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orate.s.seeTeesa-o-raTurei-usauJE91... d01,1% 4 7 An,' tile children's there
too, till right, ;lust lit out an' left
'pin, as I'll), a sianer"
"As he's a *lama' !" growled the
other voice indignantly. ''It's brutes
(lo thiags like that, They ain.'t
1,4,074, Trir011, LA_LLTTC:14.1-1.
ihe book shaped to the ilcier and
lionoria Keller 'sat back in her chair
with a gentle yawn.
-That \Tomas was a hero," she
said alonch, '''The kind I'd 111:e to
be. . never wanted to be any tiling
quite as 'lunch as to be.a hero. 'Dear,
dear, that's what ,I,.tised ,to:lie tirider
the tre,es and di'eain - about, 'while
3,2=or girls dreamed about lovers.
To do something splendid and brave
--think of that 1 Heigho
' She crossed the room and survey-
ed her small, trial figurein the suir,
tors with a otieer deliane in liel•
1.Pe. "Oh, it's you .again, is it ?.'"
she cried, always you.; always!
Never somebody tall and • fine and
liere..ish. you'dmake a pretty hero,
wouldn't you ? Bid you think .heroes
were cut out five feet tall in their
Ames? And had round baby faces
and dimples.? Dimples ! "
She turned away and paced rest-
lessly up: and down the bright little
room. The gentle purring of the
sleeping children stole out to her
faintly through the half -open door.:
Once, when she failed to hear it, she
stopped M het 'walk to listen anx-
iously. Heavy feet tramped by, now,
and then, in the corridors, but the
step she was waiting for did not
come.
1:1Te's late again," she said aloud,
in the fashion Of lonely woinen.
"Ile was late yesterday and day be, -
fore, and day before that --world
without end." A Sadden " bitterness
distorted her sweet face. Horne 1
What kind of parody on the word
was this pair , of little rooms in a
great noisy hotel ? Was there the
slightest resemblance to a home
about them ? They were bright with
gaslight and pretty with the bits of
womanly touches her wistful fingers
had given them. She had wrested
the horror of hotel rooms fromthem
against heavy odds. And how the
children had helped ! cled's horse,
over there in the corner, Nell's sorry
doll on the couch, the Tiny One..'s
rubber dogs and cats everywhere,—
bless them, how they helped !
Honoria Keller had been married
eight years and she had never had a
tome. From one liotel or boarding-
house to another they had drifted
restlessly. 'The children had been
born in hotels—that was Honoria's
greatest grief. It seemed like doing
the children a great wrong. When
Harry laughed at her the hurt deep-
ened and widened. It was all
Harry's doings, anyway. When they
hacl money enough, he said, in his
easy way, they would have a home.
Time enough.
Suddenly the woman pacing the
bright little room uttered a sharp
sound of pain. The old wound would
not bear opening. She hurried to
her ' usual refuge, the children ''"‘in
their beds. Their little flushed,
r.eaceful faceS always calmed her..
l'Irou don't lay it Up, do you ? " the
=Other sobbed softly. "you know
mother wanted to give you a home
to be born Nell, Tiny One!
You don't lay it up ?'"
For a little while she sat beside
them, in the darkened room, touch-
ing their little cheeks in turn, with
the soft mother kisses that never
waken. Then, comforted, she went
back again to the light. But the
evening wore on, dragged on, with-
out the sound of familiar steps out-
side the door. Somewhere a clock
chimed 10, then. 11, then 12. "It
Was 12 last night," .she said,i and
waited. Then 1 O'clock rang out in.
' clear note. "It was 1 the day be-
fore yesterday," Honoria, said,
They had parted in bitter anger
in the morning, but that was too fa-
miliar a thing to count. Lately the
partings had all been angry or cool-
ly indifferent. When had they kissed
each other good-bye in the morning?
Honoria caught her breathin sharp
klistreSs. "At home we ,Would — it
would, be different if we hada
home.! " she cried out a little wild-
ly, "Now can we love each Other
this way, withoulsa home ?"
The great house settled into quiet:
Somewhere, a great way Off, doors
Shut witha final Clang, and loud
key's creaked in their •locks, "He will
not come to -night," Honoria said:
But She waited, until morning. She
had waited, that way before, and , in
the morning Harry had come. This
time it .was different. In the morn-
ing a messenger boy brought her a
frOM him, "Have gone away:
'Yea will not be sorry, It has been
in the, wind some time. • I should.
liked to have kissed the children
'
good -by. }Tarry"
HoW long it was she sat there with
the brief little note in her hands,
before frightened imperative little
lingers tugged' and pulled her back
to semi-consCiousaess; Honoria •Kela
ler never knew... The weight. on -her
heart did not fift or ease. • It seem-
ed. to crush , 'and. choke her, .• The
queer, metallic; voice Shat .ansWered
the children's: wondering ..questions.
was not her .voice, She did not
wonder; it terrified' .the Tiny One.
''You. isn't like mammaa-I 'ants pa-
pa
!'he wailed.
"Lie has gone a-War—you will not,
besorry," repeated - Honoria stilted-
ly, '`it, has been in- the. Wiad, some-,
tline. was sorry not to kiss the
She caught her breath .as
the. row of stared little faces
'printed itSelf On her staring retinas.
A. sudden Wave of keen,. pitiless Ceti-
scionsnesS Swept over , a hoed.
:rt was all so plain not ! • The kind-
ly mist hadlifted front her mind.,
That daY somehow lited itself out,
and thenthe neXt, .8mnehow,. for
the- Children, Honoria lived. The
throb and Smart of her 'hurt,. were
all she realized at first.'" Small
things Made no. iinpreSsion On her.
mind.' Years afterWard she 'bonder -
cd 'whether on those first days the
sun: had shone, or it had rained. It
was a chance remark sheoverheard
that arplaSed her from et 1 eth orgy.
Stimeone Outside in the corridor
Mado the reinark to someone else.
"The woman in that roorn there
Ilo 2j—'s ffeen closer fed " the
Slxange vo40 Sail'", in What was
meant for an Undertone. "Yes, Sir,
deSerted Sotulds i.ka novel,
men,"
:there was sympathyin both l'engti
'voices, but Honoria tlicl net heed.
The words, not tile tones, burut i11 -
to her brain. Was that it ? Was
Harry a brute ? Dear Lord in
yen, was she ciese).3ed ?''
Not Harry would ept do. that
she •:eried in angaisli. went
away—We were angry with each oth-
er. [le thought 1 Would not be sor-
ry. Not .s01'rY1'.' She sprang to the'
floor anel paced to andfro, till the.
frightened children crept .C1Way , by
theinsolVes. • •
But the days that .went by grew
into weeks,, and be did not come.
And 01. last the kind-hearted rrOpti-
otot; was drive/1 to take the step he
liatt been. dreading. Ile went to
No. 21 • one evening and knocked
gently.. .
, "Come in," a 'weary voice :said.
"Ah—good evening, Mrs. •Keller,
good evening," be said nervously:
is, 1,"Ve---er--,called, on, a ter-
ribly embarrassing errand: I've put
it 'off •and Put it 011, hoping he'—that
is, Mr, .Keller—would show up again.
I want you to believe it .was an aw-
ful jolt.for Inc to come up here to-
night and -say it, but,: Mrs. Nelleraa-
that .caught out his hand-
kerchief and . inept ed his fade.
'There's a bill against:your husband
for three .months' beard," he blurted
out, desperately.
Honoria sat looking at himstead-
ily, letting this new disgrace filter
into her brain. She did not flinch
before it. •
"You mean,'" she said quietly, are'
ter a 'minute or two, "that Har as
that my Inishand owes you a good
deal of money for our board, his
and Mine and the. children ?"
'Yes, that is—er—a modicum,
modicum.'' • .
"And that We Must go a."Way at
once ? Of course I. see that. But -s
but—" for the first time her sweet
voice broke,. "but I have no 'asaatey
to pay the bill. Writ! I:lease don't
say a word. Please go away and let
me think. I must tnink. You will
give me time to think."
But how to think ? Honoria
wrestled all night with her problem.
011e thing was definitely clear. • She
must pay the bill before she wept
away. A way,—a way,—oh, .to find
a wa3r !. What WaS. to come after -
Ward did not matter yet. This
mountain must be climbed first.
The next morning 5110 .,notiped a
sisal posted below ovee the laundry
Windows.. "Wanted: a first-class wo-
man to do fine ironing. Fancy pay
for fency work. Apply within."
'Grandmother used to tell inc I
ironed her caps beautifully,'.'
oria said, a sudden resolve in her
mind. "But perhaps—nows-Ttm not
a first-class woman," she added: with
a pitiful little smile. 1310., she ap.
plied for the work and' got it'. She
and the children took a cheaper
room in one of the "attics and; she
went resolutely to work tr.) earnthe
money to pay the hill. That the
work was terribly taxing to her
slender strength did not deter her.
And little by little she saved •the
money. Afterward she wondered :
now she only worked. The night the
sum she was saving had grown . to
the needful dime/ism/1S, her Poor .sore
heartwas almost light.On the way
al to her atticshe overheard some-
one calling her a hero.' It .sent her
straight ,to her blurry little mirror.
"You don't look it l" she said to.
the warn, shabby little figure before
her, but she emilecf a little and nod -
dell to it, friendly -wise. "You were
always wanting to be one, and I sup
pose this was the hest yeti •••con.ld
That was the 'night Harry •came
back. He was . terribly thin and
wan. -t'pear," he said, after the
long explanation was .over, "he*
could you think I would desert you•
like that ?" • •
"I didn't," she .answered simply.
"And I didn't," he said,' as if he
had. not said it already '&2, dozen
times. "There was 110 time to write
a longer note that night, when the
Head madeup. his. mind at, last- to
send•ree about his •business in. • such
a hurry. :And then,"—ho shuddered
—"then the smash On the train and
the nothingness—enothingness—neth-
bagness.".
,'Oh, hush !" she shuddered.
"And. When I came out of it," :he
persisted, "I'.coaldn't remember. I
only reineinbered Honoria."
"Only to7day,.. dear," she cried
joyfully. "But, Harry,- to -day is
now ! ,And to-morrow—do yen know
what we aresgoing to .do to -mor-
row ?"
"Yes,—wait, let me say it ! • • To-,
morrow. , we're going somewhere --
borne, •Honoria."
Ti.lASY TO IDENTITY.
An amorous young 'nail sent a let-
ter to a German lady; and this post-
script WaS added :
'That •my darling may make no
mistake, remember that t will wear
a light pair of trousers and a dark
cutaway coat. 1„p my right hand I
will carry a. small cane, and in my
left, a cigar. Yours ever, Adolphe."
The - father replied courteously,
stating, that his daughter had given,
him authority to represent her at
the apphinted, place at the time
agreed on. His postscript was as
foliows :
"Dot mine son may make no.,,mis-
take, 1 -till be dreshed in rnine 'shirt-
sleeveS, 1 vill year in mine right
hand a glub ; in inine left hand 11
vill vear a six-shooter. Y01.1
viflr-
cognize me by de vay T bats you on
de head a' goople times twice mit de
club. Vait for me at tie corner, a,s
have sothedings important to inform
-you init. You)! frient, Heinrich
Lawyer—"I must know the Whole
truth before I can sucCeSsfully:, (Id -
fend you. 1TaYe you told ine every-
thing, ?" Prisolter--.Tlxcept where I
hid tbe inaney 1. Want that for my -
Self,'
20 per cent. of all insane pe ens
1.ave become 00 111 1'Ough drink,
TI114.1 FARM REPAIR 51-1011'.
often \vender how I nshd to got
along without a repair shop, writes
J, F. 11 homas. The building
need not be expensive but tight and
warm. One cud Should be rigged up
for blacksmithing. Build a hearth
of stone ,and ordinary clay mortar,
with a good-sized flue., about nine
bricks to the round. An opening
should be left at the proper place for
• the admission of a 5 or 6411 stove
pipe. Pl'Oetire a blower .or bellows,
an anvil, a drill press, a vise, some
dies and taps, -17 to in, for cutting
thieacl, a hammer, tongs and two
or threo sizes of heading tools. Steel
punches for 1101 iron are alsb neces-
sary, but these can be made.
.:After some experience, many other
tools can be made that come handy.
Much of the equipment mentioned
can often be gotten second-hand
from machinists or 'blacksmiths. Col-
lect all • ltinds of scrap iron, bolts,
old horseshoes, etc., from about the
farha Much useful iron may often be
gotten for a trifle at public sales.
Old horseshoes welded together and
worked out are very useful for mak-
ing nails, rivets, links for cnains,
etc. I have ,been using for several
years a heavy farm chain made en-
tirely from old horseshoes. As to
the actual work in this line, many
valuable hints may be gotten from
a good-natured , blacksmith. One
may need instruction particularly on
the working and tempering of steel.
For a time the novice may be dis-
courag,',ed by his seeming awkward-
ness, but after he gets the set of his
harnmer and the hang of his tongues,
some experience in welding, etc.,
there will bo little repairing that
need be taken away from the farm.
Put in the other end of the build-
ing 0 & bench or table. Provide a
cross -cut hand -saw, nine teeth to the
inch, a square, a smoothing, a jack
an(1 a for plane, a brace with at
least seven bits differing, in ..size
inch. three or four sizes of chisels, a.
drawing knife, miter square and a
hand ax or bench hatchet. A supply
of -different sized nails and wood
screws. This will equip 'the wood-
working end of the shop for all or-
dinary , repairing. Many .new im-
plements can be made and ironed
complete later. Now get or make a
sewing or sadler's horse, procure
some needlos, wax and thread, har-
ness rivets, etc. Put up a stove, fix
up the harness and gather the plows,
harrows and other implements that
`need ropairS.
OUR COMPETITORS.
The odds that Canada has to com-
pete with in dairy products have
become such as toaleave no room for
uncertain speculation or waste of
tinse. lier position near the head of
the procession can be maintained
only by unceasing vigilance. Her
competitors are yearly becoming,
more numerous. and the demands of
the markets more exacting. Eng-
land, t.he Meccaof the world's dairy-
men, is beiug studied like a book,
her' every demand receives instant at-
tention, and when her demands are
not Sufficiently exacting, her willing
caterers are ready with suggestions
which are no sooner made than com-
plied with. Tho race for first place
is a hot one and the competitors are
powerful. At present there is a
party of seventeen Russian gentle-
men 011 11 tour of inspection of Great
Britain's markets for agricultural
products. The sending of this 12oni.-
mission is part of the programme of
M. de Witte, the Russian 'Minister of
Finance, and the expenses of the
trip are being' defrayed by the Gov-
ernment. An English exchange re-
ferring to this commission says :—
"They evinced the greatest interest
in learning how the butter from
Australia, Canada, Denmark, —and
other countries is imported into this
country. No detail. 'however small,
was allowed to escape unnoticed, for
it is their desire to learn all they
can about the wants of British con-
sumers, and the customs of Brit-
ish markets. ,
"Russia has decided to 'self her
own products to the markets of the
woeld," said one of the Russian
gentlemen. "Germany and Denmark
have a long time been the middlemea
for the trade of Russia in England.
butt all thataanust -stop. Such cern-
missions as ,this one are to be sent
abroad until we discover what is
wanted a,nd hew to send it, and then
Russia will take care of her own
Denmark sends four times as much
butter to England as does Russia,.
.but at least one-half of it conies
from Russia to Denmark before being
sent over here. I1 is our object to
do away with the middlemen alto-
gether.''
FEEDING. CORN FODDER.
My corn shocks are of average/size
and when husketi aro tied at the
top Nvith binder twiae, writes Mr.
W F. Smith. When,ready to house
two men Pull the bottoms together
with a rope and tie with same
twine. The shecksare rolled on a
hay frame upa wide ladder which
drags behind. This fall 1 silarf try
tile 'silage waggon, 11 think ,two
men Can lift a Shock upon' such 'a
wa.ggpn. These shocks are placed in
the barn with a horse hay fork, and,
While stilt tied, 'they are lifted ,by
lutrid with the seine fork to the cute
ter Platform,, which is .as tighsabove
the upper floor as I could Ulake it.
9'he, mitter is l'1111, by a one-horse,
level • tread power on the' ground,
CIO 100111 for .the fodder, .and all
things to be cut, adjoins the one
,th e fioor 1111(1 ihie 011111101' plat-,
form, and iS one story. The steel
track for horse fork runs full length
of this room ot-es the cutter
platform. T1 enea th the blades of my
cuttthr, Which has a down. stroke, is
0. cylmder W1130h grinds, CliCrM,S 'Or
111a:,iticetes the fodder ;Am. it is cilia ,
'Aly stock eat it WithoUt waste. They
aro call g11 now, and 111037 are by
no mean S 5101'17011, t0 it. For bed-
ding in stall, sty and coop it is su-
.
peri,01. Tile hear 1 of the MI ol Mat, -
ter is the ntastieatot. it is' io
splitto, a shredder, nor a slicer.
GLASS IN POUlitItY
Seiehtifie men claim that glass in
poultry houses makes them warmer
in 101 11101 both by night and day.
The theory they adymice is, that the
light waves are so short that they
will pass into the house through the
glass, but are there changed into
heat waves which are too long to
agai1i escape through the glass. They
say that thus it is easier for the
heat to get into the house than to
get out of it again. This being true
it is advisable to give the poultry
houses an abundance of light,
PLAN WELL.
In planning a home for yourself or
your farm animals, let us .suggest
giving the maturest thought to con-
venience. Foresee • the daily steps
that must be teleu dnd the extra
tune unnecessa(y steps wilt require.
Thin; is not only money on the
farm as in the shop or behind the
counter, but the saving of one's self
is important. The cares of many a
housewife are doubled by inconve-
Mently planned homes, and manY a
man wastes valuable time in feeding
and caring for his steck beeause Of
inconveniently planned barns, sheds
and. yards. Home is like a book,
whose pages are made up of the days
of our lives. When the coming is
ccanpleted it thlts the story of our
life tvork--whether our daily plans
have made it a failure, a partial or
complete success.
SARDINE TINS:
Frenchman Made a Fortune Out
.01 Them.
At the'end of the siege of Paris by
the Prussians, the keeper 01 11 Par-
isian wine -shop found himself com-
pletely ruined. Fie clicl not know
where to turn for broad for his fam-
ily. In a yard at the bask of bis
shop there was a large accumulation
of old sardine tins.
Sardines. in his better days, court-
ed his especial patronage, and a box
of them was found on Ins table
every day. At the eame-time that
he oame across this pile of old tins,
he happened to learn that the solder
with • which they were hermetically
sealed was a valuable commodity,
and it occurred to him that it might
be possible to recover it" from- the
broken tins and sell it at a good
prolit—which he did,
Being a man of.some ingenuity, he
improvised a small furnace, and fin -
mediately began making experiments
in this direction. They turned out
satisfactorily, and the price that the
solder thus reahzed enabled him to
keep going.
He saw that there was every like-
lihood of a good business to be
done—the germ of it had declared
itself—and so he contracted with a
number of master ragpickers to sup-
ply him with all the old sardine
tins they could lay hands upon. He
soon found 'himself at the head of a
growing concern, aud looking over
matters one day he conceived the
idea that there was a deal of waste
in the metal that was thrown away
after the solder had been extracted.
At all times material moans mo-
ney, only we don't always know how
to convert it into pounds, shillings,
and perre.
The thought struck him—Why not
make tin soldiers and other toys' out
of the metal which'- U1) to that mo-
ment was considered as only waste ?
The result of that inspiration was
the -- in after years = establish-
ment of 'several factories in many
parts of France.
Millions of metal pieces in the
shape of children's toys are turned
out annually from these workshops,
and Monsieur Dreg has built up a
huge fortune on old sardine tins.
RUSSIA TRAINS FARMERS.
Experiment Stations and Model
FarmEstablished.
The Ii.ussian GoVernment has
adopted a novel method* of educating
farxners in Siberia. Experimental
stations and sample farms have been
established at convenient locations
at which the peasants have been
taught how to handle machinery and
how to use their strength to the best
advantage. They have been furnish-
ed with seed and with good breeding
stock, and it is now possible for'an
eaile or 0./1 emigrant to obtain a
good agricultural education in a feNt
months at or near the capital of
every -Siberian, province. To those
who live at a distance the school has
been carried. Wherevet:'''there is a
navigable river the agricultural de -
par talent has provided immense
floating gardens whiPli are moved
from place to place as object lessons
and schools of instruction for the
peasant farmers. .111)011 the decks of
large barges all forms 'of vegetable
life are growing and all sorts of im-
plements and machinery are display -
cd, including simple contrivancefor
the care of live stock and bees. When
this barge reaches the village the
church bell is rung and the starosta,
or mayor, sends out messengers to
summon the people from the fields,
For several days the teachers are en-
gaged in explaining the best methods.
of producing plants and cultivating
the ground; tlie uses and advantages
of the implements and machinery, the
care' of cows and sheep, togs, poultry
and bees, and illustrated lectures are
given upon gardening and other agri-
cultural inch/shies. The questions of
the peasants are answered intell
gently. If the cattle or the sheep in
that neighborhood ate afflicted with
diseases their oNV11erS are given the
best remedies and taught how to use
them. 'There are sevenal lainclre.d of
these floating agricultural colleges in
the Russian Empire, and it is impos-
sible to everestima,te, the 'good' they
lia,Ve already aceoliipligliecl,
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te'
eat, ati...apPle...?",.. • .•••••• • ••••••• •
get••,field:s.
THEY SPY OIJT THE SCHEMES
OF OTHER NATIONS,
John Bull Pays ';',..320,000 a Year
in Secret Service Money.—
Dangerous Work.
• When, at the beginning of last Year
Mr. Balfour announced in the British
Parliament, that the vote for Secret
Service was to be increased from
$150,000 to 8820,000 a great many
people fell, surprised. Tlio majority
of folks had long seriously believed
that, the British Service existed
only in the pages of the novel.
As a /natter of fact, however, it is
a very live organization indeed. But
from.. their very nature, its workings
seldom come into the glare of pub-
licity. No details are ever asked or
given, provided the Ministers re-
sponsible for the expenditure of the
Lund take the following- oath :
-1 swear that the money paid' to
me for foreign secret service, or for
detecting, •preventing, and defeating
conspiracies against the State, has
been bona fideapplied to tho said
purpose -and no other."
Occasionally a few facts leak out,
but it is very seldom.
Only last jaamary it became of
vital importance that the British
Admiralty should obtain certain in-
formation 'about the French sub-
marine boats. For months -past the
French naval: authorities had been
trying , to throw, dust in Britain's
eyes by the publilation in French
engineering journals of misleading
plans. It was recognized that there
was •only one rmnedy—a secret ser-
vice agent must be employed.
. The selection. of .this „man. was •no
light 'task-. ,His identity is to this'
day known only to a few. His am-,
PloYers may lia-Ve been the Admiralty
or the warship contractors, Messrs.
Vickers Sons and Maxim. This mat-
ters little. His qualifications were it
thorough knowledge of engineering,
the capacity- to speak Frenah like' a
native, and the ability to obtain the
necessary billet as it mechanic in
Cherbourg Dockyard.
BELLEVILLE BOILERS
Within a few months of his ap-
pointment he., had furnished, the Ad-
miralty with the most valuable in-
formation. Everything was going
,swinuningly, when suddenly—he was
silent. From that day to this he
has been as one dead. There is a
rumor at Cherbourg that a British
SPy was recently caught red-handed,
and secretly' sentenced to life-long
fortress labor. But—that is all.
Govern/limits do not refer to these
matters officially; ‘and the spy who
fails is lost.
Rather less than ten yearS ago a
good-humored looking little .man
boarded one of the Messageries Mari-
time' mail steamers, plying between
'France and Australia, and speedily
fraternized with its' chief engineer.
He was the new under -engineer, and
he evinced an interest in his ' Work
that put him very high in t h o esti-
ma ion of his chief.
Early and late lie was -to be found
hovering round the vessel's "Belle -
vines," anxiously watching tempera-
tures, pressures and feed valves, and
always ready to lend a hand at the
slightest hitch. Ile Made two voy-
ages out. and home,'and then sud-
denly quitted the service.. .
A few hours later, -Edouard Gau-
din, a native of Guernsey, who
spoke French and English with equal
facility, and than whom the British
Navy -had no more loyal engineer
,officer, had told Sir John Durston,
Engineer -in -Chief of the British Navy
alt there was to know about the
water -tube boiler.
He spoke of its wonderful capacity
for • raising steam at a few hours'
notice, of its safety' in case of aesi-
dents of, the thousand and One ad-
vantages of the new' type of steam
raiser.. Perchance he dwells, too,
upon its .disadvanta,ges.
BRIBERY STOPPED SOLDIERS....
Be that, as it ma3r, it. is not too
much to °.say that, the intrepid en-
gineer •took his life in his own hands
when he entered the :French com-
pany's service. Had his: identity
been diScovered he would probably,
have "fallen overboard," or been.
"crushed in the 'crank pit," or' met
with one of those' thousand and one
little disasters which—accidentally,
,of Course—happen to unpopular peo-
ple' on thehigh seas. "
English history teems with inci-
dentS of successful secret service, not
always to., its own advantage. , The
failure of the historic ierench inva-
sion of Ireland, in 1706,. was largely
due to a inclicious use of the Secret
.Service funds.
The expeditions' which was under
the command of General 'Roche- and
the ,notorious Wolfe Tone, corn -
prized forty -throe ships and 14,009
‘s:cadiers, besides, heavy,Siege artillery
and large tillalltitieS of arins and
.ammunition.; ,With, its arrival 0,11
Bantry Bay, a heavy tempest .and
enoWstorin not only prevented an
iininediate. landing, blit drove, many
of the vesselpout to sea,. Amongst
them .was the Genera,'s ship, the
Fhaternite. ,
Three weeks later she ran into La.
Rochelle without her consorts, NV110.,,
after vainly waiting their G en eral 's
return 'reluctantly returned, to
France. The inyasicin had, failed.'
But the! failure WC18 not so much. due
to the Warring, elements ,cifed - by the
Fratetnite's c'ap tain as to that gen,,,
tleman's -venial proceeding 'in,:aceept-
ing .a heavy British bribe, to 'delay
the landing of the expedition by
.eyery means in his power.
On the evening of u 11815,
an. officer in the unirorfn of the .7th
Missal's rode into a little' village
near Waterloo', in Which some 13r1t-
ish regiments' were quartered. Check -
Mg his horse outside an inn, door, he
called' to 'seine artilier:vnien ho were
lounging near, and d.einanded to see
their officer, Major Lealhcs. 'He -was
infornied that the officer in question
was not '111 the .village. He' 'then
thoroughly catechised the gunners as
to their. Strength In horseS, inenand
111 order that he mi,ght detet-
mine 'whether Japt d .1 a could
stable there an additional 200 horsos
for the night: 'After bullying the
local "MaYor, and ordering the 111011
11
sight and left, he gracefully remount-
ed his pony an(1 rode out of the Vit.
itige, just as Major Leathos entered
it from t -he opposit q direction
Eventually it transpired that, 110 1001
14. lilelaber 0! Nap() 10011'S Celebrated
secret service. But, so boldly had
he played his part, that none felt
more pleased at Ins escape than thc
9.1cmunies he had so cleverly hoaxecl.
Those who have read Pennimorc
Cooper's fictitious "Spy," and -have
followed the fortunes of the gallant
.young British spy, Major A ndre,
who was shot by Washington's artier,
must be numbered by millions. 13u11
it is a C11110US fact that the ,most
'useful spy ever employed bY a Brit-
ish general died in poverty, practi-
cally ueknown to the miTtion he lute
benefi tted.
'THE GREATEST SPY.
The 11)1111 111 (11.10511011 WELS Colqu-
houn Grant, who throughout, the
P
1ueonsittisii,liitlls' to dWar intoWntils;on cle
eVr. t si'fia
culty for spying; out an eaemy's
plans and strength was that or a
"B.P.," whilst his escapade's be-
littled thohe Qf a -De Rougemont.
His watchword was "Thorough,'
afid ,to this he owed most of his
great successes, of whi9.,„a"orie inci-
dent Must, suffice. On a certain oe-
casion when the l'rench occupied
'fa/names, they began to openly pre-
pare for the storming of Rodrigo.
Their officers made no secret of the
fact that Marment intended to move
against that town ou the earliest
possible occasion, Wellington, how-
ever had his suspicions Of this em-
barrassing frankness, and Grant was
dispatZhed to ferret out the trith. He
coacealed himself in a wood near
Tamames, where the road branches
to Rodrigo and Perales. Shortly
afterwards the French moved out to
the assault. Regimont after regi-
ment, gun after gun, Weggori after
waggon, tramped down the 'Rodrigo
road, until G rant ca 1 cul ated th t
practically the whole French force
had passed. Nino men out of -ten
would have returned post haste to
headquarters, and reportoci the im-
minent assault of Rodrigo. But
Grant was one of the tenth. His
eagle eye had not been so dazzled by
the huge force, the siege artillery,
and the direction of the march, but
that it had missed one indispensable
adjunct of an assault. He rapidly
doubled bank to Tamames, found
the town empty, save for the French-
men's scaling ladders, and forthwith
was able to report that the invest-
ment was only a feint. It is this
eye for detail that marks the (livid-
ing line between the reat spy and
the mere gas -bag.
OSTRICH FARMING.
Latest Reports' as to the Welfare
of the Industry in Cape Colony
A correspondent writes from Cape
Town that for the past fifteen years
ostrich farming in Cape Colony has
been a highly successful industry. In
the past ten years ending in 1899,
before the beginning of the war, the'
number of the birds increased from
11.5;000 to 261,000. Twenty-five
years ago the statistics of Cape
Colony said that there were only ten
tame ostaichcy in the colony.
The birds each yield about a pound
and a half of feathers every 'year,
the average value being about $12 a
pound. The finest feathers, of course
are the wing feathers of the male
bird, which are -long and white and
bring from $50 to $70 a pound. It
takes eighty of them to make a
peund. The wing feathers of the
female 'ostrich are ranch lower M
value because they are always gray.
The supply was much smaller when
it came wholly from wild birds and
the best quality of feathers frequent-
ly brought, as much as $135 a. pound.
As each male bird yields only n,bout
twelve or fifteen of these feathers
and as there is always a steady- dO-`
mand for them the price is not like-
ly to fah Much until the ostrich
farming industry becoines larger
than it is nOW.
Twenty ',Oars ago almost all the
feathers that cmne into the markets
were from the ,wild birds. most of
them from North Africa,. Now, how-
ever,, a .dealer in feathers hays not
more than 1 per cent. of the feathers
are from wild birds-. The business
in South Africa, which is the so,urce
of nearly all the supply, is ;IOW
centred in the hands of men of 'con-
siderable capital, who raise the
birds in the sandy, dry bush -land'
northeast of Cape Town. In the
early days of the ' industry many „
small farmers engaged in the busi-
ness, but they were largely forqed•'
out of it in the years of experimen-
tation when the industry was sub-
ject to many vicissitudes and they
have not gone into -it since then.,
Formerly wild ostriches were killed
to get their feathers, which were ob-
tained by plucking them from the
dead animals. Now the crop is
gathered about o1-11101 ill every eight.
months bycutting the feathers from
the birds
IIOLITY MiL:F:1-14 AN 11°I -TR' ,
Pew of us ta,ve an acCurate Idea Of
the j'ate'itt 'which fish swim, When
we say 11111.11 a person is "as fat , as
01 11011.miSCI." We hardly associate
(p)1ck rate ' of s\vininiing with that
i nd ivi duct' yet Ile. and everybody
else, wenicl like to be able to get
thfrou oh. the water as rapidly
Porpoises have ,been, seen to (1 '
roun11 and round it steamer tra,vel-
ling seventeen niiles an hour, thus ,
proving their capaci ty to swim at a.'
grea tar rate than th a t. Thcl (1olphi11
may be placed on a level the
porpoise, but 1110 1)0)1110 has oc-
casionally been known to approach
forty miles for short distances. er-
rings, in s1ioa9, moire steadily at a,
rate between ten and twelve miles ;
aekere I swim 11111C11 fester, lind both-
1;rottt and sal n011 go at a rapid price
when_ migrating a, strea0li for
Spawning, Whales are not, fish in
tile scientific .sense, but it is inter-,
esting to rtote that these monsters,
swim at a rate, si.-.k.teen miles an
hour when excited, al tlio gh their
ordinary speed is' estimated at, be-
tween fotor and five miles.
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bittuneti, sulphur, na.plitha, nitre...,