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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-5-27, Page 2Ei)12Y)Rl:1 L" NOTES, the annourlcenuint made by 111. IIan entire the rierierh Minister of For- eign Affairs, 'that China has granted to France a concession for the OOP' etructton of a railway from Tnnquin to xun.nan-fu, the capital of the pro• venire of Yup curl, tied has guesses - teed ,1te not elienati•,n of the provinces bantering on Tommie, practically com- pletes the partitioning out of the mainland of Chinn by diplomatic Pro- cess. The provinces affected by the ar- rangement 1i Ws France ore Yunnan, Hwang -sl, read lisvnng-tong, forming the valley of the illi -Bien., or \fest River, that rises in the Yu0-nan had discharges into the sen at Canton. tin the coast of the last-named parttime. lti - Hong Kong with the pee/matte, of Kau - lung anti Mies Bay, the two former iu British occultation and the latter soon, itis reported, to be given to England. Ate yet tee only' treaty port of the Rei-tifong is Weethrtu, the at- tempt made by the British Government to have Nan -ping, on the sear hent branch of that river neer the French frontier in Tnnquin. included not lav- ing been-littcceesfee. 'The province of Yunnan, whose northern border for a short distan,•e 1• bounded by the \1 -lee -Kiang, whieh is under the slrec1al charge of Englend by tate recent arrangements teaching that, is a itin3 of no -man's -band. China has divested herself of her right to alienate it, end both lenglencl and France leave cancessione to build rail- ways to its capital from their respen- tiye territories an the south. Accord- ing to Article I1", of the declaration between Great Britain and Freese, signed in London on San, 1e, 180('1; "The two Governments agree thar tilt carnmerrittl and outer privileges lane. advantages conceded in the two Chin- ese provinces of Yunnan and Sett - ciente either to Great Britain ca. France, in virtue of their respective conventions anti China on Menet 1, 1804, and .lune 20, 1895, and privileges and advantages of any nature k\ 11101. may in the future be eoneated in these two Chinese provin.'es, either to Great Britain or 1'rence, shall, tie tar ss rests with theta, be extended and rendered common to both wirers and to their nationals and dependents; and tbey engage to arse their influence un1 good offices with the Chinese Govern- ment for this l,urlrppose," ender this declaration, then, the pro- vinees of T un-nan and Szu-chuan be- came a kind of neutral ground, but as the. French arrangement with China Aug announced by M. II:leonine makes no mention of the latter province, it is probable there is some fresh un- derstanding being mine to between Englene and France, concerning San- chaan, about which WE' Shall beer later. Complaints are made ;n Englund that the French are levying at 10 per rent. tariff on British goods reshipped from Hong Kong and sent into Yun-nan through the French territory of Ton - gain, last as. there are nu banding ar- rangements in existence a5 regards the transit through 'rumples, it does not appear that there 5,' ,just grounds ler those complaints. With regard to the concessions ob- tained by England turd lernnre in Yun- nan. the French would seem to have the better bargain. The topographical conditions are much more favorable to the construction of a railway to Yun- nan -fu through Tonquin than from Rritleh Burma h. 'rhe French line from Ranoi to Yen -nen -fu has the advan- tage that it would ran up the valley of the Song-ka or Red liis•er to within a very short diatunee of that city; while actress the spare between Hhanm in British Bnrrnah and Yan-nen-fu are several high mountain ranges that op- pose formidable obstacles to the ear- ly construction of n railway. In the Yang-tse Valley, on the other hand, the British Government having secured the right of navigation on the river far up into Szu-ehunn, a railway one be curried from the terminal point of navigation along the river through Sin -Oman into 'Yunnan from the north. That would he the work of some years yet, so that there is no itml,e linte likelihood of a ['lash of P'renah and 13ri- tisll interests in that part of Chintz, ON, t:ainly not while Chine has aufficlent power of cohesion left to hold togelb- er, SMALL FANS, The little i1mpire fan, so popular all winter and so convenient to handle. seems to have had its day, Fan fash- ions bevo suddenly jumped to the ether extreme, and the fan of the spring is nearly three times the size of its predecessor. Closed it is full twenty Indies in length, and spread out iL forms a truly huge expanse for the Summer girl to eimper behind and bush. Big fans will from now on be all the rage, and no one knows how large they will grow before the fashion) ollangeas, As 11 is, the woman who wants to be in good form can hardly get too big a fan, The new fan le being displayed in every variety, thou.gh it Is too- new a, fashion to have gotten into all the shapes yet:, The popular fans will be of feathers in every shade of color, spnngled, for tinsel on everything is to he the fad of the summer, and gauze pentad. HOW SH CHAPTER, 3;, Lady Leigh is nut long in carrying out her resolve. Har first step is se- curing men servants, and a carriage and horses, her next calling on the coonty Magnates, She 115.11 been so long out of tile' world that She has forgotten some of its eti- quette, and ber first visit is to 1lrs. Crosse-lireretun, and not, us it shoal(' have been, to the Duchess of Down- elsire, the wife of the lord lieutenant if the eounta, But this mistake is, after all, to 5110- eess. Her grace of Doe nahire is to haughty woman who accepts all ftdes as lint right, and thinks anything that is odd must necessarily be dis- graceful. Had Ludy Leigh taken her by surprise it is possible she might have closed the portals of county so- ciety forever against her Int the fat- al message, "Not et home," for where she led the conservative county was always ready to follow, As it is, Mrs. Crosse -Brereton is so delighted at being the first to see the beautiful recluse after her long re- tirement that she cannot welcome her enough, and Immediately org0nires a ,!tuner Party in her honor, Mr, Crosse -Brereton himself willing- ly 2,aconds his wife, and gives suc11 te glowing account of Lady Leigh to the club. that the old duke, who happened to be there, in reporting it again, bids his haughty helpmate use her best en- deavors to make Lady Leigh most wel- come ween she comes, its the daugh- ter of one of his oldest friends, who had died serving under him in the Crimea in other days, when he was a spendthrift younger son. And so Lady Leigh is launched into society, and the passport once gained her beauty and grace soon carry all before her. Har romantic story is an additional charm, and her reputation as a determined man hater brings more suitors in her train, out of pique and curfo5ity than her beauty alone might otherwise have gained, But she is indifferent in all, and makes no secret of her wish to remain unwedded. One day, Mr. Meade, who ds 0110 of the foremost and: most fervent of her adorers, christens ber "Shy Widow" when ehe. bas been more than usually tantalizing and coy. The name is so appropriate that it is generally adopt- ed, amt some one telling her of it este clay is surprised at the vivid flush that dyes ber fare, la a moment has come before her, mind's eye the evening wben Rollo and she hal been disturbed in their games, when her son bed laughingly accused her of choosing the tutor for her hus- band. The jest had come 5o true, If ever 'the shield merry—and even now she would pause before complying it coma only be to him that she would render up ber life and entrust iher Ineptness. Of all this she says nothing, and if any one notices the wistful glance round that she gives an first entering a room, it is the Honorable Graver Made. Tt comes into his mind one af- ternoon to test her. It he ata garden party, and Rolld is rushing about 111th his latest nov- elty, a butterfly net. The boy has found that gift.; come fast when one has a pretty, eligible, acid marriage- able mother. "Does your little boy go to school?" asks the heathen Chinee, with his most harmiess look and inmost innocent tone. "No, he has never left ma yet," she replies, unsuspiciously. "Ah 1 then you have a, tutor, per- haps?" fixing his glass in his eye and staring into bar face, "I -I had one once." He has no pity for her distress and goes on, remorselessly: • "And do ,you think it answers?" "No—yes.-in some cases perhltp5." The Heathen Chinee pulls his long amber mustaches and changes the euir- ject, Re has gathered ibitt in this care the experiment has not answered, or rather that, it has anew erect too well, and, having found out this much, he forbears to torture her more. Only far this time it is notiveeble that he does not so often linger et her side, that he hos, int fact given up the contest for her hand. And Lady Leigh wishes that others would as easily see when they were beaten. But they only gain courage from having one rive] less, and sometimes the beautiful "Shy widow" is very hard beset. Her Grace of Powushire is now one of her strongest partisans, and her- self does the wooing for her eldest son. He relies Loo much on the s6lidit.y of the benefits he has to offer to trouble to make himself personally attractive and bis cool assurance is rather re- freshing, though et times irritating. Tatntha speaks up boldly Mr httn and doss not hesitate to avow her motives. "He 15 not very handsome and be Is not very nice, but, oh I my lady, 1 should like to see you above every- body and I've heard tell that the Downehire diamonds are just magni- ficent 1" t But the lady only :nukes bar bead and says, smiling, that Lha Leigh sap- phires are nearly as handsome as the Uownshire diamonds, and, even if less valuable, are mors uncommon, She has enough and to want more would be grasping. 1•abltna'a comments on this takes her a little aback, "Now, if lir. Dare haat been a gen- tleman,' she begins, musingly, but Lady Leigh cutsher abort at once, "Mr. Dare Is a gentleman," she says. there's,. "But I do not eee, what thae. has to do with R." And then, ashamed of her attempt at deception, she rooves away, decided- ly cross with. her faithful old servant. It aught 1.0 have made her euneolenee lighter alien she finds, by the amused grin on Tabit:ha's fade, that. it has not at all imposed on her, but it only makes her anger greater, and Lady Leigh is irritable and uncert.aitr of mood that day, Another time Captain Venare is pre- aanted to bar, and Mr. Meade waj;ches her narrowly to sae if she will recog- nize him me one of those who answered her advertisement, But she does not; she le, as before, utterly indifferent and inattentive to big, arta his convor- eation. Mr. Crosse -Brereton pad conjectured rightly when he Bald she would not again bo won by a handsome man, For TH,B BRUSSELS POST, WON, Ler Colonel Dare's rough, weather- beaten face, with the keen eyes -and smiling mouth, has infinitely more therm than even the perfect fealuree of her dead husband, 011000 good logits were so notorious that he went by the sobriquet of "Lovely Leigh!" Bat the quondam tutor het 418111 peered, and she has not the smallest title to his plane of abode, and though she stet te and wonders when site hears Castle Ilan' mentioned as ono of he few remaining 1reit iteoturai curiosi- ties In the county, she does not seri- misty think nt it as his posslirle borne, it 18 difficult to realize that the man who held a.subordinitte situation in her home could be the owner of those broad lands and a correspondingly fmpurla11t rent role, She is staying with the Crosse-Brer- atone when the subject is first. men- tioned, and the Ileat:hen Chinee had his eye glees turned full upon her, and though she does not suspect him of any knowledge of what has happened, she is none the leas unwilling to arouse hie 0useleion by betraying any extra- ordinary curiosity, "it is welt worth seeiu1 and a vary bandsoule i.uitding, in spite, or per - helm bemuse of its antiquity," her hostess is saying. "And the owner?" hazards Lally Leigh, timidly. "The owner is away—has been for some time," "Wily not make a party to explore it, now it is empty? Lady Leigh ought to sea all the sights wortb seeing in her native county." It 10 Mr. Meade who says this with te quizzical smile, letting itis eye glass fall, but keeping his prominent blue ey os still stationary. "It is nut my native county, only by adoption," interposes Lady Leigh qutsk-j ly. "A relation by marriage," laughs' ; Mrs, Crosse -Brereton, "and they are often more )tin than kind." "We are begging the question;' says, Mr, Illeade,unabasbecl; "and the ques- tion is whether Lady Leigh would care to go over the old/ place or not ?" not"0t" def' courseiantlye,, should like It. \\thy 1 "\\�1y, not, indeed 1 1 think it would be almost delightful excursion." 1be proposal is carried unanimously, and an early day fixed for the visit.' "We 01u -t make haste, for the most -I er 01 Castle Dare is always erratic in Iris movements, coming and going with little or no notice," says .\irs, Crosss-, Bre-ston, as she and Ludy Leigb move to the other end of the room "litho is ibe owner•.?" asks Lady Leigh, and the crucial question once put, ,he decently wishes it unsaid, for Me'. b,, as e, n'I is ain beside themeadhth hisfollowirrditaobi] tng same ile. "I hope I am not intruding on a confictenre,' he say, politely. is nocoldly sil," answersent. one fedi and the other The day comes uheo they have ar-1 ranged to go, and still Lady Leigh is ignorant of the name of the man whose house she intends to inspect. She does not like to ask again for fear of arousing suspicion, but she feels a strange excitement tla they drive til- ong the road, and is Will afraid to an- alyze or inquire even of herself what the cause ono be. J The grounds themselves are unln-' teresting and limited in space, for t.be greater part of Colonel Dare's pro party Is built over and forms the town making it w more valuable if less' aightry inheritance, het sone of the timber is old, and there is at maze' w'hieh has bean notorious in the family' history, The mansion itself Is very curious., The architecture is Gotbir., one of the, earliest Specimens, and the necessary reeairs from time to time have been so managed that they should not mar the effect. There are no incongruities eith- er within or without. As the visitors approach they come; upon a side window which is standing. open, and Lady Leigh runs forward,. laughing. "Let us scale the battlements," she: cries merrily. "\also will follow me?" "l," says 011.91ain Fenere. "And 1," says the Heathen Chinee. But the others go round to the door. "Of course," explains ei7rs, Crosse - Brereton, "there is no danger of the housekeeper refusing to let us go ov- er the place; still, it is always better to ask, 1f an Ainglishman's house is, his castle, his castle must be something Stilt more sacred, and 1, for one, dare not. invade its sanctity without can ex- press permission." In the mt'anLlme .seedy Leigh has clambered on to the window sill with- out assistrinre, end has jumped into the room with 1 he agility of to school- girl, then turning round elle bids the young men Cohost, Aa little careful of their nothing, they are rather slow in obeying, and she ,goes on into the next room without waiting, But 011 the three+held she stops dumbfounded, A man is seated in rej long armchair with a, hoop in, his hand, lie raises hie heed on hearing voi.ras, and, when she eat, ra, starts u?, with n. logy 1 y of surprise and ,joy, It is Colonel Dare himself, ami onto more he and Lady Leigh are face to face. Before either of them can speak, another dont behind them is opened and a .servant enn0unoes Mr. and Mrs. Crosse -Brereton and Lord llowne, The lady advances, laughing an4 blushing, apologising for and con- grafulsiing herself on her presence there, e11 at once; Colonel Dere draws a long breath, and without heaving no- ticed Tatty Leigh by word or gesture, turns and welcomes the speaker with ever more empreesinent than le neces- sary Everybody is Introduced in a tow, general phrieees, and Lhe visitors have been some minutes talking before some One discovers tbat Lady Leigh is miss( ing. Out to the heart and more offended than she would ever admit by his thus ignoring their acgtfaintanee, she has slipped away through the open door and is out of eight before they thinit of looking for her. Only Lord Doreen; goes in pursuit, and Colonel Dare's eyes follow trim ,jealously as he wonders whether she has given him ' the right, But nothing more te said, Colonel , Dere shows there over the house 13101 self, and is profuse in offers of box' ldtality, which, awing to Lady Leigh'el ah,.onee, are not accepted, 011(10 .bol fibts is an uppertunity of whispering 10 (arer Meade: "Did eho know 1" "Not a word,' is tile' decided reply, and the colonel's countenance falls, for he had hoped something from lief pres- ence, La11eying it might have Leen tram a w 1511 to see his borne. The visitors do nut stay long', vied Culonel Dare duos net make a move to acc'umpany Ibsen to where Lilo (1arriugo is walling, \Won they arriv0 there they find Lady Leigh seated, with a taus Las white as the cotton gown which she had donned In expootation of lima tiering through dusty picture galler- ies or poaatble vaults and underground passages ivhioh it is well known Castle Dare possesses. She is looking cold and proud, utterly unlike the bright, gra- clone women she bee become of late, and Lord Downs, hunging over Lhe car- riage door, nut daring to enter, has erddently not met with awarm re- ception, rMrs, Crosse -Brereton comes 1141 full of glee, "Colonel Dare showed us allover the place htmsell, So odd that he should have returned so suddenly, and how, charming he can be when he exerts hcimssti tol pleasel" she chatters, dfs- connectedly, 'He had only ,fust come from abroad," says her husband. "And is returning there almost et- rectly," interposes Mr, Meade. Lady Leigh listens to all but: says nothing. She talks more on their hotnessard way, and mentions casually that she was feeling unwell when she left so abruptly, confessing that she wee a little unnerved at seeing any one in te room which she had naturally exp.-eted to find empty, and wbiob might reasonably be supposed, from its antiquity, to possess at least one ghost to haunt its walls. But in her heart Is Eh cruel conscious - nese of pain, a knowledge that hope is dead. They here met ageing it is true but hose differently from what she had dreamed! He had not forgiven her, and the opportunity gone she would not again bave courage to beg for pardon. All the fondly imagined .phrases with which sbe ted meatnt to deprecate his anger have tied, end she feels that she cannot now ever reckon on it. recon- ciliation. He is avenged. She is suffering as keenly as he had done when in her own house she insulted him. For the sec- ond time in her life the bane bty Lady Leigh has been "cut dead,` CHAPTER, X1. The Duohess of Downsliire is giving a all, and us she is generally noted for either hospitality or prodigality, the event causes some little stir. Mrs. Crosse -Brereton, who bad issued invi- tations for a, dinner on the same date, prormptly sends out a notice of post- poneent. "ducea thing," she says, laughing- ' ly, "only occurs once in a ldfetinee and nobody shall miss it on my neeoune." When she next meets the duchess she asks her point-blank for what rea- son this festivity is given, and gets a very straightforward answer_ "ft is fn honor of Lady Leigh. I think we haus every reason to welcome her reappearance; she is a very great aogttisitfon to society, I grudge neith- er trouble nor expense to show my ap- preciation of her." "Nor even your eldest son," supple- ments the other, wickedly. "No, nor even my eldest son," she assents graver. And as her grime is never known to jest, or to fail whore she resolves le succeed, the report flies about like, wildfire that an engagement has al- ready taken plane, and on the night. of thle ball it will be made known, I As usual, the person most concerned, is the last to hear of it, and, not hav- ing been warned, Lady Leigh sees not danger in the marquis' frequent vis-' its, nor in his being so often in at -I lendance on her in public,. Only on the very day itself, which is expected to See the denouement something is said which opens Lady Leigh's eyes a little. She makes no outward sign of her knowledge, only' her haughty bead is held a little bigh-, er at the idea, which seems to be pre -i valent, that the handkerchief will onlyi need to be thrown by this young eli- gible for her to eagerly grasp at the chance, On the Farm. m'%A0ellett a5.[[-- --etesteetteSeel WASTES ON THE FARM. One of the things most forcibly ins - praising the morehnnt who thole a de- sire to return to the oultivalion of the soil, is the waste and leakage which 00001 naturally a part of farm life. Any merchant who had the same leakages would soon be forced to call a meeting of his oredttors and have very little on the dollar to give them in settle - want. How is it tit the barnyard, that leak at which every farmer must first com- mence work to reach his mine? Jour- nals on agriculture have for years been warning the farmer of the tows in shape of liquid, potash and nitrogen,. and still we find the farmer throwing his manage against the barn or into the barnyard, there to have its best ele- ments leached out by rain. Such wastes denote a poor farmer and it bad teed - nese man. On, nearly every form of the farmer who will not or thinks he cannot: provide tight floors and proper drainage to a receiving vault or tank, can be found absorbents which not only in themselves under proper mani- pulation become valuable as fertilizers, bat will, when dried, be sufficient to absorb all excess of urine, and legnids from the stable. If you have arailable a mnekhole or swamp, draw out a quan- • tity of the meek or peaty soil, put it where it eau dry and drain, and when shoveled over until all has been ex- posed to the air unfelt le nearly dry, you will have an absorbent m hieh not only performs the function of saving almost all the valuable fertilizers of the stable, but in turn, by mingling with the potash present, makes avail- ' able the valuable nitrogen in its own combination. (The neglected swamp thus becomes one of the most valuable areas. Land plaster can also be used to great advantage with other absorb- ants to keep or nom nitrogen, while wood ashes added to the pile contain- ing the muck will go to make up a fine fertilizer which shows great re- sults when applied to the ground for beets, trumps 0nct aft root craps, A very valuable source of revenue which is generally wasted consists of the deed animals. Instead of drawing the dead horse, cow or dog to the woods 1 or Swamp; to pollute the air and feed the orows, a shallow' trench or square about one foot deep and as Large as needed should be dug in the earth, the animal thrown in, then covered with . two or three bushels of lime which has , become grantularr by exposure to the , dirt Dried muck from the swamp should cover the whole pile well, and after a month or so the pile should be shoveled over occaastonally, A few Mu -bele of wood ashes added will great- ly help tubs less than a year, make a complete fertilizer fine enough Lor any To be Continued, COAST DEFENCES OF ENGLAND. Mailed Protection by Wires Which Centre N, London. It can no longer be said Lhat Great Britain is unprotected. The coast de- fences were never more complete or efficient.. Right around rho shores stretch these many defences, not iso- lated and therefore of little account, but forming a linked protection, with the telegraph or telephone at band to respond at naval ]headquarters in London to the slightest warning, and £root Whitehall there branch off Inti^ vale wires to the great arsenals of Portsmouth, Devonport, Chatham, and Sheerness, A few words from any point on the coast, be it, an isolated coastguard sd:a- tdee or a lonely guardship, may in an hour or [Aro have led to orders of non Lionalimport being flashed over sleep, leg towns and villages to the naval commanders -in -thief at the ooast, and before the outside world knows of im- pending danger all the machinery of defence will be in readiness for any em- ergency. That this Is no exaggeration those may judge who remember the hasty commissioning of the particular Service squadron in January, 1800, when the Carmen Emperor's ill-judged telegram to President. Ifruger set Eng- land ablaze with anger, Before even the Times ann0uuced the decision of the Government to form this new squadron, "to do anything and go anywhere," a$ Nin Goschen explain- ed the telegraph instruments at Whitehall had been vigorously ticking, and, unknown to rho public, the Ad- mirals at Chatham, Portsmouth and Devonport bad had their orders. By the time the world wee awake the pre- parations for commissioning the ships had cammene0(1 and in a few days a squadron of powerful modern vessels was fitted oust and :ready for any task, 11Vhen the necessity arises no less promptly will the machinery of defence ire again put to the test, possibly on emote elktensive heals,. crop. Another great leakage on the farm which greatly appeals to the business man is the neglect and waste of tools. Instead 0e housing there on the ap- proach of winter, seeing that the metal parts are cleaned and covered with oil, the woodwork painted. repairs made and all ready for next seasou'5 work, one sees] on every side the machines exposed to the weather, the woodwork bare of paint and falling apart, the metal rusted, so that when needed they are generally diet of repair, easily brok- en, and at a time most wmetod the leakage becomes most apparent. At these two points lay the most glaring wastes. In winter, see that your cattle are well housed, that the food for them is of the right kind and balance, that the grain has been ground, and that for this concession to their natural rights they areable to pay you well in milk, eggs, meat and work, for it is a great leakage not to leave chickens hatched at proper time to arrive at the laying period sshen eggs are 4013 a doses, Than ?oak after the iron's, tied how much milk each one gives, how much cream can be gathered, and if its form- ation is ibe right one for good butter, and if there is not one up to thestan- dar), get on good terms with the but- cher and make as good a bargain as possible for her and then bay your neighbor's best, cow. Remember that the advantage of. one cow over another of even 10 cents a day would in 0year allow you to offer a price for the neigh- bor's best whish he could not resist, It costs no more to feed the good milker thein the scrub. See that they become new ranch nit the time most profitable for your market. Then there nee the horses. Stop the leak tbere by knowing If they are well and strong enough to pay for their keeping; keep then in good. flesh by warm quartsrs,t goocl betting and ground feed, Pnosv if their teeth are in proper sleeps to masticate their food so [bat perfect digestion may take pinoe;set that their foal end manger is swot and oleon so that stomach and bowel trouble is not roused by Lermant- atfee material ; learn if tine .horse has worms and it so set about to relieve him a r,l tone up Isis system after with some goodcondition powder; know that Lbs food you give him ss giving valve to someone or something. See that the pug bas warm, dry quarters and good food. Do not try to produce good pork by making a scavenger of bun at the murpills. lfariningane js a business and nowhere are close business principles snore need- ed. or show better results when applied than on a fame while neglect in any department meats wastes and leak- ages which, with elle close competition which is now at peri of all businesalife, meatus if not stopped but one thing -5 that instead of being with the front of the procession where there is much light and pleasure, you and yours must travel in the dust and beat with the rank and file of those who donokt ttihees. rank and file of those who do not make the most of their opportuopportune., CURING HAY EARLY. I am a stanch believer in early har- vesting of hay, write d'. Dwight Judd. Almost anything of grass nature will make hay that stook will eat with a relish it out and well ourod in June, 14thilo thiels true, it Is else true that the ehoieest grasses if allowed to stand a month or Kix weeks longer may make nice looping hay that will command a good price in market but if ted to m111111 cows we will find that we aro oblig- ed to supplement with heavier grain rations, One of the mast important thinega the hay maker bas to consider Is seiectdng 110 right kind of weather to euro the crop after it is grown, for as yet we are dependent upon out of door conditions, Select days that ere full of sunshine, rand nights devoid of dew. To make hay in such; weather in a light and inexpensive task.- The horse rake should be in the field early in the afternoon that the hay may go in win.l x0,06 while itis warm. But little work wile be renedrod the next day to prepare it for the barn. If we are obliged to make hay when clouds are more preiveleant than svn'shine, we work and, worry some, and use .the tedder more. CFIILLEU 0010175, When young chicks nt'e caught in a Shower, fall, into the swill barrel or wander through dewy grass and, get "chilled to death" there is sometimes life left Malt needs to be warmed up or else it will soon go out. If the chick is still able to standup, drying it off well with warm flannel and then placing in a warm place—the oven of the kitchen stove is the most common plane on the farm where brood-. ers are not had—will usually bring the little fellow beak to life and aotivity. When the patient is stiff and oald mute theroio measures are needed. Take the (thick by the beak and both legs and plunge it into water at 120 degkeies fallrenlleitt at least. Keep the nostrils and eyes out but let all the rest go under. As the cold body cools the water, odd more bot water to keep up the temperature, If he be- gins to kick and struggle do not treat him harcbly, but soon remove him and dry off as mentioned above and give hire n dry place, well wrapped in warm flannel, This treatment will not bring a dead cisiek to life, but it will. cause many a abfck to live that would ot.herw•ive stay "dead," when cold and stiff from be- ing chilled. FATE BOUND UP IN A TREE. L'pen 114 1111 1, 611,1 1e lieftud the lists- teorr of a Noble ranrlu'. In the nature of things it cannot be long before the title of Earl of Hew•th in the peerage of Great Britain and Ireland becomes extinct with the fam- ily that bears it. This conclusion will. faith an old prophecy in a manner curiously complete. The earldom of Howth, a little barony situated some ten miles from Dublin, is one of the oldest in Ireland. It was conferred originally by 1.Icnry I1. on one Sir Armoric Tristram, who took the name of St. Lawrence, and has remained in the family ever since. The old castle, built in the time of the first Earl, is still the family seat. Right opposite the facade of Rowth Castle there stands an elm tree in the last stages of decrepitude. It is leaf- less, hollow, and blasted, and would have fallen long since were it not that it is bolstered up with an encircling wall of concrete and a multitude of iron and wooden props. Upon this tottering old tree depend the fortunes of the Rowtb family. 1n the Clark ages, runs the legend, there lived some- where out in the West one Grace O'- Malley, a sort of semi -witch, somi- chief tainess, commonly known as Granavile. One day she decided to pay 5 visit to the Earl of Howell, and with this intent assumed her usual traveling garb of rags, 1s•rinkles and dirt. It happened that she arrived at Hosvth Castle at the hour of dinner, and naturally enough admission was refused her. To show Iter disapproval of the treatment she had met with Granavile waited around until she had an opportunity or kidnapping the heir, whom she carried off to her die - Lent dome, refusing to restore him ex- cept, • on her own oonditions. These were as follows; Tint the gates o.t the nestle should always be kept open dur- ing the dinner hour, and that a place at the .Call's table should always be kept vacant for her—for of course she was more or less immortal—in case she should ever choose to appear without giving war'nleg, The Earl accepted the couditions and received batik his son, and ea a token of the covenant Granavile planted the elm, which, she said, would stand just as long as the Earle kept their promise and whose fall would be caineldeot with the extinction of the family, The piece reserved until the time of .the gates were duly kept open and the time of the present Earl, who, being more interested in racehorses than leg- encis, has thought fit to discontinue the custom, Of the tree, however, he has taken the greatest care, but in spite of all extraneous aid it cannot last mach longer; nor need it, for the pres- ent.F,arl at 1lowth is a bachelor of sev- enty years dud the last of his lute, the heir lrresumptive, Sir lienelrn St, Lawrence, having died sane ten years ago under distressing ciroUmst:00es. On the Earl's death it is probable that the estate will pass into the hands of the Guinnesses, ono of whom utarried Lord Howth's sister, Lady Henrietta, AL any rate it is likely that some- body with a due sense of the fitness of things will see that tiro supports are removed from the elm, Another mysterious event which should enaompany the death of the Pert is the appearance of the g.i'ay rat, which invariably shows itself when one .of the family is about to die or some great misfortune threatens. The beast was Inst reported, ouriously enough, on the nacaeion of Lady Ilenrielt'e mare .ridge, and the manifestation cannot bo eonrildal•ed complimentary •10 Capt, Guinnces, the bridegroom, however, it itas never failed an the occasion of a dttath in the family, and there is tee, llueetion hat when Lord Etowth's hour comes there Will be found some ono sufficiently reverential to v0ueh for the rat's attention to business. NMAX 27, 189 PERSONAL POINTERS, Nolen 418 *merest About Bunte of else Grant Folks of ibe WorbL The Gortnan t'lnywrl 1ht Gcrhitrl Ila.rlo plmann has joined the ranke of invent. nl:'1 by tlevieiny a bicycle width can he, immediately transformed into 11 tri- eyale, The Ja1aneec jinrikislea-puller who saved the life of Alexander II1. and received therefore a present of 610,- 1(1111 vent that sum in a, leer years, and then committed Kneed°. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie bass informed the ]ward of directors of the Braddoolo (Pa,l Carnegie Library that she has cheated $I0,000 for a pipe organ to be placed in the building. The two oldest German Generals are Major -Gen Lucns von C't'anaeb and General-Fieldmarsbal von Blumenthal who hove been, respectively, in service seventy-one and seventy years. Dr. Naneen who bad to curtail his recent lecturing tout' in England, be- ing suddenly called home to Norway by fife illness of his infant son, has de- cided to return to London. A letter from him states that his child is now quite well. The late Felice Cnvalotl 1 wrote poems not only in the langmlge of Dante, but in that of Homer, bis knowledge of Greek tieing almost as thorough as that of Italian, Hie Greek poems were tranelatod into Latin by Archbishop Joachim Pecat, Pilar F indlater, the hero of Dargai Ridge, has had nn offer of marriage firm, a lady who is well known In In- dian society, and svho not only offers the piper a home, but says she will willingly place at his disposal her in- come of £6,000 a year In view of the fast that Fritz Mull- er is one of the commonest names in Germany, Prof llaeckol has proposed that the Lite. eminent naturalist of that mime snou,a ns known us Fritz' ,\culler-Deeterro—Ilesterrc, being the name of the phew where the natural- ist went to work in 1852, after hie re- fuoal to make the state oath, without svhich he could get no appointtuent fn Pr re ia. This year ltngl.and is to have anoth- er distinguished 111(1100 01511.01' 111 rho. person of Prince Ami Singh, Prone Minister of Cashmere, Prince Ami will be under the charge of Major Kaye, a trusted and prominent official ohaf vteheangov1rm1 enceont 11 (ThendQiau. eeHne '111101ill wilt undertake a provincial tour. Ile it direct heir to Ilse throne, being beetle er t0 the present Maharajah. lei Sato Premerie of tae Japanese legation in Paris [net ss ith Ella extra- ordinary nrcident the other day. He was driving from town towards the Arc de Triomphe In a cab, when the horse suddenly halted in the Champs Elysees, and ran into the Round Paint fountain, where I t fell. The eat] t op - pled over into the water, with the driver anal the Oriental dipl1,101(11e1, loth of whims had a bath in theist clothes, but escaped unhurt, 'ruse new master of Selwyn College; Cambridge,. in succession to the late Bishop J. R. Selwyn, is Canon Alexand- the leirkpatricks of Closeburn in Scot - lessor of Hebrew in the university, Canon Kirkpatrick is descended from a ytnuiger branch of the family of the kirkpatricks 0f Closeburn, in Scot- land, and roas burn at Lewes In 1845, so that he is notquite fifty years old. Ile le it "Bell," a ".Parson," a "Crav- en," and a "Tyrwhit ltebrew" scholar. Sir 'William Tut nee, who is to he the mweeSsor of Sir Richard Quoin in the presidency of the General Medical Council of Greet. Britain, is the well- known professor of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, 13e has o0 - meted the chair since 1867, when he eueeecdetl Prof, Goedsir; Sir William's contributions to the science of ana- tomy, both human and comparative, have been many, the most popular be- ing his researches on the convolute tuns of the brain. • During the English Jubilee festivl- t.fes Lord Salisbury was the recipient' of a costly and magnificently worked Persian rug, ivbicb was formally pre- sented in him one afternoon in Down- ing street by the Prince Amir Kahn of Panda, Recently this chased oeuvre W(14 submitted to the Office of Works, with the result that the experts who examined it pronounced it to be of the finest workmanship, and of the value of et lewd $4,00(1, 11 has accordingly been placed in tt lrlaok frarn.o of mass;ve design, and will henceforth nclot'n the Premier's private room at the Foreign Office. A *eatable English elergyrnen has just died in the parson of the .Ltev, J, P. Gall, rector tit Buxted in Sus - sea.. He was the "034 Brooke," of 'Tout Brown's School Days'; and with hire perms away, probably, the last survivor of Arnold's famous ';Sixth." Mr, Gell began his edreer as an offloial of the Colonial off100, and wee sent out to Tasmnnie, 1, hese he neat vied the, dau- ghter of the Governor, Sit John .lirttnk- lin, the Arctio explorer, He subsequent- ly took orders, and bootee distinguish- ed as it preacher, still more LRS aspc1ak- er, most of all es an untiring and sue- ressful worker in a poor London par- ish, CLOVER P011 SANTY't SOLI,. On all kinds of soil, clover when fully grown, is it benefit. Its rents break up Dm heavy clay soils end makes them psrtnoable to air and moisture. Buil on sandy sotto a clover giosvth as often EIS every two or three years is a noees- sity, It is only [.nus teat what vega., table nuttier it contains Dan be kept from being washed or burned away and wasted, 11 is often ditteult to get re elm er is.r.'eh on sandy soil, Clover needs mineral fertility, both potash and phosphele of lime. le both these sandy soil is generally defiehint, There is no better single manure for sandy soil then wood MIMMS. If from heed wood (helm will also 1urni511 401110 it/Y/0 and phosphate.