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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-3-31, Page 2TEA BRUSSIMLS POST. Diamond Cut Diamond _ _-- OR, THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY, 'Oe riRh CHAPTER X X, -Continued. There was a dead silence for the Woe of twenty seeonde or so. Geof- free's heart beat a little, he would not help the old man out by a single words; he thrust his hands deep down into his trousers' pockets and then looked at him steadily, Perhaps Mat- thew Dane did not altogether like the look in those grave brown eyes. Some- how, he could not meet then, And the sentence, when it was spoken, came out at last with a certain dif- fioulty. "You must marry Angel Halliday." Another short silence; and then Geof- frey, whose eyes had deopped, answer- ed slowly, with a little quiet smile: "'that, my dear uncle, is impossible." Matthew Dane sprang to his feet angrily. "And why is it impossible, pray? It is not only possible, sir, but it is a necessity, and I insist upon it. lhave determined that it is to be -the thing is settled." "Pardon me, Uncle Matthew," inter- rupted Geoftrey quietly, but firmly. "I don't see anything settled in the mat - The door slammed behind him and be was gone, and Geoffrey reeled batik ns though he had been given his death blow. -- CHAPTER XS. "It is not,' sa d Dul:le Halliday, "ex- actly what may be called an original observation, but. still I should like to make the remark that 'all is Van- ity.'" an- ity:" Duloie lay on ber back upon the lawn at Harlitord, ber arms were flung up behind her head, her eyes wore Geed upon the "blue Empyrean" overhead. The sunshine flickered through the fluttering leavea of the beech branches and shed itself in splashes of gold over her white cotton dress Had by, on a bench. Angel sat dreaming over Browning's poems - her head down bent, bar pure profile delicately traced against a back- ground of greenery, her long lashes sweeping the perfect oval of her cheek. It was a hot breezeless afternoon the air was Macy with the scent oti tor. My marriage is a thing that will mignonette and heliotrope, the sun concern myself alone, and no oneipoured down blindingly over the trim else in the world. I will marry when ,garden beds, over the white stone house with its stripped sun -blinds, I choose, or I will not marry at all. Miss Halliday is, no doubt, a charming girl, but I have no desire to make her my wife." 'the old man was facing him, livid with rage; a wild desire to strike down, even to slay, ,this audacious young man who dared to say nay to him, possessed him; but with a super- human effort he controlled himeeif, and spoke with calmnees. "Don't be a fool, Geoffrey, the match is in every way desirable. The girls, of course, wi,l divide their father's share in the business; Angel will probably have the larger portion. It was Halliday him- self who made the propositiop to me; he will be satisiied. with an allianoe for his daughter, which, without being brilliant, will comprehend many solid advantages. The thing has been ar- ranged between us, it is the basis of my proposals to you, the very key -note of our tuture arrangements. There can be no reasonable objections to such a plan. As to the girl herself, what young man in his senses would refuse to marry a ;girl like that? She is pretty, ladylike, and accomplished, and, moreover, you have already paid her such marked attentions that you have no right to draw back now." "1.11 that you say about Miss Halli- day is quite true, uncle," replied Geof- frey. 'She is pretty and clever, and charming -if, by my attentions, I have unwittingly raised any expectation in your mind, or ink her father's, I am einoerely sorry for it; and you see that I have proved my regrets by keeping OM of her way -but, honestly, I do not believe that Miss Halliday herself has misunderstood me." "This is all uhild'a play," cried Mr. Dane, who was rapidly losing bis self- control. "I have set my heart upon the scheme, and you must do as I wish, or else all that I have offered you is withdrawn. So now you can choose. Will you marry Angel Halli- day and become my partner and heir - or wi:l you remain a beggarly clerk, without a sixpen.:e, to the end of your days? There is no middle course, that is my alternative. You may either take it or leave it." He turned away and walked to the window, turning his back upon the young man. Geoffrey was very pale; he, too, bad changed his position, and went and stood by the fire -place, with bis shoulder against the high mantel - shelf. No doubt that he debated with him - sell in those few brief moments of silence over the temptation offered to him; for when a =ant is atl the outset of his career, and wants to get on in the world, and has a chance of suc- cess and profit beyond his fondest dreams held out to him, it is bard to resign it all tor a. sentiment -a mere idea. And, no doubt he was very foolish and romantic, and deserves but little sympathy or compassion for bis folly; but, anyhow, he did resign, it. The struggle was very short, the temp- tation soon over. "What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Perhaps the well-known words came flashing back into his mind, fit- ting themselves to his case with a curious exactness. Or, perhaps, it was only some vague sense of honour towerda the two women whose fate had been so strangely thrown intohis bands, or that strange modern code which stands, no doubt, in place of the chivalry of past generations; which makes the young man of ,the nine- teenth century say to himself, "I could not be such a cad!" -• words that have no doubt often saved a man from ruin. Something of each; perhaps a little of ell. Anyway after a few. minutes, Geoffrey Dane walked up to where his uncle stood, and laid his hand upon his - arm; there was a flush upon his cheek, and a strange bright light in his eyes. "My dear uncle," he said, quite simply, "I am very, very sorry to seem ungrateful and to vex you in any way, but I cannot marry Angel Halliday, for the vary good reason that I love another woman; and I am sure you would not wish me to do such a black- guard thing, as to ask any woman to Ire my wife, it I did nob love her best of all oa earth, 1 can't do it, you know; no, not for all the wealth of the house of Dane and Tnlohet, 01 for what, believe pie, I prize quite as much --your affeetion and goodwill." "You love Madame de Brefour," thundered forth old Dane furiously. "That's . what it is, deny it if you dare." with its long line of scarlet geran- iums framing it round witb a flame- like girdle. A great stillness was in the air, only the little saffron -colour- ed butterflies fluttered above the flow- ers, 8tid there was a lazy, humming sound as of insects innumerable, Tha tenni--net was stretched and the girls bad been playing a desultory game, but the haat bad been too much for them, and they had, flung their rackets aside and had retreated preoi- pitately to the shelter ofe the shady corner of the lawn to rest from the rash exertion, When Duloie broke the somewhat lengthened s)lenoe by quoting King Solomon, Angel started so violently thc:t Browning slipped off ber lap upon the grass, thereby proving how slight had been the mental hold of the poet upon her, and how slight also bad been her pbysieial hold of the poet. i "I believe you were asleep, Angell" cried Dulcie rep"oachfully, "Very nearly, t fancy," she answer- ed with a drowsy smile. "What makes you say that, Duloie, about Vanity'?' "Well, it's a common sort, of remark to make when one is bored. But as a matter of foot I was reviewiug our last month in town. , What has been left to us, I ask, from these four -weeks of dissipation?" "A selection of dirty ball dresses." "Sundry satin slippers worn into holes." "A file of unpaid bills--" "And a general sense of depres- sioni" Then they both laughed. "People would say we were a couple of discontented, ungrateful girls if they could hear us;' resumed Angel. "Think how kind everybody was, and how few country girls gat the chance of a whole month's London season." "Yes, that's all very fine, but then, as we are quite by ourselves, and there is nobody to hear us, we might as well, you know, speak the truth -and" -with a deep -drawn sigh -"you are perfectly right, especially about the depression," ''What a moral lesson upon the futility of earthly pleasures!" said Angel, with a smile, "That's exactly what I say," cried Duloie. "That brings us back to Solomon, doesn't it? Just what I re- marked at first. All is Vanity. He knew it, you sea, quite as well as we do." "I don't suppose he said it till all the fun was over," remarked Angel, sententiously. "One can't eat one's cake and bave it, and we have eaten ours down to the last oromb, and now we begin to cry out about vanity." "Well, we have got one crumb left still in prospect - Venetia Lessiter's bazaar next week -that will mean a night in town for us." And a theatre -there is balm in Gilead!" Unless," remarked Duloie, doubt- fully "the has got tired of it-" The words were no sooner out of her mouth than the parlourmaid, a neat molder, in a frilled apron and a mob cap, was seen approaching them from the house, bearing the second post letters upon a tray. "Wby, here is a letter from ber ladyship," cried Angel. "Talk of the --What is it shout?" Angel scanned the letter with rapid eyes 'Private theatricals at the Audacity Theatre -learning the part of Roxa- lana-a Turkish ooatume-Can she borrow my Indian gold tissue scarf for a turban? Full gauze unmention- ables, gathered in at the ankles, strings of unpolished turquoisee, an embroidered veis'et jacket. Here's Whole pages of it I Venetia has gone mad upon exhibiting herself upon the stage 1 It's all for Charity, she says - for the benefit of the Costermongars' widows and orphans fund -tickets half -a -guinea each, or twenty-five shillings, family ticket for three." "But what about the Bazaar 3" "Not a word 1 Oh yes, here it is in a postscript at the end. 'Of course 1 must throw over my stall at the Bazaar next week, as 1 couldn't pos- aibly have time for both. Mary Hayes has promised to hold it for me, and I have, sent her all the dolls, dressed and undressed, and all the scraps, so she Lakes the whole thing off my bands bodily. Very sorry, darlings, to have to put off your coming up, but you. must come and see me ant Geoffrey fell back a ntep or two and Roxalnna instead., next month. Such r.urned white as a sheet. a duck at a part 1" "I do love her. I have no wish to deny it," be replied at last in a low voice. tion young scoUndrell-and she is a warded womanl How can you, nava the face to own your wickedness? She passesherself off as a widow, but you knowthat her husbapd, is 111110--y" "That 15 a lies" anewersd Geoffrey very quietly, but with quick, kindling eyes of concentrated rage. "Ahal a lie, is 11? Go and find caul - go and find outs Ask ber;--ask her.. A precious feel she has made of you - go and l".nd her end tisk hor1" "There gees the last crumb of our cake! Next month, might as Web be 'never,'" says Duloie, tragically. "'Twee ever thus from childhood's boor,"' Angel is velem. Perhaps, on the whole, she is not altogether sorry to be spared another sight of those fix- ed -eyed, pink-aheeked dolls, with their aggressive arms and legs, that are con- nected forever in her mind with a ceriaifl afternoon in Pont street, when the hopes and illusions of 80 many Months Ware Shattered at one blow into dust. A silence too, falls upon Duloie, She is pondering about many things, won- dering if she did right, or if she had made an Irreparable mistake, in send- ing Horace Lusher to the oilier side of the world. She steals a furtive glance at her sister. Has Angel for- gotten him? the wonders, Never has his name bean mentioned between them, Does silo know he has gone? Sbe must know it. And if she does, is she grieving for him in hopeless despair? Or Inas Geoffrey Dane caught her heart at a rebound? And as she thinks of Geoffrey, she grinds her teeth in rage and auger. What does he mean, or does he mean anything or nothing Why did he hang upon Angel for clays, choosing always the plane near her -glancing at her softly, whispering sweet things into 1181 ears, and then suddenly alter everything, drop her altogether, and come near her no more? Why, having gone so far, did be go no further? "If I were her mother I might ask him his attentions in Ube approved old-fashioned style," she says to her- self grimly; "being what T am I can only look on, and grin and bear it 1 Wby did he treat Angel in such a fashion? Was he never in love with her at all? or did be like her at the first and then grow tired of bar after a bit?" And then, as bar fond eyes rested upon the statuesque features and the gentle smile, so full of goodness and sweetness, a new wonder crept into Duleie's mind. What was there about her beautiful sister that, whilst claim- ing the admiration of men, failed in some fashion to gain their love? "They fall in Love with me fast enough," said Duloie ruefully to her- self, "1 who don't want them! Even that great donkey, Mr. Faulkner, pur- sues me with the ayes of a dying duck in a thunderstorm. Why don't they love Angel, too? Surely she is beau- tiful enough and good enough." Or were all her virtues of person and character as naught in their eyes, by reason of that one unpardonable sin in man's eyes -, the sin of coldness. For, somewhere or somehow, Online had beard that word in connection with Angel. She was gold, someone had said. Was that why they failed to love her? "Ah 1 they did not know her, did not understand her, if they thought so I" cried the girl in her loyal heart. She knew that Angel was tender enough to make a devoted wife and mother. But she was miles too good for any of them -why could they not see with her eyes? As to Geoffrey Dane, he was behaving shamefully abomin- ably! bominably1 Duloie was dreadfully angry with him; judging him, as so -many of us judge our neighbors, entirely from her own side of the question, and without the faintest knowledge or intuition that there might very possibly be another aide to it. And then suddenly Angel spoke: "Horace Leasiter has gone to Aus- tralia, Dulcie." She said it more as a statement than a question. "Yes, dear," answered Duloie, very gently, and she kept her eyes averted lest she should catch a look of pain upon that dearly loved face. "It was you who sent him?" "I -I suppose so." Angel sighed wearily, Dulcin reach- ed out ber hand, and laid it on ber knee. "I wouldn't think of him any more, dear, if I were you; try to forget bim." A look of reproach filled Angel's eyes I do not think of him -not as you mean -can you not bo sure of that? But. oh, Dulaia 1 will he not come back some day, and will it not all come right?" She bent forward, speaking earnestly ; for to Angel it seemed that only time was wanting to com- plete the happiness of these two, who were dearest to her on earth -only gime, and a sacrifice of herself upon the altar of ber sisterly love. But Dulcie did not understand her, she looked at her with a faint sur- prise, It did not occur to her that Angel's one dream was to sae an im- possibility realized ; it only seemed to ber that her sister was still hanker- ing after the man who had gone away, and who had mads a game of her love. A little indignation, in spite of all ber love, crept into ber heart.. "1 should be too proud in her place to lel myself be played fast and loose with -first with one man, then with another," she told herself. That was the worst of those perfect Christian alleviators 1 They aro so meek, they never can stand up for themselves, "She is not fit to fight the world's battle," she thought; 'she is too good, too utterly candid and suspicious; leaky for her that I aha made of coarser grain, and can stand up for her, and not allow her to be trampled upon." Ana so upon this one smell misun- derstanding the wheal of fortune went round and the threads of life were spun, and Angel Halliday's des- tiny was caught in the great mesh of fate, caught and gathered in and made fast forever, Even then, so small a thing does it take to alter our whole existence, Dul- aia might have said a word or two aloud of ;her heart's unspoken thoughts, or Angel might have raised for one instanta corner of that thick impene- trable veil in which she had wrapped hereelt round from the loving eyes that were unable to. pierce it, and all might have been different; but whilst each waited, and neither spoke for soma two or three seconds of silence, the opportunity was already past, and Time, the great auctioneer, brought down his hammer with an irrevocable Wimp, just at the same moment as a small foreign substance entered the arena in the shape of a mongrel little. dog, who Dame suddenly trotting round the corner of the house, end, making straight for Dunne, precipit- ated himself with effusive gestures of delight upon her reoumhent form. "Great Heavens, it's Tr'oumersl" ex- ela!enecl Duloie, turning as rod as a peony and springing to her feet. "Why that great idiot must liavo coma down by the three o'clock train l" And euro ennugli Trousers' master appeared at that moment, making great strides to- wards them across the sun -flooded garden, with a smile of most eheepisb self-oonsoiousness upon his plain, hon- est We, "Good gracious! What on earth brings you, Mr. Faulkner?" (To Be Continued.) 11 a paining is not a work of art ib isa work of art t0 sell 4t. ONTARIO IS RICH IN GOLD, COPPER AND IRON ARE ALSO FOUND IN THE NORTH. 'Palk With d`. VIII', of Port Arthur, Who 11as Spent 'r%elvc 'feat's In Ike New U9larla (:cid Melds -1116h elopes 33.1' llie 78301'8. Pioneer and prophet of the gold fields of North-western Outario is the title well Darned by F. Mille, mining engineer of Port Arthur, Twelve years and over is the time of Mr. Hille'a close aognaintanoe with the gold fields of Ontario. He speaks with the authority 0f 'local knowledge, and bis deliberate and cautious style of talking gives value to his high opinion of the possi- bilities of gold, iron and copper mining in that part of Ontario between Lake Superior and the Manitoba boundary. "Yes, I've been twelve years 10 On- tario," said Mr. Mille, in answer to a Toronto newspaper reporter. "1 spent the earlier years of my manhood In the iron mines in the province of Nassau, in Germany. I crossed over, and after soma years in Wisconsin and Minnesota I came to Port Arthur in 1887, to look into some silver property, and have been there ever since." "There wasn't much talk of gold mining when you reached the district first, was there ?" "No, the whole search was for silver and iron. When I was looking for sil- ver and saw the rocks adjoining the silver formations, I knew that there was gold there, and consequently I stayed, urging and preaching to get the prospectors to prospect for gold." "Up hill work, wasn't it?" "Oh, I never starved," answered Mr. Hills, and he continued, "no, and I never changed my faith that those rooks carried gold in PAYING QUANTITIES. As soon as I had my laboratory established at Port Arthur and tested the rocks, I knew that I was in a gold country. Tha rocks in our district are eruptive and not sodimentary, in fact, the only sedimentary rooks are to be found in the neighborhood of Port Arthur. 1 was not surprised when James Hammond, of Fort William, took me out to the eruptive rocks around Saw Bill Lake and showed ma the claims which he had located, and where we took samples of quartz across a width of 462 feat, la what is now the Hammond, Reef. These later develop- ments are no surprise to toe." "1 think very tavorabiy of the country," P'Ir. Hine went on in his slow, captious way, "especially when you compare North-western Ontario with other .mining camps." ' "What other mining camps, for in- stance?" askew the Interviewer. "Take Montana, Colorado, Califor- nia, Arizona, and compare the work done and the results achieved in these places with the work done and money spent in Ontario, I don't think any of these camps can show so much in results for so little money. You must remember that oomparatively few of the veins in Ontario have as yet passed out of prospectors' and speculators' hands into the bands of miners. The real mining work is only just beginning, and I am satisfied that there will be a great and permanent gold mining industry in North-western Ontario. Scores of paying gold mines, you say ? Yes, you can safely say acerae and you have no idea of ,:be size of the country or you would say hun- dreds." "Is there danger of failure with depth?" was the next question. "No, not the slightest," Mr, Hills an- swered. "I have studied the rooks of our district for twelve years, and I Can safely say that there has been NO CASE OF FAILUR.II with depth west of Port Arthur. There have been one or two cases of failure without depth, but in these cases the work was done on gash veins, which should have been condemned without a, trial." els the district at all well prospected yet?" was the next question. "Only in parte,'' answered Mr. Elbe, "In tact, I might say that the great region north of the C.P. R. tracks, be- tween Lake Superior and the Manitoba. boundary, is scarcely prospected at all. Yes, the country north of the C. P. R. is geologically One with the country south of tho track, and I should say that it is a promising region for the prospector. I have assayed rook brought in by Indians as far as a hun- dred milds north of the track. No, I cannot say that the mineral area south of the C.P.R. is at all well prospected yet. I need not say anything about the Sultana, the Mikado orthe Regina. These are mines, and in the Seine River country, the Olive, the Golden Star and the Foley are already well equipped. The Foley have at ?east fifteen or sev- enteen parallel veins running in their mine. These are all true veins. You say they bave made a failure so far ? Well, there is no .reason wily they should fallwith a property like that. Lack of money or lack of management, I sup. pose. I boar they hese got over the difficulty, whatever it te, and the Foley is going to start up again," 'How about the other parts of the district?' ]Between Rainy Lake and Saw 13111. there is a stretch of country which is not very well prospected, but the fartnatioos round Steep Rock Lake, 7s land Falba and Saw Bill Lake, are near- ly the same ns the formations ROUND RAINY LAKE, ly ohanged into the form of oxides. There are very goal deposits at Round Lake, near the eastern edge of Moss township. James Hammond, of Port Arthur, and the Folgers, of Kings- ton, are interested In copper proper- ties there, end development work has been done in one property called the Tip Top Mine, which shows a largo percentage of copper." "And, now, Mr. Mille," began the question which olosed the interview, "what is the chief need of North-west- ern Ontario?" "There seems to be every chance that North-western Ontario will get all the attention it needs. Its re- sources will be advertised by the re- sults of work in our mines. I should say that its chief need was money and INTELLIGENT WORK, especially the latter, As soon as any capitalists have courage enough to go down into the veins of our country they have always been rewarded. One drawback to our district is that it is herd for a foreigner to get into the country, and harder for him to know anything about the rooks after he is in. Gold is found in paying quantities in five different classes of rook, and a general knowledge of geology is of no value without a study of the ebarno- teristies of the local formation, When Prof. Selwin doubted the gold -bearing character of the rocks of Nortb-western Ontario, and said a stranger could tell at first sight that the rocks of Nova Scotia or Australia carried gold, and the same stranger could tell at first sight that the rooks of Ontario did not carry gold, he was wrong. I told him so at t:he time, and the future developments in North-western On- tario will clearly /how that he was wrong." A good deal of W0110 has been done at the Island Falls, and the showing there is very fine.' "I suppose Northwestern Ontario will be canepiouous chiefly for its gold production ?" "Mainly, but not; entirely," answer- ed Mr, Mille. 'The iron and copper deposits of the country will be a great source of wealth and activity. I be- lieve that with a deep water channel from Lake Superior to the sea iron are could be shipped at a profit to England and Gertnany, Oar ore is not like the Piinnssota.Ore, which is hematite partly soft and pertly bard, Our ore is principally nlegn0Ciles, pert .. ARMIES OF THE WORLD. Boar Illi ions or Men ruder Arms as Soldiers. The Czar's proposal to cheek the in- crease of armaments will probably die as a mere pious intention. It was not without a subflavor of irony, pro- ceeding as it did from a monarch who not only has by far the largest army in the world, but who was also busy increasing Iris navy when he made bis famous proposal. But though it is bard to believe that the millennium is to be brought about by a Czar or that the reign of universal peace will be founded by the master of the largest number of legions on earth, we are all bound to recognize the fact that the European nations spend a terrible proportion of their energies and their resoureas in preparations for war. Thougli it may be an exaggeration co say that Eur- ope is one vast camp, there are some- thing like four millions of its male inhabitants constantly under arms as soldiers or sailors even in time of peace, and when it is borne in mind that all those have to be maintained in non-productive work and supplied with the most costly appliances, some idea may be formed of the gigantic waate. Tha following tables will en- able one to compare the armaments of the leading nations: - Army Army Population. in Peace. in War, Russia, . 1-9,163,601 800,000 3,503,030 1T. States.. 62,622,250 25,000 140,627 Germany.. 52,279,915 585,440 3,000;000 Austria,+HUo- gary. . 41,331,842 985,097 1,827,178 T'r5nce. 38,517,975 016,413 2,500,010 Great Brit. 88,104,975 163,509 026,22,0 Italy. . 31,114,689 231,055 1,268,308 A still more convinoing method of. estimating the burden of military ser- vice in the various countries will be found in the following table: - No, of inhabitants No. of soldiers to each soldier. to 1,000 in - balm tante. In Peace In War In Peace In War France. . 03 15 16 65 Germany. . 89 17 11 57 Austria-Hun- gary.. . 115 22 9 44 Italy. .. 135 25 7 41 Russia. . 150 37 7 27 Great Brit. 233 72 4 14 U. States...2,489 445 1-2 2 These figures are appalling for the Continental nations, especially . for France rind Germany, both of which suffer terribly in consequence of the memories of 1870-'71. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once put the cost of this blood tax forcibly :- "Out of aha life of every Gorman, every Frenchman, every Italian, every Austrian and every Russian, the res- pective governments of those coun- tries -took threw years for compulsory military servioe. PREHISTORIC MOMMOTH• woaderrai Story Sent All the Way From Dawson ('sty. According to the latest mail edemas from Dawson a marvellous discovery has been made on Dominion Creek, Klondike -a prehistoh'io mammoth, weighing 80 tons. On the 0111 of Feb- ruary, August Trulson, a Swede, and his partner, while working their, on Dominion Creek, came aoroas the mummy remains 40 feet from the sure face, The mammoth is similar to those found in 1i.ussia, but perhaps le the only one ever found in a perfect staLe of preservation. There were 00 aelentists in Dawson to make a technical report of the remains, but the editor of the Dawson newspaper gives the follow- ing description :-" Tha huge monster could not be lifted from its ancient. grave, for it weighed from 25 to 30 tons, It measured 44 feet 6 inches, Its right tusk was broken, but its left tusk was perfect, so that the right must have snapped off in the felt which caused its death. The remaining tusk measured 11 feet 8 inches an length and 48 inohea in circumferonee. The flesh was covered with woolly hair about 15 inches long, and of a grayish - black oolor. The hindquarters of the mammoth were weighed in a fashion the improvised scales showing 8,65' pounds, The amok was ,short, limbs long and aLoul, rent short and brond with five toes., MARCH 31, 1899 8a'W.''- -etellgeveteWillie 6 On the Farm. tiN ate- .o THE VILLAGE GARDEN, The dweller in town or city who has a lot large enough to get a team and Plow upon it, can generally get some one to plow out hie garden and give it a good borrowing, The subsequent work may be dune with a garden hoe, and garden rake, 11 the Jot is not largo enough for a team or one can not be procured, the garden plot can be spaded. This should ba done to a good depth, not the top skimmed off and turned over. Atter plowing or spading, give a good dressing of wen - fined manure. If no animals are kept, or the piece is small, use what poultry manure and wood ashes you have, and if a compost heap has been maintained apread it over the land and rake well in. Dc this as early in the spring as possible, When It has warmed up a. bit eucb seeds as peas, beets, lettuce and reddish may be gotten in without much danger of being out off by Treat. Plant in long roan, so you can do much of the work with the wheel hoe, if you desire. It also saves. time in planting to run long rows, AL subsequent plantings of the above seeds for succession of crops and of other seeds as beans and Corn the growth oh which might be cut off by frosts, more of the ground may be fined and put In shape for planting. Three or four hours at intervals of a week or ten days after the first get- ting ready will be all the time need- ed for the planting of a garden that will supply all the vegetablea needed by a good sized family. The first planting, you can get in onion sets, lettuce, beet, radish, peas and onion seeds- At the next plant- ing get in the same for u succession, except the onion sets and seeds.. Of peas, lettuce, beets and radish you can plant four or five times, a week or ten days apart. Plant liberally of carrot, parsnip and cabbage and late beets. Do not forget the summer squash, turnips and beans, both string and shell, including the bush limas. Squash, cucumbers, turnips and win- ter reddish may be planted on the same space, occupied by the first and second crops of peas alter harvesting. The fourth crap of radish may be planted where the first grew. Cab- bage and tomato seed may be planted where the crop is to be raised if you do not care to fuss with a hot bed or the transplanting of plants. Seed is cheap and may be sown where it is to grow and the thinning of plants done with the hoe, leaving the best and strongest plants in the rows. Have in a little sweet corn, early, medium and late, You need not put a full row of any one kind of seed in at each or any planting if that would produce too much to be used while it is good. Have the rows long, but have as many kinds of seed in each as you wish. In our garden the past season we had as many as a dozen varieties in some rows, in others we had but one, peas for instance. Have a good kitchen garden as one of the good tbingafor 1899, HOW TO KEEP APPI408, The proper temperature fur keep. ing apples is es neatly 35 degrees 7,, as it is possible to keep it, and in. order to maintain this it will often be neoaaaai'y in this allmale t0 provide A. separate' Plano for storing the fruit, as the average sellar under the dwelling shouse is wholly un- fit for this purpose. 1f the collar Consists of several oompartments so, that one can be abut off oom- pleiely from the others, and ibis temperature in tine kept below 40 degrees, it will answer Ube pur- pose very well, 1f this cannot be done, a cheap storage house may bee built in conneotien with the Ice- house, by building a house under-, nanth, having it surrounded with ice on the sides and overhead, with. facilities for drainage underneath, keeping the air dry by means cif chloride of calcium plaoed on the floor in au open water -tight ves- sel, such as a large milk orock or pan. In this way the temperature may be kept very 15011r the freez- ing point the year round, and ttp- plee may be kept almost inde- finitely, FRUIT FOR THE FARMER. The strongest advocates for a quart- er acro the right amount of farmer's fruit garden consider a land to de- vote to small fruits including plums and cherries. This land planted to fruita in the right proportion, is es- timated to produce thirty bushels per season. In selecting the land let it be near the house, nearly level and well drain- ed. Let it be four rods wide and ten rods long. If you raised corn or potatoes on it last year, and it is rioh, there is lit- tle to do to prepare it for planting, but if a part of an old meadow or pasture and all run down you have work to do, First put on a heavy coat of well rotted manure, plow very shallow and nut the sod fino with a disk or acme harrow, then plow again deeply, man- ure as before and harrow until fine and mellow. The garden being sixty-six feet wide and 105 feet long, and we wish- ing to do all labor possibly with a horse and cultivator, we stake off the ground in rows one hundred and fifty feet long and seven feet apart. Strawberry rows to be one-half this distance. Leave a headland seven and one-half feat wide at mob end for turning. Make the first row three feet from the outside and sot as fol- lows, to have variety and thirty bush•• els of fruit: First Row, Plum and Crab Apples -- 5 Desoto, 2 Cheney, 3 Transcendent, 9 Hyslop, Production, 5 bushels. Second Row, 50 Blackberries --40 An- a)ent Briton, 10 Snyder, Production, 3 bushels, Third Row, 50 Raspberries -40 Ohio, 10 Gregg. Production, 2 bushels. Fourth Row, 50 Rod Raspberries -25 Marlboro, 25 Cuthbert, Production, 2 bushels. Fifth Row, 30 Currants -25 Victoria, 25 lied Dutab. Production, 4 bush- els, Sixth Row, 50 Currants and Goose - harries -20 White Grape Currant, 15 Downing, 10 Houghton, Production 5 huebals. Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Row, 800 Strawberries-Warfield No, '2, Jessie Crescent, Wilson, Produc- tion 5 busbela. Eleventh Row, 17 Grapes -3 Moore's Early, it Wordcn, 5 Delaware, 3 Con- oord, Production, 4 bushels. Total production, thirty bushels. The above Adoption will prove quite satlsfacto. over ry ve n, wide range of tnx- ritory.If it has been found that any par11On,k ar fruit or variety named dopa not do well with proper care and prnteetian in your aactinn substitute some variety that hes proved eaWant, tory in your. neighborhood. TO FUMIGATE A POULTRY HOUSE. Remove everything, neat, perches and all, Put a pound of sul- phur in an Iron kettle, set it in the middle of the house, put a shovel- ful of hot coals into it, close the house up tight and don't open 'it for two or three hours. Burn all the old nest straw, paint the nest boxes inside and out with hot ooal tar, and also the roost. Whitewash the house thoroughly inside and. outside and you are rid o1 the mites. When these pests got a start, only the most heroic mea- sures will rid a place of them. When the house is once Clean, it is easy to keep clean if properly at- tended 'to when necessary. The man who whitewashes bis poultry Louse once a month In summer will never complain of mites in the house. A good spraying pump is very useful to get the wash in the (rucks. A little carbolic acid kind coat oil in the wash is beneficial. GIve the inside of the house a good drenching, but don't attempt to die thls with your Sunday clothes on or any suit worth wearing outside, It is hard on the mites and clothes at the same time. THE TRANSVAAL GOLD MINES, Their Remarkable A'rogregs-The Uinntond ,'Ield is Also Large. The report on the mining industry of theSouth African republic for 1897 presented to the Volksraud gives re- markable details of the progress made in the gold mining in the Transvaal and the striking regularity in the yield of gold, hardly equalled by any known gold fields. The capital of the 193 gold mines working at the end of 1897 was .,3363,803,750. Of those, twenty-eight mines with a capital of about $50,000,000 paid 314,750,000 in dividends, or nearly thirty per sent. Sixty-four other mines were producing gold, but paying no dividends, and some could not pay any without a tee• enterable reduction in working ex. panties. Tha other 106 mines were in course of being opened up. The total value of the gold yield in 1897 was 358,2550,000, being 315,000;• 000 more than in 1896. Of tbis 60 per cent, was from Brushing mills and 34 per cante by chemical exh'aation. The quantity of 030 worked was 5,741,311 tone whish gives a yield of a little over 310 to the ton, which, as the working expenses were about 36.62 per boa, left a not profit of 33.38 per ton. Tha working expenaea in 1890 had been $6,83, and in 1895, 37.54 per ton. :The total expenditure of the gold ruining industry had been 345,- 250,000, As during the past year, so in 1897, the Transvaal Government refrained from levying the tax of 21-5 per sent, on the ylem, and as there is no income tax and no exchange or stamp duty is paid on newly issued shares, the gold mining industry duel not appear to bave much to complain at Le that respect. The reduction of the price of dynamite by 32 and the lowering of railway rates contributed in inas'easing the profits. - There were, however, great lessee made in Transvaal mining socuritisa during 1597. These are attributed to the unscrupulous proceedings of pro - 100107s, who formed nearly 400 com- panies with a total capital of 3300,0110,- 000 in localities whore no gold existed, and over -capitalized other companies to such an extent tbat.diviclend pay- ing 3105 entirely out of the question even if dynamite had been imported free of duty and coal carried to the mines free -of charge, The profit -pay- ing oapaoity of the mines in general migbl be increased, but for three causes; namely, the theft of gold from the works, the illicit Bale of alcohol Lo the native lahm'ors, and the labor question generally, about 25 per gent. 0t the Kaffir laborers being constantly incapacltaled for work. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. 3lv value thing Remonstrated lightships 3331l be 5anlppal. A tlespntah from Londee'says: S1er- cum's wireless talography will shortly be applied to all the lightships around the British roasts. Its value watt strikingly deanate:rated in this con- naolion by the sailing ship Elbe, wlsloh 1 went ashore on Goodwin Sands in a fog. On the Rust Goodwin lightship i5) n wireless lalegrapll system, ',1'he crew telegraphed to the south Pore - land lighthouse by 111i5 means, and, as the lighthouse 1s in telegraph)o,0esn- munication with coast towns, tugs and lifeboats were soon proceeding Lo the ship's aaahali1.1108, 'Leta is the first occasion sicca the, 'nstniletiorn of the velem that its ,,lambed) use has been pal to the tont, :1)11 it proved h.lghly suctesefui. '