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
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niterybody
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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
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11
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candy, eager on porridge, trait or
bread -not only pleases but
stimulateS,
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in bags and be sure of the finest
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from factory to your kitchen, •
Bags 000 lbs„ es lbs.,ao lbs.,
Dittoes y lbs., albs,
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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.