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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-7-31, Page 78. ' ark Shadow; Or, A Corning Vengeance CHAPTER. 11.-(Contal). Ali the Son of Dandy Rafhorougb, Calve 'woo intimately acquainted with the ,lite arietheratle; he made himself tat intim. ately aequaintea with the Me of the gut- ter; and he had emit in hie lot oace and for all with the people. • Lord Ratborough's amazement and in- clignittion velum be was informed of lee eon's intention to contest Brimfield no an out-andsout Radical became, in the com- monplatte phrase, more oaeily ItnagIned than described; but, he wan always poi. • ishocl and courteous, even when suffering from the gout, an attack of Olive' wild= promptly produced, and he die - missed and cut, off his son with o, emirs and a shrug of hie shoulders and the fol- lowing words: "Of course, my dear Clive, you are old enough to go your own way, and I would not be no rude as to ouggent that Y011 are a young fool; but you will permit mo to remark, more lu narrow than in anger, that you cannot 0011001/ mo to counters ance this new departure of yours. It ie more than wicked.; it is -absurd. We Rat - boroughs have, admit, been guilty of mune foolish thinge, but none of us have been quite so idiotic as to 1/080 00 a Rad- ical and 'a friend of the people' -I believe that la the ritileulous title that they give you -and I tun sure you will not bo 411V- Prieed when hiut, as delicately as pos. able, that we have no desire to be con. fleeted with your enterpriee or to wait. te110/106 your extravagant political opin- ione, can't out you off with a shilling, • because do not possess at title moment that useful coin; MAI would suggest that while this Insanity of youre lasts it would be as well If you avoided your people and Eaton Square, and confined yourself to your new friende. Sood-bye, my dear Olive. I wish I could bid you Elodmpeed; but the haekneyed benedietion would bo 00 completely inappropriate that I really must refrain from uttering it. The only hope I can express is -end I do so de- voutly -that 7011. WM soon bo Mother]. and in gene right mind. When you return to this' desirable condition we shall all, of course, be shut to see you. Until then— Don't let me detain You. Goodbye." Olive posseireed that which is, a raeity In these.daye, a warm heart; and ho felt the parting from his father and his brothers, Adolphus and Bertha very keen- IY; but he had put his hand to the plough. and Ito was not t110 MAU to leave it and slink home to Baton Square, crushed and beaten. The motley he had inherited from his mother provided him with only m =nail Memo; but =withstanding a somewhat riotous time at, Oxford, his teethe were very simple, and he cheerfully settled down in a couple of rooms in it back etreet Chelsea., and as cheerfully den - led /Mineola the familiar luxuries of Carl- ton dinners, Bond Street elothes, and shilling cigars. Of course, he was am' Jahns; every man who is worth him salt desiret to make hie mark on the age in which he lives; but, strange as it may seem in these pushing, Rolf -seeking days, Olive's ambition woe subordinated to genuine desire to help the people whose cause ho had championed. To-niglu he had soored a groat, an amazing suceesm he had put his foot, on the first rung of the ladder which leads to great things; the applauee, the Omen were still ringing in. hie ears; but sweet ne they weeez-and why shouldn't they have been? -the few words of praise from Ida leader, and from Lord Chesterleigh esimeially, wore sweeter to him. IIIR thoughts turned towards Lady Edith, Ite sae not a susceptible 11104, but it would "lave been impeasiblestliat ehould not have been. struck by her youthful grace and beauty. His keen eye -and Olive Har- vey's eye was very keen indeed -had noted the indication(' of the girl's proud and haughty 'apirle; but be was uot inclined to dwell upon them; for you 'me, elle had been very groeiouo to him. She had smiled upon as the youngest woman of her elms knows how to smile when she wants to bo sweet and to imprers a. man favorably. Her voice had softeued whon she spoke to him, and her wards were still Dreamt with him. Both father and daughter had given him a cordial invitation; should he avail himself of it? Ho had.got to regard hint - Belt as an outcast from. the exalted sphere in which they inovedi would. it bo wiee to go back to the Ilesh-pots of Brant; would it be prudent to place hinMelf in the way of temptation; had he not better dick to the people'' with whom he had east in his lot? Pondering these questions, he had Nvand- end -on clown Victoria Street and into Pimlico, so lost 111 thought that he paid no lined to the direction which ho had taken; and. suddenly looking round, ho fonnd that ho bad strolled into one of the shabby streets loading off the main thor- • oughfare. The etreet was nearly deserted, though it was not very late -the House had risen early -and the publiehousee wore still open. A -drunken man, who woe sheerfullY zigzagging home, matey colltd• -ed with Calve; lie hiccoughed 021 apology, which he made with difficulty, while he comported himeelf by clutching Olive't um; and it wits rhaeasteristio of Olive that lte uot push the man a.any from 111111 with impatience or die -gest; for the Radical aeistoorat /lad lestrueS to toler- ate fbild even to pity that which he loathed. . J1. little further on a, sleek cot scratched at a door, and mowed plaintively, loolcin up at Olive and saying quite plainly, "You're tailor than I Al= 1 (10 111 bell, or I 'hall be shat out all night!" So Olive stroked the oat and Tang the bell. Ag he walked 011 he heard the sounde of musio, and, tuning a canner of the etreet, came upon a public -houses It woe a quiet one, no doubt "mod" only by the inhabitonto of the shabby, seedy holing, and outside on the kerb stood' a man, a diminutive Inmehbook, playing a violin, and playing it well.. Bosh= him stood a young girl ehiging. X1, not a strong Yoke, but it was so sweet 'a ono and with snob signs of eareful training that Olive Wood on the other side of the street and lietened, The girl's bank Woe turned to him, and she wore 14 011-001 over her head, so that he could see no part of her face; but he was struck by rt, (martin grace her figure and her attitude. She was standing with 110V hoed slightly thrown back, her hands loosely aimed in front of her; and, es she sang. the slight girlish figure moved almost imperceptibly to the rhythm of. the muoie. Olive felt the 'Athos of her preeence. and her sweet, low .voine, and he crossed the tmad. and stood Just behinAthe pair, 10 that he might hear the song more .flin- Meetly, It mune to an end DresentlY, hut the girl stood without obanging bar att. Otding Roes For niterybody THE PERFECT SHOE, POR SUMMER SPORTS,,, ASK YOUR DEALER. '1 rude until the hunchback touched 11 gently on the arm. alio started Mishit and, drawing her shawl about hey tee looked round, and, seeing Clint. owns t wards him with a little tambourine 0 tended, while the hunchback wont Into the publicehouse to colleet contrileutIone. Olive dropped halt 0000100 in the tam- bourine; without raising her evert the girl made him a graceful eurtesy, and tate turning away when Clive invol, untarily spoke to her. InvolunterilY, lat• cause he was even more touched by the sight of her loon than ho had been by the graoo of her figure. It WW1 a, Ong- ular feett, strangely out of keeping with the shabby surroundings and her Iamb) calling. London is full of pretty gui and they are almost RR numerous th Mums and the byways of P1011:00 an Whitechapel as they aro in Mayfair; Mt this girl's faeo was not merely prett7. for though it W11F1 not yet quite beautiful 88 1V118 1 10 1V 1 1110 1)1' 4 0 a lovelineso. In the pure oval of its coutour, the der grey eyee, the long lashes, the soft, 0, moat bleak hair, and delteately.shaped 1111.3 there was a suggeetion of Italy or eve of Spain, but Olive uea, ONL11 oro s spoke, that elle was not foreign, the was no relation between this girl wit the downcast Ayes and the timid demeans' and the °vex -ripe Italian young lady *wit earampanies the street organ. "Yen sing very well, my child," he said "but your voice ie not strong enough fo the streete; and I am afraid you wil spoil it." Up to the present she bad, whet" nit raised her eyes, looked past and beyon him, as if she were moving and acting I: a kind 08 (0110030; but at the sound of hi Yoke she met hie gaze with a little etart led look and a suggestion of fear in a balf-shrinking movement; and Olive wee sorry that he had frightened her by aft. dressing her. Ile felt that it would be. kind to walk away at onee; but, with a =Waken idea of reassuring her. he said: "I hope you aro going home now. Xt 11, getting WO. Perhaps yen have had a had day -I know what that means -let me give you a, little more; your singing is worth it." She looked dawn at the ooin in the tam. bourine, 110 doubt expecting to see a penny, and the colored vividly no Olive dropped another half-crown on the parch- ment. Her lips moved with a whispered "Thank you." and .with a ewift, grateful glance up at his faee—a faco good to look upon itt that moment, for it was full at a etrong man's pity and tentlernese-she WaS moving away, when the bunchbaek came out of the public-hot:fie, and, limp- ing quickly towards them. caught her arm, and, looking angrily and auspic- iously at Clive, muttered; "Como away, Mival" Annoyed and distressed by the dwerre distrust of him, Clive walked on. Ile had nearly reached the oncl of the street when he 00010 upon. four young men link. ed arm in arin, and walking, or rather dancing, unsteadily norms the pavement. They were uproariously titles, and were obviously ready for anything in the way of a lark. Of course, Olive made way for them, and we -t into the road; one of the youths ungratefully acknowledging his polite consideration for thole condition by calling out, trueulontly "111f.ot ho, 'Arryl Here's o. blooming swell; hot' n knook 'is 'at off." Olive did not wait for the adoption of thio playful suggestion; but before he had gone many yards, he stopped and looked round thoughtfully. The hunch- back and the girl wouM meet these vul- gar votaries of Bacchus; it was Just ell the envie that they would be molested by them; tho poor little dwarf wae anything but an adequate protector for hie cent minion; there might be trouble for them. Olive went back -and just is Mins. The tipsy hooligana had formed a ring round he dwarf. and the girl, and, probably without meaning any serious harm, were dancing and howling round the vietiine of their hilarity. The girl. with the shawl olesely drawn round her face, Vill 0//llein alfrightedly to the dwarf, while he, half -dazed by the noise and impish movements of their tor- =onto's, was threatening and imploring them by lames. As Olive eame 1111, 0110 of the young =en, more daring than the others, was expressing a desire, with sundry oaths, that the gill should show her face; and ho made a clutch at her shawl, and tore t from her head. The girl screamed, andiclung still more tightly to her eon". prtnion. Olive caught the youth by the book of hie collar, and swung him on to the pavement; the (ahem, startled by a° moment. After all, they were three to live'se onslaught, drew back; but only for 0/10, Md. lIngliehmen. Their drunken 1111- ",tvrity gave way to angry resentment at hat they no doubt nousidered unpro- I"Ital all over," he said. "Rey have ipal~stesallase,asseasssi,„.tassasaawessrlise gone, Wino gene, You're all right! 01L, ley childl"rhe exelantation was wrung 'stn him by the eeesatIon of wont/thing wurm that was trickling over hie hand. Tbe cruel belt had struck her badly, and elm wee wasbl 00011g. ',1 am afraid you! are hurt! Aro you far from lUnfie Imes you far to go?" be milted the Itunelibaels. "It we 1011818 mt 11 l'flb The dwarf drew his hand across his brow confusedly, "It's .not far," lie said qvakingly. "In Berteon's Rents -three streets MT there's uo cabs in thepo parts isn't elle well enough to walk? Are you much hurt, Mina? T' 1',n oo 111/40t. 18 4111 11111% baffle, hurt, do you tbiek Or? Oh. Int .er afraid she lel Shea half' fainting ,,,,W• y, rn never get her home. I'm not ,strong -- 0. :you see what I am, sir," with mithesie ('• I bitternees, "and I'm all of a Make 01111. x.* Ood knows what would have happened to her if you hada I. come hut* and belaed uel I'm aura Ian much obliged to von, 401 And you'vv. hurt, yourself!' That Young wretch lute eut youe eherk, Oh, if we were only home!" "Pull yourself together." paid Clive en- eenraghiglY. "T don't think 'hp in Much hurt; et lewd, T hono not. You must let me help her home. I can carry her quite emil 8 . -" 'rhe girl must have hoard him; for She ° seemed to beton= suddeely awaro that. ehe 5,1 wee cliuging to him; a vivid 1110th lame '.:.;refusal, eke ehrank away from him, and 1 to her pale face, mid, wall. a „mitrinur of looked round for hoe shawl. Clive pielcsa ; I it an, and gently p111 it round her head. . "Von tiro bettor now?" be amid. "That'e right:. yon meet let me help you bome." Her lips moved, and Olive caught a "Ne, k nal" and 011 annealing glance at the I.- I hueobback: but it wile impossible that lie 11 thetn sheltered safely. Be drew the girl fl O mut through hie, she vie ding reluctantly, Tonic! leave the pair until be bud ecru 11 quiet etreete. Beneon's Rents proved to he ei and the three went slowly delve the now ✓ a bloek of small honses up an alley ap• O preached under an arthway. It wait a poor place enough; .but it wee neither so 1 villainous, so dilapidated, 1101' PO dirty ✓ as 00010 of the Mums with which Clive I was aermainted. The dwerf stopped at the last house of Cho buildings, ana e kieteked at tho door. d Aimee. before the sound heel eeased the i door opened, and nn extraordinarily O quaint figure appearttd. "Per a moment - Clive oonld net toll whether 'it 1008 11 1V0 - int. 11. or o eirl in her teens, 01 a leen 11111d; for, though the figure 11,11 0 girlieb, it was clad in a woman'a dimes: the Nee had something of the look of n child, but its Jawed/Hy was rountereeted by an ers urination of shrewdnesa, rolf-rolianee, and worldly wisdom whieb. would have be. fitted a woman of rnrilet and the eruaint figure wee rendered . Mill mere tveird by the elfish ghee little free being our- rotuuled by rowel of crae.kers, surmounted by It nightcap. the like of whieli Mice had 00011 in pictures of the early Victorian 0171, T1116 extraordinary mixture of ehildbeod, abalined, womanhood and elf %vat; Weker- ingiv illuminated by n. tallow erndle In a einger•beer bottle, whieli elle held aloft, ;Ind by the Relit of tallish the eurveved the groan with wrofb nod inaianatton darting from her black. hied -like eyes. (To be continued.) volcea attack upon their friencl,, and an impertinent iuterforence with the right!' of the citizen, by a peefect stranger, and, what was -Rim, 13 'ewling Bo they were unwlee enough to set upon Olive with fist and hoof. At first Olive took the onslaught good.natuvedly, and, keeping them at arMe length, earnestly :advised them to MiSsoff' Infer° the poltee wine; but muldeni,y'en4of them, the most sober of the penty'4,1fit, berefore the most eapable of misellitiVealtupped off a hem'', belt from his steleotable P0115011, and struck out viciously, /t juet caught Olive on the elieek; but unfortunately it fol1, buokle end, en the girre eboultier, Olive heard her snoan, and taw her sink to the ground; and, of 00113100, 110 grew. angry, and 'eat his temper. The gentleman with tho belt suddenly struck the pavement with the back. of his foolish head, another of his joyous con]. iianions *wag burled with considerable force against the wall, and the third, in avoiding a blow straight from- Olivo's shoulder, tripped up, and sprawled over hie fallen friend, The incident had. now development into that term of row which the reporters are fond et describing 00 a. "frattas"•, and ,011V0. US 110 eaught night of a policeman tramping with orderly hurry towards them, Elem./aim:telt figuring next morning, In 00111P00Y with a, parte, of hooligans and a pals of street mush, Mane, at the nearest pelioomourt. By this time, licayever, the troubleectue young ruffles= bail beemile sober enough to notice the approach ef their natural foe, and, gathering themselves to their feet, they made off with the uuobtrueive speed and silence of the proverbial Arabs, To the demand of the policeman that he, shoeld be' informed of the neture of tke trouble), Olive, who was bending be - rade the hunchback over the still 3)1.00. trate form of the girt, 1103)110,8 that they bad been attached by party of youthe, and aseneieg him that the trouble wee all dyer, beamed him 10 fellow 811010, and are that they did no more Thicobief.. The pce Beeman might have hesitated 10 comply, big with the request, and accepting 1,1110 0003' Solution of the matter; but Olive 0007 ,11113)1103)01188 booked it. up with. holt 11 eovereign, and the polieentan,Murnrer- in,g "Yee; heal bettor keep Itie`eye on thorn," hurried in their (Breeden, Ily thie time the giel had recovered co;;. eofausitese, it, 'witted, oho had eltegether lost It, end rising uneteedily with Olive's t 1 '11e311blIng 11t) ki d fro. SlietWae as ,vet memos, able to ;than& and Olive put hie arm mina her to sup - pert! her; •eor the hunchback seemed for the moment holplese land ovetwhellentel, Quite ueeemiefouele 0110 leant • agonist 011ve, and hid her fate 011 hie beeant 0881 to alma out tho townie and the sights that had ee terrified her; and aimed es tittooeselouttly 011tat etiothed her, and tried reineure her, 01. THE ENGINISER'S BEAR. 1 HOW Lala Managed to Have Chick- en For Dinner. Lela was the name of a little black honey-beav with a white V- shaped mark on his chest, and he belonged to Lite engineer of, the steamer on which 111r. A. Hugh Fisher, the author of "Through In- dia and Burmah,'? was a passen- ger. They kept 'chicken on board ' Lttlrt 11 d .1 0110 a chicken out of it. The Wheelman declared that Lula, deliberately put a piece of bread in the chicken's trough outside the bars, and wait- ed till the bird put its head out. The wheelman was not the sorti of person to make up such a, story,! but the engineer could hardly be- lieve him, and asked to be called '1the next time that the wheelman saw the bear laying plans for. a chicken dinner. -Whether the en - 530001' was in bed or not, Lala used, to sleep not fax from him on a mat, by the engine -room door. One night the wheelman called the en- gineer up, and he actually saw the L bear drop a piece of bread in trough. He stood ready to cuff. b Lala if he touched a fowl, but the bear was too quick for him, and the a 'very moment a hen pub her head a th 1 b b • 'hi d a On the Farm 'eelieleoetteeetteesetteseeeeeeesieet Quality of Deiry P1101111119. - Quality is the keynote of per- manent success, Though the incli victual dairyman may doubt this, it; truth is established when the dairy business, present and future, is con eiderecl. Failure to realize whet constitutes success, refuge' to meet the obligation wheelt every dairy man ewes to the dairy industry, anc competition are at 'emit three con ditiune which have brought upon dairymen the great problem of how quality can be raised, for the place has been reached where improved conditions must prevail, writes Mr, M. L. Davis. Every person who handles milk am • mews t a they are per- ishable products which require sPe- care. Failure to observe the necessary precautions in handling these products must, therefore, be considered as a disregard of the principles underlying quality. Were dairymen bo apply themselves close- ly in two particulars over 90 per cent. of the quality troubles would disappear, and this raised standard weld be accompanied by a corms- . • . "e poeding gain in net results. Clean- liness and low temperatures are two features the abese of which leads to hew grade dairy products. A large percentage of the had flavors in milk, cream and butter are the re- sult of dirt, manure, hair and flies getting into milk during the milk- ing process, and this becomes the More seriatim for the reason that 75 per cent.. of these contaminating materials go into solution and can be removed in no way, but remain to cause the development of unfav- orable fermentations which produce bad flavors in the market produc- tion. .A4441e% iCen-e-aVit-ey rnut.lee; te,v-r0 4 6 et -i -o -x • in cooling may be ran into a stock tank. Low temperatures of them- selves are effective in helping pre- tierve quality, but an ideal product results when they are accompanied by cleanliness in production. therelems practices in the dairy h adoption regulations. With ideal inethocie in 1 ow such would be eliminated, and expensive, artificial processes, such as pasteurization, would be unne- cessary. Improvement in the quality of dairy products must begin with the producer, so the dairyman holds the key to 'the situation. Every effort of the consumer, the distributer or the manufacture will work to his ultimate benefit. While payment on the quality basis is established, a premium of three to five cents per pound of butter fat is given for cream of highest grade. Such cream can be produced best by paying 'close attention to cleanlinese and immediate and thorough cooling. -4;e- The Hors4's Collar. The collar shOuld fit --be just, right in length and shape. If worn!, by the same horee ell the time i1! will slope itself the neck. But' nothing can over me a wrong size. It must be snug, but not tight, free, but not too loose. The hames must be adjusted right. If the top strap is too tight the neck is pinched, ancl the tugs raised too high. If the top strap is too long the tighten- ing of the hame strap below causes a bad fit and may throw the pulling joint of the tugs too low down. Horses' necks differ in shape and it is wrong to make them wear a collar that was fitted .60 another horse. You would have galled feet if you wore other than your own shoes. Much worse for the horse that pulls a load with a misfit col- lar. Dairy conditions which need provement include not only the maintaining of more sanitary barns, more attention in the matter of cleaning ems previous to milking', clean milkers, properly constructed and cleaned utensils and more care in washing separator bowls, bet the length of time and the manner in which the milk and cream are held, along with cleanliness, must be the other desirable feature. low temper- atures. While the market milk dairyman realizes this to some ex- tent on account of •his produce be- ing more perishable, the dairyman who sells cream often fails to ap- preciate the advantage of cooling cream immediately after separating; and thus a condition most favorable to deterioration begins to exist shortly after the milk is drawn. Freshly drawn milk is at an- op- timum temperature for bacterial growth, and unfavorable fermenta- tion can be checked in no better way than by immediate cooling. If he milk is to 'be separated, scim- ming should take place directly after milking, but the cream should be cooled before being mixed with previous skimmings. .A tank cool- er is so inexpensively constructed and operated that there can be no easonable objection to its use, tieh a cooler may be made from a ox or barrel, and should be pro- ided with an inlet at the bottom nd a, discharge at the top. Ordin- ry milk cans are successfully used s containers, and the water used rougi le ars, e e ppe her clean through, The engineer never gave'Lala, meat, but some one fed him once or twice on "bully beef," and that seemed to make him • restive. He never really bit anybody, but. the engineer felt it was safest to get rid of the beast. He got off one day at the village near the defile, took the bear ei mile and a hail away into the jungle, and "lost" him, Soon after, the villagers peti- tioned the engineer to take the'bear on board again. It seemed that Lala haunted the village and stole chickens persistently. So there was nothing for it but to take him on board the steadier agaip, Then the engineer gave him to the Rangoon Zoo. „ It was months afterward that he went to nee Lala. Ile took with him a rebriever which had been the bear's chum and playfellow. When he asked about Lala, they said he had got very -wild, and would noe take his food, 1 giye the rest of the story In the engieecr's own words: "They were just going to give him rations, to I said, 'Give. me the food, and 1111 go into the cage my- self.' I took the retriever in with me, and I'll never forgot the way that beat, looked at me as long as I live. The poor thing just stood up and put his forepaws on ray ehest, and looked into my 'eyes as much as to say, 'Is this whab you've done to No. V11 never keep a wild animal again.". The Important Question. (IT can'b live without your daugh- ter, "Wen, can you live without her fother•I'' When some men feel like commune ing with the *Lilt they interview the man behind the white apron, and encourage him. We had as- cended only a few feet when it be- came plain that sooner or plater he woalel slip, and bring disaster to us both. We stopped, and descended to the bottom for a new start. I determined to carry him. His weight was forty pomade, and he would make a top-heavy load. But as there seemed to be nothing else to do, I threw him over my shoulder and started up. When I came to a place where it was not very steep, 1 stopped 10 transfer Scotch from one shoulder to the other, The wind was at its worst; it would fall quiet one mo- ment, and then bluster at me with the suddenness of an explosion. I O was just moving Scotch, when it suddenly shifted, and rushed upon us with the force of an ocean break- er. It threw nie off my balance, and tumbled me heavily against the !icy slope. Fortunately I managed !to get two fingers into one of the chopped boles, and held fast. I clung to Scotch with one arm; we came to a jarring stop, both saved. Gripping Scotch with one hand and clinging to the icy hold with the other, I shuffled about until I got my feet into two holes in the wall. Standing in these, and lean- ing against the ice, with the wind pushing and tearing at me, I man- aged to lift Scotch again to my shoulder. A few minutes later we paused to breathe on the icy ridge of the =Tina, between two oceans and amid seas of snowy peaks. CLIMBING A WALL OF ICE. Terrible Experience in the Rocky 31.01'1110.1 BK. At the close of r, 'winter trip among the Rockies, Mr, Enos A. Mills and his collie,. "Scotch,"j started across the continental di- vide in the lace of weather condi- tions that indicatecl a snow -storm. He tells the story of their exper- ience in "The Spell of the Rock- ies." While the wind blew a steady gale, they went forward over snowy, icy ledges, on which there was not the sign of a path, until they reach- ed a cliff of ice that they must climb. The last 0112 hundred feet or so rose steep, jagged, an(1 ice -covered before me. There was nothing to lay hotel of; every point of vantage was plated and coated with ice. There was only one way to sur- mount this icy barrier, and that was to chop toe and hand -holes from the bottom to the top. Such a climb would not be especially diffi- cult or clangeroue for mei but could Scotch do it? I grasped my ax and chopped my way to the top. Returning for Scotch, I started him climbing just ahead of me, so that I could boost Master (to Tommy, who is sup- posed to have been in the orchard) -I will not cane you this time, nee, boy, as there is no evidence against yon. Tommy -Thank you, sir. And may I keep the apples 'I ChiVren /eon Need Sufgre 11 Pure sups. isueoessary fa tisalicelth of young or old, Good homes/tads candy, eager on porridge, trait or bread -not only pleases but stimulateS, BuySt.Y.AwroneeHxtraGranulated in bags and be sure of the finest pure 00.310 0115111, untouched by hand from factory to your kitchen, • Bags 000 lbs„ es lbs.,ao lbs., Dittoes y lbs., albs, PULL VVIeletit GUARANTEED. Sold by ors! deaters. 1 St torero Sear ileflestlas, Limited, • Illeeksel, v OME men ask for so many Sb "cement — 'Others, more careful, say they want "Portland Cement --- But the man who does the best work insists upon get- ting "Canada" Portland Cement— Write the CanaciaCentent 'demotion Bureau, Mon. tseal, for a free copy of "What the Farmer Can •Do With Concrete," And he looks to see that every bag bears this label There to a Ca nada Cement dealer in your , neighborhood, If you do not know hint, write for his name. FROM BONNIE ,;COILAND, NOTES 0j INTEREST FROM BM BANKS AND BRAES. • What Is Going on In the highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia, A great quantity of maize Las been destroyed by a fire ab the Ard- gowan Distillery, Greenoek, Extensive additions are to bo made to the Edinburgh and beet of Scotland Agricultural College, The Caledonian Railway directors have decided not to run Sunday' trains to Balloch this summer, The new epileptic _colony of Glas- gow Parish Council at Stonyetts, Cloy has now been formally opened, For the financial year of the Glasgow Tramway Department the revenue amounted to over 85,000,- 000 • Over 500 Dundee excursionists were stranded for four hours at Montrose when one of the river steamers broke down. Mrs. Helen Kerr, Neweastleten, has just completed her 103rd year. She is a great smoker, relishing a pipe of tobacco. George Gardiner, first weighman to Berwick Salmon Company, has just accomplished his seventeenth rescue from drowning. The Paisley District Tramway Company has now completed an ex thent enaceionorfeothIximaibinoutehn raanew.to ay line Warder George Mears, gate- keeper at the Culton Prison, has retired after thirty-six years' ser- vice at the Edinburgh institution. Greenock Corporation is getting iennafotrang thoaGtion regarding traeldess trolleys with the intention of sta,rt- t eraerenaceyskt7 in the upper p Fifty thousand &Hans? daanage was done by a big fire that broke out in the premises of Messrs. W. & M. Duncan, chocolate evorles, Edinburgh, and two horses were suffocated. The death has occurred suddenly at his residence, The Knowle, Bo'- ness, of Mr. George Cadell Stew- art, of the well-known firm of Love & Stewart, shipowners, Bo'ness and Glasgow. Work has been started in !connec- tion with the erection in Vicarten Street, near Girvan passenger eta- • tion, of a, new motor garage, to cost $10,000, and will accommodate 40 cars. Lord Rosebery has sent to the Lord Provost for presentation to the Edinburgh City Museum an old tobacconist sign which formerly be- longed to S. Gillespie, the founder el Gillespie's Hospital. Great havoc has been wrought re- cently by the malady known as the Isle elf Wight disease amongst stocks of bees throughout Fife, and in one ease an owner has incurred a lass of over $550. A •distressing tragedy occurred at 6 Norfolk Street, GIaegow, when a Sew named Lipowisky threw a quantity of nitric acid over his step- mother's face and then fatally cub his throat. The woman was severe- ly burned. PLAN TO CURB MILITANTS. English Clergyman Finds Ins.pira- 'Lion in Nero's Methods. The latest euggestion for dealing with the militants who "1101115011 strike" comes, from. the Rev, E. B. Meyer, of London, England. He recalls the method adopted by Nero of dealing with people who, "like the Aposble Paul, were eentres of disturbance to the existing order," and says: s s: "Why•hould not the •sentenco on thole persona, who eannot boid off scotb free, be that of being attach- ed by a handcuff for so many months to female warders, who would need to be relieved at stated intervals, but should maintain a constant vigilance on their corres- pondence and actions such as would practically put them hors do cone- bat1 It would not cosi; more than our present method." Mr. Meyer says thee if le were Home Secretary he s,hduld certain- ly have recourse to this method. Overheated Pola;Engines. 130111 the Shackleton and the Scott antarctic expeditions carried motor -sledges, and both found them unsatisfactory. Curiouslyenough, says a writer in the Engineer, the chief COMO 01 their failure was the overheating of the engines. Water. coolieg is out of the question in polar regione, Sinco water would freeze and crack the cylinders; and the expeditions therefore had to use • air-cooled engines, The fact that the speed of the sledge% was not , great enough to eause a Wong eta- , rent of air, may explain the ova- • heating; for the effleiency of air- cooling depends somewhat on the speed attained. It is not however, that the exttome dryneee of the air or some pdoliar atirnee. pheric condition had to do with the tandem of the engines to beeonao overheated.