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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-10-11, Page 2":I or Meroy'e Oahe, epero me;' he •yelled *4 My hcuee hail berm gutted by the Ifrenolt. ttnd harried by the English, end m feet 3urve been burned by tltebrigaxids, eweer and that au the etrly earning lie shot,ld 1 th i by the Virgin tha4 I have 'wither money others 'l'hs Abbot, Elgin tour twos mill of end of the bed and laughed silently m d 1 etepidity end terror, New, ou the cone trary, oeeryfeature beepokr brutality and. ferocity, Novo here T Peen a MOrO dreadful•Iootting�Yiliain, In hie haled he held u long, dull -coloured knife. The ecoid net have weighed it ell with more Abbot, on the alio ehoanod, Wee ea( ftaAiie�la judgment. At lust we agreed,. rho. Bart. and as digu Gad . 13 41 P sad I, the ono of us Should indeed go with gown had linen thrown °Petr, however)„end Elft uteri under preteuoe of baiugdeaurtgce, 1 new beneath it a blaok•froggod coal., - ooh Y ae I have )leen amoug the kinglielholfteere. in commend of the ate and admit the Aa ear *Yee met re leaue °yet a want en e t til it or food in my Inn, andi;ood rather Abbot. opinion, that it tvee�dangeroua�to divide our ore+You Will) I am ante, exon my r»drth, 'who ie etarving upon my dooretep will be foree, but l iding that we were both of the my dear Colonel Gerard,” said he. n, I the surae , n , foot a that the oGererd," upon your .ane " wo man ,,11 q only g his hill° funny, • have no doubt that Yea are excellent French, what this tial eek, aatd he, If you lay Rends upon phis an excellent soldier, bat I hardly' think Gaye ie Very true, He to one .Of the many' .marshal Miltefteura--tilts dog of a brigand that von are tit bo measure wits with the victims to theee cruel ware, although his —what will you do, with him :' klarsi al ivI lie y venues)) to it,,, ni d he shrugged his shoulders end - • f. " Indeed,air," said the Capuchin, in gave in. 1 when you Bras ed the situation was just a , "'ter is o l y one thin teat I woad d" ""Han him " 1 unawsred t l fleurs as our fellows Ova loos le but a feaGher•wed ht tom ared to g been good anon h to call me, Yea appear g P "" It is too eat a death ' cried the g g mine, Let him go," he added, in English, Capuchin, with a vludiellve flaw iu his to have given mo credit.foraingularty Mlle to the trooper, troo " he ie too weak to fly, even dark eyes. " Had I my way with ]rim— i°trlligenee, which argues, if I may be P „h h E allowed eo say ac, a wadi 014.0010008a ?Pen if he desired to, In the light of the lantern' saw,that tills bands to hie forehead like one who ie halt exaeppGioit ofmy , mon was a ma n' , the 13ritish'1ra+oc;l, I have never met any g k and tis 'roe , one who was less (impotent to (Jerry ant how I t he carried fi ret, li which Y. been throughmueh suffering, het the honour of entering the Abbey i Y oondesceudiu imtuner whdoh had ainrdGhia himeelf liken king, and we could' form some faith, it was asking a greet deal of Etienne rascal ale an, 1 Could nay nothing, 8 opinion of hie'leurniug when we cosh heard Gerard that he should give place to any but they meat have react my threat in my him talk our own language ae fluently as if. be were born to it. " You have nothing to fear," said I, to the trembling innkeeper. " Ae to you, father, you are, if I am not mistaken, the veryman who can give tie the information which we require." "All that I have is at your service, my eon. But," he added, with a wan smile, "my Lenten fare is always eomewhat meagre, and this year it has been suoh that .1 must ask you for a crust of bread if I am to have the strength to answer your quea• Vona." We bore two day!? -rations in our haver• seeks,.eo that he - soon had the little he asked for, It was dreadful to seethe wolfish way in which he seized the piece of dried goat's flesh which I was able to offer him. "Time presses, and we must come to the point," said I. "We want your advice as to the weak pointe of yonder Abbey, and concerning the habits of the rascals who but, oh, what )hang is are these or a eei- vane of God to harbour 1" He clapped his Your ower, part. Indeed, with the ehigte t'hick•houded oompatrtnt k decent mon dark and demented by1 t blee and readied out 6 bearded, with the eyes of a haw , ao of the room. ane who Wtut le tall that his cowl came up to Rabaplan's There was an important point which we a ou can imagine how I felt and d d that was whether ears, He worn the look of one who had ha still to settle, and leeied,ae I Melamed to this insolentliaraneee tial tenni or the English party should have was all delivered iu that {lower and infest it." He cried out something which I took to clasped and his with be Latin,wt his hoods a " eyes' upturned. The prayer of the just availeth much," said he, "and yet I had not dared to hope that mine would have been so speedily answered. In me you see the unfortunate Abbot of Almeixal, who has been met out by this rabble of three armies with their heretical leader. Oh ! to think of what I have lost 1" hie voice broke, and the tears hung upon his lashes. "Cheer up, err," said the Bart. "I'11 lay nine to four that we have you beck again by to -morrow night," i " le not of, my own welfare that I think," said he"nor even that of my poor, scattered' flock. But it ie of the holy relics which are left in thesaariligious hands of these robbers." "It's even betting whether they would ever bother their heads about them," said the Bart."But showus the way inside the gates, and we'll soon Olean the place out for you," In a few short words the good Abbot gave ue the very points that we wished to know. But all that he said only made our teak more formidable. The walls of the Abbey were forty feat high. The lower windowsware barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire. The gang preserved military discipline, and their sentries were too numerous for us to hope to take them by surprise. It was more than evident that a battalion of grenadiers and a couple of breaching pieces were what was needed. I raised my eye. brows, and the Bart. began to whistle. " We must have a shot at it, come what may." said he. The men had already dismounted, and, having watered their horses, were eating their -suppers. For my own part I went Into the .sitting -room of the inn with the Abbot and the Bart., that we might talk about our plans. I had a little cogna0 in my eauvevie,and 1 divided it amongst ue—just enough to wet our moustaches. "It is unlikely," said I, "that those ras- cals know anything about our coming. I have semi no signs of scouts along the road. My own plan is that we should conceal ourselves in some neighbouring wood, and then, when they open their gates, charge ;down upon them and take them by sur- prise." The Bart. was of opinion that this was the beat thee we could do, but, when we came to talk it over, the Abbot 'nada us see that there were diflioulties in the way. "Save on the side of the town there is no place within a mile of the .Abbey where you could shelter man or horse," said he. Auto the townsfolk, they are not to be trusted. I fear, my eon, that your excel- lent plan would have little chance of suo- ceee in the face of the vigilant guard which these men keep," " 1 sea;no other way," answered I. "Hussars of Confirms are not so plentiful that I can afford to run half a squadron of them against a forty foot well with five hundred infantry behind "I am a manof peace," said the Abbot, " and yet I may, perhaps, give a word of council. I know there villains and their ways. Who ahould do so better, seeing that I have stayed for a month in this lonely spot, looking down in weariness of heart at the Abbey which was my own? I will tell you now what I should myself do if I were in your place." "Pray tell us, father," we cried, both together. You must know that bodies of deserters, both French and English, are continually coming in to them, carrying their weapons with them. Now, what is there to prevent you and your men from pretending to be suoh a body;,and so making your way into the Abbey ? PRACTICAL FARMING The best Food kplr "ipg, "" While the Pig end ebeep are the beet eoavaugere end gleaners ee our farm's, we do net get lite' befit resulte when we beep them wholly employed es scavengers," says Mr, Bonham. " They can make a living whore the .bargee and cattle would starve, Tho pig can utilize the waete of the kitchen, the dairy, the" garden, the orchard, the barnyard, the feed lot, the grain field, the grove or fermate and will not oewfiue hie feeding to what is above ground, His taste and smell and vision ate so conte that he can utilize everything he oan eat, even to brickbats' and waste coal. From tide foot we learn the pig's tastes and needs.. He tN omnivorous, and mast have a great variety offood if he 10 to bo. kept In parfeet health and higheeb thrift. The nearer we come to mowing for him the relished variety, the better Ile wilt grow and the less will be WO ode') per pound of pork, end the more whole- some.. i' The fact that the pig has bound a plane on every farm and around every dairy and moa at such a limo !But the poor liars. eyes, for the fellow who had played' `the mill where - there are wastes to be utilized, plodded aa hard, urging the few poor pare of the idnkeoper whispered eotnothiug, along with tiketae) that lio has shown skirmishes which he had seen against my t hi four•and-soventy engagemeute, that, at last o " I aoneented that he oeould go. We had No, no, ore dear bl a aliver, he will be just clasped hands over tho matter when infiaityly more valuable alive," said he. there broke out such a shouting and nursing " B oy n are ass and sleelar, afar my uat ee well and yelling from the front of the fun, that, li0reywlno,is a little rough in his ways, out we rushed with our drawn sabres in our would certainly have out your throat it hands, convinced than the brigands were you had raised an alarm. I' should upon 08. recommend you to keep in hie good graces, You may imagine our feelings when, by for Sergeant clhenier, late of the 7th Gaslight of the lantern which hung from the lmperlal,Light infantry, le a much more porch, we saw a score of our hussars and dangerous parson than Captain Alexis dragoons all mixed in one wild heap, red Morgan, of His Majesty's foot -guards." coats and blue helmets and busbies, poem'. Ohenier'rinned and snook his knife at ing each other to their hearts' content• me, while 1 tried to look the loathing We flung onreelvee upon them, imploring, which I felt at the thought that a soldier threatening, bugging ata lace collar, or au l of the Emperor could fall ib lots. a spurredheel, until, at last, we had " It inay amuse you to know," said the. dragged thom all apart. 'There they stood, Marshal, in that soft, suave voice of hie, flushed and bleeding, glaring at each otheri ".that both your expeditions were watched and all panting together like a line on from the time that you left your respective troop horses atter a ten -utile chase. It! camps. I think that you will allow that was only with ocr drawn swords that we Monier and. I played our parte with soma could keepthem from each others throats•4 subtlety. We had made every arrange. I Y The poor Capuchin stood in the torah in ment for your reception at the Abbey,. his long brown habit, wringing his bands' though we had hoped to receive the whole and calling upon all the eaiute for moray. squadron instead of - half. When the He was indeed, ae I found upon inquiry, gates ate secured behi\rdthem, our visitors the innocent cause of all tate turmoil, for, find themselves in a very charming little s look upon howsoloist possible understanding no o 'b not undereP with quadrangle, uadra e 8P 9 g , some remark t o' madefrom a he leadfire sue thinebyfnusketr h things,exit; commanded the English sergeant that it was a pity hundred windows. They may choose that his squadron was not as good as the . to be shot down; or they may choose French. The words were not out of his to surrender. Between ourselves, I have mouth before a dragoor, knocked down the I was amazed at the simplicity of the thing, and 1 embraced the good Abbot. The Bart. however, had some objections to offer. "That is all very well," amid he, "but if these fellows are as sharp as you say, it is .not very likely that they are going to let a hundred armed strangers into their crib., From all I have heard of Mr. Morgan, or Marshal Mil1efleur•a, or whatever the moa: cal's name is, 1 give him eredit ler more mime than that." "Well, then," 1 Dried, "let us send ,fifty in, mid let there at daybreak throw open the gates to the other fifty, who will be waiting outside." Wo disouseed the question at great length with meek foresight and discretion. If it had been Mamma) and Wellington instead of two. young officers of light cavalry, we nearest hussar, and then in a moment, they all flew at each other like tigers. We would trust them no more after that, but the Bart. moved his men to the front of the inn, and I mine to the back, the Eaglieh all scowling and silent, and our fellows shaking their fiats and chattering, oaoh after the faehiou of their own peo- ple. Well, as our plans were made, we thought it best to carry them out at once, not the slightest doubt that they have been wise enough to do the latter. Ilut since you are naturally interested in the matter, we thought that you would care to come with us and to see for youraelf. 1 think I can promise you that you will find your titled friend waiting for you at the Abbey with a face ae long as your own." The two villains began whispering to- gether, debating, as far as I could hear, which was the best way of avoiding my lest some fresh cause of quarrel should vedettes. break out between our followere. Tha ae will make sure that it is all clear upon Bart. and his Hien rode off, therefore, he the other side of the barn," said the Marshal having first torn the lane from his sleeves, at lava "Yon will stay here, my good and the gorget and sash from his uniform, Ohanier, and if the prisoner gives any so that he might pass as a aimple trooper. trouble you will know what do." Ido explained to his men what it uvea that So we were left together, this murderous wan expected of them, and though they did not raise a cry or wave their weapons as mine might have done, there was an expreaeion upon their stolid and clean. shaven faces which -filled me with confi- dence. Their tunics were left unbuttoned, their scabbards and helmets stained -with dirt, and their harness badly faetened, se that they might look the part of deserters, without order or discipline. At 6 o'clock next morning they were to gain command of the main gate of the Abbey, while at renegade and 1—he sitting at the end o the hod, sharpening his knife upon his boot in the light of the single smoky little oil - lamp. As to me I only wonder now as I look beck upon it, that I did not mad with vexation and self-reproach as 1 lay helpless- ly upon the couch, unable to utter a word or move a finger, with the knowledge that my fifty gallant lads were so close to me, and yet with no means of letting them know the straits to which I was -reduced; that same hour myinstate were to alio It was no new thing for me to beaprisoner. g but to be taken by these renegades, and to up to it front outside. The Bart. abd I be led into their Abbey in the midst of pledged our hopes to rt before he trotted their jeers, befontodand outwitted by their off with his detachment. My ear. insolent leaders—that was indeed more geant, Papilette, with two troopers,follow- than I could endure. The knife of the ed the English at a distance, and returned butcher beside me would out lees deeply in half an hour to say that, after some than tha,. parley, and the flashing of lanterns upon them from the grille, they had been admit. ted into the Abbey. So far, then, allied gene well. It was a cloudy night with a sprinkling of rain, which was in our favour, as there was the 1 twitched softly at my wrists, and then at my ankles, but whichever of the two had secured me was no bungler atiiia work. I could not move either of them an inoh, Then I tried to work the handkerchief down over my mouth, but the rttt&an beside less chance of our preaence being discovered. me raised his knife with such a threatening My vedettes I placed two hundred yards in snarl that I had to desiet. I was lying every direction, to guard against a surprise, still looking at his bull neck,and wondering and also to prevent any pennant who might whether it would ever be my good fortune stumble upon us from carrying the news to to fit it far a cravat, when I heard return. the Abbey. Oudiu and Papilette were to ing steps coming down the inn passage and take turns of duty, while the others with up the stair. What word would the their horses had snug quarters in a great villain bring hack 1 11 he found it wooden granary. Having walked round and impossible 00 kidnap me, he would seen that all was as it should be, I flung probably murder inn where I lay. For myself upon the bad which the innkeeper my own part I was indifferent which had set apart for me, and fell into a dream- it might be, and I looked at the doorway less sleep. with the contempt and defiance which I No doubt you have heard my name longed to put Otto words. But you can mentioned ae being the beau -ideal of a imagine my feelinge,my dear frienda,when, soldier, and that not only by friends and instead of the tall figure and dark,sneering admirers like our fellow -townsfolk, but face of the Capuchin, my eyes fell t pon the by old officers of tee great wars who have grey pelisse andhuge mouataohes of my shared the fortunes of those famous Cam- paigns with me. Truth and modesty compel me to say, however, that this is not so. There are some gifte which I lack—very few, no doubt—but, atilt, amid the vast armies of the Emperor there may have been some wbo were free from those blemishes which stood between me and perfection. Of bravery I say nothing. Those who have seen me in the field are best fitted to speak about that I have often heard the soldiers discussing' round the camp -fires as to who was the bravest man in the Grand Army. Some said Murat, and some said Lasalle, and some Ney • but for my own part, when they asked me, I merely shrugged my shoulders and mad. It would have seemed mere conceit if I had answered that there was no man braver than Brigadier Gerard. At the same time, facts are facts, and a man knows beet what his own feelings are. But there are other gifts besides bravery which are neoes0ary for moldier ,and one of them is that he should be a light sleeper. Now, from my boyhood onwards, I have been hard to wake, and itwas tbie which brought mo to ruin upon that night. It may have been about two o'clock in the morning that I was suddenly aonsoious of a feeling of euffooation. I tried to call out, but there was something which pre- vented mo from uttering a sound. I straggled to rise, but I could only flounder like a hamstrung horse. I was strapped at the ankles, strapped at the knees, and. strapped again at the wrtets. Only my ayes were free to move, and there at the foot of my pouch, by the light of a Portuguese lampp., whom should 1000 but the Abbot and the innkeeper 1 Tho labter's heavy, white face had rip. peered to me when I looked upon it the evening, before to oxproos nothing but good little suboffiner, Papilette 1 (TO BS °ON n-roa . ) JUDGE FIELD'S OPINION. wonderfal power to adjust himself to hie environments, has led to cuoli neglect as to impair' his health and to abnormal development. He has oven been confined iu a narrow poo, to feed and sleep io hie own filth, and limited to Oorn middlings, end yet has paid for the food consumed. Even a hog will die if fed only on sugar or fat, but our pig has lived on a fateformer and made muscle and bona and paid for keep, Because he can and has so long endured semi -starvation in -a bed of ease with a trough full of food, hie rations have been narrowed and his health and value: unpaired. It mune hardly necessary to say that middlings ' is a good food for pigs and for their milk -giving deans, but it re not enough. There aro ,only two complete foods, and they are milk and grass, as nature made them. "'And there is no best food for pigs, where neither of these are part of the pig's daily allowance. I may go further ; there is no cheapest food for growing pigaor shoats without grace. Grass and olover are the foundation of healthy and profit- able swine husbandry, and without them 1 doubt if pig raising and feeding can long b8conducted successfully. lY. Coufining.Pigs ens , and to corn to fill uncomfortable h.P Y, ', ien� daft slo s or brill food and hitt or y p must, from the wide demands of the nature of the animal and the narrowness of the ration, 800000 or later produce disease and lose. On the other hand, where these articles of food are supplemented by free reogein the grove, clover field and grass. lot, and such other variety as the orchard, garden and farm oan cheaply supply, to fairly meet the demands of an omnivorous animal, we then have the best pig food, and the healthiest pigs and savory, whole. some pork. Until there is a radical reform in the method of raioiug pigs In filthy pane and barnyards, and limiting them to the narrowest possible ration, without exercise and pure water, fresh air and sunshine, we cannot hope to sucoessully meet the objections at home and abroad against the American corn fed pork. We can and have raised the beat pork in the world, and every farmer should Bee 00 it that his herd has the beat food to produce the best pork and best pay. "Middling and Dorn are valuable, and so eseentiat that on our farms wo cannot profitably grow pork without them; yet neither; nor bath, oan be oonaidered a safe ration. If our pigs cam ran on a good grass lot or clover field with shade and pure water, we can feed all the corn or middlings the pigs can assimilate with profit. "The essentials of profitable pig growing are grass and clover. After twenty-five years rn. tee business, I would not try to raise pigs without both, and of the two, blue glass is my preferonoe because it is available .ao many months in the year. With all the grass or clover a pig will graze, be is always ready to assimilate all. the Dorn, oats and middlings he will eat. Grass it not only a complete ration, but it s a great corrective and distender of the, stomach, enabling the pig to better digest the richer food. For the young things we save the milk, which like grass, isnot only evaluable alone, but enables the pig to digest a larger per Dent. of his grain rations. The hest pig feed, then, is all the milk, grass and grain he can eat." eeleotiug seed, A moderate eirgd potato 1 of the right shape,' a longish oval, will generally ?rodeo() p0tat000 that will Pell IMP. Moot of the long potatooe begin' to. run out by growing pointed ends. `this tondonoy to deterioration Pan be awaked by rejecting ouch volume when eyed 10 being Selected, OVERRUN BY RATS, An :Army et' 1'ermir►'Faltee 1'osseiniie t or uric relaiad ()X 'I,'rut,i0, The island of Tropic, twenty mflessantit of the Flordia coast has boon invaded by an army of savage rata, and the inhabitant's have been forged to ;fee for their livoe. Tropics three miles long and two mile wide and the Boil to voi % fertile. A dozen familios have 'fettled ou the Wend and en. gaged in growing vogetablso for market, George Butter, ono of the settlers, tells a thrilling story of the invasion and subjug• ation of Tropic by the rata. Up to a month ago, umordiug to Mr. Sutler, there were no rata cn the island. At that time the advanood guard of the rodents arrlved,and is were quickly followed by others, until in two weeks there were fully 10,000 on the ulnad, The rate Dame from the mainland, which was only two miles away, and Mr. Butler aflirme that they swam across, He says ho hue neon them coming out of thel water by hundreds. At .first the rata contented themselves with attaokfng the vegetables, whish were soon destroyed. Then they invaded the homes of settlers. The latter made war on the rats, killing hundreds, of them: Mr. Butler says he has killed art many aa 100 at ono shot, but athero would rush forward and attack him, biting him vtoieusly on the legs. In epite of the slaughter the rats got into the houses and attacked the woinett and children. Several of the latter were badly torn by the sharp fangs of the rodents. One baby was so severely bitten about the face that its life is despaired of. For three nights, Mr. Butler says, not a soul on the island slept, au that would have meant death. At last the people, in terror and worn out, fled in their boats to the mainland, where they are now camped in a destitute condition. Mr. Butler eaye the rate pursued' them to the water's edge, and the women and children were repeatedly bitten before the boats could be pushed off. Every vestige of vegetation had been destroyed: The rate are described as gray in color and monstrous in size being larger than squirrels. Selecting Seed Potatoes. Moat potato growers delay the selection of seed potatoes for next year's planting anger than they should,, says the American Cultivator. It is not enough, as some say' to select the hills in the field as they are dug. The oareful farmer will go through the field while the potatoes are still in the most vigorous growth and choose the hills that have the most thrifty appearance. These should be marked by eating a Btako yawn() Day Canada W111 be an Enormously wealthy Country. Judge Stephen J. Field, of the Supreme Court of the 'United States passed through Montreal recently on his way book from a trip to the Pacific. coast, He is acoompani ed by Mrs. Field. Judge Field, who is one of the ablest and oldest judges of the Supreme Court, leaving been appointed by President Lincoln, in the course of an interview said :—"We are on a pleasure trip, end have come up from California, traversing Canada by way of the Canadian Pacific railway. This isnot my first visit. to Canada. I was hero six years ago, but I must say that the country seems to be going ahead by leaps and bounds. The harvest In the North-West is simply mar. venous. I cannot say how much I have been impressed by what.' have ween. There iaa great future behave you,and some day Canada will bo an enormously wealthy country ; mark my words. No, )hero will never be annexation with the Utii ted States. Canada does not want it, and the.. United States people, who are sensible,understand that it will nouer be an accomplished faot. Why, the Canadian Paciflo railway itself ie enough to make a gtoat future for any country. The scenery ie exquisite, and upequalled by anything I have seen 'any where, and I have travelled quite a little in my time,' The eggs of a orocodile aro scarcely ‘la than those of the gooao., COFFEE AND THE DIGESTION. Experiment.. 6nentN Indication That Two Favor- ite are L+1 r iso ., Injurious. N. To inveterate tea and coffee drinkers, soya the London Graphic, we would corn.. mondthestudy of some interesting experi- ments made reuantly by an eminent German scientist, Prof. Schutzsenetein, who has been investigating the effect on processes of digestion produoed by these beveragee. Por this purpose the Professor prepared an artifice.' gastric juice and mixed it with coagulated egg albumen, with and without additions of tea and cotes infusions. The results obtained are extremely tustructfve, for while the gastrin juice by itself was able to digoet 04 per oent. of the egg alba. men in the apnea of eight hours, when tea was added the proportion digested was reduced to 66 per oena, while, when a de. coetion of coffee was mixed with the albu• men, the gastric fluid was only able to digest 61 per cent., or lees than two thirds of the albumen. ,The digestive power of the gastrio juice appears to vary with the strength of the infusion, the disturbing effect being less when the solution of tea and coffee were weakened. The professor ie of the opinion that the deleterious effect produced is due to the tannin, which is extracted during the process of making,and not to the presence of thein and caffein, sad he mentions that tea, which has not been allowed to stand more than two or three minutes in less injurious, because a smaller quantity of this undesirable in- gredient,tannin, has been produced than when it ie boiled up or left in contact with the leaves fora considerable length of time. Bat it should be remembered that the weaker infusions, besides containing less tannin, also contain less of all the poison- ous properties contained in the tea leaf and coffee berry, and that it is not only the obnoxious tannin which is thus kept in subjection. beside each of the most thrifty hills and digging these firer. As potatoes are never dug until the tops have died down, it is impossible then to know by the vines which held their thrift longest. Of course, not all of the hill thus first chosen will be left et the .finish. The hill that is most thrifty one day may be at- tacked with blight, and its seed will be worth nothing for planting. But by bo• ginning early and weeding out the hills that fall behind, those that remain will produce weed that has this greatest vitality and will grow the strongest shoots th following season. This cannot be done if the 'ideation is left until the potatoes are ripe, By that time all of the tope will heve died and comparative vigorof each cannot be determined. If the boat hills and -the boob teed out of each hill were emoted for a series of years, the vigor and prolificacy of the potato Drop would bo greatly increased. Besides mare in choosing potatoes of vigorous stook, it le important that some regard ahould be hod to the potato itself, its ehapo, size and position of its eyes, Variety hrae moll to do with this, but. there are individual peouliaritiea,independ• ant of variety,whion affect the shape and. character of the potato. It ispoosible to change rho shape df a variety to a very. ooesiderable extent by careful selection of seed. hath eye of the tuber perpetuated in its growth the characteristics of the parent from which ib sprung, modified, it is tree, by the eiruumstanee0 under which the crop is grown. The large, rough', shaped and pronged tubers are generally produoed by fertilizing with an exceed of nitrogen. These shouldbe avoided in HER NECK WAS SPLINTERED. YOUNO Ud `!I O "' 9 S+. 14e4ping Win*. "Spool dug of jumping," said tori old seaman who .had been witching eomo boys playing leapfrog on the fiends, "' lot me tell you of the greatest jump ever seen. Ie was many yore age, whom 1 wee it little more than o lad, but I was bow oarsman on a whale boat belonging to the ship Henry Staples, We had bad look for several weeks, when one day wo sighted' it big whale, and two boats set off in a race to see who would gat thorn first. It was fairly smooth, what the sailors oall a• wbite•oap breozo, and our boats fairly Haw 0000 the water, Finally the whale rose, not opo hundred yards away, heading' direotly for us. The harpooner stood with, his iron already to throw, while we veep - ed our oars nervously properod to jump at the word stern all,' that nearly always came when a whale was harpooned. Not, a word was epokon, and .suddenly it mountain of black appeared ; it seemed to, Shut off the entire horizon, Up it went, until I distinctly saw a eevonty•foot whale ever twenty feet in the air hovering over 118,regain hie The mate was the first to reg senses, and gave the command 'stern all.' Just ea we were ready to spring overboard the boat shot back several feet, and the next second the gigantio animal dived into. the ocean, just grazing us, having nom• pletely passed over the boat in the biggest leap I ever hoard of." Such gigantio jumps are rare. A similar one woe recorded by Dr. Hall, who at rho time was a midshipman on the ship Leander. Tlrey, were lying in the harbor of Bermuda,. when all hands were attracted by the appearance of a very large whale that suddenly appeared in the harbor and seem- ed' very much alarmed by the shallow water, floundering aboab violently. ' The young -midshipman joineda boat's drew- that rewthat started in pursuit, and just as they were "about to strike the whale disappeared, sinking out of eight, leaving a deep whirl- pool, around whioh the boat shot.' Before it stopped up mane the whale, having in all probability struck the bottom, and went into the air like a rocket, "So complete was this enormous leap," eaya Dr. Hall, "that for an instant we eaw him fairly up in the air, in a horizontal position, at u distanoo of at least twenty perpendi• oular feet over our heads. While in hje progress g reeeupwards there was in his s PriII g dot a some tough of the vivacity with which trout or salmon shoats. out of the water, but he fell back again In these& like a huge log thrown on its broadside, and with suoh a thundering araeh as mado'ttll hands stare with astonishment, and the boldest held his breath fora time. Had the Nebel& taken his leap one minute sooner he would hove fallen plump on the boat;" Comparatively few people have seen a large whale, but we can imagine what an object an animal seventy feet lone and weighing as many tons would make flying through the air. Within a week of the writing of the present article I was drifting along the shores of Santa Catalina Island, California, when a. sixty -foot whale almost cleared the water about a thousand yar+is .from the boat. I was about to ask the boatman what rook it was,when the great head depended rind the tail rose into the air as the monster dived. Mr. Seorsby,tho famous whaler,cironioles a number of inoidonts of jumping among whales, some leaving the water completely and rising twenty or more feat into the air. But tire. Surgeons Performed all Operation and She Will Iteeever. That a broken neck can be treated with comparative certainty and dispatch has been illustrated by the surgical staff of a New York hospital. Mies McOully is the seventeen -year-old daughter of John V. McCully, a piano manufacturer. She lives with her aunt, Many inhabitants of the sea are good jumpers, and some* have become famous. Among them should be mentioned the tarpnou, or silver king, a huge fish with scalae that gleam like silver, which coned - tutu the famous game fish of Florida. Tho. leaps of this beautiful creature are often astonishing. Several years ago a steamer was rushing down the St. John's River. Tho Captain was sitting on the fore deck leaning against the pilot house, when Cud• denly there rose in the air a beautiful shining firm four feet in length. It came like an arrow and landed in the lap of the Captain as neatly as though it had been planed there. In Pacific waters the tuna, an ally of the horse mackerel, is noted for its leaps.. Sometimes a school sweeps up the coast, and the powerfulfish, often weighing 600 pounds, are seen in the air in every direc- tion. They aro like au arrow, turn grace- fully five or'six feet in the lir, and come down, keeping the waters for acres in a foam, and, if not the greatest jumper0,they are certainly the moat graceful of the loapere of the sea. Mrs. Anna Smith. Three weeks ago she paid a visit to another aunt, Mrs. Harris, of Jersey City Heights, where, a few days later, with the two children of Mrs. Barrie the visitor woo ewiuging in the veranda hammock, when it was overturned, and ire three 000upante were thrown heavily to the floor. It was a fall of only two feet, but the unfortunate girl struck with crushing force on the back of her head add lay un• couecioua. Examination showed that the nook was broken and splintered at the fifth vertebra, and to all appearances tho girl had but a fsw'hours to live. Within an hour of her arrival at the hospital' she wee on the operating table. The vertebra, whinh pre0eed against the spinal cord, was carefully removed, bit by bit. Her neck was securely bandaged in position before the elects (Atha anreathetio passed away, and with returning conscious. nem came the power' of motion and sense of feeling in the paralyzed limbs, The operation was a omen). Mies McCully ie improvingrapidly, and. will probably be able to leave the hospital in a month. Walnut lee Cream. An Object Lesson. The German Emperor has original idea on many things, He thinks that those of his people who live far away from ,the coastare at adisadvantage, inasmuch as whatever knowledge they may have of 'unitary progress, they onnnot but have vague ideas on what is being done in modern naval war tactics. He has had an ingenious model oonatruoted, measuring 13 feet by 2g feet, the upper part of which represents the deck of groat mob -of -war, Konig Wilhelm. Everything is complete —the rigging, a siren, a search light, a number of revolving guns, orioh capable' of firing twenty-six shots in sueeeeeian, flag. signalapparatus, lifeboats, etc. All these are operated by electricity. When a but- ton is proceed the signal lanterns begin to blaze, rockets are sent up, the beans of the search light flashes around and the guns go off. Oedore have been given for the construction of sixteen similar battle- ships for the purpose of giving the inland population .some practical ideas of the doings of the navy. The doe dream freezer is a peemanou fixture in ao many homes that moat house wives will be glad 40 know of ohofae deser thatts mode from frozen cream and walnuts. Creek and pick over enough note to make to pint of the meat, then pound them' into a paste, and mix with a quart of sweet cream, adding a little at a time. Make a boiled custard from a pint of milk and four eggs, add a cup of sugar when it thickens; then add the cream and walnuts, and freeze. It is a great convenience if a bag of stout burlap or sacking is kept in the house in which to crush toe, Littleness Often Rules. Mrs. Minks -Isn't ie queer that such a little bit of a country ae England oan' rule auolt a vast amount of territory? Mr. Minks—Well, I don't know. You're not very big yourself, my dear. A Morning Scare. Mrs. Blues (shaking her sleeping hue- band)—Wake up; quick 1 .Somothing it wrong 1 I'm afraul Otte bons° to un fire 1 Mr. Binge—El) What? Mrs. Binge—Something is wrong, only six o'clock,and the girl is up and down Bayles, • "Ever have . any trouble; with your wheel 1" " Not yet," said the Sweet Thing, " So fat' whenever I have run over anyone I have been able to get away before he got up."