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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-8-27, Page 2(,3ilE,?>c5':lr�tCt .Ser, ,Si1 II efilgn1C6tli?' Piga gfP lE�MOVI (iffi°Aj�t MMSCO • x• ';1 STRONGER THS_ � �A�T-cue este "sae see est-. 0 p, A RANSOMED LIFEt e1CZ@29i 8124b :t'OG �t$i 7'$���ti�8��110@IApdf✓I�l3�:LB@.t� CHAPTER VI, Cont. "Nothing easier. I thought T told you he still professes the greatest affection for the prisoner, and tho most intense desire to save him, lie voiunteered his evidence to my so- licitor, The Crown had to extort it from hint, We knew of his having seen leis master at Laburnham Lodge a fortnight before they did, Ilis statement to us is more damning far than his evidence in court was. IIe has kept back several things that tell.tigainst the prisoner. In fact, my main terror In cross-examining him is that ho may blurt them out, if he is pressed." "I can understand that. It's damnably clever of hint, if I am right in my suspicion. Have you had any talk with hint yourself?" "Twice. Ho professed himself specially anxious to see me; to help rne, if ho could, in the defence. He seemed quite friendly and frank, and answered every question freely. I tried, in anticipation, every device of cross-examination, but could not shake his evidence in the least." "I wish I could get a chance," Ar - dol. said. He spoke half -unconsciously, but the earnestness and confidence with which he spoke nettled Trevor, a little, for Trevor was reputed to bo one of the keenest cross-examiners at the inner Bar. "I did my best, and failed," he said shortly, "You can have your . chance, if you like." Ardel ignored the first half of the sentence in the eagerness with which ho caught at the other half, "Do you really mean that? How and when can 1 see the man?" "I cannot be quite sure, of course. But I believe that the fellow would some at once if he were sent for, Ile still keeps up the pretence—if it Is a prontencs—of friendliness to the pris- oner." "That's a lie, anyway. Tie hates the prisoner. Twice to -day I saw hatred smrkuldering in his eyes when he glanced toward the dock," "That may be; but be sticks dog- gedly to the pretence. Even the prosecution, I am certain, believe it. Bis last word to our solicitor was, that he would come to us wherever and whenever he was sent for, and truthfully answer any questions ,we wished to ask him." "Send for him at once, Trevor. I hope to keep him to his promise in et way he hardly anticipated when he gave it." "Certainly, if you wish it. But, Pardon my professional vanity, An- del, I cannot feel quite certain that your cross-examination will succeed when mine has so signally failed." "Cross-exansination!" cried Ardel in surprise. '•I don't purpose em- ploying any cross-examination, I will pluck the truth from his heart a trace of resentment in his voice, by 0, much quicker and more certain process—a process that cannot fail" only solid determination. "I'm "You mean hypnotism, Ardor?" afraid not, sir, 1 daron't do it. 1''d "I do mean hypnotism. I will not bo believed if I did. Besides, as make the man lav his very soul you know, I Leve only told what naked before us, with whatever lies was dragged out of me. I know a and plottings may be hidden there.,, lot T haven't told." "But can you do this thing? Are T believe that," said Ardel you quite sure?" "Sure as a long unfailing expert• - encs can make me. I never yet met man, woman, or child whom I could not constrain to unquestioning obedi- ence. I can force the very soul, as you would call it, from the body. I surprise at first, which slowly have done it for a brief space, leav- ing the husk pulseless and lifeless," changed to fear as the spell worked Trevor half forgot his case, fascin- upon him, Fear In its turn laded ated by the intense earnestness of away to unconsciousness. His eye - the other's face and voice. lids drooped over the eyeballs, as "If this bo true, Ardel, then surely though to shield them from the you trust confess; to you have glare. proved it, that there is a life after death, that the soul can live severed from the body." "No, Trevor; there is no thought, memory, or consciounness outside the body, In the interval I have spoken of life is suspended. It is a pause of blank oblivion, This is not hearsay merely; I have tested it by self -hypnotism. There can be no thought, or motion, or sensation ex - cent through the mechanism pro- vided by brain or senses. The dis- embodied spirit that can think without brain tissue, see without oyes, and hear without cars, is a myth. But I am not so sure that the transference of life, the grafting of an old life on a young body, is impossible." Trevor could only stare at him with questioning eyes. "Life," he went on, "is like the flame of this candle.' He took a long wax candle in bis hand as he spoke. "It can have no existence apart from the wick and the wax. I may quench or shelter it, as I choose. But at best it can only burn its allotted time, and their flame and wide -like body and soul —will flicker out together into dark- ness. But the flame may be shifted. The 'taper Just kindled may take its light from the taper that has burn- ed to a glimine•, and so I believe it is In the power of hypnotism to swop bodies, the old for the young; and so atone the flame of life may be made to burp beyond its normal and allotted span." Ho broke oil abruptly with a shiver, almost, it seemed, of horror, at his own. thoughts. "Yost 'are to blame, Trevor. You have started me on my hobby, and 1 have, galloped straight away from the urgent business in hand, When can 1 sae this man Weevil?" "What place and hour would suit you best?" "Any place—any Hour; t.ha sooner the better; hero, to -night, if pes- siblo. X think it :s possible., But"—af- ter a long pause— 'da you tlnolc- it is quite fide', Ardcl? "Is what quite fate?", "Is it quite fair to bring this man hero on false pretences, to melee be- lieve to trust him, then to take ad- vantage of his confidence to subject him to a power which will lay Itis very soul bare?" "Why not?" "Well, if you don't feel it your- self, I cannot explain." "lhen'1 don't feel it. It does not hurt my sense of honor in the least." "It does mine. It rasps my con- science." "Yes, your lawyer's conscience, Trevor; your artificial conscience. It is contrary to professional etiquette; it's out of tho regular routine; there is no precedent for it; so your law- yer conscience is in trouble, But we cannot allow forms and preced- ents to stand between this young man and Itis right to live. Look the thing squarely in the face. Judge it, as you lawyers say, in substance and in fact. We do this fellow Wee - vii no wrong either way. If he is truthful, we vindicate his truth; if he is, as I believe him to be, a mali- gnant perjurer, we detect the per- jury and save hos victim." Trevor could find no answer to this curt reasoning, though he still felt squamish about the task set him. Lawyers have so got into the habit of playing the game according to the rules, they persuade them- selves it is better to lose by rule than win without it, no matter how high the stakes. Not without a half-conscious hopo that he would not come, John 'Tre- vor wrote a brief note to Robert Weevil, which was delivered by Ar- del's private hansom. But he came. In an hour the hansom was back with the man in- side. When lie was ushered onto the smoking -room, where the two friends sat, ho looked, if possible, more stol- id and composed than he had looked in the witness -box. While he and Trevor spoke to- gether for a moment or two, Andel sat back in the shade„ watching in- tently. His face was pale to the lips with suppressed excitement, and his eyes glowed like a cat's out of the gloom, as if fire were kindled behind them. "This is a bad business, 111x. Wee- vil," Trevor began, a little nervous- ly. "A very bad business, sir," the other answered, with a side glance at Andel; "a heart -breaking business, Mr. Trevor, I was in his service nine years, man and boy, and in his father's before him. It is cruel hard 011 both of us that he must die by the word of my mouth. All be- cause the hot temper that was al- ways in the family got trio better of him -once too often." "Can nothing be done?" "Do you moan by my denying the facts, Mr. Trevor?" There was not abruptly, moving so that the light fell full ou his face. Weevil was startled by his sudden words. Instinctively his oyes met Ardel's burning gaze and Reno caught and held by it. Their wills wrestled, In Weevil's taco there was Ardor touched his forehead lightly with his Singer -tips "Sleep," he said, in a low voice, and the man lay back in his chair in a profound sleep. The silent struggle had lasted only for a moment, but it was tierce while it lasted. Ardcl roso up tho victor, but drops of sweat stood out on his forencad. Traver watched the scene with an interest painfully intense, 1 ho Queen's counsel In hits still revolt- ing against this "grossly irregular proceeding," "Is ho asleep?" le whispered soft- ly, as if fearing to waken him. "So fast," Ardol answered, "that a cannon shot beside his ear would not trouble him now, Iiis will anti self-consciousness are asleep, and every other faculty of his mind and body is my slave," "Is it fair? is it fair, Andel?" ask- ed 'Trevor, still doubtingly, "I''air or unfair," retorted the other sternly, "I shall use my pow- er to the uttermost to extort the truth and save the innocent. Can you hens' Tile?" ha went on, turn- ing to the man that lay motionless in the chair, his face shining white in tho electric Light, The expression of stolid dullness had fallen liko a mask, Ho wore a look sinster and cunning. "Can you hear me?" The clear Voice reached his brain, where rea- son and self-consciousness no longer stood on guard. Slowly the answer came back; "I'm listening, What da you want of.. me?' "I want to ask you about the trial—about Edgar Wickham." "Yes, yes; !Edgar Wickham who murdered poor Bessie Iiiythewood, poor Bessie! Ilut I'll take Mire he'll swing for it." The. voice was full of malignity, but .it had the unmistak- able ring of truth, "Murdered pool' Ileseto Blythe - Wood!" Ardel and Trevor looked at eaoh other in blank dismay; holo was tenth with a Vengeance, the mud drive over the paler ocean Ilut the • passions of the steeping ten' ten hours, At last the ('able until they are nt least a month Old, lean Wore stirred, though his will simp:pee-to the Area relief of 1 ThereWill not be tench 11Mesa in a Slept, and oak from the best and hardiest 4 a his thoughts ,its J itt4 est I , >, trltoWood on beard. 1 S themselves In words without further v sq�c cedeliet �glsess ,a1.. stock, not Miner, and carefully Even so tiny a bird its the wren questioning', "Yes, I call it runt•- loYMY �t�aevh, ASS YsIn watched and leaded, though (Belem- has been minuted to make 110 'trips tier," the voice COwent on; "Just l t1.. t is lot' will attack j a t k un i la low T lc ,v t .the to and from its nest within dile much murder as if he put the pistolfinest of flocks at times, and the minutes; and the prey it carried to the poor girl's head and hulled mg depredations of faxes will undo the home consisted of Insects much lnrg'- the trigger. Be drove her to hell wein•� N Tll'E A10 �y painstaking work of months, August ot', !heavier, and harder to find than own death, and it's God's justice ho tae`' is the most trying month for bowel were caught by the werellows, should die for it. Ile broice her "I'mptol,P ,t�� {g rp,�q troubles, and bearing this fact 111 Auuong them were twenty good-sized heart by his twin:hoot; a girl that 'r9�@44. aI l+ ttill9k. SMOvI ASY Mind and using red and hlacc1c popper green caterpillars, ten gresshoppers, and ginger as preventives, these .seven stridors, eleven tvoo era, and may be 50100111005 wholly warded Wrote than ono fat cit;ysalle. "How he hates him!" said Andel It has long Leen tlndeu•5toott that off. Death ainoig very young ter- Another common little English to Trevor; "I told you so. Ifo a proper ru1Mimi, is neresaar3' In keys urrually tamers during the first 0)•d, whose idi'engt0 approaches the loved the girl Bessie Blythewood undulate soil fort ill ly, writes ..Al is 5001(. miraculous, is the • nut -hatch. A himself. That is his secret. There W I1, 1:'alter: un, Vet. . few farmers •— Kentish eobarut wilt frequently defy is the devilish rage of jealousy in have scilicet this emblem to the sub 'pill; li'OITICIS'.O :GORSE, a luml's teeth, Backed by his onnr- his voice." isfartion of their poekelhooks. Some In raring 1'o;' work horses, I liko 111511u,tl,v powerful jaw neuerles, to Then in the sleeping man's ear ho lauds are so rich in fertility, t"How do I know? what do I mire? after year, in even ur wheat, hey to giro (hent (t drink of wrier the crack 11, l'e't the nuthatch, a birdsaid, "Whose hand lifed the shot?" eau be cropped successively, year first ibinn in the nsnrnin•e'_ {,Inner weighing shwa three ounces only, with Home hay, and -finally lheie grain will seed: that same nut into a Creel( in the bark of a tree trunk, and rain down (111011 1t roixmtiding bin115 511101 very (coon break timely. the shell and leave the toothsome kernel hungry, and will not oat so fast, If exposed lo view, market price of produce and its_ th0t'o is something in the stomach TWLCP AS FAST ;1S DIOTORS, draft )1011, (51.1111( . arThe thiel 1th the grain scenics to digest better. Tho 11111' wing p»wrr of birds Is equally ))0005mablesseee ofrotufellili 151 ch eslmel'is el Verse will do more and remain in (yrutw.ing, 'f0 1111.1(0 a ilrfinit0 test cultivation and the raisin' of maxi- better condition If worked s'Madlly in this direction, a swallow was ntuan crops, 6 with short slops, than he will if taken from its nest. ht the gable of hurried and 0]10w•cd to Stant long' the railway station at Antwerp, and can heeleep raised)lthaeol 510 li permanent hotter crop at a time. 'Um East Lett hour 1.10• sent by rail to C'nu'lpiegtne, in :femme Vass. as 15011 •(181 n1. alfalfa, 'fl7here fore quitting lime, he should have a distance of i.•ku¢ miles as the crow best girl that over drew breath, and g short stops often, then when he gots mos, There the ]idle bird was lib - struck the faithful old servant across 110)11101 of there is praeticalle, an to the stable he can have some wn^ mated, curl within 0115 hour and excellent- rotation is wheat . and cloy - It.face when ahdared a speak of a1. its ntleruatr years. A rotation tor, At 0000 give hey while the eight minutes it was seen to arrive it. T think I've come oven with hire of tlrls kind has been known to re_ ({river facts his dinner, then water 01150 More at Antwerp, Ira speed at last," and feed the grain. Clive a little was thus .igen miles an hour, mere whispered 1't0ror eagerly, the lttw- "Get the facts, Ar•del, from ]rim," sett only to good where kept up foair' wetter when they go out to work if three double that of uur vaunted a xhnrds, hoed c'ropa era best n0less period of 1S years or more. For they want' it. express trains, yer's Instincts now keenly alive In the land gets foul with 0,110 111111001 A''. night the horses should have A pigeon set free on July 39th him and his scruples gone. Sa 1 c water when they mine in. last from the steaneship "Touraine," weeds, when a east. al tw'n years )n Then 11e hay and afterward more at five o'clock in the morning, was "When you climbed into the win- ttinsgey will be beneficial, Or, g' L b 1 \vator betel, the, have their was a thousand tittles too geed for 01101' T10'1+:1'.I'TG�T, the insolent, cold-blooded puppy," Her own, I darn say, But Wickham, little or no decrease 01 guoductive- curse hied drove her to it, and uc+`.s, letfercut 1hinge Mehl; enter Wickham shall hang for it," into 0111. rnn5icl(+raliun of this sub - "You have perjured yourself to jeat, as dislau•r from nuu'kct, prlc(+ hang him?" of labor, quality nail 1013' of soil, A 101v, malignant chuckle broke from the lips of the sleeper, "It was well clone. Judge and jury swallowed it sweetly, Who could doubt the word of the simple, faith- ful servant who was so sorry to hurt his young master?—itis sweet young master, who broke the heart of the the Inst thing before going to break - fart writes W. W. MorrIson, :lly let- ting them eat hay awhile before reed- ing the grain, they ere mut quite 50 grain. low ata urnlum Lodge, what drat where a Catch ems be secured, creel- , 1f aur, d»es n»t tf(.ed tllln 811100 eai yoto really see?" duetted Ardel. son <:lave1' can be snix'n 111 lice asi What I swore I saw—poor Bessie cu1Livatiou of the crop, say 311 Ju11a the feeding the horses sioutd have Blythetvood lying dead on the ecu- or July, 0,0 be plowed clown the fol- th( largest amount tit night when oasis pet, her golden curls ell dabbled lowing spring. For iho dairy farm, ihmav aro seem oto0r cauliouslg about with blood. " e 'enticing must hand to il:u good of The voice faltered, the lips twitch- the hnril. 1'o 1lt t end strait for giving \rater but the horse want's ed; plainly the ghastly sight was 1)1101', bluegrass fur pasture, surae- plenty of it only not too much at a again before hire• lent crops for sniliag turd ante Por thi' Tf 3'ou will w'nteh 1lnrses in khat else did you sec?" silage ere necessities. The subject the yard ,you vv}ld see them go slid "A revolver lying on the floor be- i5 so big it might form the base or Gine..rink often and take a little 'tit a side her," a hundrtali ()VMS,. For the ordinary time. In ' feeding horses one should "His rovolvet•?" "No; hers," A quick glance passed between An- del and Trevor, who had seated him- self at a writing -table. "tiers? do you mean Miss Blythe - wood's?" "Of course. A pretty little thin; with an ivory stock chased in silver. I had seen her play with it a hun- dred times. She used to shoat wil,h it on the lawn; it made scarcely any report." "Go on—what did you see or do more?" "I took up the revolver; one of the barrels had just been discharged.' - "Was it warm, as you swore?" "No; not warm, but foaled. A small table haat been overturned by the girl's fall; there was a paper ly- ing on the carpet, It was an unfin- (shed letter in her writing. I just glanced at it, and then I knew in one moment how her death cause." "How?" "13y her own banal, my poor g'irll by her own hand; but he drove her to it." "What was in the letter? can you remember?" Trevor vans writing furiously. "I can remember every word. It was very short; ---qty Sweetheert, I forgive you; good-bye. Life is not worth living without your love. I'01 horribly afraid of death, but It is better than this misery.' That was all, it was enough. At that mo- ment my rage mastered me, and I swore he should die, and be shall, The whole thing came to mo like a flash, I had my master's revolver in my pocket. I had stolen it and practised with it, I meant to use it if he struck me. again. But the rope will do my work safer and sur- er " "What did you do next?" The question was sharp and stern. The answer came obediently,— "I dropped lois revolver on the floor, slipped hers and the loiter be- hind a rote of books on the cabinet, and was back at the window in a moment." "Was the body still bleeding when 3101.1 entered the room?" "I did not notice," "You swore it was," "I thought of that afterwards." (To be continued,) TOWED BY A W13AL 1. Shell Prone a Gun -in the Animal's Body, Whales, as is well known, are now hunted in steamers, one of the most interesting appliances of which is the gun by which the whale is harpooned and killed. The gun is mounted in the store of the vessel, and can be turned in all directions, It fires a pointed shell in which is an explo- sive substance. When first con- structed the -gun was far from per- fect, but the inventor, Sven Foyn, hast by gradual ilnprovennenbs broaght it to perfection. An in.ci- den't is related of ono of h'oyn's first year experiences with his gun, One day a whale was shot, but and afterward decreasing to two. the shell did not explode, and the Northern corn meal mixed with milk, consequences were that the whale, sweet or preferably sour, should be with the harpoon in its body, made the earliest food, with tlic admix - off with the steamer on tow, a Yes- tame or black poppet• when edeas'oary, set 01 twenty liot•SO-power. The en- A little later herd -boiled eggs may gives were ordered full speed aretern, be added, bread crumbs soaked in isut with no more seems in afresh milk, aim eq late summer cracked lug the career of the whole than as corn, which ie. is an excellent plan if the creature had boon an iron- to scald, By winter they may be clad at full speed, fed whole corn, In September and The wounded animal 1110110 for the 00tober the feeding may be wholly open ocean, dead against the wind. omiiti:ed, and then n mixture of new iousneSs become pale and yellow in Foye had a sail Set in order to and old corn will fatten rapidly with complexion, irritable, and morose in chock its spearf; but ,it had hardly the best results in November, Do disposition, and are Pablo to find been hoisted taut, when it was rent; not allow the turkeys access to themselves among the ch)'0113c grum- to Areas by the velocity of the pro- fields or green 01.115, for they will blocs, to Whom nothing seems to go gross against. the wind, The wind prove oicmioitngly disrieet us, Brisk right, Increased to a storm, with high Showers will young Tho trouble begins with the'' livor son, but still iho giant of the ocean turkeys, and eternal vigilance will be becomingtorpid and sluggish In ac - kept up his Speed, while sea after nettled to get thane under cove•. If 005 slie rt the ateame•, the shingle fetter for 0110 mother is Io!, and disappears when the livor 1 Is sot right, Dr. Chase's Xtdney- 't'he eit.uat.i»n became Serious, end ohjectlonnblt, it fs sometimes pram- Liver Pills cure biliousness promptly, several of the crew salted 7'1wn to ticeblre to give her the circular run P P y, cut. the table; he tuns, however, hent of a. long Cord, pegged to the earth, liver. se of illth rougll action a the main tesIIn 1111' a. pnrattts thea The little turkeys should be en- livor, '11tey thoroughly remove all 1 g P elle Symptoms because of their tom oigt,ty, pollutes in the hoer of the eotn•n.g0r1 to roost out ae to aY bleed action on kidneys, liver and shell expladIrg. flet. no; on (vont possible, care being taken n to 1000 "`"°18'them from the early lu.0rning `dew grain .farm the rotation Is more hum druf n. Corn conies as forming the princi- pal feeding ration on the fa'ns in the way of -grain, It should he made to yield a maximum crop by tlrrnieg 'clown a heavy sort and by the applicatiiin of fertilizers.. This crop should be followed with oats and that with wheat, when land should be seeded to grass for a resit of from ono to two years. There is a growing ilisposition among farm- ers to au.hstitnf.e corn -stalk reheat for oats in the above rotation, as The blood of a bird is several 'clo- the latter has become an uneei•taia grecs n•attltel• that! that of a lminan crop in num' localities, Whine corn being. To man, such a temperature and clover are the most desirable as birds normally possess would be crops, a 'three-year rotation has the a fever, but the heat of a bir'd's indorsement cif some of the very befit blood -enables it 00 live much more educators and institute worker(. It intensely than tee can. Changes pays better perhaps than any otter take place in the tissues and brain where land is full of vegetable hunnus and where the groin is liable to be- come 100 rank, lodge early in. June and fail to 1111. In this rotation we begin with corn, following with stalk wheat and seed heavily with clover and tfntotliy. The advantages watch en,uh animal, as 111e same rale will not apply to all T.EIE STRENGTH OF BIRDS _ s LITTLE CREATURES THAT BEAT GREAT 112EN- Food Consumed by a Sparrow— Eagles Fly Away With Pigs. more rapidly, libels can eat and assimilate from ten to thirty times as Hench food, proportionately, as Ulan can, and they are thus enabled. to do au a.m0imt of work far beyond the relative po'tt'er of mats. 1f a man. could eat me much in pro- of this syslnni over 'rho four or five- portion to his ('15,0 aS a sparrow is year rotation are the turning clown able to consume, be would need tt of a clover soft once in three years whole sheep for dimwit, a couple of inellead al c'loti'ei' in fous year's, or dozen fowls for breakfast, and, say timnit31y in five setts; as clover six turkeys for his evening' uncal A lases nuly about one year ordinaa'- tree 51are•ow hos boon known to eat ily. The same advantage is sectl3'- 714 grass seals in a day, and these ed in a crop of corn 80 much oftener grew steels were relatively to the in a given tern! of year's. bird's size as big as at ordfna'y To my mind a modification of the lunch biscuit would be to a full last 'w io rotations or a combination grown Ulan of 168 pounds in weight. of {item gives the best results where PLYING AWAY WITII PEGS. fertility is desirable, as it always is, A bird's strength is equally n.ntar.- and labor is es scarce as it now is, fig. A while -tailed eagle. weighing This rotation tai extend either over between eleven and twelve pounds, four or five yela's, with corn as a and with a win !react of Just over leading (;top, SOWil 10 clover' at lost g `1 six foci, has been ]:norm to pounce cultivation in Jule or ,3013', to be 011 a pig weighing forty-two pounds, plowed clown the following June for rai,,o It to a Height of one hundred wheat, thus returning to the green feet, and IIy straight off with it. The manuring of other days anti the col- 1110 haat covered a distance of full y sequent saving of fertility. (tracks half a nine before the pig's owner should he sown with the wheat 1.0 sueceorled in shooting the thief. ecce•( a hay crop. BY thls 83Flenl. The mail who could stagger even a two clover crops can bo se11110(1 fn Hundred yards under the burden of one year; one for fertility and one four other Men of .his 01511 weight for hat, 110 clover sown with the would be a living miracle. Tho feat (ctrl) is nls0 a Date)" crop, wh1ch of rising into so thin a medium as serves a good purpose when other the air, carrying nearly fora' .,times gree; fails. tVith a settled rotation its own weight, showed the eagle in mend it is much easier to proceed 10 be something more than a Math - with the work 'that goes along with areal Sondow, it. Forests should be cleared, Birds can and do work far harder stvamtns drained, rocks and trees than human beings.. A pair of house martins, when nesting, will teed their young on an average once in twenty seconds—that ts, each bird, male and female, makes ninety journeys to and fro in an hour, or, perhaps, a thousand a day. 11must be re - CARE OF YOUNG TUR`h.'.EYS, membered that o1 each journey the bird has the added work of ranching an insect. removed and lines should be run by a practical surveyor; all with the end in view of establishing perms- vent retires and fields of compact shape. A pen should be ready for the lit - tie turkeys to occupy about a week, with plenty of roou for the 1(1,01he• and a good lengthy run. 1f the mother is a wild cross, it is hardly best to confine her at all, as she will struggle to escape. Put the tur- keys out at once in a high, light grass pasture, and "shingle" the mother to prevent surmounting the wall. Give the little ones all they want to eat, four Banos, daily, coming down to three when a third grown, bac!( in its loft at Benne( by two in the afternoon of the Searle day, hav- ing 'covered 1321; tulles within Lino hours, Birds, undoubtedly, have at least ono sense denied to man, This may be called 11;e SOnee of locality. A pair of swallows will nest in May under the eaves of a certain house in the suburbs of Landau, and raise a second brood in the following Oc- tober or November on a pillar of a ruined temple by the Nile. The fol- lowing spring they are back at their English summer residence, and next winter the same temple secs them once more. Massy ot.hee JAMS, with far less wing -power and speed than the swal- low, will accomplish feasts venally wonderful. The tiny warblers which appear to have strength ineatlicient to cross ono field at a single flight will rind their way through the dark- ness of night over leagues of open sea, (10113 ]and safely at their jone- noy's end. So remarkable in this sense of locality that migrating birds, as We now know, follow at (etch migration the same fly -lines. Some go south, 1.'h, and return north a across Franco and Spahr, creasing to - Africa over the Straits of Gibraltar; others go via Corsica and Sardinia; others, again, by Hely and Sicily. The young birds seem to know their way (AS well as the older ones, and unless there is heavy 500111e' they never lose themselves. BIRDS AS ALI'IANACS, Birds have no calendars, yet they know dates. Most of tho regular migrants do not wait for cold wea- ther to drit'e thele away from our northern sliores. In some, to us, mysterious method they are aware, n'coks ahead of the fleet frost, that it is time to start; and though the sun is still taut and food plentiful they gather in vast throngs and Ry away. The swifts alw0y8 leave almost exactly a fortnight before the first cold snap of autumn. SEER THE Ian OF OPER MILLIONAIRES ORIIANXZLr AN EXPEDITION. A Tarty of Now Yorkers Will Try, to Unearth Bing Solo- n10)l'5 117:Ines, Porhops et the time of his fatuous• boobs presentation to the public it would have been too much for even Ride'' Haggard to introduce a hall dozen New Yor1c tnillionalt'oa us syn. (!!eating prospects for the uncover- ing of the real mines of Xing ,Solo- mon, But as a matter of current news Payne 'Whitney and Broker W. H, Ellis of New Yorlc, !loading a party of millionaires, aro getting treacly for entry into Abyssinia, where disguised as hunters, they are to search for the fabled land of Ophir, out of which cameo much of the ma- teria} glory of ono of the greatest of the kings of the Jews. 105 a thousand years the gilded Meant of Ophir has been in the minds of men. Blhliogists have been confident of Gni existence of the source of this fabulous wealth; athe- ists and infidels have studied upon tho possibilities of uncovering it; sten have found those deposits here and there and then somewhere else just 0V00' their horizons, But Ophir is sill a dream of the Argonauts. Nearly every boolc of the Old Testa- ment makes reference to gold as the one material substance worthy of comparison with. the glories of that place of places where corruption shall take on inoorruption and where there shall be no more sin and whore tears shall be wiped out of all eyes. Certainly no other mineral in the world is more suggestive of purity and indestructibility. It virtually is nonvolatile. Its beauty has caught every eye—savage, pagan, and Chris- tian. One grain of it may bo beaten Into fifty-six square incises of leaf that aro :1-,282,000 part of an inch in thickness, and the sane weight of it may bo drawn into wire 500 feet in. length. SOUGI•IT i'0It 1,900 YEARS. This is the gold of Ophir—the gold of the alchemists—the gold which Christ came to preach against and which brought about the sublimest tragedy of the world. Yet after 1,- 900 years it is sought again out of an ago of riches which perhaps never was dreamed of by the son of David, In this present instance it seems that the search for the urines of Sol- omon is based upon modern ideas more than upon the bibltoal conten- tion in favor of Arabia as the sourao of the supply of gold for the temple and for the targets and the shields and the drinking vessels that made Solomon's reign tiro most mag- nificent in history. According to the story of the Book of Icings the fleet which Solomon bulli for the cruise to tho land of Ophir was floated from Edam, on the shorn of the Rod sea, When King Solomon's ships were ready they were mauled by the king's subjects, and Ding Hiram of Tyro "sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of tho sea, with the servants of Solomon; and thoy tante to Ophir and fetched from thence gold, foul' hundred and twenty talents, and brought it t0 Bing Solonou," King I3iran's navy, too, had brought in "from Ophir great plenty of aln1Ug trees and precious stones"; Speaking of this prophetic instinct the queen of Sheba had brought hien of birds, nearly all of them have some 111ea115, which 1s beyond us to explain, of knowing beforehand what 120 talents or gold, and in the one year the golccl that came to Solo- mon weighed 666 talents, T3oside all this, Ring Solomon "had of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all of the kings of Arailia, and of the gov- ernors of the country." TUI1N TO ABYSSINIA. But jest across time Red sea lies the shores of east Africa, anal, touch- ing this western rim of the sea is Abyssinia, ono of the darkest corn- ers of a continent noted for its mod- ern darkness. It is believed. now that tho Phoenicians, who (Incised with the hillmon belonging to the kingdom of Solomon, passed out o1 the Red sea and cruised all down tho eastern shores of Africa, Thus, in spite of the fact that Genesis x., w9, long has been held to mean the im- possibility, of these former mines be- ing found in other than Arabia, the New York argonauts aro turned to- ward Abyssinia, But, according to the latest re- searches and probabilitios, it may be regarded as ,behind the time that those explorers should strike as Inc north as Abyssinia, Recently Carl. Peters, basing a book upon the dis- covery of ruins tv,hiett lie found in 111'ashosalald along the Zambesi riv- er in south Africa, Is prepared for the finding of the fabled land of Ophir in this particular section of the continent. Along the river here, far to the north of the Transvaal country and its gold, Air, Pettis has found the remains of a once more or loss prac- tical and persistent attempt to take gold from the rocks. Ho found the suggestions of a trace of men strong- er than are the present warlike tribal of that section—mon who had (ono f1•0111 the far north to labor a; the mines and who were prepared to defend tho treasures that might bo unearthed. There aro ruins or forti- tications, indicating that the builders lead something worth defending, and in the anincl of 11Tr. Peters, this peo- pe'ty wee gold, 11001 by the Plloeni clans or by the landsmen, who were of Xing Solomon's 'race, but trained by the seafaring subjects or Hiram, WAS GOLD FOUND ON ZAM131t 11II? 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