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his 'eft hand and placed the stone
upon his <Men palei to demonstrate
hi inemeirge, " Mr. Gen:leu Ut
mit hie calffeP and tinmib to take it;
U
4 A.,N UNS0 GHT NVEALT 3
00 thee he might exceuelne it ("loser.
1t, stuck feet to hie finger end the-1mb,
and at the mune time stuck to the
it14 palm ot wein kende eoi there N'VrO two
StUelt together."
"1 teay,Iookhn yon shouldn't
X play your trichs -with such a man es
Golden." •
tee "Do you -Oleic 1 aan a fool? It
et was that cursed stone. They seat
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"Sent for a, policemen?"
,glarirg at the diamond as though "Without the slightest difficulty he
•
Preeedieg ChaPters - Samuel 'it was some creature of neeil and reletweil Mr. (lateen's thereie and
XookhL 1wts fie= his brother blood oa wham ho yearned to be re- thumb, and° removed the stone from
Matthew, the Devil's Mumma which N'augcd. Ithe palm of ray han& lie thought
hes the property of bringitigt own.- I adiei Hooldiarta if I were you ;we were. hexing a, joke with him.'
er U luck. The store ean 40t. Le rd take a coati% draught and go! "So 1 ehould think. I say, Hook -
sold; the only way of metthe. red home to ted - you're a little up- ham, you're going it in' your, old
of it is by giiing it away, itte'd this Ret. rit send for le cab and let one 'age, ;col know." '
its value prohibits. of my clerk's go hoxne with you.'" 1 "Mr. Golden, alemeed at the ease
When Mr. 11000 -tam found himself ! "Send for a cabl liow do you tecith wbich hadbeen released,
in the etreet, wes coescieus, so tar , think Din goirg to pay for it when !eased the policeman to let him look
eis lie was consiious of auethirig, and I've lost iieventeen thousand pounds? at it. .As the policeman was hand-
ier the ilist few moments that, was Sthwal e" - (Me. HooUltam glanced ine it to him it wout off with a
&tying very little indeedi of an em- round the room with ieveriteh eyes) I hang."
11hatic,a11y enniplicateti etate of mied. •-"Selneabe, theresometeirg I 1 "Went off With s. bang What -
Eo ciould not, so to speak, unravel want to say to you. I must say it tho stone?"
his thowette. Without anY clear to some one. it's not my habit to ! "Yee, and singed the policeman's
idea of wliere it was that he was wake confelences, but 111 make a 'beard."
going, he wandered up towards Ox- Conti:dant of you. Sit down." "Singed the pPlicemen's beard!
ford street, tee diamond tightly s "I can listen where I am; and if , What - the stone? I say, Hook-
graeped be his left hence In Oxford 'I were you I wouldn't oexeite your- ham, have you been takine anything
etreet, almost meehanicaile, he stop- self more than ,you can help - to drown the niemore- of that.seven-
peel in front of a. newsagent's shop, you'i•e excited enough already. What ;teen thousand 'mimes?"
a.ed his eye was might by the die- you have to say would be better ; "Don't you see that Matthew se.ys
played contents bill's of the newspai said another time." it's ineece•ible to sell the Stone?
pers of the day. Ono item of ne WS "I'll say it now," snapped Mr. believe it knows when I am 'trying to
smiled to be the item in all of them. .Frookham, with quite a raliid snarl, sell it, had - and won't allow me
'Weerful Accident in a. Mine. Appal- "You as that stane?" to,
ling Loss of Liee." The announce -1 "I do, and know it too. 1 ought Mr. Dfoolcham took out his hand-
tientwas repeated in almoet the to - leak at that!" kerchief and ale ed his brow, Mr,
same words on the tells. Slipping ; Aft', Schivate stretched out his Schwabe eyed him, with a peculiar
the dhunond into his waistcoat row- hand, on which there was still the ex-preesion of countenance,
]et, Mr. Hookielan went in and mark of a scar. "Ch. you don't think it will allow
bought a paper - scarcely knowing ! "Look at that?" Mr. Hookham you te se'l it. Would you like to
way, for by this time his own copy stretched out his. The bandage had have another try?"
"What do you mean?"
"Would you like to sell it to me?"
"At a fair rrice, Sclovalie - at a
fair priee I would. You said that
it was worth more them. twenty
es
thoend pounds."
"I was not aware that I named a
02 The nystery of a Brother's Legacy.
OUArTER
awaited him at home. Re opened gone, and on his palm there was
the paper in the shop. His glance quite an open wound. "But that's
fastened on the displayed headlines nothiug to what this - this cured
which called attention to the acci- teing has done. Do you know what
dent in the mine. The first few this stone is called?"
words were enough for him. A fa- "A diamond, unless I PM a inuch
moue Cornish mine, which carried itsennstaken man.
warkinge far under the 54Na, had ghe "A diemond! Tee, dieniond! The figure," Mr. Schwabe approached
tea way overhead, and had been 'Devil's Diamond!" the tahle, end looked down at the
swallowed up by the waves. Mine 1 Again far. Flookham's voice rose diamond which Mr. Hookham had
and miners alike bad disappeared, !almost to a scream. reel:mod upon it.
Mr. Hookham's hands dropped to 1 "Bather an odd naine to call a "Sure it's cooled err -eh?"
his aide. ;stone! But then diamonds do, as a • Mr. Hookham took it up and rub -
"I hope there ie nothing the raat- 'rule, get curious names, You }snow bed it with his fingers.
ter, sir?" said the woman behind all large Stones have some sobriquet "It's cool enough - it's beautiful -
the counter. "I hope no friends of or other." ly cool."
. yours were in that dreadful mine?" Vr, Bookham had placed the stone "Put it back again." Mr. Hook -
'Without a word Mr. Hookluari ;upon the table, and was feeling in hem put it back upon the table. "I
staggered out of the shop, clutching the inxer pocket of his coat. ' don't 'know, Hookham, if you're
the paper in his hand. "That stone reached me yesterday e.weihe that when a diamond hes been
afternoon, and I came at once Tvith subiecied to very great heat it de -
it to yon." preciatcs in value. Menv such
"Was it hot when it reached you?" stence, when -tested by the wheel,
"Hot? No." have been ground into powder."
"That hasn't been subjected to
great heat."
"Hasn't it? It was hot enough
Yesterday at any rate." • .
"Th „ that wss nothirg.
there's nothing the matter with the
stone."lthought you sad there was."
Ulaerlia.ps perhars that was a
bealecinetiot of mine." . •
"Perhaps.it was. I wonder if I
dare touch it. Why, Tfookharn, hew
you look at :me! You seem quite
nervous, man. Now just you tell
me fairly - you're such an old dodg-
er! is or isn't this a trick stone?"
"A trick stone? What do you
mean?"'
"Jts*hat youemean that I want
to get at. I veld -and 7 repeat Jt
-that so far as eppealfein.ces go, this
is one of thig finest, if not the fin-
, I
diamond merchant looked up when up to bring to you; it was right
engrossed in his znorning letters. The stone was all right when I pecked it
est, stcne ever saw. It appears to
t be even a liner stone than I thought
Mr. Hookhaan entered. . 'when unpaoked When you it. tit yesterday. I don't say that
ia
ei-What, Hookintml Come to Play toughed it it was as hot as a red-
would give it, Mind; but if it is ll
another little joke, eh?
Mr. Hookham sank into a chair.
ATV Mr. • Schwabe continued to look
at. hire' he was struck by hiappear- take me for a lunatic as we'l. this is an age of scientific progress,
=toe, his up -all-night air, his untidy "That stone was brought -to me by and there are scientific 'fakes' about
e
arranged collar and tie, his trousers en undertaker; he bad buried my
.
coetume, his ill -brushed hat, his die -w a man na.med Truelove. He was width woulddeoeive Old Nick. Now
sit yon -tell me straight out, is it a
'fake' or ien't it?
"I eon only tell you that all 7
"He brought with him ne unpaid " alreedyThere is Matthew's
know about the diamond I have told
bill for thirty-three
pouedletter, and there is the stone he re-.
s. Do you you ,
think' I'm the sort of Man to' Pay fers to."
i
thrity-three pounds for burying a..
- "Anti a. real beauty it seems to
be. I never saw such color.' If it
is'a `fake' science has made strides
indeed. Well, hero goes. It won't
bite mee1 suppose." "Althpuncli his
tone was buoyant, arr. Schwabe took
the stone from the table with n. de-
gree of caution which was sufficient-.
ly evident. "It's not hot now, it's
beautifully cool, as earn said. ByJove, what a stonel it weighs—"
Mr. Schwabe paused. Perhaps he
was not anxious to enter into too
minute details. "I've half a mind
to go. n for the speculation upon my
own account. I will give a- I will
giie - what the devil's the matter
with the thing?"
"I will go to Schwabe," he said to
himself. "I will go to Schwate."
He started at a good round paco
to walk towards Holborn, reading
the paper by snatohes as he went. ''Then did you heat it cis you came.
It was painful reading. ellnlees the along? Very kind of you, I'm sure."
accounts were wildly exaggerated, "Do you think I'm a fool,. to play
the Tretullack mine, Wheal Mary, such trieles? Read that letter,
would be no more a mine for ever. ,Schwabee I -I want your. advice."
The less of life was terrible, but it Mr. Hookhamhanded•Mr..Schwate
leas net' by any ramens that whioh a letter which he had taken from the
Meet streekdMr. Hookham, The inner pocket of his coat. It was leis
mire e had . been magnificent property. brother a . Matthew's . testamentary
It had been • worked for centuries. epistle. Thar. Schwabe read it care -
Among mines it had been regarded. fully to the end. - •
almoet in the light of Consols. It
had been worked on the cost -book
system, and Mr. Hookham had been
Aans of the adventurers.
"'There gces seven thousand
'pounds," he repeated to himself as '9Vell, and what do yow want my
he leurrigel along. "aliere goes seven advice about? As to the -state of
thousand pounds." your brother's mind? I dpn't think
When he reached Hatton Garden 1 should have much difficulty in ad -
lie found Mr, Schwabe seated at the teeing you on that."
writin table in his private office, "Schwabe, listen to me. That
"Was your brother a lunatic?"
"Not more so than other men."
"And is that the stone referred
to?"
"That's the stone."
hotcol. What explanation have that it seems to be, believe that in
a
you to give of that?" Icertein quarters it would fetch more
"Hookham, I don't know if you than twenty thouraxd pounds. But
and boots tin splashed with mud. As brother."
he beheld these things Mr. Schwabe "You must have been very much
whistled eaoftly beneath his breath. obliged to lara, I'm sure."
"I say, Hookham i where -have you
been spending the eight?"
"At Badger's 33uildin.ges."
"Where?"
s'At Badger's Buildings, watching brother who had behaveil to me like
them' burning: ' 'Fiereeliandred pounds aniunprincipled scamp'?" `
a. year -gone en a - single.night." "I should think that. !or -burying
"1 don't understand you." some .brothers three -and -thirty
"No? Rig plain etoughl - I've pounds Was really cheap."
been watching my property being "1 refused to pay it: When I got
consumed by fire - making a bon- back from you I found the under -
fire with which to warm the neigh- taker's bill painted on my door, and
-borhooda of five hundred pounds a over it these wordst-
year." '
Mr. Schwabe got up and stood
with his tack to the fireplace.
"I'm sorry to hear that. But per -
bops it isn't so bad as you think.
Wasn't the protTerty insured?"
"Insared! I've paid on the polley
eleven yearn; the half -yearly payment
was due tea days ago. I forgot to paint. The instant I had done so
tselse it urc and I've lost police, and it blazed out at me again in lettere
premium:a and property', and all." of flaming fire."
"That's bad - very bad indeed." "Really, this is getting interesting
Although Mr. Schwabe's tone was -quite like a ghost story."
grave, there was a glimmer 'of a
' Why Don't You Pay
the Mao for Thieving Your
Brother?' "
"I should think that undertaker
was connected with Stubbs' agency."
"Wait a. minute. When I was
alone I painted it all out with black
Jedeeing from the expreesion of
Mr. Schwabe's countenance some-
thing was the matter. The bright
look with which- he had teen regard -
"This mormng I paid the under- ing the diamond faded an at once
mane in the corners of his eyes. Per- talecr• Directly 1 had Paid him, the, from. his eyee. The lines about bis 'farm fertility on account of ies
haps the idedeof old Rocricham being writing vanished from the (loon '
:" mouth became rigid, his whole face quantity. When mixed With .horse
bit- at last! -- struck him as ra- "No! Upon my word, Hookham, !became fixed and stern. As if in- manure it makes what is commonly
tiler a joke. Ire rattle. the keys and you ought to issue this story in ;voluntarily his fingers dosed over called barnyard manure, which is
coppers in his trousers poekets with Penny numbers." 'the facile, aed he gripped it, as it well adapted for most crops. When
euite a cheerful air.
, "Haim you seen about Wheal Mary
' -the Tretullack Mine?"
' 'Dreadful thing - very!"
l'It'srobbed me of seven thousand
iE ,Seesoneble and Profitable
of the Soil. .41
"lints for the Busy Tillee$
ielItiekit'es*eilisle*e.*04iiel4liesF*440*1
WINTER FElilD FOR FAIMS.
Timothy hay is not gond, for it is
not sufficiently digestible, and it does
not contain the needed nutriment,
that is, the right kind, and the
very sma.11 theme (or oplices) in the
beads of timothy are apt to gather
in the stomach, forming balls of in-
digestible and irritating matter,
which lead to trouble, writes Mr.
la Roberts, I feed clover haea
which is a perfect food for sheep,
with bright corn fodder, oats, steam
and such other feed 06 we may have
at bend for roughage,. up to about
two months of lambing time, then.
commenco feeding a light ration of
corn, oats and bran, equal peas by
weight. If the hay crop is short and
corn fodder and roughage must con-
stitute the coarse feed chain the
greater part of the winter, I would
make bran, the largest portion of
their grain ration,
Feed regularly what they will con-
sume without waste. Guard against
seed aed chair getting into their
wool, as it depredates its value 4
to 5 cents per pound. Give them a
goodasized yard, and, better, a few
hours' run in a corn field each day
when the snow le not too deep ; it
does them good. The ctxperienced
shepherd long ago learned to give
his breeding ewes during the winter
plenty of exercise, fresh air and a
variety of coarse feed and a plentiful
supply of pure water and salt, as
these are requisite for a crop of
strong, healthy lambs, while ewes
that are closely confined during the
winter have poor and weakly lambs.
es
No hoor other stock should be
allowed to run with the flock cm ht
any way annoy or frighten them.
Quiet, gentle and familiar handling
of the flock will have a good in-
fluence on the coming crop of lambs.
No class of stock is more susceptible
of kindly treathient than sheep, and
it is a pleasure as well as profitable
to handle them so.
At lambing time, especially with
early lambs, close attention is very.
necessary. Ile on hand and see that
each lamb it up on its feet at once,
a.nd partalcing of a square meal.
First clip the wool from the ewe's
udder so that the lemb does net
exhaust itself pulling on a wool
tag. in his efl'ort he may pull off
some wool and swallow it, which
frequeetly causes death. Generally
that is all thee is necessary unless
you put- them ,in a small pen by
themselves fora few days, From
now on everythi'ng should be done
to makethera chi their best.
EGG,--PRODIj'CING
The beet 'foocl making hens lay
is lean meat. When the supply of
eggs fails, stop all other foods and
feed lean meat or liver, (any cheap
meat will answer), and it will be
found superior to anything that can
be used. Green bone that contains a
large proportion of green meat is
even better, prided the fat por-
tions are removed from the bone. It
will be found cheaper than grain be-
cause it will make eggs. One rea-
son why hens sometimes fail to lay
when they have plenty of grain is
that they require a change, and
meat contains the 'material for slip -
plying the albumen_ of the 'eggs, be-
ing-, therefore, a substance that the
hens -lust have or tbey cannot per-
form service. If the hens are fat,
give one ounce of lean meat each
day, allowing no -other food foie ea
week or two. Wheat usually costs
about a ' cent- a pound, and during
some years corn in certain sections.
is nearly as high. Now, the cost of
the foods is netein ethe,kina, bat in
the respits. Ifatheat rOS.14).:' i114,
es'
holay two egga' in winter wheie
the grain promates tho,produetion
of only one, then weenie ie -cheep
axid the grain dear, because. the. in-
crease derived by. use • of ' the
meat reduces its amst really to no-
thing. If a target amount of grain
is used it will be found that by
using less of grain and more of meat
combination of the two foods in
winter will be better than the use
of either alone ; but in summer lean
meat and cut bone is the best ra-
tion that eal3 be given, leaving the
grain out entirely. No food is cost-
ly if it accomplishes the object
sought, but any kind is expensive if
it ;does not 'induce tho hens to lay,
cAnz Or MA,NURE.
Cow raanurce although the least
concentrated and most watery of all
farm manures, is the backbone of
"Lo.st night, just as the ineerm- seemed, almost convulsively in hes kept by itself without plenty of lit -
tion burst 'through the fresh black lelenched fist. ter, there is danger that the liquid
paint, I received 04 intimation that "Are you up to your infernal part of cow manure will leach away,
-
the premium. upon the lire policy was -tricks again'?" A common practice is to throw the
overdue. Immediately afterwards I "My tricks!" gaseed Mr. Mak- two kinds of mature together in the
pounds. Sea= thousand pounds receive& news that I3adger s Budd- ham. gutter behind the cows, thus absorb -
drowned by water,
tan thousand iings were on fire. This morning 1 It ee.nned that Mr, Schwabe would- ing the liquid mei once. Where many
.
pounds burned by fire, all between hear that seven thousand pounds speak but emits not. . His lites teem cows and but Tew horses are kept,
and morning of a single
the evening have been sevalloived up by the compressed es though they would leaves or other refuse must be used
sen.,, never again be parted, The arm quite freely under the cows to Se-
ome, new we are coming to somee which held the stem- above his cure manure ensile- managed, Deem&
thing tangible' at last, though I ed out in front of him. with what ant, and of good*eptality, me
don't see what 11116 has to do with seemed curious rigielity, The mus- liquid part is half tho farm fere
day."
"You don't mean that?"
"Licee't I mean it!" scowled Mr.
Hookilem. It was plain that 310
'
meant it very meek) indeed. the rest of the tale." cies begen to steed out upon his tinter.
"Seventcee thousand pounds! All "Den't.you see from Matthew's let- brow.,, Ille face Ilecame almost pur- ...._
in a single nightl Very odd -very ter that the stones brings ill -luck to pis inThue.. e He -zoomed. to struggle mem rwenaw saw IN- wxNTErt.
odd indeed!" . its posseeeor? When I had paid the for breath. He reeled like a drunic-
• "Aud itae all that mused stone!" undertaker I started out to try to It- its not a very costly investment
Mr. Ilookliam ttirust his finger in- sell it."
en man. With his clisengageei hand
he clutched at the back of a chair,
as ljlough to help him atand
"Whatie the matter, Schwale? Are
you 'going to have fit?
"You think not? I took it to With what seemed to he a eupreme
Ruby 'and Golden; .1 saw Ur, Golden; effort, Me. Sehwabe raised the hata
showed hire the stone." whi ch held the ntone elms e
"What did he say to it?" heed, unclenched his fist, cool Sung
"Xot much. It stuck to him." the chi:11110nd from him 021 t10 r OT
"It attICIC to me first of ail. h ad "My G d !" creel, end k
upon ti chair.
(To 130 Continued),
to make a brood sow comfortable,
to .his svaistcoat pocket. Withdraw- "An operatioe not attended with nor to feed her properly, writes Mr.
ieg them, he stretched his left arm much difficulty, I imagine - that is. John 11. Jamison. Corn or food of.
out at it fell length. Ho had if it had cooled off a bit." that nature is costly, because it is
spoken abnost ie. a shriek. His at- net the right kind for a brood SONV
litude was grotesquely Wild. carrying an embrie) litter., It is
"What have you got there? 17.ullo hardly the thing to winter a breocl
tbat diamond! Cooled off, eh?" eow without any corn, because it Is
"Clooled ,eff7 Ceree the thing!" ho the easiest obtained,' . grain with
Mr. Soloreabe began to think that
. which to keep up the animal heat.
Throw a mow ear corn end she will
dewier it With '0., rush and have it
•
swallowed in about' one-rourth. the
time she shouhl, Every grain 811001e1
be ground before mvallowinie, yet the
farmer does not want to griml the
corn for hie breed eows,' and it
would be very univise to feed them
41eAll' evil result follows feeding ear
corn, The grains are swallowed and
voided whole, and the sews soon
form the filthy habit of working
over their dreppings, and eating the
corn the second time. The way to
avoid this is to compel slow eating
by feeding shelled corn; scattered
ogv
raer
th. a gr,ass sward, or over the
will be forced to hunt for each
waste in the feed lot, where they
It has been my custom to keep my
brood sows in the lot where 'rough-
ness is fed the horses and cattle. 13y
seettering the .s'aelled corn over the
corn stalks, refuse clover hay, etc.,
the sows are compelled to take ex-
ercise to find the corn and as they
can find only a grain ae a Tanle theY
Masticate the grains. Kept in a lot
where the stock get clown. hay, they
get as much of it as they went, and
they make oio, complaint as La lbe
filthy conclitioe in which they fit,
it. The clover hay they eat fur-
nishes the !Protein ilecessaxy to de-
velop the bone and muscle in the
young she carries. I have sometimes
feared that they did not get enough
of this kind of food to properly de-
velop their young, and be successful
at farrowing tithe, but they have
always done well,
I have never had sows thjered by
borses or cattle wheu wintered in
same lot with them. I put a small
house in the lot, sullIciently large for
shelter, and the lots are too small
for the stock to get on a rampage
anti run over the sows. One reason
they are kept in the lot this way,
is that when they hunt their shelled
corn ration they work up all coarse
material, so that it is easily handled
as manure.
Of course they cannot carry rings
and do this, and this fact prevents
their being allowed the range of the
bluegrass pasture. It would be much
better if they could have both. The
grass they get is a great help and
health giver, and the exercise also a
great factor. This they must take in
the lot to get their feed. A healthy
brood sow is never slow to take
exercise in fair weather, unless she is
fed too much and made lazy. It is
their nature when in farrow. to lay
on fat, but this should not be made
by corn alone, but vath a large per
cent. of other foods rich in protein.
We peeve to yen that lin
SChase'n Ointment le a certain
and absolvito CAIr13 for eacti
and every form of Itching,
bleedininrand protrnding
manti!tieturetn have nitexantoed it. Bee ten;
tee (lane. press anchesk esurnete
bees wheedler think twit. Yen eaa use -It mai
es:twee. manor back if last cared, cee a hot. al
deares er EDW..% Nsareneene ec Co., Toronto
chasess 0!ratrtn Ert
SITORT CIRCUITED.
I have just been•reading the "cur-
rent" report's in ' the "Electrical'
Journal," and some of them are
"shocking," some "touching" and
some haven't a "spark" of "live"
matter in them. I don't believe half
of them, although some seem to be
well "grounded." "'Wire" you
laughing?
ALSO A KNOCKER:
First Hunter -I can Loot
crows than you. ,
Second Hunter -You always
beat me crowing.
.9.121TICTIffi
more
could
XX DUD.
AnSaistre .Xillienaire Who Is too
Lazy te Get 'Up.
An original charaeter is Deem)
Hugo Ortliet, of Russie., temillionnn
lino ()raid, •of Russia, a million-
aire who SPencis his time between his
magnificent palaces at St, l'eters-
burg and Moscow and his superb
cotietr,y seat near Hama, but al-
ways in bed.
For ten years lie has not got up
tor dressed, There has never been
anythime the esatter with him PhY-
BOED FOR LIFE
INOIDZNT or WOOD 'LIVE
ING IN A. TRAGXIDT..
Flight of Woodmen Over the /co
From a Itaveneus Back of
Intelligence Wha°s1v;:s.t pl,011 recel.veel
itt Ilull of gee of tiriise startling
tragedies sebieb. now and then direet
attention to 4 chess of men who
spend :more than Leif the nionthe of
sieally, and Oven to -day, in spiee of each year in the solitude of the pine
his bulk, his bodily condition fur- woods, Secluded in their log shan-
nishes a striking illustration of the ties from early in September, with,
•fallacy of the assertion that rcaseh as a rule, no connection with tho
'exercise is indispensable to the pre- civilized world until tho frost per -
servation of heelth, But, somewhere mite teamsters to brieg their hor-
about 1892, after having eelmusted ses along the bush roads and over
every conceiveble form of pitastire the lakes, these mon are glad to
and excitement, he took to his bed seiee every. eopertusety ser 8. eeeoget
front sheer ennui, ilnict has remained When the lakes were covered with
there ever since. a clear sheeting of ice recently two
1 Ile doeS not oven Jaye it when he young fellows employed on the Shore
trawls, his bed being carried from of Deer Lake secured two' priers of
his roorns to a specially construrted skates which chanced to be in the
carriage and thence to his pri.rate place and set out at night to visit
railway saloont and he always tray- another bend of men a' at nine mi'es •
els by special train. He is quite an
average man in all other respects,
manages his immense property with
the greatest sagacity and shrewd-
ecss, an,c1 is brillient and witty in
conversation. Indeed, the Only Pe-
culiarity in his otherwise estimable
character is his aversion to the ex-
ertion Of getting• up. "Why should
I take the trouble?" he asks, "What
, is there to get up for? Surely there
is nothing fdia inc to CIO that I can-
not aecomplish just as well in bed?"
RULERS AND THEIR DOUBLES.
Beggar in Whitechapel Resembles
Rang Edward.
By,argunient Of an ancient proverb
there are always on this earth at
the SaMe time two human beings
who resemble each, other in all re-
spects, and a European oecultist
points out that this is certainly
true in the case of raters,
• An old beggar who lives in White-
chapel bears, according to him, a
startling resemblance to King Ed-
ward of England -so startling, in-
deed, that if the beggar were dressed
in royal raiment he could not be
distinguished from the real king.
The Czar and the Prince of Wales
are wonderfully like each other.
M. Bertolani, a photographer of
Salerno, was the double of the late
King Humbert of Italy.
Herr Adolph Hirschfeld, the double
of Enaperor Williani of Germany, is.
by no means proud of his resem-
blance, end feels very uncomfortable
when anyone mistakes him for the
Kaiser, for he fears that the latter
well frown on him sooner or later
and will request him to leave Ger-
'many.
311. Bernicle, wealthy
of Lyons, is the Wring
King Oseex of SWeden,
gentleman
image of
,
WHY HE WONDERED.
In a certain community a, lawyer
died who was a most popular and
worthy maxi, and among other vir-
tues inscribed upon his toneb was
this: "A lawyer, 'and an honest
man." .
Some years afterwards a farmers'
convention was held in the town,
and one of the delegates, of a senti-
mental turn, in ramblieg among the.
tombs, was struck with the inscrip-
tion: "A lawyer, and an honest
man."
He was lost thought, and when
run upon by a fellow -farmer, who,
noticing his abstraction, asked if
he had found the grave; of a dear
friend or relative, said:
"No; but I was ' wondering why
they caxim to bury, these two foie
low's inithe same grave."
NATURAL COLORED
1/ethent experinterite in France have
shown that the yellow and green
colors possessed by the siIk spun.. by
-certain caterpillars -are eine to color-
ing matter derived -from the food,
end Classed throtegh. the, beecielhol the
spiliners, iinpregnating leaves
with artificial colors the experiment-
ers caused some spaies of caterpil-
lars to produce silk of bright orange
yellow and fine rose hues. By the
aid of the spectroscope the presence
and nature of colored pigments in
the blood of tho little animals was
established.
1,1t: MICI.X.:101301
his inisforeitene had alTectec lie it in the palm of my hand like
frIOSISIS braere Mr. tiookliem atoced (Mr: Ii-ookliain stretched out
asy t
Let
Oath It Dotrolopo Into. Priourenrga or Consun1ptim•-•4sy to Curo
et Colic! it You 1183
DR. CHASE'S SYRUP OF LINSEED AND TETPENTIKE.
It is easy 'to let s cold run on.,
You may say with others that you
always let a cold take care of it-
self. There is a danger of following,
this plan once too often. At this
season of the year the lungs seexri to
bo unifetially susceptible to disease,
and before you suspect it pneumonia
or consumption has seated itself in
your sysiem. It is possible you
have tried the cough mixtures which
druggists offer to their customers.
These may do well enough for- slight
colds, Warding th the throat, but
they ere powerlea in the presence of
serious diaease,
Dr, Chaseie Syrup of Linseed and
Tarpeneine te fax more than a, cough
remedy, 11. cures the cold as well
ees loosening and easing the cough.
It takes the pains Out of the belies,
and reaches the very seat of disease
when there is pain end tightuehe in
tho chat. It would not be tete much
to say that Dr, Chase's Syrup of
iiiaseed and lurpentine has saved
thotelands ot people from pneumonia
"and censtunpeion. Teem is not ' a
village or hamlet in Canada where
this famous family treatment is not
recognized as a most unusually ef-
fective cure for croup, bronchitis,
asthma, coughs and colds.
Mr, Donald Graham, 45 Callender
street, Toronto, states :-"My boy,
who is six years of age, was de-
velopieg all the serruptoxim of pneu-
monia when we commenced giving
him Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed
and Turpentiee. W1 very quickly
checked the advance of disease, and
in a few days he was as well as
ever, and is new going te school
regularly, I have now ,great faith in
this valuable remedy, and Shall re-
commend it to my friends."
DonSt take anything said to be
"just as good." There is no throat
and lung medicine just as good fte
1)r. Chase's Syrup of lammed and
Turpentine. Remember tine when
buying, and vesist on having Dr.
Ohast'e ; 25 cents a bottle, All
dealers, or Zdnianson, Pates Co.,
Toronto.
away. With the exception ol a little
portage of about half a mil5 between
two hikes, the whole journey was by
ice and WELS no very formidable un-
dertaking to the twosturdy log
makers.
As they were hobbling over the
Portage on their skates, they wero
startled by the sudden treakirg
across their path of a red deer fol-
lowed by three or icier wolves, who
were close upon the heels of tear
preu. Being without neive wea-
pons of eny kind, they realleed their
dent-er if anoteer pack of evolve.%
should. as is often the case, follow
after the beasts they had ecen para
and they made all speed to the lake .
before, them.
Just as they were breaking throrgh
the thin Inc et the lake side, they
heard a whinieg behind thole and
then
THE LOW HOWL
wench Wild them that their traok bad
been discovereel and that they would;
certainly be followed, But by the
time the wolves reached the water-
side, where they caught, their first
sight of the me11 they wore tracking,
the two shantymen lsad reached the
firm ice and were skating in earnest.
Fortunately for them there were a
few hundred yards of thin ice to be
crossed, which almost,' but not galte
hold up the wolves, a,nd its sharp
edges wounded and hindered them
greatly. Otherwise 'they would have
caught up with the men, and prob-
ably have overpowered them 'before -
they had gone half a nine.
As it was they had almost over-
taken them before they had covered,
the first half of their four -mile race.
Neither of the men was a hunter
and this was their first experience
with wolves. But by mutual ;agree-
ment -they adopted the very best tac-
tics possible; and when their pure
Biters came too near to them, 'wheel,*
ed sharply to. one side.. As the.
emooeh ice afforded no grip to 'their
claws, the wolves could not -turn or
stop suddenly, • but generally-, &hat.
forward and made several el:ambles,
and sometimes somersaults bef Ora
getting en to the free& track.„
In this manner the skaters avoided
the brutes for some time, and would
probably have reached their destinse•
tion but for an unfortunate angel, -
tion of the younger man, that they
would be more likely to tire out the
wolves if they separated. In record -
fence with this plan they wheeled in
different directions at the end of an
island they were approaching.
As the elder rnan reached thsother
end of this .wooded ishuiel he saw be-
fore him the sparks whites, issued;
from the huge chimney -of the shanty
he was searching for. Putting on
all of his remaining strength he
spurted on to where the coolee path
led from theshanty to the. .water
hole,- There the two big gray thn-
ber wolves which had electedlo fol-
lowhim, turned tail and 'with a
parting yelp
. TURNED. I/4 ','HEIR' TRAM'S:
By some curiousdecident the poor,
fellow ptumbled as he Was approach-
ing the low door of the slianty'Sand
fell, breaking his right leg.just below
the kbee.• ...Tim pain and theiprevi-
ous'exertion Were too iauch for 'hie,
overstrainecanerves, and it was up -
wand of an hair before the - shanty -
men could recover hin from the
swoon into which he fed as he was
carried inside.
When consciousness returned his,
first question was for his companion
whom, he had last seen as he skat-
ed around the little island in the4"
lake. As soon as the men could be
made to understand the situation, a
dcieen of them started out to
what had befallen the other tra
Within 200 yards of their win.
home they found the blood -stein
spot where the unfortunate young
fellow had b.e•en attacked in. front by
the two brutes which had chased his
friend, in the lightly .falling snow
could be read the whole story of his
destruction.. His boots and skate5.
and a, few' fragmenta of clothing were
all the tangible signs of the tragedy -
lett by the wolves.
Happily for the injured man, a
shanty missionary • on his rounea
reached the islanci where he ley thee
some night, and beirg 0, medical man
also wee able to set his leg with
some degree of satisfaction, Strange-
ly enough, aix it happened, the clergy-
man had taken with hini, as his driv-
er fet the trip, an enelo of the man
devoured on the ico, who was great-
ly attached to his nephew and was.
conveying to hiM gabstantial token
Of his regard in hard °rob as a .
Christincts present.
"Is the Turkish Civil Servied sys-
tent like ours'?" asked a traveler 113.
the eas1 of it pasha. "Aro there to.
tiring allowenees end pensions,. for
instance?" "My illustii otm friend
.ancl itey or my ilfe," replied the
pasha, 'Allah Is great; end Lite nue
-
lid hinctionaty who. stande ie need ,
Of a rearing all owar hen 11
term 'cif. once , exPires issee 'newt 1
have epokeit."