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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-8-14, Page 7Cha*$*00.44felltt** Iftost000ttoo. skettAttototHeoe4sei Or Uenti�t OF CASTE vs" CONFUSION 'NobU1t. of 800l: 0944fv#4.000o440-3-aroo.roOrilVirOffWW4VP:46".900402. CHAPTER XXV. • A few hours' journey, on a sumyyier %gay Drought lIproas at its,clqse to 4 ."qtriet country elation. As she step - pod on the platforM, a ervant in /ivory came up to her and touched Ms hat. 'Tor, MrS, Harcourt's, Ma'aM 9" be Said. "The carriage is here." And Dorcas took her Seat, and in half an hoM. 'WM. had reach- ed the house. "1 -low shall We get On together 7 What will she say to Me 9 How will U all end ?" she had been question - ling with heeself a. hundred ihnee ; and her heart was beating in great throbs ne tho servant led her up the stake, and opened the door of the room in ' which Mrs. Dereouet was. But when she entered that room,. • Mrs. Harcourt merely half rose feoua the sofa on which she was lying, and received her as she might have received the most ordinerY ani 'gladyou have 'come," she said, quietly, and put out her hand. "I have been *very ill, or I would tearcely have asked you." • "Yes, X understand that," Dorcas. comas:red, in a low voice. And then ia another moment they were talking• about quite common things, "Are you -Heed 7" Mrs, Harcourt said. "I thiuk you insist be tired, for the clay is SO hot, You meat ' rest a, little, and my maid will show you your room, and then we will have some tea. Do you -mind falling in ivith rny invalid hours 7 I dine ist ou e'ciock, now that 1 tun alone, and 1.:1day too at six." How strange it seenied to`the girl, after all her tremors, to be sitting at last by Mrs../larcourt's side, lis- tening to her talk about the hours at which their meals were to be served, EtS if the' had no deeperesub- !' ject of interest between them in the ' world 1 tlirl-like, see had supposed that their meeting would be marked by some show of emotion, but It bad been euarked by no show of emotiom It had been wholly com- monplace and quiet. "If she will but go on treating nae like this I shall not be afraid of her, —I shall know how to get on with her," she thought presently to her- self, with no small relief. For Dorcas herself disliked the dis- play of emotion, and--exdept perhaps 11i tbC 01/0 great ease el her love fe)r Prank, where, it is true, she had broken at one bound through half the rule, that had guided her in her common life—evas alwaye most at ease with those who were reticent on the subfeet :of their feelings—tho Qualcer 'element in her leading her to sympathize most with it certain runount of outer coldness—to fiod satisfaction in it film of ice. "Can you be contented, do you think, to spend a few weeks here With verylittle to arouse you V' Mrs Harcourt aslced her, after an hour or two had passed. "'You will have no society, you know, because I am not • strong enough to seo my friends. Slime are' plenty of books in the library, and there are some pretty places near, where you can walk or drive—and if you care for .flowers you will fincl a garden full of them ; but unless you con make yourself happy amongst such things as these I tun afraid you will be doll with Inc.' "I am in no danger of being dull," Dorcas replied. "I have al- ways lived a very quiet life." "That is fortunate for me, then," and Mrs. Harcotut smiled. "Will you bear•with mo too if I ani some- times irritable ? X, have oot been an ill-tcmpered woman' hitherto, yet perhaps I may sty you a little now." "X am not afraid of you trying me," the gfrl said, quickly, with the color coming to her face. 'Well, I Should think you ' were patient. I, expect you havo. quiet wctys. An invalid wants soothing people near her, you see,' and .1,can .imagine that you will be soothing." "I will try to be " "You need not try to oe, my dear. If you are naturally soothing I shall soon find lt out; if you aro not, try- ing will not make you so—and we will keep apart. At the best I am not going to make it martyr of you. I will not ask you to spend Mare than a little while each day with me." "Not if—you should come to like my being with you 9" Dorcas said, quietly; and then Mrs. Harcourt laughed.' . "If that should happen, yon think —very justly—that the chances are X shall become selfish 7" she said. "'Well, you may be right—but that will settle itaelf presently. In the meantime, we know too little of one another to make us wish to pass it great deal: of time together....I am going to say good -by to you. to -night very acme, for I go to bed at nine, IMaism.....••••Smanaga, and I like to be quiet for an, `holm before 1 try to .sicap.” Was DO,reaS happy as. else laid bee own head 01-1 its strange pillow pre- sently 7 The last week at hOille had been it hard .one, but it was past now, and there seemed to be root hero, and escape from eelf-reproach-a and was there not hope and the ex- pectation of a great, gladness far on' 7 Surely she might be happy 7 ,And yet the tears came te her eyes before, the fell 9.8l0O, as the thoughts Went back to tho lonelY house that she had left behind her. , why are things sb hard ?" the asked herself for the hundredth time. ")Vhy is it 'Made to scein Selfish 'and wrong in me to love him 9 I have only done what other girls do, and yet I feel as if I was guilty and wicitectg "Father, ought "never he) -have let myself care for nim alio had eojd to Mr Trelawoey, sadly . e dad tried, after she had ramie her Confession to him, to seut . his heart against her, and Itl'a coldness, and reserve, and silent Buttering, had out her to the quick. From her mother she had had :sympathy, but from her father none. Day after,day he had sat alone with his Sorrow, scarcely • speakiog to her„ fernsing help from her, trying to go on With his solitary Work with is desolate, impotent patience. "Father, rio you think 1 should never have let him care Tor inc 7" she said to him at last. "Sorel!, you must think that, or you would never punish me as cruelly as yon are doing, Ought 1 never to have illoright of .marrying at all ? Hither I ought not, and you hat% cause to be angry with nie, or I have only done what—what it, is ungenerous to Math° am for," And then she put her handupon hio..shoulder for a: minute, and after that .minute, suddenly and closely, she clungabout his neck. my clear, I never did it will- ingly. It • came before 1 knew—I could not help it," she began to cry. "I want you to love me still—X want you to be good to me still—as much as you ever did, *hen I had nobody else to care for in the world." She melted hiin ror the moment, and made him Ides and bless her. "1 have no right to be angry— nons—none," he told her, gently, "You have gone away.from me, that if all; but I shall bear it, better pre- sently. My little Dorcas 1" he said, suddenly and pathetically—"ney little dear child 1" • • • They tat together' again for an hour or two that day, and they both tried to bring back the likeness of the days that used to be; but they could not do it. The laniuljar talk would not coree _again.; there was a shadow between them: the old union that had lasted so long had become broken. - "011, Gilbert, it will be right for the child, X tbink, but what will you do without her ?" Letty von. timed to say to Iter husband on one of these dark days. She had been hovering about him, yearning to speak to him, and yet afraid; she ccune to him at last, aud stble her hand into his as she asked her • questioo, . • "God lomws 1" he answered her bitterly. His passive fingers hardly closed round hers; after it moinent, he turn- ed away from her, She was nothing Lo him in his sorrow; her sympathy could not touch nor her love com- fort him, though - she- had been 'his faithful wife for one and twenty years. "So you arc gulag to these peo- ple e" he said to Dorcas, when the morning for her journey came. - Ile had made no opposition to her going. "Settle it as you wish," he had only said to her, when elle had asked him what.. ansafer she.: should. send to Mrs. 'llaredurt's 'note, And then, when the title for bee &par - time came, before they left the house togothee, he kissed her, and told her that he hoped she would be haPpY- "And you need not think of mo. Do not consider me ntoll," he said, grimly, "nor let me spoil your pleasore." . "Do you suppose that I can help thinking of. you '?" she answered quickly to that speech. And then, half with sadness, ealf with anger— "You might as soon bruise me, and tell me uot to feel the hurt," ehe °aSicItire was angry tor a moment, but after she had let herself tater these words 'she reproached herself for having goo/toil:them, and she hastily took his two hands and kissed them. "Oh, MY darling, forgiye me for being toad:lent," she cried, peni- tently. "X thinit wo have both been Very MiSerabieN Forgive sile if you Can haste I get," Then lie thele bar lb his Onis, and held het to hie heart for a long time In eilenee. "My Derty 1" he ooly said, at last, Palling her by ber old cIlillydoiletitenar' in A passlonate, lelt ho ol" $0 the week had ber: a hard one, and, thetigh $t wee ended nOW,"the girl'e tease came again as she lay tonight en her fresh pillow, and thought 01 111 and tho sorrow and ,Ionelinees sqo had left behind Still seemed to follow her to this new peeete,danwidielenpace her heart hea.Vy 110 shla They celled Mrs. Harcoini's house the Dowel, House. It stood in the midet of it riel . uountry, with plea- sure grounds about it, aod beyond the garden 001.0110 side lay 1 . long stretch of ondulating Pine woods. "kly husbeeld's father bought this place for his mother when he mar- ried, it will be my home too when Frank marrieee"ilihrs. Harcourt said, quietly. "A Ptettyhouse—is it not? I have always liked it—and I like the mild climate too: I think It is a good thing tOstiye ill tile south When 0118.10 geowing old," She was very feeble still after her flinehs, and only drove out a little each day, or stit'sometirces for an hour in, her:invalid-chair in the min- shizie under the verculda. Shelooks Cdthougvle57. oferagevilene'ingD, c'arfeterste . .a °IfeWn .clays bad passed, the gkl, it they were sitting together, ventured . to touch her handwitu a half -murmur- ed pity. "How thin it is 1" she said, and stroked the fingers softly for a nunhent. It was the first caress, or ap- proach to it caress, that had pealed between them. "Yes—it is thin now," Mrs. Hdr- eourt replied, "but it was as strong arid firm as yours once, my . They had fallen with curious quiet- ness fnto their life together. Before she had come to her Dorcas had been afraid of this unknown woman, but when no morn than only a couple of days had passed it seemed to her that she was fast forgetting that she had been afraid, "She is cold," the girl thought, "but I do not mind her coldness. She 11 watching me too, I know ; but if she will he only just to me and act honestly, I am not afraid of her wateeing—and 1 think—I can- not help believing—that she will be just." ' "Are you contented to stay with me 9" Mrs. Harcourt asked her, ata Week's end, and Dorcas answered in- stantly --"Yes." .She said "Yes ;" and then she paused for a moment, and after that pause her co/or rose a little, and she looked into the other's face, and "Are you content to let am stay?" the asked. "Quite content," Mrs. Harcourt answered, with a half. smile. "I am it great deal too well off with you to wish to be alone again." For a. day or two she had ad- dressed the girl as "Miss Trelaw- ney;" then, without any remark, she quietly' dropped the fonand name, and called her "Dorcas." "It is a quaint old name ; how dici you come by it 9" she presently ono day asked her; and then Dorcas, with her heart beating a little quick- ly, bravely anew-Teed— "I was called alter a grand-aunt— Dorcas Markham—a good woman, who had.been like it mother to mam- ma." "1 think I have heard of her," Mrs. Harcourt, answered; and then said nothing Mare. PerimpS sho had winced it little too, as wen as 1)or-5 cap. "I do not mean to let you spend much of your time with me," Mrs. Harcourt had said to her on the evening when she first came, alid ac- cordingly for two or three days at the beginning they did not, spend n great deal of their time together, but gradually after that they came to be together more and more. "I think I must tire you," Mrs. Har- court sometimes said; but Dorcas answered. quietly—"You never tiro me." Nor, in truth, did she; for, curiously and to her 'tywn surprise, a strange kind of liking for this cold, unimpuisive woman was awakening in her : -somehow—she scarcely know how or why—she felt ai home with piles To Drove 10 you that Da ChAso's Ointment is a certain and abooluto cure for each and every form of itching bleedlegandaretruelns eine, Me manufacturers have guaranteed it. See ton. tlmonialp in the dolly press and ask your neigh. hers what they think ont Yon can use it anti get your money back if not lured. 600 a box, al all dealers CS EDMANSON,BATSS 01 CO„Toronto, Ore Chase's Ointment her; she felt as if she might be hard, but not false or treaoherous—that elle might end by becoming her en- emy, but that, if she did, it would be with all open enmity. "I can trast yeas" she said to her by chance one day, in reference to emote slight matter they had been speaking of, and soddenly Mrs. Har- court answered— 'The more we trust ono another the better we shall understand each An Old and Higbly Respected Resident Cured of Kidney Disease and Liver Troubles' by Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. Mr. John Wilson, a retired carpenter who has lived in W01011(1, Olt 1., for $0 years, Writes :—"Serne years ago I was attacked with ktaney trouble, and I became so run down and emaciated that my entire ap- pearance Vene suggestive of physical decline, As tithe went on the complaint grew Worse arid became ooms plioated with liver trouble, had bad pains °tress the beak and up the Spiral column, bad spells with pay hem% pain under the right :shoulder, bilious headache about half the time, indigestion, fever coat rest- leitsnees at night and degression of spirits. "At t4nlo 1 Wee incepaeitated for work, and had speat probably one hundred dollars In different medi- cines with no perceivable results,. Doctora' advice proved Illcoevise of no avail. "neatly on the aelvice of a friend 1 began taking Dr, Chase's Kidaey-Liver Dills, and in a short, time the bad tiymptotile began to gradually disappette, and by the time I had useel awe or six boxes, I wee enjoy- ing better health than X had in many yearn, all of whith is duo to the virtues of :Dr. dhasc'e Kidney -Liver "Sinee iny recovery 1 have advised others to profit by ity experience. Seine have dote so and Ole While °there dfd not and have setecernesed to this dreadful disease. X arn a livitig Wittleall to idie Va Of this great medicine, and I am hill of entlitiSittSra in iThiparting the good news to others who are afflicted ae t Woe," Dr, Clueeeie Kidney -User Pills, oleo pill p„ derle, 25 Coate it box; At all dealer, or Ildistaasom Batt �c Toroleteee other—in every thing, DoreaS. 1)0 Sure of that," 9101'9 Of it," Parcae soPlied, On spine days they talked together a great deal, alai Ws. Harcourt'e talk soon came to have a great Charm for the conotry-bred, gui, foi it wah quiet, het yet clover, fall 01 point' 0.214 high breadIng—very un- like the sort of tali; that sbe was used 'to, she sometimes rather eadlY thought. ,11 9 tried for a tolodred years eould never imitate her, nor acquire her maim*, No wonder she thialcs that I am no lit" wife. for Frank," she often said tn herself, The elder woman' used to tell her eitories of the werld in ,Which she lived, and it seemed to Doreas eo foe eavay from her worla—so unlike it— so separated from it, "Could X ever take my place there ?" she would often think, "Would they not al- wett's Sec that I was pot one of the= and loolc 'clown upon me, ond make Frank cishaineci 9" (To Be Continued.) BULLETS IN THEIHRAIN PEOPLE WHO PARRY THEN AND PEEL NO ILL EFFECTS Many Strange Things Found in the Brasn.--Some Curious Cases; Tao idea, that the human brain is an organ so extremely delicate in its structure that lt cannot bear the slightest physical hurt, some- times appears to receive it contra- diction in the experience qf people who have met with peculiar injuries to the head. The histoey of brain surgery presents some remarkable facts in regard to the extent to which the thinking organ will some- times resist the effects of external injury. It has been shown that in some cases quantities of its ' sub- stance may be removed without' ap- preciably diminishing the normal in- telligence of tho patient; while some have been known to carry the mot extraordinary foreign substances eat - bedded tri their skulls for years. Finds of the most singular Mod have been made In the interior sub- stance of the living heman brain. The ethaogest things have been known to find entry there through accident or design: In ono case it was the blade of a penknife that woe oarried about .in the brain for half a lifetime without the patient being iu the least aware of it ; 911 another it was a penhOlder that had somehow found its way there and remained in its living biding -place without apparently interfering with the thinking power. of the organ while only a week or so ago a piece of slate pencil was recovered ironi a boy's brain after it had been hidden there for several years. It is, therefore, perhaps none the mere surprising that many a bullet which has found its billet in a hu- man broth has proved no more than 0. TEMPORARY INCONVENIENCE. A. French soldier who received a b11110t 111 his head during the Frcuico- German War of 1870 carried it, there for twenty-sevea years, and was said to have felt no ill-effects till 1897, when it one day worked its way downward into the mouth and so rid him of its presence. In the case of a Cermea,. soldier Who tons shot in the head during thel "Sonclerbund" War, he lived to car- .ry the leaden souvenir he his braM for forty-three years, ariC1 it was not I extracted till after Ms death. efileetSellieneMsthelhheriseritieleetheW but did not quite betrieh the wire- ihr it-P'02r VINANAII54‘551'ILD Wern15 Abeirt tell years ago I got f! it ton ot 900110d mils salt, Lima about three 'weeks bolero we plowed lt mat of clover bel I Dewed the salt oVer the fie/d. in the mean- time It got a, lot of rain, and it was all disieolved, and the result Willi Meet, eatiefactory, I lanYe not •Been the appearance of any Wire Wornis ever sinee, I believe the salt about the roots of the trees destroyed the eggs of the worms and eoMpletely banished them. '8 ON Tiff FARM wprawast,96iswoelx sriUnv ON 971110 FARM, Wool has' ahrimit CeaSed to be a faethr in the sheep industry, as femora ha,ve discovered that there Is more money in eelliog earhe 1,50125151 anil 'fat` wethers than to depeaa ly upon wool its a source of prefit from sheoh, . The gam is simply by-product, and. no progressive farm- er now expects to make :Meet) pee' with the Wool as the priocipal source of reveoue froni the Book, The majority of faimere do oot have huge flocks, 25 sheep being coniader- od as alsove the averages and they fl.00 kept largely beettnee they are or valuable assistance on the farm iil consuming weeds and other isolate materials that possess no value. It is well know that, a flock of eheep will clear a field of weeds rapidly, and they will .also keep the pests clown. While so doing they bute manure evenly on the ground and press it Into the soil with their foot, For these advantages from sheep there are farmers who would not be without them, as they SONO labor and .clemand but little atten- tion. It has been frequently demon- strated that froin 118lcI,, anon Which large flocks of sheep have been hurdled the fields of grein have been doubled, due to the fertility eckled to the soil by the sbeep. Verniers who give their attention LU early lambs and the production of choice mutton have found Sonthclown rams excellent for the improvement of tho common flocks, as the Southdown is hardy, and snail sheep ean be kept in larger flocks than the Oxfords or Shropshires, though the latter breeds are larger in size than the Soothe down. The preference for the South.: down is also due to the fact that the grades are extellent foragers and Carl subeist•on manly herbage C0111, pare11 with some other breeds or crosses. Wherever cattle are kept sheep can also find a place, as the sheep will clean to lands upon which the cattle may leave much that coulcl be turned ioto profit. No farmer, however, cm expect the best results from sheep without care; but sheep require less attention than other animals on the farm, SHEEP WORRYING BY nous, Although little has been said lat- terly in regard to sheep worrying by dogs, the evil is still with as, Every little while the news arrives of some farmer s sheep being worried by idoge. The subject then is always 5 one of interest, and it may be of ' advantage to 'know what is being Idone in other lands to stein this evils In Great Britain, the worry- ing of sheep by dogs is a constant eource of annoyanee and loos to 'passed providing that the OU'I1CC of many farmers. In 1805 an act was every dog shall be liable in dam- , ages for injury done to any cattle or sheep by his dog. Previous 1.0 this it.was necessary to show a pre - 1 These two remarkable cases, how- ever, seem to be beaten by another l that has quite recently been brought! to lighe, the case being that of an , old soldier, who for °rev half it century ila,s carried. in his head the bullet received during the Austrian rebellion 011848. Would-be suicides have occasionally put bullets into their brain to no ! purpose; and perhaps one of the : yearn was that dealt with at the moat 2101.01111dill CLISCS of recent 1 Richmoad Hospital only a year or 1 so ago. Tha patient had. in vain ' . . . . . Ole o a mitInc e 15 g himself in the heed, and after time placing isvo bullets in his brain he, wits immediately conveyed in a cab I to tho hospital. But lie WAS . SO little affected at the time by the pre- sence of the bullets in his head that Ile actually alighted from the vehicle walked along the 'garden path and 1 up the steps of the hospital, and t was then able to give an intelligent, account of what had talceaplace. , IN A SIMILAR CASE of self-inflieled injury that came before the doctors at Guy's Hos- pital a few months later the would- be suicide, after firing a revolver bul- let into his head, was discovered ' smoking his pipe ag if nothing very! serious had happened; and though ! the bullet had penetrated the skull to the depth of 81 inches, he Was able to walk mat of the way to the hospital and there undress himself without assistance previous to un- dergoing examinatiem The effects of removing bullots from the brain are sometimes asre- markable as any of the foregoing, <tact perhaps in this connection moue tloo may bo made of the thee of a inliltary cadet operated on by a doc- tor of Vienna just recently, On re- moving the bullet a small quantity of braM had also to be taken away, usa peouliar result being that, though unaltered in any other re- spect, the patient irretrievably lost alt his good manners for which he %vas noted. The embient, surgeon therefore suggests that the portion of brain removed with the bullet corresponds to what he describes as the "bump of good mannere."—Lon- don 9711 -Bit's. ....--4---- Dector—OSrealcing of your trouble With your husband, dO You know that ft is a scientific fact that meat calfees bad temper 7" Mee, De dare —"015, yes, 1 him:, baked it always dock, and especially when 10.14 bernt," -4- 'The streugth of Woman is only 07 oer cent, that of mum WHAT WEHltee DO. One who is inexperienced, and Uc1 212 ilitS made no experiments in that di- rection, can Amin 'no estimate of the genially of water taken from the soil, by weeds; which is Featly robbery of' the erop occupyins, the land, single weed may seeming- ly do but little injury, but 02)0 pound of weeds win remove 500 9.05111(18 of moisture from the soil during the period of oeditutry drought, or more or less 9.9001(11119to its durti aon and the growth of the weeds. As 7710011 OM 250,000 pounds of moisture per acre is an ordinary gocualty for is heavy masa of weeds to take. In addition to the moisture the weeds draw on the fertility, cunt deprive the crop of Plant food, which is so necessary in order to seeure large yields. Itis work to keep clown weeds after they get 15 good start, but it is not dif- ficult to destroy them when they are very young. hinny cropsfiti during dry seasons more because ef robbery of the moisture by weeds than be- cauee of Jack of rain. PARIS AND ITS BATHTUB PURSUIT OP CLEANLINESS999 THE FRENCH CAPITAL, The Bath Is Sent Round in Charge of Three Men in a Special Waggon. Ten thousand great apartment houses in the gay French capital Imre not a single bathroom in a single ono of their apartments. Does this 1110012 that their Inhabit- ants are ignorant of bathing 7 No, liliceillahoniet and the mountain, they may out to the bath; or if they will not, the bath will come to thein. it is a fact that batlaiug has Do far Progressed in Paris that there are stools' companies whose business, lucrative and hourishing, is to bring baths (engaged the day before) to the apartments of tilOSC C2110 desire them. At the appointed hour there is a rattling in the street, and soon three men ore quarreling with the coouiicie.rge or janitor. The cause of the disturbance is the bath—the bathtub, the hot water, the whole tnt CARRYING IT UPSTAIRS. The men are carrying the bathtub up your three dr four or live flights, as it may be, banging it against the balusters and gouging chunks of plaster from the wall, to place it in your bedroom, dining -room or seton as you tell them. It is a large tub of copper, linod vious propensity in such clog, or tho with zinc. They bring It in a spe- 'owner's knowledge of sech propem did waggon, built to haul it over sity, or that the lojury was attribil- Paris. The men spend their lives table to neglect on the part of the ia lugging it opstairs and down, in But a proposal. recently made to ins up the water for it. filling it and emptying it, in fetch - owner of the dog. enact by-laws for preventing all The tub sees life. One day it is a classes of dogs from straying during deputy who does not really need it, all or any of the hours between sun- havinghad a bath the month be- wsehtisanwdolsilidiurbiese,misregii,striomitigiolyn fakveeo;enda.. dogs out of temptation and strictly opmrevreaivi_t s mse; then it may be a tearful widow 'for whose young daughter it has chketeliclierweelototruowenflidcadd;dthaelqiuctxrdtem011-mocon: etliiiie°11'occesdesshoittiolvid dooccumruricilligt for logne water. agesof slsoop by dogs How would some regulation of this kind work in Canada? If every person who owns a dog were compelled to keel) Its special waggon with a boiler the night, there would be less sheep 'fetch up almost boiling in their that dog tied up or shut up during ca."311,1g, hot water. This they worrying and We think, fewer 111012- buckets when they bave installed the grel cers kept In the country and in tub. They fetch .thwela, soap, baby the towns or villages. No one powder, sawduat, a cologne spray. ' clog for the night, white manY Poo-- carry down the tub, soap, towels, thould object to Securing a valllable When the bath. is finished they will ple, rather than go to this trouble, sawdust, baby powder and cologne would prefer to desthoy their good - SPECIAL IVA G G ON. They have brought tho bathtub in spray and depart' to others who for -nothing canines. We should hr -o 112190 need of them, glad to hear from any of our read- Down hi the street a croivd col- ors ils to how such a regulation lects neound the waggon (which is would work in this country. painted red and yellow and dis- tributes handbills), while the horse champs his ,it and shakes 1115 bell ; In experiments at the Iowa, sta- the wife of the butener runs to tell the wife of the cheese merchant and Mon the water content of butter asthe eonciergejs daughter hastens to influeoced by the siee of granules end the temperature of the butter dur- her friend who worts at the bak- ing working was studied. In each, of a number of comparative tests, da:ectsstleive's;airies cif:Iowa thickens, traffic is suspended, men knoe.k off work, 11 of laughter, ergo - cream was ripened, cooled and cli" ment and cheering.. vided into equal lots, both of which "The Dilemmas are washing 1" the were chromed Under uniform condi- tions, cold were otherwise treated ialt;gotvadbsuattils.,, "The Ihirands are hay - alike, exeept that one lot WRS wash- It is thus with the mass of holiest ed with cold water, and the other lower middle-class Parislana, the av- with comparatively warm water. In erage ordinary citizens They are three of the comparisons, where the accustoroilig themselves to the bath granules were of tho same size, at' as a simple cerehnony when not or - overage difference of about 95 de- dered by the grecs P., in the temperature of the doctor somewhat later in the century than the Americans wash water made a difference of end English, SO Inueb so that Balzac nfty :MO'S ago cOillrl sot it dowo in good faith that few women eleanli- 11045 is theeteginning of all wicked - nos. --4------- NEDDY DRAGOED A BIT. At it prominent railway station in Ireland a farmer was wailing for a train, whioh a donkey he Med pier - chased. On tho arrival of the train at the station he asked the guard where he should put the donkey. The guard, who Was in a hurry, said : "Put 11 behind," meaning , that he ought to put it in a horso-box,: which was at tho roar of the train. The Irishman, not knowing the use of horse -boxes, tied the donkey to the bilffer, mid theo got into the carriage himself. Soon the train Started, and ero loag was running at a speed of over nay milean hour. Turning to a companion, ,Pat, said : ‘ "Shute, Moils), won't Noddy be footiog it ilow ?" 'SOFT BUTTER. about 2} per cent, in tho water con- tent of the butter, The soft hater resulting from the use Of the warm- er water in washing, cootained ho every case the most water.- Io ono of the tests, washing coarse granu- lar butter with water at 80 de- grees WaS compared with washing fine gT1111111ar butter with water at 80 degrees,. The percentage 01 wa- tor in the butter made in the but- ter made in the two ways waa, re- spectively, 14.07 and 17,50 per cent. , HOW TO KILL WIRE WORMS, AS I haye seen several inquiries as for the best method of exterminat- ing the `wire worm, it may interest seine oi your readers to know the re - milt of any experience on a field of font -acres which was often Injured by these pests, wtitet Mr. Andrew Ahvays alter grase rind Clover the eat crop wail affected ser- ttful eon the potatoes Were perforated after the oat crop. X roll- ed the °ate eepentedly, but it had little erfeet, X found that a • single run of the seed hareow—followed by the croWS .Workiag on it for days al- terWeads—had math better retelts, In Spite of hard theme, the Value Of foam animals In Gernmey is in- ereashig at the rate offoor lnhlhIonts it years 0011).ONATION 1305V1ItE1 1. Inaap AND PASO:MATING SCHNE, Details of the Recent Great Spec- taehe Which, Set Englahd- Ablaze, The chain el cOrenation bonflree Whieh Set Englaral ablaze reeently WAS started front 55 Mortar cunning- ly fixed on the very summit of the don. Colored fires, tad blue and Great Wheel at Earl'S Court, Lon, golden, had burst out from i Ilig4 rothet, a quarto, of an hour before„ This Wee the "gel -ready" 0195501, aod a Voyage room! the Wheel shoWe ed that the beeline makers had got ready in earnest, . The V1024 iCO211 the top of the Whe el woe weird SSA humiliations On the edge of the basin of Lone don, miles away, patchee of lurid light burned their way through the black night. When a rooltet shot up from a clistant lire it seemed te crawl flatly along the eurfaee of the greet plateau of solid Wank. De the middle distance, the earth eves studded with a thousena iaraps like a blank, star -pierced sky. About forty bonfires) blazed around London, Richmond Hill, Wormwood Scrubs, Haling, Harrow-oo-the-Hill, Lewisham, Uxbridge, and Wandse worth had built bonfires, Surrey had 5even11een, Middlesex had ten, and there wore bonhres 015 the famous heights of Slade/ow, Ben! Nevis, and over 1,000 other points of vantage. The bonlires were lighted in accordance with the de- cision of Lord Cirariborne'e com- mittee. All the principal buildings of Dub- lin were lighted up and great crowds thronged the streets, The crowd at College Green gave some trouble, and the pollee, who were in great force, had to charge in order to disperse it. A child was knocked down and badly hurt. TEE LARGEST BONFIRE. The largest, bonfire in Staffordshire Was on Coker Hill, Tipton. It waif 45 feet high, and seven disused canal boats formed part of it. The 0/10 ae, Newcastle, however, was 05 feet high, while Lowestoft had ono containing 300 tons of timber—pro- bably the largest 18 the kingdom. Folkestoneie blaze stood 500 feet above the sea, and threw a ruddy glow far out on the waves. Many bonfires on the Kola coast must have been easily visible in Prance. At Yarmouth the bonfire was built on ther beach, and was lighted by tbe Mayor. In addition to the bonfire, Dover had two mites of Illuminations along the seafront, and all the public buildings were outlined in fire. Many other towns were illuminated, and in several places the church bolls were yung. The largest fire in Leicestershire wa.s built on Beacon Hill, which is 700 feet high, mud surmounted by the ruins of a circular tower, on which fires were burned to warn the , country of the approach of an en- emy. In Somersetshire and G cestershire the fires were somewil- t spoiled by, ram. Everywhere crowds assembled to atNational Anthm eas the great piles aaree,ah t t.ineth7Srklarial4b1aZe 0.11d Sing the W TiqF RICHEST MAN. Mr, Alfred Belt Was a Partn.er of Mr. Cecil Rhodes. Xt is not known whether Mr. Al- fred Beit is actually the richest MCA 11Villg, but, it is pretty certain that, in point of wealth, he may be counted among the first half-dozen in the world. To the average man the name of Beit is scarcely known, and his remarkable P01'30111111ty has been quiet overshadowed by that of his great partner, the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes, although he is far richer than the Colossus over was. The mysterious VMS born in the same year, 1858, as the man into whose shoes he is ex- pected to step. Like Rhodes, he is a bachelor, and for the same reasos that Iihodes and Kitchener got the credit of becoming woman -haters, beeduse they were too much engros. sed in their ambitions to have time to give attention to domestic affairs. His luck began when he Was twenty, two,and lie was drawn to South Af. rice by news of the diamond Ws- coveries. Ile got there a little be, fore Cecil Rhodes arrived there, in the hope of keeping out of the early grave to which his physician had surrendered him. His lock was ex- traordinary, and before many yearn had passed he found hiMS011 PCtI0t12 catty head of the great South Afrie can gold industey, Which was put tirg out $90,000,000 worth of pre- cious nietal a year, and which, bee sides paying heavy taxes to Kruger. turned $20,000,000 a year profit over to its shareholders, it has been stated that Mr, Beit's wealth new runs to nearly $500,- 000,000. Of course, the War cut oft some of his become, and Mr. Dolt doubtless feels the pinch of poverty severely. It Is hard to have to live on the,interest of $100,000,000 or so when you have had formerly an additional income of maybe a ntillion or two a year for curreist expenses. Alariost the only unusual thing about this plutocrat is his passion- ate fondness for the theatre. Froarn-rmaxa), An Emerlish resident at Shanghai, having made a good dinner from a tasty but unrecognized dish, called his cook, "I'Mis Hoch alateorigratolat- ad him on the excellent meal. "1 hope you didn't kill one of those dogs to provide the soup ?" jestingly remarked lite daughter,' re- ferring, of course, to , the pariahs which hanelt Chinese streets, With a0 0 Made a sulenni gesture of disseht. "No killee dovg, miseee," Ise eh- plathed, "Him allecicly deed when Mole& up I" 'hhere are abotee o80,000 donkeys in the nritioh tram, klpatt, and ror,7 millions. tegal have between them over Tjh