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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-4-3, Page 2' °'I CONFUSION 1. s Gentility Vo,, Nobility of Soul. f+l9'ilii+izd�Dd8aHa3 $ srvi$'.isi?i0iii4►wi "Wait a moment, then, and I shall be ready for you," be answered. His heart had smote hila at the sight of her, Me began to gather some Pa- pers together that were on his desk. "Sit down, Letty," lie said. Ile made a feint of occupying him- self for a few seconds to give her timo to recover herself (perhaps to give himself breathing time too, that ho might thinlc, or tr'y' to think, what he should say to nor) ; then he closed his desk, and, turning to her (she had not sat down), "Well, Letty, what is it ?" he quietly ask-. ed, She was standing with ono hand leaning on his table, looking at him with wide, childish, pathetic eyes, whose wistful pleading even before she spoke cut him to the heart. When he put his question to her she tried to answer it at once, but sho maclo two efforts before her voice came. "I only wanted to ask you, sir—X don't know what I'vo done," sho said at last, faltering, "but -I'm afraid I've made you angry ?" "Made me angry ?" ho exclaimed quickly. Ho would not let her see how her question pained him, He almost tried to laugh. "Why, child, how could you do that ?" he said. "I don't know, sir.". "Well, but what has put it lute your head ? T have never been angry with you h1 my life." ' I—I thought you must be sir." "You are entirely mistaken. You were never more mistaken about any- thing. You trust not let yourself 'be run away with by' such fancies." "But it's all—so—different." "Do you mean that X have been seeing less of you ?—that I have been letting you do less for mo since I have been better ? Of course. if that is what you have been thinking of, it is true," "Yes, sir." Tho meek, dejected, sad assent made it hard for him to go qn speaking. "Well, but I am so much stronger now, that you see I don't need any longer to take up your time. It was very nice to have you to read to me, and to run on my messages, but of course all that belongs to a time that is passing away now. I am sure you understand it, Letty. It is not because I am vexed with you spoke she looked so tired that Mrs. that I ask less from you—never think m Markham said no more. but left her, that for a moment, 1 aas grate - and took her walk to the village ful to you as ever. I have just as alone. For, except to show her neighbors that Letty was safe under her own wing, she did not in reality caro about having the girl with her, because Letty's sed face, she feared, only trade people talk ; and as for leaving her at home, even though Mr. Treiawney was there too. she might do that safely enough, sho knew, now. So sho went away to do her work, not dreaming that any harm could happen in her absence. But an eager plan hat! been form- ing itself for days in poor Letty's disturbed mind. Before Mr. Tre- lawney went away she must surely try to speak to him once, she bad said to herself ; she must have of- fended him (though she could not tell how she had offended hila); and it seeped to her that sho must nslc hint what she had done before he went, or she should break her heart. Since the scheme had come into her mind no opportunity had arisen for putting it foto execution • but now her 'aunt would be absent for an hour, and Mr. Trolawney was in his study, and she knew that, if she could gather courage enough to go to hire, sho might ask him the ques- tion that ebq longed so intensely to ask. But she must go to him at once, or she should not be able to go to him at all ; she knew that too, as for ten minutes after bei aunthad gone away sho sat with her sick heart beating fast, and her courage dying out of her. More than once she had almost said to herself that she could not do it, before at last, with a passionate despairing feeling that her ono chance was passing from her, she summoned all her strength, and rose, and went to the study door. She knew that Mr. Trelawney was in that room. Sho knocked, and ho told her to conte in. and their sho turned the handle of tho door and entered. He was sitting at his desk, and he looked up. For a moment or two he did not speak. Then suddenly, "Why Lefty, what is the matter ?—arc you ill ?" ho exclaimed quickly, as ho saw her white face. She said, "No, sir," almost in a whisper. She had closed the door behind her, and she came timidly for- ward till she stood near to his. writing table. ":f --I only wanted to speak to you, sir, for two or three minutes," she said. 0 d'tit9R9BSt' $. ✓<IYE:I OF CASTE I OHAPTBI6 VI, • "Well, yes -go to Brighton," Mr. Gibson said to itis patient. "I have told you before that you couldn't do bettor." And so it was settled that in four or five days Mr. Trelawnoy should go. I could start sooner than that if you liked," he had said, when this time was proposed, but the other answered indifferently that the be- ginning of the week would be soon enough; so it remained settled thus. It was Letty's aunt who told her he vied going away ; he told her no- thing. He would speak to her al- ways if he met her anywhere about the house, and always kindly h but sometimes he would only b her a brief "Good morning;" at the most he would never talk more than a minute to her and many little of- fices that sho had done for him of late ho did now for himself, or let them remain undone ; the sad hours passed, and tho sad days passed, and be never asked for her, nor sought her, nor kept her if sho came. "What have I done ?" she began to think piteously, after two or three days had gone. Had she done some- thing to tire him, or to make him angry with her ? She began to go about with a wistful sorrowful face that (though she did not know it) went to the hearts of the other two who watched her. "You'd best not notice her, sir ; you can't do anything for her," Mrs. Markham would say to Mr. Tre- lawny beseechingly. She could not speak to him of what it was that made tho girl suffer so, and yet, with a. sense of misery that was indes- cribable, she feared that ho knew it. He Iniow how her child loved him, and he was only her master, who could give nothing back to her. It had been settled that ne should go away early in the week—on the Tuesday morning. On Monday after- noon Mrs. Markham was busy pack- ing his portmanteau ; then some car- pet bag was found to be wanting, and in the evening she said that she would go to tho village and get it. "You may as well come with me too, Lefty," she said, but at this Lolly looked up wistfully from some sewing that was in her hand, and in a nervous kind of way asked that she might stay at home ; and as sho much regard for you as ever. You must not think--" He was going on, adding sentence to sentence laboriously ; trying—and feeling that he was trying vainly— to say something to reassure her, when all at once the sad eyes over- flowed, verflowed, and without a sob or a word the silent tears rolled down her cheeks. At that sight—for it struck him like a blow—his speechsuddenly ceased ; there were two or three moments' painful silence, and then in a different tone— "Letty, you must not cry," he said, hurriedly. "I cannot bear to see you cry. You are vexing your- self about a thing that ought not to vex you. If I have had you less with me, do you think that has not mado me sorry too ? Do you suppose 1 have not missed you ? There—dry your eyes. You must not go on do- ing this. I cannot have you do it." From very pity for het' he spoke almost harshly ; he rose from his seat, and in his embarrassment put his hand upon her arm. alntos6 as if (or at least so, in her timid sorrow, she interpreted it) he meant to push her from hien ; and she yielded to the touch, poor thing, and for a moment turned her face to the door, as though she would go away, and then suddenly the iiood-gates of her heart burst, and she broke out sobbing like a child. For more than a minute sae stood with her hands covering her face, crying unrestrainedly, in her helpless sorrow and weakness—all the misery that she had tried to hide from him through these weary days laying it- self bare before him at lest, with a pitiful, wild abandonment. She cried as a girl cries who feels, in her first sorrow, as if the world had ended for her and her heart had broken. lie said her name once in a dis- tressed and agitated voice, and then stood silent. Each sob she gavo was line a knife piercing hint. He stood still, doing nothing to give her com- fort—not knowing what he could dare to do. When that minute of wild weeping had passed, in her humiliation and wretchedness she would have gone away, and perhaps it would have been well if ho had let her go—only how could ho he hard enough to do it ? As she made a movement to- wards the door, he put out his hand and touched her a soe00d time, "Letty,, youmustt not l ave mli co lin Ulla—you must not go thinking g tvo ta are net IrlendS," he stid, ' W may net Seo ono onetime again fora good while ; but, zny child, I Shall never forget you. Wherever I go X 'shall Miss you—believe that 1 X shrill ale ways think of you. f. shall always be,,g1'atoful for smite affection," Ile had taken her hand now, and the little lifeless Angers wore closed tight fn flit). "I cannot bear to go thinking' that I leave you unhappy, he said, after another silence. You ought not to. b0 unhappy, Lotty• You must tell me that you will try not to be. I know it le hard to part—it is hard to me as Well as to yon. Do Yoe think I should not like best to stay. here, and let us go on as we have been doing during these last months? But, my child, it cannot be." He held her hand still ; ho put his other hand upon her shoulder. "Let- ty, it cannot be," lie said again ; and then all at once he felt her quivering and sobbing, and with a quick irresistible pity (almost while the words in which bo was telling her that they must part were on his lips) he drew her to him. "My pool' child—my poor child," ho said, half aloud, and the next moment the sad face was on his breast, Ho hold her close to him, and kiss- ed her ; he caressed and soothed her till her tears ceased. Perhaps even while 110 was caressing her he knew with a heavy -hoar! at stow great a price he had bought the momentary pleasure of. comforting her, and half wishedtheact undone ; but though ha might almost wish it undone, ho could not undo it then. He said to her quietly, after a few minutes., "Well, Letty, we shall not have to part now, you see ;" and when, scarcoly daring to think that she understood him, and yet with such absolute faith believing in him and trusting him, sho ventured to look the question that she could not ask —"If we want to be together we shall have to marry one another. You see that now—do you not ?" he said. And then—"I had thought of this before, Letty. That was why I had resolved to go away—because I had thought it was best perhaps- -that we , should not marry • but now, if you care for me enough to stay with me, you must be my wife, you know." "Oh, sir !" she said breathlessly. "Oh, you cannot mean that !" she said again, next moment, almost in a whisper. The prospect that he opened to her was (to her poor eyes) so dazzl- ing that sho could not receive it. "You cannot mean it," she repeated, and yet, even while she spoke, with a wild timid tenderness, as if her own words frightened her lest they should be true, she clung to him. "Do you think I could do anything but mean it ?" he asked. "Most cer- tainly I mean it, if i6 will make you happy. You must toll mo if it will do that ? Will it, my poor child ?" 1 the garden door, and looking put saw Airs, Markham coming hack to the house. Iie rose up then, and go- ing bee. called 1e garden in tothegard "1 want to spook to you ; Penne here," he said ; and when she fol: Jawed him indoors, 11nd into hie study, he shut tho door of the tenant, and "Mrs, ,Naridlam," he said, .quiet- ly; "we may Woke now plans for ourselves now, 'for T have netted Letty to marry ufe " (To Be Continued.) PITHY PIECES. Fine teeth make broad grins. Never look a toy pistol in the muzzle. Every man leas his price, but few of them ever got it. Balloons and tramps have no visible means of support. Tho hand that used to rook the cradle now grips the handle -bar. No ono over heard a married man' coax his wife to sing for him'. Love is a tickling sensation at tete. heart that cannot be scratched. All neon aro not homeless, but some aro Thome less than others. The height of some mon's ambition is to pull 501110 other man down. Man was made to mourn, and wo- man was made to see Chat he does it. It is better to break the engage- ment than let the engagement break you. The things people want to know are usually none of their business. The little dog usually barks the loudest,but the big dog always gets the bone. There's room for everybody in this big world, but we can't all have front rooms. A boy never gets much comfort out of 'his first cigar, but he gets lots of experience. No man was ever blamed for being a gentleman, but many have been falsely accused. During hot weather a man should make love to the. girl that puts on the most airs. The man who always talks gram- matically seldom says anything worth listening to. Tho wise father Will try to bring up his children in the way that ho should have gone. It shows wonderful self-control when a man never mistakes his good luck for his ability. A man occasionally gets light on a subject by scratching his head: A match always does, No girl ever gets so deeply in love that she forgets to see that her hat is on straight. It's bad enough to be disappointed in love, but it's worse to be disap- pointed in marriage. There are better fish in the sea than have ever been caught ; the big ones always get away. The great trouble with people who can't sing is that everybody else finds it out before they do. Tho average man displays better judgment • in selecting a cigar than he does in selecting a wife. He made her lift her face to him, and looked into her eyes. After that look he did not ask her again to answer him. With a feeling of curious sadness—a feeling that was half tenderness, and yet, even at that moment, half an almost bitter re- gret—he e- gret he read alt that her eyes said. He was very kind arid gentle to her. He made her sit down beside hire, and talked to her for a little while, soothing her, and saying again those sweetest of all words to 11e' ears—that they should not part. The poor little lips had begun to curve into faint tremulous smiles be- fore he let her leave him. "I don't know how to believe it," she said softly, once. In her humility, under the burden of her meek and passion- ate love, she sat beside him with her head drooped down. listening to his voice as she might have listened to some divine music. She scarcoly, on her side, spoke a word to him ; she was too overwhelmed by the weight of the incredible happiness that had come to her ; yearning to give some sign of how she loved him, she could only bend her face down over his hands and kiss them. He kept her with hint for perhaps a quarter of an hour ; then all he could think of saying to her seemed to have been said, and be kissed the soft young cheek again, and let her reeve 1115. Ho sat alone in his study for half an hour after sho had sono away. ®R. A. W. CHASE'S O RRUSE CA7AR C L C ie sent direct to the diseased. puts by the Improved Blower, Heals the ulcers, clearsq1t the ate passages, and stops sarmaoantly to Catarrh and Hay Fever. Blower free, All dealers, or Dr. A, W. Class medicine Coe Toronto sad Buahle, Perhaps he scarcoly repented yet of what he had done, for in a way she was seedy dear to Mtn ; but, as he thought of the life he had imposed upon himself, his heart sank. In the dusk, after a good while had passed, he hoard the click of the latch at 40111 Piles. Two Letters from Mr. Walker Explaining the Severity of His Case and the Permanency of His Cure by Using Dr. Chase's Ointment. Some people seem to think that it is too much to claim that Dr. Chase's Ointment will cure every form of piles, but facts go to prove the truth of this claim. Those are interesting letters from -one who has suf- fered much and been cured, 1n November, 1401, Mr, Sherivoo d 'Walker, a fireman on the Canada. Atlantic Railway, living at Mada- waska, Ont., 'writes:—"I ani a great sufferer from bleeding piles, Sometimes the protruding piles come down, =slug much misery and uneastnose, and at other times I am subject to bleeding piles, and they bleed to such an extent ae to make nie quite weak. If Dr. Chase's Ointment will cure this awful ailment you will have my everlasting gratitude." 011 ,March 1, 1402, we received rho following letter from Mr, Walker, which speaks volumes for Dr. Chase's Oicltmmnt ns a cure for piles of the most distressing form. He writes;—"According to my promise, I now take pleasure in writing to you, If you rental -Aber, you sent me a box of Dr. Chase's Ointment -oe bleeding piles some three months ago, 7 used it faithfully, and can say that it proved a Godsend, for it has entirely cured mo of bleeding piles, "I would have Written sooner, but I wanted to be able to toll you that it Was a permanent cure, This You can use for the benefit of other suffering people. There are several people here who have been cured of very set•ero cag00 of protruding piled by using this great ointment," So far as we know there is no other preparation extant which is so successful in curing piles of the moot a ravate ;kind as Dr. Chase's Ointment, Its soothing, healing powers aro marvellous, and its aurae thq a gg cosh and pdrinanent, Sixty cents a box, at all dealer's, or Edmaneoh, slates & Co., Toronto, ' OP P7t%qatzema hNTP NE FARMI�v oextarawogyeAsso TUC COW TIIAT PAYS BEST,. The gucstien as to milieu is the most profitable cow is ono that can- not be decided in any ar'bitr'ary mea- ner. ' 'l'he'o aro so many cireunl- stanees and •oontiitgeucies to be tak- en i11t0 consideration, that, after all sad tten n the ect, else.ch 111211idanClot decidoe 6110 questionsubj largely on his own judgment; He will ilnd it necessary to consider• the nature of his farm; the suitability of his buildings and implements; the cost of hired help if such is required; the proximity of a good market for his finished products, and many oth- er details. The comparative advan- tages of beef -growing and dairying would probably bo the first point considered by a farmer who Was just about to make start in cattle-rats- ing. Mon who have had long exper- ionce in either of these lines are not likely to change to the other line, involving, as it does, changes in farm routine, in variety and man agement of crops, in buildings` and equipments, without a good deal of deliberation. That beef production can be carried on with a smaller ex- penditure for labor and utensils is perhaps true, and it certainly does not require the constant attention to business that dairying entails, Next conies the question of breed. It will', I tlihlk, be generally conced- ed by fair-minded men that there is no "best" breed. Lver ithing de- pends on circumstances. A breed that proves highly satisfactory in ono district, may be found entirely rinstlitetl to DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS. Only four breeds of beef cattle, viz: —Shorthorns, Herefords. Galloways, and Aberdeen -Angus, have attained Popularity in Canada, and only the first mentioned cart be said to bo generally distributed. The others may equal the Shorthorns for beof production and even surpass them under certain conditions, but the su- perior milking qualities of the Shorthorns and particularly of the grades, have given .then an un- equalled popularity among our farm - ors. Where fel is plentiful, and the country not too high or broken, they aro likely to prove satisfactory bcefors, and in addition they will produce a fair amount of milk. Tho ease with which good bulls of this breed can be procured for grading purposes, is also an argument in its favor.Breeders of the other sorts are comparatively few,'and the op- portunity for choice is small,, when one desires to select a bull. In the colder parts of Canada, and on the bare pastures of the mountainous districts, the Gallowa.ys and West Highlanders, should prove serviceable on account of 'their hardiness and activity. Among tie dairy breeds, the Ayr- shi•es, Holsteins, Jerseys, Guern- seys and French Canadians aro all held in considerable esteem. The latter have been almost unknown outside the province of Quebec until the last year or two but they are now attracting considerable atten- tion. Under adverse circumstances, such as scanty pastures, lack of. pro- per winter feed and care, &c., they will probably yield a greater per- centage of profit than those breeds which have for generations been ac- customed to good food and care. The Guernsey's, although highly thought of in the U. S., have never gained sufficient foothold in Can- ada to enable our farmers to judge their suitability for this,. country. Both they, and their close relatives, the Jerseys, are especially adapted for the production of,fancy butter or cream for a high-priced city trade, and the majority, of Canadian herds of these two breeds, are, I think, used for this purpoeo. Tho AYRSIII1tES AND HOLSTEINS seem to bo gaining 7n popularity among the general' dairy farmers who support the cheese factories and creameries, and with the dairy Shorthorns, are likely to divide the greater part of the dairy field be- tween them, The Holsteins are like- ly to do better on the level lands, with flush pastures and plenty of winter food, while Ayrshires should, I think, find more favor on rolling or hilly lands, because of then. Brent activity. But, while certain well defined dif- ferenecs may characterize the var- ious breeds, yet it fluty be well to remember that there is much greater difference between individual animate of the same breed than between dif- ferent broods, A good now is it good cow no matter what hoe brood may be• Therefore let each man se- lect the breed that ho considers best suited to his conditions, and stick to it. Let Min buy, or breed to, the best available bulls of that breed, and continuo to grade up his herd to a higher degree of excellence ,year by year. The practice followed by some fal'nei'fi of using bulls first of ono breed and then of another, is fatal to all plans of building up a handsome and uniform and profit- able herd of grade cows, and that is just what most farmers require. The average mart dogs not need pure bred females; in fact will do better With good grades. The breeders of pure bred stook are, like the poet, born, not made. Ho must inherit a love for animals and an aptitude for handling them, otherwise his invest - moot will prove unprofitable, and all his efforts a disappointment, Ir'. W. ITodson, Live Stock Commissioner, It takes a bright man to write an effective love letter, anda brighter one still not to attempt it. It is always well to obtain what one desires, but it is better to de- sire what ono can only obtain. Tho most innocent girl knows that a man is in love with her long be- fore he finds it out himself. A bicycle does not eat, a horse does ; but an ordinary carpet tack will not let the wind out of a horse. Many a man is the victim of cir- cumstances simply because he is too lazy to avoid being victimized. When we 'say that wisdom is better. than riches, we always mean our wisdom and other people's riches. Doctors are like cockroaches ; when you once get them in the house it's a hard matter to get them out again. Life is short, hut it doesn't seem so to the man who is waiting for an overdue train at a country railway station. Lve;y man who. hears of a w_eman who is a ratan -hater, believes she would alter her views if she- ever met hint. Wltnnever you -hear a girl refer to a man as an idiot, she is in love with him, and he is in love with some other girl. , If a man really loves a woman, he will give up smoking for her sake • but if she really loves him, she will not ask it. Witch a manbegins to go downhill, he finds the laws of gravitation and the encouragement of his friends help hint along. It would be a good idea for sbine people to ]told their tongues oc- casionally, and give their brains a Mance to catch up. Some other fellow is applauded for saying the good things that we might just as well have said, had we only thought of then. When e. girl pins a flower 00 a man's coat she always tilts her chin up and looks at it sideways; and the man who doesn't tumble is slow enough to get run over by a hearse, —Pearson's Weekly. LILY OF THE VALLEY. A German botanist has discovered that the pretty flower known as the lily of the valley contains a poison of the most dchdly kind, Not only the flower itself, but also the stem a9 1(011, contains an appreciable quantity of prussic acid. Whklet in- jecting a decoction of 111y of the val- ley into the ear of u guinea pig, by noticed the animal succumbed Immed- iately, With all rho symptoms of poisoning by hydrocyanic add. Chemical analysis of the little plant has disclosed, however, the presence of this peisono11s'" constituent, to which—strange to say -scientists at- tribute precisely the penetrating per- fume of lily of the valley. Tho at- tention ttention of the German botanist had been drawn by the fact that oto of his gardeners has felt himself seized with diz iuuss and vomiting, after having raised in0dveetently a bunch of lilies Of 1110 valley to his Mouth, the lips of which were cracked, Nino British sovereigns have begun and ended their roigns on the sante day of the week. Of those, both Honey I. and Richard IXX, succeeded and died do Sunday. of a trey eaueed by a Meaning to'p, erppkt or bou.d of a 111311), where the a - t i t sun's hoot is sof 1p en 60 Partly Y dr Y bheeetleen ld1 o21po1oditihnrtgt41i1t, tli1seloigagb. s le Otte the q attacked, Oneo through the bark, the worm devours the partly dried wood Poet underneath the bark as far as tho sun's heat has rendered it palatable, and finally, late in the season, euro its way deep into the wood, where it remains until the next spring, oiliest) dug out with a sharp instrument, it slow and tedious job. For a number of years X have looked ,over my trees, and wherever I find a borer has. entered. X cover with 'a'batch of stiff clay, secure it in p121ce with a piece .of burlap and strings (never use, wire)' and let it remain a year or two, and the borer and tho wound it made will disap- pear. The coating of clay and cloth keeps off the hot sun, induces a good flow of sap, which the borer cannot stand, and it either dies or is driven out. : While the nippers or mandibles of the worm aro sharp en- ough to cut partly dried wood, which it eats, they aro not adapted to cutting dry clay, and when it starts out of the tree to enter the ground to form a chrysalis prepara- tory to becoming a perfect beetle, it strikes the covering of clay and dies. It matters blit little, however, what becomes of it, as the eovering of. -clay snakes its entry into the tree impossible. A bucketful of clay and a handful of burlap and strings in the hands of a man who knows where to look for the pest, wiil'de- stroy more borers in a day than ho can do by any . other method in. a month. • WIIY I DIP MY X•IOG S. Ten years ago I consulted a gen- tleman iu reference to the mode and. plan of dipping hogs, or rattier he consulted me by advocating the plan which X afterward adopted, and 0110 that ,I pondered in my mind for years, believing it to be the common sense, practical .and only certain way of preventing what is generally known as frog cholera, says Mr. 1E. E. Axlino. By observation, investi- gation, nvestigation, research and experience, I learned how to develop a certain type of hog, and while I believe af- ter long years of breeding, the Po- tand-China hog superior in some re- spects to any of his rivals yot I am frank to admit that all the `strains of thoroughbreds have their good points. My tank for dipping is about ten feet long and I believe 4, feet deep; and it is larger at the top than at the bottom. I have it set into the ground in a box. My chuteis about 20 foot long, the last 4 or 6 feet slopes to the end of the tank, where hog enters at an angle of about 213 degrees, so ivhenever the front hogs pass on incline, the near hogs crowd thein forward, and they slide into the tank, going entirely under the solution, passing out on it cleated board at the other end of the tank. With this plan and apparatus I can dip 200 to 300 hogs in au hour. Af- ter the drove is dipped, I cover up the solution to proveat dirt, rain or snow from getting into it, and this solution lasts indefinitely, or us long as an ounce remains. I add the ne- cessary amount of liquid and water whenever I want to dip, 'cooping the tank a little over half full of the dip, and I dip as often as I think it necessary to keep my herd is perfect condition. Whenever I bring my hogs on the farm X always flip them twice and feed the remedy before I turn thein lots with my other hogs. BORERS IN ORCHARDS. Years of study or the habits of the borer and -contention with this in- sidious pest has caused me to adopt an eliicaeieus remedy, wellesItt. W. J. Patton, To 'rut the bores' out leaves an ideal woand and place foe another deposit of eggs the following Beeson. This must also be eut or dug out, 1f repeated about throo tinges it generally kills the tree, Any exposed bark o1 the trilldc or limb FEU BONNIE BOOMED . NRTLS BY IITA.�, x #t'It R>k1 XEPR BANKS AND BRAES, Mazy Things Happening 'to Inter est the ATinds of Auld • Scotia's Sons, Ben, Nevis' snow cap Poet noW Is $ feet u inches thick: ' Glasgow's coronation colobratiollS aro to extend over four days, Edinburgh folic aro concerned over the dooline in Sunday school atteld- anee. The redistc'ibution of Soots bill proposes to abolish the Wick Burghs OS a separate constituency, Dundee's lady parish councillor is unearthing sono gross extravagance in fire irons, carpets, etc. PO parti.oipato in the, Carnegie Trust it is' enough ff ono of the stu- dent's grandparents is Scotch! Dr. Barbour of Glasgow, won the Scottish ping-pong e1eamp1onehip re- cently against 600 conkpetitors,. The pier of the Auld Brig' of Ayr is causing some anxiety. It is be- lieved it has been affected by the strong current. An anonymous citizen offers to de- fray o-fray the 'cost—about £2,400—of re- constructing the Glasgow Cathedral , organ. An important show andsale of Aberdeen Angus cattle was held at Perth last week, 528 animals being forwarded. Sir Hector Macdonald, as Com- mander of the Forces in Ceylon, will have a seat in the Legislative Coun- cil of the island. Itis stated that Glasgow corpora- tion, who aro owners of the island of Shuna, 'propose to divide•it into small holdings, Two magnificent stags have ar- rived at Balmoral, to form the nu- cleus of a future herd of deer for the royal parks on Doesicle. A strike of platers, caulkers and riveters in the shipyards of Messrs. John Brown & Co., Limited, Olydo• bank, is threatened. At the Edinburgh collieries pit a serious accident has occurred;. caus- ing the death of two hien and ser- ious injuries to six others. Colonel Sanderson, of Gleniaggan, Patton, died sudoenly at hie 1"�dln- burgh resfclonc0, He was a well- known officer of the Scots Greys. On the fith ult, a man walked in- to the Northern postoffjce, Glasgow, and coolly announced that he was ill with smallpox. It was true. The War Office contemplates estab- lishing in Scotland a school for the sons of soldiers, onthe lines of those at Chelsea and Dublin. Mr. W. S. Bruce, the leader of the Scottish Antarctic expedition, is a native of Peterhead and ono of the best Scottish whaling captains. It is rumored that Dornocic burgh is for parliamentary purposes to be merged in the county and joined with Caithness as one constituency. Lord Stormonth Darling fined two Dundee tradesmen X200 each tot having in their possession powdered wood resembling tobacco or snuff, in contravention of the statute. Lord George Dundas, who has em- barked for the seat of war, with the Argyll and Sutherland militia, is only 19 years of age, and is the se- cond son of the Marquis of Zetland, At Glasgow Sheriff Criminal Conti last week, Lucy Gill, who is knotvlt as "The Fuchan Heiress," was sent to prison for 12 months for obtain- ing honey by false pretenses. As the result of trade doprossioa several hundred have been dismissed from work in Dundee since December and these include engineers, mould- ers, patternmalccrs and .black- s)niths. The oil fields at Tarbrox, in Lan- arkshire, belonging to the Caledon- ian Mineral Oil Company, were 'dos- ed owing to the refusal of the min- ers to accept a shilling -reduction in wages. The classic Zona cathedral is 'being restored, The restoration includes the roofing of the cathedral, the choir and the aisles. Iona cathedral is at present the property of the Church of Scotland. The Glasgow corporation are go- ing to borrow half a million to car- ry out an extensive water sehe ne at Loch A1'lctet, to secure that 1.0 Mil - 1 1011 oil11021 gallons shall be entered daily into Loch lCatrine, whence Glasgow gets ler supply. The Greenock corporation have not succeeded in preventing a Sun- day tram service. In view of coun- sel's opinion that the Sunday care cannot bo interfered with, the law and finance. committee recommend that no further action be taken in the matter. SLANG USED IN THE BIBLE. Quaint Expressions Found in 01d Testament. There are many quaint expressions in constant and every -day use, and familiar as' household words, having their.• origin in passages to be found in the matchless English of the Omni' old "Eiog Jarnes' Version of the Bible." One who did not know might hesitate to believe that they are supported by such high authori- ty, and modern taste might be tempted even to designate hien as slang, but they aro really word pic- tures. Nearly one-hali of those here quot- ed, with reference to chapter and verse, it will bo noticed, aro taken from the Psalms, but David, tho sweet singer, was What we would now call a familiar poet: I have stuck unto my testinlonictls. 0 Lord, put me not to shame,—Ps. cxix,, 1131.. I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.—Job. xix„ 30. I may telt all my bones; they look and stare upon inn,—Ps. xxii., 17, Spreading himself like a green bay tree.—I's. xxxvli„ 85. Is his mercy dean gone forever?— Ps: lxxvii., S. The words of his mouth were smoother than oven butter, but war was in his heart.—Ps. iv., 21. 111e enemies shall lick the dust,— Ps. ust;1s. lxxil„ h). They reel to anti fro and stagger like a drunken 11110)1, and are e.t their wit's enc, --Ps. ccii., 27, Ile that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it—Prey. rev. ♦i1 1.G. Pyre, the crowning city, whore merchtuits are princes. --Is Haiti„ 3 'the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees. -1t). xxv., 6. The moons aro as a drop in the bnekot and are counted its the small duet of the Wettest—Is, xi., As if a wheel had been in the midst of n, wheel. (A reheat within a wheel,)—Ezekiel x., 10. "'INNING HIM DOWN. "0f course," ho said, .in oil off- hand way, "it goes without saying that a beautiful girl like you must have had many offer's of marriage." She blushed prettily, and her eyes sgelnod to Say, "Of course," but she did not answer• otherwise, "And, of Morse," he wont 00, "I wouldn't think of asking who any of 1110 men were Or anything about 'them, but I ala inteeested in know- ing how they do it." Ptlon.slie roihsod Herself,. l''RENCH COPYBOOKS. Some copybooks which are being issued at the Fre11011 schools contain pictures of English troops suffering defeat at the hands of the Boers, and the letterpress is written in this vein: "The 111191ish. al'Iny..,,.,113 not a national army like that of I!ranee. Kidnapping is the sole method of re- cruiting employed on the outer side of the Channel, It is chiefly in Lon- don, at. Trafalgar -place, that this abominable while slave trade is car - teed on ' it goes on to deneribe the reeve lts a9 "vagabonds, beggars, the wenn of great elites, ' allured by promises of gin, "the national Eng- lish think," and it concludes with the statement float the 'English sol- criers nee a sot of drunkards, When such libels are taught in the schools, who can wonder that we are not popultir in .France? PEOPLE WIT() (]ET BALD, An English statictician has recent- ly been engaged h1 1tn original task —that of studying the influence of music on the hair, Tho investigator establishes, in the first place, that the proportion of bald persons is 11 per cent. for the liberal professions in general, with the exception of physicians, who appear to holo the record for baldness—which is 80 per cont. Musical cOmposere rlo trot form an exception t0 the mile, and baldness is as frequent among them as in the other• professions, and their long hair must ho 4ttrluntmj to. some other cause;