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Or, A Strange Stipulation.
CHAPTER I.
jullan Bryant drove to the city in a
' xnetorbab. Ile knew that. it was a luxurY.
but it wine s� 'diffieult foe him to sever
himself immediately from the delightful
0.0,30elations of the last few weeks.
ICS imagination was still alive 'with
, pictures of the varied 0.0.01103 through
snatch he bed passed, his mind still un -
oder the infinenee of new and enchanting
,iexperiences. Even now, 216 he sat, back in
1.1111 busy little "taxi," which was speed-
ing him through the clatter and cents -
Sion of the London streets, and he °lased
his eyes, he could imagine himself in Ven-
ice owe again. Venice at night, Veniee
sander the soft glory of a May anent
He could feel the clasp of Enid's little
hand in his us they had ;sat close
' gather, while their gondola had been ear-
ried away from the moonlight and the
glitter and the movement of the Grand
ClallEaaway from the voices of the sing -
ere 'whose barge was nightly moored in
front of the Doge's Palace, away from all
that was real to those silent pathways
that meandered in and out of the state-
ly dark palaces, so ;silent, so mysterious,
so full of that dignity' -which was so ins
duittably their vomiter heritage.
In the quiet night hours, Venice, the
real Venice, rises superbly above the de-
spoiling hand of reodernism; the maga-
zines of antiquity; the glees "works, the
nosey -useful steamboats, all the commer-
cial elements of the new Venice, are
shrouded and silenced, only the mueic of
the lapping water on the walls and only
the melancholy, the beautiful sense of age
and mystery, remain -a world set apart
from every -day things, a world of •Ireareel
Julian Bryant was back in that world
of dreams now!
He opened his eyes and. closed 'them
again nowagain, to dream on.
They 'were away from the shadows now,
swiftly crossing from under the Pointe
dei Soeperi to the Giudeesm, where the
big English yacht had been anchored for
so many weeks.; past the flotilla of Dal-
matian fishing boats, with their curiously
decorated mils and the "eye of God" set
in the prow af eath-on and on in the
brilliant moonlight till the singing and
the Sights faded out, and only the .lagune
stretched before them opalescent with
shinameriug pliespherue reaching into the
far' 'di -Stance till it touched the sea, be-
yond; the restless, tem incomparable
Adriatic.
The man in the cab moved and caught
hie breath.
He could actually feel the soft breezes
stirring the pink and purple wisteria on
the high wall that bordered the legume;
he could see the jewelled radianee dano.
ing dike firefliee even about the blade of
Ginseppe's oar as it moved gently in cad
out of the -water . . . and then he opened
Lie eyes with a jerk . . Venice, city of
romance, of tragedy, of love, of poetry.
Venice bad vanished . , . this was real
life, the imart of the great, the ugly,
working world'
just for an instant he puckereal his
brows as he alighted, and a shadow fell
on the unconscious balminess of .his face.
Then as the early summer 'sunshine fell
on him and the summer air stirred his
pulses, he smiled.
.Venice lay behind, but Enid was with
him alwaYe. Enid and Lovel Enid and
home. Enid and ;all those countless little
'joys that marriage means to the newly-
wed. He Moped his cabman liberally and
ohne(' a vein into the hand of the lift
'men who took him up to the office.
"Been tieing yourself well, Mr. Bryant,
from the look of you? Alal a holiday's a
great tiling, isn't tt?"
And Bryant laughed.
"Yes, a holiday is a great thing."
The lift man looked after him with a
nod as he passed rapidly down the pass-
age.
"Might have been on hie honeymoon,"
the said to himself.
There was something certainly bright
and attractive about juldan Bryant.
Everybody seemed pleased to see him; he
. brought at 1101V element into the office;
hie happiness was imparted unconstrioua.
ly to his fellow workers, and as he sat
down in his accustomed place and started
on his accustomed work, lie stopped every
..
now and then to .sniff the white aooe in
bii button -hole, the rose -which his twife
had pinned in when they had parted.
Just about half an hour before lunch
time. one of his clerks came to him with
it Message.
, ft'You're want?d, Bryant; the 'head' has
stoked for you,'
Sullen Bryant put down his pen and
Walked through the long office till he
reached the door at the farther end.
He stopped on his way to shake hands
witit two of the girl typists, alt ignorant
khat one of them oherrehed a secret and
ardent admiration far him. The fact novae
hardly to be 'wondered at, for the young
very good to look at. He bad
=in ras
nit3Suzzar regintent for nearly
soven years before behad taken to city
work, and his military education tam
s"thiarlY discernible in the line way with
which he held himself, and in his stunt,
w ell-groomed look. As he passed through
the ,door he •entered a little ante -room,
and from the room beyond there came
tint 0 middle-aged. rutin, with his hands
full of .nagers.
l Mr, Bryant, there you are. I was
lost coming to fetal you. Will you please
go in?"
He etoad on one side and olooed the door
axe Bryant passed into the other room.
This WAS a ertIall shabby apartment, yet
it contained two handeome pieces of fur-
nitur, one an inlaid satinwood bureau,
a piece of French workmanship exquisite.
ly decorated, and the other a high-backed,
carved cidoak chair. In thie chair was
earted the head of the firm ;which em.
0110100 Julian Bryant The "head" was
a woman. A thin, tall, desk woman, with
an 'Unmistakable look in her fenturee,
anti in the quick yet furtive expression of
tier eyes.
. She was natter extravagantly dressed,
sts and wore great deal of jewellery. The
Pea.rls round her throat were ;supposed
to be 2natchlees, and Julian heal often
heard it said in the office that "the chief"
carried about on her person something
like thirty thousand pearls when she
'wore 'these pearls. The matter did not
interest bim, however; he was far more
attracted by the extraordinary brain
-
power nt this woman, by the strength of
ber will, by her shrowness and her mit.
Sho turned as the Young man came in,
and stretched out both her hands in greet.
Mg to him.
Ahl" sho said, "it's good to see you,
,Tullan. You seem to have been away a
long thne."
Julian Bryant pressed the two hands,
and his faee flushed. This ,weloonse twos
a eurprise 10 hiin, for as a. rule Mrs. Mart
mx.ik had a few -words to spare, and was
ttirtlleal iteelf in her manner, ihe had
no time for graeltrasnees of bearing; her
motto wits to get the moat out of every-
body who worked for her, and 11110 best of
everybody with whom he did Ibiteiness.
"Sit dowa," she ettid, "and tell me what
yinevii been doing. You look another
..41't1 I'm 'awfully nt, ebanks lo you,"
`Bryant enamored brightly. "Mrs. Ifar-
nook, it wite-really too good of you to
give me six weeks' holiday instead of a
j• flta'iyetnitM at the desk ..111110(1; and
shin she smiled one slaw how old olid
wee, one (oven' too, as t 10 oleitr sunshine
streamed, hpon her, bow1 pathetie were
Abe 'efforts' to induce the belief 9at
would have seensnl almost presumptnous
to Sieve done tioS he ;mid; 'and yet,' he
added the next moment. eit Vali of course
oaturally your marriage with my me-
ther's stenbrother that gave me my
:hence here."
"Yes," said Mrs. Marneek, "it was that
in the beginning; but YQU. have yourself
to thank, Julien, for all the rept. When
I first heard of you, and my late has -
band asked 1110 to give you 41.. Chance here,
I must confess I was tt little prejudiced
against you I said to myself, 'A. boy
who him been in a smart, cavalry regi-
ment will be the last sort of person to be
worth his in this office.' The mo-
ment I easy yau, however, knew that I
lied made a mietake. I'm pretty good at
reading tharaotere, and I knew there mats
stuff in you. That's why I took 1011. 011,
any why I mean. to give you all the
chance I can."
Once again the color flashed into the
young anan's face.
"I don't know how to thank 7011.." he
said. "I'll have to tot you realize my
gratitude by facts and degreee.'
Mrs. laarnock smiled at him,
I sent for you now to tell you I am go
ing to make some changes here. You
know that Hodson ie leaving? Yes, he is
going abroad, Well, I propose that you
should take his place.'
"Hodson's morkl" Bryant echoed quick-
ly. "'That -that is a big step Mil"
His heart was beating wildly. It is true
that he had not as yet set himself out to
sort out and arrange and calcultite how
Enid and he were going to live on the
very little income which he earneil; but
at the back of his mind there had lurked
the uncoMfortable conviction that it was
not going to be a very easy matter. And
now in the most wonderful, most Imes-
pected way'he was nominated to a post
that would mean certainly four times the
value of what be had been earning
hitherto. He stood so long in silence that
the seaman at the desk laughed. ,
"Web," she aeked, "do I understand
that you mill accept thin new office?"
He looked at her for an instant.
"Accept!" be said. "Ohl you know I
will! 'Else only thing ie, am I quite up to
the work? Hodson has been with you 00
long; lie is such a smart chap. Of course
• aa my utmost 00--"
Mrs, Marnoek interrupted hian.
"I have taken your measure; I know,
what you ean do, that's quite sufficient,'
she said in her curt way. "You will start
your nese duties next week. If there le
ens -thing you don't feel quite sure about,
come to me. Don't go to the others. Come
to me." Her sallow face had a tinge of
color. "I am very ambitious for you,
Julian. This is only a beginning."
The young man stammered. He felt it
well-nigh Impossible to expreee his grati-
tude. Her kindnees, her belief in him
meant so much -so very much!
"I wish I could thank you," lie said;
"but I can't, honeetly I van't."
"I don't want thaules," said lire. Sfax
-
nock. "I know I eon trust you, You. will
have to see Me very frequently at the be-
ginning; in fact, there is a good deal
that I ought to talk over with you at
once. Dine with me to -night."
Julian Bryant bit hie lip.
"Oh! I'm so very sorry," he said. "I'm
afraid I can't dine to.night."
"You are already engaged?"
He laughed a, ;lane Shyly.
-Yes, he paused an instant,. and then
he said, "My wife expecte Inc.'
Mrs. Itarnock eat very atilt, and there
mos silence for a moment, then She re-
peated-
"Your wife? You are merried-when?"
She spoke jerkily.
"I married the ileit day of my holiday.
We have been spending our honeymoon
abroad.'
Again the woman tivan silent, DMA then
she queried -
"Whom have you married?"
"My 'wife is a Canadian -that is to
eay," Bryant added eagerly, "she really
is English, but she has lived the laet,
few years of her life ,with an aunt in
Canada; her parents are dead. She name
over to etedy ramie here. She plays most
heautifutly:
"And she has money?" queried Mrs.
Ifarnoek, her voice dry and hard.
He laughed.
"Oh, no; not a farthing. Some lady in
Toronto interested herself in Enid and
sent her over to England to study. We
met for the first time this minter. We
were staying in the same boarding-
house:
Mrs. lifernock was tracing, some lines
on the blotting -paper with a pen. Her
hand trembled -that long, thins brown -
;skinned hand overburdened with rings.
"Why did yon not telt me?" she asked
He looked surprieed.
suddenly.
"3 did not think about Of course,
me mother knows."
"Your another!" Mrs. Marwick repeat-
ett the -words almost contempt-amasly.
"And naturally your mother would ass.
prove of such suameme folly!"
"Folly!" 'rho yoiang anan repeated the
word with a. little note of quick anger in
his voice. s
Ifrs. 1401 -neck threw down the pen.
"Yea, folly. What are you? Twentreix
or seven? Well, whatever you are, you
are a, boy just .beginning to crawl in busi-
ness, assuredly not able to Mid. yourself
upright, much dem to support another
person. Why didn't you come and tell
'me what you had in your mind? Why
didn't you come to me and ask any ad-
vice?"
He answered 'her straightforwardly.
'0 don't thtulc I wanted 'advice. I want-
ed happiness."
The woman laughed a mirthlees, langh.
"And you suppose you can buy your
happinese in this Way? Well, you are not
the first fool Who has dreamed finch a
dream." Her tone changed. "I am dies
anointed in you," she said harsh3y. "I
had certain Ettabitions for you. As I told
you just now, I believe you had the etuff
in you to aehieve big things, but to get
them you must be independent; you want
to stand alone. For goodness cake, Ju -
Ilan, why did you do tine thing?"
Julian Errant answered her proudly,
"Because I love My wife with all my
heart; ;because she is alone in the world
and has need of am; and beeaufie she loves
me as I love her."
And Mrs. Marnock answered Lim with
shrill laugh.
understand,'' said. She 'got 111)
slowly from her chair, and moved about
time room. There 'was a strained silence
for a moment, a enema 'which she brake.
"So," she .saild, with a sneer in her voice
-"so for the secona time yen have mul-
e:tied your life for a svornan! In the bts
ginning it, wee yoar mother who destroy-
ed yotir career, forced yott to leave the
army 'when yonr ;father died, and landed
you with responsibilities that robbed yon
of all you had. When she married and
took herself' out of your kande thought
I saw the way clear for you, and now you
neve taken on another svoman-a wife."
Site turned and lethal at him 'with her
sharp, aceusative %me. "My friend, you
wove lucky enongh Mae your 'mother;
I tun afraid a wife wIll be lees easily die -
Defied of,"
The yoUng anan slush his lips firmly,
-MISSY words, evorde he knew that he
would regret after they had been ;Molten,
trembled on those lips. Ho turned to-
wards the door.
"I am sorry have disappointed stou,"
he said, and with that he would have
named out, but, Mr8, INIE11.1100k stopped
him
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A. LA. BERLIN.
A cartoon from the New York Evening Telegram, which shows the view
taken in the United States of German militarism.
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their work and went, hut he stayed on,
waiting, and at last Mrs. Marnock's eeere-
tary mune to him bearing a. letter.
T.here. mas a curious look on the man%
face as he handed this letter to Bryant.
He pawed an inetent na though he would
have epoken, and then, with a little
;shrug of hl ethoulders, be walked. alms,
Julian Bryant slipped the letter into au
inside pocket of his coat, and then made
his way Quickly out of the office. Al-
though Mre. Marnock had spoken of a
wedding present he had a presentiment
this letter 'monk' give him very little
pleasure. He wae, however, 'wholly nu
prepared for the contents of 11. 2101 un-
til he "was well away from the office did
he open it. Inekle he found a cheque for
$1,550 and a very ;short letter"An hour or so ago," wrote Mrs. Mar -
nock. "I told you that hed great am-
bitions for you. By your own folly you
have destroyed these ambitions. You
have not only done a very bad thing for
youreelf, but you have deceived me as I
can no longer trust you, and as your
marriage alienates entirely all my sym-
Pethy, and the interest I have felt 111
your career, it mill be futile for you to
remain on this office. I therefore
write to tell you that I shall have no
further use for your services; and I en -
<dose you one year's salary.'
Just for a little while the young man
.felt dazed; then the harshness, the cruelty
of this treatment, •anakened his aner.
Hardly conscious of where he seas ,goina,
he 'walked on, telling himself passionate-
ly that he .would immediately return QM
ill-omened wedding gift. Phrase after
phrase flashed into the young man's mind
of the letter he would write when he re-
turned this cheque; but after a while
there came change in the currant of his
thoughth. Anger gave may to the inevit-
able reaction, and with it there came an
uncomfortably clear perception of what
lay immediately tn front of him.
The expenses of his marriage and hie
honesmoon had exhausted what little
money lie had in the bank, There remain-
ed indeed barely enough to pay his bill
at the modest hotel where for the moment
he and his 'wife were staying, If he sent
hack this 51,260, what could he do? Had
he been absolutely alone the position
would have been so different, besides the
money :was justly his; he had. been turn-
ed. away, cut off from his only means of
existence; hateful thought it 11116 to feel
that he 'wee obliged to use this money he
dared not act on impulse.
"Alter all, I ehall get some sort of
work." he told himself. But there stole
layer his heart even as he said this to him-
self a cold, dull feeling. It, mould not be
hi finst experience of trying to get ern -
allayment; he knew now that 32e bad been
extraordinarily lucky to have boon given
an opening in the 111`11.1 of Mernock and
Marnoek: Influence had helped him to
this peeitien; there 10.116 nothing of the
sort available now. He hati 'Planned to
get back to Enid as quickly as poseible;
but he let 'bus after 'hue pass him: he
wanted to be ealm, Im wanted to have
driven trouble out of his eyes before he
met his wife.
That mornins they had sighed as they
had kissed and ported for a few hours.
"Horrid, horritl. work," Enid had said;
and Julian had repeated the verde; and
now the "horrid work" was taken away
from himl
Julian Bryant trembled a little as he
faced the full eignincance of this!
(To 'be continued.)
DUEL IN FRANCE. ABO Ple Allen 0 .., OLD. et Ineereenne.m..rens eertne,,,a, v. or.a...a *
...--,-
1.9 Still the Frenchman's Favorite Riseeneeptions in. Regard to Dm
Temperat tire.
barbarism, it SrePiniali.ne the French- Belletin of the Ame•ricen Geogra-
While other nationalities spe,alt There 16 11 eommon blief, writes
virtuously of the duel as a relic of Cant, Villijelmur Sbefansson in the
raan's favorite outdoor sport. I -le Oliva SoeietY, that Arctic travel -
may become enthusiastic over foot-
eleffreactasreofthee'xtbreesnbi:Icataildm..itileLataidt•leliat
ball, go in thousands to see 0, "com-
bat de boxe,n but there is only one has its origin in a hazy understand -
event that will cause him to fight ing of the physical truth that, other
for a place in front of A newsp•eper things being equal, the farther you
bulletin board or argue paesionately go toward the polo, the lower be -
for the privilege of a look at one of Comes the everage tem,perature.
the extras distributed in his favorite But altitude and the presence or
cafe...411e latest duel. That the pub- absence of large bodies of water are
lie is excluded from these affairs of about as important Lectors as lati-
ho,nor is a surprieing concession to tilde in determining tenineraturo.
the proprieties; the principals could MI of uS kaow that, but the think-
ing habita of ancestors wh.o did not
rake down a tidy little sum by
know it are so •strong upon us that
charging an admission f•ee. But they
we do not make actual use of that
see to it that their deeds do not go
knowledge.
unrecorded. The newspaper report -
The Meteorological Service o•f
era and the moving -picture men are
allowed among those present. The Canada has regular observers,
ing an the Parisian journalist who ncila. 11/Mrniirobbaa
American baseball writer has noth-
aamnr agt °ItheieereliPellaTaslasa'
men is an agrieultunal province, whose
specializes on duel stories, .
largest city hae a population of
every cinem,a, theatre in the capital
nearly two hundred thousand, and
features the films of a se,nsational
curren,oe.
duel within two days after its oc- with a. climate that allows successful
grain farming wherever the soil is
suitable. Herschel Island is a
There is a law on the books
whalema,n' a rendezvous about a
against dueling, but it is a dead
letter, Teohnioally M. Gailleaux, thousand miles farther n,orth; its
when he crossed swords with a poli- only permanent inhabitants ere Es-
kimos; it lies on the northern coast
tical opponent not long ago, was
guilty of an assault with deadly of our continent, far out of the way
weepons with intent to kill, And of any wain current from either
the Atlantic or the P•acifte, and yet
M. Gaillaux, a, former Minister of
Finance, should have been the last for' tem years its temperature has
never fallen as low as the lowest re -
to set, an example of law -breaking.
card in Manitoba-8,nd this melt -
But he would have been the most as -
mired with instruments of 'the same
toniehed man on earth had anyone
sort, made by the 'same maker, and
attempted to put him under arrest.
tested and carefully compared with
Should a participant in one of these
the same standard in Toronto.
combats be killed (which never hap -
Up to May, 1908, the lowest re -
pens, by the way), lais opponent
corded temperature• for Herschel Is -
would not be tried for murder. It
Fahrenheit ; for
is probable that no notice would be Land WaS —54 deg.
Manitoba, —55 deg. Fahreneit. And
taken of the affair beyond the hold -
et the Manitoba cold seldom pre-
ing of a formal inquest on the body. y
vents ,the young people of the farms
The unwritten law countenancing
from riding in singing sledfale to
the resort to arms is pert of the Gal-
lic temperament. /t is more power. dames six or ten miles away—clad,
too, in clothing that is not nearly
fol than a, hundred statutes.
. so thick and warm as that which
the poorest Eskimo wears in sin -Dila'
THE JUBILEE STARP ROOR. temperature's and under similar
conditions
An English Inn Is Covered With it is '
true that a tourist often
writes more interestingly about a
Postage Stamps.
place than its oldest inhabitant can.
Within easy walking distance of
Arctic literature is interesting
the old cathedral town of Chiches-
:, enough; the trouble with it is its
ter, England, is the "Rising Sun,
inaccuracy and exaggeration. An
in North Berated—a house of inter-
TrA, kimo repoiter on a New York
est to •all boys and girls who collect —
daily might possibly write •an emus -
stamps. For the little inn contains
ing -account of a sultry July after -
a room that is oovered, every inch
noon in the tenement district, but
of it, with postage stamps,
would it be likely to be acenratel
Oeilinga, walls, doors, chairs, ta-
bles picture frames, every part of It 'meld give a reader l'a Paris 130
very clear idea of the summer cli-
the room except the floor, are thick -
mate of N•eW York; neither do some
ly covered, while from the ceiling at the documents of the Franklin
hang long festoons. and ropes, made Search give &strictly unimaginative
of bundles of stamps for which there account of the climate et sea level
was no other room. There are fully in the regions about 70 deg. north
two million stamps pasted up, and •
latitud,e. Here and there in the
a million more in these fe,stoons, book you re•a•cl of the terrible cold
while great bundles, one of which and the suffering it cans,e,d; turn to
holds sixty thousand stamps, hang
the tabulated temperatures in the
among the heavy loops. dix and ou m
number of stamps that attrects the
But ib is not only the amazing aPilea ' ' 7 ' aT find "--36
hcorrors. No doubt it was, horribly
deg." corresponding to your day of
aim on all sides, of great inge,_ _ Into a man who had grown to
visitor'a attention. There is evi-
na mi e life in southern England,
ity. The pictures inside the stamp- where the skating on Pima. ponds is
covered frames are of stamps them- safe .e•nly in a "hard" winter. A
selves; the ceiling is ornannen•ted maotent.might forget to make a
with a great star; the arms of thehe.n rtyedin his diary an a day
over the fireplace, and the table- weatherthte
neighboring town of Bognor are the Englishman's
Vietoria is surprisingly- veaSahuf ayliS
Nuelhausen's Treasure.
cloth shows .the Eiffel Tower I Queen ' 61." •'
Muel sem
--4.----
lifelike in
carefully ohosen stamps of different
colors. The Prince of Wales's fear
the salt. Instead of, as f,arme•rly,
making shafts, down which the men
are swung, and up which the salt is
raised after being hewn or h•lasted,
the following method is adopted.
Holes are bored *in the ground,
sometimes from 500 feet to 1,200
feet in depth, until the salt beds
are reached, Tubes are then in-
serted from 9 to 12 inches in dirt -
meter, ad water is sent down to
the bottom, where it dissolves the
salt rock, forming strong brine. This
eventually rises up the tube, whence
it is pumped to the surface. If
quite saturated it then contains 26
per cent. of salt, the remainder be-
ing water, generally •colored with
clay or other impurity.
The brine is then run into salt
pans for'. evaporation. For 200
years at le,ast, until quite recently
o•nly one method was employed f•or
this evaporation. The iron salt pans
are from GO to SO fe•et long, 30 feet
broad, and 2,34 feet deep. Huge
fires are lighted at one end of the
pans, and flues brought under-
n.eittli. The brine is boiled, and the
Water evaporated until the salt falls
down to the bottom of the pan. It
is then raked out and laid in heaps
to drain, and is then, for in,any pur-
poses, ready for the market.
The temperature at which the
brine is evap•oreted determines the
quality of the sant cryetals. When
fine table salt is wanted the boiling
conducted more rapidly, and this
makes a finer crystal.
A second type of evaporation pan
is what is known as the vacuum
pan. The brine, instant of being
poured into open pans, is run
through pipes into large closed box-
es, from. which the air is, in a great
measure, removed by pumps. By
this means the water is removed
much more cheaply,
Forin,erly the great objection 'to
table salt was that it became damp
when exposed to the air. In order
to prevent this, salt manufacturers
have added'a little of something and
placed what is known as prepared
salt on the market.
The blest -known of this prepered
salt, perhaps, is Cerebos table ealt,
which was- introduced ah•out, twenty
years ago by George Weddell, of
Neweastle-on-Tyne.
While experimenting with salt
for his own family, he discovered a
means of removing the damp -
ceasing partiele,s by co'nverting
th,ein into phosphates without anter-
ing the Balt itself. Phosphates, of
course, enter in olio form or another
into every organ of the body, in-
cluding the brain and for, its sup-
ply of these the bo' dy depends upon
the feed. Tlhe phosphates naturally
present in food, how,•ever, ,areinostly
lost in the process of cooking and
preparing, and by adding this pre-
pared salt ,th,ey are in a. measure re-
sto•red the food, while ak the sumo
time improving itailEtWor,
TRE WORLD'S SALT SUPPLY.
Collies Front Salt Lakes, Behring
Sea and from Salt Mines.
That the salt industry in Great
Britain is one of considerable mag-
nitude is evident from the fact that,
the United Kingdom produces near-
ly one-eighth of the world's supply.
According to the latest available
figures, the world's output for
twelve m,antbs is 16,558,676 tons.
The British Empire supplied 3,545,-
150 -tons, of which 1,873,550 came
from the United Kingdom and 1,-
300,477 from India.
Salt, by the way, is still taxe,d in
British Indie. Indeed, the revenue
from the salt duty comas next in
velee to that from land and opium.
In modern Italy, saki as well as to-
bacco, is a Governme,nt mon,oporly,
Thera are three principal SettreeS
from which gait is obtained, i.e.,
;salt lakes, the -sea, and salt -mines.
The great Salt Lake in Utah, Amer-
ica, provides a very good quality of
salt, but it has to be purified be-
fore it is imitable far the table. The
world depends for its chief supply
on the beds of salt. rock under-
gronnd.
The biggest salt mites are in Po-
land and AustrienNtihgary, some of
which have been worke4.1 for. hurt-
drede ar years, and contain
remits, ballrooms, and chapels hewn
out Al the solid ealt, reek,
Within die last generatien 0, new
Charity may cover a multitude of
sins, but there are several stin un-
covered.
In a besiness aten's club in a
western town there sprang up two
factkns, one which etiticized the
steward because he did nob provide
the members with good meals, and
one which defended him hotly, The
dispute got fiercer and fiercer, Half
oiiie "I must give you a madame nretont.the club wanted to fire the stenotrd
neklesned eve , . ,• ' i ; I erhoo at ons, The °thee half said he
.z•on du, noi, :write, eue to,id, ttat lerae,p tin you Ileac from me this
n t tennan o yo t.
th Ent his intervieW with the Wtth efficient. Than, without ware -
yoke wet; *oft. nryailfLwant, out and tried to eat ;seine
'111/4" EIV"I'' "kr'''. le "aa ha'ala" 111A . be n be served had taken ally le ing, the steward himself decided
on the Pima With both bands, hut he Old 1,44114,,b740 ge foi„Tuneaor, do.,,,,,,3, , al.
1104 sit 461°1' IX" remark VWel'ti8c4 1"nt' Mott ttehratipy, heri lia went has c tte ,
"Ohl I don't thik-I Innen- 1 barmy- the momentous nneation. One day
at len& time a inexact of the cln
'flbMtr *I" r°°116" 1 I'M.'" 'If" M''''. Tirrit!iigitttlotlisi.trtitkirailfrilt•art/r4 first tasked 0, Waites t "Where's the
Meld to do that: hfis Week thift toe ing lingered. tIo 1Vatl
lae 1011g'
Innate:1c. "Yon knew am interested el F
time they mut been snarated for so steward I" ` If ain't here," re,
3'em Tlesidm. ill"01.jreric rer Int' many lloitre. lie wondered What Alla bad plied the waiter, "Ho Said he WAS
Rirg,,iirraert•oofeiltinoolineated, teen doinie with lioreof„ hiM siritislef goieg down the street to get some -
11 0m'10I0l16 You are such a tlis ontena, You 1:nowi It ono oYattnea t,6 other clothe finleh&I Illebhod hall been found of thing good to eitt,;;•
"tioneetly, tuner remninbored nett., _
ha,u in ancient times was
there and the crown are also repre, known to fame as the seat af the
serge& Most of the stamps are Anabaptists. Now it is a city of
penny English sta,mp,s, but there
saimoke-
are others fr•om all over the world.
One door is a bright yellow, covered the oidei, part are many sub trea..
entirelY 80,000, with a forest of steclos rising from the feetories. In
with the SWL1.11. River sures, including a ;famous house of
stamps of 'Western Australia,. th,e Knights of St. John, beautiful
It is all the work of the landlord, Schwarze,n,berg Place,. with its bub -
Mr. Richard Sharpe, who, already a ling foimtwin, its notable old
stamp collector, thought of this tat cathedral with a earved door, the
an arousing way of disposing .ctf admiration of e xi) eat ,, ,ted many
duplicates, He finishe,cltho room in other evidence's of a gilded past.
celebration of the queen's jubilee.
"He's never made any effort to
Dr, Hans Frieclenth,al, famous support himself," "Oh, yes, he
German proteeson, seys that the has, To my certain knowledge he's
new woman will 'have, a beard .and proposed to every girl with money
wall also. b•e,conn,e bald. ho knows.
Sugar
does make the
bread and butter
taste good!"
IT is when you spread
it out on bread or
pancakes, fruit or
porridge, that you notice most the sweetness and perfect
purity of REDPATI-1 Extra Granulated Sugar. Buy it in the
2 and 5.1b. Sealed Cartons, or in the 10, 20, 50 or 100-113.
Cloth Bags, and you'll get the genuine AdOr, absolutely
clean, jai as ft lefethe refinery. 85
CANADA SUGAR REFINING co, LIMITED, , MONTRE,'AL.
1. , u;ke.s,..1"16,'1,7.^.:`7
On Mc Farm
19.4t.•*,0•41~1•V *or ask v -•i
Hints for Dairymen.
Have the doors and gates around
the dairy barn wide enough to al-
low the biggest SOW in the herd to
pass Through with plenty of room
to spare, Many calves are lost
through injury by crowding.
We °nee saw a farm laborer bit
a fine MS with a club because she
broke through a light fence to
reach an armful of green fodder.
The next thing we saw was the man
going down the lane toward the
town carrying his grip,
There is no more sentiment about
a cow than there is about a Len.
Both are mere machines to turn out
a delicious product and it devolves
upon the person who runs the ma-
chine to get results.
An agricultural writer says if ll
calf is kept in a clean, dry place it
will always seek a clean, dry place
when it becomes a cow. Nonsense;
a clean dry place must be provided
for any cow and she be driven into
it, else she will wallow in filth and
mud
Lime for Acid Soils.
The only economic neutralizer,
or corrective, for soil acidity which
is within the reach of the farmer is
lime. Ordinarily one thinks of lime
as that material used in the mak-
ing of plaster and mortar.
Throughout the agricultural world
to -day, however, the word lime has
taken on a very general meaning.
It not only includes burnt Brae, or
quicklime, but also air and water -
slacked lime, ground limestone,
marl, pulverized shells, and mar-
ble dust. These different materials
with the exception of 'burnt lime
and water -slacked lime, are com-
monly spoken of as carbonate of
lime, or lime carbonate, because
they consist of ordinary quicklime
combined with carbon dioxide gas
of the air.
Just Horses.
Sore shoulders, and, consequent-
ly, balky teams, are the conse-
quence of hard work during the
busy months unless your harness
fits properly.
The horse, young or old, that
starts out to farm work in the
spring, fat from the winter's rest,
will, in one week of hard plowing
work off some of this flesh and Lite
collar that was tight becomes loose,
works up and d•-,wn the shoulders
and thus galls m'e formed.
Watch the collar and unless it is
fitting tight, either use an excess
pad or a• smaller collar. The latter
is always preferable.
Don't make any sudden change
in the feed,
Give hay to the horses first if
they are warm. The grain, after
they have •cooled off.
Fly Ointments.
One pound of rancid lard and half
a pint of kerosene mixed thorough-
ly until a creamy mass was formed
and rubbed with a cloth or baro
hand, not too thickly, over the
backs of COWS has been used as a
protection against flies. About
three-eighths of a pound was used
for each full-grown animal, Never
use any form al machine oil on
steck.
Dipping Hogs.
Treatment of hogs for mange
should begin with a vigorous scrub.
bing with brush, soap and soft we -
ter so as to remove the crust. A
variety of coin tar dips are on the
market, Most of these are quite
satisfactory if of sufficient strength
and warm enough (about 110 de-
grees F. Do not boil). The hog
should be given IV good thorough
soaking in the dip. not, less than
two minutes. The hog must go lln.
der, bead and all, at least once.
Treatment must usually be repeat-
ed one or more times at intervals
of eight days. Treat the whole herd
and do it thoroughly,
An effective dip can be made from
crude petrolemn as follows :
Four gallons crude oil.
Sixteen'gallons water,
One pound soap,
The tette should be dissolved itt
the water 'by heating, An emelsion
is thea made by melding the oil and
thoroughly churning the mixture.
Water in different sections differs.
very greatly in the way it will cum.
bine with soap. If this amount of
soap does not give a good emulsion
simply etld more soap. Avoid
dips, in cold weather.
While the hogs art* laking the
dip, thoroughly clean and then
disinfect the pens.. in case of true
mange the fence posts,, trees, and
everything egainaf wlech the hogs
can rub must also be disinfected.
Use a strong disinfectant and
plenty of it. After treatment do
not pet hogs back into lowly or
mangy pens.
•
When the donkey sew the zebra
Ile. begat 'to stvitdh his ball;
nevei," was his comment;
"There's a mule that's been fo
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