The Exeter Times, 1890-3-13, Page 6A FALSE FRIEND.
A STORY OF MODERN BABYLON.
CHAPTER VI. Laughing. " It is not thc. newspa,pers which
try mons guilt or hmocence in England, but
Ineving Min. Burton at her tea, grateful, nalges and juries." '
mud wondering at the ways of Providence as a Do you think it possible Fantle is
exemplifial in the success which. Ina unex- P ii? • Musgrave asked. • .
pectedly crowned her husband's excellent 1 " Of coUree it is 'possible. Very little is .
perpesen let us follow Mr. Frank Holmes to anoint against him yet. If his dis.appearance
kis loagings. in tne nelehbourhood of Adel- can be otherwise accounted for, the preseut
phi. He was tots disquieted in mind to call emileuce agabast him will notbe of much
ma Mr. Clayton, who he knew would. be !value." •
.mesious to see Idea. Indeed, he found that.' " Wine Holmes, the papers say"—
Mr. Clayton had called at Ids rooms Mariam " Panlou me, Musgrave- a -e- Ide stopped
else. (Veingleminghis earil nith a request Abruptly for a moment, struck by the dark,
peneilled on the back to come to Catlogan intent.look• of tile lady's eyes, tixed - upon
nue. Holmes- derided not to go a his judg- while he WAS siseaking to her husband
merit was deeply disturbed., 4n4l an interview-iMu; but at the present
with me ,nmeton end his daughteriPardortme,sgrave
*eld avail but. little. Ile resolved. to wait momeut I now, bv chance, more of the
m
evideuce already gathered against Fame
-Sill after the ineseesterial investigation next than all the newspapers in 'tendon put to -
Alan. . gether. If they tail to . prove that. lie was
Walking out in the Strand after dark to. the dead womann husband. and if his MOM
enjoy a smoke ill the cool of the streets, he • from his lodgings eau be explained without
elimovered that the lete editions. of the meneetion meth the murder, they min ido
svenieg pepers were making a eeneation out little agains.t. him: e am only speekeng
of the find suspicion that Fannie . u -as the about the evidenee, not expressing= opinion
dea.d woman, husnantl. The remeinder of
• ehe ease was not neglected, although as yet
upon his pmbable gitik or inneemica"
" Are there Maus- murders done Ill London
so games were mentiouctl. "Liner's . and never found gen r the lady asked.
!de:ea:axe ; very, very few.
Sooner or later, 4.';!:tdrowned, they come
to the surface."
" Yet they any Inisbaud says -that
*ewe the murderer has neem hammed. or (..U4-
1 )4 the pablit• forget „ell about,
the murder.'
no they no ; a great main- new interests
arise every day. lint the pinkie do not for-
get." •
" Well," said tlusgrave, " I suppose
Fauna has either funds or frierds to fee law -
,ere for his defence If If uot, though I dot
detest him, yet. for the sake of old Bughea
I woultl stand the expenee myself."
e That is wall 41 von, Mesmer*. But I
IV "Ind .4.11,til latighed,• 'Luc -ay In. defence will lie duly provuled
sivegreire. semi woluit inve moue:lit om
x eet- • foremt oen delighted to have had the pleasure •
ing you t Where have you come from t" a seeing you. Airs, idusgreve," lie said, rte.
"From anywhere you Mita to name. Frauk. ing to go. The lady rose nod gave hint her
A few yeare away from Rugby do charige ik halal -a cold hantl. so different front Mary
fellow, ilon't they?- mere eepeeially wiain tdaytoids ! But she added a smile that was •
ke. hes neen abroad.11 miry bright, and a kind a id to know hitn
'So you heve been abroad t- Netter ; end then Ifolnies Milloweil her hum
**Ales -ad? linty nuteh SIN -Mg IC.4111 St.iy-•frcigo me teem, name it happened '
ing here.; "4 and have dohdti iZ.Y4'14 t1.1.4s there was a• mirror near the door. arid
net sermenn Ifohnes ehaneeil for en isistatit tit catch, rei
-I•d° t1 4114 answered H°Indi'a Z nd :h 1(1 in it. the mute derli. intent. look
they went nisi, tett itatel wrai tie.ifvenak.3 to b' whieh hall etrnek him in the middle of a
the stimiding-rimm. !do their 'witY &via! ersamme it few ninnites previoeslm Ile
Ilittsdrave infe-mited his 4 „1 in:might it eurioue. (dankest); me -caving it
cedemilfellew thee be. 413A 4411Y ZESZ retnrilen tie las label afterwards. he c)inelinhst tiint
2o Phigiand feint 1". a-.. vitem he had team rt•r11.41.P. there was eernething in In. mitunter
tirribrs; the :made ingileiSinklA, "*.A.Tal lieve ....,_eimigeles,„ newt,. ei ei„eem.etit mei/wavy
SiUSt arrizea in time to find, one of mir itid of the eme a presuumbly coetlenined man
isoya in 3 EA aMP.'S„" lie addled. as they sAlt interesteil ramie: iniud n.odd.
Mown andertlered whishytendeeleser. " II: 'NM What VOW AM VAR
you. resat miter. Vrenk. vain gime mumestee as they 4,m:wiled. ••my we is
ice on his aeiment that dily 11114iyii" , not Fanditili."
" I slit). wal tot 411l4.e:114-1 41, Litt to lie • tif itourFe not. But she is very amen-
disaut by a big ladle' late :Konrad!..." I onmeitulate you."
Musenam laughed. •"flaire weevil an- •• Call again some It is cut ious. vonare
the only lenglisinnan. tetetipt myself, she has
tippeated yet to like, Do rail again."
"Thanks.-- titiotlinight. Musgrime."
Ilinntes drew11. ileep ot relief when
lie reaehed the street. The atmosphere of
that room upstaire posimesed some singular
in tine speeell to mare it seeretly very gall. "1.1ding inihienem Perini's. although the
ing to Frank Ifolinee ; but he passed it lite night was warm,.dIrs. Musgrave'i3 Cal
d d
:Ariiverted the viewer:mile:I. for half du foreign blood required the 4.V4.114101VS. to be
/tour into mutual reminimentess of old school. d"seite Hiihnes wiintlered linw Musgrave,
,.aciya, Following from theee, he gathered fallen into- fieith, was able to bear it.
that. Musgrave, after o brief antl unszitiefael- heault Holmes Wandered batik to his
lodgings, having promptly made *This mind
not to call on el t -s. *Musgrave anain, and this,
it must be admitted, without any veryintel-
oot ; seem; a great pert of the world in a few ligilde rea.son 14.04,1 it was a relief to him to
yeats. aniVbruigingilittle haek With him same turn from the thought of that woman to
8,21 experience, not speinallet valuable. Ile the sweet image of Mary Clayton, summoned
was now enntemplating the establishment of up by a letter lyinit on his table addressed
Einieration Office m London.
The man was the antic age as Ifolmes,
ut 1V1!At A difference there was in their
looks! Musgrave would have passed any-
where for fortse
inaughter wae referred to as the objet 10
obtain wbieh the victim's removal was
necessary. Holmes parebasen fear of the
evetaing pipers; they all, ia n variety of
forms, b.ad got hold of the same story. lie
thought of poor Mary Cleytoe, .and tearing
the accursed sheets in 'piece% 1hw them in
the gutter.
Turning ,rouud by the Grand Hod with a
view to seeking the comparative quiet oldie
Endiarannent for an hour's thinking. he was
suddenly arrested by a heavy/mud grasphio
ii ehouldet from behind. Wheeling 6hatp-
ly, be confronted e stoutish florid man, unit
tamely cropped straw-coloured been' aiel
moustaelle. Ifolnies regarded him eloselv
other fellow in tae sated. 1 4.4141113 'where,
who neulal !ewe let Feline fan himself to
kim as yen ilielatenli. 1 Malik I weed the
bnlly ; len I detested the whining liti
tle sneak. eita wilat he bee mime to now !-
There 11.1A 41 swilleient ingredient of truth
ory trial 14 the 0412123. 114111 experunented as a
tempianter iuz men, a etaftimgrower
*mime a farmer in Mailitoba, and what
tu her familiar hand.
"You made iiandetalie, 'Musgrave," be
said half aloud as he flung himself in an
eau -chair. "Sim is beautiful, and perhaps
;t1410111p1184114111, and all that ; but she's not
"I eliouldn't stop long here, if I were Engin 1 i sale can never sympatluse with
you," Whites remarked. -Hotels at best you or you witlx her. I don't think you are
are ,oinfortless places, anti thy eare ee. much hi love with her, either • ' perhaps tid-
ed' minition is enough for her 1114.11)4141,ture. That,
"I'm looking for a house up Kens'iugton '"'' man Can (1(2113' her:.
•way," said Musgrave. Dismissing Mrs. Musgrave from his
•A house? Are you married, then t- thneglits, lie delicately opened Mary Clay -
Holmes asked in. surprise. ton s letter and read it with deep concern.
"Haven't I told you Sol" replied Mum ••Dear Frank," she wrote, "pray come to
I raVe, looking somewhat confused. ., '.j,; see me tomorrow. I am in great anxiety.
am married. Papa called to look for you this evening,
"Long 2" but you tvere no4, at home. I know you.
"dado : not very loeg. -Come, have another will wish to be at the police court, but come
•tinhisky-and-seltzer. - to- um immediately after it is over. Papa
"Thanks; no more. Musgrave' says that a terrible discovery has been made
-he Ilan told ltle, but I cannot realize it --it
is so dreadful to think that she WAS really
his stife !--Yours sincerely,
MARY CLAYTON."
It was too late, or he would have gone at
once. 11 4.1113' fresh discovery had been made,
turning conjecture into fact, the worst was
come; and he lay awake all night thinking
of Claude Fawn and Julius Vernon.
Holmes thought his friend's =Amer 111 re-
mard to his marriage a little curious; butun-
willingto pry into thernann private relations
and indeed feeling very little interest in Inn;
or them, he put oii his hat. Musgrave, -with
lookof hesitation and embara.ssment accent-
-partied him up the steps to the vestibule, area
then stopping suddenly, said: "Just wait a
bit, will you? I'd like to introduce you to my
wife, if she can see you just now." Next morning, Frank Holmes eagerly ex -
"Thank you, Musgrave. But it is late. I amined the papers one after another, whilst
-will call again, if you permit me." they were yet damp from the press, and was
Again Musgrave looked doubtfully; but Ilisappointed and perplexed to find not a
be decided against theproposaL "If you word in any of them indicating a discovery
-won't mind waiting a, minute while Igo up ?" such as that mentioned in Mary Clayton's
he said. nota Surely, if such a momentous discovery
Ifolines answered, "Not at all," although had been made, the press would have had
lee would have preferred foregoing the intro- intelligence of it The silence of the news-
-election just then. Besides, there was 4111 1.1- papers had the effect of determining. him to
definable something in Musgrave's manner go to Cadogan place without waiting for the
-which seemed to indicate that all was not police court investigation. He went early,
" right." Perhaps Mrs Musgrave had a taking little note of the hour, and arrived
temper ; and some women of that character there at half -past eight o'clock. Miss Clay -
are not partial to their husband's forraer ton, whose daily habit it was to lave a gal -
(mends. lop in the Park before breakfast, was not
He waited, and it was a quarter of an hour. yet down; but her father was in his study
'before Mils aye returned. "Come along," with the morning paper.
he said, "um, as pleased to have the oppor- "I am glad you have mime, Frank. There
-amity of knowing you. -She is so absorbed isn't a word about it in the paper, I see.'
in this murder, you know," he added in a "About what, Mr. Clayton ?
-whisper, as the "lift" carried them upwards, "Mary has told you ?"
"that she can think or talk of nothing else. "She mentioned something -a discovery
She has never been in England before, -in her note last evening. But it cannot be
and believes Londonmust ben, terrible place. true. The papers, as you see, know nothing
I can't disabuse her of the motion; per- of it."
laps you could." "Nevertheless, it is quite true," said the
The first conclusion Holmes formed on banker," quite true. They found a parcel
-being introduced to the tall and very beau- of her old letters hi his rooms."
tiful and dark-featurecl woman, was that she Frank Holmes, silenced with astonish -
4.414151)084 of Englishblood ; no Englishwoman ment, walked to the window, and stood gas.
ever possessed such eyes. Her accent '.vas ing out in the square. He was mentally re -
foreign, and she spoke English with ever so viewing the past years, and ell he knew and
slight a difficulty. But she was very charm- had seen of Claude Faune up to the time of
ing and voluble, and pleased to see her hus. the latter's departure for India; but he could
band's former schoolfellow, And wheu not recollect, a single signpointing to such
3tusgrave, laughing, olludedto thegreat fight a probability as his marriage. Still disposed
which they had had on account of Claude to be doubtful as to the possibility of decep-
Mame, she insisted on his describing it to tion so perfect, he said at length: "Now,
her minutely; and this led to the topic of Mr. Clayton, what strikes me is this
the murder. Assuming Faune to have been her husband
" You must be so sorry now, Mr Holmes, and to have committed that crime, could he
-to have ever befriended him," she said. have been, fool enough to go away and leave
" Ho .was so cruel ! to kill his poor young such terrible evidence behind? It, is ahnost
wife in order to marry another one!'incredible." • .
" That isnot proved yet, M s sgravedi "So are many things, fatal to their safety,
"But the newspapers," she said, indie which the most astute and cool-heededicrim-
eating several that were lying anent on the inals often do ordeave undone. You know
.iihairs and on the carpet. that, Frank, better than most men. But it
"01., the newspapers," he replied, does not appear in the present case that
Panne was forgetting the letters, bemuse
they were towed on the floor behind cue o
his trunks. He had evidently talgeuthem
out, and they bad fallen there ; and then
going away, he peobably had tbe impression
that they were in lais pocket. A emu h
such circumstances 1144 40 many things. ou
his miud."
" There is leo doubt coneernieg the
authenacity of the letters ?
" None that I blow of. They will doubt
less be produced to -da
Holmes paced to an fro for few minutes
in anxious thought before he toadied upon
the anxiety' erlaich was heaviest on. his mold,
" You won't 1,4014 my mentiOning 314.'Clayton ? You must be aeragehow this. house
lent become connected with the case."
,kuow said the banker, reddening
midi indignation. " They have been here to
obtainthe evidence. It is Ind evidence, as
far as 4 goo. for Fan= -,bot if be killed
that girl, I shall be grateful to have a share
in minvicting him!" The banker's energy
was startling.
"Yes," auswered Ifohnes; "but there is
your daughter, Mr. Clayton. That is the
worst of it. I could almost wish A guilty man
to escapei in order to spare her. It Vial be
dreadful for Mary."
"Why did you ever brieg him into my
house, man?" demanded Clayton almost
fiercely. "It was all for your's-W--111 for MO
and my 410d -fatal for that innoceet girl, the
hour he first entered nucleoli!"
That was all true. Holmes attem ted no
defence, desired to attempt none. or in-
troducing the man to them be was respon-
sible, and with A heavy beart he admitted
its
"But am wronging you, Frank," added
hlr. Clayton presently ; "I was to blame my-
self. I thought. him such anice fellow; you
know what 1, thought of him when I emend-
eil to give him my daughter. I can't under -
stead it at all, now. Yes, as you say, it will
be dreadful for poor Mary."
The young man's heart was very lull after
this speech, and it was with an effort he
restrained the wortle that burned for utter.
anee. What did Mr. Cleytori mean by
dreadful for poor Mary!" Wes it merely
the distress of Mug put in a witticsalum to
admit her relations with the murderer -to
expose herself as the cause of nefortninte
Margaret Neale'a death ? Was there any.
more? Holmes remembered '.4.1441 he
bad said to himself when she dmilartel that
no girl would marry a labia friend ; but he
knew from bitter experience the powers of
that !alms friend, arid trembled with the
fear that Mary Clayton had learned to love
the man hefore she tvae driven to despise
Idol. This was the mil trouble in irrauk
Holmes's heart. 11 this evere to, it was
truly a fatal 1401441 tor all of them when
Claude Fiume tit entered the home in
Catlogan Place.
When Holmes 4.4.W 'diary Clayton wend-
ly and noted her anxious and fretful leak,
lie bitterly reproached himself 4.42 the CARCO
of her suffering. By his infetuation for
Fate= he had prepered the way fom r lato
the girl's heert beforesbehad ever seen him.
Ile !-ilefended the IOWA faults
and, sung 1111' praises, as though lab and
determined purpose bad been to enable
ramie to (148y victory over her
affection. Claude Fauna was not the man
to fail to profit byliis advantages : 14.041 what
hail happened had only come to pass in time
to save Mary Clayton from a more deplorable
fate than the misfortune of loving the man.
After brealtfastiMr Clayton left them alone.
and Frank Hoboes, in pity for her ilietrees
antlembarrassment, crushed. his own feeling:3
down and spoke to her e 4.4.likfriend-hke
brother. Ile 11141it so honestly, that the
mere tone of his valet threw her into tears.
rt is very distressing," lie s,eitl, gravely
and gently, holding her hand. in 1414 04.4114. :IS
they sat together on a couch, " bUt it can-
not lie avoided now. But I will try if it
cannot be so managed that you need. eot
pear in the court. It is impossible— Yon
will let me speak freely, Mary t"
" Oh. yes yes it is a relief to me -say
everything, Frank ; (1141410 is nobody like you!"
How. honestly and sorrowfully she looked in
his eyes as she said these words.
is impossible," he leant on, " avoid
the 041141(1)4.410 of motive ; it is too important
to the prosecution. Ile had spoken of it
freely, to his landlady, Alla 110 (10111/t to
others. I know he presumed. further than
he bad aright," he said, observing her about
to speak, " but that will count for nothing.
He had your father's consent, and had no
reason to restrain his vanity from thinking
he would have your own. We cannot help
it ROW ; it must be faced. Bat I will tey if
thethingeannot begotthroughnithoutbring-
ing you forward in person. It may not be ,
necessary ; your father tufty be sufficient" I
But he perceived directly that he had not
struck the right note. It brought no re-
sponse to her face. She soon set hint right.
"1 bave not been thinking of that. Frank,"
she said, speaking slowly, as if following a
painful train of thought. Whatever shame
there is, would not be much leesened by
letting me remain at home. It is good and
kind of you, indeed ; but it is not that.
Have I -been -the cause --of difargaret
Neale's murder ?"
What a question to 'answer !' His first
impulse was to shrink from it. Then he ex-
claimed : "No ! How can you imagine
anything so dreadful 1"
Arms mud. his neck, kissed him,
mind she moved forwardi and putting her
f 1
"sFrank !" she said solemnly-" Frank i
, Ifohnes !there is no other menlikeMou ia all; Iiidmiren WAREARE ex INSECT Foes.
the world. Forgive me, forgive me ; I do net a The farmer ought to be able• to distinguish
i deserve it from you! Her hands‚.‚. -ere still, between inseet friends and enemies. Were
. unconsciously, on, Ida neck, and AS his heart it not for our inseet allies, we would be
i was too strained to allow hint to speak, he overwhelmed by the leaf -eaters, the stalk -
bent down and put his lips to her torehead, borers, the root -devourers, the sap-suokers,
-and. went away.the graie-destroyers end the znynads of
His heart was sorely strained ; but a longforms that tta le' 1 t k' d
AGRICULTURAL,
and vigorous steak round Ilyde Park steadie of grain, fruit and vegetable. If
bine Aud that walk brought himi as his tve have paid Attention to economic entente -
walks had of late almostunconscionsly doue, logy, we shall find little difficulty in dis-
to the spot where Margaret •Nealen body anguishing mimes feme enemies, The wee
-
, had been found. Here, redeeting, that idea fare on predaceous insects should begin now
, which had struck' taint on the mule spot. In wallthag through the orchard, -we will
i Isid°re, and which bud diucelaiu iu ab'ValIM often eotice dried leaves, crumpled aud
m his, mind, flashed upon him agaiii with sticking to the branchee. These are the
renewetl forces iaboles of the 1 . On y011lIg
Mo ite emierlareen.) 1 trees they are quite injurious, as the Imam,
t, are ree.dy to gnew
I concealed in a tough cocoon, folded wIthin
The Desimilile Correspondent
he crumpled
the young bleavesout loseoni end leenbuds in the
Do you write many letters, and are you a apring. The cluster of leaves should be
desirable correspondent? What is that? picked ana destroyed, On the limbs,
I A desirable correspondent is the one '.bo branches, and trunks of tbe trees can also
. not only dates her letter, but writes upon it be found the masses of -cottony, frothm,over-
1 ituhteeitagYenot! itdhe3e dorfeewithi4rshtheatmeYaonsu bhaydititri ethdeesteusg-smoeekm.erasookthett,hee•anraieoiouunsa,letahfe-eey•daxeee,
morrow." One milio discriminates inthe easily destroyed. Many °titers, equally or
i matter of ink, not choosing that which is so far uwre illjurious, can be t hl 1 b
pale Beet you think st is snam nitUri nor the ming time, imago, awe patieeeei Rute
Ivery black or very purple,. writing with M bish-heaps are breeding -places mad refuges
on extremely thin -paper, so that when you for 10844141184, as are also old rotten stumps
hold the sheet to the light you cannot read logs,it d boa 1 lying around tlie-orehart
and. garden. Dry grass and weede arouud
One wise does not go into ecstasies about
' the weathers the height or depth "! tho All old, useless, rubbish, together with their
the edges of fields furnish them proteetion.
li 'title Quidth°e1a*:$11:4iersawtelei: dsteilefitilons ashed hY sects will be thus destroyed, but they aro
thermometer. or the mental or physical you. Imre; (41001,15, can be rendered thoffeusive
r by burning, Of cooree, mine beneficial ini
you in your last letter, concluding that un- meetly in tho minority.
lees you wanted, to /mew non would. not
have written.
One who fastens the envelope eecurely,
for elle knows nothing is in annoyiteg AA DA TIMpermanent 10414141)140 ill IlliliC Will 110
4.4114114141 a, half -opened letter, slowly brought about by breeding and 14141(1.
4)041 wh° ih'es ncit gush ti a straugeri ing; 418 for instence, a cow Mil for eoliths,
thinks it is worth while being careful to Mope a calf by a bull of fine milell strain ;
her frietida, 11/341 PeVer IC" 14/51f"°4 ktit" OW calf hi reared with 1411 eye exclusively to
I
Wait.
one wee writes Mr. before a metes11 nem profitable milk ?reduction Mot foran Abner -
nal rioldb end she also is fed for solids, as
in preference to "linimire" after it. her another was before her. A continuation
Ono who spells your name correctly. You of such a meteoe is um ome may to rennin,.
. would seppose that your friends would mitly enrich milk. It is not really au the
know thui, but very often they do not provement on nature, but au enlarged utiliz-
1 deOatirelawr
klatnie,eis giutsiettipaonyupert,oa
troulde themselves alxout it,
gthaea(lic
tigluei!iiieLlreat stock see hare toelay; taie aeceleretedepted
ation of riaturen natural functione. We see
the principle exemplided in all of the neat
task determined to ("1I'') hers"; dcarlY of horses, the increase in latitcal secretion of
and lutelligentlie, Pintiog "the 4Wtiltli11 cows, and the eabouced wool productiveness
the i." the creasing to the ti the "'Tong of sheep. Solids In milk will 11101e4140 their
i tails of her ee, en 'that they no not leek like emptied= by anew degrees, aided by "sur.i ii, and r-A,Y8 WhAt Fri DC411$F.ary awl no mor,e, e'riti -till a the fittest" laws 10 111(4 41 t 1
,z1).41 Fading it idt the last lvi34.. is the ("Pr' dieting. Ifnconsviously perbaps to many of
" ame ,e4Piat SirriA Mat. the participants, the whole tendency of
-... .....111,19,-."•••••••sral... 1 modern farninlairying gravitates toward the
creation of rieher milk, nun that without
The Prospect of War in Europe. any common aid toward emettltice. Canada
11. dello Lemoinne in the Paris Jrafin hi bound to lead in exalted methods of
gives his diens; fol the Preir Prosliuto 0 ilairying, as she (toes in every avenue of pro-
ne:we in Europe. In opite of all the twilit:, dnetion, Omuta 44) 11141 sprightly intelligence
declarations from thronve, he rays, the SKIM. of her peoime
tion has not changed. The natuars onitinite
to nrepare for the great mei inevitaldfei —
Snoranio Oxx
x.
ilinlrellasiwdi°, told ITiihseeleenerovirsenttlie4 li(iWileliTtllaeTtrl:it, I 11814.4141 read several articles in the'agrii ulturs
he would renew hloProluisition Po' a 'general al imperil about shoeing horses, but it is very
dirannoment. anti added that it was ims rare to read anythingabout lunvoxen ehould
possible for thepeopleof Europe to continue lei abed. It is a feet that homes shotild be
as theeare. "It is true*" saYis Me shod in such e tnenner as to cause them to
Lemoinne, " tbere niust be a solution, but, stand and travel with ease, and the ox should
unfortunately, that solution will not In receive equal attention ; but we frequently
disarmament. The nations must come to 941(1 014411), especially large ones, lamed by not
a plain explanation of theirintentions. Then behm properly shod. i find orie great error
they will rush at each other, mut the 'te be be the length and shape of the shoes,
combat will finish svhen there awe no If the slums arc long and erooked, they, of
more combatant% when the Intinan race course, cause the weight of the ox to beer
will lie bled white, and, ashanted, horrined, on the inner edge of the shoe, or centre of
ma exhausted, it will at, last -le the foot, causing the hoofs to cant in all DR.
forced. to repose. Today people thnk natural poeition. This may do for small,
only, of one thing, aud that ill the best and light cattle, but with licas-y oxen it is differ -
surest method of butchering eiteli other. The ent. In shoeing huge oxen, there should be
corning great, melee of thunanity is getting
to be more ma more inclescrilxible. It will
be nothing like the pretty little battles of
old times, wbich will appear like mere duels
when compared with the war thatiscomiug.
'When I hear tile Due d'Aumale describe so
elegantle, the fights of Timeline anti Conde
with their little army corps I say to myself
that they were small affairs, in which en.ch
individual engaged had his share. But to-
day where will the imlividual be Lost properly shod.
completely in the great avalanches of slaugh- —
ter. Our muchmaunted civilization will
As INSTITUTE INCIDENT.
certainly have good reason to recoil in hor-
ror ; but for all that, we must not deceive Theo. Louis was speaking about the profits
ourselves. The war will come; it is as of hog raising at a reent institute. isionie
certain as death. We may try to put it off one asked, "Can you afford to raise pork at
as far as possible; but it will have its tlay, present prices?
its hour, although we may try to put it off " Yes, for feed is low as well as pork. 1
till the MOITOW. Let us, then, be ready for use clover pasture and market my hogs
it always ready." t
.A Voice.-" But do yon find it profitable
one year with another; don't it cost on an
Famous Royal Pearls. average more than it is worth ?"
Louis.---" All I am worth I have made
The pearls of the Empress Augusta -were s
famous, but they are inferior to those now irom hogs."
A Voice. -"How nuich is that"
possessed by the Duke of Cumberland, which
Louis.-" One hundred cents on the
are the finest in Europe. These pearls and
dollar! I am not surprised that some men
other jewels, the whole being worth about
£160,000, were awarded to the late King set poor raising hogs. I visited a farm hi
uly last where hogs did not pay. There
George ofnlanover in 1857, after a dispute d
20 years, as they had been claimed. by the were sixty hogs of all ages in a yard about
three-quarters of an acre itt. extent A
Queen on the death of William IV. Part
few boards on some poles for shelter, corn
of them were brought originally from Han- i
I was the only feed, all. the drink the hogs got
over, and the remainder -had been the pri-
came from a mud -hole twenty feet square in
vate property of Queen Charlotte, who left
one corner of the yard: The farmer corn -
them to her son Ernest, Duke of Cuplained that his young pigs died, the old
mber-
landi afterward king of Hanover. A cora-
ones got lame, and pork cost more to make
mission consisting of Lord Wensleydale,
Vice -Chancellor Wood (afterward Lord than it would sell for."
Chancellor Hatherly), and Mr. Lawrence _...—
Peel, was appointed by.Lord Palmerton to Kiel:mess OF A Cow.
investigate the matter, and they unanimous- The inhabitants of the neighborhood of
ly awarded nearly all the jewels of the King Auxonne, France, were long annoyed by a
of Hanover, a decision which greatly annoy- wolf which at one tithe devoured a young
ed the Queen and Prince Albert. George ' girl. Aboy named Fouteault, about 14 years
III, by his will, left Queen Charlotte all the of age, was tending some cows in that can -
jewels she had been given, and they were ton. It is well known that these animals,
valued at £200,000; but many of them were when urged by common danger on the ap-
seizedby George IV. and disappeared during preach of a wolf are led by instinct to collect
his reign, as did a number of the Crown and arrange themselves into a kind of °lieu -
jewels, including the celebrated Stuart lair phalanx, presenting to the enemy these
sapphire, which was given by Cardinal York arms with which nature has furnished their
to George lg. and George IV. presented it beads, and thus securing their bodies, which
to Princess Charlotte on her marriage, but would be otherwise exposed. The cows which
after her death Prince Leopold was obliged Feereault Metalled adopted this natural
to return it, and a few years afterwar it - teak the moinent they perceived the Wolf,
reappeared in the headdress of .Ladyl.whjdh, 'hoWever directed itself • not toward
Conynghaan.
7110,
A.P.1.11Mill111111
continuous butter show at the expense of
the State during several months in eack
year., where fresh samples of butter will be
received every . fourteen days, the judges'
decision to be memo en the butter AS 1eee141e4I
Bed its COaditiOA at the end of fourteen days,
The SaInples are to be sent inuianniately on
the receipt of a letter or telegram, so that
the dairymen will not be able to make a
special cask for exhibition,. and the samplee
are to be repeated as often as required.
Competing dairies must send in ts return of
the feedingand system generally followed=
the farm,
with special reference to the Week
duriogv,liich the samples are sent in. Atere.
sent the number of dairies entered is 360. Is Inc
judges have been selected, and these act.10
groups of three each, each group recording au
independent opinion on each saMple, which
ia checked by those of the other two groups.
Each group will consist of two butter merch-
ants and one dairy expert. The exhibitor
are paid the usual market rate for their
oefidtihiboitysea. nThe shows will be held at
intervals of a fortnight during eight montbst
Romeo Youeo Omeas.
A -word or two may he said about young
chickens that may be of interest Odud profit
to some. When, the young chid* tare about
Y three days Qui they ShOUld be ereased on
top of their heads, under their throats and
beneath their wings with pure lard. Tide
, will destroy the parasites and prevent teeny
after diseasee. The mother hen should be
treated in the smile menuer. Choose a,
bright, warm des' for thisworki and rub the
greaso in well jtmt before they go to tooet
or the night. Tbe grease will then have *
elutuce to seek in before they rub it off. It
would be well to repeat the operation alsout
two weeks later. The gepes were formerly
VAK108M1 to be caused by e-ermin accumulats
ing en the young chickeirs ; but there ie
abundant evidenCe nOW Glottis's is not true,
Grease was then recommended for the gimes.
If the VerMili On the fowls layetl eggs winch
hatched into W91108 which caused the gapes
there svould be aio better remedy for thhi
disease. But there is no doubt tbat the
worms which cause the gapes are leached
from the eggs which the young chiekeus pick
up. These enemesman only be picked up oti
old ground where poultry has been kept for
eome time. The only effective way ai pre-
venting the gapes from getting, ainong yew%
chickens is to have thesis Ocala glum& l'he
poultry yard should be plowed two or tie ee
times a year anti the young limeade kept in
tne gent= away from the old liens,
FEEDING AND BREEDING.
"You spoke of their establishing 'motive,'
just now, as tom important to be avoided.
Will it not mean that I was the motive -the
cause of the deed ?"
"But you have your own pure conscious-
ness of innocence, Mary Surely you will
not distress yourself with the misery of such
a morbid feeling ?"
"Can I help it ?" she replied, looking
up. "Can you, Frank, help reproaching
yourself, however innocent yotue motives
were, for having brought him here at the
first ?"
The argument was unanswerable, and it
drove him to take another ground, which at
once revealed to him the attitude of her
thought and feeling in the ,matter, and led
to his adopting a course which was fraught
with startling and most unlookedsfor poen-
qenuces.
"We are talking, Mary, on the astitmare
Mon that Faune is guilty of murdering his
wife. 'We have no right to do so ; be is
as yet an untried man."
"Ah she exclaimed quickly, "that is 'it
-that is it! If he were acquitted, 1 should
care nothing! What would this tetal mat-
ter to me then? Oh, if he shotO•only be
acquitted, Frank, I would kiss the feet of
the judge and jury -who told him he was in-
nocent !" She hid her face on the back of
the couch and sobbed. • •
Poor Frank Holmes at was hard on '
very, very hard; but he mustered:Op all his
strength to meet the dire commantilithat was 1
put upon it "Mary," he said, standing ;
up and softly touching her with his hand, 1
"whether he is innocent or guilty is at pre- ,
sent known only to God. But it is our duty
to regard every man as innocent until it is
otherwise proven.. There !-you know what
I mean. I will do all that lies in my
1
power."
She rose slowly, with a long subdued cry,
and stood before him, looking as if she were
unable to comprehend his meaning. But
when the full light of it flowed into her,
One Inch of tho toe or forward end of the
hoof left bare, and be sure that the shoe sets
flush with the outside of the boof. Then.
the beel of the shoo should not, be erooked
or awned in too much. Our blaelcsiniths are
apt to be in too greet a hurry, tend if a shoo
comes within hailing distance of a good fit
they must nail it on, in preference to select -
big a better. I am not a blacksmith, yet I
know that oxen, as well as horses, are not
them, but toward the boy, whom. it 'seized
and began to shake. One of the cows,MI-
A Lady Explorer. mediately separating atoll from the phaanx,
attacked the wolf and made it drop its prey.
One of the most intrepid explorers of the The boy availed himself of the contest be-
lay is ' ' y, Madam le Ray, mother tween his adversary and protectress to seek
of the Duo d' Abrantes, who has been for
several months engaged in Eastern travel. his safety by flight The wolf quitted the
cow, pursue the boy, seized and shook him
After having visited Babylon and Nineveh, as before. The cow rushed forward again for
she traversed the Persian deserts, ainid the defense of the youth and harassed the
terrible privations, in order th reach India. , wolf so :much as to oblige it to relinquish its
For five days and five nights her little care- victim once more; but being soon repulsed,
van had th encamp in the wilds without the boy was a third time in the jaws of the
meeting a living soul, or even discoveriim the i wolf when fortunately-itwo inhabitants of a
slightest trace of a human being. 'I neighboring village came up and dispatched
During all this time the eold was so intense the. animal. Young Fourcault was carried
that Madame le Ray's fingers were fthstbite:to the hospital, and, though wounded in
ten, and her guides became seriously ill. ' moreithan 30 places, has since perfectly re -
She managed at last to reach the Persian cinema.
Gulf, where she -embarked for India. An di
1
account of her adventurous journey will be ,
almost as interesting as that which will be man BUTTER BROWS.
given by M. Bonvalot and Prince Henri d' Denmark has organized a new system of
Orleans on their return from Thibet i State butter shows. The scheme includes a
CARE Or BROOD SOWS.
Th0F0 WIIOACOto have early' itters of sining
piga, says the American Agrieulturiat Limit
give the brood envie proper fain stud treat..
illeDt during the winter inontlia The first.
requieite184 good shelter anti a clean, whole-
some sleeping plami. The next hi a reason-
able amount of liberty. It will not do -te
keep a SOW 811114. Ilp continously in a
amall pen, even if it is kept reasonably demi.
She will become sluggtsh and inert, sritli
none of the vigor and niuseular stamina, need-
ed to produce outl rear healthy pigs. A ecte
Min amount of exercise every day is neeem
eater. If she will not take her daily "con-
st•tutional" of her own accord it is best to
drive her out. Nothing is better during
mild, mien tveather than the nui of a. lot
where 8110 111113. Met to her heart's content.
Never put a ring hi the nose of a breed
801V.
'rho food should lie abundant, but not of is
fattening character. Milk, bran aml ndd-
dlinigs, with a small modieurif of oil meal,
vaned frequently by bonen tiniinips, carrots,
beets or other roots, clover hay chopped .„.
short and mixed with the cooked ration al , 4
in cold weather a email proportion of coad .411
ineal, will keep the animal he good, thrif.
condition. It is svell to remember that swi in
are omnivorous and an occasional morsel t ne
animal food is always aceeptable. The id
-"lights," manilla and other tii.aste materiel
of a: slaughter house, when Ililtainable, are' 1,
desirable additions to the animal's dietary- 1.1
It is well to keep a mixture of .salt, charcoal
and a little' sulphur in a trough, where tne "
5011' eau help herself :al libitum. It is '
ways best to keep brood sows separate front
the rest of the herd. This is specially im-
perative us the time for farrowing approach-
es.
Manners in Church.
Good manners are desirable everywhere
and praiseworthy anywhere. They are sue
premely important in chetah. Religion
should infuse solemnity into worsbip in all
its parts. The church should be a school of
decorum. Nevertheless, it may be doubted
whether a critic could find anywhere more
scope for criticism, or asatirist more inateri-
al for satire than is supplied by some
churches. To begin with the minister.
Mark how often he is restless and. inattentive
when not directly engaged in leading the
congregation. Who has not seeu him leave
the pulpit after entering it and skip down th
whisper to some officer in the pew?.While
seated and waiting for the sermee to begin,
he sometimes nods familiarly th this or that
friend to right or left. If a brother clergy-
man is th the pulpit with him they chat dur-
ing the voluntary by the choir. What utter
lack of reverence ! 'What an object lesson
hi bad manners, visible and demoralizing to
the entire assembly 1 The example of min-
isterial indecorum naturally corrupts the
singers yonder in the choir loft. As soon as
their ditties are discharged -sometimes while
they are proceeding -their by-play is mark
ed and remarked. •
What wonder that the congeegation, sand-
wiched between such pernicious examples,
should be ill-bred and inattentive. When
the preacher is oblivious, whenthe ohoir
mistakes the house of God for a free -and -
easy, is it strange that the people whisper
and ogle and interchange notes and nod as-
sent to the sermon in the wrong places? In •
somechurches the officers are in the habit of
gathering. abentithe door in the rear of the
pews during the devotional Silts to hold
an informal. Meeting. Tleey rrupt wor-
ship by stage whispers or untienely laughter. .
But are there not side 'rooms in which they
might meet? Have they not eiregular. time
and place for official mitherlingse Maar a •
sexton 18. a perambulating nuisance. Fuss-
ing here, scurrying there, he distracts et-
tedien by his obtrusiveness. And why
will be move to the accompapinient
squeaking • shoos? In some quarters, this •
matter of churehmennera needsreformatime
Some scribe., who Writes • with the pen of
Swift ; some genius, Who clips his pen in the
ink of Cervantes, should arise to describe '
and, by describing annihilate these abuses.
Better still, pray that the spirit of true wor-
ship may descend upon the those. In this
matter of good manners, judgment should
begin at the house of God. We do not affirm •
that what is true of some churches is tine
of all. By am, means: . Most churches are
exemplary in these regards. We emphasMe
the word some. But the offenders are nui-
sances to be abated. '
A Vandyke border on one selvage, finish.
ed with a frir ge, is a novelty in fancy nun's
veilings.
t
44