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Exeter Times, 1903-5-14, Page 3esistektfinintelerleitsiciAsitsketsteinK44eintnintsistsfeintstelettetnIc4-kefeelsiniceinle tAN UNSOUGHT WEALTH; 001..1,8.4.9110.2.81tarapia Or The nysteiT of a Brother's Legacy. 4,44-1,44-1414014+44,14•14-16144-14•14+0140144444efels44-44444-efale CHAPTER XVII. An opportunity immediately• pre- .sented itself to net his resolution in- to practice, as, when WO have form- ed ' resolution*, opportunities of ten do. A man was revouphing against the wall at the entrance to the ,court. Mr. Hookham paused and looked at him. "Go away!" said the man. "Get along away with yerl I'm waiting for a friend." In spite of .the uncertain light, Mr, Illookham immediately recognized the speaker - it was his laundress' "pore James" - the "pore James" who, according to his fond mother, was "doing time"; the very man who, Mr, 1-Iookham Itutpected, in his absence had ransacked his rooms. As he glared at him, rage for a mo- ment made Xr, Hookham speechless. Either "pore James" was a moon - wronged mark, or else his pence there showed that he was possessed of an amount of impudence which was quite refreshing - only Mr. Rooknam did not seem to think that it was at all refreebing then. He appeared about; for this occa- sion only, to hold the scales, and treat "pore James" to an illustra- tion of "justice" which was not "law." Only for the moment he stayed his hand. One thing was clear - Mr. Clieby had been drink.ing, not wisely, but too well. Re was just sober en- ough to stand - with the help of the wall. 13y degrees there began to dawn on his mu-ddled faculties a rogue impression that ho had seen the person in front of him some- where before. At last he settled his identity to hie apparent satisfac- tion. "Strike me lucky!" he murmured; "it's 'Ookharn!" "Yes," said Mr. Hookham, mim- icking "pore James,", "it's 'Ook- ham. You scoundrel! What are you doing here?" "Tha - that's what I'd like to know! I'm waiting for a friend." Mr. Hookham looked Mr. Clisby up and down. A thought was ger- minating in. his mind. How could he punish him better, to begin with, than by presenting him with the Devil's Diamond? Afterwards, when the 'diamond had done with him, if there was anything of him left to punier, he might punish him by proe coss of law. "You have committed a burglary in ley channbers." "0— only a little thing," hic- cuped Mr. Clisby, who was evidently one of those whom drink makes cone fidential, "along o' my mother." "011, your mother had a hand in it, did she?" Mr. Hookham sin- cerely hoped that she might have a hand in handling the diamond. "With what I know against you. I might, if I chose, get you penal ser - Nitride for life." "Whiit's the odds if you do?" ask- ed Mr. Clisby, with sublime indiffer- ence to the terrors of the law. "But I'm in a merciful mood to- night." Mr. Hookham spoke with such bitter irony that ono would 'have thought it must have been even perceptible to the drink -sadden wretch in front of him. "I not only forgive you, but I'm going to make sse -146.k you a present of more than twenty thousand pounds." • "Pore James" lurched away from the wall, alraost falling into Mr. Hookham's arms. "What's that?" he said. "I say that I'm going to make you a present of over twenty thou- sand pounds." "Don't come playiog the softy over me." "I'm doing nothing of the kind. Do you see that diamond?" Mr. I-Tool:them held it out between his finger and thumb. Mr. Clisby looked at it with his drink -blurred Give us held on it!" he said. He holdout his hand to take it, but a srutdden lurch against the Wall some- • what destroyed his purpose.. 'Woe Shall have it. It is ..Worth more than twenty thousand pounds." "Stow it!" hiccuped Mr. Clisby. "It is a Mot, as you may ascer- tain for yourself by taking' it to any receiver of Stolen goods of your acquaintance. It's worth more than, twenty thousand pounds - infinitalyj more than those jewels Of mine I which you have stolen, and the pro -1 nods of which yeti are devoting to bringing on an attack of delirium tremens, I give it you freely. Take it. It is yours." Arr. Hookham held out the dia- mond to Mr. Clisby; but "pore James'" dld not rise to the bait with so much enthusiasm as Mr. Hookham had expected. He seem- ed a little shy. "Nnhy don't you take it?" repeat- ed Mr. Hookham. "It is yours. Are you too drunk to understand what 'I am saying? I say that it is worth more than twenty thousend pounds." As Mr. Hookham continued to hold out the diamond, and "pore James" continued to hesitate, there came a sound as of something fall- ing on the. pavement. Mr. -Hook- hain leaked down; something yellow was lying at his feet - it was a sovereign. With a degree of aliee- eity which wan a little surprising in one who was presenting to a con- firmed criminal and an habitual drunkard a gift of the value of more than twenty thousand pounds, he I stooped down to pick it up. As he did so, another fell - it seemed to him -that it fell from the dinmonde- and then another, and another; he kept his eyes upon the stone, and he distinctly saw that they fell from the diamond. There they were, a little heap of bright sovereigns, gleaming pleasantly as they lay up- on the ground. Mr. Hookham be- gan to pick thein up. But, by this time, "pore James" was also alive to the fact that Eemething tunieual was going on. He, too, had heard the ringing of coin than which few sounds were sweeter to his ears; nor was he too drunk to observe the fact of Mr. Hookhanes suddenly stooping down. "What's up?" he hiccaped. He joined Mr. llooknaan in stoop- ing down to see. He was not, how- ever, sober enough to stoop down neatly. He canto down, so to speak, with n run a, run which landed him on the top of -Mr. Hook - ham. Mr, Clisby Was 4 young nian, but he was construtted on a gener- ous scale, and he. was hectenr - par- ticularly so when drunk, Mr. Hook- I ham collapsed beneath him like a pack of cards. He lay fiat on the ground, and blr. Clisby lay on top of Iiim, using language which seemed to infer that he was meter -the er- roneous impression that he was not the aggressor but the aggrieved. Mr. Hookham seemed to think that Mr. Clisby had added to his other crimes an attempt to commit robbery and violence. "Help! Thieves! Police!" he screamed as loudly as ho could with the small quantity of breath, Mr. Olisby had still left in him. A constable came round the corn- er, with three or four stragglers at his heels. "What's up here" he asked. A policeman always asks that question - just as a cabman, who is dissatisfied because he has not been paid more than twice his legal fare, always demands, "What's this?" - as if he didn't know. Having asked his question, the policeman proceeded, to supply the answer by seizing Mr. Clisby by the collar of his coat, and dragging him to his feet. Then Mr. Hookham got up too. "My name is Hookham," he ex- plained. "This man's name is James Clisby. I have chambers here. He has robbed them, bur- glariausly. Now he has attempted to nob me, with violence." Mr. Clisby seemed subdued. Per- haps, after the manner of some of his kind,, he felt safe in the arms of the police. The constable screwed his captive round to the light. A 'flattering recognition of "pore James" immediately ensued. "Oh, it's you, is it? It's not the first time I've had hold of yOu. you charge him, sir?" • "Certainly I charge him." A second constable earrie now. "Pore James' " proepeets did not look roseate, "Is that your money lying on the ground, sir?" asked Constable Num- ber 2. Mr. Hookheau said that it was. The dieurioed was lying on the groomed as well; he stooped and pick- ed it up,, and with it twelve sover- eigns too, Mr. Clisby was borne away, eupported by the friendly arras of the two gentlemen in blue, an admiring throng following on his heels. Mr, Hoolcharn was left alone. 1-11e had the diamond still in his hand, and the twelve sover- eigntoo. Her made a movement as if to slip them into bis pocket, but something in the feel of them caus- ed him to pause. Stretching out his hand, holding it open in the light, he looked at its contents. He must, have been mistaken - there were no sovereigns there; he held a handful of dirt. He threw it from hbei with an Oath,. and went out in- to -the street .to looic for it more worthy recipient of his princely gen- erosity. The multitude had gone with Mr. Clisby; but ono man remained be- hind. He came up now to Mr. Elookhani, touching his ragged apol- ogy for a cap. It was Larry, the "caretaker" of Badger's Buildings - he who had brought to Mitre Court the first news of the fire. "Mr. 'Ookham, sir, will you give me a copper, sir? All my sticks was burnt in the fire, sir, and these two days I ain't 'ad a drop to eat nor drink." Here was a fresh opportunity fat 'Mr. Hookhain to bestow his spIen dM charity! Tho ma.n looked mis °rabic, enougb. He was a pictur esque conglomeration of rags -pie turesque from the artist's point o view, if not froin the wearer's -anc he was shivering as with cold. "Give you a copper?" said Mr Hookham in response to the man' appeal. "Thy, you drunken beast it was through you the building were burned; you robbed me of fly hundred pounds a year." "Send I may die, Mr. 'Ookham sir, you're wrong! I was as seism that iafternoon—" "As you are now," observed Mr Hookham, cutting him. short. "God knows I'm sober now." "Sober!", Mr. Hookhani caught him by the arm. "Why, you've got the 'shakes' this very moment. I suppoeo you'll tell me it's with hun- ger or with cold? It's the drink - drink, you brute!" "You're a 'ard man, Mr. 'Ook- ham, sir." "You think I'm a hard man, do Yoo?" Mr. Hookham paused. He looked the fellow closely in the face. "What would you say if I were to makeyour fortune?" "You might do it, sir, and yet never feel the want of it, that's sure and safe enough." "Suppose I were to give you more than twenty thousand pounds?" The man looked furtively up and down the misty street. The hours were getting late. That part of Fleet street was pretty well desert- ed; yet he instinctively drew more into the shadow of the wall. "'Voter° joking, Mr. 'Ookham, sir." "Did you ever know me joke?" "I can't say rightly, sir, I ever did." "Then, take my word for it, I'm not joking now. DO you see that?" Mr. Hookham held out the diamond -as he had done in his brief inter- view with Mr. Clisby - between his thumb Etnd finger. "Do you know what that is?" Larry shook his head. "That's a diamond." "& diamond, is it?" Larry sighed. "That's one of the finest diamonds In the world. Itjs worth the ran- som of a king - more than twenty thousand pounds." '"Iihret's a 'eap of money, sir, for a little thing like that, "Then, sir, you'll be doing me. ez'uol wrong.' "Nevar mind abolet that, I'll do it, ' Now are You going to take this diainoxid„ or om to .eunirrion tilteaPrx°•ylice?I'o'oked furtively around, Then he bent forward, alinoat whis- pering in Mr. Hookham's eer- "Mr. "Ookham, sir, did. yer nick Mr. HoOkhersi stained back. "Nick it! Do you take inc for it but 1 do know this - if it's worth I don't rightly know, anything like the 'ail of what you say it is, nor yet the . quarter, nor yet tuppence, unless there's .some- thing uncommon .queer about it some'ow, you Wouldn't want to give .it i.knovt you too well for that." Again there castle the sound which they had heard before - like tne ripple of musical langhter. Again It seemed to come from the .stene. Larry crossed himself. - "What's WA?" he gasped. 'Mr, Hookham. 'could see that 11Q was shivering even more than he had been before - this time with a ferent kind of "shakes." "I do be- lieve the devire in the thing!" No sooner had the words been spoken - which they were with a degree of ectrnestnees wnich was ludicrous even - than there rang out, through the misty aie of Fleet .street„ Winit was surely one tef the most netteical bursts of laughter. which ever yet was heard. There was no mistake about it this time, for it lasted both loud and long. Mr. nrookhae,n -stared at the dia- mond, from heart of which it •- seemed that the merriment proceed- - ed, in dumb amazement. Long be- - fore the laughter ceased Larry was - out of sight. At the first round - -of that lakigheer he had fairly taken to bis heels and fled. When Mr. 1 Illookhant perceived that this was so, "Corse the thing!" he cried, af- • ter the manner of the transpontine s villains. "Can't it even be given ! away?" s As for Larry - he was mad! As e superstitious as a Pig, Mr. Hook - ham told • himself, though of the , amount of superstition to be found • in the porcine nature he was per- haps. scarcely quail tied to judge. , Then, if he had told him that it was worth twopence - as Larry had himself suggested - instead of twenty thousand pounds—. But, in fact, in his interview with Larry he had blundered throughout. . On the other hand, as he walked_ past the Law Colons towaeds the Strand, Mr. Hookham began to re- alize that it might not, from the very nature of things, be easy to give away a diamond worth more than twenty thoosand. pounds. Where he was now a stream of people was continually passing 'by. . As he got farther and farther into the Strand he found it thronged with the usual variegated neiltitude which crowds that thoroughfare itt night. There were some boys sell- ing the latest editions of the even- ing papers. "The Sphinx's Cave Mystery! The Devil's DiEtmond Performs in Court!" The words fell on Mr. Hookham's ears like shot cores. There was a j tiny urchin dancing about on the! curbstone like a demon in the pan -1 toluene. He had a bundle of pa- pers under his arnn He held out! the. contents bill in front of him. Iti was not difficult, in spite of the de- I feciive light, to make out what was on it. The words wbich the lad was j vociferating were displayed in let- ters black, bold, and burly. Seeing Mr. Hookhe.m pause, the lad thrust; "'Ere yer har, sir!" The words I a paper into his hand.. were gabbled with the orth•adox rap- idity. "Hextra Speshil!" Mr. Hookhaen felt in his pockets for a coin. The were empty. He had come out penniless. "I don't want your paper," he said. But if he did not want it, others trade. The lad was doing a roaring A little farther on another news- boy was proclaiming the attrac- tions of a rival print - The Mid- night News. "The Devil's Diamond Plays the Devil's Own Games!" The newsboy roared out each word separately with the fell strength of a very powerful pair of lungs. As he heard them Mr. Inookbanes blood congealed - this was fame! If • he were only to reveal his own iden- tity! 11 some acquaintance were only to aunounce that the veritable Owner of the 'Devil's Diaunind. was at that moment threa.ding his way through the curious crowd! If he were only to be detected with the stone ,in his hand what a sensation - there would be! (To Be Continued). But Rich Blood Makes t Blood is Made Rich by You are tired, listless, weak and languid; have no interest in your work; lack the energy required • for going' about- your usual occupation; your appetite is not good, and your meals have no attraction for you: you have headaches, it', may be,, and spells of weakness, and dizziness; you feel down -hearted and discour- aged, and wonder what' causes you to be so miserable, It IS -the blood. The blood is weak and watery, and lacking in the qualities which go to form nervous energy, the vital force which runs the machinery of the body. Your health has become run doeva and you cannot get better without the assistance) 01 sotto restorative, In thin connection we mention Ins 'Chase's' 'Nerve Food, because it has rrcieseensn itself to be the most satise -factory spring medicine and system - builder that can be obtained. Mrs. G. M. Brown, Clobourg, Ont., states; "1 was eompletely riot down in health last entities, arid co 0.-4 not do one clay'e work with- . out _bona.. laid up tor ainnit o -•elteiS afterward; IOC week, late he Weak Strong and the Dr. Chase's Nerve Food guid and miserable most of the thne, and was often blue and discouraged because of my continued ill -health. When. in this. state was advised to try Dr. Chase's 'Nerve Feed, and did so, with most satisfactory re- , sults.. It,,built up my system won- derfully, strengthened and fostered my nerves, and took away all feeling of languor and fatigue. I cannot say anything too good about Dr, Chase's Nerve .Food, and hope that others may profit by my experience." Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is bound to prove beneficial to you, for it is composed of nature's greatest re- storatives, and acts in accordance with nature's laws. ,Gradually and certainly' it increases flesh and weight, adds new, firm mosaics and tissues to the body, rounds out the form,. and instils new energy' and vigor. into the system, 50 cents' a box, 6 bones for $2.50, at all deal- ers, or Indnumson, Bates En Co., To- ronto. To pr o tee t you age 1051,mitation s, the is ort ra t and Signature of Dr. A. C !oleo, • the famons receipt book author, are 013. eVery box, • "It is a heap of money, yet what I tell you is true. You ask me for a copper. I give you this. Take it." Mr. Hookham held out the diamond, but Larry shrank away. "What's the matter with the fool? Why don't you take it?" "I don't think, sir, diamonds is in my way." "What do you mean - in your way? Aren't twenty thousand pounds in your way? and you could get it for that diamond to -mor- row." "I don't know where I'm going to get it from, unless it's from the landlord o' the 'Don Cow.' And he wouldn't give it me, that I swear. More like to bash me with a pew- ter." Larry sighed again. "And - Mr. 'Ookham?" "Well?" "If it's worth all that you say, how comes it, Mr. 'Ookham, sir, you wants to give it nu?" There was a sound - very much like a tipple of musical laughter - which seemed to come from the stone. "What'sthat?" said Larry. • "I don't know what it is. Do yot hear what I tell you? Take the diamond, you fool!" Mr. Hookham did not speak at, all as though he were bestowing a fa- vor, .but rather as • though he were issuing an imperious command. Still Larry shrank' away. ".,If it's all Air.. same to you, sir, I'd rather not." Mr, Hookhara was.'thunderstteck. "Don't you hear that it's worth more than twenty thousand pounds?" Far from hi S repetition of the value of •the diamond increasing Larry's desire to become its pos- sessor, it seemed rather to act in Et contrary direction. kIe actually commenced ' to slink away - with- out even pressing his appeal for a copperl-mattering as be went - "Thank you kindly all thO same," Mr. Hookham hurried after him, He seized him by the shoulder, "Look here, my man, if you don't take this diamond give you into eostody for setting fire to Badger's 4 FOR FARMERS Seastenable and Profitable Hints for the Busy Tillers ill Io; 01. the SOIL !!••04-K•0•4I•s'XideR.Enirse•YiE•e•Mi'sdNeeliIinelf SUCCESS IN FARMING. • A great manY. farmere-I think X May safely -say it majority of those oi my acqueentance-very .strongly resemble cattle ' in Some of their habits, writes. 0. T. Leonard. A dairy of -cows tramp the length of the ancient "cow lane" y•ear E.tfter year, following precisely along , the old path, stepping -exactly in - the steps left by preceding generations, never nallenin that a little aside from the old path.the way is smooth iwd habi t, etavistYil;oultll'eeYver(joexeit'ellisininggs =Tr reason. In the Seaton of the coun- try in which I reside the farrae are only two or three generations old. The hardy .pioneers who cleared -avsey the trees first from necessity, Plant- ed corn, usually "chopping it in" with axes ; then as soon as they could scratch the surface it little with their A -shaped barrows, sewed oats among the -stumps and followed oats with wheat, From this almost necessary •practice arose the wonder- ful "three crop rotation," which has been x•igorously •followed from that early day to the preseut time by nine -tenths of the farmers of my ac- quaintance. le those early times the fanners needed the corn and wheat for bread and the oats to feed their oxen. They were . NOT SEEKING- FOR MONEY. limy were strictly and exclusively engaged in home -making. 'Iliough it large majority of farmers forever pursue the same old course, it is .true that our environments and market facilities for transportation, demands of wealth, etc., do change, and the farmers who are alive to the demands cif the times are the ones I who win and enjoy the fruits of sue- ' cess, Then here arises your quas- i tion,"What do farmers most need ?" 11Ve make anewer with the me word 1"(1-uniption." To he a successful farmer a man !should have some nit -twat ability, 1and then he should have such a [ training during his early years that !he will be able to run his "thinking inntehine" with a fair rate of speed and power in properly selected chan- Niels. Though a cies:deal and scien- title education is not absolutely es- sential, yet one may be assured that ;such retaining will not hurt a I man. It will. indeed, be found to be ;a great aid in keeping, oil the crust !of inherited customs and habits. It I comes in at the right tithe of life to IPrevent a man from becoming fos- oilined ; from becoming an automa- t ton, guided by the maxims and pre - 1 , corns of a generation that hacl no - :thing in Co/111110a With the present. SUCCESS IN FARMING. Fas in every other occupation, de- pends upon the man. Every soldier cannot become a Hannibal or a Bonaparte, every inventor an Edi- son, every statesmen Et Gladstone, nor every nnancier a Morgan. We shall always see every degree ofsuc- cess demonstrated in every occupa-n m tion in which en engage. whtio1 -there are some farmers who would tower above those aboilt them if set; down anywhere there are others withl equal health and Strength who I would scarcely make 61- living in the Garden of Eden. Why this difference between. men of the same nationality and surrounding opportunities ? It is not so much because they do not labor hard enough as it is because their efforts are not proper- ly directed. There are some to whom I can point who begin to work at the earliest dawn, they pound. anci dig and scrape till dark- ness settles over them, and still can scarcely clothe themselves in denim and gingham and feed themselves on potatoes., bread and salt pork. No- thing that they handle seems to thrive. 11 they ever have anything to sell the price is low, and of what they are forced to buy the price is high. If the season rains the milk and honey of prosperity their pails and barrels leak or, for some other reason, no good comes to them. Within the same community are other mere who do not work so hard with their hands, but everything they touch APPEARS TO TURN TO GOOD P To prove to yen that Des SCirtnes Ointment is a certain and absolute cure for cacti and every form of itching, bleedingandprotrudinn. the manufacturers have guaranteed it. Bee toe. timonials in the daily press and ask your n eagle bora what they think of it, You can use it and got your money back it not cured. 60e a box, se all dealers or PnuANsox,l3ATEs Co..Torouto. Dr:Chase's Ointment SIT PROPERLY. It is one thing to have a chair and another to know how to sit on it. The ideal of a graceful sitting posture has varied in the different ages of the world. The Egyptians sat bolt upright, the knees and feet closely pressed together. It Was the. ceremonial attitude. The Greeks and Romans, when their amine had lio b•aelcs and thoy were Ett liblerty to forget their dignity, sat stooping, with one or both elbows supported by the arms of the chafrs. The Chinese ideal was with the knees and feet wide apart. They have Main- tained that attitude in sitting for 4,000 year. The Saxons and early Norman kings are represented in old manuscript and on toins in the same position. Down to a date compara- tively recent-, kings and queeria re- ceived sitting stiffly on their throne, any marked (Shang° Of posture being thought to derogate from the Royal dignity. [Then new reeetire Standing, ervoLis Diseas s OURID BY Ifunyoll's Nerve Cure. believe that more than go per cent, a business failures can be trac- ed to ill-health."-Munyon. • Nervous disorders, especially among nomen, are becoraing alarmingly preval- ent. In their train are found Insomnia, melancholia, neuralgia, epilepsy and in- sanity. I feel proud to think that in my Nerve Cure I have supplied a, per- fect boonto suffering humanity, and one that will live in the hearts and 11ves of the people long after I am gone. 1.1 you aro troubled with nervousness. If you Cannot sleep, if you feel Irritable'if you feel weak and exhausted, 1 mcst earn- estly ask you to try my Nerve Cure.- eitunyon. MUNYON'S REMEDIES. Munyon's Nerve Cure, 25c it vial. Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure relieves stomach distress instantly. Price 25c, Munyon's Pile Ointment positively cures all forms of piles. Price 25c. Personal letters aodressed to Prof. Munyon, Philadelphia, U.S.A., contain- ing details of sickness, will be answer- ed promptly and free advice as te treat- ment will be given. t -f C.46126=21.35=IMECLIMICIO of successful farmers of your ac- quaintance. If you are a small fer- nier, it is easy to find men hi your vicinity who make a, thousand dol- lars or more from their little thirty to fifty acre farms. If you are ac- complishing nothing except annually lh'carning little ld ak change of some sort. Groans and lamentations will afford no satisfac- tory relief, nor will sitting around the &timer grocery every evening finding fault with the Government make your lives any broader or more satisfactory, YOu must think out your own financial salvation, not with fear and trembling, but with a determination to conquer your own prejudices and break through the shell of habit within which youe have become inCrusted. If you see those around you ocaapying farms about the size of your own wfio are doing better than you do, ask your- self if there is not something wrong with the man or manner, instead ol the business. Exercise your gump- tion. Think ! Think ! Think ! NOW, 1 say to my readers, and I ask you to carry the thought with you and let it dwou in your minds, that constant labor is not the price of success. True it is that no amount of planning and praying will produce a crop of corn or potatoes or wheat. We must do a proper amount of brain work, and "do our praying between the rows" ; but we must have gumption enough itt the first place to determine what we shall produce to bring us the best pay for the thought and labor in- vested. If your neighbor owning two hundred or three hundred acres of land is providing the comforts and luxuries cf life for his family by keeping a dairy, don't imagine that you can do the same from a little patch of thirty or forty aeres. This is a common practice in every com- munity. If the large farmers' pur- see a system of mixed farming, the uteri around them, With their teventsr or thirty or forty acre homes, like - Wise keep froitt two to four cattle, perhaps a pair of horses, raise an acre or two af wheat to eat, pota- toes for the family, it few oats for the hog and eats tlie hog. That is all there is to it. At the end of each yoar they aro twelve months nearer the end of life's journey without having seen a dollar which they could freely spend for their own pleasure, MI that this little narrow condi- tion of existence is to EXERCISE HIS "atnivrtox." If you are not Original in thought, Or if yoU don't knoW how to think, look around and Copy the inetheds FAIT.Iff NOTES. Because he can no longer do hard work the farmer sometimes moves from the farm to town. Few are contented in town. 'The old farm is the only place that seems like home. Ire has learned tO love the rural home 'during the many years of bard labor spent in making it a de- sirable place to live. Among famil- iar surroundings, performing a few of the many accustomed tasks, rest- ing under the shade of trees ho has planted and cherished, enjoying their luscious fruit, the old farmer will not rust out and will not need to seek further to find happiness during his declining years. Any branch- of farming which in- creases the general fertility of the farm land Nvhile paying a living pro- fit is worth more than another which steadily decreases the productivity of the soil. Robbing the land to make present profit is an unwise in- vestment. Sooner or later we pay for it, and sometimes dearly. Dairy- ing of all branches of farming stands first in this respect. it can be con- ducted so that the farm land will steadily degenerate until the place is on the verge of ruin and annaidon- ment, or it can be made to improve the soil year by year. An acre of grass land, according to experiments, gives off not less than 6,400 quarts of water in twenty- four hours, and an acre of sun - Rowers would give a relatively great- er quantity. In facts, swamps have been reclaimed and malarial marshes rendered inocuous by planting sun- flowers or eucalyptus trees, which are great pumpers of water, and also exert other influences counter- aoting baneful conditions of air, earth and water. A clover Crop 'When well grown exhausts much of the mineral fer- tilizors in the soil, and the phos- phoric acid, potash, and lime, but they aro the cheapest fertilizers- we can buy, while the nitrogen, which is increased by clover, even where only tho roots decay in the soil.; costs 'more than anything else, if wo. have to buy it in chendeals. There- fore to buy the cheapest' fertilizer, and grow clover to enrich the soil, is the economical way of doing it. Investigations at various experi- ment stations indicate that it re- quires about three poends of pota- toes to equal one pound of hay, and for horses standing idle itt the barn, potatoes may be used to some ex- tent where refuse' ones can be had very cheap. LITTLE THOUGHTS. The hotel' Which advertises home comforts does not alway'S specify the kind of home. Many a true "'word is poke bit jest, arid many it felser Statement is made in deadly earnest. The man who fights to preserve the peace may be inconsistent, but he is sometimes effeetive. A jackass is not generally credited With too tnuelt wisdom, but he can make a, tremendotta hoise evith his msulloitu:Is hiliishappy Whose *S temper, but. he IS More en-, 'circianstanees eellent wile can suit his temper to iretnnetanceS• WINO EJiIW VOTE WI= 1:MCEDE PUBLIC QUA:So TIONS Ii)3,1,ISTRAIrI4es This in a Total Bstirmated votittg streAgth. pi Only 1,826,000, .A.0 the arrangeinents for the One tenement of the provisions of the Australian Federal Franchise and Electoral Acts proceed, writes the Melbourne correspondent of the London Chronicle, the inimenSe weight which the new female vote will exercise th. fature electioris be- comes increasingly apparent. Sev- eral sporadic estimates have been made as to the composition and dis- tribution. amongst the States of the full strength of an electoral roll, which Will include the names of every adult person, male or female, who has ,resided in Australia and in a given _constituency for SIX months, but until recently nothing official has been advanced in any- thing but a tentative manner. Now, however, the Federal Governen.ent announces that its °facers expect to enroll 1,826,000 persons, divided amongst the States thus: State. New South rales Victoria ;;, Queensland South Australia . Western ..kustralia Tasmania Males. Females. 840,000 800,000 800,000 297,000 182,000 101,000 93,000 88,000 64,000 80,000 41,000 40,000 --. 970,000 856,000 Amusingly enough the very day that these figures were made p'ulelie the Melbourne arid Sydney daily press published a series of remark- able and picturesquely written. in- terviews with M. KrukofT, Russian Commissioner 01 Agriculture, who is touring here on it missioxi from the Tsar's Government, in which frank criticism of the policy of granting an indiscriminate franchise to women was indulged in. The "Age" interview reproduces all the quaintness of the Russian's Eng- lish. "It is well," the Itadical-Pro- tectionist organ makes M. Krukoff say, "to give a vote to women who have ark interest in the country '- houses, land, and such like, but to give a vote to the young unmarried woman, THE GIRL IN THE -SHOP, the factory - huh! Here all men and wonten have a vote! Surely that is bad! There is no -what do you call it? -qualification. The man who has nothing votes. That is bad. He should have, as you say, a stake itt the country. You ask Inc what I think of Australia; I say that the condition of Government is its worst feature." This belated philippic has, of course, 'bis read with good* humored interest as a reminder of the extent to which the new Conunonwealth is ahead of the Old World. Nowhere in the two loading States of New South Wales and Victoria is tin) ex- periment of raan and woman voting feared. The women themselves - or rather the leading women outside the society .and squatter cliques - are organizing rapidly, one of the most recent. leagues being composed of ladies ,who favor a protection policy. On the freo trade side, wo- men have lung been an active force. Apart froM the women who rank with the trades unions in Victoria, it is not too much to say that the bulk of thp. educated woman vote is free trade and Liberal in its tend- ency. The advocates of the federal- ization of factory legislation look forward eagerly to the federal elec- tions in 1904, when women will vote for the first time. From the evidence during recent State elec- tions, they calculate that they will poll nine-teriths of the female vote. An interesting side issue of im- portan.ce, which is likely to be test- ed very soon after the Federal Judi- ciary is established, has been rais- ed, viz., can women sit ineiz well as vote for the Commonweait ment. Laeve-ers are divided, the friends of unlimited freedom for wo- men claiming that qualification for the position of elector being the same as the qualification for a Par- liamentary candidate, the issue -must be in their favor. THE BRAZILIAN COW -TREE. Mr. Paul Fountain, a recent trav- eler in South America, describes • a remarkable tree which he found growing in the valley of the- Aroa- zorr, and which he thinks may be found in Central America .as well. As in the case of the rubber tree, it is the sap 01 the tree that makes it interesting. ItEr sap is a milk, sing- ularly like -the finest cow's milk. It is highly ndtritious, and will mix with water, hot or cold, and never curdles in coffee, cocoa or tea. It keeps good for a week, even in this climate, and has much the taste of cows Milk in which cin.nanion has been steeped. It is rather thicker than -ordinary -milk, having the feel- ing in the muutit of . Iiquid gym, If left standing for it time a thick, unctuous cream arises, which, when dry, has the consistence of wax. I have drunk large quantities of it, both as it eame from the tree, and also mixed with tea. or cocoa, with which it combiees better than COW'S intik; and 1 can say that it is not only exceedingly sustaining, bet has not the slightest deleterious quality, When I could get this sap I always chOSe it in preference to cow's millE, The sap is obtained either by wound- ing the bark of the trunk or by breaking the smaller branches, It runs freely, and several quarts can be Obtained from a single tree in the course of it few yours. Union the tree is much broken or out, it does not seem to adler much trout the loss of sap. "Have the hiry agreed?" asked the usher of it Iooked-up set of twelve, left under care of bis man, Delmer Garry, Whone he Met tipoit the stelae with it pail irt Ids hand. "011, yis,"1 replied Nrirlyt "they hand agra(ike to einek OSA Ate cutter go)* ionest