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The Brussels Post, 1904-11-3, Page 2MOM= 11.11.1 1111111111.111111113111 Thc ria L f Libcrty OR, A MIDNiGHT TTgrir.1 I 01111,1 CALL CHAPTER XIX. 9.'h� blinds were all clown at Long - dean Grange, a 110W desolation scare ad to be added to the gloom of th place, Out in the village it had fey some means become known that there Was somebody dead in the house, either madam herself or one a those beautiful young ladies whom nobody had ever seen, Chileren loitering about the groat lodge -gat se regarded Williams with respectful awe and Dr, 'Walker with curiosity. 'The doctor was the link connecting the Orange with the outside world. To add to the gloom of it all the bell over the stables clanged mourn- fully. The noise made 1Valker quite nervous as he walked up the drive by Williams's side. Not for e, pen- sion would he have dared approach the house alone. Williams, ihz the seediest and most dilapidated rusty black, had a leas of deepest melon - holy. "But why that confound— Why do they ring that bell?" Walker ask- ed, irritably. "Madam ordered it, sir," Williams replied. "She's queerer than ever, is mistress. She don't say much, but Miss Christiana's death is a great shock to her. She ordered the bell to be tolled, and she carried on awful when Miss Enid tried to stop it,." Walker murmured vaguely some- thing doubtless representing sym- pathy. "And nay other patieat, Williams?" he asked. "How is he getting along? Really, you ought to keep those • clogs under better control. It's a dreadful business altogether. Fancy a man of Mr. Henson's high charac- ter and gentle disposition 'being at. tacked by a savage dog in the very house! I hope the hound Is securely kennelled." "Well, he isn't, sir," Williams said, with just the glint of a grin on his dry features. 'And it wasn't alto- gether Rollo's fault. That dog was so devoted to Miss Christiana as you never see. And he got to know as the poor young lady was dying. So he creeps into the house and lies be- fore ber bedroom door, and when Mr. Ronson conies along the dog takes it in his 'end as he wants to go in there. And now Rollo's got inside, and nobody except Miss Enid dare go near. I pity that there under- taker when he comes," Walker shuddered slightly. Long - dean Grange was a fearful place for the nerves. Nothing of the routine or the decorous ever happened there. The fees were high arid the remunera- tion prompt, or Walker would have handed over his patient cheerfully to somebody else. Not for a moment did he imagine that Williams was laughing ttt him. Well, he need not see the body, which was a comfort. With a perfectly easy conscience be could give a certificate of death. And if only somebody would stop that hideous bell! Someone was Singing i quietly in the drawing -room, and the! music. seemed to be strangely bizarre' and out of place. Inside it seemed like a veritable house of the deact—the shndow of tragedy loomed everywhere. Tho dust roSe in clouds from the floor as the servants passed to and fro. They were all clad in black, and shuttle uneasily, as if conscious that their, clothes did not belong to them. Enid came out into the hall to meet the doctor. Her face seemed terribly whits encl , there was some-' tbing in her eyes that suggested an- xiety more than grief. "I suppose you have come princi- pally to see Mr. Henson?" sae said. "But my sister—" "No occasion to intrude upon your grief for a moment, Miss Henson," Walker said, quietly. "As X have told you before, there was very little hope for your sister from the first. It was a melancholy, satisfaction to me to find my diagnosis confirmed in every detail by so eminent an au- thority as Dr. Htttherly Bell, I will give you a certificate with pleasure —at once." ''You would like to see my sister?" Enid suggested. Tho quivering anxiety W48 in her e eyes again, the eirainocl look on her face. Walker was discreetly silent as to what he had heard about that bloodhound, but he had by no means forgotten it. "Not the least occasion, I assure you," he said, feeventio. ''Your sis- ter had practically passed away when I last saw her, There are times when—er—you see—but really there is no necessity." "Mr. Henson is terribly fastidious about these things." "Then he shall be satiated. I shall tell him that 1 have—or—seen the body, And I have, you know. In these matters a medical man cannot be too careful. If you will provide 113d witb pon and ink—" "Tliann you very much. Will you come this way, please?" Walker followed into the drawing - room. Mrs. Henson, wearing some- thing faded toed dishevelled in the way or a mourning dress, was croon- ing some dirge at the piano. Her white hair was streaming loosely over ber sboulders; there was a va- cant stare in her eyes. The intru- (leis might have been statues for all the heed she took a them. Present- ly the discordant music ceased and she began to pace noiselessly up and down the mom. "Another one gone," she murmur- ed; "the best -beloved. It is always the best -beloved that dies, and the one we hate that is left. Take all tliose coaches away, send the guests back hozne. Why do they come chattering and feasting here? She shall be drawn by four black horses to Churchtield in the dead of the night, and there laid in the family vault," "Mrs. Honson's residence," Enid explained, in a whisper. "it is some fifteen miles away. She has male up her mind that my sister shall be taken away as she says—to-morrow night. Is this paper all that Is ne- cessary for the—you understand? I have telephoned to the undertaker in 13righton." Walker hastened to assure the girl that what little further formality was required he would see to him- self. All he desired now was to visit Henson andget out of the house as soon as possible. As ho hurried from the drawing -room he heard Mrs. Henson crooning and muttering, ho saw the vacant glare in her eyes, and vaguely wondered how soon he should bave Lowther pa - edit here. Reginald Itenson sat propped up in his bed, white and exhausted. Be- yond doubt he had had a terrible shock and fright, and the drool) of his eyelids told of shattered nerves. There was a thick white bandage round his throat, his left shoulder was strapped tightly. Re spoke with difficulty. "Do we feel any bettor this morn- ing?" Walker asked, cheerfully, we don't," said Henson, with a total absence of his usual gracious- ness of manner. "We feel confound- edly,weak, and Rick, and dizzy. Every time 1 drop off to Sleep I wake with a stoat and a, feeling that that ino fernal dog is smothering me. Has the brute beetz shot yet?" "I don't fancy so; in fact, he is s, still at his post upstairs, and there- "Therefore you have not seen the body of my poor dear cousin?" "Otherwise I could have given no 'f " Waikor sxild. Wi Ise, "31 I have satisfied myself, sir, o and the requirements of the law.„ why, then, eveaybocts is satiated. I have seen the body." Technically the little doctor c spoke the truth. Henson muttered 3 something that sounded lil«) an apo- logy Walker smiled graciously and e suggested that rest and a plain diet tvere all that his patient needed. Rest was the great thing. The ban- dages need not be removed for a day or two, at the expiration of which time be would look in again. Once tho rood was reached in safety Wallo er took off his hat end wiped the bowls from We forehead. "What a house," he muttered. "What a life to lead, Thank good - nese 1 need not go there again be- fore Saturday. 11 anybody were to Wee me a small glass of brandy with a little soda now, I should feel telop- ted to break through nay rule aucl drink It." Meanwhile the long terror of the day drugged on Inside the house. Tho servants crept about the place on tiptoe, the hideous bell denged out, Arm Henson 'paced wearily UO and down the drawing -room, singing and muttering to herself, until Enid WM; fain to fly or break down and yell by:etc-deafly. It was one of Margar- et Henson's worst clays. The death of Christiana seemed to affect her terribly, Enid had watch- ed her in terror. Moro than once she was feedui that the frail thread would snrip—the last faint glimmer of reasou go out for ever. And yet it wouH be madness to tell Margar- et Hobson the truth. In the hest place she would not have understood and on the other hand she might have comprebonded enough to betray to Reginald Henson. As it was, her grief erns obvious and eincero enough. The whole thing was rennedly cruel, but really there was no help for it. And things had gone on splendidly, Henson was powerless to interfero. and the doctor was satisfied. Once' she had put her band to the plough Enid's quick brain saw her through. But she would have been hard put to it to devolve Henson under his very nose without the help of the blood- hound. Now she could see her way still farther. She waited nervously for a ring from the lodge -gates to ('0110], The undertaker was at the the house, and aut; bofour o'clock it i cglarteenegeo.otiting for an escort to the, Enid passed her tongue over a pair of dry lips. The critical mo- ment -was at hand. If she could gel through the next hour she was safe If not—but there must be no "if not," she told herself, The sonlerol taker came, sauve, quiet, respectfuln but he dropped back from the bed-] room door as he saw two gleaming! amber eyes regarding him menacing- ly. "The dog loved my sieter," Entail explained, quietly, "But he has found Ids way to ber room, and he refuses to move, Ile fancies that wo have done something with her. Oh. no, I couldn't poison lilmt And it would be a dreadful thing if there were to he anything like a struggle here. Come, Rollo." Evidently the dog had learned his lesson well. lie wagged his great tail, but refused to move. The un- dertaker took a couple of steps for- ward and Rollo's crest rose. There was a flash of wliite teeth and a. growl. At the end of half an hour no progress had been made. "There's only one thing for it," Willkxms suggested, in is rusty voice. "Wo can get the dog away for ton minutes at midnight. Ho likes a1 run then, and I'll bring the other! clogs to fetch him, like." "My time is very valuable Just now," the undertaker suggested, hum. vbhlesh. you had better measure 1110," sael tenni, turning a. face absolutely flaming reit and deadly white to th speaker. "It is a dreadful, ghastly, business altogether, but 1 =mot possibly think of any other way. The idea ot anything like a struggle hero is abhorrent. And the clog's fidelity is so touching. My sister and I were exactly except that she was fairer then me." The Undertaker was understood to demur slightly on professional grounds. It was very irregular and not in the least likely, to give satis- faction. "What does ft matter?" Einid cried, passionately. She was acting none 'the less magnificently because her nerves were quivering like harp- trings. "When I ani. dead you can fling me in 0 ditch, for 4111 I care. We are a strange family and 'do strange things. The question of sat- aitetion need not bother yoto Take my measure and send the coffin home onuorrow, and we will manage to o the rest. Then to -morrow night you Will have a four -horse hearse lore at seven o'cloelc and drive the offin to Chorchideld Church, where you will bo expected. After that 'our work will be finished." The bewildered young man respond - d that things should be exactly as the lady required. He had seen many strange and wild things in his time. but none so strange and weird as this. lit was all utterly irregular of course, but people after all ban a right to demand what they paid for, Enid n•atellecl 1110 demure young man in black down the corridor, and then everything seemed to be covet- oped in a dense purple mist, tho Oafrileg6a9963610% ON THE BE' ROZ6ZZZOGSZt963 PENDING COUSIN, Question is sometimes made whe- ther oe not it i profitable to feed grain to young stock early. Every- one knows that all life, animals (18 Well AS plant, 1na5eS the most rapid growth and development during the early period of its existence. in pro- portion to the length af time oc- cupied in reaching 'natality, is the rn.pidity with which growth pro- ceeds. Those who Have oven the most ordinary observation will note that where there has been an insui- (Mentor of nutrients necessary to fell development Suring the early stages of geowth, neither animal oor plant life will ever recover from the effects of such lack of nourishment. Nature's first food milk containing so much protein and ash, forms a guide for the future feeding; these constitu- mite being so necessary to building tie) the frame In growing stock. In determining the quality and mum - tit,', of rations, consideration must be given to the purpose for which the cattle are afterward intended. In feeding for beef, while supplying to the calves ts, suilleleacy of frame - growing nutrients, the rations should also be rich in flesh forming material so as to retain the calf flesh and bring on evenly an increase in Loth frame and flesh. If intended for chary purpose, then the line of feed- ing should be such that while main- taining a. thrifty condition as to flesh, will soon raise an animal of large frame aod hardy constitution fitted for the dual Strain of meter - oily and producing a large flow of mulk Considering these things, it seems almost superfluous to question lho WISDOM AND ncoNoatXf of feeding a generous allowance of grain 00 young stock especially dur- ing. the fall and winter months. Dar- ing the spring and S11111111er months when the pastuies are in the first flesh of growth it is probable that good grazing will supply all the ele- ments of nutrition necessary, hut, as Pastures begin to fire a, small allow- ance of grain, to be increased as winter approached, will prove most beneficial in keeping ;up the condition acquired from, the summer pasture. It is of the utmost importance to keep the young animals always galoing; to allow a falling off in condition is false economy, as the .after cost of putting it on agaia will greatly ex- ceed the expence of a little extra ga'n feed at the proper time. It would be indeed difficult to find a ration without grain for properly wintering young stock—poseibly made corn silage and clover hay would bo found very satisfactory, thoogli Blare would, of course, be seine grain in the silage, Of the whole wheat rolled or crushed. The largest and most even lot of calves e I ever saw were fed on a ration of pulped' root mixe(1 with straw and hay with an allowance of rolled wheat added; generally, however, this grain is to be expensive, except its 1 by-product bran, which should never be omitted from the grain ration of ;young stock, probably there is no mole suitable grain than oats for 1.11 young animals and if raiseti on the ferns it should not bo very ex- pensive. A grain ration of two ! together with some succulent parts bran to one each of oats and corn, feed sucli as roots or ensilage and !hay or oat straw for roughage, will imelco satisfactory Wintering. DAIRY NOTES. Damp floors are an injury in any daily. It takes gilt-edged neatness to make gilt-edged butter. Next to a good cow is a place to manufacture her product. Ripe cream is distinct from sour ream in that it is uniform soured, The time to temper cemon is he - ;fore it goes into the churn, not infter, Churning is a work of separation and needs to be done at a uniform And Protect Your Children by Keeping in the liouse 0111 se's fr" Linseed Turpentine THE THOROUGHLY TESTED AND RELIABE FAMILY MEDICINE. To overcome croup You must act quickly. There is usually no time allowed for sending for doctors or medicines. The hollow, croupy cough at mid- night may be your Drst warning, and this will strike terror to your heart if you aro not proparab to fight this disease. I1 may be of little use to know that Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine is a positive cure for eremp 11 11 is not to be obtained at the critical time. Most persons who have toted this treatment for croup keep 4 bottle at hand, so that by prompt oaten they 0011 proVent the disease from reaching serioue stage. Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linsoe'd and Tdrpentine is Composed of simple in. greateats of ungoestioned curative power, is pleaeant to the taste, Tell liked Inc children, anti con he tiend ;With perfect iatresty by old and panne-, so long as directions are fol- lowed. M111-1, GEORGE BROWN, 73. Ilar- bord street, Toronto, writes: "Ow children have been versr sub. jeet to croup, end we have found that Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine has always brought, relief. By tieing it at the first sign of trouble the disease is checked at once. We always keep this remedy in the liouse, and, in facts feel that we could not do without ft, -1Vc, 11 100 1.180 It for coughs and colds With me. eellent results, and recommend it to our friends." Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine, 211 cents a brittle; faintly them tithes as muell, fe0 cents, at all dealers or ISSImanson, Dates & Co., Toronto, To protect you against imitations, the portrait and signature of Dr. A. W, Chase, the fitounis receipt book anther, are on °Veto, bOX. temperature. It is a westof cream to put it into the churn wifett fresh. The cow's stomach is not a nom - Pluto strainer that separates all good Demi all had. The Profitable dairy cow is one Sat, grows better by using as a airy animal. The quietly kept and well fed dairy cow puts all her vital energy into mill< production. There is only one infallible way of finding out whether extra feeding pays, and that is from an increase in the butter fats. Never scald a dairy vassal of any kinal until the milk has been rinsed off with water Of a temperatuee not to 1.17o scalding pin -t, The milk and beef traits character- istics and foom of the animals are entirely distinet, so they cannot bo comblifird in one animal. Tri making butter, what is svant- 1 is just as little water in the milk and Suet an 117,0011 batter fat as pos- sible. Alt there is of value in the Nutter milk is the small percentage of Cher -se arid auger it. contains. What bnl 4,'' comes 118 1130e1 perioOt condition, the globules of fat tir the cream are in ct liquid state just previous to the time it 5)01118. Witter, whether pumped in the milk out of the well, or out of a cones uddie-, will net make butter Or 4(4"I 11,1 10.8, to have butter flavor until's- feed, should hot contain to exceed 10-111) 1 mince of salt to the 1100111.!, ou, it over the percent. of writer, The drier 1)1;1,11?)', 1)1(1210 lei 17 o t breaking the genie. end the toe salt mod, the hotter the butter flavor, kind the bet Ler keeper it will be, Cream is soured to destroy the al - world tl Was spinning Under heer to t d there team a great 'Wise like the rush 1 of nilglity waters in her brnin. With! 11 great (-Son she throw off the weak- nees and 011100 to herself trembling from head to foot. "Courage,'' she murmured, "cour- age. This lifts has told 011 1113 01010than 1 thought. With Chrilis ex- ample before me I must not Oseak dnow.''- own (To 130 Coll 1.1.111.10d.) PROM DRAIN TO WHEAT, Tee origin of all tveights and mea- sures in England was derived from a. grain of wheat. Accolding to the old slalom, thirty-two greens, well dried, and gathered from the middle of the ear, Were 10 make one penny- weight, twenty pennyweighte one ounce. It Ives afterwards thought better to divide the peenywelght into twenty-four equal poet% culled gentile. William the Conqueror introduced in- to England' what (11(48 celled Troy Weight, from Troyes, a tOW11 111 the Province of Champagne. in Prance, The English were diseetteffect With this weight, bedtime the pound did not weigh 80 notch ne the pound in erl use et that time in England. Hence arose the term Avobr du polo, Whidi Was a medium between the Prench 01 and the ancient Engtieh weights. 111 lt's 2,0 use inviting people to the life of joy if you're wrapped in the shreold of gloom, [Waking Converts Foy Leaps and Bounds ,0-11 CEYLON NATURAL GREEN tea by its absolute purity lit delicious flavor is displacing Japan tea just as "SALADA" black Is displaving all other black lefl.S. Sealed lead packets only. 25c and 4.00 per lb. By all grocers, buminous element, so that there mot be a quicker union of the butter tate. But care must, be taken not to have too sour, The two best feeds for milk ani- mals are wheat, bran and red clover hay, though, of course, the animals should have a greater variety in their rations. Cream should never be allowed to stand long enough to show any wat- ery appearance between the cream and the milk, 11 11 does, it will not take 0 first class article of butter. DO NOT ICISUIP IDLn HENS. One of the most importaat duties on the part of the poultrynuan is that of thinning out his flocks, As long as some of the hens arc laying there is an inclination to wait for others to begin, and time passes by, every clay being one of expectancy, but the hens do not lase Weeks of labor and feeding result all in hope that the unprofitable hens will soon begin to lay, but not until spring opens and the weather becomes warm do the 110135 give a flill quota Of eggs. Got rid of the idle hens, and keep only tlioso that are giving a profit. It is better to be the owner of a flock of only a dozen hens that aro doing service in egg production than to have twice that nuartber in idle Sens. SELECTING- PEEDING sTnnEs, In selecting steers for early matur- ity the shape of the head and neck is often a belp. Usually a short broad head and sliort, think neck go with a short, broad body mod short legs. 1a some individuals the early maturing type is carried to the ex- treme, in which cnse there .is always a lack of slze. Such individuals as well as others are most profitable when marketed just as soon as fat, regardless of size. It is worthy of note that the blocky early-maturiog steers are also easier keepers in that they require less grain in proportion to hay for laying on flesli and keep- ing in good condition. MANAGE1WENT THAT WINS. Industry is not the Only tiling re- quired On the farm, lf it were, a great many mon that fail would set - coed. ISSeeping eternally at 11. thing docs not, always bring success, in spite of the trite saying that 11 does. Intelligent management is al- so required, and this kind of nsanage- ment often requires a good deal of information in several directions. PAY IN THE JAPANESE Anivar. The economy practised in the Ja- i/otiose army can be gathered from a brief resume of the tables of pay. Thus, whereas a general in the Brit- ish army receives $14,600 a year, or $40 a day, the Japanese general is content with $8,000 a year, a lieutenant -general with $2,000, a colonel with $1,190, and a, major with $575, which is less than the British lieutenant receives, Tho Brit- ish Tommy Atleins, again, is a posi- tive millionaire in comparison with the Japanese private, who is the re- cipient of GO cents a month if he is a first-class private, and :35 -cents if his rank is but second-class. I N' Right food=right medicine=right time. these three things are of the utmost import- ance to the con- sumptive. Right food and right medicine - these are contained in SCOWS nis of pure cod-liver oil. Right time is at first sign of disease. Right ,time is now. Scott's Emulsion always helps, often cures. Ordinary food helps feed. Fresh air helps cure, Scott's Emulsion does both. 13cgin early. We'll send you a little to try if you like. Scott & 13001118, Toronto, Oat WASH DIRTY CHILDREN LONDON', ENGLAND, SCHOOL BOARD'S DECREE, Dirty Children, Sent Home, and Parents Must Appear in Court. TIM London County Council have framed a now by-law which practi- cally makes the use of soap among' school children compulsory. Under the new scheme of the Edu- cation Committee several certificated nurses have been nppointed to ex- amine the condition of the scholars, Children M. a dirty etate aro exclud- ed, and the parents summoned for non-attendance. In Southwark and other districts south of the Thames' the by-law has received the active support of the magistrates, but Mr. Cluer, the Wor- ship street stipendiary, refused to timail?,°asectili'legnaolntiets1;e aasdvitchea oSicitiph°ei nudsr0see- had ordered that a child should not be re -admitted in a clean state till after the parents HAD BEEN SUMMONE'D. The head teacher of the Seawfall street school, Haggerston, where this happened, told a Daily News repre- sentative that a nurse recently paid a surprise visit to the school and ex- amined the children. In one or two cases the children were sent hoirte, and notice of uncleanliness was given to the parents, with a word of ad- vice as to how the children should be washed. Where that notice was ig- nored the case was reported to the doctor, and prosecution for aon-at- tendance followed. "I think it is an excellent by- law," said the head teacher, "and I am glad to see the L. C. C.'s ex- ample is being followed by other edu- cation authorities throughout the °matey, It cheeks the spread or skin diseases, such as ringworm, which has been very prevalent lately. GIRLS WORSE THAN BOYS. "Parents ought to thank the coun- cil for giving more attention to the development of a strong and healthy bod,sr, and X hope the fines inflicted upon parents in Southwark and else- where will help them to realize the Council's earnest endeavor to have clean scholars. Of course I have no power to exclude a scholar simply be- cause his hands or face are dirty. If a lad deliberately covered himself in mud in the hope of being sent back as 'not in a properly clean condition' ho would bo detained in the school and made to wash himself. The Council only interferes when the dirt is so thoroughly ingrained that it has led to a skin disease. There is 000 fact which mothers inay bo ra- ther shocked to hear, and it is that the girls are found to be dirtier than the isboys.'' . sis generally conceded that the spread of education has made a wonderful change in the condition of poor children. In the old chive there was scarcely a piece of soap to be seen in the school lavatorio; now the cry is that tliere is too much. CHINESE SLAVERY. China is the great slave country of the world. Of a population of 1.00,- 000,000 there are slaves to the num- ber of 10,000,000. Every family of means keeps its girl slaves, and a tuan's poltion is usually gauged by the number he keeps. At any ago fro01 three to fifteen girls aro sold, seven or eight being Ilia ago at whiell most change hands. The girls are purchased to do housework, it being cheaper to buy than to hire, Slaves vary in priee; $1 0 is about the aver- age, but much depouds on the girl's appearance. A good-looking girl will fetch. $20, or even $40. COULDN'T POSSIBLY 0011113. Preacher (calliug on new parishion- er) :—"I wish you would bring your husband to church with you next Sunday, Mrs, Jones." Mrs. Jones (hesitatingly):—"r d like to, but rm sure 140 power on earth could make him." Preacher (astonislied):—"Indeed Perhaps I migh1 be able to persuade him." Mrs. Joties—"Ob, I think not. You see, he's been dead ten years!" CHANCE TO PROVE DEVOTION. Wift7--"If you can't support me aa I ought to bo OupPorthd, you "night, BA least go to the races." ausband—"Whatl Do you want me to gamble on horse races to one courage your extravagance?" Wife—"Of course not. You needn't bet at all, But society JO always willing to make allowances for a woman if they think her husband is going to the doge." NEW tiltICSSING VOR WOUNDS, According to Paris newspapers, tlio surgeons are now dressing wounds with silver leaf. The silver 15 Simply placed on the tveninci or 11110r, and as It 'sticks close to the surface it Hi, tle cotton soaked in ecillodin is suf- ficient to keep it in place, The d- iens of this shoot of sl/Ver are Ne,id to be very remarkable.; • 0.0-00 0000000-0 00 00000 1>0-0 YOUNO FOLKS 00-0-0-0 00-00 0 0-000 000 00 0.00 15 BED, Sometimes 1 11(01 to have it cold. .POr 1110,1 1 Stay Ill bed, And lutve my paints and all my toye Arranged upon the spread, And r have the button -box That live& on mother'e shelf, Of course, when 1 ion well, no olle Can touch it but bereelf, I rio »01. hare to eat the things Tha1 come on other dnYs. But oranges and jelly, too, To tempt nie, mother says. 011, every ono is 50041 and 1(11111, Awl Wiles it very sad, But mother knows X like the fun - Unless the pain is bad. THIS O'PHISIS LITTLE 1305. "0 mainunie, I'm so lonesome Inn most dried upl" Nedele's pretty face was drawn up like a green porsint- Men, and he really did look as if he hed told the truth about himself. "Lonesome? Poor little fellow 1, Why don't you phtse with The Other Little Boy?" "What othee „little boy, muramie?". Neddie's eyes 'looked more 111So blue china saucers than ever. "You're Jes' testin' me, rnununie. You know there ain't any other little boy, but ine," "Oh, yes, there is," said "inume min," quite positively.. "There is always The Other Little 1303', and you can't fancy what a nice compan- ion ho is," "Do pn0out 'nye:11r nZadsobwadow?S"eu can only play with that when the light shines a certain way. But you can have The Other Little Boy WheneVer you want him." "Please, muunnle, don't be teasy! Where is the other little boy?" "He is wherever you want him to be. COMO, 1100', show you how you like?" toollplaare-bitevait.1:, him. What game would Neddie had a blouse pocket full of "glaesies" and "chinies," and all sorts of lovely marbles whose names grown folks do not begin to know, SO it is no wonder that he chose marbles. They went out into the yard, meta - mkt and Neddie. Muounie said Tho Other Little Boy went, too; but as Noddle could not see hba, be found it hard to belie° even if inuounte sa'i'dIstiso'i that strange? I wonder if he shoots the best he can?" said amniotic, with a queer sort of look that made Nedclie's face flush the least little bit. "I'm hungry now. Clan't we 11e.10 a little tea-party, me '11' The Other Li`Whyn, t'tiO3;es:?", 10 he sure. That's a fine idea. 5041 enn set the table over there In ilie corner. Here'a, a clears towel for a table -cloth," and inure- ntie was off to the pantry for cakes and. a lot of good things. You would not believe what a SUC- eess that tea-party was! The Other Little Boy had the most beautiful table manners. 110 was such a, mod- est little fellow, tool Whenever Ned - die handed him the cakes and very good things, lie always shook his small, invisible head and said : "No, 1 thank you! llat them yoursoh, Mr. Gre110111. The doctor says eweet things are not good for me." He did take n biscuit and several things that Neddie did not care very much about. But his appetite must bave bee14 poor, for they wore still beside his plate when mummie oloar- ect theut:4117,101;m 157 the feehy p a p- er, Show the pictures to The Other Little Boy, while I finish your new blouse." And again num:unto went back to her machine. In showing the pictures to The Other Little Boy and in tellieg lilin what they meant, Necktie's curly heacl dropped Lower and lower, until it gently eased down upon the pil- low that muminie had slipped be- Itind An t.1hdon111.r later he awakened with a str "Where is he'?" he cried,, looking mend aexieeslY, as he rubbed two sleepsbrightened wialsers. "Where 1s who, cleary?" asked mummie, absently, with a mind o14 the sewingonachine. "Why, The Other Little Boy! I dreamed he Was gone clean away, and yott said he couldn't ever coma ba00113m,, h 01a0. "Oh, 110is atilt here, ready to play with you whenever you want 11110. Only don't ever forget how helpless he is." That was only the beginning of good times that Neddie and The Other Little Boy had, At flea Ned- mdi Ito beat at all the games, end mum - "Isn't 'it queer how The °other Little Boy always gets beaten? Are you quite sure that be does his very btfeesl\'s`STN71:10t'4''M, I don't think he 1105lelooked whole and then con - tried qtrite as heed all I: have, but 111 make him do it atter this," And would you bellow it?tWithont over tel angry word or an unkind look, Neddie learned from Ills companion the big, big 1055014 that fell fecal" the perest lips ever on °41`;Ttlitielrefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," RAILWAY There are about 200 railway emit - panto in England end Wales alone( and about twent-live ends in Mait- land and lrelitnd, making a total ot fully. 250 separately wanstliated Paoleti, between 1e101400 ownership ere divided the 224 50 eelleS Of English railway, sy,staiiii.