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The Brussels Post, 1897-1-22, Page 2rr_1TvT1 WH[ GRA PTER IL Ogilvie proposed to make'bis first halt at Queensferry, Where at the timet ev doh we write, that immense and al- most superhuman work of engineering, the Forth Bridge, was just being be- gun. He arrived there about noon. As t ha THE BRUSSELS. POST p i season now opening the question that t d L'�A.� i v Whittle- eO � e feedmus serve as u e JAN. 22, 1807. between a nest of Chinese eratea as L`A�� V V �� V n fr is us is different A portion of our old aohoolfellgw, qg 1• le �r F church. --What dm you "Hold nth the th t Eu 1 to keep up TTL "CIS U BCH helm down theme Seep her bad come to see—the launch of the cais- son. Everything worked perfeotly; and in a few minutes amidst the) hurrahs of the workmen, the great machine was quietly floating in be firth, ready to be towed off to its position, and, sunk. Having taken leave of the Riming - tons, who were going back to Edin- burgh, Ogilvie crossed the Forth by the d of advanced be- ferry -boat and ipe in mouth, reaum- ed hie tram?. and, a man smokes he meditates. it's a law of nature. If bis yet the operations n yond the meront preliminaries; but d his nature. have that the imagination recoiled from the a tendency to be pdr t tion; if good they task of estimating the amount of time, food, labour, skill, and capital it would take to bring this gigantio undertaking to a successful termination. A huge iron caisson, destined to form the base of a column, ,had been completed, and was to be launched that afternoon, d he determined to wait and see the oper- ation. No one in good 'health takes a long country walk without feeling hungry ; and Ogilvie, who bad been indulging in sharp pedestrain exercise for about three hours in bracing air, was simply ravenous. His knapsack bald a small store of cold provisions, but that was only for emergencies. At present, a lit- tle inn, near at hand ,seemed to offer the prospect. of a much more substan- tial lunch, and thither accordingly he repaired. In answer to his inquiries, the land- lord informed him that the parlour was engaged, but that whatever he pleas- ed to order could be served him in the taproom. No, no 1" interposed a young man, Who at that moment emerged from be- tind a glass door leading to the par- lour in question, and wale had evident- ly overheard the conversation in the taproom. There's lots of room in there, For- ward and bans place will be choketul of workmen in a few minwtes• Come in, and let Inc introduce you to my mother and sister." The speaker was ayoung officer of ehe mercantile marine, named Remington, whom Ogilvie had often met alt Leith, where he had been staying to go through a course of drill, in his capacity of sub -lieutenant in this Ro- yal Naval Reserve, on board the gun- boat stationed there. Gladly accepting his invitation, Ogil- vie followed him into the parlour, where he was duly presented to the ladies. The elder of these, Mrs. Rimington, was a widow. Her ;husband bad been lost at sea not many years after they were married, and tbfs, doubtless, bad some- thing to dotivith the subdued and rath- er sad lock which her face so often wore. There was something very kind and winning about the look, notwith- standing its sadness—something that ihad the effect of making one feel at home in her presence from the very first—teat seemed to say to Ogilvie: " You are my son's friend, so of course you are mine also, and I nope that you will consider me yours." Her daugtlter, Miss Rimington, was a delicately lovely girl of about eigh ineditatons t(1ese alone were on so vast a scale, tobacco ' ordinary, are more incline o a s rax philosophical, .Now, Ogilvie's tobacco was good, and before he had walked a mile, he had satisfactorily established the hypothesis, and the pleasant people are always those whom one meets un- expectedly; but then he was not think- ing of Miller. away, w n warmth. How much food must be ex - Man, can't you? Give her the beim! have the ship aback in a min- pended that way dopeoda upon how good ate.— uta,—Who is that at the wheel?—Mil- care is taken in providing comfortable ler?" quarters for the hogs. If left to the full Yes, sir." severity of the weather, practically "Let me recommend you to keep your without eaeltar, it will be found that eyes open, then." about all the food fed will be consumed "Ire's a good enough seaman, as a Ferric ae fuel, and but little, if any, of it go rule," explained Rimington; but they Luto flesh and fat. In short, unless prop - all go to sleep on a calm night, if you ex shelter is provided all that is expend - don't look out.—However, to continue y ed in food will merely serve to sustain your yarn. I had just saithat I didn't f life, said the margin of profit be cut see what the pirates could possibly have down to nothing. The bog, that is fed a to do with: Ogilvie Whittlechuroh, or week acid does not make apound of gain Ogilvie Wliittleohuroh with the pir• y g P loses to bis owner the east of the feed, atesu" the cost of the labor and the interest Wait a minute, old fellow; I am just asp o y on the price of the animal. So it will comingto ft." be seen that self-interest demands that "Well, that evening, sure enough, the in growth and fat the hog must improve army did come back, and with such a th every day in order to be aprofitable in - beating of drums and waving of ban- g h' f vestment. Warm, well -ventilated quer- ners as you never saw in all your life. ters, pure water, with the icy chill taken A Chinese soldier is a rare hand at that Y g off, are essential to continue growth) sort of thing, if at nothing else. Then there was a whole wagon -load of heads; and two of the pirates' prisoners whom they_bad rescued., and who were car- ried in litters. One of these litters con- tained an old Chinese merchant who had been captured on board one of his own junks, and, who, except for a good fright, was very little the worse for what he had gyne through. 'Ips other, an Englishman, was Ogilvie Whittleohurch's father," "Whew) .low did you find out that?" "From the man's own mouth. The governor sent me a message that afel- low-countryman was dying at the pal- ace, and would like to see me. I found the poor fellow worn down to a shadow with fever, and obviously at his last gasp. He seemed to have something on his mind that he wished to tell me; but it was perfectly awful to listen to him trying to speak while his voice came and went spasmodically—inter- rupted every minute by terrible fits of coughing,, The gist of what he said was this: His name was John Whittle - church., When he was young, he had been a bad lot—a drunkard, by what I could make out; then he emigrated to America, leaving his wife and her baby m England. For a long time he seems to have got on no better in the new country than he did in the old; but a few years ago he had a stroke of luck at the diggings, and became a million- aire. He then started to come home, westward to try to find his wife and child; but the ship was wrecked in the China seas, and all who escaped the waves were captured by the pirates. Be- fore leaving America, however, he had taken the precaution to make a will which he left with his solicitors at Sac- ramento. In it he left everything to his Wife to go to his son Ogilvie,at her death. In case neither should be found, everything was left to a certain Pedro Bersano, who seems to have been sort of banker at bhe diggings, and who on this condition had advanced him money to carry on digging his claim." 'What usury! I suppose the fellow is a thorough scoundrel." "I shouldn't wonder—anyway, he seems either to have done fairly well out there, or else to have made the place too hot to hold him; for he has gone to London, so the dying man told me. His present address is 'The Cali- fornian Club; " near Leicester Sgaare." "Humph! I'll bet he's a rascal.—But wait half a minute, old chap;" and so saying be walked to the compass—the ship was two points off her course. This was too much for Rimington's patience, and he told the helmsman so in no very gentle language; threatening, if he had again to find• fault with him during the watch, to give him an extra trick to practise in. Having thus given vent to his indignation, he returned to where his friend was standing and resumed the conversation. Did he give you no details by which to trace his wife and son 1" "No. I think that he wanted to; but his strength was quite used up in tell- ing me as much as he did, and he died in my arms not en hour after I had come in," "But how do you know that the Whit- tlechuch we were at school with is the man you want ?" I can'b be certain, of course; but Whittlsohurch is such an uncommon name, and so is Ogilvie as a Christian name, that I liardly think there can be two. Besides, the age seems about right." "Well, there should be no difficulty in finding him. We can trace him from the school. And then, even if he is not the man himself, he must surely be a cousin. I suppose you told the lawy- ers all you knew ?" "Yes; and .they sent me a telegram to say that they were employing a de- tective in London to make inquiries." "Well, Iwieh a relative of mina would die a millionaire and make me his heir, —And now I think 1'11 try how the topmost studding -sail stands,—No; I won't though; it's just eight bells. The other watch can do it when they muster." (To Be Continued,) WINTER FEEDING FOR BUTTER - MAKING. Forty or fifty yews ago it was a very rare thingfor a farmer, no matter how manycowa he bad to have milk during the whole winter, says a writer 'n Prairie ' Farmer. The cows dried up in November and came fresh again in April or May. If a Cow, came inbefore there was grass in the pasture an ef- fort was made to feed her so as ton keep her from drying up before grass grew. Sometimes they succeeded and some- times—especially ome- times— a iall if a cow came in in February or March --they did not. Oe- casionslly a farmer, more anxious an the averse to provide milk for 'h is am- i) Burin longwinter, would have some particular cow that he thought and fat increase in cold weather. 'lhe CHAPTER 111. "Keep her as she goes, Mr. Riming - ton, and get a small pull of tbe weath- er -braces if the wind draws aft. If it draws aft much, you can set studding - sails." Ay, ay, sir," replied Rimington, sec- ond mate of the Maharanee clipper, and was then on watch. But if we only have a little luok, we'll be first ship home; I'd bet a year's pay on it," said the skipper as he went down to his cabin by the after -hatch- way after giving the above directions. They had just caught the south-east trade, after rounding the Cape home- ward -bound from China, with tea and one passenger; and, as the captain bad said, it seemed by no means unlikely that they would be the first of that year's tea-ships—not steamers, of course—to take the pilot on board in English waters. But everything de- pended on crossing the line. If they were lucky enough to get a pfuf to car- ry them across the 'Doldrums, it was a certainty. If not—well, they must hope that the others would suffer the same delay. Rimington paced the (hoop, pipe in mouth, occasionally giving a critical glance at the mainroyal, and longing to get that little {lull of the weather - braces; but each time that he looked, the shaking of the water -leech told him plainly that nothing must be touched. It was two bells (nine o'clock),. and by It was two bells (nine o'clock), and his watch would be over at midneght. But he was not particularly anxious for that. There was no great hardship. in pacing the poop, and smoking his pipe in the soft moonlight; while the balmy air, set in gentle motion by the south- ern trade, fanned his cheek and filled the sails; and the ship,ust heeling to its tender caress, except for an oc- casional gurgle under the bows, slipped noiselessly through the water. Presently he was joined by the pas- senger,. Mr, Parkins. The latter was a man with whom things had gone well. He had originally. gone out to China to take up a post in the Customs, then. as now, chiefly administered by Eur- opeans, His duties, however, were not so arduous but that he was able to car- ry oa a certain amount of business on his own account. The Flowery Land at that time presented a grand field for an enterprising man; and be unflag- ging diligence, aided by a few lucky speculations and a natural aptitude for business, he found himself in a few years, and while still quite young, one of the richest tea -merchants in Shang- hai. He bad resigned his Customs ap- pointment some time ago, and was now going to revisit bis native country. He had intended to take a berth on board teen summers, of a type of beautyrathl- er Spanish than English, Neither in her manners, nor conversation however, was theta discernible the slightest trace of that languid deliberation, sometimes natural to, and sometimes affected by brunettes. On the contrary, she was in every respect like any other pretty healthy English girl of her age. She seemed also to have inherited from her mother the gift• of being able to put people at ease in her Presence. ' I suppose," said Mrs. Rimington, "that you are like us, Mr. forward, very nearly .leaving the nenghbourbood without having seen the Forth Bridge?" Oh, well, mother, ' put in her son, '"you know they say that there's many a Roman shopkeeper who lives and dies without seeing the Colosseum; and Mien we have come at last." Are you on a walking tour?" ask- ed Miss Rimingtun of Ogilvie, as he un- serapped his knapsack, " Only a very slipshod sort of a one, I am afraid, Miss Rimin ton," 'he repli- ed." I shall never walk farther than I feel inclined; and if at any time I want to avail myself of the coach, I most certainly shall do so." I was tbu.nking of going for a tramp myself(" said. Rimington; but I shan't leave time." Isn't it a shame, Mr. Forward?" said his sister. " George has only just finished drilling on board that horrid little gunboat and to -morrow he will (have to go to Glasgow to join his ship." It does ndeed seem hard,' sighed Mrs. Rimingtonglancing fondly at her son. He hasn't; been six weeks in Eng- land; and if Mary and I hadn't come up here, we should hardly bays seen him at all." Nonsense, mother," laughed Riming - ton. It's an ill wind that blows no- body good; and if I hadn't been qual- ifying to serve my Queen and country on board the gunboat, we should have all stayed vegetating down at Whitby and then you and Mary would never have seen Edinburgh." Do you live at Whitby, Mrs. Rim- ington?" asked Ogilvie. "My father has just taken a house there, in North rescent. I hope we are neighbours?" "In Nerth Crescent 1 Oh yes, we are neighbours and very near ones too. We live just at the end of North Crescent, a tBose Cottage. I hope we shall prove good neighbours, and that WA shall see you there. Well, I had no idea that you were pito 'tc Forward," said Rimington one of the Peninsular and Ori- ental Companyy s splendid steamships; but chancing to ht on his old school- fellow and chum, .Rimington, serving on board the Maharanee, he had changed his mind and taken passage in her in- stead. The two friends .continued for some time to walk about in silence; then Par- kins said: "It's a strange chance that has brought us together, old chap I suppose that if I had been asked, there is no one in the world whom I should have said that I thought I was less likely to meet walking along the jetty at Shanghai than yourself. You never used to talk about going to sea." "No; I never had any intention of do- ing so; in fact when we knew each other, I don't think we either of us troubled much about professions. On the whole, I'm not sorry that things have turned out as they have. A sail- or's life is a Bard one; but there are a good many worse; and if yeti don't stop my heaven -born right to growl at any- thing and everything I have to do, I can jog along very happily. Every one can't bus a Croesus lake emu." "No; T suppose not, Certainly I have been very lucky. It would be interest- ing to know what has happened to all the other Olswiok fellows.—By the way, there is one especially I want to speak to you about. Do you remember a little chap called Whittlecburch, who was expelled? , Wasn't his Christian name Ogilvie?" Yes it was.—What about him?" • "Well, it's rather a long story, and a very curious one.—Wait a minute till I get a light." Right you are said Hirai/mien; "end meanwhile I'll get the yards in a bit,—Watch, round in 1 Weather - braces! Come along there; shake up, shake up !" For a few minutes the wateb could be seen moving about the dock in obedi- ence to the order, while the blocks creaked and the yards ,were trimmed. Then all was quiet again. Finished, old chap 3" "Yes.—Now, let's have your yarn." "Most of my property," said Parkins, 'as you know, is some way in the in terror; and last tea -harvest I went to inspect some improvements which I hail had made on one of my estates, up the Chongoklag. I reached the place by a little steam -launch, without anymis- adventure; and when we started to come back, we found that one of the et more aggravated if they 'curve cylinders was out of order and could from the top back to the finger and not be used. T didn't caro h take spas- sae down in a junk, so there was no- across. Where the nails are long and ng or ni' 'o wait, The engineer bluish, said he should be about three days re This same type et nail. but shorter do - airing better suited by nature to give milk hog cannot chill Its stomach on ice war f ter and make its meal on frozen corn and thrive as ib ought. We need not here describe any special conveniences essential to proper winter care of stock, The conditions on differ' ant' farms in different localities vary so that where one man finds wall -built lumber houses cheapest another must construct houses of straw, logs or even• stone. There are one or two features, however, common to all constructions that meet the demand. They must be dry, well ventilated and accessible for cleaning out. It these points are well covered, all the rest ars secondary. The cheaper hogs are the more essential it is that economy in food consump- tion in proportion to increase of flesh be used. Because , corn is only 10 or 20 cents a bushel it is too generally reasoned that feed is obese and there is no use of economizing. The error of such reasoning lies in the fact that cheap• feed means chem pork, and the margin of economy is just as broad on $2.50pork raised on 2u -cent corn as it Is on 6 pork raised on 50 -cent corn. The Owe a otuid be to not let cold weather lmterfere with growth and fattening. It Is, 'therefore, cheaper to spend something on comfortable quarters than to spend it in food to keep up warmth without quarters. If imbued with the spirit of thrift, you axe desirous of realizing the most possible from the efforts you put forth; consequently in bhe feeding and care of your hogs you should consider that every comfort which adds a pound of meat for the amount of food consum- ed is a profitable ,,speculation for you in winter than the rest come fresh n October. If he was a particularly good farmer lie would make an extra effort to keep up the flow of milk with this cow. If he had any "tame" hay, which meant in those days Timothy, out some days after the "second blow" was off, she lead some of that with corn fodder and cornmeal. He, or his wife, might even insist on the boys seeking or cook- ing the meal for her, because she, the wide, said it made tank better. Some- times, in extrema cases, potatoes were added to the daily feed. Now, with all this effort, that cow would rapidly shrink in milk till toward spring she would be just stripping a little and teat farmer would think 'himself fortunate if she did not dry up entirely before grass grew or he had other fresh cows. This core would be free—good beef—but the farmer would keep her to be fresh again the next fall, fur she was his "winter cow." If any one bad told farmers in those days that there would be more profit in having the whole herd fresh in the fall he would have been thought an idiot. And if he had said that more milk and butter could be got out of cows in a year by having them fresh in September or October he would have been set flown as insane. Feb this is true, as hundreds of dairymen in the country ;knew. Well, what was the matter in the old times? Why was it not true then if it is now? They did not feed right. That's the whole secret of it. To produce milk, cows need foods that contain a good pro- portion of albuminoids or protein, and not foods that are too carbonaceous. In the supposititious case I have given the foods were all very carbonaceous. The Timothy hay, cut when pretty well ma- tured, cornmeal and corn fodder are all Catten(ng foods. Succulent food is good, bat potatoes are so very carbon- aceous that their succulence combined with such foods failed of doing much good. And yet fon those very days when men found it so very difficult to keep cows giving milk in winter for want of protein lin the food, there were mills in the country where I live that were running wheat bran into the river tp get rid of it, because the farmers woul not give enough to pay for the saving of it. Here was the protein food that the "winter cow" needed, but the farm- er said it was no better thou sawdust to feed. There are some such old fogies on earth yet, but they are getting scarce. Now the most progressive dairymen, those who are making the most money out of the business, have most of their cows come fresh in the fall and they give a good flow all winter, and after they get to grass in the spring are al- most as good as fresh cows. The secret of it is, they feed right during the win- ter. Nearly every one has ensilage, although a few feed roots instead. They feed with the ensilage protein food, such as bran, gluten feed, oil meal or cotton seed meal and clover hay. They con - salt the ohernists' analyses of these foods and the standards for beat milk - producing rations, and form a combina- tion accordingly that will maks a bal- anced ration. I will give a few well balanced rations that are producing ex- cellent results. By ration I mean a day's feed, My cows are having thirty pounds corn amelia e, well eared, five pounds clover hay, five pounds dry corn fodder, what little eat straw they will eat, perhaps two pounds; five pounds wheat bran and Live pounds gluten feed. has been )taken out at the factories, They are doing finely on this ration. Gluten fed is the corn after the starch or glucose has been taken out at the fac- tories, and is bi;h protein. I will say we have never led a better food for the protein part of a ration. Here is an- other good ration: Twenty-five pounds corn ensilage, five pounds corn stover, five pounds clover bay, five pounds pea hay and, ten pounds wheat bran. Here is one without ensilage: Sixteen pounds upland prairie hay, two pounds straw, twenty pounds roots, beets and carrots, eight pounds wheat bran and two pounds cottonseed meal. Here's an- other without either ensilage or roots: Twelve pounds mixed hay, eleven pounds corn stover, six pounds wheat bran, two pounds corn and cob meal and Lova pounds cottonseed meal. Every one of these rations are well balanced, that is, they contain about twenty-four pounds organic matter, from two and, a quar- ter to two and a half pounds digestible protein, and trona twelve and a half to thirteen pounds digestible carbohydrates and two-thirds pound fat. With a ra- tion like one of these, if bas quality of the foods is good, and feel to good cows that have otherwise good care, they will do well In producing milk. These ra- tions are for the average 1,000 -pound cow. Some will eat more and some less. Of the coarse (udder. they should have all they want, there being no need of g weighing it. The grain ration can be a W i yu theng it I t t t bL h they indicate bad eireulatiom guessed at near enough without weigggh- Wiiy 1 every that the errld grows ing every feed. Weigh, a measureful smaller every day. 1 never thought and find out how much that eveigbs. very much of our planet, after my first p the damage• and for want of notes tendency to throat affection, Cows should baivo as great a variety .of voyage to Auetraespis but lately I've nnos•• a bettor wily to spend the bums, 1 de- bronchitis, and the like, feed teeth day as possidnle and should be comet' got to dart. it.—Hu11ol here tided to visit Wangsting, the oapiv a of It is not possible to create moons at fed with perfect regularity,. All' cows comes lunch ab last, Hadn't we hotter the Province and the scat of govern- the base of the nails; frequently at ea, i,n the herd should net have the same set' to work? It would never do to meat I found it the most thoroughly moon is there, but through neg ig n , proportions eh the ditforenb• foods. Some Nota single. mission had mann ed to tention, will grow upward over the base cornmeal, to beep them up, if they aro LANGUAGE Ole NAILS, Short, small nails indicate heart dis- ease; where they are short, flat and sunken there is an indication of ner- vous disorders. The short -nailed wo- man will criticise her friends and leer foes, but she will criticise herself ton with severity She is apt to be sar- castic, and sometimes so quick at re partee that she appears very rude. The best dramatic and literary oritles pos- sess this type of nail. It is not generally known that the shape and appearance of the finger nails are carefully considered, and form an important factor in the diagnosis of dis- ease, Long nails are said to indicate physical weakness and tendency to lung trouble; and this tendency is aggravat- ed where the nails are corrugated, and OARL MINDER. no lava 11 Gold 1111110 5110 'explains de e I'olleu r 80 geant "Good morning, Sergeant. Did some policemans look oop a man last night named Waite? i13x+ elms a fremdt of mule, and if he vias drunk I like to pay his fine." The fart policeman was busy behind, his desk as Mr. Dander softly entered blue station -house and made inquiry sa above. 11 was a long minute before the officer raised his head and quietly, replied: "What has happened to you thin time, Mr, Dunder?" "Nottings (happens to me, How. could day? Do you belief I vhas sbwindled eatery day in der week? Can't I saust drop in to ask aboudt Mr. Waite mitout I vias shwindlsd?" Mr. White was hot arrested last night. Neither was Mr. Birk nor Mr. Green nor Brown." Oh 1 Dat vias all right. Mr. Waite vacs my frendt you know. So he down' be arrested?" The Sergeant made no reply,, and Mr. Dander started to go put. a1.t the door he halted, waited a :minute KITES IN THE SERVICE. WIRES ARE CARRIED FROM VESSEL TO VESSEL, Anal a Complete Telephone Connection Established—Au English Commander Tries an Experiment Whicli Works Successfully. The kits bas become a means to the transmission of the human voice from one warship to another, while the fleet is in active service. It is the strang- est adjunct the telephone has yet en- joyed, but it is none the less valuable. Just whatcan be done has been de- monstrated by Commander R. G. 0, Tupper, of the Royal Navy, at Ports- mouth, Englend, The kite used in this experiment was of the regulation sort, except that it was minus a tail. It was six fest long and three 'feet wide at the broadest point. In place of the tail, the kite car- ried two lines, one of which was retain- ed on board the Daring, the instruction- al torpedo boat destroyer, from watch the experiments were conducted. No little was expected as the result of and then turned and walked back to the desk and said: "Sometimes I vhas shwindled,' of course, because I vias greenhorns, but dot alias long ago, I know how she Alas now, and I shiest like to see somebody come some glum games on iLlhe Sergeant still had nothing to say, and after looking out of the al - le window and palling down his vests Mr, Dunder went on: You tell me you alas my dtrendrtg and yet you vans always believing vias some fools. Tiumph 1 A. greats big frendlb„ you ',has! It vias a leedle sclbild or a crazy mans dot I can't take Dare Of myself 1" Mr. Dander," softly began the Sergeant, as he walked out and sat down, "just tell me all about it, and let me advise you."' "Ha I ha 1 ha 1 So you belief I When relayed, eh? Vhsll, I like to tell you dot you Woos mistook, Sergeant; I reheat shunt $450 in mine pocket, and dean you forgot her 1" Oh I you are? How is ib? If you have made a good thing, I'd like to hear about it." ' Vhell, you know what gold vbas, of course?" "She comesoutt eller groundt—out of a gold mine,et , c , , "lase' ' Vhare vias Bat town called Lame River?" Lame River! Lame River! ;a never heard of it. You don't mean Cripple Creek, do you?" Dot vhas herr She vias out West, Dot vias der place vbere gold vhas so plenty dot you can't plant po- tatoes. Two days ago a strange man comes in my place. He was pale and seek. He leans his head down on der table and steam and groans. He vaants no beer and no cigars. He shust vleants to die." Aad you ,lest hien die, of course?" "No sir! I goes nater and talks mit him and tries to sheer him oop. By and by he feels batter. He vows from dot Cripple Creek. He owns dor biggest gold mine out dere. She vias worth ten million dollar. His name visas Brawn, and he comas East to sell some stook to his friends!' "Oh 1 T see I" exclaimed the Ser- geant. Phat you see? Vbes it a crimes for nam to own some gold minas?" "Ob, no. Go on with your story, Mr, Dander." Vheli, dean' slfpeak dot vhay to me any more. DM man vhas seek. He loses hes bank book, but he has some stock. Here she vacs—for $500. See, she vhaa der 'Bully Boy' gold mine. How you like der looks of dot, iergea ate" "It's a nice looking bit of paper, Mr, Dander. How much did you pay for it?" "Vhell, you see, dot man likes info because I vhas tender-hearted. Be vhants to go to a doctor, and send same ;telegrams, and pa his hotel bill, He down' take $50 from me un- less I take die stock. If he dean' come back inn two days dot stock vhas mime. Two days vias gone and he dean' come back." And the stock is yours?" "Shust so, Sergeant. She belongs to Carl Dander, und I vias $450 ahead of der game. Can yon say any morn' dot I viae greenhorns? You vhas,a sharp man, but can you make $450 in two days? Sergeant, shake hand mit Ccyrl Dander 1" "A little later ear. Dundee," answer- ed the Sergeant. Do you know what this stock is worth?" "She vias worth $500 any how, and mebbe twice dot.. You vias my frendt, but I can't sell her to you for less Ban $500.." this experiment, but the facts demon- strated were, nevertheless, very much of asurprise. With the wind between the two lines referred to, it was found that the kite was so easily managed that it was no trick at all to drop let- ters or even a hawser into another ship and in this way establish communica- tion. Following this experiment came one with a wire. The end of the wire which the kite bore away from the ship was dropped upon the deck of H. M. S. Dauntless, where it was secured by the electrician of the ship and attached to a telephone apparatus in waiting, The other end, which had remained aboard the Daring, was also attached to a telephone and as soon as this task was completed, the two ships were he late for the launch." ' last reparations were being made build a church there, and I cion sup- thnail, ' ;nolfned to run all to milk,, an p - indication f r. i Alin When they event out after lunch, the caisson. Itimbn tan, as be- pose that, there ars half a -dozen Europe- ""Ti'e moons are an ogoodatones used less of 1L d they are n round the a g came his profession was chiefly inter- ons in the whale place. 1t so happened health and excellent circulation, while ed to get Int. Milk cows should never fisted in the actual launching arrange- that I arrived at a very opportune the white snots are always the accom-,be made very fat. mants• so was his mother. So, while I time: the whole town was en fete, and paniment of an impaired nervous syn-' these 'two were inspecting sluices and i a long procession was being formed to tem. The common idea that an teeter- chocks, rollers and tackles, and the rest meelannd rel�uirn»ein by.governor's rom Win, nal ,applioatios of ous ban will se the eVINTER QUARTERS FOR HOGS. of the attendant paraphernalia, Ogilvie, i whichg white spots em an.ongi.neer was able to exlrlain bo :expedition ag ainse some pirates, and flitted with the little "story -tellers" I wimttec ansa of hogs goes Ear to - tatted the eonsbruetlo and ; was eepectad back that evening. I had would fax better turn their attention n the fogs of far Rim a, _ f. And 00ginter- -heard something about these pirates at to securing perfect physical Health, in ward Settling q P use of the aaesson ftaol p the assurance that the spots will Bis- given a tatted end attentive did he find his pup- Shanghai, andknew trnle that htthe edition says the Western Swineherd. If 1 11, that he went on to insbruct her in was the result made several- the y nr ern appear with improved circulation, sufficiency of food during spring, nam- the bridge -co of the cantilever' system remonstrances to to the government at lie ---"'e"-`•` ` mer and fall, hogs will lay on 0 fair b Chinese place that I had ever seen, to is covered by akin `Which without at- neer) ;more of the fatteniaig food, like 1.6 .IN PERFECT COMMUNICATION. The kite remained suspended, secured by the two lines, for mere than four hours, during which time communica- tion between the Daring and Dauntless was uninterrupted. The )cite was pull- ed in when it was desired to discon- nect the instruments and take in the wire. The experiment that was made by the officers of the Daring and the Dauntless had another valuable result. It Mowed that it is possible to arra spar a neo for a now system ofsignalsfrom one ship to another, that would be greatly superior to any flag system which could be conceived, If the telephone wire can be arranged in this manner, there is no reason why telegraphic communica- tion cannot be made in a similar fashi- on. In this case an operator aboard the flagship could carry a conversation with his fellow operator, aboard one of the fleet without difficulty. An Ad- miral's orders could be eas 1y transmit- ted from time to time, and often avoid what is now considered necessary boat service. It might be thought that the flying of a kite under these circum- stances would 'be a matter of extrema difficulty, but kite flying under the lat- est methods has become a science. What used to be a school boys' sport has now become a subject of study by profes- sional men, and it seems quite likely that before very long even greater re- sults will be gained than has been the of ridge -construction, dsmcnstrating a and el was haarl;ity lad to hear "Aunt Gladys," said tan small 88ir16 percentage of flesh andfat regardless of and lekhn out its weals kin' a nam 1 as or is lett ? its advantages pd s Dints most impartially, ,.Che converse- that it of them too, said Rimin "It depends', doarie, p - ' I beard g had been suooessfu _ o you a, ie 6 Melted Auart, the tare received, though proper care tion, bawever, was di5tarbod soon aft 1 erwarde by the very event Whicli they ton, "But I fail to see tate •cantleotion Gladys, elxeamilY, on the man:' will increaee it. put during the cold ease at Portsmouth. THE TOURIST'S TRADE MARK. Bitters—Hello, Whilfers, what's the matter? You have a strangely unsteady gait. Been sick Wbiffers (with disgust and indigna- tion) - pm Seo here, ylandlubber, you; don't you know sea legs when you see 'em? I've been to Europe, of course, FORCE OF HABIT. Ort the day before the execution, the keePer informs the doomed man that a visitor wishes to eke him, Do you know Who he is asks the doomed man. Well, just ask bine if he wants to ctsllecb a�hill, arid, if he docs, tell bite to Fall to -morrow. "'That's too bad. I was going to of- fer you twenty -Ewe cents for it to paste up on the wall)" "Iloev—how you meant" gasped Mr. Dunder. It isn't worth twenty -.five cents, but as eve axe old friends 1'11 give you Unit to help you out. You know the way down to the river, don't you?" ' Vhat about the river?" "IL is a good. place to jump into." "Vias—vhas doe man some ehwind- lees?" Of course. gala dead heats and ahwlndlers come to you. The man does not own a gold mine. He was not sick. He called on you an pur- pose to gest money on this stock, which isn't Weerth a row of pins. St you don't like to jump into the river, why not turn on the gas in your roam and be found dead in the morning?" "Should I die?" asked Mr. Blunder, with pale face and trembling lips. "01; course! What's the use of Inv- ing any longer? lBbere hasn't been a month for the last fbs years that some one hasn't swindled you. ;Ilia undertaken well probably come :some game -game on you at the very end,— sell your cadaver for $"25 and put bricks en the coffin." So—so 1 vhas shwindledl" "You were. Shake hands, Mr. Dunder, Goodbyy to you, and as we aro old friends, I'll see to your funer- al arrangements, I suppose you want to be buried head downwards, don'b yon?" Se rgeas t l—Sorgeaut l" But Mr. Dandier could not get it out. Ilio waved this arm.. about and shoved his lips, but the words stuck in his throat. In a fatberly way the Sergea0C patted lam an the head and smoothed down his back, teed then, taking him by the arm, ledhire to the door and gattly worked him out. Mx. Dander IUB not resist or look back. Be limped. down the street and around the earner lake a main who had re- ceived. au event blow, and the Ser'- oeent re-entered the station ant pro ceed'ed to wind up tae dock,