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eCONOMIC STliESS cAusno !111E 1
RECENT TROUBLES.
J 114 at _the present Tune Political
Considerations Are In the flack-
gratul Some of the ilistorT
'jack of the Development of Mod-
ern Italy Since the RevolUtion ofa.
Something About a New and Most
Undesirable Pest
ound This auminer.in Many Vet -
ern Ontario Comities ---- Oescrip-
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tion and Life History — Methods
of Control. -
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118. - (c(ntributed by Ontario Department ot
TALY, in the midst of another of
I
her recurrent crises, -this one
perhaps the most significant ef
them all, is a good example of the ,
eternal discontent, 'divine or diaboli-
cal, whith Marks the human race.
For More than a century, Italy has
-been in successive periods of ttanit-
itionssbtitethe periods are so sharply
marked -in contrast as to make an '
illuminating commentary .on the.1
trend'of Modern thought and action. -
From early la the nineteenth cen-
tury until 1870, thestruggle was for
political liberty. Since 1870, the
struggle has been for economic
liberty: -
To -day's "revolution” is not in the
Political field, eXcept -in the latter's
economic aspects. 'Control of indus-
try and ownership of property. are
the - new points of issue.
All over the world, tc similar
development is taking place. In Italy
the movement oan be studied rapid-
.calIy. It can also be studied not .as a
remote 'and theoretical phenomenon,
but as a fundamental and practical
'conflict within the border's of a
state . `ediately • adjacentt - to
Preece an thus near, geograplica
ly, to us . l-
.
Great names securely lodged in
history, emerge from the flret phase
of modern Italian aspiration, from
1800 to 1870—names like Maizinni,
Cavour and Garibaldi. 'From differ-
ent angles, these leaders worked for
Italy, either to establish her indepen-
dence of foreign domination or to se-
cure freedom from irresponsible if
petty, .tyrants at home.
During the French revolution,
French armies ituseated many of the
despots in control of the individdal
Italian states,giering promise both of
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Agriculture. Toronto.)
T is always a matter of concern
when a neiv pest is introduced
Into a cofintry and ,especially
when that ensect attacks an im-
portant crop such as coin.. ln August
the European Coptehorer—a .Eure-
peen insect—was discovered in On-,
tario and extensive scouting by Otto-
roologists revealed the unpleasant
fact that It was distribute -d over about
three theusand squate, miles, being •
found in the counties of Welland,
Halidmand, Irliddlesex, Oxford,
Kent and HUron. In some of these
.counties only small areas here and
theie seem to be infested, but in
others the infestation is mud' more
extensive. The worst infeetation is
in Elgin County, between St. Thomas .
and Port Stanley where several corn-
fields showed from 50 to 90 per cent.
0! alt the plants to have been attack-
ed. There is no doubt that the insect
could not be so widely distributed or
abundant unless it had been here for
several yep,rs. It seems strange that
no corn -grower reported it, but the
explanation doubtless is that they
thought it was some old pest that
had become abundant for a year or
. two and would soon pass away or
become of nolmportance.
It' is impossible at thLs stage to
say how great a menace the insect
will be; for no one knows, not even
the best informed • entomologi.sts.
Judging, however, ,from svhat we
have seen this fall it cannot be ex-
terminated and will gradually spread
throughout the province and -prove a
greater menace than any other corn
insect of the province. Yet, there is
very little doubt that by the joint Co-
operation of the Dominion and Pro-
vincial Entomologists, together with
entomologists of the United States
(for the inset occurs in New York
and Massachusetts), a practicable
greater liberty and of union for Method* of control will be discovered
Italy. and corn continue to be as success -
The Congress of- Viente however fully grown in the future as in the
(that counterpart, in eomparative
chronology, at least, of the Peace
Conference at Versailles), cariled,
its -policy of "reaction" into Italy, re-
dividing the country into separate
states ruledby autocratic princes,
'Uprising folloWed uprising, xtow
specessful, now defeated—ell politi-
cal in their aims.
The Carbonart formed theinselves,
past.
It may be of leterest to know that
(Wel' since,athe insect tete been dis-
covered vigorotis efforts have been
made by the Provincial and Dominion
Departineets of Agriculture, through
their entomologists, to find out every-
thing they could about it by scouting
expeditions throughout the south-
/
western part of the province and by
In the -early twentiesinto a secret studying the insect in the field.
society, whose aim was to unify Italy They have also brought the Agrieul-
under constitutional governmenttural itepresentativee to sec its work
Their methods were conspiraeY, assn.- and discussed with them methods of
ablation and.insurrection. : eoetrol. Plans aie moreover on fpot
Mazzinni, a young Italian, belong- for a very careful study of the insect
Ing to a prominent family,' of Genoa, by both Departments next,year, In -
and a-graduate/in law, showed ,his eluding methods of control. Yalu -
passion &gains the • p.olitical sup. able information of any kind as soon
elAination of his people, by wearing as discovered will, of COUrse, be fur -
Mourning in public places. He joined nished,to the press se as to be avail -
the Carbonari, but, disagreeing with able to every farmer. .
their main policy of conspiracy and Brief Description and Life Ilistory of
assassination, founded a new society. A tee insect.
"Young Italy." - Men dedicated to
"the borer,' full grown, is a moder-
liberate their country from foreign
and domestic tyrants and to establish titer§ stout caterpillar about one inch
a united Italian republic on a demo- long, pale brownish to white in color
eratic basis: on the upper surface a,nd white be-
neath, with a brown head and several
The revolution, of 1848 was follow- brown spots on eaeh segment of the
ed by another period of reaction. body. These spots are not 'very con -
Then .came Cavour, Prime Minister spieuous to the naked eye but can be
of Sardinia, an exponent of Perlis- seen easily with, a hand lens. ' The
mentary Government under a
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-monarchy. • inter is passed in the larval *tare
in burrows inside corn-etalks or Oohs,
OParlianieotary government," he and sometimes in weeds. " Iii the
aid, `like other governments has its spring the larvae feed to a slight ex -
inconveniences, it is better than all tent and then pupate in their bur -
the others. I may get impatient at rows, In June the moths begin to
certain oppositions and repel them
appear and lay their eggs in small
vigorously; and then, on 'thinking it white dusters on the leaves. The,
over, I congratulate myself on these larvae hatching from these feed, for
oppositions because they force me to a time on the leaves or/developing,
explain my , ideas better and to re- tassels and thee begin to bore into
dotible my ;efforts to win over pub- the stalk e and. ears, making holes and
lic opinion. Believe me, the worst, of tunnels in the former and eating the
Chambers is still preferable, to the kernels in- the latter. ,As the cold
moot brilliant of ante -Chambers" t weather approaches the larvae all
After a perpetual seessawilof suc- make comfortable burrows for them -
cess and failure, a united, politically selvesin the stalks or inside the cobs
democratic Italy did 'arrive in 1861, or in weeds. There is only one brood
confirmed .more fully in 1870, when a year in Ontario as far as is known.
the Romans decided to join,- thus Nature of tite Injury.
completing the union.
Injury is done chiefly by ilia larvae
It is "a representative monarchical
-government," with King, Senate and burrowing into the canes and cans -
Chamber of Deputies. .
mg them to break over with the
• wind; tassels especially break over
The year 1870., however, marking ss.y.
A further injury, is due to
constitutional government for e"siI a com-
pletely united Italy, did not bring the larvae feeding upon the kernels in
the ears and by disease, especially in
millenium. Almost at once, the em -
wet, warm weather, entering through
phasis began' to shift to economic
causirkg rot Although all kinds of
problems. That these are still
the holes, both in ears and stalks, and
un-
solved is shown by a recent opinion. eorn are attacked, table and. flint
that the position of the industrial varieties suffer most and dent least.
worker in Italy is worse than that
of any ether western nation, except Methods of Control. -•
SPain. It is also shown by recent The methods of control that natur-
-.
events. ally suggest themselves are as
As efor - politics, Prof. Schapiro follotes:
says, "Italian politics since 1870 are 1. Sow d.ent corn nless there is
a sorry,, tale of parliamentary in- some speeiel reason for preferring
trigue, office -seeking and political dint.
corruption." 2. Cultivate well in the early sea -
In 1898, there was an.insurrection, son to keep down weeds so that tb.ese
of workingmen in Milan. The streets may not harbor the .Pest.
were barricaded . and fighting oce 3..lf .you hive not a silo build
curred.
One if you can because all borers in
In 1903, Giolitti became Premier. corn' put into the Hilo are killed.
It is this same man, now marl* 80 .4. Cut the corn jUSt.as IOW as pos-
years old, who is Premier to -day. As sible for otherwise many borers will
at present, Las attitude then towards be left in the stubble, but if cut very ,
the Workingmen was conciliator/, low over 90 per centwill be taken
and, as at ?ptesent so far, he deetared into ..the Alla. -
the Government would remain neu- 5. Put the corn into the 1l as
tral ithe struggle between capital SOOli AS possible after cutting to -pre -
n
and labor:- vent borers coming out of the cut
These tactics did not Bove him stalks and entering the stubble.
-from, trouble twenty years ,ago, ear 6.elf there is no sila and the borers
toeclay. There was an epidemic - of are `present it will be necessary to
burn the stalks and cobs or to run
strikes from 1903 to 1905, includiag
them through a shredder to kill all
„0,..gen.eral strike tying up the whole
country. • borers present.
In 1912, the basis.' of the franchise in conclusion we request any per-
son outside of the counties -referra
was Widely extended, but the serious
to above, on finding a borer in his
general' etrike in 1914 Ishewed °nee
more that thetrouble was economic corn, to put it in a tin box and send
`
rather than - it either to Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dom-
inion Entomologist, Ottawa., or to L.
Caesar, Provincial Entomologist,
p. A, College, Guelph. This will help
us In our work against the pest.—
L. Caesar, O. A. College, Guelph.
Stockholm, Christiania, Berlin and
London', in the order narned, have
the lowest death rates among the
European cities,
In only fourteen Chinese cities:are
there telephone- systems of appreeia-
Children City
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
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Calcutta IsVeryRich -
Following therat War
(MidBig #oom Has Resulted
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XillCa,lcutta correspondent Of
the London Morning Poet
writes: In Caleutta the chief
legacy of the war was a Loire
fund of eapitAel—amounting at leest
to 1,500,000,000 or $2,000,000,000
—seking Industrial investment. The
fund had accrued from war and emit -
war profits on Manufactured jette,
bidets, Iron and "steel, cotton yarn end
piece goads, paper, bending easter
-
fats,' engineering processes antIso
forth; Calcutta had no mese profits
etax until after the struggle was Weer.
Thom' Who could not, or did not***
any part in the lighting made '• the
Impression Given of Carlyle and
BultreeLyttsii.• •
l'Ono morning, during a bitee visit
to London," writes Mr. W. H. MaIlock,
in -Harper's Magazine, "I received a
not from Mr. Froude, the historian,
asking me to come to luncheon; and
I duly arrived at his house, net know-
ing what awaited me. I presently
learned that -he was going to intro-
duce me to farlyle, and, as 'soon as
luncheon was over, he walked me eff
to Chelsea, In a fitting state of mini
I found. myself at last in the great
Philosopher's jaresenee.
"When we entered his drawing --
room he wae stooping over a wilting
table In the Window, and at era I
saw nothing but his back, which was
covered with a iOng, allar3100S0 azd
extravagantly Oirty dressing -gown:
When he:roseeemeet As; his manners
,were as tough, as his integument His
welc,orne to myself *as an inarticu-
late grunt,-. unmistakably Scottish in
-its intonation:, ,and!Ehis first id was
to move across the room Of the fire-
pjace and light a 'church warden'
pipe by sticking its head between the
abars. As I:watched him perform thin
...rite,. I, noticed „that 'close to the fen-
der Was 9, pair of very dirty 'dipper*.
To me thefitt.things and proceeding,
'welt 'so Mtn,' separate *hocks, _ the"
result of my ...reflections being this:
If yOu represent, ;fame, let -me' repre-
sent ObScurity. But worse was, otill
to come. It Wait presently sfropooed
that we 'should 611,0 out for a walk,
and ait soon as we were in the open
sir the philosopher blew his nose in
a pair of old woollen gloVes1 here
saw at once an illustration of a chap-
ter in 'Sorter Besartus,' In which the
author denounced what he christen-
ed 'The Sect of th,e Dandies,' as de-
oerlhed and glorified by Bulwer 1.04 -
ton .in 'Pelham.' Illustration could
not go further.
"The next very famous man whom
I met after this glimpse of Carlyle .
Was a urns later at Torquay—Lord
Lytton himself, He was dining at
Chedston. Cross, and, owing to memo
lady's defection, I was actually his I
nearest neighbor. I saw in him every-
thing which the spirit of Carlyle hat,- I
ed. 1 saw in him everything which
was then in my opinion admiral**. I
All the arts of .appearance, conversa-
tion, and demeanor which in Carlyle
was aggressively absent were in him
exhibited in a manner polars even
'too apparent.' I was .indeed, despite
my reverence for him, felony. con-
scious myself that hit turquoise
shirt -stud, set with diamends, was too
large, and that his coat would have
been in better taste had the cuffs
not been of velvet. But it seemed to
me that from his eyes, keen, authori-
tative, and melancholy, all the pas-
sions, all the intellect, and all the
experiences of the world were peer-
ing. To have sat by him was an ad-
venture; to have been noticed by him
was not far from a sacraro.ent."
• A Race of Fish -eaters.
•
Probably in no country in the
world are fish more largely eonsumed
than in Burma. , Fish, either fresh or
dried, or to, theiform of fish paste, is
a concomitant of every meal the Bur-
mese partittee of. This is so uni-
versally reefignised that even in the
-prisons a srisall modicum& of fleh paste
enters irite7;the daily rations- served
out to ptivnerie This being the case
it is sotneWhat remarkable to find
that at one spot on the IrrawaddY
river, Ash are not only captured but
have been- tamed, and seem to know
that they have nothing to fear from
The Y are regularly .ted there
by Oioutt,Buddhists, will come at call,
and allow themselves to be stroked
and handled. The earliest notice of
these ash—,a epecies of catfish which
grow to a large size—appears in a
work•by cipt. Yule, ILIA., who accom-
panied Col.-Phayre to Mandalay about
70 years 440 when he went -on, a mise
sion to Kies Windoon in the da,ya
when Upper Burnie was independent.
The BritisIg acquisition- of Bursae has
not altered the treatment of these
Ash at thie particular part ot the
Irrawaddy, and they are left un-
molested now as they were then:
Amongst,such a race' of Ash -eaters as
the Burmese, it it Romewhat remark-
able that this custom of leaving fish
unmolested and uncaptured at a par-
ticularespot on a large river, should
have lasted so long. As long as the
national religion is Buddhism it
seems likely ro continue.
Hand Grenades.
In Stoequellerls History of the
British Army, published in 1871,
there is a paragraph' that hand gre-
nades or bombs were used for the
last time at the siege of Bhurtpore
in 1826. For 88 years this was the
case, • and hand grenades seemed to
have become as obsolete as bowssand
arrows in the British array. In the
late war, however,they were again
resorted to. At BEUrtpore hand gre-
nades were placed in the hands of-
ten Grenadiers- of tb.e 59th Foot.
They were not loaded, for Gen. Jespar
Nichol, an Old Peninsula oflicet who
afterwards became commander-in-
chief in Indiap who con:intended them
had a -theory that a grenade with a
burning _fuse had the same moral et -
feet in frightening the enemy as a
loaded oat would have had, while the
soldier erno sainted it incurred no
risk from.premature ezplOsion, How-
ever the lent:general's' theory mar
have aniWered In 1$$$, o OlteMY
would noWtialikely to be %deceived
dummy grenades, or be.frightened or
, disturbed; in any,war by weapons that
never did any
Shaft Oinking Mewed&
Some nits, records in,shaft sinidag
are said to bave.beturmade recently
in -Sciutia Africa. 'The south eliatt of
the New State Areas was aunt 210
feet in a month and the north elneft
246 feet Ilte-ahafts are rectangular,
and measure 28 feet 9 inches- by 18
feet 9 inettei. About the same time
a cross -cut at the Sub Nigel, measur-
ing 12 'feet by $ feet, was extended,
348 feet 6 Inches in the north.4
4firuse.11
"Puss," the name bestored on
every cat, originated in "Pasht," giv-
en by the Egyptians to the sacred eat
which they transhipped, because they
thought its eyes were like the moon.
Girl students at Kaifeng, China, are
being arrested for walldng about the
streets with their hair cut short.
•
most of their opportunity.
The most interesting result ;hen
been an extraordinr boom in Com-
pany promotion; the stock exchange
list of miscellaneous industrial a'ctiv-
ities, comprising everything ,,from
soap and biscuits to locomotive; and
steel rail factories, has ' ellianded
from some 30 to 20.0. At the'eame
time a large amount of new capital
has gone=:back into the older jute;
coal and cotton activity is perfectly
sound. the renewed irulustrial boom
has been the appearance in Calcutta,
of some of the leading British firms,
driven to seek not merely new mar-
kets; but uew manufacturing centres
for their processes by the high cost
of production at home.'
Thomas Nelson and, Sons and the
chief proprietor of one of the leading
London contemporaries are ha the
field in the hope of exploiting India's
ptilp resources. A large combine of
leading steel -producing firms of the
'Milted Kingdom is busily acquiring
sites on the Hooghly for the' manu-
facture of a heavy engineering plant,
and, ultimately, it is ;said, for the
purposes of ship building, Crosse
and Blackwell contemplate the Arm -
tion of a jam and pickle factory near
Caleutta, Selfridge and the pro-
prietors of the Ritz Hotel are credit-
ed ivith the intention of bi•idging the
lacunae—and they are considerable
—in Calcutta's hotel accommodation.
For the most part this industrial
activity is perfectly sound. The re-
sources of India, and more especially
of the area which constituted the old,
province of Bengal, are limitless. On
the west and southwest of Calcutta
Iron and coal exist in the same con-
tiguity as in Lancashire, and numer-
ous other minerals are already being
exploited in that region on eommer-
cial lines, An official high frn the
geological survey says that, given
capital, the development of the dis-
trict of Singhbhunt in the next thirty
years should rival that of Pennsyl-
vania or Westphalia during their
great period -of industrial expansion.'
The industrial revolution, which
promises so well provided there exists
in India a government able and will-
ing to insure security, heti not been
without its effect on Calcuitaes social
life. Well over a thousandlex-ollIcers
have been absorbed by the', Calcutta,
commercial houses, old and new,
since the armistice. Even a returned.
Calcutta resident who has been ab-
sent but a few months stands amas-
ed at the dense stream of motor traf-
fic in, the priOcIpal streets.
The clubs are filling up to the point
of congestion and the house problem
has become prodigious.' During the
next cold weather there are to be
one or two camps on the 011011 $1)1144-11
in and near Calcutta, and each tent
will represent a household whieh"has
found itself utterly unable to secure
housing accommodation.
Unfortunately, the directions in
which Calcutta can expand are ex-
tremely limited, but the era of the
house -builder has certainly arrived.
A fortune awaits the contractor who
can get houses tip quickly, and the
same applies to the successful organ-
izer of new meann of transport, such
as motor busses.
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Campaigning In India.
No fighting foree; it may be claim-
ed, has ever been so well fed as our
armies in the late war. But generally
speaking the Commissariat " Depart-
ment in India has fed soldiers on ac-
tive service in that country better
than they have, been fed 111T Europe.
The that Burmese war of 18-26 was
an exception to this rule as there was
a scarcity el fresh meat and. salt pro-
visions had to be resorted to, even
in the hospitals. This resulted in giv-
ing Burma's climate a bad reputation...
Lord Dalhousie 'took care that the
mistakes of the first war should not
be repeated in the Second one of
185-2-53. He shipped thousands of
bullocks from Madras, With the result
that good health was maintained in,
the force • throughout the camaign,
The Burmeie, who found we paid
good prices for everything, ,also
brought in•fruit, vegetables, poultry,
and grain on a Week scale. They
Preferred -getting herd cash from ue
to having them seised' and appropriat-
ed by their own countrymen for noth-
ing. It is claimed that such a break-
down as happened in the Crimea in
1855 in the matter of supplying food
and clothing has never happened to
any ,fighting force in India.
• Birth and Death Statistics.
The population of England and
Wales was Increased by the excess
of births over deaths in the quarter
ended September of 86,255, ea coin -
pared with the increase of 54,23 in
the same quarter of 1919. The num-,
ber of boys born exceeded that of
girls by 58 per 1,000, the average•In
the 1 ut preceding quarters being 41
per 1,000. The births totalled 175,-
367s The number oemarriages in the
second quarter, ending Juni, was
202,142, in increase of 81,866 over
the previous quarter and 67,90,2 more
than in the same quartea in 1919.
To keep thde,British peace delega-
tion in Paris for nine months cost
the nation more than ; 2,5 00, 000.
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The first national census of Japan
was taken last month.
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Tom, Moore
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'erself. She will put 'er combings
hint* it."
"Thot jezebel?" ejaculated the wo-
man, with a sniff of disdain.
"But Mrs. Fiteerbert doesn't ',ail
from Jersey," ear -meted Buster. "She's
front Wieldow, Hireland."
"She's not," cried Mrs. Malone in
a high dudgeon. "We don't raise her
kind there. Only decent people like
me comes from the Vale ef ,Avoca.
Buster looked interested.' -
"Say, tell us, his there hany more
tke you there?" he asked anxiously,
"There is," replied Mrs. Malone,
proudly, "but none better."
"Hit's a good thing Hireland is so
far bort, isn't it?" said the boy in a
tone of cordial congratulation.
Mrs. Malone threw a boot at him
by way of answer, but, instead of
striking Buster, it flew through the
entrance to the adjoining -room and
was ,heard to strike noisily an the
head board of the bed.
"Oh—h—hl" came from within.
"There, you "aslidone it, Mrs. Ma-
lone," said the boy reproachfully.
"Hullo, there" said the voice, sleep -
31y. "Much obliged, I am- sure. Who
hit me with a boot? Eh? Buster,
I'll have your British blood to pay
for it."
- you do," responded Mrs. Ma-
lone, emphatically, qt will be the first
thing you've paid for in teany a day,"
"What?" said the WI& "Do I
hear the dulcet tones of ley lovely
landlady?"
Mrs. Malone gave a sniff of con-
centrated scorn.
"Niver mind your °Jamey, Tom
Moore," said she. "Where is the
tint'?"
"What W0111(1 I be doing with it?"
came from behind the curtain.
knower replied Mrs. Malone, in-
dignantly. "You wou:d be sending
flowers to some aetress at the
thea*er over on Drury Lane, instead
of paying me. Thot's 'What you'd be
doing, young sir."
"You've guessed it the first time,"'
admitted Moore, "and that is all the
good it would -do me. She won't look
at me, Mrs. Malone?'
"Small blame to her since that
shows she's a tacint, sensible col -
ken," replied the landlady, in tones
of conviction as her lodger (Ire*
aside the curtains of the doorway-,
and stepped out into the room.
Tom Moore it was, but such a dif-
ferent youth from ttie one who in
Ireland had pestered the little school-
mistress with his loving attentions.
Trouble and privation had thinned
and hollowed his jolly face; lines of
worry and disappointment were cross-
ed round his eyes. His mouth was as
sweet and tender aft -of yore but the
impertinent nose stood forth much
more sharply. He looked ten years
older, but the same winning smile
played around his lips, and in its light
the shadows of want and hopelessness vanished from his face like fog
'math the warming touch of sun-
beams. He was only half dressed,
the absence of coast, vest and stoik
being eoneealed beneath the envelop-
ing folds of an old brocade dreseing-
sgowp, which undoubtedly had once
been a rtrainificent affair, but now
was only too much in harmony with
the surrounding squalor.
"Sweet Plietress Malone, with your '
eyes deep and blue,
Don't ask -me for rent, fax ran telling
you true,
'T would. make Tee a bankrupt if I
/should -pay yon,
Si- let the Tent slide like a darling,—
Now, do."
As Moore extemPorized he aid his
hand insinuatingly upon the land-
laidy's Muscular wen, but she threw
it off roughly as he finished.
"You cen't•plaster me, Tom Moore,"
she declared, loudly.
Buster and Lord Castlereagh re-
tired to a safe distance and Watched
proceedings with eager eyes.
"Plaster you?" repeated Moore,
meditatively, fhen suddenly laying
hands upon her, he twirled the old
lady gently around. "Why should
plaster you when nature has covered
your laths so nicely?'"
"Don't touch me you young divil,"
Mrs. Malone ejaculated"How dare
you take such liberties?'
"Mine is Oily a friendly protest."
protested Moore.
"I wants no impudence!" •
"Who said you were wanting in
impudence?" demanded. Moore. «Tell
me the wreteh's name, and lel attend
.to his business."
"Nivir mind,".replied the landlady,
pieldng up the mate to the boot she
had burled at Buster. "It's high time
you had .new bootsI'II have no
tramps or ragbags lodging here."
"Mrs. Malone," said Moore, cheer-
fully, "I quite agree with. you.
pleased to Say I shall have a new
pair to -day,"
"You will, will you?" retorted the
old woman. e "We hear ducks."
‘‘I don't bear either ducks or geese,
bo you, Buster?"
"Hi 'ears 'Mrs. Malone, sir," re-
plied the tad, stepping `behind the
bulldog for'safety's sake,
"The mistake is natural," answer-
ed Moore"u were saying—le"
"There is n a shoemaker in Lon-
don who would trust you, Tem Moore,
nor any other tradesman.." said Mrs,
Malone, on whom the foregoing piece
of impudence was quite thrown away.
"Nevertheless, I'll bet you the
back rent—the all the way back rent,
Mrs. Malone—I have a grand- new
pair to -day," declared Moore, defiant-
ly. '‘Ain I right, Buster?"
"Yessirthat we will," asserted that
etauneh ally.
"Niver mind thot," replied the land-
lady, extending her palm. "Misther
Moore, rn thank you fax the ;tint,"
"No thanks are necestary," he said
briskly, "since I haven't it."
The old Wintlan enateh.ed her Angers
away with a vigor that nearly upset
her lodger.
"rn have ilia rintr she exclaimed.
"/ sincerely libpe so, Mts. Malone.
though how you'll get it I eat*, see."
.qin make yotr see,"
"Thai is very accommodating, I am
sure."
"You must rise- it, Mist -her Moore,
or have to have me attic?"
• Moore laughed at her admitingly.
"Ale Mrs. Malone, surely SUCh
face never went with any but a kiod
heart," he said gently.
"Thal) do you, young size". replied
the landlady, quite unere)ressed.,
"Ab!" continued the poet, with a
sigh. "You are not true Trish, Mrs.
Malone."
"You know better, Tom Moore.
Wasn't it my old man,
Cod -rest his
good soul in peace, that taught you
your A.B.-C's in Ireland? Yes, it
was, and man's the time he said to,
Me, 'not be ivourld blarny the horiri
offea cow's forehead if he tuda spake
her language."
"pill those Were the good old days!"
began the poet, hoping to touch a
sentimental spot in the *Id lady's
memory.
"Yis, I know all that," she inter-
rupted. "You almost worried ,the
poor man to death."
"Well" said Moore, half seriously,
"you are getting even with me hors
aren't you?"
"Niver mind thot. If you don't
pay me, out you walk this day, Ole
bueko."
"Won't you let me run if 1 Prefer
"No impudence/ When will yea
pay me?"
Moore turned to Buster, inter-
rogatively.
"When, my lad, will it be most
convenient for us to pay Mrs. Ma-
lone?" he asked, gravely. (
Buster scratched his hen
ad ad
pondered, but no answer was\ forth-
coming, so Moore decided to /depend
upon his own resources for a satis-
factory reply.
(Continued next week.)
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