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OIIAPTEE X.—Cont.
"A row days more at the outside,"
the •doctor murmured to John Tre-
vor, as he bade him "good-bye" at
tho door.
•
Then another cause of grief arose,
Harry Trevor was found to be slow-
ly pining away. His face grow pale
and pinched, and be moped in corn-
ers, silent and smileless. lie hardly
ate or slept at all. Even the child's
mindseemed affected, Twice at mid-
night he had stolen into the sick-
room, startling Eva, who was on
guard at the bedside, by his white
fee° and wide-open, earnest eyes,
Compelled by the doctors, Eva had
consented to rest during the day.
The night nursing she still reserved
as her share. One evening it chanced
that Harry suddenly claimed the
privilege of filling with water the
little silver kettle from which her
coffee was made.
On that same night she had a
very curious experience. She had
felt quite fresh and wakeful whe
she began her vigil, having step
well during the day. But no soon
had .she sipped her coffee than
sudden drowsinees, soft, warming
overpowering, fell upon her. Befor
sho could resist, sleep came and con
sneered absolutely soul and body.
The winter sunshine was bright i
the room when she awoke, alert an
refreshed, from a long sleep.
Her eyes as they opened fell o
Lucy. She was steeping placidly a
a three-year-old child: sleeping a
she had not slept since the fell di
ease caught her.
Softly she slipped from the roo
to where her husband slept. A
once he started up wide awake an
frightened at the whisper of hi
name.
"No, John," she answered to hi
frightened look, "it's not that
thank Ood! it's not that. I 'tat
good news. Coma with nee quickly
come!"
Lucy still slept on placidly, an
as they stood together at the b
side each read hope in the other'
eyes.
"I was not mistaken?" site ques-
tioned eagerly.
"It is wonderful," he answered. "I
cannot understand it. How—"
The next moment Eva's action 'tad
answered his unfinished question.
One of Lucy's arms lay upon the
quilt, with the white robe open at
the sleeve. With deft fingers Eva
rolled the loose sleeve back to the
shoulder.
Yes! there was a little red dot
where the sharp needle point of the
gold syringe had pricked the white
satin of her skin. Lucy was safe.
She had been saved by thy/ same
miracle as Eva and her child! By
whom wrought?
They? never knew for certain. The
girl herself could not help them to
an answer.
She bad puzzled over it for a
while, half awake. But presently a
pleasant drowsiness stole over her,
and she dropped ofr into a dreamless
sleep, in which there was rest and
no pain,
So they never kuow for certain
what mystery had happened in the
night, Certain it was, however,
that the morning found him as child-
ish as ever, and the mysterious medi-
cine case had disappeared again.
So the cloud lightened over the
once happy house of Lavelle, though
it never wholly passed away.
Legal means were taken to secure
the property of Dr. Ardel, which
proved to be even more enormous
than was curroutly believed, Ile had
no relatives, and the custody, and
guardianship, and the management
of his vast estate under the Court
was entrusted to John Trevor, R.C.,
by the Lord Chancellor, who was a
Mead of both men, and knew the
intimate trust and friendship be-
tween them.
In the teeth of the confident pro-
phecies of the mental scientists, Dr.
Arclel unproved from day to clay and
from week to week. His memory
haver returned. He never showed
the faintest recognition of his own
identity. But his phoal health
was superb, his gay spirits never
flagged, and slowly, but surely, hi
intellect brightened.
Harry Trevor, as dell boys come-
t lues will, had suddenly developed a
marvellous precocity, lie, who used
to hate books, now loved them.
Dr. Ardor—the wonderful Dr. Ar-
del—whose intellect and accomplish-
ments had been the wonder and ad-
miration of Europe, was now the
halting pupil of a clover oldishid.
So the years wont by till Harry's
'time came for a publlo school. At
home the boy's education had gone
at so tremendous a rate that his
mother, and sometimes even his fa-
ther, was a little afraid of hhn. It
was not that he was what is called
a bumptious boy. Indeed, he seem-
ed always anxious rather to hide his
knowledge 11100 to display it. But
Ids quickness was marvellous.
With Lucy ire grew almost at once
from a pet to a companion, He was
shy with her, as has been said, and
she was so infcetod by his shyness
that site left off kissing and fondling
n him at once. Now and again she
t caught by chance, as it were, a
✓ glimpse of his knowledge of science
and literature, which frightened her,
Very quickly the relation of teacher
and taught were reversed between
them, and she found herself constant-
ly forgetting bis age. On the ques-
tion of religion alone the boy never
willingly spoke,
In the innocence of her maiden
heart Lucy unknowingly laid bare to
the keen eyes of this precocious child
the love she had ever cherished for
Dr, Arde], till he too found the se-
cret that Eva had once found so
easily.
To all this Harry Trevor would
Iisten moodily, answering in mono-
syllables only. There was a keen,
strange sting of jealousy in his
heart, that grew keener as years ad-
vanced and his own intimacy with
Lucy increased. But he strove hard
to hide the pain the subject gave
him, and was kinder than ever to
Dr. Andel after Lucy's confidence.
Still she, somehow, divined at last
that the subject hurt him, and half -
guessed the cause, and thenceforward
it was mentioned no more between
them,
billiard -...
table and elastic as its
cushions when Harry Trevor wont in
first to face the bowling of his chief
rival. Jack Samson owed his place
Ion the elctren to his reputation as a
lightning bowler. Somewhat °rn title,
Samson was angry and eager to
begin and end the battle.
Trovo' was very cool and quiet.
''here was a half smile on his lips,
es a man in a (Folio sanies 01 hle
own folly; but his 'teen blue eyes
fit Is time, but undenfabie when "on rover left the face of Itis opponent.
! the spot" (tad especially deadly to Samsun furred the tight from the
;nervous players, Tali, lean, and first, striking fiercely with right and
wiry, with arras of ab0Ormal length, lett at his opponertl's face. But thoho made the ball fly from his baud quick, moving face was never where
as frfroma sling, The ale swung he struck, Ile bent the empty air,
round it as it flew, tate wielcots it and the fore° of his own blows
struck leaped yards from the ground wrenched his muscles till they milled or shivered to pieces. Clove or pad again,
The i1tdille'ence with which Trevor
began the light was changing to keen
enjoyment its blow after blow want
by hit. havnrlossly and his opponent
sp
ga°(', and panted, and smeto in
vain, Now and again Trevor struck
back, but lightly and without malice.
Ile grew careless in his enjoyment,
and at last Samson, evading Ids
guard, planted a heavy blow upon
his chest. A look of pain and anger
fleshed across itis face et the blow.
In a second he changed from play
Co earnest, Samson, encouraged by
his first success, rushedrushedupon him
furiously, Trevor's right llst on Ids
forehead stopped the rush. Before
the other could gotback the left
hand shot out viciously from the
shoulder and caught hint under the
jaw, and sent hint down like a log.
The back of his head struck the
ground, and he lay motionless. At
ante the frightened bays broke up
the ring, and fluttered and clamored
round the still unconscious body.
Then fear crept into their eyes, and
their white lips whispered faltering-
ly, "Ines dead."
But Harry Trevor—cool as over—
walkod briskly to whore his coat
lay.
He took a small bottle of green
glass with green glass stopper from
his pocket.
"I thought it might be wanted,"
be muttered, letting a few drops fall
upon his haniikcrchict', while he came
back to whore his opponent lay with
a group of frightened, pale-faced
him.boys about him.
Ifo put the boys aside with a curi-
ous air of authority that, made hien
seem older than he was. They yield -
elf without protest, for fear is sub-
missive, and they were horribly
frightened. Alone amongst the
group be did not seem in the least
degree fluttered at the sight of 1115
own handiwork. "It will be all
right," he said cheerily; a'Ad he
clapped the handkerchief, from which
a pleasant, pungent smell camp, to
1110 mouth and nostrils of the pros-
trate boy.
Like a °barn it acted. Tho color
came hack to the boy's face, his
eyes opened, and he leaped to his
feet like ono awakened from. sound
sleep. For a moment he stood be-
wildered, gazing round with comic
perplexity at the circle of wondoring
faces.
'\Yhe'e. ant 1? What' has happen-
ed? Oh! I remember now, Well,
you've licked me fairly. Trevor," he
went on, "I earned what I got. I
had no call to make nn ass of my-
self because you can play cricket and
I. can't, Shake hands, old chap. You
can lick me all round, sport or earn-
est."
The boys shook hands heartily, and
mov0d avay together, getting their
coats on as they wa ted, Thencefor-
ward they were chums, Trevor put
a new ambition Into his friend, Ifo
helped him with his tasks as no
good, honest', meaningless hatred, master had ever helped him. When
Mary Trevor by some quick fn- Samson, at the end of the term,
stinet know at once what that 51)0)0 got a school scholarship, he stoutly
meant. A roan's duel is full of fur- averred it was Trevor earned it.
virility, but a boy needs no prelitnun_ Trevor gave hint tips le cricket,
aries or explanation for 1115 fghtiitg, too, and got, him hack his place in
the eleven in good time for the Her -
row match, when—crowning tritanph
of all—he took seven wickets for
twenty-five runs in the lirst innings,
and was the hero of the day.
It was, es has been said, Trt'vor's
first and last fight. Liked by all,
lending a helping hand hero and tlioro
as it was needed, Ito led a pleasant,
easy life at school. 1'n sports lie had
the hhemenjoyment of youth; in
books the discriminating delight of
age, At study or play he was ogee
ally contented. Isis masters could
make nothing of him. He had abil-
ity enough—"too much," one master
petulantly eastlplained, Ile was in-
dustrious too in his own way, but
of emulation or ambition he had not
a trace. Ito shied at the regular,
hard -beaten, dry track of school rou-
tine, lie loved to read on his own
CHAPTER XI.
Eva was loth to part with her
only son. He was nearly fifteen
years .before John Trevor—who was
now Judge Trevor—coaxed consent
from her for school. Harry did well
at Eton from the first. no was lik-
ed by piasters and by boys, for he
was, as the phrase went, 'good all
round," at books and games. Oneo
only was bullying tried with him,
Just after he came, and the experi-
ment was not repeated.
Ile had the unique distinction of
being chosen on the spool cricket
eleven only a few months after his
arrival. It so chepcai( that the cap-
tain, who liad a quiele rye for prom -
Cha A W. 'SHAH'S
CH M
ase
lc scat Street to the diseased
parts by the Improved Blower,
Beata the ulcers, cieas�aassthe air
throat andoPe permaanently cares
Catarrh and Hay Fever, Blower
free, All dealers, or Dr. A. 10, Chase
Medicine Co., Toronto and Buffala
ising material, was attracted by his
style. Ile found it a little old-fash-
ioned, but most effective. Harry
Trevor, he sate, could bit hard ani'
clean to every part of the field, and
his defence was impr•ogneblo as a
stone wall. Further experiments
proved that he could bowl as well
as bat, and his judgment and temper
were always to be relied upon.
So he quickly climbed up to the
second eleven, liis reputation growing
daily. It was still the beginning of
the cri0ket season, and practice was
hard and competition keen amongst
the young cricketers, for there was
last year's defeat by Harrow to be
wiped out.
A fortnight before this great event
a test match was played. It was a
perfect cricket day, The sun shone
unclouded from a blue sky on a green
earth. The crease was level as a
a
an
Hes
Erysi
las
Two Severe Oases Which Illustrate the Fxtraordln.
ary Soothing', Healing Virtues of
Da. G'ASE'S OINTMENT.
Scores of people no not think of
'trying Dr, Chase's Ointment for
bleeding piles because they have us-
ed so many other treatments in vain
arid (lo not believe their ailment
°arable. It is by curing when others
fail that Dr, ,Chase's Olntinent hat
won Well a record for itself. It
will not fail 'to promptly relieve and
eorupletely cure any form of piles,
to matter bow severe or of how
long standing,
Mr. ;tamest 011(111 rye,. R'at'io Jos-
eph, U,uysboro11gh Co., N,S,, writes :
e was bad with bleeding piles for
about roar yoars and could get no
help. Dr, Chase's 0.intment cured
Me in a very chem time, and L can-
not .praise it too highly for this
10100. 14119. Thomas 511rit11 was
troubldll with erysipelas In the feet
foist logs and wes all 8(erelle1 up, I
gave her some 01 the Ointment
whfrll took out the swellingand
heeled h r
cd aS1, the sures. She had tried
•nttt1t' tiedatfnentla ,before, but none.
seemed to do her any good. 1 am
telling rey friends about the w,oatder-
ful cures which lir, Chase's Oint-
ment made for Ails, Smith sed my-
self, and would say that it is o111y a
pleasure for no to recommend so
excellent a prtp,tratdof,"
Wher'ove' the.'o is Irritation, in-
flammation, ulceration or itching of
tho skin Dr. Cheat's Ointment will
bring quidk relief and willultimately
heal and cure. On this account it
is useAul 111 scores of ways in every
home for tho cure of eczema, salt
theume tatter, scald 'teed, ahaflalg,
itching peculiar to women, pin
warms, piles and ail sorts of skin
diseases and 0nlrpt10r10,
Dr. Chase's Ointment, (ill 00015 a
box, at all cicalors, or P'dntanson,.
Bates & Company, Toronto. 'Po.
protect yqu against, imitations the
portrait cad signature of lir, A. W. he
Chase, ether famous receipt hook nu- "x
Geer,' are 0411 every boar of his room- fry
dins. •bo
were quite powerless to save a luekless
nm
bats° from that numbing shock,
To -day Samson meant to do more
thee his ,best. Some instlncL told
him it was a duel to the death with
the cool, flaxen-pated boy, who, rest-
ing lightly on his bat, Wailed im-
perturbably for the flying ball, For
a boy to drop from his place on the
eleven to rho common ruck was like
Adam expelled from Paradise—like
Lucifer driven headlong from Heaven.
No wonder Jack Samson nerved him-
self for the struggle,
^'Play!" cried the umpire. Tho
bowler took three quick strides to
the wicket and swung his long arm
like a pendulum. The ball flashed
down the crease, straight for the
centre stump. But the batsman was
ready, Oyes and judgment, nerves and
=solo acting together in that 1010-
uta fraction of a second. The push
of a straight bat met the furious ball
as it rose from the sward, and tam-
ed by the touch it rolled back softly
to the bowler's bands,
"Played, sir!" rang out over the
ground from a hundred shrill 'Dices,
The next ball went past the wick-
et, fast and low, a foot to the off.
It just glanced from the wicket -
keeper's glove es it went, and a
"leg -bye" for four was the result.
The third was to leg, pitched' a
shade too far. With a quick swing
the bat caught It on the "half vol-
ley" as it rose. The muscles of
arms, back and legs, every ounce of
strength in young Trevor's body,
was in the stroke. The sound was
clean and sharp as a rifle shot. hard
and low the ball flew at right angles
to the wicket, clear of the fielders,
crash in amongst a group of specta-
tors that sat far out on the field,
and broke and scattered like a flock
of fluttered wild duck as it carne.
"Well hit! well lift! A sixes! Run
it out!" clamoured the crowd of
boys, and the triumph of the tumult
thrilled young Trevor with the uu-
reasoning delight of youth.
With the bowler's temper his skill
wont. The cool young batsman pun-
ished the wild bowling without
mercy. Now a sharp cut, now a
clean drive, kept the figures con-
stantly changing on the telegraph
board. Poor Jack was put oil' bowl-
ing in disgrace, When Trevor even-
tually carried out his bat for one
hundred and seventeen, scored with-
out a fault, leis place on the eleven
was assured.
His triumph filled him full of the
pure, exhilirating joy of boyhood,
which no triumph of after life can
rival, Yet all tho time he was con-
scious of a second self, that smiled
with good-humoured amusement at
his transports.
Passing with the throng of boys
into the schoolroom, he was roughly
jostled and almost thrown, and,
turning sharply round, found San-
son -close to him, his face blazing
with passion. Boys can hate with a
It comes natural to hum. Ho lights
because he wants to—with reason or
without it. Sainson's jostle was a
challenge. For just a second Trevor
seemed to hesitate, half annoyed,
half amused at the incident. "it's a
nuisance," he muttered to himself,
"but I suppose it must be gone
through with." Then to the scow-
ling Samson he whispered, "All
right. I'm ready any time you
please."
So the challenge was given and
accepted. Like wildfire the news
went about that there was to be a
fight between Jack Sanson and the
new boy,—"the chap that hit .lack's
bowling all over the Held, you ':now,
and got his place on tite eleven." At
school the news of a light is always
good news, whatever bo the cases
belli, and whoever the combatants.
Sonne few cricket devotees there 1001,0 0cs'ount the old books in literature
who thought the school eleven a end the naw bonks in science. As
thing too sacred to bo the theme of the srhool phrase goes, 10 never "did
list cull's, but they wore a miserable himself justice" at the examinatiohs,
minority from the first, and their and wns chee'fuily content to see
scruples were speedily absorbed and
lost in the general enthusiasm.
Call it by what name ,you will, the
innate ]roman savagery which rejoic-
es in hurt or danger was at work
amongst them. This same spirit sot RESTORATION OF CIIALIMLIA,
the gladiators to kill for the public
amusement at tin Colosseum, and
that made professional pugilism so
popular in bferrie England in the
good old days. There is no pro'
fessional pugilism, of course, in the
humane and enlightened England of
our 11010• Men wear "two ounce"
boxing -gloves, according to law, and
beat each of to a jelly, and "put
each other to sleep" as the pretty
phrase is—a sleep iron which ft is
often hail to waken them, and frau
which sometimes they never waken
at all. ' But this is "sport" and of
all sports the most exciting and the
most popular in eulighte>aod Eng -
Let us get back to the only fight
this story has to do with, The
two boys met tho next day in a
secluded 00010r Of the play -ground
stripped to the waist and eager for
battle. For it ring tl ere 000 a
closely packed cfrom of young bodies
and eager young friers, Amongst the
(mowing Ones Jack Sanson Was 1.50
favorite. He was a year older and
1.110 inches taller than his Opponent,
and his strong arms had made hila
victor lir ninny a similar encounter,
But, young Trevor, clean -Method
and sgnalv'-shottlderetl, full of vigor -
vi silify,
igor-
vitnli(,u', was lard to heat, els- The
the prizes all go to his friends,
(To be Continued,)
Sir William Willcocks, late director-
general of the irrigation works of
Egypt, draws it brilliant picture of
the possible future of the ancient
land of Chaldea, once one of the
111 ()St fertile and populous in tine
world, but now a desert. The Tigris
lie says, one0 performed, and can
again perform, for Chaldea the same
functious as the Nile for Egypt.
Opts, at one time the wealthiest
'Mart of the East, but at present a
mound 0f ruins, bears to the Tigris
delta very neich the some relation
AA that of Cairo to the delta of the
Nile. At an expense of alrobt 4'00,-
000,000
90;000,000 the' ancient irrigation sys-
tem could be restored, and O11aldca
would become as rich a country as
Egypt, which, 80 ,years hence, he
predicts, will attain a height of
splendor and magnificence surpassing
Bs greatness iu the days of the
Pharaohs.
ef, •li, ITobneycr, for many years
lemler 0! the 'Dutch party in Cape
(felony, has retired from political
life.
I roner (lrattan a.h•left Coven-,
quietly Euro;t his opponent, young hagrn recently with a little wooden
peril of the rfrp 00tieed the pore Church recul,y for immediate use, 10
gatu'd that covered force and t be erected At. Angmasulik (Green-
fly, 10)1x1),
xjOt �� Bp1�4 9� (occasionally a Bale 1(10(1 plaster' is
by a�` 'Ava. added. After repeated shovelings the
E
w�l }.�
put, is reduced to a dry pulverized
Fi),,[111 Inlays, wl'ticit ran be readily bandied,
It isusedwilstoIliOT�! !
010.110111 anif gardt>n. At the
tiled, the weaker trees, which him
neon previously marked, have 11 pail-
ful of the nla.elu'e scattered about
1(101j' base and well raked in in (laxly
spring, 1^fol' pet/lion a pailful of
11111)10.0 le distributed to erten 100
fent of drill. In strawberry beds, a
handful of the fertilizer is scattered
around each hill and a Similar quan-
tity of unloached wood ashes aro
applied later. For corn, nielo.ns and
squashes, a small amount Is put in
moll hill at the time of planting,
HOW TO USP A OURRY00M.11.
POULl1'ItY ON 'I'111e FARM.
1•`uemer•s who adopt the Improved
breeds of poultry, as they du the
improved !mode of stock, malco the
Poultry more profitable and success-
ful.
in the farm yards scattered
through the country there may be
found many lino speelmens of the do-
mestic fowl. Formers have in 10011,5
in •tunes bean liberal patrons of the
Miley breeder—so that in these
yards may be found a good sprink-
ling of thoroughbreds, In these cas-
es it is a good plan to cull out your
birds carefully as to color and 5150,
or ill shaped. Even if this does re-
duce your flock it will pay you in
the end.
1f market poultry is chiefly de-
sired, begin by killing ail' all two-
year-old birds, Discard also all of
the tato (latched stock as breeding
from these tends to decrease the size
of your stock. Suffer none to live
that is In any way doh -waled. De-
formities aro' frequently transmitted,
and it is especially important that
the parent birds be free from them.
Too often the only thing a farmer
does towards selecting breeders, is
to obtain two or three big roasters,
size being their only merit, But it
is more important that they have
vigorous constitutions, symmetrical
forms, right color of skin and plum -
ago.
If the fowls the fanner has on
hand are of largo size, and it is 'de-
sired to improve their laying quali-
ties, we would recommend the pur-
chase of pure Leghorn (white or
brown as fancy dictates)—cock
(yearling) to mato with pullets and
cockerels to mate with yearling fe-
males. Or, if the size is to be in-
creased, Brahma blood will do the
work elTectually.
Thus by a judicious. selection of
females and the use of thoroughbred
males, as the occasion may require,
the farmer will see a decided change
in his flock for the better from year
to year.
Sulphur should always be fed spar-
ingly.
A cockerel' mated to large liens
usually gives largo and vigorous
chickens.
Poultry will fatten faster on cook-
ed food than on raw, because it is
more easily digested.
Do not continue to inbreed poul-
try too long, as the stock will de-
crease in size, standard, and value.
The fowls should never be so close-
ly confined that they cannot take
sutlicient exercise to promote diges-
tion.
THINGS INJURIOUS TO HOGS.
There are a number of common
things not usually suspected of being
injurious that are in reality fraught
with danger to swine. While, for
instance, salt may be given to hogs
in fair quantities with impunity and
the saute may be said of saltpeter, it
is a fact that brine proves deadly
when thrown into swill barrel or
kitchen slop. Tho exact reason for
this 18 unknown, but there is some-
thing deadly about the combination
that surely sets up hnflmmmation of
bowels and fatal enteritis. This is
also true of kitchen slop 10 some in-
stance, In the -old clays it was a
noninjurious custom to feed dishwa-
ter to swine, but of late, since 50ap
powders came into use, this cannot
be done with impunity and indeed
has often led to rho most fatal re-
sults. hotel and restau'ant swill
is the most dangerous and those who
remove refuse from such places should
always make sure that soap pow-
ders are not used. Tho importance
of so doing is emphasized by the fact
that wo have known of several dead-
ly outbreaks of so-called cholera or
swine plague which proved to be en-
teritis, due to tho poison in city
swill. We note, too, that an Eng-
lish writer claims that the water in
which potatoes have been boiled is
quite injurious to young pigs. The
potato belongs to rho order Solan-
areae (1nd co11ta1118 an active poison
lcnowu as Solattin. This is largely
found in the skins of ran -groomed po-
tatoes anti these should be avoided
as food for man and boast alike,
'P'his writer also melee a statenlent
which is new to us in some respects,
but possible true. Ho says: "Milk
in one stage of putrefaction is ex-
ceedingly dangerous, Ordinary sour
mill°—'this is one of the best foods—
but when skim mill: in bulk there
comes a tim0 when mills sugar de-
velops oxalic acid (one of whose chief
elements is sugar), while fermenta-
tion in 111co 1n11ne' develops a form
of alcohol, the combination of raw
spirit and a powerful acid proving
very deadly, even a small quantity
generally causing death almost di-
rectly." We 'do not at this writing
know that, rho assertions made hero
about oxalic acid, etc,, aro correct
but it is a fact that slop front Old,
sour, stinking swill barrels does
prove injurious, although owners clo
not attribute the trouble to this
cause. Allot:tier very common source
of (ranger is medicine,
POULTRY MANURE.
If a curryeomb must bo used have
the smoothest one that can lie found,
and use it but sparingly. In the
hands of solno droit the currycomb is
a barbarous instrurnellt of torture,
Applied with a long, sweeping mo-
tion, without regard to the shape of
the body or the evenness with which
it Is held, will make a poor animal
shrink and shiver, The skin is often
seriously hurt by the angles of the
comb when carelessly and heavily
handled, A short notion, back and
forth, does the work more effectively
and humanely than the severe appli-
cation of the comb 'described. The
horse will not dislike it if ho finds
h0 is not hurt,
13ITE Ole A PIG.
It is a remarkable fact that the
bite of the pig is more clangorous
than that of any of our ftum ani-
mals. Why this is so is not easily
accounted for: but the fact stili re-
mains that injuries inflicted by pigs
take a 11liecll longer time to heal
than those, say, inflicted by horses
and dogs, However, wounds inflict-
ed by swine aro of rather rare oc-
currence,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Some Interesting Miscellaneous
Paragraphs.
Ono -half the time of Count Tolstoy
is devoted to answering, letters and
receiving visitors.
Walther Kuntz°, of Iiallo, Germany,
who has been deaf and dumb from
Ids birth in 1809, has taken out the
degree of doctor of philosophy at the
Leipzig University.
(tome has a water su-rply of 200,-
000,000 gallons a day, London only
100,000,000 and Paris 90,000,000.
The average daily consumption of
Greater New York is about 400,000,-
000 gallons.
Jules Verne, the French novelist,
whose health has lately been import-
ed as failing rapidly, is to have a
cataract removed from ono of his
eyes. He ]topes to be able to resume
his writing,
W. C. Whiting, of Iowa, is a believ-
er in the promotion of agriculture.
Ho has giver to Ames College a
silver` and onyx trophy, which is to
be awarded annually for seventy-five
years, for the best results in corn
growing.
August Wilholmj, father of the
famous violinist of the same 118.1110,
recently celebrated his ninetieth birth-
day. Ilo was a frienc] of Liszt,
Wagner, Von Ilulow, Raft, Rubinstoht
and other great 0001p0sers and vir-
tuosi, and be plays the violin him-
self.
Princess Ferdinand, of Roumania,
is said to be an excellent violinist.
Iter talent is doubtless inherited
from her father, the late Duke of
Coburg, who was devoted to music,
tier pet hobby, like that of the late
Empress of Russia, is said to bo the
collecting of perfumery betties.
The famous clock tower of Chart-
ers cathedral has just been success-
fully restored. For ninny years it
had been crumbling, and a fear was
entertained that it would fall, like
the Campanlio of Venice. The tow-
er dates from the end of the twelfth
century. It Is 8411 feet high.
Tho Gorman Raiser's belief in the
value of public display is shorn in
tho anrouncemant that the Berlin
Ticrgarten is soon to have fourteen
new monuments. His influence for
the erection of public monuments has
had a pronounced effect in Clermany,
.Among the famous mei to bo com-
memorated in the new status oro
Moltko, (loon. 'Wagner, Haydn, Mo-
zart, Beethoven, Helmholtz, Zeller,
and Blumenthal.
In ono of rho harness rooms at
Sandringham, Bing Edward's coun-
try seat, is a row of polished hoofs,
each with a horse's name inscribed
upon it. These are relics of favorite
'torsos of the fling's ani' Queen's,
Their majesties also have favorite
dogs, it seems, and, although icing
Edward has not gone to the length
of Frederick the Creel of Prussia,
wino gave his dogs elaborate inter-
ment: at Sans Solid, there is at
Sandringham one stone, bearing the
inscription: "To the memory of dear
old Rover•"
Lord Roberts Will 1:e unable '1.0 vis-
it the United States this fall, IIis
change of plat is necessitated by the
postponement of the Brritish array
manoeuvres until the middle of Sep-
tember and by the sittatiOn fn Som -
aloud, which demands attention. It
18 interesting that yeat•s ago Lord
Roberts chose the figure of a High -
lender for one of the supporters of
his coat -of -arms. The reason is
that Ilighlanders have hell pl'omin-
Too ninny farmers fall to realize ant ports in all his campaigns, from
the importance of properly pl'eserv- the siege of (lawnpore.
ing and disposing of hen manure. Of There has arisen in Germany a
ten it is wastoflllly thrown away or movement directed against the
scattered so thickly that it becomes 'drinking song"— against "the naso
it detriment to growth rather than as a handmaid of alcohol." TPfe
an aid, or !t is stored in barrels, society that has taken this ground
where through the process of heating claims that melt inrtempere:leo 15
much of .Its fertilizing value is 'de- caused by (blinking songs, which
strayed, The method of taxing for paint tlie'joys of the wine cup so
and using t.hl's valuable fertilizer put- brightly. Another"recent motvemont
stied by 141x. Nat, M. Nor011us, is a in Germany Is that Of the "Nature
ve'y good one, :aid may be adopted Men," (0110 ileo 01(1 O1 00ot'.9 nearly
with. profit by (armors o` poultry- alt the tune anI wens v}rtually 710
rnrm. clothinrg.
Its apostle, 14(101110 Nagel,
3•he alimeings from tine henhouse line a loud but of the 011hl lrtf of
are pl11 in 0 smell covered stied. As Berlin, He ha.s wen 90(10 nay cone
lhe pile ,grows large 11 begins to vont, lint, alasf lie lolls his pltoto-
heat, It is kl4pe shoveled over and graphs,
GJIl BLRLAIN A MAN
PEN PICIVRE 011' THE COLON.,
IAL SECRETARY.
Growing in Knowledge of the Eine
piro's Value and His Coun-
try's Needs,
An interesting feature of the fiscal
controversy in Great Britain is the
ago of the coutroversialiste wrltee
G. S. Street in the London Time.
Mr, Clhiclnberlein, 0110 18 (37, is a
proof, if one were needed, that years
do not nocoasarily impair the power
of mental acquisition, of recognizing
and profiting by facts 'rankly
brought to a man's notice, But it
is certainly the oxceptiolt, andit is
curious to note that so far his chief
opponents have been men stricken in
years, Lord Goschen and Sir 141,
Molts -Beath, the two redoubtable ex~
Chancellors whose authority is so
formidable, aro 73 and 00 respective'•
ly. Mr. Ritchie is 05. Sir henry
Campbell-Baluiorman is (36, and Sir
William Harcourt is 75. It is not
unnatural then, that wo should hoar
so much in the "what was good
enough for Bright end Cobden is
good enough for us" strain. It is 11
sort of conservatism on which our
people has always cast a kindly and
tolerant .(ye. A reflection or two
occur to ate. Ono is that politics
Can hardly be so exacting a trade as
in our gratitude to politicians we
are apt to assufne, and the other is
that, where so many elderly gentle-
men hold the field, ability in the
younger mon cannot be overwhelm-
ing.
CHAMBERLAIN THP GREAT.
Mr. Chamberlain is 137. I often
think that his admirers miss what is
most remarkable in trim. His
opponents, of course, say this and
that of him— that he is a firebrand,
an intriguer, a Jeroboam, and so
forth—though the more honest of
them, like Lord Rosebery, admit his
capacity, in general terms. But his
friends are generally content with
insisting on his business talents, his
fighting strength, his indomitable in-
dustry, or at the most credit him
vaguely with Imperial statesman-
ship. These qualities are perhaps
the most valuable for his country
that can be predicted of him, But
I think it a pity to miss the fact
that this shrewd, Incisive, plain -deal-
ing man of affairs is essentially by
far the most romantic figure in Bri-
tish politics since Disraeli. And 11
one places his training aid his early
history by • the side of his later
career and present position, does it
seem that even Disraolf's life offers
a contrast more notable and more
interesting ? A man bred in par-
ochial Radicalism comes from busi-
ness competition and municipal poli-
tics to affairs of state, cones with
his narrow Radical creed within
him, and joins himself to his like,
Years go by and the same mat,
eager, acquisitive of truth, seeing
for himself what Englishmen have
done outside of England, mixing
w'iLit those workers and grasping
their ideas, begins when well in his
middle age to break through tate
trammels of a rigid, class, parochial
creed and to give himself singly to
the service of a great idea, so that
now, years later still, at 07, ho is
found the one responsible statesmen
in this country who has the courage
to stake his reputation on a policy,
which he is not alone in thinning
necessary to avert a great clanger
and make sure a great heritage, but
which of its nature is hard to make
clear to his unthinking eottntry'mon,
and the one English statesman to
whom Britons boyoid the seas look
with !tope and sympathy.
11'311 IS No SNLP s11 11EIZ.
To call such a man self-seolcing,
awl to doubt his patriotism, seems
to oto less malignant than stupid;
there is more intuition in the popu-
lar sympathy which more or loss
consciously recognizes in Mr. Cham-
berlain the one of Dur statesmen,
who, having seen that a risk is ne-
cessary, has had the courage to ruri
it. Not to see the intellectual ro-
111005e M' such a career is to con-
found realities with their trappings.
I an tempted in conclusion to of-
for
ffor a, reflection to those "inteileetn-
als"-I count many among my a.e-
quaintatres—to whom tho whole idea
of empire is distasteful. Phey as-
sociate it with nei00 and fury and
11awisdom; they believe it inimical Lo
thought and art and peaceful pro -
gross, and, when they recoguivo that
the alternative for us is an island
Belgium, they aro 0onteet wit11 the
prospect. 1 do not happen to em-
pathize with tho,n, 'Their, are eet•-
tndn faults in the contemporary An-
glo-Saxon character which it is dif-
ficult 1101 to admit; it is often un-
kindly and in the true sense in0ran.,
choly, suspicions of ideas anti in.
t.ellcat, socially uncivilized in that
its theory of intercourse is compe-
titive eibd not sympatholle, ecru's° fu
its exaggerated pursuit of money,
0111 undignified in its trcat:meet- Of
tho frequently offensive rich.
131SA131Nt} 1ZL1VItH.Sh:fi,
As a dile women bear fortune's
reverses butter than men. A wonrtn
pol'fOrnls little tidy of Self-denial as
a matter of 50110901 she gii'os up her
Owen personal luxuries, of even ileee0-
series without comment or 00111-
plalat; therefore her deeds of 1 10el-
ffshnoss often escape 001(00. The
average roan cannot bit this, Ho
may relinquish some big th•i.ng with-
out a growl; his emu/1101 In a great
ren,unctat,on may bo clia'alle'lzed by,
trio same exemplary patience which
marks women at Such a tints but.,
should the Sting of Ulnaceusto ted
poverty be 80 severe es to take front
hint any of the trifles which he treats
as a matter of course, be becomes
morose, enidhis temper sefle•s ((r,
.consequence.
On the Aretdd eoaei. hnsali, wns 011 -
served extending, with interruptions,
front dont Peninsula almost to the
Coppermine Meer, Neat' Lewis 1s-
lanl, hi Bathurst Inlet, is a bed of
limestone, 16 foot t'idok, tuiderledng
hnselt, As no fossils Were found in
the Ii11r0Sttrlt0 its age cont! not be dw
te'mittetly
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