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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-4-1, Page 22 THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 1, 1,8418 Under the Lilac Tree satiate. she locked her in her room, and more eut to the woeld tbat- te to was 1! a At those timee Lord Severue W041 t abuoet mad With 1110T1-iaMt1011 and annoyanee. There had been ROM CII A P -Flt 11 XIV te on t + is Ha aed it tall 00041104 40 TOIllark terrible scenes once or wive, when 1. "1 wiah they would me" she said to UI : "I an gube tty sure it will found out" 1 Yet eke, as well en I. saw lune limos - slide it, was to remove Lady Severna Net ereeent. 0110 night r was very tired and bad gone. earlier than -meal to my room. Tt Wig 110 that made me forget tu *mien the door, WOrll Mit With eorrow and diemay- .grief al Lady &warm+, dietress for lady Yorke, and sorrow inexpreesilde for Mirk -I fell into a deep, dreamiese sleep. was wakened by tile that some one. had steitlthily entered my room, and was trying to find me. am ageoue le maul e. f a . had disturbed me I sluntld have felt no fear, but this wets no thief. A. tblek muffled, hoarse voice welspered, "Miss Chester." Then I felt the beat of a. fevered breath on my fees, and I know that Leder Severna 'WAS tbere, I rose beetle, and. turned up my lamp. A crouching, horrible figure was clinging to me, could hardly be- lieve that This wae the beautiful !Lady Severne, who held all men enthralled by her charms. (To be Continued.) "41 hen the 1 isitors retired, T remain- quietewm r, arer if 1 St1V that ehe bas asked for ei eiarthe lies off ber aril and T ad I room, I thought."' Severne made her esegaUpe. ' Y d. to give Lady Yorke a report of all eontinued Lady Yorke. "if you were; Lady Yorke, who had suspeetea In; thet Abe- .hed, left for ent to arrenge, , V1111ing 1 wuuld give her the roma next ' Italy e I;at was a reng, now SaVsit , , tO veer% In the 'Queen's Wing."rhere! plainly and forthe lumen- I lied and. then t told ber of (he unearth-. ski, .s‘ utte see>, slot you are tiol bold t Ord Seszne bie.eitt eater 1: Lady leeveeee's roe= end good, that this pe iftd 0050 11104t grieved, hut not etteaeoued he mem. WIl ly noise thee I had heard mining from ema; en„. Ometet.; y„ „ are a„ t„.0 et to !MI e was resat; ant vette imatee et me well a strange ex. towel your heart. AN ill you Me her 1 I 1 Lady Severne C4108 to her senses sometimee? You did me geed; you attain she re:mid not be removed. The r preaseien on her (ave. „ might. do ber good. You rearlahned me only thing WitS to maintain The Retina 0 "Did you really hear this yourselt, from a life of idle cielf-indulgenee of Hines% and keep her iceelededr in her ; room. It was 'tow three days sinae Martha Glyde, going One evening to put eway her jewels, found her in- sensible and knew what had happened. "We shall beef+ a week of it," she said to me; "I know that," "Surely not, if WO keep everything from her?" "That we cannot do. I have been sharp and diligent. as a detertive; so hes Ley lord. Yon may baffle the run- ning of a rogue 03' a thief, hut. never the t•unnine, of a drunkard. His knel- 1 • + - 1 Miss Cheeter ?" she asheil, ; you wield reclaim bor.' . "Certaiely, nest 45 1 have told you.; "I will do anything, you wish, Leda i Yorke -anything," Lady Yorke." 1 "It will be a'great relief to me 11 "Had any one !teen in those rooms you will help Martha Glyde to remove wonld they have heer+1 It In the time the unhappy woman. I do not want faehion 1" she asked. . Masham or any of the eervants to know ! it. I must return to my vieltore. I "They must," I replied. shall truel entirely to you." 'Men," she eaid, speaking to her-' She heetened aeay, having me him- self rather thin to MP, "11 must he ror strie,ken and lewildered. Oh, Mark, seen to at once.. Poor Mark." , my dear lost love, it would have been t did not like to say any mere', tut better had you. died, - 1 went to my room more unhappy than CHAPTER XV, ever about Mark, more puzzled than: That was tbe eolution of the nets. ever aboue the mystery surrounding tery. That was the cense of Mare's hie wife. I re atchfulness and ealeery, and of Lady 1 looked forward with some maxiosity ISeiz.n-eartzteed'atteeitueoliiictirlintixa.me:r?imghthiallt tcf- to seeing her the next day; Int at ei5yes that thould have been FO tr3Itle; breakfast table. came the apology - and lustrous. That was the muse of Lady Severae did not feel well enough; the hectic color that so often took the Hare of th,e daintv bloom Tbat was to come duwnstairs. Mark's fare was •i'vhy a pretty bright yoane.maid would. e study, yet no one seemed to notice have been quite useless-wby the old - It but myself. The knowledge that erly woman kept watch and ward ov- there was a mystery in the belie° was, er her mistress. Of all the horrible fates tLat eoulti have overtaken my painful to me. Lady Yorke too seem- poor Mark.surely none could have been ed distressed -not merely anxious, 1 ut more terrible than this! All the ang- dieereesed, I saw tears in her eyes, and er died in my heart; there was nothing eaten we were alone she eighed fr6; left tut profound eompassion. NOW I could understand why be would not quently and deeply, as though AO: say anything to me about his wife. He had something on her mind. 1 might well look so worn and haggard. In the evening, just before the dress-; 1 forgot- that he had dereived me, Eng he" rang' to ntY; ast;'nislmwnt 1 lo'nlihttellitnnYniOtierthdthf2eydidealltZtVelvnt Martha Glyde rapped at the door of 1 with a great pity and yearning. I Lady Yorke's Imeloir. .. 1 would, have given my life to save bis ' She tvauted "to speak to her lady-! safe and help Min+ 1 I will Tlot dwell oe the terrible scene ship utast parlieularly," Int she would 1 that mos enaeted when Lady Severne not keep her 'mtg. I went away and' was 'taken to her new rooms. 1 hope left them together. ; that I may never see such a sight again I During dinner I saw that Lady ; -such a, leering, smile, drooping, hea.- 1 vy head sullen eyes and reeling fig - 1300. WaS quite unlike herself, iter"; ure. ' vous, agitated, unequal to the om i "1 am glad you know alout it. Miss melon. and more than onee sbe glans- , (Mester," said Martha. "It is a heavy ed imploringly at Lord Severne. 1 secret to carry all by one's self. At times I can ttardly tear it. I told Lady Dinner over, I was not much sur -1 Yorke you mould be the right one to prised when a servant rams to say; trust." that Laity Yorke wished to see me In I Partly from her and partly from her boudoir at once I went. I had ; Leda' Yorke I heard the whole sad stem°. I am no advoirate for total ab - never seen the mistress of Westtiood etmeete; although 1 have a horror of look so sad. or so distressed before. 1 excessive drinking. 1 simply telt this "Just turn the key in the door. Miss; sad story as it was told to ate, and re - (4 1214 said. "I want a few, cead the incidents I 411,-• e I There is no need. to go far back in - minutes' conversation with .700 with-. to Lady Severne's life. She was well out. interluption." 1 born, well bred, married when she was I did as she wished, and then stood. very yoang,. and went with tier hus- Wort her, wonderine, at her agitation,' trd,b0Claptain Nugent, to India. When ; is eelale vice first took hold of her pale faite, ale sorrow expressed in; her no one knew. There was some tit- her e bole demeanor. She wrung her I tle rumor of it in India; I ut she wee hands, began to speak, and then hesi-I so young and so beautiful that no one tated. I believed it. It was not until she be - "The fact is," she said. "I ain et 11 00014 Tady Severne that it attracted loss what to say or how to begin. f any attention. She said afterward feel the shame and the disgraee keen- I that see took no more than other lad - Re -two or three glaeses of Wit10 at as thougn they were my own. I raust ; tell you, but I do not know how," ; lunclieon-perbaps a little champagne "Is it -is it of I.ady Severne?" 1 ; if she felt tired or Slow," a little more asked. 1 wine at dinner, and during the even - "Yee," she replied. "Tbalik 700 for ; ing cbampagne at ane party, sberry tit breaking the ice thus far. It is of her; another, and always brandy at night. She liked it; she wen careetes, and nev- i want to speak. You asked me if any-; thing were wrong with her, am' 1; er thought about the coneequenrete More than once Lord Severne. seeing told you Yes, the ranker was aiwitys ith the heart of the fairest rose: the ' lisr glass fined and refilled,would say. worm always destroys the se eeteat , "lie eareful, Lttrline, that wine is bud," I strong." She would answer laughing - "I remeniter, but 7 did not under-+ IS: stand in the least," 1 ,.aid. 1 "I do not mind how strong it is; if ; it sparkles." "Proltably not. Lady Severne. is beau - HAIL eharming, she bee many tub:air-1 More than once be was dielressed at able queeities, she is very populate' finding bottles of brandy hidden limey hut there is one fatal drawbaele SO in her room. .A. lad. habit grows quiek- fatal that all the other gifts are neat- ly. The terrible day came when Lord ralized by. it." Severne, returning home earlier than "What is it, Lady Yorker I asked, lima!, found her. -Ah. -well, I climate anxiously write the word! Prom that tluae all "I am asimmad to tell you. They are semblance of happiness ceased between almost the. most horrible words that , them. They hail been married only six ean be said of a woman, but. they are weelcs when he made the diseovery. He unhappily true, Wise Chester. The derided at once what to do. They could fact as, Lady Severne drinks." never live at Severne Court; the grand 1 recoiled as though she had struck inheritance that had. roma to him was me a terrible blow; but Lady Yorke useless. He dared not make her 1015 - looked relieved at Laving told her hor- rible seeret at last, "It is true; the drinks." "Hue," cried., aghast with horror, "she is a -a laity; it minuet lie possi- ble!" "It is quite true, Miss Chester," "Hanka 1" Mess of the household; she 11, 44 too far gone in her downward course for that. He could never make. his home In England, where big misfortune must he known at onee, He could. never know when OT how the shame and ills- gym:a might fal, 13.11011 him. He took her to Italy, hoping by trowel, novelty, teach a solution of the mystery had and eonstant earo to wean her from never oeteurred to me for a. moment. her weekness. If Lady 'Yorke hetd seal, "She cheats At first, there was wine aligeat !m- at (lards, she would rob her neighbor, provement. and it V. OA while that Ru- shee has collimated_ nourder"-even then proveumnt lasted flat they had met 1 should not boost felt ea eurprised. It Lord and Lady Yorke. But Lady Set, was horrible to think htal. this beau.- erne was not mixed, and there were ULU woman,. Mark's wife: should be irregularities in her manner whieh guilty of so degrading; a. ewe, made them think strangely of lame and 'But. how es such a thing poesibler prevented her from twang fterorite I (tried, eagerly. "Surety she could 51 them. They liked Lord Severne avoid It if she would r exceedingly, thes were ultra...led I,y "I caenot She says it is it hie melantholy, which at firitt they did e disearte that seizes ber and holds her not undertaand. Lady orke esatted fast In Re eluterbee. At times, for from Lord Severna a promitze that weeks together, she is all that men be when their frame to England they WOU'Il ileSir0f1.-.111081. agreeable, (harming, fas-. einating woman: then for a few dor; she appears absolutely to Mee all el -in- tro) over herself." "Nut why do they let her have in- tozieating lemurs? Why not keep them from her 1" asked. "Tbey catmot. You may be sure thel, Lord Severna has tried everything, (it.) has that: faithful maid of hem Martha Glyde, It is metier to soothe the par- oxysms of the intone than 10 apes:get sueh a craving as hers. I have heard Martha say that when this horrible craving of hers ie on her she sloop to anyibieg to get what she events," "How terrible!" I oried. "010, Leda Pirko, with. I hail not known it 1" . • "I sm obliged to tell aou," she said: Ler heart erased. Nothing was of any ‘,0 en ye; tleet, le is tee nueeet eeall-prayere, teara, aelviee, auger; inlpossible that ail wefe useless, Tho beautiful and 1141' «1410 in the west- 'Mired. Lady Severne tVali secret f mesa time no drinker, a woman who bail delivered seeret hereelf to ale honclage Of an evil spirit, te, Martha. to the, heavy yoke ot ehameful habit, 1. she re- She bribed servants, the did hinge very one .that, in her better days she would .old, me have revolted from doing. . Yet 80 raith- as she 1111 wile Martha Glyde, loyal and OVP thoughtful tvies ber hustend, that her terrible 000111t, W44 141111y ItT1011/4. hen Martha Saw Una a 1st Wee Itultilrelne 413 ft was lc ry 11 OW ling to COME, here, Martha eontinuad; "Ina Lady Severne promieed faithfuely to give no trouble in tele way. She is fond of Lady Yorke and she maid It weer so long sinee she had really enjoyed herself, The third day we were here his lordehlp said to me, "Martha, I had better have died thee Lave Nought her here 1" Ile talked. to her, oh, so kindly She (reed and made al( sorts of promises, but it. teas all in lain. Look at her 110W." Lady Yorke told me much the seine atom-, adding that Lord Severities die - tress when he 54145 compelled to tell her the truth was terrible. "1 am sorry for her," said Lady Yorke; "but for Itim my pity knows no bounds. He cannot go into society. If he takes her with him; he lives in con- stant fear; if he leaves her at home alone, ids fear Is greater still. His whole career is spoiled, his whole lifa blighted; he is miserably unhappy,and I see. no leme or help for bim. It is a miltstone tied. round Ws neck." Her words were so many blows to ine. The very novelty of the aiscovery made me only the more miserable, I could not help asking: "If yot knew or this, Lady Yorke, why did you ask her here?" Yet the thought thane to me that, if they had never come, I should always have believed Mark to be dead. " woe not quite sure 0( 1(4 in Italy, and I never thougbt-1 could never have dreamed -that it had reached this point. Honestly, much as I like and pity Lord Severna, if I had known the whole truth, I should not have invited there, nor would Lord Yorke have done so. I cannot tell you. how tinplte :Int it is. Every moment of the day 1 ant in anxious suspense and misery. What an expose it would be if any of the other guests should get to know it 1 And In it large household like this it is almost impossible. to keep such a secret.'' "It is -very difficult," I replied. "You will do your best, I know, Miss C'hester," said Lady Yorke, to evhom anxieties of any kind were quite new. "Lord Severn° has promised nezi that he will take his wife away as soon as she recovers, and I shall be glad." "Wbere will they got" I asked. She looked just a little surprised at the question, believing them to be strangers to me. "Somewhere on the continent," she answered. "He will never be able to lice at that Leautiful home of his." "But why does ne not send her away r "I suppose that he would do it if she were always alike, but you sea there are me,ny weeks together when she is herself, eharming and beautiful." "Does he love her r 1 tithed, 41 1- 01141tIink he did Joh her. My.openion is that he was carried away by her heaaty and married her In a sudden fit of impulse. I do itot think she in the woman he would have cbosen (+Min- is. 7 do not think he loves her 0011., No man could love a, woman itildieled to that vire. He is very anxious, very unhappy; he smitrte under the disgrace; he is elways nervous and appre.he.nsive; but I do not think he loves her." Was it so much the better, or so Marti the worse? Lady Yorke liesteneet away, and 7 was ;left to my own thoughts. Granted Heel It. was, Nemesis, grantee that Murk bad done wrung, it was a terrible min- islunent. It rendered all the gifts of fortune lieelees to him. I (mulct eympa- adze with his difficulties. If he tried to put her away from him, it would only draw pule% attention to that wheel 113 woe most. anxiety; to eonceal, 11. eaterned to me that kerne noble mo- tive a:quitted hint. He had taken the hapless woman for better, for tvorse, and he 11113 trying hie best. Ile. gave her the shield, the proteetion of his name and his borne. 1 Lupe I shall never have aeotber seat .terrille experienee, It wee too terrible. Watehing and oaring for a madwomen must he had enough; this was woree. Strange to say, the 11 ft 41-, lege lady tone a faney to me. Looking at. her, so changed, so repellent; I could not, beliel-e that she would ever be the same altractiee woman ntotin, But Martha, said "Yes;" In a day or two she would reeover herself, and 00 0128 on teeing her would have the least sus - P104011. This 11114 the worst and long- est, 11(4 .5140 hod ever had. There were times when she knew ine, and I mute ellen she dul not, visit; 11 esthood, and when lineiness "You. ate Miss Chester,- she said to 0114ters eumpelled Mark to return ha ree. ''t like 3,1iss Chester -a eweet fitee kmit his promise, but it 1144 in fertr and a 1 eautiful ;mace. Have They told and ireiniiling. bee aesured You ehoet me, her husband., as she hail often done be- "They have told me tbet you are very fore, thet the tvould keep a starlet and am here to help you, to get guard over herself. int 42 tti It and again Is; tea:" ,, she had relapsed into aer old hatits, ', 0041 I. never get. Leiter," she said, For durieg tbose long menthe ttlem ilea that 1301 the meet sober and sen 4155 tem plenty of money at, her l,010. 41610 interval she had. mette, Lady Severne lied one from AL amen she valuta cling to me wild - had to worse. Tier lemband NVEL:; RI let crying oat that I meat get 504045- 1a81, eotratelled bave the asastanee thing for her; that they were keelting ot Martha Silvio, eul in spite of all her there in prison, trying to starVe the care lavished on her,- in spite of ber. Hoerible paroxysmic 1 all preraul ions, when these, terrible Poor ilaark I Thio was the end of all fits 041110 upon Lady tieverne, she al- his honoree happiness and amletion I How I thought of him' How I pitied Mint How longed Lo comfoxt 131401 It eeemed to me that rover bad te life beim so retread, Lady Severne did net itnprove. The visitors were beginuing te feel aux- iotts. Lady Yorke wee Leset vvita irt- quirles. Wite she really so that the meld see no one? Why eat bleb a dector A. feverish void did riet last all this time. Was Lady Yorke. Bute the -re wee nothing infeetioati- quite Rae? Tt wee a, strange, thieg. Lady Yorke WAS at a lose how to perry euch 41 ways managed to get. that for whieh CREMATION IN PARIS. An .everage of eweeve 140,111,0 Reduced to eeees mite: The Municipality of Paris has just completed the second arcade of the great columbartum at Pere Is Chaise, thus doubling its faellilietz for the re- ceptiom of the a.shes of ereatated per- sons. When cremation first berme:to fashionable in 1882, it was thought that 5. bairlding providing niches for 9000 urns 1100141 130 suffivieet for many ye.ars, but before the end of the decade the space was entirely exhausted. _Al:t- aller building was ereeted, and that, too, soon became filled. It was then seen tbat cremation had taken a strong hold upon the people, and that some de- finite plan must be made to keep pace with the progress it was 011(13122411 then the columbarium was decided upon. The loo areades occupy two sides of the reetangle in which is situated the great stone crematory. The lova:teen is just south of the Mussuliman, celnetes3' and mosque, in the:new part of Pere la Chaege, and not far from tbe Menihnon- tent entrance. ' TETE STRUC'rf.TRES axe identical, being open on one side and closed on the other, and each is about 250 feet Lyng by 20 feet wide. The caosed sideere taken up by the niches, of which there are ten tiers, beginning at the tasselated flooring and running to the vaulted roof, There are many thousands of these ntches in each ar- cade. When an urn is deposited in a niche, the entrance is elosed with a slab of marble, which seals the opening her- meticelly. .4.11 1.111(1 Is to he eeen, then, are these rows of slabs, upon whieh are inscriptions similar to those upon greys stones, except thet they am as a 0111e, simpler. In most cases tbare is noth- ing bet a name, with the elate of birth and of death. Some aye ianeifully de- eorated, especially those of artists, the brother craftsmen spending bours of love itt the test tribute. For the last three or four years the number of persons cremated en. Paris has been one -thirteenth of the total dead. Tbe statistics for 1805, the last 705.3' available shotv: Total deaths, 58,- 950; buriels, 50,281 ; theinerations, 4180: dissected in hospitals and medical schools, 4539. In 18.94 tbe number of persons cremated. was 3902, (4.1114. 111 18116, 4802. For the eleven months ize the present year the number also excee,ds 9000. Since 1882, when a law was pass- ed permitting a person to determine how his body should be disposed of af- ter death, neagly 30,000 persons have been cremated in Paris. Contrary to the rrepttlar ide0 of cre- mation, a body le ,NOT 111."RN.1911 BY FLAMES, but by hot air. The great crematory at Per la Chaise, which is without doubt the moat complete is' the world, con- sists of two floors. H. is hunt on the side of a gentle declivity so thae mob floor has a direct entraece from witb- out. The seeond floor consists of a, east vault, in which the funeral serv- e:es are. COfltlllllted and the buining chamber. In the vault there tire mats I arranged as in a thumb. In the cen- tee aisle 114 11 railway, upon which runs a ear, or eittafalque : the railway ends ; al the doors of the burning atomized, 1 Daring The services the coffin rests up- . on this ear, by mcane of which it is fin- elly run to the end of the aisle. Then the big doors of the 1101-e10 furnate aro ope.neil and the coffin slid within, . The furnace proper la upon the Tote- er floor. Ilehind it are Et great nember of fines. The lairlang agent is oxide of carton produeed by the use of gazo- Rene, and fresh air pumped into direct contaet with the tubes is heated to a temperature of ebout 1500 Fahr. this 4.0111 1(4 takes twenty-five, minutes tO consume the body ot it child auel , fifty-five minute.s to consume that of an adult:. All that xemaina after ere - elation is a littlo grayish -White pow- 1 der, weighing 11-2 pounds in the case of a man, and less than two mounds in that of a woman. As there are hout twelve cremations daily in Paris, it will be seen that the crematory kept going pretty steady. RXGHT. 11.A.CK AT rim. Among tlea eavertleements in a 3)10» 0100151 paper there recently appeare41 the following: The gentleman wbo fou.nd n. 130060 with money In Rexford street' is re- quested to forward it to the mad:roes of The loeter, az be was recognised, A few days afterward the reply wag ineerted The rthogairoa gentlemen who pant- ed up a purse ite iterferd street re - celeste the loer to tall at his house, RESIaNTFLIL. Mammo., asked the pretty bride,heW Will X know when the honeymoon is at an end? You ean laeM very ettey, snapped the old gettleaiien, wave hetes to le Ig- nored, It always liteeks up in a ity- 010110. AGRICULTURAL ' StiA.LL FRUITS FOR T1119 FARM, Mr. C. Beasley writes on the !Mb - fret of small fruit malt tire na the ham, giving the remelts of his eeperionee ; from whieh we maple; Six )'14l 15 ago ;1 secured 200 11115413-v/1p rasliheara pinnte, 11t1 plantod 1110111 in hills in MY 1 garden three feet by six feet, or at the rate of 2,400 per acre. 1 Aimee -gave them tfuything but ordinary out tiva- Hon, enough only to keep (Iowa the weeds and grass, I think it was three ; times per year, wheel Wits less tima the care or cultivation of a crep of corn, The first year of their bearing, I pick; ed. and sold ale worth, besides what a , family of eight persons used to eat; also used a proportioeale amount put up In cans, jellies, eke The amount sold from 11(0840 1.1)0 hills bas increased. yearly, not stinting the use of them in the, faintly, until last year at the unprececlently low prim of 411.50 to $1,75 per mate of twenty-four quarts, each, I sold fourteen orates, netting me $23, or at the rate of $276 net per mate, as I figure that the amount used in the family, if sold, would more, than pay the cost of picking, boxing, etc, Wben 1 first planted the 209 hills 11.110041)11 that X might get eneugh fruit from them to supply any own table, end in that case would have been satisfied with that much return from so small a plot of ground -forty-eight by Set, enty-five feet. But eaoh year as I would jingle the twelve, fifteen or twenty good dollars that lay in 4117 pocket as additional returns in the way of bounteews profits yearly for so lit- tle labor expended, I began to study, and figure, and the more I figured, the I more I planted, out of small fruit, 1311 - tit now I have it goodly acreage that' brings me yearly returns fifteen to twenty times greater than what a crop of corn did before, and eight to ten times greater than a crop of potatoes,' .and at no greater outlay of either time 01' 4007507 10 • than either of theothenr' ear0o1p88.98rleaT(hlael, I have said about xaspberries is also true regarding currants and gooseber- ries, and I think with a greater profit to the grower, as the care and expense is not so great in currants and goose- berries, you have not the old vines to take out eaoh year, and the pruning is not so radical. The cultieation would be about the same; this is my experi- ence Natii the few currants and. goose -1 berries I have. I regret very !iamb that I did not phoat acres of them years ago where I. eow have only hills. This year I sball Plant largely of them. Can I, as a farmer who lives on a. tarm of 160 acres, :worth $125 per acre, close to a town of 10,000 people, neglect these small details, small fruits, Ni•hon 1. have proven by my own actual experiments, extending ever a period of eix years that there are im- j me.nsely greater profits in these small I cereal or vegetable 0.1041 one can raise, fruits than there oan possibly be in any yea, ten to twenty times greater'? The pleasure tee derive from growing,' them andfrom having thena fresh on, our table., says no. Aed the credit; side of ear ledger decidedly aays no.: And besides all this, what fascination and what enjoyment there is in their culture. Verily it is "a labor of love from start to finish." it is business farming. There are no mysteries about lt, just good. "horse sense" is all that is needed. BUCKWHEAT STRAW AS A FERTI-I LIEBE. Figures show thee this plant has con- siderably more ash than any other ot the grains. That it has largely more; phosphoric acid than any other, equal to four times that of wheat ; and three' thnes as numb, of lime. It has more sulphuric acid than ally other of the grain crops, and. many times as much oblorine, while few surpass it in the quantity of soda. These facts are of great interest in regard, to this really valuable mem plant. In addition, the grain tem more protein in 11 1.1150 bar- ley, and as much fat as This grain, and. nearly ttvice as much as wbeat oe rye.; At the same time, under due culture andon good land, it will yield fifty bushels per acre, which has been made several times by the writer, and, the market value of it for making 'the 5151ntalt.a0 flour, is always above that of 0 I If WE) may judge tram these facts, we. may be sure that the refuse ef the amp is of really surpassing value for the manure made ef it, when used as it. litter. It is true there is a conamon prejudice against it on account oi the belief that it has the effect of indite- ing disease in animals, under whiell it; is used us litter ; a prejudice -by the way -that, has no support in fact, and, seems to be. as 1 1 I founded its the belief that it may b(1 geown on such lands as will not yield ft profitable crop of any other kiwi. The old and eoramon "Give a, dog a bad name and you may hang it," seems to be implieable to this really valuable phint for its yield of grain and the fertilizing N'aluo of its straw, -- PRUNING YOUNG TREItS. The lollowtng extracts from slater written to Gerilanieg may be uneful theme who cantemplete prat:ling Yining trees, The writer says: It is not say- ing too muth that many young trees are ruined by severe mulling, arid many more Etre much weakened. by It. A gentleman tvho had set out an aven- ue 0( 111.08 oaks) 57501' ago, recently in- quired. if it woald be a good time to Ma away eeene of the lower braeches, °rim trees, he said, were almat seven 74-181. 1114111, an,1 it was lhia desire 10 have no breeches lower than five feet, Note 7 may say first, thee for a lawn tree, no branehee shoeld be eta etvae, The prethieet specimens are those with branches sweepieg the ground. Teta in the eese of the one teem waft snelcingt Melee, there were good reasone for de- siring that the lower branches Nhoold lea 1e retaiutel, My euewer was that fatless the them had more 10'414'1100 41'050 111'4 1444 11)1111 1 allould suelame, it Vi 011101 be highly injudicious to eat awav env or Then) until the trees. ((('144 Malinger, and 1 would zemeet The adviee to nny one erelEinta it in similtir eireuntstanees. A youtur tree well estaltlielled, and well branch+, ,Wiil grow a great ileat fester if ils branehes are 1101. taken netay. I am sure that Mei the pert). referred to tried an experiment, milting away all branebee Itelow- five feet on the halt of his trees, and lea.ving 1)10- 1)4(1415 un- touelied, he would have hetet, abundant - le eat/stied of elle eorreetnese of my adviee, 2 have seen the mietake nutile many titnee. Those who raise It rens in a commercial way are well aweeve of the danger of cutting away the lower branchee of tees too (40011. Veen in- tended for avenue Meeting. which of- ten 441re to I/0 with here stems from six to 50 0022 feet high, are not trim - men up to the required height at once, They ere let grow almost at will for a few years, branehing wherever they will, and In this way from sturdy treeks In less time than if they were primed up at (ince, A great deal the better way, as I told the party inquir- ing, is to out away a fe-w only, every year, not commencing at all until the trees are five to six feet high, hiving oaks 131 mind. 1 was exelaining thla to a friend one time. and he replied, " Well, but I see here some young oaks which you beve transplanted trimmed all almost to a bare1101.0." 0. acknow- ledged 11110 and explained that In such cases 11. 54140 31. necessity to save the life of the trees. Roots had been lost ill transplanting which bad to be met by Shortening the tops. 1 added that had the three been moved with all their roots enfant, suoh as would, lia-ve been the ease if they had come from out of poes, there would have 1188.0 no prun- ing necessary. SOAKING SEEDS. Prof. Waugh has been c.onclucting ex- periments to determine the value of soaking small seeds to Mil them in ger- minating, Both perain and diastaste were used al the experhylents, and the profeesor gams preference to the latter. He explans thati tbe: diastaste used "is really only malt extract. We dissolve one part of powdered malt in len parts of water, strain it, ana put the seeds to soak twenty-four hours. A quart of malt, worth fi:ve tents or Use, would thus melee ten quarts of liquid, Or en- ough to treat ten pounds of tomato or radish seeds, or peas." Tap; BLACK 1101. Sulphate of Iron as a winter treat- ment is used in France for preventing the black rot and other diseases of the grape, The method 'of application is to bathe or sprinkle the vines with a 10 per cent, solution of the sulpbaes and then plane a small quantity of the powdered sulphate around the base of the vine. HOW WILD ANIMALS DIE. ?einem. 01:e4-0 Them. 113e11 10 They Esc leo Ms Gan or Brown allates Spear. What becomes of all the dead birds and animals) Some of theta, hastened in their exits by villainous saltpetre, go into cooking pots or yield up their blood -dabbled featbers tor woman's adornment. Bet how about those who die a natural death? lt Is tbe rarest thing to find the bodies ot wild aninaals, except such as hove plainly died in conflict or by accident. At salt-lieks the' ground is often covered with the bones. of ani- mals who bave been killed, in fights with each other. In tropical countries the bodies of dead animals rapidly decay and their smaller bones are devoured .by greedy beasts of the pig noel hyena types. Hut the sante scarcity of aniintil remains is noted in the Arctic regions, tthere decay is almost unknown. Here big beasts like the Siberian mammoth have been "cold-stesaged" or many cen- turies, and. actually eaten at the la,st. But each succeeding spring does, as might be expected, disclose the skelet- ons oE birds or animals who hav14 died during the year and bee14 buried by the snow, Yet lerds SWARM BY THE mir.,:morrs in summer on the Arctic tundra and seals, reindeer, foxem, walruses and other land and :water animals are there. Nordenskold nutes Ilk strange absence of "self -dad" polar animals. Not 0115 did he see, tbougb tbere :were plenty of traces of man's wauton tvaste of lite In create:tees dead of gunshot wounds. "The paler bear und the rein- deer," he writes, "are fou.nd in hun- dreds. the &tat and white whale in thousands, and hires in millions, These birds remit die a. 'natural death' in untold numeers, laahat becomes of their bodies?" It is strange that on SpiLebergen it is easier to find. the vertebra of gig- antic Heard of the Tries than the bons of a sent, waliete 04 1)1151 whicb 1501 1051 o nataral death. :It is proixtble that entinals almost univerzially hide thernsel tree when they feel the pangs of approaching death. Their cilia foe is Integer, coupled with old ago. Distempee kills foxee end in:elves as well as domestics do ,tn,1 cats. Chills and heart disease want enimals as Well ati hatinan victims. Old animate die of indigestion, especia; ally talon their teeth leonine too poor to permit 01 elteweeg their feed, Tumors, diphtheria and consumption are frequent animel nomplal»th, end anthrax, infltutnem glanders and chid - ere claim their share. Rabies comes in epidemics anmete wild animals as well as tame onee. It Was 00 common ameng foxes in 1891) to 1838 in Friniee and. Switzerland that fox hunte were organized for the proterrtion of doint eatie (1(111510.111. All this, however, doesn't explain what beeernes or the dead animals, Per - boos flint mall retthe tit he mystary when we fine out, where all the pins and ebbe buttons go X tee, .0 A1.41 11II. t..4 BURNS. A 'turn znay result (rein exttestilve hest applied ia nay tve.e-bol. nth oil hot eater, Mean:, flame. 1.,0 electricity, 1'114(I Irmo extreme The in- jury resulting from menet. eith holt eater or steem is usueilee celle1 a, smile, hut is praelieally the same in its results as a burn. Surgeone speak of different degree* etf a burn, ace:wiling 10 the. amount of ; thieue des! J'Oyett by it. ;raw% a burn. of the first degree Ls one that siumly ; retlitens and irritates the ; a burn of the. eimond degree is one that entities ; actual inflammailen of the skin -with the formation of !diners; while a burn of the third degree diattroys tee skin and more or leas of the flesh beneath it, or even chars and kills all the tis- sues, ineluding the bone Itself. The effects ot a burn deriend Paatla upon its degree, but not entirely, for 4. Imre even of the first; degree may (muse death it it. Involves a very large portioa of the surface of the body, This it does by interfering wall the neiressary excretion of wealth mutton which is constantly taking place through the skin. nAy purleuritabodye81 ffEectofisu asevzInernbiniotrt 111 11117it 041 the bowels following very intense cone glaretrilunocat t utho6enest rean istehtletlivtien;sa naarle. eitmetlmes injured by The Inhalation of steam or very bot air, bul even apart gfruomonces.uch an accident, a person who has been burned ithout the chest or back is very liable to have 4.0 5.11(11113 06 bronchitis or pneumouia, in (IOOS0' ThAbirot thieg to be ;dont in the ease oda burn of any degree is to stop the pain. This should be done, not only front the naeural impulse to relieve suffering, but because the shock re- sultiag from the inju.ry may he so greatly increased by the agony as to ea:1loo 8,etshe. death of the patient, even when the burns in themselvw es ould n Covering the part with any bland substance, such as olive ull, easeline, sweet butter, or flour paste, to keep off the air, wilt often afford great re- lief, end in burns of the first degree nuthing more 13157 1.41 needed. Carron - ell, the naraa given lo inieture of equal. quantities of linseed -oil and 111n11 -water, was formerly, tind is still in many workshops, the favorite ap- lineation Or e burn. Better still Is bicarbonate of soda, cuotting soda, or calcined magnesia, matte ieto tin oint- ment with vaseline or lard, or dusted thickly over the skin. Another application which is often exceedingly grateful. is a solution of nitrate of potash, nitre. Hunters of- ten make a paste of gunpowder for this purpose. One or other of these appliiettioas will usually suffice in mild oases, and in severe burns will help to reduce the pain for the then until the dootor comes. THE SOURCES OE LEAD -POISONING, Chronic poisoning with lead is said to ite less common now tban it was some years ago, owing Lo hnprovements 111 the manufacture ot this metal, and to a more general observance of pre- cautionary measures by those who hetet to work with it. The causes a lead -poisoning are in- dustrial, as they are called, and awe - dental. Sufferers from industrial poi- soning are those who are ezegaged (11 the manufacture of artieles front le.ad, such as lead. -pipes, shot, type, It hite lead, paint, eta., and also those who handle these articles subsequently, seat as typesetters, painters, glass - °utters, flint glass contains lead, end many others. Whet is callell accidental poisoning occurs in an infinite vileiely of 4.575, some ot which are extremely curious; and sometimes the most, earefal study will fail to reveal the manner In '15 111131) the poisoning 1144 come about.. Many instances aro known of poisoning ley the use of face powders, heir dyes and other oosinelacs eontaining teed, and a few as the 108011 81 bleeping in newly paintea moths, of habitually. biting off silk threa,t wheel his been imprognet- ed with /cad powder in order fraudul- ently to increase its weight, or a the long -continued application of plasters 0031 taining lead. Most frequently, however, the metal is taken in 4.1111 food or drink tyltiob has become accidentally comentinated with it. Witletr widelt la stored in lead -lined tanks, or drawn throue,h lead pipes, nuty dissolve the 'Azalea or wash otf minute partielee of the oxide, or rust, which forms 0/1 the inside ot the tank or pipe. To ((tide 1.1110 dam. ger, the water tvhich hes been stand- ing in pipea overnight should be ale keyed to ran to (taste before any es drawn for (reeking or drinking p00 - 'rho prattle:if of drawing water front the hot -service pipes, in order that It may boil more meekly in making tea or coffee, .is a dangerous one, for the hot water is much more liable to eon - Lain lead. An occasional source of polsoeing 13 1116 1150 of pottery which has been int- perfeatly burned, so that tbe -lead in the gatee to not, fixed. Painters, Who aro among lithe most frequent ea- ferers from this diethessing complaint, usually take the poison in with thole food in consequence of eating ;the nude 7116111 with tine melted hands. A. very minute quantity of lead, if dose is repented sufficiently often, will sealer. to produce symptorne of poiecin- ‘1:11110,91.filiftitle. thivaotertniirx 4n,t,,iirchmodiwifirs9 uenvfeinu for drinking or military purposes. MIGHT BE WORSF. loather (severely) --My Erma this is al diegineofitl state of Waite. This ree port says you. are the fast boy, in the 6a1-81e8n0rry-121.1 might :etre eeee worate. father. Felber -I can't see how. Henry -There might, bete, iteen Mord loye in 1110 class, ,