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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-6-12, Page 7otrtolorSillmIntLetleleirlor/kettrlart,1,2441.1.4.4,41-1,1 44'4Jofln SI1011001 1441,201,1witi 1,11,4,4,11 11•1 a4,204 effireeeforat Othel'elf#tteet& 3 eSAtt4etteleSeffette4ehreeestseetetetett tikretteeeteittika _ C NPUSION or Gentility ft. tp 4/ OF CASTE. vs, .14 Nobility of Soul. Nrifwirovwfv#0.3.-wovowirv-oww-ovv,v4VitqW,540 =APT= IrtrIe. HeSuddenly lint ber hand aWaY from him before be began to speak again. He put his owe hand up te his forehead, and leant upon it, mid epoke so, without 'Totting at her. 'I know you were' never told that yeer mother was a, peer girl before X marrid4 her," he begun. "Perhaps it would lutve been better if you had known it-- I think it wOuld hey() been better; but we made a, mietake, I suppose, X wilt tell yo u• how it ° haPPened. Your mother came erne to this ,house when she eves almost a. child—when she was, only iliteen; she had been • lett an orphan; -and she was far from strong,' and by my leeve' Afro. Markham brought her here that he might have a home and ' be of what use in the house she could lters, Meridiem was my housekeeper then. From the filet— from meeerst acqueintance with her, mearz—your mother had tastes abeve her. Mese. She was fond 'of reading, and after a time the idea was started that she Should qualify hersolt to become' a scheol' teacher, anti for a year or eo—I forgot fer how long—she studied with n view to that, This was when she was about seventeen," • . ter. 'Prela.vsney paused here fcir a few moments. The part of his story that had to come next was the part that was the hardest to tell. "I never heti a thought of marry- ing her, Dorcas!" he went on . after that silenCe, abruptly, and almost passionately. "How it came about was by no fault either of hors or mine. It all -came out of that mis- erable Village. geseip. t bad tEtken an 'interest in her, and they began to blame her for it—and I ceuld not let. her suntr. That was whole, Dor- cas. I could only keep them from speaking ill of her by making her my wife. She was not to blame, nor was Mrs. Maeltlicun to blame. I acted against Mrs. Markham's ad- vice. No purer -minded or more in- nocent -hearted woman than your mother ever lived. I ho,ve no right —I have no right even now (when it Is a terrible thing to me to have to sit hero and try to justify myself to you) to utter ono regret for the stop that I thought myself obliged to take. Poor as she was, and unedu- cated as she is, ini all the years that we have lived together I have never had one moment's true mese to be ashamed of hei Nor have you, Dorcas—nor have youl" he added almost tiorcely;and then suddenly closed his lips. The silence lasted for a little while, and then it was broken suddenly by ,ho girl's low voice, "Papal" she said beseechingly. The little hand of its own accord had stolen again to his; all at once, with a tremor and a sob, she lakl her cheek down on his shoulder. "Papa, forgive me! I will never mind it any more," she began to say. "Oh, I might have known — might have known you would never do anything but what was right! It was only that I could not see it — I could not understand it; that was all. 011, you were good and right; you Were my own fatherl—you could not have done anything else," she cried, end Unfilled and sobbed in her sudden ' revuleion of feeling, and kissed his lips, his cheeks, his Minds, in a generous passion of remorse. tee drew her to him and feturned her kisses, mad blessed her. • What would his life have been worth if this girl had turned her heart away from him? And, meantime, while they wore so happy with cm another, Lotty Was sitting by herself, anetious and ex- pectant; but I am afraid for a good while they neither of them thought of that, and even when Mr. Trelaw- Inv remembered it at last, and told the girl to go to her mother, Dorcas lingered, and did not want to go. "Need I say anything to mamma?" she (mired, reluctantly. "Oh, sure- ly I need not. I don't know what to say." And It Was only when he pressed her that she obeyed him. "It would not do to say nothing to her. She has been very unbapPY about you," he told her, And so then, at lust—but still unwillingly— she went. She FOUlld her mother sitting at her work. It had got dark, and Letty had lighted her candles. She looked up when Dorcas came into tho room with eyes wpese long wait- ing had made rather hopeless and weary, and only smiled a little faint- ly when the girl came to ber side and kissed .1100 cheek. "Mother, I have been very cross this Week, and—I bales been vexing you, I know,", Dorcas said, 'either suddenly and quickly.. "I have been very bad—but I want you to for - gee° Me, please. I have been talk - trig it all 0701' with papct, and—and e—he has nte,de eVerything right," she ended, shortly end Mistily. She bent clown over the gentle face, and kissed it again; and—whet Could Letty say? Perhaps as elle sat alone 8110 bed been trying to re- hearse somo words to speak to her cletighter, bet they died en bar lips as Dorcas made her rapid little tipeeche mid ' gave hey swif 1 caress. Beteeeext these two, you Nee, dere had 'always been tio little eoneclence, and they were shy ot one another, Dorcas hae mecle it all right with ;arm father; thee., it seemed, was all she had to say to Letty, and the mother's thnid heart serank as the few cold words cattle. , "My dear, I thought that I should like to speak to you. I—I•have been very unhappy," was all she was able to SaY. "Yes, / entity; but don't mind It now, mother," the girl said again, quickly, "X know it is all right, and I had no business so be troubled. I understand it en now --quite," she said, and took .her mother's hand for a moment, and piessecl it, and then turned away. As she went she felt that she ought to have said some- thing more, and yet she did not know what -she could have said. There was some inborn, invincible stubbhrimess in her; the very con- sciousness that she sought to have been tenderer kept her tenderness back. She took up a book, and. sat be- side her mother reading it almost in silence for an hour, and then her fa- ther joined them, ancl they talked for a little, and presently the clock struck elevexi and she went t� bed. She was tired, tine not quite satis- fied with herself. She had been so happy for part of the evening, but the young face was rather sad now, and sho sighed, ene scarcely know why, as she laid her head upon ber pillow. • Sometimes, when she was half or quite asleep, it was still Laity's ha- bit, as it had lieea when she was a little child, to come into Dorcas's room and look at her, 01121 to -night she came before' the girl's eyes were almost closed. She opened the door softly and came to the bedside, and stood still for a moment or two, and then went down on her knees. "My dear, I want another kiss from you," she said, with wistful tendethess. "011, Dorcas," she cried suddenly, "one kind kiss to help me to go to sleep!" She put her arms about the girl, and bent down over her, nn.c.1 then— though she had asked for the kiss, she did not put her lips to. Dorces's, but all at once— "Ohl my darling, can you not for- give nie?" she began to cry out bit- terly. "You woulduit speak to. me down stairs—but, oh, 'speak to me notv, Do not think X did so wrong? I was so young, Dorcas, and rdidn't know—and he was 0S1 the world . to me. Dorcas, I didn't know!" she repeated piteously, "When 1 'tonna out that I had done,harni.to him it almost broke my heeet, •• Won't) you believe Inc, my dear? Won't you be- lieve Inc. and forgive me for what did?" “I do believe you, mamma—of coureo I di) believe," Dorcas cried 111 distress. • "It is such a, loeg time ago, and I have suffered so, I would have died for him, you knoW, and instead of that I did harm to him, and when it wits once done I could never undo it. I used to wish that I could die, Dor- cas: that would have been the only thing—but 2, couldn't die. And. then you COMO, my dear—and, oh, Dorcas, from the time you were n little baby In my arms I have been thinking of this day, and of how they would toll you what I had betel—and you wmild be ashamed," "Mother, I am not ashamed!" the girl cried in great agitation. , She ratsecl herself in bed, and put her arms about poor Letty's neck. It was not love for her that she felt like. tho love she had for her father, but a great wave of remorse and tenderness and pity had risen in her heart, and overwhelmed and 0011- quered her. "Mother, I have been very hard to you, Forgive me for it.. I will never be ashamed of you—I will nev- er, be ashamed of you!" she began to murmur, tuld• kissed the poor emery face with many a kiss. "You have been the kindnest .mother to me — the kineest, gentlest mother,' she said; and then her voice broke, and she •began to sob. The hour began in pain, and yet it was a blessed hour to Lefty, as she sat, after a little while, by Dorcas's side, holding her hand in here, They tented a little More; in the quiet and the darkness Letty found courage to say some thiegs that had been for a long time in her heart, She told the'girl, who lied hitherto knoWn 00 g eeeeed so little, sontething of whet her life had beeor—oi lte brief joy and eta long" eadness—of ite hepeff that had died in disappointmeet. More than 01100 Dame drew cleten her mother's Wei to hers; she was tottehed unspeakably as she lietened to her gentle, uneomplaining words. HoW little had she eVer deserved We patient clevetionl How little had sho over retuned or eared for it! She said. at fow words, but there were stronger. worde in her heart Ulan ally that she spoke. So it turned out in the end that, instead ef evil, it was, only good that came of this eisccreery 17111011 Dorene had made, and that these two were drawn Closer together by tho thing that Letty lute feared so long would separate them, Nay, were they not even all three drawn more together? Mr, Trelawney, too, h ad bee u touebed with pity for Lofty; the call that had been tnaclo upon bis loyalty eo her had roused something more than loyalty in his breast. On this night, 121 102' atm heel been with Dorcas, he spoke 21 few strong grateful words to her. "I often seem to be forgetful of you, Letty—I often seem to neglect you," he said, "but, if you could seo my,beart, you would 1011017 that I do you justice. If you have over thought that I regret our marriage you havo been wholly wrong. I do not regret it.; instead of that, I thank God for it, for never did any man in this world have a kinder, OA' more devotee, or Moro unselfish wife." 'And then ho took bar in his arms with a close and • warm embrace — need I say that she was a happy wo- man.? It seemed to her this ni 2,12 that the Iheclen of years, had fella' osvay from her, mid left her youn eg•ain, Nor did her jdy pass wholly pith her even, as 1211110 SVCIlt On, 712 i true that in her husband's mantle toward§ her there crime little vlsibl change; it few More sentences spoken to her now and there perhaps—som trifle of additionat kirldn066 61101V1 her occasionally—these were the 0111signs he gave of any increased con sideration for her; but when 8120 ha the remembeance of tboeo words o his to live on, might she not well 11 content? she Offen aeked •herself They smiled such sweet Mid blessec worth; to her—guerdon and rower( enough for all her years of love and iervice. And was not Dorcas kinder to her? The g•irl was touelled by remorse, en by something gentler '01101 tonderei than remorse. Was it not indeed true that she had been 081102100(1 o ler mother, and was she not wicked because she had been ashamed?. She began to approaoh her with a new eeling—to think of her with some- hmg kinder and better than her ormer careless, half condescending •egm•d. Some of the words Letty lad spoken on that night when het poet' loving heart tact revealed itself 7 t for a little while to her daughter, haunted tho gLl's thoughts after- wards, and filledsher with a keen and painful pity. How little had sho' ever thought of her! Feow little had she ever understood or cared to understand her. Perhaps during the next year Dor- cas bectune a little more graveand thoughtful and reserved than she had been before; she drew a little more within herself; she Was not quite so happy as she had been; the innocent girlish eyes had been opened to something that they had not known before. Sho grew a little proud, a little shy; the old frtuilc manner changed a good deal for a time. Ilact she not eaten of the fruit •of the tree of knoWletlge, and found it bit- ter in her mouth? She shrank for a while from her old frieedse she be- came suspicious, and thought that2 they looked down on her. She had to bear her little wound, and stnart under it, before any wholesome heal- ing came. But, if she suffered. for 11 time, she was too young and healthy to suffer long. The truth was so—as she had learnt it; yet all the same did not the sun still shine above her 1101201 05 it had done six months ago, and the breezes blow eo softly on her? The young life stirred in hoe too Joyous- ly and strongly for any merely sen- timental trouble to curb it long. The world, to her, had seemed her . ene- my for a little while, and she had T.A.CATARRH CURE ... 'LUC. CHASE'S f),N Is Sant direct to the diseseed parte by the Improved Blower, Heals the (Ilcers, clears the air 4112110400,stops droppings in the throat anti permanently cures Catarrh and He) Fever. Blower tree. 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It gradually end naturally ereates now nerve force, and builds up the system.You can prove that it is beeefiting you by keeping a record of your 'weight while using it. .• • Mrs. S. W. West, Drayton, Wellington County; Ont., writes :—"About two years ago I got terribly run down, and finally Wealth) a victim of nervous prostration, 1 ha'd no appote° tf, seemed to' lose interest and ambition, and could soarcely drag myself about. Hearing of good resulte from the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, I need three boxes with geetth benefit. In a short time I guinea eleven pounds, and as X wee very thie whon. X began to use the remedy I was very proud of tho increase of Weight. 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Dr. Chase's Nerve Ifiood ie sOid at 60 cents a box at all dealers. or Edmanson, Bates ,it Co., Toronto, Deo morning in NeVeriber; more Years ago than 1 eerie to rentember, bt1gdeleill 01,1111'11t•t101011 ‘0411itiage tie 0'10141 ealin by the 111:1108 that, during the night, John liemblyn, 0 tveelthy old widower, who oeettpied a large eause on the outskirte of the ell- -1W, had been niurderect—stebbea 120 the heart as he lay in bee, Sixty poueda, which letimblyn had clrawn.from the bank the 'day pre- vious, was missing, .4nd, on the face of it, it appeared to be a murder With "b1.1StY 101' 11.8 41UNC). But, as ,the bed stowed no signs of a strug- gle, and there was jewellery In the room of ituf greeter valet) than the mieeing money, it, was evident, the obvieue motive with not the real ore, The murderer had entered the house through the drawing -room whitlow, 'which bad been- bit unfastened, but no one had seen Marti him and there was not the slightest clue to his Identity. John Sherlock, the murdered man's 1154)11817, who Liverpool, was greatly shocked at the news of the tragedy, and urged the police to spare neither expense. nor eftort to solve the mystery eine, rounding his uncle's death, After the inquest, which resulted in a verdict of "Wilful murder by some person or p12I'50136 un- known," the enter instructed me to go down to Seabridge—on the quiet --and seo if I could pick up a clue. The morning after my arrival I went into the Bush Inn, hoping to 'glean something from the gossip of the customers. There were several farmers and shopkeepers in the bar parlor, but their speculations were of the wildest character CAW added enostobing to my knowledge of the n The efindow looked out u41on the stables. In tho yard an ostler was busy cleaning a trap. As I sat watching hint a young 170121111 came to the gate and beckoned him. He placed the budket finder the trap and • went to her. For some time they he stood water talking anding ;shiehefnolltiewetdull'iniemd in0torf the bl The man next 1110 laughed softly. 1 turned and looked at him. "They're fairly gotta on each other," he said. "Courting ?" I queried. "Strong. At it every met. Hoo's th' 'ousemaid at 'Amblyn's, an' when it's not 'er neet °met 'e waits for 'or te th' wood, opposite th' orchard, an' when th' others are i' bed. hoo goes rue"as a crack wi' 'Me It's a pity they wereina eawt on th' neet o' Murder. If they 'ad a bin they'd a seed t' chap ae did it." 330 turned to the farmer seated on his right and began chaffering over a mare lie had for sale, and I finish- ed my -Whisky and left the house. Turning by the side of the Inn, X walked towards the stable. It was a wooden building, and through a knot -hole 2, saw tbe ostler standing with his arm round the girl's waist. She 17115 crying and, he was trying tO comfort her. "There, don't cry Alice," he said. "You see he never said anything for fear of turning suspicion on himself, so if we keep our mouths shut no- body'll know you were 0117." Assured by his speech ana manner, Alice wiped her eyes and left Viol stables. 3, turned and strcdledi throngh the village. As I walked, tho links pieced. themselves together' in my mind. John IIamblyn retired at 9.80. Bottveen ten and eleven 110 20115 murdered. At that time the housemaid was talking to tho ostler, near the woods, In spite of her de -i Mal she had sten and recognized someone who had not COMO forward Lor tear of turning suspicion on him- self. Who was he ? When X keached the stables, jen- kins, the ostler, was busy grooming a horse. A few straight questions, and he collapsed. He recognized the t clanger his silence had brought upon him, and was afraid. "I'll tell you 1 everything," he said, as soon as he recovered his control. "It was only r to shield Alice that X kept silent. As soon as tho othor 881010115 were e" in bed Alice mune to mo in the wood. While we were talklug a man entered the orchard through the gap in the hedge. Clouds covered the face of the 1110011 and, in the dark- ` ness, wo did not really recegnize ° him, but we thought it wits Mr. Sherlodk: "In order to give him time to get to bed, Alice stayed longer than elle °Uteri -vise would have done. When tho clock struck eleven she lei 1 1110. As she neared theu hose she saw the , same man coining out through the .1•Pf.1,0101.1,11"11,44,0111,,,Wit.1.1.,,,11.11.101141 peered at the assizes lie 115/0 Spruce and debonair 00 on the morn lng of bie arreet. Idle frieede 1141 unbounded confidence in his 121214 conce, and there was not a lain& inhabitant ef Heabridge who believe he had committed the 011111Q. In the interval we had nutteriall strengthened our ease against him Link by 11.11k NVO heti 4)1e0011 togethe 4 0114111 of evidenee so strong ftS t 4PPe00 unanswerable. Men had seen Sherlock hastenin along the road to Liverlsool on hi bicycle. His business was a dea loss. He owed thousands of ' e ' e :teo ' ee. p, oune. ds Ie creditors 10013 preseing for 4)217 2081112, and the Jews had refused 1 furnieh him with any more moneyHo had oftn wished his 1,11410 dad and declared frequently that It 2011 WOO the 01(1 70(041 got out and goe him a chance of an innings His counsel clicl not cross-examin e ay of the 17114800555, The case fin the prosecution closed and th court adjourned for luncheon "Well, 511t IS the dfence ?" asked, turning to one of the report- . ere. gated In the Smoke -1'00M my cm- panion finkedI— d)glnIlelokWll ?" ,v,ery,„raxssTrod. "Then, toll Me, is the resemblanced between us remarkeble one ?" 70Qmi"41'"isl1* Y "tat 00011 no:w I 11411'e hard 7ork toperstoM0017that 7021ai:1 Ii o "Then no wonder Hargreav17920hie bet," he answred,looked at him inquiringly, yet s feared to speak. What connectiond bed 110 With Hargreaves, the prince- ; pal witness at the trial, the man in - whose company john Sherlack had 0 left the eountry ? . "About two years and a half ago" , he continued, "I was walking down. s New street, Biriningtharn, when a 2' gentleman greeted. 1110 as Sherlock.. I had some difficulty in convincing him that lie was mistaken. By the • time I had done so we were quite 6' friendly, and, as neither of usfhad anything 011, we agreed, to spend the eyeeleg together. Ile harped con- tinually upon the remarkable like- ness between myself and his friend Sherlock, and promieed to bring s about a meeting between us. He • was a good sort, and I liked him. O Ave grew eonfidential, and I told him my circumstances, d "I was a, music -hall artist at the , time, and had booked for a tour in the States and Australia, but was s finding it difficult to tide over the s last few weeks in the old country. .6 Before we parted he lent me a. ten- ner and proraised to look use up in 1 London. the week following'. When 170 met in London he told roe that he had been diseussiug the question of doubles with hie pals in Liver - "An a'ibi," lie 2111517010(1, promptly "S'horlock knows he's as safe a houses, 01' he 'could nut be so utter 17 indieerent. Tte defence will b an eye-opener." Tho judge took his seat, an Caleb Breese, the prisoner's' counsel rose to open the defence, He first dealt with Sherlock' business and manner of life. Ili (201111210tWILS reprehensible, bUt 110 criminal Scores of men, occupying far higher positions in life that 011/1 Sherloek, lived upon their ex pectations. Le was not the ouly man in Liverpool whose 11113100Se WaS a source of loss instead of pro2112 - Then he ttumed his ateentioa to Roll all Cl J enk ins. "Would any jury of intelligent men credit the evidence of such in - Id orate lis ?" he aslced, with a slumg of the shoulders. The button found in the drawing - room belonged to Sherlock, But it was lost tveeks before the murder. One of his tvitnesses would tell them that he noticed and commented upon its loss prior to that chtte. The 071401102 01 those who had seen Sherlock cyclingtowllrds Ltror- pool he dismissed as the testimony of honest but mistaken men. "John Hamblyn, according to the medical testimony, was Murdered between the hours of ten and eleven on the night of November the 12th. 33etween those hours Alice Holland and Alfred Jenkins have sworn that they saw a person whom they thought to be the prisoner, John Sherlock, enter the grounds of. the Ball. A few minutes after eleven Alice Holland says she saw the same nutn leave the house by means of the drawing -room window and by the light of the moon, 10005111)70(1bine as John Sherlock. "The defence to this charge is an alibi—complete and irrefutable "Between the 1101108 of ten 011,1 eleven o'clock on he tnight, of No- vember 121211, John Hamblyn, the uncle of the prisoner at the bar, was murdered in his bed at Seabridge During the whole of that time the prisoner was playing billiards in the King's Arms, Liverpool. "That fact, indisputably establish- ed, must result in his acquittal. But in order that no shadow of a doubt as to his innocence may remnin will, by the evIdence of reliable men and women, occinying responsible and honorable positions in the city of Liverpool—men and women who have known the prisoner for years— aaccamt for every moment of his time, from his arrival in Liverpool,- from London, at 6 p.m„ until be went upstairs to bed shortly after 1 am. tho following morning." The witnesses were, as he stated, men and women of position, and their evidence established an alibi so complete and convincing that tho jury returned their verdict of "Not guilty" without leaving the 11020. .And John Sherlock left the court without a. stain upon his character But I was not satisfied. The alibi which littd 0011711100(1 tho jury (1101not alter my conviction that John Sherlock bad murdered his uncle. I kept my opinion to myself, but 7 was none tho less certain that his acquittal had been secured by rickety. Immediately after the trial Sher- ock realized the estate and, accoin- anied by Fred Hargreaves, the Mend i410 whose company lie bad itssed the fateful evening, left the ountry. In the press of other work the matter passed from. my mind and I ad forgotten the Seahridge meet my and all connected with it, wile)) no day—over two years afterwarde —business took nie to Bath. As I was leaving the railway station 3 collided with a. gentleman and, on turning to apologize, found myself face to face with John Sherlock. drawing -room window, and, to es- cape his notice, crouched and hid herself behind 801110 bushes. The 1110011 was shining brightly, and in turning the corner he passed so close to her that she could have touched him. Tho man was Me. Sherlock. Next morning, instead of telling tho police what she had seen, she denied having seen or heard anyone, and I, for her sake, denied having met her that night." After a few searching questicnis I hastened to the Hall and interviewed Alice Holland. She corroborated Jenkins in every perticular. It was elear that John Sherlock Sons In tho house at tho timo the nineties' was eommittetl, and as he benefited largely 117 the death of his uncle it woeld be for him to satisfy the jury' that his stealthy isit was legitimate ono. Near the drawing -room window found a peculiarly -shaped Mitten, whiell the housekeePer 1'000010001 fie belonging to a stilt of tweede often' warn by Mr, Shorlook. Upon this evidence John Sherlock was arrosted,,aricl, after tho estial delays, was tohnnitted for trial at the lint LiVerpool..Assizee. Ifts imprisonmentehad no alinetent ,13 effect 044)021Sherlook, .When he ap-' "Ranee, Sherlock I" 1 cried. 'Mutt in the world are you doing oro ? I thought you were abroad, Tow a.re you ?' For (1 moment he lookacl at me in amazement. Then his oyes twinkled merrily. "I'm all right," he answered, cheerily ; "but I'm not Sherlock, you 'know. My name•ie Frank Rals- ton." "Not Sherlock ?" I cried, incre- dulously. "No ; but, by Jove, I must be awfully like him, for you are not tho only man who has mistaken me for hint—no, by a, long* chalk," he said, laughing beertily. "Come and have a drink and le 1 tell you all about it." As we walked to the hotel I look- ed at liim curiously. In spite 01 1115 &Mal I found it bard to believe that he was not John Sherlock, to height, build, 111101115', features, ama voice they were identical. Seen to- gether, there might linen been no- ticeeble points of difference between them, Apert, it was iMpossiblo to distinguish eno from the other. The circumstances connected With tbe trial recurred to iny mind. I felt that 1 waS on the eve of a dis- covery—that, -unwittingly, I had stumbled epOn the solution of the etthridge mystery. As 80010 138 170 200011 Comfortably ON THE EARIVI, 20 # # MILT PEW% mums, zvery tittle while we Mie Published certain oures for the terrible disease in cows known es milk fever. The Joss from this source is no doubt 110477, end it is worth while to do ell in our power to check its rat, - ages, writes M. Et L. Vincent, But may it not be possible that here, as hi so meny other instancee, the traditional "ounce of proveet- ion" may be worth the pouted 01 cure? It ;teems to ISO SO, It 11110 been my practiee elute comm5 on, the fernl to follow the following ' plan with cows due to come freelz lxi the .spring of the' year, as well es • in early summer. Three of 11 weeks befoi•e the cow is due to give milk all heavy grain is taken away from; her, In the place of this the very best of hay is given to the ow8.. alia in other ways Care is inereased until the critical period comes on. The same day the calf Is horn a 010 - tion of two quarts of bran le !elv- en, well mixed with warm water or the first milk taken from the cow. This assists in a most important way in clearing up the system of the cow. For two days the cow is not allowed to 'drink cold water. It is something of a chore to warm and carry wgter to a herd of cows in this way, but it will pay. Before lotting the cow out to drink with the rest I give her a pail of the warnied water, thus partially quench - pool, and had made a number of ling her thirst before she goes to the bets, amounting in the aggregate to old water. Now I gradually begin to put the eow back on her ration of meal, keeping up en the meautvhile the • bran, until at last I have her tea - covering that he was not tho person, 105 her accustomed quantity of the they toofk him for. —.Fre -ntrered iheavier feed. Ie this way I have £50 if 170 succeeded, and we arrang- succeeded in removing eel danger of ed that the trial should take place milk fever, and have not had a case on the test night of my stay till in thirteen veare, Sometimes it is England. "I was sailing front Liverpool I well to milk the cow out before sho 1° begins to give milk regularly. This New York early on the morning 01 ,rentoves any possible danger of pto- the 3.80 of November, and on the maine-poisening. 12th Ilaegreaves met 7010at, Lime' One of the best cows I know of—. - street at six o'clock. As we left the splendid, largo and healthy net - station a. porter greeted mo as Sher-11nel belonging to a neighbor — 13 leek, and from that time until near- I little while ago died from overdrink- ly nine in the morning my identity ling at a cold stream the day after was never questioned. Hargreaves • she had her calf. I believe many had sent me a suit of Sherlock's cases of milk Sever may be traced to togs and put Inc up to his tricks the chill following taking so much and mannerisms, and I acted the cold water before the CoNV 6110131d part to perfection. It Was a fair `Alava it. No doubt a dose of salts take-down. Hargreaves put me up i or saltpetre, given a few days before for the night, and was so delighted , i the cow is due, is another preven- with the way I had managed the , 'Lion. And is it not much better to business that be gave 11)0 7175 think of tbese things beforehand than stead of the £50 he had promised to regret that we did not when it is too late. £000, that he would produce a mart so like one of their friends that this num , should spend an evening in their company without them dis- me. "Before leaving hie rooms I faked my face v. bit, so that I might not give the show away before he was ready. Ige promised to let me know how he got on, but he did not do Ralston told the story with the air of a man who was proud of the part he had played in it. I looked at hiin wonderingly. This, then, was the secret of John Sherlock's confidence "I have often wondered what Sher -- lock was doing that night," he said, reminiscently. "Murdering his uncle," I replied. laconically. Then I told him tho story. A look of horror came into his eyes as he listened. When I had en- ished he pressed his hands to his avow and stared at me in the be- wildered fashion of a man who doubts the evidence of his senses. "Good heavens I" he whisr ered, hoarsely ; "while Sherlock was murdering the old man Hargreaves was trotting me round Liverr not ar- ranging Ins alibi 1" SEEING THE BENEFIT. How Merchants May Obtain the Confidence of the Public. Good anveetisieg will benefit any legitimate business, but it is neces- sary that the goods should be right and the advertisements be of the right character to get the confidence of the buying public and to insure good results to the business man. The small or run-down business is easiest benefited by good advertise- ments. There is a larger field, on which to work, a greater chance of reaching those who are not or have not been interested in the store in question. A good advertisentent calls attention to the weak and struggling business. The ready re- sponse of a few buyers will be ho - mediately felt. The results will soon be seen on the- ivholo business. After the volume ef business has grown somewhat • the same two advertise- ments need not be expected to pro- duce as largo results in proportion. The larger the business the less would be the proportionate increase in the business because of that ad- vertisement, Tho largo store, where business has been booming for some thne might hey° en increa,se. of a few oustomers and would not feel it at all. The large volume would make it difficult to get the same Proportion of gain. But the advor- Using is just as necessary to keep tbp the Mistimes ae it Was to build the business origivally. The man who has reached the top a the ladder of possibilities is just as de- pendent on the ladder to keep hint there as when lie eves climbing, and if he grows heavier all the time it Is necessary to Pee that his ladder Is strengthened; A child can live wri a very small =mint of food, but tho future cif that child' depends cal Sic wholesomeness of what is eaten. As the child grows larger a 'treater atiment of food te necessaey, At the tidiness of growth tood is still no- ceseary to keep tho individual well and ettenig. It is so With advertis- ing. After the business has reached tt certain point of dovelepteent it may riot grow more, but it requires Oen:Untied atimertiseng to keep the bueiness aS strong us it has been. In 'England there is ono MX. to every 00.00 electors; in Scotland, 1 to 8,000; in Ireland,. 1 to 7400. PROFIT IN POULTRY. If there was ever need of the old slang phrase of caution, not to bite off more than you Call chew, it is in the poultry business, where so many sttunble on the rock of attempting too much. They overstock their place with poultry, and end to their consternation that they cannot ac- commodate them all, and their losses through sickness and crowding, be- come so formidable that they lose heart. There can be no better ad- vice than to make it the first pur- pose in the basiness to raise a flock of fifty fowls of one variety, all of which are of good quality and con- dition. On every farm this number should at least bo kept. Why limit it to twenty or thirty? Bring the number up to fifty at once, and make this the Unit of the business. Thereafter let. each increase be on the score of fifty. When you can handle one flock of fifty satisfactor- ily, start in with the second unit, forming the new flock froin the best blood of the old or new stock, and hecrease.it gradually until it is rc- cruited up to the limit. Draw the line strictly at fifty, and either do not go beyoncl t1Lat number or begin a now flock. FEEDING FOR BEEF. It is a well established principle in animal nutrition that a young ani- mal makes mow economical gains then an older one, and that the amount of food for a given gain in, creases as tho age of the animal ad. valves toward maturity. Therefore the policy of feeders should bo ta make use of early maturity as fel as practicable. In cases whero tenth( are cheap and pastures and coarse feeders or feeds can bo had in abtuts dance, it may yet bo desirable tome? take more time in finishing a steer for market, and thereby secure a, greater weight with a snuffler amount of grain. In the feeding sections of 1211000110 - try the conditions are such 09 to fa- vor a. liberal feeding from first to last; early maturity may be obtain- ed by a liberal ration of the ordin- ary feed stuffs through the entire growing and tatterting period. That is to say, early maturity may be largely accomplisbed 1)7 a liberal use of the cheap feeds of the farm, come bined with a suitable grain ration. TREATMENT OF CLAY ROADS. On clay roads a thin layer of sand, gravel, or ashes will prevent the sticking of clay to the roller 00 to the wheels of vehicles. Clay soils as a rule absorb water quite freely, nod soften when eaturatod, but wa- ter does not pass throngh them read- ily. When Used atone clay is tho least desirable of all road mater- ials, but roads composed of clay may be treated with sand or email gravel from whielt a comparatively hard rind compact man is i01510d, Which is eearly imperviotts to 500,- 1201', Material of this charactey found in the nriturn1 state common- ly known es "harepan" makes, wive properly epplied, a very solid and durable read, 111 soil composed of a mixture of sand, gravel, and clay, all that is necessary to make 01 4)001.1. road is to crowll the surface, keep the ruts and holes filled, and the ditches open 1111(1 free. Europe lice eri tin averaye 1,000 feet hbove tho sea ; A.Sriee, 2,0210 and Asia, 8.0.60.,