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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-01-05, Page 6OR, THE MEMORY OF A BOY W2T1111 DARK EYES, j CHAPTER VI. `s it?" Aunt Rosa asks suspi Ifo `ioi- sly. " he gentleman upstairs," Mary Anne sworn, with malicious enjoyment in flier sgnixiting eye. W .' ho?" Aunt Rosa exclaims, letting knitting fall into her lap in the ex - entity of her amazement "Ask Mr. Baster' to walk in," 1 say uietly. '.Haat Rosa, this is my friend ,I1r, Baxter.+,'Mr. Baxter—Miss Herrick' e. Gerard Baxter bows, Aunt .Rosa inclines er head stiff ly, her eyes• blazing through er spectacle!, like the;r eyes of ]tor own $a,aic said he valued it at over a nun- , cat > Muff when Re -is vexed, l ww , sorry r o B that at you ou were er e Id red, and d i t would ld not have been ee n a 1e away," Gerard sayB,aa he too mueh." sinks into a chairbesidemo. A sharp'pain runs through h heartms eves ,' answer, laughing."My leave like a knife. This was whatzhdadread- 'sense! But you know that. time. Ted came down; to Brighton tor. Poppys w ding, he writ Gerard Baa ter was working; hitii elf into skin, and :bone, .and" had. grown quite etead7, and meant to make a name for himself' Yes, so you told mo" I remark care- lessly, though remembering all about it at least as well as Olive does. "But he has fallen ' off since then," Olive says, shaking her blonde head. "Poor fellow,' I think he met with some disappointment about his picture --he w obliged to sell it or, soiaeth"ing, and they only gave him eighty for it, whereas 'tvwfui speouhation' in their painted cues, X think 'C would 'be "a great deal More stiif and stuck-up and dignified than you ere." I never 'look at 'them," I eonfese can-' didly, 'canine back' in my chair, and, looking ,a'tthem now however. "Wo aro a lain family, Olivia --themes not doubt about it! Hideously 'ugly I call those mein and women!" ?`I suppose you mean to say that you are plain, AllieP" looking at me over her shoulder, `1m no beauty, my dear. Leek at the extraordinary ,effeet of that blue eie-ht' from ' the Window on my great great-, grandmother's face!' Doesn't it. look ex actly as if somebody had' given her a black eyeP My dear Alfie, if Diggee could hear' Is stopped!" Aunt "Boon is rather deaf. Unless we speak in a kind of raised, sustained tone, he can hear -very Title of what we say; n tree SUk it necessary to do the; time. r "zhad. a great deal ' of assn aroe to venture to call upon you, hadn't IP" Ger- ard. says, smiling, "xshould have been sorry not to have wished :you good-bye." "Alfie,. may I write to you sometimes?" w, ":Oh no; I. thiuk`'not!" I answer hur- rti dlxr uaa, not answer your let- 1 ea lice without either ee1ng h, «y from you?" "You muff w r p," I slay,, smiling a lit- tle; but there . a''"d tears ,in my eyes. .t •T intend to worst. x have been wild ,leaough,' Alfie—Yat,don't ' know how much of the Bohemian Were es in me—but the tho'tsght of you will steady me, dar'ing; while.I love you I shall hate everything I knew' you would not like." Something in the admission, frank as it Is, saddens me. Istis love for me really great enough to work such a change in him as this? If he forgets me, will be not relapse, into his old idle' ways. and ,then be sorry, and so despair of ever doingany good? "Gerard, will you . promise to ` let me know the day that you forget me?".. "Forget you, Allie!" If you do forget me, promsie to tell me so at once." "I do promise; but that day will never come, darling. I have 'never loved any woman but yon, and I never shall." Aunt Rosa stews upon us, speetthless 'with wrath and indignation. What are we-wie Bring nbent, this foreign -looking, shabby, unabaslmti'.young roan and I- We . make the conversation mora gener- al'after this; and in about twenty min- utes Gerard gets up to go. 'Good-bye," he says, holding out his hand to me, having said good-bye to Aunt Rosa. "It is hard that we can't have any better good-bye than this, Al - lie, isn't it?" My eyes are : full of foolish tears, so full that I ani afraid they will flow over and attract Aunt Roea's attention. But Aunt Rosa is not looking atme. "Good-bye!" I echo mechanically. And so he leaves me, and returns to, his studio; and •:his unfinished pictures, while I pack away a few tears into .my orineenteau—the firxt z helve shed, -since s was: se 'child. Well, Allte. the more I look at you, the mere I think you the most extraor- dinary Birk In the world!" " elinary, Olive?" "T think You could kava been sans- have enough and too much of that to - Carleton Street when you, had such a morrow e home as this!" I was very happy in Carleton Street," I answer dreamily. "Happy! Because that boy was there." "And I was net a bit obliged to your mother for bringing ,Aunt Rosa down up- on me." "But mamma did not like your being there alone, Allie." "What nonsense! I am my own mis- tress, Olive, and ean do as I like." "Not till to -morrow, my dear, Olive laughs. "After to -morrow, you eau please y ed—this reaction after possible ttointment. " "I ant sure you are sorry for him,'Al- be," Olive • says, looking at me. "We used to call nisi your handsome sweet- heart, you know—poor boy, be used follow you about like your shadow!" "You speak of him as if he were dead, Olive, I say a little sharply. "I am afraid he is going , to the bad, and that is worse,'" Olive observes sober- ly. "I' met Jack Rolleston the other evening, and lie told mo he Hardly ever saw Gerard Baxter now, that ho never came to. Berkeley Street; and that he was -afraid he had got into a very wild set, and was going downhill as fast as he could." Olive is preceding me up the steep path, and has enough to do to maintain her footing, without • turning her head to look at me. I am glad of it. If she had looked. at me,she must have noticed the exceeding whiteness of my face. "It is a great pity, you know," she went on—Olive likes to hear herself talk. "Bae is so young, and so remarkably good looking? Katie Rolleston told me—you know she came down to Brighton the day before I left—that he passed her in Re- gent Street the other day, and it quite made her heart ache to see how shabby he was. She said she would have spoken to him, even in such a seedy coat;' but he passed by without looking at her. I suppose lie knew he was rather a disre- ,putable'lookieg figure to be seen speak- ing to any lady, in the street." "Is he still lodging in Carleton Street?" "I do not know. Jack knows very lit- tle abort him. lie says he doesn't like to seem as if he were prying into his affairs, and he is such a proud fellow, Jack says it would be as much as his life is worth to offer him a good luncheon at a restaurant, and that he weaid be. sure to guess it was because he looked half etarved." "Does he look like that?" I ask, in- finitely distressed. "Well, he looks very thin; Olive says, laughing a little. 'I say, Allie, they are putting up triumphal arches here; did you know that? "1 ,heard they intended doing it. We well come round by the garden, Olive. I don't want them to surround us like a swarm of bees." Turning, from the glimpse of the lawn and carriage . drive, .seen between the o stem: 04. the walnut trees, I often a little gate lea$lug into a .long; st,ei'ht waack, walled b." tall, green, fragrant hedges of 'I'tn not going to let : Digges heir me;besid'e's, hes as deaf as Aunt Rosa." "It not that the lady whose oyes have made their appearance again in you, Al - lie, after- lying dormant in the 'family, for a hundred years or so?" "I believe so. And I have heard that she was the most pig-headed woman of the age in which she lived Her eyes are exactly the color of your Alfie the same sleade of bluer gray, like au .autumn fog.' °" "It does, not sound well," I laugh, shrug- slugshoulders. "Fogg eyes don't mys Y, y give one the idea of anything very al. luring. Olive, you don't mean to saq ypu can't eat any more strawberries?" 4 "I am reduced to that deplorable pli'ght, my dear." Looking at the table, with its delicate appointments ofglass and silver, Fixe dainty flowers, the take and ,'r.'am and piled up dishes of strawberries, my heart aches, thinking of my boy. He may 1,e hungry, while there is food and tri t=ram in my house, while my very xervante feed on the fatof the land. The thought sends that old dull aching rah; threugn say heart again. I shall go down' and see .what they have done to the room they are to dance in,' Olive says,' .getting up from the table. "I hear the decorations tneze are to be something. splendid—all scarlet ge- raniums, festooned about the mottoes and flags." "So I hear." exceedingly -to "'Alfie, 1 should like ex Y shake you!" ger We ' leave yielding 6 ineetietion CANADA o to til• 179 3QS Mckinnon Building, TORON LTtZ.D EiSGerifiD into his haggard cheeks. 'I :-shall ifev 4Kitne to-:;tell';ryou-,that.: sit f.'•• I am• ocMeetift'us of a; feeling. of r Yet .hi had scarcely : doubted him, adY of an manner had seemed like the grasp iron hand about my heart. But, if 'he',.' hat not forgotten me, it matters' very in ' elm little about anything e "You parcrmised:to let Sue know," I say, . standing :belore":him in the dancing gun, light. • and Shadow, looking with, 'wistful. eyes into, ltis altered face. he 're eats: 'I have not forgotten' you,"p almost savagely, a fierce light in , his eyes. "'I wish I hall"' "Yat "Before all my respectable ancestors,. Olive?" Before them all. Oh, Allie, = I forgot to remind you of that note to. the con- fectioner! on fectioner! We left it lying on the seedy mantel piece." unless' Z It will be late for post then,. run back nolo and ask Uncle Tod to take charge of it" - o?" Olive asks readily. "Shall • I g "Certainly not.. If any one must go. I will go myself." "But can't you send somebody over for it?" "They would not find it probably x' h nothing articupir to do' jurat et. might' .not have eared as. 'mne' en, aro_an angel!" he ',,returns brok- e! het his head is turned away* from . iii utakee no movement to erose the syard. or two of mossy path,the glint of sa,�us :ine• and, poker of dancing eshadow, h other. ec 'tis from•. a divides.. Witten vV ou °.have eatifered ; :since 1 saw'you last,, eeepay With a pitiful glance ;et his gang' . ho'law t heeke . apd faded !Wee. " linfferedr he echoes, with an'.' inde- scribable intoiietirin, "Alba. if you cared for iva—aH you say You did - caber didn't r wish you' had, Gerard!"., "Andetieli~.a new burden to -what was .o;' liofore Heaven. heavy'�;sno'neh. already. Gerard." re for nothirt.g, so long. as you r� lveu afraid, of .poverty? „•W 'at "But I tare ,,`'life t,,,. have not forgotten Mee* After, all, what:l matter' 'if we` had starved together- ut i does anything: matter,, if wr; love each wo uhouid n_,t;,:hive-: starved—you,,would oilier?"Iiave given to tiourage to -succeed, And "'If we love • each other!"' ho repeats if we had; etarved one day, we ,should vaguely, his hungry hollow eyes devour•-. leave feasted' the iiext'-we anon'$ hese lug my face. been like . tpwo children—tiv 1 shauid ba " f you love me,' Gerard, I can forgive f and lad'IYed' together. We;Should.. I , 'rred evargt tried oleo," have been hs,pnY, Alfie; because we•;should "T hare', he :says brokenly, turih have loved each. other; but we heve'inissed ing his `face away—"I .tried. hard to be it—lost jt forever! vrorthy of you, Allis."Z 'ansvyer:tenderly. Hee speaks, rapidly, -1=ercely, but -tluite. "I know youcoherently, • If' it had'itpt , Biu "I know all:about it, Qererd-I have aoherenre 1 shonid'ha"vn h ht.,.... You marry ine?' WINTERn t erarrti ' CARE OF HORSES Why do so many. farmers negle -their -teams during the. wznt months? By neglect I mean, wl are so many farm horses kept sh up; in close stables when not amble ly at work, . fed 'a 'heavy allowal) of heating grain, all the forage th can stuff and only given e'.terei when actually at work in the f' or on the road? writes Mr. J. Bell. ' heard:, tvas ntaa, or bad been' dry "But it was not n me. It, was a'bad wine,- But T do.not is d i_;b da-- for you when you cared for;me — if wine,- li •ht in his ekes did eare. • „ light a c etdefn" out my you ever I 'Vee cruel, 1 Say, S "1 dye care," � I respondggravely, hold -hand to Ilim. "There are plenty• of,Poo fid my head r yo high as his is low. 'I le who would say that I had acted tsisca•. Poo - did cure for you, and I care for you Ly but I know in my heart that I al hi st'1 ! not. I ought to 'have -Married. yoti,.: i '' I hnae not!"' lte exclaims quickly -sail forbidden you`to think of tee at ail.' passionately- s wordug, out bis ,den s k t th" those haggerfl !f to keep nT Words away. ' I am not worthy of. you -you must not waste de- other thought. on such a miserable Ile - graded wretch as I am!" n 'But if I love you, ;Gerard?"` have n i r; y run d wu rind "But you do not know how lout , 'iraete present; so, if you like to o see what they are doing 1n the servants y fallen, child," 1 ;, `• : z ch' to hall, I'll go back to the vicarage and gee 'Not so low but that r my note to Uncle Tod.' .lift you up, with Heaven'h hale I say,' Olive agrees to this arrangement;dad, in the same grave tender ouiet way. five minutes later I am zn my wood "Do not thrust me away, Gerard: 1 should again, passing under its mazy network not be a woman if I turned from Yon' of sun and shadow, drinking in the de- because you were unfortunate—if you had licious woodland air. I walk very slowly, the ,little melee '"— brown river below ine on. my right hand, on my left the overhanging rocks with their June vesture of mess • and ferns and trailing festoons of bindweed and honeysuckle; and, while I walk, I am thinking of Gerard Baxter and of the dream that I have been dreaming for the last three months. Has he forgotten me? This is the question which troubles me most. If he had °forgotten me, would be not have found melons to tell me, so?, Had he not promised to tell me, in the gloomy old drawing -roam in Carletoi Street --were' they . not the' very last; words.: he had said to me before he said Tth kbye? lI. has- -not .'forgotten , me for. had, h would: hltee; toirrestfeT- r repeat d, the. . and while li t to m selr forlornly; , Te a p e yy thought' is in my .heart, I raipe .lily eye* and see him standing before nee,' thin and gaunt and shabby, in the soft sunlight and shadow of my woodland path, "Gerard!" I cry; and yet the reality of his presence scarcely startles me, so present bad he been to my thoughts. He answers nothing, not a single word, only stands there, looking at me ae if I were a ghost. But it is he who looks like the ghost'of his former, self, "Gerard, where have you come frome What are you doing here?" I have come from London," lie, an- swers, without any gladness in his face --.'from London, to see you." • Something in his manner chills Me, and sends the warm blood surging beak to my heart. lou have come to tell me that you have forgotten me?" "No,'' he replies, a dusky 'red coiningnevrenieunorennsintromnnzavresmiumegneemenaninniviannenannEnevevivominormeseenvannernemmemmovugemnsevemnom, �� In'a natural' state in: any cliz the horse, like 1010 all api'rna] s, ani' necessarily take eV:grCiSe in see y f ,u,,i taliCO" t to ing a means o. ~;-, , �. fore a horse w .ler i have e c musta . 4 ~ 1 (whenever pr�tnti'c. that he may be able, to 1z owner the full equivalent or' the feed t;ttuy honest work f . a used to work; Z~arm teams •are t hard all spring,'summer. and .:f4, or. the•farmer The dull .season f ., when-inolenient weather preva Outdoor work Ear the -faithful fa team will`" ' ltnee taiu; Don't let tli , xi shine' up'i. i, •d he a time stable fore days at , 1 • . ting food, breathing e air: of the stable. rn le ilo � evk� b . g de'i!'�i I'ibl;.-.tiariii pu1�- , • „ nit If qr cattle that are kept y�.,..r.y 1.".,. andy.. getting the 9ti�v}}n � y). Y • fe :;oOCt; :daily's exercise at itr�eg box. and yew, Don't you mean to let them see you, o Not to -day,, if I can help it, I shall fled with 'those wretched old rooms in ""My dear, you talk as 3f coming of age were a grievance' 1 "It is a -nuisance to me, Olive." "You will tell me that Woodhay is a nuisance to you next!" "Oh, no; I should not care to give up Woodhay!" I should think pot!" Olive laughs, ae we puss from the cool secluded green walk, through a tali archway out in the hedge, and ..iindourselves in a blaze of sunehine and scarlet geranium, and brown velvet calceolaria, and blue lobelia, and yourself.' hundred other radiant blossoms. • And I mean to do it, I assure you."Adie, when are you coming to lira at We are walking from the vicarage to Woo ay? Woodhay—it is only . a fete minutes' walk ..To live here?" I repeat absently, my through the wood. - It is June weather eyes on the gilded weathervane which exquisite weather, all my woods are a twinkles like a star on . the point of my' mystic tangle of green leaf and shadow quaint red brick gable. and golden -dropping sunshine, all• my "you have 'done nothing but echo ma meadows are bloomy purple, "sighing for,since we left the vicarage. When are you the scythe." . Between Woodhay and the going to take up your abode here in your vicarage there runs a little rushing brook, own manor of Woodhaye" and beyond the brook, on my side of it, "I don't know. Not till 'tfnele Tod is a hundred feet of woodland runs up too old to do duty, probably„He will steeply, with a wealth of overhanging never leave tee: vicarage till then." ferns and tangled foliage throwing their. 'Hut can't,",tan Iwo hore without your shadow • far across the 'shadowy' eombe, 'Undo Tod?" It le up this southern elope that we aro . , yvinding by a stoop path overhung w'"By myself,Olive?„ -with "You eau get lots of.iiice elderly ladies woodland tangle' ol woodbine and blacic, to come and live with yon," "berry bramble, wtth a ' ferns and velvet mosset' laughing at lie from the crevice' of every lichen -spotted rods 'Doe:you ever thine o1 that boy of -yours eallig'' Olive asks, as we climb. d steep together, bathed in el- s. .-streaks of suit and shadow. " ''role of him?" I repeat inanely. "Yon used to he great friends, you know, though I think you have forgotten. ,him. Jack Rolleston used to chaff him about you—Jack though he really cared aw- fully for you, Allie, :. olttng apart." "Tacls Rolleston zs a great fool, Olivet" "Oh, well, I know 5'aek hasn't much 1"ONLY A OOEO" Td80'OO� IPS - � STOP IT BEFORE IT STOPS IOU have yen ever heard of a case of catarrh, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, or pleurisy that did not start with a common cold? ';very cold you catch has in it the makings of one or other of these dis- eases, if iseases,-if it can break clown yourdefenees. And even if it does riot develop into Something more dangerous, it will keep you thoroughly miserable for a weer: or two at least. The wise course, as soon as you feet e cold coining oit, is to start taking -brei-Co Syrup of Linseed, Licorice nd Chlorodyne, and keep it tip till the la is knocked out completely. This splendid cough syrup will do the trick traickly and thoroughly. You can feet perfectly ,safe in taking Ilea -Co Syrap of Linseed, Licorice and Ctilorodyne, or in giving it to your children. • Vixe'll Madly give your �lhyricatt a list of its ingredients if yon like, YOiir Druggist can supply either es bottles. The National Drug & ,•z 1 't•tM , 1010 on, .•.."� . �, 10,10 ' attd:• iradoubiet •tali s <�'n' ", entice "I think one would be enough!." 1 say, shrugging my shoulders. "01 course I mean one—at a time. Why wool tn't' -your Aunt Rosa come .and live With' you Imre?' "Aunt' Rowe. would not :leave ,'Uncle Tod.' "Your uncle could get • the Reverend Hyacinth Lockhart to come and, take up his abode at the vicarage.' "I. don't think he could. The Reverend Hyacinth has, set up for himself in the village—you' 'snow the pretty cottage near the church, lust outside the vicarage gate?" • "Going to marry somebody?" Olive in- quires, with great intermit. “Very probably,- though 1ave not heard anything about it—as Yet. "I hope, is is not going to•;merry any body," Olivet says pathetically. I should not have half' as much Inn when I come down here it there was a ties. Hyacinth' Lockhart." "Then why did you refuse him last summer, my dear?" "Oh, I wasn't quite prepared to marry hien;' youe know! But I don't want him to marry anybody, else." "Ton little dog in the manger! Come in andhave some strawberries, Wee. I told old Digges we should want any amount of strawberries and cream." The old white-haired butler, who has lived at Woodhay as long as 1 can re- member—aitd a great deal longer•—meets us in the hall. `Good afternoon, Diggos. „Where aro the strawberries and ereamk. "In here, madam," Digges says, throve, int~, open the; doer of the dining -Poeta. It is a long •itt.room, with carved raf- ters and a high black oak wainscot, which gives it rather a sombre look. Bet the glorious June sunshine streains in tbroudh he etained, glass .of the old -cashiered bay,windows, and falls in, blue and pur- ple and ruby rays on thea 'polished par- queterie of tlad floor, an the''oily eualnt. ile lop a sa • 'me wz itl' orvals and in consequon e hungry eye»—looks at my face.•my dress, erring .from many ailments ?net g Y }Tut: -lie makes n0 movement to take my to I1OSe . t orifinement £L1onFyy. autsteetebed hand. "You look like a-pic- time,: Allie. S wish I' could paint you in heavy feedingo gown,with all those tangled as well ac tis? loaves' for backgound. your head thrown The Ivxlt r w d I' tcly against that patch of with 'one of the most sucG- downt here a life of struggle and pov a, man who owns Al a0. a sea pale blue sky- You look so Ito and you breeders of horses in this cob and, goad: what right had d at one time 100 head of thoroughbreds, (To be continued.) from the Atlantic to • the .I'aclf o s - erty with me!" of ahem horses that are•'4 Y. -s-.1 ..10"1, a —,.1071 i QUALITY IN SUGARS` All Sugars do keit look alike, if placed alongside each other. Beery Grocer knows thio. We want the Consumer to know it. Insist on having EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR You will not only have a good Sugar, but the best ou the market. The clear white color proves the superiority of "Redpath" Sugar. When buying Loaf sugar ask for REDPATH PARIS LUMPS in RED SEAL dust proof cartons, and by the pound. The Cangda Sugar "Re in$Ing Co., Limited MONTREAL, CANADA. Eetabliseeden 0354 by John Rod,eth eurrt,:..x•. Jr. furniture infer 6n •the grim "faces of my ancestors and ancestresses Imaging 'found the upper part of 'the wall in their tar niched frames. I wnnsr" all there- stete'd foref et.;hers of .yours did not a>vo' yogi into more tins•'' aretioti Alfie " Olive observes, 'nodding c.or 5or.. lU her seney Monde head at the faanily ,l ox- . 01 ! 611•:,1 a ) tralts Xf ilii an theee"p''lm ,beritfferlt r. "Thinking o2 nal a Situ ? Better uilde' E C *:nr ate C• 5•...-1010 Ott ;'r Pt— ime': I .,reiresSfIgn r114/1'lai f4e. Farmer Ccyi' .Do,'. 1>Vd!?t `Conereie." 'fells you how o, use, Concrete in cdnstenctine i38rns Hitching Posts Horse (Sleeks HOus$b Fouitey Houses Root Cellar&. liE construction of • a Silo affords an excellent exantiile of what the farmer Can do with Gonerete•• and of the superiority of Concrete over an 'other material for various structural 'work about the farm. Tilt usual wooden silo, besides being expensive, IS far from satisfactory. In the firstplace, it does not endure; and, More important stili ;being far from weather-proof contents beconue water-logged—Producing an unsan- itary condition. - . A 'Silo built of Coterete, on the other hand, Is practically everlaatietg —It is proof against heat, cold -suet 'moisture and 'W hat the merit of compar• ative economy. Clsterne Dairies Dipping Trines 'Foueclotlone Fence tsoete Feeding l=lbors Shelter 'Wage Gutterlr Stables • Henn Meets- Stairs: This econortzy feature to further ex- plained In our .free book --"What the 'Patine?, Cans Da With Concrete. "• --which tells how to zn•ixand:nee Concrete for the making er, aiios and ether buil1inge, on the farm. Stalls Steps' Tanks Wal Troughslis Well Curbs; e��eitc , etc., ete,• C • fluteted 4° Cerriell 5 Natioltei Dank Building, McMinn!. Hill one the lii'id •send for be ole t 'o da y You may send me a copy of book. entitled "10:attte Farmed• Can Do WW1 Concrete." lame 1010 1010. 10,10,•.. Address ................4r theirsuciiessful performances o turf. It was his invariable custo let all of his studs have ex in the open air whenever the ther conditions permitted. 3 mares, stallions and colts we turned out to run about an the benefit of fresh air and e.x sometimes even when the w seemed unpropitious. ' Oftentimes the , stallions taken out and ridden froml fifteen 'miles a' day. . get muddy and diny, but "fru their vigor in'the stud until vented lige. The brood mares and colts ages were kept in good` co by- being allowed to run aro paddock or field, gaining st and vigor all the time. The farmer's team . nee same recreation as ;does the horse and ,will not be ready. heavy : springwork unless; 1 the proper care and attentio ing the winter months. In the Far West or Nortl are, no doubt, days when the els' teams must stay in th Let them be as few as pi Remember that an hour's e turned loose in stable lot, 'p or field will start the b] coursing, take the swelling' stocky legs, fill the lungs wit fresh air and in the end:s'a erinary' ;bills. BURNING THE 1BOADS A great malty people h mistaken idea • that the, time the ;.roadside in order to many: insects that winter places, is in the early spl in•' year. . If you will watch closely a place where the roadsi been burned in the .springy see the insects ,conning out'. ground very thickly on th days. . This proves that the inset not killed, Most • Of there ar ground and ;the heat of. passi ,g'` over ^them does nt. them and the tref, burn above them makes it.. all for the insects to' dome fort no doubt a few of them a�'7 the majority of them "3 jibed. The right time to burn the sides to do effective work.' fate fall of the year, after.. weather has already set in the tender vegetation is dr, Then, if the roadsides are the insectsin such places lulled by heavy •freezing, usually do not go very de the ground, but seen' to d the covering of trash tip them froze., the U+olti.. This is a great bit more n 'the+ ki'llins of hte i:nse