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The Brussels Post, 1899-6-30, Page 3• JIIrnn "SO,MMnP. T Ir BVii,U SS +ILS POST. Diamond Cut Diamon-id OR, THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. Ci AP't'ER XXBI1-Coutinuod. Great Heavens I thought the muoli- aggrieved man, is it over possible wholly to fathom the ingratitude and conlrartnese of woman 1 Ea wits grimly amused, savagely an- noyed, cud, above a11, insanely angry with her. lie felt himself to bo bitterly ill, used and understanding nate once for all whal elle meant, he had no geeer- osity oh' moray left for her. He would not, spare her, of that he was deter- mtned; moreover, who could any that the citadel that had not yielded to cunning might not perehaunee bo over- come by farce? A11 the blood of a bad. coarse nature rushed in a flood to his brain at the thought. Suddenly he cc r fronted her, came close to her, seized her hands, dragged her with a passionate movement to- wards Riau, whilst a torrent of incoh- erent words, to which he gave himself up with an odd Mixture of rage and love, burst frum his lips. "You madden me, Angel. Cannot you see, cannot you underelaud, that 1 have ceased to once for Delete, that the love I once had, or fauried I had, for her is dead and buried? It was but a poor, weak, shadowy concern after all! And now my whole being is merged in a etc different feeling, it fierce wild passion for one who is the only woman on earth L have ever real- ly loved. Angel, du you not know, do you not feel, that tt is you whom 1 love -you for whom I would sell my very soul, you only in the whole world when 1 worship and adore, and can you---" She wrenched berself out of his grasp, a great unspeakable horror came slowly into her distended oyes, and a low wall of fear broke from her trembling lips, her head dropped upon her bosom, and for one moment she cowered before him, hiding her facie in her hands. "Listen," he Dried hotly, snatching roughly at the sheltering hands, and forcing her to look at him; "nay, by God, but you shall hear me I Do you think you have been able to hide from me then you were always fon(1 of me, that let was only that coursed passing fancy of mine for Dulcie that stood between us? And don't L see now that you have thrown yourself away upon a fool who neither loves you nor appreciates you-" "Stop I" The single word rang out suddenly sharp and shrill and ar- rested hien as a pistol shot might have done. Then followed a moment of intense silence. She reared her head up proudly, erect and unflinching she raced ;bin with a set white face and - stern hard lips, only her ayes were alive and blazed into his, so that ho quatled as he met them and shrank away from her. Perhaps, to make my story truly deemed*, it should happen here in the due and fitting order of things, that the door should suddenly burst open and the absent husband, miraculously returned in the very nick of time, should fly to the reseae. fl'hat he should stile the villain by the throat and gatber his insulted wife to itis bosom. But nothing of the sort hap- pened.. In real lite, indeed, these ap- posite situations very rarely do oc-j cur, nor out of a three -act tragedy is: it at all desirable that they should.; As a matter of fact, a husband is ea very undestrable addition to such a I scene as I have just described; he is; very considerably In the way, and come! plicates and Increases the difficulties of the position to an absolutely in- credible degree. A true woman can always take care of ]herself. Angel was perfectly cap- able of self-preservation, and she did so far more simply and effeotuallp than anybody else could have done It for her. So, after that one stinging word of wrath and defiance, atter the glit- ter of the holy Lire had buret itself slowly out of bee flaming eyes, there happened nothing at all of a dramatic nature. Only out of the intense stillness there came at last a low-pitched wo- man's voice, vibrating with an inde- scribable contempt, and slow quiet words falling one by one, chill end cold as snow -flakes upon the silence. "1 think enough has been said, Cap- tain Lassiter, I think I understand you now perfectly and absolutely. I have made a very great error, I find, au error I sincerely regret, but time I em not likely to fall into again. I took you to be a friend, and I mistook you for a gentleman." After that nothing more at all. Just Um quick opening and shutting of a door, and the situation ons at an end; and Horace remitter vanished silent- ly out of the room, as he is destined to vanish out of this history. When he got baok to Lijminster he did two things; he went to the post- office and telegraphed to Leicester for rooms and stabling, and he went to the Icing's Head and began to peak up his portmanteau. Hillshire saw him no more. CHAPTER, XXXIII. Albert Triohet went down to Her - Word one day and made his proposal to Duloie in due form, and teas re- fused. Ile was perhaps not altogether sur- prised, but he wee certainly very n.ngry at his rejeettoh, and he was moreover somewhat astonished at the manner in which his advances were re- uaived, Dulcie not only did not seem at all flattered by what is generally conaid- ered us a aampiiment from a gentle- man to a lady, but she appeared to be actually Indignant at his asking her to marry him. "I can't think what can have induc- ed you to Bak me such a question 1" had been her remark, spoken with a considerable amount of irritation, "I lied reason to imagine—" "You 'lad 120 reason to ttnmg ne 1" she dried aalgrily, and then, no doubt, because Delete was an 1.11 -regulated young lady, she stamped her foot hapatientry. "You know very well I never got on with you; do go away, 111r. Trichet, and never speak on this subject again." "I cannot promise to do that. I can- not, indeed believe that you teeny mean to mitres lay offer. I :have your. fathers full emotent to address you." "If y0u lidd the consent of all my furefalhers back to the days of Atbam, II wouldn't make any difference to me." "11 is because somebody has eel you against nee? You have changed to me?" "Nobody has Bet me against you. I have sol: elutnged lir any way. Why do you forte M. 10 be ruche 10 you by perslating in (hie ridiculous idea, Ido. 'fetcher? I never even liked you from the first minute I 8131 eyes on you." Albert Trichet 501 very red; ho had a difficulty in controlling himself; he felt inclined to use load language freely, mid only restrained li meelf by a superhumatu effort. from (1Dint' s0. "I shall not take this as your filial answer, Miss - italliday. When you vein. 1 , think over all the advan- tages of a m'irrfago with rne,.1 am certain that you will change your mind." Phis persecution is intolerable)' cried Duloie furiettsty. and she jump- ed up and made as though she would have rung the bell to have her on - W' Duma suitor shown out of the house. Phut', at This junetare the door opened, and n big mm, followed by a email cur, entered, in that un- ceremonious fashion which betokens a man to be very much at home in a house. At the sight of him Albert Trichet scowled openly. "Ahl" he exclaimed angrily, "I think I could Put my finger upon rho man who has played the part of a shako in the grass in this matter!" At which Trousers, recognising au old enemy, by the impoliteness of his language, no doubt, as well as by sundry other evidences of canine clairvnyance, and filled with happy anticipations ot coming sport, growled merrily, and made as though he would have planted his teeth in the back of his trousers. The effect of these attentions was inetan111neous and almost miracu- lous. Trichet, mindful of past ex- periences and unwilling to risk a repe- tition of them, made a wild bolt for the door, "Better go out by the door than the window!" !unfilled Miles after him with a somewhat heartless allusion to past adventures as be vanished. And Albert Trichet heard the parting words and swore vengeance, shaking his fist back at the house and all within it, as he made his way back to the station. "It Is time our engagement was matte public), miles," observed Duleie, when he was gone. "I can't think why it was ever kept secret," said poor Miles meekly. "Can't you, dear old stupid? Well, first beoanse I wanted it to be, A woman's reasonless reason, no doubt." "1 thought when Angel was marri- ed--" demurred Miles, creeping close up to her, anti passing his arm shyly round her waist. Ile was but a blun- dering lover, after all, this big young men, who could hold his own so well aamongst his fellow -men, and with this little scrap of a girl he was nothing but a coward after a11. "hlay I, darling?" hesitatingly. "May you, what? Ohl. that non- sense! yes, I supposeso;" and the cool cheek and saucy oyes were lifted temptingly up toward the ugly honest face; "there, that's enough, Miles, Now listen to me. I shall tell papa to -night, and there will be a thundering row; that is why I ve kept it all quiet up to now, because I could see they were all in a leuguo to make me marry that hateful little beast. Papa has thrown out hints lately, and they have made him a manager in the business, you said yourself there must be some plan. He has got old Dane, you see, to back him Opt I have seen it com- ing all along; I nm going to tell papa about you to -night, and then I shall ran away," "Run away, Dulciel" "Yes. Not with you, Miles. Don't look so frightened, you mune me laugh) I am going down to Angel's to -morrow. I ve had an unhappy let- ter from her to -day. I want to see what is the matter with her. I meant to go in any case, and now things have Dome to a Deists, and it is a good op- portunity, I am going to be like the little boys in the street, ring the area bell and bolt." "And leave me to confront the con- sequencosl" ha said smiling. If it was only a matter of knocking somebody down, now." Yes, you would do that, fast enough? If you were only a primary man, Milesl" "What's that??" "A. savage. But you can't fight pa- pa, or old Matthew Dane either, with your fists, and as to poor Albert, I think he has caught it enough from you and Trousers between you. No, all you have got to do he to 'sit tight,' as you would say, and await orders from me. .I am not coming back un- less papa comments. Ie the worst comes to the worst -don't look alarm, ed -4 shall be married down there." "Duiciel" "0f course you can hardly take, that in, old boy. We, I ought to say,' "I3ut--but--' poor Miles slam, neared in a bewildered way, being, in truth, considerably taken aback by the rapid change in Duloie's plans end fancies, "But mo no butts, and don't make objections) What Is to stop us? There is a church, and a parson, and a clerk, I suppose, at Coddishaml anti there is a train to bring down the bridegroom -and I shall be therel" "I had heard of wedding -clothes,(" murmured Iviiles, with a twinkle in his eye. "Doubtless you will hear at them -again, dens," replied "Duloie sweetly, "as 'accesaries after the event,' Your fancies are running riot with you, Miles, and so are mine, for the matter of that. I only want you to under- stand that though there will be a row, I have no intention of giving you rap, whatever they may do, After all, papa can only say that you' are a bad matzoh, ,cel salary of ane hundred and seventy-five pounds a year is not a brilliant look -oat, certainly, but 1 had rather merry you on that than .eilbert Trichet or may other man on earth on 1110ltean(s, I shall go and keep out of the way in the country till papa gets a.ecustoneed to the idea. It will all acme right in the end," she added, reassuringly, !But something was about to take place whish Duloie Halliday had as- suredly not Daunted upon. Goaded to maanoss by her recusal of him, and by Mike; 1'aulltnar s easy aseumptioa of the plass in her hues„ which 11e had destined far himself - no less than by injudicious milestone to past morlifioatioas tram the master, and mutterings of farther ag- gression from ilia dog -Albert 'I'ricllot made up bis mind to out away the ground cemplotely and thoroughly once and for ever• beneath his r'ival's feel. That night he called upon hie chief in Cromwell lto'td, requesting an in- terview on meta 13'5 of important business, 74'1. Airs Dane, who r11 .,j,9 dreaded she know not what al the sight' of Trichel's inn= nod -looking face, admitted him herteu' roto her husband's study, with the remark that she trusted ha would uur keep him long, as he seethed very tired that evening. 'rewire: smiled, and bowed to her teen, ty-110 was not at all likely to br influenced by any observation it mi rhe amuse her to make. ,Asa .matter of fact, the Intervlew was long -very long indeed. So long that 111 one time, Albert himself dut.bted whether he would be able to carry his point, And in the end he only succeeded in doing so by making a cfuneeasi,111 which had not been at all in his program, and which would no doubt cause him a great deal of persoual inconvenience. - lle was to go an te mission of great trust and responsibility to South America, to renter with the Portu- guese agent of the house out there upon a question of buying up a very barge property likely to be very soon in the market, the coq 115101on of wince would tend enormously to in- crease the wealth and prosperity of Dann & Trichet. Whilst fully ooneurring in the great and vast importance of this whence, which Matthew now revealed to him fully, in all its bearings, Lou the first time, with a great assumption of cone faience, and a desire for bis opinion on the subjeot; Albert, as a per- sonal matter, demurred to the under- taking of the mission. He did not want to leave England just nolo, he argued; but: Mr. Dane hastened to prove to him that now, on the con- trary, was the very limo, of all others, when an absence of three or four m0ntbs would be most advantageous to him. He would avoid the natural bumiliatiou following upon the re- fusal of his suit by Miss Halliday, and return with fresh chances of suroess, and n better look -out for the future. "It is necessary that one of the Principals of the house should be on the spot to settle it," he urged. "The scheme is of too vast a magnitude to trust its evolution either to letters or telegrams or to the un- derlings who undertake our business out there. You must agree with me, Albert, do you not?" He spoke anxiously, almost pleading- ly. Albert Triohet was flattered -he thought he perceived that: he was he - coming indispensable to his chief. His vanity, which had been so trampled upon and wounded by Dulcle's rejec- tion, revived a little ander the grac- ious delusion, "I am too old to go," continued old Matthew..' "Besides I am seedy, my health is not what it was; and as to Halliday, well, Halliday of course is a very good fellow, but, between ourselves, Albert, Tohe Halliday fs a i fool I" Trichet smiled and felt elated. Mr. Dane would never have spoken so of his partner to coy but lite most In- timate sharer of the secrets of his heart. He nodded acquiescence, and a sign, it might aatmast lee denominated a wink, passed betiveen thorn. 01d Dane winked back quite cheerily, and unblushingly -he was winning hands down. You etre one of ourselves now, dear boy -admitted, as it were, to the sanc- tum sanclorum. I have no secrets from you now." "And if 1 go," said Triohet, losing his head a little, "You will do what I hive asked, without delay?" Mr. Dano appeared to hesitate -pos- sibly he did not desire to seem too ready to °leach the bargain; he re- mained silent - for some moments, stroking his olein slowly and thought- fully with the palm of his brown sinewy hand: Trichet kept his oyes fixed upon him expectantly. At length the old man dasbed his fist down resolutely upon the table be- fore him. "Well -yes, then 1" he cried, as though won over with reluctance to his companion's wishes, "I agree. It shalt be done l" "To -morrow?" "Yes, to -morrow, 1.1 you will. And you, you know, will have to stout by next week's mall, Albert," he added, and in the keen eyes, for all his clever- ness, there glittered a ray of irrepres- sible delight. So conscious was he of this weakness of human nature, that he Meditatively narrowed his eyes and shaded them with his hand from the full glare of the lamp -light lost the secrets of his heart should unwitting- ly betray themselves through them, Then Albert 'nether arose and wish- ed him good -night. When be got out- side ie the Street, there was a chill fog hanging in the air, so that the street lamps gleamed with a sickly glare through the haze, and were sealrcely distinguishable from one to the other. But it might have been a midsummer night, redolent with the breath of (roses and new -mown hay, to see the manner in which Albert Trichet expanded his chest and drew in long bronths of delight and satis- faction as he walked home, Sweet is Revenge; and a joyful end a pleasant thing it is to smite thine enemy hip and thigh! So he said to liansel1 as he want bank eastwards 11000511 the soiled and mnr'ky streets. lie 'drought over rich the insults and the Lnjuries which Miles Faulknee had from time to time heaped upon hila, recalling them one after the other with savage curses, clown to the last crowning attain of all -his success with 3)uleis, But it was all to be id btek gtiteaid. sank four- told,"doubleneasurpressed down and running over," he wouldneve trouble him again ---never( But what about the man he had left behind1 .On Matthew Dane's seared old (neo there was neither joy nor elu- tion. Ho .801 very still for a long time after his managing clank had left halm, do still and so long, lensing up- on his hand, sitting there by the table, that but for the wide -opened eyes fix- ed on BOMB trifling object in his band, he aright have been supposed to have fallen asleep in hie uheir, But Ile was not asleep, Llis body was motionless, but his mind was awake and motive, painfully, horribly active -fur there (vas u picture before his fixed eyes --a picture diet had wilting to ,lo wee the Only 1,011(10)1 roam, with i1B soft totem =elates, and carpets andits well-filled bookshelves against the wall, and the portrait of a far -away ancestor, by Vandyke, over the ehtm- ney-mince, and the shaded lamp upon the ltandscivae writing -table at his elbow. Yet the picture was vivid enough and real enough i11 all cuusci- enee. Only it flat, swampy cou011')', with rho mists of fever and miasma lying hn flake-like clouds open the bosom of a reed -covered marsh, only a desolate wooden hut, built by e margin of a sluggish stream, and a half-caste, dark-browed marl, who came and went swiftly and s,:fily within, pouring something, that wee medhcino, no doubt, from a phial into a tumbler, and a sick man tossing in delirium on m pallet bed in a far corner, "Those swamp fevers are bad things," he murmured between his lips, with his far -away eyes still faseinaled toy that dream -picture, "only the swamp fever, it has carried off many a good fellow before." And then it seemed as though, in the picture, the man on the lied ceased from moaning and tossing, and lay suddenly still, and an awful 'Mange passed over him. Old Dane saw hint quite plainly now, as though he lay stretched betwixt hims_1£ and the fireplace in Cromwell Road. And his face was livid with the last agony, and damp with the dews of death, and the face was the face of Albert Trichetl Matthew Dane sprang suddenly to his feat, a hoarse smothered sound came like a croak from his parched throat, and he passed his hands quick- ly across his eyes. The vision was gone, and he saw nothing more than his warm, home -like den, and the eyes of his Vandyke forefather, is long lovelucks and wide white collar, ambl- ing down at him with a gentle re- proachfulnoes in thole mild glance. Then he beoame himself again, the Merchant of London, who was the head and pulse and soul of a great and important house of business, who was rich because he had been un- scrupulous, and successful because he bad let no petty hindrance stand in the path of his ambition. He drew his blotting -book towards him and wr 'Deote:ar Gomez, I send you out 701105 Trichet by the next moil. You might take him up the country to have a luok aL those Plantations I ana thinking of purchasing. Take him by the shortest route, and make any use of him you like. I don't want hire in England at present. Take the best care of him, "MATTHEW DANE," ,And then ho did a curious thing. He selected a fresh pen, and unlocking a drawer in his waiting -table, took oat of iL a bottle of red ink, then in the right-hand corner of the simple little note he had written he Brow very care- fully a small Dross, en the red ink. When that was done he closed and addressed the letter, affixing neither seal nor crest outside the envelope, and late though the hour was, and cold and foggy was the night, elallhew Dane went out and posted the letter himself in the nearest pillar -box. By the early morning the message of Death had gone forth on its way, speeding unerringly on the first stage of its journey to the other side of the world. And the following morning at the house of Dane and Trichet, in the City of London, a certain humble de- pendent of that great establishment received a cruel and very unexpected shook. Miles Faulkner found a long blue letter lying upon his desk. It was written to a clerk's hand and stated in polite but perfectly intelligible words, that, "Much as Messrs. Dane and Triohet regretted the melancholy neces- sity of such a step, yet that resent changes and losses obliged them with great reluctance to reduce their staff of clerks, and that from this day month naming the exact date, they would therefore feel themselves compelled to dispense with the valuable services which Mr. Miles Faulkner hath hither- to rendered, to them," Then/ the let- ter wee signed by the two partners' names in order, Matthew Dane- and John Halliday. And from that fiat there seemed to be no appeal. To bee Continued, THE FLOWER CHARM, The wail of the man, "There is al- ways something being invented looms the motley out of one's pookel," is truly a just one, when you come to serious- ly examine the many devloes and fads eellieh are constantly being put in the market, with whioh to enhance beau - tithe (woman's charms. lee latest fad whioh has been in- vented, and which every man who would hold his sweetheart's affection meat peasant her with, is in one sense of the word not a ellen) one, though the original outlay is not vary great. 1t is called a Clower Miami, and is intended for a chatelaine or a Cyrano chain, or it may be turned aside from its ot'Iginal purpose and made to do duty as a photo frame and an orna- meat for my lady's desk, It is two round glass disks, con- cave and convex, set in a silver or gold i'im, A they sorely at the top loosens the frame and the glass disks are mov- ed. Between these disks it is the fad of the hoar to plane two or throe large double violets. Now, the anon who gives this little charm to his sweetheart must keep it filled with fresh violets. Should he allow thane to grow faded and withered 'lien his love is suppos- ed to have grown cold, One girl has very ingeniously con- verted her charts into a photograph frame, and the pretty little charas holds two photos, one of harsel( and one of her fiance, and IL hangs on a cute little plush easel on her escri- toire, Let it be used for its original pur- pose or as a frame, the charm is the foci of the hour, and they aro selling them just as fast as they Dan be mantle Centered. They are prettier hung on oh:ttal•tine than dangling from a tong, grana chain, but they must ellveye the supplied with trash flowers, or Lhoir beauty and symbolic= aro lost. o , p olive.,40A6 e Farm... Lekeetellielaleeellea CATTLE FOR THE UENleRAL FARMER. What kind of cattle shall the gen- civet farmer raise? The general farm - e1' is the man that folluws diversified taming, wheat, barley, hay, oats and horses, sheep and hogs. Ide neither devotes all of bis laud to raising one kind of grate, aur feeds all of his crops to one kind of stock. Ike does not de- pend upon ono thing entirely for his Ineum,', as does the specialial, Stock are kept in order to feed the Drops raised on the farm to the greatest. advantage and to preserve as much of the fertilizer constituents of the weeps raised as possible. But there are 04staelea to specialized farming that et present seem inaurmuunluble. Cattle are kept on these farms fur two p00505e5, to furnish nallk and butter and to produce meat. The milk and butter producer(' are wit/tartly for the use 0l the farmer's family, and the Surplus is usually sold iu the open market, The calves are reacted by hand on skim milk, and the steers are kept until they are two ur ,three years old and then sold to tMeal butchers or to 11lpeers. The heifel'a are kept to replace their mothers, or else are sold as milch cows. It is very evident that the 'special dairy cow is not suited to this class of farmers, although she would admirably fill the requirements Ifor milk and butter, yet her calves would be worthless for feeding pur- poses. On the other hand the special beef cow commit fill the bill, because she cuuuot yield enough milk to sup- , pry the family wants and raise her cull. Neither can the farmer eifurtt tee keep both classes, Ona to supply milk- and ilkand butter and the ether to supply feeding cattle. But the kind of catte demanded mast be a combination of both the beet and dairy animal, ur as lief. Shaw has christened them, the dual 'Dermas,. cattle, J'bey must p1uduca a good quantity of £airiy rich milk and their calves must make gaud feeding cattle. The cow herself must be ul good size and capable of being fattened easily, so that when her days of use- lulness are passed us a milcn cow she may be easily fattened for. beef. Al- though the dual purpose cattle stand midway between dairy and beef cattle they do not result from Ole first cross. Zany more than the hackney results ,from a cross between a heavy draft horse and a trotting horse. But they form distinct breeds and the breeding of dual purpose cattle requires as much and, if any difference, more skill than the breeding of special purpose. cattle, the dairy quality must not be develop- ed at the expense of the beef quality, nor the beef at the expense ut the ' dairy, Both qualities 11$11S1 be advanc- ed together, and it takes Octel and ex- perience in breeding to do it. Probably no une breed is ideal as dual purpose cattle, but the Short- horn, the Red Pulled and the Dev- on approach most nearly to. it. 1t is from these breeds that the general farmer must look for his supply of dual purpose cattle. The breeders of these should reougnize the importance of developing both the beef and dairy qualities, and all tendency lo breed for single or special purpose should be eliminated. --- DANGER IN SHAVING. Shavings have been found dangerous ito cattle when used for bedding. They will occasionally eat more or less of them, and as they are indigestible they remain in the ,stomach and intestines, causing inflammation and mysterious !death of cattle bedded 0ni shavings, Houses are leas apt to eat the shav- ings, bat good straw is preferable, Food shredded corn fodder nukes the best bedding yet produced, PEACH AND APRICOT. With a better knowledge of the wants of the peaely and apricot ars re- gards soil and location and the develop- ment ut varieties the fruit buds of which are specially fitted to withstand the extremes 0C our climate, the cnitt- valion of these, fruits is considerably ou the increase. THE POULTRY YARD, Remember the chicks, 'Rolled oats of coarse oat meal is a muscle and hone -builder, Chicks should have animal protein, Chicks must always have u phenate! supply of water and grit. Granulated Miuroial Is eaten greedi- ly by cbloks; it absorbs the gasses in the bowels and reg0111105 them, If your chicks have diarrhoea a feed or two of middlings will oft -Limes stop it. If constipated feed a few leedsof beau. - ase the heads of chivies with lard, braa dust the chickens under the wings with insect poiedcr, Olean their feed uud water trouglis with scalding wa- ter twice a week. Never allow your chicks to roost on their own droppings. Change their coops often. Onions chopped fitie make a desirable relish for chicks. As the chicks mature, separate the males Croat the females. Dispose of surplus of cull cockerels as soon as marketable, ll'atalr eorlicc in the 1031 house,Maro- sone will kill them, i.e,, lice. Use plenty at lime sleeked or in the form of whitewash in the hen house, Feed 1)1010ty of grass, green weeds of Anything green, to mature, penned fowls, After breeding season Separate mala' birds Deem your females,. 1f your bens have termed the egg - eating habit, take a lot oil egg shells, crush theca up fine and feed theta all they will eat. 'l'hey can usually be found 1 d In at bakeries, Salt bacon cut into small pieces, rolled le corn mead, fed every two weeks, will usually stop elulere. Rens running without merles with theme lay just as many eggs as if you had a dozen aetle11 in the (leek. If a hen becomes broody, let her sit on a, nest premised fur her out of your hen houso for a week or so. She will then lee ice better laying condition. Market your eggs chemo,' they will sell }tetter, if you candle them, be- fore marketing an hot weather it: will save yeti many curses whil•h will be heaped upon your bead if the lots are found by the consumer, Yule 010 also obtain better prices. Remove all droppings from hen's rousting place, Cleanliness is next to godliness in the poultry yard, LIQUID FUEL. Itefleved That It Witt ('orale feta t'einolon Ise on Lerfnaetiv(" cad Mee mein:. The great advantages asserted for liquid fuel are the absence of smoke ant' the large e0unumy effected in the storage of oil es compared with coal, and these advantages are must desir- able Oa warships. It has been found that a much longer (lured= of supply may be obtained from a given space stowed with petroleum than from the same place stewed with coal, and also that a ton of oil will do as much work as two and a half tons of coal. Thera seems to be no doubt of the superiority 01' petroleum over cult as a motive power for engines, provided that it may be applied adequately and with- out waste of lie utility. There is nothing new about the use of liquin mei ort tacemullees. This fuel has long driven the trains on the Trans -Caspian Railroad, and it is :deo in 0se On the Trans-Siberian. Oil - burning locomotives are le cummun esu in Southern Caltforne' and they are fed frum the p81001eum deposits ih:tt are worked at Los Angeles. Soma I of the locomotives on the railroad from Beira, East Africa, to Salisbury, l Nashuuatand, w01011 was completed only a few weeks :,gu, rue all fund. ,111 deltas passing through the Arlberg tunnel in the .Lips, six m11es long and (connecting the Swiss and Austrian railroad systems, sow usual smoke by using petroleum. It is uiso used to seam extent ou the underground ser- vice in London, on the Paris suburban trains and must of the express trains of the Great Eastern Railroad of Eng- lund in spite of the fact that it is MORE EXPENSlVE THAN COAL, It has been introduced also with sue- cese in some L.,ncashire M0115. Sir 2,,11(0115 Samu •1, who is said to be stili the only exporter of oil in bulk through the Suez Canal, has the great- est cuniidenoe in the future of liquid fuel, end believes that it will nut only coma into comet= use 0u 102001011525 and steamers, but also that it will be empluyed for fuel to smelters, as the intense heat that it is capable of gen- erating reduces the moat stubborn Ores, In a paper which he read re- cently before the Suieety of Arts he said that a km:m011 a 'awning oil wirl maintain 0110 same head of steam up the steepest gradients, but the same feat cermet be accomplished with coal, where the mere firing of the boiler with fuel serves to damp the fur- unce, The investigations to be carried out hero and those that are in progress abroad are not for the purpose of its - (*anteing the value ut liquid fuel, for that has been demonstrated, but to test the utility of the various inven- tions for applying 11. There are a number of these inventions and meth- ods Sir Marcus said in his paper: "A vast field is open for the ingenuity of engineers in devising other methods for the utilization of oil. In fact, almost daily discoveries are being made of means by which liquid fuel may be utilized to greater advantage thou any yet discovered, and it would surprise me very much if, with prac- tice, the methods employed do not con- tinually improve. Turning from the subject of liquid fuel, it is iuteresling to refer to the fame mentioned by Sir Marcus, show- ing the prejudioe teeth formerly exist- ed against the transportation of oil in hulk, dor largely to the common belief that it was. A VERY DANGEROI'S BUSINESS. A part of the opposition, howe.rer, was offered by 00mpeting e'n•riers, who were,agninst the introduction of tank steamers. Ll was some years before steamers pally'r ng oil to bulk were al- lowed to pass through the Suez Canal at till, and there was Out a port where obstacles were not raised when any at- tempt was made to introduce oil in bulk. Speotal regulations were devis- ed to euntrol what was called an extra hazardous business, and yet in the sev- en years during which Sir Marcus has been engaged in carrying oil In bulk not an accident has occurred, The Government would not permit tanks to be erected on the tarmac of Singapore but compelled the employ to dis- rhorge its cargoes on the neighboring Wand of Freshwater. Moro liberal ideas era: note entertained. At 13om- 1117, where pernli6slen to land the oil was not given emit two years ago, the tanks are now pbtemd right among the sbipping and the ail is pumped into oink cars that are run alongside, and thus petroleum is sent to all parts of India. HOUSE: AND MLN. Study of the relation between the total length of life and the time re- quired to remit] Maturity has broltgl; 0011 611 i.nt0reel 11g comparison het. ween (nen and horses. A horse at five years le said to bo, 1umpara.Lively, as old as a Man at 10, fled may be expected to behave, according to equine standards, after the manner of the average e0) - lege student Callotviing 11010 11 sten- dards. A ten -year-old horse resent. lees. so far as age mod exparlenee go, 111'111 of 40, while. a 'terse whteh has ettnitted the ripe ageof Sit is compar- able with a mall ot poi years. VERY DELIGHTFUL VISION OLD rATHER THAMES DIAX YET L1UrIT ALL LONDON. ('t•epeeee sellout/ to Menem Mc Waves 40 'rarbhnes null 'rbcs 11UA optimum - An Authority Expresses Ws Optnlon On 4pe haihjeei, The possibility of harnessing the „mien, since the first idea, some munt1s ago, leas spread like wi1dflrp :,01,,)1(1 LnVOALOI's all over the world, The immense power wbleb might be utilized in the coaselese rise and fall of the waves, could be used for so many* valuable purposes that ioL first thought enthusiasts were ready to de, Clare mi.Ilonnium come. Compressed air and eiectrinit.y, among other things, might be so easily and cheaply generated that many things now al- most hopelessly above the level of the lower glasses would speedily be re. domed to within their reach. The rich would necessarily beimma less wealthy and the lour would banana teas pear. Class would be lust and the brother- hood rotherhood of man cut aotual fact. So cried the easily impressible. LONDON TO RE LIGHTED. A paragraph recently went about the Loudon papers with the heading: "To Make the 'Thames Light Loudon," It is stated that the Lundin County Council has under consideration a scheme whereby the rising and falling 1f. the Lite at London Bridge is to be mad,, to work turbines and thus pro- vide motive power sutfi:dent to run all the dynamos necessary tar the light- ing of London by electricity. The vision conjured up by this scheme was truly a delightful use. No more smoke, no more fog, no more coal. Lon- don would be lit and warmed simply by the daily rising and falling of good old li'alhar Thames. 'B. ]Horley Fletcher is perhaps the greatest authority in the metropolis on the subjeot of the utilized= of tidal wave power. A Loudon reporter, who w• is numbered among the most. ardent of the adherents of the new idea, sought out the engineer. A few calm words fromhim, how- ever, greatly cooled his ardor and he rye's s'aon convinced that the minimal= was not quite so near as he had hoped. MILLENNIUM NOT COME. Mr. Fletcher explained, that if tur- bines were installed at London 13ridge, the power that they would develop, owing to the rise and fall of the tides, would only be sufficient Lo light a very shall portion of London, indeed. The expense of making Lbe installa- tion would be very great In propor- tion to the power generated, and, what is perhaps the must damning thing against the scheme, the fixing of the turbines would interfere very great- ly with the navigation of the Thames, for only a small channel would be available for the immense traffic up and down stream. Disillusioned on this point, I proceeded to ask Mr. Fletcher whether there was much prospect of the immediate utilization of the tides or the waves for the gee- lion of power. As every one is aware, a great deal is being done be the way ot making waterfalls, even 0t com- paratively small size, do useful work, but little has yet been done in har- nessing the waves. Morley Fletcher had himself invented a wave motor, which may be seen working off Dover, and he is a great believer in the pos- sibility etf putting to useful work Lae ceaseless energy of the waves of the ocean, WHAT A WAVE MOTOR IS. Quite lately 11Ir. Fletcher took one of his wave motors to Spain to show lis capabilities to Spanish and Eng- lish engineers, and he is now engaged in ev0rking out several schemes for the employment of such motors for various purposes. The wave motor omelets of three main parts. Al the top is an oscillat- ing buoy, to which is attached a 11y- draulle pump and various kinds of gear. Below this is a "hydrumeter tube" composed of welded sleet. 'thus is really a long tube, having a piston at its upper extremity worlring in a cylinder attached to tette floating buoy. At the hewer extremity of the tube is a submerged table constructed of steel plates; it is provided with fit- tings for mooring chains, and contains an air chamber designed to augment the buoyancy of the whole structure, When the whole apparatus is plac- ed layed to the water, the table sinks to its normal position below the surface, while the buoy floats on the waves. The rising and falling of the waves causes the buoy to move the piston up and down, and as 11eo table practicalle rem11)15 stationary, power 1s developed, which may be utilized as desired. Ex- perl6nee has shown that in very calm weather there hs still sufficient mo- tion 1.o work the motor, and that even fierce storms have no power to inter- fere with its colon. A TELLTALE CL00ii. <1. singular ease has just: been decide td in Germany after occupying nearly a year in trial. When Prince Bis- marsh died, two ;hamburg photograph- ers bribed a watcher in the Boom to allow them to take a flashlight pith: tare of the dead chancellor. They tried to sell the photograph, but the Bismarck family interfered. The pho- iograph itself furnished the evidence whioh convicted the persona concern- ed. The men who took the pduture did not 'notice a dock 011 elle Wall, Which Was reproduced en the photograph and rtoorded the exact motto/It when the view was taken, It was known who was iu watch etch at that Mame rt and r rat the faithless woteber gave the names -of the photographers. Tho pett.ures have been suppressed, and !he photograph- ers sentcneed. 10 ,9a1).