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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1896-2-21, Page 2THE • VICAIT.S_..G.OVERNES 11IAPTa D, XX, might be in My society front Wile "till "There have beers bear's where friend- the day she dies without exPeeiees ing Blainova I a Pang, so far as 1 am concerned; Rhein thau its at once path sof' and a only stain yon have no intenttonwhat* over of doing so," grave.' If 704 1teeP on ea in that over end In the drawing -room he finds Clarissa over aain, 1 dare say i obeli want to !Sitting among innumereble spring of-' marry hag" " says Doi"•ian. "'There is ;Worm s. The whole place seems alive I dont know aliou" 'Apollo* or'Cricll- g 4 of flowers is ton, says Clarissa; but let her alone, with them, "The brae h tam' hof to'�ma1ry Aar, Ilastn s, len the air, Primroses and violets shine "Tho curate? says Dorian" for fire out from tiny Ftr 188a1I vases, and litter, second time to -day. baskets of pilo Be11ek aro hidden by) "Yes. Why should you be so amaz- glusterLng roses brought from the eon- ell 1=18 Ls very oharmmg, and I think oho likes hire. Ile is vary kind-hearted, servatory to make" sweet the sitting- and would make hex' )nappy; and she room of their. mistress, I doesn't like teaching, isyou have come," says ' I dont bslievq se likes Iiastinggs;" "1 am r1 alma h 1 si4gm Clarissa, rising with a smile to welcomehilaays Dorian; yet Ilia heart dies was he romemi:ets slow^ elle defended Qum, ea he come. up to hes. ".'The day him about his unlimited affection for was beginning to drag a little. Come the cup that. "cheers but Ire- inebriates," over here, and make yourself comfort- an love with the lanky young man ie "1 believe she does," says Clarissa. able," i "Can't you do something for me, Clar- "That will I, right willingly, }so it lssa?" says Dorian, with a rather strain- pleases you, madam," says Dorian, and Ed laugh: you ereevidently bent on straightway, sinking into the deslrainle making the entire county happy, yet B Y, na you ignore my case. Even when I set lounging -chair she has pointed out, nay heart .upon a woman, you instantly Makes himself thoroughly happy. marry her to the curate. i hate curates) in merirlyI They,, are so mild, •so inoffensive, so A low bright fire is burning abominabiy respectable. 111 is andsnt upon the rug a saow--white Persian eat criminal of you to insis n ha g sinks blinking; while Billy, the Ire& over to one of them that gay little terrier, whose head is bigger than his friend of yours with the yellow hair. body, and whose hair is of the shabbiest she will die of Hastings, in a month The very next time I have the good reclines gracefully upon an ottoman' fortune to find •her alone, I shall feel near, Clarissa, herself, is lying back it my duty to warn her off him." upon a cushioned chair, looking par-, le"Does anybody ls indwith thevertake rkown wishes?' titularly pretty, if a trifle indolent, 'says Clarissa• "You may warn her as "Nosy for your news," she say's, in you will.' the tone one adopts when expecting tocha'n't warn her at all," says be amused. I i)orIian. !when he has left Clarissa, and is on Dorian, lifting his arms, lays them be- his homeward way, this thought still bind his head. I haunts him. Can that pretty child be "I wonder if ever in all my use, I the long-tailed coat? She coat! No; it had any news," he says meditative) is unpossible! Yet, how sure Clarissa y• seemed) and of course women under - "After all, I begin to think I'm not stand each other, and perhaps Georgie much. Well, let me, see; would it be has been pouring confidences of tenderr news to say I met, and talked with, nature into her ears. This last very unpleasant idea, and helps to de and walked with your 'lassie w3' 'the capitate three unoffending primroses. lint -white locks'?" 1 Certainly she had defended that fellow "Georgie? You--. She was with very warmly (the curate is now "that me all the morning." fellow"), and had spoken of him as "So she Weld me." though she felt some keen interest in him. After all, what is it to him? "Ah! And how far did you go with (This somewhat savagely, and with the aid of a few more flowers.) If he was herr' Too the vicarage. As I had been there l in love with her, it would be another all the morning,I couldn't well go in thing; but as it is,-yes,lehaveas adv, How often people advised him again,- fact I felt and deplored." 1 to marry and settle dowel Well, hang "I am glad you walked back with it all, ha is surely as good to look at her," says Miss Pe ton; but she doesn't as the curate, and his position is better; 3 and only a few hours ago she bad ex - look glad. 1 hope you were nice to pressed a desire to ase something of her?" life. What would Arthur think M - Extremely nice, ask her if I wasn't. His thoughts change. Georgie's riante And our conversation was of Lite fresh-' lovely face fades into some deeper recess M- eet. We both thought it was the warm his heart, and a gaunt old figure, and est spring day we bad ever known, ' n face stern and disappointed, rises be - until we remembered last Thursday, and fore him, Ever since that day at Sar - then we agreed that was the warmest toris, when the handkerchief had been spring day we had ever known. And discovered, a coldness, a nameless but, then we thought spring was preferable stubborn shadow, had fallen between to summer. A.ud, then, that (Ass" lied- him and Iris uncle, -a shadow impossible mond would be very pretty if she to lift until some explanation be vouch - hadn't the cocked nolo. Don'lok so styled by the younger man. amazed" my dear Clarissa: wasSuch an explanation it Ls out of oto od expression, not mine, and Dorian's•power to give. The occurrence a very ggood one too, I think, We say altogether was unhappy, pPbut really a cocked hat; therefore, why not a cocked nose? And then we eyed all edu- nothing worthy of a violent quarrel. cation was a bore and a 'swindle, and Branscombe, as is his nature, pertxna- then--. Hose old is she, Clarissa?sight, iously refusing the whale affair out of sight, reefusing to let it trouble hill, except on such occasions as Who pres- ent, when it pushes itself upon him un - You mean Georgie? "Yee„ "Neither nineteen nor twenty." aware% and will not be suppressed.. "So much! Then T really think she is Horace has never bean to Pu11in ham the youngest -looking girl I ever met ate Pulling ham age. She looks more like sweet since the night of the ball, and his let - seventeen," ters to Clarissa have been many and "You think her pretty?" constant, so that Dorian's suspicions "Rather more than that; she reminds now, inve deed, e ibeizng sld ow me always al,1. summer ie Lauder.' to entertain evil thoughts of any one. Her ben ess the ucloud, I Ruth AnnersIey, too, -though plain - whereon s ll desirous of avoiding his society ever The dawning sun delights to rest his rays." mom his meeting with her in the shrub. And again, surely Apollo loves to I beries-seems happy and content, if d 'Play at hide-and-seek amid her gold-, very upot n heruu ex ect dl , hedhad en hairs." I been startled by an expression in her "Dorian, don't -don't make her un- eyes foreign to their usual !calm; it was haplpy," says Clarissa, blushing hotly. 1 aylook, half terrified, half defiant, and •1 wish I could," says Donna- He it hanted him for some time afterward, laughs as he spsaksi but there is truth Butthe remembrance of that faded, too,. hidden in his jesting tone. Ch, to and she never afterwards risked the !make her fee some hung, at cold in-, chance of a tete-a.-ttete with him. different child. „ No, no. I am. in earnest," says I Meantime, bliss Peyton's little no- ssa, herntoo much !attention anxiously. y11 o dont 1 mance about the Broughton -Hastings mean it," affair rather falls to bits. Geo ie, Perhaps Ido mean it," takingAdvantage of an afternoon flat "She is very young," -ignoring his secs is small ltedmonds on the road to last speech altogether. 'She is a per- sanjuvenilemakparty,ib g t,n the morni> g. feet bah in some ways, It isn't kind room runs to Clarissa and gives her a of My, i think," 1 dainty little bug. e " " h dear Miss Broughton what am I aidor, or Arent you gladI have coin ? she If 1 hand Miss 'would ken chair, eup says with the utmost naivete. "I'm of tea, her if she take another ' awfully glad. myself. The children have 7 reals is that `rnak'tnig her unhappy'? ,? all gone to the Dugdales', and so I am y begin to think that society is m3. oss n mistress," too moral for me. I shall give it up, 1 e and, betake myself to Salt Lake City,'", iAnd so you came to me," says Clar- sey You won't understand me," begins"Yes of course."she, sitting more upright, as though de -1 "And now, to make you happy," says sirous of argument; but he interrupts Clarissa, meditatively. her. l Don't take any thought about that. There you mistake 'me," he says, "My rc is lm an m already accomplished fact. I� mauves are quite pure. 7 am dying to am w.Lth you, and therefore I am Per-' understand you, only I can't. If you P I would try to be a, little more lucid, all,fec3£UhaPpou so seldom get a holiday, i would be, well; net why am 1 d,to - goes on Clarissa,' regretfully, which Ls a sat upon, acrd generally maltreated, be- little unfair, as the itedmonds are tbe cause I walked a mile or so with a easiest going people in the world, and friend of yours, is more than Z can have a sort of hankering after the grasp' " 1 giving of holidays and the encourage - I don't want to sit upon you," says melt of idleness generally. The vicar•, Clarissa, a little vexed. I indeed, is laden with a suppressed and Nol I dare say that chair is more carefully hidden theory that children comfortable." I should never do anything but laugh and T don't want anything, I merely ask you to be f Sh sit in the sun. In his heart of hearts care. e is very going few mon; she and if you per- he condemns all Sunday -schools, as and has seen, attentionsmay fall to making the most blessed day one of sist in your love with you." toil, and a wearying -of the flesh, to the. I little ones. "I wish to goodness she would," says. "Why --why," said he, once, in ae un- Brenscomhe; and then something in his guarded moment, bitterly repented of own mind strikes him, and be leans back afterward, forbid them their rest on in his chair, and laughs aloud. There is, the Sabbath day?" perhaps, more bitterness than mirth in 1 "What a pity the afternoon is so un - his laugh; yet lines Peyton hears 0111y, certain says Clarissa. We ;night have the mirth. "I hope she won't," she toys, severe -1g She goes no er on the window, and ly.Nothin would use me greater gazes disconsolately at the huge shin sorrow. Underneath ca erneath her childish man- trig drops that fling themselves heavily Wer .there lies a passionate amount of, against the panes, and on the leaves and feeling that once called bolo play, would flowers outside; while be impossible to shoeAmuse your- "Tbe thirsty earth soaks n7) the rain,I self elsewhere, Dorian, unless you mean And. drinks, and gapes for drink again." marry arry her,,' I cannot feel anything to be a pity "Well, why shouldn't I marry her?", to -day," says Georgie. "I, can feel says 'san. Dori ronly a sense of freedom. Clarissa, let us I •sea no reason why you sy houldn't. plaa gam° of battledora,attd shuttle - nothing like opposition for that kind of ma. 1 used to beat you at Brussels; thing• you go and tell a fellow be calf t try if you can beat tee now." and shan't* marry such -and -such a girl, Into the large hall they 7)o, and, arm - and ten to one he goes and does it ed with battledores, commence their directly," froIItther enrl'thither flies the little "Don't speak like that," says Cler- evhigy• te bird, backward and forward move Issas entreatingly; she is plainly un- the lithe figures of the girls. The game dietp yy is at Lts height; rt is just the tibsorbing LIke what? What nonsense you have moment, wheii 100 hes been delivered' been talking all this times Has it never and received, and returned, when occured to you that though, no doubt, Georkic, stopping short suddenly, cries I am endowed with many qealities above "Ohl" and '200 flutters to the ground. the average, still I am not en 'Adonis, Clarissa, who hi standing " with her or an 'Apollo,, or an Admirable Crich- back to the hall door, turns ulatinctively ton, or anything of that sort, and that toward it, and. sues Dorian Branscombe. it is probable your Miss Broughton "1 have disturbed you, I' have come in nit the wrong naelment?" asks that. yours man, feariinlly, dill yea kava gPoi)ed our getee, And we were ea well Into it. ''oux .sudden entranee startled Georgie, and elm mho - ed her aixn,' "I am very sorry m mere pr�sqnee elauld reduoe Afiae roughton to a state of fri Y 0718. sGpeakulg too QQlarihsl b41 looking. at eorg'q, ,. !ler arae is stili half 'raised, her color deep and glob, her eyes larger, darker 1haSS usual! the excitement of the game re still full upon Mir. As Dorian speaks, °reaps rou1d therm, and she looks earn- estly at him, es though to assure hien time she is making Klin a free present Of 11.-811 assurance that heightens her beauty,, to his mind, Gazing et her with open and sincere admiration, lib tesla himself that Nature might no more her child, ad- vance, "Your presence would not frighten me,” she says, shakin her Lead; but it was -I don't know what; I only know that I forgot myself for the moment and missed my aim, Now, that was hard, because we were so near our Sea - and hundred, Why did you not come a little sooner or a Tittle later? "Because a thoughtless animal is roan," quotes her his blue eyes full of contrition. And the door ° was wide open, and the picture before me put all other thoughts out of my head. I wish I was a girl! I should do nothing but play battledore and shuttlecock from morning 1111 night." Then, reproach* I fully. I think you might both shake 1 hands with me, 'especially as I can say , only bow d'ye do' and 'good-bye' in one breath; I am bound to meet Arthur at three precisely.". "What a comfort!" says Clarissa, de- voutly, "Then there is some faint chance we may be allowed to end our • afternoon in peaces "If there is one thing on earth for 1 which T have a keen admiration it is candor," says Branscembo; "I thank you, i Clarissa, for even this small touch of it, Miss Broughton,be candid top, and say u yo, at least, will regret me.," 'I shall," says Georgie, with decid- ed -and it must be confessed unex- pected -promptness. "Ila!" says Dorian, victoriously. "Now S aur content to go. A fig for your in- civility, Clarissa! At least I leave one true mourner behind," I Two," says Clarissa, relentingly, ( "Too late now; apology is useless! I Well, I'm off. Can I do anything for either' of you?" Yes; bring me up that little dog you promised me -one of Sancho's puppies." 'You shall have the very prettiest to- morrow, in spite of your ill treatment. And you, Miss Broughton, what can I do for your He is looking tenderly at the small childish face, framed in gold, that is gazing at hint smilingly from the die- 'tanee. Mee" she says, waking, as 'if from a reverie, with a faint blush. "Ohl give Ime my liberty." She says it jestingly, but with a somewhat sad shrug of her rounded shoulders, as she remembered 'the dismal sobool-room, and the re• straint that, however gentle, is hateful to her gay, petulant nature. Her smile dies, and tears creep into her eyes. •in another moment she is laughing again; but months go by before Dorian forgets the sad little petition and the longing glance that accompanied it, and the sigh khat was only half repressed. "I like Mr. Branscombe so much," says Georgie, a little later on when Dorian had disappeared. They Have forsaken their late game, and are now in Clarissa's own room, standing in a deep oriel window that overlooks the long sweep of avenue on one aide, and the parterre beneath where early spring flowers are gleaming wet with the ram that fell so heavily an hour ago. Beery one likes Dorian,' says Clar- issa, pleasantly; but without her usual warmth when speaking of Branscombe. He is a general favorite, and I think he knows Lt. He is like a spoiled child; he says what he likes to everyone, but nobody takes anything he says seri- ously." eri- ously. ' This friendly hint is utterly thrown away. Miss Broughton understood it not at alt. 'Y'et sometimes he looks quite grave, she says -"nearly as grave as Mr. Hast- ings when in his surplice, only not so solemn. That is all the difference. "I like Mr. Hastings' in his surplice," says Clarissa; "I think him very hand- some; don't you?" "Well -yes--. Only I wish las ears didn't stick out so much. Why do they? He always, somehow, makes me think. of MLdns." "But you like him," persists Clarissa, feeling, however, a little crestfallen. It doesn't sound promising, this allusion to Mr, Hastings' ears, "Ever so much, says Georgie, en- thusiastically; and really, you konw, he can't help his ears., After all how much worse a crooked eye would bel" "Of course, And his eyes are really beautiful. You are not in love with him are you?" nays Miss Georgie, with an amus- ed laugh; and again Clarissa's• hopes sink to No. Butzero, I am lad you are a friend of his. Does plan you?" Jeer lips par ,and a slowsweet smile "Yes, I think so; I am sum of it. Clarissa," -with hesitation, -"if I tell you something will you promise me faithfully not to tell it agent?" 1 promise faithfully, darling, if you wish it." It is something Mr. Hastings said to me last night, and though I was not told in Words to keep it a secret, still I think be would wish me to be silent about it for -for a while. There can't be any harm in confiding it to you, can there? You are such an old friend of both." (To De Continued,) SILK MADE PROM WOOD. This Is n.he Ind nsirlal rnenetaenen which. 16 Slid le Be Premised In France. Silk is about to be added to the list of things made from s,oed. A h'rencbman named Chardonnier first tried the ex- periment some years ago at Besancon, in France, and set up an elaborate plant in that town for the manufacture of silk, or, rather, an imitation of it, from wood fibre. Some fins specimens were made and exhibited. But it was found that the wood silk could not be woven in la a pieces, and the works were finally bandonad. Farther a eriments and discoveries havera t con been made,however and a comeany has been fored, which has taken the old Chardonnier plant. It is said they will be able to manufacture a product which will elotoly resemble silk from wood alone, which will be much cheaper than the real article, and which 1,µn be woven in large-sized ipieces. The pprocess of making is said to pe similar to that of nsanufacturing paper from wood. Tho wood is first ground into a pulp, steamed and chem. wally prepared. The method of weaving the pulp is the secret from which the inventors hope to reap a fortune. Why They Go. Impassiorted Orator -Why, is Lt that men rush to saloons for liquors Voice• -'Canso the grocery stores don't keep it, . , . AO.I ULTU, A 11IAINTAINING SOIL • FTIItTII.ITY The average f'ar'm le growing peorar. for the reason that while the owner hes been making'e living for his Wally and eceennulating, he has been doing se at the expense of the soil and only giving back to it about one-fte nth as mueh as ho has taxon off, Ile has been disregarding the law's of r0oiproolty and Connpeneetigrn, weigh cannot be violated without direful consequences, How shall be use his lana and return this other three-fourths. 'Tie is 'one of the most important problems In farming; and a want` of soil man59e- mentyl etthe reaeon so many farmers are toLllnrg hard and living in indigent mr- cumstances. Shall we go Into the mark - els and buy commercial fertilizers to make this three-fourths loss good? Then we must rob bur families. The only Practical way to maintain soils under all conditions is by tillage, ro- tation of crops and liberal fertilizing. There is no more creed for idle soil time of Idle men. Before fertilizers can be profitably used there are some condi- tions to be fulfilled. First among these aro the water conditions. Some soils contain fertility sufficient to produce good crops.bdt fail to do so, because the elements of fertility pre scaled in water. Neither the plant food already in the soil nor that applied can be used to advantage on land where stagnant seater rennalus witpin reach of plant roots, and where the free movement of. air is prevented. Good natural ar arti- ficial drainage is essential. The pur- pose of drainage is two fold; to get the excess of seater out of the soil and ad- mit of the access of air which is so im- portant in rendering available the plant food already in the soil. Some soils have in thee, the three very es- sential elements of plant growth, ni- trogen ,potash and phosphoric acid, but in such combinations and, se locked in the soil, that they are not available. Sueh soils need air slaked lime. Some- times black humus lands are so full of acidity that they will not produce a crop. Underdrainage, and lime will cor- rect this. On clay soils it is desirable to change tbe physical condition of the soil to prevent baking in dry weather and sinking in wet weather. Lime is one of the best substances for this tn. Gee, It should- be applied at the rate of two to ten pounds per acre, ac cording to the stiffness or acidity, The application may be repeated in six to ten years. Next Ln order comes tillage. As a rule our lands are not plowed deep,enough. The good effect of deep plowing and subsollina may not fully appear the first year, but will most certainly the following year. The ed - vantage arising from deep plowing subsoiling is that an increased amount he water after of soil is .ado porous. a heavy rain sinks, preventing wash- ing of the surface !soil. and admits plow- ing sooner after rain,and needed moist- ure is stored against 'the day of drought. If it is desired to have a grain crop on a given field every year (giving the soil rest by change of 'crop) follow corn with wheat, and on the wheat in the spring sow clover, then in the following sspPring plow the clover under and plant the corn again. Plant foods applied to lands may be divided into two classes; first, coarse manures, .such as clover, barnyard manure, straw,. peat, etc., second, concentrated manures, com- monly known as commercial fertilizers. Barnyard manures differ in value with the kind of feed, kind and amount of bedding ate. Horse manure with the same kind of feed is richer than cow manure and; the liquid is richer than the solid manure. Coarse manure con- tainsmore nitrogen than potash or phosphoric acid and also contains a Large amount of organic matter, which by decay produces the black matter in the soil called humus. Which is of the highest agricultural value for improv- ing the mechanism of the soil and also in preventing the loss of nitrogen in The effect of course manures ex- tend over a period of years, generally three Wei ten years, and differ from commercial fertilizers since their ef- fect 'is generally spent the first year. Unless stable manure is well kept it should be hauled out as made and spread upon the field es hauled. Of all coarse manures perhaps plover is the best. If the full crop is turned. un- der, or all the cut cropis fed upon the farm and returned in the form cif manu- factured manure to the field it will sup- ply all the nitorgen necessary for the crops, and ie must be remembered, nitrogen is the most expensive element of plant food. and absolutely essential to plant growth and development. But it must not be forgotten clover is a one-sided fertilizer, It adds no potash or pphosphoric acid. 1f we are not lib - eras in returning the clover to the soil and aiding it 'bythe use of straw, stalks and all the other manure we can procure and save upon the farm, we 1,4l1 find we are exhausting or have exhausted our soil to ,,the extent that it will .not produce a profitable crap. In this case we must go into the market and` buy commercial fertilizers in or- der to restore to the soil wanting ele- ments. But commercial fertilizers are expensive and see must know just what we want. If-wo aro not certain what the soil needs, it would be wise to snake experiments -with potash or phosphoric acid by themselves and also be 420m- bination.' We should know the demands of the crop we desire to raise, and Should apply fertilizers in such form as the crop will be able to readily use. Whenever possible depend upon clover and barnyard manure to supply nitro- gen. itro- to etant 71 la and�yeteincrea80 its fertility. But this demands good management and I, onetant. vigilance. HOME DAIRYING: One t'f the most satisfactoryways of ma king the home dairy pay, is by se- curing private , customers, writes a farmer's wife. If the dairy is simply an adjunct to, other farming operations this method of desposing of 'one's' dairy products often makes a good market for poultry and. surplus fruit and vege- tables; but one must be careful to make the butter -making a first consideration. The dairy work will, snot wait your pleaeure. Only the most painstaking of dairymen can retain a dainty pri- vate trade. Ther is no reason why the farmer's butter dnould not be a source of goodly income, yet as it is usually ) made it hardly pays; for making. Ten years ago when we Were trying to make a etart on the Teem we thought the, cows might be made to help out, but we were without experience. We were laughed at for relying svhollq upon' books to teach tui the art of butter - making. We desired a dairy room and duickly made. it of sod, plastering the irty wallsneatlyand arranging the north and south windows to an from the top. The south window was shaded s the door 'which opened to the east, We now 1)7086eded to improvise the ereamery we were too Ivor to buy, We built a hago box with deubie wiitlia, tlxc epee° between them beip filled with chaff. The bo;l was dividgod itlto three eauapartreents, one of winch• opened from the top, .the other two from the front, with double doors, �p m 7)n from the Who c�oanpartlnant that opened top ,syo act the "Milk (I neglected to say we lined each•cornpartment with gal van11rox0 wer, 'Wo used the tal804l roiund1)1r! cans10, anatd the tank held four of them, twenty gallons of !Wilk, The central space in that box was used 48 a refrigerator for the butter, and Cho end opposite the milk• for 100, so that eve 110ed not visit the !oe house, at each milkingg` time, Our mills was skim- lned at twelye 110070, allowed to sour SiLlghtlY, and then ejsurned, We churn- ed five tunes a weeKk, twenty Bounds of button at a ehurnhng. The butter 'Ives washed in a granular state, salted one ounce to the pond, aid set aside for a few hops when it was again worked, printed into neat pound' prints, wra - ped in cheese cloths„hnd placed rn tlxe refrigerator until wanted for delivery, We carried it to toren in a bed of Lee and it looked' nxuoh Mora tempting on a bot July day, than that which some of the farmers ladled 2rom 111811 jars with a spoon. We went from Louse to house leaving sample pounds of Who olden product wherever there was a golden of our securing 4ustom• In short time we t ould not supply the demand for our butter 'at 25 cents per pound for the winter months, and 20 cents in summer, There were occasiohs when butter brought more in the.mark- et than we had contracted for, but dur ing the greater part of the year butter was not worth, over 10 or 12 cents per pound. A fest/ of our customers avail- ed themselves of the cheap butter for cooking, but they were poen made to understand that our winter tbupply of butter Would ppot exceed that of the sumnier. An ice. house was quite as home-made as our other accessories, it being just a dug out, Our ice kept well but we had to use the greatest care in packing, creeping the blocks square so that they Might fit neatly and leave no air spaces. We took Dare that different members of the family did not go haekin+ about when a piece of ice svgs wanted. We gave agreat deal of attention to the ventilation of our ice house. We were 'quite success- ful with our dairy for eight years. Some of our first customers were with us until the pressure of other work, to- gether with the average hired man's distaste for milking, caused us to give up our customers and the butter'busi- LONDON'S 'BUS DRIVERS. They AreSald to Ino the (test la the world at dandling theltelns, The majority of the streets in London, at least those on which the principal traffic of the city proper centres, are narrow; and the navigating of the 'buses along these highways, which aro always crowded to distraction with every de- scription of vehicle, large and small, is a feat in driving which would turn the hair of an ordinary 'pus -driver gray in a day and drive hha crazy in a week. But his London prototype does not lose any sleep of nights worrying about it. To him the safe conduct of his ,'bus along his route is work of the most or- dinary kind. It is generally acknowledged. that these 'bus men, who undergo a course of long years of most careful training, arc, when put to it, the finest drivers in the world, but, at the same time, their revery -day task is made compara- tively easy for them by the punctilious observance of the rules of the road, practised by every Englishman who' drives in London, be he lord or 08111- 8001167. There is never tbe slightest trouble' caused by the misunderstanding of these rules by an, ignorant driver; the most ordinary costermonger who drives his little donkey cart in the crowded sec- tion of the city is perfectly familiar' with them. and never evinces the slightest inclination to rebel against their dictates by not pulling up out of the way when a. coach or four-in- hand signals its intention to drive by. The first time a stranger mounts the steep steps at the bac kof a 'bus and takes a seat on the roof for a ride along Fleet street or the Strand, or a trip down Cheapside, his attention is riveted for the greatest part of the journey and his breath frequently taken away in watching the manoeuvres of the 'bus driver. The way these men keep their horse under control and steer their clumsy vehicles in and out of the constant crush of wagons and all manner of vehicles Is exciting and wonderful, Look ahead of you and the street seems packed, with only a small opening which to the eye of the uninitiated appears scarcely wide enough for a 'bus to go through, and yet the driver goes ahead unhesitatingly, and, presto, change, in a minute you are through the crush, and have never even scraped the wheels of the wagon on either side of you. If, however, one of these wagons had suddenly turned into the narrow pass- ageway,through which you have passed, the driver bent on getting out before the 'bus, there would have been a crash and a smasbup, an accident which very likely would happen under similar eir nulnstiences a dozen times a day in an American city. But between the driv- ers of the wagons and the 'bus drivers, and all other drivers in London,,por- feot confidence exists, the 'bus driver, knowing that be has the right of way, going ahead without fear, while the driver of the cart or wagon, being fully aware that he must stand aside so that the lumbering public conveyance can go through, does so without a murmur of discontent at the few minutes of lost time which he is. bound to suffer, The Wise Tramp. Tramp -Please, ma'am, couldn't you spare rho a little - Housekeeper -Go right away from here,or I'll call the dog,youlazy,dirty-. lies, ma'am that's what I was about to remark. I'm travel stained from my long journey, and I wanted to ask if you couldn't spare me a little Soap, Soon? Soap? Mercy on me 1 Is the world coming to an end? Walk right in sir, and Stay to dinner. You're more than 'welcome. Foolish Women. Mr. Clubman (entering dining -room) -And so you couldn't be down town three hours without stopping to get a lunch?Cost thirty or forl;y cents, I'll be bound. It 'does boat all hose women throw away money, By the way, you; don't call this Supper, do you ? Mrs. C. -I suppose it is the best the new girl could get up on such short notice, Huh! Catch me silting down at that table. I'M going around to the club. ;f.IIAI UTARY X, I80,u SONE ODD II. PP TIIRS, PERE THINGS THAT 11AVR RD. PENTLY O10U11RRD. IOl'Wurleara ar the World -A Priest ll'elsen. ed -Tip pitrllati linnets Trade -'rho T!ilvrers4brow; 'Poa7esNr, e4Oe,nIls.-,ulAebeTrrlh*efo1k11I's4ltol;e: Germany has 00,000 breweries, Great B (.8,, 7'116 Unw only ritain (1,000 of000111088 factoriesited Solar. delightts.shg, The Bulgarians in Phanar, Constant!, nople, are now erecting a church, every h is rr sae The part prlostof of Wwhiooda, neof ar bnoide* Muebl, Prussia, has been poisoned by atrychuine put in the wine which ha drankfind11114 a4 massWhotn. Despalefite86178 all efforts un- tg remaiva dtrovergs4, L1 Berlin on week days all stores must remain elosed from 8 7),m. until 1 a.m, On Sundays they rertia10 07)818 from noon until 7p.m, At Dueren,, in the Palatinate, Ger- many,' a twentyawo-year-old girl was seized with the halluelnation that wase lia2 been predestined to die the death ofamartyr, 'To make quite sure of it seneshe saturated her clothes with, kero- set fire to them, and died after terrible agonies, At Vienna, Austria, a schoolboy,thlr- teen years old, banged himself because he expected demerit notes from his teacher. His brother cut him downust in time to save him from death. But he, is now living a living death' in a lunette asylum. A professor --a real professor -as Es - sling, Wurteniberg, has during . the past eighteen years, paid twenty fines 0f 15 marks each for refusing to have lits chiidrea vaccinated, lie bases bis objeotian somehow 0» roiigieus sora Ales, His children were vaccinated, t wove. Trade in Indian snakes is always lively, of course. Thousands are ship- pifd annually to foreign ports. Bur ing the past three months one mer- chant at Calcutta alone sent over 1,800 • abroad,: Some of the giant wrigglens exportedby him were over thirty feet • long, the longest ones going to the Berlin Zoological Garden. Alfred Stettenlieim, the well-known Gorman journalist, has been sentenced to pay a floe of. $00 marks for permit- ting or overlooking the remark pub - Imbed in hisournal that "it was on a Friday that Christ gave the last 'diner' to his disciples," It was held that the use of the French word 'diner' im- plied flippancy -punishable impiety.. At Latisana, Italy, seventy -year-old Rosa Starreili had long been feared and hated as a witch. Quite lately her nephew, Francesco di Lorenzo, believ- ing that he was bewitched by her, killed bar svith a botchob to rid him- self of the "spell," Wben he found the crime fastened upon himself he fled across the mountains into 'France. A rich wino merchant at Dresden owns a terrier which he values very highly. A short timo ago the dog be-, gen to mope and grow thin. Veterinary surgeons decided that an operation was necessary. Accordingly, they cut the canine's stomach open and there found arubber• ball whioh he had .swallowed two weeks before. Twelve days atter the removal of the supernumerary valve his dogship was himself agate. According to an old custom, in the Batch village of licitly]; the two church bells are rung, without intermission, day and night, from the 21st to the 25th of December every year. No reason is given for the custom, but so far all efforts tostop the maddening noise have proved futile. It has always been done, for centuries, end that settles it -now it must continue to be done through all eternity. Emperor William of Germany' rises at 5 o'clock every day. King Humbert of Italy, King Oscar of Sweden and Xing Karl of Roumaala leave their beds at 6 o'clock, and the Queen Regent of Spain is arrayed in full splendor at 7 o'clock. Queen Victoria of England never rises before 8 o'clock, and the Prince of 1Vales is still later. Everybody knows that a great many people consider it great fun to collect coins, postage stamps, etc. The latest in this line is the formation of a society at Munich, whioh has set to itself the soul elevating task of collecting the greatest possible variety of street -car tickets. 'A lone freak -a, banker in Wales - inn collecting of throoughndhicohnily- lustrious persons passed at some time or another, Tire English Captain Larrymore, 02 the Gold Coast police servioe, some time ago made a trip into tile interior of Africa, and now• reports that in a practically unexplored region, not yea far from Who Gold Coast, there lives a tribe of white cave -dwellers. All its members hove light hair and blue oyes; law - they. are very fearless and independent, and hesitate at no means to keep `in- truders off their,soil, having me regard for color or Intenational land -grabbing New Use for Horses, A 'Western genius has applied for a patent on a corn planter, which con- sists of two boxes attached to the fore- legs of a horse, just above the fetlocks, in which was the corn to be planted. Cerds passed over pulleys attached to a saddle, down to the hind legs, so that every time the horse stepped the tight- enin of the cord would open the boxes on the forelegs and some corn be shak- en into the holes made by the front feet. British and German Tars, The London Daily News publishes a despatch from Brussels saying that the crews of the German steamer Preussen and the British steamer'ilIatlnnore be- came involved in a dispute Saturday over the message recently sent by Em- peror William to President Esuger of the South African., Republic. Words soon led to blows, and the fight was rogressing'fiorooly when the police in- tervened and arrested .seyYerel of the combatants, Otte of the German sail- ors was so badly injured by the pound- ing he received that be islikely to die. Five -grain capsules of medicine were prescribed for a patient in Pocohontes County. Va, Reaching for them in Who dark, he grasped and swallowed two 32- e libro cartridges by mistake. No in- jury resulted, but for six 110nre he was very quiet and anxious. ..