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CHAPTER XXIV.
Rauld Henson struggled out o
bed and into kis elothitig ua best ho
could. He wasterribly weak and
shaky, far more weak that he hall
imagined himself to be, but he was
in danger now, and his Indomitable
will -power pulled him through. What
a fool Littimer had been to tell brai
so much, merely so that he might
triumph over hie powerful foo for a
few mitutes, But Henson was plan-
ning a little scheme by which he in-
tended to repay the young men ten-
fold. lie had no doubt as to the
willingness of his tool.
Ile took a bottle of brandy from
a drawer aud helped himself to a
liberal close. Walker had expressly
forbidden ything of the kind, but
it was no time for nice medical
obedience, The grateful stimuli -Mt
had its immediate effeet. Then Em -
men rang the bell, and after a time
Williams appeared tardily,
"You are to go down to Barnes
and ask him to send a cab here as
00011 EU( possible," Henson said. "I
have to go to London by the first
train in' the morning."
Williams nodded, with his mouth
wide upon. He was astonished and
not a little alarmed at tho strength
and vitality o.f this man. And only
a few hours before Williams had
learnt with deep satisfaation that
Henson would be confined to his bed
for some days.
Henson dressed at length and pack-
ed a small portmanteau. But be
had to sit 011 his bed for some little
time and sip a further dose of bran-
dy before he could move farther. Af-
ter 4111 there W(U) 110 hurry. A full
boar was sure to elapse before the
leisurely Barnes brought the cab to
the lodge -gates.
Henson crept downstairs at length
and trod his catlike way to the
library. ()nee there he proceeded
to make a 011nute Inspection of the
telephone. He turned the handle
just the fragment of an inch and a
queer smile came over his face. Then
he crept as silently upstairs, opened
the window of the bathroom quiet-
ly, and slipped on to the leads.
There were a couple of insulators
here, against the wire of one of
which Henson tapped his knuckles
gently. The wire gave back an an-
sweing twang. The other jangled
linip and loose.
"One of the wires cut," Henson
muttered. "I expected as much.
Madame Enid is getting a deal too
clever I suppose this is some sug-
gestion of her very estate friend
David Steel. Well, 3. have given Mr,
Steel one lesson in minding his own
business, and if he interferes further
I shall have to give hint auother, Ile
will bo in gaol before long charged
with attempted murder and robbery
with violence, and so exit Steel. Af-
ter that the gi\lwill he perhaps
chary of seeking- utside assistance.
i
And this will be he third X have
had to get rid of. XTea,vensl How
feeble I feel, how weak I am. And
yet I must go through this thing
now."
Ile staggered into the house again
and dropped into a chair. There was
a loud buzzing in Ids eaes, so that
he could hardly hear the murmur of
voices in the drawing -room below.
This was annoying, because Henson
liked to hear everything that other
folks said. Then lie dropped off into
a kind of dreamy state, coming back
presently to the consciousness that
ho had fainted.
Meanwhile Frank Littimer had
joined Enid in the drawing -room.
The house was perfectly quiet and
still by this time; the dust -cloud
hung on the air and caused the
lamps to burn with a spitting blue
flame. Etnicl's Saco looked deadly
pale against her black dress.
"So you 110X0 been seeing Regin-
ald," she sahl. "Why -why did you
do it?"
"X didn't mean to," Frank mutter-
ed, "I never intended him to know
that X had been in the house at all,
But, 3. Was passing 11 11 mom and he
heard me. He seemed to know my
footsteps. I believe if two miee ran
by Min twice la the darkness 1 e
r eould tell the difference between
hem.
"TOO had an interesting converse
Lion. What dtd lia want to use the
-
telephone for?''
"I don't know, I tried to manipu
late it for him, but the instrument
W118 out of order."
"I know. I had a pretty shrewd
idea what our 00115111 was going to
do. You see, I was listening at the
door. Not a very ladylike thing
to do, but one must Ugh I: Henson
with his own tools. When 1 heard
him ask for the telephone directory
1 ran out 011(1 nipped one of the
wires by the bathroom, Prank, it
would have been far wiser if you
hadn't come."
Littimer nodded gloomily. There
was something like tears in his ayes.
"I know it," he sald. "I Mao the
place and its dreadful associations.
But I wanted to see Chris first. Did
she say anything about me before-
bef oro--"
"My dear boy, she loved you al-
ways, She, knew and understood,
and was 'sorry, And elle never, never
forgot the last time that you were
in tho house."
Prank Littimer glanced across the
room with a shudder. Ms eyes
dwelt with fascination on the over-
turned table with its broken china
and glass and wilted Bowers iu the
corner.
"It is not the kind of thing to for-
get," he said, hoarsely. "I can see
my father utv—"
EOid shuddered. "don't
recall it. 'And your mother has nev-
er been the same since. 3. doubt if she
will ever be the same again, From
that dny to this nothing has ever
been touched In the house. And
Tfenson comes here when he can and
makes 0111' lives hideous to us."
"I fancy I shook him up to -night,"
Littater said, with subdued triumph.
"He seemed to shudder when I told
him that I had found Van Snack."
Enid started from her ehair. Her
eyes were shining with the sudden
brilliancy of unveiled stars.
"You have found Van Sneekl" she
whispered. "Where?"
"Why, in the Brighton nospttal.
Do you mean to say that you don't
know about lt, that you don't know
that the man found so mysteriously
in Mr. David Steel's house and Van
Sneck are one and the same per-
son?"
Enid resumed her seat again. .31n)
was calm enough now.
"It. bad not occurred to me," , she
said. "indeed, X don't know why
why it should have done. Sooner
or later, of course, I should bave
suggested to hir. Steel to try and
identify the man, but—''
"My deer 3.Dnid, what on earth are
you talking about?"
"Nonsense," Enid said, in some
confusion. "Things you don't un-
derstand at present, and things you
are not going to understand just
yet. I read in the papers that the
man was quite a stranger to Mr,
Steel. But are you certain that it is
Van Sneck?"
"Absolutely certain. I went to the
hospital and identified him."
"Then there is no more to be said
on that point, But you weee foolish
to tell Reginald."
"Not a bit of It. Why, Henson
has known it 011 along. You needn't
got excited. Ile is a deep fellow,
and nobody knows better than he
how to disguise his 'feelings. 'All the
same, he was just mad to know
what I had discovered, you could
see it in his face, Reginald ll'en-
son—"
Littimer paused, open-mouthed, for
Henson, dressed and wrapped ready
for the joiteney, had come quietly
into the drawing -room. The deadly
patio], of his face, the white band-
ages about his throat, only served
to render 1118 appearance more em-
phatic and imposing. Ile stood there
with the halo of dust aliout him,
looking like the devil genius of the
place,
"I fear I startled you," he said,
with a sardonic smile. "Aral I fear
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•
that in the $tillness of the plitco
have overheerd a great part of yet
conversation, Erank, I must em
gratulate you on your discretion, s
far. But neelog that you are youn
and impressionable, 1 am going t
move (01111110We/1 out of your way
firald, I am going on 8. joormaa"
"1 triad. that IL is a long on:
rind that it will detain you for
considerable 3)0010(1, '0 E11111 801(
001(1 137.
"It is neither far, nor is it 1111(11
W.) keep me," Henson smiled, "WI
ilams 1108 just come in with the It
formation that the cab awaits in
at the gate. Now, then 1"
The last words were flung at Li
timer with contemptuous comment
Ilio hot blood Bared 11110 the yours
n1ta8 face. Ienid's eyes flashed.
"If my cousin likes to stay here,'
she said, "why—"
"Ife la coming with me," Manson
said, hortreely. "Do you understand
With me! And 15 1' like to drag hin
-or you, my pretty lady- to th
end of th world or the gates of Per
dition, you 10111 have to 001110. Now
get along before I compel you."
Enid stood with fury in her eye
and clenched bands as Lit:timer stunt
away out of the house, Henson fol
lowing between his victim and Wil
Hams. He said 110 WOr(18 till th
lodge -gates were past and the grow
of the dogs had died into the dis
tanee.
"We are going to Littimer Castle'
said Henson.
"Not there," Littimer groaned -
"not there, Henson! 1. couldn't -1
couldn't go to that place!"
Henson pointed towards tile cab,
"Littimor or perdition!" he salcl•
"You don't want to go to tile lat-
ter just yet? Jump in, thonl't
CHAPTER XXV,
3. the place with :hefts of golden and
1r blue and purple es 11, 001110 filtered
1- through the 81 ,3110111 Oran. At a
• table in the window u girl eat Work -
Ing a typewriter. alai alight have
o paseed for beautiful, only her hair
NVELS bawlea 1100 11 in hideously Puri -
tau fashion 01) each eide of her (1,41-
,, eat°, oval Mee, her eyes were shield.
a eri by spectacles, But they 1(e1.0
1, 10001y, steady, couremeaw blue
eyes, ns Latimer 111(1 not fail to ob-
serve. Also lie Mal not failed to
note that his now secretary mild
do very well without the glasses.
e Tho typewriter and secretary busi-
ness was a DOW W111111 Of Littination,
1, 11< wanted an assistant to catalogue
1, and claiisily his pictures and prints,
g and he had told the 'vicar so. lie CEYLON TEA BLA CK TINCOLORED GREEN. They are sold
wanted a girl who wasn't a fool, a only in sealed lead. packets. Never in bulk. 25c and. 40c per
girl who could amuse hint wouldn't lib, By s.11 Grocers,
be afraid of 111111, and he thought 11
, would have an Ameelean, To whk'l
7 the vicar responded that the whol
1 thing was nonsense, hut ho Mg
O heard of a Boston girl in Englanr
- who had a pasaion for that kind
thing- and who was looking for
situation of the kind in a genuin
s old house for a year Or 80. Th
vicar added that he had not sew
- the youter lady, but he could obtai
- her address. A reply came in du
O course, a reply that so pleased th
1 impetuous Earl that he engaged th
- applicant on the spot. And now alu
had been just two hours in th
house.
"'Well," Lit -timer cried, "and 1101
have you been getting on?"
Miss Christabel Lee looked up
smilingly.
"I ant getting on very well in-
deed," she said. "You see, I have
made a study of this kind of thing
alt my lifetime, and most of your
pictures are like old Mends to 1110.
Do you know, 3. fancy that you and
I are going to mauage very well to-
gether?"
"Oh, do you? They say I am pret-
ty formidable at times."
"1 shan'n't mind that a bit. V011
see, My father was a man with a
villainous temper. But a woman
can always get the better of a. bacl-
tempered man unless he happens to
be one of the lower classes who uses
his boots. If he 10 a gentleman you
have him utterly at your mercy.
Have you a sharp tongue?"
"X flatter myself I can be Pretty
blistering en occasions," LIttinier
said, grimly,
"How delightful( So can I. You
and I will have some famous battles
later on. 0111y 1 warn you that X
never lose my temper, which gives
me a treraeucloeit advantage. I
haven't been very well lately, so
37011 11111St be 11100 tO 1110 for a week
or two."
Littimer smiled am! nodded. The
grim lord of the castle was not ac-
customed to this kind of thing, and
lie was telling himself that he rather
liked it.
"And now show 1110 the Rem-
brandt," Miss Lee said, impatiently.
Littimer led the way to a distant
alcove lighted from the side by a
latticed window. There was only
one picture 111 the excellent light
there, and that was the famous Rem-
brandt engraving. Iiittimer's eyes
lighted 10) quite lovingly as they
rested upon it. The Florentine
frame was hung so low that Miss
Leo mould bring her face on a level
wlth it.
is the picture that was stol-
en from you?" she asked.
Yes, that s the thing that there
was all the fuss about. It made a
great stir at the time. But I
don't expect that it will happen
again."
"Why not?" Miss Lee asked. "When
an attempt of that sort is made it is
usually followed by another, some-
times after the lapse of years. Any-
body gelithig through that window
could easily get the inane from its
two nails and take out the paper,"
"Do you think so?" Littimer ask-
ed, uneasily,
"I em certain of it. Take my ad-
vice and make it SOCIWO. The panels
behind aro hard wood -thick. black
oak. Lord lattimes, I am going to
get four brass -headed stays and
drive them through some of the
Mien ornamental work into the panel
80 08 to make the pleture quite se-
cure. It is an Iron frame, I sup-
pose?"
"Wrought-irom gilt," said Litti-
mer, "Yes oue could easily drive
four brass -headed stays through the
open work and make the thing safe,
I'll have it seen to."
But Miss 1,00 insisted that there
NVLIA 110 time like the present, Site
had discovered that Latimer had an
'excellent carpenter's shop on the ime-
/rases; indeed, she admitted to being
herself, She flitted with the lathe
heeself. Sim flitted clown the stairs
light 118 thistledown.
'A chart -Meg Littimer said,
ciyaically, "I wonder why she came
to this dull hole? A. quarrel with
her ' young man, perhaps, If were
a young man myself 1 might— But
women are all the same. I 811001(1
bo a happiee men if 3.1 had never
trusted one. 11--"
The face draMentel; 11 heavy scowl
lined his brows as he paced up and
down. (airistabol came back pre-
sently with hammer and some Waft -
leaded stays in her hand,
(To be Contitued.
LOVE'S InIONII"Plilit.
Ire Was sitting alone on the vera/1-
1011, and close by him sat a yottg
and pretty widow and a little six -
'1'110 Ilttle ow ran up to the gen-
ii:man, who patted hint 011 the head,
,111:1,ke(tt'syour namho e?" tlittle
Oy
He told him.
"Is you morriecl?" he lisped,
"Po; I'm not," was the reply.
Then iho child paused a moment,
nd, turning to his mother, said.
"Xtunnia, -what else did you tell
O to ask him?"
.A now Swiss wain contains
thy hard rtibber phonograph plate,
Melt 0Calla out the hours loud
nough to be Honed twenty feet
Japan or Black Tea Drinkers ICOyLD NOT STOP CRYING
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Fd;a ON THE FARM.
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MAY Ils;CItEASIO CAPACITY,
O In an address before the Wiscon-
1 0111 Dairy/11011, PrOl, W, L. Carlyle,
o bai'cl
'iter fifteen years of study and
ObiterV11 1011 and nye years of ex-
perimental invest ige Hell of the
:Miry capacity of cows representing
practically all 1110 ty1/08 of cows
kept on Xlie farm of this state, I aro
willing to risk ley reputation o11 the
treatment that there is .1101 a
healthy, normal calf dropped upon
any 01 the farms of that state, of
any breed, that will not, if properly
reared, fed and eared for from birth
onward, produce at least 300 pounds
of butter i)1 a year, when at her
best. At the same time, I believe
grate as firmly that there are many
dairy cows bred for the specific pur-
pose of milk and butter production
through many generations that will
produce (300 pounds of butter per
year under mem favorable condi-
tions as readily us 801110 other cows
not having these inherited tetalen-
ates w11 produre three hundred
pourras.
"While I do not wish to advocate
the breeding of anything but the
beet of dairy (0108, or to underes-
timate 111 any way the importaatm 05
inherited tendencies, yet I 001 (15-
511(0)1 from the results of our work
at our Experiment Stet in that
there are thousands of choioo dairy
cows that are not returning
tthat they are not surrounded with
heir owners a profit, for the reason
the proper environment, including
suitable feed, shelter and 101(00.370-
111011±, the cows purchased for our
dairy head only two or three have
l cost above $115 and many of them
much -less. They include cows in-
heriting beef tendeucies, and yet
thole is not
A MATURE COW
in the herd, except a pure bred Jer-
sey, or two, that has not produced
over 400 pounds of butter in a
year. The trouble with so many of
the dairy farmers in our state is
that they are accustomed to look
upon and think of 0 cow as (1111(1-
01)1110, into which if you put a cer-
tain amount of raw material you
will get a certain amount of finished
product, irrespective of the fact, that
each and every cow is an individual
with, certain peculiarities and tastes
that must be studied and under-
stood, and the most suitable raw
material supplied in the 1»atter of 1
feed, not to mention the numerous
other conditions, before the partieu-
If you had asked the first five
people on the Latimer Estate what
they thought of the lord of the soil
you would have lind a different an-
swer from everyone, One woman
would have said that a kinder and
better man never llveci; her neigh-
bor would have declared Lord Lit -
timer to be as hard as the nether
millstoue. Farmer George would
rate him a jolly good fellow, and
tell how he would sit in the kitchen
over a. mug of ale; whilst, Farmer
John swore at his landlord as a
hard -fisted, grasping miser devoid of
the bowels of compassion.
At the and of an hour you would
be utterly bewildered, not knowing
what to believe, and prepared to set
the whole village down as a lot of
gossips who seemed to inincl every-
thing but its own business. And,
perhaps, Lord Littimer might come
riding through on his big black
horse, small, lithe, brown as /maho-
gany, and with an eye piercing as a
diamond drill. One day he looked
almost boyishly young, there would
he a smile on his tanned face. And
then another day ha would he bent
111 the saddle, huddled up, wizened,
an old, old neon, crushed with the
weight of years and sorrow.
In sooth he was a man of moods
and contradictions, changeable as an
April sky, and none the less quiet: -
tempered and hard because he kaew
that everybody was terribly afraid
of him. And he had a tongue, too,
a lashing, cutting tongue that burnt
and blistered. Sometimes he would
be quite meek and angry under the
reproaches of the vicar, and yet the
same day history records it that
he got off his horse and administer-
ed a soural trashing to the village
Poacher. Sometimes he got the beat
of the , view., and sometimes that
worthy mat scored. They were good
friends, these two, tholigh the vicar
never swerved in his fealty to Lady
Littimer, whose cause he always
chanipioned. But nobody seemed
to know anything about that dark
scandal, They knew that there had
boon a dreadful scene at the castle
seven years before, and that Lady
Littimer and her son had left never
to returu. Lady Littimer WAS in 0,
niadhouse somewhere, they said, and
the son was a wanderer on the face
of the earth. And 3V11011 Lord Litti-
met died every penny of the proper-
ty, the castle included, would go to
her ladyship's nephew, Mr, Reginald
ITenson.
In spite of the great Maud that
hung over the family i,ord Littimer
did not seem to have changed, He
was just a little more caustic than
over, his tongue 0. little sharper,
The Servants could baro told a dif-
ferent story, a story of dark moods
and days when the bitterness of the
shadow of death Jay on their maa-
ter. Few men could carry their
grief better, and because LIttimer
carried his grief so well he suffered
tho more. Wo shall see what tho
1401TOW WEIS In time.
There are few more beantifill places
in England than Littimer Castle,
Tho house stood on a kind of natur-
al plateau with many woods beltina,
a trout stream ran clean pest the
big flight of steps leading to nie
hall, below were terrace after ter-
race of haliging gardens, and to tho
left a sloping, ragged drop of 200
feet into the sea. To I'm right lay
a magnificently -timbered park, with
a herd ei real %vita deer -perhaps the
only herd of this kind in the court -
try, Whon'the sun shone on the grey
walls they looked as if they had
been painted by some cunning hand,
so softly were the greys ana rala
roli1sioeooplace
was a veritable •
art gallery. Them ware hundreds
of 10011.11(:et and engravings there.
All round tho grand staircase ran a
long, deep corridor, filled with pic-
tures. There were alcoves here 'fitted t
up as sitting -rooms, and 10 most of
them some gem or another was hung, b
When the full flood of electric light
was turned on at night the effect was
almost, aerating. There wero few
pictures in the gallery without a
history, 0.
Lord Littinter had many hobble,
but not 0111) that interested Win like in
There were hundreds Of rare
birds shot, la, him 111 different parts
of the W0r1d; 010 eorridors and doors
wore covered by skies the sPoil 01 1115
rine; here and there a stuffed bear e"
pranced startling; but the Mamas
and prints were tho greet, amusement
of hia lordship's lonely life,
Ile passed along the -corridor iloW
toWards the great orird windotv 0± 15
tho end. A 11(1 115(11(1 sunlight fined o
There are 801 rallWay passenger
tations within ' Melva nallea radiris
t Paul's, London.
measedaprev...0211
cow in the herd was made by
grade Red Poll; the second 112) 371311
by a pure bred Jersey, awl the tide
by a grade Shorthorn,
phenomenal production 0
4110013 cows was marle pessible by
careful study to supply each one 0
them with the kind of feed and en
yironnient: that, 1008 best suited to
the particular demands of the indi-
virtual animal for greatest produe-
Mon. 11 al/ three (owe had beau
given a similar feed and treatment in
every Way, there would have been a
wide difference 111 their production
and 80111e of them would have Yield-
ed mueh less milk emel butter."
DAIRYWISDOM.
Do not let the cows roam the
frost-bitten patftures. It is an in-
jury to the cows. They will fill
up, but will not be 1100145110(1, and
loss of condition 10111 follow.
The temperature of the stable is
very important. It should be kept
at about 55 deg. This can he done
easily if the stable is properly con-
structed and properly ventilated.
A lway remember that warmth
and comfort will double the yield
of the same food, 0.8 compared with
c°1(111.
T0 hospital stall in be put in
order with arrangement for heating,
should an animal be injured or tak-
en sick suddenly, This should 'not
be neglected.
Do not neglect a vigorous 1150 of
brush and comb every day from
1100(1 to heels. Every particle of
soil should be removed and the coat
left soft and glistening.
Min
aim the bulk of your butter
the winter. You will average a
larger quantity of better quality,
and realize a better price,
You will have more time to study
your business and get a firm hold
on the possibilities of it,
Do not attempt to make butter
from 1111110 kept in a kitchen pantry
or cupboard. 11 will not be good.
It will taste and smell of everything,
If you have no dairy, arrange a
small room or partition off a part
of the cellar. Make it warm end
light with double windows and
sweet with lime wash, and keep
nothing in it but milk and butter,
Sonie cows set the 'dairy marks' of
the experts at defiance and give large
yield of good milk. All the same,
the good dairy 0010 811011/(1 811010 cer-
tain features in size, shone and gen-
oral make-up,
a
d gnes kenning, a dressmaker, but
!chose some 0110 else. Consequently
f lifiss Panning sought 131300 damages.
a She was awarded .1165,
1. The cuuple became engaged in Oc-
- (01101', 1902, Grealish being then at
Longford, and Miss Fanning lived
with her brother, who kept a public
house opposite the barracks, When
he luta nothing to do Grealish, ac-
cording to Miss Panning's counsel,
says the Irish. Independent, spent
his time 1n the public house making
love to Alias .Fannieg. Then he was
transferred to Drundleh, and love
hatters poured upon Miss Fanning by
the shoal.
But his affeetions changed. The
first e11ang4 was dramatic. She
heard that her lover bad married
someone else.
Counsel was anted with a largo
bundle of
TIM LOVE LETTERS.
JurtusxxG anzit.c1 oxy
BROMIDE, SUIT.
in AS1 Irish Courtroom-. -
A Bundle of Lcree
Letters,
love letters of an Iraili cone
/liable kept the Longford County,
Cour1 in roars of laughter the other,
day, when their ratthor was sued for
breach of pronilse. The judge, scents
ing taausenient at the outset, cheer,
fly remarked that the case would
probably be a pleasant change after
a long day of dull litigation. Hie
forecast was correct.
*alit/ugh he cried when ho left her,
and did not know when he wee go -
Mg to stop, Constable Patrick
Grealish, formerly of the County
Longford force, and now stationed in
County Mayo, did not marry Miss
13111STLES.
When catching small pigs, if they
aro caught by the ears or hind legs
they will not squeal, and may be
easily handlea.
The fall pigs must be pushed for
early gains, oe they will not grow
nuch during the winter months,
When the litters aro yarded sep-
arately, they will grow faster than
when several of different sizes are
kept together.
Middlings and sieved oats are the
best for young pigs. Mix the oats
and Middlings in a thick slop, arid
giro only a little at a time; any
that is not eaten ahould bo remov-
al -id not allowed to sour.
The food for the young pi378 shoald
be given in a low trongh, in a side
pen, not acceasible to the sow.
The sow should be gotton in good
flesh so that She will winter easily.
A thin sow in the fall means a thin
sow in the winter, The fleshy SOW
will winter on less food, as it, doer]
not take ao much to keep her warm,
Store some roots near of band to
feed the swine this winter. Roots
are valuable to keep 1.he swine in
thrifty condition when 'other green
food is no1 et hand.
We must look to the winter quar-
ters of the swine. See that the
pens am in shape, the floors good,
the part 1( 5001 sI 11)1)37 and the 10111-
dOWS 111,
lar, individual cow will manufacture
the finished product to the best ad-
vantage.
"Of the fifty or more C0108 that
have been 111 the station herd in the
past five years, the three cows pro-
ducing the greatest amount of but-
ter in a year have belonged to three
dila:rent breccia, and, while they had
many of the essential characteristics
of large dairy producers in common,
yet they all showed strongly the
type of the breed to which they be-
longed. Tho largest yearly record
of better pr eduction of any
11.411514•Asur
weirmemeatmanmaroommurexeci
Curing
Consumption
When SCOTT'S EMULSION
makes a consumptive gain
flesh it is curing his consump-
tion.
The weight is the measure
of the consumptive's condition.
Every pound of weight gained
is a matter for congratulation,
and
SC011198 1E
makes the consumptive gain
flesh.
Scott's Emulsion does some-
thing to the lungs, too, that
reduces the cough and the in.
flammation.
More weight and less cough
always mean that consumption
is losing its influence over the
system,
For all stages of the disease
Stott's Emulsion h a reliable
help.
&Tel for area Sample.
SCOTT & 110301411, Chtmitw, Tomato,
111IPHOVED CEREA1.,S,
The yield and quality of cereals
co,u he greatly unproved by 11101108
o
f eelection, In some recent experi-
ments With Winter barley an increase
of ten tied one-half bushels per acre
was obtained by using lerge grains
from large beads; as great, en in-
crease as would ordinarily be ob-
tained from the nee of 800 pounds
of a, complete fertilizer,
GERMAN SCHOOL BATIIS,
According to the London
"every board school in Germany is
provided with a woll-equipped gym-
liesium and a, lwausebafr or douche.
The latter is situated in the lower
portion of the building and during
the \Outer the heating apparatus for
the school supplies also the neces-
sary water for the douche baths.
"In stimmor the water is heated
by a gas stove ,contnining several
Bunsen burners, 33y the latter 3110'
111011 the baths are ready for use in
half en hour. Just as the tittles of
instruction exercises and douche 1.
baths, The older eltildren receive s
three or four hours of physical t
„training Per Week, and every child at
least ono douche,"
Tnis indicates a desire on the part
of the government to provide the
best hygienic conditions for school
children, But the same 1(3.11)111011 of
baths at home, in which the entire
family participated, would tut en
improvement, Perhaps the habit
acquired 13y the children at school
leads to this reault.
Phe following are extracts 1 -
"It is needless to mention to you,
nay Agnes, I am heart -broken in this
place. (Drumlisha I arrived here
quite safe about 6 p.m. I roust
mention, Agnes, that I cried the
whole way out, (Laughter.) You
, know, Agnes, that I could live in a
1 wilderness and be happy as loneas I
could have have you with me. But,
dearest, it's something desperate on
Inc to be separated from you, ITow-
ever, it's not long, darling, we shall
be apart, although, darling, while I
OM writing this letter I am 'crying
as much as when parting frorn you
yesterday. I don't know when I
am going to stop. Not, I suppose,
until you are with Inc.
"Well, darling, they are all glad to
lace me in Druralisa. Mrs. Burbage
wont so far as to kiss me o1'> my
arrival last night. (Laughter. But
that was not to be wondered at, as
we are from the same townland and
went to school together.
"Also Father Keville. When he
met me he stretched me out his two
hands, and the next thing be says
to Tile (-'You must give me a half
1 sovereign toward the building of the
new chapel.' (Loud laughter.)
"I qun sure I most have been notic-
ed when leaving you yesterday. I
mean iny crying, deareet. I was
more or less ashamed, darling, but
II could not help it."
The next letter was a model of
briefnesa, "Just a few lines," it
ran "I 8.111 in very bad form for
writing, as my 1)01171 18 shaky."' He
added, however, "Love to death"
and three crosses.
Subsequently he was in better
fern) though
"STILL LONESOME,"
"It makes me very lonely to see all
the market people going to Longford
to -day, and y -our 01V11 Grealish in a
but in Drumlish. 'Well, ray dearest
Agnes, there is one matter now
which I lutist mention to you,
though, darling, at the same time
it makes me blush to have to ad-
mit it. That is our marriage,
vweliiiitch is to come off before
"I by myself am not in a position
to carry out the wish of my heart
-that is, to be married this 2310e1th,
But, darling, it would be the wish
of my heart that we could be mar-
ried before Advent comes in. So
now, Agnos, darling, I suppose at
the very lowest it will take about
1310 to attain that object; so, dear-
est, let me know by return if you
will be able to give me that much.
(Laughter.) Then darling, 100 will
be one until '7,1(10111,"
His last letter was 'undated. It
came from Lanesborough, 11, ran :
"hly dear Agnes, -I have got the
rings by this morning's,post. 1
trust in God, it will fit you all
right, as you can keep any one of
the ring8 you like and seed the other
two bark, as 11 must return them to-
night. Yon can keop the casm it is
free. I will put the ring on your
linger to-inorrow. You can koop it
until then. Goad -bye, your loving
Patrick, Send me a note to-inght.
Don'l 1015101."
(1050(1(1011±: 11: did not appear, but
his counsel Startled the court by
stating that the (lefenee was insan-
ity, He afterward explained that
this was a, Jest. "BM," he added,
"if the kury took the, bundle of let-
ters / have here up to the room
with them and looked time over
they would come to the conclusion
that a more imbeelle Inindle of pro-
(1)1a1ons was never written."
Miss Pluming' gave it es her opin-
ion that 1110 letter asking for 1310
was a 100011 one, She had written
mid told him so. She tlicl not sen11.
the motley.
The Employer -"1 believe sir, that
you pride yourself 110011 ,only execs -
sive modesty, do you not?" The
Employed -"Well, yes; 1 1111137 sa,y
that I do," The EmploYer-"la
hat ease it ocear8 to ine that, your
alary may not be sufficiently modest
0 Suit you. I beg to assure . you,
however, that this matter trill be
attended to at once, and that bece-
forth you will have 00 repon to
blush on pay-dnye. That is
Waiter (to complainilig easterner)...
I've ()lily been liere a.
' Ctistoluet,-"NVoll,
few days, sir,
you're luelcy: been waiting here
nearly a weeki" , •