The Brussels Post, 1895-11-1, Page 2TORIES OIF ADVENTTJR
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"Indeed, madame," said I. "y°u do u0
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then 'ie'o 1 aro its
loam xf i i Theo a te, l
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iaeepfeuue and Captain Tremeau; For m Y
calf, my name is Brigadier Oorerd, and 1
Iievo only to mention it to 008ure anycn°
v,lme bee heard of me ilial—•--,,
"Ole, yon villains I" ells interrupted.
'Yon think that bootie I am only a woman
1 am very easily to be hoodwinked 1' Yon
Admirable imposters I"
I looked at Deopionne, who had turned
white with sugee,eud at Tremeau,Who wan
tugging at hie mouetacbe.
"Madame," eaid I, coldly, "when the
Emperor did ua the boner to intrust us with
this mission; he gave me this amethyst ring
as a token, 1 had not thoughb that throe
honourable gentlemen would have needed
nob corroboration, but I on only confute
your unworthy suepiotons by planing it in
your bode."
She held it up in the light of the carriage
lamp, and the moat dreadful expression of
grief and of horror contorted her face.
"It ie hie," she soreamed,and then, "Oh,
my God, what have I done ? What have I
done ?",
I felt that something' terrible bad be.
fallen. "Quick, madame, quick 1" I cried.
e Give ue the papers 1"
" I hove already given they","
" Given them i To whom?"
"To three ofyoera."
" When ?"
"Within the balf.houc."
" Where are they ?"
" God help mo, 1 do not know. They
stopped the berline, and I heeded them
aver to them without hesitation, thinking
that they had come from the Emperor."
It was a thunder -clap. But those are
the momenta when 1 am at my finest.
" Yon remain here," said 1, to my eons-
radea. " If threehoreemen pate you, stop
thein at any hazard. The lady will
describe them to you. I will be with you
presently." One shake of the bridle, and
I was tilting into Fontainebleau as only
Violette could have parried rue. At the
palace I flung myself off, ruched up the
ebairs, brushed slide the lackeys who
would have stopped me, and pushed my
way into the Emperor's own cabinet, He
and Macdonald were busy with pencil and
compose over a chart. Be looked un with
an angry frown at sty sudden entry, but
}lie face changed colour when he saw that
it was I.
You can leave us, Marshal," said he,
and then, the instant thee the door was
closed : " What newt) about the papers?"
" They are gone," eaid I, and in a few
curb words I told him what had happened.
His face was calm, but I saw the compasses
quiver to his hand.
" You meet recover them, Gerard I" he
cried. "The destinies of my dynasty are
at stake,: Not a moment ie t0 be lost 1 To
borne, sir, t0 horse !"
" Who are they, sire?"
" I cannot tell. I am surrounded with
treason. But they will take them to Paris,
To whom should they carry them but to
the villain Talleyrand ? Yes, yes, they are
on the Paris road, and may yap be over-
taken, With the three beat mounts in my
stables and--"
I did not wait to hear the end of the
sentence I was already clattering down
the stair, I am sure that five minutes had
not passed before I was galloping Violette
out of the town with the bridle of one of
the Emperor's own Arab chargers in either
hand. They wished me to take three, but
I ahould have never dared to look my
Violette in the face again. I feel that the
spectacle must bave been superb when I
dashed up to •ny comrades and pulled the
horses on to their haunches in the moon.
light.
"leo one has passed ?"
" No one."
"Then they are on the Paris road.
Quick 1 lIp and after them 1"
They aid net take long, those good
soldiers. In a flash they were upon the
Emperor's horeee, and their own left
maacerleae by the roadside. Then away
we went upon our long chase, I in the
centre, Despienne upon my right, and
Tremeau a little behind, for he was the
heavier man. Heavens, how we galloped!
The twelve flying hoofs roared and roared
along the hard, smooth road. Poplars
and moan, black bars and silver streaks,
for mile after mile our eoumse lay along the
same chequered track, with our shadows
in front and our dust behind. We could
hear the rasping of bolts and the creaking
of shutters from the cottages as we.
thundered past thorn, but we were only
three dark blurs upon the road by the time
that the folk could look after us. Itwas
just striking midnight as: we raced into
Corbail ; but an ostler with a bucket in
either hand was throwing hie black shadow
across the golden fan which was oast from
the open door of the inn.
'! Three riders 1" I gasped. "Have
they passed?"
"I have just been watering their horses,"
,said he. "I ehould think they--"
"On, on, my friends 1" and away we
flew, striking fire from the oobblestonee of
the little town. A gendarme tried to atop
ue,but his voice was drowned by our rattle
s and clatter. The houses slid past, and we
were out on the country road again,and
with a clear twenty miles between our-
selves and Paris. How could they escape
ue, with the Enesthorses in Franca behind
them ? Nat one of the three had turned a
hair, but Violate IVO alWaye a head and
shoulders to the front. She woe going
within herself, too, and I knew by the
Spring of her that I had only to let her
stretch herself, and the Emperor's horses
would no the color of her tail.
"There they are I" °tied Despienne.
"We have them I" growled Tremeau.
"On, comrades, on 1" I shouted, °nee
more.
A Iong stretch of white road lay before
ue in the moonlight. Far away down it
we could see three °wailers, lying ler
upon their horses' necks, Every instant
they grew larger end clearer as we gained
upon them. I could see quite plainly that
the ewe npon either side were wrapped in
mantles and rode upon oboatnee home,
Whilst the man between them was dressed
In a ohaesene uniform and mounted upon a
grey. They were keeping abreast, bot
it was easy enough to see from the
Way in which he gathered hie legs for each
spring that the centre horse wee far the
fresher of the three. And the rider am
peered to be the leader of the party, fee we
continually saw the glint of his face in the
modnabine as he looked back to measure
the dicta
nae between ,ua, At fleet it was
Wily a glimmer, then it waseee moat with
a ineuetaoher and ae last when we began to
feel their duet la or t110811ts 100u1d give a
name to my man,
"Halt, Colonel de idontluo 1" leboubed.
"Halt, in theEnineror'a name 1"
I had 1rn0Wn hon for 'Yore 08 a daring
officer and an unprincipled resent ludeed,
there wee a 8001•e between us, tor- he had
shot my friend, Trevillo, et Warsaw, pull-
ing hie trigger, am some said, a goad :mooed
before the drop of the handkorohief,.
Well, the words wore berdly out of my
mouth when hie two eomraciee wheeled
round and fired their pietel8 at ua. I heard
Deepienne give a terrible cry, aped et the
mane instant bath 'Tremeau and.I let drive
at the 'same man, He fell forward with his
bande swinging on oath sltle of hie horae'a
neck. His comrade epureed onto Tremeau,
sabre in hand, and I heard the oraah whioh
comes when it strong cut is met by a
atronger parry, For my own pare I never
turned my head, but I touched Violette
with the spur for the Brat time and flew
after the leader. That be ehould leave his
comrades and fly was proof enough
that I ehould leave mine and follow.
He had gained a couple of hundred
paces, but the good little mare set that
right before we could have posed two
milestones. It was in vain that he epurred
and thrashed like is gunner driver on a salt
read. His hat flaw off with his exertions,
and his bald head gleamed in the moon-
shine. But do what he might, he still
heard the rattle of the hoofs growing
louder and louder behind him. I could
not have been twenty yarda from him, and
the shadow head was touching the shadow
haunch, when he turned with a curse in
hie saddle and emptied both his pistols,
one after the other, into Violette.
I have been wounded myself so often
I have to atop andthink before I can tell
you the exact number of times, I have been
bit by musket belle; by pistol bullets, and
by bursting shell, besides being pierced by
bayonet, Mace, sabre, and finally byabrad
awl, whioh was ate most painful of any. Vet
out of all thane injuries l have never known
the same deadly sickness as came over me
when I felt the poor, eilent,patientoreature,
whioh I had Dome to love more than any.
thing in the world except my mother and
theimperor, reel and stagger beneath me.
I pulled my second pistol Irom my holster
and fired point-blank between the fellow's
broad ehonldere. He slashed his borne
acmes : the flanks with hie whip, and for a
moment I thought thee I had missed him,
But then on the green of his ehasseur
jacket I sew au ever -widening black
smudge, and •he began to sway in his
saddle, very Blightly et first, but more and
more with every bound,entil at last over ho
went, with his foot naught in the stirrup
and hie shoulders thud-thud-thuding along
the road, until the drag was too much for
the tired horse, and I closed my hand upon
the foam-spatteredbridle-chain. Aol pulled
him up it eased the stirrup leather, and
the spurred heel clinked loudly as it fell.
" Your papers I" I cried, springing from
my eaddle. ' Tide instant 1"
But even as 1 said it the huddle of the
green body and the fantastic eprawl vi the
limb in the moonlight told me clearly'
enough that it was all with him. My
bullet passed through his heart, and it was.
only hie own iron will which had held him
so long in the saddle. Ile had lived hard,
this Montluo, and I will do him justice to
Bay that he died hard also.
Bup it was the papers—always the papers
—of whioh I thought. I opened hie tunic
and I felt in hie shirt. Tnen I searched
hie holsters and sabre.tasohe. Finally 1
dragged off his boots,and undid his horse's
girth so as to hunt under the saddle. There.
was net a nook or crevice which I did not
ransack. It was useless. They were not
upon him.
When this stunning blow came upon me
I could have eat down by the roadside and
wept. Fate seemed to be fighting against
me, and that is au enemy from whom even
a gallant hussar might not be ashamed to
flinch. I stood with my arm oyer the
neck of my poor wounded Violette, and I
tried to think it all out, that 7 might 1100
in the wisest way. I was aware that the
Emperor had no, great respect for my wits,
and I longed to show him that he had done
me an injustice. Montluo had not the
papers. And yet Montluo had eaorifieed"
his companions in order to make his escape.
I could make nothing of that. On the
other hand, in was clear that, if be had not
got them,one or other of hie comrades had.
One of them was certainly dead. The
other I had left fighting with Tremeau,
and if he escaped from the old swordsman
he had still to pass me. Clearly my work
lay behind me.
I hammered fresh charges into my pistols
after I had turned this over iu my head.
Then I put them back in the holsters, and
I examined my little mare, she: jerking her
head and necking her ears the while,as if to'
tell me that an old soldier like herself did
not make a fuss abouta scratch or two.
The first shot had merely grazed her off
shoulder, leaving a skin -mark, as Rohe had
brushed a wall. The second was more
serious, It had paned through the muscle
of her neck, hut already it ceased to
bleed. I reflected that if she weakened I
could mount Montluo'e grey, and mean-
while I led him along beside us, for he was
a fine horse, worth lateen hundred franca
at the least, and it seemed to me that no
one had a better right to him than I.
Well, I was all impatience now to get
bank to the others, and I had just given
Violette her head, when suddeul7 given
something glimmering in a field by the
roadside. It wilt the brasework upon the
charmer hat which had flown irom Monte.
lade bead ; and at the eight of it a thought
made me jump in the saddle. Haw could
that hat have flown off 2 ° With its weight;
would it not have simply dropped? And
here it lay fifteen paces from the roadway 1
Of course he mast havethrown it off when
he had made ante that I would overtake
him. And if he threw it off—f did not
stop to reason any more, but sprang from
the mare with my heart heating the pae.de
charge, Yea, it was all right this time.
There, in the crown of the het was stuffed
a roll of papers to a pat -ailment
wrapper, bound round with yellow
ribbon. I pulled it out with the one hand
and holding the hat in the other, I danced
for joy in the moonlight, The Emperor
would see that he had not made a mistake
when he Ott his affairs into the °harge of
Etienne Gerard.
I had a safe pocket' en the inside of my
tante just over my heart, where I kept a
few little thinga whioh were deer to rooted
into this I thrust my promo roll. Then
I sprang upon Violate, and was pushing
forward to see what had b000me of Tremeau,
when 1 saw a horseman riding across the
field to the distance. At the same ivatant I
heard the sound of hoofs approaching ma,
and therein the moonlight wee the Emperor
B 17 8
upon hie white ellergerr.dresaed in tie grey
overooltb and ills Hiroo•°0rirered hat, NOP
1 hall seen him mo often open the £ieldof
battle.
"Vire111" he need, in the eheep,aergeent.
Ma* way of ilio, " WIMP are my
paera?"
I sparred forwardand presented room
without a word, Ile broke the ribbon end
ran hie nye rapidly over them, Then, o
wo oaa our berm hoed to ball, he throw hie
left arae 001080 mo with hie hand open my.
ehouidor. Yea, my friends, ample as you
See me, I have boon embraced by my great
master,
Gerara," he cried, " you 808 8
marvel 1"
I did nob ivieh to oontradiot him, and dt
brought a fduoh of joy npon my ehaeko to
know that ho had donemo juatioe at h ob.
"Where le the thief, Gerard 1"" he Raked,
" Dead, bite,'
"you killed hint ?"
"He wounded my horse, airs, and would
bave cooped had I not shot him."
"Did you recognize .him ?"
"Do Montluo is hie nems, sire -0, Colonel
of Chaseeers."
"Tub," earl the Emperor, "We hove got
the poor pawn, the hand whioh plays the
game is still Dub of our reach," Ho oat in
silent thought for a little, with his chin
Dunk upon hie chest. "Ah; Talleyrand,
Tollayyrend, I heard him mutter. If I
had ben in your pingo and you in mina,
you would have crushed a viper when you
Bold ib under your heel. For five years I
have known you for what you are, and yet
I have let you live to sting me, Never
hind, my brave," he continued, -turning to
ata, there will come aday of reckoning far
everybody, and when i arrives, I promise
you that my friends will bo remembered ae
well a» my enemies,"
"Sire," eaid I, for I' had had time for
thought as well as he, "if your plane about
these papers have been carried to the ears
of your enemies, I trust that you do nob
think that lb was owing to any indiscretion
npradeson the part of myself or of my cam -
"It would be hardly reasonable for me to
do ao," be answered, "seeing that this
plot was hatched in Paris, and that you
only had your orders a few hours ago."
"Then bow--?"
"Enough," he oried, sternly,, "You
take an undue advantage of your position."
That was always the way with the
Emperor. $e would drab with yon as
with a friend and abrtther, and then when
he had wiled .you into forgetting the gulf
whioh lay between you, he wonld suddenly,'.
with a word or with a look, remind you
that it was as impassable ne ever. When I
have fondled' my old hound until he has
encouraged to paw my` knees, and I have'
then thrust Mtn down again, it has 'made
me think of the Emperor and his ways.
He reined his horse round, and I followed
him in silence and with a hooey heart.
13ut when he spoke again hie words were
enough to drive all thought of myself out
my mind.
'I could nob sleep until I knew how you
had fared," said: he. "I have paid a price
for my papers. There are not so many of
my old soldiers left that I can afford to
lose two in one night."
When be said two" it turned me cold.
"Colonel Despienne wan shot, sire," I
stammered.
"And Captain Tremeau cut down. Had
I been a few minutes earlier I might have
saved him, The other escaped amens the
fields.
I remembered that I had seen a horseman
amoment beforeIhad met the Emperor.
}Ie had taken to the fields to avoid me, but
if I had known, and Violotte been un-
wounded, the old soldier would not bave.,
gone unavenged. I was thinking sadly of
his sword -play, and wondering whether it
was his stiffening wrist which had been
fatal to him, when Napoleon spoke again.
"Yea, Brigadier," eaid he, "you are now
the only man who will know where these
papers are concealed."
It' must have been imagination, my
friends, but for an instant 1 may confess
that it seemed to me that there was a tone
in the Emperor's voice which was not alto-
gether one of Borrow. But the dark thought
had hardly time to form itself in my mind
before he let me see that I woe doing him
an injustice,
"Y es, I have paid a price for my papers,"
he eaid, and I heard them craokle as he
put hos hand up to his boot. "No man
has ever had more faithful servants—no
man since the beginning of the world."
As he spoke we came upon the scene of
the struggle. Colonel Deepienne' and the
man whom he had shot lay together some
dietanoe down the road, while their .horses
grazed contentedly beneath the poplars,
Captain Tremeau lay in front of us upon
his back, with his arms and lege stretched
out, and hie sabre broken short off in his
hand. His tunic was npon, and a huge
blood-olot-hung like a dark handkerchief
out of a alit in his white shirt. I could see
the. gleam of hie clenched teeth from under.
his immense moustache.
The Emperor sprang from his horse and
bent down over the dead man.
"He was with me ainee 1Zivoli," said he,
sadly. "Ho was ono of my old grumblers
in Egypt." °
And the voice brought the man book
from the dead. I saw hie eyehole shiver.
He twitched his arm, and moved the
sword -hilt a few inches. He was trying
to raise it in a salute. Then the mouth
opened, and the hilt' tinkled down on to
the ground.
"May we all die as gallantly,' said the
Emperor, as he rose, and from my heart I
added "Amen."'
There watt a farm within fifty yards of
where we were standing, and the farmer,
roused from his sleep by the clatter of
,hoofe and the, raoking of pistols, had
rushed out to the roadside. We ear him
now, dumb with fear and aotoniehment,
staring open-eyed at the Emperor. It
was to him that we committed the care of
the four dead men and, of the horses also.
For my own part, I thought it bast to leave
Violette with him and to take De Montlne's
grey with inn, for he could not refuse
togive me back my own mare, while there
might be dlmcultioe'aboet the other.
Besides, my little friend's wouifd had to
be considered, and we had a long return
ride before, us.
,TO Int CONTIIMED.)
Horseflesh for Cat Meat,
There ie a big butcher's shop in London
where they hill on an average 26,000 horeee
a year, or 500 a week. These 500 horses
are killed and cooked to make London cats
hanpeo The firm owning 'this immense
Bleu hter house of horses turns out 70 tone
ore meat week. There are 13,446
moils in a ton of horseflesh. Cats' meat le
always handed to the customer on a
skewer. Itis only a little piece of meat,
but ft takes a ton of wood cut up into
ekowers to provide for a single day e
oonsumpbion of eats' moat, No fewer than
182 tons of mooed are used every year in
reeking cats' moat skowers. The horseflesh
trade of London employs 30 wholesale
salesmen and over 1,000 retailels.
AGRICULTURAL
C8 10 or ldYCRWs In 9i ber,
Cows ehould be fed an good; comfortable
Oehler: end the arraujomenb of the feeding
mangers should be shell that each cow eau
have bar food by herself o Ghat ft will not
he putted away and atelon from herby
another ow, writes 0, F. 4lgodrioh, In
this way the feeder oan give eaoh now Pet
the quantity,he wishes and he will be able
to know just holy welt she eats her food
end how much elle ebbe. The praotioe of
throwing food of any hind 'out on the
ground a t any time for .08898 to drive and
(hose one another over, is always to 1i
condemned,
I thinkit best to feed three times a day,
and never feed at one time more than they
willeebupabonoo. `1'he feeder should wa1oh
his owe, and if one leaves et the time any
of her Mod Diebold be taken away and not
left before her, and next time feed a little
leas till he Sndo cub jnat her eapaaiby for eat"
ing, On the other hand,il aoow eatoall that
is given her quickly and from her mations
seems to need more, the should next time
be fed more.
For greatest profit cows ehould be fed to
the full extent of their ability to mummer
digest, and convert into milk the proper
kinds of food for mill, production, They
will consume more and do better if fed a
variety of foods eaoh day, They love a
variety just as all other animate, man
included. No man on be a good feeder
and obtain the highest and best results in
dairying oleo he studies the art of feed.
ing, end to do this he must love his 00880
and watch them while sating. He must
feel the same ]rind of desire topleaee them
and do the beat he oau for them by provid-
ing the right kind and quantity of food ae
a mother foals for her children when
providing food for. them.
The kinde of food that cows should have
depends upon circumstances -what we have
on the farm: and the cost of those foods we
have to buy—bub it certainly should be
pelota s'°, and an effort should be madeto
have enough protein food to make, in con"
notion with the cheaper and more carbon -
anemia food, a fairly.balanced ration, For
beet results somesudeulent fund is neeeesary,
such as ensilage or roots.
90 good a doily ration as Inver fed was
for 1,000 poond sows in, lull flow of milk,
an average of thirty poundsof well -eared
oorn ensilage, tenpounds of good °lover"'
bay, what dry oorn fodder aud'oat straw
they would eat, probably eighe or ten
pounds, five pounds of wheat bran, and five
pounds gluten meal. The protein in the
bran and gluten meal balanced the excess
of carbo -hydrates iu the corn food. Clover.
hay is a fairly well-balanced food for milk.
If the main part of the coarse fodder is
clover hay, it will do to feed more corn or
cern meal than if the coarse fodder is
Timothy hay and porn fodder. In the latter
ease it will not do to feed much corn.
Now, what I have been writing is s Dort
of general rule, but when we come to
practice we find that scarcely any two owe
should be fed exactly alike. Here ie where
the skill of the feeder comes in. He must
know each individual cow and het capacity
to make profitable use of food. Itis not.
profitable to feed dairy cows so as to make
then, fat beyond a good fair condition.' The
food Limb goes to produce fat is wastedas
far as dairy products are concerned..
Let me illustrate' how I would feed:
Suppose I had mixed hay and corn fodder
for roughage, and plenty of corn and oats
—cheap as they are this year. I would
have for the grain part of the ration ground
Dorn and oats and bran one-third each by
weight. Now, am number one eats up
her food readily, her, grain food being ton
pounds given in two feedings daily. She
glues a moderate mess of niilk, but is put-
ting on fat. I would reduce or entirely
leave out the corn in her feed and replace
it with bran, or, better still, gluten meal,
or, perhaps, part cotton seed meat. This
would, if she is aoow fit forthe doiry,ebop
the tendency to lay on fat andincrease the
flow of milk. Cow number two I feed the
regular ten pound ration, she eats it up
greedily' and gives a large mess of good
milk. 1 increase the rationto twelve
pounds, she eats it quickly and gives more
milk ; 1 increase it to fifteen pounds, she
still eats it upreadily and also eats alarge
amount .'of -coon fodder, Shele making
good use of her food,for with every increase
in food there is a corresponding increase in
milk ; but she is all the time losing flesh.
What thalll do'? This cannot long 'con-
tinue. If she is not fed differently she
will milk herself down to a skeleton and
then the milk flow must of ncoeeoity drop
orf or ale oanuot live. I will tell you what
I will do. I will feed her more Dorn meal
in place of same of the bran. I will change
the ration gradually till I get her so that
she oan hold bar own. Number two Is a
thin dairy ow such as the dairy man needs
to make his business profitable. Now it
will be seen why I say the feeder .must
become acquainted with his cows in order
to snake the most profit from them.
Whether' the ground food should be
fed wet or dry depends on circumstance.
If cows take all the water they need for
the production of milk (and it takes a good
deal of 10 without having it. mixed with
their food, then I eay feed it dry. Bot if
they have dry fodder aid are watered bet
once a day and have to drink ice water at
that, then I say they, do not take water
enough, and will do better to have their
food wet, and the wetter the better.
the animal's vitality and nooltea lb an easy
MAY for Msny 000lagiousdfesasoa 181,£81111
wolf+fed and healthy apimal would readily
rola. This bee been e'prominanh feeto
in ntakitig hog eholeritthe destreeel vo agent
that it hoe ser ipng beep. With the rouge
of clover Nana' for the mines and tomo
rime inthe groin ration, titin peat would
8004, close to be formidable..
PdgldsR MethOtle With Poultry.
The mothode whioh prevail in England
for growing poultry and their care vary so
widely from those iu vogue here that our
readers may find a0metbing to Internet
them fn following, gleaned from the writ.
inge of C. E. Brooke. Feed ehould be
mixed fraah for every meal, and fowls
should have only what they gab—leering
no09. Through the winter they are fed in
the morning with a hot moss of middlings
and barley meal, r From November to
March their midday meal ie boiled barley
and the later meal is wheat or maize..
Now and than fowls in confinement'slfould
have a froth plops of and at which to pick.
A Iibtle salt should be added to their
food now and thou, and 000asionally a
smell quantity of Epsom salts. Fort full
day after.ohibkenn aro batched they need
no food,and for the following week they
should be fed chapped boiled eggs and
soaked breed and milk, feeding them every
two hours for the first fortnight. For the
next two weeks they should have grits,
boiled rico, barley or potatoes, followed
later by bruised barley, wheat, or corn
meal, During ehiokenioodl four meale
daily are best. The mother ehould have
grain and meal. When molting, a slight
addition of cayenne pepper to the meal,
with memo hump seed now and then, and
an occasional .meal of minced raw onions
will be found advantageous. The midday
meal at all seasons should include some
green food, and when winter approaches
ehould include meat and fat, minced liver,
or horsaflesb. When fattening for market,
the fowls moat be kept sheltered. Mutton
fat, chopped fine and boiled with milk, is
desirable to add to the ground oatsor
buckwheat, and this is adminietored in
small deem.
NO MORE ALPINE CLIMBING.
Fourteen Lives Lost Last Summer he the
Treacherous Ace Fle1,le.
Alpine mountain elimbiug ie likely to
be prohibited on account of ha dangers, the
severity of whioh has recently been
emphasized by the finding of the body of
W. Beth, who Wa8 lost in the summer of
18'08.
The finding of Ruth's body brings the
known' Alp diobaebers of 1893 to the number
of fifty. The yearly average of persona
who foie their livee in Europe because of a
reckless passion for the climbing sport is
thirty.three. The last season fourteen
tourists died in the Alps by falling off
precipioee, an unusually large number, for
violent tumbles are among the less frequent
accidents peculiar to Alp climbing. the
devotees of which are more often threatened
by lightning, avalanohes, rain of atones,
high winds, enew•sterma, intense cold and
exhaustion followed by deathly, sleep and
famine.'
The relatives of these fourteen unfortun-
ates are clambering for special laws
prohibiting or ab least restricting this
DANGEROUS SF0110
which counts among its enthusiastic
supporters many dietinguiehed persons,
notably the Empress of Austria, the Queen
of Ityly, the Crown Princess Stephany and
her young daughter.
It. was reported from the Tyrol town of
Valeomatfnica that parte of the body of
Ruth, who two summers apo failed to
return from a tour over the 'resent pass
in the Adamello Alps, South Tyrol, had
been recovered in a mountain crevice at the
foot of the Pizgana Glacier. Ruth had
been a well-known character among the
Alp climbers in that neighborhood. He
was last seen in August, 1893, at the vil-
lage of Pinzols. He then informed the
innkeeper that he meant to travel to Polite
di Lego, the mountain mentioned above.'
Several guides _olTered their services, but
Mr. Ruth declined on the plea that he
knew the way, as indeed he did, being
familiar with every pass and precipice in
South Tyrol.
Hestarted in fine weather, but soon
afterwards it became fogey. As he had
notarrived at; Yonte di Lege° two days
later, many of the ' expert, guides
of the district went out in search
of him, dead or alive. - They were
unsuoceasful, and the probable fate of the
man, who was well liked among the
people, was discussed, not only, in the
neiglihorhood where he was supposed to
have died, but later
The Value of Wheat Feeding for
Hogs.
From many parts of the west we heat of
successful results of feeding wheat to
domestic animale. Ile value as a food for
oatble and horses, whether the whole grain
is fed or its by.producta,hao long been wel
known, and the preemie experience has
confirmed that knowledge. But the greatest
good likely to result from the eon crop
failure of 1804, and the eonsequeet use of
wheab in its place, will be the feeding of
wheat to swine, Its value here, when the
price makes it practicable, is incaloulable
We have fed too much corn. We have for
many years made this cereal the almost
e eluaive food of swine, and we have thus
brought on eevere punishment.: Exclusive
corn feeding to hogs has given its a rano o
domestic animals which are debilitated ab
birth, .No animal can be fed. on such a
highly carbonaceous food as corn without
beocming pphysbeally demoralised. Wo do
notthink thatfirst•dlaes pork was ever made
on soh a diet. Swine thus fed, when
slaughtered, always have More or lees
inflamed viscera, the reattit of impaired
health. L'erbane the greetoebharm resulting
frim Ude one•aidod diet fa that it impairs
ALT, OVEREURO10.:
Alp climbing had been a mania With him
for years and he had the reputation of a
fearless and, well•experieaoed tourist.
A few days ago, Bays a dispatch from
Valaomanniaa,; a ahamois hunter shot a
buck on the Pizgana Glaciers. and the body
of the animal happened to fall into a deep
crevice. The aid of some herdsmen' was
Molted to recover it and one of them let
himself down into the crevice on ropes. Be
found the careen at the bottom of the rent
at the side of what appeared to be a human
skeleton. Some remnants of clothing be
gathered up and ,brought to light. The
head had been well preserved in its icy
inclesure and was recognized as that of
Ruth, the likeness being reinforced by the
identity of the clothing which he was known
to have worn.
The supposition is that the tourist lost
his way iu the fog and happened to strike
the dangerous paths of Lagosouro, leading
to the ice fielde of Pizgane, instead of the
path of Presena. From there he was pre-
ofpitated into the deadly depths below.
Bricks Outlast Stone.
many persona think that bricks are nob
so durable 0e other buildrngmateriale, This
impre0eion is the very reverse of the truth,
No material is so durable as well made
brinks. Bricks in the•mueeum in London,
taken from buiidioge in Nineveh and
Babylon, show no Signs of decay or digin.
tegration; although the ancients did not
burn or bake them,but dried them in the
sun. The baths of Oaraoalla, the baths el
Tito, and the thermae:of Diooletian,have,
withstood the injuries of time ter better
than the atone of the Colieeum, or the mar-
ble of the Forum. The briaks of the bathe
of Cannella, did nob Very favorably impprens
the mind of an heireoe from the great West
who exelaimod when the beheld them.
"Gond great:eta, old bricks, and all falling
down, too,I Why.; thoughb it would be
as fine as any marble, building in Chicago.
If this is the bathe of Caracalia, I don't
caro to see it. Let's go look at something
else 1"
rim 1, 1805,
comnizitia n_T ry p1IJJA
lY Ui4.,9 iJ�
EDW TO ADJUST THE PQPULATIQN
OF THP 'BNZI'3SH UMP11U1.
erne( a Lerittoit Writer Saye shout Ano
11eee1ircee or the Abmutniooe Mill
Terence to X'eve,•ty In 81lgtttnti.
0. correspondent sonde tole Meter to the
London (England) Times: Ole °£ the
oedheg dltrioulblce in the way of colonize
Non ie the fear of its metier; on or British-
agrioulture., We all ohriuk from the
spectacle of a ruined induebry so el0sely
aa000lato4 with the national wolfere, ° The
time has ootne for a breeder view of the
f hole eitnation. It sme oof us appear
enatics in our colonization zeal it is not
that eve are the leen ardently Britiah. We
are eimply l&ritone in, the .larger sense of
the word, whioh includes and trousoends
the Londoner, the. Brlbish Isles man, the
Canadian, and the New Zealander—citizens-
not of this island, but of the empire.
Our position is this.Greater Britain for
Great Britain, What is the proper relation
of these British Isles,with their verylimlted:
arca, to the practically limitless areae of
the " regions beyond" owing allegiance to'
the British flag? We see fn our colonies
infinite possibilities and exbauetleee re
800000,, and We hold Strongly to the
conviction that all this magnificent pros.,
peetive wealth isthe heritage of every
oubjeot of the realm.
88M TItIl OF ADTUSTOIENT.
The question of colonization, therefore,•
resolves itself into the Imperial one of
adjustment of population to area, At,
present we see only m the crowding of forty.
millions of people on these Britiah Isles a -
ruinous waste of themoat valuable thing in.
the world—labour. The indirect eviler are
°lironie discontent, large fatnilied men in
despair, capital lying id le, and Governmepts•
at their wits' end to 0801517 the clamorous
Mations, and within a fortnight's journey,
by sea and reit there are hundteds of
milbona of aoree of fertile land literally
crying afe for some one to come and tap,'
their infinite resources.
OA1AC1TIFa OF OANADA. ...
Tarte the Canadian Dominion in illustra-
tfon. Do sbay-ab-home Britone ever
that in its area of 3,900,000 square
miles we have a part of the British Empire
more than a million square miles larger
than the whole of European Russia ? And
Its capacities for support of population 1
Is it at all adequately realized that one
part of it only, the great belt of the
North-west, extending from the city of
Winnipeg on the east to the foot of the
bills of the Rooky' Mountains, a dletanao
of about 920 miles, and from the 49th
parallel of latitude north to the watershed
of the: North Saskatchewan,an average
distance of 330 miles, embracing an area,
of 122,000 square miles, or 200,080,000'
acres, is, as regards-two.thirde of it, tun-
able of producing the fluent wheat in the
world, while the other third is admirably
adapted for stook raising and dairy farm-
ing 2 I have no wish to strike terror into
the hearts of British farmers, but I
would like to save them from illuaions.
No Government that England will ever
have eau save them from the logical results,
of such competition, and no legislative
enaotmentswill prevontthe ever-increasing
supply of the produce from this vast
storehouse from reaching our shores,
8089 TO FIND RELIEF.
Startling is the latent fact of British
enterprise,; a project for reducing by many
hundreds of miles the distance betweeu
this immense produce district and the
Britiah market. The "Proposed Hudson
Bay and-Poniflc Railway and Steamship
Route" will place Winnipeg 370 miles:
nearer Liverpool than the present route,
and, of dooms, proportionately reduce the
Cost of transit.
Here is cause for pause in the British
farmers outcry for Government relief. It
is simply crying for the moon. If, by an
irreversible- law, water will Sndits level,
so will food. Sur forty million mouths
have to be fed, and there, within a fort.
night's journey, is an exhaustless supply of
food. The statesman who ventured to
place any obstacle between the hungry
millions and those teemingresources mould
deserve to be hung on a gallows as high as
Haman's and would probably hang there.
on.. .
This is plain epeech, but it is only euoh
speech se. Lord Salisbury will sooner or
later feel called upon to address to this
Britieh farmers and their landlords.
What, then,, ie the distraught home pro-
ducer to do under .the circumstances ? I
reply, go with your experience and enter-
priae,aod be a oo-worker with the Almighty
in developing to the uttermost His
magnificent provision for Hie great family's
support.
DEATH IN ITS SECRET..
AwrnI..neetrnativeneec of Fulminate or
Mercury, the Powerful Ex5loaly° Shied
hi Animaters' Bombs.
Fulminate of mercury, which is used by
European Anarchists in the manufacture of
their bombe, is ane of the meet treacherous'
and powerful expiosives known to science.
Heretofore it has been,empluyed in pet-
cueeion caps and as a detonator for nitro-
glycerine preparations. Ib explodes when•
sableoted so a alight shook or to heat, and
riot a few expert chemists eines' its English:
inventor, Howard, have been seriously in-
jured or killed while preparing or expert,
malting with it.
In France aome years ago the celebrated
chemist, Barrual, was manipulating this
dangerous produotin a heavy agate mortar
when hie attention waa distracted and he
let the pestle down with a little less Mare
than ordinary.. The explosion whioh
followed almost literally blew the mortar
to dust, and ib tore Barruel'e hand from his
wrist, Another distinguished °hamlet,
Benet, was blinded and had both hands
torn off while experimenting with tannin.,
ate of mercury. Justin Leroy, is French
expert in the manufacture of explosives,
Was one day engaged in experitnenting
with this compound in a damp state, in
whioh condition it was supposed to bo
harmless, It exploded with euoh force,
however, tnab nothing of M. Leroy, that
was recognizable, oould afterwards be
found.
An Engifsh ''chemist named Hennell,
while manufaoturing a shell for military
use, into the composition of whioh fulmin-
ate: of mercury entered, wee also blown
literally to atoms, and the fragments 61
the building theta ho was oouduetiegg hie
experiments were shattered for hundreds
of foe In every direr/tient