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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-08-02, Page 6TIE WHITE LADY;. OH, WHAT THE' THRUSH SMD. CHAPTER IIT.-(Cont'd) Abcat four in the afternoon 1 reached Bletchley, where I sat down under a hay - rails near the road, and pieced together a. letter to mv sister, telling her briefly that I had left Black Jack, and bidding hor send me •a few lines in -care of the General Post Office, London. This done, I . continued my journey. I should have been better pleased to see Aline and take her advice; and as she was in service at Bedford, not more than eight miles from Bletchley, I felt sorely tempted coarse 't working dr ss sand shabby d so few pence in my rocket, that I could not. find inmy heart to go and ask for her. I Posted my letter, and walked on. Abont eight o'clock I passedthrough a small village a few miles south of Ched- dington, and here I bought a pint of new milk and a roll for my supper, after whioh I turned from the road along a meadow footpath, and coming to a hazel rove, stretched myself upon the bracken y a bramble bush, and was soon asleep. could not afford a lodging that night, s I had but sixpence left, and a long ay's march still lay between me and ra• don. I was awakened early by the shrill pip. g of a blackbird, and sat up, feeling l'e old and stiff, and wondering where I was. he grass and ferns were wet with dew,. nd the dewdrops sparkled on every leaf And twig; a cloud of gnats and hover - flies flew round me, making a drowsy bum; the air smelt of the grass and the leaves and through the slim branches of the trees I could see a blue-shirted, brown -aimed mower whetting his scythe. I rose, and, looking up at the glistening sky, thanked God. I was hungry and weary and almost penniless; but I felt that this was good. For the first ton miles I went on very well; but as the sun gained power I be- gan to feel weary and faint, My feet were blistered, and my old shoes, scorch- ed by the smithy fires, gave way, so that I fell lame, and limped on at a sorry pace. And now I was to meet my first experi- ence of Christian charitI was passing a pretty little house sus„ beyond Box Moor, and seeing a lady in a white mus- lin dress and a white sun bonnet trim ming a rose bush in the garden, I made bold to ask her for a drink of water. She was a young girl, as fair and as pretty as the flowers she tended, but I suppose she had never known want or trouble, for she turned her light bine eyes upon me very coldly and said, in a sharp tone, "Certainly not. The servants have to fetch every drop of our water from the well, and we have none to waste upon tramps." I turned away from the garden gate and limped on without a word. I felt more sorry than hurt, I felt more ashamed for her than for myself, and I remem- bered the lady who gave me the lily, and the gentle look she gave me with it, and I began to understand dimly why that look had moved me so strongly. It was the light of love that had shone in on my dark soul from those great sweet eyes. The light of the love that is of no sex, no nation, and no creed; of the love that is Christ -like in its humanity and divinity; the love That hopes all, believes all, pardons all, and glorifies all. --So I blessed the lady of the lily, and ut•rteynrogress'was`painfully goer; and it was well on in the afternoon ere I had measured fifteen miles of the dusty road, and found myself passing a row of mean little cottages built at the edge of a briekfield. At the door of the first house a stout, swarthy woman of middle age stood knitting, and I asked her, although her face was by no means inviting, if she would give me a cup of Water. She looked at me steadily for a mo- ment from under her great blue cotton hood" then said, in a deep, rough voice, "Aye, marry. why not, bey? Ye looks th' ye d coom fur, and it be hot, it be, au' these rooads vaary doosty." I thanked her, and said I had not pass- ed a stream for many miles, and was very thirsty. "Why. sure -iv." said the woman, "and belike ye'il doom in fur a while, an'' I'll wet ye a coop o' tea; wheerby it's joost now ready, in manner o' speakin', an' my 'oosband '11 be in fro' the brickfield ones minute. Nor would she take a refusal, so that I found myself directly seated in a cane chair at the rough deal table, with a cup of tea and a plate of bread and butter before me, and the wood woman stand- ing by my side knitting, and uttering words of wonder and sympathy as I told her of the distance I had come, and must yet go before I reached London. "Aye," she said, "but Loondon's no good Place, boy, an' ye'd be better back at boome. But ve must not goo tbeer whiles ye rest yersei'. and' ye're lame too, as I see, poor boy; awe, but it be a long rooad ye 'ave to travel, And then the husband Dame in and bade me welcome, and took his tea, and eon - versed with his wife in short mumbles and gruff growls, iutierspersed with muttered Aye, .wells, an, "Dear 'earts," and "Nay, nivers," as he learned the history of my pilgrimage. But after tea this apparently uncouth laborer set to work with cheery kindness to doctor my Crippled feet, He ran soaped worsted, through the blisters, rubbed them With soap, gave me a pair of well -darned woollen socks to wear, and when, about six in the evening, I resumed my jour- ney, stood at his door and barked out after me, "Good speed, sonny, 'flow an' easy does it, A big 'eart beats a big '111." And so I trudged on refreshed and rest. ed, and feeling less friendless arid Moro hopeful than at any time since I Ieft Halesowen. That night I slept in another brickfieid wrchin sight of London, and at ten o'clock next morning entered the great city, and walked on, wondering and bewildered by the bustle and the noise until I stood at the foot of Ludgate HilL As 1 stood in the middle of Ludgate air - ens and watehed the human river flow round in converging and diverging streams, the embers of my hope died out, and a sense of utter loneliness carne over Ree. ,All that vast city round me, all those teeming millions of fellow -creatures so near to me, and amongst ib all I had net a friend, not one soul to speak ,tet• For an hour I stood and wa;eltad the crowd. No one noticed me. aro one seem- ed to notice anything, eleerybody was pager, and self-contained, and In a hurry. On all the faces there seemed to rest the same grey shadow of care, in all the eyes there seemed the same cold Iight of -sus- picion, and at length 'I became conscious of a strange feeling, hall shame and half fear, as a grim fancy grew upon me that if I dropped dead there in that street the men and women I saw would simply step over me without looking down, and that my death would make no more lasting impression on thatawful human river than the fall of a• stone into a troubled stream.. - This was my first experience of London, and it has clung to me. Even at this day I could not pass that spot without shiv- ering. as a, man shivers when a cloud covers the sun. London people are much like other people I know, but the sight of a vast and busy orowd is terribly de- pressing. The, huge grey columns of Rus - sign infantry. which used to come down upon no in the night outside Sebastopol, did not appear to me nearly so hostile or tremendous as the people in tbe London streets appeared that day. It was with a Plum face and a heavy heart that I con- tinued my walk towards the post office. There was a letter for me, addressed in a strange hand. I went out under the portico to read it: VARIETY 1S THE SPICE OF LIFE The preparation of appetising and nourishing food is often a perplexing matter, but variety in food is essential and the troubles of the housewife have been greatly lessened by Bovril which is the most convenient forts in which a dOntpletee food .don he prepared. Ina minute you earl have comforting and nourishing bouillon or Bovril Tea. Bovril Sandwiches, thin bread and butter with Bovril spread lightly between,or hot buttered toast with a little Bovril are positive delicacies. iloarii is excellent for gravies and soup's al a little used itt reheating meat adds e _•hr,ic' nicinanev and improves dig estlibl ita. Dear Sir, -Your sister, Miss Alice Homer, is very ill, and wishes to see you at once. Please come quickly. Her condition is serious.—Yours truly. HELEN ARMITAGE. I stood looking blankly at the paper after I had read it. Alice ill. Come at once. Condition serious. Yes, and I had passed within a few miles of Bedford, And now Bedford was full forty miles away. and I was hungry weary, penniless, foot- sore, ootsore, and almost shoeless. I looked at the post -office clock. It was twelve noon. I put the letter into my Pocket, and asked the way to the nearest railway station. There I found a map, and by it discovered what route I must take. I also begged a bit of string from a porter, and, having fastened my broken boots together as well as possible, I set out on my walk at a few minutes to one. CHAPTER IV. It was still very close and hot, and what with the heat, and the crowd, and my lameness, I made very poor progress for the firsi. four or five hours. But I did in my mind nothing' but the' t, Alice, i11 and miserable eV agaiust hoe for the sound ea A little after two—I beard a in a village I was nearing the sided into bellow rumblini e flashes, though the rain fell, more heavily than before. hungry now, nor thirsty. only giddy and so tired tlia+t I co force myself to drag one foot other. I stopped for a minute, ing off the muddy remnants of threw them into the road, ass barefooted, and suffering sevoa,ei step: until it last, more dead t I passed the first.. villas on:• side • of Bedford, just es the ;e chiming the quarter after five. �l It was broad daylight, the r ;, ceased. the 'sky was blue and a+ lost cloudless, and, the air was rich wits the. scent of the summer'f!ow,r5. I d'ac- complished nay task. The night a(.d.. the journey were over, and I was in Bedford. • I found Mfrs. Armitage's house 'it ` few minutes later. Xt was called Fern :'rode°, and stood in a pretty garden just off the main .road, I stopped and leaped union the gate.. The, blinds were drawn; the door closed. Nobody :seemed to 110 stir- ring. There was no light visible in any window. The gravel all around the • porch was strewn with the yellow petals oi'the tea roses beaten down by the storm; en the left a bed of scarlet poppies `hung their dripping blooms like wet—flags, 'and in the little thicket of laburnums a thrush was singing cheerily as thrushes only, do sing in the early morning. . ; l don't know how it was,nor whht,but now, when stood for the first timc,with- in sight of the house I had come ea far to find, the conviction suddenly came ne- on me that I bad come in vain. "Too late, too late, too late'" seemed to be the har- den of the thrush's song. and the rain- drops on the roses looked like tears." Well, I must know, the worst, I went round to the side -door and rang the bell. ,The door was opened immediately .by a stout, middle-agedwoman in a Servant's dress and cap. She started back in alarm when she saw me, and would have shut the door, but I put my bare foot over the threshold and managed to croak out the wordfs, "I am William Homer. Ma Sister —Alice—is The woman appeared. bewildered, "I'll ees and call miosis," .she said, holding' the door irresolutely in her hand. "First answermy question," said T -"Is my sister dead?" The woman looked at me. and I saw"the answer in her eyes, and it was, Yes. IIJ!!" Refined to absolute purity—sealed tight and protected r m from any possible contamination-,, Extra Granulated • Sugar inthisis new 5 -Pound Package cleanset, p urest 'sugar you, ,can buy. Zach. Package contains 5 full pounds of sugar. CHAPTER V. Having read my answer in the servant's eyes, I did not wait to hear it from her lips. My sister was dead. What could. mere talk avail? Without a word I turned away from the door, and limped down the gravel path, between the quenched flame of the popn:v bed and the rain -crushed Sweetness of the mignonette. The thrush still sang in the -tree. I heard his note, "Too late, too late!" All around me the world was hushed in the tranquil still- ness of the early dawn; all above 'mo stretched the liquid blueness of the sum- mer sky. I. seemed to feel those things as in a dream. I reached the road, turned to look at the house again, saw all the picture as through red glass, heard a strange buzzing like the song of swarm - not try to force the pace. Anxious as I ing bees, felt the earth heaving under my was not to lose one single minute of feet like the deck of a ship at sea, and time. I was yet well aware that it would then something s:ruok me across the tem - tax my powers to the utmost to get pies and I knew no more. through it all, and that my only chance I had fainted, and had fallen heavily was to go steadily so as not to break down before the end of the journey. I left London by Highgate Hill, pushing On thence through Firebley, Trill Hill. and Zistteo'to' St. Albans, <which place `I passed about six o'clock, and feeling very faint, sat down by a bridge across a Tittle brook to rest and bathe my feet in the cool on my face in the road,, gashing my lore' bead deeply. When I recovered conseiousness Z .was sitting on,the,aaath,. with.my-back agasaiart the garden wall. and the servant kneelitig beside me etaunol:du my wound with u napkin,and. tweed ,:a`me to drink from a ekes of water sle p d,in her shaking water. hand. While I was sitting there two little girls , I wetted my lips, ;:'.: '„shed the glass came along the road. ,They were poorly away. but cleanly clad, and were eatine bread "Are you bettor?"' adv!; a voice, which and apples. They glanced at me with some sounded a long way off.. I turned my apprehension and hurried by; but when heavy eyes and saw a tall, grey figure, they had gone some little way stopped, like the shadow of awoman, standing be - and after a few words of talk tbe biter tween me and the trees. I tried to speak, of the pair, a round -eyed, ruddy -faced tried to rise, and fainted again. child of seven, came slowly back, and, After a blank space: of time, whether of approaching rue timidly, held out to me minutes or of years I could not judge, I her piece of bread. found myself once more. - I was lying on I took it without speaking, and she, my back, and staring• at the ceiling of a never looking in my face, ran off to her strange room. It was. a yellow eeiline. sister, and both went skipping and laugh- and upon it was a raised pattern of flow- ing down the road together. ers and leaves in gold. The sunlight OM - R was a little thing, but it meant much ted on the edges of the mouldings and to me, I ate the bread—about four ounces hurt my eyes. I shut them and lav silent —took a drink from the stream. and re- for a while, wondering where I was, try - Burned my journey. There were still thirty ing to recall my own name, until there miles between me and Bedford, and but fell faintly on ma ear the sound of a for that crust I think I should have died bird's song. which said, "Too late, too upon the road. late, too later" and I realized at once And I did not want to die. Alice was that Alice was dead that I was lying on 111, and longing to see me. I must get on. the sofa in the drawing -room of her mis- With painful distinctness I recalled the tress's house, and that the portly man weary hours of illness when I had lain in black, sitting on the edge of a hand - at home, weak and querulous from fever some chair and holding my hand in his, and hunger, counting the ticking of the was a doctor. clock and listening for my sister,e step. My first feeling 'was one of shame, my And she had never failed to come, nor next feeling one of pride. I remembered to comfort me by her coming. And now my soiled and shabby dress, my shoeless she lay sick, amongst strangers, listen- feet, my weakness and my destitution, ing for me. I looked along the dusty and my heart burned with the thought road, now half covered by the blue sha- that these 'Melt people should see ne- mis- dows of the hedges, and I tightened the ery. and perhaps regarded me eoldlS as strap round m9 waist and tramped dog- a burden on their charity. godly on. I struggled into a sitting police, With the exception of the short rest near snatching my hand away from the';~,doe• St. Albans, I never halted once from the tor, and said rudely, "What are you{ do - time I left the city until nearly midnight. ing? Let me go.” u , By this time I was just beyond Harling- The doctor smiled good-humoredly.;'i ton. about twelve miles' walk from Bed- "All right," he said; "no one wil de- fairly exhausted, I threw rd- and beim' a y e s p de - ford, , tain you. Get up and march." I tried to . do this; but struggle would I could not drag my heavy 1 from the couch. My back seemed br me arms hung down like bare of le. sank back, helpless, and tears • of and mortification filled my eyes. "Clara." said the doctor, in a' thick voice, "ask airs, Armitage f can spare us a moment of her tint I lay back upon the cushions and e my eyes. I did not want to see the lady of this .line House. I remembere' young girl who had refused me a 01 water. I wished that the lightnin struck ane dead rather than that 1: e live to see the cold :glance that tel I was an intruder. And then I felt a cool, soft hand ing my face, and heard a woman'e. such a lea, sweet voice, sayine. fellow! what an awful thing! and but a boy, a mere `boy." and 'I up and saw a tall lady, dreseed all it and with grey hair and grey Oyes was loaning over ene with 'a look o tie sadness, just as my sister did Tears when I was Still a child They fed. me, and nursed me, and o me, those kind smooth,in :spite Dented protestations; and when sister was laid in the earth, i .f forted by the assurance that, years of her life had been mad by love and tenderness, and That valley of the shadow of death kip had upheld and sweet words else spirit. I Went through the funeral calmly and without emotion. 1 Pang ' of anguish' at the tltougl Sister's death. My spirit seerxi steeped in a strange, unilatliral' ity. I saw the yellow earth 'nil the graveside, with daisies throt gh it where it lay the-th'i heard the dull droning of the voice, and the joyous trills am of a skylark's sone filling up,. in the solemn service. x led X limped And staggered along with head the glistening tare and thong myself upon a patch of grass by the road• side with the intention of taking a full hour's rest. But before I had been there many minutes I felt a great spot of rain upon my face, and. looking up, noticed for the first time that the sky was en- tirely overeast, and that a chill wind was pursing up the dust in the road and caus- ing the tree under which I lay to shiver and sigh. Then came a low rumble of distant. thunder. The big rain -drops splashed down thicker and teeter, and a faint flash of lightning showedacross the fields, re- vealing for an instant a ilhcuette of poplar tree and steeple against a .back. ground of coppery cloud. There was going to ben swan. Per a few moments I knelt there in the dark, thinking what I hod better er do , but a sudden idea that the lightning might bill me before I had acoompltsned mv 'ask decided me, and I scrambled up and stag- gered forward. Within a minute I was in the 'hick of One of the moat tremendous storms 1 have over Veen. The rain fen in torrents. The road become a muddy stream, the footpath almost too greasy to walk anon. I was drenched to the skin before I had gone a furlong. The water ran down my breast and back, trickling from my fingers and face, and through the Boles in my boots. The thunder burst over my head, peal after peal, with sudden detonations, dike the explosion of heavy shell. and the light- ning.,rent and needed the sky from end to end with blinding sheets and dazzling ears of time, Twice the bolts struck trees Close by me, rending and smashing the boughs and sending the leaves and twigs about me in showers. Once the lightning seemed to blaze right in my eyes, so that I r-culd not see for many minutes, and that time a thunder -clap exploded, as I thought, within a yard of Me, with a noise like the discharge of a great gun and a shock that made the earth shiver. But through it all, for two awful hours, a I nbs en, d.i lain else ed. ne the Ina id +pie k- 00, OOT ie ked ey, ho en- the Ask your Grocer for it. 111111111111 glorifying in its release from the muddy esh. I heard the parson beg forgiveness for. the sins of our dear sister departed, rad felt tempted to laugh. It was era esque; the idea of a- mere man inter- ceding with QQd on behalf of'the white- ouled, golden- earted . Alice! What was there to pardon in her blameless life? What mortal spirit could deserve a bright- er crown. And then the earth rattled on the coffin, and the parson closed his book, and the ark sang out a fitting requiem, 'one of oy, and triumph for tbe death of a wo- man and the birth of an angel, and we moved away in,silence through the sheeny grass, .and 'amongst the lichened tombs where so many of the strong and the frail lay dead—forgotten of the sons of m6n. That night Mrs. Armitage came to me as I sat in the garden watching the swal- lows play, and laying her hands upon my shoulders said, "My poor boy, you have not yet felt your trouble; and when it comes upon you it will 'not be well for you to be alone. I have gone through. it all myself, and I know the bitterness of the trial. You will stay here. We will find you work. Promise me that." But I shook m9 head and answered that I must go my way—I felt that I must press on. The good widow' reasoned . with me in rain. I would go, and I would accept no. help in money except one sovereign, and that but as -a loan. So she said, "God bless, yon, my, poor boy. . Be; good, �niy dear, be good," and I set out 01106 again for London• the waiter. His name was Harry pield- ine• and he appeared to be about fourteen years of age. He was very. thin and pale, and his clothes were covered with white dust. I asked him to sit down, ordered him some tea, and waited for him to tell his story. He had no parents. His mother had been dead live years. His father, a soldier, dis- t charged as unfit for service, had died in Dover workhouse a month ago. The boy after trying to enlist for a drummer, and being rejected. owing to a defect in his left hand, had lived upon the charity of the soldiers in the Shorncliffe Camp un- til the provost had expelled him, ,when he set off and tramped to London. He had walked twenty-five miles that day along the dusty roads without food, and had sold his waistcoat and,,.necker- chief for fivepence to a Jew clothes -deal- er. He told. me, with the ghost of a smile, how he had spent an hour in fruitless efforts to persuade the Jew to give him another penny; and how the waiter in the coffee -room had sent him out to beg for the same amount. But," said he, with a sigh, "I could only get' a halfpenny, and he wouldn't let me until I had six- pence." (To be continued.) EAGLE ATTACKS DOG. CHAPTER 'VI. In the loneliness of the groat city my grief began to make itself felt. Day after day as I went from place to place seeking work, or lay on my bed listening to the distant roar of the traffic and the tolling of the bells, the, shadowy cloud of sorrow assumed more 'definite shape, and the two awful ideas that.I was utterly alone, and that I should never see Alice again—never never, never—took such hold upon me that T began to hate my life, to shrink from contact with my fellow -creatures,, and to brood upon the thought of death. One night, as I sat in the dismal coffee - room of ` the plane where I lodged, with my head in my hands and blankness in my heart and eyes, I gradually became conscious of a boy's voice pleading .for "just one chance -just this one," and of a gruff voice, known to me as the waiter's, answering, "no," and "no," and "no." I got up and called the waiter to me. `What's the matter?" I asked. Thewaiter shrugged his shoulders, "Ow, it's nothin'," he said; "only a boy as wantsa bed, an' 'as no bras to nay fer it. Common enough, ti,at there in our business." The waiter brushed an imaginary crumb off the•'table, andset the castor straight "Where is the lad?" said I. "He'g gorne out a-lookin' fer a copper,' he answered. `It's rather 'ard lines, it is 'Cos 'e's Only an 'apenny short of 'is price 'e is; an' 'e's been a hour a•tryin' to col lent it in the Strand, 'e 'ave; which no body down't give nothiu' away as they wants in London, they ,down't." Tho idea that he might have given the boy the halfpenny did not seem to have occurred to the waiter at all. I asked him to call the boy back and send him to MO.. Then I counted my money. I had two shillings and a penny. 'Unless I found work to -morrow, I should be soon desti tate. But this was a cheap house, and d the beds only sixpendo, so that I was rick enough to entertain a guest, )th The boy came back in a minute w From Shidzuoka corns a graphic account of a bloody combat be- tween. all eagle and a dog, says the japan Advertiser. A few days ago, at about 8'a,nu, while one Ano was engaged in farming at tbe•foot of a hill called Awagatabe in a suburb of Shidzuoka, he saw his favorite dog scamper away in unusual ex- citement. The farmer,. struck with curiosity, followed in the direction in which the dog ran and was amazed to .see the animal jumping about and barking furiously in a thicket near the bottom of a large pine tree. 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The hog wall just about live on the pasture they can gather from the field and what grain is given thee,- goes hexagoes to growth and anyone who has tried it has found than only a mod - erste ration fed to the shoats on, pasture will make a good growth throughout the season. Early spring pigs of any good breed can be made to average pound of gain a day by the tire they are eight or ten months •old, and a large part of this can be made on pasture. The pig that is fed enough food to keep it growing rapidly from the start to finish is usually. the most profitable porker. In some section where there .is, sufficient waste erop to fatten the hogs it xray be profitable to allow. the shoats to shift for themselves. However, usually` the hogs that are allowed to shift for themselves and get fat on the waste are easy. victims of choleraand swine• plague. If there is a fair profit in feed-' ing hogs the business should be con- ducted in as careful and business like way as the feeding of cattle and sheep. DAIRY NOTES. • One way to save feed bills is to protect the cows from flies during' the Bummer and the cold weather in the winter. The length of the stall should be adjusted by the size of the cow, and ) always used by the same cow. Excellence is always relative. Its) relative degrees can only be gauged with accuracy when accurate re-! cords are kept. Nothing ever came' so near turn- ing December into June for dairy. cattle and sheep as the silo. Thesilo lends itself ad efforts at.intensive far* i Breed for type, but st cure individuals that Po"se§ certainty= the oharacterlsties wJl you desire your favorite. type of dairy cow to possess to perpetuate in your herd,, • We should never be deluded into thinking that an animal with a pedigree 'entitling, her to registra- tion is more valuable than another simply on account of such registrar. tion. Individual excellence is the only safe guide to bedepended upouin selecting cows to build up a good herd. The best cows are none too good when measured by their profits, but all of us cannot afford to go out and buy the best; hence we should try to do the best we can with those we have until we can secure better. ev 511 1.11a • taa th a u pri iz of nt a ou re ;u a, t� es >�e t Tl 1 IN THE SHEEP FOLD. One sign of an overfed sheep is the frequent,. stretching and spread- ing preading out of the legs. When these symptoms are observed give a bra mash and an ounce of linseed oil. It is a mistake to rend the bee lambs to market, as they are neve desirable and bringdown the ave age of the shipment. When a buck lamb is about three months old it begins to develop, coarseness and a disposition to' fight. A 'farmer from,, Maitland, Mo.,, writes : "Will dipping sheep' affect the quality of the wool 2" Perhaps not if the sheep is not clipped for two or three months afterwards, but why dip when the wool is longi This should always be done imme- diately after. shearing. POULTRY HINTS. Hens suffer from overfeeding as much as starving. Even a warm rain is bad fee very young chicks, and arrangements should be made so they can get to shelter quickly when the showers come. , If many chicks are raised it is.. good plan to keep a large 'tett near the 'poultry -house in which t drinking vessels can be boiled least once . a week. A handful ; ol,. eommon'.soda thrown in the water will help. At the first .sign of droopiness in a chick separate it from the rest of the flock and if it does not quickly recover' use the axe and bury the body. r Next to investing in gold mine starting en amateur garden lose the most money. to h; PI c h 5'i r ers 00 e be tl a at �tvl as- e d: me til eel tg 1 sea` pegs. ar c t iug hot ff. not hU 1t ire si