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The Brussels Post, 1902-5-15, Page 2oieefeeiteeeftesirteteeeeeWeteeteeieedaaei4(teeeteeteeee4044.enoodeeeseerte Or el CONFUSION c; pentwty OF CA FE. c Nobility of 501,11. 445q4"44?9,POW.144Q4131.4q4044.ivqPfywD94,4,,,o0yvyv0 '01IAPTel1t EIL 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 hat is de 1 e.„. • 4, vegete 1104141:,; • , 031,41y * '4' oldniSf, wiil 1." Son "t6I 3t;•0 11f " kit% Oat ; urik 111411.11,` rt, I. 11 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- tt4H340,1144,0****. . 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.