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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-1-22, Page 2"Yon remember that you told me 0++++4.1 1-1.1+1-1-1-1-:-144-1-:-.44, you wore iealoue of her." Ile relined. er 0 3 e ,Tid 1 ever love you Gine 1 ben fo.;:ttilte°11"--." :nyliptirraritts eedla' ztei'I'Q, alc1.1i11: 1 seem to remember nothing clearly, . 0 T LI ' 8 P 0 r . •-et " 4' eeeept, that you judged me guilty of -i4 murder, Did I love you'?" The wan face end mos eyes touched X him inexpreseibly, "When you thought I had tried to Cr Lady Caraveres Labor of commit murder, you turned ens from ef.• your doors; in the Ilerkness of night, r alone and unfriended, eon bade u30 begone, Which kind of murder is Nel+144-÷teleHeiels•H-led-HeleleTe ggleieleter*+÷÷-He!÷!... 4-44444.14 • .1 ' di l •• • ' • I Love. CHAPTER XXII, Lady Curaven had refused to see any one; she had refused to quit, her apartment. The horror of the charge made against her overpowered her, Her husuend Maimed her guilty of intent to murder. At first that was the only idea ler mind could gawp - a horrible, distorted idea. She could not think clearly. Fier husband, whom she had saved from ruin, whom she had roused front indolehee and selaindulgearce whose better nature she had called ferito life, whom she loved with a passionate love, had judged her guil- tn of murder. She could not realise it; she could not put her thoughts into words; they assumed no tangi- Ile form. Then slowly enough she returned to a clear memory of what bad httppence. Some one had shot Lady Hamel - nen: who it was, or how it had hap- pened, she could not tell. '1 hen she remembered having heard the shot iirecl, of welsh at tee. time she had thought so little. She remembered how something had whizzed through the trees. ]3y degrees all the events of thnt dreadful night returned to her clearly and forcibly - the start- led cry, the sornd that, came from the borders of the lake the tramp of many feet -and she wondered that all these things had had no signifi- cance for her when her husband had erred, "You minty, . cruel woman!" and she had owned herself guilty. Then she saw how the mistake bad elan. They had been playing at erns pro.posf se fee meant that she was guilty of murder; she had meant that she was guilty of jealousy and of following him. She was in despair. Of what avail would it be now to defend herself, to tell him that she was not guilty, to try to clear herself? Her hesband would never believe her; he would siways suspeet her becenso of her own words. "Was there tier a fate like mine?" cried the unhappy girl. "What have done that such a lot in life should te mine?" eourage, her bravery, her hope and faith seemed all to give way. She was in despair. Her husi•and believed her guilty of a great crime, and she had no mems of proving her innocence. The only hope that re- mained to her was that the real criminal would confess, and so free her from the accuee.tion; but that was most unlieely. In her own grind she believed that some loeer of Lady Hamilton's, wild with jeal- ousy, had fired at her; If so, it was most unlikely that he would accuse himself, No, there was no hope. She had striven so bravely to bear a cruel fate; she had done her best; she had made a brave fight where many peo- ple would heve run away - and now it was all ended. So far was her husband from loving her that he be- lieved her guilty of ie crime -thought her capable of a crime. The girl's heart failed her utterly; the would fain have turned her face to the wall and died. "Sir Raoul would not have be- lieved it," she said to herself; "he would have defended me." All hope was at an end. She felt that she could never interest herself in life again. Then a vague but none the less terrible tear carne over ben She could not tell what might imppen. Suppose that Lady Hamil- ton should die! Seine one must be penithed. Her husband had said that he would keep her secret, but suppose that he found. it impossible to do so -that, from circumstantial evidence, ethers. suepected and accus- ed her -what would she do? There could be no defence, She had been. found bebind the tie*, end ,she had said she was guiltsee 'Can& it be within the bonnets of possibiKty that she, liildred, Countess of Caraven, would ever be brought before a pub- lic tribvinal and tried for a crime of which , she was perfectly innocent?• Her vividernagination ran riot about it. She pictured herself in a dark eon. She wept until from sheer ex- haustion She slelets ! A knocking at the door aroused her. "Hildred," called Arley Sansome, • 'I wish to see you." I "Hieleed, 1 have Something very partieuler to say to you -open the door." I There was not a sound, and Lord ;Canyon began to feel slightly Ialarmed. "Hildred," said her father, "1 have a message from your hus- band." IStill there was no sound, end, un- able to control himself, the earl cried , out: "Hildred, for Heaven's sake speak to met Let ole in - I want to Ref: you!" The sound of his voice seemed to have an electric effect upon her. The next moment she turned Mickey in the lock and opened wide the eloor. With a cry of fear and surprise, he started back when he saw her, He had seen her lately so beautiful, so radiant -now her long Hack hair hung in disorder over her shoulders; her face was pale and stained with itears, her eyes were dim, her lips white. He hardly mew ner. Iiildredl he cried. She looked at him with den, sad eyes. 'Voul" she said. "Is it you, who thought me guilty of murder?" Lord Oarsmen turned to Arley Han- scom. "leave ine alone with her," he said. "I have much to say." Mr, tionsome wart away. The curl entered the .room and closed the door. He went to his wife, holding out both his hands, "Will you forgive me?" he said. "There can bo no pardon, my lord, Ifor the wrong you have done me," 'she replied. . And then the earl knew, if ever he iwon his wife's pardon, it would be a work of patience and of time. "I cannot believe," he said, "that !you will be unkind or unjust to me, Hildred - I have suffered mon than you have." "That is not possible," sbe re- joined; "no one has accused you of a terrible crime." I "But I have suspected an innocent rerson," he said, "and it Is harder to inflict than to bear pain." He gazed anxiously at her. She !looked pale and wen, with the stains of bitter weeping on thee face. Be saw, too, that she shivered like one seized with mortal cold. I "Hildred," he tried, "do forgive me - you do not lcnow how grieved I (Uri to See you like this, I want eto tell you kow the misunderstand- ing happened. Will you listen?" I "Yesee she replied, mechanically, and she .9at silent and motionless while hen told her the story. She looked at him when it was ended with dull,dim eyes. am very sorry," she Said, "that Blantyre Made the mistake. I al- most wish that he had shot me through,. the heart. What have I to live for?" "I could not eparo You Hildred you have been the good angel of my life!" ee cried. "You sent me from your eouse, Lord annexe an pronounce Inc guilty what seems to me very light evidence. I may claim to be I at least as credulous as yourself, yet 1 declare, that had env One accused you of murder I should not have be- lieved in You judged me go Ity nt 1 1 frA 'EldrIg.'1"73IntgnIfT is tflreIrtlain and absolute euro for each d every form of itchin, bleedinganderotradlaseilee a' nu . time:dada in the dally prow and ask your neigh. bora what they think of 11. You can use It and ret 'our menet bark if not anal. tee rt, box. al all sealers or 'Erna ilaelf,Iterts 4 Comeoronte, Dr Chase's Ointmnt! once -guilty of trying to murder -1, who never in my life trampled oven upon a worm. Why should you have thought that X wished Lady Handle^ ton dead?" He looked. slightly confustel. body, or that which slays Boort mind, brain, and liege? I say tha , in this sense you have slain inc." 1 "Oilfired, be merciful to mel" h cried. "I will show you the same mercy that you have shown me. Go from My presence and do not lot me see you again." With shining eyes, and pnle, pns- sionate face, :he swept from the room, leaving the earl overcome with nstonishmet,t. "'She is the most hIgheninded wo- ; nian 1 have ever niet in my life," h thought. "I have teen blind, in deed. How superb she lookel in her indigentitn! 1 will win her yet. I have Levee cared about winning her before, but 1 swear to give my life to the task now." It seemed probable that it would be a very long one, for Lady Cara - ren positively refused to see her bus: - lane again. In vein Arley Ilan - some pleaded for him; she was In- exorable • The earl was compelled to return to Ravensmere, and he did so al- mcst deseaii•ingly. Lady Hamilton was fast improving; she would be able to go to her own home soon, ,the doctor said, end ail anxiety 'about her was quite at an end. The truth of the story had conte to light; all the papers had it; every ono knew Unit Lady Hamilton had been shot by mistake, and tent it was -the young Countess of Caraven whom echo Blantyre had intended to kin, The earl confided the result of his mission to Sir Raoul, who was not meth surprised, "Yoe have tried her beyond her strength." he said; "I should advise 'you, without toes of time, to re- turn to Louder again," I Lord Careen did so, but his jour- ney was fruitless. ...indeed refused to see him; to all entreaties from her father see answered Melee - end carry it brevely. I ask yet t the same question now." ; She was quite silent for it fei 111 inutes, raid thee, as the mist rolls from the hill -tops Were the tight of the sun, all shadow passed from her face, and she &immoral Man "I will, 1 will do all you advise, Herne, I will forgive my husereed. ,YoU say that 110 lover; Inc floW. shall put his love to the teet, 11 i fails well encl good -I will do in duty without the Sunshine of lav to cheer me; if it stands the test, will try to crown Itis life with ni IP 1 triderehle number of anima's ere fed there are few feeders who menage to v get tins average dune gain for eller- er a long or short, period. Recently attention has beep called to the fact, that it Milner succeeded in putting on a gain of lite and one-half poonett Fee day Inc at period of twenty-eight days. These Lemnos hitve been vele- 1 Lod so that there is no question oorazzzzzatvow:P1 o HE FARM '4. Zt+d-ilVetWeSSGSZsgSN 7.13 CSI3l11OWTALe about their femur:my, Tile feed used 1 There are ninny cow stables that in this cage consisted of ten pounds are not only a constant 111111M:0 tU Of Oil 1110a1 per day per steer during 1 the cows' health and their probtable the fning period mentioned In ma Y Production, but an outrageous con. Cition to the Corn and forage. The tamirettron of tintt production, and animals seemed to relish this ration t mot e, LI ey are an evesles ing eon- for the time mentioned, but with one denotation of their own,re. 'that accord, and al. one time they refused careless or ignorant dn.ii•ymen should to male further gains. They had • allow the meet perfect, the moa!, been, as it were, complelely over - 0 sesceptiele food product to become done and during the baleen of the I contaminated by action filth and period were fed at a loss. odors of Illth is an creense widest • The owner of the cattle Warred to the rights of society and a menece was convinced that 110 greater nes- to the public health. 'thanes to the take could be mode than feeding too e good teachings of the agricultural large quantities of concentrated feed. erne, much of the old cow -stele° un- Ile was of the opinion that better tininess Is passing, but there re- results could be obtained flow Moe - mains, as 1 have said, enough of it ing from two to four pot nes of can- to be a disgrace, wean Mr, W. le eentrated food in connection with Mc8parran. This unclean dairyman corn, than from footings a ler, often hopes for the salvation or pure quantity of the rich meals. Mile Ile:talon of his dirty milk from the animals will cost we three or four good offices of the strainer; and tents this amount, yet his mg 0, 1 - while the strainer does all it may encu as given above demonstrated by arresting solid pertic'es larger that there is no profit from such DTI the meshes of the strainer, the feeding. The only occasion where it Ho looked long and lovingly a her. ! "You are a brave girl, - e you are a good women," be said dmilingly, "1 wi h there we 0 mor like you. tell Ulric that yox are'willing to see him now." "If you please," she responded: "but, linoul, do not repeat what I have said. I want to test hie iov lYscif." (To )le Continued). e TOWNS WORTH LIVING IN. "I leave not one word to add to what I have said:" and with that answer the earl was obliged to bo content. 1 In therm despair he rent for Sir Ra- oul, mho, though almost unlit to tra- vel, hastened to him; he, besought him to use his influence with the beautiful young wife who had no pity for him. Then he grew wildly jealous at the idea that she would listen to Sir Raoul when she refus- ed absolutely to listen to 1,1m. "Why should you have more in- fluence over her than I have?" be asked, half angrily. "'Because," said Sir Raoul, "I un- derstand the higher, better, nobler part o 1' her nature, as you, I fear, will never understand it. I win try what I can do." -Tell her then, Raoul," went on the earl, his tone end manner chang- ing sudeenly, "that I was blind to her beauty, her goodness, her truth, but that I see all now. Tell her that I did not love her when I first knew her, but feat I love her now: tell her, if she will but forgive ine, 7 will nine? the devotion of my whole life atone for iny past 00 - g ee Sir Raoul pimmised, Lady Cara- van did not refuse to nee him. Ile was shocked and startled at the ter- rible change a few days had wrought in her. He looked at the pale face. "How you have suffered, Hildred?" he said. "Yes; I came to the end of my pa- tience at last, I can bear it no longer, Raoul; it was it life of tor- ture after all, and 1 will never re- turn to it. 1 could nut be brave any longer." • "room' child!" said the grave, pitying voice.."Some weeds are running in illy nixed, leilfeed. about those, wee, having put their hand to the plow, turn back again. May I tisk,- aro you one .01 those, Oilfired? Are you tired of heroism?" Id "There was rib heroism 5n my life," Elie said. "Nay, partial. me; there was the ! grandest heroism possible. Do you know what my idea of heroism real- ly is? She looked at him with greater in - tercet than She haft yet displayed. "Ten me, Raoul." "erhis he the grandest herotem," he said - "the heroism that makes saints and martyrs -• bearing the burden of one lives patiently end n n a.nd endurance. I 'thought that you cheez•fully, never failing in strength q would heroically and cheerfully bear the crosses and trials of your lift. So you did for a time; now you have laid down your cross, saying that it Is too heavy for you to bear. AM Unfired! believe ole, good was never net won by Cowardice. Taeo IL ep again, this burden you have natio down. In the clay of adversity fail not -be a heroine until the encl." His words Minted and °mourner]. her, as thee alemes did, "What would you have rue do?" she atticed• "I would have you lay (aside your teatimes, your pride, your reeerve," be told her. "Do not become a re- vengeful woman. Your husband has, it ie time, outreesed and insulted you, but it was iv minteke, and he leplotem it bit tate, Be generous; leave revenge to sumil souls mid ,arrow needs; above 1 mid forgive him," "Veil do not, know, Ilimul," she eald, "then my heart in sore anti Places Where Life Is Very Pleasant and Living Cheap. If you have bet a small income telco up your abode in tire Swedieli town of OrSa. There are no taxes, education for your children is free, tele] hones may be used gratis, and should you desire to rile on tl street am the conductor will exert no payment. All which benefits ac - erre from the business °atrocity et the municipality, which by the sale of timber, cut from tee extt nsite plantations in Li e neighborhood, 114 Mee sensibly increase the LOWO'S revenn. Should music bo ytrur delight, re - rate without loss of time to Des - lard, in Brazil. Though the popula- tion numbers only 15,000, most of them, moreover, are pones:loci of but email moans, every houselm'cl can boast at least 0710 piano, while in the town Ate f and its three sub- urbs no fewer than thirteen Co:with- ing chore] societies testify to the musical taste of the inhabitants, Choose Nnshuet, N. It., a town of 20,000 citizens, for your abode should you desire perfect ream. Neither lawyer nor priest is to be found there. Treeing, the sole business of the community, is done by the town council, and so success- fully ms to obviate the need of tax- aticn. Street cleaning and road mending aro undertaken by the citi- zens in turns, and so peace -loving are these voluntary workers that policemen are unknown. Lovers et cleardirces will urdnubt- eclie find Brook, in Holland, to thcir liking. It has long teen ronownsx1 as the neatest velem° in the world, and so joie:els were its inhabitants of its reputation that until a few years back horses were not allowed in its streets. Even now the place is kept a marvel of scrupulous cleanliness by its population, which is almost exclusively engaged in the making of Edam cheese, Advocates of petticoat governmert should journey to Beattie, lennees, where all the chief offices are lilted by women, who, bane, in public opinion, less open to bribery than the other sex, make preferable ad- ministrators. A large proportion of the police are wemen. Fat folk seould boolc to Neodesha, a nall city in ICansas, whence after a brief sojourn they will return home with s'lm and elegant egeres-a result due, according to the scientists, to the vast accumulations of oil end natural gas then. are stored beneath the city. ORIGIN OF CUSTOMS. Reasons Why You Do Some Curi- ous. Things. It is most surprising what a, num- ber of little things we do without knowing the reason. \thy, for inslaace, do widows wear ens? Perhaps you may say be- cause they, make them look • pretty and interesting. But the real rea- son is that when the Romans, were in England they sheered their heads. as a sign -of' mourning, Of couree,• a woinan coulen'e let herself be :men with 'ambale head, so slit Made herr sell a pretty dap. .And now, thouili the necessity of wearing it bus ed away, the cap remains. What is the meaning of the crosses pr X's on nbarrel of beer? They signify degrees of quality nowadays But originally they were put cm by there ancient moults as a sort of trade -mark. They were crosses in those -days, and meant a sort of oath on the cross, sworn by the manufac- turer, that hit barrel contained good liquor. Why aro bells tolled for tile -dead? 'is line become so familiar n. pate- tice that a funeral without, it would appear un-Chriettan, yet the res- cont is unite barbarous. Bells Were • tolled long n.go, when people were being buried, in order to frighten away the evil spirits who hved In the air. Why do fair lades break a bottle of wine on the ship they aro christ- ening? Merely another survival of bisrbarie custom. 111 the clays of sacrifice to the gods it was custom- aey to get some poor victim when a boat, venal bang Munched, tied to , out Itis throat over the prow, so that his blood baptized its • Ilh,y are dignitaries flattened by a :melte when they visit a foreign port? It seems u, urious wet of welcome, this Miler oil of guns, betz it apt -ears the eiretoin arose in at eery uny. Originally, a town or n, fired ale their I glum on the npproach af import:rent and friendly strangers) to show tlint they had such faith in the vitetors' peewee factitious they didn't think 1 zeiccesary to keep 'their gents loads' ed. Why 3111 wo sometimes throw a thee finer 13, bride'? The raison ie not, very o mpl int en to ry, Front or it, has Loon the habit of me -there to chastise their 11,1111113 111111 t shoe. 1,sece the elision) metes re the Milo r of 0 Bride male& xv rem medto the 1$110!4r4,0l11 of a Shoe, t1.4 13(7'31 her in order, a, Men lent IL Wita to bo his riglA 10 Call It Develops foto Pneurnalfa or Consumpl.lon-Easy to Duro a Gold if You Use DR. CHASE'S SYRUP OF LINSEED AND TIMPENTINE. le is easy to let a cold run on, eon may say with others that you eilways let a cold take care of it- self. There li a danger of following, this plan once too often. At this season of the year tee lungs seem to be unusually susceptible to disease, and before you suspect ft pneumonia or consumption has seated iteelf in your system, It is poseiblo• 700 have tried the cough nth:three which d,'' ggsts offer 10 their eust(»nere, tl lime, may do Well fur slight checker] the misrule° of disease, and z 1 11. few days he WAS as well as ever, and is now going to x•chool regularly. 3 have now greet feith in this vivluable remedy, and retell re- ,1 Turpentine is far more than a tough commend it to my friends," remedy, it, curve the toll as wen as loosening nral deems the aough. It takes the pains out of the bones, soul reaches the very treat of dimertse when there is pain and tightnene in the cbeet, It would not he, too mulch.731.13 io eay that 111'. Clutter's Syrup of buying, reel itetist on having lir. LinSeefl Mid Turpentine has: saved ; 25 Cen IS a, bot the All neeeemee or 1,0011m aneumonta defilers, or Ehnen:eon, Pates CC CO, 1011 (`, Jimmied ion, Shore 1s mit a 1 Toronto. village or hamlet in Canada where ; this famous family treatment. is not 1 recognized es a mast, men -malty 01-; Naive cure for croup, imonenitis, I asithmii, coughs and colds. Mr, Dn oald Gralutm, 45 Callondar street, Toronto, states :-"*.lity boy, who is six yearn of ago, was dee: yr -loping all the symptoms of /mita! amnia when we 00111111Clicc.r1 him Dr. Chastee Syrup Of tin:food , and Turpentine, It very quickly oolds k ticling in e Gwent,thbut i 111(7 are powerless; m the presence of *wirier, disease. Dr. Chaseei 'Syrup of lentated xted• "jutit as good." There is 0; throe t and lung medallic just es good aft Dr, Chnse's Syrup of Tin -l1 end , • rouble." "1 know," he replied, "it is hard to bear, latt yott 11311411, fOre'IN'ti him, I Nos 11,11st, again tette up the (1441.1,11)of your lite, ramie° meter ericupee 1.1010, clevol, your:01 10 ills Wel- aro torgiVO 4(4 13 n lid 0111 I 'sty Mem hes mirrored, live for tie 411111 week you levee L00111. ()1I01'Mee me- al you If yon were stealer enoligh to take op he tburden of 1)1111' 11f u,utin Te so ub e llrt has entered into licnce': may be practicable to feed Moral don with the milk, and the mechani- quantities of concentrated food is cat or chemical process has not yet just at the close of the feeding per - been invented or disco \ ered tiara iod, Rational 'feeding tl roi•gbout will restore the pree:riefi)iar lie milk the y purity of the period means that the food shall t . SoI ble dairyman l,ccome gradually more concentrated may not filler his sins by the strain- as the stniod advances, e.s the ant - e'.11 the strainer is of the mire ,mals get fat they femme averse to variety the case is worse, as the much work and van make better use easel metal divides and subdivides of concentrated foods, but it is the the dirt, making it thus more solu- height of folly to allow them to be- ble by a multiplication of EXPOSED SURFACES. corne necustomee to Ilis in the ear- ly part of the feeding period. It is 011, yes, by all means use the strain- much bettor to supply them with a. ex, but let it be of the many thick- liberal supply of good concentrated posses of Clean, sterilized, new 1111 5- food, combined with it reasonable lin that shell be the bast sefeguard amount of corn, the grain Laing against the feature of even the most, gradually made richer as the end of ti tenant. Ilut the conserentton of the feeding period approaches, the purity of the milk, while cf corse the most important consider -I TO CONTROL DRINK EVIL. + ation, the milk being used for he- n= food, is not the only one des Efforts to Reduce Intoxication. in mending the clean cow stable, for Great Britain, secondary in importance only to the clean milk Is the health of the cows, rho Rather (wee •or Great Britain The latter may really bo a vital are trying to control the drink evil Part of tee former, for wnen our and to reduce intoxication, which students of animal life and functions is the cured of that country. The shall some day declare to us be, ond amount of drunkenness visible in all doubt just how the milk is made, London, Liverpool, Glasgow and it will be strange indeed if it is not noitallergrenainio tcistties,,eismaaripeyalilvionn;genCasetz again shown that the stream et ti ysee rise no higher than its source -that men drunk on Snturday nights. A the wholesomeness of the milk de- new liquor license law tensile et - ponds upon the hervithfuenss of the fective on New Year's ray, and cow. If the obligation the dairy- through it the authorities aro hal e- mail owes to the consumers of the ful of largely reducing the nembers products of his dairy does not urge of casual and habitual drunkards, him to the observance of habits and The act puts greater responsibility methods of cleanliness, the more per- for causing drunkenness upon the sonally selesh one of the Jeopardy to keepers of saloons. Heretofore a his animals' health should show him drunkard has rarely been arrested aright, for assuredly good cows are and punished unless lie committed an not so plentiful nor so mesy to get nesault. Ordinary intoxication at - that they may be neglected by their tracts no attention from the police. keepers. These points suggest to the Indeed, if the police were to az•rest student of animal husbandry that a'l the men and women found reeling the needed educational work in le- drunk in the smears of London on half of the dairymah is beyord the Saturday nights they woeld be un - cheap conception of the "belenced- able to fled cells in the police sta- ration" teacher, and becomes the Goes to confine them, Under tee province of the farm papers with new liquor law any person 'found their "line upon line and precept up- druw in Ipiau‘bilniegpilnchgea fibre or rin a on precept." loon apparently under seven may te ar- achildsa -_-- - PICKING A. COW. rested and liable to a penalty. No Some men have a knack of doing this that puts everybody else to !shame. They will go Into a herd, and, as soon as they look the stock mer, say, ere is a good cow. Acting on this suggestion one finds he has not made a mistake. How the thing was done is as much a mystery to us afterward as now. We only know that this man's judgment has not failed us. But few men are able to make such a choice. Most of us, as the old saying is, "don't know a good thing when we see it.," in the line of a cow. But thereetre certain homely signs which are help- ful to the man who sets out to find a cow,for his dairy. Seine of these are as follows: The cow ought to be of fairly good size, so that she drunken person may be permitted to remain in a saloon, and the law commands the proprietor or oar - keeper to remove him or her, NEIV LAW sEvxtlum. The new law is severe on habitual drunkards. 11 one of these within three years after a Conviction for habitual drunkenness attempts to purchase liquor in a saloon, he is liable to arrest and a penalty, and saloon -keepers are forbidden under severe penalties, selling or Permitting to be sold liquor to any man or WO- inan known to be a habitual drunlc- med. The law provides for the ,'r - rest and punishment of any person who procures and gives liquor to a. habitual drunkard. Man of 'the h 1 1 • eau cat a good ration, s She should keeperInive %sent poete acre to have a large udder and good-sized ell their &tsarina's, -who are known teats. Following the milk -vein to get drunIct wlemetter opportenity 'tareng to the entrance to nee body, onere, that em,and aftee New Year's liic good cow we would cipect to Amy they.Will not be'epeverl ',meth find a hole large enough ton‘theci the Intoxicants, no matter what their seeped finger readily. Some hold condition. that the veiitself should be large The salooe-keepers aro afraid of the I ancl crooked. The cow should have penalty under the new law and don't n n thin neck and a Wonder tail. She care to "take chances- " If the law ; legs. She should Mime a good, hoes loon-keopere from serving women should he wide between the hind would go further and prevent sae I ett look in her eyes. She should with drink in public or private bars prIoVhceeses imf t milked it would remove one of the most shocking sights of London -the srec- fInenStiliohtailr eillnjgoywettle milker be a good hand at it, A -Mae of dozens of women loitering s couple of rudimentary teats behind against a bar and drinking gin or beer with as much freedom and noise 00 111011. It is not unusual 1,0 see three or four woMen, their right elbow crook - he tells us that the cow is a good ed over it bar rail with a child on one, if we can agree on the price we their left arm. . The new law will may be reasonably sure that we ha.vo - abolish that, evil practice at least. settee fete worth of our money, 'P11114'P11114matter of picking out it COW has 4--_-___ proven so unsatisfactory to 0. great SHOE Oei. THE OTHER FOOT. many Men thae they hen COIrie ttl, it 111 nil( 1 ' • i i 1 the coxiclusion that they can better n fte- wet v, 10 11 aft t to be tells a good story about himself, very disagreeable With 11/,3. employer; calfhood than to trust their judg- afford to raise their 0W4 cows from NYhich the Philnelelphia Telegraph re- reent to nolect them from other this that goes a Meg Way, 1! 1110 lierd,S, There is a satisfaction about 1)(148': A Quaker who •lited jest arrived wo (10111)01 Menne any one but our- fes week. heifer should fail to turn out well front Ienelend ealled 00 him to ask Have met any recominf•ndation?" select); whereas, if We taint the num eNce". replied the man, "but I we bought, of, and then oily expect- neked the nielsthallie ;Mime; al 0 net reale/sad, we are quite 110,170 friends 747110 Will give me one." inclined to find fault aud never fully lie put; his bundle 011 the floor and trust the mishit& 104 We (11cl before, ism left, In the course of an hour he It really la 0701'0 Of fl, Jab to returned, took up his bundle, and WaS leaving the onice without a, word, "Didn't you get your character?" aeked the inereliant. Without halting a, moment or raise ing his flee the man answered, "Nam, tweeze but I got thine." The svvrage reseeded the first men thoughtfully, "If 7 try to fight --... him," 1:0 fetid, "he will exterminate A PAt•tE 1)1 0711 10-11,3:nmo. Inc, mei if 1 try to lien ie peace, Then poi:tide a day 171 11 gellrrallY Wit,11 1,i111 110 Will client me out of e0leee11,e11 pretty gond gaine for a everetlifitge rote I' will -starve to fate Ling twined. Where elm am- melee, mee1 elm" hot e thelourefully developed ones are A GOOD INDICATION. If ended to this, wo know the owner of the cote to be an honest man, and alit a, good farmer then a got( cow. So ninny men think when they Sell a COW that She is the vety beet of fell in the lot, when the fact is they are, for the time being, sadly xmmtniten. vo+r-inteteat is 80 strong. After eel have (lone our best we may be de- ceived, if wo are, ten best wily is I() get out of it 1114 well an Ifti 17,411, 111,111i1142; 10$ 0110, and try to do bet- ter ne::t tinto. ilYSTERIES IN HISTORY. ntonzErao TEAT NKr 134 soLvED. The Cheerily]. Land of °pixie - Location of the Garden of Eden. Lir, Carl Peters has been exploring the wonderful mines left by some ancient, race In Idashoaaland. Oen are huge shafts of disused gold - mines, great walls of gegantie stones, and billterraced for irrigetion hum. dreds of feet up from the valleys, The German explorer declares that this is the ozetrinal land of ()emir, whence came the treasures of the leenele at Jerusalem, cunt no less an authority than eir, Rider Haggard thane the same view. 1•'eiv questions have been more de- bated than the location of this won - armful treasure land, Many who are well qualified to judge put the land oI Ophir in India, A. resident in the Wynaad, In Soitthern India, recently wrote to a London morning paper, saying that lie emphatically differed front Dr, Peters, Having washed COLD IN ITS RINIfetS, dug silver in its hills hunted el Minas in :ts forests, and captured apes and peacmcks in the same lo- cality, he was perfectly certain of the identity of the Wynaad with Solomon's land of Opine. The lost contineht of Atlantis has, born held to he the location of eho' Carden of Eden. Atlantis in itself is one of the greatest mysteries , known to the historien. Every race that lived around the Mediterranean held the belief that soznewhez•e to the west of the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar) there existed a vast island in the ocean. Plato mentions it as having been engulfed by the waves nine thousand years before his time. The extraordinary shnilar- ity between the remains found In the peninsula of Yucatan, In Central America, with those so well known in Egypt lends weight to the tra- dition. It Is supposed that both the Egyptians and the ancient people which preceded the Aztecs of Mexico were descended from a race which ONCE INHABITED ATLANTXS. Geological researches prove that such an Atlantic continent did once actually exist, and that the Canary Islands are its remains. But tho geologists say that this continent perished In Tertiary times, and cannot, therefore, have ever been the home of civilized man. It is possible that fresh &edgings in the bottom of the Atlantic on the site of the lost continent may throw more light on this vexed question, upon which there alz•eady exist over v. dozen different volumes, Although it is fairly certain that the 'rower Babel stood somewhere near the present ruins •of tile city of Babylon, its actual site is quite en - certain. Some say it is the Airs Nimroud, a great pile whose remains still rise 153 feet above the plain. Sir Henry elawlinson found thee this consisted of seven stages of brick- work, all of different colors. Othees put the tower at Amrani, some ten miles away ; and there are two or three other possible sites. Mention of Babylon brings to mind the Babylonish captivity, and the extraordinary disappearance of the Ten 'Plebes after they IIAT) BEEN CARRIED off by Sargon in 721 B.C. They have been identified with the Sacae, or Scythians, who a little later swept westwards into Northern Europe, and were supposed to bo the forefathers of the Saxons who ultimately colonized England. But there is absolutely no proof either that the lost tribes became the Scythians, or that the latter were the progenitors of the Saxon colon- ists of Britain, The fact that the coronation chair in Westminster Ab- bey is called Jacob's Stone has ben brotight eforwarce.te.substeme en e. tiate the; wild theory: • • lirteam hes her meal:metes. Who 4.• builthegiant stone circle at Stonehenge is one of thein, 3(48 been tatterhuted teo the Ilelgae, the Phoenicians, ethe1' eruied the mes,re Saxone.'Sone have said that it was 'erected to commemorate the treacherous mur- der of the British chiefs by ifengiet. It has been called a temple of feel Sun, a shrine of Buddha, a centre of serpent worship, and a calendar in stone, Lord Atvebury assigns it to the bronze age, Recent researches go to prove that its age is enormous. Long before Solomon's temple was bunt it is probable 'that the double eirele of sarsen stones stood dim and silent in the centre of Salisbury Plain, a monument to some for- gottemehleftain whos0 name and race perished thousanda of years ago. Arthur's Seat, Arthur's Oven, and Arthur's Head commemorate the name of one whom we are fond of considering the first of our groat British monarchs. But did King Arthur ever exist at all is a ques- tion which has been lately troubling the heads of historians and anti- quariane. He is said to have lived in the sixth century A,D,, and to 11a1'° led the lleitielt • IN A GREAT CONTIeST against the Saxons under -Cerdic. ',rho Saxon chronicle, however, never Mentions him at all, lee is elaimed as a prince by countries so far apart ne Contemn, 13ritteity, Wales, Ulm- berlancl, and the lowlands of Scot- land. The stories of 1110 ltonntl Table, of the Wizard Merlin, and Of the Quest of the Holy Grail are known to be romances pine: and ample. It seem very likely that Arthur, too, wail a menti eigenda.ry personego. To (Mine clowng to 117,0r11 tercet , times, no ono Imo ever tiolvecl the nip:tory of the disappearance of Nona Habib, This env] seoundrel wns the inetigater of tho horrible mriesatire of bleglish weenie nzul children at eneenpore, Ile was licitly pursued try the lletteth troops; 11111. niter the remprereinn of the le - (Kan estrthey he camped 0(t° Nepaul.