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The Brussels Post, 1898-1-28, Page 2T El 13 BRUSSELS POST. FOR THE THIRD TIME, MAPTE11, 1. her. 1 een of little usu se. My other is w it h Xties she spoken yet?" The January day led been hopelesely Still, with that wan, frightened bad and wintry. Au the moraine the fettle Amy told of that dreadful torak- ' hew lying atom's atm complaining winds T'Vt'g; frttnieaLcil..etute't °Wei Li,l-ka ',',...,`Lg,s, . whastii. ,hrilly through the bare ' trees, tad foretold the coming storm. "My poor little girl 1" Dr. Sterling At noon the storm burst. The wind said; 'Mese death -bed horrors age too nee to a wild, piersing gale, anti the yulo,"1;13 1,0"lrvaSuruoromte, nlinle; rrairiryt', tkau,i3 iti,, snow fell faster and teem', and in down; you look worn out. I dou't wild, whirling drifts, until all around want my precious little treasure -lost Blackwood Grange lay burled in its BO tong -to wear herself to a shadow. leo and Lry to sleep." raidwiater winding sheet. "Bite Joher—" The old boatte was very still -the "aes Earle, I insist upon being °ley - stillness of death surely, for death ed. If my patleat expresses a wish to stood grim on their threshold. The will- le you, you shall be called, ,. Bimini lag servants bated their breath, and Lasn'Vraeettis° tbe'orad'kutUgt=eissoroPied; hushed their voices, and muffled their ant don't you begin, mademoiselle. C'ertainly nobody elainis tied mince tread, for the master they had never Got" pies are not good, nor will any reas- liked lay sick unto death in one of the Ile turned heir ewe cl her own room. led. her to the doter and left her therethe holiday enable person deny at th semen upper rooms. 'they had. never liked with a parting threat If she dared as- is the time for mild indulgences, him; but the dread leajeste of the obey. Amy smiled to hersell as she if we are ever to indulge oars:elves at grave was around him tow, and they weat in. It was very sweet to be all. For thefts, then, who would sin forgot their old aversion. taken possession of in this way by Dr. John,. In that spacious chamber, hung with In. the sick -room Isabel Vance ley sale danaask, carpeted in mossy green, fluttering between lite and death. No - adorned with exquisite pictures and thing could save her now. She lay, statuettes, the mystery of 131ackwood Llityreeljythcaon miluotisw: setniltliraesi maaarpmle: tet Grantee was a mystery no longer. Ly- great black .eyes looking Yblankly be - HOUSEHOLD. MINCE PIES. Positively no sternest eau digest minee ole without injury and. no in- tellie titooman in them, enlightened days neves it to her family." The above item aua others a similar Import are ever appt•aring iii t.he news- papers, yet thoughtless man is ever making covet -mos referent's to the re- prehensible ertion, and tbe good house. wife who eherishos early associations finds herself weakly sympathetic. No- body clams that mince pies are hygie- ne:, but neither are 'baked pork and leans -a standard din among the most "enlighttened"-nor many °Ilan dines wheel- we eat with more or less rain. bag in the low, Ereneh bed, whiter than the snowy pillows, lay Label Yams.. Victor Latour, that mockery of mem was no more. Isabel Vann, in the "Shall we send for a clergymen, Miss white robes of her sex, lay tossing Vance 1" he so.id bending over her; "your hours on earth are numbered." She shook her head. "No clergymen oan help me -1 6,m long past that." 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be come white as snow.' The infinite mercy of God Is beyond our poor comprehen,sion, Isabel." She nook her head again. "Yen don't know 1 You don't know I I heve committed a greater crime than deteivieg and making wretebed the life ot an innocent girl. John Sterling I am a murderess T "1 kao,w itl" She stand a him with wild, wide eyes. "You shot your false lover, George Wildair, the night before he was to have married Amy Earle. You de - fore her at ne wall. The (lark eyes turned upon the young doctor os be entered, but the aid light of hate was there no mere. there, raving in delirium, or sleeping the Leavy, unemtural sleep produced by drags. Amy knew all. The unutterable weeder with whi•h she had first heard, her wild incredulity, her absolute in- ability to convince herself of the truth, are not to be described. It proved the truth of Dr. Sterling's assertion -what- ever the secret she had sworn to keep that was at it. Slowly the truth forced itself upon her, day by day, un- til she mile. realize it at last. She clasped her Blends in indescribable thanksgiving, her whole face alight with joy. "Thank Heaven!" she cried. "Oh caved her to possess yourself of the Shack Heaven I thank Heaven I Better fortune Dorothy Hardenbrook should have left you. You see I know all." anything than be what I theught I was -a, raptiraenL wife!" "What!" exclaimed Mrs. Steeling. But Amy, with a frigheaned cry, "And yet you tells of forgiveness." "leseanse there is forgiveness for all who repent." "But I don't repent. I would do it again, if it were to be done. George covered her face with her hands. Midair deserved his fate; and yet I "I have broken my oath -I swore not was onact the night I shot bim-mad to. Ohl don't ask me questions, Mrs. with my wrongs. I don't think my brain hoe ever been right since. What Sterling -I dame not tell your Mrs. Sterlinmiled. She could. I told Amy, the day I married her was g s truth, after all." guess pretty nearly the truth now. "Whet did you tell her?" They did. not tell Amy that other "Do you not know? But I suppon oorrime suspicion, that Isabel 'Vance she kept her oath. I eold her I was a was the murderess of George Wildair. monomaniac -possessed, of a desire to auch ghastly horrors were not for in- gfauturderY lohreer.hafl tolgdothgathnemetednessiirtye tuagent ears; tth they would spare her at I dare not remaia an instant that it they could. with her alone, lest 1 shaula plunge Mrs. Sterling, Amy, the hounkeeper, the fatal knife into her heart. She fainted, poor little girl; and that sec - and. the doctor were all who were al -ret kept my other secret. A babe lowed to set foot iaside tbat sick -room. could impose on that insipid little The amaze of the housekeeper was nonentity." something ludlerous in its intensity; "Poor Amyl You bave beam merci- , but there was no help for It -they were less to herIsabel Vance!" forced to Lake her into their confidence. And by day and by night, for two long weeks, those three women wetched by the bedside of that guilty evoinan svho had wronged one of them so deeply. This wild January afternoon Mrs. Sterling sat by the bedside, watching her patient with e. very grave face. The crisis of the fever had. arrived, there was little chance of the sick woman's recovery, anirl they did not even bope IL. Better for them, better for her, that death ehould release her, than net ate shoulct live to end her days On a raadhowe or a prison. Asap sat by the window, geeing dreemity out at the fast -falling snow. '4,a infinite calm had settled upon her deep menet; a stronger, traer. gsore fervent love than any wild fan- tasy she had ever known, was slowly Sawning in hea• heart. Her sorrows had been: heavy, her disappointments biller; but new hope blooms so soon in the heart of young persons of nine- teen; or twenty. As the &bort winter day faded into eaglet dusk the snow ceased; but the ground was heaped high, and the bit- ter wired ahrieked icily. Anse aTOSO to draw the curteins and ligist the lamp. "I am afraid the roads are impass- able," she sad. "The snow is higher then i;lae fenceS, and John will ,per- sist in coming the most tempestuous nights. Hoy/ is she?" She stopped short win a thrill of terror. For two great, dark eyes looked up et her weirdly from the bed -two eyes tis which the light of delirium shone no longer. "Where am I?" vela is low, faint; voice. "Whet is it 'What has hap- pened ?" "You hose been very ill," answered IVirs. Sterling -"ill of brain fever, Don't ask queseions; drink this and go somewhat against health's laws the following reverie submitted as being the lost, a its kind -tested without serious results to well-being. 'three pounds of prime beet from t.he tenderest part a the round, six pounds of apples, greenings, one and one -halt pounde of suet. the juke end grated peel of two oranges and two lemons, two poonds of brown sugar, one pint of molasses three Mae of hailed cider, ono quart of mod California brandy, three grated nutmege, one tablespoon- ful °filmic, and une and one-half talli- speitinfuls of salt, two tahlespoonfuls ecteh et ginger and allspite, table- spoonful of cloves, six talespoonfuls of cinnamon one-half pounde of sliced citron., two pounds of seedless taisins, two pounds of currants and one glass- ful of grape jelly. Steam the meat or let it simmer gen- tly until tender, let it cool, and chop it rather fine -the size of the aver- age mme ohop the apples to the sloe of white beans. Prelare the fruit care- fully, mixing all the dry ingredienn thoroughly; then add the eider, mo- lasses, lemon and orange juices, and lastly the brandy. Mix again -thorough- ly, pack in a large stoneware jar, cover and stand in a cool, dry place. Mince meat should stand about three weeks before using, to ripeo and blend the flavors. In making ides, see to it tbat your pastry is of the best. An hour's lio.ke sinugttais none too long for perfect re- -_ MAKE BEDTIME PLEASANT. Busy mothers are prone to hurry the children into bed. We would that all would reserve a certain amount of time for the children's bed hour, making it pleasant, so pleasant that they will ev- er look back upon it with the sweetest of memories.. Listen to their tittle sor- rows, answer their questions as best you can. In return you will keep the child's confidence as he grows older and other inflhenees, often bad ones, are brought to bear upon hie lite. WHAT L MOTHER CAN DO. "What is home without a mother ?" Not much like a, home without a moth- er is it ? You con tell almost tbe mom- ent you step into a. stranger's home, ' Well Toucan coasoleher when Tam whether there is a mother there or not. gone. f era beyond your power and Her presence is marked. In the perform - hers. You would like to have me tried ance of duty, and her counsel sought for murder, I daresay. Death will. L O every difficulty. How marked her absenc,e 1 How vacant the place she once occupied I I wonder how many moneys realize that "the hand. tbat rocks the cradle rules tbe world." People are saying that the world is growing worse; that the majority of people are golng to the had; that life is not; worth living, en. hold. Perhaps it does look that way to some "All is over," he said. "Isabel Vance people, but died this morning, almost without e Amy slept lolag and soundly until, when the sun wee sisining brilllisntly on the snow, the housekeeper brought her the breakfast she had so used her to. Amy ate, refreshed. by her deep sleep, amt. hurried to the sick -room. It was very, very still. The shutters were still closed, the cuxtains still drawn. Ms'. Sterling moved softly about; Dr. John met her on the three - He led her to Inc bed. Serangely quiet en,c1 white, in the solemn majesty of death lay Isabel Vance. More beau - "This world is not so had a world As some wotild like to make it And whether good or whether bad Depends on how we take it." bag, ten cents in her purse awe leaves her home and claildren co gad the streets by the hour, is a greater hyp- write than the jaggiest; who wont into the temple to pray to lam seen of men, The man who speeds his time in drunk- en idleness and sets before his eldb ;teen au unholy example, is lowering himself below the brutes. Are the av- erage hoinee pliwee where the family altar is set up, the Bilae read deity and a blessing askell before oath meal? The place where the most lasting, moat enduring good is done, is in the home. You milt when one maga to begin to teach the mind of the 111,11e oues. Same one wisely answered: "One hundred years before they are horn," Be all that is pure aucl right, and your children will love you and be like you. The wee toddler hears the oath and the little mind remembers end baby lips lisp U. Remember that little minds grasp as quickly the good things tha are taught Them., but we do not so readily notice the good as the evil in them, Mothers, there is Si wonderful work to be dons, the little minds mast be brouglit into the sunshine of God's great love, end begin to develop while they are tiny buds, that they may grow into pure and beautiful women. Then will some greet political problems be 'laved, for there will follow a purity in polities which is the only salvation Inc a nun - try. -Dora Deao. BUILDING A HOME, In his book on building a , home Francis 0. Moore mays: "The adviee of a sensible, practical woman who is a therm& housekeeper noun. also be regarded as indispensable. Therefore, it a man's wife answers this descrip- tion of helpmeet her husband wilmake a serious mistake it he fails to consult her at every snp and secure her re- vLsion of his plans espectially in the im- portant matter of closets, arrangement of kitchen, butler's pantry, eto. Her experienced eye will discover defects which would. never occur to him. It should lie remembered that she occu- pies the house during the greater por- tion of the daylight hours, and it would be strange if she should not knowpro- portiono,tely more about what is need- ed for comfort and conveniencti than the head of the house. Her prautical knowledge will be invaluable to him; no will see tlaings that both lie end the architeut overlook; the need of a date here, a window there, a. closet In this place, the fault et a, door hung 011 the wrong side in another; sub °niece Venable features as steps between the butler's pantry, dining -room and kit- o.hen, the floors of which should al- ways be on the sane level, to prevent the stumbling of servants with dishes, etc. Women would mak:e admirable arcbitects, especially for dwelling houses, if they were able to climb lad- ders and properly supervise buildin.gs in process of construction. Now that athletio education is being so care- fully looked after at the women's col- leges, this deficiency may perhaps dis- appear." SNOBBERY IN THE ARMY. Ono gonna for the Scarcity ormeeretts-A Meau Act, The other day a. band of the Royal Marines, stationed at iPlymouth, was sent to play at flosver show at a town in Cornwall, in oharge of a young lance corpora. During the interval between the two performances which they gave, the men went to their lodg- ings and sat down to smoke. While they were so engaged a soldier went by whom one of them hoemened to knew, and one of the bandsmen went. out, with a pipe in his mouth, to speak to him. The lance corporal followed also amoking. .As they stood there a THE FARM. DRESSING POULTRY. ProPerle dressed poultry commancle a much better price than. lluee indiffer- ently prepared for market, There is a kaack in dressing peultry. Expere mum voill soon wove that it pays well to take pane to ship dressed poultry in the best peesible manner, F. rein or gives the following advice; on drese- tog poultry: First a ell, crops of fowls to bo killed. for market thoula be entirely mill:yen mistake Is gener- ally rondo by not Imaging the fowl up while aripeing oft the feathers, but holding with one hand and ticking it. with the other, One can ivork rapidly when the bird is hanging, as both bends cue a liberty. The entiele, a trans- parewt outskle covering a the fowl., is very easily injured, particularlY of a steeled bird, mad when the bird is held while picking it this membrane is often rubbed. ott La sputs and al- though this injury doe.s not seem. much at fine afterward. theee sputs tern dark, giving the bird an unsightly ap- pearance. Over -scalding also loosens the cutiele, therefore we should ex- ercise great cure not to kee the birds in hot water tor tote long a time when scolding them. Have the water at tt boiling point, yet not actually boil- ing. Take the bird by Gm head and Loot and, immerse it, lifting up anti down in the water three or four limes; thexb hang up by the. feet. The bead should Devoe be immerged, as it teams the cenab pale and. gives the eyes a shrunken appearance. Now re- move all the feathers, letting, the smell one.g drop into the barrel beneath and keeping wing and. tail feathers by themselves. The small feathers may afterward be apread out aad dried, if deemed of value. The feet; of fowls should be scrupulously clean; wash or still better, brush them. I have seen ties advice given: to stead tbe feet and thee skin timm, bet I never practiced tees in.yselt. All clotted blood should be removed. from the mouth and all traces of blood washed from the head. To give scalded poultry a Letter ap- pearance it should be "plumped ;" af- ter being picked clean dip for two or three seconds i•nto hot and nearly boil - Wig water, teen at once cold water, and leave it there for fifteen minutes, than hang it up to dry and cool. The animal heat should be all out and the fowls Perfectly dry before packing. Do not wrap the birds in old newspapers, but use new white paper; will pay. Have seine clean, bright straw or swan hay in the bottam of this boxes and barrels, and pack poultry back up, legs not doubled under, snugly so that they ratty not shake uhout, In transit. Straw mug' be u.eal between the different lay- ers, anti aso on top before putting on the cover. With d.uelts and geese I have had but. little experience, but good authorities say they should lie scetrled like other poultry, then wrap- ped up in a, cloth for two or three min- utes and la steten. Thus treated the down. will COMB off with feathers. Good fat poultry will present a better ap- pearance when dry picked. Although most people think that dry picking Is much more difficult than vthen first sealdtag ; however, when properly done, there le little difference. Hang the live bird up as ia the case of scald- ing, with logs pretty well spread apart. Kill with a, eharp-pointed knife by cutting across the roof of the mouth. rr the cut is made right it should bleed freely. Now rue the kmfe up into person in plain alothes passed, and was the brain of the bird, thus paralyzing saluted by the soldier. Only, when he it and relaxing the musclesi the Leath - had passed did the marines learn that are will then come mit easily. Before he was an °Mier of the regiment sta- going any. further, attach a small Wooed in the town. On the return of meuthed, pail, well weighted down, to the Saul to Plymoutb the lance oor- the lower part of the fowle bill, adjust poral discovered that the eireumstance the barrel, and. MAY strip off the fea- had leen reported, with the result that he we's placed under arrest. He was .subsequently severely reprimanded by the stating commentlant ,deprived of taut in, death theta she had been la The 'world consisn of the people who his stripe and of ell his engagements, a an exquieite status carved in marble, are in it, and where would. the people He waa is young married man a severe life, the cold features looking like those be if it bad tot been for their tnothers yeers' service and unimpeadable char- t!: was given out that elietor Latour - - ' ' ' sena:, and a Best rate musician, Is was deed, anti, on the third day, a So if the world is sieved it will be it to be wondered that at the present stately prcxession left the gates at through the goodness of God and the Blackwood. But in som,e way the enduring influence of good mothers. day there should be difficulties in re- cruiting, when any man, however, well - story leaked out, got, whispered abroad, The question naturally arises, "Iv, hy is behaved, Jetty at once forfeit hiseher- crept into the newspapers, warpt•ci and the world so wicked and the young ceder and position for a trumpery lit - distorted, until John Sterling, Inc people seining wild to such an alarm- tle Irregularity of this kind? Themost Ame's sake, felt compelled to colne out, ing 'extent? Our grandparents point astonishing feature of the affair, how - with the truth. Far awl. wide people with pride to their childhood days, cold ever, te the sneaking conduct of the tatked of the wonderful tale, and inform tla that things were not so Duni tinker who reported the incident to doubted, and were amazed. It was the thet the terrible ains which are now the authorities ut Plymouth. Is this meet unheard_ a occurrence that bed common were unheard a then, except what; is understood by "condeet be - ever trenspi red. ' in rare instances and they ask a reas- Amy Earle left Blackwood Granges on for it." coming au ofticer and gentleman?" I doubt if the peerage usher ice a pri. and Mrs. Sterling with her. They Everything goes by fasblotea, "You took up their abode in Leaden until - may as well be out of the world as vete school would stoop so low. sPring, living very retired, and pre- eat of faabion," and tbat is true of the NEW ITSE FOR SAWDUST. paring for a, marriage ROC a long tour young people. in those days it was lt, ie stud that the present genera, er one or two along the sides to bang abroad.. fashionahle for boys and girls to how , Early in Meg, DO, John Sterling left to their elders, to polit,•ly address their tem lna?' Witness the extraordinary the (linseed poultry to let cool and to wen heads end ;mantles. During the his patients la St, Jude's for 11. very parents; In slacrt, to carry their man- speataele of dredges being employed to , gr,tt,r part ce the wingon, mos room prolonged holiday, and joined his moth- ners with them, Now, the fashion has reelitim the enormous deposits of sow- mey be used. for storing feed, chicken er LA London. And a week ater, changed; the thy addresses his tether Med; at, the bottom of the Mama River. coops, etc.; the stove will be handy for there was a. quiet weddiiXg ; and Aroy, as the governor, and his mother is for the third time, Were the Merry known tie his maternal ancestor; the. By a new process, sewdust, slabs, bark bu'iling up Purtatuu3 end abet TeSe" tables for the fowls, en. there as quickly as possible. 1.1 ba- ler for two persens to work together, so as to fietsh each bird. in the shortest poseible space of time. If one is slow, pert a the feathers may become set, end. then canna be removed without: tearing the skin. Should one lx• so un- fortunate as to tear the skin of a fowl., sew epivith needle and white thread. When ono has a good deal of poultry to dress yearly, it will be found of ad - ✓ entage to have a rooms for that. per - pen. A Iean-to to the henhouse will ;laterally be most convenient. It this is furnished with a. skylight, all the better. It ahead be light, ancl large enough' to give sufficient room for a, stove, to warm the room as well as to keep the water bot for scalding oe other purposes. The floor .-shoulcl, be smooth and eight. A scantling should be pa across the rem at a -convenient height, with a, few spikes driven, in to hand the birds while, dressing; anceli- to eleep." veil and ortioge wreath of a virgin old geutlemen are treated to a dose of and al refuee from sew nulls can be Bat Isabel Vence pushed away the • d Lel 1 bride, and 'became a Merged wife et slang and often profanity, on every pos- a.a.pielly converted tote carbon, This map With her delicate hand, and fin t ;able treasiou. You say this iii too earbon le powdered and mixed in. equal. Thtiy wont abroad. Three ytnrs i bey harsh ! ter great dark eyes on the matron's I (spent on the Continent; there svith a. 'Mange have been smoothed ov- quantity with limestone, and the mix - face. er and let pass long enough, let us fare "What Is it1" still in that faint baby antl a Swis-s nurse, they returned tho true ailtititiou with eyee wide opentura is esubjeeted, tor ten hours to an dairyman ;it tlIIS tis of the• year. • tvhisper, "What has happeeed I What Mime and Illatkwood Grange timeline i et must Ie eeneesess that the meets Intense ole telt current, strong is le? 'Tell toe -tell me m» the happiest home ite the land. ' nen end ;lotions of ithe avenge bay enough to envert iron into a boiling During the warni weather tbe princi- • She looked et Amy-Mem:ow oteerned Dr • ''''''un liu 0 niudel end a Paragon and girl are diseoureging. What sort miles, and lead into an explosive ;gas, eat que,stion ig O15e. of proper feed, but straggling back in her dull brain; she ot married perfeetian e and Amy fiterl- of a future ctin you promise for the The melt is calehim cathide, Calcium „ now IMe Ma i 1 CI . t mattes' of shelter nos its I - looked at Mrs. Sterling ; she looked i illS is the lumpiest. lit the 14 ifei the bless- y,oung nen who spends every dollar ' oarbicle is elreedy familier to the public; aronnel the estrange room, at ler ewes edest, little ;nether, in Merry England. he gets hola a foolishly ? What sore of as the Frubstaswo from which acetylene Belt aloeg withe thquestion of ss dif I *rm. CAR.CNCr FOR THIS CAT,VES. Thee que.stion should .receive tbe es - meta consideration of farmer and dress -and all burst upon her like * (Tile end.) a feting een 3,011, predict fee tee your g gas is made, Tile PrOCOSS Of tile MB 11. Went: method of feedi•ng the ealeee .• Gash. Sbe sprang up in hed with a be druLum oP Mugas is tieing so oheap- ivhith luive tyalgroem the filet of plein WOlMile lei10 We:: mire as pure as t ; '. . . A TTSTRTA N PA TIT TAMENT. entesi that; even now, it is said, a 'Ewen- 1 . ,, , , . forryget. All motionsre ain order. I ther's commend;Ia s nentreaties and •I' ' tsri've ''''''1144('P°'wer nzetyieno lifot milk. Much ot tee vigor ena growth smsxbhbc ettainea during a summer and fall of , cthotee who hotted it might. ester • • - - .t lily, who utterly disregards her mo. . "Lot I" she shrieked, "lost I lost I Met. I" She fell bask; there woe a fierce aon- vuleion thee teemed rending soul and .. ., .. body apart, and Isabel Vance. lay on wattle mile en bour afte,r.snaking It whose need turns quickly to some . 'MIt ., • the' pillows lila eae dead. a,n,u, ; y ot raw ana,terial, would pos. growing froln the data of berth nil- Tt hi alweys int order to lay meraers bright, boy or girl whose downwerde The nit-I:night hour had struck, ne Well ita ;mature on the table, tbe course bes readied a elate of rapid.; gess tier valed. nelventages foe its mat it- tli it takes'ile pinee in the dairy herd. ' Through the rain, wind, and high -piled -----------------------------e sneer, Dr. John heel. bravely made his, , progreesi Whet is going to be done i fae'lAll'e" ; if this has been the Mtn since the. milt Piveryoneernaking materna must be spends her time in Lbe streets in e,om- provided with a second, pany with young men and women, A motion is logt when the 'never of , whose therattters will not bear investle some hue topt recovered consciousness gegen? Probably there is not one but I roe y • alt hnUr, Mall only be reassured. ae to Lhe safety , of teas gas for domestic. use, there should. he a great future for it, and ••• • I t generous and Intelligent feeding may be, lea during the Wintee .months. The idea, is to keep the calf. thrifty and warmed. and at regular hours, any ono %noting fed Cillifea iltiy will never thrive wben fed on cold milk or warm tes avenlince or chance suay decide, mad xvIre 1.11,, time of feeding' Is regulated by the same baphaxard system. Right here many and many 11111,a calf lays the fourelatien fur Impaired stunted appetite, rough coat. and weakened comditution. Aside from the lel, the little one Itolialwatei•jtal iLto4 i'thic7syasItZtit rtal41u111.11.-' ed. As soon as old enough place be- fore it; (gent CIOVer 11.113' and, let, it pick a, few whole oats; if Ile; milk sup- ply is short then solo., FlliiBI it tan nittat be end, suth as oat meal, flans -seed or corn meal. Icor older calm; noth- ing is better than whole mite and elov- or hay, or shcat ones, cut; green, make asi exeellent feed. The aim /Omuta be Lo produce growth withouc establleh- tog a tendency to lay Ma fat. For eev- oral years we have been adding a tit- tle entilage to the ration and find i1. to he greedily catee by the celves and the results aro very satisfeetery in the way of vtgoroue growth, thrifty condition. But the feed is but a part of the necessary care at this season. Feed and Welter muse go together, either alone will nut prove mirth lent, we caenot all build expen.sive barns, but we ono all provide comfortable quartere, buildings that are warm, light and well ventilated, by covering the cracks and packing the of the walls with four le Nix Lane, of strew or old hay, a single board building can be made perfectly comfortable. Be- ware of craeks on the root as well as on the Knee Lena around the doors; they admit more cold air then a person warm, it; will make in their aptearenie waem, that is the idea, It is wonder- ful what a, differea.e it will !Bake in their appearance. Intel will then be used in prodming growth and not; ex- clusively in keeping up the heat of the body. Be careful about leaving the d001:5 stand men. We would not keep the stock in hoL-heusee, but we would p.braortee etteh(eim lelereefoual% ek.nntetwadactirual;mteelyr lee() advised big boys to go out before breakfeet and rub their bands through the heavy frosts to get used to it, so the.y would not feel the cold so severely when. they went into the eornfield. There are farmers who say they let the stork stand in cold barns or stables so they will not feel it so keenly when compelled to go out for feed or water. Away with such neneense 1 we say. And bow about the brush end currycomb? Have they a pari in. the care of the young stock? Try a few applications it you ars in doubt and see; take the brush end do same vigorous rubbing until the hairs snap, and see how the little things will enjoy it; it has a good influence on the disposition of the future dairy cow, the more tbe calves are handled the guteter they will be when ready for the .milker. way, thel retuned the Grange ea Ilse AN INSULTED MAST, ellen ot to-rnorrowe Are we going to nv.trA OF RACING, ; was droPped, the question now lo how rnyetio hoer bed, oitruelc, Amy met je,meloyete waretney-I am worm., ere we to bandits the yolingster so rag hiln with 0, white, soared. foee, ea, sir, met yoa ettend home ram to have it COMO Oa in the spring still "She is ?Tying, John] Oh I if you and bet on them, groWing, and aufferieg froine no lecelt- toula have bet come wiener! Nothing Meek coolly -I won athousend dol- ea from indifferent etre. In the raat- eati; SaVe her notes" lees lest week, tee a teed. the. yorortger calf of (merge 'Nothing deulci have atiseed her at any Ernploacer. eeeitedly-t-Where &ea get tube, MY aerlint Wormer would. Mtge about et? "The boy of to -day is the Staanmerslese-What's come between sit down and do nothing but take it you end Inundation? for granteci thet things must retnain Osgood -Oh. It was nig wag, He 00 because things aro sof Who Is go. saki. to mee What's the nee takingi ing to save the Nem and. girls 11 fettle Every men Sae his peke, and you, know en mother and the borne don't? No - 11. Tben T asked hens what his was, end body, be wanted to figbti Tbe Wonaget WhO takes her nepping yie bp.4 JAN. :IS, 1896 L01\111016'. DOH Pard. ALMOST THICK ENOUGH 71 cuT WITH A KNIFE, cement; settee °COM' le PIP 610010 Mei the MOMillW et:linear ('it Ile Su Mum tot. leeg le na, of mune, leveller to len, don, though the fog of leintIon Iriti at- tributes quite pe,ttliar is it car Chan- nel fogs an well known to all 14asel. ing on lint Continent, awl letween luta and Plyni,aith steamors aro tee - (prettily obligee to slow dowa st car - lain seasons of tlet year on itecount of it. Acconling to Mr, Itrelyard Kip - /lag, in the "Rhyme of the Three Seal. ere," tho killing grounds ten reaelmit "Half etc= aloud by geese and lead, Los' the sun is fleetly veiled. Terough fig to fog, by luck mei log, sail yo mis Bering ealled." In our eunniatet Milne says the Nib' Telegraph, there ars of- ten days when a thick, damp, .grey shroud hangs over everyteleg. Only last week the Royal Buckheands were tumble to go oul on aecount of it. But London fog comes down to us through the smarto of test, thousand chimneys, and lias a power in collecting and bringiug 1 eve every impurity in the air analogous to Out of the isinglass unit la the Being of wine. It is not difti mit to underetand that respirable alr, with its proper proportions of oxy- gen and nitrogen, ellen as al lung - breathing animals require in a state of purity ansi abundance, cannot ab- sorb quantities a carbon in the form of soot nzi'i sulphurous and sulpburio acid without bet:on:Ling heavy, yellow, opaque end. oppressive. Meeeover, London air is being cometantly breath- ed over and ovei again by it* millions of human beings and animaLe, and it is e medical truth that it would only be necessary to keep people long enough together in it (eon room for them to poison one anotther. The tragedy of the Black Hale of Calcata ie ire tame enough to name, Now a foggy attune- phere Le invariably a kagnant one, and, thus it may soon become fatally eon. taminated with germs of all sores and miasmic vapors. ITS ACCIDENT RECORD. Aster as hospital admissions for cm- cideats are conserned, a t•picebt yellow fog is only second to a hard frost rine slippery street. But any Mug spell a fog, such AS that of the close of 111111, sends the death lute from aieeases at the respiratory orgen,s up with si bonne. le, is also highly conducive to the spread of intluenza, of wheth there is a certain amount about at the mos- ent Hine. To any whose lungs Alitid- pipe and mucous membrane generally as's at all susceptible, a fug, with its horrible hurdea of soot and Impuri- ties, is intemely irritating and. often causes trying cough. The eyes, too, suffer painfully [rem the same cause, and there nem,: anfortunately n ("TY little practical remedy to offer eo long as coal must be burnt. The general uses of smokeless anthracite would greatly mitigate our inconveniences end clangers, but that, perhaps, is more than we dare expeet in tans goner- tton. Some too, may be hoped for as oil beeomes more widely employed for cooking or 'Iris lag um- ohenery, aad so far as contaminatinie the air L concerned. the substitution of the electric light for gas is ea ma- mentie gain. London has, of course, bad its "great fogs," even as it has had its "great tires." There was the memerable Cat- tle Show in the sixties, when a nuni- bar of the poor tat beasts were ximply euffocated, and there is also that his» torso occasion on which Mr. Toole suc- ceeded in reaching hie theatre and found that; only one solitary sight- seer lead done the seem," the t•wo at once sympathically fraternizing in misfortune. OM of the most curious effects of a. fog is the way in which it will CaUSe peeple to mistake oven the snost familier MBAS and XOUtil4ii Sometimes it; is wtholly uneccountable how the error has been made, as one may have imagined hinueel going per. fenny straight through a square to find that he had COOSSOCi 11 arld got to SCISSORED AND PENNED. Nature's method of feeding hens is a. grain; at a filial', and constant search, Lag anti scratching during meal time. This :method, we should imitate as far as possible. ,Test wey t,his w pea is mot MOTO widely grown L herd to see, for it. cer- 'mealy is one of the most valuable legu- minous plants that we have for re- storing the fertility of the soil. And as a money crop they aro not to be de- spised, as ne seed is generally as high as beans. The proper wait° clean a ben -roost is to first: enemy everything out doors, roost poles, roast boxes ana loose boards. Give them a doee a oil and. apply tbo' match. If the wood takes fire is ce0 be put out by throwing sand. on it. Now rake out all the fowl dirt, and give the inside a good coating of whitewash. Do this once a moan. No water is thrown In ear yard at any place that will color the snow in the winter tirae. Palle are used and weary- bit is cahried off and tbrown away from tte house, leek among our berry bushes. There 14 nothin,g I hate to see worse than enow all colored at the back yard by throwing dirty water OSS it. When. young men tell you they never Mad experimeet station bulletins, that they take n,o stock whatever in tbe farin institutes, end, at the Seale time, they are about to be solot out undex mortgage, on a farm their old tether gave them free of •delit, there ia some- thing wrong in the brain mechinery a those men, end no mistake. Hens that are being "corbelled" for ogle production should not be "stuffed." "Ilheir food being of the proper charac- ter their crops should. *sever be more than moderately fall. It is o, delusiOh to eupporie that bens will not eat mote i than. s good for theum As in the MEC of human beings 'when tempted by ap- petizing Viands, they will gorge them - helves, and thus bring on indigestion, end waste energy in the effart to get rid, of the ausplus. TALKING PA11110itS. Toekb, a talking parrot:, owned. by Ur. Grant Ridley, of Holloway Road London, Eng., brings in to his master 4300 every yettr. Mr. Ridley has been often& :21100 for biro., but le is worth more thin, that. This wonderful bird lets perfect commen,a over e000 words and never pets a sentenee together in- correctly; he me; elect talk three Ian- guagee and, ton dialeets, selThateves language or tlittlect you address him in he will reply to in the same Reigns Eighty pounds was mild, by Hie Areh. ditehesa Stephanie, widow ot the Aug- trian, Crown Peinca, toe a parrot whiel could reette the Paernester In six dif terent languages. mien the Arch duchess gol, the woculerful hircl home i could not eller se weed, and the mer ohant who sold, it, wee arrested for fraud. It tuned out that he Woe a ventriloquist, lied. he lied taught the birct to open, bis Mouth end appen,i• to be telking sviale his ventriloquism last ed, The Stilted of Terkey paid 45 fOr a grey parrot that coeld speak 25 0 will receive in eltimmilk, properly words, 0 EXACTLY.' THE OTHER SIDE. Without an exceedingly good "bump a locality," end the faculty of ra. membering even in the gloom and darkness a, number or small but fre- quent landmarks, Dee way is almost certain to be lost, even though tra- versed. daily, and the rare possessor of this useful attribute is sometimes as- tonished on ru foggy night to observe the utterly strandesl and belated ap- pearance of whole groups of people In the localities *with whieh, under oedi. nary eirettmetances they would be, quite at home. Probably nose: unfortunate pereons who fall into the river or the decks on foggy weather know the tracks they might eately follow, but are eivertedstrota them by the strange gloom, in; which everything Lutetium mysterious hnmla1iuiUom and unlikeness to its usuel appen,ranos. "Po be mit down: suddenly by a ten - rivet unable to clrive turner, is, oar - Imps, ono ot the most, eompletely lia. fling experiences of a. fog, A 410ct, x who thus found himeelf le a square in whkel several petleas lived, acid where ha Aetna' almost •daily, de:corned him- self as beieg• ae completely lost; as it set dowbt bit a, totally unknown region, But it is tm> be feared, net tb certain, implicit of fog is inevitaltle, Lhough more mailie spirit ;tett coneidera Lion tOli One entitle, s ims t,Isc sassal LOX csi burn- { ng less smoky feel, might retrieve same of its Worst. fel:three, for, &see the eel: Val% Ot clond, emit% and a egel el ramie of an, and there are the faetore of a, fog. NO CRITERION. Anxious lOtother-My dear, it's per- fectly abominable the way the men hug yeti at theee Motel hops, Now look 0,1; thtet cotiple coshing this witty. See bow respeafully thet, gentleman treats; the lady he Is deeming with. Ile holds her eihnost at arm's length. 1?rette lOaughter-lint; ntin, itholitr nit worried.