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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-11-12, Page 2iN•"'1•r"4464»'1kQiR'M(1?91'011/'{ 4=00)kir'36•:3Q0a6N4060.iS4004410f9a&^ Wtne” ��numuu,m,,.aw;�ums.?x,�«^.. — •w-..._._--�-�.v:.a•,amc, ,.,.y, SYRONGE 'et, gcc..• ®. -est, CI 3ER, -see -a A RANSOMED eCom' enStSGfctfltllP,sekSeatley , tTstetgjgpf,'eTlJ3asGneA82R EAT LIFE CHAPTER XVI. Tho sportsmon passed ou, Ariel still chatting gaily, us if nothing httd happened, and \Yicieham rousing himself to duster, As Harry and Lucy moved mare slowly tlu'0ugh the quirt woods, the Wolces in front gra- dually died away in the distance. him was still pale and faint from the shock of Ardeee danger, and in a freak. sisterly fashion, sne took Tro- eimes aria for support. At the touch of her hand, the groat 'passion that underlay all his thoughts, his life it- self, welled up tumultuously, raging ngaiust all berthas of reason, ]ler mere presence close beside him thrill- ed hint with imuttcrable rapture, he loam not why, or how. Love and hopeand fear filled his soul with tum lt, One ailment his heart throbbed Nith crr;tasy at the thought of winning her for his own—but the met carate the dread pain of loss; the yielding of her to another chilling him to the very marrow of his bones, Set, by the fierce strain of his stt one will, he kept his passion un- der. "How lightly be laughs at death," ee said; for even yet the faint echoes of Ardrl's laughter reached thein oe the still air. "]s it not strange?" sho answered, "lea—your mother, I mean—has a- toll told me that,to the Dr. Ardel of the old days the mere thought of denith was an abiding horror. There ere. two Antets, unlike in everything except mere outward form," "Which Ardel do you love best, Lucy?" he asked abruptly. She look- ed up at hint in surprise. "Don't talk of lore, like a good boy, Oh, if you knew, even for an hour, the tee Ardel I once knew, you could not ask that question!" "If he coui'd come to you again, and loved you?" he began eagerly; but checked himself, as he met her startled eyes. "The real Dr. Ardel is dead," she answered softly, after a pause, speak- ing rather to hei self than to bim; "only his body lives. ft's too sad to talk of: Do you know, Harry, you sometimes strangely remind me of him, in thought and word? Did no one ever tell you this before?" "No one, Lucy; end I rem glad to hear It first from you. It gives ere courage to say what I have got to say. I want yos to tet that re- semblance 'lead for me. You can- not know how I love you: with a lova that is mare than half my be- ing, My soul is weak with longing. I feel that you are the best part of my,life, and lacking you, I must die." She stopped short, dismayed, as this firient declaration reached her, ti embling and growing pale and red by turns, at the intensity of the man's t.nesion in his words and voice, Bet when she looked again at the boyieb face of the young lad who sro' a so earnestly, a half -amused thane dimpled her cheeks, and spark It'd for a moment in her blue eyes. ".%Iy dear IIarry," she said very 'gently, "is it as bad with you as all that? I thought you hate more sense. I thoug%:t you had clean for- gr>ti.en this folk=. But all boys are the sante, I suppose. So you want to marry your grandmother, and this is the 'great lave' of year life: your long life of eighteen years, I sup- pose you think yovrself in earnest, my poor boy, and I must not laugh at yon," Per i layful words stung him to the soul. He felt Crow true they seeped: how powerless he was to dig- , pr to their truth; and all the time he 1 new how false, Ile stood for a moment, abasbed and chant), before her, looking the foolish schoolboy that she thought biro. "Ohl" he cried at last, "how I wish I could make you understand!" "Understand what?" she asked; and there was no reply.. Then else looked at him pityingly. Foolish as she thought it, his pain' was very real, "My dearest Harry," she said, "I don't doubt you believe all you say for the moment; most boys begin like that, I am told. Presently yon will meet some nice girl of your own leo h lz re 11 1e, age, and you will laugh together, and 1 will laugh with you, over this ful- ly about an old mad." lie grew desperate, "Lucy," he cried, and twain the earnestness of his voice thrilled her, "can you real ly think me a raw schoolboy, who doesn't know bis own mind? Cannot you understand?" "What is there to understand?" sho repeated, marc and more puzzled ov- er the wildness of his words. "You are not like other boys, I know, Sometimes you almost cheat ere into the belief that I am talking to a man, not merely wiser, but older than myself. But I cannot long for- get that you are, in truth. a .boy scarce half my age—a boy whom I dangled on my lmee when Dr. An- del first brought me to Lavelle, ilf- teen years ago." "But Is there no hope for me, even if ---7 Is my age the only obstacle? Answer me this one question, Lucy. Do you still love Dr. Ardel?" She blushed softly, "Is this fair, Harry?" But he was too fiercely in earnest to care, "Answer me! answer me!" he cried; "my whole life hangs on your answer." The strange power his earnestness gave him, in spite of his youth, had its way with her. "Do you still love Dr. Ardel?" he persisted. She was the schoolgirl. now, anti he was the master. "I hardly know," she answered musingly, "Sometimes the mere sight of him seems to revive the feel- ings of long ago, aad tender thoughts and memories storm my heart. But, at a word or a laugh, the feeling passes as swiftly as it came, Often and often I mourn for my dead love. Ilut it is in truth dead. There is no one living whom 1 like better than yourself, Harry, if you would only not spoil our friendship. There is Jeannette—" "But Jeannette loves Ariel?" She noticed the strange eagerness in his voice. "Sometimes I half fear she hoes; but his age frightens her. It is all a terrible tangle now, But if you cboso Jeannette, u>ay—" "No, Lucy, never; that can never be Yet still there may be a way found out of this maze, and happi- ness at the end for all." "Anil you will forget this folly, Barry?"—very earnestly. "?Jy love is part of my life," bo answered slowly; "it can only cease with my life. I can wait and hope; I cannot change. ,dare not despair. When. I next speak to you, per- haps—" "Never, never, never, you poor mad boy. Carnot you see that ev- ery clay that goes by this folly be- comes more foolish? 1 cannot, I will not baro your young life wreck- ed by such madness." "Yon have no choice in this, Lucy, anti 1 have no choice. So tong as. you are free I must strive to win you. Strange as it may seem to you what you have said just now has given rile new hope. I must see Andel at once. Don't look frighten- ed. I shall tell him no secrets of yours. Oh! if the past could be re - railed!" The last words were mut- tered lender his• breath, as if forced from him by a sudden pang of tor- turing remorse, and diel not reach Icor ears. A brief space they walked on in Cauca Then Trevor lightly touched on some outsido topic, and she an- swered, shyly at first, for her heart was still in a tumult. But present- ly their talk. glided smoothly into familiar channels. Was it alto- gether chance that, ever and again, some stray turn of tnought—a phrase —brought her memory back to that summer evening long ago, when she and Ardel walifnd for the first and last time together under the trees at Lavelle? They parted at tate great stone steps, and Lucy in her room, aloha, repented of tbat pleasant walk, and cast about for means to end his fol- ly, half fearing for her own heart, till, with a sudden trembling, it came upon her that she heel found et t y� Your bw"? i $'heti the U veer and Kidney's Have Failed to Petiorlril Ther Mission and You Need Chase'sr. 'f n em ,.v „;r If you are not well there must be a reason for it. Most of the come molt ills of life arise from poison in the. system, 11 you would bo well you must remove this cause of tits - The work of the blood is two- fold. It supplioc nourishment to the body and collects the impure and poison- ous waste matter. This poisonous unaterialis rentovccl from the blood by the action of the liver and kid- neys, 'When these omens fall the poison is carried hack through the system 'int the r.irculation of the Wood and causes disease. Where is your week spat? Just there you may first expect to feel the orients of poison in the system. It may be ,stemacb trouble or hung trouble, kidney disease or bents ells - onus, bet th,e beginning is with the inaction of the great filtering or- gans -•-the liver and kidneyte• Nine -tenors of the ilia of everyday • life may bo cured by Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, because they set the livor, kidneys and botvals right and so cleanse and invigorate the system, Have you come to realize the bre Portaton of keeping the bowels regu- ler and the liver and kidneys fic- tive? wo-tive? You will appreciate Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, not only on account of their wondferfnlly promptness, but also fat' their last- ing effect on the system. They get. at the very foundation of Ill -health, and by removing the cause bring more. Tlr. (11nmo's Kidney -Liver Pills, the comfort of old age, one pili a close, 25 cents a box, at all dealere, of tedtrienson, Bates & Co., Toronto. '1'o protect you agctinet imitatlontr, the portrait, and dignature of Dr., dt, W. Chose, the famous receipt book author, alt) on ovary box, tate desperate remedy she sought, and elle wept bitterly et finding It. Aicautvltile, hairy 'T'r'evor, passing roue tot d the rout t- ar• d found Artiey c, in pleased contemplation of a great pilo of slaughtered game that had been emptied from tltu carts. "Seventy -live brace to my own gun —not a bad MMt of shooting," he said complacently as be ran his arm through 'J'reeor's and turned with him towards the house, "Cull I hero a word or two with you?" said Trevor to Ardcl, as they crossed the great hall toget her. "Of course you can, old mall, Cotte to my meta now, Theile I um getting my shooting togs aLT, and having n tub. You don't mind talking while I'in tubbing, llo you? No—Come along then.'' her '' Arclel's dressing -room was on the ground floor, and a full half of the space was covered by n great plunge bath, lined with white porcelain tiles, where tho tepid water dimpling In the bright sumshino that filled the room throw a waving i'ettontlon up to the high ceiling. When Ariel, throwing off his shoot- ing clothes, made ready for a plunge Harry Trevor noted with a mottoes kind of envy (himself conscious of the humor of it) the dark, handsome face flushed by healthful exercise, the strong frame, deep -chested, and clean ihnbed, For a moment Ariel paused on the bath's brim, drew a deep breath, and went in head foremost, and lay foe a long minute prone on the cool white floor, with a gentle upward ]motion of hands and feet, till a string of tiny bead-like bubbles streamed up through the clear water. Presently he was out again, drip- ping anct glowing, draped in a huge rough towel through which his limbs and chest showed mruble white, He caught up two fifty-six pound dumb -bells, and swung then alter- nately round his head like feather weights, the muscles smoothly rising and sinking on legs and arms with every easy motion, like the ridges and dimples of swift flowing water. So far not a word had been spok- en. It was Ardel began. 13o turn- ed, half-dressed, to Trevor, who had been watching him with whimsical admiration, hardly knowing how to say what he bad come to say. "Well, Harry, old man," he cried, "what's on your mind? Out with it. Can I help you in any tvay. You look a bit sonify anti worried. Have you been moralizing over the slaugh- tered pheasants, as the melancholy— what's his name2—Jacques, moraliz- ed over the wounded deer? He had bis share of the venison at dinner for all that, I'Il be bound." "It's a serious matter, Ardel; to me, at least; terribly serious, Per- haps not less to you. You must bear with the patiently if you can. I want to have a few words with you about—Jeannette," He had meant to end the sentence with Lucy. He could not tell in the least how the other name came in- stead.. But Aridel started and flushed at the name, and Trevor, suddenly see- ing his advantage went on before the other could reply. "You know she and I have been always like brother and sister, and her happiness is very dear to me." Then Ardel's face lightened et once, and he broke in with desperate baste. "I know it is, IIarry. I know it ought to be. I have often longed to speak to you about her, but somehow I never could get the words out when I had the chance. I need not say there is one whose opinion I think more of, But I shirked this subject, To tell you the truth, old tan"—with an uneasy little laugh— "I wasn't quite sure of the brother - and -sister business. I' fancied you mlgitt like to go one better, and I've seen her look at you now and again in a way that gave me a nasty twinge." Trevor laughed outright at hitt. "Jealous," he sale. "Well, you need not, be; she's ten times as much with you, and ten times as ]appy in your company."m it yes, I know. We get on pretty well together, sometimes," the other answered with lover's modesty. "She often seems to forget how old I am, and I generally manage to for- got it myself, till all of a sudden I catch lice looking at me in a half - frightened ]reel of way, and I know right well what she is thinking of. I might have a chance, perhaps, if I were not an old man, but—why, HIar- ry, I'm et least three times as old as she is." "Not quite," the other answered curtly. He dict not scent to like the topic of Ardcl's age. "Well, you know what I mean. It's a lie to say 'a man is as young as ho Nola' In that case 1'd bo under twenty; I feel like a boy. I love to be with young People, and do what they do, and get laughed at for my Pains. Do you know, Barry, I some- times feel quite miserable about it? I do so want to be young, I feel as if I never lead any real youth." Trevor started as if to speak, but thought better of it. "Well, 1 suppose Y was young once like everybody else, but I have not the least remembrance of it." "Not the least?" "Sometimes 1 have the queerest no- tion. I seen, to remember in a vague,. misty kind of way, as if It was about somebody also, that I was a little kid called Barry, and that is nonsense, of course, Ilut it 'stops there. I have trteci till my head ached to get a Mimetic into the past, but, it was no use. The fleet, thing T. really remember is you, a. little boy, teething me, a big luau, to read words of the syllable. They 1:c1I me I was it wonderful jesser once upon a time, that, lewas a great doctor, who Made all sorts of discoveries and sacod People's Byes, 1 ucy espeeinl- ty is always dying to recall those clays, but they have gone clear out or any bend, I'm nothing new but a, blundering duffel', with the hreins of a <ciioolhoy, anti to crown iii e must neeele fell bend over heels in love with a schoolgirl, whom I can never ]marry, of course," " W"y?' 'I"r et'oi' nQkocl. "telly! every Why. It's tint lilt4 you, old chap, to snake fun of a fel- low. She's tixt,,cat and I'm fot'ty- soven. There are thirty strong reit- 1 sons why;1 sir's a young girl and I'm cut old man." flurry Trevor winced again at tate word "old." "Well," be said slowly, "what can. net be cannot be, I suppose, But there are ot1101' tre1ll00 DI a 0101'0 suitable age, There's Miss TRay, for example," "l'op's chaff, There is only one woman in the world for me, Tt is ]ter or nobody, and that spalls em- body, Don't laugh at me, Harry, like a decent fellow, but I feel as it Limy ]Boy was years oldor leen 1 ane instead of years younger. I seem to have a kinds of dream of another life, when I was a wee chap, and she was a grown woman, and read fairy tales to me. rat sante- times more than half afraid of her, I cannot help It, I fear I trust bo a little mad," be wound up ruefully. "That's rner'o folly," said Trevor; "look at things from the bright side, not the blaclg"—he bed brightened up wonderfully himself, "Have you. never said a word of all this to Jeannette?" "Never, 'and never will. It would bc, too absurb." "Why not, at least, give her •the chance to choose?" "Loop bore, I10.'ry; whatever 1 am I hops I'm not a cad, and that would be the act of a cad. I don't Believe sho cares two straws about nee in that way, but if 1 thought she did, all the more reason for eaying nothing—for going clean away out of this, It would be mean to take ad- vantage of her youth, Why, I'll be an old man without bait or teeth when she is still it young girl." "You put it unpleasantly, Vivian," Harry answered with a grim smile, "but you put it straight. I agree husband and wife should grow to old age together yet-----" 'There is no 'yet' about it. I feel now 1 ought to cut and run out of temptation, but I feel, too, as if 1 could not live out of her sight, I haven't pluck enough in me to try," "Vivian," said Trevor after a long pause, and the intense earnestness of his voice fixed the other's attention at once, "believe mo there is hope for you even yet. I amt glad you spoke out so freely. It helps me in what I may have to say to you, when I can find strength and courage. I have a secret to tell, and a choice to offer—a grim secret; a strange choice that may utterly change both our lives, but it will be for you to choose," Arclol looked at him, utterly my- stified, with wide-open eyes and lips apart• I don't know in the least what you mean, Harry, but nothing you can say, nothing you can do, can give ale the love of Jeannette or the right to take it." "Don't be too sure, even of that," the other answered, and passed from the room abruptly, leaving A^del still utterly bewildered. But he puttee/ himself together quickly, for no trouble troubled him long, At luncheon he was again the gayest of the gay, chatting and laughing with Jeannette in tho volatile exuberance of youth, as if no serious thought had ever touched him in all his life. (To bo continued.) KEEPING FLOORS Vt'77IITL• An unpainted wood floor should never be touched with soap or soapy water, as this darkens it and dulls the clearness. ' If the floors are dark- ened or very dirty, sharp sand should ho thrown over it, wetting with a few quarts of water, Then with stubby brooms nearly worn out, scour hard the way of the grain, Bear down hard until the sand bites into the wood,, then dash with a little water at a Limo to get the sand up. Sweep it into the dust- pan`and pour it into a paf1, Uso a newer broom for this. When the sand bas been taken up, use Ivator freely. Sweep again until the floor gets clearer. Always sweep vigorously the way of the grain. With ca atop get the floor as dry as possible. Open door's and windows and allow 110 one to put foot in the room again until perfectly dry, It must not bo allowed to freeze,, or it will never be so white again. These directions are for the regular yearly cleaning, or any floor which has been allowed eo get in bad condition, A COSTLY WARSITIP. Tito Dominion, when completed, will represent an expenditure of L1,- 805,000. The vessel weighs 11,000 tons and bas a. dispalcenent of 16,- 850 tots. Mer length is 4215 foot, speed eighteet and a half knots, aid her two sots of engines and four cylinders will 'develop 18,000 horse- power, A WELL PAID SINGER. Ba'oness Cederstrom (Al'.me. Patti) says that her American torr is for sixty concerts guaranteed and an- othar ten after these if .she likes to accept them.. Tho rate of remunera- tion is 05,000 a concert, with the cost of travelling by sea and rail for her party for tire' whole tofu' aililod thereto. AI,PS DEATH TOLL. Never in the history of the Alps have death and 'disastet been 00 common on the 100111itaitas ns diming the present, season. Over 800 ncci- 'den.ts )rave occurred, resulting in the loss of no fewer than 150 Iit'es, Some weeks ego n lecturer, being unahfo to fulfil an ongegemcnt, at a menial town, wired; )inponsiblo to none to -14M; give the audienc'o hack their money, ' ITh received thu following 119.)y .' "We hetet given the aurIiertre 11eet< 1115 money, and bo lute g0uc honte•l;m'fecily setir.tled." Mother : "Tommy, what's the emit- ter with your little brother ?'' Tom. n>y : " Ho's crying because T'tn eat- ing my rake and won't give itim any,''' h'tother' : "Is ]lis own calca flnislted 1" Tommy c "Yn*s'iu, end )te cried Mille I was oatin' that, tem," [iN THE FIPI Vi7A1S Z'4idinWt %'n OUd4.Y49 THE ClRLArtt Slii'AIRATOIt. The inairt 1>roiticut for the dairy- man after lie has produced the italic, is tba separation of Out cream and the manufacture of it product which will bring )tiro lire greatest profit with the least cost, Tire one piin- cli,lu actuating all slairy operations is a greute>' economy le production and a bettor quality of the product, writes Air, ]e, L. Vdoodbousc. 31' an easier aril cheaper way of 'doing the wot'k of the feria ie dis- covered,. the new plan stunt bo fah/P- latt its the interests of economy. 11 it is cheaper to .do the sepetraling at home grid telco only the cream to the butter factory, titan it 5 to haul each day's milk to the crea e- ery, wait for the separating to be done ewe take the slcinnmlik home. Why not adopt this cheaper plan ? wraiitltic '1'klil SAVING COMES IN. To take each day's milk to the factory will require at lent an Hour daily. T)nis means to the fernier who produces milk the year round, £i(05 hours' work for a Hurn and team Perhaps he goes for a time in the winter every other day; this will re- duce the time to probably 300 hours. This is one month,• or one -twelfth of the entire year spent in going to the factory. Trow many 'dollars is this time worth 7 Diflcrent amounts to different farmers, but not less than $75, and to some more than that, For $100 to $150 a lnacliine that will skirt front 4.00 to 600 pounds of milk per hour can bo secured. With a 'dairy of ten cows it will take probably 15 minutes to iso the separating, A far better quality of ekim,miltc is available for feeding lo young stock because it is warm, sweet and clean and in the best pos- sible condition. Where the separat- ing can be ;done with a tread power, operated by some animal, the ex- pense is reduced to almost nothing. The required time for the work need tot be conmdored, as the separating acid milking can be done at the same time. If run by a small gasoline engine the expense need not be over 2 cents an hour. I utilk eight cows and run a 500 -pound per hour machine 'do my separating in from ten to 15 mintes,, go with the cream twice a week in sunlit -tier and once a week in other seasons, and I am saving it great 'deal of time and labor com- pared to the old plan of 'driving four miles ovary morning with the milk and spending from one to two hours in gutting it siciuuned. Under these conditions I consider that two years' use of the machine has more than paid for it, HOW TO CARE FOR CREAM. Tho question of disposing of tale cream is easily answered. Arrange a tank 'deep enough to sot cream cans in and cover tight. Place this between your pump and stock tank, so that all water pumped for the stock passes into this 'ta.ulc, circulates around the cans and runs out into the larger tanks Plunge cans con- taining the warm cream into this water as Soo11 as separated and keep it there until you aro really to deliver it to the buttcrmake•, Cream will keep sweet 45 hours in the wannest weather, but may bo ]sept for four bs.y5 and then bo in just the right condition for eburning. Factorynten are glad to run a wagon to gather up cream where a number of farmers near each olbiu' work on this plan_, and !n many places this is 'done. Tho farmers all have bawl separators, and the buttermakcr keeps a wagon on the road ovary day gathering o'oo.m. IIe docs no separating at the factory at all. The best possible time to seporato creams from milk is when first drawn. and while the anirnnal )seat is still re- tained. If allowed to cool aid then be boatel to the proper temperature for skimming, 0,011\p10te separation is more difficult to attain. The fawn separator is in just the position to save all loss by tuning out the ere= before the milk cools or becomes acid, TI10 best types of farm separators are so simple that a child can take them apart aunt put tion together, and run Chant without hanger if pro - Pet' cafe is given to Oiling 1:110 fast running parts acid keeping the bowl clean, A farm separator will run for years with practically no repairs, so the first cost is the only expense. This is paid bade to the user at least two years be runs it, in actual sss'bag of time and travel, to say nothing' of the greater convenience and better quality of skhnmilk. Any 'dairyman who keeps live cows and lives a utile or more trent a factory can adore] to busy a separator, It will be a positive saving to hitt, AFTER PRUNING• Me TREES, This must be attolidoii lo annually with unfailing regularity; it is abso- lutely indispensable to success, There is no ironclad rule that grin be ap- plied intoiigontly to all kinds of tree fruite, or in fact to any one kind; leo two trees aro Just alike, nor can they 1)o made so with the best and most approved scieul.if10 skill or management. As a matte• of fart each tree has, em 10 speak, 0.11 iticliviclueeity and formation or its own and should be pruned ec'eording ly, • .Wien the trees receive annual treatment,, and have been brought into the proper shape by judicious pruning and atteant1011, tiho only Bruning efteritard 'needed is to re- move any branches t.itat arc netting or lntertering with each other and to 11008 the heed in symmetrical. shape and swell open to the sun,. light, a a nil air. In negleetell trees when 501'0iro ))1'nhiug is a tteeessitY, tl>r, wound should be made smooth ani] a Coating of paint or ebonite applied to protect it from the weath- er and prevent decaay, THE PIG'S FOOD,. Ono of the Chief remains why :gime pig raisers fall to soefre the success Width their neighbors.:onjoy is be - 00.050 410 ltiteltan refuse is allowed to hecolne ft'ntented before being fed, 3t is a mistake to imagine that everything a pig will eat is good for hine He has Inc.'ly no greater need, nor don; his syste>n eau for food strongly acid, them at titan would bevy for ploktes ut every meal, '1'he'e Is no more active agent in promoting iutlf,geslion in pigs of all egos and in checking rapid owl prolt.nihle growth flout spur swill. ft l'c'eps;igniter pigs thin in flesh and 5111111, and for older ones,, and brood sows in particular it commonly, puts theta off 11 dr feed, While everything coining from the kitchen should i>r. made use of, its receptacle shouts] be kept clean. 'fake it all down to the pens wallet fresh enc] feed at once; nothing can be gained by delay, and rtrucli may be los• t, CURING `l'1rI0 CYP1;17 P. After the cheese has been Presse] it le then bandaged by sowing a piece of cheesecloth around it. If the cheese is very largo and strong, a piece of sack cloth is fated ahcr,t it as tightly as p0ssp,':n The cheese aro then placed on ;hels,is in the curing room, ''bier is bops "t a temperature between 00 end 70 de- grees. Wide the room must be wen ventilated, there must be no drafts, The cheese should be turned every day during the first month, twice a weolc during the next ntontit and slur- ing the remainder of the period once a weep. A good cheddar cheese is not fit for using until it is three months old, PRIVILEGES O' A PEER HAS RIGHT TO WEAR A THAT I;EFORE ROYALTY, Xing .john Granted the Right to the Chief of the cle Oourey Family, Among the half-dozen hail's to Brit ish peereges who ttttein their ma - foray this month, the most interest- ing, perhaps, is the lion. 'Michael do ('ourey, oldest son of Lord IC8tgsaio who comes of ago on Saturday next, and on his father's death will inher- it not only the premier barony of 'Ireland, but likewise the hereditary privilege of wearing his hat in the ].loyal presence, The ICingeale peer- age is one of the most interesting in Croat Britain, its creation dating back to the twelfth century, It was King John of sorry memory who granted to the chief of the do Courcy fancily this privilege of re- maining covered in the presence of the sovereign, under the following circumstances: The Sir John do Courcy of that day, who seems to have been a sort of Het-eulrs, had been imprisoned by the ICitibl' in the Tower of London and his estates . conflscatoci, when Philip Atlguetus of 'France ]trade an offer to the English ntolta.relt to settle by single combat a dispute which itas arisen between the two concerning the Duchy of Normandy, each monarch to provide ITIS OWN CHAMPION. King John was so unpopular that he could End no :British nobleman willing to act as his champion, until he bethought himself of Sir John de Courcy, who was provgiicd upon to undertake the task. It is related that when everything was prepared for the contest, in the presence of the kings of England, Franco and Spain, the French champion• on catehing sight of the gigantic pro- portions of his English, or rather Irish, ad'v'ersa'y, was seized with panic, put spurs to his horse and fled from the arena, whereupon tho victory was adjudged by acclamee tion to the champion of England. The French and Spanish kings being informed of the English champion's great strength, and desiring to wit- ness some exhibition of it, Do Courcy at King John's request, cleft a massive steel helmet, full faced with mail," in twain with a single blow of his sword, which cut so deeply into the block of. wood 011 which the helmet had been set that nobody but himself could draw the weapon out again. The sword with which this blow was struck, its well as Do Courcy's armor, is on exhibi- tion to this day in the Tower of London. Icing John was so delight- ed with the perrormancc that he not only restored his estates to his champion, but likewise desired him to ask anything within his gift end it should be granted. De Courcy re- plied that he desired that he and his successors Have the privilege, their first obeisance being made, to remain covered in sho presence of the sover- eign and of all future kings of ling - land, which request was IMMEDIATTELY CONCEDED, Almericus, twenty-third Lord King - sale, 1692, in observance. of the ancient privilege of his house, ap- peared in the presence of Ring Wil- liam 11I. covered, and when that monarch expressed surprise at this discourtesy explained: "Sire, my name is De Courcy. 1 am Lord of leingsale, in ,your Majesty's King- dom of Ireland, and the reason of ]my appearing covered in your Ma- jesty's presence is to assort the an- cient privilege of ]my family, granted to Sir John de Courcy, Earl of Ulster_ and his heirs by Ring John," The Icing acknowledge the privilege and gave the lord his band to kiss, when the peer paid his obeisance, doffed his hat nod users resttmcd it again. The present Lord If�ingsale is the twetty-third of his lite, and, like most of his tuuneciinte procleces- so1's, is poor, Indeed, his entire in- come is det'vocl loom his managing directorship of the Moran Tea Cone pany, fn London, while his only bro- ther, the Ilon. Robert de Courcy. was, until he recently inherited an annuity of $5,000 a year a cabin steward on a Peninsular and Orient- al steamship running between 1']11g - land and Australia, wielding, in addition to his napkin, a cornet as a member of the ship's band. Tito poverty of the De Courcys is nothing new, for Lord Walpole, in a letter written in 1762, rote's to the Lord 1Cingsalo of the day as eatable to as- steno his privilege of remaining coV- ei'acl, since "till. the King gives hitt a pension he cannot buy the oilcn- sive hat," FREAKS OF HAIRDRESSING, Melted Butter for Hair 05 Used 13y the Abyssinians. In Abyssinia one method of doing the hair that Is adopters by warriors is to strol. into the market place, buy a pound of butter. and, putting it upon the top of the hair, staid still while the sun ar>'ariges things. When the hair is thus dressed with molted bettor tee Abyssinian knows that fete cannot, or will not, touch him -1>e is a picture of walledressod elegance done in oils. Another style Is to tress the hair, and every tress means something. A young warrior with a head of hair undress- ed fs of no account; he has not yet killed a man. When, however, be has done so all his hair is shaved except enough to make one tress, which is of the same tigniflcation as a notch on a pistol stock. After that every mat ho kid s entitles him to add another tress, until as a con- quo'fng hero of 100 tresses he is es formidable man to try conclusions with. Some of the Now Hebrides people do their hair up in a bunch on the top of the head and stale ft -follow, while the inhabitants of Otnhat is- land pass it through a tube so as to make a kind of plume. The Mar- quesas chief's favorite method is to have all the head except two patches ono over each tennelt, where he cul- tivatcs two horns of hair, No ' doubt this is to meter hint more a tiring of terror to bis enemies than 1 of admiration to his friends. His reason for shaving the rest of the head is to allow more space for tat- tooing, as if all the available skin of tl>o body were not enough. No one has visited Fiji in the pact without being astonished at no fear- ful and woncl.o>ful styles of hairdress- ing, They aro geometrical, mono - mental, pyramidal and trcpazoidnl. An additional factor in this produc- tion of the grotesque is that the hair varies in color as luno varies in bleaching power, Or as the juice of the mangrove In coloring matter, Be- tween black and white the colors run through the blue -blade anti ell shades of red and yelinw. Often half the hair is red and the other half white, giving a ]rind of piebald effect, NIJNTS TO IIOUSEKRBP1II•IS. A physician of large practice says he has found an egg, tho most ellica- edoes .cure for it bone felon. Ire uses it in this fashion : 'fake a fresh egg and crack the larger end, making a bole just big enough to adroit the thump or finger,, end forcing it into the egg ELS Inc as possible without further rupture of the shell. Wipe off' the egg that runs out, bind a handkerchief or soft cloth over all, and lot the finger remain over night. Clemently the felon is cured; if not, another applicatloit finishes Equal poets of grapes and apples matte a nice jell}', particularly good to servo with mate. In staking apple jolly tr'y the effect of the juice and the thin yellow rind Of Ono leucon to a pint of juice, Strain out the bite of lemon peel as the jelly le poured i>1 the glasses. Apple jelly to servo with roest goose mutton or froth pork is delicately flavored with mint. Make the jelly - as usual (though unripe apples aro the best) and to each cup of the strained juice add a tablospoohiful of mint juice prepared in this way' ]Yash a cup of wint loaves, add a cul) of ha water and steep one hour, Lay e piece of cheesecloth over a bowie pout' the mint lenges into it, and roll up the rioll> and press out the moisture. A tablespoonful of this colon's the jelly a delicate green. In making an omelet, instead of potting the usual' bit of butter into the pan, try a couple of spoo>sful of nrllk, fust enough to make a thin Abu over Clr bottom of the pan, and follow with the agg5, Cook slowly Eggs should not bo cooked at n high tolnpai'aturo under any circuutstances whore they, are served alone, Sillicus : "Ileac you noticed that most heroes aro married mon?" Cynicus ; "Sir, every married mal' is et ltcr0,1' . g - Chago'eyOtnl oaf fs ahaattgln • an r d aberg 1 ante fur on and overs tcevt or itahlIt rilaave ga rentocl,11, �+pilon, the lvanniaetnrerraa have tynerantoli it. i Haig t. liniments in the chilly ernes and ask your neigh. hors 'enrmo et'lte think of You calf useitand set roue inonev back It not oared. Ole abets Ali call daalars Or ]$nM:uas ox,l)n'rus co„Toronto, s& 0)1 lrant • CLEVER BIRDS, it is said that parrots are the cleverest of all birds. They have sucha well -organized police system ti that no other species of b'ir'd ever ventures to attack thane, and they invariably flip of old age, Briggs : 'It's too ball about Win- kle and the gh'i ho 1s ongegcrl to, Neither of thein is good though for the other.” Griggs ",What makes ,you think that 2" We11, I'ye ' just been talliitlg the matter over with both, families." Mrs. Na.ggtb,y (inmpelianily rail- ing 31"Nora, drop everything at Deco ad, conte to lea 1" torn ; "Yes, nna'an.." hits, Neggsby : "Note, c'hat's the boby crying for?" Nova,: '"'Cause I dropped hie, uta an,,, Mee, Cioectist : "Oh, iso luny me a 110w bonne.t., my 'clear, 1t will sot all mys lrtenils talking," Clor eflst "If' you're after tette roty, why don't you get the olid - one a'of.i'inpnail 7 t'liat will Make your friends talk twice as moth," "1 paint filings ac I stet them," said the a'tiet, I endo•stand thet vm'' well,, said flat visite; "fart )tow under the eun. oke yon ere,' tem." things as ,you paint then) 3"• -4