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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-5-23, Page 7real6VIC4VAIIAMP'411"4i1 el 1,4l/Arl'AP1N8r4304^n4r1r41 [e=oltfOtenteweMene=gentewe te CP1MeatitaltraallMnIMtia41 i THE WHITE ROSE 011APTER , Maaame never forgot tbe baggard, • stricken, deapairing loon that canto ever her dauohter'e Mem will= =elm e4 elt in one remmetat to take the 000th and beauty fie= it. Lola did not timbale, but from the evhite act llpe came a long, low, lingering cry. I "It may not, be time," continued mealtime falling book en the, otly eon:Wort &lo could giro. " Thinge are so often exaggerated. Lady Fielden Wee the SIMI. to meat/melt; themaid that Sir "earl Alionmere Was to mar- ry Lady Xthenworth in tow; or three •weeks' time, that it was for his bride the Hall had been redeoorated." Suddenly the hand that bed been elasiping her ohoulders relaxed their hold; the white face watt raised for a inoment with a faint cry, ana then Lola fell, • a senseless, helpless mess, at her mother's feet. Madame called foe no aid; with her own bands ehe raised her daughter and laia her upon the coueb ; then ehe knelt by her, weeping bitterly. "r1. bite broken her heart," elm moaned—"my only cbild—broken her heart 1" Presently she thought of the ;sor- rowful awakening, and she eaneied it would almost be better' for her daughter to die then and there. It was ber warm kieses that brought life back to Lola, that caused the dark eyes to open and the locked lips to uncloee. She murmured a few words, and then madame drew her bead teller breast, but Lola sprung from her arins—,she would not listen, to the soothing voice. , no more, mamma I" oho crawl, her indomitable pride and spirit corn- ing 1.0 the rescue. "It is all a mis- take. 1—I do not. care. Let Sir Karl marry whom ne will; It is: nothing to me." . Her voice had in lt such a ring of pain that tears came into her moth- er's eyes. "Did I say that I loved him, mam- mai It Ives perfect nonsense, quite untrue. The white rose, you know— always the wbite rime!" Madame thought Mita she was wan- dering in hor mind; she. =Ind not see what a white rose had to do with. hor disappointment. Loia's dark eyes flashed as she, went on. "Never remind me of my folly, mamma ; forget all about it, as I shall. Who would have thought Dolores would have two husbande, while 1 have not bad one? It is raost amus- ing. Rave I frightened you Vshe said, looking toward her inother,who eat with a terrified face. "It was the closeness of the room which mademe faint, not what you •told. me about Sir Karl." She lauthed with a laugh that made madaree's blood run cold—a horrible laugh; then she stopped suddenly, kiseed her mother's face and; said— "Poor mamma 1 1 am eorry lhave frightened you, Lot me get you some *nine. You must have something; you look quite white." "I want nothing, Lola. Tell me one thing. You have neither father nor brother—only me to befriend you; I but I, though a weak woman, can be I like a lioness when ray child is touch- ed. Tell me, has that ma.nt deceived you? Eas he mede love to you as a mere ripen and pastime? If so, the /ow eleall =rash him." Lola laughed again, this time with Meshed face and glowing eyes. "No, mamma, he has never made love to me. Say no more aboui him. What Les between him and myse41 I will repay. Never mention the sub- ject again." She was always kind to her, mother; but on that evening sho was more af- fectionate than usual. She chatted so gayly and seemed to be in such good spirits that madame almost forgot k her troubles and asked hersele if all h A there would have been e spice oe, and intrigue in it; but a visa to a WY, and that lady the' meet irre- ProOthable of widowa, Wee flat, mud tame. Half an nour efterivard Lola' was delving towuril Deeping Mire, nee heart tort with pain, lore, and joie (may, her brain filled witla eohernee of vengeance,. her winele soul in bot rebellion againet ;ler fate, She bad no settled Plan of aetion, but the look that was in her faee and the light that Wan in her eyea evidently meant inioehiet, "I told Jeer," she muttered, "that anY one 'Waling betWeen Sir Karl and tenon ;should beware. X oannot take her life, but could max. her beauty— the beauty , neat boa won him -1 would. 11 I knew how to. torture her eo that never again in her life ohould there come one moment of peace • or rest, e would do it, Lot ber be- ware 1" elle never heeded the brilliant col - oro that made the evening elm; so fair, eh e took no nonce of the songe of tho birds; all the fair beauty of eartb and eke were loot on her, "Let her. beware 1" she repeated to herself when the carriage ntopped. "Walt for me, Jean," elm sal4 to the groom. "I may be one hour, or Imay be three. Do not take the horses to the stable, and do not leave the car- riage. I shall expeet to find you here when I return." She rang the hall -bell, and was told liy the servant who answeree it that Lady Rhyme/all was ale home and alone that she could, eee her at once; her ladysbip was in her bou- doir. "You need not announee me," Lola said to the man. 01 will go pnyselL" The servants wore so aecustorned to ber coming to the house at all times that there seemed nothing unusual in her request. Lady Rhysworths friends had access to her at all times. "Let ter beware," Lola 'murmured to herself as she went through the long corridor and up the wide stair- case. "Wbatever her fate, she has drawn it on herself." She knew the way to Lady Rlays- worth's boudoir. She had spent many hours in it. Without knocking, with- out epeaking, rshe opened the door and went in. Dolores, wbo was sitting 121 low ohair near the window, looked; LIP with a startled glance as Lola en- tered, and uttered a little cry as she saw the full expreasion of tbe beaten., ful face. "Lola I" ohe naid, frightened more Olean sbe would have eared to own. NO answer come from the French girl, who walked up to leer with a haughty air. She lot her dark trav- eling Moak fall from her shoulders, removed her hat from her head, awl then, standing erect bsfore Dolores, she said— "Let mo epeak, I have come to ask you a question, In it true what near ? It true that you have etolen my lover from me t" "I bave stolen no one's lover," an- ewered Dolores. She had grown very pale; elm was really afraid of the girl who stood before bar with Boob glittering eyes. " You have stolen mine. Sir Karl was mine. You aeo a false friend and a false woman! You have stolen him, k.nowing that he was mine!" "Ile was never yours, Lola. When yciu say that*, you speak falsels. He was kind to you; be has boon, I know, a true and stanch Iriena to you; but he was never your lover—and you know it." "I repeat that he was mine, and mine only, but that you have come be- tween us—you, with your pale, sickly face and yellow hair, 'thinking) your- self no doubt irreaistible; you, I Say, have come between us." "Whave not," replied Dolores, "Sir Karl has never been your lover and never will be," "He was leorning to love me," con- tinued Lola. "I loved him with my whole heart, and my love had touched him. He was beginning to care; for me when you came between us and stole him from me. It was rank treachery. Can you deny that you new I loved him I I had npened nay eart to you, X had told you that be vas mine 1" fie was not yours. The/ fact of your calling a man yours, does not make him so, The fact even that you lova a. man demi not compel him to lave you. Sir Karl had the right to ova whom he pleased." He would hare loved me," reiter- ted Lola eullenly, "if you: had not 01200 (ietwee e "nly dear Lola, you aro quite wrong. Now be reasonable; do not stand and look at nee, as though I were your greateet enemy. if there ad been any engagement, any ac- eowledgment of love between Sir arl and yeurself I would rather ave died than have promised tomato laM 1" "I repeat that loo wasi mine, arid at you base stolen him." "He ma never yours," said Lady Rhyawortb,—"I have hie own word for it." Lolit's face flushed with rage. "So you have talked to him about that had gone before was a dream, But for the fact that Lola had fallen a helpless mass at her feet, slat would have thought that it had. been one. Lola was the pieture off 'gayety, she had nothing of the love aide girl I about Imo Madame was no student 1 of buman nature; elao was simple of , heart, and did not know that it would ' a have been ten thousand tunes bettor if Lola had been weeping bitterly,in- stead of laughing so gayly. When the Mock struck seven, the • girl stood up, and a worn look dira- med the brilliantly of hex, ;farm, "Man:ma, I ara very tired," she. k said. "I am going to my room. Do I K not let any one disturle mo on any ac11 - count. I ;Mall be quite well to -mor- r row." Madame kissed ber, and when. her th daughter had left the room, =limed hermit with a novel until die, forgot her caeca in sleep. ClIAle'rEtt XX. • anhen Lola eves alone, mho deew 0t 0 deep breath of relief. Now that she dared to be natueal, the (lark, beauti68 - ful face was teerible fd beaold, She de walked with hasty steps up and down m the room—only Heaven knew what in wits passing in her heaxt.—her hande cliuthed tightly, until her maid roma, "Stephanie," elle mach "will you tell Ir jean that 1 avant the lane pony -ear- co reap, and that ho 21111,St drINie nee over to Looping Hurst 1 I want to ems Lady Rhyswortla ; but madame must not know atylling about it. You Mtn manage it for me, ean you not, Stephanie?" "Yee, Mademoiselle," was the brief reply. , Toll Jean id inalee as little =Me as poesiblewlest. madame ehould hear the sound of wheels " , it takes a great deal to surprise re ad French wailing maid, oi the. type of wi Stephanie, If bee yetratt misteess had ell Salted tti be driven to' dome Mimeo Ca Where she miont Lem; met a, lOVOy, he "Yes, I have. I will toll you non- tly what passed, had often won - red whether be really knew bis own it& and I asked him. Ho told me airily that he had never oven had o (as f tation with you, but t be had always esteemed' your lendship higbly—that you wore made, but nothing more, ana—you /noel me to speak plainly—that he loved me and no one. else. It was then that X promised to marry " A.fter stealing him me by treach- ery 1 If you bad not interfered he would have loved me," exclailued Lola. " lie wrote to nee constantly from abe.oad ; he came to tee ori the eery ntwia. of his return, before lie thought of Wing you," It was seldom that the gentle taw Lure of lottly ,Rhysworth was antes - to anger, but her heart swelled th a keen senee injuelleo. Why °old Una girl, whom she had never reel for, have eome here to insult 0? Why thould her happiness be tha beeaum this girl had ebosen to t on Obstinate Gomm to a Man who cared nothing for leer Wlay ahould the /Suffer Ana be Made wentollea Pm that? ;She reee With the graceful digtay =Dural to her. "1 evIll not prolong Ole dietreseing §0000 bY detylnie the trutle 41 your words. You know that they are Wick. edlY 4100. Ana inn:matt oe the ehorge Woe brIng against me, and no one knoive it better than yourself. I 141•1St f3431', Lela, that I toe sorprised that yell bave abowt $o lite tie maidenly delioacy es te try to fere° your affection on a Man Wile did not dire to receive it." So epoke Lady Whysivorth ; but she ehrunk back, brave as sile was in the Imowledge of her own trualafroM thi UllgrY' nice that Lola turned up, on her. "It will be hatter for you, LadY Raysworth, not to pay another word, You thinle yoursele very pure and good and noble, Let mo tell 70(1 a few homentruthe; you are quick ene conga to tell the like to ne What does the world think of the delicate relined, high -bred Doloree °Heiden, wee has angled for two husbandsavao married an old man for hia money, and two years affer his death would marry a young one for lovo—what of the woman evIth a little daughter who neglects ber to attend to the woolnie of a man who will never tol- erate the premium of another mean% child in his house—dainty Dolores, who, with all her neodeety, has inane aged by her artful wiles to secure the two beat matches in the neigh. barbed], and then whiepers about maidenly delicaoy? My faults are open ones; youre are hidden. I love ono man honestly; you have either loved or pretended to love, two. Oh, sweat Dolores, what 1101v Of maiden- ly delicacy?" Lady Rhysworth did not unmet her, She (law that it was useless, as Lola was beaide herself with rage; and ohe knew the whole tirade to be ulterly false. She moved from her Plate as though (he would quit the room; but Lola prevented her; ehe stationed herself before the door, with her arms outstretched. "You tiball hear me," eine said, "I wit/ force you to Been. You have done this shameful thing to me; you have stolen my love from me; and so oar to be revenged; I gave you fair warning, I said, 'Let any one beware who comes between us. You have come between us. Now beware! You have broken my hat; I swear to break yours. You hare ruined my life; 14111 ruin yours. You have tortured one; I will torture you'. When the time cemes for my revenge, youshall !suffer =I suffer now, False woman and treacherous friend you can go now; but beware 1 It may he peeve before my vengeance comes; perhaps I may not even seek it un- til he ha e grown tired of you; hut, he the interval long or short, beware, Lady Rhysivorth 1 As surely as the sun rises and sets, so sore is nay tvradgenance to fall upon your guilty Lola spoke with such flashing oyes, with such a threatening face with such power and passion, that DMores shrank back, pale and trenabling,from the terrible avalanche of words. "Let nee pass 1" she said faintly. You may go now I" cried Lola, opening the door,' will remernber your last interview with Lola de Fer- rate! Such happiness as a woman can enjoy with a sword banging over her head I wish you; and I pray that so much of your treachery as Heaven leaves unpunished may be repaid by 010 She wrapped the dark cloak round her -shoulders, and drew her veil over her face; her whole sorra was trera- bling with _passion. Ere she quitted the room, she glanced round it re- membering the happy hours sho had epent there, and knoWing that she WOUid never enter it again. It was with a malignant look that she watched Lady labysworth walk quick- ly down the long corridor. Then she went back to the little carriage, Be - ore she tobk her sear, sbe turned to gaze at the house. "I' do as they did of old," the sold. to herself. "I shake the dust of the place from off my feet." Then oho drove home. The return was snanaged as quietly as .the de- parture had been; and madame nev- er knew of bar daughter's visit to Lady Rbysworth. I have ono more duty," Lola said to herself "I will see bine, no matter what it costs me, end tell him what I think of him." With that resolve the once more sought her room. Sleep was out of the, question; and she spent the whole of that night in pacing up and down her chamber. It was true that he • had not made love to her in the com- mon acceptatiola of the pbrase, but he would have loved her in time had it not been rot this most cruel treachery of Dolores. "X ought to have had a far better chance of winning him Omelette ever had," oho said to herself. "If she bad not come between us, he -would have heen mine r' and, by dint -of con- stant repetition, she believed it at last. She would go early in the morning to one Sir Karl ; he ebould not escape. How Lola brought any color into her cheeks on the morning afterward was a matter beat known to herself and her maid. Soo iiertainly cot trived in some way to make herself look most charming and beautiful; her eyes were bright as stars. Ma- dame folt some little embarrassraent at oneetbag her. Lola, however, seem_ ed to have completely forgotten the subject of their recent conversation; and, but fomthe tell-tale bruise on the temple, ethieli had been caused by striking her head against a chair, when she fainted, ono might have Un- egined that nothing unueual =doe - =reed, ani going for. a long walk this morning, momina," oho said "so I Will not ask you to acoompany me. It will do Me more good than driving." "It will be an excellent thing'for you, Lola," retorted madame, reliev- ed. She had feared that Lola would be overwhelmed With eorrow • in- seend of ilea oho was laug'Ineig and bright as ever. "The ;storm lies passed over her head and left: her unrouched and. ine- troubled," So thought Lae mother, who little ontherstood hat doughtein eheracter, She followed Lola to the door and • sl1wlier ether 5110 Odmirod the prete ty mettle= and the coquettish het, Anil thought that there iette Pelt in the evbelle world any one leo bealetiful end onareolow es her , To Ps Contluved. `)t DOCK FROM SOLID ROCK. talons to Protect Gibraltar ShIPPIng .,tg Mot Stlenlbli Batteries, It Will probably be Some time beeore any part of Mae report outdo by the speeita eenteeneeloa tnat been in- quiring !oto the safety el the new harbor and docks will be greet to the POblio. It Is teethed, however, frorn a truetworthy acmes Mita the cerae mission has made ono very import- ant recommetclation to the home Government, While it Le adoaitted that the powerful Gibraltar batteriee Might he able to keep derem the fire from the guns mounted on the Span- ish maitlarid, the commission con- siders it proved that ships about to enter the enclosed harbor would be severely handled by any Spanish guns of large eize that might be mount- ed at suols points as Verde island, Carooro Point =rose the bay, or near IVIole Point, at the base of thePen- insula on which the; rode stands. The range in tbe three oases would be about 7,000, 8,003 and uneer 0,000 yards • respectively. The new scheme, which would al- low of our ships of war coaling in safety, is as follows: Instead of Mi- tering the bay and pataing around the Mole under fire, they would coal within a breakwatex running out from the eastern or seaward side of the rook. The cliff is too steep to al- low or tbe erection of the storehouses, but a tunnel already exists through the work, which has been used for the conveyance of stone of the new works. Through this tunnel coal could be brought by a light railway to the base or the new breakwater. A DOCK OF ROCK. It is po,seible that a dock may also be out out of the solid rock near the proposed breakwater, but the poet wouid be very great, and the natural difficulties immense, The shallow wa- ter near Salta Goroba, on the east side, might alao be, filled in, or dock- yards built there. But the advan- tage of such a scheme is nullified, by the fact that if suola works were pusbed out from the shelter of the rock, they would be brought under the fire of the Spanish guns mount- ed near Black Strap Bay, on the east side of the base of the poninenia, that belongs to Spain. With the tunnel in existence there omuld be little expense involved in the more simple echerne beyond the building of the breakwater. That would, of course, be a serioue item, but its adviintage for our Mediter- rune= fleet is too obvious for 11 (0 be thrown aside without serious con- sideration. A.acording to opinion in Gibraltar, there la no idea of an and being plac- ed to the works in the present har- bor, which are more than half com- pleted. The proposed breakwater on the eastern side would be, in addi- tion to the moment =ally opera- tions. • NORTH ONTARIO RESOURCES. Entails of the Government's Exploration Parties. The reports of the Ontario Govern- ment exploration partiee show the province to possess immense timber, mineral and agrinultural wealth, which, ie properly developed, will add immensely to the proaperity of On- tario. Party number three, who ex- ploxed the district lying east, west and north of Lake TemagamL and on either side ocf the Montreal Itiver,‘ and its tributaries oast and ivest of the district line between Nippis.sing and Algoma, reports a most extraordinary amount of timber in tbat district. The _report says: "Part ae basin' of the Main Sturgeon River, north of the Kettle River, timbered witb spruce and other pulpwood; estimate spruce, 1,500,000 cords; jack pine, poplar and white birch, 700,030 cordo; very little white and red pine. This is the best spruce district examined by my party. "Part of basin of Sturgeon River running south from the Kettle Falls to Nivin's base line, and west of the Temagami, heavily timbered with mixed timber =follows; Pine 1,000,- 000,000 teat bane sproce, 600,003 cords; jack pine, • 600,000 cords; mixed tim- ber, principally poplar, balsana and white and black birch, 800,000 corde." Curiotudy enough, thus is the dis- trict twee Which two great English pulp concerns, the Sturgeon Falls Pulp Company ad the Lloyds Com- pany, are litigation at 013 Present tie. The Lloyds people contend tliat there is not sufficiett pulpwood on the property Maw' to there to ob- Min 60,000 cords daily. The report oe tbe Ontario Government survey - ora will In all probability be used as evidence in the =se. According to the report, spruce, Whitewood, jackpine end other pulp - woods are found on nearly all iht ter- ritory where the pine does tot exist in quantitiee. Tho strum in the lewer Tonta„gami and Sturgeon die - trials' is found =idly in swamps ranging extent from ten to five hundred acme. Bankeitoa, or jackpine, is the most abundant wood of the pulp variety SoUth Of the Hudson Bay watershed. Xt is found usoally it abundanee in rough tied hilly country. This variety 01 WOM18, added to Om list of paper wooda, will double the catimates 01 pulp wood on the territory south of the boight a land. After careful conelderation of the extent a territory covered. by the survey, the entire district is estimat- ed to =oldie about 2,718,000 Roos and tho num total of pulpwood, 011 the =taro dietriet will eminent to 5,430,e 000 =rite. aenglaion bits 121 ream to every 1,- 000 of her population, Eranne 2:10,Anee trim) bet CM, and Sweden ooly 4. 6,00,900%Ram. ON THE FARM " C4WIMIZSGM994549 THE TUDEKOULIN TWST. There Is no neletaning tbe attituae oe breeders toword the inbeemulin test. It is decidedly hostile, Judie (sated by the trend of public pantie ment expreseecl in the agricultural prose and In the resolutions oilseed by many live etoek assothetione. And omen those who openly avow at unbelief tie to the wiedoto oe aPPIring the tuberculin toot str411-00 tQ say, there ie now And then a veterinarian, O Man who as tusually reluctant to wrtna his real tame under his peo- ductlon, eaNpretSwsliothr;:inInaamingglaihdistoullplistreakyasboliel on reaord as belng in entire disagree - meat with the view' bold by Romany of the etockman, writes Prof, Thos. Show. Most unhesitatingly do I say that I believe In the light of self in- terest and in justice to the public, the breeders of pure bxed cattle abouid test their herds. Most unre- eorvedly do I say that it is theprivi- lege of those who do thus test their herds to advertise the same for their commercial advantage, The • future will determine the wisdom or =wis- dom of all thoso propositions, as es: - pressed above, and ate satiatied am I as to what the verdict of the future thall be that I want to bs on record thereto, not wi Das Landing the t the current of pnbtic eentiment at the present time ahould carry the= pro- positions a thousand miles seaward. And rtOW, let the propositions be fur- ther analyzed. , The first proposition claims that, in lbe light of self Interest, breeders ehOtild periodically test their herds. et is not meant that they 0111111v on testing them forever with thesame frequency, bot they shall test them with sufficient freqUeney to assure themeelves tbat their herds arefree from the great bovine deetroyer. That they ought to do so lo the light of self-interest is evident from the tact that tuberculosis is a communic- able dimaae, and onoe in a aerd, if not detected and removed by some curative means, like the brook, R. will go on forever; that there is no other way of certainly determining the presence of tbe disease than through the tuberculin test ; that the loss from tuberculosis once lodged in a herd, from which no measures are taken for removing it, will far ex- ceed the coot oe making the necessary tests. Notice, please, I am not now advocating making the test compul- sozy, but simply elaiming, in the light of self-interest, breeders of pure nred cattle should that their herds. The second proposition clainas that in justice to the public the breedera cd pure breds ;Mould te,st their herds. If any breeder is quite aure that tub- erculosis is present more or less in his herd, and if at the Game ihno be has faith in the reliability of the tuberculin test. properb applied, he quite honest if leo sells animal from that herd to another? Or, t press the matter mone closely, 11 11 has had the opportunity to infor irase f with reference to the rol ability of tbe tuberculin test, an faile to do no, and consequently be lrieves that the tuberculin testis no enable because he' watts to believ thus, and if he woes cre selling tub- erculous cattle from hie herd to hi neighbore, is he innoaent f The thir proposition clan= that It is tbeprien- lege of breeders to free their herds from tbe presence of tuberculosis by using the tubexculm teat, and then to advertise the fact with a vlow to enhance their sales. Why this has not bean done, shows, as previously intimated, a lack of entire confidence on the part or many breeders in the reliability of the test. But observe, thin fact by no means endangers its reliability. To the writer it is clear that tuberculous cattle remold not be equally clear tbagt Pthuer sehso'ualdll not bias bought unless when so bought or sold for purely experimental purposes. I would not buy a pore bred animal for breeding usee, except subject tothe t b t , anyone else to do so. It would advise different, of course, if no tuberculin test had been brought to us with its positively benign influencea. If I cearenrneptbsrueyeatin.bgat:eure bred cattle, I a me; animals commercially? Too from tuberculosis, but would adver- wold tot only keep the herd free ties the fact. Do you me= to say that I would not enhance the velue agaInet tbe time 01 &Math neeeteure to oriole. Yellow tbe barxow mane tbe cult!, vetor, Wits areal] ehereele and run - fling close and deep tbe eiret enema Mg. Caltiveie every week, the eule tivati000 after the flint being stale loll( and farther eway from the cern, until the eerie ie tot) tall tor the out- tivettor. • Tile impression is melte prevalent that a co= crop ia well eultivateid welet it ia plowed or cultivated three lateee, Three cultivations. may be sufficient for the beet results fulsome instancem, tut five Or six run ttOlne tinleS necessary. rs a farmer 00n - template; plottitg and cultivating 40 =res. of corn with one team, it is a mistake. It would be better to plant 20 or 30 acrea nod give it the cultiva- tion necesaary to attain the best re - delta, owl use the remainder of the 40 for pasture. or some other crop. The question a deep or shallow cultivation Otis its advocatee 1200 012(1 con, and will perbapa never be set - Hod to the satisfaction of oil, bui tbe oPn"Dexplipedrefreanenceean0d1 b°aPelleuleQdnle'ybtahseeaPruilep: elPles of ecience, favors shallow ma- tivation, at least =allow enough to prevent the deetriustion of the man roots, which form a network, a few inches below the =era= surrounding the plant, Deep cultivating tears out these feeding roots and limits the corn plant to a very small areo for food and moisture, which we aeek to save and retder more available by cultivation. • DESTROY BlIGS IN PEAS. It the farmere would sold seed peas before sowing them they would not be troubled by the weevil. This insect burrows in the pea while in the bud, remaite in it during the Wit- ter, is mown wan 11. 110 the spring, and arrives at a mature state In season to infect the product of the pea,thus perpetuating its species. Before sow- ing the peae ;melding water sbould be poured on them and immediately af- ter cold water, This wilt effectuany destroy the grub without injuring the peas in the least. • The best way to sow peas free from huge is to grow them among your potatoes. BEAVERS MULTIPLYING.. • -- They Hare Coni-ertod a Marsh Into a 6300 110 Algontioln Park. The report of the Geological Survey Department for lt03, just issued, in addition to a good deal of other value able maLter contains a report be Prole John Macoun, of Ottawa, as to the condition of AMonquin Park and the work which is being aCCOMplish- ed there in reforestization and the preservation of the natural varieties of wild annxials, birds and fish. As regards the progress of refines- tization, Prof. alacoun Gays: " The forest within the park is still largely in a state oe nature. exeopt that the white pine has been out more or Je.ss Completely everywhere. There are still quantities of uncut timber, how- ever, on many limits, and many yeare will elapse before all of it can be re - 'novel On BurntLake, Perley Lake, and Catfiele Lake, young forests are growing up, and in the n oods along these lakes the problem oie. reforest- pieta:8.10,re%, 8a.,1,ong nature's own plan 111 111 O A curious Mature aa regards the M preservation of gat= Is minced by L. Prof. Macoun. Tne moose and deer d are found in much lerger numbers near the line of railway than In tbe t remoter parts. They appear lo seek O rather than to shun the presence of man In order to avoid the s attaelts of wolves. The beaver are mol- d CULTIVATING CORN. If the preparation al the seed bed, the eeleetton of seed and the plant- ing have been well done, the =Hive - tion of the corn crop will be easy mad will accomplesh its best results, The cultivatoo should have in nand at least lout Ohjests, viz., the conserva- tion of moisture, the destatmtion ot weeds, the reeding of tbe come plant, and the aeration of the corn roots. Tim time, Manlier and frequency of the cultivations will be niodified by the condition of the soil, hutehould be adapted to best effect the forego - Ing objects. Generally it is best to begin with the harrow before or Boon after the corn is up, and Moss -harrow in four or fivo days. The importance of this early and thorough week with the harrow, cannot bo overeatimated, and ought riot in any ?nee to be tee glected, This harrowing deatroys the firet crop of weeds, whieh is alweys the most injuriotte to the growing COrt, and pulverises the aerie= soil 1.08011114 1310 soil rouleh 1210 nereaeary in conserve the moteturo betow leplying fast and building dame it new Meant/es. They have built. a dam over six feet high on a etrearo. discharging into Cacho Lake, con- verting a marsh into a lake. They as well es mink, Lieber and marten may be expected to increase largely it fu- ture. Eighty-six species or birds are known to breed in the park, aria twenty spades ol fish have been not- ed in tbe waters. In the lakes two ;species of trout a0000141404, the great lake trout, salmo nameyousb, nod a brook trout, ealva-linus fontinatis Owing to the comparative shortness of the brooks conneoting the larger lakes and rivere brook trout are not plentiful except in such rivers as the Petewawa and Madnevaska, Prof. Macoun made a careful exam- ination so far as time would permit into tho flora of the park, the total numbeo of repecies collected number- ing 862. ROUND THE WORLD. The establishing en the ProPosed lino of eteemships by the C. P. R. from Victoria to Vladivostook would reduce the time required for a trip around tbe world to fifty days. Tho distances and time, between tile varioussections of the route would be as follows: Land and. 8ea—London to Teheljabinsk, 5,853 kilometers, 7 1-2 (bye; Teholjabinsla to Vladivostock, 7,204 kilometers '18 dd days; VI 'vas- tout to Awoori, 770 Itilomatera1 s,1 1-2 f days; Awomori to Yokohama, 716 kite i °meters, 1 ;ley; break of journey ; Yo- kohama to 'Victoria, toad Vaucouvor, 7,778 kilometers, 10 1-2 days; Vancou- ver, to Itrockville, Ont., 4,508 kilome- ters, and 13roakvilla to New 'York, 579 kilometers, 4 days; New York to Liv- erpool, 5,518 kilommers, and Liver- pool to Loodon, 311 kilometers, 6 1-2 days , a total of 34,827 kilometers in 50 days. .3P1111017,1 "LT .TTOBIL qvzsTxon WHICH IS iiORRAT* EST FOR TO NAN ? Tlge NA" POOPIlI (11 Ind18,-,101101,- 02:6 Dane by liperrowsoresace be the 011-E.ty 110 Hely. Tigers kill three thoosated PeOPIO a year in Indio, In Jan the avovage deatlaxoll Moo to the seems betiet is 270, There ere to statistics fer Eartber India; bit, 011 a population basis, tigers and loopr.ras between them moot be responelble for neerly 1200,deathe01 Yuur. In Portuguese Vast Africa lions ore plentiful, and have an evil xepuLation Lor the yeleom of their bites, They killed lifteet white people last year in tbat ciether of Afriea alone, anti ewer eighty nativee. 4c41h-ro1l Of all Africa due to wild beast.e—lions, buffaloes, elephants, and others—is certainly a cemple oil thousand a year. South Ameximi, inlaed China, atd part of Easter:a Europe lose many lives yearly from jaguars, tigers, and wolves respectively, The destruction of cattle is far greater than that of haman'life. India alone loses 38,000 cattle a year from veld animals, apart from snakes; in Finland wolvee destroy 6,500 cattle onnuselly, Dingoes, ugly wild doge so endurably savage that they can never be tamed, kill an average of 8,000 sheep yoarty d Aueetralia. The flocks and herds! of Western America lose two par cenh a year Cetera wolves. Yet, big as this loss is, it fades compared weth that paoduced by SMALLER ANIMALS. Prairie 4ogt9 are cetimated to render useless two and a half million aeres of fine ,WraZillg land in the United States, In Paris rats destroy$1,000,- 000 worth of food en a year. The damage done to millers, corn -chand- lers, leather manufacturere, and Pro- oisiccaeme.rehante by rats and mice is estimated at half of one per cent. a year—tbat is fourteen militate pounds' sterling for tbe Givillseel world. The very lowest estimate of the joint domage dooe by animals In the course of a year is twenty -live ponnds. Compared with these ravages, it seeme at first absurd to talk of the damage done by blrds. But When otio leads that two Amerieen Stateo he spent 8125,000 en two Years in killing aparrows alone, and that Eng- land's fanners spend $200,000 a year 111 wages to bird -scorers, a seems that aux feathered fricods are looked on by some people as feathered foes. A pigeon in harvest -time eats its own weight of grain in a day; a black- btrd or a thrush eats a similar amount of ripe fruit within the twenty-four boars. A Moolred kinds De birds exist in summer principally on plants sown by man. Add to them, losses those caused by the goblin km, the eheep-killing parrot of New Zea- land, which destroys twenty to thirty thousand sheep in a year; consider Use thousands ol Lambs killed every spring by eagles and ravens all the world over; and remember tbat birds aboarnd everywhere, while wild beasts can exist only in a yeay limited area, tho concluelon la that the gross loss by birds exceeds that (MUSED BY WILD ANIMALS. Bat not the net loss. Blade that eat grain arid Inuit pay for their keep twice over by the gocd they do in- di,rectly in keeping denim insects, It 18 cialy the hawk, eagle, crow, mad vulture tribes whieh do u ot compen- sate mat for their depredations. A few yours ago Italy produced In a year filty-five million gallons of olive -61l, worth $18,600,000. Lest neor this fell off by a quarter. This lose of over three minion pounds is due to one insee.t, the cal -fly, which has devastated the oliveeorcharde sea= 1897. The phylloxera, which rav- aged 2,900,000, acres of French Viele- yards, cost that country 132 mialion poatiels eterling. The .0olorado beetle ruined one-third of tbe American potato crop in 1839, and several years following. casting the country be- tween twenty and , twenty-five mil- lions. Crete pay e a bounty of S200 a tot for locu.sts' eggs. Firm years ago sixty 1.0135 were destroyed .in one year, equal to 880 million locusts. It is calculated that locusts anaually devaistate eight inalltani acres, and de- stroy half the crop on an area, a d,ouble that size—that is to say, that this ane insect alone lessens tho world's food simply by forty millions sterling • a year. The gileay naoth costs the world hale a minion a year; and the sugar -eating ant double that sum; while termites, an ant -like wood -eating insect, destroy property in North Africa rained at a million and a quarter in a twelve month. A NEW ME' ILATION, Two weineo, ea= of whom roele the -elation= bobby with groat zeal, toted thoomelvea spending the night n a small country botel. They had &comely put tho light out when it iveas realized that the window had not ) eon opened, and one started to at- tend io it. Tho xocan mots very dark ind the matches were not to be fi ound, but after scene groping she found the closecl pane I can't move it, she said, tugging to do SO. 011, do try, earne boon tho bed:, we shall ornother bofore meeting The next that -ant there Was a ter- rible crash in the darkness, I'vo broken tale wretched window, iatirwatsoNevxrpliairied; but at ler a I'll have Oh, yes, zaid tho othier; tbatet neer 500401121) heiter nOW. 1 model never go to sleep without proper ventilation. So they Went contentedly to steep. In the /limning iho wiractOW Was hound tightly cleeed, but tho glass„ flone of a large .everdrohe 4111011 aimed in a, earner was shattered. ----eoo----_- ' LIGHTLY TAXIID. The Chiereee are the moat lightly - tax= people In the world, They hove ott Ohancellor of tho lexchequer worried over Budget -reeking, Al! the land there belong% to the state, =a a trifling ;sum pee acre, never altered through long centories, la 1" ,i1 09 rent. Thie is the truly tax in the country, ant It amounts to a sum equal to about 41 per heod year- 7 7