Loading...
The Brussels Post, 1905-10-5, Page 2+o+o+l (+n(+r(+nk4o+o+ + +g(+A+K(+o+o+);1+r(+1 +n(+A+ 1 F NEIL 0` SNTfflG OR THE STEWARD'S SON ):04:E+:(+ f+ (+ (+):f+3(+w-a+- +Ki+is+ (+KH -A+3( (+1 + (+ E• CHAPTER XVII, (tends calling it 'The Golden Sands.' Cyril did not buy a paper, but sat I Original idea, isn't it'?" and he in the corner cif 'the carriage by the, of:lattthinghedethecalpubli cliket the sort ohe oaCell windowy and thought of Norah, I means to exhibit them in that now and his reverie as so pleasant nd 1 galley he and his fellow cronies—I engrossing' w that ho started with stn beg your pardon, connoisseur's—aro getting up. See? "Yes," u es "I'm glad you do, A. word from letgh-and Norah—that he did not' Newell, the mere fact that he has get on an omnlbus, as a poor artist taken'you in hand and bought your should, but called a cab. pictures, will make you. Cyril Jack Wesley's chambers were in , I3u'ne vill m be the artist of the coe •Winchester street, Strand, and the 'fag season, and—" Ho laughed. first 'thing Cyril saw, as the nab Jack, it is you who worked this." stopped, was his friend's head at the "Bah! I—I merely suggested it to open window. He waved Jack a Newall." greeting, and stood at the door of "I knew it, and wliat must you the chambers with outstretched hand. think of me when you see me hesitate. "Behold he cometh, clothed in his ing. But Jack—no, l'm not going right mind!" he said, cynically, but to thank you! Sit still—but, Jack, with a pleasant smile. if you knew all!" Cyril wrung his hand and looked ,"Go on. It was Disraeli who said into the grave, earnest face affection- ately. "Yes, clear old Jack, I've come," he said. "Arid in such haste that you hired prise when the train arrived et Pad- dington. He was in so great a hurry to get his business doneand return to Sant - that 'adventures were to the adven- turous,' and I never knew a man more adventurous than yourself. What have you been doing now?" "Jack," said Cyril, "I've seen her.' a chariot. Was it the burning desire "Allow me to remark, my dear to reach me, or have you discovered Cyril, that 'her' is rather indefinite, a gold ladle In Santleigh?" and he .Oh, I beg your pardon; I remember! went back to his writing table, but You aro alluding to the young lady sat astride his chair, and leaning his whom you saw going in at the park elbows on the back looked up at gates at Santleigh, and whose voice Cyril with a smile. you mistook for mine on the terrace "Yes Jack, and: something even that night. George! it's a mercy better than that," we weren't shot. I expect 1 shall "Oh!" The monosyllable dropped find 'myself landed some day with like a stone, "Indeed! Then you six months' hard labor as a penalty might have spared yourself the for being in bad company, yours, to- wit. But the young lady. You've seen her, you say? I suppose you have hung about the ducal—was the trouble of rushing up on the small and contemptible bit of business I've got for you." "Dear old Jack!" he said, laying swell a duke or an earl? Oh, I re - bis hand on the broad shoulder and member, an earl; Lord 'Arrowdale—I shaking him. "How I've missed suppose you have lain in wait for the that cynical voice of yours! Why, it lady, or did you serenade her in the seems ages since we parted, instead troubadour fashion? You would of clay s—ages!" His voice softened. make a capital troubadour, Cyril, I "But tell mo all about it; what's the often think that the stage has lost row, old fellow?" an ornament in you; yours is just Jack balanced his chair, and the figure for the typical melodrama - stretched to the table for a letter, tic lover, and your voice—but I beg "Herds a note from Moses; he'll your pardon, you are dying to tell buy the other picture. 'The Silver me all about the latest goddess. How Stream.' " many times have you been in love, "1o!" exclaimed Cyril. "Yes; and give you what you asic, but on conditions," "Oh, they are not hard ones- It. seems that Lord Newell has taken°a fancy to it. Cyril opened his eyes, and nodded, Lord Newall was a well-known pa- tron atron of art, and his approval set the sign manual upon a picture, and the painter who obtained his lordship's I don't wish to appear inhospitable, and an unworthy decd, Trll me— good word might regard himself as but I should like to remark that my and spun rythybut just tell mme e— nially; the public in all things antis- carpets won't stand much of that dowhat you would have said to me if I, tic is like a flock of sheep, and must promenading:" the struggling, unknown writer, had have its bell -weather, Lord Newell "Jack, you may laugh at me," he girl of a o et the love so far above had hut to set the lead, and the said, "1: fought hard against It al- won as a peer's daughtergini mould be, sheep Followed, ler you loft, but it was no use. I I and had, having won that love, in - "By Jove!" muttered Cyril. "So went Into the woods the next day to dosed her to plight her trach to me, Lord Newall fancied Tine Silver work—honestly—but I thought of he father being kept in ignorance?" Stream.' Well, I thought there might her all the time, and to and behold! g I be something in it," she came." Cyril's face flushed, then turned "Very nicely put. Go to, young ale man: your modesty is thrown away in this shop! Yes, he has bought the picture on condition that you paint another for him." "If everyone made that condition, Jack, T should be a millionaire," "Yes, it sounds rather insane,5tieke me badly; hos gat a bad tem - doesn't it? But there's reason in I per, poor mat! She appeared—" his madness. He wants you to "Like an angel with a harp and an paint a bit of the seashore outside olive branch, typical of the peace - his place in Brittany." maker. Go on; I'll use it for my "In Brittany?" echoed Cyril, and next story," r ; "The man went on—and I got her —Heaven knows how!—to stop, I—I put the dog she bad with her into the sketch, and—we talked. "The dog and you?" ",lack, I cannot describe her," than it's fault, and you can scarcely "Good :Heavens, any clear fellow, expect Lord Newall to move it over don't attempt n here; or do you expect it?" "She is the most beautiful girl I Cyril sat astride a chair in front ever saw; there is nothing in the Gal - of .Tack's, and leaned his chin an low that would do her justice, But his amus "In Brittany," he repeated. "Hew long will it take me?" "Not being an artist—thane merci- ful Heaven! -can't say," replied some day, soon, I hope, and you will love her for her own sake and mine, too." • "Well, go o1." "I—I might never had another of grief, "if any one had told me chance of seeing her, but luck was that you—you—had acted so, I would time permits this fall LO give all his n my side. She urns comingfrom a have'given him the lie." uurc}mincry a tho rough overhauling 0 C nil took two or three turns up and to et everything on the farm. visit late at night, and an accident Y' g g' happened---" and dawn the room. His face was in good running order for next ,year. "And you were there and saved strangely troubled, but there was "A stitch in time saves nine," We her " Put in Jack, with a forced no trace of shame or remorse in it, all know that, but we are prone to forget it. Let US snake an effort to put its teachings Into practice this year. Much machinery is allowed to stand in the yard with no protec- tion from rain and snow save that afforded by a barbed wire fence, left the night of your first flt of Madness and know nothing. le it the governess, or some young girl visiting at the Court?" "It is the earl's daughter, Lady Norab Arrowdale." "Lord Arrowdale's daughter? And may 1 ask, without being' imperti- neatly curious, what the Right Hon- orable -the Earl of Arrowdale says to this pretty romance?" "Well," he said, "he has said nothing at present; he does not know of our engagement," "You have not told him—been to hint?" "No. Let me tell you all, Jack. I think—I ant sure that Noah is rath- er afraid of her father. She (moo's so little of hint, you see. Why, she had not seen him until that night I saw her drive through the gates. There is a story concerning their se- paration which is too long to tell now. But she is almost a stranger to him, and we—well, we both shrank from tolling hint until I had made a succees. Then I could go to hint with greater courage. I should still be just an artist, but there is a difference between_ the unknow paint- er and the successful one. Art is noble in all its forms and grades, but—" "I understand. And yet you de- cline Lord Newell's ober; you will not go to Brittany?" "No, I don't decline, I accept, But if you had ever loved as T love, Jack, you would understand what a couple of month's separation from tho woman you love heals," and his handsome face flushed. "0f course I will accept, and with gratitude to you and to him. .As you say, it means both money and fame. Why it is just that for which I was waiting! I will go to Brittany, and then with my position assured, I can go to the earl and. ask him to give mo my darling," Jack Wesley was silent, wood and honey locust; but, as all "Aren't you going to give me one of these are hardy,they may be word of congratulation, Jack?" ask- planted for use as fuel before the ed Cyril, in a low voice, slower growing, more valuable vat'fe- "I congratulate you," said Jack ties become large enough to use. 131ack or yellow locust is one of the most valuable sorts to plant for posts, and it is a very rapid grower, but it is subject to damage from borers and does not succeed well everywhere. Black walnut is one of the best trees to grow upon strong Soil, but it should never be planted en thin or very gravelly land. r DN THE FARIt PLANT TREES. We do not mean fruit trees, for fete farmers need to be urged 1:o plant an orchard for the use of their families, but we clo mean timber trees for fuel, for posts mud for the future gone'atiol. Aside from the satisfaction of seeing a grove of your own planting geowbng up, thenal is the convenience of having the posts acrd poles and lire wooed, and the steady income from suet' a grove withina very few years after it is planted. Where there is a natural grove on the farm, it may be im- proved by cutting out imperfect trees, and those that are too tow- headed, and by trimming up the ones that are wort' saving. If the young trees do not stand 'thick enough it is easy to plant other trees amhong them, and the plan of planting wal- nuts and hickory nuts where the fu- ture trees are to stand has much to commend it. This is dew 'by mak- ing holes with a bar or dibble, drop- ping the sued in the hole and stamp- ing the earth down with the foot. This should be done in the fall, us- ing nuts that have not been dried; but can be done in the spring it the see,) nuts have lain out all winter exposed to ft'eeziug. In Dither case, plant thickly, say two or three feet apart, as many of the nuts;,wi'll fall to grow. Many of the more rapid growing trees are not very valuable for tim- ber purposes, and among these we may mention the maples, cotton- wood, the elms, the willows, button - Wesley. "What is it, Jack? You are an- gry with me about something. What is it?" "Don't ask me," and Jack Wesley got up and, turning to his table, be- gan to pull the papers about, "But I insist," said Cyril earnest- ly. "Jack, you and I have never spoken a cross word to each other The ashes, white, gray and blue, yet; there has never been a breath of are rapist growers while yomg•, and coldness between us until now, What the timberis boot tough and dur- is it?" able. Few trees snake more rapid "Don't insist. Let us talk of some- growth than the wild black cherry; thing else," but if stock is to be kept in the "But I do insist. I could not rest grove, its leaves are very poisonous until I knew what I had clone, and—' and will cause death. It reQbires "Well, if you will have it " said courage to undertake to grow the e;yrir•? Jack, as if driven to bay, ' I thiole oak, a tree that is so slow In start- "Yes,you are right, Jack, I am in You have acted—well, not as I should to when Dun • but the red oak is. love, I old yoti so the night you i have expected you to act, Cyril." the most rapid bgrowen of the family left Santleigh, and I spoke the I? What have I clone?" demanded and will make affair -sized tree in a truth." Cyril. He got up and resumed his pacing,'In plain words, Cyril, you have I Cow years. The sugar troops . the and Jack Wesley threw him the t- allowed yourself to drift into a I most desirable of the maples, el- and unworthy of ,you. You have though it does not grow quite so fast when. young as the less valuable red or swamp maple does, 'The sugar berry or hacicberry is a useful fuel tree, grows fast, is easily trans- planted and makes excellent fuel. Thu mulberries grow fast, make good wood and lasting post timber, and are worthy of more general planting. The native black mulberry is superior to the much -talked of Russian sorts, bacco pouch. "Have the goodness to smoke," 'he said, "then you'll sit down, perhaps. permitted your feelings to sweep away those barriers which every hon- orable man should place between him "Mesmeric influence," muttered p • "She is, as you say, quite unsop- It is strange, but nevertheless is Jack Wesleye cynically, "Before she appeared, a fellow, a histicated, knows little or nothing of true, that the majority of farmers Mr. Berton, had ridden up and warn- the world. Loves you? Of course when storing away their farm finn- ed rue off, none too pleasantly, for she does. 1 can understand that; plements for the whiter, do so with - trespassing, and we were in the anti_ there is nothing marvelous in it. out first putting them in repair. die of e. row. I think he wanted to But that very love of hers should This might be all right if they have made you careful of her. Do would think about putting the you think her father, the earl, will broken or worn-out parts in order LOOI. AFTER MACHINERY, "What Is your oh.iection to Brit- tany, my friend?" he asked. "That it's not in England," re- plied Cyril; thoughtfully. "That's more Brittany's misfortune if she were as plain as— "As a Dutch woman," put in jack. "I should love her as dearly. If yore only knew her! But you will. Jack. "What on earth can it matter to yell how long it takes you'?" "Lt does matter," said Cyril, gravely, Cyril rose and began to pace the room. To leave Santleigh and go to Brittany; to leave Norah for weeks, pe•hnps months. "What ails you, man? But hear me out, It is only the money—and I "You are ver,y hard on me, Jack," suppose that is not wholly a matter smile of amusement covering his in- of indifference to you?" terest. "Admirable! Quite a scene he said, in a low voice. "Don't be angry with me, Jackl'L in a ineloch•am,a. Were you much "Am I? Put it down to my re- "I'nn not angl'yr .only surprised. I hurt? I noticed you carried your gard for you," responded Jack Wes - arm rather stiffly, It isn't a cork ley. "You ars the only man in all one, is it?" the world I care to call 'friend,and "I Walked home with her to the that being so, I am as careful of Court and-and—yes, I told her that your honor as I am of my own. Con - I loved heel" found the women! They blind even not say that you have taken advan- tage of her ignorance of the world— his world? Do you think he will not point out to you—east it into your teeth—that she is what she is, and that you are only a poor devil of a painter?" "Jack," he said, in a low voice, "Your heart is pure gold. I might .have known what you would have thought, have guessed what you have had the honesty and the can- dor to say. But"—he drew a long breath—"thank God, I can say, 'Jack, you have wronged me.' " "How have 1 wronged you?" he said, "I am judging you by your own confession. I don't say that you could help loving this peer's daughter; I dare say not, I say that I think It only natural she should have given you her heart; but—why, lad," and Ifs face was full later on in the season when there is picnty o1' time to spare; but this they seldom do. On the ea—Avery, such work is deferred until the fol- lowing spring'. or summer, when the machinery is needed and there is lit- tle time for repair work. The re- sult of such neglect often causes not only a loss of valuable time when tine farmer is busy and ought to be in the held operating the machinery, but it often means that, on account of pressure of work at that time of the year, little repairs, such as put- ting a nut on a bolt in a certain place, tightening up a spring, eta, is entirely neglected and deferred till "sone other time." Frequently seri- ous breliks are caused by such little neglects that are not attended to when they ought to be fixed, 101' that reason may farmer should make it his business as Soon 115 thought you would fling up your hat, order round champagne, and behave yourself in your usual imbe- cile fashion when luck comes your Bat t 'n 1 It is of only way.way. Proceec . n the money, though that is a fair sum "Yes, most certainly the stage such a man as ,you •tb a sense of eeou h, but there is someU in else has lost a good deal," he muttered, right and wrong. Can't you see it, hang ng to it; the something you and "You told her?" can't you '100 I1 he demanded, with I. are alwaye clamoring and whtninng "Yes," said Cyril, his face flashed, outstretched hands. "Put yourself r his eyes glowing, and he scented in the place of this old mail; think scarcely conscious of Jack's pre- whet you would say if you learned that a roan had been enjoying stolon interviews with ;your slaughter, no that he had induced her to plight her troth to him, and then—merk this well—when the young man chose, he cane 10 you nod told you—aa earl! —that he rues Only a poor devil of a paint "Well," said Cyril, bitinghis lip anti looking, not at his friend's 01— e. "Newell wants you to paint this other picture and make it a compan- ion to 'The Silver Stream,' and in , 8 SCOTT'S EMULSION Won't make a hump buck st night, neither will It make a short leg long, belle feeds sole bona i and heals diseased bone and is among the few plena means of recovery in rickets and bane consemptton, Send for free gamete, scoff 1'i I30WNE, Cha tta Ontario. 'Toronto,_ foe, and Pao' all dr ere te, scones. "We met in the glade the next day, and 1—" Ito got up and laid both hands on Tacic's sneeaders and looked down at him. "Jack, she loves mei She has premised to ho my wlfel'' Jack Wesley's face grew grave. "isn't this rather serious, my dear fellow?" ho said, quietly. "11 is serious; it is the most ser- ious thing that has over happened to noble, earnest fare, bet at the op- ine," implied Cyril. "It hos changed nosite wall, with n strange loop of my whole life! Ah, if 1 could only get ,you to understand how happy I am. "Perhaps I 1l0 underetnnd, And note, may I ask who the yniing lady 15? The governess at the Court, or who?" "1)o you mean to say yell don't know?" ire demanded. "Hotw should 1? Ticnsember that 1 doubt and indccteion. "Well,'" echoed Jack, "what do you think you Wouid say? Why, just What this lord will say. Ile will toll you that you have no fight to on to agage wrlfhis Jia ladyho15,80 farassocial position ie iy cnnlcornect, infinitely oboes. you, Why, man, these people look upon 115 ae of different flesh and blood—or, F d it Ever ccur to You THAT WHEN YOUR R3GALER3 OFFERS YOU A SUBSTITUTE FOR . Ceylon Tea, his motive is self -gain, because of increased profits. SO BEWARE. Sold only in lead packets. 40c, sec, 'Soc. By allGrocers, Black, Mixed or Green. Highest award, St. Louis, 904 which is sometimes half tumbled down at that, Is that as it should be'? Is it not possible to provitlo sarme shelter, some Shed where ev- erything can bo ]sept dry? Would it not ho well when the plows Ore sot away to oil the bright parts and keep them bright? You say "yes" and still you don't do it. Wby don't you? It not only damages the plow to allow it to rust, but every main knows what a lot of extra work It means next spring before it can be made to scour again; These are all little things, but they are quite im- portant; we know they are often overlooked or neglected, and hewn these few words as a reminder. 11 Is the little leaks in most every kind of business that need careful looking after; large leaks usually re- ceive clue attention. GOOD ADVICE FOR FARMERS, Remember the time to do a thing is now. Not to -morrow, Set a hen when she is clucking, Veep all tools housed when not in use. livery ono represents a cash outlay and. must be tole care of. Feed all stock liberally and they will pay you back. Paint and oil tools at least once a year and grease harness several times. Meet your obliga- tions promptly if you have to bor- row 100130y aid pay interest to do it. Sell for cash and buy for cash. Credit is a curse to everybody. Clean all stock in winter. Follow intensified rather than extensive farming. One acre properly man- aged will produce more than four poorly tilled, Don't spend four dol- lars' worth of time marketing one dollar's worth of produce. Name your farm and have your stationery printed. Show the world that you aro a business man and that you can produce the very beet of every- thing.- When you go to to3vn dress neatly. dee that your family does likewise. Do not let your wife have to ask for money. Give it to her or give her a chance to make it. Re- member the morning is the best part of the day to hustle. Ault the field at 11.80 a.ni, and at 5 pen, Keep plenty of reading matter, papers, magazines, games and musical in- struments and also a eight wagon for tete boys and. girls. Give thein a day off once in a, while. 'Too much work and no play will discourage them and matte then dull. Have flowers and swings. Remember and make the )none happy and attrac- tive, and should the boys and girls want to leave, or by eirounnstances be compelled to do so, they will look ;back to the old home with sweet recolleetions and look for- ward. with pleasure to occasional visits, je,, LIVE STOCK NOTES, There is considerable difference in the value of a cow that has a good disposition and good temper and one with opposite characteristics, bad the dairyman, 1f he handles them as he should, invariably • has cows that are gentle. Analyses of fresh mixed pasture grasses show digestible nutrients, as follows: Protein, 2.5 per cent.; ear - bo -hydrates, 10.2; and fat, 0.3. From this it will be seen that there is a liberal supply of protein, and if we are to approximate these con- ditions in winter it is necessary to furnishfoods that contain plenty of protein. Size is valuable in a horse, but the breeder who attempts to tn- erease the size of his animals by sacrificing beauty, style, finish and quality, will find when he offers them for sale that he has matte a grave mistake, A handsome, sty- lish 11.3 -hand animal that 1S a prompt roadster, that is well finish- ed, and shows a high 'levee ofqna- rather, they are flesh and blood, and WO aro—,lust mucll" "Don't, Jack. It makes it all the herder for Inc." "You should know what I say is true„ Not only the earl, but all the world will say it. And slue--" "She—the Lady Noah—will conte in time to think that she has thrown herself away, Cyril strode across the room and forced ,leek into a chair, and, stand- ing lookieg clown at him with a face, id: Pale In a said: ' bear longer; ",7nc51t I can't i a any o g you are rigltti Ti T had acted 119 yo11 say, I should hevo been a mean hound. As it is now, yo11 make m0 feel as if 1 should have gone to him at, once and told him ail. But, 'leek —now 11011'1 bo hard upon me—it is true T am oily a poor painter, hot I: One what the idiotic world 'hooses to consider something heeler, confound it! Icy mem is not Cyril Borne. ---- "I are the Carl's nephew, Viscount Santleigh!" (To he Contintiod.) horse, Combine si a with betauty, style, finish evil quality= 0 possible, but never sueritice those attributes for size along. it IS much 131181 1' to guard against roup than to attempt to cure it, and the same applies to any other dis- ease. When roup has had a hold ori a farm the gel'li5 remain 111 the soil for months, depending on the kind of roup, however, as the terns Is used to apply to consumption, diph- theria and scrofula. The entire pre- mises should be disinfested two or thee° times, drenching the houses, floors and roosts, ground, etc„ with a mixture mule of a pound each of copperas (sulphate of iron) and blue - stone (sulphate of copper) dissolved in ten gallons of hot water, then adding a gill of sulphuric' acid, Kill all the birds, and get others that are known to he healthy. The labor Of handling Wok birds is too costly when the whole flock is attacked, WHEN '1'0 PRUNI'), If carefully and properly clone with sharp tools ')tat snake a clean,. smooth cut it makes Little difference what pruning is done, provided the temperature is above freezing. '['trees slno,ld never be 1l'iuuned whenn the wood Is Jewell, as the wound does not heal readily, and. the stubs dry in, turn black and make unsightly blemishes on the tree, W0uuds made in Juno will probably heal more quickly and more thoroughly than at any other season, but the practi- cal fruit grower is ton busy at that time to de the work. The inter in the spring we do the work—that is, the: nearer wn approach the time when (Inc sap is flowing—the less damage will be clone by drying out the edges of the eft, WILL LOOK CHEERFUL. Attempt Will be Made to Intro- duce Colored Umbrellas. The announcement made by the London "Draper Record" that a de- termined attempt will be macre Inc the spring to introduce colored um - beetles opens up quite a pleasing prospect, If successful, an added brightness would be given to the streets of the metropolis. Ladies with drosses, umbrellas, .and gloves of mauve or bioliotrope, accompanied by gentle - mer wearing blue and pink ties, and carrying umbrellas of like color, would surely tend to more cheerful- ness, and if the fashion became gen- eral London world never be 'non's at- tractive than during a Smnmer shower. But• many umbrella and sunshade merchants who have been consulted with regard to the proposal inno- vation are pessimistic as to its suc- cessful un cessful introduction, "Whoever ventures to put these colored umbrellas on the market will find himself sadly out of pocket," was the opinion of one of the managers of Messrs, Pox, of London -wall. "It was tried years ago," he continued, "but it never caught on, A few people—both ladies and gentlemen—use greea1 silk umbrellas, but their numbers are not increasing to any great extent,'.' Another umbrella inatufaclurer Isolated out .that only "cranks" and dudes would carry colored umbrel- las, A NEW ANESTHETIC, Physicians aro interested in a new anesthetic prepared from a tree call - PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES THE MARVELS OI' A GB.HAT LONDON HOTHx... Underground Idfe in One of tiie Biggest o£ These Oara- vanseraie, Probably fete of the thousands who slay yearly at Due or other of 0111' great f,ondtni hotels and observe with what snlootluu'ss and ease the wants of each individual guest aro ataended to have any Idea of the vastness and complexity of the machinery which is at work day and night, to matte this result possible, says London Tit -Mils. Not long ago the writer was priv- ileged to take a peep behind the scenes at ono of the biggest of these caravanserais, and, leaving behind the clatter of knives, the chatter and laughter of hwxirotls of diners, tho crowds of fair, bejewelled wonnen and mien in inunaculatc evening at- tire, he found himself transported le a few moments into a strange and new world. In the vast lower region I had en- tered with any guide the machinery of the nnanunotn hotel was working with the precision of an automaton. Figures were hurrying swiftly to and fro—figures in the white caps and aprons of cool's, black -clad, nimble waiters, porters, and page-boys—a moving kaleidoscope of beings, each discharging his particular duty swiftly ani) silently, as if the work- ing of the vast machine depended on 111111 alone. "Let us loop at ono of the kitchens first," said any cicerone; and Inc a moment WO had entered A SPACIOUS 1100M, largo enough almost for a public hall, the atmoepbere of which was re- dolent with a score of savoy odors. Here a small army of cooks weir' ranged in front of a number of enor- mousovens,. each absorbed Inc his work of preparing slaint.y and tempt- ing dishes for the gay diners I had just left. From one 011011 and an- other steaming dishes were with- drawn, placed on convenient racks, and as gaiety seized by the waiters and whisked out of the door—all with a swiftness and regularity that suggesteci a machine. As I looked at the scene my guide added to any amazement by saying, "This is only one of five similar kit- chens, each of which is the same hive of industry you now sec. A single kitchen like it is, vast, as it is, would be of no use to us. You see. we have five great seining -rooms, and oath room has its own kitch±11, which ministers solely to 11: and sim- ilarly each dining -room has its own glass and plate rooms, warming - room, cold -room, and so on; so that, to form any idea of our resources, you must multiply everything you see by five." From, the kitchen we started on a truly wonderful tour, each stage of which added to any amazement. There was THE BUTCHER'S SHOP, with busy, blue-aproned men slashing away at joints, large and numerous enough to feed a small army; the fish -room, with gleaning rotes oa rows of fish resting on dazzling ice - blocks; and mountains of poultry, all awaiting the oven, on similar cool beds, In to bakehouse loaves and rolls were being pourer]' out as if to fend a beleaguered town, and hi an adjacent room artists wore working seeming miracles with vane. -colored sugar and producing sweets of every seductive variety; wills in other rooms gallons of cream were being converted by electrically -driven machines into 11151 most glorious of ice-cream. Amid such scones ns these I would fain have tarried, but my inexorable guide berried me on t0 show Inc further wonders. Inc the laundry, with its unnrvellous appliances for drying and ironing by electricity, all the washing of the hotel and its thousands of visitors is clone; Inc the carpenter's shop the hotel farnitnire i:; ]sept inn a state of perfect repair; its re -upholstering is attended to in a neighboring roma; and THE PLUN173.L;