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Or, A Clyster9calus Affair.
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. • 011APTkllt X,-(0ont'd)
"Gabriel 8ay8 that she bee -explained to
Volt that the governor is alwaysa changed
wan after thio parte*Mier date, on which
his Pears reach a oriels. Ile apparentlY
Iles more reason than usual thin 7080 to
anticipate that trouble to brewing for this
unfortunate family, for, I have never
known him to take so many elaborate
precauttons +,r appear 00 thoroughly un.
nerved, Who would ever think, to see Ills
Meet form and shaking hands, 411gt he
is the same matt who used bone few
short year'a 4441 to ehcot Vora on foot
among the Jungles of .the Berea. and
would laugh at the more timid 8401.40,
men who. 8n041lt the protection of their
elephant's howdah? You knew that be.
has: the victoria Oroes, which he won in
the streets of Delhi, and yet here he is
shivering with terror and startling a4
every noise, in the most peaceful corner
of the world. Ob, the pity of 11, West'
Remember what I have already told You
•that. it' is no fanciful or imaginary
peril, but one whioli we have every roe -
eon • to suppose eo be most real. It is,
however, of such a nature that it can
neither be averted nor can it profitebly
beexpressed in words. If all goes well,
You will sed us - at Branksome cm the
6th, With our fondest love to both of
you,. I ant ever, my dear friends, your
attached ffiondaunt"
This letter was a great relief to ue as
letting lie know that the brother and sis-
ter are under no phyeioal restraint; but
our pOwerleeeneSs and inability even to.
comprehoud what the -danger was whop
threatened those whom we had Como to
love better than ourselves was little sbort
of maddening. Fifty times a day we ask-
ed ouoeelvee :and asked each, other .from
what pcesible quarter this peril was to
be expected; but the more we thought -
of it the more hopeless did any solution
mppear, In vain we combined our experi-
ences and pieced together every word
which had fallen from the lips of any in -
mote of Cloomber which might be sum
posed to bear directly or indirectly Up.
on the subject. At last. weary with
fruitless epeculati011, we were fain to try
and drive the matter from our thoughts
consoling oureelvee with the reflootion
that in a few more days all restrictions
would be removed, and we should be able
to learn from our friends' own lips. Those
few intervening days, however, would,
we feared, be dreary long ones. And so
they would, had it not been for a new
and mostunexpected incident, which di-
verted oar minds from our own troublee
and gave them something fresh with:
'which to occupy themselves..•
CHAPTER XI.
Ootober had broken auepirioue]y with a.
bright suit and a cloudless Sky. There
had in the morniug been a slight breeze,
and a few little white wreathe of vapor
drifted hero and there like the seattored
feathers. of some gigantic bird: but as
the day wore on, such wind as there was
1011 completely away and the air be-
came close and stagnant. The sun blazed
down with a degree of heat which was
remarkable so late in the sensor, and
a shimmering haze lay upon the upland
moors and concealed the Diet mountains
on the other side of the Channel. The
607, itself rose and fell in a long, beavy,
oily roll, sweeping elowly landward, and
breaking sullenly with a dull, monoton-
ous booming upon the rock -girt shore. To
the inexperienced all seemed- calm and
peaceful, but to those who are aconstomed
to read nature's warnings there was e
dark menace in air and sky and sea.
My eietor and I walked out in the after-
noon, sauntering slowly along the mar-
gin of the great sandy spit which shoots
out into the Irish Sea, flanking upon One
side the magnificent Bay of Luce, and on
the other -the more obscure inlet of Kirk -
maiden, on the shores of which the
Braukaome property is situated. It was
too sultry to go far; so we 60011 seated
ourselves upon one of the sandy hillocks,
overgrown with faded grasetufte, which
extended along the coast lino, and which
from nature's dykes against the en-
croachment of the ocean, Our rest wee
soon interrupted by the scrunching of
heavy boots- upon the shingle: and ;ramie.
son, the old man•*"war's-man whom I
have already had occasion 10 mention,.
made his appearance, with the Bat Cir.
cular net upon his baok which he loved
for shrimp catching. lie came toward us
upon seeing ue, and said in hie rough,
kindly way that he hoped we would not
take it amiss if he sent us up a Melt cf
shrimps for our tea at Branksome. I
aye make a good catch before a storm,"
be remarked. •
"You think there is going to be a•starm,
then?" I asked. .
"Why, even a marine could 800 that,"
he answered. sticking a great wedge of
tobacco into hie Cheek. "The moors over
near Cloomber are just white wi' guile and
kittiewakes. What d'ye think they come
ashore for except to escape having all
the feathers blown out o' them? I mind
a day like this wheu I was wi' Charlie
Napier off Cronstadt. It wellnigh blew
us under the guns othe forte, for all
our engines and propellers."
"Have you ever known a wreck in these
parts?' I asked.
"Lord love ye, sir, it's a famous place
for wrecks. Why, in that very bay down
there two o' Bing Philip's best -rates thine
dored 1)i' all hands in the days 0' the
8paniab war, If that sheet o' mates and
the Bay o' Luce round the corner Could
tell their ane tale tbey'd have it gey lot
to speak of. When the Jedgment Day
tomes round that water will be just
bubbling wi' the number o' Polka tbat will
be coming up frau the bottom."
"I trust that there will be no wrecks
while we aro bere," said Esther earneet-
1 The old man shook his grizzled head and
looked distrustfully at the hazy horizon.
If it blows from the went," he said, "some
o' these sailing ships may and it no joke
to be caught without sea room in the
Nortb Channel. There's that bark out
there—.I daresay her maieter would' be
glad enough to find himsel' eaf0 in the
()leas."
"She seems to be absolutely motion.
lose," I remarked, looking at the veoeel
in question, whose black hull and gleam-
ing sails roes and fell slowly with the
throbbing of the giant pulse beneath her.
Perhaps. Jamieson, we are wrong, and
• there will be no storm after all."
The old eviler chuckled to himself with
en air of superior knowledge, and Aut
fled away With Ills shrimp net while my
slater and I walked- slowly homeward.
through the hot andstagnant air. I went
up to my 14tber'e study to eco if the. old
.gentleman had any ine1reetione as 4o the
*state, for he had become .engro0e*d in a
mew work upon Oriental literature, and
the praotieal management of the pro.
perty had in consequence devolved entire.
ly u4on me, -
I found hint seated at his econ re lib -
Outing Shoes
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racy table, whioli was so heaped 1011)1
books and papers that 'nothing of him
Wee visible from the door exempt a tuft'
of white hair, "Aly dear eon" he said to ,
lee as I entered, it 1e a great grief to I
me that you are not More couver est with
Sanecrit, when I was Your age 1 eo111d
converse not only in that noble language,
but also in the Tumuli°, Loltitio, Gauge -
lie, Vale, 110(1 N:alalo dialects, which aro
all offshoots from the Turanian branch."
"I regret extrcmene, sir," 1 aas4ered,
"that I have not inherited your wonder-,
ful taIe as a polyglot"
"I have set myself a •took;" he captained,
"which if it could only bo continued from
generation to geueratiou in 031r Ova fam-
ily until it Iran completed, would make
the' name o4 \Peat immortal. Tbie is no-
thing less than to publish au Euglfell
translation of the Buddhist Ddarmus with
a preface giving an idea of the position
of Brahminism before the doming of lIa.
kymmuni. With diligence it is pooeiblol
that I might be able myself to complete
part of the preface. before I die;'
"And .pray, air," I asked, "how long
would the wholes -work be whey. it was
flniehed?"
"The abridged edition In the 'amorist
Library of Pekin," said my father, rub-
bing his hands together, "consists of 325
volumes of an 400rage weight of five
.pounds. Then the preface, which must
embrace some account of the Rig-veda,
the -llama-vola, the Yagnr-vada and the
Atharva-veda, with the Brellmanaa, could
hardly -be completed in less than ten vol-
umes. Now if we apportion ane volume
to each year there le every preepeot of
the family coming to an end of its task
about the date 2760, the twelfth goners'•
tion completing the work, while the thir-
teenthmight occupy itself upon the in.
dex."
"And how are our descendants to live,
sir," .I asked with a spills, "during the
progress of this great undertaking?"
"That's the worst of you. Jack," my fa-
ther cried petulantly. "There is nothing
practical about you. Instead ofconfining
your attention to the working out of my
noble scheme, you begin raieing all sorts
of absurd obiectione, It is a mere matter
of detail. bow our descendants live, so long
as they stick to the Djttrmaa. Now I want
Mc-
Donald co. up
see the
the fthatch, and
\vlllie Fullerton has written to say that
his m11k.cow ]e batt. You alight look in
upon your way and ask after it"
I started off neon my errands, but bo -
fore doing so I took a look at the baro-
meter upon the wall. The mercury had
sunk to the phenomenal point of twenty-
eight inches. Clearly the old sailor had
not been wrong 111 his interpretation of
nature's signs. As I returned over the
moors in the evening the wind was blow•
ing in short angry puffs, and the western
horizon was heaped with sombre clouds.
which stretched their long ragged ten-
tacles right y.4 to the zenith. Againot
their dark background one or two livid
sulpbur colored splotches showed up ma-
lignant and menacing, while the surface
of the sea had changed from the appear-
ance of bureiohed quicksilver to that of
ground glees. A low moaning sound rose
up from the ocean as if it knew that
trouble wee in More for it. Far out in
the Channel I saw a single panting, eager
steam vee0el making its way to Belfast
Lough, and the large bark which I had
observed in the morning still beating
about in the offing, endeavoring to pass to
tho northward. At nine o'clock a sharp
breeze was blowing; at ton it had fresh-
ened into a gale: and betore midnight the
most furious storm was raging which I
can remember upon the weather beaten
coast,
I sat for some time in our small oak -
paneled sitting -room listening to the
aoreeobing and bowling of the .blast and
to the rattle of the gravel and pebbles as
they pattered against the window. Na-
ture's grim orchestra was playing its
norldeed piece with a compass which
rntlged from the deep diapason of the
thundering-• surge to the titin shriek of
the scattered shingle and the keau pip-
ing of frightened sea birds. Once for an
instant I opened the lattice window, but
a gust 01 wind and rain came bluster-
ing through, bearing with it a great skeet
of ecu. -weed, which flapped -down upon the
table. It was all I oollld do to close it
again lu She face of the blast. B1y sister
and my father had retired to their romne,
but my thoughts were too active for
sloop, so I continued to sit and smoke by
the smoldering fire. What was going on
in the hall now, I wondered? what did
Gabriel think of the sterna and how did
it effect the old man who wandered about
in the night? Did he welcome these dread
forces of nature as being of the 001110 or-
der of things as hie own tumultuous
thoughts? It was only four days now
from the date which I bad been assured
was to mark a crisis in hie fortune.
Would he regard this sudden tempest es
being in any way connected with the
mysterious fate which threatened him?
Over all these things and many more T
pondered as I oat by the glowing emboro
until they died gradually out, and the
chili eight air warned mo that it was '
time to retire.
I may have slept a eouplo of .hours when
I was awoke by some one tugging furiouo-
ly at my shoulder. Sitting up 111 bed,
I saw by the dim light that my father
' was standing halt clad by any bedside,
and that it was ilia grasp which I felt on
• inn' nightshirt.
flet up, Jack, got np I" he wee crying
excitedly. 'There's a great ship ashore in
the bay, and the poor folk will all be
drowned. Come down, my boy, and let
UR see what we can do." The good old
Ulan seemed to be nearly beside himself •
with excitement 8311 impatience.
I sprang from my bed, and wee huddling
on a few clothe*, When a dull booming
sound made itself heard above the howl-
ing of the wind and the thunder Of the
immature -.
"There it is again!" cried my father.
"It lo their signal gun, poor 0reetnres1
Jamieson and the flollormen are below. Put
your nilekin cont On and the Glengarry
bat, Come, come, every almond maY mean
a human lifer" We hurried down to-
gotber -and made our way to the beach,
accompanied by a dozen or eo of the in-
habitants of Branksomo.
Tho gale had increased rather than mod-
erated, and the wend screamed all round
us with am infernal clamor. So great wee
its force that we •had to pat our (11001dere
egain81 it, a114 bore Our 1)47 through it,
while the sand and gravel tingled up
`against our Woe. There weft snot light
enough to make out the scudding (needs
and the white- gleam of the breaker*, but
beyond that all was absolute enriches's.
We stead an111e deep in the ebnglo and
Seaweed, e1ading our eyes with our hands
and peering out into the" inky ebeourit0.
It seemed to me as 1'iistened that I weld
hear human voieee 101x1 in entreaty and
terror, but amid the wild „turmoil of mar
tare it wee (lifermit st,o atetlnswtah ere;
sound from an,.,,,1 1 ud 8 ^, 1,0
A. 'light glimm6rod in 1.116 hen n° the
S d 1 however,
lei
The °r' ry of Stovassang
Last year its Sales
increased over those
of time ISeael�dOOLIS year
by almost i 6rbr ildecsa
and n Quarter
Appreciation is they final
nest of merit. ' 001
Sint+ 0 Finned and Green.
petulant tuft et foam here and there up00
their *rests. Each as it reached the broad
circle of unnatural light appeared to ga-
ther etrongth and volume and to hurry on
more Impetuously until with a roar and
a jarring crash it sprang upon its vie.
tim, Clinging to the weather eiuoude we
could distinctly see ten or a dozen fright-
ened seamen, who when the light revealed
our presence turned their white faces to-
ward ue and waved their hands implor-
ingly. The poor wretches had evidently
taken fresh 11040. from our presence,
though it wee clear that their own boats
bad either been washed away or so dam-
aged ae t render them useless.
The 001101)0 who clung to tbo rigging
were not, however, the only unfortunates
aboard. On'thobreakfng poop there stood
three men who appeared to be both of a
different -thee and nature from the cow.
ering wretches who implored our assist-
ance. Leaning upon the shattered tall-
rail they Beamed to be conversing together
as quietly and unconcernedly ae though
they were unconscious of the deadly peril
which surrounded them. As the signal
light flickered over them we could see
from tho shore that these immutable
elrangere wore rod fazes, and that their
facee were all of a swarthy, large featured
type, which proclaimed an, Eastern origin.
Thorn was little time, however, for us to
take note of ascii details. The ship was
breaking rapidly, and some effort must
be made to save the poor sodden group of
humanity who implored our assistance.
Tiro nearest lifeboat was in the Bay of
Luce, ten miles away, but here wee, our
own broad, roomy craft upon the ebiugle,
and plenty of bravo ileher lade to form a
crew. Six of 116 sprang to the oars, the
others pushed us off, and 1)o fought our
Way through the swirling, raging waters,
etaggering and recoiling before the great
sweeping billows, but still steadily do -
creasing the distance between the bask
and ourselves.
Iu seemed, however, that our efforts were
fated to bo in vain. As we mounted upon
a surge I saw a giant wave, topping all
the others, and coming after them like a
driver following a Rook, sweep down up.
onthe vessel, curling her great green arch
over the breaking dook. With a rending,
riving sound the ship aplit in two where
the terrible eerr eted back of the Hansel
reef was 0awieg into her keel, The after -
the
hree Orientals sank backward into rt with the brolten mizzen ddeep
water and vanished, while the forehaif
oscillated helplessly about, retaining its
precious balance upon the recite. A wail
of fear went up from the wreck ,and wan
echoed from, the beach, but by the bless-
ing of Providence she kept afloat until
we made our way under her bowsprit and
rescued every man of the crew. We had
not got half way upon Our return, bow -
ever, when another great wave swept the
shattered forecastle off the reef, and ex-
tinguishing the signal light, hid the wild
denouement from our view.
Our friends• upon the shore were loud
in congratulating and praise, nor were
they backward in welcoming and comfort,
ing the ()getaways. They were thirteen in
all, as cold and cowed a sot of mortale
as ever slipped through death's fingers,
save indeed their captain, who was a
hardy, robust man, who made light of
the affair. Some were taken off to this
cottage and some to that, but the greater
part came back to Branksome with -us,
where we gave them such dry Clothes ae
we Could lay our hands on, and served
them with beef and beer by the kitchen
fire. Tho captain, whose name was Mea-
dows, compressed his bulky form into a
suit of my own, and came down to the
parlor, where he mixed himself some grog
and gave my father and myself an ac -
mint of the disaeter.
'If 11 hadn't been for you, rir, and your
brave fellowe," he said, smiling tierces at
me, "we slimed. bo ten fathom. deep by
this time. As to the Belinda,' elm was ft
leaky old tell and well insured, eo neither
the owners nm' -I oro likely to break our
beerte over her."
"I am afraid," said my father sadly,
"that we shall; never see yam three pas -
at, gene again, I have loft men upon the
beach in epee they should be melted un,
but '4 fear it ie. hopeless. I saw them go
down when the vetted split, and no men
could have lived fora moment among that
terrible surge."
(To be continued.
Unreasonable Turkey.
Not long ago, in a western mar-
ket town, an Irishman Was observ-
ed with a live turkey under ills
arm. The turkey was squawking
and gobbling in a 'distressed way,
a ra•eket to which the Irishman dicl
not at first pay any particular no-
tice. Finally, however, the disturb-
ance got on the nerves. Giving the
bird a poke in the side he exclaim-
ed:
"Be quiet, you 1 What's the mat-
ter wid ye, anyhow'? 'Why should
yez want to walk whin I'm willin'
to carry Y ye I"
Shorter engagements, if followed
by longer marriages, would help
same.
The Order of Merit, designated
by the letters 0.M., was instituted
by King Edward VII, in 1002; and
the man on whom it is conferred
may deem it 0110 of the highest com-
pliments the Sovereign can bestow,
tempest, and next inatant Shu beech end!
sea end wide tossing NY 7trn bril'iert-
le illuminated by the wild glare et e
eienal Itght
lino
ley on 11et 0r boson elide right in the
centre of the teerlhle llanae1 reef, hurler!
near to Ana), nl nng10 that 10, 71d 141`ft011
the 4lauking of her Bonk I recegnieed
her at etre RP being tate name llrateneet•
est bark Which 1 had oh8eteed in the
Channel in the Morning, end the l'oien
,Teel( which .won nailed upside c,nwn to
the Jngeed ofump of nor teazel, pat
claimed nor notion/lute.' teary spar anci
repo and writhing piece oP anrdnen otorr0,1
un hard and clear unser the livid l'rht
evh'eh sputtered nod flinkated Prem tie
aleaoa4 penioe of the Inreenetle. Tleve.+,i
the doomed shin Ant +'%f lbs „reef nese
nese came inn )mar ral)inv Thera of'
*twee, never ending, 1101Yor thing, with a
flzmentatmumessurso
Because they net so gently (no
putting or griping) yet so
thoroughly,
NA.,1,4 Urge
spp�yy �r �1 S�,��py,
aBVai�F�, ����.4•�
are best for the °bedrast as wolf as 'r
the grown-ups, 26o. el box at
your druggist's,
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On the Farm
The Adulteration of Seeds.
As e, rule, aticeessful seed Adul-
teration is made possible by the
similarity existing between the in-
ferior seed and that of the crop
seed with which it is used, says 1Nr.
F. 11. Hillmans; It often happens,
therefore, that the adulterant used
is the seed of some plant very Close-
ly related to the adulterated crop
seed. The dealer who adulterates
his seed bases ills faith in the suo-
cess o£ the deception upon the -very
careless examination 1n'ade of the
absence of any examination of the
seed by the average purchaser, in-
cluding the majority of retail deal-
ers. If, before purchasing, a care-
ful examination of the seed offered
for sale wee made by all buyers
guided by a knowledge of the vari.
ons adulterants used, seed adulter-
ation would soon cease.
The combination of seeds of stan-
dard farm crops commanding uni-
formly different prices in the seed
market constitutes adulteration
when the mixture is sold at the
price of the more expensive seed.
This is illustrated by the combine
-
tion of redtop and timothy offered
as redtop.
Another form` of adulteration is
the use of dead seed of the kind of-
fered for sale.. Such dead seed may
have lost its vitality frons advanced
age or from unfavorable conditions
of harvesting or of storage, or it
may consist of light• screenings in
which the seed germs never devel-
oped. Old seed having very low
vitality, or none at all, doubtless
is often offered for sale. Consid-
erable worthless shriveled red clo-
ver and alfalfa screenings are im-
ported each year 'for use in adul-
terating these seeds.
One of the commonest and moat
objectionable forms of adulterations
is the use of low grade screenings,
consisting chiefly of miscellaneous
weed seeds. In many instances
such adulterants have been pur-
chased
urchased in foreign countries. The
statement, often made, that low
grade weedy screenings are im-
ported' for the purpose of reclean-
ing before being marketed is with-
out foundation because the quan-
tity of good seed to be secured
would cost the dealer more, usual-
ly very much more than the same
quantity of good seed produced in
this country. Such low grade seed,
therefore, is unquestionably Im-
ported exclusively for use either In
competition with or as an adulter-
ant of higher grade seed.
Cow Drags Boy to Death.
Don't tie the rope around your
waist or wrist when leading an ani-
mal. Should it become frightened
and unmanageable, serious injuries
might result, unless the hold could
be released at once.
An instance of this has been re-
cently reported. With one end of
the rope tied to his wrist and the
other end to a runaway cow, a
fourteen -year-old boy was dragged
over sharp rocks for one-fourth of
a mile and so badly injured that he
died within a half hour.
Becoming frightened at a pass-
ing automobile, the cow started
suddenly on a dash down a rocky
lane. The boy's attention was at-
tracted to the auto, and he was
not prepared for the sudden jerk
given by _the cow.
A loop in the rope was around
his wrist, and he could not get
loose. Ho fell en 'his face, and as
the cow tore down the lane his face,
head and body were dashed
against the sharp rocks. His cloth-
ing was stripped from his body, and
even his shoes were torn off.
Mixed Stock ](''arming:
As a rule, on the average farm at
least, it will be better to have a
few cattle, some horses, a score of
swine and small flock of sheep, than
to have the same amount of money
invested in either' cattle or hogs
alone. There is greater safety in
such distribution of capital, inas-
much as the different kinds of stock
subsist somewhat on different kinds
of food, and if on account of drouth
or for some other reason one kind
of food fails, others may be made
available to carry through ia•.good
condition at least one or more of
the classes of animals kept.
They Own Britain's Land.
Britain's landed dukes and earls
were in the lianeligbt in the, House
of 0on'lmons recently when Mr.
Outhwaite, during the debate on
the motion for the second raiding
of the„RuralCotttages Bill, gave an
interesting tehle of the little patch-
es of land hold by members of the
Hoose of. Lords. Hero is i,8:' 28
Dukes hobs 4,000,000 acres; 31 Mar,
quosses hold 1,500,000 lteres; 194
Earle hold 5,862,000 acres; 270 Vises
counts and Barone hold 8,'784,000
acres;' 525 Nobles hold 15,000,000.
scree, -
A soft emewer may not turn
away wrath, but it saves a lot of
useless talk.
Why doesn't she take
NAaDRU CO, eadac Ee Wafers
. They stop a headache promptly, yet do not contain any of
the dangerous drugs 00015000 to beadaohe tablets, Ask your
Druggist about them, 28c, a box.
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THE CAPLI3 FISH.
It Is Very Prolific and is Food for
Larger Fish,
Tlhat great things may depend
upon small is strikingly proved by
the Caplin, the little fish that, so to
speak, underwrites the great cod -
fisheries. The oaaplin or capelin is a
small,slender, silvery sea fish, aloin
to the anve1t, - rt inhabits the &retic
seas, e,specia.]dy on the Ailandie side
of tate globe. It spends the winters
in. quiet depths, where it feeds on
minute. ]marine ereaturee, and forms
the s atple food of larger deep-sea
Ashes.
In late spring the capilli rise in
hordes to the surface, and, guided
by incompeehem;sible instincts, has-
ten toward the land to -fulfil the
duty of propagation. The Wheels
arc preyed upon as they go by
every creature beneath and above
the tumbling rollers, and are
awaited with cruel impatience by
foes on share. Thus only the
strongest reach the strand—hut in
countless nuanbers 1
Nearing the shallows, they rash
in reckless haste toward the sand
where their yellow eggs must be de-
posited; and their coming to the
shores of Newfoundland, Labrador,
Greenland, and all along the Sean
dinavian coast, is awaited with
eager anxiety. It means the pros-
perity of ,the fulling season, upon
which the life of the people de-
pends, Sonie halt on suitable bot-
tom fifteen or twenty fathoms deep ;
but most press on to the strand,
and fleeing before their pursuers,
orowd up into the surf to its highest
verge. The hosts that scra,mblo to
high-water mark aro amazing; each
falling ' tide leaves thousands
stranded, -
"You can take up with n shove -
net as plentiful as you da wheats in
a shovel',” wrote Parkhurst in
1578, "sufficient in three or four
hours for a, whole oiitie." Soon the
dropped eggs appear in incredible
numbers; "tile beach becomes a
quivering mass of eggs and sand."
People collect at favorable places
to gather the harvest. They go out
in boats and scoop up•raplin by the
barrelful, to be eaten, to be used ,as
bait, to be dried for winter dog
food, and in Newfoundland to be
salted anti dried for the Engiish
market: Formerly they were gath-
ered by the wagun-load in that col-
ony for manuring the land, but this
waste> is now prohibited. Evan the
ocean is not inexhaustible in ,its
treasures,
Who that has read Bipling's
"Captains Courageous" door not
recall the vivid scene when -the
Banks fleet, clustered about the
Virgin Islets, seethes with excite-
ment as tare Caplin arrive, and the
men, in a mob of jostling dories,
dip tlhe,m up in feverish histo to
bait their trawls, knowing that now
the big fish will throng the waters?
With the first arrival of the Cap-
lin, the bays are filled with pur-
suing fish of every Isom. bile" this
is only the beginning, for cod anti
halibut and other food fishes stay to
devonr the fry as they hatch, and
linger at the feast, exposing them -
'selves. to hook and net, until cold
weather drives their prey to the
depths, fund the fishermen to their
flresides,
STRANGERS JIIIING SICKNESS.
Datives of 5t. Kildrl Call It the
"Strangers' Cold."
The inhabitants of St. Kilda
(Scotland) regard the landing of
strangers as fraught with clanger
to their health. 301111 Sands, who
thirty ye.1ra .ago spent some months
in St, Kilda, writes that "the most
extraordinary complaint that visits
Cthoeld, -
island is called the strangers'
"The natives firmly" believe that
the arrival of a boat communicates
this disease. They say that the ill-
ness is more severe when the ship.
or boat comes from Harris, and
that they suffer less when the vessel
comes from Glasgow or Loudon. It
ie ourious that every 0118 caught
the distemper when an Austrian
vessel visited the island during my
stay there. Not one St. Nildan es-
caped. The symptoms are a ,severe
headache and pain and s1tiffeess in
the muscles of the jaw, a deep
rough cough and rapid pulse."
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NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
W11:1.'1' 1'IIE WESTERN PEOP.I4b
ARE 1) OIN G.
Progress of the Great nest Told
in It Feu' Pointed
Paragraphs,
Thero is a real estate boom in
Revelstoke.
A wagun road is being built
across the Rats at ,Argenta.
311118es in Seattle are lower than
they are in Revelstoke,
Dr, Mackenzie has bought a 200 -
acre fruit ranch at Lil]000t.
Back o8 Silverton the Hewitt mill
has resumed operations.
There are 140 men working in the
shipyard at Whitehorse.
There are about 820 names upon
the voters' list in the Slocan.
The voters' list in the'Chilliwaok
riding contains 1,985 names;
In March there were 18 cases tried
in the police oou.`rt at Merritt:-
A stage carrying 17 passengers
recently left Whitehorse for Dale -
son.
It is reported that the smelter att
Ladysmith will soon resume opo4-
&tions.
The Mayor of Blairmore was
fined $4.60 for running an auto
without a number,
The Queen Charlotte News says
that local fishermen will average
$12 to $15 a day this year.
The population of New Wostmin-
eter is reported ae 20,000. It has
doubled within two years.
The gold dredge at Goldhill on
the Lardo River is being put in
readiness for the summer work.
The Menet brass band has a new
set of instruments. Many members
of the band are Indians.
Hay, milk, potatoes and cotto"n-
wood are being shipped every day
from Chilliwack to Vancouver.
Last month there was a big de-
mand for sleigh dogs in Hazleton.
The average price was $25 each.
A Creston rancher advises farm
ers to plant white potatoes, as they
are the best for commercial pur-
poses,
Frank Whepley captured 12 sil-
ver grey foxes in Alaska this win-
ter, and shipped them. to his,. fox
farm in New Bruuswick.
Foley, Welch & Stewart will use
three steam shovels on the P. (3.
1E. east- of Lillooet. The shovels
cost $10,000 each.
The first carload of ore shipped
from the Harris mines -near Hazle-
ton to the Trail smelter gave a net
return of $73 a ton.
In Tenakee, Alaska, Clyde Ayers
was fined $600 for selling liquor
without a license, and $250 for run-
ning a blackjack game.
In Queen Charlotte during March
Mrs. W. J. Smith received 1,750
eggs from a Rock of 110 hens. She
sold the eggs for $70.08. '
Through . extensive advertising
more than $500,000 worth of lots
have already been sold in the -town -
site' of :Port Edward, near. Prince
R,npert.
A Seattle company has put up a
new gold dredge to work on the
Fraser River near Yale. It will
dredge the river bottom to a depth
of 43 feet.
The recent death of Mark Wheel-
er leaves George Bell the only sur-
vivor of the band of settlers who
took up land on Fairfield Island
over 40 years ago.
The provincial hatcheries ab Sar-
dis have recently been stocked with
Mongolian pheasants from Eng-
land.
n -
land. Only three of the 28 birds
were lost on the journey across the
sea.
Tho Canadian Northern Railway
will operate its trains between New
Westminster and Vancouver by
electricity. A tunnel 24,000 feet
long will be driven between the two
points. It will take two years to
drive and will cost $3,400,000.
Good Weather for a right. .
There is no lack of shrewdness in
the English peasants,. says Mr. A.
J. Swinburne in "Memories of a
School Inspector," but their know-
ledge of the things beyond their
own
villages is often surprisingly small.
AJ; the time when the struggle be-
tween Russia and 74 811 had reach-
ed its climax; and become the ab-
sorbing topic of the whole ,world,
a Suffolk laborer, off work, accosted
a friend engaged in digging:.
"Bad newel from the iwer."
"Who's a-1iightin', then 4"
"Why, them Rocshans and lap-
meso." t
' `Oh, they're a-figlltin ,, ar'e'
they'1" (Pausing from his work.)
"Cllr, yes, they're a-44l11)11i like
Billy -o ,"°
"Are they, though
"'Yens] that they are."
"Well," after placidly scanning
the horizon anti resuming his work,
'rthey'vc get a nice day for it, any -
"1)14 01071 r]cii :tlno1e mention
you in his will 1", 'rises." "l'40uelty
dog 1'"Vol at all, He spccilleal-
ly ffientionetl ;the fact that I was
not to he' given is dollar of his
money.)''