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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-1-15, Page 2OGILVINLITTLELH1JR[H got the happiest" they both asked at cifiAlTratI onco in an eager vetiver. Itelf-holiday this Ave I got 'em l" replied .the. other, Thorn will be no contemptuouslyy , ' D yer think I've afternoon,"' left 'em behind t" And producing apiece It was Dr. Laytton of Olswlok gram- of sacking tied up in a bundle, be .pro- r school who spoke. His audience 0011 oeeered to ua d0 1110 Enna rihe alloheek ma ushers and pupils of afetal of the ted apples, establishment, " O b11mY I ain't they •pprima ?" announcement was not altogeth- ,,'Era's one for you, Bill; era's one Thee unexpected,. Dung for Oharl(o Miller; and 'era's one for ex unexpected. In fact, two y me Era's two for you, 'ere's two for gentlemen }Vere already secretly con- gratulating theanselves on having got off so easily. But their hopes were destined to be dashed tothe grow. 'much the doctor has not finished. doesowt Isaid, y knyoung gentlemen," he con- tinued, "that there would be no half - holiday; but I speak with a reserve- ' is it ` it id , 1 avoid possibly y tion, If I canp° not my plan to Punish the whole school for the fault of a few of its members, orobbed Mr. I call on those boys wh Hodge's orchard yesterday ready to give me roe their names. Unless I am g mis- taken, they will do so. Will those boys stand up?" silence, two Amidst a breathlesssilele places. la"s stood up ;m their "Is there no one else?" asked the doctor. Then every one looked at every one else; the big boys began to look very fierce, and the small ones to look very red. "I have reason to know that there is another boy who ought to be standing up. I will give him a minute to do so." The doctor took out his sh. What sit age 1 that eixty csco medl "Ogilvie Whittlechurch, stand The boy addressed was a slender del- icate little fellow in the first form, but with an open and intelligent � ecce_ nnot at all the face of a sneak' Scarce- ly ly seeming to take in bat was hap- pening, he obeyed; and then, seeing the gaze of the whole school coneemrated on himself, burst into tears. "I am sorry," said the doctor stern - THE $USSELS POST. "very sorry to find that there is a boy ire my school who can descend to a lie—to find a boy who is neon enough to see his companions punish- ed while he himself goes free. The school may dismiss now, and leave their books out. There will be no half - holiday; we will resut work at three o'clock—Parkins, Run gton and Whit- tlechurch, go to my study." Fifty boys do not allow themselves to be robbed of an afternoon's cricket without some retaliation; and many were the threats indulged in of "bed- room liokings" and "monitor thrash- ings" to be afterwards administered to the unhappy Whittlechurch. Besides, to do them justice, English schoolboys have a strong sense of honor; and if a master will but show by his conduct that he appreciates and trusts in this sense, public opinion is always against a boy who takes advantage of nim. There had been a paper -chase the day before, and the hares on their re- turn journey bad passed Hodge's or- chard with the hounds close on their heels. Of course, .at this, the most ex- citing part of the whole chase, none of the bigger boys, nor the good run- ners among the smaller ones, 'would have turned aside for all the orchards in the county. But the three unfor- tunates who were interviewing the doc- tor oefor were known to have straggled ear- ly, in the day, and nothing was more likely than that they had yielded to the temptation, of lightening some of the overladen apple trees of their gold- en burden, more especially as Farmer Hodge was the avowed enemy of the school, and was said to have aworn to make the next boy he caught acquainted with his cart -whip. But how the doctor had "bowled out" Whit- tlechuroh, no one could imagine. Presently, the school -bell rang, and all trooped in againand took their places as before. Parkins and Rimington were already in theirs, looking very sore and uncomfortable; but Whittle- churoh was not in the room. When every one was seated, the doctor tap- ped his desk for silence, and proceeded to address the school: 'Whittleohurch is expelled. He persisted in denying bis ,guilt; and as I have often told you' that I will not be responsible for the .charge of a liar, I had no course but to send him back to his father. That he was guilty, there can be no doubt. When Mr. Hodge's complaint reached sue yesterday afternoon, I walked over to bis farm. We went into the orchard, and there I saw his full name "Ogil- vie Whittlechurch," out on an apple tree. The work was quite recent; it could not have been done more than a couple of hours at most; and in the face of this evidence be still refused to admit that be had been in the or- chard,, -Leh this be a warning to you young gentlemen. Never be tempted to tell a lie. If you do, you will most assuredly be obliged to tell a score more to substamthate it. But were you to tell a thousand, the end will be al- ways the same—detection." While the fifty or so young gentle - ,men at the Olswich grammar school were poring over their books in the -worst of tempers,• and looking wist- fully out of the windows at the cricket pitch, wbich now appeared doubly green and smooth!—while, le short, these youthful aristocrats were extremely miserable, some twenty lit- tle paupers, nmates of the Olswiek Union; were in the very wildest of high spirits. The board" had just conclud- ed its annual inspection, also its an- nual luncheon, and its annual cigars —the lasttwo forming, by the way, a very considerable item in the annual bill chargeable the e ratepayers—and ,everything having gone smoothly, the ohairman had requested the master of :the workhouse to allow the old pau- per5 a ration of tobacco and to give ;the children a half -holiday. "O0rayl00rayl Chuck 'er, upl" shout - led one little ragG�amuffin'—"OO's a -go - in' to play tipoat cried another..- ."Where's Ogg'gyWhittlechurch with ;thein happles? cried another. " Sh-sh, yer softy 1 D yer wont to got "bet nabbed? Oggy's took the h Ari s goer to the mea °w. You come along am -s and We'll ave a blpkw-out. So saying, 'the last two spec ers eeparat- ed from their eompanione, and running round behind the workhouse, cautiously crossed the garden, This bronght them to a stone wall, over whieli they clam - bored., They were now in the meadow, and 'here, surd 'enough, eating °lose to the Wall they feund another little fele Oh-- Douse it, and out 1 Can't yer see the Squire cumin' 1 My 1 ain't 'e run- newing _the submarine defences of chat nin' 1" . port. When the main part of the work The two lads who had just come were had been completed, several of the of - over the wall again before he had fin- finers, Ogilvie among the number, sent (shed speaking. But the one who had in their applications or leave, which been distributing the apples stayed for were approved in due course. His plans • moment to tie the handle, then, were to devote a week to a short rust as Hs was about to follow them, walking -tour in the nenghborhood,which he suddenly saw the Squire trip up he had hard?y as yet had time to see and fall heavily to the ground; and at all; and then to spend the rest of ecor' hadwith, father. A din's"' he his leaves h his at ri time re ahs ed wh at the same i not noticed before, namely. that the ly one find June morning, stiok rad in ha gentleman was not pursuing 'himself and knapsack on back, he started on his and his companions, but was trying, to travels. It was quite early, and, ex - escape hitch °apt for a Pew workmen, the air bull,nv > scape from as infuriated p now made its appearance through a gap ware practically deserted, There were at the other end of the field, rushing also a few sailors hanging about the madly, head down, straight for where dockyard gates. One of these latter, he lay. What impulse prompted him who had been sitting on a bundle he never knew. Had be waited but a against the wall, got up as he passed, fraction of a ascond, to thank, be would and followed lam. Looking round a few most probably 'have followed his cam- minutes afterwards, he noticed that the wonder im. I n was still behind h. as bard But lie did not think. He ranma as hard as he could go to where the if that man can be following me for gentleman was lying—the bull was now any reason?" he thought, and then erne - within six yards—picked up a stone,and ing at the idea that he was getting as threw it at the animal with all his fidgety as an old maiden lady, he lis- force. It hat the latter between the missed the subject from his thoughts. eyes. The effect was instantaneous. The It was a delightful morning, bright Mill stopped short, tossed his head, half- and exhilarating; and under the combine turned round, and then catching sight ad influences of the freshness of the of some blankets thong up to dry, which weather, hie own light heart, he step - were fluttering in a cottage garden led out briskly. When clear of the town, near by, made off in that direction at lye stopped for a minute to readjust the the top of his speed. straps of his knapsack, and, while doing Meanwhile, the Squire, who had twist- so had leisure to irspeot file sailor. ed his ankle, had with some difficulty who was a few paces off. His =Mean'got up; and leaningpartly on the boy once was certainly not in his favour. and partly on his stick, hobbled to the He was about middle height, solidly gate. " What is your name, my little built, with a. short thick neck, and man?" he asked. bullet head surmounted by a fur cap. " Ogilvie Whittlechurch, sir.' His face, which was adorned by a scrub- " Queer name that for a pauper " he by black beard and moustache, lndlcat- muttered. ' Well, Ogilvie Whittle- ed both cunning and ferocity. His bun - church, run back to the workhouse and die and a pair of big sea boots as well tell the master that I want to speak to 'him. Do you understand? Tell him that Colonel Forward wishes to speak to (tuna" " Oh, p -p -lease, sir. we wasn't doing no 'arm. Leastways, the other two was- n't. You'll only tell em of me, sir? Will yer ?" What do you mean my lad? I don't understand." Ain't yer goin' to tell 'im to whack us for comin' in the meadow? But you'll only tell 'im of me,?" Will yer, sir?" "Oh Is ee.—All right, my boy, Iwon't say anything about the others. Now, off you run, and fetch the master.—By Heavenl" muttered the colonel as he stretobed out his leg which was rath- ther painful, "but I like tbat youngster extremely." h and now u er, more and more with a , o y _biomes the impulse SvkiaL RR3rom[ltod him oil o' to secure himself ,the Solace ane happiness of a eon's society, and raved him in all probability from that terrible affliction, a joyless old age, His world- ly fortune, it is true, is now consider- ably less than it'was. The reason— speculation} in which, like many other retired officers of comfortable means who feel keenly the want of occupa- tion he had been tempted to engage. However, he still had enough to live on; but, for his son's sake he regretted that it was not.more, From Eton, Ogilvie passed into Wool- wich, and from Woolwich he was gee^ etted lieutenant in the Royal_ Engin- eers. His detachnnent was stationed at Leith, where they were employed re. up in the Union along a -mel" Then suddenly changing his tone, he continue ed; "But there! you knew Charlie Mil- ler wasn't a-goin' to play a low-down Mame like that, didn't yer9, Why, bless yer, Oggy, I was only iarkrn , And to think you been and seen through it-- and t— and me thinkin' I was oe oin' to give you such a fright too. But, oapting, if you 'ave got a thiok-un or two to spare Pm dead-broke—Pm really—been hous- ing up my jib all last week,and ain't got a dollar left. I want to get a oklp at Glasgow, and by' what I can see, I'll 'ave to tramp it" Many people would have been equally deaf to this second apeal; but Ogilvie, merciful look, just at that moment meroiful look, just at that moment Many people would have been equally deaf to this second appeal; but Ogilvie, although fully alive in its insincerity, could not help giving the fellow a sov- ereign, After all but for a strange turn of the wheel of fortune he would very likely have been his friend to this gra instrumental omental veryda and been iia y keeping him straight. "Look here, Miller," he said. '1 have not forgotten that we were boys together; but ,cir- g ns oast o our , have altered P and W8 ca mon nothing in cam and we can have no g now. Here is a sovereign. I hope you will find a good shipat Glasgow; and let me advise you fr the future to stook to your business, and not run about the country trying to frighten people into giving you money. It turn( g on his heel, 'gOgly eswalko o f in the direction of Queensferry. For a few moments the other remain- edbut finding toting him insilence; sthdat he did not even loobehind, be turned and commenced to tetra a his steps toward Leith. "Blarst 'mu" he muttered. 'I thought 'e'd be worth a mint o' money to me. diet 1 won't blow on 'im—'twouldn't be no 11 i d. Besides a secret's a eearet, met maybe it'll be worth something yet." (To Be Continued.) For a few moments he remained thinking; then, half -aloud, he muttered: Why shouldn't Ie I'm an old bach- elor, and likely to remain one. When I the there is no one to carry on my nasno. Yet I suppose that this is the kind of step that one ought to think over before taking. But then I don't fancy that the boy thought much when he saved my life just now. I wonder who he is. I don't ever remember hav- in • heard. the name before; but it cer- tainly does not sound a plebian one.— However, here comes the master, and I'll find out.—Ah, Mr. Saunders, I want to ask you about tbat youngster, Ogil- vie Whittlechurch. i Who is he, and what is he?" "011, the young scoundrel, sir; be told me that you caught him in your field; but I'll take good care that be doesn't do it again. He's the most mis- chievous boy in the 'ouse, sir. But he's not altogether a bad lot—be always speaks the truth." • Humph! Always speaks the truth, and thinks of his companions before himself, besides being as plucky a youngster as one could wish to see. Why, the boy must have been a born gentleman!" Colonel Forward was ev- idently a bigoted aristocrat. "Never mind the trespassing, Mr. Saunders. I take an interest in the lad and want to know who he is. How did he come to the workhouse?" HOTE1I DEATH TARIFF. what It Costs io 1)1e et 1111 tun—Canalis Consider Report—A. Ncw.peper lien Investigates. At whet price should a man be al- lowed to die at a hotel? There, is a fixed tariff for most things at hotels, as an indescribable something about his but some of the British consuls abroad walk and carriage, showed him to be declare that this item events schedul- ing. cheduling. The consuls at Naples reported re- cently to Lord Salisbury:—"Mr. 'Y' died in an hotel of an absolutely non- infectious disorder, and the claim, (for damages only, and apart from the ho- tel bili) was upwards of £80, which, af- ter a strong remonstrance from the consulate, was reduced to something un- der £60. There can be no doubt that these questions are constantly aris- ing in other consulates, and I take this opportunity of bringing the mat- ter before my colleagues, because I think some rule might be arrived at by which the amount of damage claim- ed should be graduated according, to the price charged 'for the room (1) in infectious cases, and (2) in non-infec- tious ones. If an influential society like the Hotel -keepers' Association were to agree upon such a scale, it would practically be enforceable in all cases, and save consuls the extremely THE FARM. WINTER DAIRYING, We are now on the threshold of the season when dairying must again be earried en in cold weather, and it be. hooves every owner of cows to see that his dairy household ie set in order for the change, says a writer in Ohio Farmer. Vila is not meant to apply 1.0 those whose miloh animals are stub- ble -fed until snow permanently covers the ground, but for those who deserve the name of dairymen, The modern Milch cow is a creature that can nev- er be toughened by exposure, nor be forced to yield a profitable amount of milk except by appropriate food and shelter, I have beard some people claim that the new dairy me thods were so complicated thhet many .dairymen could not successfully "catch unto them„" Now, such is a veryWrong ion B idea.dairying Successful lair i is a business calling for a fair amount of com- mon sense and good judgment. It isn't necessary to be schooled in alge- bra or higher mathematics in order to know how much food it takes to keep a cow from getting hungry, or how much water it requires to prevent:her suffering from thirst. If a cow could onlyspeak she has cow sense enough herself to tell you just about what is beat for her, I never yet owned en Intelligent caw but what would come up regularly to the pasture bars to be milked, and they didn't carry timepieces either, fl'he cows themselves often teach us better lessons than we can learn from arti- cles written about them. I know of a sailor. Bunt had it not been for these, one would bays felt more inclined to put him down SA a professional burglar than anything else. "We have never been able to find out who he is, sir. He was found one morning in the garden, w -rapped up in ems0 _re rem esnl' son oI 'liege v here; 1 remember it perfectly. He couldn't have been there very long, be- cause the shawl was hardly damp, and the dew had been very heavy. But we never knew who put him there." "How was he dressed? Were bis clothes good?" Not very good, air; but quite clean. The matron has them now. But there was no mark on them, sir, nothing at all; only "Ogilvie Whittlechurch" written on a piece of paper and pin- ned on to his frock, as you might label a parcel." 'And is that all you know about him ?" 'Yes, air." "Mr. Saunders"— "Yes, sir." "That boy has just saved my life at the risk of his own, and '1' Intend to adapt him as my son. Inform the guar- dians, please, and let me know their answer." "Wh—wh—whatl sir?" 'I say that I wish to adopt Ogilvie Whittlechurch. Surely that is plan en- ough. Now, if you will kindly lend me your arm as far as my house—thanks." Colonel If orward had acted, as we have seen, quite on the Spur of the moment; and it was not until he came to think the matter over calmly,while smoking his after-dinner cigar, that he fully realized the magnitude., of the step, and the great responsibility which he was about to incur. At best, it would be a Hazardous experiment. How- ever, having undertaken it, he would spare no pains to make it a success. And he determined that it should be through no faultof his if Ogilvie For- ward—for so he intended to name him turned out anything other than an honourable English gentleman. Ile did not care much for the neighborhoods and had long meditated selling' his pre- sent residence. Now, it was clearly his duty to do so at omens it would never do to bring the boy up within a stone's throw of his old companions. This point settled in his own mind, he sat down and wrote the necessary Instruc- tions to his solicitors, smoked another cigar, and went to bed. Ten years been elapsed -years which have ,passed happily both for Colonel Forward and his adopted son, At eine a boy's (dens aro unformed' his. mind, is so to speak, pliable, and lge is ready to take in new impressions. So that, when atter a few years passed with his kind protector, Ogilvie was sent to Ilton -,if wo exeopt pee -baps a 'sound healthy Constitution and good physic- al development—not a trace remained of low wailing far them, his early workhouse tralrlhng. As for "'Ave you got 'em, Oggy?" -'Ave yea the ealouel, he has learned to /ova him What, then, was Ogilvie's astonish- inent wihen, just as he was putting on his knapsack again. the individual we have described, walked cooly up to him and thus accosted him: " And so you're Capting Forward." To the best of his knowledge, the man was an utter stranger ; and he was so taken aback with his impertinence, that for a second or two he continued to take stook of him before answering. "Yes," he replied, "I am Mr. Forward." And you don't remember me ?" „No" "What I you don't remember your old pal, Charlie Miller—and we used to be that fond of each other, too, we used. Now, try to think, meting; sure-ly, you must remember Charlie." Having said this in a mocking tone, the man re- mained, looking at Ogilvie, Ms face formed, into a belt -sneer, half -grin. which had the effect of making him look absolutely hideous. Suddenly a light broke on Ogilvie; it all came back to his memorynow, the old days at Olawiok, and the little pau- pers, his companions. He did remem- ber him. With an inward .shudder he had to acknowledge to himself that this person had once bean his friend. Naturally kind he,arted, he would, un- der ordinary circumstances, bave been only too glad to do a good turn to one of his old associates, notwithstanding that their present paths of life, were, and necessarily must be, on levels so very different. He made, moreover, a shrewd guess that it was not alone for thepleasure of greeting an old ac- quaintance that Miller had tracked bim ri"ht. down ; and events shlowed that he was Now, that you remind me," he con- tinued, "I do remember you. You were one of my playmates before Colonel For- ward adopted me. Haw did you find out where I was 9—and what can I do for you?" Mil now you're beginning to speak. You were only talking before.—Never mind how I found you out—that don't matter. As for what I want—wall what dyer think I want? Not money- Oh no 1 'Tisn't likely. What I wants as L, and S, and D; but chiefly L, and that with a fifty after is; that's what I wnt: Fifty pounds I" said Ogilvie. " I cannot give you as much as that—cer- tainly not now. But why do you want it?" " Well, capting, you see, I was always very fond of yer ; and hearing that the other young toffs down yonder at the barracks didn't know as 01v you'd ever been anything different from what you are—and you bein' in course too modest to tall—I thought, d'yer see, as I'd be dein' you a .good turn by lotting 'em know the 'ole story. They'd respeot •you, so I thought—you 'avin made your way so • wonderful—it commands re - spout, that does. But this morning I thought this; Oggy weren't never a boaster, and p'raps 'e'd rather I didn't say nothing after all. So, when you come out of the barracks, coating, •S says to myself: 'Well, 1'11 just ask 'im myself,' I says; 'and if 'e tells me to clap a stopper on my jaw-tackle—well perbaps 'e'll come down 'an'some.' 'Sol' thought Ogilvie, after listening to the above speech, which was deliver- ed in a sarcastic tone, showing that the speaker imagined that he bed him com- pletely at his Meroy, "this is nothing mora or less than a deliberate attempt to extort blackmail." Now, although his brother -officers be- lieved him to be Colonel Forwards son, he was sufficiently popular in the mess not to mind the true faots of the case coming to light. At the same tinee,hcw- ever, he clid not like the idea of this Irian appearing at the barracks in his absence with a sensational story which UNPLEASANT TAS11 of coming into contest with hotel -keep- ers. It will be remembered, no doubt, that a prominent hotel company in London put up a notice in their bed- rooms that a uniform charge of £40 would be made to the executors of any person who died in the hotel. This pro- voked so loud a remonstrance in the public press that the notice was re- moved. It forms, however, a useful basis for such claims, as one. can quote it as the tariff of a first class London hotel, which should at all events never be ex- ceeded in a foreign provincial town. If we could agree upon a max- imum, of, say, £50 in infectious cases and £20 in non-infectious ones, for rooms oharged 10s and, upwards per diem, and ball that amount for rooms charged under that amount, a just set- tlement might be come to on the mer- its of every ease." I went oitt yesterday afternoon, writes the London Daily Mail repre- sentative to inquire into this matter. It rather takes the gilt off a holiday to think that ifyou should din the hotel -keeper will step in between you treasure and the excited hopes of your relations. If these extortionate charg- es, I reflected, should prevail in Eng- lish hotels, one's relations would hard- ly ever permit ono to stir away from home and holidays would have to be kept in the back parlour with an ex- pectant relation mounting guard at the trent door, I first called upon the manager of one of the leading commercial hotels in London. Very few deaths indeed had oeeurrod at his hotel, he said. The gentlemen 81106 Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham who honored him with their patron- age were altogether TOP BUSY 10 DIE, and besides, they were very careful of the quality of the liquids they drank. But supposing a Birmin8'ham or a Manobester mon were to die in his betel he would just charge the ex- penses incurred and no more. It would be no good trying to make a penny out of the residuary legatees— especially if Birmingham were the hab- itat of the executors. I next called !upon a high official of a great hotel company, whose palaces are in many lands. This gentleman, discarding Moro general allusion, in- vested the interview with a pleasingly personal character. " Our charges+ lie said, " would be governed by cir- cumstances. Suppose now you, for it" - stance, died at one of our establish- Manes of delirium tremens, fits, or any other of tbe inevitable ills thatflesu would moat likely be adorned with is heir to, If before your death you numerous embellishments of his own, had created a disturbance; screeching Of course, no one in the mess would and all that kind of thing, .and tbe listen to him; but that most probably occupiers of the adjoining rooms left would onlyhat,° the effect of making the hotel—you see what I. mean.?— him retail it m the canteen, which well, we should charge your legatees. would be worse. Take it which way be Suppose, again, toot you diad of some would, it was a nuisance; and unless he infectious disorder, such as scarlet chose to return at once, and so spoil fever, or cholera, and the hotel em- hi,s walking -tour,, which he had no in- pt od—well, we should try to recoup tention of doing, it could. not be helped. ourselves, Could we be blamed?" Not only will I not give you fifty ' Certainly not, You can do what pounds," hWith answered, "but I will not ou like rt'h ;my .relations, and you give you fifty shillings. What you hove any best wished."—" nut there ie mpropose to do can cause. me nothing 110 queston' of the Met !that in very ore than a little temporary inconVeili- many ofsmaller saller Continental hotels once; so tease consider yourself free to blackmailing of this kind goes on, It o and do it as 5o0n as ever you please, does not,provail in Iinglancl, and one. If you have nothing more to say to ane may die es an English hotel, happy n I will go on with ney walk; the knowledge that his heirs ant The °ther'e face fell Visibly, . Thie. signs will not be bereft of any suU- was bat et ail what he had bargained stantial portion of their inheritance byfor. Yoe oe don't mind than overcharges of the kind the Naples e young toffs knowing yon was brought consumen l tioned." l� JAN. W, 1897 time of better feeding be earn each day toi 3 egrooming,not gvoHma loved01311 for the hole itives toward a batter condition of flesh and nerve, but be- cause of his (learning by it to handle; which will do much toward making him leas shy of bittinggear or harness, when lib Domes to that, All to y seem of but little account to most men,. but no matter, I have seen many horse that: made trouble every time he was barnessed juatbeoause of some lit- tle cnistake at the first few times of harness or unhareessin . Tho pram- tice of a huge majority of men hit the. bitting of the colt, that of putting him I•n the bitting gear and turning bim out in eyelid or field for hours, is, to say the least, barbarous, and often 'spoil's the carriage at head and easy handling' on the bit. In my own practice 1 never puta colt in the bitting gear and let him loose from my hold a moment, I want him to learn at once that iI am the master of things, and for the first few lessons I never give bim more than twenty y .to thirty minutes of the straps; and notpulled verysnugat that. Just as poen he shoaseriness (and he will in a very short tune), I take him outand afterresting put him in a s'hart restL ll' again. Ina veryrt time the colt Aho s will become accustomed to these new things and take lessons of much long- er time, and be is then ready to have the ire and you p, in behind him put can atend begin to teach turning to right and left, stopping at the word "whoa" and standing back when told to. When these are learned, your colt is ready for the shefts or pole. Generally it is well for the first few hitchings to put Him beside another horse. But nev- er make the mistake of putting him in with same slow, spiritless horse; but rather have one that can be with lint in every move, and stay withhim if the colt wants to makes good lively gait. Besides with a bores with bim, the colt will pass many things without fear, which, if alone, would make him shy. After a few times of light hitching, commence with light loads, something that the colt will feel easy to move: And by careful handling for the first. few months you will be surprised at the weight he can handle, and with what ease and confidenoe he willtake a load out of a tight place. Never be jumping to catch ihold of a colt at Avery move he makes, for he soon comes to feel you have no confidence in him and will become very uneasy about stand- ing. This matter of standing when stopped can bo well fixed wibb the colt when first in the bitting gear. If you do not want a horse that troublesome im shoeing, you can, at the time of grooming, or in the bitting gear, handle his feet so that when taken to the shop for s'hoeimg you need have no trouble, and will always feel safe to put him,ln the hands of the blacksmitb and have no fear of his getting injured by shoe- ing. Never drive so far when first handling thht he will come bank to the stable tired and spiritless and ye" will generally have a free, smart driver. I never use blinkers or check, only use the check -rein while training for the harness. Without blinkers you seldom brave a skittish or shying horse, and without check he can do more work or cover more miles and not be worried, Another tbing—never get angry at the same time the colt does, for if you do you will get into trouble. Generally be careful in the use of the whip. It may be needed sometimes, but generally one blew will answer far batter than more. Never show fear or nervousness your- self if you wont a horse to be calm.. This method of training colts has been my practice for years, and I can to -day look back over a term of forty-five years and say I never had a balky or vicious horse and I have bred tom from Several strains of high, -nettled stock sad have, in handling scores of colts, found many that, with a little mistake in training, would have been like limndreds of horses all over the country—not worth a dollar for use, be- cause they caamot be relied in when wanted. Balky, violates trainers gener- ally make horses like themselves. no better dairy maxim than study your caws and seek to supply all of their physi alwants. go into winter dairying un- prepared and make your preparations afterwards, if you do, the probabil- ities are that your cows will teach you a financial lesson before spring. Be prepared to make butter a little above the average grade, If you are not, you will have Ito accept a second-class price for your butter for the next six months. Don't forget drat the physical econ- omy of a caw first appropriates from her food the material to supply tissue waste and body Beat, The residue is either eliminated or goes to form milk, according to its oharaoter. Now,much that might go to create milk in this process is taken up by the other funo- tions, because there is an insufficient supply of food material to go all around. This fact should make it as plain as the band before your face that once' having got the winter rations ad- justed right, you should not stint the amount fed out to your cows. Acow may be kept in fair condition all winter, and yet lack the essential food material to maintain her in a profitable yield of milk. Some dairy- men talk about deeding heavily the fore part of the winter, and others of do - should leagrn the importance of feeding heavi- ly and evenly from the time the cows Leave off grazing. infall till they are turned out again in_ early summer. Make the most of your fodder even if you bave lots of it, A slovenly, care- less feeder can never expect to derive a margin of profit from his cows. If not previously turned into ensil- age, dry cornfodder should be out up and fed from the manager. The extra labor involved will always return a better milk dividend than though it wits fed in the usual way. Did you ever think that butter quality was really made im the stable? The hired man who cleans out the stable, beds the cows, and milks them, has es much to do in influencing the price of but= tex as she or he who ohurns the cream and Handles the ladle. Be sure .then that your hired mea is a good butter - maker! IND dairyman ever yet paid a farm mortgage ore got rich, who owned poor cows and made poor butter. Look out for bitter milk in bitterly cold weather. Only recently I saw a package of what would have been number one butter if its flavor had not been ruined by a bitter taste. There are few makers but what understand that this bitterness comes from keep- ing the milk or crease too long in cold weather, prior to eblurniug., Decomposition in some form is bound to set in if milk or creams is kept an unreasonable length of thole in an un manufuctured state. In warm weather they sour, and in cold a low form of bacterial development takes place that results in the abnormal flavor men- tioned. Wise butter makers always churn regularly., and at short Inter - vale, winter and suremer. Good butter making is the key note to successful winter dairying, old it is a subject that demands much thought and earn- est work. Ilot until you are willing to concede it these demands can you ever hope' for any profit. BREADING IN A COLT. A writer in the Country Gentleman gives the following sensibleadvice about breaking colts to the use of the harness: Just at this time of the year many a farmer base, colt that he in- tends to train for future use, either as afarm or road horse. Now the matter of breeding, transmission of disposition and trains is always of great influence over the character of the future use- fulness of the horse, and will come out in ono way and another while training the colt. But by a proper fitting and skillful handling all these things may be overcome, and a colt bred from stock that, because of viciousness and bad habits, are almost worthless, may be made a pleasant, safa reliable horse. One oP the most common mistakes is that of putting o, colt into training while he is nabinthe best of flesh, and erten when be is having but little, if any, grain. Stich colts are soon drill- ed out andtheir nerveend musolo, of Which they have but little is gone, and We Soon have the beginning of balky horses, just because, while to appear- once they may have Leash and weight, they have no muscle or nerve. Because tboy aro tired, and nob generally be- cause of temper, they refuse to go on, GENERAL ARBITRATION. The 'treaty Between Greet Rrltnln avid the Milted States. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says :—As already outlined, the life of the general arbitration treaty be- tween Great Britain and the United States is purposely made very abort only five years—but this is with the expectation of a renewal for a longer period if it shall prove to work well, and also to afford easy opportunity for. adoption. Its purpose is to dispose peaceably and honorably of such ques- tions as arise between the UnitedStates and Great Britain, and will not admit of adjustment by the ordinary meth- ods of diplomacy, excluding questions involving the national honour. The personnel of the Arbitration Commis- sion is to be of the highest character; mon selected from tee judiciary of each country, in equal numbers, three from each side, and provision is made against a failure through a tie vote, by the bringing iu 02 an umpire. Neither the Venezuelan question nor the Behring Sea issue are to go before this com- mission, but its first work probably would be to close up the Alaskan boun- dary controversy, and soma other open 155055 0f minor interest, but real lm- portance. Unlike the Venezuelan boundary ar- rangement this treaty must go to our Senate for ratification, and the House of Representatives also will have op- portunity indirectly to pass upon it, for legislation will be necessary to pro- vide the means to maintain the com- mission. The fate of the project in. Congress can only bo conjectured at pre- sent. Some fear is expressed that the issue made by Secretary Olney over the Cubanquestion, may,somew.hat ,jeo- pardize this crowning piece of diplom- say by inviting criticism and the display of ill -feeling on the part of some Son eters, who feel that theirprerogatives have been invaded. .le is also known that other Senators favourable to the general prefect of arbitration have their own ppeoulier ideas shout the anemia sviiiell they may, attenipt to car- ry out by amendments to the treaty. If these are of small importance, they may, be accepted by the Executive and by the British Government, but the wh'ele great project of a general arbit- ration treaty is one winch diplomats feel must be entered upon with the greatest caution, and the ogreement et) far has been effected with such diffi- culty that any oonsidoreble departure, from the scheme r,reposed by amend- and are, of eeriest,roomed of being mento would proles lead to the tail - bailey, bailey, 'The'firstaing,. in my opinion, ere of the treaty, and thus give a for-' to do in getting a colt ready for the reelable sortaek to the whole move - training is of him sent,oube tocmccethe Peedieg of grain seffloient to get him hi the best Of Condition—in quota a condition that he feels full of emelt and pluck—so that tylion taken orutlitt better' you have your ?kande full to hlandfe hinnw During this '60moplse.I el Awe et oaten esitledg oma ocaght 'u'si ssgep nes oro goroq 1150 91,1 ,dnjitroo 13111100 ea1 d'Ctb 11005 0q, fun uledg to (filo[ 1txuok era, I