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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-11-5, Page 2• Mil:niece ef> rLLtte SKSMVT®9+LIMISCCeleselinfteeinet t'6i8atlfeefeelelle egereS /!t STRONGER 4 h A RANSOMED LIS -'E arm esteliest seite5 Leede tab' essersgite ee.009111.2001610telefeCO:3?JF`ACe11 $:�' ecie°H CHAPTER NV, Six mouths hero goad by slowly, sadly, yet not eolthout solace for the bitter pain of their first great sorrow, Tile last days of golden September saw Ardol and Judge Tre- vor, Lucy and Leannette all assembl- ed in Ardol's beautiful country place of Silvorlake, in Wol.tishiro. Harry Trevor was the last to ar- rive at the rendezvous, haying spent the summer in Northern Canada. IIe Wase surprised to see Colonel Wick- ham at breakfast next morning; su1'- prised, not pleased. "I thought there were to bo no strangers. Vivian?" he said, "But Wickham is not a stranger, • you kuow. 1Ie is one of ourselves, in a way. Don't you like him, Bar- ry?„ "Do you?" "Oh, yes; in a kind of a way. I think no fellow could help liking him; he is so bright and pleasant. The only fault 1 have to find with hint is that ho is so infernal], grate- ful. He fancies I saved his life, you know, That is, of course, before-" [Te stopped canfusecl, with the sha- dow of pain and perplexity on his face, that always showed whenever he stumbled on any allusion to the former life that lay hiddeu far be- hind the black wall of oblivion. .. It passed In a moment as he glane- ed again to where Colonel Wickham sat beside Lucy. They 11 make a handsome couple, won't they, Harry?." he whispered. "It's as good as settled, I believe. He has been spooning on Lucy this dozen years or more. When bo ask- ed straight out for an invitation I couldn't, under the circumstances, re- fuse him; now could I?" Harry Trevor made no answer to this appeal, If he had any opinion on the subject he kept it to him- self Orders attention was turned away by some saucy question of Jean- nette's, and be did not notice the sudden chill that had fallen on his friend's cheerfulness. After breakfast he carried him off to view the house and grounds. It was a wonderful place -a per- fect place. One of those spacious, stately English mansion -houses, which make the pleasantest hones in the world. Dr. Andel, a quarter of a century I before, had purchased the place front its noble owner, who had 'already dissipated e, huge fortune in the iow- eet form of dissipation, and who in two years squandered the quarter of, a mullion he got for Silverlake in , the congenial company of horse jock- eye, boxers, and curtesans, and shot; himself when the money ran out. During what may he called Anders second minority. the place had been carefully looked after for hien by Judgo Trevor, ctrl about a year ago he had chosen it for Itis home. The library and the bilder1I-roam wero us citadels against the attacks of had weather or boredom. Many a cosy hour he had dreamed away in the lihrams on the cess catch between the oriel win,lows w i .1 s w with Shakespeare. Scott, or Thaek- eray, or Dickens, Lehr) had come to him, one after the other, as revela- tions. Burt, if the plain truth be told, Ar- dal's 'favorite room was the great gynmasiunt, constructed and arranged under his own directions, where he loved to tempt his friends to speedy discomfiture. In some curiois, undefinable way Ilarry Trevor betrayed ever and again a curious familiarity with house and grounds, while to Ardel they had the delightful novelty of young proprietorship. "I have kept this for the last, Harry," Andel said, as he threw op- en the door of the great gymnasium; "it is all of my own devising," Artie] touched an electric button, and swinging trapezes came down front great crossbeams in the ceil- ing, automatically coiling themselves back again at a second touch of the lvory knob, "Ingenious, isn't it?" 0 asked, with a boy's delight in the contriv- ance, Harty Trevor professed himself de- lighted with all 110 saw, but declined smilingly an alluring invitation to have ,fust one turn with the foils or the gloves before lunch. For an uneventful week life trent smoothly by In ties beautiful place, and its placid surface gave no sign Of the troubled passions that were stirring in its depths, for in all hearts but one there ached at times vague hopes and unsatisfied longing, That Ardel was frankly in love with bright-eyed, frolicsome Jean- nette was plain to everyone, not ex- cepting tho gay little beauty herself; though he flattered himself he hid his feelings with consummate diplonncy. It were hated to say what precise- ly were ,ieanneatte's feelings to- wards lier middle-aged adorer, with whom she was on terms of easy fa- miliarity, or towards her young play mate, Harry Trevor, of whom she was, 1n her secret soul, slightly afraid, "I think I like Dr. Ardel best with 'my eyes shut, and Harry best with Imy eyes open; the ono is so charm- ing and the other so handsome," she once innocently confessed to Lucy. But in Harry Trevor's heart the strain of conflicting passion was fiercest of all, though his strong will rapt them under, showing no sign. The Fst of October always an eventful date at Sil`erlak, proved one of those rare and lovely autumn days which spring, at its best, can- not rival. For three clays before Ardel, who had of late grown restless and excit- ed, and no longer found a quiet, whole -hearted contentment in his sports, was wild at the approaching prospect of the pheasant -shooting, Even John Trevor, whom Ardel had, with difficulty, persuaded to be of tho party, felt a faint return of youthful eagerness in the still, keen morning air. Colonel Wickham vain- ly strove to hide the strange, steal- thy excitement that possessed him. The youngest of the paity of four was the quietest. As for Ardel, his eagerness knew no bounds. Ile could not wait for the pheasants, but blazed away right and left, at every wild thing 01 the woods that came in sight. Stepping out, at last, on a high, clear upland, they came to the real Work of the morning, Around them, on all sides, wooded slope and val- ley: island, isthmus, and promontory of dark green, touched with gold and purple, shone glorious in the risen sun. But there was little thought of Nature's beauty in the gamekeeper's I busin,os litre question, "Now, gentle-; men, where do you please to plant , yoid selves?" 1 The question was asked in that cons: iols pride of superior knowledge , for tee man knew that none of the part;' 11:2(1 shot the covers before, Bet Hurry Trevor, who alone had been wholly absorbed in the beauty I o: ti.e scene, answered hastily, "` The Butcher's Shop' for me, Len- nox, if you don't mind." „hnakec rer thim a ` Tee L turned on l •i quick look of surprise. "The But- oleo's `;her" was the name given by 1 Ardel, in grim jest, after a big and bloody buttue more than twenty' years ago, to a certain specially hot corner; and the name still stuck But how did this beardless boy, fresh from Eton, come to know of it? Ardel himself was bewildered.; I t " 'The Butcher's Shop,' " he. cried; "what the deuce, do you mean by 'The Butcher's Shop,' Ilarry?" ;1 ""The young gem; is right, sir," the gamekeeper interposed; "'o knows what 'es about. It's as hot a tor- : 1 net- as thero is. Not but I can put you in a better one," he whispered aside to Artie', with an expert's de- sire to give the best stand to the best shot. Pres.:M.1y, the four sportsmen were ' at their stands, each with their hammerless breech -loaders ready for use and an under -keeper to load and hand then as required, Then the "sport" began, and the ,tlllness of the morning woods was desecrated with discordant Clamour, Treece' stood where vl to t o weed run e h a d 1 to a sharp angle, ;Pith his gun poised ready and finger on the trigger - guard, ears strained, and eyes glanc- ing to the tight and left, I''ar, away, ha heard the clantourleg of the woods, still softened by the distance, 'Then his quick ear caught,, close nt hand, a faint rustle In a long, thick tongue of half -withered ferns, that stretched front the wood's edge in front of hien, ' A frightened bird, creeping silently and swiftly from tho claiuour of the woods, had reached the Blatt of the shelter, The ready gun was at the sports- man's shoulder, his peen eye Mantled between the barrels,. the harsh re- port burst load upon the still air lhistantly, and the beautiful, gorge- ous, live creature struck earth, with a dull thud -a tumbled heap of torn Ilesh and rutitpled feathers. "Mark cock to the right!" a beat- er's voice sang out, and Trevor saw a pheasant gliding high over the lustrous woodland, with quielc-beat- ing wings and long tail pendant. Then, all at once, the full flight be- gan. The frightened pheasants flut- tered and flew tight and left, from the woods, thickly as a flight of startlings, crossing and re -crossing in bewildered and bewildering con- fusion. Bang! bang! bang! The guns rang out incessantly, as quick as keeper could load a• sportsman fire, till all the ground was cumbered with slaughtered birds, fluttering or dead. Then came a brief lull in the tu- mult, while the beaters crossed on stepping -stones a broad, shallow riv- ulet, that went gurgling through the wood. Heretofore Trevor had been drunk with the keen excitement of the sportsman. This last explott sober- ed him suddenly. All at once ho realized what it all meant. "What brutes we are!" Harry Tre- vor murmured to himself; "what a brute I am! The wild beasts we call savage are gentle in comparison with us." '"I've done my murdet•ing for the day," Trevor said, and he handed the keeper the gun. "You are not going to knock on' like that, sir," he remonstrated, "and you done so well. One miss shouldn't put you out of heart -a long shot too, and you gave him his share of it, what's more. He'll never got up again, I'll swear. Why, we were bound to have the best bag of tho party, if you kept on 0.8 you began, except the master, maybe, who never misses a shot, good or bad." But Trevor was proof against re- monstrance or encouragement. The keeper looked after hint disconsolate - "'Forgive 111e Mfrs Bay," he pleaded, 'and forget what 1 have a i tl 1' i] d t t c Said, n ce hardly know myself whet 1 hat have said. The thought h t Dug t 0f 1081118 you, the thought of yielding you up to another, drives mo mad,' 'lou see I tell you his folly as he spoke it, Harry. But be was ever' so !cines about Dr. Ardel afterwards. 'Yore know he saved 111y life,' 11e said, 'Saved me from the •host ter- ribly of all deaths. 1 would he a (mute beast if I were not. grateful. '11 indeed there were 110 hope for me, Ardel is the one mall living to whom 1 could wish success,' Ile spoke so' gently and so sadly that I could not help pitying'. hint for this folly that hes spoiled his life," "What did you say to shim about Andel that set 111111 flaming?" young Trevor asked with eager Irrelevancy'. "I tell you I hardly know -that the only touch of love I had ever known was for Dr. Andel; nearly twenty years ago T meant-" But Trevor would not lot her fin- ish. Ho seemed curiousle elated to hear his •rival tints spoken of, "I1 was the old Dr. Andel then that yet loved?" 11e broke in Impatiently. "If it were possible that-" A shot rang sharply out, a hun- dred yards behind them, followed by n cry •of surprise and dismay. Turning sharply round they saw Dr. Andel and Colonel Wickham - their guns in their hands -break from. the woods an Dither hand and meet in the centre of the path. The two spoke for a moment together, and then Ardel's cheery laugh was heard. "A lucky escape, Wickham," he cried out, "a miss is as good as a mile." "What has happened?" Harry We- yer asked as he and Lucy hurried back together. He noticed that Wickham looked shame -faced, and Ardel excited. "Ballo! where did you two drop from?"Ardei answered, "0111 no- thing happened; something was near happening; that's all. Don't look so down in the mouth about it, old man," -this to Wickham -"accidents will Happen in the best regulated family. This was the way of it, harry: Wickham was a bit riled that I beat him at the pheasants. He laid ole a wager if we walked home without the beaters, each on his own side of the wood, he would get more on the journey -fur or fea- thers -than I would. I toots him up, of course. Blind I've won ills bet, Wickham," he cried out inter- rupting himself, "tho cap don't count, you know. Well, it was poor shooting enough, Ilarry. I picked up only a couple of birds, and Wick- ham never got a shot until a few moments ago. Then he got a chance at a pheasant I didn't see. I was in a beastly thick cover, but the ly as he tramped off rapidly through shots came closer than was nom - the woods. Even the sovereign that fortab.r, clipping the twigs all came to him with the gun could not around me. So 1' sang out, and console hint for the sudden break -,stuck my cap on the top of my gun down of the sport. to let him know where I was, He Trevor was startled, e.s though his mistook the cap for a bird, by Jove, warm thoughts had found an enlbodi- and let chive straight at it and-" meet, when, breaking through the He held up the cup -a brilliant wood's edge out 011 one of the love- Tanx-n'Shaater tartan. There was a liest walks that tragi=creed talo de- jagged Hole on ane side whore the inesne, he came suddenly face 1.0 face rl,a'ge entered; the other was torn with Lucy Ray, not twenty paces to pieces by the scattering shot. away, walking quietly. towards him. 'Luckey my head was not at home At sight 0i him she starless, but for that visitor,' laughed A1•del, as 1f it were quite an every -day occur - in a moment she put her sadness off, and lips and eyes smiled a greeting that was too elder -sisterly in its placid kindliness. "You startled me, IHarl;y. I thought you were with thn shooting party." "I sickened of the slaughter, Lucy, and came away." "I don't wondnr. I voter could understand men. Call killing alypse- ment! Surely there is enough. of death in the world -death and lt•ou- b1'." "Of trouble, Lucy? It is not like you to talk so or look so," for her eyes wore misty with tears and her lips quivering; "Tell me what he trouble is. Perhaps I can help yon." "Yoe would not understand in the east, Harry." "•Let me try." There was potter ns well as feeling n his voice, which made her forget his ego for a moment. Besides she was frightened a lit tie and longing for sympathy and counsel. "bickers lou cannot help me, Tiar- rs ' Sin" 201(1 hrrsitatingly. "Thera i.. ..o ma I can talk to 0f this. I mi1(1 not bear to worry- your father fill t, nr,,' trold,ies. Jeannette is only a baby, and you---" "You know at least, f mu a friend, Lucy. tliv, 211e a chance. I'll help yon if I ran." The compelling earnestness 10 his voice conquered. "It is Colonel Wickham," she fal- tered out, almost before she knew. "No, no," she added hastily, fright- ened by the angry flush that came to tine duce of her companion, "You must not think ill of hitn, Harry: in- deed you must not. He is pressing mo to he his wife -that is all, I should not; speak of this at all, but 1 must 11211011 110w that 1 havo begun. lie asked inc fifteen years 0,50, and I at told 111211 then,as T tell )nim now, it o'The points of te sermon aro little could never be. But ho would take;good unless they prick the conscience. no denial; he will take no denial, it d Vi yI� e''"- . e� a, Fly mm;'6 By .StleSpieirig an .Abundance of Rich, Reid, t.jfe. Sustaining and System -Building Blood, r. Chase's Near e F..wioc 'Phil re ughly Cures the ails Peculiar to 'Mennen. The feminine organists is an intri- fate mass of delicate and sensitive Nerves which require an enormous amount of pure, rich blood to nour- ish thein and supply thorn with the vital force necessary to properly per - Sone t)leit• functions, '%Y120n the blood is 'melting lei quan- tity on quality the nerve cells waste and shrivel up and by means of nein and irregularities snake 1dlown their starved and :depleted condition, unless the nervous 5ystell) i5 putt • in proper condition all the medicine inthe w'oi•1(1 will never mire the weakness and ireognlarl'ties peculiar to women, . Because 1)1•. Cease 1 demnt'tot ' Food wins the elements Nerve Doc cant 1 110.tero which go to form 110w, rich blood anti create now nerve force it 111 the host eer,tiln dire obtainable for such allnteeter ;When the 1)0100ne system becomes eichansto'tl the whole body is more or testi affected and the various organs fall to perform the 'duties devolving upon 'then,' t);ffistion is impaired; there are fool1g5 of 'discomfort in the stomach. alter menet, norvoun sick heailaehos, irldtabitlty sleepless - nese; spells of weakness and dizziness cone over you; you feel disheartened, discouraged and despondent and fear prostration,, pralysis or insanity. But there. is new )lope for you in the 'use of Dr. Chase's Nerve 1'11od. Not the false hopewhichis aroused by medicines composed of alcohol and other stimulants, but the hope width finds founda.tioit in added flesh and tissue, in better appetite, more buoyant feelings and gradual disap- pearance of amlt09ing symptoms, As a blood -blinder and nerve re- storative Dr. Chase's Hemet Food is bound to benefit your wattle system ley :noting your inereaso in weight yvbile using it you can prove this ba - you'd a. doubt, Fifty Cents a, box, 0 boxes for 32.3:0, at all 'dealers or i dntan5on, 13ate5 ,le 00„ Toronto. Te prolate you against ihnitet)cnns tho portrait and signature of Di.. A, ole Cheso, the fe.mo115 t'orefpt book tether, are on00ehy box, :ense to miss death by a hair's [transit h. Wickham, on the contrary, looked pale and terror-stricken, and Lucy's deep sympathy went out to him. "Don't call it chance," she said reproachfully, when Ardel ended the story with a laughing triumph in his "luck," "Don't call it chance; it was the Providence of God," And Harry Trevor, who had listen- ed with impassive face, in his heart assented to her words, "Yes, it was the providence of God." (To be continued.) SENTENCE SERMONS. ices never walla alone. Toil is t1 foil against temptation. Service is the secret of sovereign- ty. (leaven draws more than hell can 'drive, Sin is like seed, to cover it is to vetti. vete it. You cannot separate sin's bait: from its hook. The 01'058 of C11rist does not make the crass Christian, A inane work is the only thing t11at. lakes 11111 of worth. The pigheaded num is most likely to ruin with the herd. ((110 devil is not losing any sleep over watch charm. piety. The love of all clan bo learned only from the Lord of all. It is hard to light the tempter if ypu are feeding at his table. 11. is bettor to keep the Sabbath bright than to keep it rusty, Business :depends more on keeping faith than on keeping b0olt5. He who was without beginning of sin is without end of sympathy, The saint 11as the bible in his heart; the humbug Sveeas it in his pains me to hurt him, awl I can see it does hurt him to bo refused. Ho has never slackened in his suit, mals- ing his determination plain oven when he refrained from speaking. II0 grows more and more pressing as 111 r5r, to en goYesterday rd Ve a to by.I al- Y most frightened me." "Frightened you, .1'.1:Icy?" "Ile urged me so hard that T. drop- ped some word about, Dr, Ardel. I hardly know what, but ho took it up at once, all wrong. Ito blazed, out with sudden anger. I had hover seen him so before, `So you love Ardell' be hissed out. '1. 1110115111 as ma0h; thea old fool who hasconk to his ascend Childhood, and who i111:es lite a 1110022 cell' on :het little black -eye. nunX Jeannette, Ile ,is my rival -is Ile? Lot hint look 10 himself then. I will let, 110 mal living stand be- tween you and my love.' Thera ho saw how frightened I was, and 111 one moment he cooled down to 118 own self, all courtesy and gentle. You cannot preserve your piety by preserving it in a vinegar 'tlisposl- 210n, ]fou cannot escape the duties of character by talking about' the 'diffi- culties of creed. Mort a man mak08 111012de only to use them, 112) mosses t1t0111 only L y o lose trent. You cannot tell anything about the good a roan is doing by the Way 11e groans Over it. Sospeculators;. 0m eare anxious to get in on the, ground floor, but there are others who pt'ofee to -climb to1 robes, DR, tt. Wn CHASE'S CURE �ie Gd�'�A6i LL;; .,U 0A Yi61 n a a is sent direct to (115 dlseas'd ports by rho Improved Blower f)en)o the ulcera, 'dears the sae pooaapoe, atopy droppin s in rho those and permannooIy 'urea CalorW1 and 11sy'15v82. Blower free ,,ll dealers, or Dr, A', W, Chaco Madiolne Co„ TozenlS and yo'.. ON IDE FARO lwtt� PUTTING UP BUTTER. In churning, the butter ought to he taken its scam as it reaches the granular state of minute wheat - pain -sized bodice, because then talo washing of It is 'lane all the more effectually, Big lumps are with dif- floulty washed, and, with Indifferent washing, ca5ir11 ie left inor about the butter and is a fruitful source of rancidity when the jars are opened. I11 fact, any bast taste or peculiarity in the produce becomes much more pt•onouticed during the period of ly- ing in jars. Pure wet i' is absolute- ly essential In all washing of uten- sils, as well as, 112 trashing of the butter. Salting should bo done at the rate of 0112: Dunce to the pound, and may be worked 1111,0 butter in working out buttermilk. After a turn or two under the worker the butter May to advantage be put by for several flours while the salt, which should be of the best, dissolves, af- ter which the sinal working may be commie ted. 'ilio next movement is to fill the jars full to near the rim, say with- in one or two incites, and 1111 up the space with salt. Covering then cam - plates the work, and it may be done with either parchment or air -tight Paper, Stpre away in a cool place and in a pure atmosphere. In open- ing tho jars, take out as mucic but- ter as is required, and cover re• =tinder over with salt and keep out of 3m' as far as possible. The but- ter taken out for use ntay to ad- vantage be cut in comparatively small bodies and be soaked in water at about sixty-five degrees for sever- al hours, and then bo made up into neat pais. Thus it will prove of very different quality from ordinary potted butter, and be indeed quite passable for almost -any use. As to the kind of jars, no particular shade is called for so long as they are well glazed. A little salt might be put o1 the bottoms, probably, to advantage, but the whole inside must be quite dry, else tho salt sprinkled thereon will begin at once to dis- solve, and that might cause some taste later on. IIORSE NOTES, Handle horses gently but firmly. Feed colts suficiontly to keep them growing. When working, keep the hair of the mann from under the collar. It is strength producing food that brood mares noed and not fattening. It is the jerking and straining that injures the horse and not the steady pulling. Sulphur and sweet oil mixed to a thin salve will bo proved excellent for scratches. It is easier to keep a horse in a good condition that to straighten him tip after ho has lost his health. The horse business is a sure and profitable one, provided the right Idea of animals are raised. A good pedigree always adds much to the value of a horse for any'eene pose,, In raising draft horses, a breed should he chosen with a 'den, to producing the one kind and 110 ousel'. Strong habits are transmissible, and the proper training of the trot- ting sire is all important. The Most clear profit in handling g good horses lies in the fact that yon have raised them yourself. Work should be 115 moderato as possible during the middle of the day through tho but weather of the suanlner. Poor halters or bridles have al- ways been the cause of horses ac- quiring the habit or breaking loose. To fatten a horse that is hide hound, give daily a tablespoonful of the -fattening mixture -salt peter d ounces, crude antimony 1 ounce, sul- phur 11 ounces, A safe horse .alley be lazy, but it will not do to say that all lazy horses aro safe and trashy. WIIEY FOR PIGS. Good sweet whey maters a great feed for growing pigs, provided, it is balanced with other feeds. With 11 should be fed middlings or some food rich in protein, In this respect it differs from skim mills. The ma tritive ration i5 mulch wider in {whey than in skim milk. This comes about from. the fact that muchof tato protein gees into the cheese while there is little 111 butter. So it comes about that while corn meal is the best concentrate to feed with steno milk, with whey there should be fed something richer in protein, and containing a smaller percentage of fat. THE TOOL HOUSE,. No building of the farm pays bet' - tel• that a good tool house. It 811001.11 bo so convenient 01 access that there need be no excuse for leaving tarm implements exposed to the weather when not in tons Prop- erly cared for, ma1Y implements that,now last only a ow years ought to bo serviceable as long as the farmer lived to need them. Be- sides, a tool that has not been rust- ed, warped x21(1cracked by 0x50511(0 will work els well taw second and third year of use as the first. On many farms tools are so much in- 32tr'ed by being left out of doors that after the first Season they ,ort more for repairs than they save in labor. DEPTH IN SOWING. At the Michigan 'experiment station tests were made by ;planting scecl,s of wheat, outs, flax, corn; barloy, 01ova et', peas and buckwheat, at differeiit depths ranging from hall an final to a foot.. 'I'dro highest 5or10ntag0 of geiminntiaa for wheat, 110.x, OOrlt and clover was at a depth of alb Inch; for oats, two inches; for pea0, fou inches; far barley, 1 uilf an Inca; and for buckwheat,r two ❑cltos, Clov- er entirely failed when the depth was greater than two Inches, Some plants of oats,' cozen and peas ap- peared above ground when the desalt of planting' tens eight Inches and lnot'0• 11311.1N111 NG I'JtTtD. While there is considerable differ- ence of opinion as to the adt'isnbil- ity of grinding grain for some farm a111ma15, it is generally conceded that 11 pays to grind for the deity herd. A cow giving a large flow of 0)1)1c needs all her ohm:5y t0 secrete the milk and to digest t120 largo amount of feed which meat be used for that purpose, It is for this reason important to Matte the lam - cess of digestion as easy and rapid as possible. A good grinder with suitable power to run 11 should be part of the equipment of every well conducted dairy feria. • 1YPAKING THE BEST OF IT, A Young ISan's Adventure in the Dark Continent,. The imagination of adventurous seekers after fortune and of those whom the commercial struggle of life tends to drive away from home often turns to Africa as an uncrowd- ed land of riches and new enterprise. A story told by 1elr., llearold Binclloss autdlo• of "111 the Niger Country, throws li511t on the chances of an adventurer in one part of the Dark Continent. The Hero of the attic road in one of the British (rapers an advertisement, like this : "Wanted, young man as bookkeep- er in a West African factory. A fete hours' work o. day in pleasant sur- roundings, unlimited 511001.111g and fishing, and fine troplc scenery, with a boat and crew at his disposal. Free quarters, Salary to 001nme11ce, £70 with chance of rapid pronotioit," The rest of the story sounds like ono from Kipling,. Harold Stirling set out, and in a few weeks landed one day on a dilapidated wharf, and followed his native I:rooboy g)ld05 a1oltg a slimy footway until ho reached a factory swa1.m111g 221111 rats and cockroaches. ITo found one broken-down white man, with a vicious temper, Haid near at' hand the graves of his predecessors. Por three '.reeks he toiled 121 the burning sun, Ho soon discovered that he had been duped by the ad- vertisement. The 2200.res11 consul, to when he applied fol' justice, said he 'hail no authority to give him a pas- sage back. The young man went to the agent and said, "Your firm cajoled me hero under false pre'tollses. That cancels the contract, and; I intend to go home. You w.on't send me, and I have no money. Then you shall keep 100 hero, but not a stroke of work will I do." "Then you get no food." "That remains to bo seen. I will come in hero every 111eu1, I ilot't. think the Krooboys would interfere with me if I broke every bone in your body." For about a month Skirling lived in luxury and spent tris days in the shade or fasted -"ns per ativertise- mont," )1e said, iTo amused tate native Krooboys 1011.11 stories and won their confidence., Once, when the agent bade then. ilrive Stabling from the 'dining -room, they smiled, bet did nothing. Presently there was a rebel ton among the neighboring' triba5, and 1110 Krooboys at the factories ell about were hastily armed. That was Stlt•lin 's chance. He mil been an g e 1 infantryman. He began to ih'ill the natives, and soon had a finely o.'- ganized night patrol anis on efficient company. While the suspense was most strained there w't15 a booming of guns. The naval brigade was burning the 1'010.80 at taw heart of the rebellion. After order had been restorcal, Stir- ling again approached the agent, who by this time had learned his n)an, and knew enough to melee a passage home for 11I111, d P31121 OLDEST FE11Rl'. Perhaps the oldest fart ;y in the world is the cross-channel service from Calais to :Dover, It hasbeen in existence for more than twenty centuries, and the vessels which have been engaged in it include every- va- riety of shipping, front Caesars higli.- peaked galleys, propelled by hanks of Oars+, oto the new turbine. steamer. If you find that wealth doesn't snake you hap5y, you can easily get rid of it, THE REASON, "1110 good' die young." "I. Mess that'e LOIS' then many people alive, ate HEMS IN TER E'.ONES t TN 1•, ' T zxsT NGS xars g z sTozz 1tVINDSOSt. CAST4.<4. One of tho Tragedies of History- The Labor Problem in 1360. The workmen now et15(15d upon improvements at Windsor Quetta need to tread w'ar'ily, for the scon0001 their labors is replete with hlstorie associations says the St, Janies' Gazette, Nor aro these confined 1,0 the castle buildings. Of 110 place may it be truly said that walk there tine 5el'1n0118 in the stones utero aro temente in trees to speak a- chapter from history. In the gantlets, ad- joining St. George's Clutpel is a true with ono of the strangest of stories,- Blighted and stunted by lightning, it stands to recall one of the tragedies of history. 1t is a wil- low, and grow front a cutting taken from the parent tree, :which grew allow tho grave of Napoleon at let. 'Helena, For long it ilonrishoil in its new 505itiolu, But of the day of the battle of Sedan, in watch the power of Napoleon 111, was m'ushed, a flash of lightning carried ahoy iLs chief branch, Still, in its mutilated state it continued to grow lustily en011511 until, years later, it was smitten by another lightning st; oke. Careful comparison showers that the second disaster synchrooked exactly with the death of the Prince InSper- ial at the hands of the 'Zulus in Africa, Windsor Castle, Ln some ferns or another, has existed as a regal coo- 111ain from Norman tittles. hardly a reign has passod without additions or alterations, Ec1wttied 1.11. built the famous ground tower or keep for a, fraternity of knights who should meet and carry on the traditions of Bing Arthur's Round Table knights From the battlements of the keep twelve counties 01py be viewed, and o'v'en i11 these smoky days, the King may: see the dome anis 'lantern of St. Paul's by taking his stand on the SUMMIT OF THE TOWJ1lIt, Edward III. found the labor pro- blem as acute. in his clay as do some less distinguished employers of modern times, and his works pro- ceeded slowly. But the victor of Poitiers took a short cut to :what he wanted. Writs were lssued to the sheriffs, mayors, and bai:ff's of the counties, authorizing them to impress laborers for the work, with imprisonment as the alternative. William of Wykohan was the archi- tect,. and his duties could have boon little else than a labor of love, for his wago was but a, shi'ling a clay. Plague carried off the bulk of the three hundred and sixty mon engag- ed on the work in 1360, so more writs were issued. 'Edward did not live to see his unitertakingcons' pleted, but Richard 1:1, continued it, mand had Geoffrey Chaucer as 111s clerk of works, and, a zealous master of the labor press gang the father of our national poetry appears to have ade. The ordinary visitor does not see the oldest part of Windsor, the re- mains of the fortress in which John rested while the negotiations for Magna Charts wore in progress. There is a small domain undru•gt•o11nd In the older potions of the great wads arched passages threadtheir way below• the basemrent, through. the chalk, and penetrate far beneath the site of the castle ditch at the base of the :walls. Their existonre may :have )tail something to do with the origin of the eerie stokes which at- tach to the older hart of the resi- dence. For, of course, Windsor has its ghosts. Only a couple of years ago all officer seated in the library saw what !s described as "the ghost of Queen Elizabeth." Shakespeare adopted his legend of Horne the :11:0tinite1:15froliten:litilsor lotnst for his er Wivf Windsor." The a11- nt angeree supposed t0 prom- ade arounn Dalt,, wearing horns MANY A PACE OF HISTORY OB is written on the wells of 10indsor. Those that lay- captive within the boundaries of the castle left their 200101 histories ca=ved upon their prison; Their inetllories were thus better perpetuated than those of some of 1110ro illustrious birth. It wan only by a chance breaking up of the 'floor of the St. • George's Ceapet that the beds' of Edward .tV. Watt (enol. 111,1813 Sir Homy Hel- loed found, too, and opened,, the collie said to contain the body of Charles 1', The remains 110 said,, Lem in precisely the condition de - Welted by a witness of his immure- ment, But so ninny are the stories concerning the remains of this un- happy monarch and of Cromwell that cv011 110w c0nt1'OVersy has reached scarcely any more definite conclusion than had been arrived ata century, ago. I The gorgeous tomb which Wolsoy built for 111mso11 250.8 e0nverted into money after ills fall, The 0xquiettc adornments with whirls artists had bedecked it were said as 'defaced beaks for 11:600. George 1V. spent a, mil- lion 'and to half o1 restoring the castle, As a finishing tonce to his work be had 11. huge bl ones rgmes- trial statue of his father erected es the end of t110 magnificent. ihrce- ntiles-long 22.0111., ill -lilac a rather irreverent 11anlo became a.p1)1J id to the statue.. so that the monarch whose name it is to perpetuate be- came disassociated .h•ohn it. This led to a funny little mishap et Queen Victoria's dinner table, A 'cUst{n- gnished statesman was asked holy he had got to the castle, "Oh, I got a lift as far as the .c0pJ10) 1101•se, a12i1 walked ` the rest of the 2111 ma'atn ea replied,. "'re the what?' cried. her Majesty in anu)r11 ❑11th%e- • ••r• beard 0f anrrlQ. 'The guest had )uta c. the statue by tiny otettt naulr, 211121 haul to explain himself ('gs best 119, co uld, Whereupon ria Queen �on c - htnoredly rebuked film for his free- voroneer, anis gave ,him the il1stery, of^ 1,110 f)gn'e. n;. When a girl starts odar gaba So gagers she betwee n21 112 m0 elites'"aed n0t 021)22 a .suili1,e11oc