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Exeter Advocate, 1906-11-15, Page 2 (2)- Ces• - ieee+se ,-+-ae-4.ee-See ee+-(2-4Q+/4 tTYn% that e.ees eeenti ten.° eceeheel JelAo dreennekreem eea-elle iw vszi- intrusPese fesner Oil her clelientlo cenaceeee, ae I (earl tV CSVON frene two Amu:ems, wile are siaselly tssaeeine Haw mei Homer a each otheas vee:etl by tripe iinth tiasekiier, he salee*C.3 0.eide cher.el made faesoese te7 false a tho lovoicA tolas thot eveigned to simulatio n weenie deetlee unrinees. Tho Yarilace'is votee5 are high end.shrill, but they hod need + tolip higher and elneller gill before • they could breat the slumber of LIM whose resting place Jim hoe. invaded in Ws flight from Cecilia and New York. aNree ever rest so beeutiful as this of the,,, young sleeper? A priest be was, nay cardinel, and youthful and lovely and chastel and now In how divine a slumber is he lapt? But how should that four hundred year's elumber not be divine watched by such a gentle Mary - Mother as Is watching bis; sadist as if to 'tell him that he does ,Well to sleep, that sleep is better than waking, :that death is better than life! There is a sunken look about his fair eyelids, as if , he had gone through suCering to his rest; and his reposeful hands are thin, but below him, asho lies in his spotless marble tranquility, upon his sercophte thee. garlende wave in lovely, frieze, and the rioteus"bOrsee rear and plunge in fulneas of We. Burgoyne has •not perceived that Amelia, did not folk* him. She has, in point of fact, remained in the body of the church, immersed in her guide- book steedily •working through the marble screen and pulpit, and still five good minutes off the side ebapel inn which her lover stands in sodeeply broWn a study, that he is, not aware of the intrusion upon his. eelitude of two women, until Ifeala reused with a, leap by the voice of one of them addressing - not hini; of whose preeence elle is ob- vioesly as untiwaA as was ha of. hers,: Until this moment -bit her companion. "Oh, mother! ens I not a. fool., -at my age, too? but I cannot help it, it makes me cry so!" Burgoyne does not need the evidence of his eyes; His ears and his startled heart have enough assured him whose are the tears called forth !hal that Indeed most touching effigy at which the him- self has been so pensively starieg, The mother's answer* is inaudible; and then again comes the voice of Elizabeth Le Marehant,_ tearful and „vibrating. • "You know I liave seen so few beau- tiful things in my life, I shall get used ti them presently; it is orris; sheet hap- piness. that makes me—" , She stops abruptly, having evidently discovered for herself, or been made aware by her mother of his vicinity; and even if she had not done so, he feels that he must lose, no time in an- nouncing himself. • • "Florence is a place that ,does make one often ,clsoky,", he says, eagerlY tak- ing the hand; ''clihich she hesitatingly, and with some confusion, offers him. • It is not quite true; Florente has never made him feel chokye and; if he Is ex- periencing that sensation now, it is cer- tainly ROG the dead cardinal of portugal who is .giving it to him, .., • .. arn a ibol, a. perfect fool!" replies Elizabeth, hastley and' sshamefae-edly wiping away her tears. , To give her time to recover herself, and also because he has not yet greeted OR ApAD' utlp STORY +P+Q-4-04(7,e4-04-0+0+Q'tret+0+00-e-0+, • CHAPTE.11 V11. -(Continued). 'Windows a woman peeps, or a little dog "You look as if you had a headache, old chap," he says, sitting down upon his WNW'S bed. If you had been going through as many kitchen ranges as I have this • morning, perheeis you. would have a ' headache," replies Jim, gravely. "You know that I am going to be married as - soon as I get home." Byng nods; and Burgoyne, while in - shows his pointed noste-eloolis to where, in dwindling perspectivel the view is closed by a narrow picture of lucent purple hill, Fiesole or Bellosguardo-- names to which the tongue cleaves lovingly. Through the gay streets, over bridge and Blue Arno, our travellers go; their driver cracking a prodigious whip, and with a tiny red dog, absurd- ly shaven, and with nothing but a small woolly" head and tail left of the ) . werdly bleeeingethestagt, that speresehint.,eteginar: design ae seated gravelSfteside, him. Away they go; pleasuring; but pleasure and pleesuring• are not always identleal. Burgoyne sits opposite Amelia; and as o Misailson?. for Cecilia, it is to be supposed that her s Nasks Byng presently. heartache is for the moment dulled, "If you shirk it much longer I shall since the same carriage' rug covers her anY congratulations, takes himself to task for having made the announceinent so lugubriously as to render felicitation obviously inapplicable. "When are you going to introduce me • 1r • think that you are ashamed of me."' knees „and those of Byng. zueg03010 •;And the thought flashe,s' across his eets does he at first see aught of has put the saeldle on the wrong mind that, in bis hist remark, the latter 11' them.. His vision is turned inwards, end .horee. You have so large an acquaintance in Florence already' ,.. he says, ,,with some stiffness; "that did not, know that you 'would care to add to it." "Cale cannot have too much of a good thing," yeplies the other joyously. "You know 'I love my fellow -creatures; • and in this case," he adds civilly, "I do eare very much."• • Burgoyne's eyes are bent on flapaper • before him, which contains the Metall - chitty enumeration of his firearms --"A „ 500 'double-barrelled express, by 'Henry, of Edinburgh; a 450 single -barrelled t by same "maker,".etc., eto.-as he says slowly: • "I shall be very happy" • His acceptance of the proposition can • hardly be called eager; but of this Byng appears uneevaee. "When shalt it be then? To -morrow- • this afternoon?"' °No -o -o; not to -day, I think. It has been arranged that we are to go to San Miniato-Amelia, her sister, and L" •."Threel of you?" cries Byng, raising his eyebrawee "Then why not for? Why may not I come too?" • There' being, ire point of fact, no rea- son why he should not, and Cecilia's Morning prayer being still ringing in h,er future brother-in-law's ears, he grecs a eislull and lagging assent; so ehat at about • three o'clock the two men Present 'theme e. Selves at the door of the Wilson's extra, inent at the Anglo-American Hotel.. That Sybilla. is not oepectieg visitors is - evi- dent .by ;the -fact that, at the moment of • their entrance, she is taking her owe • temperattere--a very favorite relaxation of hers -with a clinical the'tmometer. She removes the instrument from her mouth without ineecent haste', and holds out a laneand white . hand to Byng.- "So you are going of on a long after- •' noon's pleasuring?" she says, with a pathetic smile. "I am so glad that nei- ther of mY sisters is,,going to stay at home with me. We invalids must guard ' against growing selfish, though. 1 - think that is perhaps more the danger • with malades imaginaires; we real enes have learnt our lesson of suffering bete ter,,I hope." . Jim glances affectionately, Jr not does not look at Amelia; nor thoeigh quite comfortably, al his young friend his eyes are fixed upon the passing ob- to. his own soul he is mechanically re- • pealing in dismal recitative, "A double- barrelled, ceeitral-fime breech -loading gun, by Laneaster; made strong enough at the breech to shoot a spherical but - let." • As for Amelia, her features are not of d. build to express any emotion with much brilliancy; but over them lies a deep and brooding content. Ameaa, has not had muoh undiluted happiness in, her life, but she is exceedingly happy to -day, She is even strangelyerfree from the carking fear which usuelly assails her, of praising mistakenlY, ,of being enthusiastic in the wrong pieces, , and passing -over the right cnes unnoticed. If she keep to a vague generality' 01 handsome adjectives,, she will surely do well enough, and, on this high holiday that her heart. is holding, he cannot be cross to her. As to Byng, he is emphatically of the s,chool of divinity taught by Tom Moore, nor was he ever known, when lacking "the lips that he loved," to fail to makelove to the "lips tlial'are near." His tasteis tdo good for him to have chosee Cecilia .for a companion; but, since fate has ealotted her to him for We' afternoon, .he finds no difficulty in mak; eng the best, of her. Nor, to do her jus- tice, is she destitute of charms of a certain kind, though her face hos the ineyitable air a tommonness incident upon a very- short noee and a veky long upper lip. But she has a good deal of bloom, and, of crisp, showy -colored hair, and e al. very considerable eye power.: Byng, attachment to the "fair sex being of far too stout a quality to be blunted by such trifles, as an incli too much or too little of nose or lip, he also, like Amelle, is thoroughly prepared to enjoy Meisel!. Up the turning via, --Galilee the'y climb, to the Bazilica" at the top -stock drive of all tourists -hackneyed as only Yankeydorn and Cockneydom, rushing hand in hand through all earth's sacredness, can hackney. But, even hackneying is •powerless to take off the freshness to the eye. that sees it for the firet time, of that view when he beholds the Lily City lying close at his feet, so • "Youe do not loole-so very Ill," replies* close that it, seems he could throw a Brig, in. his sympathetic voice, letting stone into her Arno. his eyes rest caressingly ,on the proStrate They have left their nacre, and, as 7 figure, 'which has yet no smallest sign naturally happens in a partie earree- eineeiation tbout it. more especially when one couple are "Ah, that Is because of my eolor," re- b troth d lovers plies Sybilla, with an animation slightly t pairs. Burgoyne, leans pensively on " tinged avith resentment. "You, too, the terraeeeparapet, and his sombre eyes fall into that common error. My London rest on the band of sister hills, jolting doctor tells me that there is no such un- • ha.nds In perpetnel watch- round valley erring indication of radical delicaey of and town; hills over .which, -in this late •constitution aS, a 'fixed pink color like opring, them is more a promise ,thaa a ,rnine; the more feverish. I am, the deeper t gr y it. grows. It is very hard"-smi 11 - ' verdure and blossom again sadly -"for one gets ncr pity!" •coloredwealth of that one associates With Firenze's fair • "Where is Cecilia?" cries Jim, brusque- . - But it is a proinise that is plain- ly, ftpd fidgetting in his chair. "Why 18 ly on the verge .of a bounteous NMI - loot she ready?" , nient. Then his look drops •Slowly to As he speakee'the young lady in ques- the city herself. In what a little Niece lion enters -so. "obviously arrayed for conquest, in so patently new ti hat, and iminortal Het The Duomo, the lily. -.ouch im actilate pale gloves, that across 13111' ORO'S mind there hashes, in vierie aith, the recollection of the t'lmmortal caution addressed by Major ' O'Dieeld to his friend and comrade, • "Moind 'your ol, pop, my, boyl" Would he not do well to repeat it to Ids friend? , CHAPTER VIII. They are off ntiev, there being rio thing further to retard them, • leaying Sybillte .tete-a-tete with her thermorneter. They 8FO off, eociably packed in one litiere. "Four. precious souls, and ail agog To dash through thick andetilin." NOW, indeed, tliat there is lifileh 'dash a, raiii6r banal observation upon the Campanile "made up. of dew and sun- shine," the Baptistery, Santo Croce, the Palazzo Vecchio; he could compass them In a, ten minutes' walk. And around this amen nucleus of the undying -dead and their work, what a elation of gleaming villas of the ,polyglot living - a nation of every tongue, and people, endiltinguagel MI over the hills is the sheen of white walle, the verdure of „tended gardens:. they stretch away al- most to where the Apennines. raise their cold white fronts against the sky. He rousee himeelf to remember that Amelia. is beside him, and that he ought to say something to her, So be makes Ab011t Olt' Florentine caleheraes--sad. smallest of the enceinte that encloses so des t among God's Many sad creatures- Intieu loveliness. , . with not a sound leg among them, with "Yes. is not it tiny?" replies she, staring coats and starting ribs, and poor with the ;eager pletteure. of having a broken knees; and writh their sadne- remark made to her which she cannot emphaeized by the feathers stuck in go wrong in answering. "Think of their ' tired heads, as if to mock their Londent Why, the whole thing IS not wretchednees by a sort of melancholy .as hig as South Kensington or Bays - smartness! Sad as they are, it, must watery, be bwned that they are the only sad things in tile cheerful Florentine streets, where no one seems over -busy, where, out of the deepeaved, green-elmttered Mirie3, people lean, talking to acquain- tames on the eliadewed pavement be- low. All the nerrew tVelgalrofaree are Mil Of bustling life; butethere is no hag - Ord equaler apparently, no + (heedful gin -palace gaiety. • it does not Venn; here thht! a man tenet be &mit Iieeaus he 'tinge. And docen the straight„celor Ile shudder. Must the accureed au - burl) pursue him even liel'e? "Let no go into the chutch," he says, in a tone that a little dulls hie cont. panien's buOyancy. She follows hitin crestfallenly, ashlieg herself teitether she has answered (anise here also. She does not trust 'herself to any cernment upon lite 11114V101'. Ileng and Ceeilia are standing beforie the !high altar, !TOM over which a Ito. eaie Nfarlonna stiffly beams upoi them; -14 elanco to the C3E3 of hle Elbe te9 Query questien Dying on the, 6Z3lbrq,, L) prsety essetain that ha riever will hnow; bet eo fe that at tles neeinetat,, the vele.° of. lits protege larcale upon hies 'eaTi'ou ore not going to give no tho llp Fen this, old cliapeeoh, It bog your pee- eceir intt begging pardon ever 80 Oweetly does not alter nee feet that he has rushed, like a bull in ,t china shop, in- to the middle of the dialogue.., All four looleot each othee for a second; then, since there is no help for, it, Jiin pre- sents his disciple, and. the next moment the latter has elid into talk with Eliza - heti, and she is 'responding with an case and freedom from embarrassment such as ,liad never marked her sperse and latently won utterances to the elder man, Byng had the advantage of him, as he somewhat bitterly thinks., Byng has no connection with "old times;'' those poor did times which she andt her mo- ther have so unaccountably taken en gkippe. He, seems suddenly relegated, as by some natural eelniiy, to the mo- ther. On their two 'last meetings the eagerness to converse has been all on his side; yet now be has nothing to say toher It Is she who -addresses him. a-- 41 hope that you found Your -young lady flourishing," she says civilly. Be gives a. slight, inward start, though -as he is thankful to feel -his body. iS quiet. "His young lady!" Yes, Course he has a young lady! Has there been any danger during the laitfiv,e minutes of his forgetting that feet? and has Mns. Merchant, done him an un- necessary service in recalling it? "Oh, yes, thanks, she Is ell right!" "IS she stillein Flerencee ' • "Yes, elle is here; by-the-bye"-leok, ing round 'with a' sudden sense that he ought to *eve mis.sed her -"what has beceme cif 'her? Oh, here she iar• For even while the words are on his Ups, Amelia and Cecille come into sight: Amelia, 3,Nrith a shut Baedeker, and ti serene look of an easy conecience an • theroughly performed duty on he aMiable face; Cecilia 'with a somethin Of search and disquiet in her large roi ing eye,. which would have made hi laugh at another time. (To be continued.) . THE MASTER VICE. As Suck Is Procrastination Described b a Confessed Victim. the girl's mother, Jim turns to her. . "Did not I tell you that we should meet here?" . There • is such undisguised joy and triumph in hie ton, that perhaps Mrs, 1 Positively and Undeniably The Purest MEIN Tea Grown. 11 tzu,oN GREEN TEA. FREE FROM DUST, DIRT AND ALL 'FOREMN • SUE3STAIsiOES. Wad packets only, 40o, 50o and 00o par " At ittl groom'*. I About the farm I + + + , - + 4. .• THE FALL PIG CROP.. It seem.s as though the importance of the crop of fall pigs 18 being appreci- ated more and more each year, writes Mr. N. AeaClapp. There was a time when it was customary to ]et the pigs shift for themselves to a very large,ex- tent, compel them to wallow in the mud for their feed, sleep in damp nes, get diseased and die. Then it was not Considered desirable to undertake to raise any pigs in the fell. Bllt we have learned to take a more rational view or the inatter, and now ,give, the email pigs a better chalice for lifee and vancement, and we are gettill'ef 'excellent centage of loss than with the spring d If the fall pigs are well. cared or, there should not be any, larger per - 10r In the first place I will say that the g nest in . which the pigs are farrowed 1- should not only be warm, but 'dry and m free from drafts of air on damp, windy nights. Little pigs often catch dold when young and a cough follows them', a long time, if it does not carry Olean off. in the second place; there should_ be ample opportunity for exercise, and ir there is grass and other green stuff which they relish, for them to get, to, alt the better. 13y the time they are e three weeks old they can be taught eo r' ''.'The bane of my existence," seed th • procrastinating man, "has • been m habit of putting things off. I never d to -day what I can put off till to -mo rokv. "The result is that I ,am always pu ting things off and never. deing an more than is necessary for niSI*.'curren • daily hand to mouth support; and so, a the saying is , I ,never. have anything I am not independent, but always ,de pendent upon somebody else for tit work that will enable me to live, and s 1' can never say my soul is my own. must 'do the work Vane set to do b some stronger man, whether•tlike it o not, and so 1 plod along, just gettin through, while, the man who collar sings gets on. •- "Of late years as I have corn' e to rea. ze its evil' effects and the enormous y eat. Fix a • shallow trough where they O can get It when the mother is avvay, er n :an adjoining pen, and put in it some scalded middlings( mixed with. e sweet milk and sweetened with mo - e lasses: They will soon learn to return 't to the trough at, regular intervals ter s their feed. Give only. about as much feed at a _ time as. they Will eat up readily, and e if there. is any left, lea the- mother clean O the trough. Feed„only in a clean trough. After a •little, coarser feeds may be used , with the eniddliegs, and whole corn be 1, allowed as part of' the ration. Keep up The. feeding regplarly, at least twice ls° per day and by weaning time, eight weeks 'of ,age, they ought to weigh from 50 to 60 pounds each, and be weaned without any check in the growth, es they have learned to depend on the feed 'more than on tile mother. , If they are given a warm, dry „nest In Which to „sleep, an opportunity ..cr get all the exercise they want on dry ground, and away from mud and filth, are fed. their ration largely of ground. feeds and milk, and that, too, warm and in quantities which they can eat ep clean readily,' they will grow rapidly and make meat as cheaplyas in the, summer time. In my own experience, I have obtained better results with the fall litters than with those farrowed in the spring. I have contended that !he cold weather helps to stimulate an ap- petite; and then one has more time to devote to the pip in thee \venter than in the summer. • , KEEPING. SEED CORN OVER WINTER .difficulty of. overcoming. it I have come to think that the master vice of all is procrastination, . And corning to think thus has disturbed me a little, beeause cohave had to give up an originally pre- riceived and long cherished -notion. °I- had Jong held bat the most nearly ineradicable , of personal vices was s gambling,' big, now I thought the most " difficult of all vices to cure onesel!, Jf was '' that of procrastination. Wes evrong then? And could it be that I was wrong now? "This, as 1 say, disturbed me a* little but `now on this point, I rest quite easy. - for I have 'discovered, contradictory as 'this, at first thought, . might seem, I - have discovered that I was right then and that I dm right now. - • "For now. I discoefer that the vice if • gambling isebut another phase of, or at least the outcrop of, that of ,procrastina- tion. The great majority -of those given - over to gambling hope to get some- • thing' for uething; they hope to get . 'money without 'effort. l'hey .put off • frern day to day the hard, ,unflinching • werk that would give them a suree thing, without, chances, on the race of • life,' and make -just enough 40 indulge their vice and their viiinehop,es. "So gambling3s really bid a form, or outcome, of the vie° of procrastination. • And by the same line of reasoning I slippose -we might say the mune of drunkenness, which is essentially a 'procrastinating vice; we put things off to -day, to -day we wilt drink; we Will Work to -morrow. "And I don't knoev but what we should find that everrill proceeds from the vice of procrastniation; and eo this, which !alight seern but a form of lazine.ss, is retelly the master' vice; and I ern one of its most elOsely bond victims. I don't drink and I don't gernble; but 'I have got the fatal habit of putting things off. - "Inertia, dullness, lack of power from want of exercise, come train it -the procrastinating man is always at the same dead low levelea Ile is always go - leg to de $001e1hing, never doing it; just pulling through with the work he has te do, and gaining correspondingly email rewards. AO never knOsve theloy ot doing' things nor gathers in 'its pre - fits, but habit bound, h.e.„ Wiles down in • 4fge'rnridg slave:MY. mle those victims ! Occasionally I do' rouse up and de sertiething out of fisted online, and in the accomplishing of so e rugged task that I thus take up I fin en great new joy and pride; and I am going to keep thie up; but next day I sink to the old level again, and stay there; it is so much easier to put things oft than to do things, and this, the trunk bad habit of which ail others ere but braticlieot is so deep rooted. "But 1 ant not without hope. I° have lopped off those branchee of which I !spoke, and ain prying, prying, arotimi the roots Of the trunk," Teaelier--",roliftny, how often do you wont me to Apeak to yon?' Johnny -- Tit leave' it all to yeu, teacher. You know what is beet." Le Merchant has not the heart to dais his elatien; at all events, he is con seams in her tone of a less resolute de- termination to keep 'him at area' length, than on -their two ,,lapt, meet ings, • 4'1 do not think that I contradicted You," she answers, smilirig. Ile May steal another look at Eliza beth now. She is not crying any longer. Indeed, despite. the' real mois titre on her cheeks, site stelkes him tie looking happier than at their last meet Ing; and though the. interval between now and then is too short for any such • alteration to have taken place in reality, yet he cermet help imagining that the hollows in 'those very cheeks are less deep than when they stood to gether 'before the great Vandyke in elle Brigneli Sala Palace. , "And the Entre.sol? Is It yott fancy • painted it?" he asks quickly, feeling a ,sort •of panic fear, that if lie.see• ps put- ting questions for one minute, they will slip ont'of hiS grasp again, as they did in the Ge,neese Palace. Elizabeth'e face • breaks into a, soft bright einile. She has a dimple in one cheek and not in the other.. She must have had it ten years ago; how come.s he to !tee. forgotten so sweee.and ;strange a peculiarity? "It is deliglithil-eperfectly delightful!" "Large enough to receive your friends In, after all?" But the moment that the words are out of ins mouth, he perceives that he has made a false step, and is- Isomehow treading dangerous ground. Elizabetles smile goes out, like a light blown'into nothingness by it midden, wind:" • "We have not, many friends," she murmure, "we-wo are net going out at all." He hastens to chtingehls 0110. "Byng and are at 1,10 Minerva," he says, beginning to talk very feet: "I wonder if, by any chance, you are in our neighborhood; have I forgetten or did you *never tell me where the Entre - sot lies? Where is it, by.the.byer Ensnared by the wily and brazen suddenness of this demand Miss -Le 'Mancha/it has evidently no evasion ready, and, after an allimet impercep- tible pause of hesitation, answers: "We are at 14.?. Dist Piazza d'Ateglio," She is • looking' doubtfully and half uneasily in his face, as she gives Idea his flower, but he bee scarcely time or .a haat' of self-congratulation at laving 'obtained the inforreation, which Le had never realized the eagerness of 115 desire for ufitil this moment, before le !becomes. aware that Ids interloou. 0118 eyes are no longer Meeting his, but have wandered to some object over iis shoulder. What that object is lie is not long lett in doubt. Whether it Is nenuln6 aeeident, or Grie of tlioee wire, ous OIXS, Of whielt theca who profit by mere telt: efCiallt-ladYti ;I-6641nd eghwo oao 4,31s73. a (Ivy k vin be when he think8 or the eireuni- 1 pil ,streete one looks -clown _a viela, 6 . old as llo Olio' CO111,4-qe approach, them, Itonee divereely fall, enett eejill Ho' ntipty)rie, beau:, the ti„,,m,{1,3 /*awing., er°1" Yilli'w face 4,2°1 113 ifire(1,1).( rl'utri reeei grate" feeue teem his future sie. f tre., vereel here atm there ey [lie tow e kweir44,-0.,.er thew are the attilleers, /lot now; end, as he Is Itt The tirne, 4trid throttinf tehose grinnt,arred, U ZISZtIC yfiu are HZ catieng nieelyl I did not: e ^ • ttt. j • The corn crop depends Upon three es- sential things, the selecting ef seed, the care of .the seed' and the planting and t cultivation of the seed.. The second consideration. is the most Alin* of „the, •t three, say e Mr. Fred 'C., Pain. . The seeda shquld always be put away dry,. II it Is notedry- when selected, dry it. If dry, it does not.matter ,whether put in a warm or cold place, But by keeping it dry I do not mean to wrap the ears. It should be left' open and t not too much in a, pile, so. that there c may be free circulation -of eir through the heap. 'It eaeler to emother seed than it is to freeze it. Never shell the( seed until you are ready 10 use it. • 11 you are it big corn raiser and ee- quire a large quantity of seed, you should build a good seed eorn bin. For amounts ranging from one to 50 bush- els, racks made out of lx6 lumber can It placing the lumber on the dross pieces of your racks, leave d good ,space be- tween each plank, so the air can go up- ward through the corn. Sides and ends should be put on the racks, making them box -like, to prevent the corn from falling .off. Suspend the racks to the rafters by putting wires around the cross pieces and fastening them to the Yrefiers. Throw ,your, Corn into thie swinging crate andairevill then "be' in a dry place with plenty of air and away from the rats and mice. This alsa makes a splendid place for early gather, ed seed' of any kind. It does not bleach and I consider air-dried seed ethe best, I have good results from oiling seed corn with linseed oil before putting if away. This, Of oourse, helps to exelud4 dampness, but I do- not think it is really • neCessary, as a good roof and plenty of air are the first things to look out . for. The seed also neeas air efter it 13 . placed In the gr.ourid. Do not plant toe deep. Study your ground. Plant the 'seed deep enough to draw and bold the ,+ Moisture,' blit. not SO, deep thet it :will • =ether • and rot. • •• PACKING AND SHIPPING POULTRY. All poultry should be thoroughly cooled and 'dried before packing, pre- paretery to shipment, to mailtet. • In packing fowls, use neat, clean and as light packages as will . carry safely. Boxes holding abut 100 pounds meet these requirements best, and are great - let preferable to barrels. Boxes are bet- ter for turkeys and geese •and barrels for chickens, and frn• hot•weather ship- ments when the fowls are to be pecked in ice. . Commence 'packing by placing a lay. o' of thoreug,hly cleaned rye straw on the bottom. Bend the head of the first few] under it, and then lay it in the left hand corner with the head end against the end of the box and the 15ack up. Continuo to fill this row in the sanie manner until completed; thenebegin the secend row the sante way, 'letting the head of the bird pass up between The rumps of the two adjoining ones, which will make it complete and solid, In packing the last row, eeverse the order, placing the head against lite end of thc. box, and pushing the, feet. under 'the bodies of the other Awls.. Lastly, fill tightly with. straw, so the poultry cen- not move. This gives a firmness* in pecking that will prevent moving dur- ing transportation. 'Care should be tale. CO to put plenty of straw between each layer and on. top, so as to have.the boy filled full, , GUARD OF THE COWS.' • . Queer Duty of British Soldiers hi India, Out In India one actually- Ihnis Eng- lish Soldiers standing sentry over cows. The cow is a sacred animal in the eyes of the'Brahmine and this, al course, leads, the Mohammedan portion of the population to take a savage de.; light in putting to the sword all the cows upon i.vhich they can lay hands at certain times of the year. The result Is that religious conflicts of the most sanguinary 'character frequently take place between the members of the rival creeds. It is with the object' Of prevente ing riots arising from cow -killing by the Mohammedans that English sentries are now. appointed in certain places, espe- cially in Bombay, to stand guard over hat public benefactor whoin "Torrimy, Atkins," deeply disgusted, has ehrie cited "Saint. Cow." : • HABITUAL CRIMINALS. .. The Nev Zealand Minister for 3'use ice leas introduced the habitual crime - nets and offenders bIh1 *bleb provides . hat where a person has been twice onvicted of a criminal assault or four times of wounding, robbery or *burglary 114 may be regarded as an habitual criminal and at the expiration of his sentence detained in a reformatory. After six convictions for vagrancy s man may be treated in the eame, way. Discharge from the reformatory will be eecured only on the recommendation of he court, while the detained offenders vill be made to work and wages will bo laced to their credit or toward the sup. ort Of- their dependents. be suspended from the rafters in the buggy- shed, tool' house, .smoke -house oe any piece where the. roof is. good. fri Moot people know that if they have been sick they need Sootf4: Emu/. isfaniia,bring,back healih and strength. But the strongest point ,about. Scott' EmaLsfon is that you don't have to bp 'sick tcr,,get results from " It keeps up the athlete's strength,puts fat on thin people, makes a &cad' baby happy. brings color to a pale ghTs cheeks, and pre» *Its coughs,. colds and consumption. Fixrd in concentrated form for sick and ; youn�jdjchsind-popro Ma it Catittant noi drugs 'and no iicoluA; ALL luatmourril too. AND $l.�O,' .411111111 -•‘ e Aillikomma