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The Brussels Post, 1903-9-24, Page 2ST ®S1411ef1t+ 'b9lemt win --to go where 'I like anti. stop •-��-°-'°^•' • whoa 1 like. Your letters can got ONGER J N T 00 Oloser Io nu, than my 1.11131011 aid- ) , bees alk a ( 4 - I l Street, until 1 g c my r1 turn; and it. hardly worth while sending at all for .f will be here as .soon ns 7 AM iher'e.•, mob' 'e'' 'q•s, ^I ' 42,' OR ;°' 'C''" .�" '''''''' .clThe next morning Lucy, coming down early, Witit a vogue and timid joy now -born in her hear'(, was told 'by Eva of his going. And Eve. le,, ,,.o ... , tee ----„*•^-• e teal thing closely, saw the joy fade eteteeetneiteDEIDeleileBelleteelelleeWeeeteDOOMIMMDMADOWeagnI3VZ trout ler face, and evhlspered well • A RANSOMED LIFE or great sorrow, as it may cliaure,' phased to her own heart; "1 was Even dolor:- -„ rlfiht. I .knew 1 was right. Ire Should never have left her, But it There was a long pause. "Well, is not. 100 lite. Times monthsOven now'? Ardor asked, n little (won't be long passing, and then,--” impatiently. "Surely you have oyes, Vivian: You --- !mvo seen how young Wickham is CIJAPTI;tt lee: captivated." "Yes, I have seen. I hoped --I For Vit tan Ariel the nest three mean I thought, I might he mistak- months wont swiftly by. Ile looked en. Then, aloe a pause, "Well, in at the Academes of farts, Ber•fin, and if it were so?" and Vienna, where ho had maty "Would you wish it? Be frank friends and disciples. Then he Mit- with me. 1)o you like him well ered about Rome, till the memories enough to wish it?" of lost life which haunt'. tho very ate "There is 00 use teethe to lido of this city of a dead and buried past my thoughts from your eyes, Eva.chilled hills, and he fled away to the lea jealous of him: jealous of his remotest wilds of Western America, youth, jealous of his right to woo in whose 501ih1d S -Vast and still - and his hope to win lag. 'i et, in all limits 01 tints and space seeps spite of my jealousy, I feel there is lost, CHAPTER Vlll.-(Cion.) "It's Wonderful!" cried Eva, with a Nomad's inflate delight in precious stones, "Can you malts us many and as big as you choose?" • "I think I could manage a Koh -1 - Noor if 1 tried hart!," he said, still smiling; "but I don't intend to try. There is nothing very wonderful about It, lova, Othee people have bought small diamonds dearly; I have mado a big ono cheaply, That la the nest, and will bo the last, of my malting. Will you please mo by wearing it for my sake?" "But why for nit, Vivian?" she said, with her eyes on the diamond, taliteh sparkled restlessly in her :(oft white palm. Then, after a xnwndnt, iu a lower tone, "Is there no other woman whom—" "There is none, Eva," he said, an- swering her half -spoken question; "there nerer has been. Of what is called love, that love which has bound you and John together, and made your lives together a lung happiness, 7 know nothing, except in vaguest fancy. I leave often longed for 'love as 1 walked my lonely way through this wonderful world. But it has not come with longing for it. Sometimes a bright eye, or a sweet smile, or a soft voice hes fluttered Illy careless heart with an idle fancy, that lightly passed away, and was not love, .tometinles I seem to have found my ideal In a picture or a 1 book. I have dreamed myself in 1 love with Shakespeare's Rosalind and with ennnyson's Enid in turn, 13ut of real, live love, of whieh poets write. and which leen and women feel, -love which absorbs all other feelings and fills a life with Its rad- iance, -I have been ignorant as tho blind of color, or the deaf of music. Love has passed me by, Eva, on the other side, and It is too late to hops or fear a visit now." "It is not too late, Vivian; 2 do hero it is not too late," said Eva softly. "Love would transform ,your soul. In its pure light the dark shadowy fears that trouble you at times Would disappear." "No, Eva; if what you say of love be true -and I believe it true -it would but give a double terror to death. We die again and again in the deaths of those we love. The brighter our lives are the more hor- rible is the thought of the inevitable, unending darkness into which they vanish." something in his frank, joyous na- In the midst of this wild, free life, turn wonderfully attractive, And simple, active, healthful, where quick you?" "I will he frank too. I have piti- ed hint from my heart for the terri- ble ordeal he has endured. I Aro hifie bright, handsome, innocent and light- ir'2u'ted. let ([tete have been times this evening I cause near hating him, If I were Luev's mother, Vivian, I would ten thousand times sooner give her to you." Ile smiled and shook his head. "I know what that means. and I'm du- lly grateful. I cannot help being glad you are nnfair whero I am con- cerned, Eva. But, believe me, it is best for all of us that I should go away," "Best for you, perhaps; though I greatly doubt it," "Best for her too, believe lee, Youth must match with youth. Age and death are stronger than love." "But life itself is poor and emp- ty," the woman said, "and is 1101 worth the living until it has known love. 11' you die unloving and un- loved, you dlo lacking the best gift of God. Oh! Vivian, I had so hop- ed:---" "Your hope is my fear, ltva," he interposed. "I am not so dull but I can read the thoughts that shine through those clear eyes of yours. But it cannot he; it must: not be; even if I alight hope to win her love. I dare not wed my failing years to the joy and freshness of her youth," "Lot her choose for herself; she will choose best for bar own happi- boss." "No; In tilts, at least, I must choose for hoe. I will not lot any vague, girlish fancy born of grati- tude ruin her life." Willi a demure twinkle in her soft brown eyes Eva looked straight in his. "And yet you say you never know what love meant, Vivian?" Ile met her gaze frankly, smiling a little sadly as he auswcredh "No; and I 1210011 ntVOr to know, EVIL For this reason I leave you to -night. To- morrow I will start again on one of my rambles round the world." "And leave her to rho first chance Coater to 1(00 and wine" "I leave her in your caro, E('0," "In my care! Whet can I do, what can any man or woman do, to shut out love? 'You remember in the old fairy tale how the king closed his daughter up in the top storey of a tower of brass to save her from tio unwelcome suitor. But it was all of no use. The suitor cache, 01111 saw, and conquered. Precaution is hopeless. Love will enter where he chooses, bringing with 111ne great ,joy ..+..x...11 motion or calm sleep left no time for thought, there came upon tum, sudden and - not to be resisted, a longing for home. Then, sudden and swift as a bird's flight across 8011- tinont and ocean, he tools the straightest road to London. In ten days lie was standing on his own doorstep with his latch -key turning in rho lock. But he was chilled with a. strange fear, like one whose dream las comp true, when he saw a letter waiting hint on the hall -table, in the full light of the electric lamp, Tho writing was Tre- vor's, but so shakey as to be scarce intelligible, and across the corner of the envelope the word "Immediate" was scrawled large. "Couto at once," the letter begat abruptly; "for Cod's sake come when you get this. Willie and Harry have "It's profanity to say so; love lives diphtheria, Millie very bad. Eva for over. I know and real 11; it is !insists on nursing them. I fear for part of my soul." 1108, Ile only sighed without answering, Tho last few words struck Ardel 0.5 one spares the bright, happy, fool- hardest of all. Diphtheria was his isle fancies of a ellild, special subject. IIe knew the rem - At that moment Trevor broke into edy, but ha knew also the danger of the ro01n-an embodiment of kindly I the disease. Ile glanced at the date common-sense and sod -lienor. He of the letter. It was three days' old was in his shirt sleeves, and had a --three precious days irrevocably billiard cue in one baud and a lump gone. Itis bicycle was in the stand r a n in the hall slack and span, and 1 P • clunk ;in tho other, "Ii you and Eta are done talking ;ready for the road as it had come philosophy, Ardel," he said, "come I from the maker. A moment more, along and give this young fellow in- las it seemed, and he was -clear of the side a treating. Ile is too strong for traffic, out on the smooth, hard road me." to Lavelle. "Not to -night, Trevor; and not for Hardly an Hour had passed since many a night. I'm just 1111." the read Trevor's note in Park Lane "Off where?" till he grasped Trevor's hand at his "To London first, and after that i own door at Lavelle, a good thirty everywhere." - 1 miles away, "You don't mean to say you aro I "Well?" said Ardel abruptly, for the haggard and frightened look of the other's face frightened halm. "Thank God you have come," fal- tered Trevor, "Poor Willio is dead -died one hour ago. Barry is at death's door; aid Eva herself, 1 greatly fear—" "Where?" Ariel interrupted, with quick decision in his voice. Trevor led the way without a word to the roomy nursery. Over the other child's cot tho mother leant. "Savo him, Vivian! save him!" she cried, with All the faith and fervor of a child's prayer. "You first, Eva," he said simply, as he opened the medicine case, "No! no! save my boy first," "All in good time; you. first," 110 said again, "you first." "But look at him at once, Vivian. It may 130 too late," "It is not too late, though there is no time to be lost," Deftly as a lady's -maid ho rolled the loose sleeve of her dressing-goe.'n right tip to the shoulder. In his hand he held a little gold syringe, with a point fine as a needle, .Ifo pressed the keen point through the whits satin of her skin and sent three drops of the rnssboriois fluid into the ciuick current of her blood. Only three drops, but it meant death baffled and life saved. Her eves were on bine all the time in pitiful entreaty. "Yes," he a051veled, "you are safe; now for the boy." "W111 110 pull through, Areal?" whispered Trevor, "Re will live." Aral answered confhdenLlle; "but it was a very close thing. One half-hour more and--" The mother's frightened Paco stop- ped him, "Ohl 110 is q?litr Safe nOW, llvn, All be wants is some little watching, It's just possible I may have to re- peat the operation, By the way, where aro Lucy and Jeanette?" 'They are away. Lucy does not know of this. 7.'hcy 'went away be- fore this trouble came.' They are safe, thank Goch." 'lie. is safe too, with caro." "f will stay with him " Eva and 1101' husband spoke together,. "No," Ardel answered decisively: "You both need rest. No one but myself can 1/0 of 1250," “Y011 will Id 1110 stay too, Vivi- an? 180111(11 leave him." "NO, Eva.," he repeated firmly, and his ayes met !hers with a steady stare. "Go now and sleep till morning," he. said, anti she Wont, Obedient as e, chi1c1. "Go (11111 ler, Trevor. She will Walk, from a long alaap with life en - novena. lou; too, need rest, and you have had much to suffer. foot! 141.i,10 Willie! -'-'thus is no doubt he is dead?" '.J'hc teals wore in the father's eyes AS 110 unsevered, - "None; he died quietly and without pain at Hour before you calm" With his hnntl laic! lovingly on the nem of his wife, who twitted: b0(4id0 him passively and with eyes elnSed, he peeved front (hr room. tlr, Ariel Was lefe alone with the 111111,; 0hild and the dead, Horeb going to ride home on your wheel at midnight?" "That's just what I do mean. It' is only a rim of an hour and a half, at the most. The n100n is almost as bright as day, and my electric lamp, if I needed it, brighter than the moon." Trevor dropped into a chair, be- wildered at his sadden parting. "But where are you going to, and when are you coming back?" "You know I never make any plats. I will see that man of yours who has lost his soul to -morrow" -Ardel never forgot a promise -"and CIA. W. CRAWS OK CURE Up. CATARRHCATARRH� .„ is sent direct to the diseased parts be the Improved Blower. Heals the ulcers, clears the ale passages, stops droppings to the throat and permanently cores Catarrh and Hay Fever. Blower free, All dealers, or Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co.. Toronto and Buffalo. do what I can for him. After that I Wf11 wander about at largo for one, two, oe thee nouths. Tlu'ee, 7` would think, is about the limit. You know of old any fancy for seeing I every nook and corner of this won- derful, beautiful world of ours while I ane in it. "13111 what 11115 Eva to say to alI this?" Trevor asked, still Blazed by the suddenness of the thing. "(1111 lava has said her Say," she answered, with a reluctlutt little sigh, "quite, in vain, You ought to reason with the tide about ebbing and flowing, 01 the sun about rising t*k Case of cze si Pew Describes. After Three Years of Terrible Suffering Little Pilary Millar Was Permanently Cured by DR. CHASE'S OINTMENT. Many ot the cures Brough about by' Br', (lbasu's Ointment are (40 MOO 111 t1 11111•0,0103 t at 1CoPla 0071 1' 3 believe them. When I3at1,v 'Millar be- came a victim of eczema her parents din everything that could be done to get her ctu'ed. Three doctors tried ell the means in their power, but 181111out (4(181855, and 111011 all sorts of remedies wee() used, with tate vain !tope that something would bring relief front the clf501(80 that Roomed to he burning op the living freed. :[t was not until lir, Chase's Oint- ment Was used t.h(at relief and cure Beane, This rase is 801•tif4(c1 to by a jn)0t111118nt Stm11ny School superin- 1011d0111 of St, C01h0riut>s, Moe, Wee Millar, St. Catharines, Ont:, whites :-"1ty daughter, Mary, when six noleths old rmltrratted ec- zema, and for tiler,' yeas this dis- ease baffled all treatment. Igor case WWI one of the 'Worst that over cane to trey notice, and she suffered tv,110.4 no pen eau 01er r1011 r111e. 'I had 11er treated by three d111eemit (loetoes, brit all to tio ptlrpose eketteval', and "Fina.11}' T decided to use lir. Chase's 6' 111 it 1 t et t and l0 11 cone. 1 ty prise sho began 1 e fine}'ov0 funned - !Men', a11S after rep7uitte treatment for 141)10 the disease of so helm, standing c'omp.ietely disappeared. As that was roue' years ago, and not a symiltom of this distressing aliment has cure shown itself since, tho cure must certainly bo Et permanent 01)0. At, the time of this cure two tv0113 living in Cornwall, trot,, need the doctors there feal'ecl that if aha was trot cured of nazlnua she would go hito t1 decline," Ili' S, llichnrdsor, jun., Onperin- ten lent Christ's (11mr01) 1 1(1ulay School, tit, Celt Marines, Ont., 1(1'!los: "1 ((11 nitjuainted with hlll, and Mrs. 1 Wel, 4([111111' and believe they would not male any statement knowing it to be in any way misleading or (1.11-; t rue,'" Dr, ("Vase's Ointment, 60 POD 1S n box, at all dealers, or Etinxansolr, Bates & ('Company, 'rewottto. To pro- tect 3.011 mentos( fmllalione the pal'- 1t•ait: owl signature of I)1', A. W. Chase, the relook! receipt book au- • or setting. If he will, hs Will; and that's the end of It," "A wilful 111(41 will have bis Way, (loOd 11ya, Trevor; good-bye, Eva. Say good-bye 101' me to the little ones, and to -Illss 'Ray, This will he my first resting -place when I get hack to England again," "What address 11.11110 you urn nway?" the lawyer u1kw, business !ilio, "You might 118 well ask an address of the ivied, that blows whore it 1114 tent. hly notion of travel is to be irresponsible as the bird on the to the little bed in the corner of ilia room, nod (limy tio curtain aside, and gay' acurciliu(4ly at the small', pale face. Tho first, 100k told Ardel there was indeed no hope; but still he hold the mutant back, and gazed stcadfuvlly 011 the smell, still while face, and the horror and loathing of death flonducl !lis soul ---deed( inevitable and ifreparablo. 110 drew the curtain close, shut - sing out the sight of the dead, and passed to the other bedside, whore the living child ley sleeping placidly. '1'ho potent infusion in his blood had done its !work. Ardk1's oyes on the child's smiling face, Ardt'l's [Mimes on the child's steady pulse, told hien the same s1u2v. Rattled death had retreated before him. For a um- ment the pltyslcian's heart warned and swelled with 0 consciousness of power like a god's. It was ho that had beaten death -had given hack life. The nett. moment Ito WAS rag- ing against his own hopeless impels encs. To that child he had given long years of life; bo could not add ono second to his own, 'It was slip- ping. limn him swiftly and smoothly, and all his skill and power could not stay its course. Ile fell to envying the sleeping child. In that tiny atone of humanity there was that re- served vitality which be had exhaus- ted. In his own strong frame, with all its pride enol potter of manhood, there was the element of decay. They two were in the Horning and the evening of their days; before the boy lay that bright youth which the man had lost for over. The child's eyes opening softly and soddenly startled him, seeming to read his thoughts. En made two or three quick passes, and again the eyelids closed softly hl deep, hypnot- le slumber. Then all at once, as Aedel gazed on the sleeping child, temptation siczed hint and shook him like an ague fit. Here was his opportunity come at last, There was profound silence 1n the room, but from the not where tho sleeping child lay e. volae reach- ed his soul, insistent as fate. It was 3o easy, so certain. He had often tested it to the very verge of accomplishment. It meant so much: a renewal of life, a new youth, a new manhood. IIis thoughts grew bolder a11(1 took wider fango. The miracle once wrought might be re- newed again and again. It meant -his heart leaped at the thought -a p8rpetltal putting aside of ago and death, "But the boy?" his conscience whispered; "the helpless boy?" "Well, what of him?" temptation answered boldly. "You have given him life only an hour ago. But for you 1e would be at this 1nolnen1 like his brother yonder -a mere lump of senseless clay. You only resume a small part of What you have be- stowed. Li return you give hien vigorous manhood, limitless wealth, and assured position in the world. Who could say what the child's own choice would be, it he had power to 0120030?" Onto more ho found himself forced, 1s by a flower outside himself, to tho bedside of the, dead. Again he drew the curtains and gazed on the small, still (white face. Again his very heart grow told at the thought of blanc: oblivion. The longing to es- cape mastered every faculty of 1115 soul. The way was open; ho would take it.. He dropped the Curtains and shut Oak death, and. with pale, resolute fare, tool: his seat mum more beside the living. He whispered a. few words in the eat' of the sleeping in- fant. A moment later ho, too---solf- mesnerized-ha(l fallen into a hyp- notic sleep profound as the child's. (To be continued.) PIIACOCI,'S AS W'ATCITDOG$. Bird -fanciers aro predicting a fash- ion for the peacock steel as no other feathered creature elm' before enjoy- ed, They say that people who can afford it have boon lately buying Mthly of theta for their country places. Ornament, i5 0310 considers- 41011, Nothing could 120 more daz- zling to the eyes than a lot of pea- cocks strutting 1015um'ely across a velvety lawn 111 the summer minshine. But there is another thing that 10- com0e11cts the brilliant creature in a more practical way. Someone dis- covered, not long ago, that thorn is no watchdog equal to the peacock. as a guardian aga11(5t, thieves and mar- auding tramps. Perched 031 t110 roof of an arbor or outbuilding of the estate, a peacock will announce in shrill, diseo2'lutnt notes that can bo heard a mile away the peesen00 of suspicious -looking strangers within the grounds. Their eyes art always open, and, 1i110 others of the bird family, they have tho ability to (400 at almost any angle. A dog makes a, bettor friend than a peacock', but, too Secure in his master's 'affeetlon, he goes to sloop 111 his comfortable kennel, and th•ean5 pleasant drocans while thieves matte away with pro- perty, DIDN'T 111111) I'd' A BIT. Agallant militate' man, who lost a leg in the South African tecieblo5, Was knocked down and run over by a cab in Londo.11 recently, Ito as- tonished the Cr01411 by getting tip mid w018inre 041 with a Slight limp. It was tio cork log which the wheel had gone over, Young courage and old cautien Make a strong pair, � iY)'wl0'aV" 71006,610A,1"f,'VrlZ `F.d � THE A''',"41;119117�"±l'tr V kbOO1 004(1;1.1 IIOG IITSTOXIY. Tito modern pig le a direct (hound- ed of the ancient hog, hilt 11114 ae- Blarecl charm:tel'istles aro so differ- ent that it !hardly swam possible that they are relatives. The ora of Improvement began in 111(1 eighteenth century when 1,;ng'llsh mat'lllcrs brought to that island SpOCin1CO3 of the domestic swine from India, 01:1110, and Stan, In Chime 110 has been for twelve thOusattd ,years con- sidered the only thing that could ap- pease the wrath of their deity, ehe dragon and ho ivoro held saorccl, ]sept in the home, fondled, ,petted, raised and trained with the most jealous sere, slaughtered and one-half of his flesh offered as s sacrifice to thole god, and the other half feasted upon by the sedate worsllippo2's at the pet'iodlcal so-called religious festi- vals. The pig's tail furnished their emblem, and their ono is braided in imitation of that appendage. The great improvement in the English breeds were macre by a cross of this sacred animal, notably the Suffolk, Essex and Yorkshire, in the Berl. - shire by the Siamese hog, an animal differing somewhat from the sacred Chinese animal. Tho characloristics of the old Eng- lish ling were coarse hale, large bone and a slow maturing animal. The sacred animal was covered with fine hair, had s111a11 bone and fattened early and cosily. The descendants of these extremes have furnished tho material from which the American swine breeder's have made many of tbo so-called new American breeds, as well as improving ilio so-called English. breeds. It is not many years ego that the 110(4 on 1110 farm was allowed to retrain and consume valuable food for at least a year and a half before being fattened and marketed, The 1811010 system has been revolutionized and nota the pig that 1'011101113 0n the farm one 3(00.1' is the exception 10- stead of the rule, From six to eight months is the 111110 usually al- lowed and 1110 breeder and feeder who can make greatest gains in that timo is considered the most skilled in the business. It has 130011 proven by many experiments that the young pig made more meat for a given amount of feed than the older ani- ma1. Among the first to experiment were Messrs. Gilbert and Lawes, of England, and they proved that the hog could produce meat more rapid- ly and cheaply than cattle or sheep, it requiring 110arly as much feed to produce a pound of beef or muttol1 as to produce four pounds of pork. Later, Prof. Manly Miles experiment- ed with very young pigs commenc- ing at two weeks of ago and con- tinuing for some time, and found that it took but 8.413 lbs, of feed to male one pound of gain between two and four weeks, 8,0.5 between four and eight weeks and a fraction over four pounds between eight and twelve weeks, showing than as t110 animal advanced in n(4e more feed was required to produce 11 pound of gain. Similar experiments have been made at the different stations and similar results obtained, 13y Judicious management pigs from mature sires and dam of the im- proved breeds eon be made to weigh 100 pounds when 90 days old. 2,50 pounds at six months, and 500 pounds at ton months. These figures aro repeatedly obtained among the Berlcshiees, ELS many published, re- cords will show. 1t win readily be seen why the modern hog is called a pig because the pig accomplishes as 111uc11 for his owner in six months as the old hog used to in from a year and a half. Each individual can decide whether he wishes to stake pork from !togs or pigs, By the old method much feed Was wasted in keeping the pig alive until ho became a flog. By the modern system the pork' is matte more oeonolniceely and the returns are more quickly obtained. The pig is the winner against the hog: the pig is the winner against cattle or sheep for economical meat production, and the champion for the. sweepstakes, or fico -for' all, 15110 - they his feed .he pasture, clover hay, the odds and ends of the feeds from the farm following; 110 cattle, 01' the choicest selections of foods 1l3. the hones of the skilled nnaltipelatoe. Bislu'Cnat is both palatable and nu- tritious, and most eagerly sought by the groat mass of consumers as the reports of our great markets will 911011; be Is as healthy as any of the domestic animals if surround. ad by proper sanitary emalltions; he dlepleya his original 10110l011c cussod- (1055 only its 1 h heeds of the cussed orate who neglect and abuse him; he is the farmers' friend when treated in a friendly manner. Si17:1';P NOT1S, For good mutton both ewes and Iamb% nett grain food, Cleanliness is as necessary with sheep es food and shelter, Tho longer a plan keeps a slleep that does not pny the poorer he will be. Ewes will run clown rapidly 11 1110 Minim run with !.hent too long. Never sell the best ewes if you have only_ care for 1110 future of your dock. G1ood condition sheep can 130 ripen- ed in about six weeks after biting put on fall feed. It is claimed that the second crop of plover for sheep is better than the first, 10 selling sheep in a mixed lot the best seller by being sold with the inferior, '1'111111 in sheep is generally suer, 1111 when people think enough of thein to take care of them, If the second growth of clover is eat in many cases it willpay to save it especially for the sheep. As a rule, those who are best sat- isfied with feeding sheep are those who have scone to market each year. Exceptional good qualities are not as likely to become hereditary as in- different or bad ones. By a long lino of careful breeding the rain Possesses the power or firm- ly impressing his ehsraeteristics on the offsprings of tho common ewe. The man who considers no question but that of first cost will never males 11111011 of a mark as a sheep broodeunr. An oven flock of good sheep is more valuable than on even fleck of poor 01(05. ,Judgment is the outgrowth of ex- perience, yet a man may have a Wide experience and be seetously lucking judgment. Care should be taken in the selec- tion of the breeding sheep, so that each generation of lambs will be better than the proceeding ones. The time of tato year to cure Foot rot is just as soon as the sheep Etre known to have it. The best and easiest time is in *the fall or early w111101'. Much can bo done to sustain the height mad quality of the fleece by generous and economical feeding, and that feed is most economical which will return the greatest growth of fleece and carcass, SUCCESSION OF C1'tOPS, In a rotation a shallow and deep rooting crop should follow each other so that the demand for plant food is shifted. Crops that produce humus and clops that consume hum- us should alternate or if possible 130 raised together. Crops should be rotated so that fertilizing materials left by the preceding crop aro in the best condition for the succeeding one. The weak feeding crop, if it is a de- sirable one, should be put in the roe tation when the fertilizing substanc-, es are in the most available form. Crops of dissimilar feeding habits should follow each other•. AIN I' GOLD. GRAINS O OL , Malice drilks one-half of its owl raison: -Seneca. Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense. -Sidney Smith. It is not what he has, o1' own what he does Whiclt e.e:presses 1110 worth of a ela0, but what he is.- Anlfel. As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could And it out in his pros- perity.-13ruyorc. There is a deportment whieh snits the figure and talents of each Per- son; it IS always lost when we quit ft to assume that of another, Itos- 50a1. So remarkably pervet's° is the na- ture of Man, that he despises those that court him, and admires who- ever will not bond before 11i111, - Th ucyclides. A true man never frets about his place fn rho world, but just slihus into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star. -.E. II, Chapin. IIopo burls eter'naliy, but it seldom comes to fill bloom_ It is generally the people who know the least that toll the 111.0st. ,',';Sr,.m1.o1ot,•.^014.13.1r Jim Dumps had scarcely slept a wink, All night he'd toss about and think. But that's all past -he'll ne'er endure 11150011118,He'sfou d a cure! Tis "Force:" At night, when lights are dim, It soothes the nerves of "Sunny Jim." T11e ltehtee to.Sewo Cereal Wouldn't Believe at First. "' woul(ip't believe lt-nli 1 tried It, bOt ( L'6;ce' 10 8 wire tbi! toppom018. 1140011 to MAY nwiiko eight aflaw Meet. Now 1 'lit bfg bdwJai of F'oroe' lust beforo plug to bee, we sleep and 1 have (10(0014 Bead frieedo iigale. h, 1,. 11014140. THE 'THREW AT SEA, I Q1N PASSBNGBIBS GIST NBWS IN MI0 OOBAN,. Tho Marconi System Is a Groat i30on to Travellers and Officers. Tin "wifeless o1)0111tor" is now a regular member of a ship's company. lone the 11T5t day of so you will wonder who is 111e soiir1 young loan in the striitelcse blue uniform, who 0110 dnY has nothing to do but loaf on deck, and the next is invisible. Later on you will learn that he is the Marconi man. 31(1 is 111111 When 5110 ship is out of touch with cullet' land signals or those from passiug Ships, Then, however, he is very, very busy, and very notch bothered. Tho wireless station is situated "for'ard," and is 0 small box, about big enough to hold two mon. In a storn'1 the siltation of the opera- tor is one of extrema danger, as ha is on t110 most 0xposed part of the ship for wind and intrusive (waves, Ile generally knows exactly when ha will have to be at his post. On leaving Queenstown, the ship will be for Many lours 111 communi- cation with Orookhaven, the. ex - trema point of the British Isles, on which stand the Marconi station and a lighthouse. During the whole of this time passengers will bo in touch with home ROWS. Tho 3(Iaec0nt num will bo in his box. A tape will be unfolding rapidly, on which will be registered the Morse signals, A.e quickly as his hand can write, ho will copy out tho messages, sono conveying official information to the captain, °then's private messages to friends, all jumbles] up together in a way which would bewilder an ordin- ary n1an, This will last for the greater part of Sunday -supposing the ship to 115 a Saturday bone. On Wednesday the ship will meet its follow vessel, homeward bound from Now York. 11 will be known at about what time she will be in communleation and the operator mast be iu his box ready for TILL, I'IRRST SIGNAL. This will give the n01no of the boat, news of the voyage, greetings, and messages to passenger's. In 0xe11ang0 it will expect to receive the sate, with British news. Which will be of mors recent dato than their ow11. This comrnunication will bo kept up according to the weather. It may last so long as six hours. From now until tate arrival orf Now 'York, in good weather, a ship may expect to be in constant communication with passing vessels of their own and other companies. The operator is sometimes in touch with 1280 ships at a time. Then his (work is, in- deed, baffling, as the signals get confused. When communication. is expected, a 11011(0 is posted outside the saloon notifying passengers. They aro incited to send messages through filo purser, if they with to, which they must writs on the com- pany's forms. Many a dramatic scene has been. experienced as a result of a sudden bolt from the ether. For instance, last year one great liter was engag- ed in celebrating 1110 King's original Coronation Day by means of a grand concert, Proceedings were very live- ly, and British and American 110" 11011111 anthems were being exchanged with gusto, In the middle of tlto festivities the captain rose and said Ile had a serious announcement to make. The King WAS SOH ously 111, and the ceremony was postponed. The merry-malciug ceased as by mag- ic, and the concert was converted' at once into a religious service. Such a piece of news, for instance, as the suicide of Sir Hector Macdon- ald, comes with treble the shock when it, is received in olid-occan- perhaps some days' sail from land. The company will he seated at 1utlnh, exchanging frivolities, when a buzz of voices from neat' the captain or the purser sends the news Tippling clown the tables In a fete minutes the saloon is in A maim OF EXCITEMENT and curiosity. No details, of course, but simply the baro announcement has been given. Seeing that nearly every lines carries a largo propor- tion of Scotsmen, you•cen imagine tho scone when. this astounding LAYS W5.8 received Even dur.ing its short ljto Ibe wireless system may said to have saved ships from danget'. Ono voy- Ago the Umbria WAS approctchieg Quceustowte when she got 11110 com- munication with the Cnnlpanla, "Look out as you pass Chan- nel," wired tho latter ship, "thecae beets a !wreck thew, and you must keep well away front it." Warnings. of fogs, too, aro 1101.111041 to incom- ing ships 18111011 have just passer[ through them. Chess lnatcho5 aro played between two passing ships by 111 0ns of the "wireless," edit clove being com- municated. Sometimes, 10 the, (HS-, gust of 1114) players, communication Will bo soddenly lost: at a critical point in the'game. • The honesty of the Trish was once Strikingly shown by ,1ne0ns of the system, An American tonl'ld; had bought some lace Troll one of tho vendor who boatel the boat ne Queonstown, and hod tlu•OWn hoe a sovereign, Some 110urs attar the ship had left that port., a message was received.: "Ask gentleman who hotted, lace where 011411ge t0 he. sent." A Vessel first gets into land com- municate -ill with America off Nee- 111014ot', Petunia]. ,yellow oevol0p08 aro dclivar4d to paSSengeee, ro110111- ing greetings from friends ashore, But if you want to send a "ma'eoni- grain" tram the American side 3ro11 will have eet pay ca1b1e. rates, Which melee it an exponsivA as well as a novel inlhlgc>180.-I'ears8n's Weekly; Clem :'11'11}tt leene.l1etteoea your'