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The Brussels Post, 1902-8-7, Page 7se - 412 ft,,etv,t4e.e .6ge&etle 44 CONFUSION OF CASTE. stoilk Or Gentility Vs, Nobility of Soul, to .44" Irtt,i,41WWFffirfloitW;400V-444r4vvy370-00VIPP.ror.0.41 onArpns. xxxv. The break had CoMe, and for a, little While Dereas drooped the the inevitable neceseities of her CoMmen deity work, stirrounded her agath in the old way, waking de - Mends upon her again, as they had done in the time bolero Fraak came, . helped her to drop gradeelly and in- sensibly once more back into the Itio' that she seemed to have loaped out et so wildly for a little whiIe— that familiar We that had been so monotonous, and yet so full of Peace; se uneventlul, yet so full of a quiet thatikfulnees In her heart the girl woo changed, but outwardly there- ceased smolt to be any change at all in her. The old things went on again . as if there had •boon no break in their plaCid flow, and only The herself knew that between her present and her former life there lay a wide gulf of separation,part- ing that present from the past ti s clearly as a river parts its two .shores. With a sense of painful self-re- proach, gradually Dorcas began to try_ to give her heart mum more to the work that, during those weeks while Frank had been with her, she had performed only meehanically. Perhaps it was difficult to sit for • hours now in that quiet study, w:th a mind devoted to something that was not Frank but a remorseful tenderness for her fether made her at least struggle bravely to do i1. the consciousness that someonehad come between them, to make him no longer first to her, riding within her a thousand times with often an ahnost: pessionnto pain and Pi0Y, If lfrank came back •how should she , -ever be able to tell her /ether ? she used to think. 11 be &me 1 But he would not come, she always said. It was scarcely so much fear of what might happen in the future that Pained and troubled her as a eelf- reproachful consciousness of what had happened already—of the fact • that Frank had become dearer to her -than her father—the three weeks' lover dearer than the father who had lived in her life for nineteen years. This was the bitterest uain she car- ried with her, the thought tbat haunted her when she pmhbr arms .about her father's neck—that set a aver of remorse into every kiss •be. gave him, and every tender word that passed her Bps. She was deceiving him, she thought. It :might be all inevitable, but none the less for that did her heart accuse her for it. "Ought 1 to tell him ?" she thought to herself again and again ; 'but when she saw his undisturbed • conteut she could not do it. So, in her penitence mg PUY, though she told her father nothing, she grew to devote herself to hint more even than she had done in the days before Frank came. She could only in this way show her self-re- proach and her tenderness, and he, as was natural, saw nothing bul; the tenderness, and never suspected any other feeling. Sometimes, perhaps, he thought she was a little grayer than she used to be ; but she was growing to be a. woman now, he pro- bably axgued, and, as was Only right, was putting away childish things: and, if she was grave, so much the more was she fit to he his eompanion. As these months, that were so full of quiet happiness to him, passed on, he mune to associate her more and niore lit every thing he They spent the larger pert of every day together ; he talked to her of every thing that was nearest to his heart ; he made her of service to him in his work in a hundred trivial and yet to him delightful ways. "What should I do without my Dorcas to help mo ?' he often said to her, with a pride and tender- ness that stabbed her like a. knife. Sometimes during these months Letty would. talk to Dorcas of Frank, and bring a brief satisfac- tion to the hunger that the girl al - Ways felt to hear his naine. The two women would sit together. and talk of the things that he had said and done, and Letty would praise him. In these days Dorcns knew that sho loved her Mother better than she had ever dono before, because her moth- er loved Frank; they had this bond of sympathy between them—the strongest bond (though Letty did not know it) that eyer had drawn them to each other. "I ought nosto let her talk of 1 him," the girl said often to herself ; "It only makes me think and hope," And yet, again and again, she would s devise stile/nes to make Letty talk i of him ; and the kind, simple soul t would dwell upon his goodness and v his pleasantness, .ancl, with happy I pride, would recall the fact it hun- dred times of his faithful /*einem- a brance of them through all these w years—till Dorcas' heart would throb and burn, yes—bo had Conte baolt to theln unchanged • after so many years: (Mold' She forget that, 01' help thanking God for it ? And the days were passing on—suramer com- ing, and autumn coming, and rauat he not fitill at heart be true to her, eince he had siren no signs nor sent her letter back ? She USed to. look daily at the ring, that he had Wren her, daily, and almost hourly some- timee, She did eot, of course, be- lieve that when /to logot her it would change its color, and yet each .clay, when she saw its• hue ueehang- ed, she &meet • knew that she was comforted, with an utterly irrational and childish comfort "in aaother yeae I snail ainiost know," she said to herself on her twentieth birthday. Dow these win- ter days recalled the time of Frank's brief stay—the winter days, the leaf - loss trees, the frozen roads °tee Which' she had first heard hie Ster. She lived again through each remem- bered niceties with him—forgetting the anniVersaey of no .day cr hour. It was la th o middle of January that he had eome, and in little more than three weeks he had gone away. One af tern oon netty found her stooping over the open drawing - room window, and gathering .violets, and the girl started and colored when her mother came suddenly and spoke to her. "He said he would keep the violote I gave him, and look at them to-dity. Has he re- membered, '1 wonder I" she had been thinking to 'herself. "Seven menthe I" She said, when July came. "Seven months from to -day," She thought one morning when she woke. It was a pleasant summer day, end tho summer and the sunshine had been giving her new heart of late. She was rambling about the garden this 'morning, after breakfast, sing- ing it little to herself. Often, as Frank had rrophesied she would do, she used to go, to the garden -gate, stncl wait for the postman there to take the letters from him, lest f er- haps there might be that nue -for her that should decide her fate. To -day .she went and waited for hlin, mud when he came he brought it letter to her—but it was not a letter from Frei*. The writing of the address was strange to her. She took it, and looked at it for a moment or twe—Euzzled—a little startled. "Who Can it be fi•om 1" she tliought. I She opened the envelope—she hard -I that she found inside was only a .). I ly lalew why—with a Certain sense of I expectation a nd alarm. The note s short one, written la a woman's t, hand that seemed to have trembled Et 1 little as it wrote. . w "Dorcas Trelawney," it began a abruptly, "I have been very ill, and t I have 110 daughter to take care of y me. kty son will hero me believe c that, if I ask you, you will come and t stay with me for a little while. Is he right, .and will you come ? 11 li you consent I shall be glad, as the i fetnre wilt, at any rate, settle itself better from our learning to know o each other. Frank leaves Inc in two Is or three days, and should you Come you will Bud me alone. Let Me haVe 11 tin answer. 11 you write that I may expect you, you shall bear from me b again." And then there was added 0 merely the bare signature—"Frances Harcourt," Dorcas felt as if she 1005 In a dream tor a little while, as she 11 stood with this strange letter in her s hand. She was not glad, she was " nob sorry ; she only, for the first w few minutes, stood looking at the h words with eo other feeling but be- w wilderment. And thee, suddenly, the arrested flood of life rushed. back a upon her, and she flushed crimson, and began_ to tremble, body and spirit, with an irresistible, Passion- ate mingling of joy and pain. Her Frank 1—her Frank 1 who bad not forgotten her 1—that was her wild great cry of gladness ; but another cry almost as great came with it. How was she to show this letter to her father, and tell him the thing that would take the joy out of his life ? It was a long thud afterwards— several hours afterwards—before she told him, She passed those hours alone in her own room, without cou • t t th tered the roOln, "Clan you come te me tor a while now ? Lookest Want you to eopy 011000 peefiagee." And he Wold have begun to these thein tie her, hut suddenly, with tt strange, passionate Meeeteent, She PUO her arm close about, his neck. "Yee—presently,—I will do it pre- sently—but have been \venting to eoine you—I have been Waiting all the morning to tell YOU some- thing," she seld---"and I don't know how to do it 1 Oh, niy dear, you ptust forgive me 1" She Cried all at once, and deolePed down 011 her knees beside' him, and laid her heed., sobbing, upon his breatzt, 'Dorcas—what is It ?" he asked, in a startled voice, He tried to lift up ber face anti look p,t her. "tfy darling, tell nen Now could you bo afraid to toll _me anything ? Speak quietly, and Jet nie know what iS troubling yeti," he said, in a sooth- ing voice. She tried to tell him, but In her soerow for him oho was crying to blithely for a time for the word to come. Only by degrees, i broken, almost unintelligible soi toncoe did they come at last—till th story was told, ancl Ids blank, tit susrdclous mind slowly took in th truth, She was going from lilm; he ha lost her—tho one love of all hi life. As some drowning creature SOC in g death before him might loo back for tho last time on the worl passing suddenly heo ond his road so, when comprehension came, did i seem to her that he looked Into be eyes. She remembered that patheti gaze—clespair, reproach, the agony o a great loneliness all raingled in it for years after her own pain In all the rost had .passed away. The greatest things come too swiftly sometimes; We rise and begi calmly to go about our daily busi siess, while perhops the angel death or separation has his swnr already drawn tO Sinit0 us. To 3111 Trelawney the blow that took th best thing from his We came trul as a thief conies in the night, steal ing from him, without weenies, a one steoke, the hope and gladness o tWeitSheYwnLsalksn'eeling still beside him ; they had not said 11121011 to one an- other. Ife had read her letter ; sh had told her story to him ; lie ha 'fi02' boltevo that ho etleor;117.1" 161-609Wb.,Q.1aZIM had let a etranger'e love outeseigh. bbs paesionate loVe of twenty yeare. Thom was the open book mien hts desk Oh which half Al2. iltdir ago lie had been marking those passages fer her to oopy, and Suddenly he closed it and .threw cm one eide, She would never do work again for hina, he said. Already it felt to lum au if tho life of oil these previou8 yeare —the life even of yesterday—hacl be- conle an old thing far away. As he sat silent in his chair it seemed' to fade back from 111111 like a dream, and leave him once moo a lonely, ehlidless mart (To 13e Contiptied.) TOO 141B011 FOR THH DANIS. Smooth Talk Oauses Fifty Million Dollar Wreck., Tho ruin of the I,eipzigerbanic of e Germany, that fulled eleml, a year e ago, for nearly .9 50,000,000, was o wroUght by tbo fasehiating peeson- tt ality of Adolf Schmidt, according to O testimony given al Um three weeks' I trial of the bank's (fleeces/es. Bch...! 1211(111, who nets managing director al a grain drying Company of Cassel, cl a concern exploiting on an enornt- s 01111 Settle a peocese for drying beer .. dregs and cattle !Led, persuaded the k bank to advance Fe20,000,000. d The accused directors were unable 1, to give the jury a lucid explanation t, of their reasons for commuting to j. make those extraordinary loans. Ev- , cry member of the apparently Well- ! meaning board admitted that this colossal mistake was inclefeneible upon sound commercial principles. Nevertheless, they consented becauee Schmidt made thein behove in the process' annesing possibilities and 21 ; InSnciticlt ale0 had an invention for d, distilling wood alcohol, by whioh t be seid he would obtain the mon- o opoly of the wood atcohot of the y world. Ills oyes were up011 the _ American lielcl as well as linen the t European, end 110 opened negotia- tions with American compenies for ihe formation of a. world trust, and established sub -companies in every , Continental country*. o The alcohol invention 0021tributed cl to the dazzling of the Leipzig three- , toz•s, who, however, mude it clear f that they did not know how Muck t the bank had really loaned to o Schmidt. Although they were back- s ins Schmidt's schemes, they were de- ceived by the bank's maneger, Ex - nee, who kept the secret accounts. Exner's action is realty a mystery, for neither he nor the other direc- t tors appear to have made any O money Personally out of the scheme. a Schmidt is described as having a. t quiet manner and simple way of ex- pressing himself in internale Ian - gunge. Tie talks with. it calm air of conviction and seems to have he- , /loved completely in himself. He is now in jail aWailing eXareinatien. Exuer's testimony showed that he wo.s led on step by etop, hoplug to save the bank's minium. ONTARIO'S WHEAT. 012)3, asked her one or tiro quentions There had been that 000 look o hopeless anguish ; out after that no any great sign of emotion. As sh knelt sobbing, presently he put hi hand upon her hair, and began to stroke it,. "Hush, hush, my clear 1" he said to her, as if she had heen a child. "You see, we have been a grea deal to ono another. It has cant sharnly," he said, after a littl while, in a low voice. "I think the possibly, ,if you had warned me Doreas—but perhaps not, my dear— ievhaps not," he added, quickly. "And so you want to go to him?" te said, wistfulle% after anothei Pence. "Dorcas, are you sure ? 'ott scarcely know him. Be seemed O a boyish kind of felloW; 10 harm in him, perhaps, but"— ith his lip quiverteg—"too slight nd imina.ture. ehould have hought. My child, will he satisfy •ou ?" he broke out, almost with a ry. "I cannot think it 1 I caunot hink it 2" He made her 1110 her face, and put is 21221121 upon her foi*eliecid to hold t back, that he might look tit her. "only a boy—no student ; think that—a mere light-hearted, shal- ew boy 1" he reiterated, bitterly. "litz is not shallow,""he answered, 1 a low, quick voice. "'Well, at any rate, a, mere boy—a oy mind.—and you have been used 0 "Yon are not just to him; he Is a tan too," she said. "I cannot see ; I think you are nder a delusion, cannot under - land 11'' he said, piteously. Proud, worldly people, too, who ill look down upon you. Dorcas, ow can you bear to go to them lien they do not want you ?" "Frank wants me," she said, with half break in her voice and yet in it tone that was like a little cry of Yes, this was the whole; a strang- er wanted her, and where he called her she must go. With a eternise anguish, as of ice gathering about hie heart, he began to feel how lei had built up the gladness of his life like a house without foundations grounding it on the sand when he thought It bad been grounded on a loge o go o e study where she mew he 'was waiting for her. ITe would call her pretently, she know, and in her cowardice and anguish he waited until he called her ; but O waS a long thne—it was past welve o'clock before she heard his oleo at t'no foot of the stairs at ast. She answered to bis summons them rid went down to him, white, and Rh her knees trembliug. 'I thought you had gode out, my eat ho quiet] id kat y 80 1(1, 55) en - /11 To prove to yen thee De 10 ts. gi,.groc";t eir2,2glcrv.t and ovary ferret et itching, bleedingand pro true ing. piles, the manufacturers havo guaranteed% soothe. tinioniala IRAQ daily press and ask yonr neigh. bars 001100 1,1203 think or% Yon earl 11S010 and gob 00110 018500 bask If not cured. Soo a hos, al) all dealers or BraziazeSos,BATes&Co.,Torocto, DKChase's Ointment roe% Hew long had he been living believing that he was first with her when he was not first ? An tine speakable bitterness and sadness took possession of him. It seemed to him that he had trusted her, and she had deceived him. In the agony of hie sudden loneliness he could not Nerve Gtudy These Synriptorns and see if You Are in Need of the Great Nerve Restorative C se's erve• Food. Bestlese, langeld, wet* attl weary, 110 life, no energy, tired all the thne, throbliing, pelpitating heart, heart asthma, sleepless nights, midden starlings, morning languor, hot flushes, brain fag, inability to work or think, exhautatiea On exertion, general nembaess, dead all over, cold hands and feet, flagging appetite, slow digestion, food heavy, easily excited, nervous, muscles twitch, strength fail% trembling hands and limbs, un- steady gait, limbs puff, loss of flesh,los.s of =swine power, Irritable, despondent, hysterical, cry or laugh et anything, settled melancholia, steady ileciitle, complete rrostration. Mrs. Cline, 40 (*.amide, street, Hamilton, states ;—"For a, number of years I have been a great sufferer from nervous headache and 1112100115 dyspepsia. I had no appetite, and my whole nervoes syste211, seemet1 weak and exhoneted. I hew found Dr, Chafze's 'Nerve .Food very helpful. St seemed to go right to the scat & trouble, relieving the headache, improving digestion and toning up tho syetein generally.' Mrs. Symotis 42 $t. Clair street, Belleville, Ont., states ;—"501110 weeks ago 1 began e course of 11;eat- 2110110 With Dr, ChtiSe'S Nerre 11'o0d, and fOund it a; Very satisfactory medicine, 1 wee forinorly treubted with nervous exhaustion and a Weak, fluttering heart,. Whenever my heart bothered me T would have spoils of WeekneSs and dizziness, which Wore very clietreseing. 1y means of thie treatment my 1201008 bare bee0Witi strong and healthy, and the action 01 1113' heart seems to be regular. I can recemmend Chasote NerSe Food ite an excellent medicitio." Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 code a boet, at all dealers, or Edmanson,Bates 41 Co., Torontele Mr. S. A. IY1cGava Places It at Sixteen Million Bushels. Ontario's wheat crop for this year is estimated at i 0,000,000 bushels by Mr. S. A. McCaw, managing di- reetor of the Lake Htaron. & Mani- toba Milling Company, Ltd., of Cod- er/eh, Ont., who in an interview compared the respective merits of Ontario and Northwest as wheat - growing countries. Eight years ago the premier pro- vince of the Dominion had a wheat product of 24,000,000 beetle's, and every year this amount will con- tinuo to decreltse. Lest year it went. even below the average, the crop amounting only to something t 10 the neighborhood of 02,000,000 '1 bushels. Mr. MeGaw stated that Ontario WaS in her prime as 0 whoat-growing province at 80,000,000 bushels, but, 1.1 like other eastern sections, she has s, had to hand over the belt to Mani- toba and the Northwest, which will soon bo the granary of the empire. A good part of Ontnrio's wheat crop goes to •Great Drite.ln and the Indies, the seine being replaced at ,a home by the hard wheat froin the ". Canadian west, for it takes 125,- a 000,000 bushels of wheat annually " to bread the big province. STOCK IN, ONTARIO. Ontario will never regale. her pos- Rion es a wheat -growing province, 0,L said Mr. 1110011w, for what is pro - Ir 21 4.4t zOSVO:460 63%6300 ON TrIE FAR well stoelted With the beet Varieties id well beetled, AO it elteuld be convenient to the kitchen eo as to tte4 be Most; available and uSefUl, THE MANURE NEAP, During the Warai days tee manatee heap is lieble to 'become over -heated end lose a Lege ehare of Its valu- able ammonia,. Should this condi- tion occur the best plan to purse leo to open the immure heap in soy- eral planes with a member end pour .? ,eold water in order to arreet fer r inentetiou. The manure pill lose 5 over one-half its value 11 1)120 fer- d mentation proceeds until the mne Y toilet beeomes "ere -fanged," and Y careful farmere for that reason Pro- t fer to handle the heap by shovelling 1 it over, throwing the coarse and Y bulky portions to the center. Ale- , 890110110 materials, such as cut straw e or even earth will serve well to ar- rest the process of fermentation - and as the admission of the - air s conduces to the production of heat the heap should ho firmly trampled s and peeked after it has been torkod - over and made Into a new heap. PALANCE nATIox. There Is I/0 One feed that eon as neas to being ft balanced ratio fer Mileh cows ae our mixed mead° 1 grasses, when in just the prope eortditien, Tbe pastures would b as good if they were as fertile OM .Y.Ielded SS good crop,' Unfortunate) many of thein aro badly Injured b the growth of blushes, worth; mg MOSS, Mall it requires more trave for the animal te gather her (Mil lotion than she needs aS exercise end even Shen. she 4111,012 failS to Se cure enough, AN HE WITII HOLE 8Ala NOW TNE DILSX TAIMEN SPENDS TgZ PA.V. tome IntereSting Mattere of No.* Merit and Mirth Gathered . Frone PIts Domge. 0. Ninety United. Statee soldiere in the Philippines have died of cholera, Two thousand neW benchea have been ovdered for the parks in New York. Kanstie and Nebraska are aPP50,1- ing for harvest homde and Canape get enoogh. Seeretary Rooe states that the cost of the Philippine war up to date is $170,820,586, The United States furnish about 80 per cent, of the poPtliation Of the Klopdllte region, A cargo of bituminous meal is on its Way from Wales. It te being brought as an experiment. In the ten leading colleges , of the United States there are now more than forty thousann students. A young. ryoman Lvons, Col., killed a bear and two cubs while she Was out hunting cattle one day recently. New Britain, Conn.., holds the re- cord for 111002101001ms% 000r 1,400 patents have been issued to 846 of eitizens, • Montgomery, Ala., elahne to be the most American city. .41110)2 in- habitants except two per cent. were born in this country. Steamers with a total capacky of 12,010,000 gallons per month are 11000 belrig equipped to carry oil from Texas to New York alone. Ilev. John Robertson, of Glasgotv, will speak at the•Bible conforenes to be held. at Winona Lake, Ired.,. on August 17th to 2751. More new churches are in process of construction on the Island of Manhattan this summer than at any time the last five years. Two great American. railway sys- tems began on the 15th inst. the running of daily 20 -hour trains be- tween New York anu Chicago. In a couple of weeks Philadelphia will have its first taste 01 filtered water, evhich will be drawn from the Lower Roxborough plant. Ethan Wilson, who claimed to be the heir to a Scottish earldom which has been vacant since the up- rising in. 1745, died at Ballston, N.Y., the other day, Andrew Carnegie has Sent <elegize for .100,000 to the American Libr- ary Association for the publication. of reading lists, indexes and othez bibliographical aids. A Chicago woman is finding a lucrative field for her literary talents by reading all the latest novels and then retailing them in condensed form to society women who have no time to keep up with all the new literature. Rev. Dr, William Howe, Broadway Baptist church, Cambridge, Mass., was,fl6 years old or Sunday, and preached to his congregation as usual. He Was the first pastor of the church, and is said. to bo the oldest Baptist minister in the coun- try. The population of. Chicago is a little over two millions. The city covers 1.961 square miles. About '70 per cent. of the people are foreign by birth or parentage. Every con- tinent. and some of the islands of tho earth are represented. Sixty, languages are spoken. According to the last report 01 0115 Comptrollers of tbe Currency there were 5,204 banks in the United States, organized wader State au- thority, exclusive of Joan and trust companies, savings banks and pri- vate banks. The number of Na- tional Banks at the same time was 4,279. A census taken by the Department of Health of the number of horses and stables in New York city shows that there has been a decrease of 8,660 in the horse population froni December, 1806, when ft was 78,- 746, to J11110, 1902, when it was 6.5,086. The number of stables in December, 1896, was 4,649, and in June, 1902, 3,326, a, falling off of 1,823. A curious scene took plaoe in a court at Emporia, Ittm., the other day, when a convicted murderer, who had been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, delivere'd an ad- dress of thanks as follows :—"I am entirely satisfied with the verdict and sentence, and am confident that not one jury in ten would have been so 10210111, with me. I 'desire to thank sincerely the court for its just and courteoue manner of condecting this trial, and hope that the bless- ing of God will remain with you all." 11311 122.. tune ate (el tain seasons *when the pastures giv but an itiadequate ration, and the meadows would be hut littI . in possibly fur nishing a large suppiy. Early in th spring when the irrass lirst, starts i is succulent and tender, too mute so. It is too watery to keep up th milk to its sleedard of fat. end to maintain the flesh of the animal, Later on when the season is dry the 18010.11:6eS fibb700210trpro'pviunTLY1.0 °C.2o• etl'inertp"ii*nn! tein and carbohydrates. It may b . • . ag ...Oa. On grazs in June, and then again laim in tlm fall, after tee fall rains have 00 it a 00021 geowth, is when it 18 TI -IE MOST VALUABLE. Nenely every /armee now has learned the value of hating green, eucculent food to give to the cows if the pastures dry up or are in- sufficient. It is generally 'thought that it will not pay- to erect a silo for a small number, though' a 11111' - VOW 130X abOUL tWelVe feet long, five or rix feet wide and ten feet deep could be so built a8 to keep eusllage Ma Well .1, ler ei silo aud that would hold enough, or a little more than should be fed to six Cows in 150 days. It might be larg- er and eald a supply for the scene times during the sunnnor, obviat- beg the having 140 man forage crops growing. Those who were fortunate enough to have ensilage on hand (luring the drought last summer are so enthusiastic as to declare that its use is more important and more valuable at such a time than in winter. Succulent foot% however, is not the only need of the cow in summer. 11 she is naturally a good producer of milk and butter fat, when she has plenty of grass ancl green feed, she will draw upon her flesh 1 0 fer- tile -11 the solids in the milk. She will grow thin and lean, even more than her looks indicate. If slaughtered at elicit a time, the knowing butcher would say her meat was NOT SOLID AND FIRM'. Water has taken tho place of the solids that she has given out in her and to it the meat; hang twenty-four or forty-eight hours af- ter killieg would result in 0 heavy shrinkage by the evaporation of 011.1. moisture. Country butchers used 008 refuse to buy meat by dressed weight until it has been hung at least twent,v-four hours, unless they were allowed al:out liNe per Cent. shrink- age, and oftea more than that in the ease of cow beef. It will pay to feed some grain every day, oven wneu the pasture is good. When the grass is at its best It may be but a little bran and conuneal. When it is too soft and green, or when reeding green corn fodder or other green crops, increase ithe proportion of Cornmeal: When t gots rood, i ran. By this method the solids and at in the milk can be kept tip, and O will also keep them up in nese, here will be no more lean cows rought to the barn in the fall to eed all the winter grnia feeding to ut them in their normal condition, iSuring the busy season farmers aro prone to neglect the manure heap, but in. so doing they are liable to permit a large proportion of its most will/able constituents to 013 00.90 into the atmosphere, PRES'ERVING PERcE POSTS. As a reeuit of a series of elcoerl- • znents conducted by the Department of Agniculthee. Ocrtnany, in the Pre- servation of fence posts, we have , the following report: : Posta used in vineyarde were dipped in different solutions to preserve them against rot. The period of the experiment covered Lwenty-four years, Tbe best resulte were secured with tar, Only 1111110 pm* cent. of flr posts impregnat- ed with tar had rotted at the end of twenty-four years. At the end of twenty years, thirty-three per cent. ' of those impregnated with copper sulphate (blue -Stone) had rotted ; nevertheless, the ease and cheapness with which posts, particularly green posts, e sa with copper sulphate solutions 5001110 to make its use more desirable than that of tar. THE IDEAL PARAI noun. Forty years ago this subject would are meant something quite different ont what it does et present, Then pla'ti frame dwelling. with plaster - 1 walls and a brick. chimney would aro SliCined a great advance On 1.11,1 Onlde log cabin with its stick and tul chimney at either end, the ell sweep in the yard, chickens ()sting the trees or on the rail nces. A pile of log's in the front ard was not deemed out. of place early days, and shade trees, trebbery and flower beds were ex- ptional, if not unknown. The ideal farm house as we now regard it must have many ornnmental fea- tures, and numerous eonvenieuces that in pioneer days Were unthought of. As to tbe externals our iiret thought ts regardiug walks and drives, They should be cleen fuel dry. Mud should not he tracked ieto the house, and to prevene this, gravel should be freely used, not oely to make walks to the hare - yards and outhouses, but to buiiel drives from the road in front te the waggon shed in the rear. A shed or eovered way might to extend from a side porch of the 11011811 to Ole drive go the ladies Van enter or depart froru the eat•riage dry ehod. Cows as well as horses lutist he shedcled at the model farm anci the milkers mod bring no dirt with them indoors. The stables and shade will be Cleaned two or three times each week and the refuse thrown out to the fields. A roiv of hot -houses, slieda and covered Ways will ceteml from kitchen to barn so there will t bo lio need to tramp through mud d and rain at any time. The ideal home is possible only when built on a good well gravelled rood, because the people who dwell in it aro so- ciable and must visit and attentl mecitings, lectures and concerts. It ,... 1111100 118,V0 a telephone connecting it or with all the neighborhood and 'the 'w towns and villages hear. It meet ,S 110 a. dnily mail, which it eneily ran have if the roads firc What they hi (mail) to be, lt must have shade trees, vines. shrubbery cosi flowers 11 • duced in New Ontario is offset, by the cimstently decreaeing product. of the older settled districts of the pro- vince, and New On 1nrin WaS not „S... adapted to any extort to wheat growing, except that portion. of the Rainy River Valley between Fort Francis and the mouth of the Rainy River. Even though Onthrio could gime/ vnet quantities of good wheat, the sante prodtiCe Ctra be grown far cheaper in Manitoba and the Terri- tories, for °Marie hind could not produce two continnons wheat crops, without ammo.' fallowing, whr. latid on the Rainy River could grow wheat for thirty years without a siesta year's interruptiom Ontario will be more than recom- Mimed In what she loA'es in wheat raising and other branches of eget- cultural industey, he said. tte, Me- GaNV'e owe company turns out 1,200 barrels of flour daily, Manitoba, 1011000 being used, The Western amp would be a week or ten days later than last yenr, but it would be an abundant ohm bettor than last sea- son, and at leaSt inereaso Of 10 per Cent. in the acreage. • 3111013 CANNOT EXIST. Mice cannot exist on Pape Little, an Wend St. Magnus Bay, on the west of Shetland. To teet tho truth of this statement several neice at verities Ones were taken there, but the soil proved so uneengenial Otto) they soon died. 12110. 11010e110 paper 11121,011ine will turn out a eheet of wiper 10 feet Wide, and lute a, speed of 500 feet a minute. It lath tltus tern out en- ough paper to cover an acre in five 10 ininutee, or 100 acree a day, frit ANTI -ENGLISH CAMPAIGN. Germany Cannot Expect British Encouragement. Everything anti -English the (Ice- man has tried 00 hard to do, dur- ing this now past war, has utterly failed. Mr. Chamberlain, who has been so vilely insulted in Berlin, is the man of the moreent in England. With true German refineraent of taste, Air. Chamberlain's face, im- printed at the bottom of spittoons, was sold in the open streets of Ber- Lim found a ready sale as such, and Nt-05 placed in certain cafes, where the guests made use of it. Imagine Count von Bulow's features used for similar purposes ip England 1 hlever I To -day those self -sante Germane, who then inni,qined that England was weak and tottering and might be inputted, are woefully publishing statistics plaintively telling that Genitally will not have much chance in South African trade. Do they really expect any British encouragement after their conduct durieg the watt their open appeals to the Boers to keep up the fight when the war was. for all practical purposes over long ago ? Germany stands to -day guilty of the lives of Jost c.ombatents on either side by the malicious conduct of her people 111 eneouraging the Doers with. false hopes. Had the Germans had any real sympathy with the Boers the case would have been difierent. But the list of subecriptions in aid of the Boors starte,d in Berlin has ' shown by the absurdly small results, by the miserableness of the sums given that while the Germans are ready to howl "Fight on; fight on Kill the Engllsh 1" they have not been found willing to give any substantial sum as proof of their sympathy. The cargo of old clothes, about which so much ridicule was aroused, is about tho substantial worth of Ger- man sympathy for the Boers. ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLE. es— Austrian Paper Says They Have Common Interest. Referring to the conference of Eees- lish colonial preraiers, the Pruitt- deablatt, of Vienua, says; "A live- ly feeling of eonnuunity is display- ed throughout EA island's World-Vm- pire, The prophecies of previous de- cades, that all the colonies would sooner or later follow the example of the United States, mid break loose from the Mother Country, have proved false; or, at least, will re- main false for a long time to come. All the proposals under deliberation aim at bringing British subjects all over the globe nearer together, and at welding more closely that gigan- tic and widely -scattered F.supire. The differences, however, between 1,211•10118 parts of Great Britain are wide. A common policy in ndlitary and na- val defence may perhaps bo gradual- ly developed; but a COMM:M. 0e0-. nomic policy is hatelly conceivable. The Imperlalists know well enough why they aim at this particular taenillsit,easign and guarantee of the ement. It would bo an un- connituniltr 01 the members. But practical ktense rejects such. fantastic ideas. The English aro, above all, practical, aud they do nothing that would be only justified by clreame 01.• by fears about the Suture, They have always confined thetnsolves to Welting of 1110 next few years or mules, and they have thereby at- tained it success with which thoy may wen be satisfied." FAMILY 01,011E-T100T'IINO, AA Austrian is 11020 traveling witzerland on return from a tour hiett be undertook for a wager of 4,000. The terms are Inti; he was O wheel before hint fro)n one end of urope to the other, a perambulator ontainieg his wife and child, Ho OS been absent tiVenty mentl1S weering eue thirty-seven pairs of ue-g1m8 lawn, and a small it 8.0 well as a, vegetable garden, k • SIGNALLING UNDER WATER. An interesting experiment in con- nection with submarine fog -signal- ling has been carried out by hang- ing a bell 50 feet below a buoy moored in fifteen fathoms of water, which was struck electrically from it neighboring lighthouse. By Altana of such submarine signalling it is stated that a person placing' an ear against a rod held in, contact with the hull of it vessel is able to hoar the bell from three to five miles away; in feet, it is believed that the ringing of the boll may be betted at itt. iclaVnee of even. ten or twelv me -- —0 -- TAUGHT FOR 1,000 YEARS. A singular illustration of the per- sisteuce with which the Japanese iitihere to th o family vocations is seen in an annonneement in a Jan- nnese newspaper that g, celebrated dancing 111418te1' WAS to hold tt ger-. viee in 2/02201'2/02201' of the ono thoesandth a univereary of the death of his tut- costor, who WaS the (Wet, of the fens. ily to take np the profession. At Tunlit7idg---/e WolIs 01;Gladys Griffin, aged ton, has been poisoned by &hiking Ignite aromatic vinegar reont a smelling bottle which had been ac- cidentally rat 111 bar nursery. Alice—"What 11,--Tallant person Mr, Denkley Is, no nover addresses me without beginning 'Fair utieet ". Doeothy—"Oh, .that's force ,of habit; Ole esed to 150 a I14115 Cone:actors".