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The Brussels Post, 1907-3-21, Page 7D A.RE H ? OR, A SAD LIFE STORY ieeloo-004-0+04•0+0+0+0-1-0•04-04-04-04-o+o-e-o+ce+-o4-0+0+ CHAPTER NXIII. "I am, going to turn the tables on Yoe," esays Amelia next, morning to her lover, .after lee usual endearments, which of late he has been conscientiously anxious not to scant or slur, have massed between them, very faiely executed by him, and -adoringly accepted and returned. by her; ',led are always arranging" treats for tie I now I have planned one fer you 1" pile looks so beaming with benevolent joy as she makes this statement, that .Jim sloops and drops an extra: kiss -not In the bond -upon her lifted face. "In- ' -deed, dear," be answers kindly, "I do not quite know what, 1 have done to de. .servo it, but I hope 11 10 a race one." "it is very nIce--delightful." Delightful, eh? echoes he, raising h brows, while a transient wonder cross les mind as to what project she or an else could suggest to hini that at thl juncture of his affairs could merle tha epithet; "well, am I to guess what 11 18 ,01. are you going to ten me?" Amelia's face still weave that smile o :complacent confidence in having som thing pleasant to communicate wino Itio. puzzled her companton. "We have Dever been at Vellomerosa ihove we?" asks she. "Never." "Well, we are going there to -morrow. "Are we? is that your treat?" in -quirks he, wondering what of peaullarl •ancl distinctively festal for him this ex pedition may be supposed to have abov :Be their former ones. "And we are not going alone." 'There Is nothing very exceptional In 'that; Cecilia is mostly good enough to 'tend us her company." "I am not thinking of Cecilia ; I have persuaded "-the benevolent emile broad - 'ening acroes lier cheeks -"I have per. isuarded some friends of yours to loin us." It does not for an instant cross his e mind either to doubt or to effect uncer- tninty as to who the friends of whom sbe -speake may be; but the suggestion is so profoundly unwelcome to tem, that not even the certainty of mortifying the un- s- .selfish creature before him can Macke him hem showing it. Her counteernce :falls, rj "You are not glad?" she asks crest, ,fallenly, "you are not pleased?" • 11 16 impossible to him to say that he •,-. is, and all that is left for him is to put The. vexation` Into words that may be as ea, little as possible kaught with disappoint- dt:. 'a ing quite destitute, has had the Koh -i- e - errant to his poor hearer's ear. ' "I -1 --had rather had you to myself." • "Would you really?" she asks, In the e . :almost awed bones 01. ono who, born be- e - Noor put into his hand, and whose On- ] gers are afraid to close over the :mighty jewel ; "would you really 1 then I are sorry I asked them; but" --with intense wistfuleess-'1f you only knew liow I long to give you a little pleasure, a little enjoyment -you who have given nut so infinitely much." if Miss Wilson were ever addicted to - the figura of speech called irony, she might be supposed to be employing it now; but one glance at her simple face would show that a expre.ssed nothing but adoring gratitude. Her one good e, fortnight has spread its radiate veil backward e over her eight barren years. He takes her hand, arid passes the fin- gers across his lips, murmuring indis- tinctly and guiltily behind them. "Do I really tnake you happy r "Do you ?"-ectioea she, while the transfiguring tears well into her glorified pale eyes -"I should riot have thought it poesible that 60 MU011 joy could have been packed into any fortnight as I have had crammed into mine r . • Theyebave to set off to Vellombrose, at seven o'clock in the morning, an hour at which few Of Us aye at'elthet• oor clever- est, handsomesteer our best tempered; r nor is the party of six,' either in its pro- " portion or women to men --four to We- er in its component pates, a very well a le adjusted . one. They am too numerous e Io be contained in one Carriage, and are therefore divided into two sepatate bands -three and- levee. Whether by some. manoeuvre of the well-meaning e. Amelia or by some scarcely. fortunate aecidete, Burgoyhe ends himself seated opposite to his betrothed and lo Elia- bet,ii ;' while Byng follows In the second • vehicle es vis-a-vis to Cecilia and Mrs. le Le Merchant. There 16 a general feeling 01 wrongness about the whole arrange - meat -a sense of mental discomfoit equtvalent to that physicaleine of having pUI on your clothes Inside out, or but- toned your beeons inte unanswering .) but ton -holes. ' Mrs. Lo Merchant's face, as Burgoyne &itches eight alit now and then, es sortie turn in the roadsreveals the enmates of ..- the elosely-following seecmcl carriage to his view, wears dent uneasy and , quieted leak which always disfigures it 00i1:• when there s any question of her being ' brought into personal relafton. with e stritegers, And Eliznbeth, of whom he ' • • Ime naturally a much neaeer and more " continuous view, is plainly illethenee hilss Wilson has not the -eget it necessary. to Mention to hor lover how strong bad . to been the opposItiten to het' plan on the part of Me objects DI!!; note that, it was only because ber proposal wna made • viva Vote, and therefore unoseapnble, that a had boon reluctantly acceeme en eee boot. Al first 13urgoyee had nitributed Ellannetles evident 111-at-eateness 10 her separation Mom Ilyng; but ho presently diseovers tient 11 is wine She possesses, and not, what, she laceS, that Is 1110 Chid e source of her maloiso, During 111,:. latter " pig, Of MS own personal intercourse wee her she had been, when 111 his company, sometimes Mel, Sohlethnes .. wittily Merry; but always entirely tatural. Strange as it inny seem 1! Is obviously the presence ot Amelia that , puts constraint Mimi her. Before serail, of Ibilt mot entre 'trying of Cod's ,_ creatures, Elizabeth "fends rebuked.'" '-.0rice or twice he SUS her. ieborn piety -Mat gaiety. whose betel:ono he has so 1 often Mead ris It 'etrugglee• tip here e lt 1, I ueder the mysterious weight of sorrow laid upon le -slime into life, only to be instantly killed by the reassumption of that nervous formal manner which not all Amelites gentle efforts can break I brough. A very grave trio they drive along through the grave day. For 16t alas, 1 a grave day -overcast, lloW turning 10 Pahl, POW growing fair agin Net a grain of Italye summer curse, her choking white dust, bssalls their nos - Offs. It must have "rained all night. Through the suburbs by 1.1ie river, cross- ing anti re -crossing that ugly iron inter, toper the railway ; by the river flowing at the foot et the fair green hills, so m•cen 071 this day of ripe accomplished spring. The whole country is one giant green garland, of young wheat below ond endless vine-nolnaces above -neck- laces of new juicy, just -born, yet vigor- ous vine-icaves. The very river runs - green with the reflection of the endless verdure on its banks. The road is level as far as Pontassieve,- the town through which they roll, and then it begins to 'noun!, - mounts between garden -like hit, dressed in vine leave.s and iris flowers, and the dull fire of red clover; vhile the stream twists in firming corn- anionship at the vatle7 bottom, until hey bum abrUptly. aWIty from it, up Mk steep and narrow valley, almost a orge, and climb up and up one side of 1, turning and winding continually to break the steepness of the ascent. How- ever broken, it is steep still. But who would wish to pass at more then a foot's pace through. this great 611581 of lilac !vises wrapping -Lhe mountain side,- past this berm-fleld that greets the nostrils wile its homely familiar perfume, ale this wealthy 111 of hedge, framed who of honeysuckle in flower. At sight of t latter Elizabeth give,s a tittle cry. "Oh, what honeysuckle! I must he some! I must get oat Tell him stop I" - In a moment her commands a obeyed; in another moment leyng 11 sprung out of the second carriage and standing beside leer. The door of Byng's vehicle is stiff apparently, and a sardonic smile breaks over the elder man's face as he hears the noise of the -resounding. lacks administered to it by the younger one's- impatient foot. But he need not have been in such a hurre-no one inter- feres.wile his office of rifling the hedge .7 01118 creamy and coral bugles. Burgoyne gets out of the carriage; but it is only to walk to the other one and assume Byng's vacated seat. "Are you going to change pieces?" Amelia has asked rather chapfallenly as be leaves her; and he has given her hand a hasty pressure, and answeeed affectionately— % will not be for long, dear; but you know" -with an expressive glance, and what he rather too sanguinely Dopes looks likeea smile in the direction of tee flower -gatherers -"fair play is a jewel I" If his departure from the one vehicle 18 deplored, it is not welcomed at the other. Cecilia asks the same question as her sister had put, though the intone - tion is different. "Are you going to Matte° places ?"- adding -"do not you think we .did very well as we were?" But probe -1y he is too mutt occupied wrestling with the stiff door to hear her, for he makes no answer beyond get: Ling in. Tho only reward that he ,re - :calves fomhis piece of self-sacrifice is a rapturous look of gratitude from Byng„, when he perceives Ihe changed position 01 his affairs, and that teconmense elm heti for tether have been evithout. They .are off again, teeing now scoring in the little procession, Butmeme has but meagre and difficult views of the first; but now and again, When tho t9tut des- cribes an acuter angle than- usuat, he can, by turning his whole body, under pretext 01 adielring the view, snatch a glimpse of all three occupants leaning their heads sociably together, evidentle In bright light, talk. After -all, he had deceived himself. IL Is 'he, and not Ame- lia who had made her shy. Even when be cannot see her, there comes to his ears little wafts of laughter, in which hoe voice Is mixed. He catches himself trying to recall whether she bad laughed even. once during the period ot his being her cornpanion, feere is not much Mirth in his. own carrtage. What a kill-joy he has grown 1 Cecilia, though her heart is aS pure as the babe unborn of aey seri- ous designs on 'ng, of whIcheindeed 5115 has long seen the fruitlessness, yet thinks a sulky, brotheeirelaw elcet but a poor exchang for a hendsome young acquaintance; whom neither his good manners nor the emount of his intimacy -allow to sit opposite to her in grumpy silence. Ales, Le Merchant is obviously as III at ease ea ems ber daughter when ie his fellowship, though in dee case a tette observatiori shows him that he cotees kir nolleng in her discomfort ot mind, bia that she is watching the (neer half of the party with an mix -fell as keen, if almost EIS covert, LIS 11.1 81.:1C 10 too well-bred' indeed not to en - &levee to keep up it decent show of com emotion, but ns neither of her compare feria makes any effort le second ber, an evereteepening seenee fens upon them air -they advance, nee, as the day, grows older, is the weather calaulated 11,0 ee- l:111mM thole spirits. The alisee frown beeornee 10i0P0 and ore pronounceintlienighee they motile. ,!n rem:lige a village nobly seated on its eiretee, lea, like most Harlan townlele, squalid enough on a neerer view -lip and.up-up and up -till they mech. what were once graves of )slidely • chestnuts, hilt Whet() MC hungry Tocan 1105 - left nollileg but twig nod eopringa„ With :never n spreading' tree ; ille» an Into 1110 fie -woods, which are mends Indeed, leough oven hero Ihe letchnes cruel tooth hes begun to bee, No soonce is thee ea et 11 mine go 'teethed 1 he 1 he thal hoe been hanging willi threat - nine lowaess above , the travellers' rs. uora u IVfflIor Makes a Fortune Startsd a Pr'S Years ANO with He Capital, and Hots Employs ffsarlY Ono Handrsd Clerks and SteHearnnhers. Until a few Years ago lira 04ra B. 'lemur livid In a manner eimilar to that of thousands of ether very poor women of the average email town and viiiago. Rh e now melon in her own palbtlal brewii-atone residence, taut is eonsidered one V 1110 041)01 successful businees women In the United Stelae. Ors. Miller's Naw Residence, Earned In Less Than One Year. Several years ago Mrs, hillier learned if a mild and simple preparation that mired herself and several friends of fe-. Pale welcome and piles. She was be- Sey.ed by so many women needing treat - Pent that she decided to furnish it to hose who might call for it. She started rith only a few. dollars' capital, aud the weedy, possessing true and wonderful eerit, producing many cures when doe - ore and other remedies failed, the de - ;land grew so rapidly she wee several •Amos eompolled to seek larger quarters. lho now ocauerea one of the city's largeet ifflee buildinge, which elm owns, and al. nest one hundred clerics and stenograph - we are required to assist in this groat 10810000. - Million Women Usa It. More than a million worsen have used tra. Miller's remedy, and no matter there you live. she eau refer you to ladies u your own- locality who eau and will ell any aufferer that this marvelous risedyi; really cures women. Despite the tx.ensive she .a 2t t at, 3irg 1 veari; w ole tnd advice to every mirroring woman and tas decided to give away to women who lava never used her medicine $10,000.00 vorth absolutely FREE ilg Every woman angering with Pains in lly lie bead. baok and bol,els, bearing -down 110 eelings, nervouenese, creeping sensations tp the spine, melancholy, desire to cry, tot flashes, weariness, or piles from anY 00 anise, should sit rieht down and send her bo tame and address to Mrs. Cora B. Miller, 10K 5707, Kokomo, Ind., and receive bY 'mil (free of charge in plain wrapper) a PO 0 -cent box of her marvelous medicine ; as deo her valuable book, whioh every wo. is Oall should have riii4ohoth, whose spirite hate gone up like a racket at the propect, Of •a thee of lee fresh ale, arid wee linowa wipe inee,laye her little Nee, erewned with 4 dierstalking OP, agatnet her Miller% and promises, and ,slithe 41e07') At fh•st hey all flve keep together, Wet but aoefable, They ask their way to 1110 Peredieo-the 11010 wends ironical - and set .off climbing up thrOUgh the Ate wood In the ei1100IIM indicated ; along a Pent which in fele weather must be enavenly with piny oilers, but wleali Is now only a Miry alternative Of dripping stones -arid muddy puddles. Through the Inlet they see Indeed fair Dowers gleam- ing, yellow anemones, unfamiliar and lovalenhul they ore too dreoched to piuck. The sound of falling wake guides them to where the clear brook -clear even to -day -falls in little cascades clown the hill's face between lee pines, How delicious to se on Its flat stones some hot summer's noon, with your hands coolly strayieg among its grasses, or dabbling hi its bright water ; but to -day. they can but look at it suety from the tow Wedge, saying sightnely, "If I" ele be continued), ODD CUSTOMS OF GUERNSEY. • — Every elan Has to Take Ms Turn at the ' Potilleal Wheel. 'We live In constant terror," said lhe Guernseyman, "of being ceded by Engo land to France; but by virtue 01 1)014114141 us, the King of Englend Is Duke of Nor- mandy, end he would ecarcely relin- quish 1)15 last claim to that title." The peasants of little Guernsey speak the old NOP1111111 French, says a writer in the Travel Magazine. The whale :s. lend uses French eurrencY as wen as English; French names are everywhere, and the principal families are of Norman descent; yet the • Guernseynaan voiced popular,sentiment. The Island Ls intensely, proudly Eng - Use, when the questionof belonging to any Government arises; but it is still more proud of belonging on the whole -this little garden in the sea -to its own tidy self. IL coins its own money; it has its own parliament, authorized to make su- preme and flnal decrees, and every male resident in the !eland must Mice his tura as a wheel in the political machin- ery. Two or three years ago a car- penter refused to take public: office when it fell to his lot. was compelled to leave Guernsey. The Liberal party or the Conservative 11107 he dictating to the English eation, but Guernsey is more interested in some local strife over It sale of potatoes in which a good citizen was cheated. In ler court house last summer the writer Icard such a case argued in the ancient omen French between two grave awyers„ fat Judge presiding solemn- ly. They spent the whole day on it. letey may be arguing it yet. If a man has a grievance and can get no redress, he can •as a last resort knee] down in a public highway, and in the pre•sence -of two 'witnesses cey out in French: "To my aid; my prince!" His ease is then taken, up in court, and his enemy or offender is summoned, and justice is done. Not far Iran) Guernsey is Sark, the incomparable -an island not much larm ex' than a "plum cake, only three miles around and one mile across, having its own parliament and ils Lord of the Manor, who lives in feudal state and la responsible to nobody hut King,Edward -and rather looks down -upon thal monarch! The only other representa- tive of "the gentry" in Seeks is the Vicar, and at present he Is in a state of feud with the -Seigneur. Parliament is composed of the forty owners of the forty parts iato which the island is --divided. Only heaven knows what their proceedings are when they meet, for in this lovely, forgotten part of the world nothing happens. • There is a jail, but nobody is ever put in. They once arrested a little girl for stealing a handkerchief and shut her up tor the day but had lo break open the rusty lock to accomplish the imprison- tn-Ttt etiteffit . postistees duties are second to his agrioultural interests. If he is et evqrk in else fields you caret get your malt -edit the hay "The boat comos over once a day from Guernsey, and if the tide is in, enters the smallest harbor in rowboats linnet) a tunnel in the cliffs. Once on top, the vicwe ace enchanting --a wild and awful seacoast survounds a little pave- dise. WHAT SALT WILL DO. Remember this offer will not last long, or thousands and thousands of women „, rho are suffering will lake advantage of l•s+ his generous means of getting mired. Se 1 f you are ailing, do not suffer another y, 010 send your name and Address to, re. Miller for the book avid medieine bd, or the $10,000.00 worth is all gone. • Ileads, comes down close, blindingeolinm ing1ike wet flannel, •and as thick. 1.,crimps it will life" Mu says, with a' sort of dismal unlikely hopefulness as he strains his eyes, trying to look down the straight solemn Ile aisles, with their files upon fees of tail stems, that seem to., be seen only as if through e thick game. Neither 'of his companions has the spirit necessary to echo the supposi- tion, The road winds endlessly, steeper and steeper up through the mist. The tired horses step wearily, and the un- fortunate pleasure -seekers aro beginning to think that the muffled monotony of firs, of winding road, of painfully labor- ing horses, will never end, when the vetturinonurns round with' a smile on lus 10 -web face. and says, "Valiant- brosa 1" , Under other eircumelances, the an- nouncement might,. terve been cheering, might have- excited a poetic curiosity; but, as 11 15, the hood of the vehicle - necessarily raised some miles back -is so far poked forward that -nothing is to be seen but a pour Of refn-the rain has be- gun to descend in torrents -a gia,ss-cloor in a house -wall opening to admit therm and 11 waiter holding trp a green um- brella lo Meted their descent. Neither bc nor the landlord, nor yet the chamber- maid, shoe any signs of mirth or 40051- <10:4 at their arrival alining the -clouds on 'weh a day. They are used to mad In- glese. •Antt 04010114151 the mad leglese themselves Mere is certainly no tempta- tion to mad merriment. On such an occasion -there is, nothine• to do but eat, so they lunch cifsmally in a long, bare dintngaroom, with a carpelless floor, a tabl, gad for it grossly imprababie num- ber of gueete, and a feeling of smirching - cold. Having spun out their scanty meal to the utmost limits of posibilily, and washed it down with the weakest red -wine that ever lived in a. wicker bate, they pass into a funereal saion, to which the waiter Invites them. Some one enema the clueriag announcement that they have as yee bort here only halt an hour, and that the horses rnuat have two full hours to bait beforo there on be ally qUeS11011 01 beginning the. rettwn joule ney. And then they amble about the room, lookIng at the dreadful litho- graphs of Ialy's plain King and fair (,)110e11 ort the Walls; al the venerable journels and gaudy English etory-book, so due asee have been forgotten by Its owner, on the ethic. Their spiels are not heightened by a perverting sense as of being in it cellar', minus the wine. The equipment of Iles pleasant apartment is completed by it half -deed nosegay of what must once have been charming mountain blossoms. The sight, decides Mem. They must go out, Pethaps even throggh this opeque cloud they may dimly ece tee mountain flowers growing, the mountain brooke designee which aohn Milton hos told 111001 that - "the etrurlan shades, • 1411 over -meted 'inibower," • • They all 1516 the suggestion, When made by Beim, und peoseraly sally forte to see .4(5 11)11011 of Vallombrosa err a fog MO would not have disgraced Om Stemel, as e close blanket ce almost, con- fluent, rain, and aS umbrellas heel welt down over their cold noes, will lot them L Mrs, 1,04 eterehant alone deal-111es le Ile 0110 of the parer, tied is lee efiline, ronaddled in a., the superflous wraps, en o tioree.hair chair in Me salon, to stare et the woe end at King tiumberes ugly • Mee, eucti time as bet- corripaeleris see in to relense hoe, It is ne wonder lent, Iturgotme oveeherne hoe -cage* weisperrim to Keefe:eel a requeet Mat feet she eel) not, stay too long away, And ban Foe removing egg stains trom eilver, ealt applied with a soft cloth will act like magie. If salt be rubbed on fruit stains when they aye fresh, all trace of them will disappear la tee washing. • A 1)111011 di salt added lo the whiles of eggs wni ceese teem to whip in half the time useally vetittired. Sprinkle salt over a dingy carpet be- fore sweeping it, and the transformation wrought Nvill Convince lee most ekepte cal 01 1110 value of ealt es a eicausee. • Everybody krt.:1We, 01' 811010d 111004', that nothing is so effectual fair putting out five in a beetling chimney as sale A pinch of salt added to ground coffee itIst before cooking 11 accentuates the natural flavor of the berry and gives "body" to the beverage, BEFORE TIM 1411141011. Hew 11111011 time tines a women spend before the looking -glass A (lemon es - Moles that a glni or from six to len years spend% an average of aeven min- utes a dny before a miracle hem ten to fifteen, a querter of an hour is consumed daily; and from 11110014 le twenty, (wen- eetwo nentites. A women 10 seventy, it Is estimated. has spent 5,562 hours before lee glass; in other words, eight mouths, counting dey and night. DO -9 understand you have been at- tending 1111 ambulance clues, Cen you 1011 me what is leo best thing to do for it broken ireate?" yes. 13tnd up ihe broken portion will: a Mile Dna apply plenty of Nee lice, thirteen - 1 le be tell in 0 month)" d, bathe in orange -blossom water, I ON THE FOIL TESTING VITALITY OF SEED CORN, No farmer On afford to neglect Mak" Mg sure that every ear of tern he uses for seal will produce elrong vigorous plants. differenne betWeen none and Iwo or three weak ears per bushel of seed COM may amount to hundreds of Polices in the resuillng crop, Tire octet +at preduoing an acre of corn Is permit - catty the sone wheeler the stand of planes is good or poor, so wby not have the good seine and the larger crop? To make the germination. Lest, proceed ae follows : Make a sballow fray or box about 2 feet by 3 feet, la eize and 2 Inches deep inside. Bore email holes, lirt Inches apart, in the sides and ends about half an Inch from the top. Through these holes slrleg light copper or galvanized wire both ways, thus marking the tray Mt Into squares -a square for the isernele or each ear of corn to lie tested. A stout string may be used instead ot the wire but it w111 lest only one season. Instead 01 weaving in tee cross wires, a piece of largo meshed, wire chicken -fencing may be nailed on top of the tray, with a half- inch seep al) around the edges on lop of the wire so that when the tray is covered the cover will not rest on the wire, This .14 WO tester. Fill the tester up to the wires with earth or sand and thoroughly wet It. Take the tester to where yore seed corn ia stored, oe take both tester and the selected seed corn to a place where you can work conveniently. Take the first ear of corn and remove flee kernels each from a different part of the ear, and put them on the first square in the upper left hand corner of the tester and press them clown into the earth. Lay the ear on a shelf or table. Then take the next ear and proceed In the same way, putting the trouts In the square to the Heel, of the first and the ear in the corresponding position beside the first ear on the shelf. Continue this until the Met row of squares Is filled, then turn and come back to the next row below. The ears corresponding to the second row of squares may be laid in a row on top or the first row on the shelf. Whatever the system followed, the ears must be so arranged that the ear belonm ing to the kernels In a certain square in the tester may be easily located. , After the lcerneis ale .811 placed and well pressed into the wet. soil, carry the tester into a room -where the tempera- ture can be kept around 70 degrees. The ordinary living room will be about right, but the tester should not be put near the stoLey.er the tester with penes of glass,. resting lightly on the sides so as to let in a little air. Class makes the best cover because it prevents drying out and al the same time permits one to see bow the corn is getting along without lifting tile cover. After four or five days take 011 110 cover, carry the tester to where the corn is stored and then' examine 1110 kernels in each square. If any lot of kernels shows dead getens or weak sprouts, throw away the ear from which they came. Never use an ear whieli does not show at least four strong root and stem sprouts out of five kernels tested. The tester may be mate of any slze convenient. The one described above will test about three bushels of ear corn at a time, or every five days. THE DAMY DARN MW ITS CARE. The bern and its care have an Impor- tant influence In the production of pure milk. As 11 15 Impossible to secure 11118 in a dirty, dark barn, reeking with odors of manure, Its censtructIon must be taken. into account. mealy of air spaCe must be provided In order to insure pure car, from 900 to 1,000 cubic feet being needed for each animal. An abundance of window space must be provided. Enough light, should enter to enable one le read a notepaper in the darkest' places, The ventliation should be such that the air is changed every few min- • It is evident to •any observer that one re. the dffilculties in securing good intik ts the dark, poorly ventilated and con- structed barns, containing rotten wooden floors that cannot be cleaned. Concrete Is the best mateeial for floors. It is economical and can easily be kept clean. If wood le used in floor construction, IL should be closely tied in pitch and kept et perfect repair. The interior of the barn should be kept well covered with whitewash, which acts as a purifier and ninkes tee rooms mime lighter. Stalls and feed boxes should be elemie in con - &ruction and easily cleaned. As a usual thing bank barna are not good dairy barns, unless the stalls are Placed on the floors entirely above ground and the 'basement ia used for storage of implements or privates of a shnilar nature. As basement as ordinar- ily constructed is dark and damp end has low ceilings it is difficult to verde late and entirety unfit for housing ant - , trials. The drainage of the yards around and be Rept in good sanitary oondition. 45(1051111)141 lots of sunshine when needed, dairy berms 6hould be light and Wry, never expect lo 05011140 good ruler, All fore they on get Into the barn, on the barns is very.11n, pertarit. Yards greet COWS to wade knee-deep in manure be - be .dry and firm, An accumulation of manure in the yards is Very objection - ale% The deiryMan who 10101p018 lea a_ LESSONS FILOM EXAMPLES IN • FARMING, • I remember conditions, many years ago, ia e neighborhood where small, rough 171.41.3 01111110415. f aErarnesh atabOrsnUllsdued,pporrYtreldiesa few grade cows of no particular value. The Mali, eultivaled areas were taxed to the utmost to support these animals whose insatiable appetho were their only common characteristic. Then ap- paired the forerunner of it revolution Mr, C, whose Mem was one of the: roughest, mysteriously imported a trio of yearling, registered Jerseys, the first ever seen by our farmers. What could be expected of those delicate little ani- mals? The wag of the neighborhood circulated the story that ere himself, had found along the emersele, the package In which Mr. C. had received his new breed of cows, a large envelope bearing stamps to the extent 01 11 cents postage But a few years had passed, however, when Mr, Ces increasing herd of Jerseys had broken all local records in butler production. The yield at grain and roughage In les small fields were ample, where they before fled been insufficient. The active little Jerseys were veritable golden hoofs, as they made themselves tit home and happy on, the hill pastures. The neighbors' smiles ot ridicule gradu- ally faded into lines roaltohnosugholim. fulcnoess end laterest, and expssi nendation became audible upon every hand. 11 was not long until the little Jerseys began finding hospitable homes on adjoining farms.- To -day they still told a promiaent place there, and the neighborhood Is more prosperous, the hums In better condition and the homes more attractive end :happy. This is clue tc the man who had the courage to brave tee ridicule of his neighbors in the per - suit ot a new and higher ideal in (arra economy. A young xnan in the same neighbor- hood became interested In and made mime), by growing small fruits for his home market. So Interested did his farmer neighbors become teat many planted largely, got their strawberry picking, and corn plowing, their rasp- berry picking and wheat and hay har- vest so badly •tangled, one with the other, that they lost money. This is evi- dence that a superticial interest in a new departure is not advisable, especially when such new interests conflict with -established lines of work. But this stands as proof that a live, progressive Man 111 a country neighborhood, wbo conservatively acts upon a lesson gained from some earnest, practical teacher will not only carry the% lessons into pram, Lice, but may be the means of multiply- ing results from these lessons among his brother farmers. SENTENCE SERMONS, Rusting is not resting. The sollish never are serene. Nov hearts make the new age. No ono ever regretted burying a slnde•ran Amdoes not pick up sane by lick- ing the dust. The Soot always greases his track on the up grade. There never is Much good in "good enough." The saddest MOrality is that which is satisfied with Itself. The Ignorant may be foolhardy, but only the wise are brave. • They make but little mark on time who are onlymarking time. :You caenot cure a donkey by degrees by calling him "Doctor," Deeds of golden berries are better than dreams of golden harps. The only stand some men wIll take on. any question is a band stand. You cannot hert Satan from his throne by throwing adjectives at hint. Little deeds tell more than the '151-41- est;'prainest bumps of character. P ao a- god policy fail to pay the premt- timsie,ray of people who talk of honesty It this world is none ,the better' for your living the next will have nono of 70110 1i10( 11,18ith mixed with facts and not weth fancies that holds the cam -lotion in a sermom The man who Ls drowning In drink useally hopes to save himself by catch- ing al a straw. Some folks think they are generous because they are willing to,give up their gopodoltnanrilir:s intoimflola tit°11esi Irertri 11%r:dulcet amount of a• The lumpy Christian so advertises les religion that ibe other man will not be happy till he gets it, 0000 0000 00 0 0 000 00 00 000 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 Girlhood and Scott's Emulsion 0 1.45 0 linked together. tr) 44 0 0 The girl who takes Sco*t's Email- Cat 0 .6.11611 has plenty of rich, red blood; she is CD 0 plump, active and energetic. 1§0 I) 03 The reason i8 that at a period when a girl's digestion is weal;) Scott'a Erntairsionn provide s her with powexful nourishment in easily digested form. It is a food that builds and keeps up oi girl's strength. E14444)(044400.0404440.041) 4t16 ALL, onuoaisTs, soc. AND $1.00. *C4**014044.04,114+04.04411 • HEALTH 40•44444......4444-44004 MOUTI-I-13REATIIING. Nature intended us to breathe througb the nostrils, end if for ane reason 111181 lheeseesronres11.01111Quit oe impossible, we suf. The nose not only warms, or at least tempers, the air as ItIs &men through It Into ihe air -tubes, but It also (biters It in great measure, keeping back ilet only much of the solid matter In the form of dust, but also the bacteria cam vied by the dust particles OP f1oating in the moisture, of the atr. In moutiebretebers the ate strikes Pie back of the throat and rushes Into the Windpipe before the chili etre been 1514. 011 all, and while it Ls still laden. Witit dust and bacteria. la this eonditeint ft causes local Ireeretion, which results . congestion of the mucous membrane lining the air -passages. This congestian whefianmlnioniaiogcn,o ontirneenrh. edtaipasses Into chronic in The inflammation gradually spreads, If the cause continues, and often passes from the that into tee ears., where it produees a thickening of the delicate structures there, and timely deafness. The mucous manilla theoughout the elr-passages and all their ramfficatiens become thickened, secrete phlegm, and lose in great part their power of re - memo to the germs of pneumonia, diphtheria and other diseases. The cameos of mouth breathing are numerous; anything that obstructs or nerrows the upper air -passages -the nose and vault of the pharynx--foroete the sufferer to breathe through the open mouth. • A deformity of the nose, the presence of "adenoids" or enlarged Itonsils may cause the trouble. Exam - fruition -for such, conditioes should be made whenever a child is seen to breathe .habitually with tbe mouth open, and es soon as the cause is discovered It should be removed. • So many serious consequences may follow mouth -breath - Ing that 11 should never be allowed to go on a moment atter its cause is ascer lathed. One cause that is not often suspected is a deformity of the nose resulting from the use of improper nursing -bot- tles by babies, but the most common Is the presence ot adenoids. It is useless to scold or remonstrate with a mouth -breathing child 11 the habit is caused by the air -pongee being blocked by growths that, call for re- moval. He must breathe to live, and if the legitimate channels for air aro .closed by diseese, neture does her next Use -Youth's Companion. A COMFORTABLE NIGHT'S REST. "A comfortable night's rest depends as mice on the bed as on the isleftPer," was the dieturn of an old physician. 'There is, of course," he said, "a well founded prejudice against feather beds. But they have their good points. If they were more used nowadays they would banish a great deal of insonnila, eepecially in the case of people with jaded nerves, who require perfect ease. The restless sleeper should try a thin bed of feather or down, keep it welt shaken up, and steep in a cool room. The next slep is to flnd the correct pil- low. Brain workers and all full blood- ed people should sleep with the head welt raised, for it is not 'judicious io sleep with the blood rushing too easily into the brain. As a rule, the pillow should be very soft. Many people are kept awake by bard, unyielding pil- lows, although they don't always rea- lize the fact. It is odd, by the way, how people differ in their sleeping re- quirements. I once had a patient Who O0\'00 slept so soundly as on a large chest with no mattress, and a horse- hair bolster for a pillow." BREAKING UP A COLD. Anything that will set the blood Into active circulation is 'good for a cold. 13141e tile feet in hot water and drink illeotbeldys;tetarkeorc hsoati I 0411).7011p:1) oonng e g be athugi and remain in a warm room, bathe the face In very hot water every five min- utes for au hour or so; sniff hot salt water up the nose every hour or twee Four or five hours' exercise in the open ter is often effective, Four or five grains of quinine taken at night will usually have a good effect, A vapor bath, followed by a cool spouge bath, Is good. In bathing, one sliould lie WIT- ful not to get chilled. THE BEST COSMETIC. Marie a sallow and blotchy complex - lot could be • soon helped by a plata diet, Women of to -day, especially young W0111011, resort to all kiade of !envious cosmetics which glee no per- manent epee, while the real trouble fn many OaseS is an unwholesonie diet. Too much grease end sweets cause many kinds of facial blemishes which 411111 011I3' be removed by a simple diet. A good remedy for cleartng tee sys- tem is the copious -drinking of pure eerier, whiell 'we are all toe ape to neg- lect, NO GPOWING PAINS, An eminent specialist -claims that 111000 Is no such thing as "growing, pains." We 1111.1'0 been taught (hat wher5, a child has stinging pains in the lintbs, shbuliderS, or other peitS Or the body P. is an ledien lion that the body iM growing, end Cherokee 11100!, W1101144 1001001110 1110 neWs or such suffering 114 children. The physirian referred to above elalins that, growing pnlus are, musetrier rheumatism, and Minuet have immediate atention. etimellibig is wrong, and atepS ehould be taken et isnot le learn why tile blooe not in perfect condition. AS A MATTER OF PlIEVeNTION, reseaSe germs ellen conre trine dee enyed free and vegetables 111 11)51 cellnr. Watch ine for them, Ds the whitey wanes, rind the spring appeittelies. As fast t -es thee doe*, sec that they ere removed,