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An open windoW, with the May.
brezoj Qt>li0 softly through it -e
library, talent except or the oc-
caelonal 'seratch of o busy pen, and
ort the temad, old-fashioetal wintlosv-
emit a smell figure, curled up, quiet
ae5. 21101150With a bit of something
It eallod needlework in its tiny hands
-some garmeat, or fancied garment,
for a doll, that it was fashioning
clumsily, With ieeble, pal,ient lingers.
The little brow was puckered as it
stooped over its woric ; the small
mouth wee •sel, with tho inte1t1e68 Of
fts endeavo: ; enconschnis of dis-
conifort from the full sunshine in its
Sete, minute ulter minute the small
creature went .an with its Work, Per-
severing, Steady, silent,
Sometimes from his table where he
sat at work Mr. Trelawntev glanced
at tbo broiva bent head, but the
glance was rarely 11101'0 than a, placid
momentary, passing look ; tho busy
man load grown accustomed to ilftVe
this smite?, staid figura in his sight ;
its presence brought no sense of dis-
turbance to him, but only instead of
that a happy souse of peace and of
POSSOSSiOri-a feeling that within the
feetn• walla of this quiet room of his
he held all that was dearest to him
In the world -his books, tho friends
of all his life, and this new friend -
his child.
When Dorcas first began to talk,
ber stammering utterances made a
curious and ssveet music in her teth-
er's ear ; when ber unsteady little
feet began to toddle up and down
the floors, he took to following those
most uncertain steps with an an -
;eines eagerness that must seriously
have disturbed his peace. Strangely
enough from quite early days -as
soon as she could want and talk at
ail -he used to like to carry her into
his steely, and shut himself up with
her there; and she, tote rapidly do-
velopod a taste for being so .shut; up,
and would cry to be taken to papa,
and struggle to escape from .Letty's
arme, titt sometimes Leity's heart
would ache a little sadly.
Poor Delay loved her blindly and
passionately, but Dorcas, 1 ant sor-
ry to say, on her side, did not love
her mother very much. With a ou-,
rioes Instinct, she seemed, from a
wonderfully early age, to be coo-,
salmis of her mother's weakness of
character, and, however tenderly she
might treat Iwo, to mingle her ten-
dernoss with a certain tome of con-
descension which Lefty, though it
P0111011 her often, hardly ever re-
sented, or regarded it. as anything
more titan sho driserved.
"For she' a so clever, you see,"
she would say sometimes to Mrs.
Markham ; "sloes like her father,
bless her And like takes to like,
yon know. It's not to be lookea for
that she'd think much of nle." And
she would stoop and press her lips
with a half sad kiss upon her little
daughter's cheek, and smooth her
hair from her brow, and then the
ne;et moment would lieten with a
sigh to the little Jeerers tapping at
the study door ; for the child would
stile* with her mother while she held
her tit her side. but as soon as she
was released the eodeling steps went
uhreys in one direction, awl Lefty
would her the impatient demand of
"oppen. oppen 1" that never wtte '
made at, the door of any room in
which 8110 sat.
"Sheet leave me for her father any
day. I suppose I might go away,
and they'd neither of them ever miss
me, or ever care," she said stedly,
0.011 almost bitterly, once or twice,
Yet, though she spoke sadly,
Letty's life was feller and happier
new, ad Letty herself, perhaps, was
steamer to bear some troubles than
she had been before her child was
born. To most people, as time goes
on, tho hack gets fitted to the bur-
den that it has to bear, and tho
sharp sorrow of to -day becomes only
to -morrow's subdtaid pain. Letty
had had her short time of rapture, ;
and her bitter awakeniug from it ;
and nosv-the world was coming by
degrees to put on something of its
every -clay garb again, and she had
her flts of saditess still, and her,
passionate longings allti so/teeth/ma I
even her passionate deerittirs ; but in;
spite of longings her house hatl to
lie ordered (as she best could order 1
it), and her little girl had to be ,
nursed and clothed, and soutetimes, I
fortunately, the common cares of her
daily life ntarle her half forget bee 1
disappointed hopes, and Lhe simple
joys of which she had her shere
cruise to her in et least partial stead
of those other joys of which, in her
girlhood, elle had so vainly dream-
ed.•
Little footsteps pattering up and
down the stairs, a little high sweet
voice making shrill inusic every-
where ; these wero strange sounds to
fill Mr. Treittwney's once empty and
quiet house. He treedhinteelf to
think so (Wen as he listened to thorn
recalling ilia old life of his, com-
paring it with this that he was liv-
lug now. Lover of peace as he had
Well so long, had auything IlVer
thliii4)(1 his heel% in all the years he
Ilea hitherto lived as the touch of
these ehi11ih fingers thrilled it
now ?
Me Meet to lie down on tho sofa in
111ei study, aud pretend to he im-
movably sound asleep, that they
might come and mantle,- over bine
stroking his cheek, straying amongst;
his hair, pulling at hie coat to try
to rouse him, the little voice, too,
calling him all the time with an
iniperlous--"Pupet 1 Papa 1"-11 1 1,
after 110 had lain still fer a few mine
utes, submitting to these sweet en-
tructelee, all a mennent he would
stretch out his arms, and snatch the
creaettre in 0. rapture to his
bosom, and cover the brown bead
with kisses so pessionate that. half
in delight, half almost In terror,
Dorcas would quiver and scream.
Only when he 1008 alone with the
child did he over betray his Moe for
her in this impetuous way. A shy,
undemoustrative man 111 generttl, it
would not have been in his nature
to show it so before ally wilmesses.
In the presence of others -even in
Letty's preeence-he seemed fond of
the child, and was kind to her ; but
that was all ; his weeniest: caresses,
his tenderest 110110005e, were all re-
served for those hours, which both
of them liked so well, when no other
creature canto between theni-svhen
thoy were all the world to each
other, with evoeyotio else shut out.
The exclusive devotion that was
given to Dorcas at these seasons
suited that little clameel admirably ;
the power of giving it, and of at-
taching her Imlay to himself, suited
Mr. Trelawney's jealous love. He
came very quickly to know that she
preferred him to every other creature
in the house, aud in his secret satis-
faction in this kuowledge I fear that
he a good deal forgot Letty and
Letty's claims -nor did he ever, per-
haps, °Veil hereafter, remember those
rights of hers nmeli, 1 think.
To the best of his power, it is
tree, he did try to use hist influence
over the child for good. Well as he
loved her, his eyes, as time passed
on, became quite conscious of cer-
thin faults in her, ancl these faults
he tried, at least, no1, to pass over
light/ye She was imperious and wil-
ful, for instance, and he did his ut-
most to teach lier submissiou and
gentleness ; she was sellish-rts by
eature most creatures ere-axid. he
tried to instil into her the habit of
g sing up her oleo desires (I (10 not
say that he succeeded in this effort);
she rapidly developed an ardent love
for pleasure, and ho tried hard to
awake in her heart a counter-balane-
ing love for ditty. I ant afraid that
sometimes his teaching fell on Va-
cant ears, ana that sometimes, too,
perhaps, the strength of original sin
in tho little remitter/ filled his heart
with a temporary consternation ;
but 011 the evItole she was as good,
perhaps rie most children are -and,
at, mei rate, he 11%1S ermieilt with
her.
As the days of haperrect speech
and toddling infancy passed away,
it seemed to him, indeed, as if each
110110 she grew dearer to him. Ile
was thinking this, perhaps, to -day,
es his oyes wandered again and agnin
from his work to rest tenderly on
the ilLtle figure sittieg with busy
lingers in the window seet. Bonding
there with abanted face aver ber
piece of futile sewing. how sweet and
quaint a picture she made, he
thought. TIts looked at her, and
looked a hundred times. Ilow earn-
est, patient, persevering sho was
Possessieg such qualities, what
would sbe not be capable of benne
mg presently 1 Surely be should be
able to eneke a student of ber-to
teach her 1111) o00o1 100e of books -to
make her, perhaps, a fellow -worker
with himself 1 Already the little
lips 00111d rearl easy words -English
words in plenty, and Greek wores
etril (at least, olie or two. ITo had
taught, low these secretly, for his own
spend (elight). She had bad books
for pleythinge (00111 her earliest
year*. had taught hor to build
ioeses with them -to melte pyramids
if them -to scant their pages for
deLere,s-to take them in her arum
and kiss them when they refl.
She was a clear-headed lil,tici matd
-not one who was aecustomed to
let her feelings run away with ber,
or to ullow sentiment; to got the up-
per band of reason. Sometimes, :f
think, in spite of all his devotion to
hr, Mr. • Trelawncy came on bard
bite In daughtet• that, nettle
him wince. 'She will not be taken
&pi e
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SHE IS CALLING HIM TO DINNER. WeeeteRE IS EE?
in easily," ho would say at mo-
ments with a laugh. Often he would
watch her rteinure and composed
ways, and wonder what strength of
feeling lay beneath the calm and
rather cold exterior. In person she
was like his mother -a dainty, pret-
ty, rather Quaker -like little face and
figure ; he wondered if in character
she would prove like his mother too;
and perhaps, though half mine:-
sciously, or at least unwillingly, a
certain reluctauce to believe it pro-
bable would mingle with his specula-
tions. For his mother had been a
woman of many virtues and of few
faults, but looking back now on the
days when they bad lived together
ho occasionally found himself ques-
Vetting 'whether warm blood could
over have flowed in her calm reins -
whether in all her life her pulses
could ever hayo beaten fast.
"If Dorcas could be like her in
some ways," ha would say to him-
self, "I should desire nothing bet-
ter. My mother's saint sense and
strength of mind, joined with the
warmth and breadth of nature that
I think I see in Dorcas, would make
an almost perfect woman." And in
happy faith he used to \vetch the
little maid, believing that he could
already perceive the seeds of all
goodness and nobleness in this child
of his, with her quiet, sal -possessed
ways, and her greve, observant
eyes.
"Dorty's eyes are Ilee two little
stars, that watch -and watch," he
said to hem te»derly mice, and
drew her to leis side and kissed them
51101..
Such happy walks these two used
to take together 1 With her mother
Dorm; went very liLtle out of (Toms,
except into tho garden, but her fath-
er and she in summer o-ould ramble
half their time aWitr, and even ill
winter there were few clays when
they failed to secure an hour or two
in the open air. They used, to have
endless interests in these expedi-
tions of theirs. Holding his hand
demurely as she walked beside 13101,
Dorcas would ask him questions
without number ; scarcely a flower
by the roadside did she pass une
noticed ; scarcely a bird sang in the
treee or insect hammed in the tile
but sbe wanted to know its name
and history ; she pioked up pebbles
in the road, which he had to carry
home for future study ; she required
a reason and a meaning for every-
thing she .saw, such as ib taxed him
to the utmost, and often quite be-
yond his power, to supply.
They used to sit down in the woods
and meadows, and then she would
make hint tell her fairy stories -'or,
rather, they would make. 1.111 tales
together, both bringing material out
of their 00711 fancy, and joining it
DR. A. W. DMus
CATARRH gu ... &A,C.
Is sent direct to the disesoed
parli by the Improved 111010cf,
finale the ulcere. *leers the air
00800, 010140 aroppiags 10 11(0
throat end permanent', cures
C.tarrh awl lloy Paler, Slower
free. /111 dealers, or Dr.)... W. Chose
Medicine Co., Toronto end Buiralo.
all together into a rambling medley
of rienftenee, whose absurdity and
want of coherence, perhaps, almost
made part of its charm to her.
Was it possible that, efr. Trelaw-
nee, had come to spend houre every
day talking nonsense like this to a,
little six -you -old child ? Ire want d
often, even to hemself, lough at the
thought 01 it. "But 1 cannot help
it. The little soul expects me to
play with her," he wnuln sey, in
half jesting colt -excuse. She expect-
ed it, end 80 be must, humor her ;
True T nic.
Or, Citaie'e Norco Food 13c,ilde Wood, Creates Nerve Force, Increases Rosh and Weight, and
Makes Weak, Sickly People Strong and Well.
• Tho dity• of sarsaparillas, sulphur and cream of tarter, and suite as spring medicine has gone by. rect.-
pie are begiiming to listen to the advice of their physiclues and to InultI up their systems by the use of such
'preparations as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food.
The strong point in favor of this groat food cure is the Aiwa that it at-tut:Lily (grates 1)034, pleb lite -sue-
- "Ceining blood, and builde 141 the system gradually end naturally'. Jeer this reason it is the most satietao.
toey spring medietne that you can possibly obtein, and its results axe permenently beneficial.
Tho tired lang•aid feelings that tell of low vitality and an exhausted condition of the system soon die-
nopear before the vetalleing, upbullding influence of this greet restoral ive. it ronquerti disene by filling" the
system with health, onorgy and vigour.
Nfra. fe. 'Thompson, 240 'Mimeo Street, Toronto, Ont., etatesa-T wee eery intieh run, down in health, arid
whenever I exerted myself mere than usual I had oevero attecke of op/Ming beadache, end wee very non.
vous, so muele so that I could not root even at nights. Alter using Or. Chase et Nerve food X 1011101 t bat my pewees
were etoadier, 31 could rest and sleep better than X have for 0 long time, and was entirety free from head -
tithes. X eon speak very highly of this preparation for nervous troublo.
Ohnee's Nerve Food has the endeersonent of the best people hi the land-pliyaleinne and laymen
telike. It Se bound to benefit emyone who uses it, because it is composed ot the moat Potent reetorativest
Of nataveri el0 cents o box, 6 boxes for $2.4p„ At all dealere, or EtImanson, Baton 4 Co., Toronto,
children must pley, and Dorcas had
no companion besiclee Mine:elf (ex-
cept her mother, of course ; but
somehow Ahoy neither of them
thought much of Letty for a play-
(ellow), So he talked nonseno to
Iter, and played games with her, and
they ran races together in the fields;
and the grave student, whose life
till new had been speet iunongst his
books, became accustomed at corn -
netted to leave his desk that he
might walk on all fours round his
study floor, in abject, imitation of
some lion or tiger roaming in its.
native wooda,
He wits occasionally half ashamed
of these strange occupations to
which he had deseended. One day,
when Mr. Clasen came to see him,
and, being ushered unexpectedly Into
the room, found -his friend barrleaci-
ed and growling in one nreer of it,
meeting a wild beast in its den,
Mr. Trelawnev leapt to his feet ansi
burst feoel his imprisonment with
his fece cm fire. .
"I was -I was only playing with
that siDy child. One has to retake a
fool of one's self sometimes," be
blurLed oat apologetically, with an
embarressed laugh. And, though
the other onsweree emphatically that
he could not do a better thing, Mr.
Treiawney was disturbed all through
the visit, and after this time ofteh
locked his study door When the lit-
tle one and he were engaged toge-
ther at their games, slirinking un-
controllably, ill 1118 shy reserve, from ,
letting the eye of any stranger see
him at his, childish play.
(To Do Continued.)
DREAD OF DISEASE.
Campaign Against Conner Is Gen-
erously Supported.
Tho recent appeal for a great fun,/
for um
se by the edical pri
ofession
Great Dritain in a systematic inves-
tigation of the cause 0.1111 the cur° 1
for cancer is meeting with a libera
• ' e glee esti
interest in the subject. This has in -
&teed the London Spectator to -clay
to make these comments on the suo-
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. ON THE FARM,
oiuirsi OF SOW AND 1.47,El21t,
I prefer 1.0 isolate the pow early in
order to avoid exciting 111110000338;
writes IBA% 0, B. Barrett. Although
it 113 10311411 tO cantina her to a close
pen, sho should haye. a larger' lot to
graze and exercise 1111. • Slie.is Per. -
Mal t() seclusion and her sbolter
ehould be remote from other hog
quarters. In summer the quantity of
succulent food Is uulimited, but' this
eheuld also be provided in *ieter.
Koots are the best substitute for
green pasture. .1 have ever foued
that, scaee given e liberal supply of
these have aiways farrowed with
goad sticeess and afforded all the
nourishment tbe young pips needed
on 0111• Plate, '
Wo feed but little corn doting the
first few weeks after farrowing, and
for a month or so before. A slop
merle of shorts, a little oil meal or
soy bean meal and milk Atli a
small quantity of salt added may be
substituted for eorn entire -1Y, svith
splendid results. This prevents the
sow becoming too fat, gives her
ntore life and desire for exercise, end
when the pigs are largo enough to
try to eat, it furnishes additional
110111'1511111011 1. and gives them a good
thrifty start. Keep plenty of water
before them; they drink erton Ana
1110511.
Previous to time of farrowing,
tbrow in plenty of straw, The sow
will need no further assistance in pre-
paring her bed, After the pigs nine
do not molest her for 1,04, hours. Feed
lightly the first week, and mostly
green food and Mops. With tho use
or succulent food and oil Meet 00
drugs will be necessary, Keep the
pigs in good growing conclitiom but
not too fat, ana they will soon turn
into nioney for the owner. T110 Se-
cret of successful hog raising is to
keep up a continuous growth until
maturity and there with all possible
haste prepare thent for market.
••••••••••y•
PREVENTING OAT SMUT.
The Ohio Experiment Station gives
the following directions ter treating
smutty seed oats:
'Having tho solution made at the
rate of one ounce of formalin to
three gallons of Water, well stirred
and a gallon of solueion to each
bushel of seed to be treated, aPPIY
this with a sprinkling can (or
&Prayer) to the oats in piles on El
tight floor. Grain in piles should
not exceed about six bushels, and
the number of piles will folluw from
the amount of seed. Spt•inkle each
pile in turn, shovelling thoroughlee
knowing how much solution is ap-
plied: continuo in eac15 ease until the
solution tends to min oat on tho
floor despite the shovelling. Usually
a. half -gallon Or ntoro per bushel men
be sprinkled on the eret rotmd,
when tho ono pito is passed for a few
ninutes while another is handled in
the same way. Upon o second
sprinkling of each pito, as men so-
ution is used as will be held; then
with a third or fourth repetition tho
gallon per bushel Illa.V be used. After
this shovel OVer elld 101100 in low
flea piles ovee night, or not for lees
than tour hours. The seecl may then
be spread 1.11111 Oil a floor nod shovel-
ed over occasionally tb dry out for
drilling, or i(2 may bo sown wet if
broadcasted, lf in weather when
ject:
s
We wonder if the Tear of death in- i
creases with the growth of luxury.
We see no 0011101150 of it, especially on
the battlefield, and we fancy that the ,
clergy of all douominations wish de -
sparingly that it did; but that the A
fear of disease does exist, and espo-
cially of diseases accompanied by
pain, we have no doubt whatever.
The King was not considered in the o
least undignified, whe11 lie recently s
pressed (mite earnestly for further in- e
vestigations into cancer, and the i
groateet people in the land are eager S
in theft support of the new and ap- 1
parently successful treatment of con- t
sumption-the opon-air treatment
which has inspired hope in thous- 5.
ands of households, whore formerly p
there was only retitled resignatiom t
"The reign of quacks, too, has Ye"
conmieneed, which 18.0, sure sign 1.
thal the disease is dreaded, and even it
the nonsense of Christian Scientists
linde among otherwise sensible peo-
ple an attentive audience. Indeed,
our very maniere are changing un-
der 11.14 1111112111151i, alid it 11s become
proper, as George Russell says in a
recent diatribe against tile decadence
of the upper ton, to discuss appendi-
citis on unseasoneblo occasions,
ff tbey only would remember that
the sentence of capital punishment;
passed upon es all is irreversible,
mul that; our object le not 1.0 pre-
vent death, but, to allevinto or re-
move needless suffering, which so o11'
1841 fieCOnileinieS Or preendee death,
they may do much toward that most
pinetleal of all ends -leaving the
world better than theer found it, For
that, object Um oxen tire committee
on mincer may be a most efficient
agent, and we hearlily hope nut only
thet it may get1 its numey quickly,
but get it in iinch needless quantity
as to induce it to widen its purpose
and 111;14111130 801/10 Oi the fonctions of
ft trib1111111 for the ellr011ragelnela Of
all SeitellIfie Men who are el riving to
extingnish pair:. Nothing is hope-
less lit that direction when they have
almetely discoveteel chloroform and
nye on the edge of a, diecovery whieh
is indispensable if surgery is to bo
notch Improved, namely, a means of
seeleg through the body. The Roonte
gen ray does hot milt° give 'us that,
but other penetretett everywhere 511(1
elmig ether llph1. can move."
roper donne; of the seed is secured,
he treatment of the seed may mee-
ede the time of sowing by 801110
veeks. Seed treated in thio manner
s eot poisonous. theme, scarcely
intable to be fed to horses. 3101'-
101 112 retails at about 50 cents per
lound,
YlIbLer TO TURN CALVES TO
GRA SS.
We cannot afford to keep the calf
n the cow, tts that is too expensive
o we must use some more monomi-
al method. The common prootico
n this vicinity is to raise them on
kinunilk. In some cases e. realer is
teed, but in most, instances they •ai•o
aught to drink.
My 2nothoci Is to take the cult
way froni the cow soon niter (hom-
ed, writes Mr. 0. IT. Dale, 1 milk
he cow and feed Atte ntille to the
alt in this wily. I put my linger in
be calf's mouth, and work its nose
110 the pail, and after it gets 10
eating well, Lake rny firiger away.
After a few trials the calf will drink
all right. 1: give it the milk of the
COW ior a few (Meet 1111 111 it is gond
to use, and then change to skimmilk,
warming lite 111111, to the tempeeit-
ture oe the milk its drawn front the
cow.
The skimmilk should be sweet. !Af-
ter the calf is two or three weeks old
I let i1 have a, little good, fine hay
to nibble, and when it is four or five
Weeks old. I set a dish of ground
oats or shores where the calf can get
it., and it soon leans to eat and Will
thrive and grow. I do not turn to
grass until the calf is five or six
months old,
01tive8 raised in this way will nuthe
Met 118 good cowe end Will be Worth,
just 0.24 much as those raised on
wholeantlk,• rend will not cost nearly
as much, If tho calf is intended for
beef, T ebould feed a more fattening'
feed after it was tour or live menthe
old.
"NO, eir 1" exclaimed the Mena-
truir. "No hoese in the emu:try, I'm
I)1'2121(1 to say, has more men mid
women ptishieg its 11 115 of goods thee
011114 !" "'Whet (In you sell 1" risked
the man with the eitin Whiskers.
''llithy cart•inges."
'PRUNING POTNTle.
Thero ere many theories ln regard
to the best 'limo to prune fruit
1.1ee8 for different objects, but the
1101180110115 of opinion is that, it beery
or extensive, pruning is to be done
in melee to leduce a vigorous
growth it shoeld be enne in ettrly
eiwieg, Good orchardists so managel
theil• trees that they never need any,
heavy printing while growing. A
pinch in time will save the 1180 of
the Raw refLerwarci. IL ts a rule with
ina»y experienced fruit growers to
keep their trees so well twoned 111133
nothing but nil ordipary pocket
knife 1214211 ever be teetti to remove 11111
offending 1131111, 13. elimad alwaye bo,
remembered that litievy peening of
growing trete, 1011 114 ard their
growth, and 11tlat tilo lopping oil of a
large limb at the 100011g souse!) wel THY 1AY LOSE TIIBXILT
induce decay. 1111 iarge wounds
should he thoroughly covered with nimizii.ND xwQ.Lia,QINNW • 11.4..
grafting wax. Vriine 111 such a num- SKIM' TInc cl4ol!aa,
ner that the light limy be let into
the made of the foliage and retnovo
the limbs overtly so that the Math
will • present a symmetrical appear-
aneo arid not Bo thick as Ltimeteit the
Willti and be blown down.
'PITO 1T1e111).
Thom is nothing that essists12.
repels:lieu (01' ending out, good etulT
breeder more in maintaining good
than dose culling. No breeder has
been able to raise all good pigs, (1l-
(0)) from the most clistinguishecesires
end that '0001' lived. There (11"
00(1.313 sylIl bo some inferior, to the
others, Theat shourd be coneignod
to the pork pens. The breeder thet
does Rot do tills will liege tot e of
trouble oe hl s hiends, Ilo svin 1111(1
it unprofitable because he caneot sell
to the same man aoy more than one
time.
The maxi that builds up his beat -
nese by honest transections that 111•0
SilthifililiOry to the buyer to the one
that metros a profit and success out
01 1115 business, if you got 11, taistoen-
or for an anitual, melte the deal so
flint he will be your 11'1511 11 and con-
tinue your custotner. We have plen-
ty of broeclers, W110 ere of this Char-
acter and who Practice this method
of doing huaroies. To clo busioess
and nteet the requirement, you
should have the blood for whin
there 10 a demand. You should have
good sows as well as good bOarS if
you wane to 'produce, a good class
polf,oeplieg:17. otullldc,:ii eel f
tention to reeding and 115.11111(85' 1.0
51212101'ttaet-t•
to have oue good sow, than thvee
poor OP 151041111111 ones, for profit.
WORLD'S COFFEE 011.01'.
It Is Said to be Constantly In-
creasing.
The world's production of coffee for
tho season of 1901,, aceording to the
best statistical information at hand,
001411 10,460,000 bags of 132 pounds
each. Of this M110001150 product Bea -
eel's share was 11,500,000 bags. en
other words, lerazil produces nearly
four fifths of the total crop; and in
slate or tile glutted markets, its pro-
duction is increasing every year,
antes is now exporting about
tvo-tilliels of the entire erop of Bra-
zil. Although Rio de Janeiro le next
to Santos, the greatest coffee port la
the' world, it is far sari -noised in
shipinents by the mallet' port south
of it. The Central American State!'
and Mexico, 411151 tile other Smith
American Republics, Venezifeht, Col-
ombia, Ecuador and Peru contribut-
ed to the markets 2,200,000 bilks,
leor a little pewe the Republic of
111111.1 18 a remarkable contributor to
the coffee eupplies, its pronuce last
y -ear amounting to 430,000 brigs.;
Tho berry of Haiti is particularly es-:
teemed in Prance, 00111,11 Jukes two -1
tit irds or Um 11X1/0rls, very I itt coin-
ing to our market, as Beneilien cof-
fee is Cheaper and gives larger profit
to importers,
Fortio Ilico and Jainaica supplied i
200,000 baps. T.1015 L111.i11 Atnerical
produced 13,000,000 bags, leaving 1,-;
560,000 bags to come from the rest!
of the world. The, other proaucers
were the Dutch East Indies. 480,000,
bags; British India, Ceylo11 mul the/
PhiliPiiines, 315,000; Africa. and Il10-1
cha, 525,000 and Padang and Cele-
bes, 90,000.
Tee surplus over ;and above eon-
semption 00115 1,1112,11411) bags. This
large overproduction is ahnota equal
to tho total annual consumption of ,
France.. As a consequence the price;
of the commodiLy still low and ;
coffee growers are complaining of
hard tithes. though thoso of Briteil I
50010 to Stiffer leSS thall the 111111133.1)1
of other countries. This is probobly
due id cheap preelection, the result
of the enornums plantations equip-
ped with tho very boot machinery
for preparing the crop for market
411( branch railroads run -tong right
from the coffee houses on the large
plantations to the ports. Labor is
also very cheap on the Braell plan -
lotions.
It is predicted that the Brazilian
growers, though they too are mon-
plainIng of low 'wives, can stand the
strain better than the smell planters 1 1
of other countries, many of whom'
are now reaping tto prolit and noel
soon likel.V to be compelled to give
up the struggle and devote their
lands to Mien' crops. •
'TOO BASHFUL, 1011 WORDS,
Mr. Clymille is a bashful man. For
this reason among* others lie seldom
loaves his own doorstep. The Other
evening, hONVOVer, 130 tolnul himself
obliged' to escorl his bettew half Lo 'a
social gathering.
Now, if Mr. (1—, was lateleful, the
same amid liot be maid of his wife.
Ihey wore duly introduced to the as-
sembled gueste. Eire relmites later
Mr, temple could not remember the
mune of a single itulividual and re-
tired to distant corner of the
room. Ilis wife, on the other hand,
50011 11111110 110111011 121 home, and her
lively chalter Wee 0110 of the hia-
tti;110,yl
9s', 01lnirilee's181
001 1)(111;111m was enticed
by another gentlemen, who strolled
up and endeavored 10 121132,
Q.111 1:0 it nice Ilttle ognie, isyvt
:StatiatiCS' PreNre Xt To Bo the
Heetitbleet Kit 42 Time of
War,
(118)11 regret bas been 54)1(504among the Highland regiments serv-
ing; in South Melee, by the new dives
regucie
latie, in width it le (iPparente
1y 1)111021(1011 11) euporsedo the kilt in
the figheing kit, This reform is de-
preoated from all sides. The High-
lanclore aseert that tho kilt, both in
1.4118 atici other campaigne, has been
the healthiest kit for active Service,
owing (.1) (.1)42 great thickness of cloth
protecting tbo abdomen, ;
Medical authorities state that the.
Highlanctere breve enjoyed greeter
iminuaity front 112,01)15,01111)troublee
than the 0111101'troops, which is, in-
deed, proved by statistics.
The exPiarlation of the order IS
that at Ielantlalaagto ged elsosvherti
t110 kit 005.0 (01010 to be much too
prominent a, dress to be serviceably
in the field, end that it offers a lair
mark in the skyline.
Whether the decision of the War
Office to 01,011011 the kill; as part ot
the eetive service kit of the High-
land 105111201(18 18 based on sound
reasons or not, there is 100 doubt
whatever, . enys the London Daily
Telegraph, that it w1/1 provoke in-
tense resentmentm
among 1.110 famous
corps affected,
T131111 KILT ITSELF
Is a garb of immense antiquity. An-
cient monuments show us that the
trooper of the Assyrian menarche
wore 0 sort of kilt, and so did the
Roman legionaries. 111 Eastern Eu-
t•ope, among the Albanians, Mon-
tenegrins and oLhor Balkan races the
kilt is tho universal fashion, and
the Greek mountaineers arse 0110111.it. In 500111111(1 iLs use goes back to
prehistoric times. Originally the
kilt was simply part of tho thrtaa
or plaid, which tho tvearer threw
over hie shoulders, and which, When.
the weather WaS cold, ne twisted
around his waist and thighs. It was
only. comparatively recently -a mere
matter of a few hundred years ot• so
-that the kilL beennte a separate
and detache.ble garment. Those who
are accustomed to it aro unanimous
in declaring that for allowing com-
fort and freedom in tho 111(0 (11 the
limbs, and for guarding the wearer
against. the inclement elomente, there
Is no article of personate Weer so
good as the kilt.
Although the kilt itself is an ex-
tremely ancient garb, the Hight:tact
regiments themselves cannot claim
any very remote 0011402.13', for thOY
have been 111 existence for consider-
ably Iess than two centuries. Tho
definite OF:Seeill (1011 of the 1 ligh-
"venders with the regular army only
began 172e. In that yintr-ton
years after the :Jacobite outbreak
known as the "Fifteen" (3715)-
General Wade was sent up to Scot-
land with ardent eenct all clans-
men who did not zurrender tbeir
arms ' to eerse the Ring in a rod
coat beyond sea, and in the 5a1110year four companies of ltighlandore
were raised. These were commanded
respectively by Captains lewd L0012.11Sir Duncan Campbell, John Citinp-
bell and George Circuit, and as they
wore their 11(1(11)114(1(trees of black,
blue (1)1(1 grain tartan, whist pre-
sented sombre appearenee, they
were called the
"BLACK WATCH."
The four 5(3111 11111'14'i13 wet•e soon In-
creased to six of 110 mon each, and
in Novemher, 17110, orders were 58-
sued for the matting of four ad-
ditionel units nett for the formation
of a Highland 'regiment, 780 strong.
This 00110 , 0011 01101111011 00101151 the
Earl of Crawford, tied ((80113', 11.
f01,1
WOOliS later, a sergeent and a Privet°
were brought (105011LondOn, the
fleet nilted soldiers over seen in the
capital, and 'were duly exhibited to
the Kieg, presmantly with satisfac-
tion to his sartorial mind. The regi-
ment in tIlleSti 011 We call-
ed the Forty-third of the line and
is now the . Forty-erwond (Royal
Highlanders), famous the. world over
under the sobriquet. bestowed on the
coinpaniee of 1725 -vie., the Bleolc
.
The other High Land kilted regi-
nents, with the (have of their for -
Motion, are rts follows :-
Settforths (Rossollin•e Duffs) (Sev-
enty-second and tem 0111y -eighth re
mgi-
ints), 1777.
Cordons (S510111 y-fifi h and Ninety-
secoed regime,: Is , 787,
Queen's Own Cemerons (Seventy..
ninth regiment 1, 1 71111.
'Princess Louise's Argyll and Rath -
(Tian ds (Ninety-111'Ni: anti Nine I yi
third regimentst. 1.7111..
MODER le 80 Cl leTY.
"What is your if:meat:owl 01
nodern society ?" initial an old -(11115
friend,
it 2" he began.
l\fr. tlyrnple merely nodded life 11
head and smiled vacantly, while tho
sI riolg,vr continued :-,-
"I should like to knoev that Is
111110 wuntan mow there, Slues (mite '4
"Well," was 11113 answer, "I
100311(1111 like to havo you mention
it. to mother or the girls, but my
impression 18 that soviets( is a place
where a Man Who 412(0 worked hie
way ep in the worlil from nothing
to a millionaire is likely 1.0 gel,
sheered ; tit because he catat' play
ping-pong."
llEA.T STEAMSTIftett.
'The Cunard Company' luts metered
WO Mar :Mips intended to oN,,,.1 1111,0'
itherto planned 111 their swetut-going
peed. W0111 ystIVO 11(211(0 Or 28.8
1110S 000 lloilr will be the nutruct
peed, to develop 00111511 1041111'$ 21(
7,000 horse -power will bo remitred.
'he turbine .prineiple luny be 02O-
10;0011 instead of engines of Ow tie-
uel forte, and thie expeeted to or -
ford 0 very desirable aw
bseto the
vibration which is so disegreenhei to
many passeegers in the ;mitt Willie
hitherto1)12111.,
---e-
The eel 11118 two $LIM 011 e 11 s
Ono berets at 60, tele other like littelt
(4, Minute.
The (210(1101' 113 the 41181 grade wee
1100'010111845' 1110 Word "breakfteet."
Ily wz"
ieei'i inr
toduction she itil-
dreseeil the elites 111128 :--"Whal, (33
the first, moil I mei (1111 ie the 1110110.
Ing "Oeeinettlee earemptly
spun dee; d &ewe?
le chatterbox. Ate: yon on speaking
terms with bei' ?"
"Yes-eo-el nieitn, that is---"
"011, I uhderstand," laughed the
etromgete "Like myeelf, you aro
merely on lisleeing torms
"dust Re 1 Thatnt it 1" stemma'.
et] Mr. tlyinple, ''11.8 alwaye thee
stay. You see, len-thet 18, Slues -
my wife 1"
"Olt I"
And ttr. Cymple cooddiet for 1110
lefe of him think why the etrunger
5116 dillereut species of edible plants
111110110011 010i:14111011. 21 of 1)10210
elettl smear.