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CHAPTER V,—Cont,
''At about half -past ten, or a little
nearer toeleven., s0 far as we call
rix trio hour, Miss Rebecca Blythe -
weed returned, She knocked at tho
hall -door, which is at tho side of
the Lodge, under a porch; quietly at
first—a special knock used by her-
self and her niece, There waa no
answer. Again and again she
knocked, louder and loudek, till she
could hear tho echoes through the
silent douse. Still no answer,
"She came to the front, took a
handful of coarse gravel from the
Wane, and flung It against the large
French window of the sitting -room,
whore her niece usually sat. It
struck so hard it broke the glass,
But still there was no sound or
show of life in the room or in the
Reuse.
"Greatly alarmed, she ran down
the laWn, or front garden, to the
high -road, A tram -car was passing
at the moment. It chanced that on
an outside seat there was a man
she know. She called his name --
'Robert Weevil.'
"He l'an clown the steps in a 1no-
meet, and leaped from the tram -cal'
without stopping It.
"The woman's excited voice and
face challenged attention and curio-
sity, and when she passed back to
the house with Ido. Weevil a small
crowd followed thane. There was a
ladder leaning against the side of
tjlo house, whleh poor Bessie Blythe -
wood had used only the day before,
/tending her roses. Mr. Weevil car-
ried it to the front and set it to the
'drawing -room window. By this
time Miss Rebecca was quite frenzied
with alarm. She insisted on mount-
ing tho ladder first, Mr. Weevil
steadying it for her below, and
reached the window, through which
the sunshine was now streaming in-
to tho room. At the first look she
uttered a wild cry, then she stumb-
led down blindly, and would have
fallen, but 'Weevil, mounting a step
or two, helped her to the ground.
Twice she tried to speak to hien,
pointing wildly to the window, but
only an inarticulate muttering was
heard; then suddenly, without hav-
ing uttered a word, she dropped in-
to a dead faint.
"Gentlemen,you will be not surprised
at her condition whon you learn, as
she will toll you in that box, that
when looking through the window
she saw her niece stretched prone on
the floor of the room, right in the
blaze of the sunshine, her limbs ly-
ing loose and her face ghastly pale,
her fair hair dishevelled and dabbled
with blood.
"While Some women in the crowd
wero attending to Miss Rebecca
'Rlythewood, Weevil in 1115 turn
nountcd the ladder. He thrust his
land through the Jenne broken by the
gravel, opened the fastener and so
passed into the room.
"A moment's inspection convinced
him that the girl was quite dead,
In thirty seconds he was out on the
lawn again, ghastly pale and so
excited and overcome ho could only
gasp out tho ono word 'murder,'
which sent half a dozen of the by-
standers running for the police.
"Gentlemen, it may be advisable
for me at this stage to tell you
something about the character and
antecedents of this Mr. Robert Wee-
vil, wiho, as you must divine, is the
principal evidence for the prosecu-
tion. He has been for some years
past in the service of the prisoner
at 1.110 bar. I believe that he was
previously in the service of the
prisoner's father to tho date of
his death. But of this I am not
ce'taith at the moment, and it is not
material to the case. You will now
readily understand with what diM-
tulty the prosecution -succeeded in
extracting from this witness the
Material evidence which it is may
duty to lay before you, and the re-
membrance of those facts will help
you to estimate the amount of cre-
dence with which that evidence is
to be received.
"The 'witness Robert Weevil en-
joyed in a very unusual degree tho
Confidence of his master, tho wie-
ner at the bar, He was the bear-
lr of many of the letters, presents,
r
and messages that passed between
his master and Bliss l.11ytheWo0d in
the first ardent stages of their
courtship. At a later stage ho con-
veyed 1110 master's excuses and apo-
logies for his silence or his absence.
As was perhaps natural, the young
lady on more than one occasion vent-
ed on the messenger the anger
which the master had provoked. But
to Robert Weevil the prisoner was
always the most generous and con-
siderate of masters. These details
May seem immaterial to you, gen-
teiemen of the jury, Perhaps in a
sense they are immaterial, But I
mention them to dispose beforehand
of any suggestion of bias against
the prisoner in the evidence of this
witness. I now come to a matter
of the most vital importance, to
which I must entreat your earnest
attention.
"On the evening before the mur-
der Robert Weevil unexpectedly re-
ceived permission to spend the fol-
lowing clay with his sister, to whom
he was much attached, and who re-
sided with her husband in the su-
burbs. It was by a succession of
accidents, with which I need not
trouble you, that he chanced to be
journeying into town on the roof
of the tram -car opposite Laburnham
Lodge when Miss Rebecca Blythe -
wood rushed out upon the road, But
there was another coincidence still
more remarkable, as you shall !tear.
"I have already told you that
when Miss Rebecca Blythewood faint-
ed Mr. Weevil mounted the ladder
and passed into the room. Though
ho was only a few seconds there, ho
made some observations which it is
essential you should remember. He
found the murdered girl—I observe
my learned friend objects to the
word 'murdered,' I withdraw it, and
substitute the word 'deceased.'
"Weevil, I say, found her lying
prone on her back, with her arms
spread out like a crucifix, She was
plainly shot stono dead, and had
made no effort to save herself as
she fell. He touched her cheek, and
found it still warm. The blood was
still oozing—of this he is quite posi-
tive—from the bullet wound behind
her ear through which the ball en-
tered the brain. All these facts, as
the medical evidence show, prove
that the murder was committed only
a few minutes at most before the
finding of the body. There is yet
another important piece of evidence
which makes this quite clear. Be-
side the dead body of the poor girl
a revolver was lying,—a revolver
which, as we will prove to you
beyond dispute, was at one time the
property of tho prisoner. Weevil
felt the barrel before he loft the
toom, and found it still warm,
plainly from recent discharge.
"Bear these facts well in mind,
gentlemen of the jury, and you can-
not fail to realize the tremendous
importance of the next piece of evi-
dence which this same witness Wee-
vil will be constrained to lay before
you. This evidence, I may toll you,
has lately come to the knowledge of
the Crown. It was not elicited
from the witness until )tis interview
with the solicitor for tho prosecu-
tion.
"Now, it so happened, and this
will be confirmed by the other wit-
nesses, that about a hundred yards
from the gate that leads from the
lawn of Laburnham Lodge on to the
high -road, there had been a long
stoppage of the tram -car by which
Mr. Weevil was traveling. An old
lady had lost her basket, and crea-
ted a disturbance. During that
stoppage Mr. Yeovil, from his place
on tou of tho trait, saw a man come
out of the porch of Laburnham
Lodge and run rapidly down the
lawn to the gate. When ho reached
the gate tho elan walked, though
still at a very rapid pace. lie
passed by the tram -car on the same
side on which Mr, Weevil was sit-
ting. Mr. Weevil saw his face dis-
tinctly; it was very pale and had a
frightened look, but lee will swear,
beyond the possibility of mistake or
doubt, that it was the face of his
toaster, Edgar Wickham, the pris-
oner at the bar,"
She Nursed the Sic .
gAinec, kr He it
For Months Piro. Myles Lay a
Prostration and Gradually
M'rs. John Myles, Sr., of South
Waodsloe, Essex Co., Ont,, Is well
known throughout the suln'burading
reentry became of her work among
the sick and suffering and it was on
aecomlt of over oxen -ion in this re-
gard that hor health broke down
and sho lay weak and hoiples8, a
victim of nervous pro$t1'attor. Doc-
tors could not help her and sho re-
solved t,,o try lir, (Maori's Nerve
Flood, As rcofult Sihe lens been
thoroughly restored and by reoom-
ttleut1ing this treatment to others
sties been the means of bringing back
health and happiness to many a
tverelteneKt ante discouraged sufferer
from diseases of the nerves.
bit's, lidyles, wrltas. ;—"When I bo -
an the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve
Wes confined to 1 bell with
be-
gan
1 w o wy
ay
what the doototvl said Wris rletwone
prolltlt'atlon, 111y atoinach was very
Wreak and 1r et/min tot sloop. at all
for any length of time, Nemvotla
1111115 and ti'etnbling would tonne
peel• inn at times end I seemed to
be getting weaker and woalter all
Elio time, There were also pains
on top of rho hoed which daused ire
much etiffeeeng 1811((1 (!!!deter.
'Ad tar; toll* Wait 'm 'ozena boxes st;
Helpless Sufferer Froth! F ervnue
Crow Weaker and Weaker,
Dr. Chase's Nerve Food I began to
gain 111 weight and to feel etrenger.
Since than I have been Gradually re-
stored to health and in looking
back can say that tho improvement
has boon .something wonderful. I
used in all forty boxed of this pre-
paration and feel It a duty tie well
as a privilege to 0000lnmend it to
all wllo aro queering erem nevous
disorders. Several porsons he
whom I have d000ribod my case have
nod it and been cured avd I e,m
stem that I owe rnuy p'eeent good
health, ' if not lite iteolf to De,
Chases Nerve Food."
1lfgtivous prostration) and =baits -
tion, headaches, dyepepsta, tUz y
and fainting erns, parsly.elis, loco-
motor fir ataxia
fcal n
s of wvaknea
s
,
deprevelen, and
dee '.ofldenpy are
ofvoreomo by this dreatanitriIvt, gklc•
beg, ass It dame, hand in hand with
nefeeite. Though g1'adual, Oa re-
ilalty toenail the 11*000 omelette and
latxt{t g, and by nrtii'tieee year leerease
itt weigl>,t, yteu coil peeve to yeuir
ear1itifeetlon that now, (lien f1eita
and ensile is being added. Fifty
eenti9 a 1o>1, eiit bedes fur $2.60.
At all double, o • i±ichateerwn, 1Latna
Ntt1r01
Go,, 'f'iSrflnt t
A thrill went through tho court, at
this startling denouncement, The
prisoner shivered as from a bloW,.
then drew himself up, and for a
me -
wont seemed as if he were going to
break in upon the speech by some
angry denial.
Vivian Arden turned his eyes on
the veil Liters, Robert Weevil, who sat
under the jury -box and had been
pointed out to hien by Trevor earli-
er in the day. I•Io saw a middlo-
aged, middle-sized, 5o11c1-looking
man, with watery grey eyes and a
heavy mouth, The face of this mall,
on whose words life or death hung,
W05 as veld of expression as if the
dull features bad boell fashioned of
putty, with grey glass beads for
eyes.
The voice of the Attorney -General
softened to a low tone of deep sol-
emnity as he concluded 1110 speech.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I would be
false to my duty, to the prisoner,
to tho public, if I were to strain the
evidence against )line or employ any
device of the advocate to exaggerate
its importance. The instincts of
humanity compel our pity for the
young man who stands thorn to -day,
his life depending on a word from
your lips. I have had no pleasant
task to discharge: 10 is my duty
to set the evidence before you, no-
thing extenuating, but setting
naught clown in malice. That duty
T have endeavored and shall endea-
vor to discharge. On the evidence
alone you are bound by the oath
you have taken to decide. You are
the masters of life and death, from
Wbose decision there is no appeal. In
the faithful discharge of your duty
acquit the prisoner, if you can; con-
vict hila, if you must."
There was a buzz of pleasurable
excitement in court as he resumed
his seat.
)formal evidence was given. Meas-
urements, snaps, models were deposed
to with that minute precision that is
only seen in a murder case, and the
lawyers showed their smartness spar-
ring over technicalities that could
have no real bearing on the issue.
The strained attention of the au-
dience had begun to relax a little,
when the name "Robert Weevil" was
called, and the chief witness, the
man on whose word the dread issue
hung, shambled into the box.
Weevil proved a deadly witness;
more deadly for the manifest and al-
most painful reluctance with which
his evidence was given. Tho At-
torney -General, as was his wont, had
understated the case. Descriptions
of the violent scenes between the
prisoner and the dead girl were slow-
ly drawn from the witness. One by
one all tho damning facts detailed
by the Attorney -General were prov-
ed. Each link of the evidence was
fitted and• welded into an unbroken
chain. The story was told with a
matter-of-fact simplicity that seemed
to bear the hall -mark of truth.
Before his direct evidence was over,
lie had raised up a blank, solid wall
of hard facts, which Trevor, who
had risen to cross-examine him,
knew not where or hole to assail.
But the judge said, "If it suits
your convenience, Mr. Trevor, I
think wo had better adjourn now.
It is past four o'clock."
No 0110 could believe the hour was
so•late, so fast the time flow,
Then the crier's "God Save the
Queen" closed the performance for
the day, and the court emptied it-
self rapidly, and the prisoner went
back to this cell to keep company
with death.
CHAPTER VL
"Well," said Trevor to Vivian Ar -
del at last. They worn to dine to-
gether at Articl's house, and had
walked a mile of their way from
court in silence. "Well, what do
you think now?"
"Let me have your thoughts first.
You know more of such matters than
I do."
"It is a hopeless case. In all my
experience I never know a case so
hopeless."
"But the witness Weevil, what do
you think of him?"
"There seemed to me to bo some -
think repulsive about the man. 10
may be niy keen interest in the pris-
oner made nio feel so, for the man's
evidence was fairly given and had
the ring of truth. Then, you see, it
dovetails so perfectly to the rest of
tho ease. I can fthd no flaw, I am
glad, anyway, tho court adjourned
when it diel, I had not a notion
how to start my cross-examination,
and a false start with such a wit-
Hess would have been fatal. Now,
at least, I will have the Sunday to
think it over."
Ho forgot, in his perplexity, that
ho had asked for Arclel's opinion,
and for a little time they wore both
silent again, each busy with his own
thoughts.
With a quiet side glance, the doc-
tor noted how Haggard and nervous
his friend was, and he dexterously
set the talk going again, this time
keeping clear of the trial. In liter-
ature and science Trevor was well
abreast of the ago; Arciol far in ad-
vance of it. Soon their conversation
absorbed th?m. The latest novel;
the latest play; the latest manual of
science;—all these things they
touehed, lightly or gravely, -In that
greatest of human games of match-
ing, contrasting, and interchanging
thoughts, which is called conversa-
tion, the tinlo went by swiftly, and
the Wretch lining alone in his cell,
with Horror -/haunted eyes fixed on
the coming death, was more than
half forgotten.
it was a dainty dinner, daintily
served; and the choice wino pit new
blood and life in Trovor's jaded
bruin. Ilrrt the efeort which Ardol
had !rade 1.o cruces' his own friend
told on his own nerves. They had
got to the smoking room and plung-
ed depths rat
ed into t the p of two great Cas
Oahe, The talk camp for a while
internhiitingly between the puffs of
their cigars, and then Hero was si-
lonce, On Ardcl's lhaudsolne face
gathered the gloom that always fell
open him with the thought of death,
"It is no use, 'Prover," ho said
abruptly, "1 can110t keep oil the sub-
ject any longer, I could not stand
another day like this, Thee .young
fellow's face is still before mol the
mere thought of it makes me shiv-
er,"
"You think hila ihuhoeent?
"I don't think about that, I toll
you. I only remember that he is in
danger—deadly danger. 1 cannot
boar to watch the elan standing face
to face 1v1t11 death, sweating the
cold sweat of horror. At Ll10 sight
1117 inlagenatfon plays me n strange
Oleic, compelling 110 to stand in
his place, and look at the coming
death out of his oyes, At tinges 1118
agony is Mine."
"Keep cleat' of the trial, then, for
the future."
"No; I ant willing to suffer, if it
helps me to help him, and I believe
I call."
"You have found a weak point in
the Crown's case, then?"
"I hope so, I suspected it when
I road the brief. The sight of the
witness has confirmed my suspicion.
Trevor, I am convinced that man
Weevil 1s lying."
"1 had my doubts of 111111 myself;
but his story is plain and clear, and
fits, as I have said, so wet) the ad-
mitted facts of the case, there is no
chance to break hint dawn,"
"There is one chance, I believe.
Can we get to speak to him?"
"Certainly. But—"
"Answer my questions for a mo-
ment, like a good fellow. Can you
manage a friendly, confidential in-
terview with the man?"
(To be continued,)
ALL ON ACCOUNT 01' WOMAN.
Events That Would Have Turned
Out Otherwise But for Her.
Many as the cases are of battles
won through the agency of women of
the type of Boadicea and Joan of
Arc, there can be no denying the
fact that equally numerous, if not
more so, aro those of victories spoil-
ed by the fair sex and of battles
lost owing to feminine machinations,
Perhaps some instances in point may
be of general interest.
Franco can point to a number of
cases in which victories connected
with the republic have been spoiled
by women, and the whole course of
events changed in consequence. For
example, the fall of Gen. Boulanger
was brought about by a member of
the fair sex. But for the Viscoun-
tess de Donnemain there is the
chance that ho might have
become the ruler of France.
The lady induced flim to pay her a
visit on the night of his election as
a member of the Chamber of Depu-
ties, when had he refrained from so
doing and instead marched upon the
Elysee, as his partisans begged him
to do, the history of the republic
!night have been entirely altered.
Somewhat similar is the Old
World case of Hannibal, whose wife
was the unintentional cause of his
fall and the failure of his once suc-
cessful armies. Tho great General
was so foolish as to marry at a
time when he should have been de-
voting all his time to the conduct
of military affairs. His troops be-
came utterly 'demoralized during the
period of his "honeymoon." with the
result that they were rendered quite
unfit for arduous service, and never
regained their former standard of
discipline.
Again, in this connection, there is
the case of Jamos IV. of Scotland,
who is said to have lost the famous
battle of Flodden Field through a
woman, It is argued that if the
Icing had seized the opportunity giv-
en him of occupying a favored posi-
tion wherein to meet the English
forces the battle that ensued might
have had a very dilTereut ending
from what it haul, But James lin-
gored at the castle of a titled lady
whose charms had captivated him,
anti so it was that the southern
troops were allowed an opportunity
of choosing a suitable position,
which could never have been secured
!had the monarch not hesitated. The
lady was a certain nobleman's wife
named Heron, and was very beauti-
ful.
The noted Russian General, Ber-
anek, was found guilty of treason
anti sentenced to 'death a year or
two ago, thanks to a woman—one
of his own family, infant. She gave
evidence against him and other offi-
cers in the Czar's service, and
through her the Empire was Nepriv-
ecl of some of hor hest soldiers.
There are many eases like this, but
there are also numerous ones that
come more precisely within the
meaning of this article.
A woman, too, 15 reported to have
lost Alsace and Lorraine to the
French, and itolpeo to bring ' about
the France -Prussian War, by regular-
ly learning the results of the I'rencli
Cabinet meetings, while the was en-
tertaining one of the Ministers, 'tiro
report of these results being ole-
spatoHed to Cerinany without delay.
:WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY.
Refrigerator eggs are as whole-
some as fresh eggs for cooking pur-
poses.
Persistent insomnia, unwanted ir-
ritability, and dread of grappling
with business problelnS awe danger
signals of general nervous break-
down.
reak-
clown.
Tho annual vacation is one of the.
meet enlcioltt weapons against
breakdown for triose who live in the
intense moden'n We. A well known
plheelician used to say that he could
do a year's work in cloven ntotlltls,
but not in thvolvo,
The average mortality from ty-
phoid fever is three tinges as groat
i11 Alucrioan as in European cities.
The cities of the United States
w11i011 eater mast from this disease
taro WosIhingeon, Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia, and Peovideii o, in
that order.
Tho panros% patient in a, heard-
Eat,"
eapi-
t1 „ gayss Professor EOM, "is bet-
tor
cantdci for, shill his cast: is more
carefully invOOLigated, by bacterio-
logical, oluereical, and canted meth-
ods, than aro the well to do 111 their
own hems',"
Whereas Greet Britain grows 860
Ibe, of grata per head of her papula•
then, the North American output is
u r„2fi8ll$, Obi' hatf.te.
swszossesosszz
ON THE FARE
TkPE WATER,
We hear enough of the importance
of a supply of good water at tho fac-
tory o1' creamery but seldom a
Strong argument for good water for
the cow, The importance of a. plen-
tiful supply of water for dairy cows
is well understood but unfortunately
its quality is less frequently taken in-
to consideration, It does not hap-
pen frequently enough that what the
cows have to drink would be thought
good enough for their owner to use
at tho house.
Water from a constantly running
stream is usually good enough for
cows unless t110 water is contamin-
ated by factories or drainage from
a town not far away. Running wa-
ter purities itself, and oven where
the water of a stream is unfit for
drinking purposes in ono place it
may bo practically pure a few miles
away.
It is a rare thing to find a pond in
which the water is good for dairy
cows. This is especially true where
the pond is small and the cows are
allowed to wade into it and keep the
water full of particles of earth and
filth. Such a pond becomes an
abomination during the hot weather,
and while cows are not particularly
susceptible to the bad effect of drink-
ing' they should not be allowed to
DRINK SUCH/ WATER.
It is possible on almost coolly
farm in this country w1101'e springs
are inconvenient to secure a plenti-
ful supply of pure water from wells,
and if those are equipped with a
good wind pump, rigged with a tank
and automatic devices, a constant
supply of fresh water may be kept
on tap without more than a few
minutes' attention occasionally. Gas-
oline engines have now been perfect-
ed to such an extent that they are
very easily handled and can bo oper-
ated by any one after a little in-
struction. Whore the walls are deep
or where they are necessarily near
the building the gasoline engine
comes in very handy, as it can bo
used for a good many purposes be-
sides pumping water.
This is also true of wind mills,
though the gasoline engine works
whether theme is wind or not and
this makes it handy when pumping,
grinding feed, cutting toed, and other
similar work which needs doing at
times when the wind is not sufficient-
ly strong to furnish power.
We have -in mind several farms
where pipes carry the water from a
well near the house or barn to the
near -by pasture fields, delivering it in
tanks, which may bo filled by open-
ing a faucet, a work that takes but
little time.
This may scam a rather costly way
of furnishing cantor, but very often
it is cheaper to buy the pipe than it
would be to dig a well at the place
WIPERS 1T IS MOST DEEDED.
If the fields are properly arranged
several faucets may be attached to
one lino of pipe and most of the
fields on the average farm supplied
by laying only ono line of pipe along
the fence dividing the fields.
Sometimes the water from a pond
can be utilized by fencing the pond
and building a drinking place outside
the fence, but such water is warm, in
hot weather and none too clean late
in the season.
The notion that cows prefer drink-
ing crock water is not borne out by
the facts. Wo have in mind a herd
of cows which have water basins in
their stalls. The basins aro filled
by the windmill from the creek and
the cows decline to drink from it in
the pasture, reserving their drinking -
time until they come to the barn,
This may seem like taking advant-
age of the cows, but it has always
looked to us as though a cow, on
succulent herbage, did not require
water and felt less thirst more after
or during the grain feed in the barn
than at any other time. They who
feed and care for the cow as she
wants, mala the money. There
should be a lesson in this.
DAIRY IN THE HOT Wi ,ATITER.
The tin pails and cans after e, thor-
ough scalding and cleaning should
be put out in the air and sun, bot-
tom side up.
If the butter sticks to the butter -
worker, scald with boiling water
reurrnflonwmrrir
thoroughly twice, Then put on
plenty of ice-cold water, scour thor-
ouglily with trait, and apply cold
water until the rvot'lccr is all thor-
oughly cooled, if it should still
stick scald and scour again, This
has never failed with me.
Run the finger -nail up and down
tato churn frequently to see if 1t is
perfectly clean. Use soda and plen-
ty of hot water and a stiff brush to
clean the churn,
Churn often. Do not lot cream
stand after it has rrnr.hed the pro-
per condition. Yon cermet make,
good butter from old cream. C11111r11
at as low a temperature as possible,
not above (30 degrees, and stop tho
churn es soon as it separates end
the granules aro 5111a11, The Mittel. -
milk is more easily washed out with
less loss to Oaaror. Transfer the
butter from the clurelu to the tub er
print as quickly as possible. Do
not leave it standing about.
A half -pound print, with the initi-
als of the farm, or 0010 appropri-
ate design, neatly wrapped in parch-
ment paper, cannot help but please
the eye, and when the quality of the
butter is A 1 you please the palate
and you have perfection. Such a
production will always bring an ex-
tra price,
If the temperature of the cream in
the churn gots much above 00 de -
groes, the huller will be soft. A
deep well is a good place for cream
storage before churning. Churning
should be done at least twice a week
and old cream not mixed with new.
A quart of buttermilk makes a
good starter for the next lot of
cream.
Milk should never stand over
thirty-six hours in summer before
skimming. Drain oft the milk from
the skimmer quite carefully. Stir
the cream jar daily, moving all the
cream in the jar with the stirrer.
Stir the cream when being poured in-
to the churn. Early morning is the
best time to there.
RULES TO HELP ON PROFITS.
The following suggestions for help-
ing increase dairy profits. are credit-
ed to the Vermont Dairymen's Asso-
ciation.
Stables should be well ventilated,
lighted and drained; should have
tight floors, walls and be plainly
constructed.
No musty or dirty litter no strong
smelling material and 110 manure
should remain in the stable longer
than is absolutely necessary.
Whitewash tbo stable once or twice
a year. Would recommend using
land plaster in laaature gutters daily.
Feed no d;y, dusty fodder pre-
viously to milking. If dusty sprinkle
it before it is fed.
Keep stable and dairy room in
clean condition.
Keep only healthy cows. Promptly
remove suspected animals.
Remove tho mills promptly from
the stable to a clean, dry froom,
where the air is pure and sweet.
Strap the milk through n. clean
flannel cloth or through two or three
thicknesses of cheese cloth,
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bleedingand guaranteed
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timonialsbars
what
in the daily 110,e To eek your neigh•
peteour manor
tbink i f l o You can use it and
pet cele mores bank it not cared. Oho a box. at
put etcetera or Eanrexaos,Herss & Co.,Toronto,
Cr e Chase's ' =iri€€tment.
CURD DIt.UN,I' IONKES S.
In Norway d1'unlienness is punish -
cd by imprisonment. 'When a man
is incarcerated he has a loaf and
wine morning and evening. The
bread is served in a wooden bowl
full of wine, in which It has been
soaking for an hour. Tho first day
Oa drunkard swallows his allowance
willingly enough. The secomi day
15 SWIM los pleasing, and at the
end of the eight or 1en deyu pris-
onots have been known to (11180ain
altogether from tate food tams piti-
lessly presented. Except fn rano in-
stances, the deunkao+d is radtically
cured by this treittau.ent.
Our Uganda Protectorate possesses
not only the largest lakeinAfrica,
but also th0 biggest swamp and the
largest forest, 1t also can show
the highest African mountain with
1.00 square utiles of ice and rnow
right on the Equator,
Aerate anti cool tin milk as soon
no it is strained. The cooler it is
the more souring is retarded. If
cove's aro left off the cans, cover
with cloths o1' mosquito netting.
Never mix fresh, warm mills with
that while has' been cooled, nor al-
low it to freeze,
Jim Dumps exulted, "We
do not,
On Summer days so close
and hot,
Build up a fire and stew
and steam!
A dish of ' Force,' a bowl
of cream,
Is just the food to fit our
whim,
And keeps us cool,"
laughed "Sunny Jim."
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RAILROADS IN 110*SZS,
Mr, Leigh !las Spent 11100,000 on
1Tis Rail waHobb
Y Y+.
To have rt rallivay is one's private
house is a luxury which raw can ale
ford, even if they have the specie
which such a mechanical novelty re-
quires, says London Tit -Bits, Never.
theless, there aro several =Mature
railways in existence, and the lnosi;
elaborate is that owned by Percy
Leigh, a gentleman who resides at
Brentwood, near 'Worsley.
TO Is difficult to compute how mlrelt
ser. sleigh has spent on. his hobby,
but it must have Cost at least 1110,-
000, Before laying it down, the
owner built on to has house a speci-
al chamber, measuring 90 foot in
length, and erected therein two sta-
tions, There is 1,200 foot of lino
altogether, laid In two sots, and the
engine; which rimers five carriages, 15
five foot lung and cost nearly £850.
In addition there is a perfect sys-
tem of signals, bostdos tunnels and
bridges, and all the stations aro lit
by electric light. Mr. Leigh has
spout years in perfecting his railway
which is modeled upon the London
de Northwestern lino.
John Adams, who lives near Fow-
ey, in Cornwall, is likewise the own-
er of a private railway In his shouse.
Ms. Adams has been an engineer all
his life, and constructed the railway
with his own hands. Altogether the
line is 15 feet long, and runs from
the dining toom into tho gardee,
whore the terminus Inas boon built.
This railway has three signals, work-
ed
orked from twa signal boxes; two stag
tions and two locomotives, with
eight carriages and trucks. The lint
is laid on trestles five feet from the
ground, and the locomotives are
driven by electricity, and weigh 1,-
100 pounds each.
The underground railway owned by
Baron reread, a wealthy French
nobleman, is certainly a triumph of
mechanical shrill. Tho baron, who is
himself a skillful engineer, has con-
structed the line at bis house at
Vichy, The visitor, on entering, ds
taken down by a lift to the cellar,
where a large station is built, brile
Bantry lit by electric light, and fs
invited to step into a carriage, at-
tachecl to which is a minature elec-
tric engine. At a signal from the
driver the train starts into the tun-
nc1, and a few minutes later emerged
at tho terminus, situated at the end
of the grounds. Thole are two seta
of metals, which cover a distance of
880 feet. The baron admits that
the railway cost !him £23,000. and
was constructed in five months by
a firm of London engineers. -
BE REAL. I
Bow You May Win the Esteem
Worth the Having.
Be true; be genuine. It is useless
to try to appear that which you aro
not. Your professions of friendship
or of love will not have the true
ring in them if not genuine. You
may deceive the unsuspicious for a
time; but you wi11 be sure to betray
yourself sooner or later, and call
contempt upon yourself,
If you would seem something ata
the eyes of others, let your efforts
turn to be that thing rather than
seeming. If you seem a friend, bo
one. If you would seem kind or
generous, train yourself to be that
in your heart. 1f you would ho
thought wise, do not assume to pos-
sess a great knowledge that you
have not, Tho wiser a man really
is, the less wisdom he assumes. If
you pretend to a knowledge you do
not have, it will surely be soon
through, and will bring ridicule up-
on ,yom'solif-
No1will t pay your any better to
assume a style of living, or seem to
posses's a wealth which your teal
means do not warrant. 10 may im-
pose upon some ignorant persons,
but it will be understood by those in
whose esteem you wish to appear
great. It may answer for a time;
hut think of the disgrace when you
aro found out, as you aro sure to
be, If you are a fraud, it will acre
tainly be published far and wide,
The surest way to win the esteem;
worth the having' is to 1)0 true and
genuine,
SENTIMENTALITY IN LAW.
Indiana Believes That Second
Thoughts Hay bo Bost.
A divorce law passed by the lest
Indiana Legislature is being examine
cid by marry lawyers in that State.
By its forms the bonds of matri-
mony aro not sundered, but a legal
separation for a HIM Led time Is de-
creed, during which tittle the partes
must live apart. They cannot re-
unite in marriage; the court 1'otales
power to make and alter awards as
to property rights and children; ali-
mony may be allowed; either spouse
may convey real estate without the
consent of the other, and either
party may sue for an absolute di-
vorce. Tho proceeding is entirely
new in Indiana, and has been prac-
tised in few States. Tho grounds
for soparatiou, aro somewhat Moro
liberal than for divorce under the
India ha laws. They are as follows:
Infidelity, desertion and failure to
provide; habitual cruelty and con-
stant strife; habitual ch'unkonnesS
suer drug add 'lction,
10 is ]toped that by this 0pe111tig
tho way for a temporary legalized
separation for causes that may be
removed there will .bo time for re-
flection and reform in Marry cases
that Mil load. to reunited fanniitos
and maenad happiness, 'There will
be time to consider, to appreciate
the less of society of the absent one,
to forgot old scorns, and learn to
bear and forbear and he more eo11-
si.derate of each other's rights and
feelings. The law is regarded as ex-
perimental, and many lawyers are
doubtful as to its. practical Work -
11, WW1 adopted under the in-
flucnco of several societies of women
who '1 the 181,1(1 proclivities, old
ir,•'' ".'•,cot0 before the Logtsiar
• largely seiltiuletllal lux