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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-11-19, Page 2STRONGER T r k.N DEATH A RANSOMED LIFE cFCCS'92ig%>nfd7J7a0 t^�p 9Wa� t�1VD+lIC: F']lfa it�0ae3a*�wto^asra � fIDGD i Qil 'iyiB� IO CleaFThJ XVII, Next day it poured: a ebbe, soft a lett, entummal rain, that tv1'appe tto woods in a fleece of grey cloud Ariel, With an impatient, clespairin gimlet) at lye inexorable sky, led tet 'Way after breakfast to the gymnasl ' uui. 'The girls, delighted, as girls al ways era, to invade a mete terri tory, ranged round the walls of th great roofer with curious eyes trod fingers. With great effort Jeannette lifted a fen, inches front the cocoanut neat ting ono of the huge dumbbells which Arde1 twirled ss lightly, and let it drop again with a frightened little scream. at its weight. '.Chen sloe thrust iter tiny fists into the recesses of a big pair of boxing gloves, and stood facing him saucily an a charmingly unscientific pose, with a dancing light in her dark eyes that made him long to catch her up and crumple her in his arms. For Lucy, the slim, bright foils were the main attraction of the place. Slit took one up by the em- bossed hilt, and the air sang and the bright steel flickered as she switched it like a lady's riding whip. "It's such a dainty toy," she said to Haiyy Trevor, "I lore to see you men what you call 'play' with it. You could not kill a man with that little steel strip, of course!" He showed her the button at the .b top of the slim.lade. "If that were oft, Lucy," he said, "every touch were death. It's a small thing, isn't it, to stand be- tween a man and eternity?" She was dismayed at the very thought of it. "I shall never love to look at the deadly things again," she said. "Oh, don't let that frighten your They are as harmless now as bean- stalks. The foil cannot break nor the button come oft. They bave been tested to a hundred times the strain we put them to." He bent the blade till he held the point with the hilt in his hands. Then he let it go, and it flew straight with a swish. "You might as well try and snap whalebone," ho said. "Aro you going to play with them now?" "I think so, though it's very lit- tle use for any of us to stand against Ardel, rm.rm.a bit quicker, perhaps. I'm a great deal younger, you know," with a mocking little smile, "but his strength is wonder- ful. He has got an eye like lightn- ing and a wrist of steel, and— What a boaster I'm growing into!" "But you have not been praising yout'solf," said Lucy surprised; "only Dr. Ardel," "Oh! it's the same thing!" he an- swered, smiting again that mocking, little smile. "You know that we two pro one." "Come along, girls," cried Ardel's cheery voice, "get to your perch; the performance is about to begin." They posed through a door masked in the upholstered wall, up a spiral stair of wrought iron to the al- cove, furnishod like a lady's bou- doir. There, seated luxuriously at tho low balustrade, they had a full view of the friendly gladiators in the arena below. They were tremb- ling with excitement. Why is it that men—and women even more than mets—admire courage, physical strength and skill, beyond all other things in the world? Su- premo courage and contempt of death are the commonest attributes of the lower animals. If we want to flatter a hero, we say ho has the courage of a lion or of a bulldog. We might say of a gamecock, or a bantam, or a cockchafer, and it would still be flattery, In strength and speed, in quickness of eye and grace of limb, there are brutes with whom man can hear no comparison. Has intellect alone crowns hint monarch of creation; it is his power, his glory—the one thing worthy to be admired, Of i course, of course, all that is readily conceded. But to sot admiration aflame with life, to make the blood tingle and the heart throb with norm enthusiasm, there 113 needed some feat of strength and skill and courage, whether in killing or sav- ing matters net at all. g Next to real lighting, the inimicry o of battle is the most exhilarating of - spectacles, The boxing of Ardci and Trevor - Was gt delightful parody of the brutal - business of the ring. The hits wore e quick as light, the touches sort as thistle -down; yet the nervous force to fell an ox was held in check be- hind each blew. Presently they flung aside the box- ing -gloves and took tr, the foils. All three were past masters of this most graceful of manly exercises. Wickham was esteemed the crack fencer of his regiment. and there w.ts a vague rumor that he had in France hurt a man to death in a duel. He and Ardel were matched for a first bout, while Harry Trevor stood by as judge, closely watching the points. These two had never played together before this. On the soldier's face, as he glanced up to the eager watchers in the al - rove, there was a look of quirt con- fidence, touched with disdain for the civil f an, Then steel rasped on steel, and each felt the other's purpose, and tested his skill along the quivering blades. The smile passed from Wickham's lips, Half a dozen quick passes with the clear tip -tap of tink- ling steel, and Ardel's point eluded Wickham's guard and shot homie. "A hit! a palpable bit!" quoted Trevor, and the blades crossed again. Wickham's pride was roused. Ire put forth his utmost skill. It was of no avail; he was quite out- classed. Ardel's strength and quick- ness were prodigious. Itis blade - point spun .round the opposing steel and wont in like a flash of light. His passes were so close and strong that they wrenched his opponent's muscles like a blow. Another touch! the button struck full on Wickham's breast es if there had been no sword in the way to his- der. Then he lost his coolness and forc- ed the fighting. Quick as a serpent's tongue Ardtel's point agate and again darted past his guard. Ile lunged furiously in reply, with dead- ly purpose in his thrusts, as though his blade's point was naked and his dearest foe, and not his host and; friend, was facing it. Closer and closer ho pressed, thrusting madly, careless of defence. Then with a quick. turn of Ardei's iron wrist the blade was wrenched from his hand, and sent flying against the padded wall of the gymnasium a dozen yards away. For just one second Wiclham,s face was distorted by deadly passion, and he ground a fierce curse out between his teeth. The next he laughed good humoredly at his own defeat, "No more at present for yours bat entranced, Their Sympathy seemed to inspire the combatants. Both' were at their best, Trevor, ateadiey o the defensive, knaivo twice par- ried r- sled a lightning lungs of Aidol's that nad never failed before, 'Then it was Ar'del's turn to grow excited. Itis foil dented and Bashed hither and thither like the darting spirit of au electric point io battery, The nr 1t tt shot suddenly past Trevor's guard, too swift to parry. But with a sud- den swerve, that bent his body like a bow, he let the thrust go by in empty spare. The reply took ltrdei full in the breast. "A bit!" cried Wickham delighted- ly to Lucy, who watched with teem anti heart. "fly Jove! young 'Tre- vor is his nester after alt." He spoke too soon. Tho touch put Ardei 00 his mettle, and Tre- vor's last chalice was gone. There teas no more impatience, no 11101•e excltcment, hie stood like a rocit— impregnalalo. Three times his point went home past Trevor's guard; twice he almost wrenched the toll's hilt front his grasp, liven to u skilled eyes the play was nlarvellou The women, watching with stair] eyes and lips half parted, scarce dared to breathe; and Rickham, ey- ing them keenly, saw that Lucy tr ulrrphed fn Ardui's victory, will Jeannette was hurt by the defeat Trevor. The last bout was lough steadily to a close. More than on the button on Trevor's foil was wit in a hair's breadth of the brow chest of iris opponent; but the parr came in the nick of time. At th last sharp prod from Ariel in th left side, Trevor dropped his point at last and threw his mask away, 0- s. >w; ly e - la of ce h - d y while ripening it. And that is the e kind of butter that will 001 keep e very long. no never had butter keep better than when we used the good old- fashioned oak tub. Nothing better in the way of a package will over be discovered either thrum that same old-fashioned oak tub. The man who says dirt will strain out does nut know what he is talk - Ing aloin. The strainer that will take filth out of milk has never been invented. It cannot be invented. Ounces of feed do not bring pounds of butter. feed well if you would get full .milk pails. No man ever learned how to scrimp a cow and not have the cow catch hint at. it. Sho may be a fool, but she is too smart for any man who thinks he can cheat her that way. The cow is not like the threshing - machine which can take in boundless of grain mixed with weeds and this- tles and turn out at the spout only the clean wheat, She must make her milk and butter from what she eats and only clean sweet grasses and grains will make pure butter that will 'stance up' always and everywhere. The cow's bag is not made of 111 - die -rubber. Some of us act as if we thought it was and that the cow has 0.0 'feeling in it. But she has. She is the most sensitive of crea- tures and no doubt suffers much at the hands of her milkers. The cow which is a famous milker for one man may be nothing but an old scrub for another. It de- gip,, �� _�.....��5'�i._.T�. vi o!_�_ ON THEFARI Z6:67106166llu%06, DAIRY NUL) ()liana, tY i , 1l,Tb, Al.lout the p0111051. way t0 make tele button ccmno that I. Mien of is to pour hot water' into the cream or to set the churn by the stove for an hour Or two vvrltes ta.COl•l't's11o11- dent. Cream that has bear propol'- Iy ripened will come all right with- out any such doctoring•, and doctor- ed cream buakes pout' butter every time. Nobody has ever exactly figured out Just what is the relation bo- tveen getting the ,.'ow all "rolled tip" at milling Limo and tr. derided failing off 111 the qualify of her milk but it is a fixed fact the man who allows his cows to be excited and wrought up at that time gets poor- er butter by several points than he would if he treated his cows kindly. The frames must come into use all the way in butter -making byt they Dover should come in direct cocztart WI th t110 butter itself'. 'Take it out with a ladle work it with a ladle and put it iuto the package wlth a ladle, One of the surest ways in the world to make butter smooth and greasy is to overheat tho cream "Enough!" ho cried panting, but smiling at his own defeat, "Nonsense, man," Ariel retorted, "ran hardly warm yet!" But Jean- nette impatiently struck the silver gong on the tea table in the al- cove, as tho herald (rings down his mace. "I will give you just ten minutes to dress," she called down to thele, "and no tea for any one that's half a second late." In ten minutes the transformed gladiators were. seated in the alcove, sipping afternoon ten ft'otn egg -shell china. llut .Jeannette was still brimming over with enthusiasm, though her sympathies seemed to have suddenly shifted from Trevor to Ardcl, "01, it was glorious! glorious!" she exclaimed. It sets one's pul- ses dancing to the glint and clash of the steel just like a real battle." "Not quite," said 'Trevor and Wickham together. The same words, but there was a world of difference in the tone. "It's but a poor business after all, Wbckham continued sneeringly; "a game for boys to play and girls to look at. It has no touch of tho glorious excitement of real war." "The glorious excitement of the butcher's shop," Trevor retorted, startling them all as the spoke so earnestly; startling Wickham most of all. '•Are you a Quaker, Trevor?" be asked a little contemptuously, "I alts a tan," the other answered hotly, "who has no patience with the folly and savagery of war. Acre we are, poor helpless creatures that could not give life to a Ily, and we hinlc it glorious to slaughter men wholesale. Why, this saute science f killing is the chief science of the nrld. Money and mind are lavish - 1 on it. 1f any man stakes a great iscovery, the first thought is how o host can use it to kill other men. Ylen want to fly mainly that they lay do their killing more readily," "i did not speak of butchery, as ou call it," said Wickham. a little ulkily, "hut of civilized warfare." Civilized warfar•el the grotesque tiquette of nhassarre! It's wrong o kill men with hot shot, but right o break them. up with dynamite ombshells, It would 110 atrocious o poison a single soldier; but it's mite in order to mangle a whole egintent with .machine guns. When very deadly desire has been tried to ill and mutilate mon wholesale, de - comm 1' 141lr05 that surgeons should o provided to patch them uo in de - ail, Where is the difference. I'd like o know between civilized warfare nd uncivilized murder, except in the magnitude. of the crime? The 0011' - ever kills one man, inflamed by otne strong motive,—Mt may lie orae intolerable wrong; the con- queror kills half a .million—or rather he gets fools to clo his killing for him --for glory's salve, that he may be named in history as the most expert and successful murderer of his age." "Don't call it murder," Ardul in- terposed; "it's fair play all round. The soldier risks his 0011 life—" "That's cold comfort to the man he Rills or mangles; to the wife or mother or children of the man he kills. You don't compensate thein for that dear lost life by telling them that the Ulan who took it was brave." •'llut there's the. honor, the glory," Andel persisted. The other laughed contemptuously, " 'Tho cackle of the tinh0l'f about the gravo'—the slily wicked cackle that is the incitement to 110W cl'itlies." "Olt, that's nonsense, Harry; you ust know that's nonsense, The en most praised, most thought lout, and talked about, and writ - 11 about, aro tho men that Won. g battles, hist fry and poetry aro 11 of them, liven yet wo know ail lout the chaps before Tlemcr's time mho prodded each other with spears 1d smashed each other With big stores round the Walls of 'Troy, and that's all we do know about those days or the men that lived in theinrq, It's the same thing all the way Clown through history. The big gen- Orals aro the great men; Alexander the Great, or Hannibal, or Seipfo, or Napoleon to our own time, who came within an ace of conquering all Europe. Lay your hand on your heart, T3arry, and say you Would not be a Napoleon 11 you could." "I'd sooner bo the devil," he alt- aw¢red futpetuousiy, "the eruetlest truly," he said, as Andel offered the hilt of his recovered foil, "1 know my master when I meet hits. Gave to Trevor a lesson. I'll join the ladies o and look on." "He's invulnerable," he whispered h to Lucy, when he mounted to the alcove, not without n note of latent n malice iu his voice. "You sec, he gives his whole life to this kind of y SYYia i . L CHASES t A� e WARN Ve 1s sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blast. t limals Ilia ulcers, clears lite ate b 501355 e1, steps d-appi t .13 Wu t thcort mad permaaer. t ecce® Catarrh and Hay7 Fever, Dlower q fres, .all deeto,-a or Dn A. W. Chase r bledlalae Co,. Toronto, and Saida. e thing. Trevor' is going to have a c try now. I'll het a hundred to one b on the big fencing master." But, to Wickham's surprise, it t presently appeared that these two s opponents were far more closely matched. Coolness and judgment d wet'e with the younger man, though s 0 physical strength and skill the el- s der was manifestly his nla.ster. Again the steel blades clashed and glaitcred in quick motion, and the girls in the alcove wretched the conr- c aQ�y� a':,ti. M 1`'azw?•M Get,d W e 1 t! t Piles 0 `g C When Doctors and Surgeons, P edicines and Opetr- a'tioris Fail, YOU ®ala be Cured by Dr. Chase's Ointments Thorn is always songs standard by Which the merits of the article are nieasnl'od. Among ointments the standard is Dr, Chaim's. If a dealer tries to sell you ally other kind be tries to t'ilnch his argument by sny- ing 'Vials is as good as Dr. 011ase's." Don't be satisfied with substitutes et'. imitations, for Dr, Chase's Oint- ment is the only positive and guar- anteed dire for every form of piles. Rev. Wm. Thomas, Brownsville. Oot., writes r "As a man of seventy years I am grateful to Clod and to Di'. Chaae's Ointment for a cure of piles which has caused me endless annoyance and much misery. The itching and bunging Was almost be- yond tthdurance, but Dr. Chase's Oantnent'brohght quick relief, and as tlhe, trouble has not returned, I have reason to believe that the cure is With " jVll', tiii1i art IVraanicar, Caledonia ,tithes, N. ti., Writes :—"Fora twm- berof ,rears I have been troubled withbleeding anti protruding t X,ts, 7 tried several salves end ointments, wl,1 11 nr1,p atlorded me temporary to - lief, yonletimes I would bo laid off from work for weeks. Us0 day lust winter one of your books came into my hands, and after reading the res tituot,ials of 01,', Donald MacLean of 7'arllot. Vale, N.S,, and 1fev, S. A. ai rn Duprau of Belleville, oat„ I derided to t0 give Dr. Chase's Ointment a trial. After using two boxes of this obit- ba mein T toned myself completely cur- fu ed. p1110. I t"ffered from that awful tavl disease would fill a big book, Y'oi, aro at liberty to publish this, as it al may be the moans of coivinttng sonic pool' sufferer, such as I was, that there is a cure for piles. To all =tierces from piles in ally form I would recommend Dr, Chases (Bute want as the only cure." Dr, Chasm's Ointmont, 60 cents a box at till dealers, or Edmlansou Bates .z Company, Toronto. To pre. teat you against imitations the por- trait and signature of Dr. A. 3V. Chase, the ramous receipt book au- ther, are on every box of itis i'ont- dies, devil of mediaeval history, who broiled live souls on a red-hot grid- iron, or dipped titers shrieking in molten lead through all eternity. Na- poleon was to my mind the foulest monster that ever defiled this beauti- ful world." "You are thinking of the cruel way he treated poor Josephine," cried ' Jeannette. Ile smiled in spite of his earnest- ness. "No, Jen, I was not think- ing of that exactly. 1 don't cart two straw's how he treated 'poor ..Josephine'—a selfish wanton," he muttered between his tooth. "My pity is not in the least for the den,'poor' empress, deprived of her gol- headgear, and of a husband, savage, sensual, and unfaithful. I was thinking of the .len he made copses; the women he made widows; the children ho made orphans; the happy homes he made desolate by the million. The pain and death and sorrow with which he wantonly ffiled the world—this one squat mean with the brain and heart of a devil, this past master of war," "By Jove, • you're right, Harry," 0lieel the converted Andel; "war as a beastly business when you come to think of it. Beg pardon, old man" —to Wi k e h n — n "I r ' a quite forgot q t. got you were a soldier yourself." It. was not a very happy forst of apology, But Wickham laughed pleasantly, "Oh, don't mind me," lie said. "To tell you the truth, i'ni uo1 so keen on soldiering as I was. 'I'd be glace 10 chuck the whole thing and 'live at i101110 at case' if Trevor caught the quick glance at Lucy that finished the sentence, and her answering blush, and felt for ear instant more murclerous than was consistent with his theory. Jeazuiette's gay voice made a di- version, "How is it, Harry," she said, that you aro so fond of make-believe killing when you so de- test the reality? If swords aro such hateful things, why do you love playing with them?" Andel came promptly to the rescue of his favorite pastime; perhaps sho guessed he would, "It's the best sport in the world," he said "and 1've tried 010at of thein. It keeps eyes and nerves and muscles s,ll at full play together. There is not a trace of danger. If anything, it is too safe." "I'm not so sure of that," she answered, shaking her curly head wisely. 'I was reading only this morning in the Times a paragraph about a man who was killed h,y What you call the button breaking off his foil, I ]Wean off the other Man's foil. I did not like to say anything abort it, but it frightened mo the whole time I was watching you." But Ardel laughed good humored- ly at her fears. "Oh, tlhore's no danger of that With my foils, they aro the best glad. I thought it rho rot' Meat sight to look at o pl a posaibl .But' 1'11 enjoy it even' more the next time, when I'm not frightened,' (To Iso continued.). pends en the feed and treatment 110111 start to Huish. Of convect, the cote that is well born will always show hoe hritglu, up; but tete man has more to do with her success than most. of us admit. Some teen spend a great deal of time and strengl.lt nil urating their ov t vr, when 1 tho nl t o li No itis tho sten themselves who need aluention the worst way. It is the luau who understands each one of his cows that gels most out of them, That calls for patient study, not for it .clay, but fen u year, that it is study, that pays in dairying, TC1']El.'bt (1 h1(IOS JN WINTER. One of the safest ways of beeping eggs for the winter is the water - glass process. Wzcterglass Is a liq- uid, almost as clear as water, and about the coo;istency of new -rum hooey. It has no smell, but is somewhat c hat sticky, especially ill a low toltparaturc. Its clu'luaral name 1., silicate of soda, lour articles 1111 wanted, says a writer in the Meat Lane Y;xpross--a dish or dishes, w•u- terglass, water and eggs. '!'he dish or vessel may be of any size, to hold from a score to rive hundred eggs. It Wray bo of wood, stone, trent zine or earthenware, I generally 050 various stunt cask rut in two, such as are often r pboyed to feed cattle out of, The aro cheap and coltvanicnt. Scald the dish clean, 011 half full of boiling water, and its soon as the hand can be held In it add the water glass. Measure the water as it is put in, and to twelve parts of water give one or waterglass, 1f you use twelve pints of water, employ 000 pint of waterglass; 1f twelve quarts, 0110 quart; if twelve gallons, one gallon, and in tt like proportion either up or down. Stir the liquid well as soon as the waterglass is put in. It mixes readily, and no one could toll it was there. The dish may be kept in the dairy, pantry, cellar or cool room. The eggs may be put in every evening as collected until the vessel is full. All must be under cover or imnereed. If the eggs are kept Inc a few days before putting in, they will shill turn out all right, but they trust be sound and sweet before they aro placed in the liquid. :Another good tray, especially' where the eggs are ieletded to be used within three or four months, is to anoint each egg, when fresh- ly laid with vaseline, all over, and place in mate or basket, either in the common egg compartments, or packed in bran or oats. During moulting time our hens were fed ample quantities of the oily native sunflower seed, oilaneaI, etc., with the result that moulting was over with before the cold storms came. on and with a little care the biddies wore soon ready to go laying again, and they continued at it all winter. and no other that the finished pro- duct of Parrott'» nand is btlioWi, ]t IS e, curious mixture of inud and sand tarried in the sbigglalt Svatera of the river; it makes the stream attlllottsant• to look upon, Inst it is no common mud. It Is "pay dirt, 111 the gold minor's sense of the tort c n for i is t converted into tiro h' ,b 1 tee oma metal, and hundreds live by preparing it to the market. 10 OS I't}'lV1';lt Uf l';D, Al The motive) power for making Bat brtc!c is generally supplh'd by a p tient horse which treads round an round a beaten truck, and Is :Wpm mettle, never weary in this monoto ous form. of well -doing. Into th .hill the clay is thrust, and there i is worlcnd 11110 mollultltbtg 11ko dirt dough. On barrows and waggon the kneaded clay Js borne to th tablas of the moulders, who work i rude huts to protect then. from. su and rain, 1t is not easily handle lty the inexpert, this otit'ious omit bitt the smoulders 11 re remarkably quick in their 1110V0mrin(s, and 11 1 Interest. Ing to stand by foul watd them. rapidly sitaplug the soft clay into bricks, The appliances are very simple; In fact, the industry i$ col ducted throughout with the otos prim itIvo appliances. When fully m supplied with clay 0 moulder cnn 11- shape a brick every eight seconds, Y turning out about 400 an. (lour or some 20,000 a week. The bricks thus made are taken away to dry, COOKING TIIlo BRICK. They are arranged in rows, one above tho other, and covered with tiles anti left to the drying influence of the air and iso sun, although late 111 the year when the stn has lost its power', they are placed in special- ly constructed drying houses, and there they may be kept for any length of time until they are carried to tho Iden, Tho brides must be burned with. the greatest care, for the slightest excess of temperature in any part of .the kiln wotilcl entail the ruin or the contents of that pal't, making thele unsuitai.11c for the mar- ket. On the other hand, the bricks would be equally unsuitable if they were only partly cooked or under- done, and the burner has to be con- tinually on the alert during the four or floe days of the burning to regu- late his fires and to control the heat to a nicety. Finally, when they are cooled and trimmed, the bricks made from the slimy deposits of the river Parrett at'e ready for the market, and are despatched to all parts of the world. This is an .industry of no groat lnaglitudr or importance, maybe, but it is unique and curious and gives ancient 'Bridgwater a dis- tinct place in the world's economy. ENGLAND'S CHIEF JUSTICE. TEE W.! FOWLS DRINK maw X'OUNGe BIR.i)s AND BEASTS AI3i 5,TGET, Darwin Says T- h- at litlltas and. Birds o Not of Swi and '1 n dF Y. Instinctively. Many naturalists have assorted that birds fly rind ming and that 11s11 - es stint entirely lustineLivoly, But it we have no testi an authority than a- Parwin lilmself for contradicting this d statement, It might have. been sup_ ... posed, he says, that the manner in n- which fowls chink, by Oiling their e beaks, Lifting up their heads, and t 'letting the water run down by grav- y ity, world have been taught by in- n stinet. That this 1s not the case O i$ proved by the fact that chickens n roared by themselves roquiro to have ht their beaks pressed into the water d trough. If, However, there aro older chickens present, the younger Ones learn the ,ar't by imitation. s Young chicketla reared by their 1 mother learn to walk in from five to Dight hours, but if, after hatch- ing, they aro separated from the 1- mother, they take from eight to six - t teen hones before they succeed hr finding the use of their logs. Birds cannot fly without being taught any more than Is baby can begin to walk by itself. Birds of prey will lead their young ones out of the nest on to the end of a Iofty bough, and thou deliberately push them. off, Just as a swimming mas- ter drops a pupil into deep water. The (lemon naturalist, Liebe, has recoeded a performance of this kind which Ito watched in a Saxon forest through a powerful pair of glasses. THE BIRDS WERE FALCONS. and the young ones, when he first soup l.hum, evert se lholplass as to be hardly able to balance thutuselves on a branch. The mother bird nest Rea- round in graceful swoops and circles as if to give an example to the little ones. Thou, perching be- side ono of them, she pushed it off with her wing, 'rhe next day, when tete little falcons had learnt to keep afloat in the air, the old ones fol- lowed them as they flew, drove them up against tho wind, and then round in graceful curves. The exhibition was as plainly a flying lensot as if the actors in it had been endowed with human iatolligonco. Cauaries reared in a breeding cage aro, to some extent at least, taught flying by their patents. It is usu- ally on the sixteenth dtty front hatching that tho young birds first begin to flutter out of the nest. The old ones encourage) thorn, and load the way back to the nest, which the young birds aro unable to find un- aided. Flying lessons continue for about five days, at the end of which time the young 01105 ai'o able to get about by themselves. Old storks have been watched not only teaching their young ones to fly, but, later ,in the year, leading them high into the air in enormous circling flights, no doubt to give thein practice in lofty flying, pre- paratory to migration. Water birds are taught swimming by their parents, Just as land birds are taught to fly. Young ducks will enter the water without ut•gtng, but geese aro always personalty conduct- ed by tho old birds, who urge theni on from behind, GOBBLING- CONTINUOUSLY. On the first trial the goslins aro allowed but a very short swim, but the Musson is lengthened from day to day untiI the little ones learn to go into the water alono. Birds rearod sport front tory of their epodes do not tcquire thole characteristic song in perfection. This is particularly the naso with birds with elaborate songs, such us canaries mid bullfinches. This fact 15 00 well known among breeders of song birds that they invariably place the yotulg cock birds in a room with the best singers !a order that they may learn after the best models. 01 animals, the weasel tribe aro among the most careful schoolum.s- tors: Tire pone -marten is especially noticeable for the care the old ones take over the education of their young. As soon as the latter are old enough, they are taken out into the open near tho den and taught bow to run, climb, ,111011), and mean - 111V distances. Thr, old ones go through each performance first, and and the young ones aro induced to Copy them. Day after clay the train- ing goes on, and it !h not until they have become thoroughly export that CNe,y are nt last. led orf on a real hunting expedition, 23 is curious to notice how a steetly and sedate 011 cat warns to renew her youth with a brood of leittons, As soon as they are big enough to move abcitht, the mother will take to playing with a bell or a. bit of paper just as she aced to rlo when a kitten herself. She thus teaches her young 0005 to use their cath and claws, and then, when heir early lessons' are over, aho dings in a real mo,so or bird and gives them a second Bourse of in•• structiou in hunting and killing. IN TETE WILD WEST, BL1TOBluiRING, Lot the meat get cold through, then cut up. Trite haans and ghoul - dors neatly in shape, and throw the trimmings among the sausage and scrapple. meat. Lay the hams, skin side clown, on a board in the collar. Make a mix- ture in this proportlon ; ["or every 100 pounds of pleat take four pounds of best salt, four ounces of brown sugar and two of saltpeter, Rub this into thotu all over till they will lake no more, and push some into the clock around the boue, At the end of a week rub to the rest of the mixture. Lot them lie for sixteen days al- together, then hang them by a string through the hock in the smoke -(louse and smoke for two or three days with smoke frown, hickory or apple chips, =tethered with sawdust. Even smoking them one at a' time by hanging on one barrel fitted on top of another in better than using any patent abonduatdon, Before spring weather comes dust some cayenne pepper around the bone, wrap closely in brown paper, cut coarse muslin to 'ret, sew around lightly and paint with starch made of flour and yellow ocher. Sausage—To every fifty Ove pounds of lean end fat pork, chopped (not ground) vary tine, mix together a pound of salt, rix ounces of good black pepper, a teaspoonful 0t cay- enne popper and a handful of pulver- ized dried sage, Mix there thot•- otoghly through the .teat. I'ack to keep for winter use in stole crocks and run two inches of broiling lard over it. That for sunln1er use may be canned by making art small cakes,. ante cooking till nearly done, pack - log while still dosing into the cans, pouring hl boiling lard anal soaliug at once. 1f clean benches and boards are used when cutting up the heat there 1s no need of washing the iliOat be- fore grinding, if washed it will not keep so well, Bluffing sausage in entrails makes it look iitere at- tractive, but It doesn't taste any bettor.or Fivy farmer knows or ought to ]snow that meat should not be n1 - lowed to freeze if good, sweet meat and lard are desired. 4' 1 ORMIN 0 ` BATA 1311,10K ONLY ONE TOWN IN . THE WORLD CAN HAICE IT, The Brick Does Not Colne From Bath, But Front Bridgewater, England. Who has not heard of bath -brick? Yet who can toil anything about its origin and composition. Nearly every housewife knovs it and uses it; it is simple, inelegant, common- place. Yet there is only one towu in the world which cou make it, and that Is Bridgewater, England. Why it fs called bath -brick even the au- thorities daunt say. It is not a product of Bath (says the Manches- ter Daily Despatch), though some account for the name by the simi- larity of the natal'fatl to the Bath building stone of the district,. Other's say it be taken front tho name of ono who first applied it to cleansing processoli, but it is by that name A 1VIar. Who is Popular and Gen- erally Beloved; Alt the counsel engaged before the Alaskan boundary tribunal are er thusiastic in their praise of the manner in which Lord Alverstoo pre- sided over the proceedings, says the New Yorlc Tribune, This has been the this'd timo that the Lord Chief Justice has represented England in important international aOuirs. Ile shared with Sir Charles Itnssel, who preceded lout on tho bench as .Lord Chief Justice, the duty of prosecut- ing the 731,4ish cast: in the llehring Sea arbitration in 1393, for which he received the grand cross of the Order of.11. llfichttel and St. George. He was loading Counsel for Groat Ilracial in the Venezuelan arbitra- tion of 11390, and at the close of which he, received from (niece Victor - an a al ouotcy, ail honor rarely be- stowed alta laws otlicer, and on his elevation to the bench to succeed Lord Retool as Lord Oilier Justice of Iengland he received a peerage. and, of course, 0 seat in the Crouse of Lords, It 'would he no exaggeration to say that Lord Alverstone is with- out exception the most universe -111y popl,lttt' member of the British bar. To vary the title of 0, popular song, "They. All hove Dick," and he is re- garded as ono of the best and most characteristic types of an English- man, '1'o begin 1vb11, he is absolute- ly "straight," the very sour of Bon - or. thurougidv time • sial le and mss d p a io but S b . illiC s ctrl y and dignified. He possesses n massive frame—he tips the balance at solve 1.1 stone cov- ering an , UNUSUALLY RIG HEART, is clean in his private life, even tem- pered, and in this youth was a fttut- o175 athlete, robust in body as in mind, earnest and thorough in all he unde'takes, and has a singularly winning and finely modulated voice, It cannot bo said that ho is pre-em- inent as an orator, nor is ho a great parliamentarian, and although his polletical opinions are strong nobody tanks hien as a groat polittcla.n. It would oven be an exaggeration to say that ho is pro -eminent in biller- alley as a lawyer. And yet he stances, at the peace of his profession by roti- t son of his absolute soundness, and 1 because he has the feptaatioi of ntn'or permitting prejudice or fooling of any kind to influence his decis- ions, which are based exclusively on low, equity and common, solkse. Few 1:nglish judges or lawyers ore ibattor known in the United States than "11;'tcky" Webster, Who has frequent- ly visited this county, and whose son, who died a year or 130 ago, was married to a girl with American blood in her veins, her mother, Ludy X1oans, being the daughter of 1110 late attorney -general, Samuel Stev- ens of Albany,, To see Lord Alverstone at his boot is to bo his guest at 'Winte'fold, his piotn'oaque home its Surrey, and it is difficult to efface from one's mind the memory of the fine big hall, with its galleries Of carved oak run- ning round tho eolith -east sides tip burning logs in the old-fashioned arc -place throwing a, ruddy gloat oh the tapostrlos with which the Walls aro Ming, while seated a.t the organ is the hospitable Moat, discoursing sweet music on this difficult inatl'i1- bitellt, Lord Alve's1one 131 an err eemplisliotj organist... Sot to years ago cal affray among] the t1llscr); of the West resulted in flittrhii', and Senator 1'lturslola, bo• 1•loving the accused i;0 have been in Docent in intention, took up •,his case and greatly mitigated the lad's psln- ishment. Six months nflorw'ards a men, armed to the troth, nppearect in Thtu'St:on's office. "Be you Squire Thurston ?" "ilea, ' "i3o you the pian that defended ,jack I3ai10 at ceurt'1" The senator, t1111/king his last hotel Was cone, again answered "Yes," "Well, I'm ark Bailey's pardnnrt and I've corn t0' pay you, 1. haven't glike ?", ot any ,Honey' but a men of honor, AHyb( in tOtVn pall don't As like stntL(ol' eratiling'ly tiisrleint- 0d eny thirst for booty or bi.00d, thtt caller insisted incredulously, "Put on your hat, squire, and just walk down the street, See alrybOdy you don't like, throw tiff, jfoar thrusts and T. 11 D1lp blelhitt 4