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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-1-1, Page 22 T,kLE BRUSSELS POST, AN ALTERED PURPOSE GRAFI-TB, III, During the next few days Itodb his WAS from home a great deal. To wife's inquiries he repeated his state- ment that he bad some important af- fairs to attend to; and In this he was in a sense tolling the truth. Among hardly distinct; "only 1 feelso' chilly slowly up and down ageighbouring street, and evidently waiting or him. Ile was dressed respectably after his fashion; but thia was a fashion •wbiel almost proclaimed his trade, and lie was smoking a short play prpo, iw, "I thought sou were'e hundred miles live stook has been much discussed She know be could not be suffering off, Jack," said Radbuxy, overcoming a haw from great cold, get laid more clothes arong'e impulse to shudder hi disgust; .during recent years writes Thos. S 011e him, and then in a few minutes I diel not dream of seeing you.. here," in Ohio •Farmer. And it has been the oomplained ea the Beat, and reproached 'No, i daresay you did not," re sub eat of much investigation on the her with smothering him under $o lied Sparle; "but somehow, I did not 1 many blankets; feel easy about Rose and: and there part of experimenters both at the ee- All has utterances wandered away in were two or three other things weigh- psrimant stations and at the farms of to broken incomprehensible slIieacli; and ing a good deal on my mind, so I have individual feeders, That wheat is a other things be visited a shipping ° thus it continued all night, Bea) never run up, you sae. -No; 1 sol not going floe in the oity ; he saw his sea: ter slackening in her attention, or murmur- in yet, nor you neither," he continued, good food for horses, cattle, sheep and as Rodbury was about to turn lute the' swine when judiciously fed, cannot any more than once; he arranged with tbe iluarks lin the It wap atlong night, yet street lu which be lived; I want a longer be doubted. Several millions of executors of his grandfather's will, and mornin came at last but no care little talk fust i.' bushels have doubtless been fed to live AGRICULTURAL WHAT FOR, LIVE STOOK, The question of wheat as a food for g on ti Ira was with hs friend Ashwell. every the part of Rose, no change from night "Talk away than!" exclaimed his d d emetines twice in the day to day, could benefit Rodbury, and le "Talk day, a : He was with him one night just before B B mtbais tame�tlae invalid had ?tear had agreed upon to join t y t ata to spea the time he a g o speak, or, a any.' Sparle, only one clear day being left. tinily, although he almost constantly "You do not look well, Cyrus;" said uttered unintelligible phrases. His his friend; "you are letting these mat- danger of some kind of fever coming „ on• there had been a Boal of it in the fess excite you to a dangerous extent. neighborhood, and she had been very . "Perhaps I am,' returned RodbnrY, frightened on account of the children. passing his band over his brow. IIs husband wae s downswith a (over, ht. Her ut had indeed a fagged, 'haggard look. not of the kind which, as be knew, bet - which justifies his friend's remark. "It ter than most persona, had been so rife is very well to advise me not to allow in the vicinity. Her husband was suf- these things to worry me; but just con- Perin from smallpox. So, for the pre- sider for a moment what 'these things" she disease which seams to einspire more are. No one but a scoundrel could do terror than any other of the malignant them at a41. 1 'have had such a hard- scourges house was afflict f lictly a ea ity. of all ening career,,but I must own I am inmates save the siok man, iiia devot- really surprised at baying enough vi- ed wife, and a trained nurse; far the tidily in my oonscience to disturb me." Rodburys people, for that neighborhood "I am sorry to !tear you speak like wealthy lighten oroso the such auld afford ll itis," replied Asdiwell, who was pa1Pa illness. Yat such an illness was nov- bly hurt by his friend's words. "You er yet passed lightly through, although know you are releasing the girl from in the end Rodbury recovered, and a union which will soon be, if it is not was as well as before -he used in after - years to say he was better -and al- , eaready, hateful to her, while to you though it happened with him, as it does It must be simply maddening. Yea now and then with such patients, that provide handsomely"-- be was scarcely marked by the terrible "011, yes, yes l -that is all right," in- "Pitting" Berge congre atulated he. im, and ;terrupted the other ; "and you must told him that he owed his escape chief - not think I intended any redlection ly to his wife, "who," said the portly, upon you -far from it. I know that genial old doctor, "is the best nurse 1 your advice has been what you felt Was °ver saw, Mrs. t%7ger, whom I recommended, you know, is a first-rate the best then, you see, you have nurse, as professional nurses go; but it not to carry it out, I shall be out of is no disrespect to her to say that Mrs. the way of her ravings and frenzy, 1 Rodburytr paidtattendant." ofher or know; but I can picture them, and shard Rodbury agreed in this opinion. He hear them as plainly as though she was knew, and had marked all through, by my side. Then the children too without prompting, what his wife had s, who done; and now he was out of danger -they are helpless innocent thin g and could think collectedly, be did so have done me no harm." think of Rose, and was not satisfied "They will certainly not be more help- with his solution of the old problem, less by your action," said Ashwell; "you kat him study it as be might. With regained strength be felt, and provide for their education and their despised himself for so feeling, his pre - future. Do think, if only for a mom nous horror of his position; and with ent, of what they would grow up to the morbid sensitiveness of an invalid be, with such a mother and such frieadsi noted even shortcomwatched for, the faults and trigs in the woman who had However respectable according to their risked her own life to save bis, and own standard, to you they would be a whose pale thinfeatures so brighten- , onstant source of misery and mord-ed up when she saw him smile, and who was so happy when he showed symp- fication"— toms of reviving strength, "That is enough, Herbert," again in He had long since written to Ash- ferrupted the visitor. "I am going to welt, at an agreed adress, and direct - do it; that is settled, But I am not ed to a fargreed name -such an arrange- ment would iia sure to suggest Itself r well to -night; 1 shiver one moment, to Frank Rodbury. This was, in a and fed all on fire the next. I shall not sense, to Ashwell's relief, for he fully be better untffi the next two days are thought that hs .friend gone abroad without seeing him again or, ,past. Everything s ready, and to- which was as strange, without tailing morrow; night I start from Euston full possession of his inheritance. He -"Square. I wind tell you how 1 have ar- Rodbury, had said that he would calf on his friend as soon as it was safe ranged." ' for him to go out, and consult him as He went on to detail certain plans, to what should now be done. connected, as the reader must long Never before had Rodbury known since hen perceived, with the abandon- such a conflict in his mind as to what meat of his wife and children. He was he should do and what he ought to do. going abroad for at least a year, per- do was, it was true, chiefly considered What be should and what he ought to companion, assuming a lightness an indifference he was really far from fe"1 came up to sew how Roso was get- ting on," resumed Searle. I was up two or tbree times while you were ill, as I suppose you know, But I. heard from a party who lived about here some things I didn't like; and,. in fact, be says be believes you are going to make a bolt of it." This speech was enough to stagger' most man. To find his morel: intention so accurately divined, and by a strang- er of whose very existence he had been ignorant! It required his ut- most nerve to repeat his careless laugh, and to inquire: What next? Am I going to take the stock with me, or do 1 mean to make you a present of it?" I had thought of that," said Sparle, after a 'pause; "and I am glad to hear you speak so easy about it. We have never been exactly chums, you know; but I did not believe you were the man for such conduct. But here is out candid and say who you are, and what your friends area You never told us why you named your boy Cy- rus; you never even told us what his right name was. I found out, how- ever, that he was registered Launceston as well." - "You did, did you?" interrupted Rod - bury. Yes, I tell youstraight I did," re- turned his companion; 'and more than that, I found there was a place of that name down below Plymouth; and I sent a man as had, been in the po- lice all the way down there to en- quire after any Cyruses and Rodburys what he might find. It cost and ten pounds, if it cost me a penny, all to no good.'.' "That was a pity indeed," said. Rod - bury as the speaker paused. He was far quicker than Sparle, and had run sty/My over the probable consequences of this activity on the part of his brother-in-law. "Now, don't sneer at a fellow's anx- ietee" resumed Sparle. "I have no re- lations in the world but my sisters, and I would do anything for them; yes and for your !two children Frank. You may not think it, but I am very fond of them as well, and I want them as well as Rose to be put straight, espe- cially now." Fora little while Rodbury said no- thing; his companion had unconscious- ly supplied him with additional reasons for carrying out his plans without de- lay. Sparle's quest had luckily fail- ed, in one instance; but some unfortu- nate accident might betray him -Rod - bury. The knowledge of bis son's sec- ond name, given when he never dreamt of the inheritance which had since be- come hs, and the bestowal of which he now bitterly regretted, showed how dangerous such inquiries might be- come. "WelI, we will go in now," he began at last, "if you have quite finished all you have to say," haps two years -it might even be for as regarded his own welfare and com- ever; and a sdlicitor-not the Laun- fort; but yet some minor amount of ceston family solicitor. we may be sure thought for others mingled with this -would explain to his wife that the ahs greatly his ailee be hatrouble nhi aeonsll ' marriage being illegal, she tw atxli toured to consult only the gratification esty to marry again of hs own desires,and to act as seemed bury was gone, never' to return, but most a reeable thimself, so that even abet she was left independent, as were so much waveringas this was a sin of the children. This handsome mode of g dealing lengiter a her would longi But he was heir to a large fortune; ere C us returned from has tour, .her here was a fine home in one of the wealth would have gained her an al- most beautiful of English counties liaise in her own sphere, and all in- awaiting him or scenes of gaiety and quit for him wound have ceased. brilliancy in (foreign lands might be his, 0±" worse there were an infinity of sl to his !better tor seek f e them; and the details springing out of such a achene loathing of his present home -and hor- ns this; a mean dishonorable scheme, in ror at the idea of taking from it suck which, but for the facility with which a woman as Rose to show as his wife the best of us find arguments to justi- -rolled back upon him like a tide, and fy our wrongdoing, it would have been he determined to carry out his old re - wonderful to see such a man as Ashwell solve. acllowing himself to take an active part. It will be better for her as well as A ter a long interview, which • was myself;' eves the readysophistry which - far from tending to compose his nerves,$ Rodbury went home, conscious that he rase in his mind. "She will be a good was indeed out of sorts,"'as he,phresed deal happier in her own sphere where it, and conscious too, once or twice, that she shall never want; and the children- well, she would not he had forgotten where he was, and like to lose them." So by the time he was fairly, even where he was going. He rallied y convales- from this immediately ; but these were cent hs plans were in much the same way symptoms, and each moment he position as before his illness. fellt that he required a greater effort He had been out several times. On to throw them off. "I shall be glad the first occasion Rose went with him when it is done," he muttered, as he for a ride. This was in a carriage turned inhis own secluded street. "I hired from the nearest livery stable: 1 shall not, I (hope, then feel quite so They traversed the West End of Lone much of the hangdog and the sneak as don -Hyde Park Buckingham Palace, I do now. I can hardly bear to see the Regent Street, Oxford Street, and the `light in the window where I know Rose like being included in the tour -thus s waiting for me, listening for my step; affording a treat of the highest kind area listening, too, for the slightest noise to Rose, who, although a Lgndoner from the room where the children are born and brad, had not seen this fasbe sleeping. They .have never done me 'enable, this aristocratic, this fairy- any harm, and poor Rose has striven land district in short, helf"a-doz- to the best of her power to make me en times in her life. 'happy. Egad! I am a model •bus- She was delighted with the excursion, band and father pe and so pleased to know that her bus - Then, he started to find himself wand- band was able to be out again and ering into a wholly different train of could sit by ber side, looking as band - thought, and although his feat had some as ever -his beauty must be tak- mechanicadlyy,• as it were, carried en on Rose's estimate -that her poor him to his own gate, he had eyes, weakened, it might be, by the fa- der the last minute been in fancy walk- tigues of nursing, or perhaps by some ' `ing over the welllrremembered downs bidden cause, filled ever and anon with and hollows among which his youth tears. Yet she would mot go for a bad been passed. Another week of second drive, and was indeed more this would kill me," he muttered as he languid and weak than even her re- opened the door ; "I adanost wish I had cent fatigues would. account for or than not come home ". suited her brisk, energetic for, be had divined, Rosa was awaiting ment, his return, and had prepared some Rodbury saw this, but decided it delicacy -it passed for a delicacy with would pass off; women were always her friends -for his supper, When she nervous, or. defiant, or excited. These, ` found he would not touch the little or one of these, accounted for all her '`e repast and complained of his head, her symptoms to one so easily disposed to be eatisfied. Again the eve of his intended de- parture arrived; again he bad an inter- view with Asbwell, when he boastful - 1y contrasted his renovated health with the wretched state in which be was when he paid his previous farewell vis- it, as it was intended to ,be. Ashwell was less enthusiastic; he bad been tushed by what be heard of 'R'ose's conduct, and bad once or twice vent- ured. upon a enggesti.on or an ap- preach to one, by which he hinted at Rodbury s takingiris wife abroad with him,, where nobody would know her, or be likely to find fault with her; 'bet this was not well received, and so was not precise& ' Going home from due final inter- view -home for the last time! after that night be would be free from all these sordid surroundings -he was ear - by coming suddenly upon Mr.Spar. wifely' anxiety took alarm; she noted how flushed and strange he looked, and insisted upon his lying down at once, then , busied herself in applying coolinglotion to his brow, and made im a cup et tea, midnight though it was. She was a good aurae and a loving tender wife, despite her faults and vul- garities, for which, indeed, She was in had been nowise respbnsibre. She h / taught ntl better; and that bar char- acter was Minh as Riodbury well knew it to be, roved the goodness of the heart, which could ret be Materiallys, affected aeon by such' a training hers had been, 1111 If you are riot better in the morn- ing, Frank, she said, as she sat by the head of the bed, and looked anx- iously into his flushed face, "WO must send foe 111, Berge, the first thing." "I shall be all right in the morning," cid : Rodbury; but his ;words ,Were tied le, his partner, wbo .wee sauntering "All right; I understand you " re- torted Sparle. "I have pretty nigh fin- ished, so we will go in. You have not been home all day, I believe?" No, I have not. You are correct in that belief, as in so many other things," replied Rodbury. "Have you anything to say about that?" "Well," Sarle began slowly, after a brief pause, "not a great deal, only you heard me sats 'especially now,' when I wanted things put straight, did you not?" I did; and wondered why it was 'es- pecially now,' as you seem to have been meddling is my affairs for e, good while past," was the gracious answer of Rodbury. "Wbat I meant was just this," con- tinued the other: "you have not been borne since breakfast, so do not know everything. If I was anxious about Rose before, I am more anxious now, for while you were out, she got worse. I went for Dr. Berge, and be says she s veryill. In fact Frank Rodbury, your wife is took with the worst kind of smallpox, and I don't think even you will sneer at that." "Rose attacked by smallpox!" echo- ed Rodbury, who was almost stunned for the moment at hearing this, while a hast of images instantly flashed through his mind. "Yes, sire' replied Sparle, gravely; "your wife is took with the smallpox, and Dr. Berge says it will go hard with her." To be continued. stock every year sines 1802, an gee results have been obtained from feed- ing wheat pound for pound as pitted against other grains, and yet the writer has never swerved one iota from the opinion that the growth of wheal; as a food for live stock should be dis- couraged all along the line, and in sup- port of the view strong reasons may be offered which cannot be gainsaid. First, it is more costly to grow wheat pound for pound than other kinds ,of grain that are commonly used in feeding stook. As a rule two bush- els of oats can be grown for one of wbeat on an equal area, and at least 60 percent more of barley. And the combined product of the straw and grain in either of these is more valu- able as stock food than the combined product of tbe wheat crop. As pitted against peas the comparison is still more favorable to wheat, that's to say in sections favorable to the growth of Peas. And we have many such sec - times below and near the Canadian boundary from the Atlantic right across to the Pacific, The pea crop will yield as much per acre of grain as wheat or more, and as a food for stock it is more valuable pound for pound, and the pea straw rightly saved is much more valuable than the wheat straw. Again, the peas being leguminous gather much of tbeir food from the air and as a result do not extract nearly so much fertil- ity from the land. Rye also will yield more per acre than wheat under normal conditions, and it is about as valuable for feeding uses. It will also give a good return relatively from land so light that a crop of wheat could not profitably be grown upon it. If wheat is pitted against corn the showing is still more unfavorable for wheat. The average of corn per acre is at least twice that of wheat or nearly so, even in much of the favored wheat belt in the northwestern states, LTANE'S CAREER. When Liane de Pougy was at Ostend this summer, at least 200 people gather- ed nightly outside the windows of her hotel to watch her dine, and when she appeared on the beach she was follow- ed by a long procession of idlers. To see her delicately chiseled face, crown- ed by a mass of golden hair, her large, wondering eyes, her graceful figure, one would little mewl; her of the career she has made for herself in less than 30 years. The daughter of an army offi- cer, and the wife of a Captain in the navy, she was, before the age of 26, Me of the most ntorious characters in the French capital. Her husband, how- ever, was ao infatuated with her beau- ty that even after she had deserted kin to plunge into a life of dissipation, he still refused to get a divorce, hop- ing for her return, until he died of a. broken ;Heart. BICYCLE AGAINST PANTHER. A bicycle taco with a panther was the exciting e p lady in Singapore one evening lately. When riding slowly homeward along a road outside of the town the cyclist x erImnoo of an English' Ji ti. 1, 1890 of spring wheat known es the "Wild Goose" would seem to bo vary suitable; It is a hardy rugg.ed wheat and an im- mense yielder. it is large and coarse in the berry like the wheats 01 Barbary and Greece, •1t hos, been grown as food for live stock in Ontario and Manitoba. I have not met with it in this country. When a variety possessed oR equally good yielding properties is grown along with oats, the plan may, be a good ono but under ordinary conditions the wis- dom of sowing wheat alone as a food for live stook is certainly to be ques- tioned. GROWING CASTOR 13JIIANS. Tho oultivation of castor beans does not differ materially from that acorn In a country where the seasons axe short the richest ground is not desir- ablo, as it has a tendency to make too much stalk; therefore on good, rich soil, where there is no fear of chinch bugs, it is not the most desira- ble crop. But upon light soil, wbere fertility must be fostered, it is a splen- did crop to raise, as it withstands dry weather and is not at all disturbed by chinch bugs. After the ground has be- come warm in the spring, as early as possible, to avoid all danger of frost, after the beans have sprouted, plant and in the corn belt the contrast is still more marked. The corn stover well saved is fully as valuable acre for acre as the entire product of an average hay crop, hence tbere should be no comparison between wheat and corn as a food for live stook acre for acre, corn is so far ahead of wheat. And tbe comparison holds true when the greater labor and consequently the greater cost of growing the corn has been deducted. Second, the comparison would be still more unfavorable for wheat if the various crops above compared were given equal chances with wheat. Wheat is usually put upon the best of the land. Soil is oftentimes specially fit- ted for the growth of wheat, as for in- stance by manuring the land, or it may be summer -fallowing it, while it is not so fitted as a rule for the other crops named. After a crop of wheat has been grown upon a piece of land it is considered good enough for oats, or bar- ley, or rye, or even corn. if these oth- er crops were given equal chances with wheat they would yield much more re- latively then they do. And the com- parison therefore would toll more strongly against wheat. Third, the part of the wheat usually fed to live stock is more valuable rela- tively for such a use than the part com- monly used by men. In other words the eombined product of the bran and shorts is more valuable pound for pound, than the residue of the product, viz., the flour. Of course •this fact should not deter the farmer from feed- ing the whole wheat product to his stock when he can get more for it in meat or milk than he could get from selling the wheat, but it has a bearing upon the argument, and more especially when prices are Raid for wheat that render it uncertain as to whether the wheat'should be sold or fed on the farm, Fourth. Wheat would seem to be more subject to diseases than the other foods named. It usually suffers more from rust, insects and smut. It is also more easily injured. on the whole by adverse weather. It >s, altogether, a more de- licate plant, and because of this the hope of the husbandman is more fre- quently eut down when growing a crop of wbeat than when growing the coarser grains. In fact it would seem to be true that the plants pre-eminent- ly adapted as food to the needs of the human family should not bo grown as food for live stock unless in exceptional instances. Potatoes may be put in the same boat as wheat. The man who grows them primarily for live stock, in a region where turnips and manges grow in good form must surely be seek- ing for labor to keep him busy, am vastly superior are the latter care for acre when used as food for stook. I would not be misunderstood, I an not arguing against the wisdom of fending wheat when we have it, and can make more money out of it by fending it, 'finder such conditions it ought to be fed. The agument is rather against growing wheat with the express intention of .feeding it to live stock. The man who has demonstrated that he can feed wheat with as numb advan- tage pound for pound as some other kinds of grain has only demonstrated ono thing, and unless he can demon. strafe at, the same time that wheat can be grown as cheaply pound for pound as these other grains what has he proved? As soon therefore as the time comes when farmers can make more nut of wheat by feeding it than by making it into flour, the danger signal The last accessory of our modern should be thrown out and all along ,civilization to come under the ban of the line the farmors should slacken sail and sow something else, 1t is in such the scientist is the public telephone. times as these that the good ehip of Vienna physicians bave traced cases of agriculture is in danger of striking tuberculosis and other contagious di - the reefs.1 on s nonteoh e, public upon one way it may be wise to grow seases to the use of ri and have recommended.that a sponge foundilhatshe was being quietlystalk- the presence of mind to, start off at ed by e, huge 'black panther. S e had full speed, and soon distanced her pursuer. IA BED FOR TALL PERSONS. UANAUA'S BEEF IS BEST, WHAT AN ENGLISHMAN HAS TO. SAY ON THE SUBJECT. Call it iia' Its Own Halle and it will Sell: -The Denanhl, 10 Popular in. (Inc. Old T,ane-flow to Develop 1110 Tr, de- Mr.11, A, Lister, of Dursley, England, who was in Ottawa lately, is eudeavour- ing to extend Canada's trade withEng- land, Mr, Lister is a member of the Gloucestershire County Council and other public bodies in England, and• is the largest manufacturer of dairy machinery in tbe world. OUR BEEN' TILE BEST. "Canadian beef," he says, "is tba very best, but at present too largo a percentage of the profits goes into the pockets of the wholesale and retail dealers, They bought it for 8 and 10' cents per pound and sell it for 18and 20, 1 want to see Canadian beef take its proper plane, which it can only do, when sold as what it is. At present it is sold as best Scotch and English beef. 'Tho best way to attain my object is• for the Canadian Government, or some company under their auspices, to es- tablish stores in the great English, centres under the name of Canadian, Meat Stores, where nothing else will be sold. The meat must be slaughter- ed in Montreal, properly graded be' an e..pert Government inspector, shipped in cloths in cold storage, and kept in cold storage, only being taken out for immediate cutting up and sale. 13y the means the producers would obtain, a larger percentage of the profits." Mr. Lister does not approve of the present mode of shipping live animals and slaughtering them on arrival, as. it injures the meat. and cultivate in hills same as corn. When the first pods have matured, se- lect a'dry piece of ground, thirty to sixty feet square, according to the size of the crop, fully exposed to the sun, and whore no water will stand in any event. Serape it perfectly level and bare of all grass weeds. Sur- round it with two -foot boards, cheap muslin, or anything to keep the beans from popping out of the enclosure. The favorite wayto out is to bave a one- horse sled with a box thereon as large as will slide between the rows where the stalks are not too high. A two - horse wagon is sometimes used. The stems are cut as the pods mature and aro first piled upon the yard until they have dried and commenced to pop; they aro then spread thinly over the ground. If there is room on the yard they may bo spread at once, where they are allowed to lay until-' they have fully popped. They are then scraped up and cleaned with an ordinary fanning mill. They pop with considerable force, and but for the en- closure a great many would be lost. When the weather is fine they must be cut every second or third day. When they are first piledupon the yard rain does not injure them, but after they have popped rain blackens them and .have their sale. Boards or tarpaulins must be at hand, and in the event of a rain they must be swept ,in piles and covered, and when the groundhas dried they may be respread. Ordinarily ' they yield from twelve to eighteen bushels per acre, After a heavy trot, while there will be a good many yet uncut, they are of little value. Very little capital, or machinery, with constant easy work is required, and the crop possesses nu- merous advantages in many localities. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Few Paragraphs Which liar be Found Worth heading. Vaccination has just been introduc- ed in Afghanistan, by the advice of Mss Hamilton, an English physician, who is in attendance upon the Ameer. A Lady in Bath, Me., carried 156 in her stocking, deeming that a safe place. While running for a street -car her garter broke, and she lost the money. A wealthy gentleman in Paris, whose wife could not resist the desire to gamble, has scoured a legal separation from .her. In six months she had lost 435,000 francs. The wild tribes of the Caucasus, Rus- sia, teach their children the use of the dagger as soon as the youngsters are able to walk. They are first taught to stab water without making a splash. The mails between the New York city and the Brooklyn postoffices will, after March 1, be dispatched through pneumatic tubes. The time occupied in transmission will be three minutes. Au umbrella, to be used over a lap- dog, is the latest wrinkle. It is at- tached to a frame which is securely belted around the little darling's body. Now, with a couple of pairs of over- shoes, he can defy the ram. The midnight music of cats so annoy- ed Jerome Summers, of Weaverville, N. Y., that he hurried out barefooted with las pist01 to shoot them. In the yard he stepped on a rusty nail, which caused lockjaw,. and in ten days be died, A .curious note of explanation accom- panied some poetry received by a Mich- igan editor. The note ran thus: "These lines were written fifty yearn ago by a man who has, foe a long time, slept in his grave merely for pastime." Mrs. W. P. Howland, of Brooklyn, N. Y., placed a ten -dollar bill on a table in her house;. intending to pay it to her groYcer. A pet parrot took the bill in' its beak, and with it flew out of the window, and neither has since been seen. k A "divine healer" rn 31elmond, Iowa, wbo pretends to be able to cure every malady by the laying on of hands, be- came doubled up with cramps, and had to be relieved by, a stomach pump, engineered by a plain every -day doctor. An addition to the telephone is a device which shows the photographs of the persons who aro tailcing. You can thus see the picture of the person with whom you are conversing. This won- derful invention is the work of man. in Alameda, Cal. A broken -winded horse is rarely seen in Norway. The fact is adcounted for by the statement that a bucket of wa- ter Ls always placed within reach of a horse when he. is feeding, and the ani- mal alternately takes a mouthful of bay and a sip of water. It is asserted that the German Em- peror, during the recent recap ion of the Czar in Paris, was so anxious to behold how the Parisians received the Russian ruler, that he , visited the French metropolis in disguise, his eyes concealed behind green goggles. HONES. MICROBES LURK IN THE P CANADIAN BUTTER ' Speaking of the butter trade, Mr. Lister says: "The same modus operand'. will in time have to be adopted in the butter trade, but at present that'is not ripe, being yet in its infancy. What is needed to make Canadian but- ter able to compete with the best! Danish or Brittany butter is that the cream should be scalded immediately alter separation. The cream shouldbe scalded a1 a heat of 155 or 105 degrees Fahrenheit, and then immediately cooled down by means of ice water to 45 degrees. This method of pasteur- izing or scalding is carried out in Den- mark. It not only removes any taint the milk may have received from bad smells in stables, or from being out of condition when reaching the cream- ery,,but it gives the butter that waxy consistency so desirable in `England. There s an unlimited field for Canad- ian butter in England. At present Canada only sends one-fifth the amount of butter that is sent by Den- mark. To equal Denmark Canada will have to establish fully 2,000 more crea- meries and increase the number of her cows proportionately. "In Canada there s ample means of extending the trade. Landis obeapg for grazing and growing fodder, whitstin Denmark the land s under heavy rental in the way of mortgage," PORK AND BACON. Mr. Lister pointed out that the in - Crease of the butter trade would be speedily followed by a large trade in faxmerk and qu quick returnefor his oould utlay, ive the the pigs must not be over six months old, and as very mild curing is required, the bacon would only re- quire a short time in the smoke -houses end curing tubs. This would give the farmers a profitable mode of using up the skim milk, which, mixed with bar- leymeal, makes the best food for pro- ducing good bacon, )(Cary tall persons cam lain that the wheat aa, a food for live stock, especially and a solution of carbolic acid ,be kept bedding will work itself free at the. when it h grown as a mixed crop. In In ©very station for a daily cleansing foot of a hod, no matter bow carefully some localities it is becoming common of the apparatus. it may have been tanked in. Such poo- to grow wheat, and oats together. The 1 plc should try laying a small fold in the arguments which sustain growth aro upper sheet at the bottom of the bed first, the greater yield that will be THE IAPiI) OF LIBERTii. when. putting on the covers, Thi will obtained o the combined product as . ..head la prevent the feet from having a drawn against either of these grown singly; Barber (out West) -Your ex close feeling, sand obviate the desite and second, the excellence of., the meal vara--+ revolver}-i�ii'i': to lift the clothing with the feet and from the combined product when it has Cowboy ((showing pull them up from the bottotn, 1 beet ground. For this use a variety Barber (luistily)-Very clean, sir, THE CARRIER PIGEON. F- They Are Trained to Carey Messages 10 Time of War. In view of the movement recently made in favor of a military pigeon mes- sage service, it is interesting Vo note that t %e British Government bas decid— ed to establish a service of carrier pige- ons for use by the army and navy. In this mutter Great Britain has hitherto lagged far behind most pf the contin- ental p veers, which of recent years have devoted considerable outlay and atten- tion u; an the development of an effi- cient . rvioo of carrier pigeons. This devotee vent has reached its highest point i Germany and France. In the former, sum of $12,500 ,is annually set aside from the war budget for the train- ing andlsupport of carrier pigeons. Ev- ery fortress and military crump on the frontier's has its columbary supplied with trkined birds,housed ready for em- ergonoi . The birds aggregate about 10,000e nd every bird is numbered and regist,. ed, ..and can be claimed by the withal ties, should the need occur. Not ono the birds can be taken out of the t try without the offieial sanc- tion. 1 is estimated tbat fromthe re- serve : o formed the Government can draw's rem 25,000 to 50,000 birds, all train and ready, for use. Equal care is bi owed oy pigeon -training in France The pare 'ipal st great Ills tart'' caipilp at Chalons;ationusa' but there :i.,ype depots en all the frontier towns and ibrtreslses. From these out- lying poste a regular pigeon mail ser- vice to the hoadiYuarters is maintain- ed. Three times an weeks a number of birds are taken. by train to certain points on the frontier where they are liberated. A careful record is kept of their number and the time occupied in . reaching their destination. The percent- age of losses is very small. Such eon- fidenoe is placed In this service that it is calculated if every , line of railway and every telegraph wire on both sides of the frontier were destroyed bymeets of this system of pigeon post( the auth- orities could be kept abreast of the pro- gress of events. • ho rearing end train- ing of pigeons by the public is also en- couraged by the Government. Almos t every town ]as its society or union generally under official paronage,and far the periodical flying contests thews ands of birds will bo entered, The state has the option of Mating all trained birds, sheuld the public service require it. - Tee latest novelty is a folding coffin which .permits the corpse to lee resod a sitting position, so that it may, be 111us viewed by the mourners, ,I.