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1 A Broken Vow ;
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BETTER 'THAN REVENGE.
always loved you -you went the
•
dream—"
"aEn.wglt of thatr' she interrupted
him sternly. "1 leave all this
bell
t dars
left
gladly -or almost as gladly -as
Olivo Varney behind. I go out into the
world another woman; but you don't
ur,doretand, and 1 samell ung willing, s11 stun
ou
hl:e , to pay yo .
sknce-ter to pay you to go away.
)bat what you want?"
"My dear Olive -you Insult mer" ex-
claimed Victor. "1 use not to be bought;
perish the thought! 1 shall remain for
U:e present in Greenways' Gardens; 1t
strikes me That there is yometteng tole)
made out of the young couple,' he ad-
ded thoughtfully. "Besides, they inter -
east rue, and 1 am really very oonttor-
tuble for tlio present. Mere than that.
m; doer,' he 'added, leaning forward
over the table, "you can't I ersuado me
Met you're gong to ►•frit away like tits.
It'' a threat -and 1 shall find you safely
en ,ugh when 1 want you. I leave Lu
to y. ur luxury -to y,
dinners and your tided splendor -and 1
wish you god -evening!"
Mr. Victor Keenan walked out with a
swagger. and with his hat very touch
on one ado. Olive, after waiting a tie
tl', longer, went up to her roo'n.
"If anything could have d card mo
to go, and to go quietly, I think that
man would," she said.
Sho made all her plans with caro and
ti l.boration. She would go to Aunt
Phipps the next evening and would
Flaw ut her hands so much stoney as
sl c could spare, leaving only for her-
self .enough to keop her for a few
wastes. Sino was young and strong,
and there was work to be found in the
world. For the salving of her own con-
scu'n:o, she would at least leave to the
girl sho had meant to injure all the
money that could 1.w spared; Chris
should have some part of this fortune, at
least, from the real Aunt Phipps after
all So she would end the story, and
round it off in the only fashion that was
p(esible. With that thought silo fell
asleep.
Sho was so eager to get the )natter
finished, that sho went comparatively
early thenext evening to Westminster;
and sought the shop of old Jordan Tagg.
She thought, se she paused outside for
a moment, of the night when she had
fist come there, with such a different
purpose in her mind; sho was grateful
now to Wink that all was ended and
done with, and That sho could slip so
easily out of it. She went into the little
shop, and confronted old Tagg; but he
was not at work.
bio sat in his accustomed place, but his
hand's lay idly in his lap. \Vhen he
looked up at Olive, she saw that his
usually calm express:on was gone, and
that his face wore a perplexed fteevn.
"Nifty 1 go up, Alr. Togg?' she asked.
"I'm glad you've come,' bald the old
mien, without answering her question.
"lb you remember what I sad once
aLout he" -about her running down
soonr'
Yes --what of it?" asked Olive quickly.
"She's running down fast," said Trigg.
"One of those built so frail and so 1 ghl.
and wound up so roughly, that she
oould'n't stand as a bettor ono might
have chane. Running down fast. Please
go Sho went swiftly up the stairs, and
opened tho familiar door, and went in.
From the little bod in a corner of the
room -a bed that had Leen screen• d be-
fore` -came n faint voice. Olive closed
the door, and wont quickly across the
room, and (ell on her knees beside tho
bed.
"Mr. Phipps -Aunt Phipps -what's the
notice?"
"Nothing the matter," said the voice
of the little old woman faintly. "Every-
thing very right. And it's not Aunt
i'hipps that's going, my dear; itis only
the friond-the pow friend that wasn't
any use. I thought I'd have slipped
away before you came; I'm glad 1 didn't.
Such a ninny weary hours; such tick-
ing and a striking and a chiming in this
old heal of mine; it was never - too
strong. But It doesn't -matter now, my
dear -Aunt Phipps -mode his fortune -
only the Ioor-poor friend."
With a smile she turned, and put her
thin o'd arm about Olive's neck; sighed
once, and put up her lips W kiss Gro
face so near her own; and faded out of
life.
On her knees beside the bed Olive held
the frail bxly close. and murmured
through her tears, again and agan-
"Awit Phipps -Aunt Phipps - come
tack! 1 want you, Aunt Phipps; i don't
know what to do?'
When. quite a long Umo afterwards,
a.s it seemed, she went down through
the strangely silent 1Mi1re, old Jordan
Tagg met her, and told her in a w•his•
rer that he had stooped MI the clocks.
(To bo Continued.)
TIIE 13IiILOSOI11ER.
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CHAPTER XIX. dion't tu,d.-r'stand. Mr. Bake." sho ro-
For a few days Olive Varney enjoy
cd the luxury of her new s.ansttions•
4'resently she was to slip away from it
all, and remember it only as a little
Lofty story she tied touched once, and
Oft behind her. There was a good
thought in that, because after she was
g•_ne, and even after the Limo had oomno
when they Hurst inevitably discover the
Imposture, they would still to able to
think gratefully of the strange woman
who had come into their lived and had
helped Mein.
It had been a long journey from the
tedside of the dead man in Antwerp to
the little house in Greenway. Gardens;
it had seemed a lifetime. Nuw, wlon
this woman, who had never, no it were,
Peon young or crackers or light-hearted,
wee going back into the shadows, she*
lingered for a little in aha sunshine, re-
luctant,
o-luctant, to go. There was in her that
bopo that Is in the est of us at all
times --that she might not be forgotten.
She had quite a sentimental feeling
about the matter; dreamed that they
would wonder ah.ntt her, and talk about
her long after else had dropped out of
their lives. Above all things, nxnv that
this toffee mood was on her, and now
that that old matter of an impossible
vengeance wasp left behind, never to bo
revived, she wanted desperately to lot
them see the bostof her -to lie them un.
derstand, however faintly, what a great
hunger for love there was in her starved
hoar) -a hunger of which sho had never
awoken to anyone.
So sho waited. It was quite a new
thing for her to come as aw'eloame
friend into Greenways' Gardens, and to
sit and talk to Lucy Ewing. For Lucy
hail a wisdom that Olive had never
fathomed; knew more of life than Olive
had ever dreamt. 'There is a wisdom of
the innocent that is the greatest and the
bast wisdom of all; aometines alittle
child is tho wisest profehesor of that
wisdom. Olive was learning in a. new
pool, before going back again into the
Mc' one.
All the workings of her mind at that
lime wenn dim and unconscious; she
Wei groping her way to something she
Thad never thought about at all in the
pest. For this love that had not touch-
ed her seemed such a wonderful thing;
11 moved other people as nothing e!so
rn earth could move them. here, for
Instance, was Chris, plunging at fever
treat into work again. and writing bet-
ter
etter than ever, and generally doing %ven-
eers. Ho still *pont money pretty freely,
diepite faint su,.gestiuns on Iho part e1
Ono as to eoonorny. But he we's too
happy at that Limo to listen to sugges-
tions; and there was time enough in the
future for ecinorny when aha first glory
of this new happiness hada dimmed a
little.
There was a new fe.'1'ng in the mind
rt Oleo Varney --a feeling that she
amnia,' to justify what she had dono;
wfleet' was, in a sense, akin to that
feeing which prompted her 1.h leave be-
held
-hand ne gold a memory of herself ns
iw s.iI o. Itemenibering w.lh sante gra-
titude, a ronversttion she had had with
Marlin Bake at his studio, when first
she had ben pmrnptcd to do something
to put tee bmkon love -story 'straight
again, she (orad h'rsolf ono day, al-
oes'. agsinsL her will, drifting in that
di! ecnem again, and presently knock-
ing st Ihedour of the place_ where Mar-
tin worked. And there he was again.
looking at h•'r with his slow smile and
with his palette balanced on hie hand.
A: 1eforo. he said nothing, but simply
dr. w back to allow her to enter.
"1 wanted to speak W you," sho les
gg an, with charackrL,tio abruptne s.
!seeking round, she saw that the work
he was doing was not tho portrait or
Lucy he had been painting on the oce
atsion of herr last visit; this was quite
an onlinary thing, for which his lay
figure was posing.
"Nothing the matter, 1 hope " askol
?darer', as he drew forwent a seat for
tet and then Murree! to lee easel. "No-
thing %%Tong with any affair, fir in-
stance, in wieich wo aro bath intemeted
-eh?"
'+N•mthing at MI, Mr. Blake," replied
Oli%c. "But it has to do with thaL"
"I saw Lucy yesterday,' said Martin,
tend ng fo:ward and frowningly
re-
garding his w.uk. "She seems very
hn Y Mrs.
as she ought to
"Very happy. Mr. Blake. And know-
ing that. and ure!er:Manding that there
Ls a sort of finish lo my -my nephews
lite in that ns: el -I'm going away.'
Ile turned suddenly and lonkad hard
at ler. "Ging away?" he asked, in a
sarpr:s'el rue. "\illy "
''Ihha ise, Mr. Blake, love end youth
n.al.'h weell, and aural* are rapt to to in
the wily. 1 came to say --'Goodbye, "
xhc sa d, rising and hokling out her
hand.
"I'm sorry t.i heir it. Mrs Philips,"
s e .1 \Inrt n, slowly. "1'he;'ll be sorry.
1• • 1111 sum -althugh they did bring
flim tt• re tight for themselves, as 1 sug-
p•s&el they would. 1 ware wiser there
than you were,' he added. with a laugh.
"Neu men aro rie , - ser than we
rice sold Olive ie "But they
d an't Lind Ile way f.. L emse'ly,s, Mr.
fern all that; aunt Phipps was
to f :1 epene.'
"In.fenll You askeind me." .aa'.(1 Mar-
tin "You seem to be n very n•niarkable
ea. n .n," he melee h!untly, Joking al
1 h with n new into:est.
Tin glnel )eon think ro.' elle replied
fronley, "ilut in what wily?'
' 1. a appear sikIdenly--from now•hen';
e , ;•tumttge the toy into the depths of
despair. by tcllog lir:m that yoiev.e nee
Ming 1, r hire; then you suulde'nly r'nr eh
Fen; finally you bring hem to his Indy-
tea, , and rnnke all smooth for hen. end
• I:ko the fairy goelmothcrs in the
:.i sort s. ye u uitetl l Se vanish.'
"I find it nc'oueary-- r emits -113 you
plied, a little sadly. As I have said,
cod as you predicted, evorytli.ng has
aero right for there, and I um no lon-
ger wanted. Aunt Phipps, as you sug-
rrsl, canto fr.,nt nowhere, now sho van-
t:h. again."
"Leaving them happy -arid rich," saes
Martin.
"Leaving them happy," mid Olive,
with1111. lotting at him.
"You hes:bate over Ileo other word,
NIrs. Pimipps," lie said, looking at her
keenly. "You do fulfil )hut promtse't-
you do leave therm rich?'
"1: gave Chris a hundred p.,unds when
I node that promise; 1 have very little
move to give him," said Olive, Mee low
voice, and still without to k ng at him.
"Don't pries raw any further, Mr.
Blake; I had a purpose then in saying
what I did abauL the boy's fortune; now
the purperD) is endo:l, but I am afraid to
tea him. i might be able to let him
have another hundred pounds; the rest
of the fortune is -is gone."
"J said just now. Mrs. Phipps, that
you wero a curious %%outan," said Mar-
tin, a little sternly, after a pause. "Even
now, you see, at the Iasi, you are not
dealing fairly with these Ioople. The
buy is young and headstrong; already
1 know that ho is spending money free-
ly, believing that there is plenty more
W come. You must tell hon."
"I can't do that," replied Olive. "Can't
you sco that it won't matter?" she ex-
claimed passionately, glancing up at
him for a moment. "You, who are so
wise-oan't you see That it won't mat-
ter to them? Chris will work; he's bound
t:: do well, and this money will give him
a strat. 1 can't tell hon that there's no-
thing to follow."
"And you are going away, leaving
him to believe trent gore is other money
kr him -leaving trim to marry this g r1,
and to diso:ner afterwards that he can-
not support her?" sad Martin. "What
de you mean to tell hits?"
"Nothing," she replied weakly. "I am
going away quite quietly; i only meant
to tell you."
"What is your objection to telling him
the truth?" asked Martin, after pacing
up end down the floor of the studio for
seine moments in silence.
"I don't want him to think that I said
anything that wasn't true," said Olive,
standing before him with downcast eyes
and speaking scarcely above a whisper.
"Mr. Blake, 1 am a very kme;y woman,
and I have been a very unhappy one;
1 would be glad, if I could, to keep their
love, and to let them think kindly of
Ine. If you tmndcrstued all about it, you
weed not blame me --indeed you would
nat."
Martin tock a step towards her, and
then stopped. ' 1 don't want to blame
you," Imo said. "1 believe you've done
your best under vary difllculL circum-
stances -and 1 do believe that the boy
will come out right somehow. I'm son
ry, you're going, Mrs. Phipps; 1 shall
never hear from you?"
'No, Mr. B1uke," she nettled. "It is a
whim of mind to disappear as strange-
ly
trango-ly as 1 came; I only met you," she added,
with a faint smile -"I ask you to think
w .'11 of inc."
Their hands mol, and• for n moment
he loJked into her eyes. Then he was
h..lding open the door ceremoniously,
and sho was gone.
She got back W the hotel, with that
increasing sense of loneliness upon her.
('hr:skeeter Dayne was not there, and
she guess d, with a smile, where he
would bo likely to be found. She Mt
dwe•n la a lonely dinner, and promised
herself that to -morrow should see the
end of the business; sho would go to
'sent Phipps, and claim release, and so
drift out of it till. 'thereafter it was for
Aunt Phipps to act or not, or to tell
what, story sho cared W loll, or to be
s:ienl; Olive Varney was clone with for
ever. Silo was thinking those thoughts,
and looking back over all the strange
things that had happened In so short a
limo. when a visitor was announced. It
was Victor Kelman.
"You come always when you aro ica';t
wanted," she told him abruptly, as she
touched his fingers fur a moment. Sit
down," she said. indicating a chair at
the other side of the little table on which
the 'remains of her dinner were spread.
"My sweetest Olive -I conte to you
when seceasitY drives me,"
he replied.lied
"t one ns you know, your devoted and
faithful servant; and you do net trust
y ur devoted and faithful /10 wee. You
have dined eumpluously; I have had to
regard with careful eyes the coins lett
in my poakets. Therefore I Dome to
you." He leaned back in his chair, ani
to led at her with smiling expectnn-y.
S..e Maned f.,award, for h -r pail, over
the lane, ani to .ked at him coldly.
"You have no claim en me, Victor. save
that of an old fricnd,hp I r my tither,"
she said. "D'ra't inteirupt mc; hesuso
I am speaking to you, 1 most s'ncerely
h pe, for the last time."
"My (leer Olivet'
"le r the last time. You and I, Victor,
hove leen darling in rather a shady
biim Iness-nnd I am retiring from the
par'n reit:). In other words, Aunt
Phipps e:epnrls quietly out of the little
romedy e'en ghl. and you will see her
no rnrine.'
'so you mean to leave tfie old lady in
pessns,ien? ask.vl Victor, welt a grin.
'That won't matter very much, because
1 have my suspicion that the ok) lady
is net qi e se icor as she appears to
he. She• already kn.ews me, and I shall
hoe an eu•ly opportunity of interview•
ing her."
'Yeti may save 3 -ourself the trouble,
Vint. r." s iie Olive. "You'd fair letter
le eve tl!e wetter alone; cur part In it
ie ended. Y u came Lnto it by accident,
end I to deign; and you have done
fairly well out of the arse dent."
"A more few paltry sovereigns'" he
o;a u:a'of. "Gane my dear Olive -1 have
4M'itMt
iThe Farm
1'O IIID A HOUSE OF \Ilfl:..
1'he United Stakes Departes nt of Ag-
ricu:turo is sues the following d:raxtie ns
kr editing a lien -house of conte, watts
sulphur tunes. This method is of use
only ween the house can be made abso-
lutely tight. For an open housti, hot
kcrosero entulsk,n, or even trot soap-
suds from the washing, will a quanUte
•'( coarse salt dissolved in it, will kill
the milks wherever it reaches them.
There are several varieties of licee
which attack poultry. They subsist
ma my on the feathers, and perhaps on
the epidemic scales. They arb found
largely on, the head and neck, under the
wings, and about Ume vent, and, when
present in large numbers, they cause
the fowls much discomfort. Pelson
insect hawed a' (4lynethrum), powdered
sulphur, and sono of the various pre-
parations on the market, such as the
louse powders, are gold in combating
these rads. Tho hens can be dusted
with ono of these powders utter they
have gone to roost. have the powder in
a box with a pe.rforateJ cover, grasp
the fowl by Uro legs, and shako the
powder well among the feathers. Dust
of kast three timers at intervals of
about a week, in order to catch the Ileo
that latch out after the fl:s1. dust ng.
The mites subsist on the bleed of the
fowls, and aro not usually found on the
belies of the bird except when at roost
or on the nest. During the day they in-
habit cracks and crevices of the walls,
roosts and nests. Sitting hens are often
so annoyed ttwt they are compelled to
Leave the nests in order Le relieve them-
selves of these parasites. The froo use
of kerosene about the nests an 1 p-rclres
is useful in fighting unites. Tho walls
of the lou o may be sprayed with kero-
sene, the operation being repented every
three or four days for two weeks. Insect
1f a man's conversation bores the ma.
Voile of his auditors ho is probably
talking Intellectually.
The millennium will have come when
men use good ink•ntions for other than
av ng L.uiposos.
Ono comolntien to the woman who
marries a enan fur his talc is that site
gets it.
To refer to a man as candid Is only
a polite way of announcing that ho Ls
disagreeable as a compan on.
It worries n woman because sho can
never le sure wheth. r n bachelor is real-
ly happy or just pretending to be.
One nico thing about being a minis-
ter is that you get paid for all advice
you pass cut.
S,en.e men seem unable to rcoognrze
happiness until just after it has passed
by 11,em.
People are going to be badly disap..
jointed when they learn they aro not
to pas* upon who Is to gel into heaven.
The angels probably do riot go around
inquiring of each other what dress-
maker
ressmaker turned out the robes.
THF. SAME PREDICAMENT.
Mrs. Wink. -"Mrs. Ayres and her
husband have had a dreadful quarrel,
just because she gave him a letter' to
post. and he carr 0111. about in ha pock-
et for a week. Lemli It too silly of her "
Mr. Winks.--"Ma)'bt That would make
you mad. too."
Mite Winks -"Oh, John. 1 wouldn't
lose my temper over a little thing like
tied."
Mr. Wink* --"I'm glad t•" hear you
Ray It, my dear. I just reeali that I've
still got that letter you gave in•e dost
\\ relnceday "
powdeis aro of little avail.
The following method hos proved ex-
cellent in ridding of mite and fico when
Ilio weather conditions are such as to
eeentie Iho birds being kept ou'sde the
house for five or six hours. Close all
the doors and windows, and sco that
(lure aro no cracks or any other open-
ings to admit air. Get an iron vessel
and set it on gravel or sand near the
c:n're c1 the house; place in the %owl
a handful of shavings or straw saturat-
ed. with kerosene, and on theca sprinkle
sulphur at the rate of abiut one pound
to every ninety or one hundred square
feet of flour space. Instead of tieing the
shavings and keroso:ie, the sulehur can
be saturated with wood alcoh d. When
everything else is in readiness, light the
material and hast ly kayo the house. In
case any anxiety is felt about fire, a
glance through a window will show
whether everything is all right. There
is very little danger of fire when proper
pre:autions have been taken to have
plenty of soil beneath the ves'el. Allow
the (house to remain closed for three or
four hours, al the end of which time
ene can safely conclude that there aro
no living brings inside. Now throw all
the doors and windows wide open, so
as to drive out the sulphur fu►ni's thor-
oughly, and then the fowLs may be al -
!need to enter. Let them in ono by one,
and as each enters catch it and dust it
well with insect powder, which will de-
stroy the Uoe on the birds. Tobacoo
dust is also good to use Instead of insect
.powder. The birds and house have now
Len trend from vermin for tl:o prc&'nt,
Lul the eggs of the insects have not
been destroyed, and In a wo k another
swarm will be hatrhel out. 'there-
fore, it will be necessary to repeat the
operation once or twice hefero the pests
are exterminated. After this, care
should be used to see that no strango
fowl is admitted to the house or yard
without !having boon thoroughly rid of
lioe, for ore lousy )ten will contaminate
at the rest.
SHRE
1
7
Children Like It.
Children Thrive On It.
Children Orow On it.
Shredded Wheat regulates the system and keeps the
stomach sweet and clean.
Try it Sold by all grocers
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
NEWS BY M.111. FROM II1LLANIes
SIIOIILS.
Happenings In tate Emerald
Interest to Irish-
men.
A new post office will soon be erected
at Castle Blaney.
Athy lads the reputal'on of being
cne of the best market towns in Ireland.
A mart named William Lilburn, aged
55, hung himself on u tree in Lisburn
road, Belfast.
A series of cattle drives have taken
place on the Clanricardo estate, Coun-
ty Galway.
Tho new post -office at Portrush (Co.
Antrim), has been built at a cost of be-
tween 825,000 and $30,000.
A movement is on foot -to erect a
monument to the memory of Rev. Father
Casey at Abbeyfeale.
Nearly 400 creameries, owned and
managed by farmers, are producing
cne-half the export, of Irish butter.
A fine of $500 was imposed on Wal-
ter Mitchell for trawling inside the pre-
scribed limit off the Waterford coast.
John McCaw, of Ballybute, near
Donagl►adoe, in a fit of despondency,
hanged himself on a bush near the
roadside.
At Sistrokeel, County Derry, a four-
year-old boy set fire to two large slacks
of hay, which were totally destroyed.
Close on $4,000 has been subscribed
in aid of the widow and children of
f'atr ck Tierney. the huntsman, who was
kilted last winter in Tipperary.
A Seattle paper states that the sole
right of Mr. Corcoran, of Dublin, to the
Sullivan property in Seattle, value1 at
$1,500,000, has been finally oonfirmed.
A woman named Julia Murphy, aged
70 was found dead at 'i'or'omeen, too.
Mayo, in the house of James Jeffers, would be impossible in the opsn country.
tor ted her. cr, who had become Moine
killed
As for tho reputes feeling of dsoon
and killed f wt and oppmrss'en in tho.lepthsejf the
Lord George Hamilton, Dr. E. C. Big-
ger, and other members eof the Poor forest, this is partly true. When (here
Is no stir in the atmosphere iL is more
difficult le breathe in Iho forest than in
the open, and as there is less chanoe for
evaporation the discomfort, of excessive
perspiration is manifest. it !nest be
n m-ml•ered, however, that. if under
such atmospheric conditions a man
breathes more easily in (ho open land
he is at the sante time much holler and
se far !nee uncomfortable. When a
breeze stir's anywhere it penetrates the
wools also with refreshing effect.
for the year was 75. Dclafesse !vowels that he has had few
such delightful experiences
Patrick ialcCourl, while walking with es in Afro' as
was struck bya n
11m•
en lits morning walks in the depths of
girl at Dundalk,
a
I
b � of sods and pieces of dry mud filo forest. Ito hes never found forest
tkrow•n by boys, and immediately drew I travel as uncomfortable as marching
PROTECTION FROM FLIES
Tho season is fast appreacheng when
the plague of flies worrying cattbo may
be looked for, and should be provided
against. a.9 the loss from this cause in
the product of milk ng cows is estimated
le be equal to about live dollars per
cow for the stetson. whilo a correspond-
ing lass is probably sustained in the
crier of cattle intended for beef. in view
o' this, it will surely pay to expend sense
labor and money in lighting the best if
a kmlrly reliable and efficient. spec fie can
be found, limo expense of which Is not
too groat. Numerous proparaLoons are
advertised for this purpose, some of
which aro doubtless as effective and may
be more rapidly prepared and applied
tl,an any of the hotnemnde oomiounds.
A1 , ra ' teed w'itt fair Li,?alio
M 11 tion l Rr1 C n
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at the Ontario Agricultural College con-
sists of ono part of linoleum, four parts
of either linseed oil or fish oil, and
fr.rly .parts water, mixed, thoneighly
stirred, and applied by nneens of a
spray pump daily. Tho greatest objec-
tion
bjoo-tion to this in ilio case of milking oows
is rho vomited.), of the milk being
tainted by the odor in the stable.
The expen-o of this proparat'on is es-
timated at from 35c to 45c. per ow per
melon*.
The erectile found m st sntiefaclory
rot tl:o Central Experiment f$tnti.on at
Ottawa is a letzten! of 10 forts of lard
and ono of pine lar, Biked thoroughly
together and applied with a brush or
piece of cloth to the pare roost attacked
by flies about twice a week. At the Vir-
ginia State Experiment Sefton, the fie
ve,rlle pmx'a Tipton is a diluted ke'mse'ne
emulsion. prepared from 0 maw of
soap dissolved in a gallon of rainwater
by boiling; ink() irom iho fire, and while
hot turn in I% gallons of kerosene ell,
and churn briskly for live minutes. For
use, dilute w.th nine parte of water, and
apply by means of a **pray as often as
neces-arv. Calves shout., be krpt in and
fowl in dmukened sheds or stables in the
day lino in tat weather, and may go
cut to posture at night. It is cru •Ity to
leave them out to fight flies in the stun -
mer days.
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Stand itpp for your rights. People
may not eke it tat first. but they will
scan )earn to keep out of your way.
Isle of
AFRICAN FOI(L'4T N01 O 11.1I).
1'rt'nchman Modifies lime C.lo',my Matures
of Earlier Tra%ellers,
The travellers who Met penetrated the
vast equatorial forest of Africa fixed tee
we rkl's attention with %vont picturee
1h it are now believed to bo partly fan-
tastic. Some of them told how they
wandered months without seeing the
sun.
- 'l'hey lived at noonday in semidark-
ness. The undergrowth elm:)sI pre'vcsnt-
e l progress, no fresh breezes could pene-
trate
netrate the aro) of gloom, and even the
animals were silent, like every other
phase of nature existing acre.
The writers of to -day ore taking a
different view of this tropical forest.
The latest of there is Maurico Delafos
se, one of the leading colonial ofllcia:s
of France, who in a book just written
ceintradcts many statements of earlier
travellers.
He says that nowhere has ho fount
the African forest darker than any other
dense woodland. The vegetatan in it is
certainly more luxuriant and more
crowded together than in a European
(crest, but It is an exa gge: anion to say
they aro covered with impenetrable ve-
geta!Ion.
\Vherever Iho natives live, well worn
footpaths bead in all dirccloins. 'Travel-
ling is hard on some of Ih un, tut pram'
of the paths are very useful highways.
Delaf so had none of the experence of
Travellers who assert that their gar-
menfs,havo practically been stripped
err them by the dense and (horny im-
dergr'ew'h. He lived for mettles :n for-
ests without greater damage to hes clo-
thing than in any olh'r parts of Africa,
except that when travelling rapidly on
a hunting path his sleeves have bcome
ur•luly worn at the elbows.
As for darkness in the forests, he of-
ten took his compass bearings without
artifleial light when pitching camp at
nightfall. The forest traveller has this
advantage, that Ime is always in shadow,
and on the hottest days he can pursue
l r: journey the whale at'e:moon, which
Law Commission, were attacked by a
lunatic at Milford workhouse, County
Donegal.
Edmond Ballo has sold the lands of
Fallcens, 443 acres; Crow Island, 3 acres;
and other small islands in the barony
of Coolavin apd Co. Sligo, to the estates
oomm!asioners.
The North infirmary, Cork, received
$5.000 as a bequest from the late Ntr.
Hobert Ronan, and 81,000 front Mr. Nob -
lett Mannix. The daily average of beds
a revolver, shooting a young man
named Patrick Brennan. Ile was reman-
ded for a week on bail of $375. Bren-
dan may rccee r.
Emigration from Ireland this year to
America has touched the lowest record,
the total so far being 16,000, compared
with 49,0ze2 las year. The falling off is
attributed to the bad prospects in
America.
It was reported at Kildysart Board of
Guardians recently that a woman named
Lynch, of Shanalca, who died and had
boon for a long period in receipt of oul-
(lcor relief, which totalled 8150, had
about 8380 in bank.
in the King's Bepch, Dublin. James
McKay, a Newry car owner, was award-
ed by a jury $1,250 damages against
the Armagh County Council for personal
Injuries received in a collision of his car
with a heap of stones on the road.
A QUEEN'S DAY.
\Vilhetmtna of Holland i.eeds a Very
Quiet and Simplified Life.
iter Ntnjcsty rises early and takes a
cup of tea about seven o'clock each
morning. Then come her morning (levee
tuns and unlet. After breakfast she
opens her letters and replies to them.
A walk or a drive ills up 11:0 remainder
of the morning till lunch at 12.30.
During the ntternoon the Queen gives
audience to h'r ministers and ottur of-
flr•Ials. Any reports read by these gen-
tlemen must be brief and to the point.
Tho Royal lady listens to these alien
lively. and a.sks many questions.
Aud once s over. Queen \\'ilh,•lmtna
gees out for an airing, or perhaps visits
a friend. Dinner, which is served at
seven o'clock, is a simple meal.
After dinner, unless the Queen gives
or is a guest at. a ball -a very rano
event -the evening is pa. -sol meetly in
the music -mom. card -playing being a
pa time of which Queen Wilhelmina
(fres not approve. The Court usually
retiree at the early hour of half -past ten
o'clock.
The Dutch ade re the'r young rnonarch,
calling her by many pet named. Indeed,
whin she was seriously 111 on one oc-
casion, numbrs (4 man and woman tr-
mnined ou'ade Iho palace all night, of-
fering up prayers for the safe recovery
of thee* sovereign lady.
iiO\1Li.Y 11E(?ORS.
Roder:Ck-'That society woman tea se
q9uern'. 1 said hor bulldog was pretty
lin.' Fin seemed offended!'
Van Albert -"You should have told
leo it was ugly. All society bulldop
ere ugly."
ever the savannahs where the high grass
is above his hoed. Il is then That a
man without air, horizon or shido feels
as though Ile would melt.
There are plenty of sounfs in the for-
est to attract attention aLsm, and they
help te keep ennui at a distance. Some-
thing is going on all the time.. in ad-
dition to the ceaseless murmur of the
streams there are the htmtming of in-
sects, the song of besets, the chatter of
the monkeys, their gymnastic feats from
branch to branch, the occasional failing
of deed branches and tree trunks, one
of neat Imo the wonderful harminies
and discords of animate rind inanimate
life that awaken when darkness comps
and sleep again at sunrise,
TIIE COCKNEY DIALECT
(1t1'iADE AGAINST 1T BY 111E I'Gltb
SPEECII LEAGUE.
London County Council's .1ttetiipt w
Teach t'.hi:then to Speak
Correctly.
Much interest has been aroused by
tI:e work of the Pure SI'e0 .t e..gue of
Hornsey, tentacle Engl;,n:l, wine, has
Leon a campaign to raf,rm the cock-
ney d acct. The members et th' I. ague,
h wever, are net tee flrat champ ons In
the field. For a number of years the
education department of the London
County Council have leen making ear-
nest attempts too teach young t an:doners
to speak correctly, and Dr. I(.nunins, the
chief ons., calor, says that an improve.
mint is already manifest; "Compared
with a few yours ago," ho says, "the
reading of the childr. n, even in the Lev-
er classes. is remarkable for its purity
of enunciali•.n. Aepirates are l:roperly
sounded, and the •owes are distinctly
more correct than they were. The
children may use a different speech
when they get outside school, and They
may revert to Cockneyismns when their
s' hoot days are over. I cannot say.
But 1 am very sanguine about the ulti-
rrrato results cif the movements.''
A number of members of the Pure
Speech League have made a hobby of
c;llecting "Cockneyisms."
TIIE GLM OF THE COLLECTION
sr far was picked up at Hornsey by
Canon Horsley. The clergyman asked
• ne of his parishioners what the baby's
name was, and received the maser:
"Byby's nyme's Jyne, plyne Jyne." Tt Is
vainly imagined that the Cockneyisms
are confined to the unolueated classes.
\Viten pointing this out, tho Londoner,
who regards his own sp• e:h as pelted,
is as likely as not to say "sem." for
"saw."
A curious document is preserved at;
the Law Courts. Some of tine beefless
juniors amuse themselves by taking
phonetic records of the utterances of n
successful practitioner. The gen of the
oollection is this: "Dijjer say yo sawr
inn in the lire?" The witness. being n
Londoner himself, correctly interpreted
the question as, "Did you say you mw
him in the lane?"
Some distinguished persons are so
fond of the Cockney dialect that they
never use any other. An alderman at
a City dinner said to the Lord Chancel-
lor "Din you think lghgmle !Telly?" The
Chancellor oonfesed that ho had not
noticed any difference in the adermans
appearance. "I'm not talking about
myself,' said tb:e bewildered alderman.
"1 said 'Ighgale."
Dr. Skeet, professor of Anglo-Saxon
at Cambridge University, whose lite
Werk has been the study of words --their
sound, spelling, meaning and history,
and who is ono of ttie foremost philolo•
fists in the world, says,
COCKNEYISMS CHANGE RAPIDLY.
'"Tho Cockneyisms of to -day," Ito says,
"are quite different from those roc oil-
ed by Dickens. I was Dorn in London,
and lived there for ten years. Not until
thirty or forty years ago aid 1 ever hear
the substitution of '1' for 'a.' .jean well
remember the shock of surprao with •
which 1 first heard a porter shout 'My;
d n Lyne!' when we got to the station o►
Needful Lano.
"London has an enormous influence
on the accepted pronunciation of Eng,
lash, and that influence will prevail
more and more. It is quite possible that
in course of lime the standard of edu-
catol English speech will boAffected by
it.
"That is a matter of importance, for
the spoken ward, and That rh,ne, is the
word itself. The written form is only
its picture or representationit the eye,
and frequently represents it imperfect-
ly. We have live vowels in the Engil'h
alehabet. To represent corme:aly the
v vel sounds used in England, we
should roes re a hundred. Dr. Wright,
in his dialect dictionary, gives sixteen
different pronunciations of the word
"down." prevalent in various parts of
England. The censennnts are the same
et every case; the difference is in the
v(wel soand$, end these have h1 b- ex-
pressed by special signs with an arbi-
trary value."
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WiHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
A young Irishman in want of $.':i
wrote to his unto as foll.ws:
"Dear Uncle -If you could Ace tow 1
blush for Menne as I am writing. you
would pay n'.'. Why? Because 1 have
to ask you fur a few dollars. and du not
kr,ow how to ewes; tnyoelf. It is im-
possible for n:o to tell you. 1 prefer W
die I send you this by messenger, who
will wait for an answer. Relieve me,
my dearest uncle, your rnost obedient
and affectionate nephew.
"P. S.-Overamne with remorse for
what I have written. 1 hove h_en run -
n ng niter Ih a messenger in order to ro
ce ver ills 14 tier, but i cannot catch
11 nil Heaven grant that sencthing
may stop him or that this Iglu may
get list."
Tee uncle was naturally Luc! of, but
tee a as equal to Ih, emergency. Il' re-
pl:orf as follows:
"My dear Jack•Consele yourself an.l
blush no more. Pr,vklonce has heard
your prayer. The mrssc-ager Inst your
freer. Your effect (►kale un lee.'
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DE:\ft Ti1I\GI
Mrs. Mack had found the art of plant.
ing a sting in the mast pleasant way,
She was net content merely to get her
even back when sho Was angry, but sho
inflicted little stabs on her neighbors
through sheer inability to repress her
tcetings.
"How dslightfut to sen you again, Mrs.
Mack." sand an elderly acquaintance,
meting her when out shopping. "Why
it anus) ba close upon ten years sinal
we maL And It's so nice to think that
you retren!bered me after all this time.
You knew me at once. 1 begin to think
1 contshave changed so very much."
"Oh," &aid Mrs. Mack, with a sweet
ernes and an acid tone, "1 rec a ijzed
your bonnotl"
THEN IIF. SAT DOWN.
"1 was not always thus;' eatd a seedy-
'•, king agitate.. "Wh• n I first comet
m; eye6 fn this di -honest wrorld, our
family c'r utestances wile far bel ter
ttman are mine. Time was when I
sought no luxury, but. 1 obtained it;
when my every fancy was gratified,
whets 1 was nccustoneel 1,o pass this
very spot in my own carriage, and my
mother -,bless her—"
"Used to push it. t au led on unsym-
pathetic member of We audience who
knew the speaker in other days.
BLISS.
"Lysander (sweetly), do you knot
what day ties is?"
"Surel Our ane versary. Margaret,
dear (pretending to h ave remembe:ed It
a I the tine),'
"No such thing !fr g d:ye la's the
.fay you premised to nail the tit on
that old kitchen table!'
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IIAfD1.Y ACQUAINTED. vet
"lees.' said the would-be artist,
proudly, "1 am welted to my : rt."
"Now. I ant surprised." egg n- d t ori-
t1cua. "J►clg ng from sprcr atillt of your
wo: lty t shouldn't have tt.ought you woo
even 5.,fagcd to it."
401EIl LACE.
Giles -"A chap in an automobile ran
me down and broke two of my ribs
about six .weeks ago."
Mies -"You don't say: DA he Dike
you to the doctor?'
Gika-"No; to an umbrella mender."
A COeINION CI.Alet
Every chronic office -holder .An rns that
he could slake mere rron.y r1 le ihad
the heart to qui: serving '1r' prltee and
gc isle 'euslr.aas for !instal.
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