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DARE HE?
OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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CIIAIPTEft \1..—(ConLin uod).
Her delicate suffering 111011111 quivers,
but sho Ls perketly oonq:ooctt,
"Oh, but of course fou must Seo hien 1
you quite, quite iideundenstand Ise
Much chance there would bo"—with a
wretched stunted laugh—"uf golliug.hint
away without a sight of you! Haw
little you know tiin► 1"
Elizabeth does not dispute the fart of
her want of acquaintance %v1lh Ryng's
chnra:'ter, nor loxes sho help his Ileen-
&rul;; pan'nt by any suggestion. She
tn. rely goes on listening to her with that
civil white look, while the sportive sea -
n1. %%• still play at hid4>and-seek with
the stn -rays on the wide flue llekls of
Isea \ t tl.
"It is dreadful that I should havo to
st.y these things to you," rays Mrs.
Byng, in a voice of the st'ongkest revolt
and ire against Ikr destiny—"insult you
in this unprovoked way ; but, in point
of fact, you are lite only person in the
world who can convince hien (hal—that
--it is impassible—that it cannot be. Of
course ho will be very urgent and press-
ing. and 1 know how persuasive he is.
De not you suppers, that 1, les own oto•
ther. know hew (lard it is to refuse him
anything? and, of course, In his present
weak state it must bo very carofutly
de.ne. He could not stand any violent
oonlradk:tiun. You would have to be
gentle ; dear oto I"—witls it fresh access
of angry reinerse—"us if you over could
be anything else."
This compliment also its pale object
receives in silence.
"You know ono has always hoard that
there are two kinds of 'No,'" got on
Mrs. Byng with another dwarfish laugh,
which has a touch of the hysteric in it—
"a woman's 'No," as it is called, that
means 'Yes'; and a 'No' which anyone
--which even he—must understand to be
final. If you could -1 ehuecsiy 1 nen ask-
ing you an impossibility—but if you
could snake hint underetand that this
time it 1.s final 1"
There is a silence between them. An
unrulier billow than usual, yet tore
mnsterless in int Titan play. Lt hurling
itself with a colossal thud and bang
against the causeway; and Elizabeth
waits till ifs clamor is subsided before
she speaks.
"Yes," she answers slowly, "i under-
stand, thank you for telling me what
you wish. 1 think I may pi»niise that
I shall bo able to—that 1 shrill make fin
widerstnnd that it is final."
A moment or two later they an0 on
their way back to the Amirante. The
ocean is at its gknious pastimes all
around them ; the hill -climbing, shining
1.1%%11 smites upon them from its slope;
but up:on both has fallen a blindness.
The feelings of Mrs. Ilyng are perhaps
the leosl enviable of the two.
They are nearly back at 111e beginning
of the breakwater, when sho slops short.
Probably when coop reflection comes,
when she 1s removed from Iho chnr,n
and pathos of Elizabeth's meek while
presence, lovely snit unrepronchful, she
wit. not repent her work ; but tit the
present moment of Impulse and remorse
she feels as If lite expunging of the last
half-hour would be cheaply purche\e;e.i
by the sacrifie of .ix months of her re-
maining life.
"1 suppose it Ls not the least use my
asking you to try and forgive me—to
;mike alkiwanets for me?" she says,
a ;th 'Instead)* tuned honr.lity ; "oh how
y..e rut -L hale nu• 1 If the case acre re-
vie- .1. Mew I should hate you! '-flow
pie: will hale rue all your life 1'
Tho tears oro rolling down her cheeks,
and In an i►sliinl Eliznlx'Ih's hand las
paw out to her. As it does so, the gni.
teem:. regret Ihishe_es nems: 1110 elder
w•(.mnn's mine) that any future dnughter-
in•law• of hers will he most unlikely to
Iles IJie possessor of slash n horn(.
"\ally should 1 hale yon? you can -
rad" --tvith
an•rot"--with n heart -wrung srmle—
"pY,s.•!b1y think 111e more undesi'able
than i do my self ; and even if 1t were
net so, i to n.e1 think it is in me to hate
Qnyone very much."
On their (drive 'unite they meet with
(.110 or two little incident: quite as funny
n< Ile rid Jews kissing en^h other ; but
this time they to not move foot. Miss
Le Mai hent to any laughter.
fopl.\l'I't:lt Nt.l.
Two drays later she is called upon to
perfei•tu the task elle has meter -taken.
Probably she' has spt nl t)x»e Iwo days,
and Mel the nppeertaining nights, in
hewing her mind to il, for Jint can
plainly see the marks of that struggle.
though he Ls Holl aware of its existence,
grnttel tgr.n her Inc.'. on the third morn -
rifler Ilit' excursion 14) the \ole. He
does not find her in her enlist/ailed
e' 1 r,'r of the terrace. tall: hooking 1141Wr. 1
4 '.:• Ine l'iilii.:h•nih•, s.ee.< her sitting be -
hew and clone on n sma11 Impshaded
plateau Ilial s.i'ms to have been levelled
for lawn -tennis ur low'Is. Probably the
giggling and chaffering of the griefs on
tie. terrace, and the respectful I 41 per-
eisleni imp"►rtmili.'% of the Omars rind
A1lnxds to buy their coorlul wales out-
spread on the hot ling&, hove oppressed
her spirits.
Fritz has carried .gown for her nn non•
choir. n cane Inble. and n Persian nig
Ger her feel. and she looks as if -hr were
e•4tattlinhtrl for the day.
Sins, It% ng (hos I.e'n out of 'longer
Elizabeth has (5'iurnel 1e tier enlbrei-
t!ery. She is one 4.f Meese women to
v.l,onn needlework is unnff•rl'lly dear.
I ,. that other sweet woman "oho was
se ,lelientc with her t►mlle•"
it.efon. AIM catch4" sight of hint be
statelier. for a few men—wide her bright
lent henol and flying white liinghers, and
is able to perceive how ninny sietis elle
is sow trig into the faltern.
"What a inerning !' he says, running
d(.%t•n Ihr'stepe and hinting her. "Ne one
hao any excuse for teeing an invalid to-
day. lea. lit?"
There is ret eceund seal, so he stands
beside her, looking up over her head at
Irlfall noes above her, trent which im-
metiso garlands of ivy arts hanging and
swinging in the warn breezes. aliat po-
tent ivy has kilted one too altogether.
Sly' .glans up at hint mutely, know-
ing that ho has not come merely to tell
her thaL the dry is fee.
"\Vo can hardly keep him on hes sofa;
h; is virtually almost well, so well that
he is quite up to seting people. Re
wouki like—ho has been asking—lo see
yon.."
Ile had thought her nearly as pale as
i! was possible for her to be when ho had
first conte upon her. Ilcnow n:alizeshow
many degrees of Dolor she then had left
In kttto. \\ talo he speaks she has been
mechanically pulling her thread through,
and as he cxast's, her Mks" hand stops
as if paralyzed, and r'cvnalns holding her
needle in the air.
It has come then. For alt her two
days' bracing, is she ready for it?
'Now Y'
The whisper in which this monosylin-
t1e is breathed is so stature(' with a fear
that tordets on terror, that his one as-
tonished thought is how best. to reassure
her
"Not it you do not feel inclined, of
cc.urse—not 'mites you liko. It cnn per-
fectly well be put off to another time. 1
can tell hien—there will not be the least
difficulty in making him understand—
that you do not fool up to it this morn-
ing; that you would rather have more
notice."
"But I would not," she says, standing
up suddenly, and with trembling hands
laying her work down upon the table,
and beginning from dainty habit to pin
it up in its protecting white cloth.
"What good would snore noti•se—a year's
notice --do me?"
She turns nwny from hien and fixes
tier unseeing eyes, glassy tend dilated,
upon a poplar tree Utut is hanging tas-
selled catkins out against the sky. Then
or:oe again she faces bin, and ho coos
that there are cold beads of agony upon
her forehead.
"Wish for ire," she says 1luskily—
"wisl► very hard for mo, that 1 may gel
through it—that we may bots( get
through 1t --sutra P'
't'he'm, ntotioning to hint tvlth her hand
not to ((tikes' her, sho walks quickly to-
wards the hotel.
it is impossible to hint to May quiet.
Ile wanders restlessly away, straying he
knows not whither. The mintasns are
out charmingly In the gardens, sending
delicious whiffs of perfume from the soft
yellow fluff of their (louvers. The pinky
almond -Ines are out too, but not till long
a/lerewants does he know it.
Ry -and -by he finds himself strolling,
unhindered by n gardener placidly dig-
ging, through the grounds of a villa to
let. Gigantic violets send their meas ago
to his nostrils, the big and innumerable
blue bktssows p:ndominating over the
leaves, which in England have to ho so
carefully searched for them. Super-
►il indnrtt o'ninges tumble about his Get;
arum lilies, just discovering Ute while
secret hid in Meir green sheaths, stand
in tall rows on either skto of him; a
hal of broad beans points out Iho phos
nonlenon of her February flowers to
him. fie sees and smells nolo► of theta.
Have his senses stolen away with his
heart into Ityng's chonther? .They must
have done so, or he could not sec With
such extraordinary vividness the &came
enncting there. 110 has hhrlsell hc1J►eel
to place it in such asonkslling reality be-
fore himself. Does not he know the ex -
net position of sho chair she is to oc-
cbpy Y Did net 11e place It for herr before
he went to fetch her? Nor can his ren -
son prevent his clistoMai fancy from pre -
settling the interview as one between
Isnppy and confessed kn'ers. Even tho
reoolt'ctien of her features. gha,tly and
with (leads of agony dewing them, con -
net tem'nel the pieture of his mint as he
}persistently :ars it. That she meaty,
when he park.) !non her, to renounce
Ilyng, he has no manner of doubt. But
does not tie know Ute pliancy of her na-
ture? la net he convinced that the rock
on which her hie has al lit is her inability
ever Io refuse anyone anything that they
ask with sufficient urgeney or with
enough phuusibihly to persuade her that
she can do thein a kindness by yield-
ing'?
Ilett much mot., then, will she be in-
capable of reel ling the importunate
pate:( en of her own henrt's Chosen one.
freshly risen from a bed of death? 1're-
wally restless feel carry him away
out e.f the s i11n grounds ngnin. ile finds
himself eon 111e Itouleverl \luslnpha, and
sits down on 1114' :uw went( by the road -
Oh.. Mitring e.'senlly nt it broken line
nl dusky sI' ne-pines, culling the art's(
ire African sky on the hill op -
p, -site. and at an nreadeel cnnlpngne
throned high 1111 among the venture. Ile
gnaws mat it lettings to nn Englishman
who made mels of (often. and the Idle
thought &sullen (101vss his rhinal how
/strange it is that reels of cotton should
wind styes' into such a lofty while
Eden ! Can the inter% few be lasting all
Pits while? Is not it yet ended? Aloe
not his tormented (Riley ser 1110 chair I.
By rlgt's sofa once again empty or o0cu-
picvl by nurse or !nether? \\'ill not \lrs.
Ryng. will not Elizabeth herself, have
We41 the Unlitts•ss 01 111\iig the sick
man's feint powers by so extreme n
.11 nin open them? But nn stoner lois
Ilan sugge.htil ries shtei a ray 0f light
up on his dnrkne ss Ihan 1111 opposing one
comet. and ',kiwi it oul. Iles not Ilyng a
cit; .ef his e%%'n? Will he I'o likely rest
soon l0 led her go? Noy. having once
.meant( tier. will he ('veer let her ((til
of his sight again? The thought te.141 e•
hint to nootte4.•& action. and. although
with axduous sk.wne. ise itegins to re-
trace his steps lntwants the hetet. At it
is int anent a quarter of it mile ili.'itenl
(nen it. the lan.' which leads to the Villa
Winton eh Mouchtts into the road, and
delx,aching nen into the road Ire sees
1!10 Ogyt.s. et (aecilia, who. culclltng sight
of hhn, as 11 unable to wait ler hint
join her. a!moot runs to meet hen.
"1 was 0ruumig t, Gall upon you," 811)
she eagerly. "Oh !"- with a laugh
"lo -dry 1 really cannel stay to think o
tee pn)prietit , tett you havo not In
t. sues (L5 fur &twit o(•riturto:
been
"1 have beennursing [quiz.""Uh, yes; poor taut ! flewdievadfult
ill he ?mist have been ! 1 teas so glad
hoar he was better."
'l'llero it such a flat tepidity in 111.' tun
of thea expressions of coriuuieu
„aUa
something so different from the kends)
niavinotis of (;rips:~ former interest u
Chir ohject, That Jim, rowedout of hi
own reflections to ivgart) !Fur more u
tealtiwe)y than he has yet done, 5ea'4 11111
s4c is preoccupied by wino subj'x:l quit.
alien to law invalid.
"1 havo a pk'er of news to tell you"
with a /sort of angry chuckle. "Such
piece of news! 1 ani sum you will bo
(k lighted at it."
At leor %verde a wonder as idle an
slack as his Into thought about lite nee
01 c01101)creast& nen res to what posssi
ble piece of meseto be told himby Ile
buxom and excited person before hit
could give him the faintest pleasure
'plat wonder sands up les eyebrows, an
thrown a mild animation into his voice
"Indeed?"
"1)) you like"—still chuckling—"to bo
tokt a piece of news or to guess it?"
"1 like to be told it."
"Well, Ilion,"—with a dramatic pause
—"we arogoing to have a wedding i
the family 1"
"My dear girl 1" cries ho smiling ve
gooct-naturally, and with n seusatiut
that, though not violent, is the reverse
of tuuioy'auex►. "Merrill! so 1)0 has
cnmo nt last! Who is be? flow dark
you have kept him !"
Cecilia shakes his. 1104141 and gives a
short and nosy laugh.
"Oh, it Ls no. f 1 You are w•ido of sho
mark."
"Your father ?"—in a shocked voieo.
Ile t,as n confused and illogical fooling
that a secondmarriage on the Tart of
Mr. \\'ilson world bo a slight upon
Amelia's memory.
"Father!" with an ncoent that plainly
shows him ire Ls still further afield than
in his first co►ij0:'tute--"poor father
No, indeed ; Heaven forbid l Fancy innwith a slepmoi.her 1"
She pauses to give a shudder at sho
ilea. while Jim gapes blankly at her,
wondering whether she has gone off herhead.
"Oh, no; it is neither father nor i
No wonder you look mystified. It is'--
Sybilla !"
"Sybilla ! ""
Although Mr. Burgoyne has not got it
on his conscience that 11e has ever sillier
expr'assed or felt anything but the most
strenuous and entire disbelief in Sybil -
la's maladies, yet it has neveroccurred
to hien as possible that she should en-
gage in any occupation nearer akin to
the ordinary nvocotkms of life than in►-
bibing- ponies through tineas and eating
beef etesenoes out of cups.
":Silo is going to marry Dr. Crump 1"
continues Cecilia, not on the whole dis-
satisfiedwith the effect of her torpedo.
"\l lien she sok) falter, she said (hat he
hail saved her life, and that Me least she
ceu1d do was to 11e41icalt, the poor re-
mainder of it to line. She tells other
1x-3)1:10 that sho Is marrying trim because
we wish it 1 \'o1 know that that was
always her way."
"Sybilla ! !"
"I thought that (Nom must be sone -
thing In the (vim), 11s si1100 the begin -
nog of the sonde silo has never once
a ...lied 1110 good-bye; and the house -
plaid upset the ink bottle over the hook
0; prescriptions without her ever finding
it out; and 1110 clinical thermometerhits not appeared for a week 1"
".' ybilla !I"
"I Ilotughl i should surprise you; it
ono oo a disgust. for the )den of mar-
rying. (goes not it ? 1 !MVO come to the
c'.onchl.'inn that I de net care now if 1
never marry. Father and 1 get on quite
happily together; and when one is well
off, ono call really bo very fairly content
in at single slate; and, at all events, i
me sure 1 do not envy Sybilla."
"Nor I I:runp"—with on emptiest" se
int',ise that Cecilia bursts out into a genuine of a more nnuine character than
aq' she has yet indulged in.
"You will havo to give her away I" she
cries, as soon as sho can speak distinctly.
'Fatter will marry her, of cetursc, and
u►; Hurst give tor away. 1 am slimshe
to
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ry
will fn.tst upon 1L"
"tihe will hove to nnnko haste, then;'
relurls ht', ne.n'ering enough t»m his
IINt stupefaction In join Cecilia by her
mirth ; "for 1 shall not be herr much
tenger."
"You nee going sway ?"—raking her
eyeliner.•, and milli n tinge of meaning -
/tees in her totes which vaguely frets
hint.
Maly should not I go?" he risks ini-
tially. his short and joyless merriment
quite quenched. "What is there for a
mon to do here? 1 have stayed already
much anger Ihan I meant. I nal en-
gaged to meet a friend al Timis -Alio
man with whom 1 %Vent 10 the Ilhnalnyas
three years ago ; we ore going to make
ae esoersi.en into the inlerieir. I tun only
wailing for Mune guns and things. Why
should not. 1 go?"
"There is no earthly reason," replies
she demurely ; "only that 1 did not. know
you had nnv such inlenliten. Mit then, In
he sure. it is net 3t hong sees— I have seen
you --nut, 1 this,' glancing 111 Hits for
t'onlirtnalien of her el11...mie t rather too
inn.ec•ntly. "sou.' the levers -elm ! lin h-
and 1 ",' ver and Miss foe 11archaut
driving on the crates.'
(To be %'o4nliiitu,l).
'-- —
P0111•:It 01' A 101'11NAi.IST.
Cannot Make Laws, Itut Can Make ten.
maker,.
The journalist cannel slake law's, but
t.e makes the lawmaker. ile is the st-
!.ens force in every pat Ifament. the un-
seen factor in every polling !Keith. Ile
is present, invisible, in every Cabinet.
St. door is ticked to him. Ile is every -
w hem. always. Nothing hlpp•ens that
!n' has not seen. Ile has the master -
14 v of government. Ile can make wars
and bring peace; lie cwt ninke revolts -
r)8 1)1)11 destroy Mein. Ile has more
;sewer in the market than the slack ex-
change. leen the scales of legal jus-
tice may be subject to his will. With -
111 htrn life na we knew it, would be
item:e it, He stands betwie^n light
°red darkness. between ,social peace
end civil wae between dern•ecracy and
despotism, b"Is••on the inrdorn of yee1
teenllcth renlury and the ingiti'ilfen
of the ltddle :\ge.. He is the guardian
1 the liber lira of the human tae;(.
T111, MIDDLE AGED al %N.
neC.illintp an Old Joke, ile is Iteiii inded
of His Own Inereasiulp fears.
"No little thing flat has happened to
me recently," said the middle aged
man, "has brought to my mind so st'.k-
htgiy as this slight incident chid the die
ference between the old times and then
;.ew, nor has any little thing so vividly
n minded rue of my increasing years.
"One of the standard jokes that had
(x.1111 in the limes when 1 was a boy
and that went the rounds in print (hart,
(..sides being often brought into play
in jocular conversation, related to one's
h;,ving left his pocketbook at horse on
the piano. Isere, say, is a 1iean buying
sunlelhing in a store, and when he
comas to pay for it he teaches in Iain
})octet in which he also carries his
purse. And it isn't there!
"And then, surprised at not finding
it there, ho pats all his other pockets
in succession, and then reaches in each
and every one of them in search of il,
to discover that he hasn't got it about
Min anywhere. Arid then he looks up
and says:
'Well, by gracious! I haven't got
tiny money. I Must have left uty pock-
ell•ook on the piano.'
"Phis joke in its day was considered
a good one, easy and plain and yet not
without .some subtlety, a joke appeuling
to maty, because originally it was put
out not as u joke at all, but as a bluff,
as something that was seriously pro•
p•.unded and perhaps seriously ac.
cc'pted.
Its original utterer Ls supposed to
have Leen a Ulan who had put up a fair
tont, but who when the pinch carne
proved to have no money, and who Then
accounted for its absence in a way to
imply that while he had no money s'ittl
Lim I:o was nevertheless a 111tu1 of rte -
sources, us this incidental remark, casu•
r11y made, was intended to show. And
perhaps it went. Ile had left his money
on the piano. If he had a piano it was
a reasonable inference that he was a
..tan of at least some means, for in those
days pianos were, comparatively speak-
ing. rare,, and so this man who had left
his pocketbook borne on the piano might
to a man w'llo could be trusted.
"Se as to its origin and perhaps as to
its occasional early use; but latter it
was regarded as it joke only, in which
manner of acceptance it obtained :is
v:'dest currency, with its humorous mile
hely of meaning. to this latter use the
Loan to whom U was pp to to pay some-
thing and who found, as perhaps he
knew and as others had shrewdly guess-
ed. that he had no money said jokingly;
"'Well, I guess I raust have left my
mcney home on the piano.'
"Rut times have changed, and the old
joke, with whatever significance, no
tenger goes.
"This morning when 1 went to pay
for something in a store where I trade
i found thin 1 had actually left my.pock-
elbook at horse, and the old joke &i'rn-
in„ hack to me 1 said to the young men
who kept the store, smilingly.
"'1 guess 1 11111st have left my pocket-
bcek on the piano.'
"Rut the old joke awakened in them
ro response whatever. And why should
t)
They have it piano, 1 have a piano,
everybody in these days has S piano,
end so my remark as ra joke had no -
special significance for thein. It was
simply a statement by me that I had
!e 11 my money on the piano.
"So i was brought to realize that, ex-
cept for those ohs enough to recall it,
this once honorable and generally en -
pled joke had now lost its humor."
EXPLORATION BY MOTOR -(:.311.
Visiting Strange Places of the Earth
Made Easy.
11 seems only the other day that enl-
in.nt explorers like Livingston and
Stnnley made long journeys afoot
through the Interior of the then rightly
named "Dark Continent,' taking years
ever a single journey, and practically
di voting their lifetimes to the objects
they had at heart.
And now comes the news Ihan i,ieut-
cnanl Graetz, of the German Array, 13
al.oul to start to cross this self -same
Arica—the "Dark Continent" now no
longer—on a specially constructed mo-
tor -car. Ivy its aid he will penetrate
easily, he hopes, Into waterless regions
tether') unvisited. The dread Kalahari
Desert, for instance, will be traversed
for the first time In its entirely from
(vast to west, and the "dry districts" el
Great. Namaqualand are to be made to
Veld up their secrets.
Nor i.. this a solitary straw showing
which w.ay the wind bkevs. On the
a plea.)•, Ihcre are many such, and
they all point in the satire direction.
L:eute►►ant Shackleton starts in a few
weeks to ley to motor to 111e South Pole;
arid there are at least three espeftlons
acing organized to attack the North
('ole in the sumo vv'ny, rethough these
teller, it uury be remarked in passing.
will find the ice conditions in the Arctic
far less favorable for motor traction
than will Mr. Shackleton in the Ant-
arctic.
Then there is the French motor -car
exploring expedition tr the l.ake Chad
region of the Soudan, which set out a
few weeks back from '('ripeli, and n
Ge rrn11n Orin. tvhicl► is operating in the
hitherto unvisited north-eastern corner
of German South-West Africa, nn arid
rand desolate region, where food and
water are alike well -night unobtalinable,
The terrible Desert of lobi, the
w'orld's biggest waste, was crossed, too,
the other day. by 111e Pekin to Paris
racing rnotori•ts. lint this, of course,
could hardly be said to have been done
n the interests of expforntien. Never-
theless. it is eserettiely probable ll►nt,
when the full :eery of the trip conte/1
to be told, now geographical facts will
ee,me to light concerning that little
known corner of the globe.
- �,•--
A young ndvec11te was engaged in his
first case. Ile had evidently conned his
argument till be knew it by heart. fie -
fen he hind proceeded len minutes with
1.14 oratorical effort the judge had aecid-
evl the case in his biter and had Told
hien s 1. Despite this the young lawyer
would hot cease. I1 reamed That he hod
alta nod such n no0)0111utn that he could
rot slop. Finally the judge leaned for-
ward 1111d. in the pettiest of tom's. sail:
"11r. Blank. nllvtthslseding your :nape
3.,enee the ('i ilrt tuts eetieluded to de•
cede thio ca,e fn your favor."
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About the Farm
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PiROBLEMS OF TIIE HARM.
As much money can be nude by
studying when, what and how to grow
us by doing the growing. If you can•
r:el grow an acre of polaloes for less
than $60, and get not .,ver IW bushels,
Lew can you compete with a elan who
can gfiOw them for $.,2 per acre and
gets from 500 to G°u bushels? Potatoes,
us well as all other crops, wilt sell for
Pottle more titan the average cost above
('►e general average will lose money.
Sido hills and stony sections, where
machines do not work well, covering
!he seeds with stones and lite sprayer
tips over, should be used as dairy sec -
(14.118, aild the loamy, level fields which
work as easily us a child's garden of
send should be saved for garden truck
and potatoes,
The gradual depletion of the soil an)
the costly substitution of chemical fer-
lieuallon is reducing profits until the
prophecy is fulfilled; '"lo him that hath
stall be given, but to him that hath not
shall be taken away even that he Italia"
A poor farm growing poorer is it
losing proposition. The soil is rich
enough in plant food for a hundred
crops but it has been so misused and
mismanaged that plants do not thrive
111 il. They are not starved but stunted
by the condition of homes.
If you mix soil frau a good field • f
black loam with water and make a
coke, it will, when baked, crumble
readily. Should you mix a cake from
a ploughed field that has been cultivat-
ed for twenty years, it would make a
brick when baked. This Ls the difference
between natural soil and artificial; the
ane productive, elle other seductive --
Inking your profits. The principal clit-
fetence is caused by the decaying vege-
bit'le matter which keeps it in a favor-
able condition for the growth of pJasts.
PHACI'ICAL POL'i.TRY POINTS.
Where only a small run is available,
keep only one breed, and make it the
fest by keeping only a few of a good.
laving strain.
bo not keep more than twelve birds
m a yard 30x15, and the house scraps
will almost be sufficient for their main-
tenance.
Sweep up the manure each day, and
there will be no need to fear disease.
Unclean yards aro not only an annoy-
ance, but a menace.
A dozen good fowls will furnish more
eggs than the average family requires,
and will leave a surplus for pin money.
Thirsk what it costs (3 buy absolutely
fresh -laid eggs nil the year round!
When skiuunilk is available give your
birds plenty, as it is rich In fleshfornr•
cls. 1t also whitens and gives succu-
lence to lite meat.
July chicks often begin to droop when
about a week old. Lice under the
wings and legs and large sores on Inc
Lead are almost always the cause. Hub
in some fresh insect powder.
The shed floor on the ground is a
good lance to store July sitters. But
make the steed rat -proof. flats and
skunks, loo, are very active in mid-
summer.
There are dozens of ways to break
)4p sitters. but the simplest is the best.
Merely shut (hen] into a small coop
%sitlt slat bottom and sides; an old berry
crate will answer. Give plenty of wafer
end moderate feed. let them all out
three or four days later, but giving an-
other term to those who go back to the
nests. No need of a cockerel in the
broody coop.
FARM NO'T'ES.
livery farmer should have a good len-
fool pole, I'ino or basswood, dressed
down to 1y, inches square, makes n
geed one. Cul it exactly ten feel long,
then lay it oft with a scratch -awl Into
lengths of one foot each. The market
may afterwards be blorkened.
Fuming is a better business Ihan it
ever was before in nil the worlds his-
tory. A butt can do nil the thinking
on the farm that he is capable of. I1
he wants a chance to do something big,
all he needs is to do it. And ns for good
solid comfort—the form beats the
wve.rld! And the oneness of this court.
fry are slowly rising to this fact.
11 would nlnlost °piton*, iron1 the fre-
geently expressed opinions of farmers
ILernseh•es, that what is termed high
cultivation Is not e'conomleal, that it is
Lad. in fact; that it is more economtcnl
to use a smaller quantity of manure.
Lind less concentrated food, and to lilt
In n general way upon as economical
a principle as possible. I do not be-
lieve that this plant is either enlionnl
or economical. The kisser the prices of
prrdice, the more important it is to
Increase the yield in order to nlafnfaln
the value of the gross return. and :n
cyder lo do this high fanning is 04401 -
Ital. High farming ekes not mean ex-
periment forming, or the applienlon of
coolly mnnurts without a full know•-
Iet!ge of the results which they assist
in eflecling; but 11 means rational farth-
ing. clean land. thorough cullivalion.
and the provision of abundance of plant
food.
• LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Keep salt where the pig can help
themselves 10 it: also provide charcoal
and sulphur. 'These are great correc-
I:ves, and dogs semi to know when
they need then..
11 c•)mpetled lo shut the hens up for
tiny reason, do your best to make their ___
dir.linction between confinement and
dt,meslleation. The aCI1%I(y of t3', re-
productive organs is dependent mem
the function of nutrition which supplies
the materials concerned in their upera-
114 n. 'thus disease of the nutritive or -
wins, or sluggishness, caused by Y rk
.:t proper exercise, as in cuse of con -
Lemont, or a scanty supply of food,
s% .utd impair the reproductive function.
A COOLIE:~ SO1t11OWS.
The (lard Lot of a ('nor 01d Jap Caused
By the War.
Tho wife of a Russian offieer h01d as
a prisoner at Matsuyama, tells in her
j•.urnal sonlelh:ng of the real life of the
j:nrikisha men of Japan, She had levet
of the hospital le visit her husband, antj-
c..nling out in u driving ruin, found ham'
coolie waiting patiently.
It`s worn rubber coat showed one,
thin, rain -soaked, blue cotton garment,
Beneath it; and the bare knees
caught the lantern light as they
Se ung hack and forths'itlt
the regularity of pendulums. Still chir-
ruping like a cheerful bird, and laugh-
ing, as 1f the ruin -drops 1►c wiped nom
the edge of the hood were precklus
things, lucky jewels he was gathering,
he helped me out at my door.
1 looked at him as the shoji slid open
and sent the full lamplight on lite ugly
scrap of a man. Ile was ofd, since all
the young jinrikisha coolies have gone
to the war; yet he was citreriul and
happy, contented with the Hardest '01
!lint 1 can think of for a human being.
"tun have no trouble, I can see that,'
1 said to hint. "A full pipe and n rice
bowl, and the dark, fret, cold night 's
the sante as sunny noonday to yon."
"Okasama, ray only son went to the
war. He died al Two-lhundred-and-
'I'hrec-\leh'o 11i11. 1 am old and my
wife is feeble, and This kuruma feeds is
re, all, sty son's wife and his three chit•
dren.
- "Although tho little box, cremation
ash^& and relics, came three weeks ago,
1 have not yet had the priests soy tho
prayers at my house, and his friends
go with us to the temple.
"1 have known much sorrow, truly,
Okasnna
m." The old kurt►mya bowed
with the grace of a noble, .proudly. It
Maia reproof that covered rile with&haste.
The next Sunday (hero was a funeral,
the local hand was in attendance, and
the priests held service over the little
we oden box that caste from fort Ar-
thur. The old man marched in stiff
silk hakama, leading n sedate, splendid-
ly striding boy of eight us chief mourn-
er and guardian of the tablets. A con-
c.;u•se of friends trailed away through
Roo town to n temple near IMgo. and
tt10 funeral party from the castle bar-
racks sounded the bugles and render-
ed the final honors there.
TIIE "ANGEL'S PATHWAY."
(sly A. Ranker).
How beautiful, how replete with pence
and calm is the lovely gloaming: the
(tour when our great luminary having
stank in a blaze of glory in the west,
11 a fiery carmine and the delicate mauve
and rich vermillion of the skies has
given place to the ninny beautiful gra-
dations of turquoise and umber, and
subdued fire opal, waning to an ever
darkening amethystine violet. And the
gh ries of the firmament have been mir-
►::red. foo, in all their beauty on the
rppling wavelets of the great ocean,
gemming the throbbing expanse in
sparkling beauty, until, with the fading
away of 1111 that glowing splendor, a
sere sombre, hueless tint reigns over
111.
And landwards, too, all nature is re -
peeing in a tranquil calm; except that.
a4 few belated songsters 'if the wood aro.
still trilling forth their passionate novo,
songs, the night -Jar has commenced his'
whirring churr, and some shore binds,
ie the exuberance of their zest.lere stilt,
chaunting their rhythmical nod melodi-
ous, though x,mewhal monotonous,
pleasures. And as the Tight of day gra.
dually gives place to the Meeks of ev-
ening, the line of trees bordering 1110
Iew cliff or ridge which bars the on-
ward progress of the attacking waves,
stunt's out in sharpest silhouette; every
pendent bough rind waving of the grace -
till silver birch; every fir. and symme-
trical parch, and berry -clod mountain
ash, sharply pntjectcd against 1110
And now ono by ono the ..tars •.f
Heaven shine forth, Hesperus. the even -
tie: star, brightest of them 1111: so bright
Hat a toy of light from her I.orrowe,)
fires is pencilled upon the waves, But
won the greater glory of the now riven
quern of night reigns supreme, palm,g•
lite less brilliant el the galaxy of sole -
Wetting orbs which gemmed the cnnepy
or the skies. aril forming on the gently
heaving surface.' of Ilio ocean a g1111rring
"Angel'; pathway." which like a splen•
dent lustrous !rock of flushing molten
b'h•er extends across the ocean right
(out to the horizon.
Aye. Truly This earth of ours is replete
with beauty and Inviah adornment..11,e1
study ft lens nteel Iha1 the orb selected'
by the Son of ('rd ns the one 111,011
which lo make nlonement, not only Ger
us but ter every planet in may con-
stellation in every universe Ihroughsnf
Pie Yost abysm of infinitude --for safety
this nlu.1 be eo—Should 1,e a runst•er-
pi.ee of ti's handiwork. But the Realm
whi^011 13 the irlherilnnce of these who
love and serve Ifrn. and whose rtes.
deeds ore ('\puttied from the Acu+er's
record through that e\piallrnl, must to
n sphere of a grandeur arid .y)l.'ndor
sn suhlinle and so majestic that it roust
• ut'• , iy beyond the pww•(r of the ll•
Lail. Aid of model roan even to con -
sa:rroundings as nearly like those out.
Silk. as you cin. This wens give thein
strode, plenty of genii ford. n chance
to work for their living, and a gond
:wilily of drink; sour mUk, if you have
it re'gprinrly.
The fertility of animals Is frequent -
!y influenced by changes in their sur-
roundings, and which in themselves
((.ul.1 not be considercvl unfavorable to
the healthy action of the sysjem. it has
leen observed that the procreative pow-
ors aro impaired, or even entirely want-
ing, in mnpy wild species when placed
in confinement. From this we (night
ai;pplose that dnrrtesticated animal.& rare
less fertile than edit ones, h•il this •s
led true. We must bear in mind the
CONTINUE
Those who ere &seining flesh
and strength by regular treat-
ment with
Scott's Emulsion
ha•od opntlnue the treatmentin hweatherr, smaller doped4ttlepVlayoh lt o(twiJ%withnle objection
resh s fatty
aeaeon. pp��
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