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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-07-31, Page 2r, the Belie Of the Season. CHAPTEle XVITL-(Oontinued) , "You are lorde of the eoil, -people of im•- Portenee and, rutbete, whilewe aee- 'well, just orainary folk, I ma quite un- deretend yOur rather •Rbie•Oirig,' - alio Puther hand op to hie lips to si- • lence the lover's extravagant flatteree -It i$ not that -the differenee-eanlaa all tO IVOar adeaatagee" •ehe said, 'MY father may thine of it," she wept on with innocent candor. "Bee it ezeuld be the •epane, if you 'were ef the highest Tank; Ile doenot want me to leave hen." "A•nel if he were lees anxione to keep you he would net give you to me, who am. in leis opiui end rightly, so much your in- ferioxe she& Stafford. But I emeht to eo to bim dearest, •I ought to go tamer - She trembled a little' 26 sae neetled against him. "And -and ---your father, Sir Steellen Orme?" he said. 'Whet will he eaYe" etafford, laughed slowly and confielentIY, Oh, my fathee? Se will be delighted He's the beet of fathere, a 'Perfect made for aerente. Ever since 1 can 3.eraembe he lige been good ;to me, a 'precious sigh better, axtote liberal and generous, • the I deserved; but lately, since I've know; hem— Ah, 'well, I can only eaY, dearest that he will be deliglitedto hear that hays aboeen a vitae, a,m1 when he see Yoix—" He stopped and :held her at area' length for a moment and looked dow into the lovely face epturned. to Ida -wit it6 sweet, girliebeeeravity. •aViay, he wil fall in love with Oott right out of handl think you will like ray father. Na. He- well, he's a taking sort (3f fellow; every body likes him who knows him-xeall knows him -and epeaks well of him. Yes I'm proud of him. end I feel as safe as i he werahere to say, in his hearty, earne6 way: a wish you good luck, Stafford! an may God bless You. 2111* deer!' " He flashed and laughed as if a, littl ashamed •of hie emotional way of puteing "He's fun of --a the zank of human kind- ness. is 111:9' father," he eat& with a touch of simplicity which was one of the thous- and and fifteen reaeone why Ida' loved him. She gazed 'OD at, him thoughtfully and eighed. "I hone he -svill like me," she said, all the pride wialch usually characterized her melted by her love. -I am Glue that I shall like him -for loving you." "You. will see," isaid Stafford, confident- ly. site will be as proud as a duke about you. You won't mind it he shoaes it '.1.14t- tlo Plainly and makes a little fuss, Lea? He's -well, he' s -used to making the 31103t of a goo•d thing when he hae itaat's the life he las led which has rather got him into the way of blowina a trumpet, you know -and. he'll want, a -whole eechestra, to announce you. •Diet about y•our father, dearest? Shall I eome to -morrow and ask for his consent?"• She looked up at hint with •doubt and a faint trouble in her beautiful eyes, and he heard her sip regretfully. "I am afraid," she said, in a. low Tam "Afraid?" He looked • at her with •a smile of eurprisse "If anyone were to tell shell be wild with pride; I shall waut to go calling alouti: She Ili my wife; my very ownl You. may admire-wor,ehip her, but elle • is mineeebelenges to me --be un- worthy Stafferd Orme!" "Yee?" elm univatured, lier voice 'Leiria lenge "Yoe evil]. be proud of me? Of me, the Peer little couatry girl Wee rode abeut the dales in a shabby habit and au old hat? Stafford., Jessie was telling rne that, tears is a, very beautiful girl staying at tare aline at Brae Wood --one or the vieit- ors. Jessie etacl she -wee lovely, ancl that ale the men-servante, and the amide, too, were talking about her, She must be more beautiful then I awe "Which of the women do you mean?" be said, indifferently, with the supreme in- difference whieli the man who is madly in. love feels; for every otb,er woman thau the one of ,his heart. • "She is a fair girl, with blue eye.6 and the moot wonderful hair; aheetnuared with gold in it,' as aeseie described it to me. And ehe eavs that this girl wears the most, beeutieul dia,moncis-I am still quet. ✓ ing J-eseie-ancl other precious stones, and , that she •is very 'high and mighty,' and more haughty than any of •tho other ladiee. Wao ae it?" • "I think. 6he moat mean Mies Falconer --Mie g Meade Falconer," said Stafford, as e indifferently as before, as he smoothed one e• of the silken treeses on her brow, and kise• • ed it as it lay on hie finger- "It es lot 1, the -way a slava, would describe her. ^i "And she is very beautiful?" asked Ida: e "Yes, I-suppos•e she is," he said. "You suppose!'• she echoed, arelaing her brows, but with a, frank emile about her y lies; the smile of eontentment at hie in- difference. "Don't you know?" yes, she is," he admitted. "I've .Xt scarcely noticed her, Oh, but yes, she is; d and she siege very well. Yes, I can me deretand her malting a sensation in the e servants' hall -be makes one in the draw. ingaroom. Bu., elms not my etyiG of beauty'. See here, dearest: it doesn't Round. slice, but though. I've eeene some hours with Miss Falconer and listened to her eiuging, I have only just noticed that she ts geed -looking. and that she has a wonderful voice: they say up at the villa that, there's nething like ib the stage -exceetiug Patti's and Melba's; but all the time ehe has been there I have had another' fade. atother voieo, in my mind. Ever dime I saw you, down there by the river. I have had no eyes ter any other • wornan's faee, however beautiful, no eass for any other 190•MateS TOIOS however sweet." She was silent a momeut, 26 ,she claieped her elands •a,nd laid them against his cheek.• • - • "How eermage it sounds!. But you had chanced to see her first-perhane you, would not have fallen in love with mer? HOW could, you have done so? She is so very lovely -I can see she is, by Jeasie's description." Be laughed. "Even if X had not seen you, there was no ehance of my baling in love witth Mies Falconer. dearest," he said, smiling at her gravity and earneetnese. "She is very beautifittaloYely in her -way: ie you like; but at is met me way.. Slae is like a statue afraid, I shouldn't belleee these.' he said. e air, ale a .s.,,,,n, , a, ,,i ,,, ....51v,s1 .•,1,9,• 1.1,m 'Fear and.' •Tem. bovemel,. made aerie - 4----ovorat-elat.,,my& .0...1-0 •voy galonA11111r" 03..e,r Anee, atitaitiene- .. ' e --- ' ,SIbea.sithoosok ,hhearplipyead, 1,3.0 i'n.t4itsi e•ty liaplyy, olTarnay.,„,,,?alillitartilge•rin lio'''''vteEne't'vittitir haleefil,,°'eteediaiPirf irf': that I tete afraid lest the gotle stiotild be hrtedn't seen the sweeteet. and- lovelieet giri. me that. it, was possible for yeu be be at 'MOSE tillle61 otliere. jot now' auti jealous and snatch my happiness from me. .in all the wide werld." "And you aell eel like that, feel co I am afraid that if you come toemexecev, „ea socertain thee you love me; even • -"Will have me (shownI out," said Staa my father will say 'IVO,' will— though you have eon and will see so Marty women who W10 far more beautiful ford, Favely. "I see. should. be ear - Prised. • than I am?" she said, dreamily. see you again." - a .18ornwer s'aieThkci. Ce."1:Itfain1'-;ealr: ares8sPu°rnecleodi ylvoi-util: "And -and then X should not be Lehi° to He laughed at the idea.. •love as I am of mine for you— Forgive "My deareet, if all the fathers in 'thentOLe'hedieavreithetr'ank'le' are-h:eehtadnesati6heatit bag world world said 'No,' it woaldn't melee any dif- mosee„ienen, Ili ference to me," he sa.id, wth i•thet air of "Yon raS'Y be 611"re." She said, slowly. "I masterfulnese, that tlaeh of the eye -which a woman loves in a Man. "Do yon think Eltall kltei'-vse e5 leng es 1 live. I knew I should give 7011 up, that I should be con- it! d° Ilist" knew -why'. 1 only -feel • „ off-leaPerhaps -we may be parted— ' Ile langle tent to say' 'e you -keep away from youI'm 'verg ei'arr".' eix'''arad. es” ed -but hie laand dosed on hers. and Irma - v,' laughed again, and she nestled a, little - Ire oea them tiglitly, e-eBut I shall always closer, and her sraall liana closed a little 'love vole Something has gone out of me more .tightly ori bis arm. "And you -is it my heart? -and I can never take it, 'wouldn't give Me op, refuse to see, me back trona you. Perhaps 700 may grow ascii if your father 'withheld his consent, tired of me -it may be. I have read and - heard of 'such thinge happening to woe 'would Tee' Ida?" ilie 'asked' N tuen-you may see eon:lona more be/lute "No; I eould not. Xt is just teat: I fol. than Miss Falconer, !someone who will' corns, not. Somehow X feel as if I had lead ye, to forget the little girl Nolo rode given you the right to toyeelf and that nothing" eould alter it, nothing oould through tae rain 10Herondale. If so, therw take ene away from you!" e ill be no need to tell meho eee058<). er o make exeusee, or °W ask for forgiveriase. fromnifVtainS gith'per°sisaib)heisf°,1nrmjliBnizni°d ar-eietaanbit g There would -la 110 need 'to tell me, for the Genet, soft ii.O6 whieb. made such , something lerea-eshe drew her band from eonieeeleme They veeeeaeri for a hita and touched her bosom -"would uto or two in silence, when she eveut .ozeme. You. would only have to keep away tie if she had beet; still considering the from ma -thee es all. And well, I ra a tter should be eilent, quite ;silent." • , "Deareatl he anurneured, eeproaehfully, father :ris01n1 013: irttobnowt: •Ca°,Md_e'a8ntda-rfaldr is,!,/tt, and with something' Iike ewe, for her you know. YoU saw bine that other night, ebyr:rwys U'ivnearsaekeneily;cejlegrloeraade 7•awshyl'41Idee yean's --ehe first nieb.t eve, met -do you remem- • ber? Ana lie was -walking, in elle pieta say tbie now, Juet as -es we hs,ve • son- , again the other yening. er y,„ ware feseed our love for eaeh other? Do you come -•ii I were to tele him that --that, you think -I Shall 13e fai•thieses? I could al - hoe ..aeeea me to be your wife'he might meet, laugh! any mart you deigned, Sy tete a Damien.; it might do ,him havna. to love °eel(' ever f°r•get' 7011, "el; eere Some time ago. -when ae was 'ill, the doe. et straw for any Other lablelanr tor told methat lie must be Rept quiet, She turned to• him- with a chadder, and that nothing mast be allowed to px.Iit,ble 017 'that was tragic in its inteneity, eiteer lei -nate bian, Ire is very old end turned to him anti clenched her smell leach; es 80cl:tided u 1115-11.0 sees no onehende on his breast. now but myself. Oh, how I would like you "Swear to ale!" 6130 panted; then; as if tO eome; hew good it would be if --if he ashamed of 1,11a paselon that ameked her, evotild give Int te yell as other fathers her •eyee drooped and .the ewift red flood - give their cleug,hters! But X dare • not ed her face- "1'1.01 Yoll shall not swear to risk itt I tatuotl atafford"---ehe alit her me, Stafford. I -I will believe you love halide on hie breast end looked ete at 11105 me as 1 alirill love you rer ever and over! -"ate I wrong to tell you all this -to. lei, But tiso thii 8b°1111 come 'wile° you see bow anneal I love you? Is It.= -um. BODEO other girl hall .7011 Evora. 113.0p maidenly of 31;e? Tell um if it is, and promiee tee 'that you -win not me, that will not do so for the futttre. I will hide a°1•1 :feet' keel) awaY er°11-1 mel X ereela my besot a. little better than 1 ant doieg bear le if -if X did. ion', see, yeti; .blif if X at eregent. Ah, see, it 11 00 my sleeve' 611,1V you—, Ohl" sonaethite like a mow]. Et took .her emu •and kissed the eleeve eseaned 1;er puiveriug lies:, and she flung Where her beare wee siiPposed to be, hereelf aeon hie breast with trio abandon, "I've reed that anen only love while tlie ures•elaconecieuerress of e they are net sure of e woman's Jove; that Stafford Was moved to 1115 inmost heart, with evere two vereens it, fe 011.0 'who levee and for a moment, as lie Olold her within and t•ho °thee! who permits himself or her- tele onibreee of lxie, eteeng areas, he contsi self to be loved. Ie that true, Stafford? If net coin -tuned hie voiee suffieiently fax as, then it is 1 who lovo-alas I Doer me!" eneeeb- At Peat ho ninemlarea, hie lies Ile drew her to him •aad lofakee into bee eceltine here; pace with a passionate intensity. "Ida! I eNvear that I will love you for "IVe riot true," he ettid, almost fiere,elyeee3' and evOrl" ”ree: geOdnees salt° elOaa, east such things, Hit--but--if you brealt your vow, you Taaseathee atilt, and hurt badly; they lirw milise that You well not come te • leave a bittev taste in the mouth, a nasty Me? I ehalt lower. Promise, ale pre/nese I" a png behind. And if it, were eareabia it. "Will amehine less tonteet you? Millet Ionia Ida! It le I weo epie. asaa ass, I?" he said, ale/seat desperate hor eer- ceetritieren't feu eteor hew sistelice, '"Phoia I -Proinlee, Idat' tirte afed e, oolong- aes I reeve; don't you know that no girl. that ever was ,born lind ettob, "wonderful teeee, • • ielle-ale-ae soch beantiflai hair? Ohiunr beartie love, There a eoraeeliiiie eoleme and aae-in- don't you khow how peefeet you are?" imitine perfect, aarmitleae. • They had stopped limier some trees near How teeny times in the day elid Ida the ruined eloteel, tena aloe leatt againet pull Op leuvett mesi ga,eo into the dietarece 0110 of them and looked 1,113 etti hita wit13 a withevaceet, uteeeing eyes, pauee in ehe siraneo, far -away look in :her dee yhioh niiddle oT eoree common task, look Op were dark as tbe eurple a:meth:Vete from the book she was treble to read, to "X never thoeght abota it, Am I -do uolt herself whether she wes endeea ISa yeti. thina I am Pretaa? 1 MO klaET1 "VM, 610126 siri VillO had lived her lonely life et I am obeli" • , Heronarfle, or eeliether she lana ehteneed "Preety I" Ire leeighed. "Dearest, •,lote,n niaees •with some other nereoeality, weal I take YOU away from, here, ihto the worlki, tome gili eingularly bleseed. amongst Vo- ris MY' wife --me wife -the thotight. fail& mete mv blood 'Wareing •tbreligh Yainpaefiaine eeeele and „Itteen, even the boeine will ereat,e SO areat 80111 11 Iduni, WSJ'S reputed elle etupideet men teethe dale, noticed. tbe ebango to bar, noticed. 1.40 1,0noh a eoior that wee he (mice a) meatit to the tiory-chak tele novel aelehaiese and teadertieee in, too deep erey epee, tae new magi. the Ma, ;sweet tone beepoiese in the eleor voice. tier fataer eeely etmaitinea iumbserrane of • the etibtle elle-age, blithe W26 like a 11101.0 burr °wale, amoneet. leaolte atel ;tam ellie eccretly ever .the, box evbieal 'bo .0Onevr•iile° at the approtteh of rootetens, the opening of a door, and ' the sound of Voice, In a distant Dart .Of „the houses. Bub though •the servants, reenerked tee elainge in their beloved •mietteasetheY did not euese ite eiseleee foe, by cbtufele re•- thei than design, non o ok them had seen Ida and Stalemel tokethea Audiiyee, they met daily. Sometimeteeltaffoed Wonitiaige over from Brae Wood staid is -mother by the river. There was a hollow there, go deep that it lad pot only theeeselveee bat tee boom end here they woula sit, leant' ia hane, or more 'often avian: his area paella, her and her small, ebepely heed with its soft, but roilahened heir, Mien hie breast. Sometimes he world row iterees the lake and they would walk aide by side alongethe bank, end oreerked bet the tress en which the linuet, and the thresh sang the songs whica make a lovers et- a•ny; at ethers -and thee 'were the sweet- eet xaeetiegs of 'all, for they moue in tiie •eoft, and stilly niebt -when all nature was Meshed as -under the open of the olio great pa„ssion-he would ride or walk over after dimaere and they would. alt in the ruitied arelov,ay of the old cheael and talk of their blank past, the =agile Pre- sent, and the future whioh woe to bold nothing but bapniness. ' Love grOW13 fast under 'suet eonditions, aild the love' of these two eneatale geew to gigantic proportions, abeorbirte • the lives of -bath of thena To Staftord, all the houreathaa were not epent with this, girl of hie heart were so rauch arears- waste• To Itia-ah, well, who 'shall meastire the inteneiter of a girlie first passieu? kehe only lived in. the expectation ef wane aim. in life preseece ,and. •the whispered woras and ea,reeses of his love; Lead, in his ,a.beemae, in the memory of theta For her life nieant just this xaan wbo had come and taken the latirt from izer bo- som and euthroned hie owe in its Place; They told each other eearything. eta - fora laiew the waole st her life- before they met, all•the little details of the daily routine •of the Hall, and her :management of the farm; and she learnt erom lam ell that was going on at the great, splendid pelaee ti hie modesty Sir Stephen Orme had called •the Villa. She liked to nestle against hun and hear tem •small details of his life, se he liked to hear Imre; and Villa and their peouliaxities, as -well as if she were personally acquainted with ed to know all the visitors at the tsilhee.:e.-e3n "You ought nob to leave theta istainnele Stafford,' she sitid, with mock reale-ma as they sat one afternoon in tbe hollow by the rive% 'Don't you think they no- tice your abeence and -wonder Where you are?" • "Shouldn't think so," the reelietl- "Be• sides, I don't care if they do. All my worry is that I can't Cons to you oftener. Every time I :thews: you 0OUPti tie the hours that raust pass before X see, you again. But' I expect meet, ifenot all, of the visite-3re will be off presentlY• _ Most of 'era have been 'there the -regulation f•ortnight; a good meny come •backwerde and forwards; they're the Oity men, the money men. My father le elneeted with. them for hears every, day -that big Rehm.° of hi s eeeins to be eomipg off sat- isfactorily. It's a railway to •son.Pe place in Africa, and all thane felloweathe Gra- fenberes, and Deltons, that fat German baron, Wirscb, an,d the rest 01 them, are in it. Ileaxen knows why my father -wants to worry about it. X be,ard eteta of them sag thathe otateulated to make a million and a. half out of 41. As if he 'weren't rieh enougal." ' ' ' a levee auto it coins. What oge,could.do with a hall, a ouarter, eetenth of it!" - "What would. you. do, dearest?"- he asked. She laughed •sortle. • 'I thiek that I 'would first bug you magma- And than I'd have the • Hall re- painted- No, I'd got the terrace raile and tlze portico 'needed; and Tet. Perhaps, it would be better to have the inside of the houee painted and papered., You ksee, there are so many things ]could do with it, that it'd diffitult to ohoose." ' "You shall do 'em all," he said. putting his arm round her. "See here, Ida I've been thinking •abotte ourselves--" "Do you'eeer think of anything else? I cletet," she said, unconsciously. -"Ana I've made. up my nand 'to take the bull by the "es ellet meant for my father or yours?", 'TOOL" he replied. "We've been so bee- ev this hist fortnight -is it a fertniglat ago eiliee X eat you to tell me that you ceren foa me? It' seems a year eometimes, and set others ft only seems a minutel- that we haven't cared to think of how we ;stand; but it can't be like this fax ever, Icla. You eee, r 'want you -I want you all to myeelf, fax every bete of the day and night inetead of for just the few minutes I've the good luck to snatch.- Directly this affair of my governor's is finished I shall ge to him and tell him I'm the happieet, the luckiest man in this world; X Than teli him eveeythine-exaotly how we stand-toul ash ,him to help ue with your father," Ida *Wuxi and looked grave, (To be continued.) Fouled. John -Henry was keeping com- pany with 'Myrtle Marie, and when the father of the latter returned from the ofliee one evening he was thnidly approached by 'his pretty cl aug-hte r. "Papa," said the fair one, "did John I-Ienry eall on you this morn- ing?" "Yes," answered the paternal one "but 1 conldn't make out much of what he said.'' "Couldn't make out what, he said I" returned Myrtle Marie, won- deringly. ((What do you mean'?" "As near as I could understand," explained papa, "he said he wanted to marry me; that you had enough money to support him, and that we had always loved each other, so I told him to go home and write it out in plain English." litany's Reply. "Why do you insist upon having the biggest; share of the pudding, Harry?" asked the mother of it arnali boy. your elder bro- ther en t'itled to it?" "No, he isn't," replied the little fellow. "He was eating pudding two years before I Was born," Without Assistance. • 'reacher—Did anyone help you With this map Sam/ Ston ----Ne, sir. My brother did it Ill by himself. RocKEEELLKR,S NKR Q SIT Ir. Began When Young and Ras Kept It 'Cs) Ever Since. It is very obfficult to collect anec- dotal matter relating to John D. Rockefeller, the oil king, - llis near relatives know ,his dislike for appearing in print, and his house- hold is leak -proof, But there are many stories which show the oil magnate. in a generous light, The Standard Oil Company of Ohio, the parent company, has no pension fund, hut maintains a gratuity system,' which means abont the same thing, with the ex- oeption that no obligation is as- sumed by the company as a. per- manency. When thie plan was first put' in operation it was discovered that a number of old employes Were net eligible for the gratuity fund, because they had already severed their connection with the concern' for old, age Or disability. The fact coming to John,- D. Rodkefeller's no- tice, he gave instructions to have every such case investigated and reported upon, with a suitable re- commendation. as to the require- ments in each worthy 'ca,se. James Cole, superintendent of No. 1 works, was the official investigator and made the recommendations. Upon receipt of the reports, John D. gave ,instructions to have all these people placed upon his per- sonal payroll, their pensions to be paid by Mr.Cole personally and without notice to anyone. That system is still maintained. Even now soro.e men are discovered who years ago worked for Mr. Rockefel- ler, and after some service sought other employment. Whenever a deserving case is found the man is pensioned, even though he has not been in John D.'s employ for a quarter century. Shortly after John 'D. Rockefel- ler had moved away from Cleve- VORIL.WO eaaseeMelease ;We usa A new portrait of Mr. john D Rockefeller. land, about thirty years ago, New York observed her tercentenary, and all the Ohio National Guard was sent east to participate in the biggest parade New York had up to that occasion ever seen. Governor l'oraker was anxious to show off the regiment of field artillery in the Ohio section, and ordered the mareh up Fifth .Avenue to include a gallop, battery front, unmindful of the fact that the equipment dated back -to '65. In consequence half the junk went to the scrap heap, nbt, however, without seri- ous damage to the men, One broke his arm, another his hip as one wheel went out from under him. One was killed. Acts of Kindness. One of the officers was taken to $t. Luke's Hospital, than on West Fifty-thh•d Street, New York. Shortly afterward a neighbor- sent to inquire into the ,details of the accident, and when he heard that an Ohio man had been hurt he asked permission to send the pa- tient's food to him from his own home. During the six weeks the man lay in a cast all his mesas- were prepared in the neighbor's house. And the teighbor was John D. Rockefeller. A few years ago Mr. Rockefeller sat, in the „office of an acquaintance, in one of the big office buildings, waiting his turn with,,' his dentist, whose office is in the same building. Absorbed'in a newspaper, he seem- ed to pay no .attention t:o the dis- cusSionbetween his temporary hos t ancr a woman caller, the, prin- cipal of a school, relating to a, teacher who voas obliged to glo New MeXico on account of failing health and for whom her fellow- tea,chera had taken up a modest col- lection to enable her to reach her objective point in the .southwest. 13u1 his memory .served him well. Vol,' next day one of his agents called on the sick teacher, handed her a oheque for a substantial sum, and told her that the same aanount would be sent to her- regu- larly each month while she- was all. For two years she eontinued to re- ceive- Mr. Rockefeller's bounty, her stay enabling her to make, a per- fect recovery. She is still a teach- er in the public ischools. Early during the Civil War, be- fore the days of a Government bounty to encourage enlistment, it became necessary that something should be done to .assure the de- pendent families of recruits that they would not want during the ,ab - settee of their husbands and sons. To this end a committee was form- ed and went to see John D. at his works in River Street, and found him with his partner, M. B. Clark, Mr. Rockefeller received them kindly ' and told them that ,he was sorry he could not go himself, since his brother Frank had en- listed. But he was glad to help. With a long key he 'opened the safe and produced a tidy sum of money. "I want you to feel," he said to the tvs76 recruits, "that your peo- ple will not suffer while you are gone." On the way uptown Tibbits turn- ed excitedly to Scofield: "Why," he said, "that man is rich lie must be worth $10,000!" At that time Mr. Rockefeller was barely 23 years old. BIRDS AND LIGHTHOUSES - Every night during migration, thousands of birds attracted by the pow.erful glare of lighthouses, after circling for hours about the light, fall exhausted, and die. It is said that as many as 1,800 wo-oticook per- ished in one night at a single En- glish lighthouse. Prof. J. P. Thijsse found that if a lighthouse is fitted with proper perches near the light, the birds- will rest upon them, and few will lose their lives, The light- house at Terschelling, in Holland, has been thus equipped for the last three years. At this lighthouse, which stands directly in a path of migration, multitudes of birds form- erly died every night; now the deaths -do not exceed a, hundred throughout the season of migration. Perches have recently been fitted to Iwo English lighthouses, The Cas- kets, in the English: Channel, and St. Catherine's, on the Isle of Wight the latter of which is .shown in the accompanying illustration from the Sphere. The birds fly to the light- houses only on dark nights. Making Split -Log Drag. The halves of the drag should be framed together by wooden braces so that the split surfaces of the log shall be in front. The face of the drag should lie at an angle of 45 degrees with the lines of the road, thus drawing the earth toward the centre. The rear log should follow in the traok of the first. Drags should be used after rains, or con- tinued wet weather to smooth the earth's surface and prevent ruts from forming to hold water. The drag not only smooths the road, but crowns it and puddles the mud so that it is 'hard when dry. These drags have been used with great success on elay or water - holding soils. Many stretches of black gumbo roads in the west are xnaintaineol by the use of this imple- ment alone. Every farmer should own one, and after a rain he should spend a few hours on the road adjacent to his farm. If there are many de- pressions to fill, the drag should be used when the road is wet. After it has been used long enough to make the road fairly smooth, the drag gives the best re- sults if used when the earth begins to dry. Cycle Riding. Mrs. Walker : "I don't see why the doctors recommend bicycle rid- ing. 11 11, makes people healthier it is a loss to the doctors." Mr. Walker : "I know ; but they cal- culate that one sound healthy rider will disable at lea,st five pedestri- ans each week." "Mother, what is an empty title 1" ''Wcfl, as empty title is my way of calling your father the head of the house. sele..easeeeaasesseseaeleaceeseetfrateaseevaaa On tlic Farr)] sesta sasensasstssaass.assatssessa,es . , Profit in Good Draft Horses. It costs but Very little more raise good draft !horses than t dadinary scrub and the drafter wi sell for three or four times the sun A well-bred draft horse is almo as good as cash in the bank, beeau he sells on sight and brings a go price, A farmer who breeds go drafters, using first-class stallion can in a few years make a reput tion which will add from' ten to per cent. tO the price of.his anima over the prices of others equal, good bred by men without repot tion. - There is always good money • be made in raising horses of th class, although many farmers see to think that it does not pay. Mo of them are right about this as as their own experiences go becau they do not raise the right kind. It is true that 'horses of a nond script character, lacking. prop forms_weight or style for any pa ticuiar purpose, never bring hi prices and are, therefore, not pr &able to raise. The average far er has no business to attempt raise fancy .carriage or sadd horses ,because they require speci knowledge of breeding and traini and are profitable only to men w thoroughly understand the busine of preparing them for market. The draft horse, however, is tl animal that does the hard wo not only on the farm, but in the b cities and he is always in deman The reason there have been so fe good drafters raised in the la few years is because too many far ers took up trying to produce roa sters by breeding their mares light stallions -and. as most of the were not willing to pay for the se vice of a first-class animal, the r sult is that the country is filled wi second and third-rate horses of particular use and which bring lo prices. It is gratifying to note, howeve that farmers are coming -to the senses and are now -breeding mo drafters than ever before. Usi stallions on mares of the same: ty with proper weight, he can prod a type of animal that will turn a profit at dine ‚i -ears. Draft. raures will do practioal, as mush work on the farm as hors and mares will prove the be breeders. Clive the Trees Room. The question of how much spac to leave between the trees is on that occasions much argument This should be regarded largely b circumstances. If trees are to b kept well pruned 'back they may b as near as four yards apart, whil those which are to be allowed mor free growth in the tops should b at least twenty feet apart. Th question of distanee depends en tirely- upon the system of trainin and richness of the soil. The common system of keepin the orchard in sod practiced by many apple growers, and except io very rare cases, among small grow ers, is practically unknown. Thor ough cultivation is necessary t develoa the peaeh crop as the Ire during the time of bearing require extremely large a MO unt-SPsCf mois ture and plantifrAtt. Growers differ widely upon th system of cultivation, but ar agreed that plowing as early as po Bible in the spring. thorough cult vation during the first half of th summer season and the growth oover crop of some kind duri the tall and winter are essential the 'presser care of the peach 0 (41Tabrcl‘ edisc or spading harms., is be ter than the plow in most oases, the side extensions enable mu closer work without injuriag tF trees. In, the , case of gravelly hard, heavy soil .the disc or apisin tooth harrow is necessary duri sununer eultivation, while the lig smoothing harrow is, required soils that ,are in a• fine state of tilt Taking nt's Chanees. "Do you know his, wife well?" "Not ,at all." - - "Would you like to be introd ed to her ?" 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