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CHAPPELL, XVIII. women with daughters-yee, and I to'
"I am Viscount
CSontleighl" „di girdls t hemselves-wero so anti al de
unto. anfriondly, But I got my eyee
yril 11
Jack Wesloy gave a slight start, °pet. at last, anti I -well, di 1 t't
then ho looked at Cyril almost ang- like It"
• "Ph a s strange!" remarked .1 sick,
ants is snow a surprise, Di:, caustically.
lord," ho said coldly, "L got sumpiciotis," reeuneel
" 'My lord!' Oh, coma now, Jack," taking no notices, "euspieicnis of
xemonstratecl Cyril, flushing oust eye.
ing his friend anxiously, but affec-
tionately; "you're not going to cut
up rough, are you?"
"1 don't know about cutting up
rough, my lord,'' said J tick, with RA
.00111110018 011 the 1.11.111; "but if I nal
to speak my mind to your lordship,
I should say that you havo played
it pretty low down On me."
Cyril hung his head, and after a.
moment 3 ack Wesley continued:
"I don't demand an explanation
but perhaps you won't mind tolling
ems why you considerod it necessary
to carry 00 this masquerade? Why
did you pass yourself oaf as a com-
mon person like myself—"
"Now, Joekl" implored Cyril.
"Why del you allow me to believe
that you were just a hard up artist,
,and permit nio to make a 1 riend of
you? I'm not proud---"
"Oh, aren't you. 011, no," mut-
tered Cyril.
"But I'm not over fond of lords
at the best of times, and I-woll, 1
repeat it; you have played it con-
siderably low down upon Inc." an(1
his face flushed angrily. "Now lin
011 the candid line, 1 may as wen
continuo and speak iny whole mind,
and at the risk of offending your
lordship. I beg to state that I think
that for an out -at -elbows artist Le
pass himself off for a lord Is not
much meaner than for a lord to pass
himself off as a struggling artist. -But
hope you havo found it amusieg, '
and he nodded almost savagely.
"Look here," said Cyril, dosperate-
ly, "what's tho use of getting fur-
ious like this, Jack? I am a strug-
gling artist, though I RIll Viscount
Santleigh."
"Bathed!" commented Jack,
caus-
tically, as Mt deliberately knocked
the ashes out of his pipe.
"Yes. Liston to 1110,
didn't mean to. tell you; you forced
at out of me,"
"It's rather a pity that I didn't
forre it out of you earlier," remark-
ed Jack Wesley, grimly.
"Well, perhaps it is. But I'm not
suck a bad lot in the way of decen-
t/on as you mako 1110," retorted
Cyril. "Jack," and ho let his hand
fait upon his friend's shoulder in the
familiar way," "you haven't
gone through what 1 have; you'd un-
iderstand--"
"Perhaps not. I certainly aidn't
understand."
"Let mo mako it plain for you-"
"It's plain onough, not to say ugly,
as it is."
"My father," went on Cyril, pay-
ing no attention to the ill-humorel
interruption, and still looking earn-
estly at Jack, "my father died while
I was at Oxford. I was twenty-two
thon, and I started lifo 11 viscount,
the nophow of an earl, with my
mother's money and 110 011d of goad
spirits. I thought lira was going to
bo alt beer and skittles, and so it
was -for a time. I didn't know any-
thing of the world. I didn't known
anything about money, and I want
the old road like Um young fool I
tvas, without thinking of anything
but the Pleasure of the moment
That was for a thee, and not a very
long time, either. Before Pd got
through my money -yes. Jack, even
before that -I saw through that hol-
lowness of the game. I saw that the
peoplo round mo were pleasant and
smooth just because I was Viseount
Smith:4h, and heir to the Utio and
Ostates. I was young and green, but
verdant as I' was, I soon discoeered
that it was for tho good things of
the world that woro to fall to my
share that people made op to me, I
didn't suspect it at first. I thought
that it was because I was a rather
pleasant kind of fellow that the
THE STEWARD'S SON
1 come to claim my comati for Ins
bride!"
face softenotl, and a root
look calne into his eYeS, the look of
a man when he hears the word
'"Imide'nod ealls up tho vision of
his bolovecl; but he shook his hoed.
"No, Jack, not that, 1 'EMT...
ten you that 331111 the other clay 1
hall neVer seen the earl,"
"Nol"
"No, My futher-his brother -and
110 querrelod ycars ago, 1 don't.
it, 10318 llly father's fault, be.
0E11150 the earl somehow hes nuintoe.1
to quarrel with all his rolatives.
them to lain. "Col, thorn done ea
korai as ;eau can. Can you lot inn
have them back to -morrow?"
day aftots" he said, fi'lortly
'Viiry well, the day after, then.
Ind you and anything very 11r01111,,' 11
the last lot?"
"No. 'Hewn aro no lamiards le
that part of the wtrld."
"oh, I clidit't know. I'll be more
ettrotol In my zoology utiothar Mote,"
can't know i•serylliing," re•
mut hod the man, eertly.
"I, hog your ;seethes Put long," re,
toeted nek, gravely, ''1111 author
does know evorything. He's hound
to; once he admits doesn't, he
Why, hie own wilo— He stoosuel. sun throw up ths sp imp, .
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“Yoll 8110111E1 flee el, 331 a&(' 31(3.5 'rho 101,11
smiled,1gig-mood round gigoound the
like a Lord Chostodield mado out of 1
room, and at Cyril, and ei b. a tiod,
steel, and beautifully burniehed." walked out,
(10 drew himself 3111 and fingered 1111 ,,W110 011 earth was that, Jack?'"
imaginary c•yeglass, and looked so asked cysli.
Disc the earl that Jack, though he ..An old follow I picked tip the other
had not Seen Ms lordship, etuilod, day," repllod susk wmisy. ono say*
'How such a smelt, beautiful, all' hie name is Furlong, and that he has
clatighter--" his boon a mato on board a tending ship
gone creaturo RS Norati ran be
a planter's foreman in Ceylon, a fur
'But she must ',alto after her mothor trader in tho Hudson's Buy 'Territory
anti several otter things cd a like or
un Ilk° character; 1' found him sitting
on the doorstep the other might, and
as he seamed hard up, 1 huntod out
somo work for him. Poor beggar, he
was roguarly stranded; but," with a
(*nista smile, "ho will probably turn
out s duko to disguiso.'
"That's one for sues ,..0.1 man, T
soppose. Poor old chap. But what
does he do for yon? 'What wera
those papers he brought?
"Well, it's strange -that is, 11 any- 'long period of time. becausa success The farm is run as a dairy farm
thing is strango in this rummiest of in the growing or crops, found E0 and the land, which was in very
all rummy worlds -bot Furlong, bo adapted to a district, 18 acquired poor condition 80 years ago, 110W
continual practice,. The adage. yields about ten loos of corn silage,
rough RS he look(4, *1131)011,18 to have by
everybody I. met. When a pretty [or. poor Woman. Jack, her tallier 1111,1
was more than usiadly piedsant and kept her front him until the other
amlablo, I said to myself, `it's not day. Isn't he an anddblo, Londe',
you yourself she cedes for,' and the hearted party?"
thought was just torture, I had au
idea that I'd cut tint whole thing,
and go off and bury tnysolf 111 Am,
erica, Australia, anywhore oul of the
beastly world where every poor girl
is taught Lo fish for 1. man because
he happens to be atilt) to make a
cOnntess and a riots woman of 'her.
Wks I was thinking of this. and sor-
ioosly meaning it, the crash cam,.
Oleo me some more 'bocce, Jack. I'd
151011 going the pace evor since I came
into my mother'S money, and 111
spent ()very penny of it. Worse. I'd
borrowed; and the nice little bits of
paper were coaling in like pigeons to
roost. Then 1 .woke up thoroughly,
and I swot.° that 1 wouldn't be a
more tailor's dummy clothed in a
title any longer. I swore. 1 woold
cut the old life, the sporting clubs,
and the rest of it, -and-well, 1
macro up my mind to try and prove
myself a man."
Jack puffed at his pipo, leaning
his head 1113011 his hand, but looking
almost as grim and surly as Wore.
"I'd got a knack of drawing and
Painting," went on Cyril, "and I
thought that I'd try to earn my liv-
ing at that. If that failed, I detue-
mined I'd try something else, I didn't
caro what. I'd drive a cab -I toad
do that -or become a tram car con-
ductor, or keep a bookstall at a
"And what do you moan to du,
my. lord!"
'Punch your bead if you call sog
any lord' agnin, for one thing," said
Cyril, promptly; then his face gees'
gistre. "1 mean to follow out Inv
plan, Jack. 1 wooed my darling as
plaits Cyril Burne, tho artist; and L
mean 10 Will her as such."
"'That's rot!" remarked Jacle
quietly;
"No, " said Cyril firmly. "If I
went down and declared myself and
askad for Norah" -what music ho
made of the nansol-"nly >11)1001>131 un•
cls would show toe the clout. with his
most elegant smile, and shut ni,v
darling in her room. I know him:
Thera is no love lost between us, and
hO'd take delight in kicking me out
Nol I'll stick to my work, Jack,
I'll paint this picturo for Lord New-
ell, and it it makes a hit, I'll pre-
sent myself at Santini& Court as
Cyril. Berne, and—"
"Cot kicked a little harder," finish-
ed Jack, "and then—"
"Why, then I will say to my dati-
iog, 'Norah, will you still forget the
difference between us, and lentil) all
this for a little cottage.---"
"And cold shoulder of mutton. And
she'll say--.-"
"Yes!" exclaimed Cyril, his oyes
glowing brightly le/01 his trust and
railway statam, or oultst m the, faith in the girl he loved.
.goards-anyth ing-anyth hag in the ' "It's pretts very. It 51111111(lilto
1
world rather than go buck to the o r
useless life, of which I was utterly
sick and tired and. ashamed."
Ile paused, and jack Wesley glariz-
ed at him 11: tribe less savagely.
"I had a hard time of it, Jack.
nevue knew the value of the coin un-
til rd lost it. I hadn't any, idea
how beastly it was to live in a
wretched littlo attic in an out-of-tho
way street until Pd tried it.; and tho
worst of it was that it looked as if
I shouldn't bo able to live in RR at-
tic if I depended upon my artistie
skill. Tho picture dealers wouldn't
look at me -and quite right, -for I
eouldn't paint then worth a cent -
and I was walking up and down
Waterloo Bridgo trying to mako up
my mind as to which of the pleasing-
ocoupations I've mentioned I shoull
turn my hand to whon-you found
me!"
His voice droppod a little, and ho
looked at the grim face affectionate-
ly and gratefully.
"It WES a friend I wanted, a man
who knew the seamy side of life, and
could givo me a Messing hand, and
you Slid it. It ems you, Jack, who
encouraged mo to r;ork on; it was
a popular poem, or the scene from a
play; but, mark my words, young
'un, you will corm to grief. Soma
thing or somebody will put a 8130(10in your wheel, and while you are
Tooling manual, playing at being an
artist and talking of your cottage by
the stream, you will lose your beau-
tiful Lady Norah.."
"Lose her! Ah, Jack, you don't
know her. Wait until you've seen
het talked to her, listened to her,
watched the 011)110 on hot. face, the
light in her clear eyes. You'll realize
thco how nem and. true, how stanch
sho is, my angel!"
"Lord preserve me from this mad-
ness they call love! But I've said me
sa7g. The words of wisdom halm
been tittered, and as usual, have
been scoffed at, So, young man, you
must go your own Colnoy 'Hatch
way. Though" -he paused, ande
Mildly light shone hi his earnest
eses-"I'm idiot enough to fool a
littlo proud of you—"
"Jack!"
"Yos, proud of you. I thought
when you sprang your viseouotship
upon me that there 1\115 an end of
work for you, an end of an honest.
you who persuaded tho dealers that self-respecting career. Yes, Cyril;
them was monoy in my daubs; it
was you who, standing by like tho
friond wo read of in ancient history,
but vory seldom see, have kept me
going and pushed me up to where I
am."
"Yes! Under the inittression that I
WEIR dealing with a square man, not
a follow who would turn round on
me with his viscountshipl"
"You think I ought to have told
you. Well I tried once or twice. T
tried clown at Santlei,gh at The
Chegilers, But I was right to keep
my secret, for you would have
thrown me overboard, as you'd like
to do now, I dare say."
"I should," assented Jack prompt-
ly.
"But you'ro not going to," retort-
ed Cyril. "But I havon't done yet.
Wo We141 down to Santleigh. I'd an
idea I'd liko to seo the old place
that, would ho mine somo day, if
eared to claim
"Yes; I'm not deetain I should ever
have claimed it. I've been happy as
Cyril Burno, far happier than I was
The
as Viseottnt Santleigh,'' 'declared
etterI °Yril''"and I'd made Up my mind
that l'd keep as I ani. The earl -
103) uncle -had offered to bny 1)10
out, Ile wanted to cut off the en-
tail, and have tho place and the
moray to do as be liked with, to
The tissues of the throat are way° it to whom he pleased. But
thi, 4131(1
inflamed and i r ri t a te d; you hharnanavet
:frijol of uhsoawd laiteeltLie10
koe
011 wha(3
cough, and there is more irrita. 1 enthral, I was proud of eve(''
tion—more coughing.tsi
You take i
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a cough mixture and it eases the another that I didn't sell enyX'ma birth!
irritation—for awhile. You take
right. Santleigh will be hers 501110
clay, Jack; not for years, I hope, but
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somo day it will be hers, and I'm
glad l've not sold my inheritaneo
Not that I care about it for mysolf.
Not I'd rather be known as (Veil
llurne, the painter than tho Earl
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long and a seat in tho Emma of
Lords "
and it cures the cold. That's "Any. tool can bo an eat% Jault."
what is necessary. It soothes the he went on, "but it isn't everybody
t Ito agood boorkom,smy
or even
throat because it reduces the r:iont"an 'decentvrpicturo. hc
irritation; cures the cold because sentiments, and though I'm sorry 1.
it drives out the inflammation ; )diaooroaiviaipdgoloJc,don't think you'll 100
builds u the weakened tissues Re Igtopped Opposite his biotic' -and
because it nourishes them back hold oat his hand, bookiedown
upon him with the frank smile that
to their natural strength. That's was full ot a grateful tenderness.
how Scott's Emulsion deals with ”Wen, 1 supposo, it's moro your
tstontsvuiraotubtatuuyrer sfritat, yno Or be-
ta d
a sore throat, a cough, a cold, 111
or bronchitis.' say rit try to forgivo you and got
used to it,; but the artist game
wvu. sato you played otit now, 1 imagina You'll
8AL0*'GE 51188, go down to tho Earl What's -his -name
COTTW°P6IgIeand, striking an attittlo, Xelaim,gr,
1.tiehold your. nephoya, viacouno,
though you aro a fool for not taking
my advice, I think all the better of
you for declining it; and to prove
it, I'll agree to forget that you aro
a lord, and treat you as if you worn
a respectable man."
"Good old Jackl I'd no Idea you
disliked a lord SO Mtlell,"
"011, like 'etn well enough -at a
distance. But now to business. If
you mean all you say, the sooner
you soe Lord Newell's man and ar-
rattge about this picture, the bot'
1.03),"
"Yes," osseatod Cyril, promptly.
"I'll look him up at once, and then
-ancl Ilion L'll start for Brittany.
But I must run clown to Santleigh
first, old teem I've got to get 111y
trope ancl-and," ho blushod ingenu-
ously.
I understand, and to say
'good -b311).'
"Oh, and I've promised to go to a
flare-up at a great friend of
Nmeth's," said Cyril, remombeeing
Ledy ISerodale's invitation for Wed-
nesday week,
"Al I eigh t , " said Jack, "off wi tit
you now, then. I've wasted. quito
entalgh time upon you this morn-
ing."
Cyril laughingly made for the door,
when a knock came, anci Jack, al-
ready bending twee his vapors, eal1
eel out, "Como MI"
Cyril stopped aside, the door open
ed, and 1111111 entered. Cyril had
meter seen him before, and ha looked
at 111111 with somo curiosity. Ho was
an elderly 111511, with a woather-
beaten taco and iron -gray hair, thick
-set and muscular; and his egure and
tho old and patched peajackct he
won gavo him tho appearanco of a
Sea e5PE:111 ill down on his look, or 0
bargee, or pothaps • a disthargod
coastguardsmaii,
Cyril -artist liko-thought. he would
Make a capital model for a figuee
a "ship piece," when. the man, giallo-
lag at him from under a pate of
shaggy brows, stoppod short.
'Oleg pardon. Didn't know you
Weren't
"All right, Furlong," said Jack.
"A bleed of mine, lir. Cyril Burnt:.
wait a moment, Cyril, before yoo
go," he added,
Cyril walked to tho tviodow and
looked out at the staid thoroughfare,
and the elderly man in the peajaeket
took a roll of paper from his pooket
and laid it on the table.
"A1 1 eight, VtIrlong," ho saici, with
a nod, and lie took out some silver
colts and hariciod thorn tho Man,
wild took them and grittily growled
his thanks.
"Airy raoror asitod.
"Yes," said Jack, and he took
soino 909005 from his dosk and gavo
11 of Gooduss
Ceylon Tea is Pure, Delicious
Sold only in lead packets.
By all Grocers.
and Wholesome
400, 5oo, and boo, per Ib.
Illigh!st award, St. Louis, 1904
kcjerm.9sonk,,a990%% cleaning or fallow crop--co130-
13,0',130-
13,0' ON THE FW'
taLoes, Inamicels, rutabag,a, turnips,
sugar beets, cabbages,1.0(01000, toceo, rape,
cowpeas, soy beans; etc; third year,
• • I
TI
egg gra -bal toy, coin, oats, syLs ant
N
I 'IA wheat; foerth year leguine-clover
epl and timothy, cowpects and soy beans
Carqslt ?.7B..;Qq1b91984,-hZiAge (mown).
sy Alt eight or tea -year coursm
e ay
ROTATION OF FARM 0001'N, be mado out on this basis, selecting
six or as many types of plants 0.8
Ono of tho chief problems in eon- are deeiroci. On the Cornell Volvo"-
0001.100 with farm management IS sity farm the four -course rotation of
the rotation of crops, writes Prof- first year, corn wetland (cut for
S. Frasier, of Cornell Univonsity. A silage); second, oats; third, wheat
good rotation, moo devised, should mauured; fourth, timothy and clover
he rigidly adhered to throughout Eir ONV/1. twice) has proved excellent.
been ducontly educatod. Anyhow, he dyi ere eight, nudces things 80 to 1U bushels of wheat and about
is as true of most crops five tons of hay, tWle cuttings per
writes a g,00d enough hand for copy- stsaight,,
us of hops, for which it WEIR coined.
la tho early days of the agriculture
of any country the 0011111115 Prac-
tice is to grow a crop contiouously
upon the same land. for a sanies of
Mg, and so I. give lam my awfta
Below' to tura into legible calli-
graphy."
oBut what was that about loop-
syds?"
HEROES ARE RF-WARDED
A DOG AND WON A,
RICA ISE.
AID
Young Mart IteceiVed $10,000
Rescuing a. Girl and Then
IVIarried Mor.
That the holiday season is not
30)1130111 11.8 herocte and herolocet (vete
with ou t Haying, fur bravery will
show itself whenever 111111(110' throats
0(10, either at holiday or any other
time.
anti those who exhibit it do not
always go unrewarded, for 1/1 a numt-
bor of instances holiday heroes arid
heroines have reaped rewards of an
extremely 11110C1800)0 and valuable
character, which have raised thorn to
a position of affluence for the 1'O
010111(100 of their days.
A. vary interesting case in point
was that of a young Mancheste'0
clerk, who in the course of a holig
day in elwitzcsrlancl risked his life to
save the pet dog of a :young Ameri-
can lady from being. crushed to
death by a train on the electric
railway up Mount Pilatus.
This display of courago opened a
friendship between the girl and tho
young man which within a week had
developed into a warmer feeling. Tho
hero proposed and was accepted, but
the damsel's another objecting, the
spirited young lady cabled the state
of affairs to her father, a wealthy
land -owner in the State of Florida.
"Certainly marry him and bring
him home," was the gratifying re-
ply she received, and the mothor,
seeing it was useless to longer with -
acre. This improvement has been ef- hold her coosent, acquiesced in the
fectod without the purchaso of any engagement and pushed forivarci ar-
fertilizers.
The high prices of corn have led
"Oh, I make mistakes sometimes; the Danes to make extensive trials
until the yield 1/0001110S re- of mongols ancl othor roots as a.
put animals and 110130114 and all sorts Yrarsi
(Mood to the spoint of unprofitable. ,substituto fur part of the concen-
of things in countrios wi.ore they
trated feed. Exptiritnants with dairy
don't live or grow; and Furlong, who asas.
seems to have lexin. in every quartet: In Virginia tobacco toes grown to cotes show that ono pound dry mat -
of the globe, spots the mistaltes and be followed by corn for several ter of mongols (about. eight to ten
years; In New England 00111 01* pounds actual roo(s) is ()cruel to
sc`Lf;VieP110, riSL"1olifa1 the curious eXper- wheat or eve, and in thelwost, WhOnt ORO pound grain, and that about 70
tenses!" exclainsod Cyril. "Why, who or corn, in (ho east this was fol- pounds a day of roots may be red.
would guess that that eough-loolcing lowed by a period when cora or Where 80 'pounds silage is fed daily
codger could set th.e great and learn- some cereal MIS gr0311) 0110 year and
cel Mr. Joh Wesley right in. anY• the land allowed to run to weeds\ the
th ing." next, the woods being eithor grazed
eYes, curious, isn't it? But ap-
pearances aro deceitful. Who, for or burned off,
Two hundred years ago row crops
iustanoo, would suppose that, Mr.
Cyril Burne
were grown ou the foetus of this
was—"
"No, Jack, slut up! I say, your country or Europe. Clover was not
friend has a remarkably striking' ex.
terior. Do you think he'd 101nd sitt-
ing for mo as a model?"
'I should say ha wouldn't have
the slightest objection," said Jack,
"to earning money that or any
other way, honest or dishonest. Oh,
13.cieest,.,11:'d sit for a model well. You
might call him 'The Tleturned Con -
"What," said Cyril, "do you
said Jack.. qulotly. "1
don't know anything about him, and
have no reason to suppose that he
was ever in Botany Bay. 'As I say,
he will probably turn out to bo a
duke instead of a ticket-ofleavo
ara„1,1r.
be old fellow has n furtive way
of looking about him," said Cyril,
1111011. 541015 Furlong seemed to
havo mado an impression.
"s1 dare say. So would you have
if you had ono through half he says
he has," remarked Jack, "But about
Newell. You won't leavo London un-
til you have meen 11110 and settled
of England after 1800 years of mla-
somethiog doftnito? die is a slippery
managemont was not considered
customer, and is W01.1:11 sticking to."
"All right," asseated Cyril, ot 10011* out. All that was required
mean business, Jack, and will stick was thought and now methods to
make this land the most productive
ta his lordship like wax."
"Eow surprised ho would look it in the world, To -day it grows the
ydati sent in your card -your propor highest yield of wheat per acre, tho
one, I mean, he said,
"That's a secret which I havo only
shared with yon, Jack."
"Confound yam, yes, and I wish
you'd kept it to yourself," growled
Jack, "There, be off now. What
with you and that old ruffian, my
nothing's nearly gone."
(To bo Contimied.)
4
STABLES IN A TREE.
In the Bahama islands tho flour-
ishos a tea the roots of which at-
tain to enormous proportions, oftoa
rectohIng to a height of 15 Nit or
20 feat abase tho surface of the
earth, spreading- in all directions',
as well, in order to obtairt suaten-
anco and give support to the trunk
and branches, On tho trop grow in-
numerablo balls of silky potton,
presenting an almost fairy-like ap-
pearance as they glisten in Dm sun-
light. They aro in grraL demand for
stalling pillows, being soft as CiOW11.
RP11e0E1 fOlelled by tho roots are
often quite as largo EIS fair-sized
rooms, ancl, if roofed over, olio Ono
would form a cononedious,
place for a family; in fact, it wonld
be infinitely superior to the avomge
native hut. Holes could 130 cut in
the roots to allow of internal com-
munication. Up to tho present,
however, tho natives have not util-
ised 1110111 as boases, though they
are frequent:1y in request ris stablOs
for hor5430.
the cattle could not eat 80 largo
a quantity of roots. If 20 pounds
rools wove fed daily this would SAVO
I.W0 pounds corn moat, which, valued•
at $20 a ton, makes the roots. worth
$2 a ton. If 20 tons an acre can
he socured. the crop is worth $40 an
grown hore nor in England. ttuut nem on the farm, and the question
mate whether a few acres of
crops for stock feeding. wore just is legiti
being introduced. The sowing of
grass seed on land did not begin to
cones into common practice until
about 100 years ago.
The advent of more crops 111 agri-
culture is coincident with the ins -
roots might not find a place in a
rotation.
--
FARM NOTES.
The actual plant food contained in
average, barnyarcl manure is about
provemont of live stock. Improve- ten pounds each 'of potash and nitro -
moats in shop and cattla by Bake- gen and five pounds of phosphoric
well in. England were contemporary acid per ton, and this must be taken
Rith trio introduction of Clover and into consideration in devising any
system of caring for the material.
When manure is applied an the
whiter, it gives the spring rains a
chance to soak the decomposed ma-
nure into the soul, and also helps
rot the coarse manure that is left,
so by the time the land is ready to
work it does not gather under tha
great stocks of cattle; for without plowbeam or clog the cultivator
much cattle thorn cannot be much tooth.
manure." One hears much about Shippers of poultry and eggs
wornemt land in this country, bo- shoul(1 be very cautious about re -
(11.11813 11.13 productivity has boon re, spending to new commission -men
duced during the past 101) to 200 who quote prices higher than the
Years of occupation, yet the land regular market. These are very
likely to be irresponsible parties
who fail and defraud shippers as
soon as they have received any con-
siderable quantity of goods. The
best trado of the cities is mostly
commanded by the older and estab-
lieltal firms, and these aro able to
pay as high for the goods as any-
body. New concerns which quote
very high prices usually d.o so at,
the expense of reliability.
A horse troll broken to lead is
more attractive, easier to handle,
and will command a higher price 01
the market than ono that is not. In
training to lead, always teach the
colt to walk beside you, and never
allow 111111 to follow along bolded,
as is often done, This can be clone
by taking a wilip in the left hand,
touching him up a little from be-
dAfter beiug well trained to
walk besido you, encourage hint to
trot,
TESTS FOR CREAM. '
roe creameries not at present rog-
ularly 3181141 .0 test for determining
tho ripeness of (roam, Prof. II, le,
Van Norman suggests a simple me-
thod In bulletin 104, This test is
particularly adapted to mesentery
conditions, but, howover, may be
used by dairymen who are making a
considerable amount of butter, such
as will justify their efforts. It con-
sists in a. simple operation of the
noutralization of a solution. and in-
dicator in the whole ert3a1n, with a
caustic sada solotion, Which is pre-
pared with little difficulty. Dairy-
men interested in this tost should
secure the bulletin and become fa -
Millar with its use.
turnips into lt,nglish husbandry, and
a new point of view was advanced;
namely, the succession of crops on
the farm should bo such that some
of the land woul(1 bo under crops
grown -for stock feeding, Arthur
Young puts it: "The grand article
of all husbandry is the keeping
PHISTTY SOUR.
113)113) Moore -"Is Miss Iitaplace
as sour as slit looks?"
Calvert, jr,-"Sottr. Why, it that,
girl Were to 100k Elt the sky on n,
clone night sho'd curdlo tho milky
average being 81. bushols, the high-
est of barley and potatoes, and is
near the top in the Yield of oats
and also, In tho weight of live stock,
carried per acre.
The cry of worn-out land in the
east lowers the dignity of the farm-
ers in the oyes . of their fellowmen.
The roduced yields may not bo due
to lack of plant food. Meaty !arm-
ors enter into the production of a
crop; elimato, -texture of the soil,
moisture content, the management
of thin farm, whether goad or poor,
etc. Them have nothing to do with
eh -onkel composition, but aro just
as important factors in crop pro-
duction, The value. of the land ancl
the inconto derived from it may be
increased,.
A. CELEBRATED ROTATION.
For a self sustaining farm, live
stock is a nocesSity. Tho value of
the Norfolk four -course to Um ItIng-
lish farmer is that it consists of a
leguminous crop, clover; an inter -
tilled ceop, turnips; alternating with
two gmin crops, wheat and barley.
Two of these crops and the straw
from tho grain crops aro consumod
ou the farm by. sheop or cattle, and
these latter sold oft fat, Fattening
stook may not be desirable In somo
parts of tide country, but milk, but-
ter or chooso prodeettan may take
its place. With Om substitution of
corn for turnips the above rotation
may Mellish a basis. The expenso
in tillage may bo rod -trod by makeig
a rive or six -course, 8oWing 111111Cilly
with the clavor and letting it stay
down two or three years. The ca-
pacity of this scheme for adaptation
is evidont frorn tho following: First
grain -Twiny, buckwhoati, corn,
rye and Wheat; aecond year,
"Yetlr,
OELtS,
rangements for the wedding, which
shortly afterwards took plaC0 in
England. The bride had an income
of 131,500 a year of her own, and
expectatioes of a much larger for -
1,1111P later on, so the young man
proved
DECIDEDLY LUCKY.
It a girl will bestow her hand and
heart on a hero for saving her
dog's lifo, it can scarcely be sur-
prising if she does as much , whea
the life saved is her oWn. While
bathing in the sea at a pleasure re-
sort in Rhode Island, Miss Pattie
Ashmore, the daughter of a rich
Now Yorker, got out of her depth
nod found herself in imminent
clanger of drowning.
Her cries brought a young fellow
nameci Jefferson on the scene, and,
seeing her peril, he threw off his
jacket and swam out to her assist-
once. After a desperate struggle he ,
succeeded in getting her safely
ashore. The grateful father made
the brave rescuer a present of $10,-
000; took him into his business, and
In the course of a couple of years
allowed him to marry the daughter
whose life he had saved. The holi-
day on which that feat was per-
formed was undoubtedly the luckiest
in tho young man's life.
A few years ago a young lady as-
sistant in a Liverpool linen -draper's
establishment was spending bee holi-
days in the Isle of Man, when she
was instrumental in saving the life
of a little boy who had fallen into
the sea. The mother, a widow from
tIm neighborhood of Manchester,
was most profuse in her thanks, but,
beyond taking the name and address
of the brave girl who had risked her,
life for the child's, did nothing at
the time to recognise
(lecton-"I understand you said 1
Wari an 4001'4111. upstart. Is it
true?"
Brown. -"No; 1 merely said that
you know tile least 011 the 1110S1. sub-
joeta of any matt of nly acquaint-
ance."
t`'-'11 `4. 1111 "
11 • ;1
'3311.1(1 DANG1211. OF EN'.1,A.NGLING ALLIANL1ES,
THE COURAGEOUS ACT.
The young lady was a trifle disap- •
pointed at this seeming lack of ap-
preciation; but about eighteen
months ago she was astonished to
receive a letter from a (inn of Man-
chestor solicitors, in -which it wee
intim atod that she had been lefta
legacy of $4,000 by the mother of
the boy she had fished out of Om
water as above described. A fow
days later she received tho money,
which enabled her to merry, the
honeymoo31 appropriately being
spent where the legacy was °signed.
Five dollars a week for lire ' is ss,
nice little income to 130 picked up
on a, holiday. While spending his , y
holidays at Blacic.pool a youth
named 131115011 was lucky enough to
save tho little claughtor of a Bel-
fast visitor Fran being..ruic over in
the street by a heavy Vehiclo, the
horse attached to which had bolted.
Ire nearly lost his liO3 in the effort,
for, stumbling as he snatched up the
infant, the wheels would have pass-
ed over him 11 110 had not had tho
presence of mind to roll out of the
way.
The parents of the saved child felt
so grateful to tho young rest:tier
that they clocided to pay hint $5 a
v:eek
LONG AS 11111 LIVED.
Some years ago the three children
of a Bristol widower were speeding
their holidays at Brighton in charge
of a young lady governess. One
night the boarcling-house,at which
they were staying took fire, and
there was grave danger of the occu-
pants being learnt to death,. Quito
regardless of her Own safety the
gOvernoss calmly proiseeekal to get,
her young eharges out of danger,
and not until they had been rernovo(t
to a place of safety did alto think
of horself. She was Pathos: badly
burnt about the handand taco in
the course of rescuing the children,
and was laid up with e, severe ill-
ness attorwards as olio of tho re-
sults, Der omployer Wes so 11111110
strilek by hor conrage, and 80 grate-
ful to her for saving his children,
that ho prosentocl her With the sum
of $5.000, and 00001 1101 1st married
her. -London Tit-13its.
"Well," sold 1.110 cheorful wit, W110
thought she had a 50131)11100 voleoc "11
Cho worst comes to Om worst 1 could
Imo the wolf ' from the 1.1001` 13)
singing." "3 Von't doubt !hat
would do 11." ,replivel hor pessimistic
husband; compose the wolf
should happen to be *tar.