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Exeter Times, 1901-4-4, Page 3Argegea,49:cOierOKbOAA41•4s1:8:ifis3O.3O-cisili;k4O:ars-blieseiesee bquire Cameron presses his hand in The Heiress of Cameron Halt m BY LAURA JEAN LIBBEY 0. a dazed way to his forehead. The •• words lam given him e mortal wound. • Ile staggers out of the ball -room; the lights hurt him and the flowers sicken Wm. Under the green pock, as he -passes through it, he sees Helena and becke ons her to him. For one moment they are alone to- gether while her partner is bringing her an ice. 4 Author of Min Middietors's Loverf ‘4.4, Forbidden Maori - age," "Daisy Thooks," Etc., Etc. 403:0:403:*.ge;(49:0:WEA.te:403:800:MAKECEOACK0a1WEC400.0A. Ile thought of the wedding ban- • Oi hearts. And frosts that moment these two, quet that the tidy servant was pre - who had been in the past such stanch paring at thet moment in the little bottage on tue Jersey City Heights. friends, were bitter enemies. They the cozy cagwas reader, but Welted in each other's eyes, and each e his bright -winged bird had flown, Tee k w that the other would try to Will her if e et feast was ready, but tbe lovely hould, and both fel zrourig bridoelect had fed from him, that there would be a bitter strug- geserted him, and left him a heart- 810 between them. broken man. While Frederick welled for an op "1 will never forgive her!" he portunity to ask Helena to waltz cried. with Wirt his friend seized the oppor- He dung ble brush from him; and, tunity aud, asked it. the paintings that had been the Again those dark, luminous eyes dearest dreams of his ambition, he were raised to Herbert Renwick's 0.0.she4. from bins with a shalcing face with a smile that made huu Id . swear to himself that he would, win "Good-bye. life, love and fame," he her in spite of all the world of nien, muttered, catching his breath hard, "I have just one waltz left, she "I will leave ail and go Out in the said; "I will be pleased to give it to World and search for Use WOIllan who you." 1104 broken my heart and deserted A look of gratified pleasure swept me. No other lover shall hiSte her over his dark face That was et leps-I swear it. I will Search the least one step gained over his rival. World through until 1 find her: Search by night and day. And when, we meek Ilelena-for meet we shall on surely as the blue sky bends Above ne-eney heaven pity me, I can not answer for what w ill happen then." RAPT= VII. The grand hall at Cameron hall , was n. great euccees. Vivian Cameron was looking her beat in rose -pink clouded over with fOttral,- lace. the Cameron diamonds oh:sited about her, white throat and 'gleaming on her plump, roundest arms. "Helena. shall not outshine me to night," she muttered. exultantly, aa she noted the adtatiring glanees that greeted her frout nil sides. She glanced anxiously around. Thee lials had not; made leg app etranee. ;She It her crimetan lips 'with intense bitterness as she saw Frederick Case Caton standing near the dourway. watching and waiting. She well knees for whom. Lovely YOung girls linseed Wet be, mrdliog their nese *test ttnti ch&:enr- fug him with their bright rogoeei oyes, but. he lookedeunelously past theta all towards the door. • 4'lot waltzing, Fred, my boy!" ex - Claimed a -cheery voice at hes elbow. "Why. my dear fellow, I ton literally Aston:elm& and such bewitching young girls gazing longingly at you. And turning quickly around Fred- erick saw his chum and most int -i - snot° friend, Herbert Ilenwiek, stand - leg beside him. eel- amearocioue to behold this rare- _ - gen of beauty you have been telling =le about, Frederick," he said, light- ly. "Pray present me." Frederick Castleton (melted his lips to answer, bet at that meenent. through the green arches of an opcn doorway near by, came a. vision of girlish loveliness, robed in silvery white, with water lilies twined in her dark hair and on her breaet, leaning an the arm of Squire Cam- eron. Frederick flushed. It was no won- der the warm color flooded cheek and brow, as he noticed with a thrill of delight that Helena carried the white flowers he had sent her, and he quite forgot to answer his friend for a moment. "What are you gazing at so in- tently?" laughed Herbert, and at that moment his eyes fell upon the levely young girl leaning upon Squire Cameron's area. He caught one glance of those liquid dark eyes, and he felt like a man dazed, he could not tell why. "There is Miss Cameron -is she not charming?" cried Frederick, his fair, handsome fare breaking into a glow of smiles:. • "Come, Ho: ert, and I will present you to the (peen of the ball," he con- tinued, and both of -the young men crossed the room together. Both were so utterly unconscious of the inflpence Chat she would exercise over their lives -of the tragedy that lay 'before theta, of the fa,ct that from this night their lives would never be the same again. And there was some- thing almost pitiful in their ignor- ance. Young gentlemen eagerly pressed !around Helena -eager for one glance .or smile. Frederick and Herbert _ RenVick were obliged to await 'their tarn patiently. "I shall net be able to claim onn waltz," exclaimett Frederick, notic- ing how quickly her tablet was being Ailed. . "Courage," laughedHerbert Ren- , wicic,‘"a faint heart never wins fair lady." But he would not have said that a few hours later. the roses and watches her, sighing I"I shall press forward and try my • because he can not enjos' this with fate," replied Frederick, disconsolate- the same zest as these gay young ly, "1 'shall ask her for •one waltz 1 fellows with whom Vivian is danc- with the hope she may give ine •fug. tw°.' . Vivian flashes by with flushed "1 hOpe she will," laughe en 11 1 t ': cheeks and starry, eyes. wick, smiling at hie friend's earnett- -How charming Vivian Cameron is lieSS.•• to -night ,'' a gentleman r =larks. "If But one hour afterward he would I 7 ere the poor ole squire I should not have expressed that hope. • Flelena looleed up as the two hand- feel N cr r ugly ton; ircl to cheek such some young men drew near. Fred- cond. st. T-Tcr actiees are the COM, for i0 no mat - crick Castleton's face was.ilushed, ince tale . r the rot in, and Herbert Renwick lead grown ter ie what part of it sho may be she i_ ‘eeps her eyes fixed upon hand - strangely pale. ,,miss Helena Cameron, allow me "me 71e'd''' 'PI' ltqt.3 ef ' '. '....11 to present my friend, Mr. Itenwick, ''Il ow blind ,.• .1 r o C., tl, c -:.• on 1.1 os • said Frederick, nervously. - be not, to Lottee ' a h.tly tt:zclai, Helena, raised her glorious dark -with a shrug ot „er pretly t heel. 01-;:;. eyes aucl smiled, and the diniples "Does he not keow 'that his wife an.1 deepened at ounci her lovely rosebud Frederick Cas ieton • were lovers mouth, and that innocent, thought- once? Frederick Castleton has telt less smile disturbed Frederick Cas- the ball -room," she whispers, " and tleton. • see how quickly Vivian excuses, her - Both gentlemen gazed for one in- self frcnn her partner. She is leav- stant into the bewitching girlish ing the room, too." face, and then they looked at each They pass on ' and a death -white other as though they would weir,11 face -peers after them from behind u each other's strength in the 'bailie pillar of vises. Ile had not yet been five minutes in Helena's presence, yet be already called the friend of a life-tizzie his rival, Befere Frederick could regain his scattered senses and ask for at least a quadrille--anything-the MUSIC Stfllek up end Herbert Renwick was leading her away, and for an in - stunt the two rivals fairly glared at each other. Ah, how happy Helene was! Now her heart beat at the murmur of ad- miration that followed her as she floated down that brilliant flower - flanked room tO the meaeure of the thrilling music. Herbert Renwick's dark, -handsome face itent over her, proucl in its tri- umph. "I shall never forget this waltz, Miss Cameron." be said. "There. are events in life that impress us so strongly we are never able to forget them; I 511411 always hereafter ASSO- elate you with the music of a waltz, l' in memory of this one." "Events in life which we are never able to forget." How the words struck like a death knell upon beau- tiful, guilty Helena Heatheliff's ears -Helena, who had stolen into the Idead ,girl's home and fortune, .And in that moment Mark's face rose up before her as they rode to- gether on the way to the depot Ithrough the sunlighted park, and sho could hear Mark's voice saying, in an awful whisper, the words he heel I said to her then when be had kissed her lips and she had promised to be ' ll,farit's bride: "Never be false to me, Helena; for if you were I should 4 go mad and hill rayself-perheps ' both of us." ' Even then, es she whirled through the brilliantly lighted ban -room, in his far -all home alaric was standing alone, with bared head, under the starlight, with one prayer on his lips, that he might find his beauti- ful, false lova Ile never stopped to question himself es to whet might happen after that. If ever a. man hael gone inad for love, that man was poor Mark. Why should Nark's, face aud voice come to her non? She grew pale 'o Ine lips, and Her- bert 'Renwick smiled delightedly. He thought it was bis pretty compli- ment, that had 1 aled those lovely cheeks in girlish coofusion. Unable to endue his friend's tri- umph, Frederick Castleton rushed out of the ball-roes:a away from the lights and the music out Juin the cool, silent moonlighted grounds,. sunk down upon a garden seat and laid his hot forehead down on the cool marble rim of the fountain. In the ball -room quite another scene was being enacted. Vivian Cameron, whirling through the radi- ant rooms in regd.-pink silk and gauzy lace, is wild with excitement and the bitterest envy. Her gate ' follows Helena, and. she realizes the awful truth; the girl who has come -to Cameron Hall, and cheatedsher of her 'clearest hopes, has outshone her. She dances incessantly, yet she watches every expression that passes over Frederick Castleton's face as he gazes after Helena, and she bites. her crimson lips until the pain arouses her. . Squire Cameron never dances, but be is pleased to see his lovely young bride enjoy herself so thoroughly. At last her flushed cheeks and dan- gerously sparkling eyes alarm him. I -Se attempts to expostulate with' her. "She will tire herself out," he tells her when he finds himself alone' with her for one brief moment. ' . But Vivian does not heed him, and he draws back into the shadows of "Helena, child," he says huskily, 'T ellen not return to the balleroona to -night. I 1es1 sick, I am going to my own room." "Oh, papa," erica Helena in alarm her beert going out to birn at the sight of his distressed face, "lee sue go with you and attend to you, He -a- cme I dance knoeing you are ill? Please let no go." In her etscitSment she forgot that she had addreseed him other than was her usual shy cuetcan-31.1r, Cem- eron. She noticed with wonder that in- stead of going toward MS room, as he had saki, he went into the grounds. He could see a WOnlall'S dress glim- mering through the trees, and with light footsteps Squire Cameron fol- lowed. and the figure witiee he knew to be Vivian's stopped short before the dark figure of a man sitting on • garden bench by the fountain. The moonlight fell full upon his face, and he sew it was Frederick Castleton. CHAPTOIR VIII. For one moment Gilbert Cameron gazed -gazed in an agony words are weak to describe -at the elemicegg- ure i rose pink and lace, on which the moonbeams fell so brillientlY among the green foliage. He stoat and looked at her, his ! eyelid's never twitching, the muacleg of his mouth never relaxing from ; thatt herd, icy, pitiless compreesion. Ile saw Vivian clasp her white* I jeweled hands over her heart. and the leaves of the roses she wore in. her bodice fell in a, shower upoa the Faxon head beut on the fountain's; briertri, ederiek sprung to his feet, and Vivian held out her white hands to him. Then the light faded from the moon; the world grew dark. Gilbert (lunecon could hear no more. Wheeling suddenly around In the path, he groped his way back to the house. The light of his life had gone down in sudden darkness. Vivian did not IOW him. It was the o1d, old story • lIfee• and December. Of all the pains a hUmen heart C0.11 suffer, the keenest and most bitter is the knowledge that the love we have cherished in our bosom in the winter of life has cast tts aside for a fairer, younger face. With a slow, measured step Gilbert Cameron te-entered the house and gained his own apartments, touched the bell with a trembling hand, and isnugatesbk, ack in his chair by his writ - There was 4 Strange pallor on his face as he slowly ualeckal it, and drew fron one of the pigeon -holes the will he had MO.(10 that very day. "John," he said to the servant who answered the summons, "ball Law- yer Banks to cozne up to my room before he leaves the house, and tell my daughter to come to me for moment. feel etrangely ill." "Shall I call Mrs. Cameron, sir?" asleed the man, alarmed at the death - white face turned toward him. "No!" thundered the old million- aire, in a voice that Mug like a trumpet through the room. Out in the moonlighted garden Vivian and Frederick Castleton were walking slowly. back toward the house. Ile had started up with a startled cry as the rose leaves fell upon his face, astonished at finding her be- side him with outstretched bands. "Frederick," she said, softly, -"you are in trouble. Can I help you? I shw haw white your face was when you left the 1 ell-roorte and I -I thought I might comfort you, per= haps. I know your secret," she went on, With something very like reck- less despair in her voice. "Your friend, Herbert Renwick, is too at- tentive to Helena to please you." "Vivian -Mrs. Cameron-" he cries, flushing to the temples. But she interrupted him in a voice quivering with emotion. ; "I have come to warn you, Freder- ick," she said, tremulously. "Every one noticed herw miserable you were. You carry your heart in your eyes when you watch that girl. Aro you mad, to allow your heart to go out to her?" she cried, bitterly. "But for her, Squire Cameron's wealth would have been divided between you and me -I should have irc isted upen sharing with yott. She )ns roblled you of sleer share of the in- heritance, Fred er ck. YOU shoidi hate her -ay, hate, her with a venge- ance. " Frederick GastIeten nd the light deepened in his bonny blue eycs. "Mrs. Cameron," he said, eagerly, "believe me, no thought of retining ever entered my mind, and." he con- tinued, passionately, "if the wealth of the whole world were mine, I would gladly lay it at boautiful. Hel- ena's feet. I never cease thanking Ileaven that she has come back to e 5oy "You 1 t."eee . " her: Frederick," gasped Vivian, in a low, intense voice. • "You 'have 'no vight to ouef•tion me, Mrs. Canteron," he said,proud- ly. "Yes, why- should 1 not own to you what I owned to my own heart long since. Yes, 1 love hcr as man never loved woman itefores' Ae shrill laugh • fell from Olvianes She lifted; her Olt ite face, and there was a look upon it, tnat he would not understand. He wished the in- terview all over. "Frederick," she whispered, "1 warn you. Helena Cameron is a flirt. She could love no man. She wililajarry the wealthiest man who ;lays his fortatne at her feet." 'To not judge that beautitn1 young girl by, yourself, Mrs. Cameron,'' be said, impatiently; "she is not one to sell herseh for gold. When she ,niarries it will be --for love.". "Do not Tenzin(' me of the greatest folly of 'MY' life" cried Vivian, bursting into tears. "Oh, how I wish it were to be done over agate. I would enoose love, and not wealth, Frederick," sbe cried out, passion- ately. ' "Mrs, Cameron!" exclaimed Fred- erick Castleton, coldly, "I loose no cause ta, regret that which was but g passing Miley long ago. I beg of you to reenember this. I trust you -will never mention the pest to my uncle, or Miss Helena," he added, enema ay. He proffered her his arm with cold, calxa ceurtesy, and 'Vivian walkea baclg to the glittering ball -room with hint in perfect silence, her heart in tlengerous whirlwind of conilict-• ing emotions. He loved Helena. Then it 'was no delusion after all, and. the thought tprtured her to madness. They part- ed in the corridor. Frederick retrac- ed his steps ta the ball -room, while Vivian senk downeupon one of the cushioned seets, screened by a large, flowering plaut, to eollect her scat- tered senses. It was there she heard, quite un- oheerved, the aervant's strange mese sage to Lawyer Banks, • "What can he want with him?" she thought, in wonder, "X must knfor‘e\r'",':duty as hostess required ber presence in the bail -room, and she put the thought from her, joining the gay revelers again, Oh, how she lliated Helena, as Sille Saw that in ell that vest throug no one. was so beautifulnone so eager- ly sought for as this girl, who had robted her of SO 131.1;011 of Gilbert Cameron's wealth -the girl whom Frecleriiile loved, Helena looked so simple and girl - sit in her plain white dress of fleecy thrleten, with PO ornaments save the gold,enenearted poncl-lillea on her breast and in her brown eerie; it was no wonder young girls envied her and the gentlemen adored her, The houra that follow seem almost like a dream to Vivian. She flits through the lights and the brilliaet bloom like a butterfly, with the one thought in her heart -she will be the gayest of the gay -Frederick Castleton shall not see Idea* deeply he ha a hurt lier. She dances every dance: the flush on her face deepens, and her blue, steely eyes glitter like stars. She is recklessly brilliant and witty with her partners, and those who know her hest look at her in wonder. Twice during those gilded hours Squire Cameron sends km her. Ire has relented, and urges lier to come to his bedside ler but one moraent. no has lain down, weak and ill. "Ire can Wait until the ball is over. I shall not go to Wm now." That is the -message Vivian sends to him -the message the squire re - MVOs, with a bitter sigh, as he tosses restlessly on his pillow. Half an hour after Lawyer Banks quits Squire Cameron's apartment, Helena, standing amid the flowers and lights, looks suddenly and anxi- ously around. She has just missed ilia squire, "He has not returned," she thought, with a strange tia•ill of pain, remembering how white his face had been as he turned from her. During the few moments of inter- mission that followed, she made her way to Vivian's side. "Mr. Cameron is ill, I fear," she sled, hurriedly. "He has not been In the ball -room for an hour or more." - "He is in his room -not well, per- haps. But 'X shall not dance attend- ance upon his whims for all that," declared Vivbui, scornfully. "He does not like to see me enjoying myself -- he -wants to spoil my pleasure, but he shall not, for I will not go near ltiiinnlie.1,1,ntil after the ball. I guess he will get along all right until that "Then 1 shall go to him," declar- ed Helena, indignantly. Mrs. Cam- eron curled her red lips sneeringly. "As you choose," she said, shrug- ging her pretty shoulders. Helena, turned quickly away. "I shalt be back in time for my waltz with Mr. Castleton," she told her- self, blushing as she met his eyes bent earnestly upon her. But before he could seize the op- portunity and make bis way to her side, Helena had slipped from the room, and in an instant the bril- liant throng. of gay .young girls, the lights and music of the ball -room lost all charm for the two young men -who stood near each Other, gazing ruefully after her. Both had reached the limit of hus man patience, as they looked tier- derously at each other, then at the door. , Helena was not the first young girl whose glorious beauty had driv- en rivals to desperation. Herbert Renwick's face was white and determined, Frederick Castle - ons was flushed, and frone the an- gry, lowering glances they cast at each other, from the fierce light in the eyes that bed once been full of the warmest friendship, any one who had wate,hed them might have known Jhat a dangerous and bitter quarrel was imminent. Hele.na. ,tripped lightly down the marble corridor and up the broad stairway, with the prettiest "of smiles On her lips, as she remember- ed tbose thrilling, earnest blue eyes that had followed her so persistent- ly wherever. she went. "I am to give him the next waltz," she said to herself, with the most charming of girlish blushes, as she paused for a moment under a gas jet and consulted her tablet. She must keep her heart frone beat- ing so loudlywben he clasped her in his arms and whirled her away in the bewildering maze of the waltz. i7.41)o roust not darn to raise bar eyes to the earnest blue ones bend- ing over her, lest he should read ixi her confused glance the truth she had, been trying to close her • own heart to since they first met -he Was her ideal, hor heart had gone out to him at first sight. ^ BOERS kRE GIVING UP WHEY FOR CALVES. BEAR'S , , I r - AI i Exnetir Whitt Can li$e Done With • Good Restate, s, That good calves can be raised on Gen. ''rench Has Taken Russia Could t Hold China Against Povvcers' Protests. Fifty- whey there iJig question. says a COT- CHINA REFUSED TQ SIGN TREATY ! I One More Prisoners. COM. PRINSLOO IS CAPTURED. Con, Englebect, Another Boer Leader, Has Surrendered -The Clearing of the' 1 Madera. Transvnal Contlnues-Wo- imelt Taken to litrecht-Hritr.- : Inger Hard rxessed-Doers 1 1 rrolited by Armistice. London, April I. -The War Office has received advices from, Lord Kitchener, dated. Pretoria. March 30, reporting the capture of '72 Boers in : Orange River Colony, and ofticiallY announcing that Geoeral Freneli has taken 51, prisoners and received the surrender of 93 Boers, ass already an- nouncecl in press despatehes. Lord Kitchener also reports upon, the re- cent wrecking of trains at several - points, con. rnitisLoo aerrunn. Commandant Engiettreeitt„ Surrend,ered-* Creat Sweep. London, April special de- spath from Standerton says the TM- periel Light Horse have captured. Commandant Prinaloo and a convoy of 28 wagons. Commandant Hngle- brecht, the despatch says, has stir, - rendered. The British are eweepieg Ike Eastern Transvaal elem7 of ev- erything useful to the Boers. All standing cropa have been destroyed. but the Women and children are be- ing for. FilTO hundred of them have been conveyed to Utrecht., where their wants are well attended, t nonnitErOGDES OQ.iUN RC, Pretoria's Population Being Augmented Almost Pretoria, March 30.-A coasidere able number of Boer refugees, men, women and children, continue to flock into the city daily front the outlying districts. They are being sent to the detention camp at Irene. A train. from Johannesburg was fired upon near the Haalfontein sta.- tion on Thursday night, but except for the wounding of two EatileSne damage was done. .A. train going east was derailed by the Doernear Balmoral last night and four of the trucks were destroy- ed. ••.••••••••••••1 BRITISH CHA.SING KRITZINORR. Throe Colums Are After Ulm and. Press- ing Him Hard. Cape Town, Marcia 30. -- The columns of Obis. Gorringe, Cra.bbe and DeLisle are still actively en- gaged in pursuing Commandant ICritzinger. It is said that this Boer comma:n(1er had despaired of being able to cross the Orange River. It is said that the negotiations for peace between Lord Kitchener and Gen. Botha have severely hampered. Gen. French in his operations in. the Eastern Transvaal. While the nego- tiations were in progress the Boers seized the opportunity to break through Gen. French's lines in small parties and steal to the northward. It is believed thee Gene. Botha. and Viljoen practically agreed to ac- cept the British terms of surrender, but when the B.er commandants met they were cont., ptuously rejected. Boors Derail a Train Pretoria, March 130. -The Boers de- railed and plundered a freight train near Johannesburg last night. MONEY COST S202,583,000. Philippines* Cost in Blood the lives of 3028 Fighters. Washington, April 1. -The Philip- pine Islands have cost the United States since the beginning of the in- surrection $202,588,000' in noney, 908 in officers and men killed and died of wounds, 2,120 in officexs and men dead front disease. The following is a summary of the cost of the Philippines in money and American lives: Expenditures on account nf mili- tary and naval operations in the is- lands, $178,550,000. Paid to Spain under treaty of Paris, $20,000,000. Paid to Spain for Cagayan and Si- butu, $100,000. Interest on war Ioan since June 30 1899, $8428,000. Pbilippine commissioners and mis- cellaneous, $500,000. Total cost in money, $202,588,- 000. Army lost in killed and deaths from wounds: Officers, 51; enlisted' men, 836. Navy lost in killed and deaths from wounds: &kers, 2; en- listed men, 16. Deaths from disease: Officers, 48; enlisted men, 2,072. To- • tal cost in lives, 3,028. Dead 'Cabe Found at Woodstock. Woedstocke April 1.-A small sen- sation was .developed in town at noon on Saturday, when the body of an infant child was discovered under the sidewalk near the Port Dover Railway crossing me Vansittext ave- nue. Coroner. MeLay expressed the opinion that it had been still' born. The body, when found, was wrapped in a copy of The Weekly Express of Woodstock of January 19, 1901, and weighs about nine pounds. An in- quest will be held to -day. Silk Weavers on Strike, New York, April 1. --Two hundred and fifty men and women employed at the Enterprise Silk Mill at Pat- erson, N. J., left their looms on Saturdaybecause a request for an advance of i'.20 per centin wages had been refused eby the proprietors. This is the first strike iii the ranks of the broad silk weavers in Paterson. Archbishop I.ewis Improved. CON INUED New York, April 1. -The condition of Archbishop Lewis of Ontario, who has been ill here for eorne tittle, Was slightly improved la st night, respoudent of Hoard's Dairyman, Of course nobody would want to feed whey to a yenng calf the first few weeks of its life, There Is SO ciecaSien whatever to feed the dairy calf whole milk for a longer period than One week. Let the all have the milk of its dam for the Grst week of its existence. It is certainly not best to permit the calf to etickle the eow. The ordinari 7 cow has probably twice as much milk" as the calf needs, and to permit the calf to suckle at will and overgerge itself will bring on disorders of a serions nature. Fifteen pounds mi day .1 intly enough Mille for the calf iut the grst week of ita eXtsteelVe. Very much more than this works harm and it is a very poor eteln Indeed that doesn't glee double this ;Mount in the first week et lactation. Then If the calf Is allowed to Stickle any part, at which • time will this he? Shill the calf snekle first ,and then milk ant the remainder, ' or vice versa* IL the calf suckles Grst, It Is plain that the rep:misting portion after the calf is supposed to-I:Ave got. sufficient will contain by Inc We greatest pertien of We fat, for the last quart cse two can- tata/a five or at times as much fat'm the remainder. Again, if the ewe are milleL grst and the ealf Allowed te take the rereainder, it is plain that the colt Pas obtained the richest portien et the milk, The only logical way, then, is teiuflh We cow at grst and all the Vole and let tbe calf drink the milk from the pall. For the first week the calf gets whole milk right frora the cow, and for no, longer, given in two feeds, seven to aim pounds at a feed, tevice a day. At (be end or the Arst week we- intredoee eirlinnillk, SO tbat at the end Of the SW wad week the ealf is getting four Tante of whole milk and four quarts or leaff of akiM113.1114 mixed, fed blood waw. Now, at the end of the second week' we introduee Nthey (the whey must Ill every case be boiled). 'Very gradually at gra, So that at the end of the third -week the calf Is getting half whey and halt shim and 'allele mill; or, in othet words, one-fourth whole milk, one- fourth shine and one-lialf whey, mixed anet fed warm of eourse. No whale milk Is fed after the calf Is 21days old, At the beginning ot the fourth yrecit the ration Is half whey and half skims milk, about nine pounds at a feed, fed twice a day. Gradually during the fourth week the skirt:milk Is withheld, so that at the end. of the fourth week the ration is whey alone -that is to say, when the calf is 28 days old no milk of any kind Is fed. Whey completely takes its place. The amount of Whey to be fed will vary somewhat, but as a rule about ten pounds at a feed, twice a day, will be areple at 28 days old. 'Vie amount Of whey can DOW be inereased tci 15 pounds at a feed when 2 months old and continued till the calf is 0 or G months old. The whey must always be first boiled as it comes from the factory and fed at blood heat. Of course no calf Is expected to sub, sist on whey alone no more than on skimmlik alone. He must be fed some grain. At 8 weeks of ago a calf will begin to eat meal, and a constant supk ply should always be before hira. Whether meal should be mixed with the whey and skImmilk is an open question. If the meal is first scalded so as to break up the starch cells, if may be mixed with either whey or skimmilk, but dry meal should in no case be ever mixed with whey or milk to be fed to a young animal, let it be a calf or a pig. Feeding 'For HIM. Sohn Dean, writing in The American Agriculturist, says: Upon proper feeding devolves the financial slimes% of every dairy farm. As I look at the question it is this: To get the best results from the least ex- pense. I have 15 cows, mostly Hol- steins. The milking is started about 5:80 a. m. and is completed and milk cared for by 6:30. Then I feed each cow one bushel silage made from Sto- well's Evergreen sugar corn, upon which I give them their grain ration composed of two quarts glieten meal and five quarts shorts and middlings mixed. , At noon the cows are let out to water and exercise in the yard for one hour only in fine weather. My experi- ence has been that the warmer and more quiet the stock is kept the better the result will be. At 3:30 p. m. I feed the same amount as fed in the morning. Milking begins at 5 p. m. and is finished and eared for by G. after which the stock is given a feed of dry fodder, which consists of either English hay, oats cut in milk and cured as hay, Hnngarian hay or meadow or swale hay, so that the cows get a change of feed every day. While I have tried a number of ways of feeding, the method I ata now pursu- ing gives entire satisfaction, yet I am ready to accept any method svhieh will recomniend itself to me to be superior to this. The result of one year's ea- periment evitb the above mentioned method bas been to get 5,509 81/2 quart cans of milk from 14 cows. Some Requisites For Calf Feeding. Always keep the,calf pens dry and clean, using plenty of litter. A dirty pen is condbeive to scours. For several calves fed together, fit up narrow still's at one side of the pen and fasten each calf by a rope or stanchion to feed each separately. -This will prevent the stronger calves from getting more than their share. Keep tbem fastened or a er a g Prevent their sucking each others' ears. 'he pails used for feeding milk should be thorougbly cleansed and scalded with boiling water each day.-Ameri- ean Aoriculturist. • • Both The Times' and. The noutleti eteirs; correspondents Agre', as to the Facts --Xego;iat4On6i Stitt oo--Tinte Expires Wedueeday, gmiRussia Exrdnina Her Xuterest in China. Washington, D. C., Apr'll 2, formation has reached here to ti ;effect that the Russian GovernMente beleg eeriously perturbed by -the course of China in not signing thg. Manchuria4 agreeMent, largely bar cause of the protest made by the SO- erel powers, leas conveyed a distinct and unmistakable indiction to China that if tbis eourse is persiete# ea there may be att. interruption. 01 't the diplomatic relationa between .Russian and China and, a terrain • time of the present intercourse be- , tweeze them. This is little short of an oltimatunz that China, must sign or take the consequences at a labiate= 01 her friendly relntioiie With Rieseia. Cbina Refuses to glom , London, April 2. ---The Chinese Ere- peror, 1 nut otileially informed, has instructed the Chinese pleulpoten- i tiaries, says the Pekin correspondent of The Daily Mail, not to sign the Manchurian convention eVeli la modified form. This- is Goed Confirmation* • LOildell, April 2. --Dr. Morrison, wiring to The Times from peige; March 28, stye: "The Vangtse vcq- moys have carried the day. Li Hue Chang, who wired Tuesday urgi Emperor ltwang Su to reconsider hig. decision, received an answer thet tisO throne's decisiers, in the presence the unanieneets adViee of the dad provincial officials, was irrevocable, and that the Afaxichursan convention, could not be signed. "In spite of ber threats. Russia seems disinclined to slam tho deer% Negotiations between Li Ilung Chant and At. de Ole= were eertainiy pro- ceeding yesterday, when M. de Giers agreed to several formal atiaendment of the text. Russia's cynical an bold diplomacy appears for once have overreached itself." 'rime Expires wednesdeee • St, Petersburg, April 2.-Tbe netts term within which the signature of the Manchurian agreement- Is de - mantled, will expire Wedeneeday. The Russian Government publicists do not cease to emphasize the radi- cal difference between the Russian position towards China and that of the other powers. The Novo() Vro- rive, developing this, says: "Par °tilers, China is Merely a znarket which they can leave to see a betIen one if it becomes unprolit.,able. Re sia cannot ietrve Ch. .use ot their immense common frontier," The Nora Scotia nudget. Halifax, April 2.--Pretnier Murray, brought down the financial returns in the House of Assembly yesterd*, :afternoon. The probable revenue is placed at $1,034,906.42, and ex- penditure at $1,020,965,89 The sune of $160,000 is estimated from mime royalties, and $80,000 from succes- sion dtities. Crown lands are ex- pected to yield $35,000. The expendi- ture embraces $258,000 for educa- tion, $141,000 for roads and bridges, $148,000 for debenture interest and $35,000 for agriculture. Lord Salisbury' Improving. London, April 2. -Although no bulletin has been issued, it is saisl that Lord Salisbury is progressing satisfactorily towards recovery from his illness. The private secretary of Lord Salisbury, Mr. Schomberg Moe Donnell, states that Use Premier is making excellent progress. Fire at Wiarton. Wiarton, April 2. -William Ash - croft's block was totally destrOyed by fire Sunday afternoon, includ- William Gills' butcher shop, 1V. Sinnns' grocery store, MatInn ' con- fectionery, Robert Heppenstal's shoe 'sbop, and William Hicks' boarding h ouse. Filipino Surrenders. Manila, April 2. -The recent sur- renders include Gen. Gonzales, 11.1 officers and 14 men, with 45 rifles. at Malabou, and Col. Herrera, thre0 officers and 25 reels, with rifles,. at Laguna, and Cols. Pablo, Teozon and Sibul at Bitlacan. moroarts Elevation. London, April 2. -The report la current, on high authority, that Mr. Balfour will be raised to the Peer- age and made Prime Minister on Lord Salisbury's retirement, which will be soon. Anoth or )1 1 nior Cull:roily. ra., March 26. -Yes- terday morning 23 men reported for duty and went into the pit of the Gates Mine (Faye tte County). Of this number 16 were caug,h' in the awful grip of the scorehbag 1,1c,atil of the fire clamp, and singed and black- ened. As soon after the explosion as possible e a force of men. were ..pet._ to the rescue, One by one the burned -- bodies were brought up. Nine still lived, and . these were brought to Connellsvillc and put in the Cottage State Hospital. • Two Trees iitl, a iir,te,y,. Forty years ago the Prince of Wales planted an English oak and an American elm is Central Park, New York. Both are strong and nourish- ing trees. The oak is two feet in diameter and the elm is one of the largest and most,. beautiful specimens in the park. '