The Brussels Post, 1907-2-28, Page 74e,e*.
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y0111, best years—your beete
slow itevation; "hut corne"—more , light-
ly—"you have seine veey good ones left
too; you are still quite young; for a man
you aro quite young; the harm 1 have
done you Ls uot Jirepni'iihle 1 think"—
with an accent of reprouthee"you might
ease my mine ly telling me that the
harm 'I have done you is nut irrepar-
able I"
Thus, apepaled to, it is impossible for
him any longer to maintain his attitude
of disguise and concealment. His hands
must needs - be withdrawn from before
his face; and as he turns that face to-
wards her, she perceives with astonish-
ment, almost consternation, that there le
an undoubted tear in each of his herd
grey eyes.
"And what nhout the harm I have done
ts your' he asks under his breath, res if
having no conildence in Ms vcilce; "what
About the eget best years of your lifer'
A look of affection so high and tender
and selfless, as to seem to remove her
love out of the calegOry of the mortal
and the transitory, dawns and grows in
her wan face.
Ile shrugs Ids shoulders despoiringly.
'Jo my perds 1 eh° tot(' you, and she
-dict not tell you; you heard, and you did
not hear."
"1 am te113111 it very stupidly, I know,"
.she says,' apologetically, "very con-
fusedly; mid of coerse I can't expect you
understand by Instinct how II, was."
She sighs profoundly, anct then goes on
quitekly, and 110 longer looking ut
"'You know she tool: me to the party,
but when wo reecho(' the villa, I found
Abut she knew so many people and I so
few that 1 should only be e burden to
then if I kept continually by her side, and
ae• I was tallier tieed—you know that I
tad not been in bed for two or three
'nights—I thought I would go inlo the
house and rest., so as to be quite fvesh by
the 111118.3011 came. 11811010(1 it was not
ertlikely you might be a ffille late."
Ills conselence, at the unintentional.
weproach of this patient, supposition, re -
mind's him of its existence by a sharp
prick. lincy many times has het poor
vanity suffered the Meese of being long
test at the rendezvous?
"I cliscoVered that chair by tee window
'under the curtain, the one where you
found me."
"Well?"
"It wes so quiet them as everybody wes
en the garden, that I suppose 1 fell
asleep, at least I remember nothing more
unlit suddenly I heard Mrs. Byng's voice
.sayIng—"
"Saying vihet 7"
"Hereon was with her—he had brought
'her in to have sonic tea; it, was to him
'that she was spenking she was asking
him about me, where I was? where he
hnd left me? whether he had seen me
lately? And then she said, 'Poor Amelia,
elim really does neglect her shamefully;
aed yet one cannot help being sorry for
him, too; IL was such child -stealing in
the !lest instance, and he Ls evidently
-dead sick of her! It is so astonishing
that she does not sec 31!''
There is something almost terrible In
the calm distinctness with which Amelia
repeals the sentences that had laid the
•card -house of her happiness In the dust.
-Certainly she keeps her promise to him
to the leiter, she gives no slightest sign
-of breaking down. There is not a tear in
her eye, not, a quiver in her voice. After
a moment's pause, she continuos: •
"And thee he, Mr. Byng, answered,
'Poor soul, it --it Is odd I She must hey°
the hide of a. hippopotamus.'" ,
Amelia had finished her narrative, re -
peeling the young man's galling com-
ment with the sena conmosure as his
'mother's humiliatingly compassiopate
*nes; and for a space 11 ar'sole auditor is
•aleolutely incapable of making any cri-
ticism upon it. Ile is forbidden, if he,had
wished it, to offer her even the mtue
-amends of a dumb endearment, by the
reappearance on the scene of a couple
,of the sun -scorched „peasant torments
with their straw hand -screens. It i not
likely that those SO lately bought should
* have worn out already; but yet they re-
new their importunities with sneh de-
termined obstinacy, as if they knew this
to be the case; and it Is not until they
-are lightened of two more, that they
cemsent once again to refire, leaving the
warm bright plateau to the lovers—if in-
deed they can be celled such.
CHAPTER XXI.
"She was perfectly right," snys Ame-
lia, still speaking quite quietly; "11 is aa-
tonishing thaL 1. should not have seen
it; and It was child -stealing; you 'were
barely twenly-one, and was not very
young for a woman even then -1 Wes
twenty-three. I citsght to have known
better."
For once in his life Burgoyne is abso-
lutely' beeell of speech. It le always a
difficult matter to rebut a charge of be;
Ing clead-sick of a woman without con-
veying an insult in the very dental; and
'elee there lies a horrid substratum of
truth under the exaggeration of the ac-
cusation, the difficulty 'becomes an im.
possibility.
"However, 13 might have been much
worse," continues Miss Wilson; "just
think if I had overheard it only after 1
bad married you, when I knew (het there
was nothing but death that could rid
you of me. I thank Gocl I have heard It
in time,"
His throat Is still tee dr' for him .to
sipeak; but he stretches inn ,his arm to
ericteelesher in a Mute protest at that
thanksgIfing over her own shipwreck;
but, for the first time In her Me, she
eludes hls caress.
"Child -stealing," sho repeate, under
her benne "and yel."—with n touching
inapulso of Apology and deprecation.—
"you seemed oict for 30U8 '13310, you eeeme
eel so much in earnest; 1 think you really
1)010 —0 ,wistful pause—"and tiller -
weeds, though 1 could .not help seeing
that I was not to you what yeti were to
me, yet I thought -1 hoped that if 1
88a118(1-11 I was patierd—if no One else,'
Tto one ntore , worthy of yoci pence be -
1000(1 us"—areelher ancl 83111 wistfuller
delay In her halting 83100 11-3011 might
grow a tittle fond gf me out of long
hetet; 1 ((ever expected yoti to be mote
than a „little fond 01 1180 I" ,
He tuts entirejy, hidden his face in his
hued% so that she is without thal, index
to guide her as to the effect produced by
her words, and he continues completely
snout. Whether', 08011 after bee rude
awakening, she still, deep le her head,
cherishes some pale hope of affientah tin
explaining awny of the 'repoeted ullere
ances, who shall MO It is with a bathe
eliolied sigh that elle goes 011
"Dul, you could not; I eni not so cm.
PIA as not, 1.0 know that you tried yew,
best. Poor fellowl it must limo been up-
hill work for you" --with a first Much of
bitlelffiess--"taboring to love me, fee
°WM years; is it any womler that you
felled? and 1 tees eo thickeskinned 1 did
riot ,efie it-1ho 'hide or a hippopotamus'
hidoodI 111e1e 00311(1 1101 be 0 jester tone
samisen: end now till 1 eall de is to beg
tette 'tidbit for 1t Ing opelle eight et
"Do not fret about them," she answers
soothingly, "they were—they always will
have been—the eight best years of my
life. They were -full of good and plea-
sant things. Do noL Mega—I would not
.for worlds have you forget—I shall never
forget myself—that they all came to me
through your'
AL her worcle, most innocent as they are
of any intention of prochicing such an
effect, a hot flush of shame rises to his
forehead, es his memory presents la ltim
the successive eras into which these eight
good years had divided 'themselves; six
months of headlong boyish passion, six
months of cooling,fever; teed seven years.
of careless, . intermittent, matter-ofcdurse, half tenderness. .
"Through me?" be repeats, with an ac-
cen1 of the deepest self-abaseinent; "you
do not mean to be ironical, dear; you
were never such a thing i11 your life; you
could not be if you tried; but if you
Iniew what a sweep you make me feel
when you sny the,sort 01 1311(831 you have
just said! --and so it Is all to come to an
end, is et? Good as these eight years
have been, you have had enough of
them? You do not want any more like
them?"
She says neither yes nor no.. He re-
mains unanswered, unless the faint
smile in her weary eyes and about her
drooped mouth can count for a reply.
"And all because, you have heard some
fool say that e was lived oe you?"
The light Smile spreads a little wider,
and invades her pale cheeks.
„ "Worse than tiredl sick! stele he denth!"
She is looking straight before her, at
the landscape slim -tiering in the cihnhing
sun, Ilia divine landscape new and
young as it WAS before duoino and bell-
Lowee eprang and towered heavenwards.
Why shouldher gaze dwell any more
upon him? Sho has renounced him,
her eyes must fain renounce _him too.
Ae he hears her words, as he watches
her patient profile, 1110 sole suffering
thing in tlie universal morning joy, a
great revulsion of feeling, a peat com-
passion mixed with as lttege a remorse
pours in torrent over his heart. These
emotions aro so strong that they make
11101 deceive even himself as to their na-
ture. II seems to him as if scales had'
suddenly fallen from his eyes, showing
Min how profoundis lic prizes the DOW
departing good-, telling him that liee can
neither ask nor glve anything better than
the undemanding„ selfless, boundless
love about lo withchaw its shelter feom
lann His 01111 steals round her waist,
and not Mice does it flash across his
mind—as to his shame,' be it spoken, it
has often " flashed before—what a long
weer it ens id steer!
"Am 1 sick of you, Amelia?"
She makes no effort to felease herself.
It eines him rto harm that she should
once more rest within his clasp. But she
still loeks straight beton) her at lucent
I"it'enz& and her oth•es, and says three
tines, accompanying each repetition of
3110 WOrd Willi a SerrOwIlll little head -
shake :
"Yesl yes! yes!"
He will compel her to look at him, his
own Amelia. Have not all her lender
looks been his for elght.iong yeties?Pie
puts out his disengaged hand, and with
determinately turns her poor quIveting
fete round so as to meet his gaze.
'"Am I sick of you, Amelia ?"
• in the emotion of the moment, 11 ap-
pears .to 113111 as it there were something
almost ludicrousle Improbable and lying
about that accusation, in which, when
Met brought against him, his guilty soul
bad effinitted more thaeta grain 01 3(11111.
Her 'faded eyes turned to his, like flow -
cite le their sun; the vernally of his 30100'
and 01 3118 eager freey orbs—still softened
feom their babiloal severity by the tears
that had so lately wet Mein—making
such a hope, as, five minutes ago, sho
thought 110801again to cherish, MOP
into splendid life in her sick bend,
"Is it possible?" .elie nnunnms almost
inaudibly, "do ,you mean -•--that you are
not I"
Iffiey go down the hill, pasl the cot-
tages, and the incurious peesmils, hand
in hand, her soul punning over with n
deep joy; ned his occupied by an un -
timelier calm, 11111 is yet backed hy 1(18
eche of remorse, and 1,1'31111(1else?
'That 'else" he himself in either could eor
would define, Ile spends the whole of
33151 (103' with Amelia, both lunching and
dining with her end her family;
courme tvhich cells forth eepressiotts et
1(1801 8131(1 suprise, not at all tinctured
with maliee—ffiniess it be in the Can of
Selene, whe' lins never been pullet 10
him—from each of ellein,
"WO 111180 been thinking Ilia( jim tens
going le 3111 yoit, Atmoin r Cecilia has
set(' with m11001'111 be/linage; sitange
eey, has (11(8 118801 et all offended when
3101 hes retorted, with delta melee and
much superior illemeirt, that on Snell a
Mrs. Cora B. 1111iller ,
Makes a Fortune
started n Few Years Ago with No
Capital, and Now IGnmloys Nearly
One Hundred Clerks and
Stenograpliers.
il'eut a few years ago Mrs, Corn A.
Miller lived la a manner similar to that
Of thousands of other very poor woolen
of the average small town and village,
She now resides in ker own palatial
brown•stono residence, and la considered
ono of the most sueeessful business WO.
In the 'United Statna.
Mrs. Miller's New Residence, Earned In
Less Than Ono Year.
Several years ago Mrs. Miller learned
of a mild and simple preparation that,
cured herself and several friends of female
weakness and piles. She was besieged by
so many women needing treatment that
she deelded to furnish it to those who
might call for it. She started with only
a few dollars' what and the remedy,
possessing true and wonderful merit, pro.
eeeree teeny cures when doctors ' and
other remedies failed, the demand grew so
rapidly aha was several times compelled
to seek larger quarters. She now mon-
pies ono of the eity's largest office build-
ings' which she owns, and almost one hun-
dredclerks and stenographers are re-
cazIred to assist in this groat business.
Million Women Use It.
More than a million women have used
Mrs. Miller's remedy, and no matter where
you live, she cam refer YOU to ladies in
your own locality who oan and will toll
any stifferar that this marvellous remody
really cures women. Despite the fact that
Mrs. Miller's business is very extensive,
she is always willing to give aici and ad -
Vice to every suffering woman who writes
to hor. She Is a generous, good woman,
and has decided to give away to women
who have never used her znedicine $10,.
000.00 worth absohitely PREE,
Every woman suffering with pains in
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feelings, nervousness, creeping sensations
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Remember this offer will not last long,
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susaahmesermagosmnownw..
subject no one could speak with more
authovity then she.
The large white stars are making the
nightly sky almost as gorgeous as the
day's departed majesty had done, ere
.1110 finds himself back at his hotel. His
intention ol quietly retreating to his own
room is traversed by 1331131, who, having
evidently been on the watch for him,
springs up the steles, three steps at a
lime, after him.
"Where have you been all day?" he in-
quires impatiently.
"At the Angio-Amerleain. 1 Wonder
you are not lived of always asking the
some question and receiving tlie same
answer to iL."
"I am not so sure that 1shoulci aleihys
receive the snme answer," replies the
other, with a forced laugh—"Inili slop a
bill"—(seeing a decided quickening of
speed in his friend's upward movements)
—"my inother is aeking for you; she lias
been asking for you ell the afternoon;
she wants to speak 'to you before she
g0'018o2S'
e
" s, 7»5110 IS Off at seven o'clock to-
morrow morning—back to England; she
had a telegram to -day to say that her
old aunt, the one who brought her up,
has had a second stroke. No!"—seeIng
Jim begia to arrange his features in that
deoorous shape of gitave sympathy which
eve naturally assume on such occasions—
"i1 is no case of great grief; tile poor old
woman has been quite silly ever since
her last' attack; bu1 mother thinks'lliat
she ought 10 be there, at—at the end; lo
look after things, and so fomete111.1'8'irig that
'330380 113 00 Madness, a 80
021111811111.1831
the reverse 01 regret 111, the
tone einployed by MIS. tynet's son' in
this detailed account. 01 3110 causes 01 3101'
imminent departure, whith, even if lila
thoughts imd not alrendy sprung in that
direction, would have set • Burgoyne
thinking es to the mode In 'which tile
young man before him is likely lo ern-
ple, the liberty that les parent's absence
will restore to him.
I offered to, go with her,' says Byng,
perhaps discerning a portion at least of
hie companben's disapprobation.
'And she refused ?"
• 133/114 looks down, and begins' to kick
the bannistees--they arc still on the
slates --idly with one foot,
, "Niother is so' • unselfisll that it Is al.
weys dillemit to make out what she real-
ly wishes; but--bul, I do not quite .see 111
3811111 1150 I should be to het' if I did go."
There ls a moment's pause; then Bur-
goyne sneaks, 110 n dry, hoetatory elder
brother's voice: ,
"If ' you Mee my adviee you will go
•home,"
The cilsinlevesled relined of wise older
brothers is wit always leken in the spi-
rit it merits; ami y„el there is no trace of
docile anct unquestioning acquiescence
in Being's Monocellable—
:\BZ1170, if you sen,' here, I think you
Will need, likely get ink) misehief."
'elle young Maris usuelly goothinnuor-
el ryes give out a Wee sped: lhat looks
dither like fIght.
"The some kind of misehlef (het you
Mee 1,18-e1 gelling into liming 1118 past
week?" he Mt:trees sl,wly,,
The ecquaintance with his niovelitente
eviddicod by Ibis lest 80111e1102, no lees
then I/OtWit 1110Y 11(0118/ 813111 las own
111(111888, slogger 311)1, to the •extent of
making him, accept -111e -Sneer • hi • keel
Ahmed,. Is not il, a delay deserved one?
lell Ilia we/eel-natured Illyng is nleentlY
repent:trig it; end there IS 130013111 Ing COD.
eillatory and almost entreating in the
spii-it of ltlis !eel. remark
"1 do not know what has happened to
my inolliev," he toys, lowering Ws voice;
"there ls no ono lose of a niauvalee
longue then sho, as you know; but in
the crtee Of Ile breaks off and he.
gine Ids sentence afresti;'"iihe has been
\Yarning 1»43 against them again; I can't,
find that she hag tiny reteson 'to go upon;
but she has taken a violent prejudice
against her. lelie 8e3.9 111101. 13 Is (me of
her instincts; and you—you have done
nothing towards setting her right?"
Perhaps it may be that his young
friend's reported meteptier of the "leppu-
polaintis bide" lies not served to render
lein any (.32141'Or to Jim; but 11(00810 008-
1(11(117 no petit suavity 1/1 1/IS 101/13';
of
"Why should Is no concern
mine."
"No concern of yours, to stand by and
see art angers white robe besmirched by
the foul mire of slander?" cries Byng
digital -illy, and lapsing into that high-
flown mood which never falls' to make
Ins more work -a -day reompanion "see
blood."
"When I eome acrOss such a disagree-
able sight it will be lime enough to de-
cide whether I will interfere or not, At
'tenon', 1111180 1101 (1101. with anything of
the kind," returns he, resoiutely putting
an end to the dialogue by knocking at
Mrs, Byng's portal, within whichhe is
at once admitted:
The door of the bedroom communica-
ting wIth the salon is open, and theough
11 110 sees the lady he has 001110 10 visit
standing surrounded by gaping dress-
baskeLs, strewn. raiment, and scattered
papers; all the uncoinfortable litter that
speaks of au imminent departure. She
joins hint at, once, and, shutting the.door
behind her, ells down witle a fagged air.
• "I hear," he begins—"Willy tells me—I
am very socey to hear—"
"Oh, there is no great cause for sor-
row," rejoins she quickly, es If anxtous
Le disclaim a grief which rnight bresup-
posed to check Or limit her conversation
—"poor dear old auntiel—the people who
love her best could not wish to keep her
in the state she hos been M for the last
peed oh, dear F—sighing—"how very
dismal the deep ot life arel do not you
hope, Jim, that WA shall die befere we
wale to be 'happy releases'?"
"I do indeed," replies he gravely; "I
expent to be sick—dead-sick of life long
before I reach that stage of it."
Ire looks ather resentfully as she
speaks, but she MS SO entirely forgotten
her own application of the aceented ad-
jectives 30 hls feelings for Amelia, that
she replies ally by a rather puzzled but
perfectly Innocent glance.
"1188801' WAS so unwilling to leave any
place in my life," she goes die presently,
pursuing her own train of thought; "I
do not know -how to describe it—a sort
of presentiment."
lite smiles.
"And yet I do not think there are any
owls In the Piazza to hooL under your
tvMdoryas l"
Pe ps not," rejoin§ she, with some
warmth; "but what is still more unlucky
than that happened lo me last night;
they peseci the wine the wrong Way
round the table at the MpIvors. I was
on. thorns 1"
"And you think that the wine going the
wrong wily round the table gave your
aunt a stroke?" inquired Jim, with an
irritating air of asking for information.
Mrs. Byng reddens slightly.
"I think teething of the kind; I draw
no inference; 1 only slate a filet; 111s a
very 1(011e0:3- thing to semi the wine
round the wrong way: if you had not
spent your life among grizzly bears and
cannibule you tented have !mown it
kto I"
"eller° ere no cannibals in the Becky
Mountains," corrects Jim quietly; and
then they both laugh, and recommence
theft' talk on a more friendly fooling.
"I am not at all happy about Willy."
"No ?"
"It ie not his health so much—his color
is good, and ills appetite nol. bad,"
"Except the Fat Boy in Pickwick,' I
nevee heard et any ono who Mei a bet-
ter."
"But he is not himself; them is some-
thing odd about hind"
"Indeed 1"
"I•Iave not you noticed It yourself ?—do
not you think that there is something
odd 811)01(1 1(1111? Does not he strike you
(18 odd?"
repeats Burgoyne •steely, re-
flecting in how extremely commonplace
a light both the teethes and vices of ids
fellow -traveller have always presented
themselves to Mtn; "11. would never have
occurred to me that Willy Was odd ; I
cannot" — "encourege you 111
thr idea that you have added one to the
number of the world's eccentrIcs."
She sighs rather Impatiently at his ap-
parent intentional misunderstanding of
"r"'Cdtliilillitiren arcs avenues to misfortune,'
as somebody said, arul I think that, \vile -
ever he wee', he was right' If Jacob take
a wile 07 1118 daughters of Beth, slice es
aro those in the land, what good shall
117`Witti\ey do sliothuldine3Youtt credit Jacob ' with
anYs3
10li
ntel111011'
eTi0eetiia1111Lleaving him here
by1111011135116h? You count me as no one
the11T"
,oI),ys,icl0—I
Count you es a great
deal; hat is why I was so anxious to
speak to'you before I went; of muse I
do not expect ypu to take upon yotwself
the whole responsibility 01 1(1111 but you
might keep an eye 'upon litm,"
ile shrugs his shoulders.
"As 1 linve lo f(ee]) the other eye upon
myself, I am efeaki ilint the effort cvould
1)9113Miriskehils11008wc,Liliting1'nerosily (het I • arn
fraid cd—hls selfesacrificing 'Impulses;
alweys in terror of his ' marrying
me one out of pure good naluee, just
oblige het', edst berause she looked as
sieeillti‘;111111ellisc((tiniLthintis 11101 It (100.9 not'
much mallet, whom we marry, whether
'noisy scullions' 00 'acidulous vestals.'"
"1 cle not care what Stephenson
thinks; ever since \\Illy eves le Eton
e0ieke18, 1 linve Mid- a nightie -lee of his
bringing 1110 1101110 118 daughter -in -lacy
omelette' Mlle governess with her nose
through her veil and her fingers through
lier gloves I"
leitgoyno • -steaks involuntarily es a
visten of Elizabelles daintilyethel hands
fee -lire before his menial eye,
"I think you (A enede bit; inn jinn» 1.
mily; 1 never elm( litre nt ell • lender lo
any 0110 18110b0 gloves 11010 1101 1)03131111$11tiD1L:10/1."
Mrs. Ilyng laughs conelrehredly.
"Well, if slle lies 1103 holes in her
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Jim draws in las breath hard. The tug
of wee is cbming, its the preceding lead-
ing remark, luggee in by the 110001 anti
sitoulders, sufficiently evidences. At all
-de 511 omen 03 lluffitou op WA 0// enteral
preach easier or quicker. He awaits It
ie AI Mime.
"These Le Marchards—as theY ere
friends of yours -1 suppose that I ought
1101 to say anything against them?"
• "I am sure that you are too well-bred
to de anything of the kind," replies he
precipitately, with a determined effort to
stop her mouth , with a compliment,
whielt she Is equally determined not to
deserve.
"1 do not thinlc I am; I am onlY, well-
bred now and then, when it sults me;
694 1100n31 stien•yg tto° h'beear
wiet.Tbred to -night."
"Whether they are friends of yours or
not, Ido not like them." • •
"1 do not think that, that matters much,
either to you or to them."
"I have en instlect that they IVA ad-
vereuresses."
"1 know foe a certainty"—with growing
1\t'cianranyei—"that they are nailing of the
"Then why do not they go out any-
where?"
"Because they do not choose."
"Because no ore asks them, more
likely I Why were they so determined
not to be introduced to me?"
"How can 1 tell ? Perhape—with a
laugh.—"they did not like your
lonks 3"
She echoes les false mirth with no in-
ferior exasperation.
"Who is ill-bred now."
Her tone calls him back to a sense of
the ungentleinanlikeness and puerility of
his conduct.
"I 1"—he replies contritely—"undoule-
ally I I Ine—"
"Do not apologize," interrupts she, re-
covering her equanimity with that ease
which she has transmitted to her son;
like. you for standing up for them lf
they aro your friends; and I hope that
you will do the same good office for me
when some one sticks pins into me be -
hied my back' but,. come now, let us be
h
eationa.sury we may talk quietly
about them without insulting each other,
11(07 (001 WO?"
"I do 1101 know; we can try."
"I' suppose"- •a little ironically—"that
you are not so sensitive about them but
that you can bear me lo aSk, a few per-
fectly harmless .questions."
Ile writhes. •"01 coursel of course!
what aye they to me?—they are nothing
ta 1110 (88
A look of incredulity, which she per-
haps does not take any very great pain
to conceal, spreads over her face. . •
"Then you really will be doing me a
great seevico if you tell me just, exactly
all yett know about them, good and
bad."
"All 1 know about them," replies Jim
ill a rapid parrot -voice, as if he were
rattling over seine disagreeable lesson—
NUL they weee extremely kind to me len
years ago; 11011 13103' had ft beautiful place
lie Devonshire, and' *ere universally
loved nud respected: .1 hear tha1 they
have let their piece; so no doubt they am
not so inuell loved and respected as they
Were; and now you know as much about
the matter as I do I"
(To be continued).
FEEDING LIVE STOCK. '
• I three had eonsiderabl, . experience
feeding cattle, although I am now re-
hred from the farm, saes eh,. J. M.
Yeazell. I have a special preference for
the Shorthorn breed and like to have
hien range about two years olcl, aver-
eging about 1,300 pounds each when put
en feed. I think the 'best tithe to buy
Meek °BUM for feeding is February
As soon as possible, 1 turn them on
blue grass in the 831e11131 and Ilegin feed-
ing them green corn in August. It
should be noted, that I feed them largely
in 'seine -lee months on geass. At the
same time, good covered yards nre pro-
vided In which they can seek shelter,
have a very large shed on the north,
horse barns on the west, large sheep
and hay barn on the east and, south.
In my experience, 110080 had no trou-
ble in caring for 50 head of cattle in a
space of 100 feet square. I have de -
penile(' largely upon Mover hay and
corn fodder. I usually feed about Si
o clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in
thc afternoon. 1 have had good results
feeding oil meal In eennection wIIlo
roughage. My cattle ailerwarris had a
free lick of salt and were watered from
a 10 -barrel tank, which is covered to
prevent freezing. The water is pumped
by windmill, 1 usually sell and round
out my cattle in April.
As a rule, 1 have two hogs follow eiteh
stem I find this is not only prontable,
but desirable. I would rather have
plenty of hogs, because nothing is lost
when they ore following the cattle, 1
have fed cattle for the past 20 years
and have had much experience feeding
Iambs. Have had as many as 100 head
of sheep inclosed in a barn in a season.
I believe cattle, sheep and swine are
profitable, because I always have plenty
of manure, which is of special value
Li every farmer. I use a manure spread-
er and find it an Invaluable pieee of
farm maehinery. I always haul out the
manure In August and September, fre-
quently handling 1,100 loads during these
two months.
SAVE THE MANURE.
Manure is the farmer's bank and is
woefully neglected, write.s a =respon-
dent. Barnyard is suitable for any crop
and is superior to eommercial fertilizer.
Using farm made manure and watching
results, convinces mo of this. The
urine is valuable and should be mixed
with fresh manure as it accumulates,
which causes it to rot Without heating
and the loss of ammonia that Ls hivolv-
ed during fermentation, 11 not, enough
bedding to absorb moisture, dry dirt cr
sand should be used. If manure has
not been properly ferm,ented or rotted
when put in heaps, earth should be
mixed with it to keep it from heating
and save the ammonia.
Much loss is caused in throwing ma-
nure out of the stable' in large piles.
It may look slovenly not to clean. out
stables every day and let the manure'
accumulate, but 1 can keep ine• stock
clean by bedding freely and much in-
crease the manure. If manure is scat-
tered on the ground and plowed under,
deep there is a great waste. Avoid
this. Spread and plow under shallow.
1 prefer surface application. Spread an
plowed ground and harrow land at
once. Damp weather is better than
sunny, windy days to handle manure.
WHEN KONG'S RELENT.
Rulers Who Are Averse to Signing the
Death Warrant.
A touching story concerning the aged
eseperor Francis Joseph was recently
cabled from Vienna. He was signing 1.
death -sentence, and was so affected
thereb' that two big tears rolled down
his cheeks and blotted out pad ef what
he had written.
His Majesty thereupon turned to Ms
secretary and said: "Tears venewe every'
fault. I cannot sign. See for yourself.
ely signature is blotted out. 1 give the
man his lite."
A eery similar occurrence marked
the connueneeineut of Queen Victoria's
edge. The Duke of Wiellington brought
to her a rotice-maytiel death eentence
for signature. After considerable de -
nun she signed it. Then, acting on. a
sudden impulse and bursting into tears,
she look up her pen again and wrote,
iacetees the Mae tit t•he document the
single word "pardoned."
This spontaneous act of royal Mem-
env held good, too, and the condemned
man. went Mee. But a shor1. Act was
passed. directly afterwards relieving the
young Sovereign from the distressing
task of having le sign any more Of s
tbese gruesome documeids.
Similar anecdotes aro told of many
other European potentates, and of still j
MOM Oriental ones. Even the usually
austere Keiser wants to pardon the L
cables "Captain of Kapaniek," and ,13
is pretty certain ifteL seoe slop woo/
'meet with general approval. The late
Tsar Alexander We too; insisted upon
speeing 'the 11ro of Jessie eleljniann, one
of assassinators of his father, es
soon nO be heard that she was likely to
become a mothee,
riVeleAeetANYVeeke4MANIOVVVY1
ON THE FARM.
WcolieW/WcesA0VIeWelet
TIMELY HINTS ABceliT FliCHT THEES
• Many feud trees become old promo.
turely because they are not properly,
teken dire of, SOMA, fruit growers get
11111ieetridt(;fterilitIllist ‘eviii1d0end.,111wPYliesnetl:urteaalitytrealt
has just commenced. Plantieg a tree,
find then neglecting only 00111Ing
arouncl each year to gather the fruit,
01tAY de/ tOr year or two, but there
win scene be no fruit worth gallteringi
When trees get in this condition, mane,
rumens will dig them out and destroy
them, but with very little expense these
seemingly worthless orchards could he
st\r,rairtiessfolai*.d.r.lont3oLuresurces of .proflt,
Last spring 1 had some choice peach
trees that I had taken great pride in,
dboliztexsi‘,1ilhiaillheno'lltxcgeitl'oticuvini °of 10)51)3033nItg(8eutl•lopa,
They had teen cultivated arid fertilized
every year and 1 was at a loss to know,
oecrfficautret.o do with them, However, 1
went, at them determined either to Idle
In 6 inchelscuot1 otflf:Ilboldhieeslin‘iviihsietiol s‘eNi.ielire;
given a good spraying with soap. The
new growth on the stubs the past sum-
mer was simpev Menke/Mous. Marty;
branches were 4 to 0 feet long. I now.
have a fine lot,of practically new trees,
which give prondse of a paying crop.
next SAL15011. The best peaches are al.
W'83'5 grown on new wood, heece this ,
poach
biereelsieyt in mind when pruning
I take care of my pear trees on about
the same principle. Every season there
are some trees that have to be severely,
pruned. Tho tops are cut out and theY
go through the renovating process of
growtng ne tops. 13u1 in the pear, it ,
takes more time to get fruit on new
growth. The peach bears on one-year
wood, while it lakes the peer two and
sometimes three years before it bears
fruit in paying quantities. In ease of
only having a few trees of some choice
earldies, end not wishing to be withouV
fruit any one season, I simply cut out
only one-half of the top, leaving the
remainder to be taken out the follocv-
ing spring. In this way, I get fruit, and
grow a new top at the same time.
There ie one very Important point,
however, ,that must be kept in niind
when renewing fruit trees; the Niger-
ous growth of new wood is often twice
as much as necessary, and it must be
judiciously pruned. Cut 0111. 11)0 small-
est branches, leaving only the largesG
and best, the idea being to have au
open top so that, the sunlight can reace"
the fruit. Fruit that reaches perfeetketi
Is seldom found in a thick topped tree,
but is almost always produced on the
outskie or top branches in Ihe senlight.
The main trouble with standard pear.
trees is, that they grow too high.
telligent fruit growers are gradually re-
sorting to this heading in processee as
tiwy find it containe many good pointa
worthy of observation. After a pad of
the top Ls cut out, the rest 01 1310 tree
gets the whole strength lir= the roots,
which have not been disturbed. In this
way a higher grade of fruit is secured
and is easy to sell at paying prices. In
my young pear orchard I have fallacy-
*, this heading in process from youth
up, as it were, starting ltie head cif the
Iree about 3 feet from the ground and
cutting back the top •Crery 3/801', thus
getting good, stocky feces which. are
capable of sustaining their fruit. 1
stood on the ground and picked fully.
two-thirds of the ears in
year-olit orchard. This shows that 'the
heading procees has been systematically,
followed
10 the case of an old, neglected or-
chard, the soil will need a good cle.M.
t°etk eanintOnuttl." faefstie. 811101' 11131
itis 11111,4Slielff 1:0(11.
A good, steady team and plow are need.
ed to plow 111 the centre of two roles of
treee, kipping the flest two furrows. te
Wtly, 3'011 will be plowing acvay from
Lee teee•„ and the cleaving hp furrove
will come directly in line with each
row of Melee Plow as closely as pose
ible, taking care not to bark the treea.
What sod is left, throw away from has.
ie; of the trees with a shovel. Noxious
risectsonice etc., often lake refuge in ma
grass around trees, and keep the ground
,are next to tree. The depth al, which
o plow will have to be regulated ace
cording to the neneness of the roots to
the surface. 'Plow as deep as possible
NVIDttrWtitilt ilDni1110r11.1111g11M11810eicIle0oitting la the
need of the Mime, but net 100 close to
the trees. The feeding roots are out'
from the base, not around close to it.
Harrow the ground frequently with a.
wheel or spading hareow. If the SOU
1s very poor, sow cowpeas between the
trees in 3uly; plow these under and
sow- rem in September; piew the rye
under the succeeding April. On no ae-
count, let rye or grass go to seed in en
o
reheat. Tend a fruit tree as taithfully
Ile you would a 11I11 of corn, for the
preollt is many then. greater. Eve
Nn
ery ced ripple trO0S May be r0t1OWed
p11:1v P113710.011:13,1: ii1g1 obn.ld' 0 11111g1 1halitilat dltrOol 11111gy(1110
(81100 .wo artai nit)iiogns
en 20 thee square 111`011101 an old ran
Pippin apple tree, 1 thotight llas old
tree was about played out, as it Nulty
ever had nny apples on, 'and what del
eow \vete small and poor. Thoeu pigs
rooted at their pleasure, going away
down MI6 3110 Stetson, ineking holes
needy 2 feet deep in pieces. I expeet.
ed they would kill the tree, Tho 31818.
was removed lite following suing ao11
the soil leveled off. I paid no further
attention, lo it, until Meng in the smile
me I noticed the thee wa.s of ap.
pies are growing in a rigorous WOY ('0'
01001(51)15 foe a tree et least 50 veva
old. l'hat fall I picked 24 baskets ef
the Nest end • largest Pall Pippins I
have evee seen anywhere. The tree Mee
col/tented to bear well since.
NOT A Goon mos TO -Ha,
Tim : "I don't believe in hitting a man
when he's down."
Pat: "Shea not -1f you're going to hit
him fee money."
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A Boston schoolboy was
weak and sickly.
His arms were soft and ,flabby:
He didn't have a strong muscle in his
entire body.
The physician who had attended
• the family for thirty years prescribed ses
O Seotea Erna/a/on, 0
0
O NOW:
0
O To feel that boy' s arm yoit
*mulo . think he was apprenticed to 4
blacksmith.
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"Well," esked the Reverend Mr, 'no
man, 'what dtet you think 01 ley see.
8(1018 1'
"Oh 1 e8-11. WIIS like you," replied Mte
Karldee,
13111'not 81151183 ehr
"Well, 11 certainly Wasn't, steittedtit '