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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-9-14, Page 2);0•04.0+0+0+0+•040-40+0+0+0+04,0+0+04-0+0+0+040+ TI1E HEIR PNIt IGN OR A44: 00: 4'YF+f lenfee •*Ki+ -39 $A-Hir+isE+ sage(+ .0:(4. 4eX1tnte.. THE STEWARD'S SON OIIAI'TEII XIV. Norah, as Cyril turned away from the hall, passed the Carl and Guild- ford Berton without a word, intend- ing to go to her own room; but the earl stepped aside, and opening the drawing -room. door motioned to her to enter with stately courtesy, and, following her, closed the dour, There was a look of haughty dis- pleasuro on his fare, and his keen oyes regarded her sternly, "May I trouble you to give me an account of this accident?" he said, icily, "It all happened a5 1)T:. Burne said, papa," she answered. I prefer to hear it Pram your own lips," ho said. Nora quietly related the incident; but. her voice trembled as she told of her disoovory of Cyril's injury. I30 behaved very bravely, papa." "I Have no doubt," ho said; "but it die] not warrant his taking ad- vantage of your situation. Ile should have sent hero for a carriage for you; but I imagine we Must not expect grapes from thistles." "I 010 sorry he has offended you, papa. It was as much my fault—" Sim stopped, and her face grew pale. "And he went without a word of thanks," she exclaimed, "as if he had committed a crime instead of doing all he could—" "Oh, please! There is nothing I dislike so much as heroics. No doubt," with the suggestion of a sneer, "you thanked hint sufficiently.' ".But I wish to tell you that I do not desire your intimacy with this young man to continue." Norah started slightly and looked up at him. 11 110 had treated her with even the semblance of fatherly kindness she would have told him all that passed between Cyril Burne and herself that night; but his cold words froze her lips, "I do not approve of him." "But -but why, papa?" she asked in a low voice. 'Ile -he is a gentle- man, you said yourself-- ." "It seems that I was mistaken. No, I could not be mistaken; but one may be a gentleman and yet not a desir- able acquaintance I have heard enough of this Mr. Burne to be con- vinced that be is not a person to whom I can extend my friendship." "You havo hoard!" said Norah, wonderingly. "Front whole, papa? From Mr. Berton?" and her lips grew compressed. "7115 name of my informant is of little consequence," he said, coldly. "Enough that I am satisfied with the information. Do not let us con- tinuo the subject; it is distasteful to me." Norah stood for a moment, her eyes bent on the ground, then she mur enured - "Good -night, papa." He opened the door for her, mak- ing no movement toward kissing her, and she escaped. Once in her own room, she dung her hat aside, and sinking into a chair hid her face lei her hands, Icer heart was beating wildly, but stern as her father's speech and man- ner had been, its throbs were more of jay than of sorrow. That great crisis which comes in most women's lives had come to hers. A man had told her that he loved herb Sometimes a girl has to ask her heart the question; "Do I love him in return?" but Norah, though no words of love had ever been uttered to her before, had no need to ask the question, Love needs no instrue- tor, The lesson of his presence is readily Learned in every woman's breast; and Norah, as she sat with her face hidden, even from her glass, could feel his words singing' in her heart, She sat and thought of hien-how hanclsomo ho was, how brave, how kind, how goods Surely, in all the wide, wide world, there was not an- other man like him. And this best of heroes, who was quick and clever and prompt, who had displayed such courage, hiding his pain f'one her for so long, loved her! With the joy of the knowledge there was mixed a thrill of pride that S00111011 to raise her above all others of her sex. What could ho have seen in her to love? she asked herself again and' again, She who was nothing but a dimple, ignorant girl while ho was so clever and strong, sncll a hero among men. ?low sweetly he had asked her for hoe dead rose; how humbly he had beim over her hand. She took her right hand from her face 0nd looked at it, and slowly raising it to her Lips, kissed it where his lips had ;touched it. Did she love hien? Why, her love seamed proclaiming itself in every trembling limb. Her heart was full, full of hien; his voice rang In her ears. She could feel his kiss upon her '!hand still. "Cyril, Cyrill" she lnermured un- consciously, n- ci and il; o Sly, n 1d 1)x the stillness of night the faintbreeze outside seemed ito echo his name lovingly, caressing- ly. Then Hero flashed upon her mind, too full of her lover to have thought Of it before, the remembrance of her 'father's anger, and the wordy he had Oaken. No had forbidden her to 1Ont61110 knowing Cyril Burnt); he had heard something, What was it that he had heard? Whatever it was, he must have -heard it teem Guildford Dorton; and a5 Norah thought of him she shuddered faintly ;with obsolete dielil(0. lie had stood there by the door, sttying nothing, with his dark face etmbre and slhis- 7eP. Why should he 110Ve sp01(on hileely of Cyril Berne. -fur that he had 61101100 falsely she was us eeetahl as thut she sat there, with Cyril's kiss 'Out on her hand. What should she do'? Cyril, 3011011 110 had told her that he loved her, had asked her not to he angry, but u k to 11cr til Wait, He would speak again, The warm color suffused ler nccl1 and face at tho thought. Should she listen to him? Could she disobey her father? The door opened and Ilarman came in, and as she proceeded to undress her mistress she cast anxious glances at her. At last she said, as if she could not help herself - "Oh, my lady, I hope you are not hurt!" "No," said Norah, for she was lost in thought -half delicious, hall pain- ful "You heard of the acel1eet?" „Yes, my lady," replied Harman, "one of the grooms Was up in the village and brought clown word," and she touched Newell gently and carefully, as if she expected every moment to feel her wince, "No, I ate not even scratched; but I might have been hurt if it had not been for Sho stopped; she could, not speak Cyril's nelue. "Yes, I know, my ]arty," said Har- man, Warmly. "John says that the gentleman risked his life almost, and it was a wonder he wasn't killed," "Tell --tell Ole Harman gave the account sho had heard from tho groom, and dwelt upon Cyril's courage as only a wom- an can, and Norah listened with bent head, seeming scarcely to breathe. Harman went at last, but Norah stili sat in the low chair thinking dwelling with joy that was almost painful in its intensity upon every word he had spoken; going back to the first night she had heard his voice on the terrace, the night he had addressed` her, all unconscious that she was near, in words of pas- sionate love. At last she went to bed, but it was hours before she slept; and in her dreams he still hent over her, his haedsome face. all anxious and trove bled on her account -on hers! When she awoke the next morning it tvas with the consciousness that some one was in the room, and rais- ing herself on ler elbow she saw Becca South standing beside the bed,. and looking down at her with a pe - 03(116r expression in her black eyes. Then she remembered that she had not 10cked her door last night. "Berea," she said. "I've come to help you," 510 said. "Auntie's got one of her bad head- aches, and can't hove this morning. She's very sorry, she says, olid begs your ladyship will overlook it. "011, poor Harman!" said - Norah, sympathetically; "I am so sorry! Please go and tell her that she must not think of getting up, 0nel not to trouble about me in the least." While Bede was gone Novell got up and found a bottle of eau de (0100' "Take this and bathe her forehead, Becca," she said, "and tell her on no account to trouble about me." Bocce went again, and returned smelling strongly of the scent. She had poured half of it on her own handkerchief, "You are very early this morning" Norah said, as the girl brushed out her hair. "Did you sleep in the house last night?" "No, my lady," replied Bocce., dropping her eyes from the glass in which she had been comparing Nor- ah's face with her own. "No, I event home, And I found him in the aven- ue," she added, in a low voice. Norah looked up with a start. There was no- other "him" in the World for her that morning but Cyril. "Him! Whom?" she asked, "Tho painter gentleman, Mr, Burne," said Decca, with a nod, as if Norah ought to have understood, "He was very bad." "Bad?" she echoed, faintly. "Yes," said Becca, taking a long tress in her !band and holding it up to the light, but keeling her eyes fixed on Norah's pale face reflected in the glass. "Yes, he'd fainted." Norah's hands clasped themselves tightly in her lap, and an inarticu- late sound escaped her lips. "Ho was dreadfully hurt. Broke his arm, I think." Norah half rose, with a wild im- pulse to go to him there and then; then sho sank back, "Go on," she breathed. "He was as white as -as you aro, my lady," said I]ecce, sloWly, "and in dreadful pain. I don't think he'll die, though," she added, calmly. "No!" fell from her lips. "No, my lady. - Ile was able to walk home after a bit," continued Demo., -still watching- Norah's face, ! " "Give me- ivo mo m haudleer- chief, please, said Norah, feeling the girl's eyes on her, and wishing , gain a moment or two for solf- control:" "I heard that 1 In ' u • he'd hurt himself stopping tho horses," said Becca, "hut he didn't say." "What, what did he say?" asked Norah, thirsting to hear some w'o0(16 of his, Dacca waited a moment, and fixed her black eyes on the glass intently. "He said, would yon ]nest him at the place where he painted the dog, at five o'clock to -clay," she replied, "Are you -mare you sure that le what Mr, I3urn0 said?" she asked at last, in a low voice.. "Yes, quite sure, my lady," re- sponded Meese.. Norah trembled and her breath canis fast, tinw could 5110 meet him after her father's proh.bition? And yet --yet he wets 111, had been injured in saving her. She got up and went to the win- dow, The glr]'s Meek eyes seemed to follow and trouble hoe. "You may go now, Boeca, site said, without looting round, "Yes, my lady," said Berea, "And Mr. Burnt', what am 1. to say to him If 1 see him'?" ".lay nothing -say that I will colpo -and see tiro picture." "Yes my lady," and noiselessly she left the room. "Yes, she would go and son him, and toll him that Ow must be strangers from honcoforth-her eyes filled with tours at the though -1.1- i they hought 1 - they must part, liver to meet again. i+hu finished dressing herself and went downstnlrs. The earl was In he breakfast room, tied handed her a note as he bowel her a good morning. "front Lady Ferndale," he said. "To iuquit'e filter a our health after tate accident, no doubt," he said. "A T m w. tot 1 n s ttnn •. a g g Norah opened the envelope. I p 1 t was just the kind of letter which Lady Ferndale would write, full of an'we- tionato anxiety and self reproach. "If 1 had only sent some one with you, dear!" site said. "1 would coma over this Horning -and will if you are t.hc ]east 1111 -but my hus- band has asked some people here early, Still, only say the word!" But it was the next few lines that made Norah's heart haat and sent the blood to her face. "And to think lhnt that young man should have acted so nobly! Was I out, Norah, in my estimate? The coachman Says that the way Mr. Durno flung lumse]f upon the horses was 'grand', and I think it's the very' hast word to descrli,o ]t. Tam longing to see Hint, and thank hiinl" "W II?" salt! t11a cart. Norah hesitated a mommlt, then laid the letter beside his plate. Ileraised it delicately, and held it out to her with a cold smile. "Pardon me, but I have always en- tertained the greatest repugnance to perusing other people's letters," he said. -"You hes better answer it. Pray, do not mind keeping me wait - Norah took the letter and put it h her pocket ---those few lines had made it very precious -and, going to a writing -table, wrote a beef note assuring Lady Ferndale that she, Norah, was quite well, and, eller a moment's hesitation, she added; "Mr. 1 Borne was badly hurt, I fear." That was all; and the words read, ail so coldly. At times the hours that day seemed to pass all too quickly, at others they dragged their length wearily along. Norah all day tried to make up her mind what she would say to Cyril, tried even to hewn a few sen- ter.ces, that she might repeat them be heart. A practiced flirt, a Lon- don belle of even one season, would have known how to dismiss him gracefully; but Norah was no exper- ienced 11 1 t, she was simply a girl - woman whose heart had been touched for the first Ulric. At last the great clock chinned hall - past foto•, and, with Casper at her heels, she started for the woods, l360 heart beat faster as she approached the glade where she was to moot Cyril, and shepausedand waited for a moment or two to try and quint its beating, Then she went on among the groat trees flecked with the golden sum light, and presently she put aside the leaves of a huge rhododendron, and stood before him. Cyril had fixed his easel, and was trying to palet. She saw that his left arm was in a sling, and the sight recalled everything that had occurred on the preceding evening, and a great wave of tenderness pass- ed assed over her heart, She stood for a moment by ltitn, then he took out his watch, and, With a sigh of impatience, turned his head and saw her, In all her loveli- ness, framed by the dark green leaves. He sprang to his feet and came for. ward her, then stopped, his eyes, full of the passion that burned in -his heart, fixed on her face; and so they stood speechless, so far as words go, "You have comet" ho said, in a low voice. She put hors into it, and it was imprisoned in his eager grasp, "Yes, I have come," she said. "Are you angry with me for send- ing vou the message?" "No," she replied. "011, no, not But--" she stopped. "It Was wrong -.I know!" he said. "1 felt it when I had got home and thought of it; but -ah! I wanted to sec you, soon, at once, and I did not know how—" "I am glad ,you sent to me," she snid, so simply, so sweetly, that he could have gone on his knees to her, "You are painting; will you - will you go on?" she faltered. He understood her, She could talk with less-roetraint if he worked, Ino sat down before the easel, and tool. up his brush and the palette, which he managed to hold in the finger and thumb of his left hand, and painted blindly for a minute or two; then ho turned to her as she stood beside him, her hands loosely clasped. ",Way I speak now, Lady Norah? I have been counting the hours since I left you last night, I havo so longed to see you -to tell you -ah, you know! What can I say but that I love you!" Norah's hands clasped tightly, and her breath Caine and event fitfully. "It broke from me last night, When I should not have spoken," .he went on, in a low voice, that trembled geeeneeeaesewasteee 0 ' Those who aro galningflesh aan tr thgth by regular treat-, e+ Scottsf Emulsion should continuo tho treatment In hot weather; emallee dose and a little cool intik with !twill doaway with any obleotk,n which is attached to fatty pro- ducts during the heated 13)0asarl. Send I6t fte0 temple, SCOTT & BOWlfi1,1, Matilde, Tool ea, Ontario. gee. end 1;1,00; nit eingel. t1. m,a S.ar tlw52.01 , with eagerness and rang earnestly with the, true ring of pure, whole - smiled love. "I ought not to have spoken then, but. --I could not help It; and now you know it, what will you say to nme?" Ile rose, but with (1, slight gestul'e she motioned him to his seat, and he sat down 05a10, obeying ler, and hent toward her, the sunlight falling on his shapely head and ltiuulsoluo foes. r `Were you angry with me lust night? Are you angry noir? 01137e Fyne_ coni, to tell file that •1 was pre- ; snmpt.unns--alt, don't spunk yet," Por het lips tttoved, though no words had sums. "Do you think that 1 have !nut thought over it all tiering the I tong hours 11lt'3•' lain aw-faits)? Lady Norah, you cannot feel more acutely that; .1 110 how unevoethy 1 are that `you should east a thought,' to me. tier lips formed a "No," but he went on, his voice scarcely above a w'l.isper, 1ils ryes sparkling with M000 eloquent pleading even than his lips. "You are the daughter of an earl, and I—" the to he motionedeasel o with 1110 brush, "I am a pour painter ono rho world -the world to which you belong -regards its very mucic be- neath you. And 11 is right. But a poor painter may have a heart, and I have given mine to you! I lay it at your feet, Lady Narahl It is yours to do what you will with -to accept or refuse," IIe stopped, to control his voice, 3011ic11 his passion had rendered- hur- ried and broken, "I can only say I love you, I love you! T have loved you—" Ne stop- ped and then went on, his voice low a0(1 dreamy, as if ho were speaking from his heart to hers, "Do you re- member the owning you CA 1/10 to 1110 Ceur1? As your carriage drovo in 1hl•ough the gotes I stood there itncl saw you, and-ahl believe me -the moment I saw you my heart leaped. It seemed to cry out, '1 love you!' I did nut knew who yon We1'e, but you were the one woman In all the world for me from that moment; you Will lee the one woman until 1 die." Thorn were tears in her eyes, though she trled to force them back, and she put up 0110 hand and cover- ed her eyes for a moment., but she stood silent, and otherwise motion- less. "It WAS 1111 passing fancy," he event on, "All that evening I could (lot forget you; and at night I stole to the great house, that I might be near you. And 1 heard you!" he said, his voice scarcely audible; "al- most as if in answer to lily prayer, you came out on the terrace and spoke, not to Int: ah, no, I know, I know! --but you seemed to speak to me. A11 my life has changed since that moment, for you have tak- en possession of it. I think of you all clay, your face flits between me and the canvas, I hear your voice' He paused. "Lady Norah, what will you say to me? Will you let 100 go on loving you -a.1), you 0000at help that, I must lova you! -but will you try and love 1(1e a little in return?" Norah's face grew almost white with the struggle that was rending hor heart; the struggle between the desire to answer, I love you ai- rway," and the desire to obey her father. • "Is it so impossible?" "I -I cannot. The earl, my father - "Tho earl," he said, "your father, does not like me," "He has forbidden you to know me -speak to (00?" "Yes, I am -sorry—" "Why?" he said, "Ah, I know! I had forgotten -forgive me -the differ- ence Between us; but he has not tor- gottelt, You are the daughter of an earl, and I—" Ole broke 011. for she bed turned to him at last, a look of entreaty on her face, - (To be Oontin ed, ) a .-_ DIAMONDS GO UP AGAIN. Prices Have Advanced Fifty Per Cent. This Year. Diamonds are becoming scarce, The De .Beers mining syndicate says so, and backs up its dictum by advanc- ing the price of rough diamonds five per cent. Incidentally the only im- portant mine in the Transvaal out- side the syndicate, the Premier is flooded with mud and temporarily out of operation. But the trade in Now York denies that the advance is made by the syndicate because of the temporary (disadvantage of its rival, 11; is pointed out that the price of precious stones has been raised fifty per cent within the year, and it is also said to be likely that within a short time the price will bo again advanced, so that in a year or two more tho selling price of rough stones will be twice what it was a few eear5 ago, At Tiffany & Co., New York, the declaration was made that diamonds I are becoming scarcer each year. Tho workings in South 'Africa two gutting deeper, and as they go down the yield is not increased, while on tho other hand the demand. for the stories Is constantly i0crea5ing. Wealth is accumulating, and the result is that an enormous uplift in the demand for diamonds is met with. So great is the demand for rho pre- cious baubles that old tailings are being u'(n'ked out by unproved pro- cesses, so that the tiny cllamoncis, winch formerly were lost, may be got out. Dy the process of smearing .a board with beef tallow, over Which 111e clay bearing diamonds, is 3va5130cf, all the litho particles are saved. The USN).of these tiny stones in all sorts of jewellery is growing, Ho that 10 -day nearly tell styles of stickpins, pins snatch safes and, Lndend mbulr jewelleey of all sorts, is d0- aerated With genus. Government reports 1111110010 that the importation of out null rough diamonds is !nereasing rapidly. In 1807 the Unite! States imported only about a million and a quarter's worth of tliamondi. Lieut year $80,- 000,000 worth of diamonds paid fluty. As many diamonds arc fine ported each year a5 were imported from 78117 t0 1887. In 1894 the importations amounted to seven and a 1 i millions, While the iig0re reached 830,000,000 Wet; year, that defies not represent the entire amount paid to the Healers, the buyers pay- ing long advances to pay for setting alai polialling• e For Its Absoiute Purity and m CI Delicious Flavor Ceylon Tea, the World Preference. Sold only In sealed lead paekots, 400, 500, 600. By ell Grocers, flim nixed or Green., Highest Award St, Louie, 1904. pp��s< et . .q gv,n'y pa ! ('0113TY the f•ute to and from the CJa " "V 'fl°iaF° , % Nxpp-kgY,�' ! packing house, „$ Tedi When the trees have been properly ofi'6'0;1 ;pruned the fruit may be all harvest - PIN ;7.1 r ladders, Ahul- a 's1, e{ from. ar (t ers, short sl 'ep ell - e �^' der Is convenient for the tinder side p�� �qq�,p�1�a�,.�,"> and low branches of the tree. 1�'0r V'13,' n..La wt,tawl.a"talr"v1.lh4, the upper branches Iigh11 cedar lad- ders of suitable length will be found NlTHUC liN 114 Q1001LAltll, very convenient. Extension hidden; have horn praised 11 1 001.highly ' the Tho elements of plant -food that the suit he likely to be deficient In are Nitrogen, phosphorous and pot- assium, .Chose have a dethcite ac- tion in the plant, Nitl'ogen gives vigor 110.11 health to the plant, caus- ing a rich 510111h al' stem and leaves. Where it is present 111 ex- cessiv.l quantities, theca Is likely to be a 'eery largo wood growth eat the 0xpe115e of the fruit, and trees may continue to grow late 111 the sea- son when they might to be ripening up their Wood for winter. This condition is not likely to be found in any of our fruit sons, Nit- rogen Is not found in large meanie. - the 10 fruit. A ton of wheat, for example, contains pore. than twenty Unice (15 muc11 nitrogen as a ton. of apples. Less nitrogen 10111 be need- ed, then, for orchards than for grain crops. Ile may say that, when tho tree is hl a healthy condition, making a fair growth,- no nitrogen need be appit�d. This floes not menti that when the Deo (ails to make us suffi- cient wood growth it is always due to lac!: of nitrogen, for lack of moisture, overfruiting and other con- ditions more than produce the ef- fect. Nitrogen, when obtained in COln- 11101.0161 form, is the most expensive of these elements to supply, costing abut 16 cents a pound, It is sup- plied 1y nitrate of socia, sulpha of ammonia, dried blood, taukage,' and many other materials. Phosphorus oasts about 4 cents a. pound and is supplied by bone pro - duet, as hone 113001, boneblack, dis- solved bene, and by the phosphatic 0001(8 of the Southern States, especi- ally Tonnosec, South Carolina and Florida_ Potassium costs about 1I, cents a pound. It is obtained as lnuriat0 of potash, sulphate of potash and kainit from the potash mines of Strassfort, Germany, and from cot- ton hull ashes and wood ashes. Of course it wouldn't be possiblo to se - dire wood ashes for large orchards, but it would certainly pay to use what van bo obtained. Average wnlcltched wood ashes contain about 1.5 per cent. of phos- phorus and about 6 per cent, of potash. Then at the prise paid for these elements in other materials, =leached wood ashes are worth about B0 per ton, or ten cents a bushel Leached wood ashes are worth $2,50 a ton. Ashes supply not only the potash, but also the phosphorous in as large proportion as the orchardist is likely to need anti aro rich in 11ino, which is a bene- fit to many soils. Forthe orchardist who does not wish to grow a rather high-grade of fruit it usually will 110t pay to ap- ply commercial fertilizers. It must be remembered that there is a very large, though constantly decreasing, quantity of these elements in the soil in a1 unavailable form, and that they are continually becoming avail- able. Good cultivation hastens this process very maithl'ially so that it will almost supply that needed phosphorous, if not the nitrogen, P1011INC• APPL1 8, Apples should be carefully picked by hand, without' breaking the shin or bruising the fruit in any way. Sumner varieties for immediate Home use or special local trade should be allowed tripen on the tree; but if intended for distant markets or storage they should be picked When fully mature, but be- fore they have commenced to mel- low. Winter varieties should hang nn the tree until they Have reached full size and have take' on good calor. Apples picked while still im- mature as a rule keep longer than if allowed to fully ripen on the tree, but they do not develop the frill color ilei the best quality. No sharp distinction can be made between green and maiUl'e or be- tween fully mature and over -ripe fruit; one blends inpeeceptil)ly into the Other: Experience teaches at what stags to harvest the crop in order to 5eellre the highest quality and best keeping properties in the fru It. Hootet!Ines, witb slimmer' va- riant , 11 is neee55al',y' t0 go over a tree twice, 1310/3115 the Most mature specimens nest and leaving the re- mainder for a week or two ]rt order that. f1 may mole porfee(iy develop. It mint bollen baskets o1' pails should be used for picking and it is letter to have them lined with cloth to prevent bruising the fruit, Pettit should not be piled on 11113 ground, but should be placed at Once on the sorting' table or be placed 111 Loxes or barrels for removal t0 the peek- ing house. 'rho a1p1010 should bo picked With the Sten on but without breaking off the fruit emir, as ill 1]11(15 1.0 occur if the fettle Is plel o l too green. Spring wagen0 0110tplrj be wird to Y l . past, but as they are both awkward lend ctu,lhersonu, practical growers are abandoning thrill. The prac•tiee of cliud)iug through the tree to gee thee the fruit and lotting 1 1 tg l ill t a g to bas- kets 1103711 to the ground by means of ii rope, is out of (late, and isnot, practised in commercial orchards. Inexperienced p101(00s often lase a great deal of time I1y not picking clean as they go, making 11 neces- sary to carry the ladder baric and forth. I•lach time the ladder is moved ; all apples in reach should be picked. KEEP ;1(01;I; SHEEP. lie have quite a good sprinkling or :hoop, but not half the number that could and should 1)0 carried on our farms, writes _a correspondent. It would lee advantageous to both the formers and the farms if every farmer kept a small flock, I en- deavor to keep about fifty head of Intro 1Tnu11(shircduwn sheep on my 1'etrtn of one hundred am/ fifty acres, and 111nc1 they are a great benefit to illy land In keeping up tho fertility and lisping down all 01)0031005 34eec18, 10 say nothing of the financl- 1t1 benefits derived therefrom. I try to give my flock good care: always keeping water and salt ac- cessihlc at all tinges. In the spring I aim to have rye for early p0511(1e and then run diem on clover until the rape is ready to turn on, 111101 will carry them until they go into winter quarters in the pink of con- dition. I 'breed illy flock to the bast rams, from October, 5a as to have my lambs dropped by the end of )fobruary and March, as T invari- ably find the early lambs do much better than the lambs dropped 011 grass and are not so liable to bo troubled with internal parasites, I always feed my lambs grain, oats and bran, and a little clnv1r hay, in a creep (13va,v from the e1'ee. t have lambs that will weigh a pound every clay since birth, 1 weighed 0 lamb 501110 bine sga tical: was 57 days old and it weighed (10 pounds, 1 con- sider it beneficial to give thein a little extra care, but do not advo- cate pampering them, I contend that if every fanner would keep it few sheep w.) 13'01111 have more thrif- ty farmers and batter anti neater farms. BRITAIN'S BALANCE SHEET. The Upkeep of Army and Navy Is a Big One. "What it costs to run a great na- tion " might well have been the title of a little Parliamentary paper, within whose uuromantic looking pages is given an account of John 13u11's revenue and expenditure for the last fiscal year, Altogether the cost of carrying on the State affairs of tho United Kingdom amounted to the great suns of £151,769,000 to meet which re- venue won raised to the amount of £158,707,000, leaving a comfortable surplus of £1,038,000, A large proportion of the total ex- penditure -no less than £60,270,000 -went to the up -keep of the Navy and Arley. Of this amount £86,- 880,000 was spent on the Navy and £20,440,000 on the array, The cost of dispensing justice is heavy, Salaries at the Courts of Justice amounted to the 101100150 sum of £14,000, P01151ons for judi- cial services £40,000, the Supremo Court of Judicature £311,000, and "miscellaneous legal expenses," an- other 1150,000, Prisons in pinglancl absorbed £245,000, and the 111 oadmooro Criminal Iemetic Asylum 234,000. Tie charges for education are made up principally fie follows; -- l. ngland and Wales -1e:1.2,022,000 Scotland ,,.... ,., 1,962,1100 Ireland 1.,1187,000 In addition 11132,000 was spent upon scielltilie iuvostigai.io in the United Kingdom, and £1131,0(10 upon universities and colleges 111 Creat 111'itain and intermediate education i11, Wales, Thera is one entry under 'expendi- ture which perhaps reveals better than any other the magnitude of the States business. It Is that for "stationary a1(11 printing," .lust over throe -quarters of a million pounds Was expended on this alone during the past year, Dugan --"Th' pa -papers had a sthot;y yosterdoh that .I'd been killed by a prre111a011001' blast." IlOgan- ' An' yo wasn't?" Dugan -No, 'twann't me.11,,t I'll 1.e in a r01110 mess note if I was olio tilt 11011070/1 1311 11e read in til' pa -papers, wouldn't I?" "What aro y0t1 sn191(ng 11.1:, ,'Fohn?" "Ata little Vent 0 just road here, The limiter seas, Tin haat rf 115 talk ton much."' "And why silo1(111 yen !ninth et th111?" "11'h e Well, ft's Just. )u'rntite it's arch n Mend - COMM Way of pay lug y0t1 x1 ('0(1(1311. meld, my dear!" A MYSTERY EXPLAINED WIiY TIIE JAPS ARE 815)0131 SPLENDID SOLDIERS. Every Male Child Born in till Samurai Class Was Dedieated to Lifer Prom Birth. '1'o ninety-nine people out of a ham drorl, said - a gonticman Who hoe spoilt 11aif a lifetime In Japan, it 11 the fiTeletcst of niy#Le1'it5 how the Japanese, a nation Of gnntlo, 111)01(3' We 1001)1e, 341111 a passion foi ItItedlyhng and flower -growing, should all at once have taken runic among the finest lighters 11)11 world 10(0 over known; but to anyone 33110 lens lived among the ;Jllkado's subjects it is the most natural and expc01ed of things. As a matter of fact, for minty long twittery Japan hes bred gener- ation after generation of soldiers such as Europe could scarcely match at the best; and It is only the lac!. of o potin1't J that as prevented her from 5110111115 to tho world, un- t.il quite recent years, what she could (lo in war. Long before the days of the Cru- sades Japon counted her knightly warriors in tens of thousands -an en- tire soclion of her people WAS 111d00d set apart for the purposes of fighting and 11m01ing else, and spent their lives, almost fano the cradle to the grave, in perfecting themselves in all 50111!001y arts. 'These were the Samurai: or military knights, a largo L1(01 important m ortaut class of t1)impute, p e Lion, occupying a position between tho nobles on one hand and the peo- ple on lho other, and their lives were regulated by a rigid code of honor, which was to olein a religion, KNOWN AS I3USHIDO. Every male 01i1d born in this class was dedicated to war from 1115 birth, the hist of lighting was in his blood and ho inihihod soldierly qua'ities with his 111011)00 5 milk. The first words he 30(15 taught to lisp were of devotion to hf5 country and Sover- eign; his toys were mimic weapons of war; and his fleet 10500(15 were in their use And In the practice of cour- age, self-denial, and alt the quali- ties of a warrior. At his 10011)01''s kn00 he learned that the greatest glory life could bolsi for 11101, was to sacrifice 1t fpr his country, and that sleuth, hi rho most horrible horribleform, e11, w•ns far proternblo to the least stain of dishonor, This Was thc creed in which every son of the Samurai w'as Cradicd for hundreds of years -in fact, down to a generation ago; and to him for his high and honorable calling ho had to undergo, even as a child, a tratnin • which in our Western eyes seems nothing less than inhuman. Thus, to dovolop self-reliance the bey would be sent alone on long and arduous journeys among 5trangeree to snake hila proof against hard- ships he was made to rise in the middle of the night to start on a long, barefoot tramp in laid -Winter without food to sustain him or clothes to shield hien from TEE DIT eft 1VNATTIN11. To familiarize him with hOrror5 ho would be clispatehed to look o11 at executions and to bring back to his parents a vivid account of every gruesome detail, while his courage was put t0 a crucial test by sending him at dead of night to the scene of the execution to leave a mark on one of the severed heads. In these and kindred Ways the boy, before he had emerged into his teens, learned lessons and performed feats of cour- age and endurance from which grown inen might bo pardoned from shrink- ing,, At the same time he was carefully trained to become an export fencer and bowman -for until quite recent years. the how and arrow were Ja- pan's favorite 1'enpons, He 10115 early initiated into the mysteries of jiu-jitsu, tho form of wrestling which his country has 'made famous; ho qualified as a clever horseman and spearman, and mastered the theory of War. Indeed, apart from the nc- ces1la.ry reacting and writing, there WAS 110. Part of his education that was not directed to the one end of making a perfect soldier of him, IIe was also taught to despise money and to welcome poverty and hunger when. 000055ary for his coun- try's welfare, to forgive injtrrioe which clivi not touch his honor, but to guard the latter jealously agaleet the slightest assault. To such a de- • grow Was this 110651on for donor car- ried that lives wore (and are still) often sacrificed in its vindication on the MOST QUIXOTIC 01201.INDS, Thus it is told how a citizen onto called the attention of an oKcer to the fact that he had a flea on his back. In a second out flashed the soldier's sword, and Ills Informant was cut ]a two, And this is the rea- son given for tho summery act: "Fleas aro parasites which feed on animals. l -ie said a Ilea was on 1110, and 'it is an unpardonable insult to identify a noble warrior with it boast." It 10 lino to the Samurai to soy that each plan held his own life quite as cheaply as that of the man who instilled hila; and if any act or word of his ever reflected, however, slightly, on his honor be would without a 1110m011t')4 hesitation slay 1lhmsclf. Trained for centeries in Such a 501001 as this, can we Wonder that the soldiers of Japers have Always been among the finest in the world? Although the Samurai, 08 a distinct class, ceased to exist; when the falcial system Was brought to alt enol in 1870, the 141(1110 blood 11.0ws hl the veins of hundreds of thousands of Japan's soldiers t0 -slay, and they are animated by the same 5111endel traditions, and, indeed, thousunels of the officers who Have acquitted theme selves so well in *OS War` ars old enough to have learned all the les- sons and practised ail the arts of tin Samurai in their boyhood and youth. .Judge --Now Oan you prove that you were enable to work eller your i11jories? Plaintiff ---The 131111(0) r an•da show it, 1 haven't been / cello(' for over a year. .,