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Exeter Times, 1903-5-7, Page 3+'f ; *Iw cafe elcotlec ntehe+i'ter'>4neinteieiefninfo r int kl-Hi tele! ietek* I.AN IINSOUGHT WEALTH t 7,:. slaal3a6MCCO.Z601.19.660.6.11,17c Cr The flystery ot a Brother's Legacy. . <L„+t,.g„t..f +�+.Yc+'l+,t+�,ni "�,�F'.�,.F+.k,.kC„3�+,�„3',�, lv� 4+'�'�t,�3"�r+`tif„�'.�",s�w,�II+ F+`��+`�e�".�J+414+3 . CHAPTER XVI. "Mat," said Samuel at last, com- ing into the room, his• harsh voice seeming harsher than its wont, "would it please you to see me ruin- ed?" Matthew plainly thought the ques- tion superfluous -- the answer too self-evident. His mirth was quite. hysterical. "Please me!" he screamed; "why, I shall forget all I suffered in the pleasure!" tr. Samuel Hookham craned his head forward -somewhat in the fash- ion of the bird of prey which col- lects itself to dti,rt upon its victim. "Then you won't sae it," he said.. "Oh yea, I shall, Sammy - oh yes; -Y shall!" "You won't." Something in Sam- uel's voice' seemed to avert Mat - 4 thew's attention, Ho looked at his brother. "Shall I tall you why?" "Oh, do, Sammy -do! do!" "Bemuse," Mr, Samuel Ilookham clearly enunciated his words, oven, paused between each, "because - I - shall -give -the -diamond - away." Matthew's mirth became a little ie:s pronounced. "Clive the diamond away?" "Give the diamond away - to ruin some other fool as it ruined you.." "Ob, no, you won't! It's worth more than 'twenty thousand pounds, you know - more than twenty thou- sand pounds! That's what I used to say I'd do, but I never could when it came to the point; how much more impossible will it be for you!" "Mat, you say I am a fools -well, I'll show you at any rate that I'm not so big a one as you, 't,rere you aware of the peculiar properties of the stone?" "Yes," said Matthew a little un- easily, "I knew then; that was al- mostthe worst of it --I knew them all the time." "And you still held on?" , Samuel held his hands above his head with a gesture which was more eloquent than words. "What a fool!" "I was not the first who knew of them and still held on. I was not the first fool, any more than you will be the last of them" "Do you know • what is one reason which would induce me to give it away, if there were not another in exist enee?" "What reason's that?" "For the sake of spiting you!" "Spiting me?" Matthew's complexion was becom- ing green again. All his merry humor; was passing away. As Mat- thew's spirits became depressed, his affectionate brother's seemed to rise. "For the sake of spiting you. You say it would give you pleasure to see me ruined. I've deprived you of now of your little pleasures be- fo:o,; tt;-day, and now I'll deprive yeann of the greatest and the latest, the very laet pleasure of them all. For that reason, if for no other, I'll give the diamond away, so that I may deprive you of the last ploaa- ure that will ever come your way." Matthew rubbed his hands togeth- er, and he chuckled; hut the chuckle was a feeble one, and his hands -trembled as he rubbed them. .'Oh, no,• Sammy, you - you won't give the diamond away!" "I will - and you know I will! I would if it were worth two hundred thousand pounds! And you'll never come to see the fun again, ox•', if you do, it will be fun, not from your point of view. but oxine; you will come and see me rich and prosper- ous, the happiest of men you will come and see me what you would have been, if you had not been a fool: Iney,, M©,t,,you're a fool even now you're dead - your ghost's a fool - or you never would have come to see the fun so soon. If I hadn't known - and I never should have known if I had not seen you with my eyes, and heard you with my ears - that you wore watching mo, enjoying yourself, rubbing your hands, chuckling all the time, I might have gone blundering, blun- dering on;. for, as you say, more than twenty thousand pounds is a • biggish sum to give away, oven for a millionaire like myself. But now .that I do, know' my pains and your pleasures, why, the bubble's blown! I prick it -it is gone. Ha, ha, hat Why, Mat, even your ghost's a fool!" While Mr. Samuel Hookham deliv- ered himself to this effect in an en- ergetic and even boisterous tone of voice, his brother's enjoyment did not seem to increase to any appreci- able extant. He oven shivered, as though Samuel's fraternal heartiness was almost more than he could bear. And though he still continued to rub his hands and chuckle, it was plainly not because his heart was merry, but rather because he had got into a. groove, and seemed to ex- perience some difficulty in getting out of it. He had no effective retort ready to his lips oven when Samuel's pausing olid give him an opportunity to "bit hint back." "Oh, no, Sammy, you won't give the diamond away you won't give it away!" That was what ho continued to say, as though he were a mechanical toy, only constructed to deliver it- self of a given form of words. Sam- uel's manner as he commenced to re- ply was in striking contrast to his brother's; he spoke very earnestly, holding out his hand as an orator does. "I tell you, Mat, that so soon as you are Gone Matthew rcne from a cry. "Oh, that!" Samuel seemed a little FIe stared at hie brother. "Don't speak of what?" "Don't speak of my going! For as soon as you speak of my going I'm gone," Samuel stared still harder. Then he threw his hands above his head with a laugh - a laugh which was even more dieeordant than his first had been. At the sound of ft the creature on the table actually shud- dered. Matthew shuddered too. "Why, Mat, as a ghost you're a greater fool even than before! Why didn't you tell me the trick of it at first? Did you think I wanted you to stay?" Samuel held out his hand in front of him again. "Why, Mat, I tell you that so soon as you are gone--" Matthew gave a deprecatory ges- ture with his anion- but Samuel re- peated his words - "`so soon as you are gone -and may it be soon! - I'll give the diamond away!" Samuel's voice had • increa;,ed, al- most to a roar; but at the last word. It sank into a whisper. For no sooner had he expreosod his wish that Matthew would not stand upon the order of his going, than Matthew was gond! - vanishing like a flash of lightning before his eyes. 'While he continued staring at his brother with looks which were not looks of love, there was no brother to be stared at. The disappearance was so sudden that at first Samuel thought he had been played a trick. He momentari- ly expected hint to re -appear behind his back or above his head, stand- ing on bis shoulders, for all ho knew, a novel variety of the Old Man of 'the Sea - of whom, by the way, Mr. Samuel Hookham certainly had never hoard. He ieinained mo- tionless, gazing. But as the mo- ments passed, and nothing, and no one, carne, he ventured to look round. He turned with a shudder, for, he expected that his eyes would ,light upon the creature on the' ta- ble. But ho was agreeably disap- pointed; the creature was gone.: , • As he recognized: ties facet' -that, so far as seeing went, he was alone in the room he found Himself in darkness. The tallow candle, it would almost seem with a rush a't the last, had burned itself out. CHAPTER XVII. his Sammy, don't seat with speak of startled. Mr. Samuel iookham's position, "when• the light wont out," was not, from all points of view, an agreeable one. To begin with, he it 1 1 Lacking the lEssenti :: Ig Life-giving Principle which is Best Obtained by the Use of D. Chas'srve Food. .. The .tire`, languid, end sdepretaeed feelings which corno with . spring are the outrrasal' ind4oatton of the •weeik- ened condition of the blood and the low state of 'vitality.. When than' blood gots thin final wat- ery the waste of the Kunsan body is More rapid than the broces3 of re- construction. o-construction. Gradually the action bf the heart grows *raker and weak- er, the lung's do net work to their full capacity, the stomach, and other digestive organs fail to perform theirdiatUes, thrid the result is all !ma_ er;leedlly derangements. sci i heart, dizzy spells, ineliges- ion,, fieeittgs of weakness and de- f energy... to er- a cp leak ndvsn c �e form the epodes of the viay, loss of appetite, failing memory almd power ht con+eentratiog the nand, irritsbil- ttyr nerwOussiess, ea td sleepdesseese, info arceeng the n g terms wl ick dis- tress you, and all can be avoided lay the use of Dr. Ohase's Nese Food: There is no peenste etien to be, colas; pared to Dr. Chase's Nerve Food &ti a eprinip restorative, It does net etiniulate ar_ad so whits' the o cows of the body to over-exertion, but by enriching tho blood, instile now vigor tato the nerves and bullets up the 'who Y'sBynoting le .a tem. your increase in weight while using this groat food cure you oan prove that new, firm . flesh and tissue is being added to the body. To acaaken the livor, iaWigox'ato the kidneyrs and regulate the bowels, use Dr. Chase's ICidney-!:aver Tills. 411 dealers, or Edinaneon,. Bates le Co,, Toronto. To protect you against imitations the pot. -trait ailed signature of Dr. A. W, Chase, the famous roeeipt book anther, rove on every ;box of his rem 111eat. was "in the dark"; and he was not only in the :lark •-- which is never an agreeable thing to he in when one pro"ers the light -but he was in the dank without knowing if he were alone, or who his companions were, if he had any, He had just been in the presence of a ghost - as full - reluctant to lose the companionship dsceece71;..•:O eties.enne;,na. , n,. Bene. • of the lamp, Shrugging his shoul- o dors, he told himself he was a fooi<•-- it will be observed that the epithet' a was one to whose use hewas addict- led; it was the one measure of his f,e stendavd of Arca and wrong. Pul- ling the window to with a bang, he s flavored a ghost as wan ever visible fastened the latch. '!,writing, he al- to mortal Vex -••- and the ghost was lowed his eyes to resit for a moment accompanied by -- well - by not a nice companion, When a man has just seen -the last of two suck visit- ors he does not care to find himself all at once in the dark. A little light upon the subject - and the surrounding objects -would tend , to i oince the arrival of the stone - all, make things clearer, and ease his down to the minutest detail. And mind. • as, in his mind's eye, he wont When Mr, Samuel Hookham found through it all over again, ]lie anger 'Anstalt in the dark, the darkness I began to rise. iDe began to lose his was very complete indeed; "Egyp- sense of awe. The feeling of per- tian darkness" (from our childhood sena). injury became strong within upwards we hear so much about I him, All at once it beca•tne so "Egyptian darkness") which "you strong that, pausing, he shook his could' cut with a knife," - like clenched fist at the stone upon the pease pudding, or, from the French point of view, a London fog. How - even there was one spot of light, But whatever that spot of light may have done actually, metaphorically it certainly did not make things blighter; and in 'this "conjunction" metaphor was the stronger of the two; for that spot of light came from the diamond, And it was hardly to be expected that, at that particular moment, the sight of the diamond should have made Mr. Samuel Hookham's heart feel light- er. The worst of it was that Mr. ITookham's oyes were riveted by that spot of light. Ere could not take his glance away. Abstractly, it was beautiful. There was a my- stic glamor about its glitterigg radi- ance - "light in the darkness" - which might have turned on the pon etic tap in the case of a man who was "built" that way; but Mr. Hookham was not, and even if ho had been, he had seen too much about the diamond - and too re- cently -to feel poetic, anyhow. Even in the gloom he strained his eyes to see if the creature -the guardian, the evil genius, of 'the stone - was anywhere about. • It was not a plea- sant thing to know that it might be there - probably was - although he could not see it. Nor was it any pleasanter to feel that Matthew'e ghost was behind his back. So strong did his feeling presently be- come - that Matthew's ghoet was there -that he turned, and cried aloud in the darkness - "Matthew ! " But there' was no answer. nor any sign that there was any there that heard. Still Mr. Samuel Hookham did not feel by any means easy in his mind. "I'll go into the bedroom and see if I can't find a light; there must be something there, and I can't stop he'e in the dark." He began to grope his way to his bedroom. But hardly had hero oved than he came into violent contact 'with something -it was the arm- chair. The sudden shock made him utter a cry of alarm. "?Matthew," he asked, in what writers of the better class call a •'.epulchral" whisper, "are you there?" But if Matthew was there he did not mention it. He held his peace, allowing Samuel to call on him in vain. Mr. Samuel Hookham, as he Tubbed his knee, which had come with undesirable force against the chair, could not but feel that if Matthew was there he was having one more moment of enjoyment, at any rate. As he thought of it he muttered maledictions beneath his breath. Then he pursued his voy- ago in rearch of his bedroom. Finding the door, he groped for the -handle. He turned it, with a hand which trembled slightly. He passed inside, he entered - there was outer • darkness, too. He felt his way to the chest of drawers. In one of the drawers -in that in which he kept his shirts and collars -he found what he was looking for, a piece of "composite" about a couple of inches long. It was one of his care- ful aro-ful ways - a fresh illustra't'ion of the ,-intplicity of millionaires - to keep his candle -ends. • • He had kept-. this one for months - after brig keeping it came in handy now, He routed out --irons. the same receptacle e- a box of matches. Lighting his piece of candle, he held it above his head —still with a hand which trembled. The room was empty. Returning into the adjoining rlt.yrrt- ber, that, po far as he could s;.-; with his finite 'vision, was empty too. He put the piece of candle down upon the table. Standing close be- side it, he commenced to rub his hands as Matthew had done - only not so cheerily. IIo kept giving furtive glauces round kiln. on the stone. Then he began, as he had done be- fore the advent of his visitors, to peeo to and fro, up and down, and round and round the room. He re- called all that had happened to him "I wonder,".. he asked himself be- neath o-ne.,ath his breath, "if Matthew's bete?" ITe was by no means certain he was . not. Such an uncertainty was not a pleasant one. The simplest of millionaires does not bear himself - does not wish to bear himself:-- in the • presence of a 'spectator, oven though that spectator is a brother's ghost, as he would do wore he quite alone. But as Mr. Samuel Hook - ham had no meansof making sure- tho. Psychical Research Society not having yet suggested '•W process ' of testing for the presence 'ef ghosts - he was obliged to make the beset of it. • He•turned to the diamond.' • There'it 11iyr, in its tranquil, glit- tering beauty - which has been so often spoken of before. "The ape!." said .Mr. Iookkant. As he spoke of the ape he shud- dered, and glanced round the room again. He went to the .w'i'ndow, which was still open, and looked out. T34 leaned hies &Tina upon the sill. The only thing visible without was the' flickering lamp in the pour!, below; but evert that, seen through the misty haze, gave hien the feeling ot society. He was not alone while the lamp was there. He could hear, too, as he listened, the subdued rumble of the Fleet 4Jreet traffic. But,, althoughthe time was summer,; the night was cool. A dhilly alk' came from the river. Ho Shivered, and retel'n,od into the . room .Yet he wan loth to a Ode 'tea . Wind0N , 'Wing 'table. And ho muttered - some- thing 'that was not a prayer. Englisch market to a. larger extent Matthew's visit was the climax of thea! the Fre:rth system. The former it all. To think that his brother is co-operation hire and siinple, the was dead, and yet could come to butters being despatched as they are life again, to gibe and jeer at , him reseit ed 1, one the farms, whereas the -the thought was insupportable! French sysitem, which is chiefly con - Better ruin almost than that! For nested with the bleniing business, is nil he knew, Matthew's ghost, in confined almost to the purchase of some invisible form - for who can tell of what forms such ghosts are capable? - was actually present and chuckling at him now. Tho re- nection stung him to fury. If the retaining of the diamond in his pee - session involved such a persecution -better that the first beggar he met 'in the street should be its owner rather than he! Ho snatched up 'the stone from the table. How cool it felt to the touch! How beautiful it was! How it gleamed and glitter- ed! How it concentrated in itself a in Irelatrd, The farmers i!eliver radiance of light! How large it their milk to the creameries, and was! Was ever such a stone before? each creamery is therefore able to It was worth the ransom of a king! produce a brand which is invariably Involuntarily two words rose to of one quality. Owing to modern his lips. ski'.!, almost all factories work on "The ape!" he said, the same system; hence they produce As he said it he shuddered. He a.r- butter which is characteristic of rived at a sudden resolution, He ck that system, and is more or less closed his squab account book, lock- identical. It, therefore, suits the ed its two locks, and slipped it into palate of the average English con - his breast -coat pocket. He took up sumer, and con ogre:.tly meets thehis bat and puttitit oon. He opened requirements of the average British the two doors, first the inner, then teener. Butso far as F.ng.i-h farm the outer one. He blew out the candle, putting a box of matches in et a are concerned it is a question of his pocket. Then he went out, lock- ing the door behind him as he went, pocketing 'the key. All the time he held the diamond in his hand. He meant to give it to the fret beggar he met in the street. (To Be Continued). OR ME RS Ses eauble and l%roftfable hints. for the Busy Tillers �3F BUTTER -BLENDING. At the recent 'discussion upon the co-operation of farmers, at the Chamber of Agriculture at Carlisle, England, the question of co-opera- tive creameries was introduced. Ono of the speakers recommended the es- tablishment of a depot for ieceiving the butter • from farmers, converting it into one brand, and placing it upon the market. This industry has not received attention at the hands of those who aro concerned in the o -operative butter business. Tho Danish systemhas succeeded in the lE olt the Sall. A row of willows would prevent this in a great measure, as their roots ate very fibrous and hold the soil in a network againet the They inroads. some tim t os grow natpraliy along streams and hold them to their course. Willows readily grow from cut- tings, no matter what size they may be, if planted in wet soil. They absorb a great ideal of moisture, so. are good to plant in marshy land that cannot be drained, or in idsmp places on the farm. Bcirg easy to plant, growing quickly and having a fine appearance they add beauty as well as being useful 'to the farm. DIFFERENCE IN MILICERS. A cow made be made to shrink greatly in milk yield when left 'to a i ough, t:nslcilled milker. This is generally known, and the practice is common to let the boys learn to milk by practicing with cows which the owner is ready to 'dry up. But the 'definite cash value of quick, 'defi- nite clean work is scarcely realized. At cne of the Western experiment farms, wl••e •e ore of t':o men was an espe,•_ iaily skilled milker, a record watt kept of t: e average difference in product, as compared with the other 1B LAST BUI100.INEfo DREARY SCENE AT sr& BEC'. TOR 1Y.fd,.C1?ONALD'S FUNERAL Neil Zunr.o, the Well -Known Aisle thor, Comments on Lech of Ceremesi '',. Four years ago, when Ieotor Mac- donald came home to Scotland; trent the victories of the East, his pron.. enee roused his fellow-countryn en to a rapture that to -day seems incre- dible, wrote Neil Munro, the well- known author of "John Splendid, to the Loniion Daily .Mail. For them at that hour he gxas the latest personification of old Oeltic chivalry, bringing new Glory to the tartan. We felt he w'as the man who, given the opportunity, would yet again make history with the corps that fought with Colin Cainp- bell. His progress through his na- tive country was msle a festival; swords of honor and those Sane du- bious tokens of good will, the publio banquet and the burgess ticket, haze pered his advance from one raptur- ous and cheering town to another;. his name was spoken with affectioax in the glens and the story of his farm es' butter in the market en men, and it was found teat he was brilliant career aroused in Scottish bloc, grading it into quality, and worth nearly $10 more, on account I you a livelier interest in the. blending tl:e various lots of eacli of the extra marmwhich he obtain- y COLD MARCHSUN. quality for des+iasiteh the same clay for tbe market. The French blend- ed butter is much more palatable than the Danish, anid it is the mild uri,sa:ted French brand which holds its own in the hotels and on the te- bies of the better class of consumers who purchase for the London trade. Teter, DANISH SYSTEM is that which is so widely practiced THEY LOOK FOR RETURNS. What Nast Britain Receive for Filling Up Northwest. The London Daily Mail says :- "C'anada, with its three and a half millions of square miles and less than five and a half millions of people, has plenty of room to oiler, even though in the last twenty years her urban population alone has more than doubled. In the western territories, too, for which these latent emigrants are bound, there are more than a million of square miles of good land awaiting settlers and, on the whole, owing to the Ohinook winds which blow warm from the Pacific over a depression in the Rocky Mountains, a climate which is not more severe than that of several of the United States. The railways of Canada are 'being rapid- ly developed, and the valleys along 10,000 miles of navigable rivers will both feed and tap them. Taxation in Canada is at a minimum ; life, though arduous, is free, and every- thing seems to be on the side of the industrious. But while we are giving so much of our• best, to Canada, the time seems to be coming nearer when Canada will have to give something is return to us. She spends, for example, next to nothing on her defences, trusting fo the mother country to safeg'u'ard her. Canada, in fact, spends les; than two shil- lings a head on her .defence ; how much longer is Great Britain '.to provide the balance ?" THE. BRITISH AT SOKOTO. 500,000 Square Miles Added to the Empire. For several years a considerable blotch of red -on the map of Africa has indicated British predominance over the region known as Nigeria. The makers of the African map, however, often'deal in fubure:a, and British control of Nigeria has until recently_ been more of an intention. than as, actuality. "That's mine," says John Bull, laying a broad *an- ger -on the Nigerian map. France end Germany, the only' other inter - exited parties to the situation, nod their acquiescence, and the' redoubt- able John continues: "That's mine. I'll govern it as soon as I can. Meanwhile, I reserve it." The time has come when British control is to be masse something more than a feW residences is the in- terior and trading stations on the coast. A little more than a month ago & British column captured So keto, the capital of the great Fula lenilpiro, and four days later Sir Frederick Lngardr Cosnuniseioner of Notthere Nigetnce, entered the city. British n urneed reoe%diee the change in the sit'ttation by stating that the occupation of Sokoto means the ad- dition of, 500;000 square mites and 20,000,000 or more black to the Empire. • N. ., M I 25 gypp pp��yy9���y ��@m,,iiyyyyyy?� 6>167��if17ii�.l6NS►Nd s a e is sent direct to the diseased parts by the f ved Blower. Heals the Uirt , oclears the air mama stops cogs in tiro root hart ppeermp�,nax_ otly cures Larch and Hoy Fairer, Eilowcr free, All dcalera or Dr. A": W Chase stodlcisto C.),, Toronto end Buffalo, From jaenery to Attguet a fleet of fueld1n vesso is engaged in• cateltin tl"earhs' orf Iceland. g� shark's liver fields net It ick as Ave galena of oile net profit, Will the creameries do the best for the farmer, or will he realize a larger profit by making his own butter end sending it into a mixing or blending house, assuming that Such an establishment were worked by the farmers themselves acting in combination? Pt stet -ally seealcing, all depends upon the skill of those who make the farmers' butter. Those who maize a fine brand of butter can do better by marketing it themselves; but, it is almost uselees to urge this form of busines', inasmuch as, per- haps, less. than 5 per cent. of those who make butter make any attempt to obtain RETAIL CUSTOMERS, and to despatch their parcels weekly to various parts of the country. Whe_e 50 buttormaking fanners re- side within a small district it is es- sential to the success of the blend- ing bu:sinr_ss that they should make a good article; otherwise, after grading, the quality might he con- fined to second or third, omitting first quality altoget'.er. If, there- fore, the large majority of makers produced the first brand, blending would probably prove tae most auc- ceseful, for tyro reason that the con- sumer would obtain really fresh but- ter, which would in consequrn-e re- alize o-alize a higher price than Danish and other creamery buttes•, tate being ne- cessity produced from pasteurized cream for keeping purposes. French blended butter will not keep. long, nor is it intended to keep. It reaches London as quickly as would bo the case if it wore made in Cum- berlard; but it is quite different with Danish and Australian. Venae we contend that fine, mild, unsalted, or very slightly salted butter ehould always realize a better price; and it is that better price which might be obtained if the blending system could ire conducted by farmers who all produce •a fine article. OROSSBRED WHEATR. Tn productiveness, ane of • 'the crosses . named Preston has taken the lead, writes Prof. William Saun- ders. This is a cross of the Red Fife with the Russian variety La- doga. Ladoga is a week earlier in ripening than Iced Fife, Prete on is about four days earlier. Dec•ing a test of sit years it has given an average crop, takirg the results of the trials made on all the experi- mental farms, of 38 bushels :-iS lbs. per acre, wheens tbe Iled Fife, grown under like conditions, has given during the sant? period air -av- erage of 32 bushels 30 lbs., a dif- ference in favor of the crossbred sort of -one bushel 28 lbs. per acre. Lau- rel, a cross of Red Fife with Gena, has given still larger crops, bet -this has been under trial only three years, while Ph'estan has had a list of eig ;t years. Many other of the crossbred sorts bave also made excellent records. Some very interesting varieties have been recently originated at the central experimexutal farm at Otta- wa by fertilizing the Too Fife with pollen of the Poloiiien wheat..(Triti- cu'm• polonicunr).. This cross 'Was et- fecte' in the spring of 1900. From a kernel so, fertili✓ed in a head of Red Fifo a plant was produced which, contrary to the lineal oxperienro, produced heads anal kernels quite un- Iike Bed Fin. The seed ficin. this plant, sown in 1002, sprouted =oh and gave a number of different sorts of heads, scarcely any two of then able. Tho Polonian wheat has a very 1n,"ge kernel and the object in making 'this cross was to try to produce a good cropping wheat with a kernel •much larger titan 'the or dinary grain, ADVANTAGES OF WILLOW'S. On many a fe.rin a stream uray be seen teasing .out of the goon eon of one field orad loavieg rocks, stonos and pebbles in another as it slowly' changes its tottese. ed. The milk was also richer, 'ow- ing to his care in getting all the 11 1i etrip;. ings. SOLDIER SUES GENERAL. • Action For False Arrest During the Boer War. Ex -Sergeant-Major Edmondson, of the Imperial Yeomanry, is suing Ma - jar -General Sir Henry Macleod Les- lie Itundle and other officers for damages for alleged false imprison- ment in South Attica during the late Boer war. Prior to the Boer war the plain- tiff had been for ten and a half years in the 21st Hussars, and had served four years abroad. He came into some money and obtained his discharge. On the outbreak of the Boor war he left his wife and chil- dren and volunteered for active ser- vice again. He joined the Middle- sex Yeomanry, out of which the 35th Coin,pany of the Imperial Yeo- manry was formed. He was at Senelcal when orders were given to force a night march to Lilliefontcein and surprise the Boers. It turned out to bo a Boer trap which the British force wore led into 'by two Boer spies. A shell suddenly burst among the British, and,. the Dutch guides bolted. He collected twenty of the men and matte the best of his way through the Boer fire, and eventually, with the loss of three men captured, arrived at Venters - burg, being harassed all the way by the Boers. The plaintiff immediate- ly reported himself, and was placed under arrest by General Rundle, who was in command of the division. It was found necessary to sub- poena Lord Roberts, and the solici- tors being' unable to get near en- ough to the Field Marshal to effect a service Edmondson undertook the work himself. The field Marshal did not suspect the id,cntity of the civil -spoken ' individuaI in plain clothes, who served hien with a subpoena. Efforts have been made to prevent the necessity of Lord Roberts' appearance in court, but the interests of justice override even the convenience of so illustrious a field marshal. THE DATE OF Alheat'S 131i4,TH. Witli a view to ascertaining the exact date of Adam's birth, Dr. Lightfoot, a well-known scientific man, ]las spent much time 'during the last fifteen years. After making many calculations, he concludes that Adam was born on October 23, in tie year 4004 B. C. The learned investigator has not yet been able to arrive at the exact date of Eve's birth, but it is said that he is now grappling with this problem, and is confident he will be able to solve it within the next few years. Clean IOUP Liver WIT -1 Itu llyIlsLITe? Emedy. 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J. /1., contain- ing details of s1ckne ce, will be *hewer- taomt wiillltlyhe e v free 'dyne ae to l +en , t -'-•i The mortal part of Rector Mac- donald returned to Scotland to a. vastly different reception. Ho carnet from Omdurman in May, when even the windy north was bland and flowery. Now Edinbse'gh received him in a brief blink of cold March sunshine between two storms of nein and sleet. No hero in all our Padd- en history canoe home to his grave in Scotland with a shabbier lack of ceremony. His coffin passed at dawn along dreary, deserted thoroughfares, un- der the frown of the grey, comm &,l- ing citadel; past tho shuttered ware- houses of Princes street and the sleeping terraces of houses where the unconscious citizens did not even dream that Macdonald was going to his final rest in their neighboritooai. The scavenger stopped his work foe a moment, astenislsed at the sight of a funeral in Eilinh srgli at sin o'clock in the mornit'tg. Passing workmen stood ivarcidulous on the pavement when tk_ey heard the name. KEPT A PROFOUND SECRET. It was no wonder they were du- bious, for the greatest peens were taken to keep from the krip.wledgo of Edinburgh the fact that Jaeodonald was to be buried there We had been sure it would be elsewhere. He would find his sepulchre in the capi- tal of the .Highlands, pennons, or, more appropriately still, on that grey peninsula between the northern firths, where he was born. All the Highlands' sentiment would have approved his burial there, even, if the ceremonies usually associated with a soldier's obsequies were whol- ly lacking, but the destinies -what- ever they represented - ruled it otherwise, and so Sir Hector, in- stead of lying in his own country, among his own people, rests in the Dean Cemetery of Edinburgh. Not more than one hundred mourn- ers met the body at the Waverley station. They were for the most part representatives of the High- •'' land societies of London, Edin- burgh and Glasgow, who had at the last moment been informed of its destination. JUST WITHIN THE GATES. An open hearse and less than a score of cabs composed the funeral cortege to the cemetery. It lies by the waters of Leith, over a bridge that spans a valley of such profun- dity that one looks from its parse pots upon a 'tiny village under- neath. The grave was reedy just within the gates. Doan Cemetery, they tell me, is to be ranked as Edinburgh's best, and great men of the last half -century are buried there, but in this portion of it, at all events, there is an aspect of sub- urban commonplace, with no pram- pect of high crscompaosing walls. To the civilian severity ot the cere- mony -so to call it -at the grave there was not a note of relief. No flag 'draped the coign, not a single red coat disturbed the harmony of black and white. Three score of mourners clustered around the eof- fn, among them the widow of the dead soldier and hor son - the most tragic and moving figure there - and Dr. Alexander W'.tyte, one of Edinburgh's most celebrated clergy- men, read briefly from the Scrip- tures. PIPES WERE SILENT. Such- sad last officers aro seen in Dean Cemetery every other day, and the unprivileged idlers who wero kept outside the gate and peered be- tween its ,bars could see nothing to indicate that they were looking en rite last rites of a soldier whose name so few years ago was sounding over Scotland. A bagpipe lament or the "Last Post" from a bugle would have redeemer[ the situation for the simple child of sentiment, but neither piper nor bugler was there, and we turned from. the grave of Hector Macdonald with not to single circumstance in his burial to suggest that we left under these wreaths front his clansmen . and countrymen the clay of a great Scots soldier. found Back in Princes street we , o a city still in ignorance that in played 90 itnportient a part in a ter- rible tragedy; the shopkeeper plaeid* ly taking down his shutters, the sihopgirl briskly skipping to busi- ness, the milkboy cheerfully whist- ling, a lad at the Waverley eager to sell us daffodils, -a QUITI,' CLEAR, The Professor (introducing hie loco tore) - "The scientific subject I shall speak on 'to day, gentlemen, in one that a htIi dx ed years ago only the highly educated could have WL- derStocd. But nowadays we have advanced so much that any idiot can uzitt'ersttsud the matter, end nano of you will livee any difficulty in fol; lowing the. lectrtixg.