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AN UNSOUGHT WEALTH,
The Mystery of a rother's Legacy.
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CH.A.PTER XIII.
"Feecuse me for interrupting you—
but that is a inistake."
what X have beare from you already,
I am prepared or anything. Wile:
deem% somebody arrest that man?'
But ildr. Fairlight F. tuck to ids
He — the speaker — was „Standing
by the witness box, a little to the krcuit'
"Mr. Mansell, that gentleman is
rear of the witness. Ho was lean-
ing forward, arid his face-;fae :turned. Mr. l'erey Leicester." • '
And who le Mr. Percy Leicester?"
upward, so that he looked et Mr. "Mr. Percy Leicester is the gtmtle-•
Skene, man whom my clierit, Mr. Hookham,
"'Excuse me for interrupting you
„ is charged with having, murdered."
•---but that is a mistake.
When those words were spoken,the „ e"kee are r you joking, Mr. ari
e
withess, with a:start which NV aS "g" '
quite perceptibleturned round to -1„‘„vas "ever More 111.earnest in
"
look at the speaker. And when he 107 le'"
Colonel Dewsnap
saw who it was, though there was addressed the
absolutely nothing strange about the ivagttrite.
Fie,
outward guise of the man, to use an "I, am Colonel Dewsnap, of
the Illusears. That gentleman staud-
extremely vulgar phrase, he "tum-
bled all of a heap." He gave a sort in' there is my friemi Pere' Leieese
who was with me yesterday at
of a gasp, and clung, with both his ler'
S'
banthe phinx's Cave,and whom Mr.
ds, to the rail in front of him the
though he were clinging for nieookhaaui now stands eharged with
lid. There with what seemed a su- having murdered,"
prone effort, he relinquislied his hold The magistrate threw himself back
of the rail in front of him, and into his seat with a groan. Meta -
turned — it was neeessariey meta -
turned to flee, as from the wrath to
come. But the speaker, whose brief phorically — he tore his hair.
utterance had caused this sudden col-
lapse. caught him by the arm and
staved hira,
-Is this — is this some wild
dream! What does it ineon? Is it
apolice rase? Or a farce? Super -
"You need not be atreid." intenderit Bray, perhaps you can
gue seem) seemed to think he give me some information?"
need. But, however great his fear "I can only state, your worship,
night be, it was /Oath that he would ' that this gentleman is a stranger to
not pereevere in his attempted flight me --
'while that grasp was on his arm. "But he isn't a stranger to mei"
Nor was the effect produced by the A. newcomer thrust himself fere
few words, and those such simple ward into the body of the court. He
ones, which the speaker had spoken. was a Short, thick set male whe all -
confined to Mr, Skene, The prison- „peaxed to be in a state of consider-•
ers in the dock were staying as 'able perturbation, and who was clad
though they could not believe their in some sort of official garb.
eyes. Mr. Hookham had thrust his "Arid who, sir, are
hotly half over the rail in his amazes "I'm the keeper of the mortuary.
ment. Madame Nurveteeky had This here gentleman was brought in
risen from her seat, and almost lay dead yesterday afternoon, and this
on Mr. Hookho,m's back. Her hus- neeeing he mule to life again."
bend was awake at last. His enor- "Came to hie again! What—what
mous eyes were open to their -widest do you mean?"
extent — he seemed to be all mus- "What I say. I was a -getting
tache and eyes, Colonel Dewsnap, ready for the post-morteni, When the
with his whole length extendies corpse — that's this here gentleman
right over the table, was staring as —sat up, and took a squint at me."
he had never stared in his life be- I "But, goo'd gracious! man, weren't
fore. Willy Penton lockcd as yoU amazed.
though he were meditating the oper-1 The kee.per of the mortuaia-
ation of jumping ant of his skin —•scratched his head.
he had got his "five bobs' worth" at
last. While Mr. Fairlight had done:
what he never remembered to have
done before — in his astonishment he
had let his eyeglass tumble out of
his eye.
"Who are you, sir?"
"I am Percy Leicester?"
"Eh?"
"I am the mao who was killed!"
The — it is really distressing to
observe how expressive these vulgar
phrases are — then, the magistrate
—"sat up." It- is surprisin•g to be
told by a person that he is the man
who was killed, because we 'do not,
"Amaeedi I should think I was!
Amazed ain't, in it."
"But what happened next?"
"Well, the corpse — that's this
here gentleman — he says to me,
'What's up?' "
" 'Well,' I says, it seems 'that
you're op for one, and that's more
than you can say for most of 'cm
what comes in here. And,' 1 says.
'it's lucky you is lap, considerire
they're just going yo hold the post-
mortem, arid the jury's coming along
to sit upon the body; it don't seern
to me, from the look of it, as
though there's going to be much sit-
in the orelinexy course of things, ex- ting upon you. And there's anoth-
pot that such an individual will im- er thing what's up,' I says; 'they're
part the information. But when a -trying of a chap for being the
such an item of news, proceeding death of you.; 'What!' he says.
from so enusual a source, came as 'Yes,' I says, his name's 'Oolcharn,
a climax to Mr. Mansell's varied ex- and they'll 'ook him if something
periences of his morning's sitting, it ain't done soon.' Call a cab!' he
Is not at all derogatory to his fame says. So I called a cab and came
as a magistrate to confess that the along of him; ,and what that there
old gentleman almost "went off his jury say, -when. they come to sit
head." • -upon the body and find me missing,
"Who do you say you are?" he
cried in a sort of strangled scream..
"I am the man who was killed!"
and the corpse as well, is more than
I quite care to think."
"Well," said the magistrate, "1
"Oh, you're the man who was never heard anything more amazing
killed! Well!" Then the magistrate in my life. I suppose there is no
brought down both his fists on the doubt that this is Mr. Leicester?"
desk with a bang. "If there's any . .
other person present who wishes to
make a similar observation, 1 hope
that he'll address the court at
once."
g a s ere .
"No doubt in the world. Mr. Lei-
cester and I have been friends for
years. Mr. Leicester, allow me to
be the first to shake your hand."
The irate magistrate leaned for- Mr. Fairlight was the first to
ward on his desk and thundered at shake Mr. Leicester's hand — that
the stranger— is, supposing no one had s,halcen it
"How dare you, sir, trifle with before. Mr. Mansell followed—on
this court?" the same side.
"It is far from my intention to "Mr. Leicester, I congratulate you
trifle with this court. At the same on your presence here, and on your
-Rine I am the man who was killed!" strange, and still to be explained,
"Good — good heavens! Arrest restoration to life. Are you aware
that man, some one! Six months' that you have figured here as the
hard labor!" murdered man in a case of murder?"
"One moment, Mr. Mansell. What Mr. Leicester turned towards Mr.
this gentleman says is true — he is
the man who was killed!"
"I am not surprised, Mr. Fair -
light, to hear you say so. After Hookhain used to me any sort of
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violence, or touclied um with
hands, that person has
"Do 1 understand you to say, Mr.
Leiceeter, that -7- eh — Mr.
LLook-
bau never touched you?"
"That is so, lie never touched
1/10, never mice."
— hero the magistrate
glanced at Mr, Skene — "what f;•S
this man been saying?"
Mr. Pairlight spoke.
"I am not euro that I ought not
at onee to apply for a warrant for
perjury."
"Do eon apply? 1 shall certainly
grant, it 11 you do."
"I ought eret to confer with my
client."
Mr „ iTOOkIIOnI interposed.
"Let tte man go," be said.
"Mr. llooltham," cried the magis-
trate, "you are doing what not one
man in your position i11 a thousand
would do; and though you. action is
worthy of admiration, I am not sure
that I ought to allow you to so
lightly eeeuse this ritari's offence. A.
grosser ease of perjury, arid' that
from a man who calls himsell
minister of the gospel, I never yet
encountered ."
Mr. Selene endeavored to obtain .4
Ibe's'eerliiii-g, protest--" •
I "You protest! How dare you Pro-
test! 1 have listened to too many
of your protestations already. You
have deliberately endeavored to
swear atvay 0 fellow ereature's life,
and were it not for what amounts
almost to a miracle you might have
his blood upon your soul. When
next Sunday you stand in a pulpit,
if you eo stand in a pulpit — and if
had my way you should never
stand in a pulpit again — make con-
fession of your sin in the face oh
your cie: se tabled congregation, Then,
and not till then, dare to ask an
honest than to excuse you. Put
that person out of court."
A constable put his hand on Mr.
Skene's ehogider, and "put" him
out of court.
It woeld appear advisable under
what I uriderstand to be the existing
state of affairs that I should offer
some mall:nation or my presence
here. 1 ain prepared, with yowl per-
miesion, to make a statement now."
Mr. Mansell Fettled his spectacles
upon his eose.
"Eh -- I'm hound to say — eb —
that emu° ex. lineation world be ad-
visable. In fact, Mr. Leicester, I
shall be glad to listen to any state-
ment you may wish to make."
Mr. Leiceeter slightly bowed. He
entered the witness box. He began
his ta7e.
"1 shoeld observe, as a prelimin-
ary, and as some justification of the
course of action which the police
have taken, that I was killed."
The magistrate gave7a slight start.
"Eh — what is that you say?"
"I was killed."
Again the magietrate settled his
spectach s ueon Lis nose.
-Well, I have seen and heard some
remarkable things in the course of
my lee, and I have lived to a ripe
old age,' but it would seem that the
most remarkable have been reserved
for the CA ening of my days. Did I
lunde-stand you to say that yon
were ki "
"That is so."
"013, w 411 C
"To make my explanation quite
;plain it is necessary that I should
go back a little."
"Oh, well, if you're going to make
your explanation quite plain you
can go back as far as you like."
"When I was stationed at Simla
there were stories current among the
natives concerningdi "1
diamond to which were attributed
supernatural powers. Such stories
are not uncommon in India, and in
this, as in other cases, it was dif-
ficult to pin the narrators down to
axiy givon facts. Although their
faith was genuine, their grounds for
that faith were vague. But certain
details I did arrive at. The dia-
mond, weigh was one of great value,
was being continually passed from
hand to hand, always as a gift. Men
welcomed it with erliegen, then pass-
ed it from them in despair. It al-
ways brought to the posses-
sor. It could not be sold. It must
be gie en away. If it were not giv-
en quickly it brought ruin, even
death, ueon its owner. There were
stranger things told about the dia-
mond than this, such as that an at-
tendant devil went always with the
diamond; but these ever° wild and
visionary, and were scarcely to be
focussed ieto concrete statements. I
left no means untried to get a sight
of the diamond; but never saw it
once."
Again the magistrate gave an im-
patient twitch to the spectacles up-
on his nose.
"No, 1 can quite believe you never
did."
"But I carried the stories with me
in my mind. When I saw that M.
and Madame Murvetchky were about
.to introduce at the Sphinx's Cave
what tkey called the Devil's Dia-
mond, those stories recurred to me
at once. : Nor had the introduction
proceeded far when I began to be-
lieve that I hat lighted on the stone
at last."
"What, the stone you had heard
the tales about in India?"
"The same. I have devoted a
great 'deal of my time to what I
may call the science of conjuring, I
do not speak lightly when I say that
I do not believe there iS a conjurer
living who could deceive me by the
exercise of his art. It was not long
before I saw that what was taking
pace on „the stage at the Spinet's
Cave did not come within the 'do-
main of what are known as conjur-
ing tricks."
"What were they then?"
"In the first place, I believed what
M. Nurvetchky ard, that neither he,
nor his wife, nor Mr. Hookhare,
could offer an explanation of *hat
we saw. In the second I thought it
poSsible that it might have a super-
natural origin.,"
"A supernatural origin? The tom -
fool tricks we've heard. ehestft?"
"I do not knew what, you have
heard about. I thought that what
I saw upon the stage at the Splines
Cave probably bad a supernatural
origin."
"But 1 understood- Mr. 10 alidight
to say that yen went -upon -the stage
ide
bemuse you believed that the whole
thing 'Yes an imposture."
,Mr. rairlighe interpeeed.
said nothing of the kind. What
I did. say was all the other Way.
The impression in my °ern mind was
that Mr, Leieester went on to the
Stage beeause he believed."
l‘tr. Mansell leaned back in his seat
with a gasp; the proceedings Wore
becoming — indeed, they had be-
come from the first — too much for
him, Mr. Leicester went on iu his
quiet, equable, well-bred tones, as
though he were ilealieg with the
most Ordinary banal t QS.
"I have for years been aware that
there are exigences ;newt from our
own, that there are forces, under or -
&nary circumstances, not visible to
the naked. eye. Charlatans, with an
eye to plunder, pretend to be in com-
munication with these powers —pow-
ers for which men have not yet sug-
gested 4 sufficient name. Whexi
saw that diamond it was not long
before 1 perceived that an opportun-
ity had presented itself for me to
place myself in communication with
one, at least, of those powers — in
that communication to which charia.-
tams only pretend. It was with the
intention of doing so that I went
upon the stage,"
"Oh, that was the intention with
which you went upon the stage? 1
see. To place yourself in corrammi-
cation with — eh — something,
don't quite uriderstand what — but
no matter. Did you succeed?"
"1 did, almost too well. I will
not go into details of What I did,
you have probably already heard suf-
ficient upon that point from other
sources. As 1 proceeded with/ my
experiments, I became aware that
the eomething with which I was in
communication was distinctly hos-
tile. 1 oven felt that if I persisted
the result might be a tragedy. But
ley love for inquiry must, I fancy,
be greater than my love for life. I
continued. At a certain point the
something with which I was in corn-
munieation materialized. In the
confusion, and owing too, ;n some
measure, to the sudden strain upon
my nerves, my faculties of observe:
tion were blunted. But it seemed
to me that it assumed, in its ma-
terialized state, the form of an ape,
an ape which, so far as my experi-
ence goes, was of unusual size. I
was conscious that it 010de an un-
pleasant noise. It seemed enraged.
With one hand it caught me by the
throat, it pressed its mouth to
Inite, It sucke'd — 1 was disgust-
ingly conseious of the act of suc-
tion — and choked the life right out
of me. 1 was dead.
Mr. Leicester paused. Anti, so to
speak, the people in the court paus-
ed too.
"And in my state of 'death 7 the
thing went with me!. I saw it, in
infinite space, in the figure a aa
ape. 1 saw the ditianond too. The
ape -sat on the diamond. And I
saw that what it seemed the dia-
mond did was really done by the
ape. 1 followed it to the station. I
saw it perform the tricks which
startled the inspeetOr. I followed it
to the cell. I saw the ape assume
the vim of a young man, I saw it
stand by Mr. Pairlight's side, and 1
heard it say, as plainly as you hear
me now—and it laid its hand on Mr.
Fairlight's shoulder — 'There are
more things in Maven and earth
than are dreamt of in man's philoso-
phy.' "
Mr. Leicester paused again. Mr.
Fairlight looked at Mr. Etookham,
and an odd glance was exchanged be-
tween them.
"I followed it to this court, I eaw
it seated upon the stone on. the
magistrate's desk, exulting in the
tricks it played. On a, sudden it
left the stone and came to me and
kissed me on the ruouth, and I was
no longer 'dead, I Was alive. I found
that I was in the dead -house, and
that the keeper of the dead was
standing by my side."
Mr. Leicester ceased, and silence
folloWed — silence which was broken
by the magistrate.
"Well, I—I think we'd 'better ad-
journ — until to -morrow."
Mr. Mansell said this like a man in
a dream, as though he' himself were
not aware of what it was that he
said. While the old gentleman con-
tinued to gape and .to stare, Mr.
Leicester spoke again.
"What I have said seems 'strange."
The magistrate opened his eyes, if
possible, still wider than before.
"Seems strange!" he said.
"But that is only owing to our
imperfect knowledge. What we do
not know we wonder at. Ignorance
°sitcoms all things strange. It is
even an attribute of some natures to
be fearful of what is wonderful and
strange. But'because we know that
some unnamed thing, with- undefined
powers, sits, in the form of an Ape,
on the diamond, which, sir, is now
upon your desk-----"
The magistrate awoke with a
start. With a "degree of agility
which was remarkable in one so
aged, he pot as much space as the
exigencies of his position would ad-
mit between himself- and the 'dia-
mond, which glittered in its -t,ran-
quil beauty on his 'dell.
"The—the case is dismissed. In
fact, there's no case todismiss;
there'e-e-there's been a misapprehen-
sion from the first. Offfcer, remove
that — that diamond."
Mr. Mansell pointed to tbe stone
with a finger which actually trerei-
bled. Mr. Hookham's harsh tones
were heard.
"Am 1 free 'to go?"
"Free? Free? Good gracious, yes!
There's — there's no case at all."
"Then 1 suppose I may have my
diamond?"
"Tale it, my good sir'I 'do beg
you'll take it. There — there are
some remarks I—ehe-wish to Make
upon—eh—this curious case, but I'll
eoStporie thein till to -morrow."
The magistrate not only postponed
his remarkseantil to -morrow, but he
dieuppeared himself, through the
door whith led into his private
room, in a way which might appro-
priately, if irreverently, be described
as "belting."
(To Be Continued).
There are ten Jewish monibers of
Britieh Parliament
40R FARMERS
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1,0*******4)XeeNE•edit'oe4Ree*Is*.e45
CLEANLINESS IN THE DAIRY,
A dairy expert recently said that
foul, filthy and unsanitary Cow
stables were the bane of good deildr-
ing: The cleanest anct nicest people
in the houses are often the most
filthy in the cow barn and in the
milking the 8111011 of manure reeking
in the barn, and the milk absorbs
this flavor as fast as milked, The
milkman with dirty clothga aud
dirty hands never washes the mud
and manure frool the cow's teats.
Such contamiaated milk cannot
make good butter or even be good
to drink. It is simply thoughtless
indifference, who do not know any
different. They have, never learned
dairying ; never read a dairy impel;
although $5 in :dairy papers would
make them $100 or more. Ignorant
prejudice keeps them teem adopting
the improved dairy breeds, the im-
proved dairy methods and appli-
ances. Dr. A. S. Keath writes :
It is one of the most difficult of
all the esseutial necessities of the
dairy management to secure cleanly
condition of the cow .stables.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred
cow stables visited cannot be called
clean and sweet. The offensive
odors of the cow stable Contaminate
the breath, the blood, the excretions
and secretions, and thus all of the
animal tissues and products.
The free circulation of pure air
through cow stables is a marvellous
purifier and deodorizer of the stable
atmosphere.
THE OFFENSIVE ODORS
of the cow stable -shut in at night
and inhaled, and heated up to blood
heat thus increasing the intensity
and permeability of the offensive
odors by ethereal expansion, causing
increased 'penetration. This con-
taminates the food and fodder
throughout the barn, the coat of the
animals, the building, and the
drinking water when supplied in the
stable.
'Under such unsanitary conditions
it is absolutely impossible to •obtain
pure products. The milk has an
offensive odor, and an abnormal
taste ; the butter is off color and
flavor ; the cheese is far froni the
condition delineated by a French
expert, who described perfect cheese
taste
"It
the following exquisite
"It surpasses in delicacy every-
thing that the ingenuity of the
cheese manufacturer has been able
to invent to flatter the most fasti-
dious pafate." Pure, perfect pro-
ducts may be similarly praised
when produced under perfect sani-
tary conditions.
Nauseous animal odors of dairy
products become destructive to their
sale, and an incubus upon the dairy
industry.
If these unfavorable conditions
occur when cows are shut in during
the night in the soul air of filthy
stables, what must be the con-
dition of these products when the
cows are shut in not only all night,
but also nearly all day ? Every
dairy animal to maintain good
health—and no pure product can be
obtained from sickly cows—must
have at least eight hours' daily
exercise in the open air, together
With good and ample food and pure
water, a comfort and in quiet. Com,
fort to the dairy cow -means quality
and quantity of product.
.f.,eci$Onable and Prefitable '71;
iiints for the fleey
of the Soil.
HOG NOTES.
Do not feed young pigs sour
swill.
A good brood sow should be kept
as long as she is a good mother.
Using a pure bred boar on common
sows usually gives satisfactory re-
turns.
It will not do to condemn a sow
to the. feed lot because slow and
sluggish.
The condition of the sow has more
to do with the care of -the litter
than her size.
To injudicious feeding may be
credited a large amount of the
fatality among hogs.
Never disturb a brood sow while
she is farrowing unless absolutely
necessary.
It is not safe to assume that a
sow will never farrow a large litter
because her first one was a small
one.
If the vitality of the hogs is to
be maintained it is important that
there be an infusion of new blood
from time to time.
When hogs have access to salt all
of the time there is no danger of
their eating so much as to injure
them.
It does not follow because a hun-
gry pig will gulp down almost any
kind of slop that it is good for
him.
No work of the farm should come
in with more clock work regularly
than the feeding and caring for of
the pigs.
Stock that shows thrift and
health always has the advantage of
stock, that is running down when
ofTered for sale.
The man who feeds flush when feed
is plenty, and scant when feed is
scarce courts' failure. Feed well all
the :UM°.
r 111 11 as TA:arregg67,17.1g Tett Ill
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blesdingread protrediefe piles,
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SPRAY ALL TREES.
Even the trees which hear no frith
should be Sprayed 'as thoroughly o.nd
carefully as if they were loaded With
Mrs. John %Wok elgved of
&Jima= By Munyon's
Elhorormatism Cum.
A
Wanderrui Case and
Remarkable Discovery.
"If my remedies will not do what
X claim for them, their sale should be
pzoleibited by law,”—MUNYON.
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it, both against insects and fungous
diseases. Herein lies the secret of
much success. If it is but one or
two rows or single trees in an
orchard they may retain the power
to reinfect the ;trees which have been
sprayed so as to partially destroy
the effect of the spraying, but there
is a still more important season.
The fruit bads of next year are
really :formed at midsummer or early
autumn of this year; They cannot
be formed and developed unless the
condition of the tree is such that it
can make a healthy and vigorous
foliage. If the leaves are destroyed
at any time ftom July to October
either by insects eating them. or
disease killing them, or by a lack of
fertility: or moisture in the soil, a
cheek is put to the formation and
growth of wood, leaf buds, or fruit
buds. Thus we7say, spray this year,
for a bountiful crop next year, and
spray next year to protect the drop,
and keep the tree in condition to
form more fruit buds. With this
precaution, and With a proper thin-
ning of the fruit when it has set.,
we may hope for a crop every year
after a few years, and that the fruit
will be larger and finer than ever
before. I3ut with all this the trees
must be fed to keep up production.
Nature may seem to give something
for nothing a few times out of her
great storehouse, but it is not inex-
haustible.
BALANCED RATIONS.
Those who are considered author-
ities on stock feeding repudiate feed-
ing by rule. The feeder must give
personal attention to the feeding
3nanger and the animal feeding from
it, and should also keep an eye out
for the profit side of their feeding.
The balanced ration, important as it
is, loses its value when it costs more
than it returns. The feeder who se-
CUrCS inarked success frone his work
has a keeo eye to note the result
from his feeding, and takes those
results as a guide to his rations. De.
Jordan well says that "it is doubt-
less true that feeding standards
have ,promoted progress in the feed-
ing of animals, but on the other
hand we have suffered more or less
from unwise standards, and have at
tinies held exaggerated estimates of
the economic importance of the nu-
tritive ration." Thus here, as in
every other farm operation, the man
in charge is called upon to exercise
intelligent attention to the charge
in heed.
MOST COSTLY WARSHIP.
The King Edward VII. will be the
most costly warship that has ever
been constructed.. The original es-
timates were for $7,500,000; and,
although they have been cut down,
it is authoritatively stated by prom-
inent officials at Devonport Dock-
yard that the total expenditure will
amount to well over $7,000,000,
This outlay on a fabric which a well -
directed torpedo might annihilate
makes one realize how costly the
game of modern naval war would
prove..
4
STEEL AND SEA WATER.
When steel is exposed, to the action
of sea water and the weather it is
said to corrode • at the rate a an
inch in eighty-two years; an ihch
of iron under the same conditions
correde8 in 190 years. When eXpoS-
ed to fresh water and the weather
the periods are 170 years for steel
and 680 years for iron,
• "Do you think Josh's inventions
will work?" asked We. Cornthesel.
"I hope so," anewered her husband:"
"/ know, Mighty, wen ;that Josh
Won'W •
ORLD'S GREATEST 'OITL,
Taz Likawr .x.v.ANSV OR OLD'
LONDON,
15.
Cengeries of —Cities, Towns and•
V•311a0g.sStra—eteTsitii.
ees01 Its
lii
London. Is nOt built upon seven
bills, yet it is divided into farmore'
than peen quarters by partitions
firielss,teerays a writer ie. the London
Mail, It.tuldis itiiirgif.eoartmid:rbelaodthaor;
London that has imparted to the
metropolis of the world this peculiar
character. I Immo written character
when 'the word should have been
written in the plural. For London
has characteristice ,and no one char-
acter; and yet in the eyes of the
alien world a Londoner is a Lon-
doner, with the hallmarks of his
mighty city uPon him. But here
again is an anonialy. London if;
not a city so much as a congeries of
cities, a welter of separate and im-
pinging towns, a concentration of
vilittfv°sY
Neork, Paris, 'Berlin, Vienna,
d'hicage — take all the great -cities
of the world, and you will not find
in any of thein either the propor-
tionate area, cosmopolitansim, dif-
ferences of (strange to say) the
,homogeneity of London. Scattered
over an area of nearly 400 square
miles, with a population diverse in
creeds, race, and even in color, het-
erogeneous to the point of surprise
to Silos° who know hor well, London
yet retains her breadth, her unity,
her constaritaneity as no other town
or city in Occidental civilization.
There are no environing hills, as
by the Tiber, to look down upon
London, an eternal city in as heroie
sense as is applicable to Rome;
instead, there is the brave, engird -
ling ring of suburbs, ever restless,
ever advancing, marching as an
army upon the defenceless country.
The villages are to -day in the green
fields, to -morrow gone, absorbed in-
to the gullet of the town. Thence-
forward they stretch out their small
tentacles to join in the great game
of which they have been the victim,
and themselves absorb, suck in and
grow from point to point. Do you
see yonder red file of brick streote?
It has spread out an oed world batn-
let, quiet as a tomb, through Many
centuries. The hamlet- lies buried
somewhere in the brown of brick and
slate, but the red regiment, having
learned its lesson of progress, is sur-
mounting the hill, and the old oaks
roan and go 'down, one by one, in
the meadows.
13IRDSEYE VIEW.
Five 'miles or a little more away
rolls the central sea. Here axe the
quiet waves of the seashore, making
at times such noise as the ebb and
flow of the ocean upon a sandy
beach. From the hill, an eyrie to
the silent observer, one can look
down and contrast London with not
London. From this situation there
are only the two alternatives.
The 'difference between the various
parts and quarters of the town are
infinitely less than between Loudon
and what is not yet London, but
will seine day, as inevitable as 'death
or the tax collector, be gathered in-
to the all -hospitable bosom. Ten
minutes hack I was in lanes so nar-
row that two vehicles could not pass
abreast, so rural that the black-
berry badges rose high and blocked
the view, so sinuous and twisted
that not twenty yards were secure
and plain before one, and so strange
that one might wander for hours
questioning for a way out. There
was the country — here is London
at my feet. The hill is very quiet
in the sunshine. Above, a farm,
red -roofed, stately in the Georgian
style, but homely, too, and drawing
one with friendly eyes, stands amid
the sumptuous appointments of its
stable. And from the swards =nee
-the reek of hay, new cut, fragrant as
attar, and cool in its fading sheaves.
Behind inc a man cleaves the grass
with a sickle — five miles from the
roaring seal In the front the slopes
go down, rich in timber and blow-
ing shadows; and about the base of
my hill beat the bricks and mortar
of the town.
The eye catches the topinost towers
of the great city merged in smoke
and mist this summer afternoon. It
is not itself a city of flat wastes,
but here and there are broken and
irregular heights which you would
never have suspeeted.
MUCH TO LEARN,
There is no one so rash or so un -
veracious as to 'boast that he has
nothing to learn of London. The
central parts, haunted as they are
by the feet of shoppers, theatregoers
and sightseers, may very well be fa-
miliar to many of us. The City, the
Strand, Fleet street, Piccadil-
Regentstreet,
street — the whole of tha°J1` olred_
. •
gion indeed, which is bounded
On the one hand by the bank, on the
other by Kensington, and reaches
from the river on the south to say,
Marylebone roa'cl on the north—all
that important, bustling fragment of
the town, some of us may know as
intimately as our own houses.
There are some people who can see
nothing touching in a wide expanse
of landscape as seen from a Pisgah
afar off.. Yet, looking on rightly,
the scene should •be as fraught with
Meaning and emotion, as humbling
almost, as the field cef serene stars
on a fine night. What is humbling
is, in effect, ennoblifig, for he who
can take in the eense of his own
smallness in relation to that big-
ness can appreciate precisely what
that bigness is and means. So that
in all that is large and ample dwells
o rnoral force, even in this over-
grown •aud 'dingy Londini of ours..
Let us go up into the mouotains and
see the kingdom arid the glory 'et it,
It is wonderful to the inward sigh/.
It is wonderful, and it is end, too.
Below me, in the copse where Dollis
brook' runs,sings the lest block -
bird of the year, and as I gaze 1800 Id
the evening lalling 10 — the mists
are swarming over theegreat City, e
will S001 1)0 5.1'e City bf Darknea.e.
re,