0 lay atgumeuts," he said. "1 an going into the house. Don't worry', about ale, but send Bliss Cates home in the cab, I Shall man- age somehow," Davit? turned eagerly to Ruth. "'Chat will bo best," ho said, "We can put your machine on the cab, and I'll accompany yotl part of the war home. Our cabman will think that you came from the house, 1 shu'n't be long, Bell," Ruth assented gratefully. As David put her in rho cab Bell whispered to him to return ns soon as .possible, but the girl heard nothing of this. "1Tow kind—how kind you are," she murmured. "Perhaps some clay u•ou will he kind to me," David said, and Ruth blushed in the darkness, (To be Continued.) slim lingers. ITe took the hands In his gently, tenderly, and glanced in to the fine, grey ryes. Never had he been moved Lu u ?woman like this be^ fore. ISfit what will yon think of mo?" Bulb whispered Yoe have been 50 FORTUNES AWAIT OWNERS. Millions of Pounds Sterling Never Claimed. Millions of money remain in i'hc care of the Dritish Government awaiting claimants, who most likely will never come fa'ward to ask, for their shares, From time to time the Chancellor of t'he Exchequer seizes a portion of this enormous unclaimed wealth. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, for instance, an- nexed :£,000,000 of it at one swoop in his budget to pay some or the no- tioli s expenditure last :year, Dividends on consols to the amount of £449,800 were not paid out due - Ing 1903-4, because the owners of the stock did not apply, and are prohnbly lead. The amount of unclaimed Covern- tnent stock on Margie 81 reacher? x12,782,401. This is the suns which remained atter' several periodical seizures by the Treasury. The offices of the Bankruptcy Court have been built out of money taken Mom dividends unclaimed by the cre- ditors of bankrupts, wlfose estates were in the court. Funds lying in the "High Courts, which had been deposited there by suitors in connection with litigation and never withdrawn, because the suitors are "missing," amounted in February of lest year to 254,722,- 463. 54,722;463. Over £400,000 is duo to soldiers and sailors or their relatives, but very little of it is ever likely to be paid oaf,, b WHY NleE:,1? THE CLOCK. FeeST ? It is a common thing to line the' clocks' in nine out of ten llousoliolds eitliei.••flfteen minutes or halfanhour fast;, and should 3+ou. happcn,to he in a: hurry; or mention •• the fact that you have to be .going, you are at once reassured by the fact that yon have no cause to hurry, as the clock is so much fast. Has it ever occurred to you why clocks are usually put ahead'? Some physicians Have said ...it is due , to laziness, for it.•is such a salisfaotfod' to the lazy maxi to find when he has to got ue at seven ie the morning, and strafes his bait -closed eyes to loolc at the clock, that it is Matt on hour fast, and he has so n1nc11 more time to doze, with the result, that 50 often oversleeps himself, and mis- ses his train, Said a watchmaker, when asked eel about the subject,: "'Yes, it is a 1)e- culiar thing with most people to put their clocksfeet; and while there may be some satisfaction in it when it 5011105 to dosing. a little longer, there is 301111y no advatttege in it, why not have the clock right? It is the saute thing In the end. Suppose railways warn to putt this tato prsc- tice, holy many trains do yeti think people'. would n11.S71 'thereby 7 Phis' putting of clocks fast is really Only a pleasant form of deception which people like to practice en themselves;: but it does more harm than good.' : Ti:LelPS.t)NIi Tnotri3;LSf'S, Ctvillzal;ion pro0eeds with speed in Aleyselein, Nearly 300 miles of telephone wire have already been pat up there, and 1,000 1111105 more are under constt•t3ctiIn, '?'lie contrite- tor's task, however, is by 110 means an easy o.ne. The chief tt'ottble is given by elephants, Who use the poles as ser•31tch1ng-pasts, knocking them down in dile snhrhl'#oust exercise, and Monl5Cy5 who awing on titre Wiens, ?ilii t S5 I'fleet STNE Thss A n ;rut; rI d s It i t Colored or Doctored xn an- � is a Y Form Whatever, CEYLON NATURAL GREEN tea shows an amazing superiority over all Japans on a tea pot in lesion, Sold in the same forts as 11SALADA" Black tea, in sealed packets only. 25c and 450 per 1b, By all grocers, "� rt�d��,o Cyo�+,,s[lo 1taruction is cheap, and the pen b�li,,tp, .G `ti�A� o ToE FARM. �� ®1i� �f Ay,�yg r1OZ fid® BJift'GG;t3talyk.V" ete lichen consttrus'ted is "lovable. 1'ins- w 1 ta'w's last may be used, and no .idi posts are reentired, the sections may be simply lathed together with a 'tOtt CO YOlsm li rQP4 aL rho corners, and an end swung back tt one corner whenever it Is necessary to enter the incloure, which is sel- dom. Eacli pen satoild, of course, contaia good weattier-proof coop. Th'o flight feathers of one tying of the hn siiould b0 clipped oil to prevent her flying otit, In a pen of this klncl, fall -hatched chickens can be raied to the broiler or frying size most ouccesfully n•ithout ever getting out of it, If yolt want to raise the fall- liatchod chickens fo maturitty, it voted be necessary to give them frange alter thy are two or tha'e wks old. But, ec•en then, it 15 still advisable to twee the lin con- fined in order to feed each broad sep- arately, anti to prevent overcrowd- ing. To give the chickens pass -way in and on,t of the pen, sot a few of trio upright laths a few inchs apart, but not enough to let the hen o.ut. Tliis system of raising tehi0kens at any season minimize: work enfd wor- t;y, It also insures a minimums of diease. Frill-liatlied pullets, when raise? to maturity, utake excellent summer ani? fall layers elm following season, Tlie young roosters shoulcd be marketeer as soon as they are up to eatnble size_IIOG NOTES. •A sow with a mean, cross tempera- uaent is always .bard to deal with, and her unruly disposition often causes the lost: of the litter, The bora wilt thrive much better if given good r'angc and exercise, will have more vigor, will sine pigs with a stronger vitality and the litters will be larger in number, A contented, well fed pig is a, va- luable pert of the stock of arty farm- er, but the inveterate sgaeuler is an eyesore and nerve destroyer. Economical Reding implies keep- ing the stock in n good, tli.rifty con- dition and nese keping then? as Som- for'table as i,osslble on as small an amount of foot. as possible. Let Lite sows develop in size and synlnletry and be well developed. in all particulars before mating thecal. to In etnf, Many farmers use a variety only because the fvorite feed of corn is limited, not because thy thik they will feed the cheapest. The compact sow is objectlonablo as a breeding animl because she caveat assimilate suffiient food to maintain a large litter. 13wally when a sow farrows - she is feverish and the fever is aggre- gated if the tttlimal is in high tluli. SVhat is wantd Is a foci that will allay this fver and tepee up the milk glands. ltgnant water should not be allowed in the hog pasture. When implrre water is conVonient it See11 'becwnes a .natter of ,}tabic for the ift+gs to.• eoutinually quench their thirst from it. lS'itti growing pigs always feed rich cocontrate(t food with caution, SYtleilAT AFTER CORN. I practice a four years' rotation, hating my land one year in corn, tem in wheat, and then again in grass„ writes 3f'r, 0, B, Huge, 31y 131101 of 1Ok acres fs divided 1(110 four fields, so that one field is in grans, one in corn and two in wheat. Atter toeing orf a crop of hay and perhaps clover need, if the season. is adapted to it, the land is again weltered fore corn. This yeast' is insurable for clover seed, and, at this writing, August 4, my field of 2:1 acres is a picture of blossoms, with an Outlook for from two to two and a half bushels of seed per acre. No stock is allowed to pas- ture on this field. I took 40 Rau -- horse loads of hay off it. I have two small permanent pastures for my stock, changing from one to the other, and always have a good sup- ply of hay in case the pastimes are short. The cattle are fed with earn if It is a good crop. In this way, a glided supply of ma- nure is seoared for the field: to be put into cora. I haul all the ma- nure I have late in the fall, spread- ing it as hauled. In March or April tho balance of the field is manned. Corn grouted is plowed in the spring and each day's plowing is rolled on the evening of the sante day. Rolling helps to retain the moisture and packs the soil 50 that the Barrow does not leave sods over tate field, ready to give trouble when cultiva- tion begins. Tho corn ground is checked, and as soon as jt is up I use the weeder, This is of great ad- vantage to the little corn plants, as it gives thea, a vigorous start and the field can easily be kept free from weeds. In cutting cord, 24 rows are allowed to a shook row. 12 rows each side, with 72.bitls to one Shock. Planting is done the hest woelc' in May, and by the first or second week in September the corn is ready to cut, I cut as soon as the hushes are partly dry, not waiting lliitil the fodder is dealt. During my 63 years' experience, I Have found that corn cut when the 'blades are 'still green produces fodder or stover in much better condition for stodk than when overripe. After the Corn is ctrl, the stalks are rolled down, following, the same way, with a spring harrow. The roller mashes down the stubs of the stalks, but dors not tear then?. up. Usually, after one or two borrow- ings, the ground is in condition to seed. Should heavy reins make the ground[ so colnpact that spring har- rowing does not give a desirable seed -'bed, I go over it with the disk, following with the roller, always going the sante way with Barrow,.. diet.: and drill. In favorable sea - ions, 3 have grown 35 bushels.. of wheat per acre on corn ground'. Stock liebd1 are always seeded ' the second year, plowing the held just as soon as the wheat is taken off. As Soon as tlte'Oeld is,plowed; the 11011011 is putt On,..care being taken to roll, hien the grouind is • dry..., After the field is rolled ; it is top dressed, with' materee and harrowedeadlt time are ter a heavy rain. I have harrowed as "oftoa' cs seven times: This, of course, depends on the weather. By no "metals .would I think of - leaving a field aftera heavy rain Without a mice mulch to ronin the Moisture, By top -dressing with ma- nure end lisrrowing. •••often, the ground IS .in flee conuiitie'rl fpr a. catch of grass. Several years age,' I. had 42 acres ite wheat,at 22 acres cif wlhtrh wits etoolc or corn ground wheat. 111y crop was 1213 bushels, one tell -'acre field yielding 40 bushels per acre. The sepia season I sold Bfbr 1e d13 ttglt- 0 n .rht F see at o a b O b s o d el. There is an ollport'unity in every locality that 1 have visited for satne- ono to make a specialty of growing good,, Clean .SOM. .i5any farmers sow what they have, no matter Mew' fil- thy 41 stay be. There is nothing Morepaean l than an oven field of wheat, and it is not difficult t0 pro- duce' . if clean sod is sown. Seed should be secure?; kohl a'milder cli- mate than the alio where 41 is to -be' 5000011. . IIALST,1NG 1''ALI, CI`It01i:E1PS, The early fell brings the second thence for growth anci' do'volopment,' We may -set eggs and raise chickens to 0113' satisfaction and profit, fop the chicks will thrive and grow well, But we must have velem 11 we Would have eatisflletion 0rtd success. We should not turn out arnoag ilio earlier ha.tohed, larger ani. inore Kew valopcd cltiokens, than wllijdli w0 may bring off now, They sheared ho grown by tboniselven—a eenclition whicif insaa':s vi5al'Ons and rapid development, The plan is simple, but effective, and very easy of operation. It is the pen system of rearnging young broods, allii it is quite inexpensive ' 131151 meet Sal Wee lou;v. In ilk' opera- tion melt hell enol her brood is eon - fined in a email ren sbOul, Rxl0 feet, 1 which the Malarial a al h d i of vitt 0 tl or# nsvr n co ' 11- 1 ; "T1erct lies ,lane 'White, wife. of 'elramas 1Wh1Lr, stonemason, '1'11is 1 monument was put up nut of 10epect for her nunnery, and as a epecfm0) of his tvot'ltnittnnllip, '1.'0mbs in the Sante style, ef350." TREAT:iNG AN OLD SORE. Xtt sometimes i;4 90118 • that from burns •or Wounds .of'viiriou9 kinds a raw sore. is' left. This. goes on, week after week,and perhaps months, with a raw, granulated surface, that shows no disposition to heal. A great many remedies have been tried for such a sore. If we were called upon to treat such a case, this would be our treatment: \ye would sprinkle the sore • freely willt•ppevdered boric aoid. The boric acids Should be very finely powdered. It can be obtaineetat.pny, drug store, 13 r thati is fresh,' o sure t le ' and • wail pulverized.Spet to it well, all all over the raw surface. Put on plenty. Lay carefully on the boric acid 0. Wu rubber tissue, which can b a eb- tained also at the drug store. 'rho rubber tissue should be allowed to overlap the sore for half au inch on all sides, and should be fastened at the ridges by adhesive piaster, Over this should be put some ab- sorbent cotton, and Bien a . snug;. support:irlg bandage wrapped evened the whole. P5Is,"rtito,uld be allowed to reattain one weak, trtlless, (11 produces 1,111t1 or other discontfart, when it 'should be taken off, tr 101111ly cleansed with warn( water, and the sore dressed 0gafa. —� A story is toldof a welt-khenvn preacher Who Went to a barber and said ; "Now, I want you to cat my hair es Short as yea would like a sermon." On rising from his chair and ruefully surveying Ws bald nuc) shining head, he was staggered to observe that the barter wanted no sornion at all, "Pretty Well," remarked the doe- tor"s slaughter, when someone nslcrxl Ivey now "things were going." "i'eerl- ty of (eke, some bronchitis, and a little typhus fever; but, as fattier saki yesterday, 1011111 we tvn.nt, to make things lively is a Mee little epidemic." A short male always RIMS to stand en hfw digllily, i HEALTH ,r eye tee nee TAKINU COLD, If a person site all day with wet feat or damp Walling, or mss out inu1o>alwtt noathel inaullicientlyr chilethcri, lies on rho 51'uuaid bcfora ft is tiiuroughly warns and dry, sits in u draft to cool ole, or does some oilier equally, impr'uilont thing ho will 1101 need to wonder if he cntehee cold. Ise will know exactly when hast caused hint to take cold. It is t1 plain violation o1' the common sense Paws of hertttit. Gut quft0 often 31 9008031 takes cold and cannot, tell just why. 130 hits been very careful not to expeeo himself in any, Poetisii way, he has violated hygienic oted1 310 taw sofar noy6 et as be knows, and yet lie ends himself every, daytaking cod, Perhaps 11 may be Nat a slight cold, but nevertheless very, annoying, He becomes exceed- ingly careful and wetehful, and yet in spite ofl ail his solicitude he is daily taking cold, In nearly ovary Casa of this bind the trouble will the found to be the person. is over -exerting himself. 13.e is doing more work than 1m should., Ile is fatigued, exhausted, and Ills bodily vitality is kept at the lowest; ebb. This renders hiln'-'vet'y susceptible to taking cold, ^.13151 body is too tired and exhausted to resist the least untoward influence and cold is easily, taken, It Is generally in the evening that the cold mattes its ap- pearance, It may be, after a good night's rest, le will disappear, but after another day of exhausting toil the cold again makes its appearance.; Of course, the only remedy is rest and a let up in the daily work. Give the physical powers a chance to re- gain their vitality, then with less work and ordinary carefulness in re• gird to the laws of health, you will lied yourself proof against taking cold. A little cold may semi a slight thing, but continued day, after day it will soon make dangerous inroads upon the vitality and health, Noth- ing will be gained by working so hard all day that at night the body is so tired that it is not able to re- sist the slightest attack made upon it. To work into a chair in Com- plete exhaustion, all the bodily lune-, tions lowered, is a sure way t0 in- vita disease and disaster. If you find yourself taking cold easily, without any perceptible causee slow up u little. Talc a there ugh rest. Build up ,your general health. Let every muscle and nerve and brain cell be thoroughly recuperated, and then do not dissipate their vitality by overwork or taxing them in any way beyond the limit of their strength,, OBESITY. ' ' J The tendency to put on fat may he congenital or acquired; that is to say, it rimy be due to some inherited nutritional fault or it may be the direct result of overeating, or the eating of an undue proporeion of fat - forming foods. It "lay manifest it- self in ohildltood or early adult life; and is then in most eases an inherit- ed condition; but usually it first shows itseli in troublesome form in middle life, when an excess of food is not needed for growth and when the vital processes are galling slow- er, so that this excess cannot, be so rapidly eliminated as it was eal•lfer in life, and is thus stared up in the tissues as fat. Obesity in middle life is not al- ways due 10 over -eating, for it oc- curs not infrequently in those who aro very moderate in their indulgence at table, or are even abstentious. Then the fault is usually one of in- heritance, but this does 5101 mean ne- cessarily that the parents of grand- parents were corpulent: they may, on the contrary, have been spare, but they were gouty or suffered from dile- hetes, or gave .. SUMP other evidence that the processes of nutrition were not properly pgrforul0d.. Obesity, diabetes ottd gout itre in- terchangeable condttions in heredity, and etre all retero:ble to some nutri- tional fault; they are also, for the same reason, inte'changealile condi- tions even 'when atat hcreditoryeein.. that case resulting prom averinclui- gence or unwise indulgence in the pleasures of the table, Alter ,growth has ceased' much less food. is needed to support life and Make up for rho ordinary waste, yet there is seldom at this time aqy. re- duction made in the quantity of food taken. There aro two ichors of obesity, 'called usually the plethoric. and t anemic. The plethoric; which •is the common form in tante, is due -to the taking of too much food for all kinds; the anemic, from lviiich wom- en suffer more often than men, is due rather to the eating, trot of too mucic food, but of improper kinilc of food --ole sweets, candy, cakes and rho 1lke. 1t is almost always possible to re - (Wee flesh and to prevent its forth accumulation, but it 35 not alWa easy and is seldom agl'0Cable. curb mn51 be'^put an the appy Whether for quantity or for qt of toed. Habits 1f indolence be eye. .:tineand often the s must be kept tip for Umtata good:figure, like liberty, had only at the price of et lance. Ate I r n.mptrs—Ah, lnd3', ;van think it, bit, 011(0 1 had tact my rents end go 11, a Lady—'s'hal'l ell 1 want y.. eo now. Walla "aossm says he doesn't 0100 a penny in the. wetted," 111 1t-- "1i'm1 Shrowtl tradespeople 'Tosser deals with1Q tlhel—"W.hs.t 111011sh things n, young man will iso 'when he is in level" Edith (brenthlossly—"011, Ethel! 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