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Diamond Cut Diamond
OR,
THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY.
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CHA 11"rElt XX XIV.
Geoffrey had known no rest or peace
Until he could devise anne excuse
take hire up to town.
For a week" he bed seen it he
bad gone about like a man in a dream
thinking of nothing save the vision of
that woman to her grief and her
mourning garments; and the more he
thought it over the mere convinced he
become that it was no stranger he
had seen, no chance resemblance that
had bewildered and deluded him, but
that it was in very t ruth Rose de Bre-
four hereelf.
And yet, though his instinct told him
that 11 was So, his reason revolted.
again and again from this contilusion,
To begin with, what could ha ve
brought her here, within twenty miles
of his home, the old house where she
had once dwelt herself 1 Was she not
living at Riverside, settled there fin
ally with the Laid man who was, as sh
herself had told him, too broken an
too infirm for it to be sate to ris
moving him again? It seemed next t
Impossible that she should Moe don
so, devoted as she was to him wit
all the whole strength of an unee
fish and noble nature. And then tilos
mourning garments, what could the
be the emblem of ? Was her wretch
husband deed at last, Ile thought, wit
a strange sick sinking at his hear
and was she, thus soon after his ow
raarriage, free at last? Free to hate
loved him and belonged to him, fre
to have crowned hie existence withibi
great blessing of her love, for on
year of which he would have given u
all Ids life, and whieh ho had reeigne
at her bidding, as a thing which Go
Himself had set apart from him fo
ever. The bare suggestion of such
possibility was suffieient to medde
him with despair.
Ile felt that, at whatever cost, n
whatever risk, he must seek her ou
and know the truth.
And fur some days he addressed him
self to the task of discovering the lone
ly house in which he believed he ha
seen her. But, like a phantasmagor
inn shadow, it had slipped from his
grasp, and now eluded his utmost ef-
forts to find it.
Nobody could tell him of a lonely
white cottage, with a laurel hedge
end iron railing& in front of it, stand-
ing apart on the edge of a desolate
coiunion. He could not give any in-
form:Lion respecting the direction in
which it lay, nor tee roads which led
towards it. The night had been so
dark, the Limitary so absolutely strange
to him, chat he was unable to supply
a single clue that could in any way
assist those whom he questioned in
guiding him to a satisfactory issue.
He started, indeed, more than once,
full of hope and certainty upon jour-
neys that turned out in the end to!
be nothing but very wild-goose chases,
and he even sacrificed several good ;
runs in order to ride away by himself ;
along roads that seemed ro him to
bear a certain resemblance to that
high -banked eine along whose wind-
ings he had plodded so wearily upon
that never -to -be forgotten evening.
At last, after frequent disappoint-
ments, he was obliged to give It up
as hopeless. And then a new idea oc-
curred to him.
He would go to Riverside and find
out if she was still living there. Then
if he found, as his reason repeated to
ben must be the case, that she was
living in the house where he had last
seen her, then he should know that
that other woman of whom he had so
strange and mysterious a glimpse was
but a stranger with whom he had no f
concern. or else one of those curious e
and unaccountable optieal delusions of
which once before of late he had had
a slight experience, when he had fan- a
tied les had seen her in the gloaming e
sitting lee the firelight in his own
TO0111.
Anti in that case Geoffrey came to
a very wise and practical conclusion, 1
that he would go and consult aLone I
don doctor before he came home a
again.
He went up to town on pretence of
seeing his uncle, and also to buy an-
other horse at an approaching sale at m
Tattersall's for his wife and he ar-
ranged to be two dnys away.
At the very first opportanity he t
went down to Riverside. The little riv- s
er town looked sad end melancholy un- b,
der the winter sky. The houses were s
mostly shut up and empty, the boats a
gone into dock and bidden away, or 1
lying covered up in shroud -like eases s
like so many pale corpses of past c
pleasures, moored side by side by the
deserted landing -place. The roads were
wel and dirty, there were no sniffing
girls in sailor lints and Jerseys of div-
ers colors to be met with in the shops
of the little town, no brawny youths
in flannels loafing a bout the High
Street. It was all deserted and dull,
and empty, the very river seemed to
ran sluggishly and slow, and the shady
banks and sedgy corners where the
wild flowers used to grow in masses
were nothing more than a damp lit-
ter of rotten branches and decaying
leaves,
Geoffrey began by making a few
inquiries at the principal shops and
at tee Post Office concerning he in-
habitants of No, 10, Longwey Road.
But the shops hall forgotten, mammy
went and came during the year, and
as to the Post Office it could tell him
nothing. All last summer there were t
never any letters for No, 10, and there b
had been none this long whiie, The h
A
He went away, and walked quickly to st
No. 10, lenrigway Road, end looked up It
el the holuie. It seemed to be inhnbe s
ited. There were red blinds in the ev
windnws, and muslin turtains; but' to
though he could not have Said where h
the difference lay, lee felt instinctive. h
ly that there was a change. se
Ile had not intended to intrude upon or
her, and yet he felt it would be im- fo
passible to go awaywithout making sh
enquiry. He del:Praline,' that. Ile would
only nek—for indeed the face Of Mar- ay
tine at the door would be enough for 11)
him. If he Ban that, he eyelid re. m
leltirinauion, atillto
WoUlti just go tawny as he had acme, ete
ettlekly rryi ellen 1.1Y,'
O 110 ratite the bell, and a event itu
E BRUSSELS P OS T.
JULY 7, 1899
parloug-maid, 10 a white cap and rib-
bons, come fluttering to the door at
bib ellnlitlens,
" Mee Madame Brefour live here'?"
81/i'."
Ilas et)ler t, then ?"
" I suppose se, sir. She doesn't live
here."
" Can you tell me her present ad-
dress?"
I never heard of it, sir. Gy mis-
ter and mistress ' name is Clark. We
came in last week. They've gone up
to town to -day. Leastways. Mr. Clark
always goes every day, baring busi-
nese in the City, and Mrs. Clark has
gone up with him to -day."
" You don't know, then, where the
—the family who lived here last have
moved to ?"
No, sir, The house WAS vacant
when we took it, all but the fixtures,
sir, blinds and so forth, which eft.
Clark he took on as they were, and
Mr. Clark he says he gut 'mu dirt
k cheap,"
e There, was evidently nothing more
e to be got out of this young women,
h save further information concerning
e, the domestic habits and opinions ttf
c her employers. Geoffrey dropped a still-
y ling into her hand, and ',vent sadly
away, for he had caught a glimpse of
h the old garden through the open door
t beyond tee hall, and of the leafless
a' mulberry tree, beneath whose droop -
11 ing branches the last scene of the
e drama of hie love had perchance been
t played out.
e And as he walked, a small ragged
urchin, carrying a broom, ran after
tt , him from the opposite crossing, anti,
it trotting alongside of him, touched the
✓ remnant of a dilapidated cloth cap.
with a frequent.), which at Inst at-
a [meted his notice, and sent his fing-
ers wondering into his waistcoat poce
ket for a copper.
t " Please, sir; rlease, sir," the little
; bundle of rags kept on repeating. The
_ penny had evidently faileil to satisfy
him, and the shrill childish voice kept
on muttering a half -inaudible string of
words all in a breath.
" Please, sir, if it's the Lutein lady
as you was askin' for—and Mr. Bates
e do know her, next door the baker's
811,!..j'e'offrey beard it at last, and stood
still to listen.
" It's the furrin lady as used to give.
me coppers, eir, as you was askin' for
over there." And little Mike thrust
back his tburab over his shoulder with
an expressive pantomimic action. "And
Mr. Bates 'e do know, 'e do."
"Who is Mr. Bates, my little man?"
" Mr. Bates be the undertaker, sir,
what did the funeral "—Geoffrey gasp-
ed—" It were a beautiful funeral, air I
Two coaches besides the 'earse, and
sick a lot of flowers hall over the °muf-
fin, and six gents as walked in scarves
beenct it with black kids on. Oh, my I
but it were a sight, to be sure 1 And
Mr. Bates 's managed tbe 'ole bloom -
in' thing!"
He was too great a coward to ask
whose funerat it was. One of those
two men no doubt it must have been
to whom her life was bound; but
which
lie only said briefly:
In barren existence that was to ber
an inoentive to goodness, as well as
a motive for life itself, ; •
From the very bottom of bis heart
Geoffrey Deno eloped, or at least told
'dwelt that he lolled, that not one of
Ouse bitter tears, alai 00 doubt for
the old man she had loved so well, had
been wrung from her sorrowful heart
for his Bake.
He hoped that she bad forgotten him,
And yet he knew that his hope was
foolishness.
He went through the rest of his Len-
ient visit mechanically, like a man in
a dream. He went into the City and
hid an interview wee hie uncle, who
received him with affectionate deligbe
He was told not to trouble himself
about heatless until Easter, only to go
on dr twing money wit bout scruple, and
he smilea and murmured inaudilde
thanks. fie heard with a vague fer-
a wonder that Albert Tetanal was on
tini point of starting on a mission to
South ,!1inericia, and he was not sufft-
ciently alive to els surroundings even
to experience a gladness at the
thought or his absence, He alai heard
unintived; and this Was stronger still,
the news that Miles Faulkner was to
leave the office. It any other Gene
tilts news would have caused tem pot -
gamin distress and indignant remon-
strance, but to -day he wag cionscious
of mithing—nothing save that woman
in her grief and 'onetime% whom face
he mils! never 1. ok upon again.
After he left his uncle he went to
Tattersall's and bought the horse for
hit wife, paying but ecant attention to
the animal's merits and demerits, and
feeling neither glad ver sorry when
altuest by a chance the horse was
knocked down to bim.
In the same mood be milled upon his
aunt, who was tearful and nervous to
a degree that should have arrested his
attention, and who wept softly over
him after he was gene, believing from
his strange sad manner teat he must
be unhappy in his domestic relellens.
An, Bo he got bimst•lf home egein
at last, sadly and abstractedly, know-
ing more than he had clone when he
left, yet wishing percleinee that he had
never heard it.
CHAPTER XXXV,
t Rose de Brefour told herself for a
tone that she was in very truth the
most miserable woman upon the face
of the earth.
The old man whom she had loved
anti served at devotedly had died in
her arme, killed by a violent outburst
of paselun from the lips uf the sou who
had come back from his long years of
biding only to bring fresh misery up -
an those who belong to him. Leon de
Brefour had brought a storm ot evil
words and cruel reproaches to tile very
bedside of his aged father. It was no
shuck of a too feawful joy that had
slid 1 him, but a frightful scene of
violence and rage enacted in the very
bedchamber or the sick man, out of
whioh two old servants and the terri-
fied wife had striven in vain to drive
him And so the cord bed snapped,
ane the over -wrought heart had throb-
bed its last and broken. Before the
doctor could be summoned, or even
wine fetched from downstairs, Victor
de Brefour had breathed his last upon
his daughter's breast, and all his sore
roe% were at an end.
But for her there was no end to it.
For the first few hours site had
thought she should go mad. She had
been like a wild hunted creature, with
only one desire left, that of flight
from the terrible man whose pardon
she bad purchased at so fatal a pruae.
She had paced up and down her room,
Take me co Mr. Bates, my lad, end with locked doors, orying aloud to bee -
yeti shall have s whole shilling for sell in her agony. It was for this teat
yourself," and Mike, grinning from ear she bad sacrificed her love and her
to ear, led the way. hopes, thrown away Geoffrey's af-
ire. Bates, house agent as well as fection, folioed him into an unwilling
undertaker, to the town of Riverside, marriage with another woman I—for
resided, as Mike had intimated, next this, that tbe old man's prayer might
door to the baker's in the High Streetbe granted, and his white head go down
WaS a little old gentlemen with to the grave in peace.
vhite winskers, and a subdued and con- And what now was the answered
idential manner, sueb as might be prayer? Where was the promised
uppesed to be in 'anemone, with the peace?
graver portion of his melancholy trade. Her own life was wrecked, and
n a few words he wee able to supply wrecked in vain I
11 the information t hat Geoffrey de- The vile wretch who was still her
ired. It was the old CoUnt de Brefour husband was free and paraoned, and
who was dead; a sudden shock, conse- the first notion of hie liberty was, by
went upon the unexpected reappear- his violenoe, to slay his father who bitcl
nee of a son supposed to have been prayer, and waited for him for so many
ong dead, had been, so Mr. Bates be- Year5.
ieved, the immediate cause of death, In those ,first few hours of her des-
lthough he had understood from the pair, Rose well nigh lost her faith and
actor in attendance at the time of the hex' religion, With tee pttriarob of
melancholy event that the oldgentle- old see might have cried aloud, "Let
man had been in a falling state for inc curse God and die," for intolerable
oaths back. Then Mr. Bates, too, griel has ever a tendeney to make
emarkedehe little Mikie bed done, and Atheists of the best of us.
with an air of modest pride, that al- And then, when things were at their
hough "he said. it as shouldn't as the worst With her, news was brought to
eying grits, yet he must own t hat it her of a strange and what nat ure,news
ed been a beautiful funeral, so that scared her at first, but which in
Imple, and yet 'andsorne., you know, time she learnt to look upon as the
s fitted the poor gentleman's rank, mercy ot God whose goodness and
'hat funeral did me great credit, jusitoe she had doubted.
ir," added Mr. Bates, with a compla- Leon de Brefour's mind always the
eel smile. prey to his unbridled passions, had in
After "1 he last sad seene," as elr. one moment given away altogether.
Bated called it, with the friction of a Whether it was tbe sudden restore
sigh. was over, he furthermore told his wenn of his liberty that had scattered
visitor that Melanie de Brefour had his Nig pent-up senses, or whether
instructed him to lei the house, as she; the violent outburst of ungovernable
meant to leave at once, having seen rage luta broken the last link betwixt
bis mind and sanity and self-control,
or whether, indeed, the sight of the
thought it was, that she thought sudden death he had been instrumen-
woute atilt her. She had turned out tel in bringing about had overwhelmed
of the house in Longwny Road almost hie hitherto callous nature in a fur-
immedtetely. and Mr. Being had been muse of remorse and horror, was never
fortunate enough to secure a dear -
able tenant within ille following fort-
night Mr. Betels could not say
where Madame de Dreamr was now,
as she bad left no address—it was
somewhere in the country. , determine the mete, being. in truth
entirely cognisant of tile fects of
With (Isis vague Ineormetton Genf -1°W
trey was &Med to be eonteut, Anil in 1 the wise. But, however that may be,
one 11it was sufficient fur his pm._ the effect was undoubted. Two days
pose. It left no doubt upon his mind ' afipr hes father e death, Leon de
IBrefoter become a hopeless tdiot
hat it wits Rose de Brehm!. whom he
ad seen. There was nothing now for Ile was absolutely harrniess—unin-
Im itt do but lo go back to Ifillshire ((Meal& in speechweak its a child,
nd look for her there once more, helplese 11S ayeareold infant, but he
nd yet he doubted whether he Could wenn' never recover, never as long as
D so. DUO tieing With her old he continued to live, bemuse in HOMO
ather-in-law was accessible to ben Ivey a disease had (teetered itself in
111, but Rose owe more under tee the brain itself. A turning of solid
rotection of a husband who had pre- °letter into fluid, it emceed to be,
umably resumed his rights over his I which, when once it developed itself,
ife, Was in a position which every dio- wen 01 ee "n°1011'13' incurable lantero.
te oi honour and, prudence forbade i He might live for yeets, he would
im to meddle with. He owned to never, they told her, be violently mad
imselt sorrowfully end sadly that to oe dengerous, but he would never get
ek her out would lie unmade end any !teller, he would be an 'wheal°
uel, and that, both for her Hake and 10r the e"miltrider n1 ble 111°' -
r his own, it were better 1 ba 1 they (Tit De Con tinu eti)
odd never meet again on earth,
Yet his heart bled for her, The HIS EXPERIENCE▪ ,
einclotiment of her grief, which he You have had experience se [teepee.
id unwillingly witneesect, was no art X suppose, said the restaurant pro -
ore titan it would be natural for her prtetor to the applicant for work.
feel at the loss of what was not Yes, sir, WaS the reply. Xive been
ly the one human creature upon courting a girl for six years and
rile that had. been loft to lief love, waitiny n11 that time for bee to make
else the one, mend and holy thing up her mind.
the advertisement of a cottage in the
country, somewhere in the West, he
completely known. Probably tt was
something of each, end all these things
together acted upon him in no unex-
!rein manner. The London (lectors,
summoned in haste, could never justly
man 1800 carried tee letters was out ;
but, perhaps, if the gentlemen eared
to weft -2
The gentleman did not enre to wait.
1""v"41
os On the Eann.
Seessetelteeisueuvesent—. —eve. •
DO NOT PROCRASTINATE.
In eonversatioa with a business man
the other due* be stated that thequal-
ity in mankind. known as procrastina-
tion was move prevalent among farm-
ers than among, any other class of
citizens. \Veen asked hie reason for
Making so he slated that the farm-
er's oecapatiou gave him more oppor-
tunities for procrastinating than that
01 ally other clues. In other %Verde,
the farmer could. put off doing a cer-
tain piece of work longer without any
serious results following than tee
business or professional wee, This
being so, the farmer was more liable
to fall into the habil of putting off
doing things, which hablt often be-
eame Deem:tic, resulting in serious loss
of ball time and money.
In thinking over that oonversation
we have come to the conclusion that
there is some foundation for the state-
ment made. There is nu doubt but
that a great many farmers fail to ac-
complish what they otherwise. would
because of this habit of putting off
doing things. Many do this uninten-
tionally or without knowing that they
are really doing so. The way to over-
come this is to plan tbe work of
the farm beforehand. and to have ev-
erything in readiness to begin oper-
ations at the ante laid doWn ill this
plan. For exemple, if you intend to
cultivate the corn on a certain day,
have everything in readiness so that
the work may be begun at the appoint-
ed Lime. If an hour or so Iles to be
spew: in gelling the cultivator ready,
the work will lag and valuable time
will be wasted. One of the essentials
to eueeessfully carry out the work of
the farm is regularity in following
some definite and prearranged plan. If
every former, who is not already do-
ing so, would try this plan for one
month, we are sure he would on no
consideration attempt to carry on his
farming opero lions in any other
way.
TREATMENT OF THE PEACH
BORER.
When borers once get into a peach
tree there is nothing to do but to cut
them out. No application can be made
to the outside of a tree to kill the
borers inside of it.
The proper way is to keep them out
from the beginning. No young trees
should be set out until they have been
examined for borers, and no tree in-
jured by them should be put in.
The trees should be wrapped with
a double thickness of newspaper when
set out, so that at least 15 in, of the
trunk is covered above ground, and this
wrapping should remain until the mid-
dle of Sept. When the wrappings are
Laken off the trees should be closely
examined, and if any borers have made
their way in above the papers they
should. be out out.
Thereafter the trees should be an-
nually protested by paper wrappings,
put on not later than the first week
in June, and preferably before the
first of that mouth. This protection to
continue each year to the middle of
September.
Hydraulic cement mixed with skim
milk is equally effective, and may be
preferable on young trees. It is suf-
ficiently lasting and cheap, and any
borers attempting to enter above it.
are at once seen, since there is notla-
ing to shelter' them.
In tying on papers do not use too
strong or stiff a twine. Peace trees
grow reoidly and may become girdled,
unless the twine is somewhat yielding
and breaks under a moderate strain.
A little retying may be required in
August an young rapidly growing trees.
SPRAYING.
A new wrinkle in spraying is com-
ing. into use in California., baying been
originated by L Ai. Clark, of Santa
Barbara Co. Finding that sonnet his
old apple trees had become badly
scale -Infested, he sprayed them thor-
oughly with pure kerosene oil, or coal
oil, following this immediately with a
spraying of a caustic soda. The oil no
sooner touched tee tree than it per-
meated the whole Surface, leaving no
part or portion unreached, and clear-
ing tee tree of every kind of scale
and other pests attached thereto. The
caustic soda solution completely nen.-
rallzect the power of the oil to injure
oir kill the tree or bark. This expert -
meat was tried some time ago and
the trees thus treated are now in Lull
leaf and with every indication of
thrift and health, 01 course it re-
mains to be seen whether the present
promise will be fulfilled, but it may
be advisable for those who have old
apple trees infected with scale, moss,
insect eggs, etc., to try this double
sipaying on a very small scale, and
watch the results. Of course a nom-
zle Should be used that will throw
a, very eine spray, especially of the
oil, It is not staled how strong a
solution of caustic soda, was emploYed,
but the Usual practice in California
is to use two ounces of caustic soda to
a barrel of writer in washes that are
used in winter.
PURE AIR IN POTJLTRY ROUSES,
Pure air is just as necesstery in
a poultry building as in any other on
the farm. A great ninny farmers who
keep poultry lose sight of this fact
and wonder why their bens do not
thrive as well as their neighbor's.
One of the best ways to get rid of
bad odors and impure eir in the poul-
try house is to disinfect them, and
for Gee purpose nothing' is better than
a getterette supply of whitewash. To
make it do its best it should be Used
it, In addition some good prepared dice,
inreetant generously wrinkled over
the ruoste and, the yard, will destroy
Anil odors and will prove fatal to dle-
wise germs.
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DAIRYING AND MORALS,
There Is a moral side to dairYing,
Regular habite are required. Men
who keep cows! must be hums at milk-
ing time. Hoine is a good place. Very
few good. dairymen are whiskey drink-
ers. Dairying eummunities, as a cuiv,
furnish but little business for law-
yers, Dairying Is educating and vie -
Celina if intelligently followed, This
le especially true of home dairying.
CHICAGO IN GREAT DANGER.
111.1.0
One -Third of the Cows Which flupply 1)18
City 0110 3111111 Aro lutoeled. Tob•
eroulosIs.
One-third of the °owe from which
millt for the Chicago market is taken
are effeoted with tuberoulesis. Their
milk is mixed indescrimiaately with
that of healthy animals, taut thus nine -
tenths of the milk sold in that city is
"unsuspicious."
COWS suffering from tuberculosis
usually show no outward symptoms of
tee disease, and it. is impuesible for a
dairyman to detect It except; by the
tuberculin Lest applied to every oow,
As ewe disecivered with the disease are
at mile confiscated for renderiug, with-
out compeneation to the owner, dairy-
men are tempted to bide oases of tu-
berculosis, and proleet the herds from
the Siete officials.
These are the startling facts brought
otu, by the investigatien by the elate
Veterinarian aud the State Live Stock
Commission of Ruiniala 01 the stock
yards during last week. Twenty-five
COWS, selected at randem front a herd
of seventy-eight in a dairy which sends
two cars of milk to Ole Chicago mar-
ket every day, were found to have
tuberculosis in one form ur another,
some so badly its to make their milk
positively dangerous, while others were
only slightly abet:Led..
BARG STAA1P GUT.
All the canto were at untie eon-
denuied and sent to the renaering
tanks, but that summary adieu dis-
poses el only a thee of the infeeLed
cattle erom which milk is beteg sup-
plied daily to citizens of Chicago. ehe
disease is making great prug,ress am-
ong Ole cattle in the country contri-
butary to Chicago, and on account of
Os peculiar nature and the present wen -
Union of the laws governing tee see
animation oe horns it is most difficult
to stamp it out.
just how much danger to the con-
sumer exists in milk tram cows diseas-
ed in this manner is herd to determine
since elle milk from ne particular coW
is drunk by itself, but all is mixed in
the cane—teat from healthy animals
and from those partially or greatly at -
footed by the disease.
Dr. Spelding, of the Health Depart-
ment, says that a perfectly healthy
adult would probably be able to throw
off the gentle unscathed, but in the
case of infants of weak constitutions,
or in a case of typhoid fever patient or
person not in. perfect health a lodg-
ing place for the germs would be read-
ily eound, and infection might result
In ane event, it is certain that milk
from cows suffering with tuberculosis
in any stage and butter and cheese
made from. that milk are not to be
cleared.
Twenty-seven cows affected with tub-
erculosis, according to the tests made,
will be killed at the stook yards, and
the city health authorities will attend
the examination of these cattle.
SEEKING QUIET.
Kn. mittens Kiwis where sbe would
Lilco to go 'Flats Summer.
"Ezra," said. Mrs. Billtops, "are sani-
tariums quiet?"
"Well, I guess, Elizabeth," said Mr.
Billtops, "that that depends a good
deal on the sanitarium; some are quiet
and some are not.'
"Well, Ezra," said. Airs. Billtops, "if
you can find some quiet sanitarium
where I can go this; slimmer I want
to go there inatead of to the seashore."
And this was all on account of the
children. Tee hour was 8,30p.m., and the
smaller children had just gone to bed
after a day oe unbroken and unflag-
ging uproar and activity, The noise
of a planing mill would have been as
the buzzing of lazy boa e id a summer
garden compared with the noise the
children had been making alt day
long. The silence fell now, cool and
grateful, after the turmoil of the clay,
but the reaction had left Mrs. Billtops
a little Brag.
"1 know it, Elizabeth," leer Billtops
said; "I know it, and 1 woulduet ob-
ject to a little quiet myself now and
then, I should like it if we could have
quiet iu the house unto: dinner; if I
oould smoke my ague in peace and
tranquility; but somehow the meal
that makes mo calmly happy seems to
fill tee children with boisterousness
and to make them noisier than at any
Other part of the day. Aan 1 right,
Elizabeth?"
"You are," said Mrs. Billtops, "but
hear it all day twee,
"I know it, Elizabeth; I knew it,"
said. Mr. Whims, "and have never
booed you speak of it before, 1 don't
W.0 11-1)7 you can possibly stand it, and
111 look up some good quiet saniLar-
tune, sure."
And. then they settled down on eat'.
er side of the table to read, very nom-
fortable, both, aud both thankful in
their hearts for the ebildren who had
been given to them, and who were now
sleeping quietly,
SUE INDICATES NOTHING,
QUALITY OF BRAIN COUNTS MORE
THAN QUANTITY,
A, Milt- waled xewsboy Hod Ike Loll:114
— Comparisons 11,') mom the
Croy nailer or Mc World's Best Mon
nod lts Werst.
Tee size of a man's bead is no unir
influx of bis brain capaaty lean thee
testa of a watch of the quality of tee
works it mantillas.
As a matter of fad, many of our
cleverest men, whoa) names are part
of history, have bad brains mane
than those of thousands or oriminal
and entwoilea. Take, for example, bit
busy and fertile brain uE elambetga; 11
weight was only a little uvor 4
mime or just hall Lite weight of th
brain of an imbecile newsbuy, who re
cutely died in .Londue.
Cuvier, the femme puleouloiogis
had tee heaviest brain among" grea
men of wince there is uny re-
cord; and yet Cuvier's brain, although
it weighed 04 1-2 ounces, or about 12
ounces Inure than the average brain
weighed more than 13 mimes less than'
the Mein of a deformed and almust
imbecile Elindoo woman,
OE the inmates of our asylums une
man in ten has a brain several ounces
heavier than that uf Lha average man
of intellect, who in. turn boasts titUrt
brain tiSSUe than such intellect uu
gy‘iti,,nbststears. lemon, Limit Byron audDanie
SOME STRIKING COMPARISONS,
Dr. Juseph famous, who bus made a
special study of comparative braid
weights, says that the average bruit
of 00 famous men weighed less than
the average brain of men geminate.
and tha; the 10 heaviest brains tie tee
men of genius averaged inure lama
A $5,000,000 SHAWL.
Tina India, after a foreign occupa-
tion of seine centuries, end in spite of
the apparent poverty of the great
bulle of the people, is still probable
the greatest treasure house on earth
is clue to the fact that for ages, it was,
with Ceylon and Burma, the field which
supplied Ilea rest of the world not only
with gold, costle fabries, and splints,
but with precious +atones, tbe finest
specimens of which, bowever, were eve;
retained by tee 'Endo° and Mogul
1 maces for their own Personal adorn'
✓ ment.
e One of tee jewel treasures of the
Indian Princes, that et the Gasbwitz
of Meade, perhinps the most re.
markalile, being appraised by experta
a few years ago at the immense' sum
of three hrora of mimes, or 315,000,000,
1 Among' Ms collection, his chief ilia-
' moncl necklace, eenra on state occasions,
1
sent to °over the tomb of Mohammed,
but when it was Cinished the Gashwar
theught twice of the idea and kept
it Ininself, While it is true that the
1 native jewelers aa a rule oare leas for
lee purity min cemmereial value of the
stones then fur the general effect pro-
, duped, yet their artistic feeling and
skill iu setting gems, often btu Poor-
ly out and putisbed, ean not he sure
111 1) ouncoa less in weight. than the
brains of. 10 keels and crallittulo uf the
60 seleoted Cur teeny:trivia.
Ie pants of comparative weight the
we..1,1's brain recur(' stands thus; 1,
Leaden newsboy, with a Main of
2,40o grammes; 2. 1.C.Ltesian, and ignor-
ant Seaueinavian p.:LtsanC,, 2,310 tn-s; 3. A. dwarf ilindoo emulate 2,20
grannues; 4. Cuvier, the largest -brain-
ed of eatueus men, with a brain of 1,360
granialoS,
lee average negro brain weighs 44
1-2 °auras, or 2 1-2 ouoeiss mire than
Gambetta could boast, cord gentile,
tee oriingoutang end oliimpauzee have
Drains of 11, ounces Lo 15 ounces.
Nothieg seems clearer from these
figures and fame then that, the size of
a man's main is nu index LULLS in-
tellautual capacity.
The brain of the average woman
weighs 3 1-2 ounces less than that of
the average man se tame considering
woman's relative height and Weight
as compared with a man, see can
honestly boast an equal amount of
brain tissue, however streuttuusly un-
gallant auto may protest. his superior-
ity.
COLD FAVORS 13.11,AIN GROWTH.
A curious aud lab:unsling Met in
commotion with brain weights is that
the people of cold climates Ilan larger
brains thee those who live near the
trupios. The palm. of menial capacity
goes Lo Scotsmen, who boast, the larg-
est, brains in the world as a nation
baying at least 10 ounces more brain
tissue than ellen who are 'within nod-
ding distance" of the equator.
In capaoity, as distinguished from
weight, the brain ranges Ewalt the lee0
°eine mulles of the beet and Swede to
the 80 cubic inches of the Bengalese
aud Egyptians, I largest average
human brain is thus represented by a
cube four inch, s lung and deep and five
inches high, and the extreme differ-
ence in size by a cube two inches by
two inches by five int:hes.
The male infant commences
a brain weighiag about 11 1e2 ounces,
or a smaller alluwance of cerebral
tissue than an ectult chimpanzee. Tho
human brain reaches its highest deve-
lopment at thee age ot 40, remains sta-
tionary for about 10 years and then
begins to shrink until it ultimately
loses about 0 per cent of its weight.
'WEIGHTS AT DIFFERENT A.GES.
It is interoetiug to note that a new -
burn infant is emelt more liberally en-
dowed with brains la proportion to his
weight than a man of /0, The in-
fant's brain is, roughly, one ninth of
bis full weighL, while, in spite of the
cam that it. grows lee five times its
gee, ib' Lath} 10 total weight dwindles
lintel at 40 it is only in the proportion
of ono to forty five. The curious fact
may possibly aocount for the intellig-
ence of. some of our children,
le is a summon delusion that the
true test of a brain le the amount of
ire gray mailer. This, aga in, is
wrong, for oriminals and idiots are
often more richly endowed with gray
wetter than the cleverest of our clever
tai et. The convolutions of A brain are
equally misleading, as a test of quality,
for one of the most perfectly convolut-
ed brains on record was that of Tilulfid.
the famous brigand and murderer.
1 REVIVAL OF TUE LACE SHAWL,
Stored in the radar chest have you
an oldefaehioned, square, Chantilly Mee
sbawl, such as your grandmother worit!
about fifty years age, When she dress.'
al in her Sunday best 3.1 you have,
hasten to get it out, take it to your
mislist anti two it for one of yam!
Sunday best gowns tills summer.
This exquisite old style of lace, will
its delicate tracery of vines and flow-
er% Is now the piece do resistance in
the modish woman's wardrobe, It may
be made ovor white; and then it is most
effective, or it may be used over 0/16
of the, many fashionable glades of blue,
green, violet or rose.
stethont sem( ou t he inside and on 110 nerve Hutt never rola:tete the
the ceiling, on the neteeboxes, and int eye that never blenebee, the, thomeht 11
the rooste, end the floor my (wive that never wenders—these nre the il
Monte of it without (toilet injutev to • mestere of idetelle--Ilurke 1
T11 -lurk is, in nine eases out of ten,
le et lett lying pleasure first end
illy won& elisteed et duty first and •
Immure neeend.—T, Munger.
contains the "Star of the South," a
Brazilian stone weighing 254 carats,
for which 34 00,000 was paid, the whole
necklace being valued at 40 lees of
rupees, or 31,000,000, The maeterelece
in his possession, bowever, is a won-
derful shawl composed entirely of in -
wrought pearls and other precious
stones worked in the most harmonious
and artistic arabesque patterns, and
\vetch actually cost the extraordinary
price of $5,000,00e.
This shawl was intended as a pre -
pawed. As au evidence of this, it comb
of =acetate workmanship was pre-
sented to the Priace oe Wales by the
Rata or :Jaipur. Auuthee present which
the Prince of Wales received on his
vise Lo ladia in 1875 was a sword from
the Maharaja of Kashmir, set with dia-
monds and emeralds valued at e25,-
ti00 in addition to which there Was a
solitaire diamond in tbe belt worth
Si ems.
Probably one uf the most expensive
hats ever were by nay person apart
tem au actual crown was that of Sir
Jung Dahadttr, Prime Minister to the
king of Nepal, when he paid bis for-
mal respects to tee l'rince of Wales
on the latter altering the dominions
of Sir Tung's muter, for in addition
to a magnificent headdress of dia-
monds worth over $100,00, he wore in
511 aigrette a single ruby tee size of
a marble., presented Lo him by the Em-
peror of China, and of inestimable
value,
Al the grand (lather held et Delhi,
the ancient capital of the Mogul Em-
pire, when Queen Victoria was pre -
Maimed Kaisar-T-Elind, Empress of In-
dia, the costumes of some of the na-
tive Princes appeared to have beggar-
ed description
The Maharaja Bother, for instanoe,
presumably as a emelt item in respect
to the rest of his attire, wore a 'Imitate
pair of gloves, made of delicate gold
flexible scale week, encrusted with
diamonds, hewing in the center of eaoh
back an emerald.
Of single stones the late King of
Visapur owned two fine rubies, one of
which weighed 50 3-4 carats and the
other, a perfect, flawless stone, 171-2
both being valued respectively at 312,-
000 aud 315,000. These stones myster-
iously disappeared, but should any one
chance to rediscover teem. they would,
al L e present value of rubies, be Mirth
at least ten times their former price.
Among several stones not account-
ed of the first value in the West, the
out's -eye is a great favorite with Or-
ientals, a very fine speolmen being in
the possession of the Nizam of Haiti -
embed, which cost 325,000.
Pearls are much prized by all the
native Princes, the Raja of Travan-
core, having an embroidered cap or
turban of these gems worth 370,000,
while the la t'gest pearl known, the
size of a pear, and practically unap-
praisable, is in the possession of the
Shah of Persia.
AT A DISADVANTAGE,
"How dreadfully annoying it is,
when calling, to meet somebody that
you don't want to know, or at least
talk to I Yes, on 'at homo' days, this
is more likely to be so, but it isn't
so bad then, because there are others
in the room and it isn't so apparent
that you aro trying to keep away from
u certain someone—but to be strand-
ed with the hostess and a persou that
you hate I isn't it elreadful V I've
just had such an experienee, and Pra
just grinding the gold out of my teeth
thinking about it."
"Oh, that isn't ao bail, at times,"
said the other young lady who had a
leaf or two of philosophy in her head,
"I had an experience the other day,
that proved to be peaty good for me.
I was ushered Into a room where I
found eaten X, sitting up in state. We
hadn't spoken in a year, and I hadn't
forgotten, that the day before we smil-
ed on eaoh other for tee teat time, she
had borrowed live dollars of me, 1
knew she was thinking about it when
we met, and of course that put her to
11 dieadvemlage. In order to bo over
with me she had Lo make herself
agreeable and incidentally, yeti know,
pay Me the five. Bearding the lioness
isn't what one would call delightful,
but then, five dollars a shave isn't
so bad,
^ ^
A woman who we,nre a stuffed bird
on her hat is liable to a fine of from
81I to 35e, by a law recently passed
by the Legislature or A.rkantins.
With her husband the average wo-
man egems to net as if the thought
she didn't ivied to be tender Of his
feelings because she loves hint,
Silkworms fed on different lenvee
prodnee eilics of varied redoes; Nis
Ville leaves produce a bright red, and
)ettuce an emerald green.