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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-9-11, Page 2++1++4..+++++++ IH"14,14+44444.44.11444+14: Tho Power of Persuasion O. Lady Caraven's Labor of Love. n-H-z..H-144-1-T.4.4.44+++.1÷mi ansprzn flI A. beautiful evening in Octobee; it Was as though ems= of the warmth and yOtflC O S11311131371 had re" 'tarried for a tvbile, The 'sky was blue, the colors a the sunset were gorgeous, tbe foliage of the tram/ vras magnificent; autumn flowers Wesei blooming, autumn tints were Over the land. It was' twilight, and Lord Caravan, liaving no pee to play at billiards with hlzo,sauntered reatlessly through tho rooms, think- ing to blineelf haw feelish he had been not to provide himself with a companion for that most interesting or all games. ".E must not lot this happen rtgain," he said. "To livo here alone requires more .strength of mind than I ein Possessed of." It did not occur to him that he was alone -that he had a fair young wife near him, Re never thought of her at all. He would not have re- membered her existence but that, wandering aimlessly along the ter- race, he saw her In the drawing - room, lie almost owned to himself that there could not have been a lovelier . picture. Wishing to finish something she was reading, she had brought her book to the window and couched down where the light fell. EA saw a fair, nower-like taco, a shining wealth of dark hair in which lay gleaming pearls, a flowing mass of purple vel- vet epon which the white arms shone like snow on a purple crocus; the lovely figure, the graceful attitude, the picturesque dress. cut square in the front, leaving the white neck bare, the wide hanging sleeves, the slender white hands -all made a pic- ture that he must have admired had the subject been any other than the money-lenclee's daughter. Seeing her, he thought it was pos- sible she understood something of billiards, although "women never knew anything useful." She saw him, and fancying frosn his manner Shat he wished to speak to her, she opened the window and went out to hi:n. You will he cold," he said, with unusual thoughtfulness. She went back to the drawing - room in search of a silvery scarf that she ,used. She threw it care- lessly over her head and shoulders, where it looked so picturesque, and became her so well that he could not help noticing it. "This is dull work, being hero alone," he said. "It is dull for both of us," she re- plied, briefly. "We will asic scnne nice people clown at once; this kind of thing will isaver cia. 1 wanted to asic you, do you know anything of billiards?" "Billiards?" she reapeated wonder- ingly. "Yes -many ladies play remarkably well. It is sech a great resource." "Do you want ine to play with you?" she asked, quickly. "Yes; I am bored to death. I am tired of smoking I never read much, and there is nothing to do!" "Ex: 'itordinary," she cried - "nothing to do," "What do you mean?" he asked. "I mean nothing. I am very sorry. I have seen a billiard table; but I have nover played. I will try to learn, if you like." ."Beginners are generally very awk- wand," he said, frankly. "I cannot think how it is that I have forgotten to ask any ono over. I must not be so remiss again." They Walked down the terrace un- til they reached a rustic garden seat, and, with an air .of utter exbaustion, the earl sat down, Ilildred took her seat, unasked, by his side. "Lord ClarELVen," said Flildred, "a thought has just struck me. We have, been married -how long? since the third of August, and it is now Octo- ber; and do you know that you have never once addressed me by name? My schoolfellows used to call ine 'Drecla,' my father calls ine Eked.' You have so contrived as never to give me any name at all. You .do not say 'Lady Caravan,' '1.111dred,' 'wife,' or anything of the kind. 'Bow is it?" "1 cannot tell," he replied, blank- ly. The question had evidently puzzled him. "I Will not 'do it again, Lady Caraven, if it annoys you," he said; and then there was silence between them, beoken only by the sighing of the wind. "Lord Caraven," she said at last, "will you be very angry with me if I esk you a question?" "No; without knowing what the • wee aseruel thing to do. Nrell, are Young; and your whole Ilie is blight- • ed. At first I thought and bolleVed that you understood everything ee that you were 05 illarCenarY and eine bitious as your father -that yott -were • as ready as lie to give y011reelf and Your Money in 02011033g0 Sea 73131 title; I thought that you, through idin, knew the full vale° of the estate and everythleg on ib -that you knOW all the house contained -that you Were as keen and shrewd as he VIAS,, I misjudged you -I beg your pardon fa She raised her pale face to his. "1 sWear to you," she said, "that I would rather itave died than have married you had I ltnoWn the truth," "I believe it, and respeet you for it, For soine shale, time past I have fancied that'in thinking es I did 1 was mistaken, Now 1 know it, and am glaa to know it. I am sorry that you were sacrificed to me,” "Did yoti-do you -pray do not be angry with me," she said -"did you love apyope else?" "You ask ino if I had ever loved ope sufficiently to asic her to be MY wife. No, 1 luta net, 1 !MVO never asked any one to marry me, for the all-sullicient reason that I Sons never seen any ono whom I should have cared to marry." "And are you very unhappy with me?" she asked. gently. "What a strange questiOni 'Un- happy? Well, no; 1 cannot quite say that. I am, as I .said before, grate- ful to you; and now that I end you heve been victimized, I am sorry for you." "Now that our marriage is an QC- C01111/11Shed Teat, do you not think that we miglit manage to make the best of it -might try to torget this wretched beginning,/ Could you nev- er care even ever so little for me?" Fie looked at her thoughtfully. not in the sense you =can- not to love you as a man Should love his wife -never! 'You forgive no if these seem hand words -you have asked 1110 for them." "It is better to speak frankly; then we shall both know what we are doSillge,'drapped the silvery veil that shrouded her head and lane. "Will you tell use,' she asked, meekly, "why you cannot care for mfir,Am I not fair enough to -please y Yes, you are fair enough: but love is not to be taught or bought -it comes unperceived. I cannot ex- press myself well on the subject; but It seems to me absurd for a man to say' to blinself, 'it is my duty to fall in love with such and such a wo- man, so I must do it.' " "Ilut if that woman were his wife?" she suggested, gently, "No man can love against his will, wife or no wife," was th,e hasty !T- OY. "Then, Lord Caraven, ani. I to live in your house always an unloved, uncared-for wife?" she asked. "The fault is not mine," he re- plied. "I believed that your father Sad explained to you that the whole affair was-tvas distasteful to me. Believing that, I married you; now that I have found outtny mistake, I pity myself and I pity you, Lady Caraven. I despise myself now for what I have done. If 1 bad to choose again, I should choose dis- grace or death." The night wind sighed around them the sunlight had died away, the moou was rising in the sky. "I am grateful to you." he -roil- Untied. "I will do all i can to show my gratitude; you are and shall be mistress of the whole place. It is yours in so flan as your money has saved it; you shall have every desire of your heart, every wish gratified. Your position is one of the highest in the land; you shall have every- thing to grace it. You Shall have entire liberty; you shall invite whom you like, visit whom you like; you shall go abroad when you will and remain at home when you will. You shall be your own mistress in every respect. I will always see that ev- ery honor is paid to yea." "In short," sue said, "you will give me everything but love." "Well, if you choose to pat it in that light, yes." "I accept the terins," she seid, gently. "There are many women who have to find the happiness of their lives in the fulfillment of duty; I must do the same." Some girls, proudly indignant, would have left the house: others would have retaliated fiercely: oth- ers woulcl have grow -n sullen and re- vengeful. She Wag ealm alinost to heroism. although a more cruel pos- ition could ii‘ot havo been imagined. Even Ilia Warn .contession tbet he Could never care for her had not quite destroyed her love. Uo was very frank -among his sins end lin- perfections deceit certainly could not he set down. Yet how different it all Was from what she had thought it would bro "I am quite sure of one thing," she said to herself. "It ls almost cruel to write such stories as the 1 histories of Lancelot and Elaine. What a difTerence between such men f question may be, X predict that certainly not." "This question bas troubled me very zuneh; it has boon the one thing which I haVe pondered Mght and day question I cannot anewer, one that I feel is the key to a secret." "You alarM mci with that long pro. Briett„what is your clues - Lion, Lady Oaravenr, ".13riefiy,it ie this. Why did you inarry Me, Lord Oaravee?" "Why alcl 1 marry you?" he echoed, with nstossishsuant. "1 ask you the question," she went on, "because I have watched you end studied you, and I am convinced at last that yeu did not marry me for love." "Lovel" be cried. "Why, what has that to do with it?" "I thought," she continued, "that you had inarried me because you lov- ed me. I knew that you were cold, undemonstrative, that you had no sympathy, little kindness; but I be- lieved implicitly that you married me .for love." "I had neVer seen you -I saw you only once," he said, in astonish- ment. "I know, I remember. Still, I re- peat what I have said to you; I -I fancied -I am quite ashamed to tell you the truth. but, 1 will do so -I fancied you had seen ole somewhere ancl had liked me." Re laughed, but the laugh was not Pleasant to her. "Did you really think that?" he asked, musingly, "Poor child!" Than he turned to her with sudden briskness. "Do yoil ireally mean to tell me, on your word of honor, that you do not know why I married yoss?" She raised her lair, proud face to his. "I assure you most solemnly that I do not. It is the greatest puzzle I ever hacl." "Did your father tell you that I -I loved you?" "No," she replied, thoughtfully, "he did not. Indeed he assured me that love was not needful for hap- piness. He never said you loved me -he said you wanted to marry use." "And what else? Go on. What else?" "That if I consented 'his highest ambition would be gratified." Lord Caraven murmured some ter- rible words between his closed lips. "Then he never told you why this marriage was forced upon use?" "No; he never told me that." 'Then I will tell you now. Ere com- pelled sue to maigy you -and I beg= to perceive that he has sacrificed you, as well as myself." "Sacrificed es?" she repeated. "You cannot mean the word!" "1 do mean it, both for myself and you," he replied. "I will tell you, Lady Caravan; it is right that •you should kuow the truth. I have been a spendthrift and a prodigal. 1 have owed your father the sum of sixty thousand pounds -It had mortgaged Ravensinere to him. I was also deeply in debt to others. I had lit- erally come .to my last shilling; die, grace, ruin, poverty and shame were all before me. Your father had the management of my afTairs, and when' I asked him what I was to do, he told ns e he had two hundred thous- and pounds and a. daughter." A. low cry came from. oar lips, a.nd she covered her face with her hands. "I am Sorry to pain you," he said -"sorry to distress you -but it is better that you should know the real truth. Your father is ambitious; his hopes were fixed on your mar- riage. He offered me the alternative -I could choose beggary, ruin, !shame, disgrace, the total annihila- tion of my house and name, or I could choose the money and marry you. Yoen fortune has saved mo front worse than death. I am sorry to tell you this story; but it is best that you should know the truth." "Yes," she agreed, despairingly, "It is best." Sne drew hex. hands from her face and looked at him. What nature oi man could he lia,ve been that the an- guish and despair on that girlish faCe did not touch him? "Then you have never loved me, never cared for me?" she saki, "No. 1 am grateful to you; I con say no more." He saw her draw tbe silvery shawl round her shoulders and shudder ea though she were seized with violent cold. "1 feel now," his said. "that it ost r in aviveoM 106 SOS Chronic Case of Eczema of 30 Years Standing Cured. by Dr. Chase's Ointment. The demand for Dr. Chase's Oint- inent is merlin/us. It is during the warm weather especially that there ie ouch great suffering from eczema and similar skin diseases. That Dr, Chase's Ointment is is thorough cure for this torturing disease is proven in hundreds of eases similar to the following :- Mr. a. kr. AltOonall, engineer in rleury'e re in dry, Atwora, Onto etates : "I believe that lb'. Chase's Oilli4nellt, iss worth its weight in gold. For about thirty years I was troubled with eczema, and could not obtain any euro, 1 WaS flO 110, fortunate 08 to have blood poison, and this 'developed in oczenta, the Most dreadful of akin diseases. "I was so bad that 1 would get up at night and scratch myself until fleS11 was raw and flaming. The tor- ture I endured is almost beyond description, and nOw 1 caunot say anything too good for Dr. facilites Ointineut. It .1M8 cured inc and I reeonunoncl it because I know there Is nothing so good for itching skin," Alr, Frank Dtethury, clerk itt W. Rutchart's hardWare store, Mettler& Ont., states :-"I was troubled with eCannit for Sous 00 live years, arid tried a, good many remedies without Obtaining a ct,re. 115 1005 the tverfitf on my face, and caused me a great deal of misery at times. As S0011 11.9 I began using Dr. Chase's OinLinent the itching and soreness were .re- lieved, and now I believe that I am entirely cured. As a result I cannot speak 'too highly of Dr. Chase's Ointment." row people realize the suffering cruised by eczema and ether itching skin diseases. This is an example af what Dr. Chase's Ointment is doing In the. Way of relieving suffering mankind. Many of the cures it brings nbout are more like miracles than anythipg else ; 60 centsa box, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates ..e.c Go., Toronto, es the etainlees knight, alld lay bile - bane; Taus are ,wineen living ,AS fnir, as twirler, ae lovely ae ie there a man, like Leneelet-Bke Lancelet before he loved 'tho queen?' Ali, mei if I could havO had Such love as hisl But I =net be Cons. tent," It wined to btu' like an auswer to an unspoken prayer, when ehie opened O book and saw these werde or Gen. lyle-"Say unto all kinds of heppi- nese, .1 Elan. do Witheut thee. WithSelf-rentliteiatton life begins." That was te her new Ofe-self-re- mmolation without haPpiness-lire all duty, with no retvond but the knowl- edge of itself, "I can do it," paid Rildred. "It is an uncommon fete -I can =aster it, It might break a Wectk lieert, an- ger a proud one -it shall strengthen ;nine. Fate ie What peeple rank° It -I will make mine." (To Be (ontinued). FARNING DV rLzoTaiorrY. Successful ExPerirnents in the Ipe land of Elba. 0, C, James, Ontario's Minister of Agriculture, is a Men believer in the great possibilities to be aecomplisti- ed by electricity in connectionwith farming, and consequently is much interested in the reported successful exrerlinents Proeing that electricity exercises a fertilizing power in the earth, Among the Meat recent along this line are those eonducted by a Kr, Fuchs,. on the Island of Elba, in Which the eleetric cunreut is said to have proved a decidedly belpful fac- tor in the growing of grapes. Mr: Fuchs, some years ago, planted four lields with native vines in a district .svhieli was devastated with phyllox- era, and treated two of them with electricity. 'rho experiments imme- diately made the difference in the de- velopment of the grapes in these fields very apparent,. Those treated With electricity yield a much bettor cropin quantity and quality alike, and phylloxera wee exterminated, ; while, in the other two fields, not HO treated, it continued its ravages. Hie inodus operandi is as f011OWS :- On a lield of about two arid a half acres, five masts are erected, the tops of which are supplied with an arrangement for accumulating at- mospheric electricity. These accumu- lators are connected with each other by wires. Wires are laid in the soil about one and a Mali feet deep, forming an evenly distributed metal- lic net. Every accumulator is con- nected with the metallic net by a wire running along the mast. Short wires connect with the plants, the free ends being stuck into 'the stem or into the main root thereof. Mr. James is rather inclined to the belief that the currents thus • passed through the earth improve the growth of nature's products -not that it woul1 stimulate the products themselves, but that it. might cause the formation of .nitrate compound below the surface, drawn in some way, as it were from the nitrogen which exists in SUC11 large propor- tions in the atmosphere, lf we ever succeeded in discovering nature's secret, in the formation of this com- pound,than the difficult question of fertilization would be solved and a great change effected hi the pursuit of agriculture. Mr. James thinks that the day is not far distant when fanmers will. operate their farms largely by power accumulated - by the•windmill and storage battery. in fact, he thinks much of the light labor could be .cloile in this way, and most of the heavier labor done likewise, when the storage battery was in a more complete form, NEARLY BAYONETED. Private soldiers have beeu pro- moted for their obstinacy in not al- lowing their superior officer to pass when he was ignorant of the counter- sign. .A.n. Irish Volunteer, who was acting as guard over a captured Boer storehouse, had received orders to let no one pass without a special permit front Lord Eitcheaer. Kitchener himself drew near the storehouse, found himself confronted by a bayonet, and heard. isi a par- ticularly rich ,brogue: "Haiti 11 yez come a step furd- her, I'll jam this inter yel" "Why?" asked the general. "Niver inoindi I know me ord- hers! 'Tis a pass ye must have from the general!" "Well. I'm the general, said Kit- chener. "I don't care if ycz be the King/ Not 4 foot do ye stop insoide here til yez show nie yer passl" Tho counnander-in-chief drew out O blank book, rind scribbled a pass the signature of which startled poor Pat. bSfl To1102 to you that Dr. noes !‘P,Antaltemegti: terergg eed ever' Mere se Itching, bmodingand tramline elles, Ihe manufacturers Siam seeranieed 11. seems. limoniale l,i the denr mess and nsk sour neigh. tore whet they thitk vit. Yon tan ue11 and IbWng:ieeban, at likaageCegiagk Dr. Chase's dintment E4SILY ITIMEDIE4 In the middle o, tio .iiight Mrs. Carter smelt gas, .She Mid a habit of smelling and hearing things at hams; when most people are peacs• , fully asleep, sowhen she shook her linsband and tried to wake, him to the present' danger, he suspected that it was the same old story and refus- ed to come out of his dreams. Finally Sirs. Carter herself crept downstairs to investigate. Return- ing with great excitement, she Shook her husband vigorously. "What's the matter?" he neanntir-: ed sleepily. "Johh, there's a, leak in the gas pipe in the kitchen. If it isn't stop- ped wc shall ali. be asphyxiated." 'SyphyTia.ted?" "Yes, do be quickl" "Leaking much now?" "1IsTot inueln but dangerous. John, yoti're going to sleep again! Go down and pet ft right." "(bis, put a pail ur.der it arid eimne to betli" 6,000qxdramm. ONTHE Fut tagMAGGOSZ65610 TEE POTENOY OF BREED, The breedor must depend for the ineProvement of his cattle and cove alma inheritance and the ariteln of feeding, but many lieginnere who do not see immediate resulte of a Ve- toes of breeding, get distmuraged arid give it up, A great many critic- isnis of breedieg restate LISP thtle voleed through dlsappolntinent. A goodmany tiinee, calves inherit ten- denelee rather than the actual gifte whieli their sires posseased, and these tencleucies require celtivation ancl encouragement to deVolop, Good breeding consistfe in recognizing such valuable tentlen.cies and in catering to tlibin, nut time is required in some instances to make them at all consistent with one's ideas of what they Should be, ln the hands of good feeders- and breeders dairy cows are procluchig larger supplies of milk and cream, Milk deb in butter fate is becoming more com- mon and feuding more economical, A cow can be fact to -day by a 900- 's'o wchatisrypnoissanibiitet ,est igoo, and yet feed is higher. This is due to a better belaeced ration, which, means economy in cost on both ends, It produces more results, and it can. be provided at less expense. Inc have tho meows to -day which are well adapted to beef or butter - making, and these are becoming more common on our farms every year. Their general distribution argues well for the future of our cattle and dairy outlook, But to keep up the potency of these good breeds we must have the courage of our convictions and the patience ne- cessary to wait for results. We need - to feed for a purpose', and to 'develOP tendencies which will,provicle es with sure profits. Well bred cows in the hands of ignorant people, are sure to degenerate, and in time all their good points will be neutralized. It is necessary that We should have in- telligence in feeding to bring out the best that there is in them. Educat- ed men in this tine of work will not only emphasize the value of good breeds, but they will raise a stand- ard of dairying and beef raising a little higher each year. 'FARM SEPARATOR SYSTEM. Mr. J. Nugent Harris says "It may interest your leaders to know that in Finland this is practiced with considerable success. I have seen cream arrivals at tho dairy, practically a solid frozen mass after being five 'days in transit from the farm to the dairy. This system of sending' frozen cream, instead of milk, to the dairy is a good One, ELS it sates carriage. The cream is re- frigerated in the iollowing manner at the farm. Neatly every farmer hos a separator. The cream is run into the tin in which it will make its journey. This tin in +Antal in 0. specially designed wooden sub, end small pieces of ice packed closely around it. Over this ice a eonunon kind of coarse salt is sprbilded which intensifies the cold. A careful record of temperature, both of the freezing mixture ana cream, is kept. During the procesS the cream is kept stirred front time to time until Use required degree of coltl is reach- ed. The trains are provider, With spe- cial cars to take the cream. The temperature of these cars is capable of being lowered or raised, according to the time of year. The cans of refrigerated cream on arrival at the dairy are firet weighed, then graded, as we would butter. The qualities are usually lst, 2nd and fird. After grading, the tins are placed in the thawing room. Great care is re- quired not to thaw too quickly. When the necessary temperature .is reached, the cream is taken to che ripening ro0111, and after this silo process of butter produetten is the Same as in any dairy. It is not re- commended that creani should be frozen solid, as the resultant butter is not of salt a good quality a frous the semi -frozen article.' The cans used vary in size from a pint t, five gallons.. They are very strongly ntade, and capable of being easily cleaned. 'rim smallest farmer in Finland has his hand separator." BREEDING- IJPIVARI)S. In ,live stock breeding, as In other things, there is a right and a wrong course of procedure -an upward and O downward piano. This is so well acknowledged that it SeellIS strange so many raen should prefer the doubtful plan, only it is an undeni- able phase of human nature. . Breeding upward costs no more than breeding' downward, but it is raueh more profitable. In both sys- tems there will necessarily be "weeds;" but these will be fewer in pedigree breeding and they will bring better prices than will the cross bred "weeds." When a farmer is °Imo imbued with the idea to im- prove-111slivesstopk, it i surpsisiog how 'the aids, to such ft, Pllrilose lisil into lino for him, as it were insen- sibly, 'and almass without his voli- tion. And there is a still further benefit, Once a farmer is fnirly em- barked on the see of progress in his live stock, it will not only be the latter that will benefit, but ho will also determine that every detail cif his farm shall also be progreSsive- lanCl, sonde, crops, feeders, etc, 11 theso. are allied to iiidglnent and ' good menegement, that men's pc- clullitrY Success is assured, and in :the present crisis of our national agrieulture, the nation Is the richer for possessiog each farmers, The reverse is precisely the eafie with cross breeding. The produce of a firet erase is usually held to be . the best, as In the (nee of blue -grey cat- tle, the product of Shoetilrriirh ieitanerd CI al I Otvay parents ; bt croesieg invariably tende to de- terioration, aild, this isi eepecially so when no weeding is done, And so it has ever been N,Ith cress breeding, 'brieliset opladyatrtillt5011 )S)otisltipdthkgepti, "The tton to. What it 'takes from the :arm with the least labor nd t arotible 1,0 theWTerm ProChle t'441; bringS the =est Money hi Prolior- NOTItS.015 STUMP, With sheep we have throe Nippy- timitiea for profit, or rather Income, and all reasonable oare should be taken to titian then; to the best advantage. Breed, feed and care for the sheep go as to geow the best New of W001, seoure the best and most healthy larobs with it good easeass ot mutton, arid the more fully this is done the better will be Use opportunity for, profit, che ap rain at the head orthe Rook may handicap the whole Sitna- tiOn. Ali Old Or feeble ewe lease/PS the °Mimeos of profits to a desperate Per cent, lt is a little thing to name a peer sheep tbrough the winter at the expense of a lamb, fleece, a deal of patleoee and a food supply that .would have kept a strong, vigormise sheep that would have given six to eight pounds of clean, shafty sound wool, ancl raise one or two valuable iambs. Ono of the most essential Condi- tions that I knew of In the growing of o good fleece of wool is ,the keep- ing of the sheep in good condition all through the year, for whenever there is a falling off in condition the staple is affected. . • PROVED IT BY ALGEBRA. The old saying that if hay is five dollars 4 ton, five dollars will buy a ton and 730 more, appears in a new light from a bit of dickering that hat3pened , over it jeweler's counter, The would-be purchaeer asked to see O cheap watch, and the clerk pro- duced one of those engines that sound like it watchman's rattle and contain a ,spring powerful enough to close a door. When, the seleeman opened it, the customer saw on the baslide of the pasteboard box the , assertion in bold type : "'Phis watch is the equal of. any eight -dollar watch in the world, yet CoSte only,two denims." "Have you a watch at eight del - Jars ?" asked the possible ens - tomer. . "Yes, sir," Said the clerk, and ho handed out a very net liusepieee cased in nickel. "You .will find that, just as good as anything you can get for twenty -nye dollars," he re- marked, opening the back and show. - big the works. "It looks all' right," the buyer said, "but on second thought I be- lieve 3d llbca something better." ' "Well, hero are some filled -case watches." he replied, "that NVO Sell NVith a thirty-year guarentee. The case can't be distingulehed from solid .gold, and the moveinent is jelly standardized and tested for heat and cold. It is a watch we consider very cheap at twenty-five dealt:sc.:1'st= er Pried open the case, and out dropped a little disk of paper, on which the thistysyear guarantee was printed. -This watch Is as well made in every particular," it said, in preamble, "as the aver- age one -hundred -dollar chronometer," "What kind oftt chronometer can a roan get lot one hundred dollars ?" was the next ,question. best in the world," replied the clerk, enthusiastically. "Hero is one now. You observe its thinnese and general eleganee So for as the movement is coneeened it is simply impossible to produce anything' bet- ter." "All right," said the customer. "I'll invest on that assurance," and picked up the tin-chtd machine and laid down a, two -dollar note. "1 have your word," he added, "that this is the best watch on earth ?" "No, you haven't 1" the solemner exclaimed. "I didn't say anything of uthoen,ltchyuoll.," claim that it ia as good as any eight-dollta watch go- ing ?" the man asked, pointing to the statement:son the box lid. - "Yes, but---" • . "And you just aesured inc that tho eight -dollar watch was the equal of anything you had at twenty-five dol- lars, and the gold-filled guarantee states specifically that the twenty- five -dollar watch is as well made as O one -h unfired -done e chronometer. Dere you have it in algebro," and the customer took out 0 Penal and made this Wavle calculatiou : "A eCtiltlla 11, 11 equals 0, 0 equals D, D equals X; therefore A equals X." l3ut the clerk COUld net see it. He stuckout firmly for each of the four aSserlions, but he would not accept their logical conclusion, l'he four statements although he considered each perfectly 'true in detail, made something that certainly „looked like a "whopping" big lie 155 the aggre- gate, and the woulcl-be customer de- parted, leaving the clerk to puzzle himself out of the difficulty if lie ITAHD TO GET. A ulna= ,young fellow received a certhin teeth,. tss- Whieli ]1p. had to undergo' a Very One day it friend of 111S, W110 Inad been noticing 110W little Work: 110 did to calm his salary, tackled him, "I say, \Vallee, my boy," he be- gan, you don t peeform 55 groat deal of labor, tlo you?" "No, 1 don't have to." "Aven't yeti expected to work?" "Of couree not," \vas the cnuclicl reply,. "It takes so much hard work to gel a job like this (Ina the fi thole ties haven't the lierVe t,s oak a man to do anything more to mei Isis salary Lifter lie gels its" Bit of Dickering Over a Jeweler's Counter. --- 1111AT 112 At'llES LAND Wilts 110. !L is estimated that twenty-two ;levee of lived aro necessary to sus- tain ono man on fresh meet, The same spare of land, if devoted 10 wheat culture, would feed forty-two people ; if to eats, elglity-eight, ; potatoes, isidibis Cf3C11, find PICO, 176 ; find if to the plantain oS bread -fruit, tree, over 6,000 people. (1,41110.4., WIISTT743 040 Not Peen 'Wrozen. Over Within I‘iTan'S Xemory, The Most important featno of the *wont commercial history of '$t, John a, 13., is its slam to the title Of being the "Whiter Pelt of Canada," SOO g writer in the St. tlfouPto saeeli.iirrtletniFrieiftLto' isltnset4Mboli recent origin. It has been noping and nlanning for it for half , we- tury. 50551e forty Years ago, Cla nearly ten year8 before the Britis5 iPirre°svelilli.r.sDowin'°iTtio'11141,1tteuldt413' effo01":1 iSa ebUler of the peat railroads, tile Intereo- lontal or the Cauadian Pacific, lutd been eonstrueted to bring the widely separated preVineee into communica- tion witli each other, this prediction was made concerning the NUM) Of the city: "Lookin1* at its position With regard to Lower Canada, St. John must yet become the winter Port of the country, If its people will work for it, in 0--felY Yearsit will be certain to rise to a nofaiari wherceit will be knowp as the Liver- pool of America." Ttio firet prediction of this prophet war:Pa long time in coining true, but Si. John did ilnally become a win., ter port. There is no way of telling, whether it will Over be 'the Liver- pool of America," or, if it, really is going to put the other Atlantic mpooloy s oouarstof businesS, just how m any to. flourish, itthers tivni/.10baltypearmttqiuesec.1 tion that the present generation will not have to bother itself about. ' For a great many years St. John's claim to importance was not taken: vorY eeriously by any one but her own citizens, but they were certain that its location was such as to eventually make it a great ocean port. The confederation of the pro- vinces took place. Then the Inter - colonial railroad was built. After that came the construction of the groat transtontinental enterprise, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and it selected St. John .• ae its Atlan- tic terminus. Then the 'prophets 4aid' '"I TOLD YQU SO," and began to hustle. The problem. how to get Canadian trade thrbugh Canadian channels had at last been solved. There sons no longer . any necessity for sending the business in a round -about way when the ice had the St. Lawrence river blockdd s0. the ships could not get up to Quebec and Montreal for ,their cargoes. .,,Tbe harbor of St, John has never' been frozen within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant, say the peo- ple of that city, tvhich is eot true of any other harbor north of Hatteras. When the season, ofnavigation closes on the St. Lawrence the freight le hauled on to St. John before it is taken off the cars. We have reversible vests, reversi- ble wind -mills, and all sorts of re- versibles nowadays, but St. John. has the only reversible waterfall in the world. In the morning there is a fall downstream of fifteen feets but in the afterrioon the water rune upstreom and falls over the, other . way. This phenomenon is caused by the strength of thewonderiul titles of the Bay of .leundy, which meet and overcome the water from a river 450 miles long, which empties into the harbor of St. John through a nar- row gorge less than 500 feet wide. There is 0 suspension bridge over the gorge where this daily marvel occurs, and hundreds of people go to ane it. At half-tide the water he smooth over the dam and vessels go up and down in safety. The tides of the ]hay of Fundy are the heaviest in the world. In some places they rise seventy feet. If you are ever in New Brunswick and it's time for the tide to come in you want to make for theblffs if you are not fond of water.usa Vessels come into St. John har- bor and when the tide goes out the, water runs clear out from under them and they settle down upon the gravel bottom of the slips. Wagons are then driven alongside and cergo is transferred direct. It is an old speetctele to see schooners sitting up high and dry, with no Water near them, looking as if the only way for them to get to sea, wotild he to fly. Some 'writer has remarked that wa- ter makes an astonishing difference hi the appearance of a river, and it certainly does make a big change in the looks of the St. John water- front. from table) -"What have you here. love? Something for inc?' myteSoOttihugoTHmil,Disiallin:FUL OF .ELETt. Young husband (pieldng . bundle shopping this morning, expressly to buy them. for you. I hope you'll Young Wife -"Yes, dear, I went --"Like them? Of course I'll like thein if you bought; them, but what are they?" Young Wile-'"Phey're night - caps, dear, 1 beard you tell Sparkles thist morning that you'd go down to the club with him this' evening and get O night-eftp, and I made up My Mind t, once that I'd .savo you that trou- ble by seeing that you had some i1 the house. .luet open the.parcel and , try them, on, won't you, love?" IN 'AM 01,—D 111-ATTRESS. . . •. . . A second-hand furiiiture-deftler '11v- • ing in the Rife Beauregard, Perla, went to the Inthile auction rooms to luck un it few bargains. Among his purchaves was 0 dilapidated mat- WI11011 110 proceeded to repair as soou as he retuenefl home. To. his surprise lie friend coneealed in it bonds and hank notes to the •Valud 2,000. The niattiees had lice longed lo an old elan who had died in apparent destitutioe. The lioncet dealer al once handed the trot -Lam.° over lo the nearest pollee commiee eery, and efforts nee eow being 131adO "She's deep, isn't .slie?” THE ETERNAL PEAILNINITI. -1551111, tity, 'Vile. only time 3 ever enjoyed 1.150 nileuespl:r;W f druni," said a cynical olci bachelo"AS OliCe , when knew e that enemy acrose the wtly had baby that he wo.14,14d to get i.;,9 s