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SYNOPSIS or rRECEDING CRAB-
ZOBSeeSie TGar1 Allanmore is about
to wed Detente, Lady Rbyaworth. Lela
Ferran heti pressed ber love upon hint
but it lheg been rejected and dire vows
vengeanoo on the object o1 Ilia Wee -
Cone. Lala goes abroad. Two years
Patel happily. , I
CHAPTER XXL
Sir Karl had risen early. Ile evanLod
to go over to pleepiag Hurst. Every
dey he found something on which to
consult Dolores -the color of tbe our-
tubes',the placing of a statue, the
hanging of a picture ; nething, in his
opinion, could be done without her
advice, It wee too ,early yet to go to
Deeding Heist. :He thought that he
would while away the intervening
hours with a cigar on the terrane,
from which there was a beautiful
view of the qurronnding country. }Ie
was walking up and down, watching
the blue rings of smoke that curled
upward from bis cigar, and thinking
with a smile of the fair lady he loved,
end of the little child who had twined
herself round his heart, when, turn-
ing suddenly, he saw Lola near him,
Ho Sad heard footsteps, and looked
round to Nee who it was.
"Lola!" he cried, startled mare than
be liked to elbow.
A shadow seemed to fall over every-
thing. Recovering bimself he went
up to tier, and bold out his hand.
" This is indeed a surprise-' so ear-
ly in the morning l' That is the title
of a comic song, Ls it not 1" •
But bis bright words died away
when ho haw the white fade set as if.
in atone, and his countenance chang-
ed.
" Are you ill, Lola? Great Heaven,
what is wrong? What is the matter?
Is madame -is anything wrong with
madame?"
" There le something wrong," she
said, slowly, " but it concerns me, not
madame. It is a very simple wrong,
but one which I lay at your door. My
heart is broken."
" 1 moat ask you if it is true," she
continued, "I will believe it from no
other lips but yours -that you are
going to marry, ;Dolores ?"
" Yea, I hope en," he replied.
" Was it of that hope you epoke
to me on the night of your return ?"
oho asked.
Yes, it Was."
" Then," she cried, raising ber mis-
erable face to the sky, "may heaven
have mercy on me 1 I I thought you
were alluding to me -I felt sure of
it r'
" I do not see how you could, Lola,"
he returned, "My friendship with you
has bean perfectly open. There has
never been any thought of love on my
part. You must remember that I told
you, when you spoke of It, that your
friendship with me should never in-
terfere with your marriage."
Yee, I remember it. It must have
been my fancy, then ; but I did believe
you were beginning to care for me -
and you would have cared for me, but
for Lady Rhysworth's cruet treach-
ery 1"
You must not speak in that way,
Lola. There is no woman on earth so
good, so pure, so worthy of all honor,
and reverence, as Lady Rhysworth.
Whatever you have to say to me, say ;
but leave tier name out of the ques-
tion."
You love Ger so!" she cried, in
tones of utter despair.
" Yes ; and why not ? I have never
loved any one else. We may all lova
whom we please."
She came a little nearer to him and
laid her hand upon bis arm.
"Look, at tae," ahe said, with pite-
oue eyes; " am I not fair to see?"
" You are one of the most beautiful
of women," be, answered.
" Am I not as fair as Dolores 1" she
Hiked, the old bitter jealousy rising
be her heart.
"Perhaps fairer in the ere of oth-
ors, but not so fair in mine."
"I have bat found favour in your
eyes," she said. but Sir Karl interrupt-
ed her.
" Why gay more, Lola? What is done
oan never be undone. I have always
admired you and been your friend ;
more than that I cannot say -more
would not be true."
"1 .understand," she answered,
mournfully. 'T am glad I came. I
should not have believed it from any
Other lips than yours. I do not blame
you. Remember that, if she had not
Dome between us, you would have car-
ed for zee in time -you could not bave
helped it. My great love must have
influenced you in the end; you are
not hard-hearted."
No, I am not. I am more grieved
than I can tell you, Lola; but, my
dear girl, I have never misled you;
it is but a fancy of yours which you!
;will forget in a few days."
"I shall take it with me to my
grave," she replied. " You call such
a love as mine a faneyll Oh, how
ibiind you must be 1 There has never
beet a greater -it is a love deep en-
ough to ?cava shielded you from every
'sorrow that fa11a to the lot of man.
No other woman will ever love you so
dearly, ao truly. Dolores will not. You
will worship her and lavish a whole
eviorld of affection and love on her
she «'111 accept it with smiles, believe
at to be her duo, take it as; a homage
yhu ought to pay her; but as for
returning it, women of her stamp take
led never give. My love would be as
the breath of the whirlwind, hers as
the faintest sigh. " Ali, Karl," she
oiled in pathetic voice, "pause and
think before you give up such love
to}}seek I" !
Ile could not help feeling touched.
So much love lavished, and in vain 1
He felt for the girl herself.; for what.
Meet be her humiliation. her distress,
!tor angu,sb.t
Tho time may come," elm resumed,
t',When feeble eves 'v'Ill -.all rm. when
you will want a nature as strong as
your own to help you. Ali, then you
will mays me -I wbo love yeti 00 I"
" My dear, Lola," be said, huskily,
" if I could percuude you that it is all
too late I I am go grieved that I eau -
not find words! to express my, sorrow,
Be reasonable."
"Love like Mine knows no season,",
she answered. "I must hear the whole
truth while 1: am here,' she added.
You say it Ls too late. Perhaps it
is not, You do not know the love I
have for you. I -I-013 tbat I should
have to ray the words! But I must
speak or I shall die -I would make you
happier than any one elro can, be -
acmes I love You 'ao dearly. If you do
not marry Dolores, elle will cry for a
few days, and then calmly look out
fora better match ; while I -when you
aro gone from me -1 than die 1"
ere took the burning bands in hie.
"You are not (yourself, Lola," he
said. "I will not listen to another
word. Let me tell ,you this -it is bet-
ter to lee frank with you. If Dolores
died to -morrow, h should go unmar-
Tied to my grave. She is the only
Iwoman I ever Could love; my fate-.
and to me It is a very happy one -is
fixed beyond recall. I could not love
you, even if I could prove false to
Dolores- Now be your better, brighter
self and forget all this."
" Nay 1" she paid bitterly, "my bet-
ter, brighter self is dead.. But I do
not blame you; you would have loved
mo if she. had not come between us -
end she Abell suffer for it! My ven-
geance shall fall upon her, not upon
you 1 I swear vengeance against the
woman who has robbed my of my
love," she said solemnly. "and swear
that she shall suffer pain for pain,
pang for hang -the sharpest suffer-
ing that human vegean0e can inflict I
As for you, I -I do not bate you -a
false woman has taken you from me.
It may be that we shall never meet
again ; but remember always, when
you think of me that my heart is brok-
en. Farewell l'•
"Lola," he pried, "do not leave one
in that way! You distress me inex-
pressibly. Tell nee that you will try
to be happy; I cannot bear you to
leave. me like this."
She turned her white face to him
in silent farewell, and then passed out
of his light.
When Lola reached home, she went
straight to her mother and flung ber
arms round tier.
" Mamma," she said, " do you really
love me and with me to live?"
" How oan you ask me that, Lola?
You are all I bave in the world. 1f
you were to die, I should die, too."
" Will you do that which will save
my reason and my lifer
You know. that I will," replied ma-
dame.
Then take me away from this place
at once. I must not see either Sir
Karl or Lady Rbysworth again ; if
I do, I cannot answer for myself. I
hate her ! I cannot breathe the same
air. I cannot be where I may eel her.
Take me away,"
The eight of the white set face
aroused madame's energies.
"It shall be done," she said, "just
05 you wish. Rest, Lola. and to -mor-
row we will leave this spot, where I
with with all my heart that I had nev-
er set hay foot."
Madame kept her word. The news
of their departure was soon all over
the neighborhood. Sir Karl heard it
in silence. Dolores with tears. Of Lo -
la's wild vow of vengeance Sir Karl
breathed not a word to bis affianced
wife,
CHAPTER KXII.
i Two years and a half bad passed
since Sir Karl had married Dolores,
Lady Rhysworth, and taken ber home
to his stately mansion of Scarsdale.
It seemed strange to Dolores to live
in the same neighborhood, but in a
different home. From the .woods on
the western nide of the Hall a glimpse
of the towe00' of Deeping Herat could
be obtained ; and, believing that his
idolized young wife would be pleased
to be able to sae her old home, Sir
Karl had the trees cut down which ob-
structed tbe view.
The excitement caused by the sud-
den departure of madame had abat-
ed. It was believed that abe had gone
away from some political motive. No
ono knew how relieved Sir Karl and
Lady Allanmore 'were that madams
and ber daughter had left the neigh-
borhood.
They fell into the usual routine of
life, and were very .happy. One day
Dolores put her arms round her hus-
band's neck and said to him-
" Thiel is too bright to last, Karl ; it
le impossible."
' Wby, Dolores?" to asked, in as-
tonishment.
"It is perfect happiness;" she an-
swered, and that never can last on
earth. It la meant only for heaven."(
" Shall I do anything 10 make you
a little less happy 7" be inquired,
with a smile. "Shall I for instance,
fomm a phantom friendship with some
of the beauties of the neighborhood ?
Shall I try to be impatient or quarrel-
some ?"
"No, certainly not"
" Are you really so well content,
Dolores?" he asked.
"I am almost afraid to say it; hut
I am perfectly happy. I have not one
shadd." ow of care, nor a wish unful-
fille
et wee true. The only cloud in her
happiness was caused by the thought
that it was too bright to last. She
ooelit not understand this nervous
fceliug of coming !sorrow; but in nf-
tereyeers she .understood only too
well.
They had been blessed with one lit-
Ile daughter. At first they had been
a little ,disappointed tbat it was not
a eon, but Sir Karl declared that
there could hot bre too may replicas of
Dolores, They named the little one
Gertrude, after ono of Sir Karl's fav-
orite beroi2:5S in .poetry-" Gertrude
of Wyoming',"
"I abould give her your name," he
had said to Dolores; "but I think
there is a burden of sorrow about
it, and' the little one must have no
soaco'tv."
Even those few voids lied reused
Ilia wife's eervoua anxiety,
"Karl," she whispered, "do you
really think my ntrmo matins a bur-
den Oe lorrew"
" The word ' Doloeee' meansg eorrori',"
ha replied,
" But, ery darling, what Sorrow Man
oomc to me ?" she naked. "flow strange
it rs I Do Jj'ou know, that that is what
nave feared all any ilOo ? It has been
bfirangeingeelmoverg methat 7- bIlke a•ad dinai,•ksoshmaedoway
w--
to work out the mystery of my name:"
" It he but fancy,"- bo replied', "Ono
thing la 'pertain, Dolores ; while I ileo
n0 sorrow !hall ever reach you. For-
get the fanny. 'fire little one obeli
be (sailed Gertrude."
The Squire was wonderfully ,hap-
py. Sir Karl devoted hiinsoif to him
aa though bo lied been his own son.
lie mese that nothing gave lits wife
greater pleasure thou to sco her fath-
er. Very often during the rummer
mornings he would rise early, drive
over from White Clfffo, and when Do -
10'1'05 oame down, she would find her
father at the: breakfast table, and his
happy laugh at the surprise was .like
meal° in her ears. Sir Karl liked to
hear the old man gall him "my Hon,"
for than the sweet eyes of Dolores
beamed upon him with delight and
gratitude. There was the greatest
possible affection between these two,
which added immeasurably to the
happiness of the household. There was
not one discord to mar the full and
perfect harmony. The Squire loved"
the children; if he had a preference,
it was for little Gertrude rather than
for Kathleen.
Scaradale was, every one declared,
the most pleasant house in the coun-
ty. The new Lord Rhysworth, who
had taken up his abode at Deeping
Hurst, was of the same opinion, and
a constant visitor there. Sir Karl
and Lady Allanmore were the .most
popular host and hostess in the neigh-
borhood. •
News had come to Lady Fieiden that
Madame de Ferias was dead; the had
died at Heidelberg after a long and
protracted illness. She had left Lady
Fielden a cameo which she had once
admired, and Lola had gent it to ber
through the post. That event made
people talk of the family and of Beau-
lieu. The house was closed now ; not
even n servant was left in it. It was
rumored that it was to be sold, and
the rumor proved to be correct. Once
mare Beaulieu was in the market and
this time it was purchased by a rich
manufacturer who wished to make
his entree into society. So tbere was
an end to the history of one family,
end the beginning of the history of
another. No other information was
received ; and it seemed that even the
name of De Ferias was forgotten. For
some short time after madame's death
there was a fear of coming danger
]int the heart of Dolores, but: it passed
with the 'summer days. Kathleen was
now about five 5'eara old, and little
Gertrude, a pretty winsome creature,
not quite two.
Sir Karl drove over early one morn-
ing to White Cliffe.
The day is very fine," he said to
the Squire ; " and I am sure Dolores
will not enjoy it without you. Come
over to breakfast:'
The old man was only too delight-
ed. !As they were drivi,ag back to
Scarsdale, Sir Karl drew off his glove
from his right hand, and the Squire's
attention was attracted by a ring
which he wore"
" What a beautiful ring Karl I" be
said.
The young Baronet laughed please
aptly.
" It is a gift from Dolores," he an-
swered. "I have never seen one half
so beautiful I" It was a large ruby,
in the midst of which was a tiny white
rose composed of minute diamonds. "I
used to oall her the white rose," bo
added, "and she has given me this
in memory of it."
To Be Continued.
WORLD'S RMOHE$T PEOPLE
LIST OF A HUNDRED OF THE
GREATEST MILLIONAIRES.
People Who Do Not Have to Work Palette
They Prefer Activity to Idleness -J.
Beit is on Top,
Chambers' Journal for April con-
tains a most instructive series of
articles, entitled "Studies in Millon-
aires," by Mr. James Burnley, author
of "The Romance of Modern Indus-
try." These articles trace the effect
of modern industrial development on
the great fortunes of the present
day, and show how many a modern
Croesus has suddenly acquired bis
great wealth. Not the least striking
feature of a most fascinating con-
tribution is a list of a hundred of the
richest millionaires now or recently
Living, excludiag, of course, Emperors
and Kings. Mr. Burnley gives this
list as "an attempt to group to-
gether these men in tbe order of their
supposed wealth, though, of course,
the fortunes credited to them are, In
most cases, little more than guess-
work." The following £9 the list: -
J. Beit, ITimberlcy, South
Africa. . . .. £10 0,0 00, 000
Li Hung Chang, China . 100,000,000I
J. B. Robinson, South
Africa.80,000,0001
3. D. Rockefeller, New
York. 50,000,000
W. Waldorf As.tor, Bag-.
land.
Prince Demid,off, Russia.
Andrew Carnegie, Pitts -
W, K. Vanderbilt, New
York.
W. Rockefeller, '
New
York.
J, Jacob Astor, New York,
Loyd Rothschild, England.
Duke of Westminster.
W. 0. Whitney, NCw
York. •
J. Piespant Morgan, New
York. . .
Lord Iveagh,
Senora Isidore Cau ino
Chili
M. Heine, France
.'
A, Re:Uscheel, PaTLs•
Ila,ren A, Rothschild, Vt-
enna. , . .
40,000,000
40,000,000
25,000,000
20,000,000
20,000,000
15,000,000
15,000,000.
15,Oc0,00o
15,000,000
15,000,000
14,000,000
14,000,000
14,000,000
14,000,000
Arobdulre Frederick, Aur
trio. , 14,000,000
Geo, J, Gould, New 'York, 14,000,009
,iamos J, 17111, St. Paul. , 14,000,000
hoar Mensieleeteile, Benin, 12,090,000
Sebago Licbteaoteln,
trio.' • . . 12,000,000
Diss, Hotter 11.et, Green,
Now York, , , x1,000,000
J, II. F1a,gior, Nurv, York, 10,000,000
A. Dreher, Austria, 10,000,000
Ja40103 Henry Smith, Now
Yerlc.
Auko of Dovonoh$r'e,
Duke 'of Bedford,
Duke of Bucolouah. ..
Earl of Derby.
Marquis of Bute.
John Snuitb, Dfexioo,
Earl Oasi gan. , . , .
A, Kropp, Berlip.
Princes Pless, Germany,
Count IIe.nekel - Donna's-
marek, Germany.
A. G. ,Vandea-bilt, New
Yore.
E. Rothschild, Paris, 9;000,000
Cneckels, San
olsco,laesSi
Archbishop QohnFran, A•us-
ttua.
1?r7nco Schwarzenberg,
Austria,
Prince Esterhazy, Aus-
J.WYt. B, • }legginan, New
CAI
A
,ria.AClark, Monta.
H. 0. Havemayer, New
York
John W. Mackay, New
York,
P. D. Armour, Ohicago.
H. 0. Feick, Pittsburg,
H. M, Flagler, Now York.
A. Rothschild, Landon.
John Jame Mages, Gua-
t(s,m:ale. .
Due d'Arenberg, Belgium,
DuSpkeaiof Medina -O elf,
n,
Duke of Northumberland.
Count Woronzoff, Russia.
Angelo QuinLiori, Itaiy.
Baron Leitenberger, Aus-
trie.
Prince Montenuovo, Aus
aria.
J. D. Ar.ehbodd, New York.
A. Nobel, Baku.
-, Nebel, Baku.
J. R. de Lamar, New,
Yprk 5,000,000
bliss Helen Gould, New, .
Yeek. 5,000,000
Marshall Field, Chicago, 5,000,000
Levi Z. Leiter', Chicago. 5,000,000
Prince Youaoupof0, Rus-
sia. 5,000,000
W. L. Elkins, Phil.adel-
10,000,000
10,000,000
10,000,000
10,000,000
10,000,000
9,000,000
0,000,000
0,000,000
9,000,000
.9,000,000
9,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
8.000,000
3,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
8,000,000
7,000,000
7,000,000
7,000,000
0,000,000
6,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
Russell Sage, New York.
Lord Armstrong,
Potter Palmer, Chicago.
Lord Masham,
David H. Moffatt, Den -
Duke of Portland. .
(keit Rhodes.
Guzman Blanco, Paris.
Baroness Burdett -Coutts.
Lord Brassey. • .
Sir John Ramsden.
Chas. T. Yerkos, Chicago.
Austin Cabin, New York.
Slr Savile Crossley, Bart.
L. Hameneesley, New.
York. .
A. Iselin New York.
W. S. Stratton, Cripple
Creek. .
D. Ogden Melts,' New,
W. Seward 1Vebb, New '
York. . . . 5,000,000
Siu• Thomas Lipton. . . 5,000,000
Duke of Norfolk. . 5,000,000
H. Mir. Twoeublcy, New
York . . 5,000,000
T. Laftus Johnson, Cleve- 1
land. . . . 5,000,000
Janves Doyle, Vector, Colo. 5,000,000
Frederick Pabst, Milwau-
kee. . . 0,000,000
John Wannamaker, Phila-
delphia. . . . 5,000,000
John W. Gates, Chicago. 5,000,000
J. R. Keene, New, York. 5,000,000
Julies Wernher. . 5,000,000
Frank Rockefeller, Cleve-
land. . . 5,000,000
Stir Francis Cook, Bart. , 5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
— -e
THE BRITISH WORKMAN.
A itefutatton or 1'esslntislie Statement
That Iia hats Degenerated.
Certain pessimists of England wbo
are worrying themselves over the
physical and social conditions of the
British workingman., propose taking
a party of picked British workmen
to soma of the industrial centres ober:
they shall Rudy the methods of the
American artisan and learn that if
they are to keep abreast of progress
they must adopt modern methods,
i1his extreme view is advo^a.ted by
these pessimists on the ground that
British workmen bane begun to degen-
erate ; that the;, have shown a tend-
ency to forsake the beer and :beef
of Old England for jam, and that eith
all their comfortable surroundings,
they are no better worlrmeu than they
were a generation ago. 'lire fact is,
that the standard of comfort, the dur
alion of life, and the general bealth'
of the workingman in England have
never been so Late:factory as they are
to -day: In, the Matter pf dress -at any
holiday a se401l,y the crowd is quite
on the level srberc :blood the middle
eta seg of tweest. or flirt year, ago.
s y Y . s. n
Smart clothes are the role Omnng mon
and women alike, and thotagb it may
be urged that at bolidey times the
people naturally put on their "best,"
one does not need to he very old to
remember the days when their "best"
was not ,ball ao gorgeous or half so
neatly as it is now. In the matter
of living, too, conditions have improv-
ed enormously, and in spite of the
jam jibe, there east he no doubt that
the diener -pail in ,England is not only
full, but, broadly speaking, of sound
and honest quality and that the work-
or,with bis seven to nine dollars week-
ly, can do reasonably well, not only
as regards the necessities, but also
as regards soma of the minor luxuries
of. life,
REFERRED TO ONE DIR110TION.
I sea 03.5107 lis reported easier.
Then it must mean et gots that
14,000,000 way. It daean't comae any oftener.
ON THE FARM. ='
BUTTER FLAVORS. •
When Certain" °end titin exist', l yc ,you
will find es butter what the prootical
marl ea115 a weedy flavor and the
oommtesian roan a summer flavor.
Tide le not due to the food consumed
by the ow, but to a species of bee-
teria widish is prevalent during sire
Weather. This germ is found in the
intestines the same as ether strong
ga•i producing germs. A dry, high
gternpovthraLou; eos. c', ospccfiaooroafblbatcoterti1ao
Theo germs are largely found in dry
dust and /stagnant pools of water. Or-
ganic matter in the water furnishes
food for thee bacteria, where they ra-
pidly multiply and are carried on
cows' legs and udders to. the milking
vessels. One patron having milk of
this kind could inoculate all the milk.
in the creamery whore pasteurization
of the ukimmilk was not used, and
could also Leooulele the cans ofall
patrons furnishing milk to a cream-
cry. Meet germs are not spore pro-
ducing and can easily be destroyed by
a temperature of 103 degrees. Here
is one of the benefits of pasteurizing
the skimmilk.
Many no doubt have observed dur-
ing a dry period that just after
a shower of rain the milk would im-
mediately change and the flavor
would improve. Some have attribut-
ed this to the fresh grase coming on
with the rain, but 'grass does not
grow in a day. A mare plausible
reason is that rain settles the dust
and prevents bacterial from being car-
ried on the bodies and legs of cows,
thus contaminating the milk.
Under a number of te,9ls Prof. Eckles
made at varices times during Hue past
year, he found that in August during
a dry period, the obnoxious gee pro-
ducing bacteria run as high as 1,500,-
000 to the cubic centimeter of milk
while at other times they were scar-
cely noticeable. Now if these con-
ditions do exist during the dry
periods, the question arises, how are
we going to overcome the difficulty
as we have to combat invisible/ forces,
This can be dime by skimming exceed-
ingly heavy meant during these per -
lode and diluting with good milk and
using a heavy starter. When we use
a. !;tarter we are endeavoring to use
an enormous -quantity al bacteria of
a kind that will give n good results
and will overcome the bacteria al-
ready in the cream. We have a num-
ber of commercial starters on the
market put out by different firms,
any of which will give good results if
judiciously handled.
PLOWIING.
We have many times tried to im-
press it upon our readers that the
object of ploughing was not merely
to turn a certain part of theeoi1 up-
side down, to expose a new surface
to cultivation and to plant growth,
but rather to pulverize the soil to
suehdepths as we could properly
enrich it, that, after planting, the
fine or feeding roots of the plants
could easily penetrate it and to
leave it in such condition that the
forces which nature enlists to. help
the farmer could ani throughout
that depth.
The beat known of those forces, are
air and water, Sunlight or heat and
frost. That tberc may act thor-
oughly, the roil must be receptive of
them, and that it cannot be unless
it is porous. Pulverizing, disinte-
gration or separation of its particles
is expected to do this, and the
ploughing and harrowing should be
mechanical means to this end, but
as much ar more may depend upon
other means of attaining the same
end. Ploughing at such a time as
will mix with it a certain amount
of vegetable matter, which, as it
decays, will not only enrich the soil,
but leave open spaces which It occu-
pied before decay, is more effective
than mechanical means to properly
pulverize the soil, not entirely be-
cause of leaving as open passages, tole
space it once occupied, but in its de-
cay there is a fermentation which by
heat creates a gas that permeates the
earth around ft.
But this gas from decaying vege-
tation does more than warm and
lighten the soil whirl it penetrates,
more than furnish the elements that
are set free by the decomposition of
the green plant,. The very gas
evolved by fermentation has a pow-
er, as yet but imperfectly understood,
but generally acknowledged, 1.0 so
act upon the mineral elements in the
soil as to liberate and to bring to a
condition Where plants can feed upon
them the Nees/Morin acid in bone and
in the otheringredicnls and separate
them from their lime.
We might digress hero to refer to
the growth of lichens, or what farm -
ere would cull grey, moss upon granite
rocks and sand plains es evidence of
the flower of plant roots to reduce
the insoluble potash to a soluble eon
dition, but we aro contented, with
merely alluding to it ay an instance
familiar to all, The kelp or seaweed
and rock weed grow attached to the
olid reeks, although they reach out
into salt water and they are plants
so Koh In potash that they; have been
gathered for the potash they contain-
ed. In times before potash wast min-
ed from the ground these weeds have
been highly prized for the potash
they cened:lett and as furnishing it
at less trouble for domestic uses than
was amused by the burning ashes.
But to return 1.0 our first point,
Tb:c acids generated by decaying vege-
tation malice these mineral matters
availaelefor plant food and an object
tai ploug9:ting should 0 to Intermix
them with the eon.
Dow =oh 'do they amount to in
the boll, and en what pare of it are
theca vegetable matters feeed, aside
froln Blore that aro upon the sur-
rams? We rneev tdat
groviri
8
plants can be ploughed under to
C rn sves
etable
metier, but it
exists also in their roots, Prof. 3,
W. Sanbtrrn iy autelor'ity for the
etatement that in the first 5070n
inches of soil in sward grannd 1110
found 590 pounds of note to a given
area to be in the first tw'ol Inches
9,100 pounds, in the second two
inches ,and 594 pounds in thethree
lnahes below that, or 4,313 pounds
in the upper Seven inches of soil,
while in eight lnohes below that
there= were 100 paunde, very little
being between eight and 'twelve in,
below the surface.
It follows' then, that 90 far as
bringing to Die surface the yeee-
table •:natter in the soli, there is but
little nee in going below eight inches
and that we have a larger part in
the first four' inches. But as plant.
roots exist In the greatest number
between two and four in. below the
surface, it also follows that there is
where this decaying vegetable mat-
ter should' be and if the soil were in-
verted we 'Mould need to turn, it over
six inches deep or if w,e desired to
have therm sleek lower depths, we find
more maieture in seeking for food,
W e might go from eleven to eight in-
ches deep. To go deeper than that
would be to bring to the surface that
which would scarcely contain food
enough to irustain them until they
could reach farther down.
Having alluded to the effects of
the fermentation of this decompos-
ing vegetable matter on the mineral
elements of the soil, it remains for
us to see Bore and wherethatwill
take place. It is not when buried
six, eight or even four inches below
the surface. It is when it can
have contact with both the moist
eart'b and the air above, Decom-
position is oxidization, and that
does hat result when the air is ex-
cluded. This leads us to the eon -
elusion that inverting the sward
ground is not as favorable for this
purpose as setting the furrow part-
ly on edge, so that the portion con-
taining the Most of the roots shall
be near the conireofthe furrow slice,
the green material on the surface
shall be between two slices and both
subject to the action of the air.
This position also best' exposes
the earth to the influence of those
other os' nature's powers to which
we have alluded, the rain, the frost
and the sunshine. From this we
would draw the concl cion thee r:p-
on the most of our sward .land the best
plongbing is that which goes from
six to seven inches deep, and sets the
furrow slice partially en edge, -ratt-
er than tonne it over perfectly flat.
GET AWAY FROM THE COLD.
Microbes Manage to L:vo Through the
Temperature of Liquid Air.
The researches of Professor Dewar
on liquid air are familiar to all who
take an interest in the progress of
Scientific research at large. At a
recent Royal society meeting an in-
teresting communication was made
o¢. behalf of Dr. A. Macfadyen and
Mr. S. Rowland, on the effect of the
terrifically low temperature of liquid
asr on microbes. The aim of the in-
vestigative was that of ascertaining
whether the germs could survive cold
of a degree ranging from 183 to 192
degrees centigrade.
It ie, of course, known that many
species of microbes can survive being
packed in ice, and even higher organ-
isms flourish in the arctic circle. In-
deed, the extremes of temperature for
low forma of life are widely separat-
ed, and ao it becomes a matter of
practical public interest, as I shall
show, to determine where the limits
of vitality in this respect are to be
found, writes a London correspond-
ent. The low temperature of liquid
air offered a supreme chance to see
bow microbes comported themselves
under exposure thereto, and so our
investigators seized on the opportun-
ity presented them.
!Exposed for twenty hours to the
liquid air temperature no injury, was
apparently sustained by the microbes,
But in the recent experiments such
germs es those of typhoid fever, diph-
theria, anthrax, cholera and other
ailments, along with non -disease pro-
ducing species were submitted' to the
liquid air test for seven days. In ad-
dition to the exclusively low tempera-
ture I must add the microbes in this
experiment were subjected to a tre-
mendous
MECHANICAL STRAIN.
Then came the ,question of the ef-
fects of both conditions on the vital-
ity of the germs. These results may
be summed up in the word nil. Un-
der the microscopes they showed no
signs of mechanical injury or die-
tortion, and they were as lively -if
that term m..y be applied to denote
n condition of vitality -as they were
previous to their chilling and cooling
experle;nocs.
I have referred to the pub!;s inter-
est width attaches to these investi-
gations. . To know the limits of germ
life ie an essential item in the knowl-
edge of the sanitarian 'when be un-
dertukee to show how infectious dis-
eases caused by microbio action can.
be destroyed and prevented from at-
tacking us.
It has long been known that we
cannot trust to cold as a disinfecting
and germ -killing agency. Cold will
cheek germ growth certainly, a foot
we sae illuairated by every cargo of
Australian mutton that is landed at
the docks, but 11 cannot destroy the
micreecopio living things that are
responsible for inducing disease, and
for calming
decomposition, p stlton, p»lrefac-
tion, and a goodly number of other
cemditions, beneficial and the reverse.
The investigations I have described
confirm fully the snnitary teachings
about cold. They also emphasize an-
other little bit of useful information
-namely, the difference between it
sebstamie that really kills germs and
one that merely "scotches" them.
Were Ilia distinetion more clearly
apprehended by the public we should
probably hear Imes frequently otnrys-
terious outbr'ealce of oplelemles, which
probably owe their origin tie much to
inefficient diainfeetion as to any
other picas of human negligence,
11 111 BMW UHANOLLOR
SIR IIIICII4ANL O701717,2-S4EOW IS
71113
IBreedliad Monolog or the OhaneelI
the 3xe(etiner-e4e4 Old l¢:iitd 111 r elldesm
gf Ileo hurled l(h'dam..
A Frunoh author',ahas' distin,guishell
the people who gummed by their tale
out from those who have Only, the tale
Blit to succeed. Sir Michael Woks -
Beach is among ,the former. If he
hall made artful use of his ebiliLy he
mlght net now be second to anyone
In
the Ileum Commons. With a
sharp tongue and a stubbern temper,
he lacks the disposition to please. Ho
has that overbearing austerity whleh
Plotaroh deplored in Coriolanus. Ilia
own thoughts are too much for him.
Ileis the least accessible of the Min-
ieters. Usually when he sits on the
Treasury Health kis shove no disposi-
tion to converse with colleagues, but
dreamily ahewge the eud of 1310 reflect'
lions, and ingoing out 0r coming in
he seldom pauses to 50ssip with the
smart loungersalthough powand
again he submits to be button -holed
by Dslr. James Caldwell, who, ns'
dopbt, has given him a wrinkle for.
his budget. A statesmen with and
assured position, he seeks no higher
Poet, but doggedly, though uneaten-
tatiouely, keeps bank biose who may,
with to push him aside.
HIS POSITION IN TEE CABINET.
Sir `teethed is classed among the old
men of . the Cabinet. There aro reasons
far this' classification. He reached 115
Treasury Bench eight years before
Der, Chamberlain entered the Holiso,
and 'while the latter sat below the
Liberal gangway attacking Lord
Beaoonsfleld's Government, Sir Mich-
ael was S°cratary of State for the
Colonies. There are some who think,
the present Colonial Secretary's prose
Erects will be improved }when the bar-
onet frown the Testis oat of the way.
Tboee who think so have omitted to
take note at ages. Mr. Chamberlain
saw the light in Camberwell a year,
before the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer was born, in a more aristocratic
region in Landon. It ie. merely in a
parliamentary louse that the Chan-
cellor is his senior. Whereas Mr.
Chamberlain war forty when the town
of bis adoption sent him to the House
of Commons, Sir Michael Hicks-ileaoit
took 13iy eeat there in 1864 all the ear-
ly age of 27. There are only two
members who have been at St. Ste-
phen's longer than the member for
1Veer Bristol, and neither of them
sits on the Treasury Bench.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
confliats with the tell-tale record of
"Dad." Sir Michael rooky much old-
er than Mr. Chamberlain. While
the wrinkles of the latter are few and,
slight, the former has a haggard,
weary aspect -the aspect of an im-
perious man, who cannot always cut
and carve circumstances to his will.
Fortunately for his appearance, the
Colonial Secretary can boast with
more accuracy than Miss Horn, of
Portlos.ie, that he bas "nae feclin's."
A cartoon of Sir Michael, published
soon after he became Chief Secretary,
for Ireland, in 187.4, represented him
as an Apollo with thick brown hair,
and beard of still lighter hue. Hair
and beard arc now dark grey, and
are less picturesque. His attitude,
however, rooming the same. In the
cartoon his tall, lean figure stands
stiffly at the table., his elbows rest
on the box, and a document is held
loosely in his taper fingers. Thee
he stands at the present day, a man
of capacity, but not brilliant, t4cat-
ing tbe House with respect, but re-
fusing to stoop. Sir Driehael is tho
country gentleman with the instinct
for government, ,the aristocrat play-
ing the great game in the traditional
style, and he is best pleased when
matched with an opponent so like
himself in temperament as Sir Wil-
liam Harcourt.
HIS MAGNANIMITY.
"Certainly a very high-minded
man," wrote Sic John Mowbray with
reference to Sir Michael in August,
1880. Fifteen months earlier, having
joined with Lord Randolph Churchill
in a surprising revolt against the
meek Sir Stafford Northcote, be
was appointed Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and leader of the House of
Commons. When Lqrd Salisbury ob-
tained power for the second time,
Lord Randolph be self bcaame lead-
er of the House, and Sirs Michael went
book to .the poet of Irish Secretary,
whichlife." be held under Disraeli. "I told
him," wrote Sir John Mowbray, I
thought it the most magnanimous
thing 1 had ever known in public
In the recently published life of
Mr. Childer% it is stated that be oleo
on a critical occasion effaced himself
for the sake of party. Cynloe assert
that in political life magnanimity,
means submission to the stronger
twill, 'but when the State secrets of
the la.et twenty years are revealed by
the biographer, Sir Michael may be
proved worthy of Sir Mowbray's
eulogy. Eye trouble cut short his
seeand Irish ,career. Soon after
wards, however, he found peaceful oc-
cupation ab the Board of Trade, and
since 1805 he has jealously kept the
national purse. Stern Tories aro
supposed to consider frim a check on
Mr. Chamberlain. ie is, it is true,
a masterful mean, but where is the
evidence that he has opposed any of
his ironw•illed colleague's designs, or
that, having opposed them, he has
prevailed? Pessimists crook over the
decay of oratory in the House of
Commons. Orators have never been
numerous there, and Sir Michael is
bot one of them, bet he i.e a good
Parliamentary speaker, clear, fluent,
vigarous.
1{ISS1T
A'CUS.
IIo--Lack home, my dear, I cannot
afford to entertain on such 'a scale as
you have indulged in, of late.
She -Jolla, 1 rculiy bolieee youare
just the kind of a man who would
Ira perfectly happy if you livedo with-
in 3'onr income.
elestre.si This water has a queer
taste, a -ireful Servant, who hal
heard lnateh scieni;if10 canversatiewt-
It's all rhea ti man, ',l hews is 11.1)1 a ilaf
porta La it, mem, I run 11 Useoluall
the t0,iueingLmaobina. ,