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CHAPTER XXIV. 1 13E4, with a SteO w)ft but enbdeed•
The coaraa insult wee net come land with on expreesion ft his !Wee
pletsd, he hew barely time to optic() that tkonehow comforted her, even
how she blanched and shrank from Whilst It drove a knife into her
hini in her hurt purity, when the heart, It spoke of a sympathy that
sound of a woman'hurrying feet, had left with her end for her, ana
along the groyeled path caught her that raised from its grave again the
. gag aell migge peesiens ewe then, tittle fragile toren that had been to
her heart flew back to tier child. She her all her heart's blood, It woe the
confronted the neree (who now nee Pest time she had eeen him eince the
eh
peered, breathless, pale, and terri-
ild's death, and remembrance was
fied), and cried aloud to her M her -strong upon. her. Yet, through all
terror, with white UPS, and hands iter quickened grief, she knew she
tightly preseecl against her bosom. lives glad to see him ; there was a
"What is it ? What 9" she /gasp: Sen00 of rest, of comfort in his pre -
ed, • sence. She knew that he en:tem/toed
"The baby, My lady. She is not ker ; that he would not mistake her
co well. Tbe doctor is with her. 'forced composure for coldness; that
he could fathom the depth of her
Lady Valley did not bear her ; she suffering, and, hitying fp-thorned,
would not ' accuse her of exaggera-
bad rushed past her, putting Variey, She appealed to him with large,
tion in her grief. Ife was apart
-Who was in her path, to one side by
a quick geseure, as though he
from and unlike all the others, eh, miserable oyes, and hands outstretch -
had
been a branch, or some other inani- thought-eave, indeed, Constantia, ed. Her heart seernecl full to over -
O'Grady, by a gentle move -
to . who had proved herself beyond doubt flowing.
mate obstruction. At midnight
.. was over I lencly Varley, upon whose a Wenn. Iroenta hloodr 1301'eor rteoselaxstirhconrsaz. agiaieeoz.
arm the little head was lying, made "1 am glad to see you," hpe
e said . 110
an, inarticulate cry, and throw out* gravely. Ife took her extended hand, so wanted, so worn a tiung tnat he
and pressed it gently, He hadston- feared excitement for hcr, When he
her unaccented arrn towards the doe-
eidered what he would say to her would have neleased her hand she
tor in a mute agony that unnerved still clung, to it in a' girlish, implorer
him, stroxig as he was, ...before coining in ; but now all - his
eloquence forsook him, as he gazed ing fashion, and so he sat beside her
Iler freil frame could not resist the withou; a
into her mournful ayes, and noted, holding hor palm in bis,
terrible strain to which it had been
geegn seerning to add a s'ortaile ire
Welty to her woo. She Milked up
and desen the oon ip eilenCe for a
Athlete or two and then Mint forth
etgain, as though silence was torture
to her -she, who Indere hie canning
had felt ellenee her only security,
"It is all here," elle Said, stopping
With eetne ahrupthese before hiM,
and laying her hand upon her hent.
"Day by day the ache grOWfi. keener
It will kill inc soon, .1 trust"
"Oensider 1" he Sold, rieing in hie
then with abruptnese to. his feet,
"You hardly tenow whatyou say.
You think only of your grief. There
are others --V. 0110413e11 hiniSelf
PaSeionntele.
"There is no ono," she said. "And
for 'myself X do not care I have
been hardly used. I—" She paus-
ed. and struggled with herself for
composure "I asiceete-I demanded-,
1-1 prayed ',mon my bonded knees all
night and half my days, that that
one thing should be granted me by
Imam, That one poor little life
wrestled for -no more ne more -nut
it wan denial me I Why should I be
thnnkful, grateful; as they tell me 7
should be, for life itself, when its
sweets nre dragged from my Were
arios ?"'
with 0. wonderinie peen, the chenees
oubJected. For many days she lay
that•one short month of anguish had
in a sort of stupor, dense enough to
prevent her fully realizing the oec wrought upon her
tent of her loss. This seemedto She was pale hollow-eyed, boneless.
nights had been spent in weep -
those attached to her a nether /nerd- Her
It ing, her days in consuming' regret
Jul happening than otherwise.
"Grief lilted the room up of her
spared her at least the last poignant
absent child," and whitened hey lips,
details. •
The day after thchild bad been and made tC0mulous the beautiful
e
hand that used to be so softly firm.
"You have been away," she said.
"Not so far that 1 could not hear of
you, I managed to get some news
every day." Ills bronzed, lean face
flushed, and be looked down at his
laid within the grave, Lady Varioy
awoke to consciousness 0010 11101'e,
and lay prone •and nassivo on her
pillows, but in fedi possession of her
60110011.
She had expressed a wish to -day
that no ono was to be admitted; but ""'n "Sad news," he said very
•
just now, hearing Constantin's voice gen1-17*
It Is a month to -day," returned
upon the corridor outside', fishing g"
it
in a tone so low that he could
how she bad passed the night, she
scarcely hear her ; aigl then all at
suddenly lifted her bead, and deeired
onco her fortitude forsook her, and
the maid in attendance to 0.C11131t her
visitor.
Constantia, looking pale and
troubled, came in slowly, and, kneel -
compelled herself to a calm ; the
Ing by her side, pressed her lips to
serain' of which upon her aching
her cheek. She had not seen her for
heart was terrible ; but before- this
some days, and was, in a de„nree,
unnerved by the haggard glance that /nun' who was. eteter all, but n
settled upon hers. 1 stranger to her, her strength failed,
fears sprang forth, and as they
Any affection she had had tor con- 'the
her heart was eased, her spirit
stantia before, grew now into a full- ran
or life, that never afterwards knew knew relief.
"Speak to me of it," said O'Grady,
any diminution in its strength. But 1
his
to her alone she :relaxed; with her musical, cultured voice,
in
through which Et touch of the old
only she permitted herself the luxury
every ineradieable brogue, rich, and soft,
of giving way to 0. grief that
and Ineder, ran unrebuked.
day seemed to make iaiore intoler-
able. Her arms were enipty ; there! nhat is there to say," said
was nothing to 031 them, A feilthless she, "but that I have lost my all ?
husband, a little grove -truly ' her I am a creature ;bereft of every good.
hearth was left unto her desolate / :When last you saw me, there was at
So far as the outer world went, least hope -a stricken one, pin hapse-,
she seemeel cold, uninteresting. Those but now there is notning."
she covered her face with her hands,
end broke into bitter weeping. -Be-
fore all her other visitors she liad
suspicion of passion, or anything legs
sad and sacred than her dire lage of Caesaric legends, the =tui-
tion. tains hem in the path altogether,
Only twelve:miles and a half away
Iles Italy; but these are miles of
xnountain. And yet exactly here,
writes Eugene 1'. Lyle, Jr.,..is an im-
parte:Alt point in commercied Beret -
sion on lam face, and O'Grady founC
himself lowering hie eyes hoe
LOS, here, There nate no doubt of
the eineerity of her desire to gee him
agnin, 'Pe see hire, hewever, fre-
quently, would in ell probability Lc
nothing to her, wolild not lead her
Ona pin's nediet beyond the pot me
Which she now stood ; but with hien,
how would it be ? To be near hei
often, to grow familiar with those
awed: eYee, end parted lips--
• He pulled himself together With a
little starte•ami took her hand and
said "Good-bye" in as orthodox a
fashion as waft possible.
"Thank you. 1 hall have few
Pleasures 60 cloWirable as tide you
have offered nee," lie naid, Snelling
Pier:et-ditty. lIe did not hold her
hand the eighth part of a minute,
though he knew he would have given
a good many years of his life to
Neve held and Itiseed -He ele got
through the ordeal very well, how-
ever, and preeently found himself
outside the door, conscious of only
two things -that be had not betray-
ed hlineelf, and that her eyes had
followed him: nntil the portiere had
hidden him from eight.
(To )3e Continued).
TELE GREATEST TUNNEL.
The ffiure,-Simplyn Will be Twelve
and a Half Miles Long.
Like certain armies of the 'past,
-
there are some railroad train e which
Must get anto Rely. The trains.• of
the Jura -Simplon system, for exam-
ple, leave Ink° Geneva, behind and
go rolling up the valley of -the
Rhone, until at Brieg,.an Alpine
vil-
You dwell so keenly on your Own
loss that you forget her gain," „ he
said, alluding to the 111.1,10 01111 for
whom she was peeing. "fs any life,
e-ven thmmost joyous here, so aesir-
able a thing that you tvould have egy for the mutual invasion of nor -
her quit the glories of the celestite' them Europe and the Latin penin -
land to join it ? That pure, angelic
spirit is now beyond the reach of
pain, and grief, and disannointment,
and care. end all' the ills to which
we of our world, are heirs. Let her
rest in her sweet peace. Do not de-
sire her return.- Prom rapture. pure
and unalloyed, to a balminess imper-
fect 11.9 ours is, even in its naost per-
fect state, would be but a, poor ex-
change indeed "
"Ab I 'There is truth in that,"
Her face remained fixed in its mother-
ful seeming, but from -her sea eyes
two large tears distilled themselves
and inn down her pale cheeks.
Others followed them, But the angry
rebellion against the powers above
sula,
For fifty yeans men have looked at
that twelve and a half miles or
mountain, crossed by tbe wild and
terrible Simplon' Pass, and fig wecl
how to do away with it. There
were scores of plans; but finally the
most costly and most daring, and
yet the simplest, was chosen, namely
to go right through., In 1801 the
plan was submitted to the Swiss
Government.", In 1895 the Swiss and
Italian Governments ratified a treaty
Lor having tho tunnel between them.
At once the aura -Simplon let out
the contract for building the tunnel,
which must be delivered five c.nd a
had &eel from her, and her feca eves half years from November 18, 1808,
when the work was begun. The pen-
s°'Ir'theennn,r1 something moving him, he alty for delay will be one thousand
ban to speak to her, to picture to dollars a day, with a bonus of as
her the happy life of the child in much for each day ahead of tirae.
that realm whither, as yet, she could The tunnel is to be twelve and one -
not follow her. De was ever Ein quarter miles ;ems, with a smaller
earnest man who followed the right . tunnel for ventilation, parauet 11.1 the
as well as in him lay, and eschewed first at a distance of eighteen and a
the wrong, but it had never dawned half yarde. Under a 1 uture contract
upon him, until this hour, that he the second tunnel will be made the
had indeed a thirst for things di- same size as the first, for a, return
vine. The beauty, the holiness of frock,
the tinseen"life had entelled into btu. Three thousand men on each side of
and taken possession of him, whilst
yet he lay in ignorance m It. the mountain are opening this path
who hastened to assure her of them I. "Still, e me o 1 , le urged. To himself it was a marvel how bet,ween Switzerland and Italy. Drills
sympathy, went home again to tell 1 'To seenk will do yoa good. 'Give he thus delineated to liewathe per- a yard and a hall long and as thick
as a. man's forearm eat into the solid
each other on their next meeting, sorrow words.' They tell Inc you are lection of the life to come. Tit
that after all, delicate sentiments undemonstrative, strangely silent. style, the subject wl
as foreign to Iii rock .at the rate of a yard and a
bad been thrown away upon her, Surely that is 1101 wise." yet he -fancied, nay, he knew, that all halfim fifteen minutes, Nine holes
end that evidently she end 1101 feel : "They have told you more than he pictered he believed, and 'that the are bored at a time, and (inch is
-leavY grandeur of lhe idea that the little charged with more than six pounds
the death of (12511,5131 nearly so much that." I
She lifted her large,
as they had been led to believe. Ali 1 eees to Ins, and loolte at m ae - child lead reached high heaven and a
, If they had lost their • little ones, ly, "They have told you I am cold, Father's cure and love, rind was for -
how ditTerent they would have felt; unfeeling -a very sumo ! I confess ever fah, the eplenclor of that
hew they would nave shown, by that is what 1. have felt at times -a thought !), forever fi•ee and absolved
tears and sighs, the grief that was stone. What is there to rouse for ? from earthly stain and grief, wee
co:1st:ming there I ,To show love ter longing 2" glorious to 111113.
Evee Lord Varley WaS in a certain I "Surely there ,,are many things- Later on he smiled to himself as he
degree deceived. Once she resumed inferior to that one great treasure recalled thut hour. But the smile
her old duties, and sat at the bead gone, but sLill of use."
had no seepticiem en it, and was
of the table and received her gueste. : "There is nothing," she said ston- born more of :surprise than of agnos-
there wait little in her rammer, lita "The eight is dead I" She had tic doubt. t
which had always been grave and fallen back unconsciously into that Just then, however, he was not
gentle, to speak of any inward, tor- old frozen 1130000)' 01 hers, so that he smiling. Fre had entered into her
tering regret. Iter comPosure never was able to judge of the apparent sorrow with an acuteness that should
-forsook hoe, Her smile, if rarer, was. unconcern of which her neighbors ac- have warned him, and was con -
always kind ; and there WaS 110 rem- cused her. seious of a sense of triumphant relief
son why he should regard nee as I "Who . shall forbid you to dwell as he saw her sad eyes clear beneath
cherishing a grief that Was inconsol- Upon that sad fact 9" said he. "But bis words, and her expression of lin-
able. Bo knew nothing of' tile long- I would have you regard it in a dif- eddespair give way to n, tender sub-
' hours spent , alone in the deserted, ferent sph•it. Surely life is not so mission. ' -
nursery, where she knelt beside the altogether barren, so entirely bereft Tim twilight deepened. The per -
empty little cot, mid prayed for Pag of joy, that you shoehl thus give up fume from the gierdens without was
dance and a speedy finish to nee soli- ag your best years to 0, gorrow un- wafted softly inwards, and from a
tary life, and conjured up the dead controllable." . hundred tiny nests the last eweet
pest., in which her darling's pale face I "It is a simple thing to you to crooning of the birds broke forth,
ginned at her again -where the tiny give Etelvicenike that," she said, with All spoke of rest, of -peace, of joy, to
arms were extended to her, wheee the a faint touch of reproach in her, .be again renewed--aild bathed in it,
pressure of delicate baby hands 'fell gentle yoke. "But you -you have theother's heart took courage end
et upon tier breast, her cheek. She was not known." woke again to hope. Beyand the
wasted and worn iron grief,' beit she I -Yea, yes, I see. I know what you twilight, the growing darkness, there
kept her eyes dry before the world, would say." He spoke quite humbly was a glorious light, where sho nod
lest that careless thing should enter now; and leant toWards her. " 'Every her little ,ono might meet Smart , to
into and disturb the sacrednese of one can master a grief but be that heart again.
her despair. 1has it-' Yost that is entirely true. O'Grady rose to bid her farewell
One afternoon, with the ever -pro- 'But I did not come here to trouble Now a 8011110 ol shame, of Manilla -
Sent 601120 of desolation upon her, you, only to try to help you ; and floe. was :ult upon him. That 110,
13110 lay back languidly In her chair, now, almost 111 the beginning, I have the man of the world, careless of
with a, sense of physical weariness gone completely wrong. Yet,—" he most things, should have dared to
that touched her not unpleasantly. paused, and looked at her reflective- opea out into this sweet setae a seg -
The minutes 0111110 and went, and ly-"I would be of some good to you gestaon of It higher life, seemed pre -
grew into hours, and twilight was if I could." • sumptuously ribsurd. Ho bent over
• already stealing over the land, when I "I know it. 7 know that," she her hand and tried to murmur some -
the door was opened, and a servant cried, a little wildly. "But, who can thing of what be felt, but she did
announced :
. "Mr. O'Grady.'' Ihelp me 9 ,`MY grief neg. all within.' not hear him,
It destroys me ns it vows. And . "You will come again 2" she asked
,
Ile crone towards her across the every moment seems to add a cubit anxiously. She looked quite beauti-
polished oaken floor, strewn with to its stature." Slin rose, and ful in tbe dying sunset, in her long
Oriental rugs and bits 01 saered car- , swept by him, the deep crape of her crape robes, with that rapt expres-
wmalwoworsvenalenou oroormommanscormasasommeammawermenamtn
nerrirsodaa, .3.1=1:11.1.1.0.4SIS
AL*CA11.711.M10, MUI.,,q1,7r3ria.tatalt.2.113-WX.<111C10=11301,"Il7t.1, )'02i1A i31
Mazocre)stmeD (022.azawirit. izzaitarei anantsee M9h..StesSlei0,11SES.,e1.3,anti9tn.eefea.
It is the old story of wet feet, on/0811re to cold and dampness and chlllod bodies, Towards night the
lioareenees nomes and the hollow, croupy or tight chest :lough. Then mother's anxiety, for she knows the
danger and 1,110 suddenness With Which the little ones are 501110011105 snatched away. When you think of the
thoueands of times that Dr, Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine has saved the lives of the little ones
it is scarcely to be wondered at that mothers look upon ftwith confidence and Satisfaction.,
ra,•4 Re CHASE'S SYRUP- OF
LINSEED AND TURPENTINE
Ts an ideal tieeditine for thildren becaueo it is re:malleably pleasalitato take mid le perfectly fee° from idol'-
93le one' of the Lew remedies for disettees of the throat, and lungs which thoroughly cures the colcl as
well es the emigh, There aro other prepavatione of linseed. Ite 51110 1/011 get Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed
and TurPeritine, with portrait and signature of Dr, A, W, Chase on tlto bottle. Price, 25 conise; family Size,
tame& tbnee 081 much, GO cents. All dealers, or Edraanson, Bates & Co., Toronto.
of dyinamite. Tne dynamite splin-
ters the rock out meanly to the
depth of the holes, and the debris -
five hundred tons of it every twenty-
four hours -is hauled away and
dumped by an electric crane beyond
the mouth of the tunnel.
The workmen advance at the rate
of about twenty-three feet a day.
The last official report, April ist
showed a progress of nearly three
miles from the Swiss side and more
than two miles from the Italian side,
over live miles in o11. This means
that the contractors are well up with
their schedule. Within three years a
train will leave Brieg, Switzerland,
be lost for twenty minutes, and come
out at Iselle, Italy.
To make that little journey possi-
ble will have cost fourteen million
dollars, but the diLTerence between
the tunnel and the Simplon Pass
over the mouneains will be the dif-
ference between twenty ininutes and
nine hours.
THE REASON.
A Gorman professor who le given
to great deliberations of speech, and'
has never been known to increase its
speed under the most compelling. cir-
cumstances, had an amusing expe-
rience in a restaurant not long ago.
The waiter had brought him raw
oysters, and to his dismay ne saw
that the professor had apparently no
intenticn of tasting therm
"I cannot eat these Oysters," said
the German slowly, withont raising
his eyes to the anxious waiter. The
man seized the plate and bore it out
of sight in an instant. He 1111.113 38
new waiter, and it was with much
trepidation that he laid the second
supply of oysters before this discrim-
inating patron.
"L cannot eat these oysters," said
the profeseor, niter one glance at
the plate which had been set before
111111.
"I -I think you'd flied them all
right, tir," faltered the waiter, "I
don't think there's anything wrong
about them, sir," The looked inieer-
able baying been told that the Ger-
man was a frequent and valued pa-
tron of 1,11e restaurant, and must be
well and quichly serve:I. -
"I carnet eat•these 03/5t07'$,"an-
nounced tho professor -for the third
time, with the cal/111105s of chorus in
a tragedy, "bemuse as yet yon 11090furnished me no fork."
ON THE LINE,
Old Lady --''Can you 1,011 1110, if you
plaze, where I'll' get the 111nel:rock
tram ?" Dublin Oar-driver--"Begorr
ma'am, if you don't watch yoersolf,
you'll get it in the small of your
back in abotlt half n minute,"
Tn 1 PPS 117001Britain built 695,-
897 tons of shipping foe hot nwn
mercer:tile 3)50, and '174.,OVi for to,'-
01531010.
ON THE FARM.
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ELECTION Ole SEED POTATOES 11',7310%, flia,,Llevta,05 al,°„Isin,atoSermittalli,n,rtz, al%
There Jo a, niee Preblene confronting
every buelneee amen. It le What aria
how Mueb of tile drudgery or detail
01 he ehall attend to
personally, We have lcuinvn a man
wiling: time wee worth eeveral thou -
Sand dollars a, yeim te epond it on
• It is a poor time to select seed go- eticking at home and. et lame all
tutees in spring when the best, onee the time who ought to be attending
have been used, Up and probably the to their business allairs instead of
others speouted, It is not enly talting the place of a, hired hand,
1/Ortant, taint Well shaped tobere ter They Ivo putting their abilley in at
good varieties should ne Selected for too low a price, they are uneerrating
eeed, but they eliould be kept in u, themselves, Consider what work
dry cool place where they tvill remain can he done most effectively and do
firm end sound and not, loso any of it, It nlay be that writing a letter
their vitality by sprouting. A re• , will bring returna enough to pay for
view of ecnno work that has hem a ionorer for eeveral days It may
demi in potato inlifrovement and cul- be that reading an article or an ad-
iiiro hhirone by 31, Elether, eigitee vertleement will be worth more mon-
th:et some very important points ey then a month'e labor. No man
have been determined hi Um trials /,•an lay down a rule for another in
that are eeumerated. It was found sixth matters, but if some people
thut variations in the development would labor less and attend to Mini-
ef vines and tubers wore readily in- nese snore they would be better olT.
beetled and trangreitted. It was work le not all manual lubor, it is
Sound also that flat tubers would the inlelligent direction of energy to
produce those of a similar kind, while the metherawee of boolooso,
variations from this were fond to be
readily reproduced. Again, such a
feature as the constituents of the go- rouvrnY NoTEs.
tato were also varied and they too An increased supply of poultry pro -
abundance of starch produced others
questionably lead to an increased
having an ducts of the highest class would tm-
were transmitted, Those
Jar degree. These facts indicate that
possessed of this quality to a stint_ consumption.
hie and popular article of food, and
There is 110 111010 Ste,
there are unlimited possibililies in consequenely we may confidently ex -
the selection of seed stock for the poet the demand to develop in pro -
production of the most desirable portion to the Increase of our popta
In planting potatoes that 311110 flat gence with which the markets are
lation and to the care and intelli-
(mantles. An experiment was made
in comparison with those that were suPPlica•
long and round. It was found that 1 'I he improvement of the cornmon
the flat potato dientained 121e11.0 starch poultry should begin in most cases
which of course is the constituent'. by breeding from' birds 551e81.e31 for
which gives value to the potato as a their shape, size and produceiveness,
food. Further investigations S11011, and by beteering the condition of 1 1 10
that was due to the hiet that the' under which they are kept. If the
starch zone In the potato lies next owner is willing to go u little fur -
to the outside of the tuber, the inner tiler and 1.0 bestow somewhat more
pant of the Weer being much poorer attention upon his birds, he may
PASSING. OF. TITE 118Kr1103
Qxvix,zz,4770N ..-arpnatalozOo
THEIR SW,A1KIN:ere,
cannot acule Vath ehe 7114ite )3p0,11a His SUPerier Benganie
&tone,
One of the Most etmtr
ling eontaetle
of the Pan-Americ, ExpoeitiOn
aff
311133
that orded by tee 1)10581810 there
Of a party pi Eskimos froze northeill
Labendor. These "little people"
(literelly °Innate," little folk), in
their sealskin rebee, With 'NO rude,
barbaric histruments of the elleee,
WOTO a 401,810111. etady for the thous-
ands who view them, but how few
realised what the triels of these poor
Nu:Athos were, far from home and
Several of them were got from Lan
brador last season and taken to the ,
Paris Exposition. Then theY were
exhibited in England during the
winter and conveyed to Buffalo
the spring, there to make sport for
the hordes of sight -seers and money
for the enterprising showmen who
were managing the affair. Some
died, and almost all had vontracted
much 810130088 31, the hot countries
they bad visited.
ACCEPT SMALL CONSIDERATION
To flli the gaps in their ranks an-
other contingent was obtained frora
the region this steer by the promo-
ters of the vontui ehe . Tsimple,
5.11111111135 Feellimoe axe easily Induced
to agree to visit the great world,
of which they have swell varied im-
aginings, and in their poor econo-
mies a very trifling consideration in
cash or kind is a great inducement
and is eagerly accepted by thin
But they have no understandings
of what the climatic changes mean
to therm Scarcely owe comes through
the ordeal unscathad. Their lungs,
accustomed to the bracing breezes of
the North, collapsed in the damp,
hot weather in the Uniten States ;
in this constituent,. Consequently 'cross them with males of stconsumption sets in to co,nplete theandard work that transplantation has be -
the ilat shape was the most fayora- /breed, or replace them entirely by .
ve to
ble for the production of starch. ten purebred males and femgun, and those who du surviales. reach home only do so to fall easy
the other hand it, was found that the I •There is no stock on the hum that
long, round tubers were more pro- 'yields a better relative return to thvictims to the cold there and to in -
e I fect their kin, in their close -packed
bac. The difference was expressed m
in Ifood consued than do the hens, and .i.ima. with the germs of the same
this way, that 111.130yield of vines iconeequently it is well worth while 1 insidious Malady.
and tubers from the flat, round go- 'to consider in what manner their
tatoes be taken as 100 the weight ol :product may be increased without PINED FOR HOME.
the vines from the long, round tubers i disproportionately increasing expen: wri,oietinadvilscittloedwnby tihreiridisnaLtallburaff(ajolor:
i
Labrador,
be 14.2 and the i113)5111 co the ; ses. The fowls must, have condort
tubers 216. Continued experimente 'able and healthful quarters, they they wished to return at One.% for
serve but to more elosely cetablish iniust have proper food and nesting they were all ailing and fearful of
.
these results. Some experiments ;medium but it, is not at all res -
were also made in planting large go- ;eery that there . should be extravia-
tatoes whole and cut in halves in 'pant expenditures in supplying these,
cemparison with small potatoes. The I The lcind of chickens to, be kePt 111)-
1arge potatoes in o,11 instances gave:on a farm depends almost es much
an increased yield OVer pleating iiipon the Lind of man who manages
small tubers and when the cost of ithera as upon any other condition,
the seed was allowed to enter into IThere are no birds which stand ne-
ttle experiment, the large potatoes sleet better than the common, men -
suited in a loss and the largo whole grel barnyard fowls, for these have
potatoes „in a gain over planting lived and developed under unfavor-
small tubers. This does not quite .able candillons arid are accustomed
what this unfamiliar condition Im-
plied. But they could not leave, for
they had signed contracts to remain
till November 1st, and a large sum
of money had been expended on the.
Eskimo village concession in the Fair
grounds; much more 111 building the
artificial ice floe snenery and acme -
soiree. and the malinger had yet to
make his profit,out of the venture.
Um however, was kind, and was
doing his beet to mnIce them happy
d
agree with the genetsthemselves.ancomfortable, 03131 he undertook
al practice ; o ehlft for They are not only to send them off punctually
which is favorable towards cutting ' generally hardy, vigorous, and yield as contracted, but ale° to attend
the large potatoes, especially when a fair return in eggs or as table them himself as feu* as St. Jol n's,
the question of the cost of seed be- poultry; they respond fairly well to
comes of such importance as it is generous treatment, and, if selected
likely to be at the planting time. ;with some care, are by no meane to
Ibe despised, even when their product
DA1TtY AND STOCK% is compared with that of the stand-
,ard breeds.
Never feed dusty liay.
The best cows are always the here- 1F --a
OLLOWED BY cr[nEnn.
vy feeders.
Give them all they will cut up A celebrated flute -player advertise,:
clean with a keen relish and note re- a concert for his benefit, and an -
sults. Don't feed every animal on not:need that between the parts he
the farm,' no meteor what age, the would exhibit an extraordinary feat
same ration. Study the wants of never before witnessed in Europe
each and feed accordingly. :Ile would hold in his left hand a
nhe iamb will make five times the glare of wine, and would allow Oil
gain on a given Eunount of food than of the strongest teen in the town to
will the mature sheep; hence much hold his arm, and, notwithstaudine
the most economical neeh producer. all their efforts to prevent him rais,
110 not be afrant to feed the lambs, lug the arm, would driuk the 11-
• •
91 requii'es 01111111 blood to
normal warmth in a large udder; The novelty att••acted 0 crowdee 501115 down before the advencing
more than gets into and through it house, and expectation was at its hosts of modern civilization with ell
if the weather is cold and the cow height when the musician appeared its vices. The Labrador "innuit,".
lying on the diunp ground. Keep on the stage, glass in hand, clad in- dee his Western congener, cannot
the cow stabled when the nights get 'cited (my half-dozen of the audience cope with the white man and his
cold to come forward and put his power superger possessions. Dissipation
and disease Etre deal. their fell work
deepite the efforts of the phirenthro-
pist and the missionary, The Eolci-
mo population of the extensint La-
braclor coast line is about .8,000,
but it is dying out feet.
add., and to try and see that they
got their money in such a way that
they would have no chance of wast-
ing it before they reached home..
This arrangement WaS carried out ;
they were despatched from Minato to
New York by rail, thence to ‘gSt.
John's, Nfld., by steamer, and \ the
mail boat to Inbrador conveyed
them right to their homes.
SEEDS OF CONSUMPTION.
But all had th? hacking cough that
presages consumption ; some had
grown perceptibly worse, and the
prospect of any- of the twelve -
braves, squaws, and papooses -ever
surviving their enervating summer's
experience on the banks of Lake Erie
was slight.
The Eekineo, like the Red Man, is
People talk about the benefits of a . to the test.
cilium's in these days, and it Is a , A number of gentlemen irninediete-
good idem It is a good idea to give ly mounted tho stage an:d, grasping
the animals a change. They new1 a the proffered loft arm, apparently
new diet. It will work wonders rendered the performance of the pro-
mised feat an utter impossibility
sometimes. If you have an animal
that is not doing well try
a ehrtnge' I 'lec.blicelne twheaRarxii%Poualuel80111-00rro,neynlei0nIgnetahte
the mother finds it noticeably MIMI,
.-..— !gentleman who had secured him,
A WORD Anour worth:. I said, 111 broken English 2--
" Gentlemen. me you all ready ?
The farmer is a busy num if he Is Are you quite sure you have got
worthy of his occupation. So is ev- fast hold ?"
cry other man, no matter what his The answer having been p1 -von in
, to tho bon- trader has not the scone chance of
business 31 t110 world may be. The' re confident affirmative
his nefarious trade among
idler and the trifler are like the sin- 131amusement of Um spectators, arid 11/13'ing
them ns masted for ruining the
"noble Red Man," the general ten-
denty of the times is to overthrow
the. idniple fortifleatiens of instruc-
STAMINA UNDERMINED.
'rho stamina of the race is being
undermined by the contact with the
Caucasian the Introduction of
civilized eminences is blunting the
"innuit's" facilities of invention and
self-reliance, and while the whiskey
nor who "cannot stand in the jecig- to the no small surmise of the si oup
ment," they cannot stand long in the round him, the musician, advancing
stern trial which the world has for his right hand, which was tree, very
•
every business man. But too many coolly took the wineglass con is
Aims respect with whiall they were
men misunderstand the meaning of lett hand, and, bowing politely to
surrounded and to bring them to
the half-dozen who pinioned him,
said :- im early ending as a rn-ce.
stlentlemee, I have the honor to
at.. lea I Realities, the aborigines of New -
Eighty years ago the last of the
drink your good health,"
1,1111131101351, had been exterminated.
New -
832111 111110 draining the glom amidst
a general roar of laughter.
__.---
the word work. To inany 10 means
only meutual labor; to many farmers
it looms up as necessary and impor-
tant above all other things. For the
sake of their work they will neglect
their business. For the sake or their
but it will not be anything like an-
other eighty years ere the last of
work tbras
ey will pass by opportun__—.+.-
itiee the Eskimos inis passed acroes "the
of great value if they were improved. Greet Britain receives 21 per cent. great water." An Eskimo •viilage at
The wise inan spoke of him who is of her total imports from her salon- an exhibition twenty years hence will
"diligent in business" all 11'011.11y Ot jos, nollona 1 per cont.. France i 0 be more difficult tci people and much
the highest honor; net or the num per cent., Germany one-tenth Of 1 more rem:rime:10 as a curioeity than
who is a slave to his every -day work, per cent, the one at genial:a
—n.,---- •
Dr. Emece-You ..elionebet mind the bang peeing. t a/tenet/eerie hie lunge.
-
Mrs, Youfiftwed-lies; but 11 wean:Me Me fathers retigloa, •
SHANKS ARE ALL CO3.3.1I11)5.
Although sheriff; are esteemed the
pea 133,1, tell'01s of ille ocean, they
are in reality the greet est co1Vard13
of the linny tribe. The fierveot shark
will get out. of the way of a 539110-
1)101 if the latter eels up 0 noley
splashing. A. shark fears anything
that, mpleshes in the letting Amens
the South Sea islands the natives
1101111' go in bathing* alone, but ed-
waysgin mulles of half a doeen or
so, in order that they mile, make a
great hubbub in the teeter, and thus
frighten away tile eliniks. (Mee in a,
while a too etritinTeeme swineraer
tunorge tho natives fooliehly de-
taches 1,1,711 'll from his purly and
forgais 10 igal. lie eplashieg, the
num-eater vein: t; moo oorft,i! Hot
like 11 110,11, 1711 110 58 130110.
"Yoe nye evile mut (1owa,"
the frIvol 41114 (VOW' 1.0 3310 411111
1113,) 1,11,1113131 01011. "You ought
teem emileelling," "I will " sit
'vagina jiimpir,g vet ; "I'll ea.
1102110 and addrese,"