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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-6-29, Page 2...HE T AND His \ � A I 1 I HT 1"t iS pearan toe U xtmornin ra oUt010v6# lo to , ;/,fl. •k,A• 1J /•# V 4+111 ,+. J-�A11, utely to discuss the crisis. anti, of oottrso, we began almost iininsdi- CI;tAPTN1t XIII, Craven I will watch over yea from liver "Sh Henry," he paid, "has hie own from Glna u n ease 1'Vhatover gams d0 111001ed mu, Meson, Niel, 51 _ 1lortesnue and 1 woreaitting together chat* your d at A. Y Y Absolute, a very reapeutable firm in Lin, 'Iang, uneeneernedly, and really without any you must :Mallow yourself to break down. naln'a Inn Piold,—'aaG a cert of firm an 1 Ft would be fatal to the last degree, stare, inks vu arou i to employ. I shall have thought of Ow manors thab so grays y Fortescue meet look after• .You moat care. A s d g it p y menaced 10y peace 91 mind, fully," my own eolicftor, of course, mud a separate latter all had come to accept the position, "Trust me for that," orled the little wo. duf euoe, That le obsoletely etee a y, ' worst I Should mart,; "" lar. Sabine ie quite right my dear. .11 crow oothing about these matters," Paid tp neo that at the very And ,tow for today at any rate we will let I a nc, he a gainer in certain respects, this unpleasant matter peas altogether oat You, Lady Craven, had better iso to p N ,Mesere, W lie & W hs the shot eot thin X had changed a state of slavery in what of our minds. Dir, Sabine, yen ,mustn't Y y � s P 'was little better than a hovel, under my dine ]tore ;yyor must finish your chum. in Contin, I will give yon a letter of n ways more Patine and seltaer and go away.• Cali to. introduction to George Wylie rnyeelf, He lather, for v. slavery in may y morrow morning about ten, and i£ you are le about the cleverest man 1 know' in hie irksome, although the hereof ley one were Very goof and penitent, and the weather profession, or out of it, and ff he takes op gilded. ProbablySir Henryould fail in is very fine, I will go' out for a walk with a ease, ran amore, will win it if it is to be $ Ywon. 11 he had one to the Bar be, would the august tribunal presided over by Sir you myself, We ,Haat have no more worry S to -day, Now get away at once to the 1,1,11 60 bean an Attorney+General long. ago. James Hannan. Justin is not always ranula court, or to your yacht, or trnywhere the great advantage of going to him ie, infallible ; but my eauee must assuredly you like, and do not treable 08 any more, when once you are in his kande, you have prevail. In any ease I should be rid of my Sufficient for today has been the trouble really uo 1nrthertrouble, He never uncle P to be at]rred np or ,van: jogged, Ile takes father, dd i' for husband, anti comfortablyyys. thereof," Sabine' a ride in his work, and he can only pursue provided for the remainder of my days Mr, laughed and Gook his doper. P taro. infer rte awn nuke, foie one way or auothar Recollect what a strange life mine had "Now look here, my dear," againmewed be must be' by this time a very rich man." been,' and then think how 1 must have wel. tire, Fortescue, "no more talk about this I went up town accordingly, and sow alt. rooms the prospect of liberty, even though worry. No more ,hep; we've hail quite Wylie—,sharp.featnredlittle Man, dressed it gameh pro welcome conditions. enough for today. 1 for myself am going in pe fe posy onion of rood , and drwith the most with to be happy. T should be at last, assuming the very' And, by way of giving effect to [hie He listened to what I had to say, took worst, an entirely free woman,. us free as virtuous resolution, she poked Elie fire notes of it. said ho. would arrange every da• the air,still young, and without the lose vigorously, composed herselfinanarmohoir, tail,audgfvgthematterhie own pereonai Y g and began to toast her feet, attention, and so bowed me out with the of a single soul whom I loved or cared There Was another rine at the door that 888111aTlaO that I should hear from him at for. aftemnon, and there were more steps on once, if it were necessary for liiw to see me There wail shrewd wiedom in what firs. the ataircase. Even Mrs. Fortesnue•looked again. lrortescue had said ; Rod' began to feet the puzzled. There was egmething in his meaner that g "Dome in," she snapped nut viciously, as seemed to reassure me, and I mode my way same 680kleas spirit again coming over me a knock made dceeli heard on Lhe door. Lack to Brighton in infinitely better spirits as that in whioh I had flung away Sir "Come in, whoever you are." than when Deft it. Henry's money in Paris. The door was opened again, and the Very There was evidently nothing more to be While I was looking over these things, Reverend the lino of tiouthwicx appeared donetrust (e 1 rovidence and keep obserpoved, seated in the window and looking down the on the threshold and stepped foto the room. dry,I really T saw Mr. Sabine Hue gaiters, his buckled shoes, his denim y believe that bars. Fortescue street towards the sea, al cont, his shovel hat with its rosette, were would, like Sir Thomas More, have joked coming towards the }rouse with a cigar in faultless "Dressed for Itis part, my dear," upon the scaffold. Meantime, by Mr. hie mouth. as Mrs. Fortescue afterwards most unfee]• Wylie's advice, Mre, Fortune and I re - maned observed. mained in 'Brighton, while Mr, Sabine I mention this little detail .Daly lather seated himself with solemn went away to London, although we heard because it is one of many . circum- dignity, and in his own way took up his from him two or three times a week. stances that will enable my readers parable.misAnd I now began to sea how much I had o form their own judgment of the man. y'Iiriam," he said, looking at Mre. "alit ofgtrial when4r Iehud imcue, agined infect she Fortescue, 'I w'eh to ;peak to you alone,"f; A fly was passing him and he stopped it. "And 1 do not intend to speak to you would forsake me, she proved my most Afew words passed between nim and the alone, papa. I had much sooner that Mrs, staunch and kindest friend. She was witn driver. Then the man took the cigar from Forteacueremained."I knew that mo literally day and night. Mr. Sabine, put it into his own mouth, lie was not at all staggered by the re- return to Paris, and lwas heresser dtlherar ito me 400 buff, Dl re. Forteeeue, nscr]bing the in- P g toothed his hat gratefully, and drove on, terview afterwards, claimed the remit as. But she answered that she had ahead let "There's a man for you my dear" said being "first blood" for myself, whatever her flat, and should 0onsequently stop with t may mann. I h I haveWhat I should hove done without her 1 cost him two shillings ora half-a-crown;. to last, .and the one tiring absglutol j treses• solicitor's.. 'Riley are, I paraefv0 dPTeab mornlug about eleven o'olook, hire, eery at, present, is that you should k0ep Intereethng document with whnSli tl'ey have ,' owsmioh & Mrs. Forteeeue. "I dare say that cigar thatme Then, Miriam, must any s at handl • like to think ; very oesibl some - and so, although he has only just begun it, grfof, and I must also add the very deepest thing £0013811 or desperate. But she kept e gives it a caman, who h t t that b h has never sense of shame and humiliation I know me bright and cheerful in spite of myself , -)(lilt's' il to on talrin me otic for walks and smoked anything like it before in his life everything ; and no one feels more deeply drives ; 0 tairid�me that dry ehampague and never will again, Now I call that than myself thus the present is tet tient was better than all the sal volarlle Iu the forupbrdduty 1 lube come because it world, and made me act oh the advice, simple, unaffected, kindness from the heart, is my pad duty as a father oyo . u--" It has the secret of'kindness, whioh is "To do what, Mr. St, Aubyn ?"' burst in and kept me up (Matting at night until she thoughtfulness." Mrs. Fortescue. "Do yon think your could make sure in her own mind that I 1Sdr. Sabine (I have before described his daughter wants you down here pottering was sufficiently tired to go soundly to sleep -peculiar gait). slouched along to our door and bothering about like a bumble bee the moment' went to bed. knocked, and was shown in. under a glass? What good on earth can "Sleep, my dear," she insisted, "sleep, all that hadhe first hing to Re listened done was ell him c you der and who wants either yon or your ohamfinestthingsand the world fora the the health pp interference Y° interruption, and with an expression of amusement on his features. "Did you ever hear anything more mon• etrons, more shameful, more outrageous, more downright and abominably mean and contemptible, and cruel and vindictive in your life?" asked Mrs. Fortesoue, stamping her foot by way of emphasis at each im- portant adjective, "I don't know," he answered lightly. "I really feel disposed to say for my own part that after one or two things which I have seer:, and one or two others that I know of, nothing astonishes me. Sir Henry is, o put the matter as mildly as possible, a miserable, unhappy old fellow, eaten up with doubts and fears and vanities, as much of hie own creation as Falstaff's men in buckram, and entirely devoid of these re - "I am not addressing my remarks tc you, I stemper should look and the ninety complexion. penot 3 believe madam," interposed the Dean. "I have 'selfould them regularly.fId Theynocaveat. my own opinion, as every nut- —of the your doctor's hilts, nd keep yon young an purity nuts[ have, of your conduct—of the guilty part you have played in this terrible happy ever. They are the salad -dressing tragedy." of life, which withoutthem, would be a "Sava you ?" asked Mrs. Fortescue, very sorry dish indeed of very bitter "And what may be your own opinion of bub''” your own part of it? Take my advice, Mr, I had forgotten to mention money Dean, go back to your hotel. Have yon matters ; theca gave me on trouble. I re- pot the tact too see that you are cot want- ceived a letter from Meesrs. Nisi, Slow- ed?" coach & Absolute, intimating that, in order Utterly regardless of this interruption, to avoid any unpleasant application for my father continued : alimony, they had received meteor:dons "This terrible, this crnehing news, Mir- from [hair client to place a thousand iam,has reached me from Sir Henry himself. pounds to my credit at any bank I might Ile himself suggested—so at least I gathered direct; and that, should the hearing of the from his letter—that I should come down snit be at all delayed, a further sum would be at my dieposal on any application for it. Thus, then, there was nothing to do but to wait ; and 1: agreed with Mrs. Fortes- cue that we might as well remain nom• tenably at Brighton, as trouble ourselves with a move or anything like traveling. In this manner nearly six months passed pleasantly and almost rapidly away. Then, after, Enter, came what Air. Wylie sailed the summer sittings, and the ease of Craven v Craven and Sabine found its way into the list, and, as Mr. Wylie gave me to under- stand, might nine on any day. Application was made to the Court to fix a day for it, with an intimation that it might possibly last two or three days, if not more, and ultimately a day was ap- pointed towards the end. of May, Tho evening before I cams up to town with Mrs. Fortune, and et the suggestion of Mr. Wylie, we took lodgings together in Saekvtlie Street. " Lodgings," said Mr. Wylie, "look better than an hotel ; and Sackville Street is sufficiently near the Law Courts, and is a moot unexceptional locality." It is not my inteution to go into the do - tails of the trial. I suppose ie was very much like any trials of the same eort. A vast amount of the evidence was purely formal, Sir Henry, of course, could prove noth- ingat all bearing on the real Ensue. The Very Reverend the Dean looked the very picture of paternal anguish, and with sub- lime ingenuity contrived to give the jury the impression that he had warned me against Mr. Sabine, that he had specially come up tLnndmi to do so, and hadbeen practically refused admission by me to the house, and told to mind his own business; and—this of course— that the whole thing would bring his gray hairs with shame and sorrow to the grave, ate voice trembled with emotion a0 ho told his story, and the jury were visibly affected. The important witness, the one whose evidence ticoided the case, 36418 Miss Jack - 8011. She had evidently kept a most care- ful diary, and her memory 'viae never one at fault, although, as Mr. Wylie whiepbred to me, she was far too clever to over- load herself with detai18. She declared that the frequency of Mr. Sabine's 61016 had aroused her euapiciono; that oho had spoken to me on the subject, and had been sharply reprimanded, and told to hold her tongue i that, without her constituting herself in any way a spy, 01rou n066n005 hart 5)0011 so reoklesely foroed upon her notice that she :multi not help ob- serving them, These ciruumetanees she gave in detail, with a most malignant ingenuity. Ultimately, she said she had felt it her duty to communicate with Sir Henry liim,olf, and laving (lone so, had of course. left my aerviee, Cross•examinatlgn failed to Shake her in any way, tend I saw that Mr. Wylie by 180 means liked the turn which her evidence had given o the oriel The other witea00s on Sir Iienry'e side were comc,arative1y unimportant; but the jury exchanged glances with one another When it was proved by the lawyer's clerk, wh@served the citation, that ha found Mr. points which his age and ex arience here; I should have done so in any event. deeming g p It is a fatal and indelible atain that you ought to have given hint. Hie morbid have inflicted on the family name. Were vanity would be ludicrous were it not, as rt 'happens, so troublesome. Well, he must go his own way. There ie ma help for it. The faithful Jackson will of course do her duty—that is to sty, she will lie through thick sod thin. There will be any number of other witnesses a6 a few poundsa head to swear to all kinds of things .that never happened, and whose evidence will tally as neatly ire the pieces of a Chinese puzzle, when it has been fitted together by the ingenuity of counsel. "There will be a stupid, jury utterly in. capable of appreciating evidence, and the cooncel for the petitioner will tell them that he leaves the case with eonfldenee in their hands, never having, yet seen or ad, reseed twelve more intelligent men. Dear mel It almost reminds me of "Pickwick.' When ajury man is in doubt, or when he wants to get away, he always finds for the ,:plaintiff. The plead ff would not have gone to law, he argues with himself unless he knew he was right, and he must know a great deal more about it than we do. " We both burst out laughing. Theo '.fro. Fortescue said: "Pray, light another cigar, Mr. Sabine. Neither of us minda. " "I never smoke in the morning," he answered, gravely. "That," I replied, shaking my finger at him, " is wickedly untrue. We saw you smoking as you Dams along, and saw you give your cigar away," He laughed and lit a cigar. Common. piece as the remark may seem, Icannot help noticing here that it is only your bourgeois who , needs a genuine request to be pressed upon him. As the blue smoke beuau to curl about the room, Mrs. Fortescue pro- dnced champagne• livelyseemed toshrink within his canonicals "Quite harmless, my dear,"abeobserved, and hie limbo trembled under him as he "if properly qualified." And she $fled up aided himself by the balustrades down into the tumblers with seltzer from a gazogene. the street, The tension had been too great, and I only rememher that, some time afterwurde, I found 'Ira. Fortescue 'sponging my fore- head with lean de Cologne, and that the room was swimming round me. "No talking,," Paid the little woman "no talking. I have sent out, for nine sal volatile, and here you are, Down with it and et me girt Lie elan. over your feet, and then jttet go o 'deep again, If you don't I shall send out for the doctor. lett if you aro good, and do as you are told, I will air here by you and won't move until your poor mother alive she would never have enrvived the shock. For myself I am heart -broken ; I shell never again lift hp my head. A life that might have been of service under Divine guideline to the Church, and possibly to the State, is lcopeloealy wrecked. lint why should I speak of my- self? My first duty, my daughter, is to- wards you." I was by this time quivering with Indig. nation, "How dare you assume my guilt?" 1 cried out passionately. " How dare you do it?" "Alas, my child," he said, ""the matter is beyond proof ; it is idle to talk of guilt, and innocence, and of proof, where every- thing is known." "It is not idle 1" I answered, now thor- oughly roused ; "and yon, who sold nne,are the last person in the world who ought to constitute yourself my judge. You sold ,00 for your own price,and you have received it. Now,leave me and go 1 As surely as T shall have to answer in thin world and in the next, the guiltof all this misery rests with you, and you alone I" I repeat, ivliriam--" "Go 1"' I repeated, and advanced towards him. I felt as If 1 were possessed. I could feel the paten in my head throbbing. 1 could hear the beating of my heart as dis- tincely as I heard the stamp of my foot up. on the floor. My father looked round helplessly for a minute, and then, with a limp effort to re- tain his dignity, turned round and left the room. 1 never before saw him so thoroughly cowed, even in the presence of the most insistent and obdurate creditor. Ho pool - We were laughing and talking together, when I heard a parley in the multiage, and then the steps of a man on the stairs. The door was opened without the formality of knocking, anda painfully respectable look- ing man, about fifty years of age, with geld -rimmed epectaoles, and a silk um- brella, made Itis appearance. Lady Craven?" he asked, looking fromI h k me to Sirs. Fortescue. I inclined my head. "Thio is for you, my lady," .And he politely handed me apiece of paper. "This entleman,3 presume, is lir. Sabine? I you are ell right aeain. bought 80. And thio is fot you, air. That I smiler( gratefully at her, and she pat lady, 1 presume, is Mre, Fortesoue T " I down close by ine. Then nry ayes closed " Go, d Heavens, man 1 "'burst out Mrs. and I suppose I most have fallen asleep, Tlorteseue, " you re not going to serve me again ; for, when Inext remormber anything with,n.citation, are you ? My poor hue.,it was to find the room 'lark, turd it was band has been dead for years." not until I stirred that Mrs. Forteeaue,who "No, Madam. But I wished to be able was still sitting by 10,3,166 the (mediae, bunt - to recognize you again. . faood-day, my, loci about,attendMg to the fi re, and her lobar lady;' good-damay, am goad•day, sir. concluded, exclaimer) triumphantly: "And •Andwith a bow that Sir Henry biene11 now, my dear, we'll have a nice quiet even - r fight have tt,wlied with advantage, the ing together,with no more talking or worry.. stranger withdrew And 1 shall sleep tonight in y'ottr room, in There were *1 few neeonde of O" len' case you should W1104 me." Then Mr. Sa1'In0 shook h}In0elf, and saltl -- very quietly and steadily: 't Do not allow CHAPTER XIV. f to betroubled b y all this LI yoursbl tr y , n dr,.. Me. Sabine, wile had not taken advaniage Sabine, Mrs. Fnrteecue, 004 myself alto. together In myeittlag-room at eleven in the morning, drinking ohampague out of tgmblei•,, .angrier wltnese, whom none @f nil 1(a'1 expee6ed, wee It coastnuardaman, who proved that, after dark, Thad accompanied Mr. Sabine on board hie yacht, whioh was lying in the offing, and heti stayed ou board at least a e0npte of hours. Asked Otero the yacht' and the anew now were, he replied that, to the best of hie be• lief, they were now in the Mediterranean, but that the yacht had sailed shortly after my visit to her. This piece of evidence was, of course, strictly true, and 1 did not need ;lir. Wylie to tell me that it produood a veryunfav00' able impression. After [hie, even I had sufficient sense to see that tate ea30 was virtually overt 1 was called, and I, on my oath, denied the alternate) charge brought amen* me, , And Ido not think that I was more nervone or hesitating than might have been oxpeoted under oross^examin'ition, 13u1 I could net tell, instinctively, that the jury did not believe me. air Sabine made, as Air. Wylie remarked to me, an admirable witness. Mrs. Fortescue puzzled Sir Henry's counsel extemely. It woe admitted that she heti been staying with me, with Sir Henry'a moment, and that she eeneequently enjoyed his coufidenoe. She declared that, with the exception of the one vlsit to the yacht, she did not be- lieve I had been out of her sight the whole time diet we were at Brighton; and, as she afterwards said herself, the more they pressed her with questions, the less change they got out of her. •" This practically ended the case, although I can even now recollect the vigorous and magnifinrttly brilliant event) which my counsel made in ucy behalf, and in which, I am pleased to eay, h0 diol not at all go out of his way to consider the feelings of the Dean of Southwiok, or even to spare him unnecessary pain. Terrible as the crisfe was, I enjoyed hear- ing things said of my father which 1 had often felt, but never been able to express. And when he spoke of my unhappy girl- hood without a mother's care, and without companions, and invited the jury to believe that I was, in reality, more ignorant of the world and of its conventions than any loge school girl could be, I did not need Mr. Wylie to whisper to me that the can was mag+nifleently put. The summing up was a very lucid recapit- ulabion of theevidence, coupled with what certainly seemed to mea somewhat feeble running comment. lf, his lordship told the jury, they be- lieved the evidence of Alias Jackson, then, of course, there was an end of the whole matter, and it was for them to say whether they believed her. If she was telling the truth, ale was only discharging a painful duty. If she was telling falsehoods, they must conclude that she was doing so out of the most pure and wanton malignity, inas- much as it had not even been suggested for a moment that I had in any way done any thing to arouse in her a feeling of revenge. Mre. Fortescue'e evidence was too nega- tive to be of much service in enabling them to make up their minds. As far as it went it was in my favor, but it went a very little way. My own denial was no doubt entitled to their moat careful consideration, as also was that of Mr. Sabine, the co-respondent. They could not have ahut their eyes to the fact that on one side or the other there must be something very like wilful perjury. It was only their duly to remember the gravity of their issues which they were called upon to determine, and to allow no ooneideration of the result of their Verdict to influence them in the slightest degree. Ho iv far all this aided the twelve Middle. sex tradesmen who filled the box I cannot pretend to say, They were absent for about'an (tour and a half, and at the end of that 41 Me they returned into Court with their minda made np. (To nn 00008831itp. ) FORAGING AHTS. • Alter an Expedition. In Force Matey Feast on Pie. The following story, told by 011 eye -wit - nese, }a entitled to a place among the in- stances of intelligence among the lower an- imals, A cook was much annoyed to ;End hie pastry shelves attaoked with ants. By careful watching it was discovered that they camp out twice a day in search of Mod, at about seven in the morning and four in the afternoon. How were the pies to be protected against the invaders?. He did not have long to wait, for at 0:50 o'clock ho noticed that off in the left-hand corner of the pantry was a line of ants slowly "taking their way in the direction of the pies. They seemed like a vast army owning forth to attack an enemy. In front was aMail et• - who was larger than any of the others, and who always kept a little ahead of his troops, They were of the sort known as the medium sized red ant, which le regarded as the moat intelligent of its kind, whose eoienti- fin name is formica rubra. About forty ants out of five hundred stepped out and ,joined the leader. The general and his aids held a council, and then proceeded to exatnlbe the cleans of molasses. Certain portions of it sem ed to be aeelgnetl to the different auto, and each selected unerringly the points in the notion under his charge where the stream of molass- es was narrowest- Then the leader made hie tour of inspection. The order to march was given, and the ants all made their way to a hole in the gall, at which the plaster- ing Was 100911. There they broke he, and set about carrying pieces of plaster to the plane in the molasses which had been agreed upon as the narrowest. To and fro they went from the nail -hole to the monies - es, until at ] 1.,80 o'clock, they had thrown a bridge acmes. Then they formed them. selves 10 1}un again, and ,ntereh0d over, and by 11;45 every mat of the foraging expedi' tion wag contenterhv 'vwin<t ohs. Cereal Crops in Japan, Although the anitivaterl lands of Japan are scarcely equal to one•eighth of the total area of the country, yet the home-grown produce is su6oient in ordinary seasons to meotthe requirements of a population whioh exeeda 40,000,000 of people. hxpreseed fn English measure there are 11,30'3,000 acres of arable laud, of'whioh 0;813,000 armee ere tempted by nice, 4,234,000 acro, by other cereals, and the rr,rnathhng area by divers kinds of Drops, Rice is grown in every province of this empire from :south to north,. and the mean yield is equal to about 130 bushels per acre, though the yield varies widely according to soil andsitnation, While wheat, barley and rye are capable of euoeeesful cultivation in a}1 parts of Omani. try, barley tends to predominate in the pro. vhint of the northeast, and rye iuthose of the southwest; „ DOW 1ANAAA WOULD Aa IT. -- soy A'hl'i (*mow weuldi dot. With LAW^ fres or ftle'fng filfnurs••+ftettet/ts ora. '►v'nff.^Tralnrd ,1lffltary er11urtxatltt, Various retleetions are prompted by the oeoorrencee now taking place in thpg mitt. ing districts of the United States, rl law, Looe sootier; of the mixed population of these districts appears to be oeeupled in determining how far it can go in defiance of the law. {;very day brings its despatches reporting" the horning of bridges, the seizing of trains, or unlawful interference with the freedom of workman.. la the mahiog of 'a people these are certainly troublesome phases, The hopeful etadont of evolution will, however, look forward to the [fine when the Heterogeneous m117(660 of population whioh bee been dumped into the United Sbates from all gnarters of the earth will be kneaded into something like national consistency, and wlienthe gigan- tic Homo Rule experiment, whioh the Gov ernmeatof the United States le, will have worked off seine of its yeasty difficulties.' The wiser the attident'the lees he will ex- pect anything like that result to comp all at once, It Is may the ignorant or the gushingly thoughtless who imagine that nations con be 030117:18018 IN. A DAY, or by the legislative doings of one session of Parliament, prohibitive 0r otherwise.. Somehow peopleforget in these dams that grand old illustration of the leaven leaven• ing the whole lump, in which tune is a distinctfactor,and which, as applied to the history of nations, icae always repre- sented a slow process. One of the questions that these distur- banns suggest is: What should we do here in such a case ? One reason of the quiet peacefulness with which eve go on from year to year is because it has not been our lotto be the objective point of vast and tumultuous foreign immigration. But we have some of the richest mineral treasures on the globe, and it is not inconceivable that Ontario, for instance, might.be struck by what is called a boom, aid that hordes of disquieting foreigners might Deme to work our mines. Or there are other cases in which riotous proceedings might occur, and the quiet tenor of our lives be disturb- ed. Thle is one of the matters in which we should benefit by the " broadening down from precedent to precedent" to which we are heirs. And distasteful as it is for our militia to have to interfere in internal die-' orders, the poasibilityof.internal disorders is one of the reasons for having& well -train. eri •Mud adequate military organization. So far as the regulations of military law, as applicable to Canada,go, the provisions are definite and preoise. If a riot or distill, - boom of the public peace occurred beyond the powers of the civil authority to suppress, a written application bythe chairman of the Quarter Seosions of the Peace, or by any three magistrates, would be made to, the senior militia (deer in the acidity, Under a penalty of $100 for officers, and 521) each for the men, they would hove im- mediately to TURN 011T 1100086 ARMs. They would then be considered to be speci- al constables, but they would act only as a military body, and obey only the orders of their eummanding officer. It is noticeable, however, that the commanding officer can- not give the command to fire on his own responsibility. He is 1101 t give the order unless distinctly required to do so by the :Magistrate. Even when requested by the Dlagisarate to fire, he ie to exerolee a hum- ane discretion respecting the extent of the line of fire, and he f0 also required to take the moat effectual means, in conjunction with the magistrates "to explain before- " hand to the rioters that in the event of " the men being ordered to fire, their fire " will be effective." Itis evident that the suppression of suohdisturbanoes is a difficult and unpleasant bask from the restrictions by whioh it }a surrounded, which altogether differentiate it from war with a foreign foe, where the object is to sweep the enemy off the earth as soon as possible. It is a work requiring patience, coolness, and most ad- mirable self -command. But there is no. doubt that the moral effect of a body of troops, well -drilled, alert, and abadient, would in such cases be very great. They would personify the irresistible steadiest. nese of the law in away which would have a healthy edeot on the overthrowers of public order. Customs Duties on Wheat. A statement has been prepared by the British Board of Trade showing the Cus- toms duties at present levied on imports of wheat and wheat flour in the various Eur- opean enuntries and to the.United States. Denmark, Holland, and Belgium, like the United kingdom, admit wheot and flour free of duty, while Pmasia and Roumania admit wheat free but impose aunty on flour. Portugal prohibits the importation of either wheat or wheat flour, except snider certain conditions. In the European countries the import duty on wheat varies front :i4 nuts per cwt. in Spain to `.3 cents per cwt. in Norway. The import duty on wheat flour ie much higher inalI the countries of En rope, France standing highest, with a 11111x1111um of $I.56 per 0366,, mud Norway lowest, the duty being 17 conte per cwt. The import duties imposed by the United States are 25 cents per bushel on wheat and 20 per cent. ad valorem on flour. Barley and oats are admitted duty free into five European enuntries in addition to the United Is ing dam; 113 the other countries an import duty is imposed ou one or both of these cereals. The United States impost in equivalent to 23.50 per quarter on barley, and $1,24 per bootee on oats, A Strange Meeting. The Manchester (Eng.) News vouches for the truth of the following story: The late Sir Harry Verney, while a young English ofliinr, was riding across Argentina whet he perceived a figure lying on the roadside, under a rade shelter of leaves and brooches "Pulling up, he discovered a priest, who [fund out to be in a high riondltion of :ever. Verney obtained assistance, had the prostrate man carried to his own rooms, and pcaethcaily nursed lain into novitiate twice and eventual recovery. After seine months of friendly interomlrse end ocen' panlonehip, the two separated and probably never thought to meet again. Many years passed, so many that the majority of men have lived their lives and died, but the two who hail met under such etrking 0ircum• stating still lived, the one Sir Harry Veto nay theother noleos;a porton than I'io Nono, Pope of Rome," J vNg 29, 1$94 PRACTICAL FARMING, paeltIn,g Butter, Quo great advantage that oreamery but' ter )tae 0vet' dairy le in he superior manner of being peeked, The way the ersamery- made article is pot into the tube Mende to maintain a uniformity gf quality obtained in the 0hurn, A ore(tmory tub represents butter of one grade all the way through, and put into the firkin ata single packing. The daily butter may be jnat as good or superior to the creamery when it parts company with the ladle, but where largo tubs aro used each °horning will formonly a layer in the package. Unless themost uniform meth^ oda of manufacture are in doily force in the dairy. room these layers will` vary in quality. But eappooing that uniformity doeeexiet.in making from day to day, doe, it signify that the whole tub packed by pieoe•meal will be uniform? Hardly so, for producing nod putting down fauoy but- ter to have it remain Taney till in the con - miner's hands, requires a nicety of opera. tion that perorate of notransgression of • certain principles. Tliat the oreamery maker observes these principles is seen by uoting this manner of procedure in the premine. After making the tub to be used immaculately clean he hos it moist and cool from fresh contact with cold water, and then he drops the but- ter in, a11in one big, lump perhaps, press- ing it firmly to the eider and squaring it off evenly with the rim. Then comes the cap cloth and the cover and it is ready for the refrigerator or market. This nicety is not possible with the small better maker on the fart", if she or he uses common size firkins in which to pack their product. The wooden firkin or stone jar is render- ed just as scrupulously clean at the begin- ning perhaps as in the well ordered factory, but after the first layer is packed away. the domestic maker labors under a disad- vantage Where the oreameryman Beals up a full package nod places it aside, his brother or sister maker on the farm must unseal theirs at every fresh churning.` Barring the probability of each churning not being of exact uniform quality it must,. be placed upon the preceding layer under conditions not as asceptio 90 that governing the packing of initial one. The sides of the receptacle cannot be freshly. cleansed as each accession of new butter comes against them. Then again, there are cer- tain fermentative (Menges taking place' in even gond butter as it ages, and so there nun he no perfect amalgamation of quality between butter atratas made twice or thrice a week and packed in one receptacle. The proper way to do is to follow the - example of the creameries, and some of the most eueceseful ,private dairies—make whole packages from single churnings, oven if they be small ones. We have noticed dairy butter selling even higher than creamery in this way, put up in gallon and half -gallon crocks or jars.' The facts were that its quality was just as good if not superior to creamery make, and the email size of the package bit the con. venienn of the limited buyer just right. The same principle that we have called attention 60 ab ,o obtains 10 cheese mairiug also. No good cheese maker likes to weld old cord on to new, unless the common quality be debased. Whether it be mixing the old curd thermal) with the new, or brfngiug twolayers ol old and new together, the result is uneatisfactory if the produc. Mon of number one stock be sought. It will richly pay domestic makers to take this principle to heart in the manage - men t of their dairy products^ Make every dairy paokoge a whole one at each output, just as you would put up a con of fruit, sealing it, and placing it away to be undis- turbed until oaten^ Rules for Butter Making. 1, Skim the milk clean. There is alto. ' gether too great waste of butterfat in the ordinary handling of milk on the farm. Set the milk in ice water the year round and skim it only after it has stood twenty four hours, or better still, procure a'13aby separator, if the amount of milk is large enough to justify the outlay. Use the Babcock milk tester to ascertain how much butter fat is left in the skim milk, under your ordieary method of handling it, and the chances are you will find that the waste would soon pay for all necessary improve - meets in dairy utenaile. 2. Ripen the cream properly. Let it stand neither ob long nor too short 0 time. The usual fault is that it stands too long and spoils before it is churned. The cream should not be gathered longer than for one day, or the portion first gathered will ao- quire a bad taste and smell. 11 there is too little for a churning it can be kept longer by keeping it in in water all the time un- til ready to lie set aside to ferment, then raise the tetnperature of the amain to about 73 degrees F. and at this temperature add a little fresh buttermilk, between five and ten per cent of the weight of the cream, whioh will serve as a starter, Next set the cream aside in a suitable crook in ,place where the temperature ranges between 60 and 70 degrees 11, 1f this is done sometime during the forenoon the cream will be ready to churn early the next morning. It should he stirred several times during the day. When ready to churn it is somewhat gran-. ularin consistency, has apleasant aromaand a clear- emir mate. 3. Churn 11 at a temperature of between 55 and 00 degrees Fahrenheit. Churn briskly and if'all is right butter should come in about 30 minutes. Stop the churn when the burnt has formed granules as Targe as wheptkernels and move the dasher slowly to unite these granules. Strain the buttermilk through a sieve in order„to re. move all the butter. 4. Work thebutter lightly at once and odd about tour per cent. of fine salt, then let. it lie about two hours at a temperature of about 51) degrees or lose, and then give it s. ficial working to mix the salt and remove, the brine that has formed. 5, llaintain tate etrieteot eleaiiiness at every step and scald and air, daily, all the utensils in constant nee. Worth Knowing. Tramp—” )-rave you any broken ohina plates that you would like manilas)?" IIonsekeoper—"Indeed I have. 1)o you. use cement?" "No, mum. If you'll hand Ins. a broken plat, with a piece of pie on it, I'll show you how 1 manage." "Well ice worth knowing. Here," "Thank yell, more, A(1 you have to tlo is int to take the pie in our hand this way main, and then it don't matter about the p:ate, mum."