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CHAPTER, VU.
In spite of the sudden •change that,
441sl eligagement had made in all
Whigs, Mr, •Trelawney still thought
it hest to hold to his intention of
going to Brighton oa the following
Age for a tow weeks ; but Me fur-
ther mite= of wintering in Pains.
was of course given ute At
1110140$ end he would return to
,Shepton. and the soarer we are
Married then. 1 think, the better."
he side to Mrs. Markham.
Before be wentaway he talked
over reit his arrangements with Mrs.
Aferkhafil in a tery businesselliet
quiet way.
-OW eir, Ihn sorry or what
eerieve dime site exclaimedat the
tire, moment when he told her what
had iteppened. and elm sat down and
med. with gentnee. Imo of venation
and regret. "Its not that Letty
isuit. a good girl -thank God he
goott t. -but 1. .twer wanted you to
think of her in that way. sir: I never
had a wish of the sort for her ritee.
self. Site's a semi gfrl eied stte'f* a
prettygwl: there's Many a lady net
half so pretty; but. .for all that sheie
not. a !MO. sir, and your wife ought
vo be rine. That's what .1 feel. les
not. lini sure. that I'm inetrateful to
yote-eittch a ibing is more than Let te,'
ever could bave looleed for -but leo
with you ow it woulci please me far
better than to go. away."
It was not much fora girl's lever
to say to her, but she treasured up
thea coldly Med worda when be was
gone; awl was satisfied and happy
with thou. She was too humble to
be.... exaeehig, • 91" . to think, as yet.
that she eould claim almostenew
thing from, Wm. Ills lightest kind -
noes was still to her like a gracious
undeserved bow, his few mews
like a king's gift. "Oh, aunt. I am
so .happy ! she had said to Mrs.
efareham the night before, with her
Ups trembling, and her excel bright
with tears. "1 .alutost thin% I am
too hampy to ).n -e."
And so indeedto her simple Inert..
t almost, seemed. Tbe thing that
bud happened to her was. to her
finnind, likesomething out of a fairy
story: she felt. in ter JooUsh. beatott-
Jul. blind happiness, nee one who
had been caught up into heaven. Her
joy was so great that In Mr. Tre-
Owner's netted presence it utmost
oppreesed her, for her love waft too
!Siena) to MA any utterance before
Mut strange as it was to her. she
almost seemed to need to be alone
for a little, to understate* the sweet
:thing that had come to her.
$he was •ttot lonely wheu he had
!gone away. because her thoughtsher
beart. her life. lrere filled with him.
What. passimtale drearne she dreamt
in those street. silentsummer diehei
what pleturen she .painted of the pea.
feet years that were to come-eaans
that she was to spend in serving
WM. Her work in this world hence-
forth would be to do that. She
weeks, because she thought that it
would please bitetint progress- she
rae.cle in them was pitiably small.
Slat was so entirely ern of those wo-
men whose forte lies in loving not in
learning. She loved by nature
had always learnt from books slowly
and with pain -unless the books were
storiesand love the theme of them.
Then, incleed, she would master them
with little effort, throwing herself
into the tales with such, vivid inter-
est that the men and women wher.
hietories they told ber were for the
time more wal to her than the
world in whtch she lived -almost AS
real as her Own life had Income to
her now during these bright en-
chanted days.
It Nr0,9 this, her own lore story.
that, she dreamt of and pondered
over untiringly during the weeks
while Mr. Trelewney Was away -
carrying the thought of it with her
through every hour of every dee--
livIng in it as she might have lived
ijt aeme strange, beautiful, new-dis-
cowered country. so that. though the
working world was round her, she
would forget it utterly for hours to-
gether. or would are it Only through
a. faire glamour of bright sunshinei
as she lived tier separate gloritied
life, and called up pictures and
visions of the things that would
never be.
Once or Iice during his absence.
Mr. Trelawney wrote to Mrs. hiarh-
limn About matters conuected with
his arrangemente for the future -
timer on sueh snbjeete consulting
Letty. To Letty he merely wrote
what Might 441111Se and please her .
whatever be bad to Bay that touch -
To Were ta you Mit Dr,
VIneee Ointment la acoriele
• - aed absolute cure far each
end every Tenn of imitate.
• bleediegentirreiriellni pileM
the nutiniteeturers haat, guaranteed It. stoke*
emenlele n the, dear mesa one aik eournelichi
• wire whet their think grit. Yen can use it, end
get i'cour Meer baize. IC net cured. Mc A bee. et
1 all dealeree reereefen.Itcflei& Co,,Terente,
• re Chase's Ointment
afraid of what may come of it. sire thought -wort: tho most bleFRell (aa e4 on tetshieee he addreesed M-
aud that's the truth." It Flowed to her under the sun. stinetively to tiliet, Northam. The
"I don't know why you should Feebly and timidly in her iettiwis toe divisionto me own mind, seemed a
afraid," be said. He was sittiegi him Rho twee to try uow and thentareateil natural oue to maw to
tontine on his (lest as he tato4 to
her. with a calmgrave faro that
was not media !Me n loverhe
don't know why you should be
afraid- Of comet+ difierenee of posi- 0110 copyiter end reeopying it with a
love and rare that hum no weari-
now, She bead written few letters in
her life till nowand so thew were'
Ito co:press how Itappy he had mode the two women conceriad it teemed
her, Ito had told her to wrltr to ohm natural. the elder accepting his
WM. and so Ara wrote. Wooing' conmeminetions by reason of her
ileum over rick pool^ littlie letter iiegpaority. tbb :youngee bang too
chilliniiie and tailtitlee 40 resent their
helm addressed to another besides
lime!. In See eyes Mr. Trelawney
, could do window that was not just
Of noon I imeeshe hums thoroughly hard w
ard Is bee to ritefor she !levet" and good. In her eimplicity she was
the life fitie will come into. I do not hint so that in her humility She reatielied In be only to hint what, he
feel Ter ithe Pert. that the risk b g dreaded lest eint might say a word . dim% to maw her . hi her own
great • And besideswhet else can to hint of which his twee ehould thoughts Apo had no eights but whet
we do ? We do not want to live diaapproveand no. in Ler anxiety to: be ehowe to recogniee.
apart- 1 ebould 11463 Ur now where- write only what he might wish tt-a "I shall to glad when he comes
ever 1 went. and she would not hearthe timid epistles were cow. beet. Lone,for there's so many
be 'happy an from Inc What can reekedand rewritten. and pared ateit
Mingo to tattle." Mrs. Mtam t
4e -
we do bat marry ?" 0 tn. .II : . :
. n tr trouble were to come of it. tfir, varioue proceesee. they reached Ca. !fig tio.:L,olefr.s: a . awbbEeeintcteltewma so ndtil.tiotii..1
it would be better to separate." most the Met point or attenuation Atm to a rkeitt ; for. not mink in a
"Yee. but why should trouble corne and feebleness. foolee paralliSe an Latv wan doing.
of it 1 There will be a talk in the And yet there was sontething In
-- nine like Me Trelawnev. despising or
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place of une ; om" enpito-v.-
et thmde
eir very weakness thut athem* e
won't vale to Ninit UP, but what of touching; : the effort and the purity
that ? 'ON eith lite without visitors. SO V0441110 t00, and NO pathetie. 110
Perham). Weed. au far at) I ant con- used to receive and read them al-
, owned. I Cab lite better without Writ as a man would receive and
them num with them. If we maim, read hitters from a, deed. lie had
0110 ;mother content. I think tena told her to let him know what, she
ohilltmi ef the outside World need, did, and how she spent her time, 011(1
give ite tote 1111 le pain ; and hate i $o with implicit, obedience she sent
we not tolawable reason to believe; her simple chronicle to hine and ho
that we eint Make one another con- wintld glance over the lines that elm
tion mattes a certain obliection to
our rear:wing, but we knew ene an -
Other well-Letty knows what laud
being ignorant of halt the COMMon
things that wee!! on in daily lifei the
thought of the impending future was
lying beavy during theme weelie on
Mrs. tifinikhant's mind. and difficul-
ties that she could not solve were
rising fast before her.
How was anything to be as it had
biea before, she had begun to ask
bowel?, when Letty should be made
tent 7 ho doubt1 ant much older had toiled to write with a bait smile Trehoomees wife ? How could
'Martha wait upon her who bad
than tatty, lett if she does. not feel, and with sometimes a half sigh.
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that to be au objertion you -eau Ile used to answer these 'childish, hitherto worked with her ,-hoW
bunny expeet. Ma 10 110 SO." ' innocent lettee*4. and intalnetltely he ,001114 0100 elle heeself remain as
ier, don t doubt Letty s anSwered them as if she had been in sWvant in. holise in whkl'
hem M
for You." rse Markham v'*- ex- reality almost a ehfid. She ewes' iter mere wits mistress ?
claimed. She beeitated MOnient, eery good to tell Min all that libel "They think no more of all tick
and then -"that's the only thing was doing, he -would say to her. Ile things -neither him nor her -than if
Unit makee met glad in spite of mew. was eery glad to hear that She Was they were going to live in heaven,"
self -the thought that if she watot't going on No eleadily ioth her les- she would exclaim, almost innat-
e:Rh you she'd pine anety." sons it would be well to keep theineltiently, to herself ; "and yet they'll
"Then bow ean you doubt it being up till he rethrned ; after that be . all been to be settled somehow, and
best that she should be with me ?" must he her sehoolina.ster. She must, what to think of them and winit to
he repiied. And to that she bad nog go Ott bribg busy, and making readyi advise, I donjt know. There's Letty
thing left to say. • for Ids coming back. For himself, he troubling herself no mare about any -
He went out next morning to was getting a great deal of good out thing . to come than if she was a
Lett!: as She was in the garden, and, -of Brighton. And then he would tell baby in AVMS, and Mr. Trelawney--
waking up and down with her, he her a little of how he spent 'his he s.Vms to think he's just got to
told her of the plans that he had: days -how he bathed and walked, walk to church with her oue morn -
made• • and did all he could to get strong- ing, and then let everything go -on
"I sin sorry to go away from you that he might come hack to Shepton again as ites been going for these
to -day," he said, **but it is best to the sooner, posdbly he would add. twenty years. And the Lord knows,
make no change in this, and you And after that, with some few kind instead of that; there'll be change
won't be unhappy when you know I words -e. sentence, perhaps, to say enough and worry enough to make
aro coming heck soon. You must that he missed her, or that he others sad and sore, if not him."
write to me, ton, Letty, and that thought Of her, or, it might be, to "Ole Letty, child I hope
wifl givd ydu something to do for bid her (a needless bidding !) think go well with you 1"-• she would say,
me. I shall be home again, you of hint -he would reach the end of yearningly, sometimes to her niece.
know, by the beginning of Septem- his paper, and subscribe himself her She wed to be loath, from fender -
bar, and then I should like us to be "affectionate G. Trelawney." neSS, to talk to Letty of the (11111 -
married as soon as possible after "My dear Letty," the letters al- culties before her that she herself
2- that Do you. think you can be ways began ; he 'never used any saw or feared, .but Semetimes her
ready so soon / You must talk it term of greater endearment than anxiety would break out in sudden
• over with your aunt, and she Will that, ear ever objected to•her that wietful sentences that the other
• helP you to get whateverthings you she addressed him always, as she could hardly understand. For how
need. You see you will have your did, simply as "Dear Mr. Trelawney' could it Mil to be well with her,
handquite full -so full," he said, and eigned herself only "Your grate- Laity thought when God was fliving
With a smile, "that 1 daresay you fuI Late." Possibly it satisfied him her the sweetest lot in all the world?
will hardly miss me." best that she should write so. He Tho only fear she ever had was that
"Oh, sir, you don't think that 5" was going to stoop to marry her, sim was not good enough to deserve
she said tiondly, half unar her but ait yet, he neither Liinvelf foi•- to marry him. She thought of that;
breath. got, nor perhaps wished her to for- sho used to say, sometimes, even
"Welt -no, X don't suppose I really get, that he was stooping. with tears, that somebody so differ -
think it he replied, with something So sbe wrote to him, and treasured mit from her ought to be his wife
almost like a sigh. "I know you up the poor letters that he wrote her but, for herself,how when she Was
• will be glad when 1 come hack-, m retmet, and, 'Asides that, did lite maeried to him could she he a.ny-
gladder than 1 deserve that. you tie elsa but think of him. I tun
should te. But I, shall be glad too," afraid that, though she tried to go
he added, quickly. "If I •could stay on with her lessens during these
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the world -not one other thing,"
she would say. "Just think ef it
to be given all one waets in a single
Moment 1 Oh, aunt, is it not like
sentething in a book? And when. s_hti
spoke so, what maid the °leer we -
Man say ? She used to preach lit
-
tie sermons to Letty about the
troubles of the world that sooner or
later come to every one ; but. thee:
passee acres* Letty'e ears, and
Welly touched her. 'N'ets, trouble
perhaps must cent° Rome day ; she
assented to that ; but surely, when
God was so good to her, it would
not come yet ? not. while she was
young ? and to Letty. who Was
eighteen (lid not age seem almost a
eternity away?
"I will be back with you toonor-
row. Mr. Trelawney wrote at last
one day in the beginning or Septem-
ber : so Letty made herself ready,
and her timid, joyful face was the
orst thing he saw when he ceree 53(1
to his own house.
She was etanding at the open door
with the color in her cheeks, And
her eyes more than her lies giving
their weleonte to him. Perhaps the
sight of her touched him with a mo-
mentary emotion. "lily hind Letty !
my, dear Letty i" he said to ber
quickly. ele too& her band, and
kept it ; he !oohed at her with eyes
that had love awl almost for the
moment a touch of pride in them.
She woe so young and fresh and
pure. likn a spring flower. Was it
not something to COMO 11011te and
Ise welcomed by such a face as flea ?
by Melt eyes as their shining
through their joyful tears ?
(To Be Continue(1.)
roiNTs OF A GOOD HORSE.
A noted horseman seats up the
requirements of a goeti horse as 101-
1. Quality Quality throughent, firmness of
bone, being more fropertant than
sae,
2. Fine. dense muscular fibre with
good development 10 every pert.
3. Nerve energy, vital force and
prompt action without the ase
the whip.
4. Oblique, springy pastekos te
avoid eenCessions of joints in feet
and legs.
5. Smooth, well-rounded, but deep
body; not ragged -hipped or flat -rib-
bed.
O. Narrow space between last rib
and hip and low at the flank.
T. Spend, well -formed feet and
legs, well set under the body, front
and rear.
8. Straight face line, mild full eye,
large thin nostril and low -wind-pipe.
9. Frictionless line movement. and
eliastk' netinn, not toeing in or ont.
10. Measure well the strength of
the weakest rivets, the stronger ouee
will take care of themselves. They
are never put to the htrain but the
weaker ones are,
Size has always heen considered a
Measure of power, all other things
being equal; but size in horses-
worliing animals -with coarseness of
130,10. looseness Of ti$4110. Want of
nerve force, sluggish amnion. lack of
Ambition. organieally leech, etc, has
for many years past been tho la-
mentable foundation stock of the
horse breeding business generally.
The constant aim -and it must
never be overlooketl-is to produce
animals of size, quality, endurance
and ability to perform alt required
duties with the least "wear alid
tear*" and expense to their owners.
But we eitould lower consider the
sleet of the home without these very
essential requisites, which melee Idea
a tweet and pleasure to us. or on
the other baud a*5 annoyauce. ex- 1,
pease and disappointment.
What we do in horse breeding
should be done for the very hest, to-
wards what the prodece can do for
tts. Let us rambler the horse from
the performing standpoint—consti-
tution. endurance., strength anti aa.
tion -rather than the amount of ;
flesh he can be Riede to carry, or
the pounds the smiles can make hint
Weigh. Any extra fat is a, detriment
to vital action for either work or
breeding, and always costs the pur-
chasers is very high price for,the
'useless extra pounds of meat at!
smooth over the animal to please the
tiye.
1 WANES E SUPERSTITION.
Foundation of a New Building
Sealed with Blood,
151 old Japan people were some-
times buried envoi -or, oftener, allow-
ed themselves to be buried alire-at
the beginning of 4 diflicillt piece of
engineeriag work in order to impart
strength and life to the undertake
UM. Tito victims to this horrible
superetition were 14101ril under the
title oi "gum= pillars" and malty
quaint and Weird stories have been
woven :wound this custom, and are
Mounted to this day by Jahattese
grandmothers to theie grandchildren.,
Bait 1101 One would imagine that
any grown-up Japanese of the pre-
sent die: would seriously believe in
these tales. 1114104 less offer to be
the loth:fret of one of them: yet
this in exactly what two persons
have just done.
The Buddhists of Osaka, have re-
cently Item collecting subscriptions
far the ereetion of a big beltr,v with
is inoneter bell at Tomoji Temple.
in the suburbs of that city. An old
lady, a fervent Buddhist. living hi
the sweet Island of Japan, happen -
lug to hear of this project, had a
letter written to the temple intimat-
ing that she was willing to offer her-
self an a sacrifice of the "human pil-
lar" variety if the tonple authori-
ties did not. object. Of course they
did not object. says the London
Leader.
, THE SECOND ENTHUSIAST
'WON an ex -priest of Osaka. 49 years
of age. On the evening of the 19th
inst., a policeman attathed to the
Tenuoji police station noticed the
figure of an elderly person proceed-
ing toward the temple. The figure
wos clad in white, and was parrying
on ite back is. coffin. The lattee fact
, nrousea the suspicions of the 1301100-
11111411. bn whose approach the figure
attempted to run, but was overtaken
And led, to the station.
An examination of the coffin ro-
weled a singularly beautiful old
sword and a mortuary tablet. A.
letter, addressed to the head priest of
the temple, which was discovered on
the persozt of the prisoner, explained
exactly what the latter had been
about to do. The men, oa being in-
terrogated, calmly confessed that he
had resolved to commit suicide that
night in the temple premises in or-
as he said, "to vitalize the col-
lection of the bell funds and to give
strength to the belfry on its con-
struction,"
Ile was perfectly sane itath ie
literate, and the warm remonstranc-
es of the police and the temple
priests succeeded in making him
Promise•to abandon his rash project.
lie was consequently released, but
he insisted on leaving behindeinethe
police station his valuable sword, an
heirlooin in his family and an excel-
lent spechnen of the swordsmith's
art. The man's name was Gwen°
Hayashi. He has a wife and two
children and has so far been able to
maintain them decently. •'
thing but happier than all other
women? .
"X shall watit nothing else in all
Protrudin leedin Piles.
Two Letters from Mr. Walker Explaining the Severity of His Case and the
Permanency of His Cure by Using Dr Chase's Ointment. .
Some people seerts to think that it is toe inneh to Claim that Dr. Chase's Ointment will cure every form
of piles, but facts go to prove the truth of this claim. • Thdse are interesting letters from one who has suf-
fered much and been cered,
In November, 1901, Mr. Sherwood Walker, a ,fireman on the Ca..nada Atia,ntic Railway, living at Mada-
waska Ont„ writes: -"I am a great sufferer fi•om bleeding piles. :.'iometimes the protruding piles come
down, causing, much .inisery and uneasiness, anct at other times I am subject to bleeding piles, and they bleed
to such an extent as to make me quite weak, If Dr. Chase's Ointment will cure this awful ailment you
will have my everlasting 'gratitude."
On March 1, 1902, we received the following letter from Mr. Wallcer, which speaks volumes for Dr.
ChaSes Ointment as a, cure for pile's of the most distressing form.. He writes: -"According to my promise,
I now, take pleasure in writing to you. If you'remember, you sent me a box of 'Dr. Chase's Ointment for
bleeding piles some three months ago. I used it faithfully, and can say that it proved a Godsend, ' for it
• has entirely cured me of bleeding piles. •
"I would have written sooner. but I wanted to be able to tell you that it was a, permanent cure. This
you can use for the benefit of other suffering people. There are several people here who have been cured of
very severe ease3 of protruding piles by using this great ointment."
Scs far as we know there is no o Cher preparation extant which is so successful in curing piles of the most
aggravated kind as Dr.. Chase's Ointment. Its soothing, healing powers are marvellous, and its cures thor-
ough - and.perinauent. Ceitty cents, a box, at all dealers, or •Edmanson, Bates - & Go., Toronto
JOHN REMEMBERED 1T ALL
RIGHT.
"John !" she said, looking at him
severely, ".did you know that yester-
day was the anniversary of our
wocli• • ?"
"Certainly, my darling, certainly,"
he replied, pretending that he
wasn't at all • surprised.. ,"Didn't
they send that little thing out from
the- jeweller's that I ordered, for
you ? I shall goround to -day and
see about it. Confound those people
anyway ! They promised they'd
send" it yesterday without fail. If
there's .anything that makes me -mad
11 is to have. people he to me about
ti thing of that:kind. I'd have gone
somewhere else if they had said they
couldn't ,•hate • it .ready in tinie.
Well, VB.:make Such a row When I
get into totve• to -day that the
won't, forget next title, I'll bet. Yes,
remember it my dene. I thought of
you all day and of that other happy
day. .What a glorious -why, my
darling., What are you owing for ?"
e0h, • you wretch. 1" she sobbed.
"It 'isn't till next month, and you're
d -d -deceiving inc G o (0v ay !
Don't you dare to t -t -touch inc 5"
'`Confonndwomen, anyhow !" he
said, as ho went down the front
.steps. ',"11hey';'e neves. happy unless
they're making trouble for them-
selves." ,
-Rev., John PyPer,' of Relfast, issin,
his 73rd y6itr, and has been a life
Fong 'total abstainer:,',
proatable farm product unless he
goes permaneetly into the bileieess.i
Too many who try to make money!.
from swine fincl it unprofitable meg
year, and abandon it, or because af-t
ter two years or fair peeress thed
third year proves unsatisfactory,
theY conelude that the best days for
the business have !nosed, and they
try their hand at something else. As
a. continnoes business, carried on
not elle or two or three yeare, but
ten, fifteen and twenty years. it hos
no superior and the man who pur-
sues it thus will get his sure reward.
EaCh succeeding year we learn More
about the work and find out where
we made mistakes and where we
-could bare made improvements. We
become so Weiner with the whole
subject, that we are competent jud-
ges as to whether we should raise
this or that breed. We also groW
accustomed to anticipating mar-
kets, which is a great thing in these
days of fluctuations. Then. too, we
'cern how best to feed the animals --
how to get the most front every too
of feed, grass or llaY.
GOOD DAIRY COWS PAY.
I have been breeding Jerseys for
the last 15 years. writes Mr. C. D.
Simpson. They are like the Irish-
man whiskey. Ho said it was all
good but, some was a little better
than the rest. Just so with the
Jersey cow. I have seen some so-
called Jerseys that were not worth
their feed, while there are others,
nearly worth their weight in gold.
History tells us that the Jersey bas
been bred for more than 500 years
00 *50 island midway between and
not far from either Of the two great-
est butter consuming cities in the
world. London and Paris, and that
they were selected and bred exclusive-
ly for supplying butter for these
great eiLies.
The greatest profit for the amount
of food consumed is what we are at -
ter in the dairy business. and Jer-
seys make is. most excellent showing
in butter and also milk. I milk my
cows almost the -whole year. The
dairy calf should be allowed to suck
its mother but a few days after
which it should be fed skimmed milk
until five or six months old. It
should also have the run of a, good
clover lot. It should never be fed
very much corn or any other fat -
producing food. I have known some
very line heifers to be ruined by be-
ing kept too fat while they were
growing into'a cow. In the winter,
feed bran, oats and clover hay.
In connection with keeping cows I
find a cream separator almost a ne-
cessity for the larger p,rofits. 1 haeie
a small one-horse gasoline engine
which separates the cream from the
sweet milk in a eery short time. The
sweet milk is .piixed with ground
wheat and oats and fed to pigs. it
seems to be one of the best pig foods
I have ever used. I feel that the
skinnuilk aboet pays the keep of the
cows when used in this way: The
butter" product I consider net prOfil.
There is still good money in the
good dairy cow When properly hand-
led.
SOIL LIFE.
Soil is not an inert lifeless mass
Of dirt, essentially unclean and un-.
worthy of thought' or attention, bet
is a live and complex subetance•in
Which constant change is taking
place, 1,113 "an immense kitchen -in
which fecal is made and prepared for
plant •roets.: AU soils are formed
upon reeks by- thq action Of freezing
and thawing, rain, running, Water
and glaciers: • They are made up
chiefly .01 pereeles of rock of vary-
ing sizes. The fertility ef the soil
depends to a considerable .degree up-
on the size of its Particles., The soil
centains decayed and decaying' vege-
table matter and this material gives
soil its dark color ,.and adds to its
fertility. -et is the ihome of count -
legs numbers of mieute creatures,
too small to be seen that are Con-
stantly at work causing decay of
vegetable matter and making plant
food. Aninials including* all the
higher forms, depend Upon'plants for
food, for life.' Plants livp upon: and
10 thc soil. Without soil all ani -.
mat life and all higher forMs of
plant life would be impossible. The
surface of the earth would .be a bald
and ba.rren. scene. of desolation;
PROFIT :IN
One eatotet hope to Make -swine 11
NEW WAlt MATFRIAL.
ilitaey Motor Wagia4S .14,Ke Now
Being 'Med.
Important trials of Motor wagons
fler military use aro being Carried On
constantly in various armies.
Among the moat interesting of these
are those conducted by an artily
board o.t Feliadorf, near Vienna.
Austria, and the BritishArials at Al-
dershot. the results of which have
just been published,
In the Austrian trials, the wasting
were ten and 19 horse power Dann -
ler benzine motors. and the maxi-
mum load was 11,000 poubds. The
wagons were used during 249 days.
for a total time of 624 hours, mahe
lug from one to four trips a day.
The total distance covered was eettitt
miles. or 32.4 Julio a day. and the
rOadlled varied. being sometimes it
gre:itt)d(is 41:1=tilsigittutfulale"mi)ietall
ow. The aterage amount trens-
ported was WOO iguanas per day ae
a rate of five miles per lunar.
It was foetal that in deep snow
and cold winter weather the U.So ot
the motor wagon WaS1 Very limited:
rep/ears had to be made on many
parts, especially on the motor. the
driving apparatus, the ignit104
burners, the wheels and the pipes 9f
the cooling apparatue: setae tiara
had to be enthely replete& such as
the nweneto-elertric igniter and the
driving wheels.
To test the endurance of the wagon
it was loaded with 11.000 potinds of
sten and 880 pounds of other mater-
ial. Mid taken over 61 wet road, in
the rain, over railing country for
nineteen hours' steady wurtang. On
the lirSt day the road was mostly
up hill. and in twelve hours only
thirty-five miles were made, or an
aterage of about three utiles an
hoer; but on the second day, mostly
on a level the saute distance, was
covered in seven hours, or about five
MOM 411 hour. The results proved
that bad roads had no effect other
than reducing
THE RATE OF TRA.VEL.
The motor wagons were also tested
in pulling heavy loads, such let sea-
coast guns and the reSultS were en-
tirely satisfate ory, slopes of 5 de-
grees and ramps of 1 on 8 Were
•crossed without trouble. Finally,
the power of the machine in turn-
ing on a. short radius was tried. and
a, radius of lle feet was found suf-
ficient when pulling two 4.0 inch
siege guns.
The uses of motor wagons iu the
field for the transportation al Stip-
plies, to supplement the neld rail-
road and the wagon train are al-
ready well Unown; the above experi-
ments illustrate another great use
of them in permanent fortifications
for the transport:then of heavy ord-
nance.
In the British trials five types of
motor lorries took parte all
steam propelled except one petroleum
Diamler engine, and only one of the
steam engines using liquid fuel. The
stetun vehicles were a Straker, two
Thornycrofts and a Foden wagon.
The trials were conducted at Alder-
shot by the War Office Committee on
Mechanical Transport and the prin-
ciple requirements were that the ve-
hicles be capable of being used on
rough roads and across country oc-
casionally; to 13e capable of going
wherever a: country cart Can go, to
carry five tons (three on the lorry
itself and two on the trailer) exclu-
sive of fuel and water; to be cap-
able undo. full load of a speed of
eight miles an hour on lair level
roads, or five miles on average
roads, up and down hill, and to
scale without other aid a 'rise of 1
on 8. The veldeles are te he work-
ed by one man only, and mast run
for forty-eight hours Without over-
hauling or cleaning,.
One of the Thornycroft wagone re-
ceived the foist prize, the Peden •
wagon the second and 1110 Straker:
vehicleethe third. The British Gov-
ernment bonght the first two for use
in South Afrita.
THE POINT WAS MISSING.
"Professor," said an acquaiutance,
.' 'you. tinders Wald. Latin , you
not ?" • •
."Welli" replied the professor, ".I•
may be said to have a fair know-'
ledge of Latin ; 3e9.e
"Iknow everybody says you have.
I wish you Would tell inc what
'volix' 'Means: Nobody that I have
ae..;ked seems to have heard of the .
Word."
'If there is any such word as
volix, madam -of Which I have se-'
rious donlits-I:certainly do not
knoW what, it ineans,'"
You surprise Inc professor. . A
ina.n of your attainments Might to
know that Volix means Vol. IX."'
The professor devoted a Moment
lo enlli ng up his reserITS and bring-
ing his light artillery into action.
"lt is no Wonder, nr.,-0.1ani," h'e said
"that 1 did' not Soo 'the p017,,t • .'of,,
your ioke. '1 30 ,left .the point pet
of it