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GILOOTEff XIV. tat the oulekness ond accuracy of his
For five weeks longer the drawn, of "0a1let:11°a. "You were tried at
elayeo itself out placidly ot the Old Bailey for killing. your
Latello. To all outward seeing, 1111141.''
ibiery .Trevor and Lucy reverted to "ln a drunk, Judge, I ditin't go
their Old, famine!. Iodations with r" to 1:111 her. She wor kicked end
never a hint 011 either side of his Imaton worse than that many a time
passionate outburst, of love, But before, and she worried over it all
she was shy of being atom with him,
and more tolerant Gum befotie of the
open, persistent eourtship of Colonel
Wielthaan,
Jeannette and Ardel enjoyed theia-
selves in the frunk, free fashion of
boy arid girl with just that piquant
flavor of Mae -making whieli makes
inerry-nuelting so 11181111101 ing.
N ow e eat again .1 mullet e would
cmt admit Ing, glances on the play -
01 her !moth, and coax "leery
to join 111 tho excursions by land or
wean*. But sho always found, how-
ever much slutried to hide the feel-
ing from herself, thnt their excur-
sioue wen, tho 11011111 front his ato
sence. Harry, for his part, seemed
woll content to bo alone in the
woods, or on the river. soothnig his
love with Nano -ear loveliness, or
pondering moodily on the perplexing
problem of his life.
Then suddenly, and without warn-
ing, the event occurred which broke
up this peaceful life, absorbiog all
other thoughte and feelings in one
overmastering 'horror.
It cbancod one sunny afternoon tioning the other to be seated. But
Judge Trevor was hard at work in the 'man still stood in front of bim
his study, while Eva, who loved to humbly, with drooping shoulders and
be with him. even in silent coalman- shuillinff feet.
ionshop, sat still as a mouse in the "111 be as quick as I ran," the
eost, cushions of a great chair; not man saicl humbly. "You eaut belp
so absorbed in her book but she stole 010• Judge. 'lite very sight of you
a' look now and again at her hos_ is a help to me.. Many and many a.
band as he worked with persistent time I thought of you with a bless -
vigor. ing during the long fourteen years,
The morning had been dull, but the when my hands wore aching front the
clouds passed with midday, and sun- oakum, or my knees from the tread -
shine flooded the air. mill; and it cheered me to feel I'
There was a sudden chill and dark- would one day stand before you, as
ening of the room. Trevor raised I do now, and thank you for it all.
his eyes, and right, opposite him, on Do you remember the wicked words
the oblong patch or sunlight on the I spoke when last we met, fourteen
wall paper, im saw the black sha- years ago?"
dow of a, maa, with hand raieed to "I only remember that you were in
the Mstoning of the French window a flerce rags."
that opened from the room into the '`I can remember every word of it.
garden. I swore by•God that day if ever I
Turning sharply, he faced the in- left prison alive I would pay you
truder, who instantly raised his cap oat."
with a deprecating gesture. Trevor "Don't trouble about that now.
wog not unused to such visits. It my man. I bear no malice. 111
Wan a. hobby of his to help the pris- help you to employment, if I can.
oilers whom he had been compelled Meanwhile, a little naonoy will be
to sentence when they had shown any useful."
desire to go straight after their re- Ile swung round on bis office chair
kase. Many of them had got from and fitted a Itey to tho desk ciravver
him the chance at last of an honest where his loose cash was kept.
livelihood, and took it. As be op- "I don't want your money," the
ened tho glass door to let this man mau said, coming a step closer, and
pass, the Judge's quick eye recogniz- sIiltping his hand into the bosom of
ed him at once by the slouching his coat, while Ms voice sank to a
walk and close -cropped hair as a low, purring whisper. "I'm not
newly liberated jail bird. He was coming here any more. The thought
not so quick to recognize face or of you etul what you did for me has
figure, though instantly conscious of been in ray heart those fourteen
having seen the man before, years of hell upon eartb. I've come
Middle-sized a.ncl middle-aged, he to pay you back and give you what
looked still strong and active, in you've earned. Damn you!"
spite of slouch and limp. leis The purring Whinier broke off in an
clothes were a shabby -genteel smooth angry snarl. Before Trevor could
black cloth, and his oande, as oe turn his head, a long knife gleamed
drew off the cotton gloves and folded base in the sunsbine.
them into a ball, though coarse and But, quick OS the mon wag, there
large, were scrupulously clean. On was ono before. hilu. With a wild
his egg-shaped head the coarse black arY• Eva sprang between her hus-
hair, just grizzled with white, was band and the murderer, pushing him
cut close to the skin, His face %vita back with feeble hands. Tho raging °di and waited, One, two, three long
a puzzle—a wide, rugged cruel wild imam: was awake in the men, minutes John Trevor watchnl the
mouth, rough with brokeit teeth, like
a gap cut in his bead by the gash of
a hatchet, belied the soft, perseerive
almost obsequious—look in his ;treat
black eyes, His soft voice 'was not
less persuasive than his soft eyes.
"I came to thank you Judge Tee -
Trevor shook his head. "I seem from the lawn, broke into the mein, "Come closer," she Immured; "I
vor, You don't know me, ray lora?"
to remember your 1ace-1 seldom for- Ardei was first, and Lae wildebeent want to be quite sure you are safe."
She fondled Gm hand be gave her
get a face. I have seen you before; at bay Unmet on him with bloody
grip.
I cannot. troll tell when or where." knife as be came. But Ardel with both her oven. "1 ant leaving
"Try again, Judge. You ought pod his arins in a grasp of iron, You at last, John. I feel it in my
heart; I see it in your face, I 1101
leaving emit. Wo have hail 0. huppy
time in ibis world, dear; no man
and woman happier, 1 bave many
Ohio to sny to you before I go."
I "Will 11 hurt her to speak?' ho
whispered aside to Harry, who shook
his head; and, touching Arders shout -
der, they drew back to the far end
of the room, leaving those two anon
for the last time on earth.
Slowly tho long day passed.
Jeannette, masterieg her tears for
a moment, kissed the loved face ten-
derly; then instantly fled from the
room and fell weeping, 'broken-heart-
ed, Minikes 01 Ardel's stammering
attempt at comfort.
Dr. Bartley came, and shook his
bead, and departed, a little aggriev-
ed at Harry Trevor's quiet assump-,
don of control.
The police came, too, and with
them a magistrate, who spoke about
the ends of justice and a dying dee
position. 13ut again young PreVor
quietly put his restless importunit•ies
aside.
"Abundant evidenee will be forth-
coming When it Is needed," ho said.
"You would not surely rob her of
the few hours of life the murderer's
knife has spared? III.IL ,you will mod
no evidenee,"—pointed to the maim-
e'd wretch the police hnd lifted upon
O hurdle—"there is death in his Mee;
he Will never livo to be banged,"
So throtigh all tho 'city ho guarded
tho peace Of the room. where tho dy-
iuig wman lay, and can hour, tvith
a few drops of the strong potioo, be
roltinclied tho flickering life in her,
while she thanked 111111 with a smile
and a pressure of the hand, growleg
hourly more kettle.
For • the rest he kept in the back-
groend, leaving the place by the
eolith to the others,
The hours crept on—Eva Tretmes
last 110111.8 on earth, faloWly the
light faded out ttf the 11ee51, and the
eeening cloeed upon them, end the
elletnins were &waft, end the Wax
tatters kindled in the room
ing iui tile Arms of her husband, who
stood awl etared with emelt11 oyes,
dased by sudden horror, Eva Idecie
ono pitiful effort to 51131 111 and spent:
comfoet to him, but tho rod blood
'bubbled at luit• lips, choking her
yoke. Her Mee wont deadly white,
her eyes closed softly, the lids quiv-
veing, atui her body 10.3• limp in ber
husband's aims.
"Is She dead?" he whispet•oci
hoarsely, only half realizing It 4)11011
yet.
Tho younger man, taiga resolute,
mini, though every nerve tingled,
stood sileut for a otoanimt with fing-
er upon her pulse and oyes on her
rano.
"Ilo; not yet." The words Reputed
forced front biro, "Let Its lift her to
that couch; eoftly, eoftly—a jar Is
meta. LSM, (1111(1 11111 0110 11114 110111 111711(11,
1111111, is a horrid, had case: The NVOtind haa hardly bled at all;
only cote round, dark stain showed
ana fine)1 ton bob. You gave 11117
on the bosom of her pale grey dress,
fourteen years, Judge; for Illy earn
good, yott seid. The fourteen years But too well those koon oyes and
that skilled touch divined the intern-
is Just up, and I'm come to thank.
at bleeding that was draining her life
you for what you done for 11111,"
Ile almoet grovelled before the aweja
judge in the excess of his gratitude. there no holm?" the hilsband
gain wbispered bumbly, as to the
Again Trevor had a sudden recol- a
master of life and death.
lection of the time when he had last
seen this gentle, pentiteut-looking The gloomy oyes raised to his
man. Then it was a fierce, wild Were his anSWer. 31 did not need
beast, black eyes blazing, strong the despairing word, "None."
hands dinging to the bars of the After his tierce effort of vengeance,
Vivian Ardel stood panting and glee -
dock, coarse voice yelling curses and
ing with blazing eyes upon his prey,
vengeance as they tore hint away.
as though be longed to tear the sa.V-
The Judge smiled to himself at the
thought of the beneficent cha.nge the nen to pieces with naked hands,
prison 'discipline had wrought. But when his eyes turned to where
"I did only my duty," he said. "It Eva lay, and ho heard young Tro-
wels a sharp sentence, l'm glad you Tor's' despairing whisper, suddenly
have come to take i1 in that spirit, his mood cbanged, lle flung himself
orx his knees beside the 3041011, his
If I can help you to begin life again,
whole body shaken with grief.
I will be glad. Only bo gittek about
it, for Ian very busy. What can 1 Slowly clown tho husband's face
do for you?" the merciful tears coursed. But; for
Ile 'dropped back in his chair, ma. Harry Trevor's deep sorrow, for his
stinging remorse, there was no relief
in tears, The instinct of the physi-
cian to saVe or soothe triumpbed for
the moment over buman weakness,
and instinctively' the other two leant
coi his strength for comfort anti coun-
sel.
"Fling open the window," he said
to Ardel; "the 5111118111110 and air are
good for her. Lift out that carrion;
it poisons the room."
"How long?" the husband whisp-
ered to him again with whito lips,
so feebly the faint words hardly stir-
red the ale,
"Twenty-four hours is -the utmost
limit that human science call stretch
her life."
"Not in pain, Harry; not in pain.
I would not have her linger, even for
an hour, in pain."
"There will bo no pain. That, at
least, in nny event I can ensure."
"Most she pass away from us un-
conscious, without a word of smile
at parting?"
"It is not best so? Sho dies with -
°lit the knowledge of death. or the
fear. 1311t I can give her back con-
sciousness its a momont. You know
her best and longest; it, is for you
to say."
"May God direct me rightly. I
choose as she would choose herself --
conscious lite and Jove to the last."
"But tho fear of death which we
anny spare her?"
"She bas no fear of death, Harry;
or fears it only as a brief parting
from those she loves."
oThe choice is yours, remember,
not mine. Put your hands to this
cushion. Softly, softly. Hold her
head just as it is now. The slight-
est motion may be dangerous. I
will return in an instant."
From the small glass which he car-
ried back with him he let ten drops
of a clear, amber -colored fluid trickle
slowly through the pale, halp-parted
lips, on which the blood -stain show -
Re struck fiercely at the NVOInan. The white faro and Saw no change, Then
keen point, entering between her slow1Y a faint color wermed her
cheek, and at once softly, as to a
breaets, went home to the hilt, and
she fell into the arms of her hos- flower's petal in the M114111110, the
band. Mad with rage, the murderer oYes unclosed.
raised the dripping red knifil to Her feeble glance wandering a lit-
tle found her busbancl's face, and
strike again, when /111(141 and Harry
Csevor, drawn by Frees wild er restoci there with unutterable love,
to remember, You gave me four-
teen years' penal servitude once on a.
time. I was a young man then,
but surely there is something left of
mo still to swear by. Don't you
remember Jake Curzon, my lord?"
The memory of the man came back
to Trevor like a flash at the men-
tion of the name.
"Yes, yes," be replied, a little vain
raised and hurled him with tremend-
ous force to the furthest corner of
the roOln—a groaning mass of brok-
en 13011eS and blotters, with blood
welling from a deep wound in his
thigh that his own knife made as he
fell.
Without wasting word or thought
on that crushed carcass. Harry Tre-
vor turned to where leva lay droop-
edie
oL
Any Woeration, Eruption or Irritation of the Skin
is Curable by Pileans of
DrC
ase's
intm
There is no guessWork about the
results obtainable from Dr. Chase's
°lament.
With all medicines taken internal-
ly there is moro or less uneertatnty
as to the effect, because the eondition
may not be exactly as indicated byt
the symptoms, but if ,you have a, 3101e
er 140111131 and apply Dr. Chase'S
Ointment and heal it you ran nee
with your 0141) eyes the definite re-
sults.
It .is became of the certain results
accompanying the use of Dr. Chase's
Ointment Abet, this greet preparation
hos come to bo standard tho world
(Ivor.' Tr a, dealer offers you any
'other. Ointment, does.be do so on its
inertia, or does Ile not rather try *to
Make a solo by sayin(1 '"111131 111 JUSt
att good cm ler. Cameo's?"
As a matter of fact, Th. Chnses
01141111001 in 110511 SO universally mood
that few dealers think tef offering
tate/thing vise when 14. teire 1,41 Sought
t.
for eczema, salt rheum, old sores or
piles, There is scarcely a town, vil-
lage or side line in this whole land
but can point to some ease in which
Dr. Obase's Ointmeat has mode a
remarkable mare.
While this ointment is best known
on account of Its extraordinary sue -
vette in cueing the most torturing
ekin diseases and the most distress -
log forms 041 1)1108, it is also useful
in scores of ways in ovory home for
the cure of ecalds, bunts, wounds,
old sores, dialing, skin irritation,
sore feet, itimplee, rough skin and
everything* for which an antiseptic,
soothing treatment is totaled.
Dr, Cita-seat Ointment, 00 cents a
box, at all dealers, or Inamartson,
Pei os et Company, Toront 0. To
proteet ;you agnitint 311111 0114)1111 the
portrait and signature of Die A. 1Y,
Oh 1111,10141 ptVelpt 1,001, tte-
vhor, ore on every box of his tome.
Sho and been silent a little, with
eyelids droopeca—so eilent and so
still that they might havo thought
site slept; lint her lips still moved,
liS if in prayer,
"John, ' hlte whiepered, at last, "I
should like to speak to Harry for a
moment or two before 1
Ile rose as she spolte, moving soft-
ly to where ilarry Trevor stood with
bowed heed at 1112' filrthen1 emmer of
the room, Le totalled hint 011 the
ehoulder.
"Harry, your another would speak
with yott for a moment alone."
"With me?" tie seeme(1 surprised,
startled -0m might almost say
frighttmed—by the summons. But be
did not hesitate fur a moment.
Siu• t•atigla Ids hand and held it fts
he sat beside Iwo "Ilarry," she
said,' "I have been much troubled
about emu of bite,"
"1 am sorry," he 0111114111011 simply.
"You (WO tO ha pities, no1 blamed,"
slie said. "Love's eyes and ears are
keen, Haery, and I know more than
yell ever 11101in 1120 to know, Young
(144 you are, you have lost the hope
that brightens life and makes mien
death eboorful—the hope, the certain-
ty of nn. inuemetal We, to which
death is but the entrance."
"It is time," 1117 .14(11(1 softly; "but
why speak 011 1)16 at such a time. Let
me bear my owo Inti•theal as I may.
I aux not worthy of your pity or
your prayere.''
"I would fain help 3011 to lift the
burthen from your shoulders, Faith
is warmed to 1(1,' by prayer. There
was a time when Vivian Ardel was
as you are, But now—"
"Don't! don't t" Ile groaned out,
like one in midden pain. "Don't
speak of that, If you only kriew—if
1 dare tell you all. I often thoment
of telling' you, but shame bold 1110
Silent."
She pressed his hand again, with
pity in her eyes—pity and love.
"Not now," she said softly, "not
11014, Harry. I have dreamed there
nom some mystery in that sudden
cbange. I shall know all soon, when
I pass to the longer and brighter
lifei"
ce
Ifelt the contagion of herecenfi-
donee.
"You bo30 no fear—no doubt'?"
:Won°, So sure as I die I win
awaken to a new life. That to me is
more certain that I now touch your
hand, 'floe conviction is part of my-
self. Yon, too, believe, at least, in
a God, Harry—a Creator?"
"Who call, doubt it that bas senso
or reason, that can see and thiuk?
The proofs are everywhere."
"Can you believe the great God—
the good God who made the universe,
who made the beautiful world for us
to be happy in—would cheat mo in
this hope of Immortality, which He
1111115011 inspires, would cheat and.
lirni?,,
eit0e. poor buman soul that loves
i
Her face, even more than her
words, inspired in 11101 something of
the faith that filled her, and shone
breve and strong M her clear, true
eyes. She seemed from the grava's
edge, with spiritual eyes, to see tho
futere life of which she spoke.
His doubts shrank abashed before
such glorious eertairay. Faith kind-
led warm and bright in his heart,
putting chill, dint reason to shame.
"F,va," he Cohispered, ''praise God
and thank Him for me; I believe."
"Thutnk Oodl thenle God!" she noir-
inured, under her breath; "my last
care has passed: now indeed 1 Can
die in peace."
"Jobn," she whispered, presently,
He had retaken his place at boe side,
and she knew it, though her eyes
were closed. "I'm. growirig weary; I
want to sleep, Thc end cannot be
far off. Good-bye till I waken; toad
if I nerer waken, 1113' darling, good-
bye till We meet again. It may be
better so. My life has boon so hap-
py, it is hard to keen it even for a
happier."
The last words trailed away into
perfect stillness itt the room and she
slept.
They watched through the long
hours of the night, speaking seldom,
their oyes and thoughts with the
still figure oat tile couch that was
slipping so softly from the warm
cinsp of their affections into the
unknown,
The chill of the early dawn was in
the air and the windows showed
faintly luminous when Lucy stole
softly from her seat and blew tho
candles out and pat the eurtains
back, Foe a. little while 'the light
grew slowly, Then of 34. sudden tho
rosy 111101 or the sunrise Mini the
room, anti the birds broke out into
song.
The still figure oa the couch mov-
ed, 'file loving eyes sought his face
lovingly, the small band fluttered in
1115 with a feeble pressure.
"Clood-bye, Jobn;" she whisperecl,
"oely for a while;" and she slept
again, the sleep that knows no wak-
ing.
(To bo continued.).
NO "TAME" TXGMlls,
Or all wild animals trained for
menagerie and show purposes, not
one is as hard to conquer as the
tiger. Compared with the training
or nous and elephants, tine training
of a tiger is as the breaking in of a
vicious boarhottod, to the first les-
sens in etiquette of a chubby New-
foundlaod puppy. Even the most
expert; wild-anlinal trainers do not
care for the WOrk of "breaking". a
tiger. Not more then ono in ten
professional lion-tamees has tile
nerve to try Ins han(1 at the great,
ferocioliti,, striped cats, As a mat-
ter of fact, there is 1110 thiog
as a "UMW tiger." Fear and far
between there are instances where
the allinialS are shoWn an trained
arid broken in, hut the friendship of
the animal for the nattier who may
have befriended it foe enrs hangs at
the enel of. the eatio's whip, From
the day the accputintnnce is made to
the day man wed beast are separate.
the one ahn of Wiling the mam, mid
od there is et stealthy warfare be-
tween them, the etetlike stysoss of
the poodereals brute directed toWarde
the vigilanoo of the master ever
alert to fruatrato tnat pine,
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SELECTING SEED WHEAT,
As a rule farmers pay too
at ton tio a to alio item of seeming he
vory befit seed wheat, and short, un-
satisfaciory omits aro the resell,
writes Mr. W. AV. Stevens, In the
first place they aro not particulate
enough as to vadoty. In my Sec-
tion of tho country there awe proba-
bly Soine tivo 01. six different 113131
of Wheat that are loading varieties.
One farmer likes smooth manna beet.,
another boarded, some u. large beny
mot °tilers a small ones so hy the
time all are stated LakeS seveeal
kinds of wheat.
Tito first and most important item
in 'determining what kind of wheat
itow is the yield, If I make
nueney glowing wbeat 1 mitst get
considerably el.ove the yield of the
average grower, and this eannot be
done with a wheat Oust does I111l4
keep up a good evetage yield, one
year or season with another.
The bearded wheat may be a little
more disagreeable to work with than
entooth groin, but it should not be
cast aside 1111 is gone', to bring us
in the most 111011)334, 800110 wboats
give enornion0 yields good seasops,
but pour returns off seasons, so that
the averageyield does not run verY
higb. To determine tenet kind of
wheat is best for your locality road
soil, go arounii among your Deign-
bors, get the yields for all the differ
tint varieties grown and 'determine
which ans given the otost tottisfac-
tory returns.
There are 110114 varietiee being . in-
troduced all the while, and these,
ot• the most promising of them,
tabould be tetateel from time to time,
Watcb carefully the totas thot nee
made at your agricultural eXperi-
men Stati011., a.s their experinic•ots
are worth much to yon. When some
varieties give a yield mi 40 or 45
bushels per acre, while others, with
tho same treatment and on the Soule
soil, produce tort or 15 bushels, you
should get hold of the high yielding
sorts. You should always be on
the lookout for the best.
There is always some discussion as
to the amount of wheat that Should
be 801114/1 to the acre. This 'depends
'very largely on the condition of seed
used, as to its utility and its habit
of stooling, Some kinds of wheat
will throw Up a half 1105011 strong
stalks from each grain, -while others
svill produce probably half as many.
Seed Idlest should be tested, the
same as corn, and then seeded ac-
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corklingly,
TITO INCREASE IN BUTTER.
The amount of butter which can
be made from 1.00 pounds butter fat
was a question asked this lase.sou,
instructor' in butter reeking, at the
Massachusetts agricultural college,
at a, recent institute. 'IT' staid that
the increase in butter amounts to
10 to 15 per cent. and dopenas large-
ly upon the amount of water omit
can incorporate in butter. This de-
pends on the temperature of the
cream at churning time, the length
of time of operating the churn, the
temperature of the wesh water, and
the amount of working which the
butter receives. If you work hard
butter yeu will squeeze out more
water., Theoretically one should
churn at, a high temporatueo and
cool the butter quicitly, in order to
make it 'weigh well.
Best results are obtained from
churoing the crea11111 at about 55
'degrees and having the WaSh water
about 52 or 53 degrees. If the
butter is worked as soon as the salt
is added, you will squesee Mit 110111'-
1(4 all the water. Mixthe salt with
the butter when it in in the granules,
like teneat kernels, and let; it stand
for 20 111111111,00 and then work, The
salt 311111 11111 dissolved toad the butter
will be moist and 1101 slushy. The
smaller the granules, the more wat-
er it will 110113. In practice, Wo 413-
em•porate front 18 to 14 p.c. water
in tile butter. Don't wash it too
11111011 or let water 61111111 on it. If
butter is to go to market, or is not
to be kept, wash it once, but if it
is to be kept, for any length of
time„ wash it moro carefully.
TrANDLiwo MANURE.
Anyone making over 100 loads
manure yearly ought to have a
spreader. I 114)0 it any plata! whore
I want manure unless a, small garden
patelt„ writes Mr. Thos, Holt. Reas-
on will teach anyone that manure
properly fined and evenly sprea,d is
quicker in action than the stone
thrown out in lumps, bit ot. rides.
havo ball men sproad from a wagon
and throw several forkfuls appareet-
ly in the same spot. I 'don't like
potting the illannro out in piles. It
makes some places too rich and
loaves some too poor, when it is
spread. Some 'kinds of work can
bo better ilono by hand, but in
Amending manure no Man can 'do
as good work as a. Immure sproaider.
For land thttt is farthest reom tho
barns I Car14 manure and put in big
pile io Winter. 313he11 I gat ready to
plow in spring I take spreader and
a man to help 11114 load, and we can
pot on Mee 40-1nothel loads per hour
easily, mid We have put on five, 13
set another teem plowing when Ivo
have got started, so as tO got it
plowed in quickly, anal save eleapor-
ation, Whore a mail has brit ono
team, I Should spread some and tlinn
plow it in. On the 101111 close 'to
barn X handle manure direct Trent
51104 to sprodder.
Te101131ASING 7133.1 BOG YIELD.
By selecting the best leYerel,
through the 1180 or trap 110818, and
breediog frotn them, Prof. Clowell
of the Maine, experiment station has
501101 to increase the egg yield.
Thin work has 110114 'been in neogress
four years With the Barra! Plymouth
Peeks, end has Maratha numb fit-
tention. The aim of the
wade is not t o produce a few pile-,
noreenal yielders for seneational pure
Posofir, litit.hy, Selecting the beet
1a34 -
01's anal rejecting the unprofitable
ones turd mating them to males
whose mothers lay over 200 eggs pee
year, tO build up 11. Madly that shell
excel Di Mgt avorngo yields of largo
brown eggs.
Starting with a family that haat
averaged about 120 eggs per bird
foe several y eat'S., the &vertigo has
been inereaeed to .1 50 -eggs the
fourth 3'('0 1'. 31,4ring the lust year
one bon in (ivory eight has hild Ver
200 eggs; the bigleest yield by any
ono bled being 12113 eggs, Many
cockerels hetet been mild from tine
station to farmere 10 the state at a
nominal price 11(1 '111g' the lest yew'
and by distributing' the blood in that
way it is hoped 110 aid in uplifting
the poultry industry.
BACON ItOGS,
141111e the big, fut bogs aro .eally-
ora the oineket. and cetrueutol
loathe prices, there is 11(111 an MAUI-
ing interest in the lamom bog, both
1/1 the feediug and in the beteoling,
The National Provisioner eays ;
"The bacon hog is now attracting a
lot of interest. 'Phis class of 3101.-
01110 has captured. the public: taste
Roil left the heavy fat bog in the
lurch,. The tiackingabourtes 'demand
a good bacon hog rued pay well for
it. The 11110011 53-1)0 of bogs has
often beam misconstrued, tad la
ninny eases ridiculed, but this 16
110110 more because of lack of know-
ledge of the real bacon type thon
anything else.
"This type does not 'demand 0.
thin hog, as is often thought, but
a. hog with a thick covering of firm
flesb. It is, of course, highly im-
portant inat this flesh be loan, and
this will follow if the true bacon
broecis to raised,
"The bacon hog must poser's:I ex-
treme lengtb and depth. lie most
bo smooth and eveely fieStied front
the shoulders to the hips, prosenting
a, neat an(1 trim appearance,
"While to a large numlber of peo-
ple those hogs aro steangees, it
would be well ror every farmer to
watch their progress, as they are
becoming 1110re nunierolis (ivory
year."
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RED TAPE IN GERMANY.
—
Unpleasant Experience With the
Police of Berlin.
T110 other del 1 heel the experience
OK changing houses in Germany,
weites a cOrreSpOntlent of tbe Lon-
don Sketeb. it is an experience L
can beadily recommend to those
who aro desirous of becoming more
intimately acquainted with the per-
fected complicotions of German police
methods. Before removing from Iny
old fiat I spent half an hour report-
ing my impending departure to the
authorities. First,. 1 had to write
out partioulars of any 110.11101113 Chrifs-
Van names (witiohe unfortunately,
happen to ne mealy), of roy age,
plate of birth, nationality, religion,
and of my 111,1111ber ill the registry of
the income tax commissioners. Al-
though the police had lung been in
possession of these particulars, which
I bad communicated to them on at
least twenty previous occasions, it
wan necessary for me to make three
fair copies or them and of Similar
'details relating lo my family. Then
came the servants, whose places of
nativity, ages, religions, and other
marks of identity, had to be record-
ed with collet prevision an email
number of times. When I had lin-
isbod I gathered the documents into
a bundle and despatched them to
the police by the concierge. Iffy fam-
ily, my belongings, and my servants
aeriveel in 11.00 cOtirSe in the new
ilweiting, and, as soon as my Writ-
ing room anal boon placed in order,
I sat clown to narrate afresh the
story of their birth, professiom 1'o-
ligi011, rationality, anti taxation
number. After the requisite member
OK copies had been filled ap and sign-
ed by rny lendlord I lutd them hast-
ily conveyed to the Police Ilureatt.
TIM ofticee oil duty refused, however,
to accept then) except, on production
of a copy of the Same 'details, &tamp-
ed ciod authenticated by the police
of my former parkill. With this
Copy 1 bad, onfodunately, omitted
to provide myself. I dutifully 'de-
spatched an eXpreSS 11108Senger 1:0
nly eVaetla,ted dWolling to repair the
omission, and imagined that I nail
31014 brought my negotiatione with
the police to a, seccessful coliclusion.
Alas I I was mistaken, for three
days Inter the postman 601i1'erai n,
couple of important doeutoorts of
waich um related to res•self end run-
ily and another to the affairs of the
housekeeper, 114110 110111031 under a dif-
ferent sot of police regulations to
those Obtaining in tho case of or-
dinary scevants, I foetal that vn,y
1)108e11Ce was required at the Pollee
:Bureau for the purpose of supplying
answers to a loeg catalogue of ques-
tions. On this occasion I bad to
repair to the hilreau arnied With a
big bundle of birth, continuation,
marriage, vaccination, anti Other
certificates. These weee examined
aoal found satisfacaory, but they
were inadegnate to satisfy the official
thirst for knowledge. My father's
age, 13110311001011, Etaid plaCe of resi-
dence, my mother's maiden name alfd
age, I either move correctly or ap-
proximately, but wnen the sympathe-
tic policeman elemeended the age mod
maiden and matrimonial names of
my mother-in-law I was Min to con-
fess igorance, Mid did so.
What the dow is to the flowet• kind
Words are to the heart,
Lambs rilnli into Wall street where
the old sheep feat' to tread,
Modesty is not so easily shotaked
e15 prudence!.
Thought trevois fast, but some peo-
ples thoefghts novel* travel far,
3f you Would avoid competition
strive to be good rather than gt.erat,
— . . .. ....--. . ...
fe TO Drove to yea that IN%
1
ri chowtothtni.,110 a cod oin
e oand absolute mare for 5001>U. v cold every form of itehine,
Iffeediteendagetruaing pike,
the leant faehareee leve guarenteed it. ace tea
timoniele In the am y press and apk youttexigh•
bore what Mow thin t et% You ent 0110 11 and
;caseate retool bite t it set enema Okra hole, at
en &HOW% AClibil1A1.180)4,110118.46CosToronto,
. .
or. Chase's Ointment
THE NASAL MAN AT PLAY
soTaz 013131911138 01)' TASTE AND
SMELL.
The Wonderful Sense of Smell of
the Peruvian
IndianS.
If a, ma)1 lives an abaolutely natur-
al Ilk for a few itionthe„ 0110 01
drat 0111110014 that OceUrS in blin is
011 eXtettoeclitotry inteneification ob
the sense of smell,
:Describing hitt meeting with Mr.
Jackson in thee wilds of Plana J °sot
Land, Dr. Neilsen tells now ho fir00
discovered his mastless to the Eng-
lish exploree by the iment of a, frag-
ment of soup widen tile latter hied
used that morning. 11144 companion,
Johansem rioting1 the scent also.
"As 1 aporoached Jackson's hut,"
says the groat Sweilinh explorer, "I
thougittol could smell everything it
contained, and give a sort of inVen-
tory of Re stores without entering."
But even then the doctor's sense of
smell could 1101e be C0111pCWOil with
that of the real Ravage. The Peru-
vian Indians, walking at nigbt 111 the
darkness of the thick forests widen
line the lower spurs of the Andes,
eau respectively, by the
sense of smell alone, between a
white man, a siege°, or one of their
own race.
Few people realize how very closely
coonocted are the senses of taste and
smell, Many of the substances
Wind) We say taste good aro not
tasted at all, but gratify us by their
appeal to the sense of smell. All
innate, wines aoll fruits, for instance,
are smelt rather than tested, 'This
is easily proved by the fact Ou1 a
boa cold almost desteoys our appre-
ciation of any of theso classes ot
roods or drinks. 011 the other
hand,. however bad a cold one may
be afflicted with, one does not Rise
one's taste fm sugar, salt, or quio-
date. These substances haft no
smell, but appeal clh•ectly to
THE SENSE OF TAST111.
If one of them be ,laced on the
tongue the sensation of sweetness,
saltness, or bitterness is at Onee ex-
perienced. It Me however, worth,
noting that all those substances
most be dissolved in water, or . by
the moisture of On mouth, before
they give any sensation of taste. .
If you put a grain or two of sugar
Into your mouth, and allow it to
dissolve slowly, its taste is only
faintly perceptible. la on the con-
trary, you rub the dissolving sugar
into the palate by moving the ton-
gue, the taste is greatly intensified.
Stager appeals to the mucous mem-
brane of a large portion of the
mouth,, as also (loos salt. This is
Why Cale nulacks one's lips in en-
deavouring to fully appreciate a,
novel taste.
Just as different parts of our brain
ere the state of various mental pow-
ers, so various portions of the mouth
receive different kinds of tastes. Sie-
ger and kindred substnaces, ftnicl also
purely acid foods or drinks, appeal
to the tip of the tongue and the
front part of the mouth, That is
why one gets more enjoyment from
wine by sipping it.
Sutell is a fad' more 'delicate sonso
them taste. As already mentioned,
most substances must be moistened
before appealing to taste. But irt
order to smell a substance it most
be in the form of vapor. If ean-110-
Cologne be poured into the nose, it
gives rise to 110 sense of odour what-
soever. 'Yet we all know how pow-
erful is the sensation of smell pro-
duced when the little particles con-
stantly 'disengaging 1110010011108 front
its surface are borne by the Mr to
91(131 auFAcToity NE11VES.
The 110110 is fitted to perceive sen-
sations from particles of almost in-
conceivable smallness A. single
grain of musk will scent a room for
years; and as dile result can only, be
produced by continual loss of part-
clos of its substance, these particles
must be tiny beyond the rOaell of
imagination.
Tito smelling region of the (lose lies
in its upper part, Tho nose has
Olive regions, nod it is in the third
that the seat of the sense is con-
centt•ated. The mucous membrane
of the nose at this point is much
thicker than below, and is not roil.
but colored with a brown pigment.
Von are possested of 1000e acute
powers of smell than 5140111011, EX-
porinlentS to prOre thin were matte
by Professors Nicholls und ileowee.
Throo of the mon could detect prus-
sic aced 111 a solution composed of
two minion partS Of Water and 0110
of cid, bot. 'not one of the women
could detect the steed of the prussic
acid when the u lieu was weaker
than one pad in 20,000 of 'Water.
AVM Turtrm THE FIRST SHOT ?
There 1e abundant e.vidence that the
origill of guopowcler and arli'lery
goes far back in the dint 0(105) of the
past. The laindoo code, compiled
long before tho Christian era. Pro-
hibited the making of NV 0,1. with
cannon and guns or any kind of
Iirearins, glii111.11s Ourtius met with
ftro 414001)01131 in Asia, anti Pallostra-
tes sags that Alexander's conquests
were arrested by the use of gun-
poweler. it is also written that
these Wino men who lived in the
attics; of the Ganges "overthrow thole
enemies With tempeste nod thunder-
bolts shot from the wain,. &Milts
,A 11100111115 mentions shooting -pawkier
in -Lae year 270, It 11(73 1150(1 iu,.
the siege of Gonetantinople in 068,
by the Arabs, io 600, at Tbeesaloni-
ca in 004e at the siege of Belgrade
in 1078, by the Greeks in towel bat-
tle in 1008, by 010 Arabs epithet
the Iberians in 1147, and at Tou-
louse in 1218. It appease to lott•e
bee» goOorally known (111-01.11)11001
civilised Europe in 113 00, and sotto
thereafter it made its way 1110) lemg-
Mod, waore it Wee intomfacitired
during tho reign of Elizabeth; 01131 WO
learn that a few nnuta were pottsesta
MI by the lenglisli in 1 31 0, 5)111 (11034
then'. Were Used at the battle of
Groey in 1846.
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51100101Wt mind Woman lowing
tint lase mated if she'd cillY get to it
aotenee,