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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-7-14, Page 2THE 3RUSSELS POST. Jtijlr 14, 1899 Diamond Cut Diamond 012, THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. eeneeken CHAPTER ICSXV.- Continued, ped against the carpet and fell. The That wtw the verdict that went forth tray was percipitated into the hall tend thee it was that tee hand of God beneath, and every single thing that struck htnz down, and set ber free, wan upon it was smashed into atoms. from the unbearable yoke and buret The faithful old woman, to "'hum den of iris conscious companionship,, every item of Rose's possessions was Rose need never be afraid of him any preoious as an inestimable treasure, more. There was nothing to be done ran weeping into her mistress's pees - but to surrond him with snob care and Pace. attention as were necessary to secure Ale1 weal. was to be done? Sbe had his bodily comfort. A trained attend- broken-" Dieux des Vieux t" -what bad ant was easily found. A few simple she not broken 3-" des carafes! des Prescriptions as to diet and exercise lasses I des asstettes I" and, worse enia- learnt from tee London physician who mity of all, the china lump which was interested himself with more then or- always lit at Rose's elbow every Binary klndnees la the sad lot that lay night, as =he sat over her books. had before the beautiful woman who bad been reduced by her nnleky tumble in - sent for him, tied then she turned her to a eery ruin 1 back for ever upon Longway Road, and " Ab 1 malheureuse qua je anis!" the old garden, and the summer -house cried poor Martine, wringing her Upon the wall, and went forth to seek hande,with streaming eyes; "all these a. new home, humble in size and sur- years and no such misfortune has ever roundings, and lying secluded and far bappened until this accursed day!" may in the bosom of a green west-' Rose endeavoured vainly to console ern English county. i her. Martine flung nut her hands Here she set up her housebold gods with a gesture of despair, nnd enure - and began, or tried to begin, her life erated the list of casualties over once more. I again, ending with quite a desperate Martine and Jacques, of course, wentcry of " Et la lamps 1 la lamps 1" with her, and her husband's attendant i I [oust go up and buy alt, in Lon - that wag the whole of her retinue. I don, to -morrow I" Her books had come with her in greet "Nonsense, Martine ! Your journey wooden oases, and Martine and Taeques would post more than all you have unpacked end dusted them carefully; broken." but she had no heart to read, or even' "I would pay myself l" cried Mar- to arrange and sort her old friends, tine, atriking her ample breast trag- For a long time even they failed to really with a couple of sharp, empha- oonsole her. She was stricken, indeed, tie blows. to the very heart i "Nonsense!" said ber nelstress again. Her charge was comfortably housed "I tell you what we will do, you and in two or three upper rooms, from I, Marline, we will have the pony -cart which, save for a short dally walk, he quite early to -morrow, so as to give never emerged, s0 that she lived prac- the pony a rest, and take plenty of tically alone. She strove to do her time, and we will drive into Lilmin- duty by him, visiting him at stated in- star and get all you have broken tennis, and struggling to overcome the there." Aud so it was settled. strong loathing and disgust with which Mdme. de Brefour-more tor neces- she regarded him. And in time the sity's sake then for pleasure -had set wretched man evinced a vague chile'- up a little village cart and a strong ish pleasure in her presence, which, so hardy little pony, who could do a long pitiful and tender is the heart of a day's work and be none the worse for true woman, was not without its cor- it. Jacques, who was now butler, gar - responding effect upon her, and her dozer and coachman combined looked resentment and hatred became at last after it and drove it daily into the merged in a feeling of pity and tom- nearest village to procure the neoes- miserationseries of life for thee little household. Then one day, the better part of Rose The following morning early, after de Brefour arose within her once again breakfast, Rose tinct Martine started and she was struck with shame that together on their expedition. Rose, she had yielded so long to despair and with a list of things, which the ap- Inactivity. preaching visit to a town and shops The cultured mind could not slum- suggested to her, and Martine with ber in its misery forever. The brilliant a huge muket basket, of French ori- intellect, the keen, appreciative brain, gin, in which to bring back tee pur- fought their way instinctively out of chases. the dark mists of suffering and sore And over the shoulder of the Downs. row, and came to the front once again., along a chalk -besprinkled steep and 13y her books she had rescued her- rutty road, their way led them in pro - self long ago from succumbing to the; cess of time straight down into the circumstances of her life, to her books village of Coddisham. the now turned again, and raised her- I Martine, elated by the unusual de - self anew out of tbe abyss of paralyze light of a drive, and by the keen sun - ell hopelessness into which her fresh ,fhiny air, diacoursed, as was her bab- treubles had dragged her down. it, when alone with her mistress, in She set to work to sort and settle a free and untrammelled fashion. " Ah 1 1f {t would only please Heav- en to take that poor, Monsieur Leon to Itself 1" she began in that artless and ouspoken manner, which she nev- er took the trouble to repress, " then Madame might live in a town and mar- ry again some ride and handsome Mon- sieur." "Martine!" cried Rose, reprovingly, " how can you speak so or poor Mon- sieur Leon." Ah 1 yes, I know, la milhaureux 1 her library, and was surprised to dis- cover at once how great was the plea- sure she derived from the occupation. The very touch of the calf bindings of her old friends awoke keen tinglings of delight in her fingers, and the glimpse of parchment pages and rough - edged and brown -stained Leaves caus- ed her beer[ to tbrob with a long - forgotten joy, Soon she lost herself and ber iden- tity once more in an existence of ab- sorption and meditation, and all the Does anybody wish him to live, I should great undying words that noble minds like to know ?Not even you, mon enge, have bequeathed for ever to the world though you are so good and resigned to to which they had bid adieu became that which le bon Dieu orders. Even Mien again the very meat and drink you would be glad if he were to of her existence. die I" There came a day, when Rose de "But it is wrong to speak of such Brefour, looking tip thankfully to the a thing 1" winter heavens above her, could ex- " Mais pourquoi doneIL-sincewe all :tetra from her heart, with a smile of think it, every hour of our lives Oh !I joy: do not think that the tboughts that are I thank God for the great good gift spoken are any more wicked than the Re has given to me -for the friends tboughts that are thought," continued who never cbnnge or die, for the corn- this philosopher of a modern school. fort that is never failing for the joy Pini, je n'y vois pas de difference! And whose sources lie deeper and spring np if it was to make you happy after the more unfailingly than any human hap- trouble you have endured, why it pinese I" might be almost it virtue to offer up And so, in her own way, she was at daily prayers for it to coma to pass. peace once more Only think, Madame, if you were able By degrees, too, the house she bad 10 marry wan, i" come to live in grew more humanized gush Martine, I am too old for such and refined. She took some pains to tboughts l" beatify and adorn it and add to its " Ah! ah I when there was Monsieur scanty furniture, not because of any Geoffrey, Ah, but he should bave strange eyes that were likely to look waited-celui-la l" upon it -for now, as in the past, only The flush of pain upon ber mistress' from a different cause she knew no face warned her that she was treading one, and was not likely to receive vis'- on dangerous ground. Madame de Bre- tors. It was simply and solely a love four only said sadly: of beautiful and pleasing tbings that "Dear efartine, you mean it kindly, actuated her, It natural leaning to- but I em never likely to merry again - wards alt that is refined and gracious moreover, it is a sin to wish for the in the surroundings of life, that is death of a fellow -creature, however doubtless an innate tendency in every sad may be his earthly conditions," highly cultivated mind, But Maritino was an obstinate old So the little house, no longer bare woman, and only tossed her chin de - end desolate as an that dreary night fiantly. She refused to see any sin in when, all unknown to her, Geoffrey wishing for the dente of sn unprofit- bad stood without, and looked througb able a person es Lean de Brefour, the uncurta!ned window, breams, 113 a 'ft is possible that he might serve bumble way, a reflection of her own some excellent purpose in Heaven.' s11e orderly mind and a fitting.r background muttered, "but upon thin earth it is to her own beautiful self. certain that there is no further use In fixing herself some fifteen miles for him," north of Lilminster, Madame de Bre- And then an exclamation from her fnur had had no thought of bringing mistress turned ber thoughts from this herself into eontaat with Geoffrey theme, which for years past had pre - Dane, or with any of the past scenes minted a vista of fertile speculation to of hex life la Hillshire. She was not. het' mind. For the pony cart, after in feet, in the very least aware that slowly toiling upwards for nearly nn the hidden House had been porches- hour, was just rounding the sbaulder ed and restored and renovated by Mat- of. the Down, thew Dane, nod presented by biro ns A gloroius scene opened out before a weeding -gift to his nephew. She them. A vast flat plain, reaching imagined that Geoffrey and his wifee awa3' for miles, lay spread like a map • must be living in London, and nail- below. A plain swept by sunshine and ing could be farther frim her thoughts than she ran the remotest danger of meeting either' of them. As matter et fact, she ran, in the ordinary Bourse of events, no such den - ger et all; for a great spur of the billows of ai;lent Innen the thave stun Downs lay fixed between her house suddenly been stilled into immovable and Lilminster, and a road so bad and silence, so stony wound painfully over the hills Irnao'die rely above Ilene, a conical in tent direction that tin effectual nee head, the tendm irk of the range, rose turd barrier was ranted between her bare and bleak above its fellows, its end any frequentint.eroourse with the varying loveliness, and how dearly as she watabod them had site not learnt to love them! Involuntarily see pulled up ber pony for a moment, so that see might stop end look at thein' well -remem- bered features. A down eouotry is like the Sea, it gives one tee saute im- pression of infinite power and of Illi- mitable vastness. A man who bus been bred and born amongst the Downs sae searoely fail to leave at bie heart that solemn conviction of the greittnese of the works of God, that sense of the immensity of Nature, with which a seafaring population is mere geoes'allycredited. Those round, grassy hi lls, swelling away one be- llied the other, grow upon one wonder- fully when one comes to dwell amongst them --they are so silent, and so vast, and their vary uniformity fills one with a marvelling awe. Rose cte 13refour had known their strange, weird fascination, and had learnt to love them once; and now as sbe looked upon them again, memory carried ber beak to a certain April day, not quite a year ago, when the east wind had swept chill and bitter across their green bosoms, and the lit- tle lambs bad sped away at her ap- proach. and she herself bad gone up to wait and to watch for a puff of white smoke across the far distance of the plains, And as she remembered that day, ber eyes filled with sudden blinding teens. Silo gathered up the reins again, and the little pony trotted. gaily on, and very soon was carrying them down hill towards the plain be- low. Then all of a sudden, as they came down the road, a something familiar struck her in the aspect of tee coun- try. A square church -tower below, a cluster of thatched cottages, a red - gabled vicarage house, amongst the trees. Surely, surely thus must be Cotldisbam itself 1 She pointed it out to Martine. She had not guessed that the rand would lead her so near to the village, yet since fate had brought her here, n sudden fancy to see every- thing once more came iuto her mind, "Martine," she said to ber compan- ion. as they entered the little village street, "I should like, I think, to stay here and hate a walk whilst you take the curt on into Lilininstsr; you can put up at the hotel, you know, and do your shopping and get some food, and- then come back here and pick nee up just here by the churchyard. I will give you an hour and a half, but do not hurry. I will wait here till you come." And so site alighted, and Martine went on alone. She walked beck slowly towards the church, under the overarching boughs of the avenue of trees. that led towards it, under which she end walked that Sunday, now so long ago, when she had met Geoffrey for the first time. There were no Diamond Cut Diamond golden leaves, fluttering about her now as she walked, and upon the bridge across the trout -stream no slight figure clad in rough tweed, watching her with a startled look of wondering admiration in his wide-open brown eyes. Half expectant, indeed, she paused, lest some 'faint vision of that dearly loved face might perchance be conjured up for one brief second by the sad passionate longings of ber still rebellious heart; but there was nothing -nothing but the low, moss- grown brink wall, and the babbling brook, singing ever on its way, and tee speckled trout hurrying to and fro under the opalescent Wavelets. Rose de Brefour sighed, The past never Domes back to us- Those sweet moments, so simple yet so happy, that we treasure so fondly in the storehouse of our hearts, never again repeat themselves, howsoever we may yearn and pray for but a shadow -like vis- ion of their long -withered joy. The place may be the same -but we are changed -or some one who tbrew the -glemour over all is missing, and we find again in the familiar features of the scene nothing more than the chill blank of a sorrow -laden emptiness. Yet, whilst those vanished hours were still our own, within our grasp - how little we valued them, how lave ishly we wasted them -how wantonly we flung away in handfuls the rich prizes tor the very least of which we now starve and pine in vain! And so the threads are spun amidst sunshlee and laughter; spun, and tben snapped and lost, neves' to be found again 1 'broking of all this, Rose de Bee- four sauntered on sadly and dream - ilytill her wandering footsteps car- rted her, half unknowingly, past the churcb, and the last of the poor lit - liethatched cottages, upwards once more towards the great silent Downs abovc. t first she had no definite inten- dot save to wander vaguely and to thiteleover the bast; but when she found herself back again upon the free, breezy, upland plain, she told her - selr that she would walk for a mile alang the hills and look down upon thehouse in the chalk bollow that bad Onee been her home. The crisp wind caught her pale cheep 00 she walked, warming it into an mi- WOntedglow, and ruffled lightly the thlck tresses of her auburn hair -not allthe disfiguring ugliness of her erape -covered garments could tarnish rare and wonderful beauty. She nt slowly, thinking much of those len clays of transient happiness cif when past year, days hen she hind pared with wrong, bewildering her er judgment amidst a mare of fele° tincts and unreal imaginations- bgs which had been foreign to her ore, but which she had permitted self to be led away by, for the sake that short fever of hopeless love t had poeteessed her se determin- ly and haunted her with such orselass penes-Obey.Ah 1" site cried, half aloud, "Iiow 'ish are these echo dread the re- butions of another world l How le they must know of this one: is life long enough for punishment irer eve sto the tam [vis ins N1i not her of tea ate rem sbtdow, and melting away into the tender tndistinctnees of the horizon, foo Whilst close on either side the long trl range 03' round -tapped !rills swept lilt bnclt, curve beyond curve, like' great not brown face, seemed by the furrows of more civilised portion of the county. many Water -courses and seared by the No common oecurre:noe would have whirlwinds of a thousand storms, The served to override this barrier. But day tans fresh anti sunny, and er18p, one day, Cate or l'rovid.ente, or what- with a bit of frost in file air. The over it is that hes the ordering of wind-blown clouds flung swift-chang- the daily trivialities of our lives, inter- ing ohadaw> n[[mon hill end plain, neat• fared in an unexpected manner, and ling lovingly In the great hollows of an avant, unexciting in itself, but pro-. ten Downs, or hurrying with lightning etuetive of unexpected resits, was sof- speed across their swelling bosoms. fere4l to take place, .flay, Downs were looking their heat. lila/nine, coming downstairs with a How often, a year ago had Beep bn - tray -full of Euless and crockery, trip ereti amongst them, anti watched their and do not a few short years bring down the irrevocable ennsequr.t of our stns ripen rich one of use" Then she looked suddenly up, and be- cause the Down,/ are vaet and wide and ate n, like the Plein of their proto- type, the sea, and beeauae like it there can be nothing sheltered or hidden up - 00 the gran dour of their greatness, then t . me to pees that, far away, she rliseerned a eiSall Clark speck com- ing towards her -a man upon a horse, Very far away when first she saw it, yet coming ever nether and nearer to her. Ante then suddenly she stood etill, cia@ning her hands, tightly opoqa; h'er breast, To conceal hereelf would be impossible -flight would be in vain --and yet had the green earth 0 en - ed and swallowed lies up alive she would have been glad. For site sow that it was Geoffrey Dane. {To Be Continued.) ADVENTURE AT NIAGARA, now a )•arty ot'reeeve:to Were Nearly gar' clod l.0 Thar await'. 1Then the "tee -bridge" over the gorge below the falls forms at Ni- agara, tourists are likely to (look, to it, since from it a superb view up- ward and upon the (interact can be bad. From this icebridge, indeed, the oatru'aot appears to be falling from the very skies. On the 21st of last January the ice seemed very etoong in the great gorge and more than a hundred people, most- ly tourists, had ventured out upon it. They wore moving about, or standing and looking at the falls, when some of them became aware that the toe was heaving, and soon all of them heard a groaning and crushing sound. Pres- ently they saw that they were moving down -at -rearm, The mass of ice on which all these people, stood bad broken away from the shore, and woe moving down to- ward the Whirlpool Rapids. To be curled into that maelstrom meant cer- tain death. The people on the ice -flue as it had now become, were men, wo- men and chiJib'en. They were filled with terror, and rushed toward the American shore. But a wide fissure had formed here -altogether too wide for any one to leap tierces. They rushed the other way, and here, too, a chasm of open and swiftly rushing and tumbling water separated them from escape. The ice -raft, already feeling the in- fluence of the wntripool, which was but a few hundred yards below, toes ed and tumbled and strained. The man on the waft feared teat 1t would go la pieces and percipitate ail Who were upon it into the torrent. They cuuu selled the people to crowd near one side, and take the chances that the cur- I rent ehould farce that edge against' the shore. II It swung toward the shore, touched( it, and the men, women end children poured from It to the land -all ex- cept two, a man and a woman. Before these could escape, the ice -raft had swung out into the stream again, and was pitching up and down more wildly than ever, and rushing downward to- ward tee whirlpool, All beholders had given 'them up, and they had themselves given up, when a rough counter -current caught the ice and hurled it toward the Cana- dian bank. It did not touch ; there was still a gap -it even began to wid- en, when lbs man urged the woman to jump. She did; he followed her on the instant and pulled her up on the bank. They were saved, and by what will always seem to tbose who beheld it a special intervention of Providence, LAGGARD LONDON. The Cry or nee N1xhI "orkers-"WVe 'Want More Scenes?" Engaged in all sorts of occupations the all-night toilers of London form a population equal to many of the flour- ishing cities 09 England. Men whom the day workers seldom meet or know take up the thread of London's busy life and carry it on with never ceasing activity throughout the night and early morning. Vast and im- portant as this section of London's working bee -hive is, the end of the nineteenth century finds them almost totally without means of tramway and omnibus transportation to and from their homes . The sight of thousands of weary workers plodding homeward for miles through the London streets between midnight and dawn is, indeed, a curi- ous spectacle. They represent many occupations. Over half of the entire Metropolitan Police Force of nearly 12,000 men are on night duty. Then there is the great army of post -office employes, and a vast proportion of the 13,000 or 15,000 bak- ers are necessarily employed after raid - night. In addition there are the night pore tees, gas and electric light workers of various ]rinds, slaughter men, Covent Garden "hands" costermcngers, street cleaners, chimney sweeps, and others, The hundreds of newspaper men have been kept back for final mention, as it is popularly supposed that they can al - ford to go home in cabs. '.tut many of them hail from the economical side of the. Tweed, and the national "careful- ness" prevents them from indulging in wheeled luxuries; so they, too, would welcome a good service of trams to the subur•,R1s, To sum up, It will be, seen that Lon- don's night workers comprise a popu- lation as large as that of many a pro- vincial city. And these thousande of bo'rin and body fagged men 'have for the most Inert to tramp through dis- mal streets in the early hours of win- try mornings ere they can find that repose they have so hardly earned. But tranrless London Ismaking pro- gress; very Slow, no doubt, but still progress. There is yet vest room for Improvement in the supply of ail -night 0.'0x1. There is no reason wiry every outly- ing district of London should not have its all -[Sight tremor bus service. Those at present in existence have proved a !tugs sneeees, The companies benefit, the owners et property on the routes benefit, the "fares" themself benefit -everybody. ibanefitea. And yet in t le respect London, the mightiest city in the world, Iags be Bind many a western "rnusbroom" town. Butter is prime when it is erne; the man's youthful freshnoss disappears When ha reaches his prime, 41140****o*s***t 00•41.erre**.. About the House. OH.E011.1115, • a •t Cherry Salad -Arrange in a salad bowl rho white hearts of lettuce and place on them large, ripe sherries, pre, viously pitted and stuffed with chopped nuts, Pour over them the following dressing: Beat thoroughly the yolks of two eggs, one teaspoonful sugar, wise shake salt. Add four tablespoons .melted butter and six tablespoousful lemon juice. Cook until it thickene, then remove from the stove and add the well beaten whites of two eggs, When cold add one teacupful of whip- ped dream. Cherry Tapioca. -Soak one teacupful of tapioca over night in sufficient wa- ter. In the morning acid one pint of water and cook until clear. Sweeten to taste, and stir through one pound of ripe cherries, four into a faney disb and chill on ice until wanted. sauce, cre Serve with am and sugar or cherry Cherry Jelly -Dissolve a box of gelatine in 008 pint of water for one hour, then add one quart of boi cherry juice and one pound of sugar. Strain and pour into molds. Iced Cherries -Select large, ripe cherries, leaving the stems and a few leaves on. Boat stiffly the whites of two eggs, Dip the cherries in the whites, then roll them in XXX sugar. Lay on oiled paper until dry, then pile high in a glass dish or silvsr basket. Chilled Cherries -Select the dark varieties for this. Pit them carefully, and sift over them plenty of sugar And Once in the Freezer, Cover and pack in tee for two hours. Serve with cake. Cherry Icing -Boil one teacupful of granulated sugar in four tablespoon- fuls of cherry juice until it threads, thwenhite of stlr one egg. it into the stiffly beaten Cherries should be used very freely during their season as they will, never be any better than in their natural state, and the aoitt they contain is ex- ceedingly grateful to the taste and beneficial to the system, giving it a certain tone needed to aid digestion and keep up the general equilibrium. -- CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS. A child has scarcely learot to speak in sentences and express itself readily, when he or she begins. to ask unlimit- ed questions of those in authority. How when, why, what, where, and other queries, often impossible to answer, are launched at the heads of the luck- less parents. Whilst one cannot always reply to everything the little one may wish to know, it is a distinct duty to answer intelligent and natural questions. There are some children who never pay any heed to what you say, but in a volatile stream pour out inquiries, oblivious of your explanations the minute after. This ie an unsatisfac- tory state of affairs, which needs re- medying. In this ease replies should only be given to sensible queries, and it should be done in distinct clear lan- guage, care being taken torivet the child's attention. The natural bent of a little one is of- ten seen by his thirst for information, and it should be duly regarded, whilst the foundations of general knowledge can be laid down by sending boys and girls to books, where they can learn all they wish to know. A little maid- en who seeks to learn the names of all the flowers, when they are in sea- son, and why their formation differs, eau be made happy, and Intelligent, too, by the gift of an illustrated bot- any book; whilst the boy who per- plexes his mother by his inordinate de- sire to be told what keeps the train on the rails, what the names are of the various portions of the engine, and how mush coal it consumes on a journey, may have in him the makings of an engineer. • Of quite another class is the frivo- lous question, which should be early discouraged by pointing out to the child that as the inquiry has no value, lie or she can be none the wiser when it is answered. I have heard such questions as, "When Abraham brought the angels food, what do you think they had to eat 2" "Do you think Queen Victoria would have liked to have hada brother 9" "How old is our merest" eta, These are all bona - fide questions, and there is praotieally no end to the idle queries little people will raise, oftentimes only to bear themselves talk, Great care must be exercised when ohildren come with questions teat puzele and harass their unformed minds, Matters of religion and life and death aro fruitful sources of anxi- ety to sharp children. Mang doubts can only be solved by the answer, "!'here are some things that you ,are not old enough yet to grasp; every day, as you grow older, you will under- stand more tlringe that are a mystery to you now, and you must believe mo- ther when sometimes she has to tell you that such and such is the case, without explaining i1:." Last of all, there are the inevitable questions which growing children put on the subjects which we wish to keep from them in their early years, flow to answer these is a problem in every hone. Some parents aro much more in favor of comparative frankness than others. Personally, we think a fa- ther and mother should talk the mat- ter thoroughly over between them- selves, and decide in what way they will solve these questions; at any rats, they will then avoid contradic- tory and tedieelous statements, through which a sharp young person soon saes, whilst a certain amount of corroboration sets their mind at rest. In answering the questions of chin d.ren it is wisest to do' so in the way which will best help them to think for themselves. Suppose that your child inquires: "Why does the little bird have wings t" It is an easy Mat- ter to say, "91 lute wings to fly with, my dear,' yet the prompt answer will not be of nearly s0 niuob benefit to the cliilci as would the counter qusstlon: "Whet can the bled do dear that we can't do," It will not be long before the little one roplles "it goes up in the ale or words to that effect allowing It has considered the matter; teen the mother repiias "that is why it has wings dear, for with them the little bird. can fly away up in the air, At - ter such a conversation the ihilit will think oe the bird and its wings again, and will hove gained 80018 useful in- formation, The keynote of sueeessfui training of Children 58 snaking them think in the right direction -guiding their ideas. HOUSEHOLD IDENTS. To rid the house of flies have a win- dow garden of geraniums and calm/. 'arias, and the flies will not trouble you. Never omit regular bothiug, for un- less the skin is In an nolive condition tee cold will close the pores and favor congestion or other disease. When hoarse speak as little as possi- ble until tee hoarseness disappears, else the voice may be permanently in- jducedured or troubles of the throat be pro- , To keep moths out of carpets and rugs keep the rooms well lighted and take a little carbolic acid and water and apply on the edges of tee floor moandllyois.u will never be troubled with Before putting carpets and rugs away for the summer shake thoroughly to free them from dust, then sprinkle with powder composed of gum cam- phor and powdered tobacco. Roll tight and hang them away in clean Done sacks. Wean going away for the summer see that fine chairs and upholstered pieces are preserved from dust and moth by covering them with soft old muslin shoots. After being well beat- en and dusted, put camphor in paper at corners and than tie brown paper tightly over. To keep moths from furs and woolens line trunks with cedar cigar boxes. Pull the boxes apart and tack on with some nails or throw them in loosely and lay between your goods. Cigar boxes can be had for the asking at any cigar store, and when you close your house for the summer put a row of cigar boxes around the rooms, also in rooms not used for some time. Fruit, instead of flowers, often serve as a table decoration at this season, A unique canee]t seen at a ]natty din- ner the other day was the substitution of a bunch of cherries for the bouquet that usually lies beside each place. The fruit was of the brilliant red variety, and each one was, of course, a perfect specimen of its ]rind. Six of the cher- ries were fastened to a stout straw, at the top of which several green leaves bad been secured. The straw was then cap short and a bow of rib- bon covered the ends. Pale green was the color used for the bows, and as the other decorations were green and white, the vivid tint of the cherries was enhanced. TO CURE EARACHE. Save the cherry pits, wash In clear water and dry in the sun. When quite dry put into.chintz or cheesecloth bags and lay aside against a day of need. When teat time conies heat ex- ceedingly hot in the oven and apply to the afflioterl region. The stones will not only retain the heat for a long Lime, but give forth an aromatic odor much more agreeable than the major- ity of poultices. A LONG FAST. nut et -- Cured 3111to,e Aothb,uu er n Stomach Disorder.' Milton Rathbun, a New York vege- tarian, recently fasted 21 days. Ile was 58 years of age, and an ametenr ath- lete, He was much unncysd several years ago 10 find that be was taking on flesh Last. He tried a series of ex- parimonts, and found that by vigorous exercise he could reduce his weight with rapidity, but that when he fest- ed the reduction was much hastened, As soon as he resumed eating and re- turned to his normal allowance of ex- ercise, however, the fattening process would resume. tale. Rathbun at last weighed 210 pounds. For the first lima in bis life he found himself awkward and short of breath, and he began to have 581.10us tboughts of apoplexy, On the night. of Amel 23 lust he declared the boycott against his overseaious stomach. Lis thou tits his usual even- ing meal and bade farewell to food. On the'24Le hisstenlmoh elumured loud- ly and threr.tened serious trouble, clic. Rathbun g.tvo it no attention. On the next day the stem -eh subsided and accepted llro situation. sir, Rathbun hungered no more. His friends remon- sLrnted with bun, They whispered am- ong themselves than be was g0rng about With nothing 10 his stomach and lits. head lull of wheels, but bir, Rath- bun persisted, Ile drank water eopi- ausly during tee day tad made a hearty meal of half a pint of apollin- aris at night, and went right on with his business. .110, Rathbun lengthened Iris working time two hours a day, and was sharp - or and more energetic than ever before. In the evenings he would weigh salf, nota 0 decrease of two, three or four pounds for the slay, and go hem( in high spirits, Ile counted his losses as hie gains. At the end ne 28 days Mr. Rathbun weighed 168 pounds, hav- ing lost -or, 11ce0rding to his view, gained -42 pounds. Then his stomach woke up and began to inquire if the troultia eoulcl not be amicably arrang- ed and the boycott doolaret oft:. M1`. Rathbun had peomiaed his Meet's anfl doctors that he would eel again when ha 'felt hungry, and on May 21 began to eat cautiously, Now ho 18 eating us 110 formerly did, and says be never Eel bolter in his lire than he didwhilo he was starving, iwdwNtMNJ,M1MANYdr1fltMl wuttiWJiMf M' woe, Agricultural' N+WN,RMi' WIli kiil MAKING CLOVER, HAY, While closer Hely has been selling In Mennen! al; $6 per ton, baled, on oftem ata less prtee, It 1s worth Int London, Lngland, from $2fl to $24. One reason for this d]fe rano in Price is that good clover is better al/predat- ed by feeders of all kinds of stook in. England, than it is in Canada or the United States and a reason for: this fact may be that It IS cured: differently there from the methods most common here, which are adapt- ed to timothy and fine grasses snore than to clover, The Minister of Agriculture is making an effort to increase the exportation of hay from Canada and the Provinces, and in this coun- neotion the Journal of Agriculture gives soros good advice in regard to. treating their clover hay in curing as it is treated in England, and tbe advice is also good for those who grow clover for feeding at home, an well as those who desire to export it. Tbey say tee first thing to bear in mind is, that the lass Leo clover is meddled with, the better the bay will be, for it is the very reverse of meadow hey, which cannot, at any, singe of its making, be teezled and br oken up too mucic or too often, In other words, make meadow hay, let clover bay make itself. And, 11 pussible, let the farmers be persued= ed to put their clover hay into stack, instead of into the barn. It should be staoke.d green enough to get a good sweat, after which, it will be more than half pressed when it is ready for the machine. Cut early, and main there i8 no r•eusonde whyibis Canadafashion clover hay should not sell well in the English market. Take the average, of years, and it fetches "a five -pound note," $25.00, a load of 2,210 pounds, in the London market, and it is tbith.. er that it should go, as the greatdeal- ersof the metropolis are always ready( to pay for quality. The best clover bay is now worth there, £4 15e, 0d. a load, equal to about $$23 for our ton; and here we have clover bay, ready baled, selling for, e,t most, $8, or say one-fourth op, the price. And if clover hay is worth such a figure in England now, after two sucb hay crops as those of 1890 and 1898, there is not emote fear of ire averaging much less in future years, only, aa we have said over and over, again, it is quality that tells in the' London market. We do not urge our farmers to grow more clover hay for export, but we think if they wnutd grow more of it and ours it after the' above directions, they would have better stook, get better results ig both dairy and feeding yards, and find their farms growing more pro- ductive from the manurial value oe the °lover fed out and the clover roots in the soh' BUILDING A SILO IN THE BARN, Many with a moderate-sized stook farm are deterred from building a silo because they antic the expense so great, writes Mr. N. Robinson, If I had only seven or eight tread of cattle end was obliged to feed mostly core fodder I should certainly build one, knowing how much better they do on ensilage and what an improvement is made in milk and butter in winter. dairying. A moderate-sized silo may be built with little expense and give perfect satisfaction. One 12 by 14 ft, and 25 ft. high will hold sufficient en- silage to wintee 16 cows. The best and easiest way to build a silo is in one end of a large. bay, provided feeding can bo done easily, from there. It saves much in tim- ber, as you have the barn sills and several pieces to work on ant need no extra roof. Fill in the bottom with Small stones, well pounded down,then with ()omelet made thin enough to fill all crevices. Allow to harden and them spread a tout 015 top made thick- er with sand. Into this last cement set sills for the silo, and be aura to fill all crevices around them wltlr oe- ment. Some prefer to lay a wall in mortar up as fttr as the barn sills, bub either way is n!1 right, if it is only, air -tight. Thera must be at least five timbers on each sick to nail the boards to, pro- viding the silo is 20 ft, high, but be- ing in the bay, the, big bison and other timbe.t•s on thesides of the been may be utilized for some of them. Heavy plunk 2 at 8 in, thick could be used in many places instead of square tim- ber. For the door, sot timbers from the bottom to the top of silo, having them far enough apart so that a width of tar paper will go across end lap on each side 2 1-2 or 8 in. Ilays the cruor open off the tereshing floor, Now the frame is done, put on one thickness of boards, seourely mol and follow with tar paper, doubling this if you wish. It tvill work well if it is only single and well lappet', except in the corners, where it should be double. Ceil twee the tar papor and it fa ready for the corn. The door is erased as the silo is filled. To do this, fasten a roll oe tar paper, as long as the door is high, to the bottom of alto, and as the corn is put in' .roll up thetar paper and board across with 10 -in. boards. When the silo is filled, cover the earn over with at least a boot of straw, hey or any such substance to exclude the air and keep it until euue time as feeding begins. AN Aw;GUL FLING, It/ere. Styles -rd have you understan+ll that I know a good many worse rein than my husband. t . Mrs, Myles --My dear, you mast be mere pertiottlar about plotting your aogualntances.